Here's one for The Friday Mashup

Hi All
Well that's one stamp set down, only four more to go so it looks like it is going to be a busy weekend!!

This card was made a little while ago when I was playing with this lovely floral Hero Arts Stamp and Embossing set. I used Cat's Eye pigment ink pads to colour the stamp and it is embossed with clear powder.

The pink card stock was cut with a border die and then I also added some dotty ribbon and a sentiment.
The Friday Mashup has started a new challenge today. They are looking for you to 

1. Create a project that's "Monochromatic".
2. Create a project with "Flowers".
3. or Create a "Monochromatic project with Flowers". 

I haven't managed  a Monochromatic card, but I definitely have flowers so I hope they like it.

Have a great weekend.

It has been raining here again today so there is no end in sight to our flooding dilemma.

I went to a meeting yesterday where they were suggesting that it will be several weeks and possibly even months before the main road is re-opened (May has been mentioned !!!) so I can see that I am going to have a large box of coloured images ready to be made into cards by the end of all of this lol.

Hugs Kimx 

A sketch challenge for Woodware

Evening Everyone
This week at Woodware the Girls have been inspiring us following a sketch, so I felt that it was about time I joined in again.
In fact I actually got a little bit carried away and made two cards.

The first uses Jane's lovely December 25th stamp which works so well with the Wet Watercolour technique and the Pearlex Palettes.

I painted the embossed image using this technique and then cut it out and mounted it onto kraft card.

The panel on the right hand side has been dry embossed using a Dreamweaver stencil, and then with the stencil still in place I added Versamark ink and finally Frantage Embossing powder.

The second card uses the same stamped, embossed and coloured image this time mounted onto blue card stock.

The panel on the left hand side (I rotated the sketch) has been created by adding Versamark ink to an embossing folder before running it through my Cuttlebug.
Once dry embossed I added powdered Pearlex which sticks to the Versamark ink.

For the finishing touch I added some Glossy Accents to the berries.
This has to be one of my favourite of Jane's Christmas designs. I hope she likes what I have done with it.
I would also like to enter this into the challenge at the Friday Mashup where they are asking for you to 

1. Create a "Winter themed project (Non Christmas)."
2. Create a project using "Embossing (Dry or Heat). "
3. Or Mash it Up and create a "Winter Project using Embossing."

Have a great weekend.
hugs Kimx

A Sketch for the Friday Mashup, if I'm not too late!

Evening Everyone
I decided that it has been far too long since I made a card to fit a challenge, so today I made one using the sketch at The Friday Mashup.

Of course now I am in danger of missing the deadline for the challenge, so this will be very quick.

 Here's your Mashup Challenge:

1. Create a project using the above "Sketch."
2. Create a project using "Window/Transparency Sheets. "
3. Or Mash it Up and create a project "using the Sketch & Window Sheets."

I decided to go with just the sketch, I hope that my leaves will pass as substitutes for the flags lol.
Typically my photo programme has frozen so I will have to edit the pictures just as soon as I can.
Happy Crafting and hags to All
Kimx

A Fruity Image at The Friday Mashup

Evening Everyone
Have you had a good day?
The latest challenge over at The Friday Mashup is to create a project using a fruit image.

This is a card made using some fabulous Pear stamps, pigment inks and an Embossed Resist technique.

The pears have been inked up using the pigment inks and then stamped onto white card stock. Once they have been heat embossed with clear powder the pears have been stamped again to the side of the previous image, without re-inking the stamp.
The words have been added at the end and then the entire panel has been wiped over with kitchen paper to remove any traces of excess ink. The embossing acts as a resist and makes the wording appear to be in the background of the panel.

I do like to remember the envelope as it makes a card much more fun to receive.
Hugs Kimx

It's a Basic (Grey) Matching Set

Evening Everyone.
What a miserable day it has been, definitely good crafting weather, no excuses to go outside in the wet.
I feel that I have had a very productive couple of days, which is just as well as my new parcel from Barbara has just arrived so I will have to get my thinking cap on.
I even managed to get several Christmas cards made, which I am very pleased about.
The challenge this week at The Friday Mashup has been 'It's a Matching Set'.
Amy, the host,  has devised a little tutorial showing how to create a set of cards out of 4 matching pieces of background paper.

The background on my card tonight has been made following this.
I selected my papers from 3 Basic Grey 6x6 paper pads - Archaic, Matifica (I think that is what it says I need a magnifying glass to read it really!) and Basic Kraft, since the challenge over at Basic Grey Challenges is Mix and Match

I picked one of my Lili of the Valley die cuts, Nesties and Kraft card stock to complete the card.

I added a punched border and one of my lovely new flowers which finally arrived from The Ribbon Girl.
The parcel was delivered on time, just to the wrong address!!! But I have to say that it was well worth the wait as the flowers are gorgeous.

I decided that I would use the other background panels to make a couple more 'Kids Cards' for my stash.
We seem to be starting the round of birthday parties so I am sure that they will come in handy.
I didn't get the chance to finish them all off but I have most of the elements ready as you can see.
Back to the grind tomorrow, so I really ought to get some sleep.
I can see a Granny nap will be in order tomorrow. It's amazing how tired a couple of days off can make you lol.
hugs Kimx

Abracadabra

Evening Everyone,
Have you had a good day?
It was not quite so bright first thing today but still nice enough not to have to wear a coat to work. I even managed to do without my fleece at the till, although I don't think that I will be consigning either item to the back of the closet just yet lol.

I have had to make several cards just recently for younger children and this is the first of them.

I used the lovely sketch over at The Friday Mashup where the challenge this week has been

1. Create a project using the "Sketch".
2. Create a "Birthday" project.
3. Or Mash it Up and create a "Birthday project using the Sketch"

I have used another of my Lili of the Valley die cut images cut out with a Nestie. The papers are from my stash but are old Magnolia papers.

I added a DooHickey punched border and used the tiny stars to embellish the card.

I coloured the stars using my favourite Stardust pen although I'm afraid that it doesn't show up terribly well.
I would also like to enter this into the Fortnightly challenge at Forever Friends where they are looking for 'Diecuts and Punches', and Stamp and Create where that want you to use 'At Least One Die'.
Thanks for stopping by.
Hugs Kimx

The Friday Mashup

Evening Everyone,
Why are Mondays always so hard??
I don't know about you guys but I never feel like I get anywhere fast on a Monday.
It's a good job I managed to get quite a few things finished at the weekend or this would be a pictureless site lol.
That actually reminded me of when I first started Blogging and had trouble posting pictures.
Believe it or not that is 3 years ago almost to the day. How amazing to see how many people have visited me since then.
Anyway enough of my waffle.
The card I am sharing tonight was made with two specific challenges in mind.

The first is The Friday Mashup where the challenge is

1. Make a project with the colors "Pacific Point, Marina Mist, Gumball Green, and Lucky Limeade".
2. Or Make a project using "Rectangles".
3. Or "Mash it Up" and create a project with the "Color Combination and Rectangles".

I love the colour combo that they suggested, and in fact I have quite a few cards that I finished this weekend which all feature this same look - oh the joys of using up leftover bits and pieces lol.                                

I coloured the stamped and embossed images using dye based ink from a couple of kaleidacolour ink pads.
The papers that form the background are all from my stash, and were picked to match the coloured images.

The second challenge that I would like to enter this into is the Sketch challenge over at Woodware - 2 entries in 2 days, that must be some sort of record for me :O)
Off to bed now, so here's to another 3 years.
Thank you so much for following me and taking the time to leave me all of your lovely comments.
Night night
Hugs Kimx