Striped Watercolour Backgrounds

Evening,

I had a lovely trip out with the 'Sheep Ladies' today. Coffee at the local garden center which was decked out with the most amazing Christmas decorations.

I love watercolour backgrounds like the ones created for these three cards, using Distress Inks and an Embossing Folder.

I've used stamped and embossed images on the resulting panels,

along with some die cut sentiments and a little bit of bling.

Thanks for stopping by.

Love and Crafty Hugs

Kimx

 

Designer Boutique Stamps on TV

Afternoon,
I hope that you are well. This was supposed to have coincided with Gwen's shows on Create and Craft featuring the lovely new stamps from Designer Boutique under the Creative Expressions umberella, but I nodded off before I could finish writing it it :O)

This is the card that I made for Creative Expressions using the fabulous new 'A different View' stamp from this collection.

I stamped and embossed it onto watercolour cardstock using Jurassic Mixed Media embossing powder.

I sponged over the image with Distress Oxide inks and then buffed it with a piece of kitchen paper before splashing it with a few drops of water.

The die cut sentiment has been coloured with the same inks and then coated in Glossy Accents for added dimension.
Thanks for stopping by, and don't forget to check out the shows on Create and Crafts catch up. Gwen has loads more inspiring samples for you to see.
Happy Crafting and Hugs
Kimx

Creative Expressions 30 Day Challenge - Day 29 Friendship

Afternoon,
Todays penultimate challenge over at Creative Expressions 30 Day Challenge is Friendship.

Now I'm not much for what I call 'flowery' words, as my friends will tell you. I tend to stick to basics like Happy Birthday and Best Wishes lol.

And as I told you I am also trying to share cards that I already have made in my stash as I have had a few commissions that I have been working on that have taken up all of my crafting time.

So I hope that I will be forgiven for sharing a card with stamps not available through Creative Expressions.

I added my sentiment over the top of a piece of grosgrain ribbon that I found in my stash.

With a few gems for a bit of bling.

 Thanks for stopping by, stay safe, and have a lovely crafty afternoon.
Hugs Kimx

It's a Bugs Life at CCM

Afternoon Everyone.
Oh dear, it looks like summer has deserted us again. I haven't quite resorted to turning on the heating like some of the customers at work have been doing, but I have reached for a blouse with longer sleeves and closed my window up a little, if only to stop the torrential rain that we seem to have been having lately. I have dodged the downpours this very afternoon as I have finally made it back to the gym!!

Given the rather inclement weather at the moment, I thought that I ought to share a few summery style cards, we can but dream of sunshine and butterflies I guess.

The cards also fit rather nicely into the latest challenge which starts today over at CCM  where the theme is 'It's a Bugs Life'.

Unfortunately I didn't get my arse in gear early enough to pop my card on the challenge blog, but please do stop by and see what the rest of the DT have been up to, and maybe join in yourself.

I recently taught a class using some fabulous 3D Embossing folders, and while there were quite a few of them that we played with,

this has to be one of my favourites, as you can see by the number of samples that I managed to finish. 

Obviously one of the easiest ways of using the folders is plain cardstock with gilding wax lightly applied to accentuate the embossing.

But I think a bit of the letter press technique and added ink makes this particular panel my favourite card of them all.

I added stamped sentiments to the finished cards

as well as die cut ones.

Some I heat embossed with clear embossing powder,

and some I just painted with a sparkle pen.

And as you can see you don't have to use the whole panel on a card, you can always chop it up a little. 

Don't forget to pop across to the CraftyCardmakers blog, there are some lovely samples from the DT. I'm off to visit it myself. I've been very bad at commenting over the last few months, and so I am determined to start off the new challenge with some much needed visiting.

Have a great evening.

Happy Crafting and hugs

Kimx