Hello Kiki-fans!   

It’s Ann-Katrin from Norway and the sun is shining! At this time it’s very cold in Norway and the leaves are falling from the trees.

I love the bright colors of Kiki Art’s paper and here I have used paper from Familia- and Magicaline. The picture is of my sweet little girl and I love her smile. She is so happy and bring us a lots of joy:

Thanks for looking and I hope you will bring some Kiki Art color in your scrappy life.

Love from Ann-Katrin

Hello Everyone – Virginia here! Are you out enjoying the last few days of summer vacation? I know we are at my house…and we are also busy getting ready for the start of school.

But…there is always time for some imaginary play! Today my daughter *needed* a flower necklace for her princess play. We looked and looked through our dress-up box but found nothing that would do the trick. Just when we were about to give up, she asked me to make her one! And so I did!

My youngest daughter has been eyening the orange puzzle paper (from the Familia – help me here Kiki as I cut off the strip) for a long time. She felt it would be perfect for her flower necklace and I totally agree!

She hasn’t stop looking at her necklace!

This project was so easy to make – use any flower die cut or punch, layer, decorate and string on ribbon. It is hours of play and minutes of work to create a lasting memory.

Thanks for letting me share!

-Virginia

Hope you had an amazing Summer, I can’t believe that in a few more days my babies will be going to school!!

Linda Shewchuk here again, I am sitting here in tears as i write this post.  It literally does not seem like 2 years ago when my baby went to her first day of pre-school & now she will be going to Kindergarten right away!!   whaaaaaaaa!

I created this layout using Kiki Art’s Jardin Collection!  This is my baby on her very first day of pre-school.   I still think she is a princess!

Products used:

My Stamp Box – Just add notes, CTMH Cardstock, thickers, misc flowers, #040201 JARDIN Funtape, #040102 – JARDIN Primavera BO, # 040104 – JARDIN Mariposas GW, #040101 – JARDIN Florcitas GY, #040111 – JARDIN cerca y florcitas, #040115 – JARDIN Primavera D,

Hello to all of our lovely Kiki-Art fans!  Can you believe we’re at the end of summer already and the kids are starting a new school year!  Wow, does time fly by or what? What a whirlwind this summer has been, just like it was in the summer of 1998.  That is the year I was married to the man I love.  Just yesterday my husband and I celebrated our 12th wedding anniversary. We’ve been together for a long time, fifteen years total, and have survived through thick and thin, good times and bad.  We grew up in the same town and not too far from each other.  We even shared some of the same friends and attended the same schools, but somehow we never connected with each other until our senior year of high school.  It was on a Friday I believe, after school hours, when our paths happened to cross.  I was in the school building waiting outside the theater to pick up some friends after their play practice.  Jason, my husband, was also there to pick up some friends at the same play practice.  Only he was locked outside the building and I was able to let him in.  We then proceeded to spend the next hour or so waiting on our friends and chatting up a storm.  When I opened that door for him I had no idea that I was opening up the door to my future. That fateful day was October 26, 1995 and we’ve been stuck together and glued to the hips ever since!  That is with the exception of us being separated during his Naval deployments.  It’s been a crazy and adventurous past twelve years with this soul mate of mine.  You wouldn’t think a relationship like ours would last that long considering that he is an extroverted Aries, a fire sign, and I am the introverted Cancer, a water sign.  Fire and water don’t normally mix well, but when they do the bond is strong.  I love ya babe!  Happy Anniversary!

I love making gifts for friends and families so when my niece was having a birthday I wanted to make her a special present.

I bought a frame from the thrift store and painted it.  I then added some paper from the JARDIN collection inside the frame and added a photo.  To add another dimension I added some of the JARDIN paper to the outside of the frame and along the bottom as well.  To personalize it I also added her name along the bottom.

Hi!

Now it´s friday and it´s time for a card here on the Kikiblog!

On this card I´ve used the beautifull papers from the summer line, I just love the bright colours.  My favorite are the blue paper with the small whita dots. it just feel like the blue sky in the summer!

On the card I´ve also put a vintage girl ( find it on the net). She really fits in with the circle behind her.

Hugs from   //   Annika

Hi all!!

Here at Kiki Art, we are “cooking” a lot of changes… New Design Team, New Collections, Newsletter, New Blog appearance, some other nice surprises for those of you who want to get your hands on Kiki Art products, and many NEW things that I am very excited about but I can not tell you yet!   There is a lot of work behind the scenes and I know you will love them!

In the meantime we have a little surprise for you…  we got a lot of entries for the Design Team Call and we are very happy about them, THANK YOU -  THANK YOU!!!  The downside to it is that I know it will be really hard to choose from all this amazing talent.  Last week  I was asked by some people to have a deadline extension, some are still busy with kids at home for the end of Summer and getting ready for School and others are still on vacation… so we decided to extend the Deadline for the KIKI ART DT Call… so, only a few more day until the 15th of September.  If you haven’t applied yet, I hope you can catch up!!!.

The new team term will begin in OCTOBER 2010!!! I foreseen a lot of Halloween and Thanks Giving projects there!!!

Have a great Tuesday! I see you tomorrow on my Kiki Wednesday day.

Besos,

Kiki

It’s hard to believe it’s nearing the end of August already! It’s true what my parents have always told me…the older you get the faster time flies!
I always love it when my parents share stories with me and my kids, from when they grew up,  and some of the favourite stories we love to hear are from my mom. Her father was a lighthouse keeper, and she spent her summers out in the middle of Lake Superior in Northern Ontario. She loves all things with lighthouses on them, so for her I made some cards like this one!

Isn’t that China collection glittery embossed paper absolutely perfect with this soot stamped image?
It’s a bit of a finicky technique, but I highly recommend you hit youtube and look up soot stamping. It’s fun to do and a little adicitive.
Make sure to use some fabulous KikiArt paper or funtapes with your soot stamping, and leave a comment linking us to your blog so we can see what you’ve done with this fun technique and KikiArt!

Thanks for stopping by and have a GREAT Monday!
Jillian

Lynda here…I hijacked the blog again to remind you that we are in the final hours to submit your application for the design team call….

Kiki Art DT Call

The time has finally arrived! We are thrilled to announce the Kiki Art 2010 – 2011 Design Team call for this upcoming winter/spring! We are looking for talented and committed designers who love to create with bright and fun products. To apply, please email your application entitled Kiki Art DT Call to sarah@kiki-art.com with the following information:

Hi everyone, it’s Einat Kessler hosting the blog today. This time an educational layout…how to solve a very serious famous childhood problem: who will be the first to count at “hide and seek”. My two boys found an equally famous solution: “paper, rock and scissors”. I managed to take photos of the entire process and you can almost hear them discussing the situation, finding the solution and solving the problem.

For this spread I used the Antologia Jardin line: Cerco, MariposasGW and Primavera papers, and added a few buttons and lace. I cut little birds inked them added an eye and they are telling the story.

Now for the translation from Hebrew: the headline is: “Paper, Rock and Scissors” the journaling that one bird is saying to the other: “What do two boys do when they can’t decide who will count?” and the other bird answers: “They think, discuss the matter and decide – paper, rock and scissors!”