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

Free and Easy at Penny Black at Allsorts

Hi All,
I've been so busy with card making this last week that I have had no time to blog, and now I have so many things to share that I don't know where to start. You can't win can you lol.

This card was made for Samuel whose birthday was last week.
I have used an old Penny Black cat which I have coloured using distress inks. I have added some glossy accents to his tummy, just to be different!!

The image has been cut out using a Nestie and then mounted over various background papers from my stash.
I have also added some swirls with my favourite Magnolia stamp, it seems to creep in every where :)
I am entering this into the Challenge over at Penny Black at Allsorts where the challenge is Free and Easy.
Thanks for stopping by, I will try and share some more tomorrow.
Love and hugs
Kimx