Floral Panel Dies

Evening,

And it's turned into another chilly one here.

I do love dies, and Creative Expressions have released some real stunners over the last few months.

These dies are from a Floral Panel release by the wonderful Sue Wilson.

They are such delicate panel dies

which I have used over some handmade background papers. This one is from the Cosmos set CED2051.

They come as sets of two dies in a pack, 

with this one from a set called CED2056 - Buttercup.

Now as crafters, who doesn't like a 'Twofer', and these are perfect for that.

I have layered this beautifully delicate sentiment die.

This is the leftovers from the previous card

which I added to an embossed panel. The perfect easy 'Twofer'.

Thanks for stopping by.

With Love and Crafty Hugs

Kimx

Thought of You Today

Evening,

I've got another couple of cards to share tonight using the fabulous Sue Wilson Floral Panel Collection.

They actually come as a set of two, so although I have used the leafy die, 

the collection is called CED2055 Button Flower.

I die cut the panel once from a piece of mop up background,

and then again from kraft card, before doing a little bit of paper piecing.

I really liked the leafy spray, and as you know I don't like waste,

so I cut it away from the frame and added it to a panel with a little background stamping on it.

I stacked the sentiment dies, before adding some glossy accents.

My thoughts are with various people, as well as my Cousins who have no doubt been thinking about their Dad who died 3 years ago today.

Thank you for stopping by.

Love and Crafty Hugs

Kimx

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

Floral Sparkle

Evening All,

Another scorcher, and I was mad enough to go to the gym with my friend. It's no wonder that I am struggling to stay awake lol.

So just one quick card tonight, before I fall asleep. The background was created with a couple of colours of Cosmic Shimmer Airless Misters and some clingfilm.

Once the ink had dried I removed the clingfilm and trimmed the panel into a square before adding a frame created with a new Sue Wilson die.

The wildflowers are cut in black using a new Sizzix die. Such an easy card to put together, but I think the wildflowers compliment the background perfectly.

Thanks for stopping by. 

Hugs Kimx
 

A Jug of Flowers

Evening All,

A nice bright card from my box tonight, and it's a jolly good job that I have it given that I have been completely uncrafty again this weekend.

One of the problems with blogging cards that you made a while ago, is that you can't always remember what you have used to make them.

Some Sue Wilson strip dies to create the background I seem to recall,

and then a lovely Woodware stamp designed by Jane Gill. I did a bit of fussy cutting and added some glitter glue and glossy accents.

Thanks for stopping by.

Hugs Kimx
  

A Dragonfly among the Daffodils

Evening All,

Another lovely, if tiring day of looking after the littlest Grandbabies. Fortunately it stayed dry so they were able to play outside for quite a while this afternoon even though it was rather chilly. Kids don't seem to notice the cold do they, unlike us oldies.

Recently I've been playing again with the lovely Dragonfly Delight Designer Boutique stamp, so here is the card that I made for the original release a little while ago.

I didn't use the stamp in its entirety, I just stamped, embossed and fussy cut the daffodils

and the dragonfly.

The sentiment has been stamped and embossed on to a circular die cut panel and then layered onto the center of the black and white die cut background created using Sue Wilson Quiltessential Rings.

Thanks for stopping by.

Hugs Kimx

Happy For You

Evening All,

My daughter recently asked me to make a card for a neighbour who had found out that she is expecting again. So while I was playing with the fabulous new Sue Wilson Big Word dies an idea popped in to my head, and this is what I came up with. 

I have had this Tilda image coloured and cut out in my box for years, and so this seemed like the perfect opportunity to use her up.

I die cut HAPPY from pink and blue background papers, and then several times from white cardstock so that I could stack the frame.

This die is the perfect size for paper piecing since there are very few tiny fiddly little pieces.

I use the lid from one of my A4 storage boxes to catch all the bits, which makes it soooo much easier to find all those tiny pieces.

Thank you for that tip Paul Church. My carpet certainly thanks you!!

I had a couple of other Tilda images already coloured and ready to go, so I couldn't resist the urge to finish up another couple of cards. Of course it also means that nothing very much went to waste from the die cuts.

I even used this lovely design to mirror the Y. I'm getting clever in my old age.

Everyone has been tired and grumpy this evening. They were all up far too early, so I'm hoping to wear them out a little bit tomorrow with a bike ride to meet Mummy from work. 

We always have jobs to do on a Sunday like stripping the beds and getting the washing done which they love to help with. Their reward is usually a trip to the park.....weather permitting, and sometime a mini hot chocolate from Costa. That's my treat while they expend some energy in the playground.

Better get to sleep before my little bestie comes and wakes me up. Kids have no sense of time, especially not Jack whose day usually seems to start at about 5am. I know that I start work then, but this is the weekend and my only chance of a lie in.

Thanks for stopping by.

Hugs Kimx

She reminds me of Alice in Wonderland

 Evening All,

It's been another glorious day here, warm enough to go out for a walk without our coats this afternoon.

We went and met Mum from work again today, and the Girls were looking at all the spring flowers that we could see and were asking what they were all called. Quite a test of my knowledge, not that they would know if I got them wrong of course.

This lovely stamp from Paper Panda rather remind me of Alice in Wonderland,

and put me in mind of our nature walk today.

Another thing that they all enjoyed doing was watching Jennifer McGuire on Youtube. They sat on the bed with me this morning to watch on my computer, and then asked for it on the TV when we went downstairs. Definitely budding crafters in the making.

Emma has already made a list of the things for me to bring next time so that we can have fun with a gelli plate after she watched a couple of Jennifer's clips. I am looking forward to that and I think that she and Chloe will have a great time. I expect that even Jack will want to get in on the act as well.

I think the fresh air and sunshine did them the world of good today as they were all sound asleep pretty quickly. Mum however was less than impressed by all the people who came in to work and reminded her of how nice it was outside!!!
Let's hope that it continues with the nice weather tomorrow, we could certainly do with it to make us all feel better.

Thanks for stopping by.

Hugs Kimx

With All My Love

Evening,

I've been going through my photos trying to see if I have anything that would fit the bill for a couple of challenges that I have see, and I think that I have found something that suits both very well.

I thought that I would have shared this with you already, given that Jack will be 2 next month, and this was made when he was born, but I can't find where, so here goes.

I do like circular cards, there is something rather special about them, although they are not the easiest to display, unless you turn them into an Easel card.

Once again I opted for a fabulous LOTV Simply Print image.

They can be printed with 2, 4 or 8 to a page, so I went for the largest size and used the second image to add as a decoupage layer over the first.

I used some Sue Wilson pierced circle dies and some background papers from my stash. I added his name on a banner,

I also used a stacked die cut as a stopper for the easel.

This now sits in pride of place on a shelf over Jack's bed. I suppose that I had better get my thinking cap on for his birthday card this year, it will be on us before we know it.

I would like to enter this in to the following challenges-

Mix it Up Challenge - Anything Goes + optional twist of Fancy Fold

Make My Monday - Shaped Card not Square or Rectangle

The print is available in pink or blue, so here is a card that I made for a friends Granddaughter. As you can see she will be 1 this week.

I found some pink hexagonal background that I had previously made in my stash and so I used a similarly shaped die to but out the image before mounting on to the card.

I do love my LOTV Simply Print images.

Thanks for stopping by again. Hope you have had a good day.

Stay safe and hugs

Kimx

A Floral Watercolour 'Twofer'

 Evening All,

My wellies got another airing earlier in the week when I was about the only mad thing walking around the park in the rain. I did encounter one dog walker, and a couple kids jumping in the puddles with their Mum, but other than that I had the place to myself!!

I'm sure that it was a different story today as we had glorious sunshine, albeit rather chilly, but I was too busy to find out unfortunately.

Sometimes one stamped panel is enough to create two finished cards.

I wanted a raised frame on a card so I die cut it from a floral panel using Sue Wilson Pierced Rectangle dies.

I mounted it onto a card using funky foam for added dimension. I then stamped and embossed the sentiment onto another piece of card and die cut it using the smaller rectangle die and added it to the centre of the frame, this time using wet glue.

The beauty of these dies is that they are pierced either side of the cutting line so you get the dots whichever part of the panel that you use.

I couldn't see throwing away the central floral panel so I mounted it onto some lilac cardstock and created this second card.

I used the same sentiment, this time stamped and embossed directly onto the floral design.

Definitely a 'Twofer'. I like this kind of crafting............no waste.

The floral panel was created using dye inks randomly on a floral image and then stamped onto white card stock. I took a damp paintbrush and 'pulled' some of the colour on to parts of the design ie the flowers and leaves.

The finishing touch to both cards is the fine line of glitter glue around the edges.

Let's hope that tomorrow is as nice, and we don't wake up to a foot of snow!!!!

Thanks for stopping by.

Hugs Kimx