It's Love in Craft Stamper

Evening Everyone.
See, what did I tell you, find my thermals and the weather changes lol. Thermal undies, power surges and warmer weather are not a good combo as any lady of a certain age will tell you. I was in danger of stripping off at the tills on a couple of occasions - never a good idea at ANY age.
I don't know if you have got the latest copy of Craft Stamper, always worth a coffee and a sit down as I look through all the wonderful projects that people have created.

Well this month I am in it. Page 40 as part of the 'All you need is Love' gallery. There is also an advert for Sir Stampalot on page 19 that is all cards designed by Me.
In the past they put the instructions for the cards in the Gallery on to their web extra page on line, but I have been waiting for it to appear and it still hasn't so I thought that I would share the card here complete with instructions as written for the magazine. Not the usual sort of detail I go in for on the blog but as it was written already it makes sense to share.

Stamp Woodware FRN005 Geometric Heart onto an A5 piece of white card using versamark and white embossing powder.
Sponge Tumbled Glass and Broken China Distress inks over the entire panel. Paint the hearts with Broken China ink.

Cut out a large circle using a Grand Nestie Circle LF114 and add a hand stitched border to it with a fine black pen. Stamp and white emboss Art Impressions I3082 Love and sponge as before. Cut to size and matte and layer onto silver mirri card.

Create an easel card from a 14.5 x 14.5cm square white card and add square panel of Echo Park Capture the Flag paper and red card stock to the folded half of the card as illustrated.

Cut a rectangle from the left over stamped, embossed and sponged heart panel and mount it onto the red and blue card the same as the main panel. Add hand stitched borders as illustrated, and mount onto the base of the card.
Make flowers from Marianne Creatables LR0162 and LR0163 using the Bo Bunny's Pink Flourish paper and attach to the base of the card as illustrated. Add some Marianne Creatables LR0150 flourishes, punched leaves, small ready made flowers and chandeliers.
Add a little glitter glue to the large flowers, and four silver metallic dots to the corners of the main panel.

All the items I used are available from Sir Stampalot for whom I made the card.
You have to work so far in advance for magazines that sometimes it is hard to get in the right mood for Valentines when we haven't even finished the summer let alone Christmas lol.
I have got a couple of days off work now, but I can see that I will be spending most of it trying to catch up with my commenting on the Crafty Cardmakers challenge.
I didn't realise how far behind I had got with my commenting until I tried this evening. What is it with Blogger lately I don't seem to have been able to even view the cards on most of the numbers that I have been allocated, let alone leave a comment. It is so frustrating and such a waste of time.
So I apologise in advance to all the lovely people who have entered their cards in to our latest challenge, and boy there are certainly a lot of you, if I don't leave a message it is not for the want of trying!!
I think I will stop now and try again tomorrow before I end up throwing the lap top at the wall :)
Oh I nearly forgot to enter the card into the following challenges
Scrapbook Sisters - My Sweet Valentine
Penny Black and More at Allsorts - Love and Hearts
Nite nite.
hugs Kimx

Featured in this months Craft Stamper

Evening Everyone

I've been trying to get this posted for about a week now, but something has always got in the way.
So tonight is the night.
This is the card that features on page 41 of the December Craft Stamper in the 'Oh Christmas Tree' gallery.
The instructions for creating the card can be found on line on the Web Extra page.
I made the card on behalf of Sir Stampalot, from whom you can purchase all the products used.

As I said the instructions are available on the web Extra page but I will repeat them here just in case.

Stamp and emboss Hero Arts Winter Scene onto white card stock using Versamark ink and gold embossing powder.

Cut out using Nestabilities Labels 17.

Before removing the image from the Nestabilities die add a small circle punched from a Post-it Note and sponge the entire thing with Antique Linen Distress Ink holding the Nestie in place while you sponge the ink. Remove the punched circle and Nestie and add a stitched border with a Sakura Micron pen.

Stamp and emboss Season's Greetings from Woodware All Through the Year. Cut out using a circular Nestie and apply ink as for the main image.

Emboss a piece of green Echo Park background paper using Cuttlebug Folder Holly Ribbon, cut to size and gently apply gold Encore ink using your finger tip.

Cut a piece of red Echo Park background paper to fit a 14.5cm square white card. Before attaching to the white card, stamp and emboss the trees from the Winter Scene along the bottom edge of the red card using Versamark and clear embossing powder, and then stamp Magnolia Swirl Flourish down the left hand side of the red card using gold encore ink.

Assemble the pieces as illustrated and embellish with pearls.

That's all from me tonight. I have new Hobby art stamps to play with tomorrow, and Barbara to watch on the box In the Classroom lesson 4 (Create and Craft Sky channel 671 at 11am - 1pm).
It's a hard life, but someone has to do it :)
Nite, nite
Hugs
Kimx

Wish you were here in Craft Stamper

Evening All
I'm afraid that my mojo seems to have gone the way of all the beautiful sunshine - missing!!!
I have sat and stared at stamp sets from Barbara for most of the day and have come up with only two cards, so I think I had better call it a night.

This card was made during my holiday at Sir Stampalot in March, and has just been published in the July edition of Craft Stamper, page 73 top right hand corner.
It shows you just how far in advance you have to work with the magazines.

It was made for the ideas gallery and follows the Postcard theme and colour guide that I was told to use by the magazine. The instructions for the projects can be found as a web extra on the Craft Stamper website www.craftstamper.com. The Destination Tag is by Hero Arts (H4978).

All of the items used are available from Sir Stampalot. The background papers are by Kaiser Craft and all the stamps of famous buildings are by Art Impressions (Big Ben (L2993), Globe (K2266), Leaning Tower of Pisa (G2647), Eiffel Tower (G2542), and Colosseum (G2672)) 

I couldn't find a suitable greeting to go on the card so I added a handwritten 'Wish you were here'.
I think I'll flick through some old magazines or Stampin Up catalogues and see if I can get inspired again.
Hope you have a good Bank Holiday Monday. Some of us have to work of course so the card making will have to take a back seat until tomorrow afternoon anyway :)
Love and hugs
Kimx

I'm in the Ideas Gallery in Craft Stamper

Hi All

I'm afraid its another Monochromatic card tonight, now that wasn't well planned on my part was it lol.
I've just received my copy of the June edition of Craft Stamper. My card is featured in the Idea Gallery on page 73, bottom right hand corner. As usual I have designed the card using items supplied by Janice and Andy at Sirstampalot.
I forgot that the mag was due out today when I put my post on the blog last night, Oh well never mind you can never get too much black and white in my opinion.

The gallery page is always themed both in content and colour which I actually rather enjoy. As I just mentioned this time it was Black and White with a Masculine theme. I made the card using Penny Black Japanese Maple 3932K and Hobby Art Happy Birthday  GR1853C.

I love this leaf stamp and I thought that it worked brilliantly for a Man's card.

This time they have made the instructions for the card available on their web page www.craftstamper.com. Just click on Web Extra.
I really must post something with a bit more colour tomorrow or you will think this is all I can do :)
Have a good evening
Love and hugs
Kimx

Spring Florals in Craft Stamper

Evening Everyone
It turned into a beautiful day here, if still a little chilly.
Babysitting went off without a hitch yesterday, in fact they didn't stir once, not even after their parents arrived home. Tonight they were up and down like yo-yos with Mum and Dad around - oh the power of the Mam-ma :)

This is the card that has just been published in the latest edition of Craft Stamper (May 2011 page 52). Once again it was done for Janice and Andy at Sir Stampalot.

The theme was 'Spring Florals' although there has been a bit of a typo and they have called it Framed - that was last month. I've spritzed the background papers with Glimmer Mist once I have cut them using a Nestie.

As usual there was a colour theme which was lemon, mint and peach. I have used craft chalks blended over a versamarked image for a change. The stamps used are of course Anna's Collection - Just for You by Hobby Art.

I've added flowers coloured with Glimmer Mist, punched leaves and chandeliers, as well as stitched lines and peel-off borders.

Hope you like it.

Nite, nite

Love and hugs

Kimx

In the Frame

Hi All
Yeah I'm in print again. Page 36 of the latest edition of Craft Stamper (April) in the bottom left hand corner.
The theme this time was 'Framed', so what better way to show off piccies of my Grandchildren than a multiple frame.

I'm afraid that the pictures aren't exactly the best in the world, but they do at least give you some idea of what the finished article looked like. It does look better with the photos of the twins in it as in the magazine itself. I e-mailed them across to Janice and she chose which ones she wanted. Saskia was most impressed when she saw her brother and herself in print lol.

The frame was made with a trusted Magenta stamp Butterflies and Swirls Dotted Frame available from Sir Stampalot. Of course there had to be some nesties used and a few flowers to complete the ensemble.
I've sent off the May and June projects already so now it's on to the next TV show for Barbara - no rest for the wicked this weekend that's for sure.
Hope you have a good one.
Happy Crafting
Love and hugs
Kimx

I'm back in the magazines.

Evening Everyone,
Well there I was all ready to blog about the classes that I taught today at Lavender Lane, when I got home to find the latest copy of Craft Stamper had arrived.
Months ago Janice from Sir Stampalot asked me if I would like to create a card for the Ideas Gallery in Craft Stamper magazine (March 2011 edition page 37). It seems so long ago now since magazines obviously have to plan their layouts several months in advance.

 There was a very specific colour scheme for the gallery, as well as a theme which in this case was 'Images of  Women'. It was quite a challenge being made to use certain colours, but a very enjoyable one none the less.

The card uses Vogue Silhouette (Stamps Happen 90415) as well as Inspire (Art Impressions E2555). Trust the magazine to get the code wrong for this one lol. They also spelt my name wrong, so what can I say !!!!!

As you can see my favourite Swirl Flourish (Magnolia X1321) just had to find its way in there, as did plenty of silicone glue.
All the items used on the card are available from Sir Stampalot so don't forget to check out their website.
I can see this means that I will have to be a good girl and blog again tomorrow, so watch this space.
In the mean time I had better get back to the card making, lots to do.
By the way Gilly, yes I did have to make a box for this one.....sorry :)
Happy Crafting.
Love and hugs
Kimx