Happy Birthday to a fabulous Friend

Evening Everyone,
Hang the flags out, we have finally had a delivery.
I can tell you I have never been so happy to see an M&S lorry in all my life, how sad is that lol.

This card was made for a fabulous friend of mine, the lovely Janice at SirStampalot.

I have even enclosed a list of 'ingredients' for her to make it easier when she adds it to the gallery as I know she will.
The background has been created using Distress Inks and one of Jane Gills new stamps.

I spritzed the uninked stamp with water and stamped it into the background to get the lovely 'Ghosted' effect.
I hope that you have had a fabulous day Janice, and I am looking forward to seeing you all in March for my spring holiday :O)
Hugs Kimx

Ghosting or Resist

Hi All
I hope that you are having a great weekend. I must admit that I am thoroughly enjoying the rain that is currently falling. I know you will all hate me for it, but it is late and you can't do anything much outside in the dark so I am making the most of the fact that it is slightly cooler.
As predicted we had a fabulous class today at Davina's, with a couple of new faces as well which was wonderful.
It was extremely hot so we had several fans going and a cloth rigged up over the conservatory doors to try and cut down on some of the direct sunshine.
This is the tag that I made to add to my Technique book.
I give them printed instructions on the technique we are covering to add to the back of the tag, but for you guys there is always a great tutorial over at Splitcoast Stampers.

I have more DT stuff to work on tomorrow so maybe now it is a little cooler I will get a better nights sleep.
Hugs Kimx

Our first Technique Tag at Davina's

Evening Everyone
I hope that you have had a good Saturday.
We had another great class at Davina's today, and they made the first of their Technique Tags.
As I had already made my tag I used the background piece that I created while showing them the technique to create the card I am sharing tonight.
I followed the latest sketch at Seems a Little Sketchy to create my card with colours that I copied from Gill, one of the lovely ladies on the class. It is quite amazing though how different the two panels actually looked even though they both used the same colour combo. Why is it that we always prefer how the other persons panel turns out over our own?

I used Woodware Wheat JGS273 and Vintage Sepia Versafine ink embossed with clear Embossing Powder  and then sponged with Pine Needles and Spiced Marmalade Distress Inks.

The ghosted image has been created by using the same clean stamp misted with water to stamp on to the inked panel.

I added Faux Stitching to the edge of the panel as well as some extra tiny dots and some Card Candi.
Craft Creations papers have been used in the background to mount the panel onto.

How good am I? I even stamped the envelope and insert before I finally tidied away the stamps and inkpads.
That's one challenge card to cross off the list. Maybe I can get another one finished tomorrow.
Night, night.
Hugs Kimx

I got a little carried away.....

Evening Everyone,
I told you that I got a little bit carried away with the lovely colour combo at Inkspirational Challenges, so here we are with more vibrant pink, green and black.
Once again I have used one of Jane Gill's solid floral images Ferns JGS274 stamped and embossed using Black Versafine  and clear Embossing powder.

The colours have been added by sponging Picked Raspberry and Mowed Lawn Distress Ink over the stamped image, and the ghosting is the result of stamping with a wet but clean stamp onto the background.

The sentiment is also from a Woodware Clear stamp set Mixed Greetings FRCL080.

I have used more of the lovely Magenta MEMOR-212 Spring Tapestry background paper with a little additional stamping on it.

This year we are going to try something a little different in class at Davina's.
How many times do you take a class and then when you get home you can't remember how you achieved the results on your card?
Well now, inspired by the Tag class that I did at SirStampalot last year, which was in turn inspired by a Tim Holtz class that they did at CHA, I will be creating an Information Tag to accompany every class. so over the year they should build up quite a library of techniques.
I have made my tag and written the instructions for everyone so all that's left is to pack bag for class, I'm bound to forget something.

As you can see I have also incorporated the Sketch from the latest challenge at Woodware. I'm hoping that it might inspire them to enter themselves.
I'm too late to enter this card into the Inkspirational Colour Challenge as the deadline has passed so I will just have to wait and see what they come up with for Week 2 which I believe is a Photo Inspired challenge.
I can't wait.
Hugs Kimx

Summer Colours for The Stampman challenge

Evening Everyone
I hope that you are ready for another lovely weekend, even if the weather is not going to be up to much, if the weathermen are to be believed, that is!!
I'm afraid that I am very late with my post for the new challenge at The Stampman.
Our host for this challenge is Siobhan who is looking for Anything Goes / Summer Colours.

I actually made two cards for this. You know how I can get carried away lol.
This is actually the second card that I made. After I had finished the first one I realised that it was made from left over pieces from the previous challenge, so I made this one to show you instead.

This has been made using one of the lovely new stamps that will be available very soon from Woodware.
It's so new that I don't even have details of a code or title, so watch this space, as they say and I will fill you in as soon as I can.

The main panel has been created by stamping Hero Arts S5601 Newspaper Background onto a piece of white card stock and then stamping and embossing the grasses over the top using versamark and clear embossing powder. 
Next I sponged colour over the top of the image.
I used a mixture of distress inks Rusty Hinge, Seedless Preserve and Faded Jeans. The embossing acts as a resist and the white image shows up. I then spritzed the uninked stamp with water and stamped it onto the panel to give a lovely 'ghosted' image.

The background to the card has been created in the same manner using only the Rusty Hinge ink and 'ghost' stamping.
Isn't it spooky how I have chosen such a similar technique to that used by Siobhan on her card.
I never look at what the other girls have done until I add my card to the post so it just goes to show how similar our tastes are.
My first card was even more like Siobhan's, still I guess that shouldn't surprise me given that she is looking for Summer Colours.
I hope that you will join us, and don't forget to check out the rest of the DT, there are some really lovely cards.
Have a great weekend.
Happy Crafting.
hugs Kimx