Why not try Water Stamping

Evening Everyone
I hope that you have had some lovely sunshine where you are. It has been nice to see the sun although it has still been very cold here.
Today is the first Tuesday in the month so that means that it is the start of a new challenge over at Technique Time Tuesday.

 I love stamping and inks so it wasn't hard to play along with the challenge this month Water Stamping.

I have used a couple of Hero Arts stamps and my trusted Distress Ink pads.
I love these solid style images and have stamped and embossed using Versamark and clear embossing powder over the top of the text background which has been stamped in black onto white card stock.

The strip across the centre is an EK Success punch and I also added some Card Candi.
I would also like to enter this into the following challenges
Creative Corner Challenges - Anything Goes
A Little Bit Crafty - Anything Goes
Papertake Weekly Challenge - Anything Goes
Let's hope that the sun is a little warmer tomorrow, I really am getting very bored now.
Thanks for stopping by.
hugs Kimx

A Masking Class at Davina's

Evening Everyone
I hope that you have had a lovely Easter Sunday, and are not too full of chocolate.
I am feeling absolutely stuffed and really quite uncomfortable, that will teach me to overindulge.
We had a fantastic class yesterday at Davina's.

I was teaching them some basic masking using a couple of lovely floral stamp sets from Woodware JGCL572 Daisy Layers and JGCL559 Dotty Flower Trio.

We also made use of the new A4 Masking sheets from Stix2.

The panel on this card has been coloured using Distress inks with a little added sparkle from my favourite Gelly Roll pen 700 Clear Star. Sorry it doesn't show up very well in the photos.

The sentiment is from a Hobby Art stamp set Scene It Sentiments.

The coloured card stock is Co-Ordinations which is fabulous when sanded. I have used an EK Success punch and an embossing folder as well as a little ribbon, white glaze pen, fine black pen, glossy accents and some clear gems.

As usual we made a tag to add to their book.

This was my original tag. The card was made from the one that I made in class to show them the technique.

As you can see they were all very busy, it is always so quiet when everyone is colouring in.
I can't believe how quickly today has gone. I hate it when the clocks go forward, it seems to make the weekend so short. I have remembered to change my clock. I wonder how many people forgot and were late for work today?
Better get to bed and sleep off some of this chocolate. I know exercise would be better for me but I never said I was a good girl did I lol.
Hugs Kimx

Vintage Love at Crafty Cardmakers

Afternoon All
I hope you are making it through Monday OK, not skiving off work. According to the paper today is supposed to be the worse day in the whole year for people going off sick!!
Well, I was a good girl, although I have been waylaid from some paperwork by some small people and a cup of coffee, still tomorrow is another day lol.
Today sees the start of a new challenge over at Crafty Cardmakers.
Kylie is our host this time and she has chosen the theme of 'Vintage Love'.

As Valentine's Day is fast approaching Kylie would like to see your creations incorporating a Vintage Love theme. Your project MUST be VINTAGE and SHOW at least one object that portrays love. Perhaps a picnic basket, gold locket, love letter, hearts etc.

I do hope that Kylie considers my card vintage enough.
One of our sponsors for this challenge is Hobby Art who have provided us with two of their lovely stamps Heart Scroll and Love a fabulous background stamp.
I decided that I would use the same stamps to make my card, as well as a couple of my Nesties, a new border punch and a Memory Box die.

I had intended to use the background stamp on the front of the card as well but somehow it just didn't look right so I added it as a panel inside the card itself.
The lattice background is a Spellbinder Fancy Lattice die which I have cut out of cream card and added to the base of my Easel card.

The punched border is a new EK Success punch that I bought at Davina's last week. 
The Butterfly BU1915D and With Love GR1830B are also from Hobby Art

I have cut the front panel using the Fancy Lattice and Labels 28 and then coloured it using Vintage Photo Distress Ink. 

I also sprayed the panel with some Goosebumps Texture Spray in between layers of colour and added pearls and some medical gauze behind the central panel.

The flowers have been created using the hearts from the Heart Scroll stamp which have been painted using Vintage Photo Distress Ink, cut out and then shaped using an embossing tool and decoupage mat.

I added a punched circle to the centre to 'hold' everything in place and attached the 'petals' using silicon glue.

The swirls are the Memory Box tree die cut into pieces.

I would also like to enter this into the challenge at 

Addicted to Stamps - Pearls and Swirls

Dream Valley Challenges - Valentines.

Great Impressions - Have a Heart

Don't forget to share some love with the rest of the Gals on the team HERE, and PLEASE don't forget to follow the rules of the challenge.

Oh and I forgot to tell you that our other sponsor is Di's Digi Downloads.

Happy Crafting

Hugs Kimx

Fall in the Circle

Evening Everyone,
I hope that you are well.
I must admit that I have been struggling with my Sciatica over the last few weeks.
I have it on authority (The Daily Mail) that I am in good company as Her Majesty is suffering at the moment as well.
Not sure that she will have had to stand at the till for hours but I sympathise with her none the less - it bloody hurts!!!!
I have finally had to give in and go to the GP today who has given me pills, which I don't usually take, and told me I need to take a week off work and see how I am after that!!!!
At the moment doing anything for more than a couple of hours is agony so I can see a restless few days.
Anyway that's enough of my winging on lets get down to business.

I'm definitely in cute mode at the moment aren't I lol.
The challenge this week at Our Creative Corner has been Fall in the Circle 

 - simply create a CIRCLE card/project (or card/project contains circle diecut) with fall theme - colours or objects.

 Once again I have used this lovely Tilda in the Leaves stamp coloured with Distress inks.

I used my Circular and Grand Nesties to create my card out of a piece of background paper that I had made. I stamped and embossed some leaves in gold on to the green card as well as stamping with bleach which made the card turn yellow.
The border punch is from EK Success and I have use the small punched out maple leaves to add to the card.

The leaves which border the circle are actually from the Magnolia Fall Wreath which I have cut into three sections.

The greeting is from Lili of the Valley.
I so enjoyed making this card  for the challenge over at Our Creative Corner.
Why not check it out there are some awesome samples from the Design Team.
I need to go and lie down for a bit now. I'm not used to taking pills and I'm feeling a bit woozy at the moment so this may not make any sense tomorrow when I read it back to myself :O)
Night night and sleep well.
hugs Kimx

A late night Happy Birthday

Evening Everyone
Just a quick post tonight. I had a couple of friends round for a spot of crafting, and as usual it got later that I realised - how the time flies when you are having fun with like minded 'Crafty Folk'.

This card was made for the eldest of my Brother's children, Lauren, who has her birthday today.
They have a house full of dogs (and a couple of cats and a rabbit) so I thought that this lovely Lili of the Valley die cut seemed somewhat appropriate.

The background papers are from my stash, the greeting is from Hobby Art, and the punch is from EK Success. I cut the image out using a circular nestie and added a little faux card candi.
Must get to sleep now, I'm starting to nod off lol.
hugs Kimx

Summer Sailing

Evening Everyone,
I hope that you have had a great Saturday.
I guess that this had better be a very quick post, I have been having way too much fun finishing off cards that I started today in my class at Davina's.
It's far too dark to take pictures tonight so you will have to content with this card that I made for the young son of one of the customers at work.

He has been suffering with the chicken pox and so this was made to cheer him up, and also to wish him belated  birthday greetings.

I have used part of a lovely Penny Black stamp which I coloured with my trusty distress ink pads.

I used an EK Success punch across the bottom of the panel, and added some tiny peel-off dots and Card Candi.
You may have noticed that I am very into adding tiny dots to my work. Here I have added them to the Woodware greeting and around the mice.

The background papers are from my stash, and I made the card using the lovely sketch no43 at Freshly Made Sketches.
I added some Magnolia swirls around the edge of the green card and also some Frantage Embossing Enamel.
I have some more kids cards to make tomorrow as it is nearly time for the Twins birthday. I think I will break out a couple of my favourite Lili of the Valley die cuts for them.
Off to bed now before I get side tracked into finishing another card.
I've suddenly realized just how weather appropriate my card is. You are nearly able to sail across the bottom of our road with all the rain recently lol.
Night night
hugs Kimx

Two Cheeky Boys

Evening Everyone,
Have you ever had that feeling that you have spent the day doing one thing, when you should really have been doing something completely different instead?
Well that is the sort of day I have had.
I have had a wonderful time making Christmas cards, but I can't help feeling that there is something more pressing that I should have been attending to.
Oh well too late now, I will just have to panic next week lol.
My stash of Christmas bits doesn't seem to be getting any smaller, but I am pleased to say that my pile of finished cards has grown by quite a few this weekend.

In amongst all of the Christmas cards I also managed to make this for a couple of cheeky little boys who celebrated their birthday on Saturday. They come into the garage every morning with their Mum and are always full of smiles, so I thought that I would make them a card when I found out that it was their birthday on Saturday. 

I have used one of my Lili of the Valley toppers cut out with a nestie. I added some stiching and glossy accents, and mounted it over background papers from my stash.

The dinosaur punch is by EK Success.

The number is also from my stash and I have coloured and embossed it so that it fitted better with the colour of the card.
I hope they like it, I guess I will find out tomorrow.
I would like to enter it into the challenge over at Here come the Boys.
Off to bed now, night night.
Hugs Kimx

Flower Labels with lemon juice

Evening Everyone
I hope that you have had a good start to your weekend.
It has been pretty wet in Peterborough, at least on and off, but I have still had a lovely day demoing here at SirStampalot.
Lots of lovely people have stopped in, including the sister of one my customers from the BP garage down in Surrey, it's a small world isn't it!!

This is the card that I made yesterday when I forgot to bring my camera home. It uses the lemon juice background technique that I have been showing people today.
I cut a lemon in half and tapped it onto white card stock which I then heated. The more lemon juice there is on the card the longer it will take to 'cook' and the darker it will turn, so you can control the colour to a certain degree.

Once the lemon juice has been heated I stamped and embossed Hero Arts K5583 Flower Label on to the card before sponging over the entire thing with Distress inks.
Best Wishes is taken from a Hobby Art clear set  which has been stamped and embossed into the label area of a second stamped image. This has been cut out and attached to the original panel using silicon to give it a padded effect.

The background papers used on the card are EB104 Okey Dokey Artichokey from Paper Loft and P442 Elm Point from Kaisercraft.
The border punch is by EK Succsess, and I added some stitching with a fine pen and faux card candy made from the left over lemon juice background.
I will be sharing this technique with the ladies in my class on Tuesday evening.
I must finish now as I still have my post to write for the next challenge over at Woodware. Perhaps you will stop by tomorrow and see what I have made.
hugs Kimx

Missing one mojo, if found please return.

Evening Everyone,
I hope that you are having a great weekend, and if you are out and about and find my missing mojo please return it to me.
I should be spending the weekend making a start on DT samples for the TV but I just can't seem to get going, so instead I decided that I would make a couple of cards just for the hell of it and see if that gets my mojo going again.
I have managed to make 6 Christmas cards which I will share with you as soon as I can get some pictures taken, but I guess tomorrow will tell on the missing mojo front.

So in the mean time this is a card that I made for Barbara at Clarity last month.
I have used the lovely Lily of the Valley stamp which I have painted using dye based inks and Pearlex.

The images have been cut out using a circular nestie and mounted on to a panel of gold card edged using an EK Success border punch.
I have added some stitching and Faux Card Candy.
Off to bed now, maybe my missing mojo will return while I sleep, I certainly hope so.
hugs Kimx

WOYWW - The finished item

Evening All
I managed to finish my card from yesterday's 'Creative Clutter' which I posted over at WOYWW.

The card has been made for a school friend of my Grandson Reece. It will be his birthday tomorrow.
The young man with the Dinosaurs is from The Greeting Farm Happy Day set that I bought at SirStampalot some time ago. I have to admit to this being the first time it has seen ink, but it will certainly not be its last.

I think he is soooo cute and his Pre historic friends go perfectly with the EK Success border punch that was also purchased at SirStamp.

I coloured him using Distress inks and then layered him onto papers from my stash. The piece of red card has been embossed using a Cuttlebug folder.
This is as creative as I have been today. It is so cold at work with the air con and the big chillers, there were times I think it might actually have been warmer outside lol.
Maybe if I tidy my desk tonight I might feel inspired again tomorrow, or maybe I will just hibernate for the weekend.
I am entering this into the challenge at
Simon Says Stamp - Animal Antics
Stamps and Fun = Creativity - Animals + Blue
Dream Valley challenges - Animals
Off to tidy up. Thanks for stopping by.
hugs Kimx