MAY KITS!

May has arrived, that transitional time between Spring and Summer. The sun is out, the temperatures are warming up, and the days are just beautiful!

Our first kit this month is Little Red Cottage.

If that name sounds familiar, yes, I named the kit after Michele’s blog. I thought the name was perfect for this kit filled with wonderful goodies from Webster’s Pages. The paper reminds me of sipping tea in an English garden. It’s a perfect kit for a Mother’s Day card.


The second kit is Villa Rossa (Red Villa).

The papers from 7 Gypsies are very reminiscent of Europe and all of it’s wonderful old world charm. And these papers are just right for Father’s Day card!


This is National Scrapbooking Day/Weekend, so everyone who purchases a May kit between now and 9 PM (PDT) on May 3rd will receive a free set of Kaiser Craft Rub-ons. Take Flight will be in the Little Red Cottage kits, and Argentella will be in the Villa Rossa kits.



We have a couple of add-on goodies for sale this month - the 7 Gypsies Ephemera and Transparency packs, along with these cute little chipboard goodies from Scrap FX.


And don’t forget that we have the Donna Downey Canvas albums and the Fancy Pants mixed media books in stock!

The gallery will be up later tonight and you can see all the wonderful layouts from the girls!

Everything can be found at Color Me Miki!

Have a good weekend! Stay healthy and take care!

Meet Nathalie!

I'd like to introduce you to Nathalie, the guest designer for May.



My name is Nathalie Leonelli and I am a stay at home mom of two boys, ages 7 and 11. I have been married to my very understanding husband, David, for 12 years. I am originally from France and now live in the San Diego area. I have been seriously addicted to scrapbooking only for the past few of years (even though I began my wedding album 10 years ago!). What started simply as an intention to get photos out of shoeboxes has become a creative outlet (if not an obsession!) that I can't imagine not indulging in. I currently design for two kit companies and I am honored to be Color Me Miki’s Guest Designer for the month of May.

Her blog is: An Ounce of Creativity

Nathalie is a very sweet and talented scrapper and I had the pleasure of getting to meet her last year. I am so happy that Nathalie agreed to be the guest designer for May!

Here are the layouts she did with the Little Red Cottage kit. They are so pretty!




Don't forget to come back tomorrow night at 7 PM (pacific time) when the kits go on sale! And don't forget, there will be an extra free goodie just for National Scrapbooking Weekend!

It's almost time!

I can't believe that the end of April is here already! This month went by so fast!

There will be two kits for May. The kits will go on sale on Thursday, April 30th at 7PM.

Little Red Cottage, features paper from Webster's Pages:


Villa Rossa, features paper from 7 Gypsies:



And, since May 1st is National Scrapbooking Day, there will be an extra goodie for everyone who buys a May kit this weekend, May 1 - 3!!


Here is one layout from Emelyn using Little Red Cottage:


Come back tomorrow night and meet May's guest designer! She is such a sweet and talented scrapper!
Everyone stay healthy and see you tomorrow!

Donna Downey Canvas Album

Woo Hoo!! Finally, the very cool Donna Downey Canvas Albums are here!!

$14.00 plus shipping.


It comes with top-loading inserts. Look at the cool stitching on the side.


And it has canvas pages.


We also have the following fabric accessories:




And if you buy all 4 items, you will save 10%. The Claudine Hellmuth paints will work perfectly with these canvas pages!

Here is where you go to buy them.

Keep scrolling down to the next post to see what else is new!

Fancy Pant Mixed Media Books

We now have the Fancy Pants Mixed Media books in stock! These are very cool! They feature a mixture of chipboard, felt, and acetate pages. We have 3 styles in stock.

Square:



Half Bracket:



Bracket:



I also took a couple of the Square and Half-Bracket books and mixed them up, so you get both square and half-bracket pages in one book!


All the books are $13.00 each, plus shipping. They count as one kit, which means $5 shipping in the U.S. And, if you add items from the Miki Mart, those items will ship for free. Don't forget, free shipping on all U.S. orders over $75.

You can buy them here.

Good Times

Here is a little snippet of a layout done with one of the May kits. This was created by May's guest designer, Nathalie. You'll get to meet her and see more of her work later in the month.

Some more great stuff from Carrie ...

Here are some samples of what Carrie did with the "Garden" Kit. She said that this has been one of her favorite kits to work with so far!

She created this cute birthday card...



She also decided that the product was so cute, it didn't need photos to be complete! Instead, she made 3 journaling pages, all with a "spring" theme. One has jouranling just about spring, one just says "hello spring", and the last is journaling from a specific days thoughts, and has the date. It would be cute to bind all three together, to make a mini book, and add photos to each backside...you could keep adding, and make a cool journal. Also, she wanted to note that she used the pink Prima felt alphabet letters in two of the pages, and just changed the color with an ink pad...cool! Hope you enjoy!

Peekie Time!

For May, we will have TWO kits again!

The first kit will remind you of how sweet life can be:


While this second kit will bring out the wanderer in you:



As for our April kits, we are sold out of "Garden" (Thank you everyone!), but we do have a couple "Home" kits left.


And, if you don't like to see any kit left behind, we have one September 2008 kit, Recess, left.

With the school year winding down, this kit is perfect to remember the year gone by. Help this kit find a good home!

Have a good week everyone!

HAPPY EASTER

Use those alphas!

Hello! Happy April!! I hope you are all out enjoying your Monday and soaking up some sun. The weather has been great here in CA the past couple weeks. But we just heard rain is in the forecast tomorrow!! ACK!

I wanted to share with you this layout I made for Joey. We were really concerned with his speech, saying only 2 or so words before he was 2. We even saw a speech therapist for advice. She said not to worry, but gave us some exercises to work on with him. I think it was hard for him since he has 2 VERY chatty siblings and it's just hard for him to get a word in at all. They do not "speak for him", but they just spoke non-stop all day! Esp the she-sibling...LOL!

I used the quote bubbles paper from the February kit. Once I saw the paper, I knew it was perfect for Joey who can now say over 30 words and string together 2-4 words at a time! We are so proud of him. Although it's still hard to understand exactly what he's saying, esp if it's the first time to hear him, but he's getting there!! Oh, and he's another one who is non-stop! All day I hear...Mommy 30thousand times from 3 different voices! It's stressful at times, but I know I should really cherish this time in my life...LOL.

Oh, you must be wondering what "Bao" means..LOL. That is what Joey calls himself! I have no idea where he got it from, maybe because I call him Joey Boy? Either way, it's totally cute. Now we pretty much all call him that! LOL! Silly boy! Thanks so much!!

My LIttle Shoebox Shout Out

Woo Hoo! Color Me Miki got mentioned on the My Little Shoebox blog! Thank you ladies!! Check out their entry for March 31st. There is a lot of eye candy on that one post! Really awesome work from a lot of talented scrappers! Their products are great to work with and I can't wait to see what they come up with in the future!

Sketches and Mini-Books

Did you know that Em makes a sketch for us every month? You can see them all here.

Here is her sketch for April.




Michele make a "green" mini-book with the Prima packaging in the "Garden" Kit.


Isn't that so clever?! You can find instructions on how she made the book in the gallery. Both Michele and Em really rock the recycling, as was shown in the March layouts they did.

I made a little mini-album with the "Home" kit and the Cosmo Cricket Blackboard album. I also used the KI Memories Sheers as the cover and inside dividers. The Blackboard album and sheers are on sale this month also.