Early Signs of Summer!

Hi Everyone

With all this snow and the gloom we have been having I thought it would be nice to colour a little sunshine!  So I made these two little cards using the Papermania Beach Hut stamp (can't remember exactly what it is called).  There was bunting in the image and I wanted to carry the theme through so I made some for the cards.  The papers are from the My Mind's Eye 'Good Day Sunshine Girl' range which I love and the sentiment is from Lili of the Valley.

Both the same, well almost!

Thank you for looking and I hope you have a good day :).

Kate xx

Still not 12th Night!

Hi

I still have a couple more Christmas cards that didn't quite make it to the blog at the time that Christmas cards should have been making it there!!!  Anyway, thought I would share this little one with you.

The stamp is a Lili of the Valley one and I think the sentiment is a Personal Impressions'.  I kept the card fairly simple and flat because I wanted to be able to post it without paying an exorbitant amount.  I loved colouring in the image which I did one happy afternoon in October with my friend Tracy when I was still at the deluded stage of thinking I might be able to make all my own Christmas cards this year - that didn't happen!!!  Anyway, this is one that did get made and sent :).

Have a good evening.

Kate xx

Happy New Year!

Hi Everyone

I hope you have all had a wonderful Christmas and enjoyed the New Year celebrations?

Whilst I still have a few days before 12th Night I thought I would share a couple of Christmas cards with you that didn't get put on the blog before the festivities began!

This was a Penny Black stamp set that I bought a number of years ago but still comes out fresh I think.  The papers are from a K&Co paper pad that I bought a couple of years ago also and the wording was on one of the papers.

I will share another card tomorrow.

Blessings,

Kate xx

Oh Christmas Tree!

The challenge this week over on the Winter Wonderland Blog is 'Oh Christmas Tree' and so here is a little card I have made for it.

A slightly different shape for me just for a change and kept quite simple (time is running out!) but I did love the sweet little Forever Friends image and added a glittered snowflake cut from a Magnolia Doohickey die to finish it off.  I hope you like :).

Have a good day.

Kate xx

Special Birthday

My father-in-law was 80 last weekend and whilst I struggle with men's cards it does help when there is a special number that you can pick up on.

I was pleased with how it came together and especially as they were papers that I have had for ages and the stamped image was a 'freebie' from a magazine, also sometime ago.  The button was from my friend's button box (I was round there crafting) so it almost feels like I have made it for free and if not free then at least I have used up some stash!

Have a great day

Kate xx

Red and Blue

This week's challenge over on the Winter Wonderland Blog is to create a card using the colours red and blue, so a nice easy one.  However, the card I started making for it didn't quite happen in time but this one is one I started a while ago for the 'One for the Boys' challenge that didn't get done in time either!

I live in hope of one day being organised but it is obviously not going to happen this year!

Kate xx

White Rabbit Card

It is my Uncle's Birthday tomorrow and I always find men's cards tricky.  But I absolutely love this White Rabbit image which is from the IndigoBlu Alice II Stamp sheet and I had fun using some Tim Holtz Distress Inks to colour the background, a bit of water 'flicking' and background stamping with the swirl from the same stamp set and also the 'Harlequin' stamp from IndigoBlu and it was done and in all under an hour - a record for me :).  Hopefully my uncle will be pleased with it.

I kept the inside very simple.  I love the font for the Birthday words which are on another IndigoBlu stamp 'Aloysius'.

I hope you all have a great weekend.

Kate xx

You Passed!

My daughter passed her driving test last week and I wanted to share this little card with you that I made for her to mark the occasion!  I used another gorgeous Lili of the Valley Stamp (Mini Bear) that I bought for just this occasion and then ended up doing bits to the card for about a week or so including colouring half the car at one sitting and then coming back several days later trying to work out what colours I was using - not to be recommended and goes some way to explaining the somewhat poor colouring quality.  It is an easel card and hasn't ended up quite as I had hoped but my daughter was delighted with it which is what counts and coincidentally I coloured the car the colour that her first car has ended up being, how lucky was that :).

Happy Crafting!

Kate xx

Baby Love!

I seem to have gone awol on the blogging front and, almost, on the crafting front too but am hoping to get back into rhythm again, fingers crossed!

I have a couple of baby cards to share with you.  A friend of mine had a baby girl a few weeks ago and when I got together with my lovely crafting buddy Tracy a couple of weeks ago I coloured the two little Lili of the Valley images (called Special Delivery) but unfortunately that was then as far as I got for another two weeks!  Anyway, I finally finished them both - just as well there isn't really a time scale on giving baby cards or maybe that is the problem, if I had a date to get it finished by I might have faired a little better?! 

I made the boy one just so that I have one in stock as I know lots of people who are due babies over the coming months but I will need to make another baby girl card now to replace the one I have given!

Thank you for looking :).

Kate

Lucky Streak

Hi

I was really excited to be chosen in the top 3 for the Winter Wonderland Challenge again last week with my Three Kings card.  I quite fancied having one of their blingy things that states that 'I'm a top 3 winner' but couldn't decide if that was showing off or not but as I couldn't work out how to add it that sort of decided things!!!

I created this card for my Godson's birthday at the end of October but hadn't got round to posting it. 

When I got together with my lovely crafting friends Nicky and Martina a few weeks ago I was giving them a quick lesson on colouring with Promarkers.  I am certainly no expert but we had a really fun afternoon colouring in (you can only really confess to spending an afternoon colouring to other crafters!) and this was the image I used.  Normally I colour to match papers I have already chosen but this was the other way round as I had to find papers to match my colouring but was absolutely thrilled to be able to use a whole load of leftovers for this project, so satisfying. 

I have realised that when cropping the photo I have cropped a little too close to the top of the card and cut some off and as the card has already gone I can't try again so my apologies!

Have a great day.

Kate xx