A little bit of Black and White

Evening Everyone
I hope that you are safe and dry and looking forward to the weekend.
Unfortunately the bottom of our road is starting to resemble the flood of 2000 (see previous blog post for a link to a picture), which is a rather scary prospect for the businesses along the Godstone Road, including the one where my Sin-in-law works.
I'm working on the principle that I will be able to get to class at Davina's tomorrow, but the reality is that we will just have to wait and see.
Any hoo there is still time to enter my Black and White challenge over at Crafty Cardmakers and More.
There have been some fabulous entries so far, and now all I have to do is pick the winners.
That is the bit I hate, how to choose? Love the visiting and seeing what everyone has come up with, gained new friends, got lots of ideas, now if I can just narrow it down!!

Here's a quick card to hopefully give you a little more inspiration.

The floral panel is actually part of a Rollagraph design which I have stamped and embossed onto white card and then mounted simply onto black cardstock with an added stamped sentiment.
Hugs Kimx

Goodwill to All

Hi All
Are you having a good weekend?
Mine has been quite productive. I made myself a long list of things that I need to do this morning and have managed to cross off a couple of them so I feel like I am making progress.

I didn't however manage to get any pictures taken so here is yet another Christmas card. At least this one got sent and not put back in the box for next year lol.

The holly leaves are stamped and embossed onto the card using a Rollagraph, versamark ink and gold embossing powder. They are then coloured using Distress inks.
The sentiment has been cut out using a Nestie.
I don't often make single layer cards so I was pleased with how this one turned out.
In fact I think I might make a few more of these to get my Christmas card box started for next year.
I hope you get the chance to stop back tomorrow for another 'sneak peek' card from the new Woodware
catalogue.
Hugs Kimx

Rollagraph Flowers

Hi All
Firstly can I just thank all of you that have visited recently and especially those that have left me comments.
Please stick with me, I seem to be having major mojo and Internet issues at the moment, everything just seems to be taking me so long to do. This post has taken me about 3 hours, I keep having to walk away and hope that the Internet will kick back in before the computer goes out of the window!!
That is why I haven't been round to visit you all lately.
Anyway enough of me whining, there is always someone so much worse off than me so I really shouldn't complain.

This is a card that I made a while ago for a Rollagraph class.
I have stamped and embossed the images and coloured them using Distress inks.

I cut them out and mounted them onto black card and then onto a white card which I had covered in the same Rollagraph images.
Glossy Accents for the flower centres finish the whole thing off.
Let's see if an early night helps with things, I'll be back early tomorrow with my latest Guest Spot over at Woodware.
Night night
hugs Kimx

The End of the Road

Evening Everyone
Well that is the end of my little jaunt to SirStampalot, and so much for my suitcase being lighter coming home than it was going up there!!
I arrived with a suitcase full of cards for Nick to photograph at a later date, and the intention of an empty suitcase on the return journey.
What can I say, they had a 40% discount on Wood Mounted stamps, and I'm a sucker for a bargain, so that plan went out the window pretty fast lol.
At least it was a little cooler today which meant that the journey home was quite pleasant, I still didn't need my cardigan even at 8.30 in the evening.

 This is a card that I popped in the post just before I left home.

I have used a Rollagraph on the background and a punched strip using a Martha Stewart punch.
Must get to bed now as I have rather a lot of tidying up to do tomorrow.
Hugs Kimx

A little Snowbird

Evening Everyone
I'm sorry that I have been missing for so long.
I seriously don't know where November disappeared to, and now it looks as if December is going by at the same breakneck speed.
My Christmas card tally for the year may look extremely healthy, but it looks as if once again I shall be late getting them all in the post - no change there then lol.
In fact November went by so quickly that I didn't even notice that I had missed posting my project for The Stamp Man 'Emboss It' challenge.
Even though the deadline has now passed for entries to this particular challenge (Challenge for December is In the bleak mid Winter) I see no reason not to share my card with you.

I love this stamp from Stampendous CRP169 Cling Snow Bird, he is just sooo cute. I stamped and embossed him using an Onyx Black Versafine inkpad and Clear Embossing Powder.

I coloured him using Festive Berries and Gathered Twigs Distress Inks and then cut him out using Nestabilities S5-027 Labels 21.

I left the die in place and gently sponged the edges of the image with Iced Spruce Distress Ink.

The background panel to the card has been created using Holly and Berries rollagraph and Versamark ink which I have embossed with Gold Embossing Powder. The entire panel has then been painted using distress inks Iced Spruce, Festive Berries, Evergreen Bough and Gathered Twigs using a Waterbrush.
I also coloured the berries with a White Souffle Pen.

I embossed the right hand side of the panel using a Cuttlebug Christmas Embossing Folder and then tapped the edges with a Versamark ink pad before adding Frantage Shabby White Embossing Enamel.
As a final touch I added some Glossy Accents to the berries and some Gold Brads.
I have been chained to my desk  for the last several weeks working on some top secret DT projects which I have finally finished, so I hope that I can now get back to Blogland on a slightly more regular basis.
I have definitely missed you All, and maybe you have missed me a little too.
Night night
Hugs Kimx

Rollagraphs at the Woodware Bloghop.

Evening Everyone,
Well, I don't know what sort of day you have had today, but we had another lovely class at Davina's, and even though most people opted to apply the ink to their pieces of resist stamping using a brayer everyone seemed to end up with very inky fingers.
Just what crafting should be, nice and messy. Well, I like to get messy anyway and as none of the ladies asked for gloves I assume that they must have been OK with it as well lol.

This week Woodware have been having a Blog Hop with Clearsnap.
They have been making cards and gift using Rollagraphs which are wonderful stamps on a wheel.
I did a class on them a while ago and this is a card that I made from bits and pieces from my class folder.

The background behind the butterfly and the blue and green card has all been stamped using the rollagraph system. It is great way of filling a large area quite quickly, and there are some fantastic designs available.

I also made a couple of gift bags filled with sweeties using the rollagraph designs.

I hope that you have enjoyed the Woodware bloghop and that you will stop in again on Monday to see what  the new challenge is going to be.

Happy Crafting

hugs Kimx

3rd posting today!!

Evening Everyone,
Why is it that every year I swear that I am not going to leave finishing off all the Christmas until the last minute, and here I am once again in the same situation.

 I have spent the hours since my last post making inserts, and in some cases envelopes, for approx 80 cards. Thats how many I found in my drawer that are any where near ready to be sent this year.

 I will have to spend tomorrow stamping the greetings inside them all but I guess it is at least a start.

I text Anna earlier and we have agreed that we MUST get together more frequently next year to finish off some Christmas cards or we will be in exactly the same situation once again. She had even admitted that she may just go out and buy a box.....naughty girl.

 Anyway I felt sure that you might like to see a few more of the cards that I will be posting...if I ever get around to writing them that is.

I have chosen several different examples using this tree stamp, I think it is by Art Impressions. They are all made using sticky embossing powder and Pearlex.
I hope that you like them.
I had better sign off now I have a load more cards to finish off tomorrow.
Sleep well
Love and hugs
Kimx