Crafty Cardmakers Challenge 62 - A Recipe

Hi All
Today is the start of another challenge over at Crafty Cardmakers, and it is my first time ever as host.
We are sponsored this time by DI'S DIGI DOWNLOADS with a fabulous $10 Gift Voucher.  

 

I thought long and hard about what to choose for my challenge, before I finally came up with a recipe, well I do like cooking as well as crafting after all.
I picked a 1,2,3 Recipe - 1 Image, preferably stamped, 2 Design Papers and 3 Embellishments, one of which must be a heart.
Please list the ingredients that you have used for your recipe in your post.

The image I have used is Tilda wearing Love Jumper which I have coloured using my Distress inks. I cut her out and added a stitched border using a fine black pen, before mounting her onto some dark blue card.

The background papers are from my stash and have Pinecone ink tapped around the edges.

I have a couple of very old Pigment ink cubes, hopeless for stamping with as they are too old and dry, but perfect for adding a bit of colour to the edge of background papers and cards.

I added some fine glitter, stardust pen and glossy accents to the image.

For my embellishments I added a die cut heart by Marianne Creatable and a DooHickey Small Vintage Daisy and some ribbon.
I must admit that I didn't realize how hard it would be to stick to my own recipe. I don't usually give much thought to just how many extra little bits I add to my cards, peel-off dots, gems, die cut flourishes to name just a few lol.
Please help me out by leaving me a list of the ingredients you have used in your recipe, but above all HAVE FUN, that's what it is all about after all.
Happy Crafting.
Hugs Kimx

Ethnic Santa

   

Morning Everyone

Hope you are having a good weekend and that it is not too cold where you are.
We are really getting into the Christmas spirit here, the light are up on the outside of the house and the tree is in the first stages of being dressed. You can't move for wrapping paper and prezzies, I'm beginning to know how Santa must feel :)
The card I am sharing today was made at the request of a friend at work. She wanted a card for her parents with a Black Santa on it, not something that you can easily find in the shops. It also had to be big with plenty of bling since her Mum is nearly blind and would therefore need to 'feel' it.

She didn't mind whether the card was comical or traditional just so long as it was large so this wonderful Molly Blooms stamp Boxing Day Santa immediately sprang to mind. I have coloured him using Distress inks and then cut him out with a circular Grand Nestie.

The wood grain background is a piece of card stock which has been stamped and gold embossed down one side using X9449G Christmas Text Background and then cut out using another of my Grand Nesties.
The main panel of background paper is Magnolia paper Blue Christmas Holly with a fine handstitched border drawn onto it.

The flowers are a combination of ready made and die cuts with the lovely Heart Swirl Branch Doohickey and Marianne Creatable Pine Tree Branch. The pine branches have been glittered by embossing them with sticky embossing powder and then pouring fine glitter over them.
A Time to Share is from a Woodware clear stamp set FRCL105 Traditional Christmas Greetings and 25th December is from Lili of the Valley.
The whole thing was assembled using an 8 inch square card which I picked up in Peterboro when I was up there last month. I knew they would come in handy especially as they come complete with envelopes. I did suggest to my friend that she might need to post it in a padded envelope just to be on the safe side.
I am waiting to hear what her parents thought of it but she was absolutely thrilled. She has already given me details of the birthday card that she wants for her Dad in February.
I am entering the card into the following challenges
Crazy 4 Challenges - Its Santa
So Artful - Tis the Season picture inspiration
Creative Craft Challenges - Stitching Faux or real
Sassy Cheryls Challenge - Santa
It's no good I must get on with writing my Christmas cards now, I can't put it off any longer.
It really is the bit I hate doing, maybe I should get a stamp made up with all of our names on it to cut down on the hand cramps lol.

Happy Crafting
Hugs
Kimx

Using up the left overs!!

Evening All
Hope you are having a good weekend, I can't believe that we are half way through it already.

As promised I remembered to take pictures of the card that I made from the left overs of yesterdays card for the Woodware challenge Pick a Colour and go with it.

I have used the holly from the Woodware clear set FRCL174 to stamp and emboss the dark blue and pale blue card stock. I have then painted the images with thin undiluted bleach.

The flowers have been cut from card using Marianne Creatable Serrated Poinsettia and the leaves are made with a Martha Stewart punch.

I used the semi circular section left over from yesterdays card and then added some Woodware dotted ribbon and glossy accents to the stamped dots. Pearls at the centre of the flowers and some stitching finish things off nicely.
I am also entering this into Drunken Stampers challenge 79 Monochromatic
The Secret Crafter challenge 162 Borders and Flowers.
Sweet Stampin challenge Punched and Dies
Hope you like it.
Hugs
Kimx

A Challenge at Sketch and Stash

Evening Everyone,
I hope that you are all safe and haven't suffered with all the terrible rioting that we have been experiencing.
It has been really scary watching the images on the TV and in the papers,of buildings that I know being burned to the ground.

The card that I have for you this evening was made for my Aunt and Uncle's Wedding Anniversary this Friday.
I have used the Sketch over at Sketch and Stash so I would like to enter it into the challenge.
The stamped and sponged panel has been created using a lovely Hero Arts stamp H5424 Exotic Bloom that I bought when I was last at SirStampalot.

I have stamped and embossed the image a couple of times using white embossing powder and then I have sponged all over using one of my trusty Big and Juicy ink pads.
The greeting is from Woodware.
I layered the panel, which I have cut out using a Nestie, over some background papers from my stash.
The panel has been padded using silicon, a technique which I will be teaching at Lavender Lane this weekend, along with how to make the flowers.

The main flower has been made using Chinese Rose, a fairly new Marianne Creatable that I have only just got around to playing with.
Of course if you look closely you will see that Magnolia swirl stamp that I like so much.
I hope that you like it. One of the boys at work did, I have to make another one to send to his Girl friend lol.
Stay safe.
Love and hugs
Kimx

Happy Birthday Sis

Hello All
June has been a particularly busy month for me, especially with birthdays.
Today was my sister Gail's birthday and I really hope that she likes the card that I have made for her.

The main image is another of the wonderful die cut images from Lili of the Valley. I'd like to think that this is Gail and I sharing a cuppa and lots of sisterly secrets.

I am still very much into my easel cards and circular ones too so I have used the largest of the giant circular nesties that I can put through my cuttlebug to make the main card and then a Marianne Creatable frame circle to create the circular panel that the image sits on. I've also added some white stitching and pearls.

The main white card has been sponged with distress inks to match the pink background paper, and then stamped over with my favourite Magnolia swirl stamp.
'Sister' is from an old clear stamp set that I found amongst my vast stash. I added the extra 'S' at the end.

The circular greetings are also from Lili of the Valley and the blue and pink flowers are all handmade by little old me. Yes I did need to make a box for it Gilly, but I think that it was worth the effort lol
I hope that my little sis has had a wonderful birthday and is enjoying a well deserved glass of something cold.
Happy Birthday Hun xx
Love and hugs
Kimx

Happy 30th Birthday Nicky Jo

Evening All
I seem definitely to have a thing for circular cards at the moment, it must have something to do with the lovely Grand Nestie that I bought from Janice and Andy the other week.
It is nice to be able to make slightly larger cards, although I can't use the biggest dies in the set as I only have a standard Cuttlebug and I don't plan to replace it any time soon.

So anyway this is the card that I made for a friend of ours who was 30 on Saturday. Like all boys of my acquaintance, he is very into his cars. Nicky probably more than most as he owns several classic motors that he spends his time 'doing up'.

This die cut from Lili of the Valley is on the sheet called Having Fun and suits Nicky I thought. I've used several different background papers as well as a piece of silver card stock that has been embossed using a cuttlebug folder. I added glossy accents to the TV screen.

The greetings are also from Lili of the Valley and are called Stamp Calenders. I've added the month by hand and highlighted the date.

All the flowers are hand made using background papers and Marianne Creatable flower dies. I'm not sure that Nicky will approve of the flowers but the card needed them I feel.
Hope you had a good weekend despite all the rain, maybe next week will be better.
Love and hugs
Kimx

The Stamp Man Challenge - Boys and Men

Evening All
I am teaching a class called 'Shaped cards for Men' on Wednesday evening, so it seems the perfect opportunity to share one of the cards that I have made as well as entering another challenge, this time over at The Stamp Man.

I have used one of the Grand Nesties to make the base for the card. The background paper has been made by stamping the leaf from Woodware Woodland Elements using neat bleach.

The leaf panel has been coloured using Adirondack ink pads. The greeting is from Hobby Art and I have added some greenery using a Marianne Creatable Branch Garden die.

Better get to bed now I don't want to over do this creative surge.
Love and hugs
Kimx

Two Little Girls

Hi
I hope that you have all been having a wonderful Saturday. I have been reveling in the peace and quiet. Although it was Megan's birthday on 1st May her party had been postponed until today. Five extra bodies plus a friend for Reece!! She is having a sleepover so I can see some late night blogging in my future lol.
In the meantime they have been swimming so I have been making the most of it.

I told you that I had a couple of new baby cards to make, well I had to add another baby girl one to the list after I found out that an old friend is now a Daddy.

This first card was made today for Mathu and Kavitha on the birth of baby Kaavya on 12th April. I made it with one of the lovely Lilli of the Valley Babies die cut sheets.
I love them as you will have noticed from the last few posts. I do stamp and colour in myself honest but these are just so brilliant when time is short.

I cut out the image and circular background using a Nestie and mounted it over more background paper and pearlescent card stock.

Of course flowers are a must and the pink ones have been made using my new  Marianne Creatable Flowers and Leaves LR0162 and LR0163.

This second card has also been made using a Lili of the Valley Babies die cut. Making this one really does make me feel old since I remember the Mother being born and here she is giving birth to her third child!!!

The greeting is also by Lili of the Valley and is from their Circular Sentiments clear stamps sheet. More flowers but not hand made this time I'm afraid.

Everyone has now returned so my peaceful afternoon is officially over.

Have a good evening. Who knows I may post again later if I can't get any sleep :)

Love and hugs

Kimx