A New Home!

Hi All

I hope your week is going well so far.  A colleague of mine has just moved into a new home with her boyfriend and I made this card for her:

I used a fun image, New Home, I bought from  http://dragonsmoore.blogspot.com/ which I coloured with my trusty Copics and added some elements, the dies of which I have had for years and a couple of new ones too of course.  The daisies are from an edge punch just using the middle piece, I use them a lot as they are just the right size.

I know Lauren liked the card and of course the bubbly that went with it!!

Enjoy the rest of your week.  Kx

Lavinia Stamps Challenge - Add A Flower

Hi Everyone

Another month over - can you believe it!  This month's challenge is "Add a Flower" and the examples from the Design Team can be found here.  Here is the card I made

I am sure I could have taken a better photograph but it is too late now!  For this one I used DI's Tumbled Glass, Broken China and Salty Ocean.  I then stamped the image with black Versafine and added some white dots with a Posca pen to make the flowers "pop".  I backed the card with navy card and also created a border to "frame" the picture using a score board.  To add additional highlight to the flowers I used Glossy Accents.

This card was really easy to do and there are so many colour possibilities.  A very versatile stamp - and lovely too.

So come on and join in the Challenge - you have the chance to win a massive prize of £40 worth of Lavinia Stamps.  What are you waiting for?! Kx

Cheers! You're 50

Hi Everyone

I know it has been a long time but I am finally about to have two weeks at home (still working though) and today is the day to catch up on the correspondence etc.  Today's card is one I made for my Sister In Law. 

Not a great photo but you get the idea!  Hope you are enjoying your Bank Holiday weekend and the weather has been beautiful today here in Kent.

Have a great week.  Kx

Jules

Hi Everyone

I know I have been AWOL but life sometimes seems to get in the way of crafting and I cannot even blame the weather!

For today's post here is a Saturated Canary image, Jules.

As usual I have used my trusty Copics to colour the image and used Lili of the Valley papers.  These colours are just gorgeous.

Off on my travels with work again tomorrow ... so much to do and so little time!!

Have a good week.  Kx

Lavinia Stamps Challenge 7 - Anything Goes

Hi Everyone

Another month has gone by and it reminds me of when I was young and my Nan said "time goes so quickly as you get older".  I thought it was so funny to say "Don't be silly, time is time".  Well I know now exactly what she meant - I cannot believe it is August already - did anyone else see where July went?

So, another month and another challenge for Lavinia Stamps - Anything Goes.  What a great challenge.  Here is my design.

 

For the focus image I used the lovely Moon Fairy, this has got to be one of the loveliest Lavinia Stamps ever.  For the background I used "Fairy Words", slender mushrooms and Stars 2.  I used Distress Inks, barn door, ripe persimmon and mustard seed.  I swiped over with versamark and embossed with clear powder.  I masked the moon and used the same colour DI's for the Moon Fairy.  I did not emboss this as I wanted a little bit of a contrast. 

 

Remember the prize for winning the challenge is £40 (yes £40) of Lavinia Stamps and the only difficulty you will have is deciding which of the beautiful stamps you simply cannot live without!



So pop on over to the Lavinia Challenge blog and join in today.

Thanks for looking. Kx

Never Too Old for Cupcake!

Oh how true! 

First of all, a very big welcome to my new followers and also a huge thanks to everyone for their lovely comments, it really makes me feel good when you take the trouble to leave me a message.

Not sure about anyone else but this weather has really not helped the card making.  When I get home from work I am too tired and at the weekend I have too much to catch up on but needs must and here is a card I made one of my work colleagues. 

I confess I did do this one in a bit of a rush as I had to go to Birkenhead for a few days and needed the card the next day but everyone at work seemed to like it.  I used the Lili of the Valley image the "ribbon" was also one of their stamps which I stamped on patterned paper (the same as the bunting).  The background was actually bright pink but no matter how many pictures I took it really did not come out looking pink but you get the idea!.

Enjoy the rest of the weekend.  Kx

70th Birthday card

Hi Everyone

Wow what a scorcher this weekend.  Hope you had a good one and managed not to get burnt in the sun.

Today I am posting a birthday card I made for my Mum's 70th.  She loves "sweet" images and this one is no exception.

I made this one using oval dies using both card and paper which I put together to make a flower shape.  I added quite a few embellishments and of course coloured the image with my copic markers.  The greeting is computer generated.  The lilac feather added a bit of "softness" and I was really pleased with the result.  What do you think?

Have a good week.

Kx