Add a bit of Glitter and Sparkle

Evening Everyone
I hope that you have had a good day. Back to normal for me tomorrow I'm afraid. Thank goodness it is going to be a very short week!!
A consequence of two days of Make and Take at the NEC is a rather large stash of sparkly background papers, so I thought that I would try one of them out with a bit of stamping and embossing.

It also just happens that the challenge over at the Imagination Craft Challenge blog is Glitter and Sparkle, so I thought that I would enter it there, although unfortunately the sparkle doesn't show up very well in the pictures.

The background paper has been created using Diamond Sparkle Medium, white card and a brayer.
I stamped and embossed the leaves onto a piece of watercolour card stock and coloured them using the Vintage Pearly Palette, before cutting them out and sticking them onto the background panel.

The green card has been dry embossed and then a little Gold Gilding Wax has been added.
Why not check out the challenge, there is a fabulous prize to be won.
hugs Kimx

I Survived my First Day

Evening Everyone,
Well I have survived my first day of Make and Takes using the stencil paste from Imagination, and I have to say that it has been great fun.
We have been using it to create sparkly background paper and then stencilling over the top, but my mind has been working on stamping, embossing and colouring onto it, so watch this space as they say.
As I don't have any of my crafty stash with me they will have to stay as ideas in my head for now so my card tonight is from the Metal and Burlap class that I did at SirStampalot on Thursday evening.

The class used the same card idea as I made for the Woodware Retailers workshops, only this time I used Distress Inks and white embossing powder to create the background on the card.

The flowers are from Francoise Tall Vase stamp and have been stamped onto the Burlap panel as well as the metal sheet. I stamped and embossed the image onto the metal and then coloured them in using Copic pens.
I also used some of the burlap threads to create a knot on the flower stems.

The tiny embellishments (sorry about the picture quality) are stamped and cut from some of the scrap pieces.
I have had another fabulous meal in good company and am now heading back to my room to cut up card stock for tomorrows demo. The stencils are all washed and ready and I am now the proud possessor of a very sparkly bath lol.
Have a good evening
Hugs Kimx

Staying at the Hilton no less

Evening Everyone,
Well here I am in Birmingham, in the Hilton Hotel no less after a bit of a trek from Peterboro.
Birmingham New Street station has obviously never heard of lifts or even escalators that go both ways to and from a platform, and there was absolutely no one around to ask.
I carried my suitcase (not a small one you understand) up and down 5 flights of stairs before I finally managed to find a train to Birmingham International that hadn‘t already left the station.. And then of course there was what seems like a 3 mile hike to the right Hall at the NEC once you get off the train. Still at least I didn’t have to go out in the rain.
I managed to meet up with the Girls from SirStampalot Crafty Lou, Chris, Mandy and Louise who had come to the show for the day. We had a fab time looking round and shopping for England of course.
And now I have just finished a very nice dinner in the restaurant and am sitting in the lobby trying to blog.
I’m sure that I will earn my supper tomorrow if it is anything like as busy on the stand as it was today.
Better get an early night and rest my poor feet.
hugs Kimx

A Purple Poinsettia

Evening Everyone,
Amazingly we have managed to get a reasonably early night away from the unit. It was the promise of a Chinese meal that did it lol.
I have been busy prepping for tomorrows Metal and Burlap class as well as finishing off some of the bits and pieces that I have been playing with in the shop.

Tonight's card has been made using one of the elements from a fabulous Magenta Christmas Cling stamp set.

I stamped and embossed the image onto watercolour card and then painted it using the Pearlex Vintage Watercolour Palette. As the name suggests the colours all have a Sepia undertone to give them a very Vintage look.

The piece of purple card in the background has been dry embossed using an Embossing folder and then some Metallic Rub-ons and Platinum Glitter glue have been added.
I can't believe that tomorrow will be my last full day with Janice and Andy, I had better make the most of it.
I will be travelling to the NEC on Friday to do the Make and Takes on the Imagination stand over the weekend.
Of course I can't go to the show without a little look around now can I?
Wow this is an early night for me, I think I will make the most of it so I'm off to bed.
Night, night.
hugs Kimx