I got a Bit Carried Away

Evening,

Sometimes I get sent something to play with in my Design Team box, that I find hard to put down. This happened recently with a beautiful 3D Embossing Folder from Creative Expressions.

I spent ages trying out a variety of techniques that I have picked up over the years. None of them were particularly complicated, but they highlighted the fabulous detail to be found on the embossing folder.

There are loads of samples, but it would take me a week if I tried to write about each one, so I will just leave you with a picture heavy post and a suggestion that you message me if there is anything that you would like me to explain.

Thanks for stopping by.

Love and Crafty Hugs

Kimx

Belated Birthday Wishes

Evening,

I hope that you have had a good day. I have had a lovely relaxing time in the company of good friends. Plenty of coffee, biscuits, chat and crafting all thrown into one. What a great way to spend a Saturday.

One of the consequences of my recent period of instability and the chaos around moving, is that I have missed soooooo many birthdays and other special occasions.

Before things descended into chaos, I did get to make several cards using some of my fabulous LOTV Digi print images.

I do love these, they are such a fabulous way of making a card quickly.

I printed out various coloured images and then raided my stash of background papers and card for simple matt and layering.

I really must get some cards written and sent tomorrow, before I miss any more special days. If I missed yours, I really do apologise. Let's hope I get to do better in the coming weeks and months now that I am a little more settled in. I do hope so, especially as Christmas card writing is not very far off. How quickly that comes round each year.

Thanks for stopping by,

Happy Crafting and Hugs

Kimx

Some Spotlights for Gill

Afternoon,

My good friend Gill has just set her 'Way to Go Wednesday' challenge over at the The Christmas Card Challenge Group on Facebook. In fact she asked there how long we had known each other. She came and watched me demo at Ally Pally in October 2004. She then produced a copy of my book for me to sign and asked if I could organize a class for her and a few friends, and the rest, as they say, is history.

This week she has chosen a Spotlight card, which I love to do. Apart from anything else it often results in a 'Twofer', and is also a great way to cover up a mistake.

In fact I have made so many over the years that I thought that I would remind you of some of the more recent ones. The first batch are all Christmas cards......very suitable for the challenge group.

And this second batch are all occasion cards.

As you can see there were quite a few lol.

I hope that they will inspire you to try out this fabulous technique. Why not head over to Facebook and join everyone in the group, they come up with some fabulous cards and some cracking tips.

Thanks for stopping by.

A big Crafty Hug

Kimx

Who Doesn't Love a Twofer

Afternoon All,

I hope that you are all having a fabulous Bank Holiday weekend, just a shame that the weather isn't up to much. Still I suppose that's par for the course for an English Bank Holiday weekend lol.

Who doesn't love a Twofer? Two cards for the price of one. It's always a good option and a great way to use up bits and pieces. I do hate to waste anything.

I used a floral shaped circle die to create my window for this card. I dry embossed the outer panel and added some distress inks to the edges which helps to highlight the embossing.

The background to the 'window' has been created using a piece of card stamped and embossed in black and sponged with Distress inks. I splattered the panel with some water to give some added interest.

I ran the die cut 'waste' from the first card through a floral embossing folder and then added inks.

Always dry emboss after die cutting your shape so as not to flatten the embossed pattern.

Of course this may be the effect that you are going for, slightly more subtle embossing.

Or you might just have forgotten to die cut first, like me. Still a little bit of gilding polish helps the pattern to show up. 

Better get on. I've got some tidying up to do before I can start on the next round of samples. It's all part of my creative process, as bizarre as it sounds. I have to sort out, tidy up and clear away everything from the previous things that I have been working on, and then once everywhere is clear I start to make a mess again. I'm sure that I'm not the only one that does that. My craft room needs to be clean and tidy for a few minutes at least.

Have a great afternoon.

Hugs Kimx

A Dragonfly among the Daffodils

Evening All,

Another lovely, if tiring day of looking after the littlest Grandbabies. Fortunately it stayed dry so they were able to play outside for quite a while this afternoon even though it was rather chilly. Kids don't seem to notice the cold do they, unlike us oldies.

Recently I've been playing again with the lovely Dragonfly Delight Designer Boutique stamp, so here is the card that I made for the original release a little while ago.

I didn't use the stamp in its entirety, I just stamped, embossed and fussy cut the daffodils

and the dragonfly.

The sentiment has been stamped and embossed on to a circular die cut panel and then layered onto the center of the black and white die cut background created using Sue Wilson Quiltessential Rings.

Thanks for stopping by.

Hugs Kimx