Jane's Sunflower Rays

Evening,

As you know from yesterday, I got given a beautiful bunch of Autumn flowers by my colleagues when I retired from work on Friday.

By happy coincidence one of the stunning new floral stamps from Jane Gill's latest collection for Woodware at Creative Expressions, is this large Sunflower.

My flowers immediately reminded me of this card that I had made for the release.

I stamped, embossed, coloured and fussy cut the large floral image and layered it over a white frame cut using a Sue Wilson die set.

The background to the card has been created using a stencil and stencil paste and some ink sprays.

A reminder of my beautiful bouquet.

I hope that you have a good evening.

Thanks for stopping by.

Love and Crafty Hugs

Kimx

Day 8 Creative Expressions Spooktember Challenge - Inky Terror(s)

Evening,

It's Day 8 of the Spooktember Challenge over at Creative Expressions Official Facebook Page, and the prompt is Inky Terror, or in this case Terrors lol.

I love this fabulous floral image from Jane Gill and I teamed it with a picture of a couple of Halloween Terrors, my youngest Granddaughters Emma and Chloe.

I'm not sure that they are very inky,  but they are certainly terrors on occasions.

I used inks to paint the rose, and did a little bit of partial die cutting to create the aperture for my picture. 

You can't have Halloween without a spider, and this stamp has a beauty as part of it. I have to say that it is the only way that I cope with spiders......stamped images only lol.

Hope that you will join us for todays challenge.

Thanks for stopping by.

Love and Crafty Hugs

Kimx

Art in Every Day Life

Evening All,

Well that's the end to my week of babysitting. The kids had a fabulous time at school and nursery again today, even if we did have a bit of a wobble this morning before they left.

They were all shattered this evening, so it was early bedtime for one and all.............including Mummy.

I did manage a little die cutting today while they were all out, and I still have some labels to sew on tomorrow, but that is as near to crafting as I have managed this week.

One of the classes that the Crafty Girls have requested is using inky sprays to create backgrounds.

This card was made quite some time ago, using white heat embossing and inks, so I think we might give this a try in that inky class.

I added some stitching and an 'arty' sentiment.

It will be nice not to have to set the alarm for tomorrow morning, but what's the betting it will be the one morning when the kids get up really early instead of having a lie in!!

On that note I think I had better turn in.

Thanks for stopping by.

Hugs Kimx

Stenciled Happy Anniversary

Afternoon All,

What miserable weather we have had again today so we have been stuck indoors. Still, they have been very good playing with their Sylvanians. It is such fun to sit and listen to the three of them role playing with all these little creatures. They also helped me get some washing on and sort the dishwasher so they earned some Youtube.

I have managed to update the blog with a list of the first few class dates, so here are a couple more cards made using stencils.

Once again I used my Wendy Vecchi Make Art Stay-tion to hold the stencil in place while I blended the ink through it onto the paper.

I then added a little sparkle with some glitter glue blended with a piece of Cut n Dry felt.

I layered the stenciled panel on to some dry embossed card stock.

Another lovely stencil and some blended inks.

Blending brushes, or stencil brushes are great for giving a lovely soft blended finish to the inks.

I die cut 'Happy Anniversary' from the stenciled panel and then stacked it onto several layers of black card stock before adding it back into the panel. 

I finished it off with some clear sparkle pen and a layer of glossy accents.

Need to go and rest my arm now, and take a couple more pain killers. Thanks for stopping by.

Enjoy the rest of your weekend. I hope that you are having better weather than us. 

Hugs Kimx

Embossed Embossing Folders

 Afternoon All,

I'm always looking for help in deciding what cards to share with you, and this time I found it on Facebook. So here are a few using Heat Embossing..................and Embossing Folders.

I carefully brayered Versamark ink onto the raised portions of the dry embossed image and then covered it with white embossing powder.

Once the embossing powder has been heated I sponged and sprayed various inks on to the panel till I was happy with the results.

I added a die cut sentiment to the cards which is the best way to make sure that all of the panel can be seen.

The background to this card was made in the same way.

This final card uses the other side of the embossed panel, and instead of inks I have used a variety of gilding polishes,

Once again I used a die cut sentiment. Of course one way of making your die cuts stand out is to cover them with versamark ink and embossing powder. You can repeat this process multiple times for added dimension.

Off to cook the dinner, it's my turn tonight.

Thanks for stopping by.

Hugs Kimx

It's the Gelli Plate this time

Evening All,

So after yesterdays Bleach, another firm favourite today.......the Gelli Plate.

The Littlest Grandchildren love to watch Jennifer McGuire with me on YouTube. In fact we were watching her use the Gelli Plate last time I was babysitting a fortnight ago.

Emma thought that it was 'AMAZING', and was thrilled when I told her that we could play with all the same things when I am babysitting this weekend.

I have packed up a 'crafty' box and am looking forward to playtime tomorrow and Sunday. I am sure that even Chloe and Jack will be able to play and have fun with the Gelli Plate, inks and brayers.

So here are just a couple of cards that I made using prints pulled from the Gelli Plate, along with stamps and sentiments.

I figured that I could add a sentiment to this one once I decided what occasion I am using it for.

My little 'sleepover buddy' is moaning about the light being on, so I guess I had better finish for today.

Thanks for stopping by.

Hugs 

Kimx

Today has been a great day.

Evening Everyone,

I don't know about you, but I have had a lovely day celebrating my birthday with the littlest Grandchildren. 

I have been here for a couple of days, and by happy accident it coincided with my birthday so I have had a fabulous Roast Lamb dinner cooked for me followed by movie night with popcorn and ice cream. And then we get to do it all over again tomorrow as it will be my youngest daughter Beckis' birthday on Wednesday, and as I can't be there on the day we are going to celebrate tomorrow as well so that she too can be like the Queen and have two birthdays.

This is a card that I made using one of Jane Gill's latest stamp sets designed for Woodware.

The fabulous floral image has been stamped and embossed in white onto watercolour cardstock,

and then sponged with inks.

I added some spotty ribbon along with a couple of fussy cut dragonfly and a sentiment.

This one uses a very old technique known as Joseph's Coat. where an image is stamped and clear embossed onto an inky background. and then the entire panel is covered with a very generous layer of black ink. 

The clear embossing acts as a resist giving a beautiful coloured floral image. 

Thanks for stopping by, and for all the lovely birthday wishes.

Hugs Kimx

Happy Birthday to CIA and SAS

Evening All
Today, or what's left of it, is the Twins birthday, the CIA (Ciaran) and SAS (Saskia) of the title. They are 13.
I can't believe how quickly the time has gone. It only seems like yesterday that they were born and I was picking up big sister Megan from school with little brother Reece in tow.
It was pouring with rain, one of those flash flood situations, where the water came up over the little ones wellie boots and even the buggy seat. In fact we were so soaked that we came home and got straight into a nice hot shower.
Nothing like that today, it's been a scorcher.

I had a couple of images left over from the card I made for Megan in May, so I decided to use them for Saskia's card. After all she is a little mini Megan so it seems highly appropriate.

The background to the main card was created from a piece of kitchen paper that I used to mop up excess ink when I was playing last week.

 Once dry I stuck it to a sheet of DSST and rubbed over it with a little gold gilding wax,

which picks up all the wrinkles in the paper.

The background was too pretty to hide so I die cut a panel from the centre of it, where it would be hidden under the stamped panel and fussy cut LOTV image,

 and used it for this second card.

I don't like to waste things as you know, and this paper is just far to pretty to waste.
Thanks for stopping by. I hope that you have a wonderful weekend.
Stay safe and hugs
Kimx

Creative Expressions 30 Day Challenge - Day 16 Woodland

Afternoon Everyone,
Another beautiful day out there.
Todays challenge at Creative Expressions is Woodland.

As Woodland usually involves trees,

I am hoping that my cards will be considered suitable for this particular challenge.

Another lovely stamp designed by Jane Gill for Woodware.

These first two, possibly unconventional Christmas colours, have been created using Versamark ink and Decorators Chalks. After I added the chalks to the image I covered the whole thing with crystal embossing powder which gives it the sparkle after it is heated.

Slightly more traditional colours this time, using some rather dry pigment ink pads, hence the rather pale colours.

I added clear embossing powder this time.

This last card was also made using inks.

I decided that I wanted the images to show up a little better do I doodled around them with a fine line pen.
I hope that you will join in with your Woodland creations.
Have a lovely evening, and don't forget to shout out for the NHS.

My Daughter and Granddaughter spent the morning creating this to show our support.

I have always been a fan, given the years of tireless care and support that I have had from them while my son Adam was alive. But now what can I say, they are amazing people.

Even the dog decided that she needed to get in on the act, although she wouldn't sit still for her photo op.
Stay safe and hugs
Kimx