Big Leafy Hugs

Evening,

I do love Alcohol inks, they work perfectly on such a wide variety of products including metallic cardstock.

I used gold metallic card for the embossed panel on this card,

which I coloured using alcohol inks.

I also added plenty of die cut leaves, shaped,

and then added using silicon glue for extra dimension.

I also added a rather dramatic sentiment across the embossed panel.

Thanks for stopping by.

Love and Crafty Hugs

Kimx

Thank You for Letting Me Join In

Evening,

I spent a very enjoyable morning with an old friend, and lots of new ones at 'Stitch and Bitch', a Wednesday morning get together to stitch, drink tea and coffee, and bitch (talk) for England.

Having recently moved in with my Mum, I met up with an old friend who suggested that I join the group in the New Year, and I have been looking forward to it ever since. It is seen as an opportunity to take any stitching or knitting project along and work on it uninterrupted by life while in the company of good friends. It's a fabulous idea and one that I thoroughly enjoyed. I am already looking forward to next week lol.

I rarely do stitching on cards, and I haven't taken any pictures of what I managed to get done today, so here is a Thank You card instead. It's got ribbon on it. Does that count?

The background is created with a Multiple Resist technique with a stamped and embossed image over it.

I painted the flowers with bleach and then wrapped the panel with a piece of ribbon. The sentiment is a Peel-off.

Here is another Thank You card using diecuts on an alcohol inked background.

Thanks for stopping by.

Love and Crafty Hugs

Kimx

A Die Cut Twofer

Evening,

Crafty people never like waste, so I think we all like a 'Twofer'.  

I used a piece of Alcohol Inked background for this card.

I placed a stencil over the top of the alcohol ink coloured cardstock and then used Alcohol Lift ink to remove some of the colour

leaving the rather cobweb like image from the stencil showing.

I used a die to cut out the leafy image which I used as the focal point of the next card. The background was just too nice to waste so I added it to a rectangular scalloped frame along with a stamped sentiment.

I used the leafy die cut from the previous alcohol inked panel as the main focus on this card.

Once again I used a scalloped panel and a stamped sentiment.

Very clean and simple for me, but definitely a card design that I will try again.

Thanks for stopping by.

Love and Crafty Hugs

Kimx

Happy New Year

Happy New Year Everyone,

As expected I failed to see midnight again this year. At least I'm keeping up with tradition lol.

One of the many jobs that I have been tasked with since moving in with Mum, is finding the necessary paperwork to apply for help. In so doing I have come across numerous cards that I have sent her over the years. So I thought that I would start 2023 with a look back at just a few of the ones that I found.

A bit of mixed media.

Very 3D.

Alcohol inks and Lift ink, definitely a favourite technique.

More Alcohol Lift ink here.

Mop up background with Distress inks and a fabulous Jane Gill floral stamp.

More florals and background papers.

I hope that you liked my walk through some past treasures.

Have a wonderful day, whatever you are doing. Here's to a brilliant 2023 for us All.

Love and Crafty Hugs

Kimx

Countdown to Christmas - Day 9

Evening,

There was a really heavy frost when we got up this morning, it looked almost as if it had snowed. Let's hope we skip any of the real white stuff.

Here is a card with a die cut snowflake on it,

along with a sentiment banner.

The background has been created using alcohol inks, a favourite technique of mine.

Of course, I had to use up the left-over scrap of background, it was much too nice to waste.

So I added some more sentiment strips 

and another snowflake, along with a gem for an extra bit of bling. All of this over an embossed background.

Thanks for stopping by.

Love and Crafty Hugs

Kimx

Countdown to Christmas - Day 2

Evening,

Day 2 in my Countdown to Christmas, 

and a card made using an alcohol inked background,

a die-cut snowflake,

a sentiment and a few silver bobbles.

I've managed to write a few cards today. I've got to the end of A in my address book at least!!

I really must remember to stamp the inside and the back of the cards when I make them. It would save me so much time when it comes to actually writing them.

Thanks for stopping by

Love and Crafty Hugs

Kimx

Finishing Off Christmas

Evening,

I did wonder what the weather would get up to this weekend after our amazing assortment on Thursday. It was a very mixed bag........torrential rain, so heavy that it sounded like huge hail stones, brilliant sunshine and then to round off the afternoon hail itself and heavy snow, albeit only for a few minutes.

In view of the snow and the fact that we were finishing off Christmas cards in class on Saturday I have decided to share a Christmas card with you tonight.

I have used a 3D embossing folder and dark green cardstock for the background along with a little gold gilding wax.

The stamped panel was created using an image taken from a piece of Alcohol inked Yupo paper using an Alcohol Lift ink pad. I also used a Tim Holtz stencil in the background along with a stamped and embossed sentiment from Woodware.

I die cut my panel and then left the die in place while I added ink around the edges. This creates a fabulous faux matt and layer.

I managed to finish off envelopes and inserts for quite a few Christmas cards on Saturday. It's amazing what you can get done when you are surrounded by lovely crafty friends.

Hope that you had a great weekend.

Crafty Hugs 

Kimx

Life is Better with Friends

Evening,

Today would definitely have been worthy of sharing a Christmas card. I have been frozen all day.

They are completing some refurbishments at work and we have had to spend much of the morning serving through the night pay hatch. What a day to pick, given the degree of frost this morning, it has been bloody cold all day. There have been barriers everywhere and men in high viz jackets, but still people act like absolute idiots and ask the most stupid and obvious questions.  Oh well rant over, and as you can see I seem to have sorted out my computer issues. Or at least my wonderful friend Joe has.

So instead of Christmas, here are a couple of cards to celebrate good friends, and to say Thank You to Joe.

One of my all time favourite techniques to play with has got to be Alcohol inks and the Alcohol Ink Lift Pad.

These two cards were made using this technique, and another favourite of mine Penny Black Spontaneous Joy.

I love the amazing backgrounds that you can create with a few alcohol inks,

some stamps and an Alcohol Lift Inkpad.

I also added a little foil to the backgrounds. 

Thanks for stopping by. Life is definitely better with friends like you.

Hugs Kimx

Before Alcohol Lift Inkpads

Evening All,

One of my favourite new products from 2019 was the Alcohol Lift ink pad. A fabulous product which not not only lifts an image from a piece of alcohol inked background, but also enables you to stamp the image onto another piece of card stock. A twofer.

Long before it came on to the market it was possible to create and lift an impression from a piece of alcohol inked background using an archival ink pad.

Unfortunately this technique does not result in a twofer, but it does give you some fabulous results.

These cards were made using alcohol inked acetate. The floral images were stamped onto the inked side of the acetate using Archival ink which is then removed with a piece of  kitchen paper or a cloth. This removes the alcohol ink, although the images can sometime look a little grey from the archival ink.

This final card was made using a piece of photographic paper stamped with images that were then cut out and layered onto a card over a fancy die cut.

We will definitely have to play with Alcohol inks again, they are such fun, in the mean time its stencils tomorrow.

Thanks for stopping by. Have a great crafty weekend.

Hugs Kimx

Stencil Flowers

Evening All,

Well I managed to get to my daughters for my babysitting weekend in one piece. No trips or stumbles, and an enthusiastic greeting from all of them which is wonderful. Chloe has fussed around me like a mother hen, wanting to fetch my 'blue and black thing' (my splint), and telling me off for not wearing it all the time, even though I don't have to anymore. Aren't children wonderful :0) 

We are playing with stencils next weekend in class. They are such versatile things and can be used with a variety of products.

These cards were made using a floral stencil and alcohol inks.

They were also run through an embossing machine to which gives them extra dimension.

We will be using inks with the stencils this time, but I'm sure that we will play with them in other classes just like this one.  As I said they are so useful.

I added a die cut sentiment to this card, cut from glitter card.

Better get to bed, I'm bound to get an early morning wake up call lol.

Thanks for stopping by.

Hugs Kimx