With Love in Black and Red

Evening All
I hope that you have all had a good weekend. I can't believe how quickly Sunday evening has come round.
I have managed to have quite a productive time, I have even managed to get ahead with a DT card for next week. It can't last lol.
This is a card destined for a pillar box in the next couple of days.

 It was made a while ago using Sticky Embossing Powder and Gold Leaf.

The floral panel is actually red acetate that has also had Gold Leaf added to the back of it using double sided  sticky sheet.
The recipient of this particular card always makes cards that are a little bit different, so I hope that she will appreciate this one.
Hugs Kimx

A Sticky Copper Tree

Evening,
I told you that August was heavy on the male birthday card front, so here is another one I made, this time for one of the guys at work.

I used a panel that I made during a class on Sticky Embossing and 'Gold' Leafing.
The stamp is by Stampendous, and was one of those 'I have to have' purchases. Alright, I know there are lots of those, but this one really was at the top of the list lol.

The background to the tree has been coloured using Decorating Chalks.
The stripy paper is from my Woodware stash.
Yes Dorothy I do have a separate box for Woodware papers and another one for product, although this has recently had to be moved to a larger box. Too many lovely new things to play with lol.
Hope you get some playtime in this weekend, I know I will.
Hugs Kimx

Happy Father's Day

Evening Everyone
I hope that you have had a wonderful Father's Day. Have you been waiting on him hand and foot, just as he is supposed to do for Mother's Day?
I have spent another day chained to my desk but the Grandkids have been making sure that their Dad is looked after with a cooked 'Brunch' and plenty of cups of tea and coffee.
We also had a lovely Sunday Roast dinner, which is always a favourite with everyone.
As my own Dad is sadly no longer with us I had no need to make a Father's Day card so I thought instead that I would share this card that I made for a friend to give her Dad on his birthday last month.

Her Dad had been in the Navy for most of his adult life so she wanted something with a Nautical theme.
I had very little in the way of stamps for this so I just had to have a little bit of a spend up with Woodware.

The greeting on the map is what Vicky asked me to put on the card, it is what they call her Dad.

The ship has been coloured using Distress Inks and then the sails have been painted with thin undiluted bleach.

I used Frantage powder on some of the background images as well as Sticky Embossing Powder and Copper Leafing.
The base to the card uses one of my favourite Punch Around the Page punches which is great for Men's cards.
I would like to enter this into the following challenges
613 Avenue Create - Anything Goes or TWIST Someone Special (A Male)
Dream Valley Challenge - Father's Day / Male Theme
Totally Gorjuss - For Dad
The Hobby House - Anything Goes (The compass charm is from their collection)
The Artistic Stamper - Makes for Men
Better get to bed, it is my last day off tomorrow and I still have so much left to do. I'm hoping that the Grandchildren will wake me up before they go to school.
Hugs Kimx

A good use for a Peel-off

Evening Everyone
Are you having a good weekend?
We had another fabulous class at Davina's, and more cake, at this rate I will be the size of a house very soon lol.
We have spent the afternoon opening the doors to cool us down and then closing them again to stop the Gold Leaf flying all over the place.
The Girls did a fabulous job with their tags. Why is it that you always like the colours that other people pick better than the ones you have chosen yourself.

As well as this fabulous Stampendous Tree Poem stamp and Sticky Embossing Powder I also showed them how to use Acetate, Double-sided Sticky sheets and Pearlex as shown on TV by Barbara. Well at least my version of it anyway.

The card on the left uses an image stamped straight onto the double sided sticker sheet as per Barbara, and the card on the right is my simplified version using a peel off.

Unfortunately my sticker sheets are old and quite thin so they screwed up slightly when I added the acetate, still it added texture so all is not lost.

This version with the peel off did call for some extra sticker paper to attach the acetate to the card but it allowed me to use up all those tiny dust like particles of Gold Leaf that seem to end up at the bottom of the box and all over the table.
Once again I have been a good girl and finished off all the bits and pieces once I got home, including a couple of pieces that have lain in my Gold Leaf teaching folder for years.
The only trouble is that it has put me even further behind with my samples for Barbara, I really must get on with them tomorrow if I am to get anything done.
Better get some sleep.
Hugs Kimx

Glorious Gold Leaf

Evening Everyone.
OK, I admit it, the weather today has been all my fault, but at least I have been able to work with my Gold Leaf without wearing quite so much of it lol.
I have just finished my prep for class on Saturday. I still have to write the instructions, but I can do that tomorrow morning, when I'm not at work :O)

 I have used the Gold Leaf and Sticky Embossing Powder on this card and the tag for their book.

The stamp is the amazing Stampendous CRR164 Cling Tree Poem. It was one of those 'Must Have' stamps as soon as I saw it.

Once I had covered the stamped image with the Gold Leaf I created the background using Decorating Chalks applied with a cotton wool ball.

The Tag for their book was made in the same way, just in different colours.
I would like to enter this into the following challenges
Word Art Wednesday - Anything Goes
Woodware Challenge - Colours of the Earth
Incy Wincy Designs Challenge - Metal Mania (I hope that Gold Leaf counts)
Off to bed now, more crafting to do tomorrow.
Night night.
hugs Kimx

Why does Barbara make it look so easy??

Evening Everyone,
I survived another day at work, and now I have started a couple of days holiday.
Well I call it that but actually it is a chance to catch up on some DT 'work', definitely my kind of holiday lol.
First on my list of Things to Do is prepping for my class on Saturday where Davina has requested Gilding Flakes / Gold Leaf.
I confess that I don't play with this medium as often as I should, and now I remember why. I am covered in it!! Why does Barbara make it look so easy on the TV.
I'm actually quite glad that it hasn't been too warm today because I haven't had to have the fan on, which quite frankly would have been a disaster.
Sorry folks I'm wishing for dull and miserable on Saturday and then we won't have to have the windows open or the fans on then either lol.
As usual I got carried away with playing and haven't got around to finishing a card yet, so I thought that I would give you a sneak peek of my work desk instead.

Messy or what??
There is a fabulous blog where everyone can share Whats On Your Workdesk Wednesday (WOYWW).
It would be quite wrong of me to link tonights post as there is absolutely no way that I will find the time to stop in on everyone, but do have a look if you get the chance.
It is actually quite gratifying to see that I am not the only one who works in utter chaos.

Ciaran has his school assembly tomorrow morning and I have promised him that I will come and watch, if I am awake in time that is. At this rate I suspect that I will be watching it as filmed by Mum, I was quite looking forward to a bit of a lie in.
That's a point I must remember to turn off my alarm, it's set for 5am!!
Off to bed now, I have a busy day ahead of me.
Night night.
hugs Kimx

Butterfly Bonanza

Morning Everyone, thanks for dropping in.
I'm waiting for my lift to Port Sunny so I thought that I would leave a quick post to make up for the fact that I will be absent for a couple of days.
These cards were chosen by a friend of mine to give to his daughters who both have birthdays in May.
He chose the butterflies from a pile of cards cause he said that way 'they couldn't complain about who had the better card' lol.

The butterfly in this card had been stamped onto acetate and then the reverse of the image has been covered with gold leaf. I ran the acetate through the Xyron machine to give the leaf something to stick to. I have painted parts of the main collage images with bleach. This has to be one of my favourite mediums to play with.

This second card uses a spotlit panel to highlight the butterfly. The background paper that the butterfly has been stamped onto has been created using a variety of shadow stamps (Hero Arts)and kaleidacolor ink. I've used the second stamping of the shadowed image so that the paper was quite pale.
The Spotlight over the butterfly is made from a piece of card punched to resemble a domino.
I'm sorry I can't remember what the main stamps are off the top of my head I will have to find out if anyone is interested.
Both cards are actually quite simple but effective none the less.
I hope you like them.
I'd better put my face on now and pack my bits so I'm ready to go. I do hate this hanging around, I never feel like I can actually get anything started because you know that as soon as you do your lift will arrive. Still I might be able to tidy up a bit at least, that would be a novelty he he.
Have a great few days, don't forget to say hi if you are at the show. Will share again when I get back. I'm bound to have some new goodies even though I shouldn't really. Who can go to a show without buying something??? Not me thats for sure.
Love Kimx