Time to Paint Those Eggs

Evening,

Along with the beautiful 3D Embossing Folder that Creative Expressions recently released, there are some Easter stamps designed by the lovely Francoise Reid.

Normally I wouldn't blog them until Easter weekend, but as the supermarket shelves are groaning under the weight of Easter Eggs at the moment, I decided that I would share this card tonight.

I created the backgrounds using Creative Expressions Pixie Powders.

I love these powders because you never know exactly what you are going to end up with, every background is different even when using the same colours.

I stamped and embossed in white for all of the stamped images and then flooded the paper with water before adding the powders, and then more water.

I also added a little Gilding polish through a stencil in the background and then coloured some of the images with Pearlescent paint. All of the products used are from Creative Expressions.

Thanks for stopping by.

Love and Crafty Hugs

Kimx
 

Happy Easter Weekend (picture heavy post)

 Evening All,

I hope that you have all had a fabulous Easter Weekend. Here we are on Bank Holiday Monday, and I still haven't shared my Easter cards with you. So here they all are.

I don't usually do Easter cards but I think that people need something to smile about this year so I reached for my LOTV Simply print designs. 

I purchased this fabulous layering die set by Memory box after seeing Jennifer McGuire use it.

Of course as with any die you end up with loads of 'bits' which seem far too good to throw away, so I did a bit of paper piecing.

As you can see I still have load left over, but I'm not sure that I have the patience to do anything with them. Maybe I could use them in a shaker card. What do you think?

Thanks for stopping by. See you tomorrow.

Stay safe and hugs

Kimx

Easter Challenge at CCM

Evening Everyone,
Sorry I'm a little late today, I've actually managed to get a couple of things finished off.
Amongst them, a rather large pile of Easter cards for the latest challenge over at CCM.

Now I have to say that I don't usually do Easter cards.

I've always been the mean Mamma who gives the Grandchildren books rather than chocolate,

but this is such a hugely different time that I thought I would break the habit of a lifetime and send out some Easter cards.

I have several rather cute Easter designs from LOTV, so of course this is where I headed.

The main part of the greeting on this card is from a new Altenew stamp set that I recently purchased.

I do like to add a little bit of decoupage to the images,

and some glossy accents of course.

The sentiment here is from Clarity Stamps.

I don't usually like to make the same card twice,

but on this occasion I made an exception.

And I even made a couple of sets of four.

The background papers are from 12x12 pieces from my stash.

I rather like the other sentiment on some of these cards, I feel that it is rather appropriate for the moment. I do hope that you will be able to find the time to join us for this new challenge. I know that we have plenty of time on our hands at the moment, but I'm afraid that my spring cleaning gene hasn't kicked in so far, and is unlikely to at this stage in the game.
Stay safe and hugs
Kimx

A host of golden daffodils for a Spring challenge at CCM

Hello All,
Another beautiful sunny day here, and another challenge over at CCM where Judy is our host for Spring.

And how appropriate on such a lovely day.

Daffodils are always a sign of Spring for me, so here is a card made with some lovely Hobby Art ones, Daffs and Bells.

I stamped, embossed and coloured the daffodils and foliage, and then added some zendoodled frames.
It is also a Mother's Day card which we celebrated yesterday in the UK.
Well, we celebrated with bum bumps and Facetime, no actual hugging which was very hard. I can't wait to be able to give my lovely Mum a really big hug, and share a cuppa and a dark chocolate stem ginger biscuit. This is our treat when I take over her shopping which of course I am not able to do at the moment.

This second card uses the same set but this time I stamped and embossed in white

and then added a couple of fussy cut flowers

and an Easter greeting.

Card number three uses another white embossed panel only this time I created a darker colour spotlight in the centre of the card.

I made this final one a birthday card.

All three of the sentiments are part of this same lovely set.

I hope that you will be able to join us over at CCM. Crafting has certainly been my savior over the last few weeks, and I'm sure that it will continue to be such during this difficult time.
Stay safe and Craft.
And a big virtual hug from me.
Kimx

An Easter Chick, or a new baby card?

Evening Everyone,
How long has it been?
I really need to get back to this blogging lark. I don't know where the weeks are disappearing to.
Here we are nearly at Easter. At this rate it will be Christmas again before we know it :O)
I don't do Easter. I'm one of those mean 'Mam-mas' who give their Grandchildren books instead of Easter eggs. They get so many, and there is so little actual chocolate in them that I would rather buy them a bar anyway. How miserly does that sound?

We have an Easter challenge running at CCM at the moment. (It finishes on Saturday)
Since I don't make Easter cards, I decided to search through my numerous boxes in the hopes that I might find something suitable that I had previously made.

What I came across was this rather cute chick card which must be at least 10 years old!!

I loved the image and thought that it would actually make a rather sweet baby card, so I did a little bit of repurposing and came up with something that I am much more likely to use.

I felt that the background was a little too heavy for a baby card so I did a little fussy cutting to an image from my stash of toppers and hey presto a usable birthday card.

Having made the changes however I failed to place them on the CCM challenge blog.

Lets hope that it doesn't take me another couple of months to stop by again.

Hope you have had a great evening.

Hugs Kimx

Bunnies, chicks or eggs at CCM

Evening Everyone,
It is my turn to host the challenge over at CCM this time.
Our challenges last for a fortnight, so as this new one straddles Easter we have gone for a seasonal twist, and what could be more appropriate than Bunnies, Chicks or Eggs.

My card was made using one of the fabulous stamp sets from Woodware, designed by my friend Jane Gill.

I stamped and embossed the bunny onto white card stock and coloured it using a combination of distress oxide inks and Gelly Roll pens.

The background to the card was created by randomly stamping and embossing the bunny around the edges of a piece of kraft card.

The main image has been trimmed and then edged with faux stitching.

I love using the oxide inks on darker cardstock it gives such a lovely chalky finish.

Of course when I made the card I had to play with the images first, so here is a card that I created by stamping and embossing in gold on black card.

I hope that you will find the time to join us for our challenge, and that you will pop by and visit the rest of the team, who as always have come up with some stunning samples.

We also have some new teamies who would love a visit I am sure.

Happy Crafting and hugs.

Kimx