Poinsettia Rules

My Mum's favourite Christmas plant, but why do they never seem to last past Christmas? If they do you never seem to see that red foliage again. Mmm, does anyone have any tips for keeping Poinsettias?


Materials:
Papers - BasicGrey
Stamp - Hero Arts; HOTP
Ink - VersaFine Onyx Black; Adirondack Rust
Colouring - H2O Twinkies
Usual Suspects - 3D-foam; Double-Sided tape; Trimmer

Friday Sketchers Christmas

A simple card for you today, using the fab sketch from Friday Sketchers. I've used the BasicGrey Wassail (Ah BasicGrey) from Sassy Crafts with a bit of stitching and a bit of distressing. The holly berries are needle felted.

It was fun to get my sewing machine out. I always feel really happy in front of my sewing machine for some reason - weird I know!


Materials:
Papers - Basic Grey Wassail from Sassy Crafts; Dovecraft Victorian Christmas
Stamp - Papermania
Inks - VersaMark
Usual Suspects - Trimmer; Scissors; Double Sided tape; Silicon Glue
Other - Needle; Brads; Wool top; Embroidery thread; Sewing machine; Ribbon; Copper embossing powder

Kaboodle Doodle Challenge 11

Kaboodle Doodle is onto it's 11th challenge and this week it is all about Bling and Buttons. Well I think you can see the buttons? What about the Bling? A little bit of glittery sparkle highlighting some of the pattern detail on this fab Blossom Berry Bright Kit from Kaboodle Doodle. The image is also from Andrea's shop - isn't he cute?



And now a confession - I love buttons, I will even pick up buttons in the street - which my other half thinks is a disgusting habit. But it is amazing how many buttons are just running loose out and about :)

Materials:
Papers - Kaboodle Doodle Blossom Berry Bright
Colouring - Letraset Promarkers
Usual Suspects - Trimmer; double-sided tape; 3D-foam; silicon glue
Other - Stickles glitter glue; Buttons (oh lovely buttons)

No layering for Stamp Something Challenge

A quick post before I go off to my Embroidery Group Therapy - Hello, My name is Kim and I am a recovering embroiderer :)

So today's card is for the challenge over at Stamp Something and this week it is all about being simple, and you don't get much more simple than me ;)

The simple they are talking about is only using one layer of cardstock. So this card is stamped and coloured directly onto the card. I've used fun flock and glitter to highlight areas, which you might just be able to see in the close-up. The stamps were actually freebies from a magazine (can't remember which now - please forgive me) coloured with watercolours.



Materials:
Stamps - Freebies from a UK magazine
Colouring - Koh-i-nor watercolours
Usual Suspects - Er...white cardstock; trimmer; Ruler; Glue pen
Other - Glitter glues; Fun Flock; Black Fine marker pen; White galaxy marker pen

Christmas Decorations

So as a break from Christmas cards I have made some tree decorations with me new stash from Sassy Crafts (Thanks Emma), well I just had to get stuck in now didn't I? These ornaments use papers from the yummy Winter Matchstack from DCWV, and if you follow the link you will see that these papers are on sale. Well you can't say better than that now can you?


Materials:
Papers - DCWV Winter Matchstack from Sassy Crafts
Ink - Rangers Distress inks Dusty Concord and Faded jeans
Usual Suspects - Scissors; Glue dots
Other - brads; silver elastic

A PIF And A Sleepless Night.

Ok, so will someone tell me why I am wide awake at two in the morning? I went to bed fully intending to do the whole sleep thing, was even asleep for a few minutes, then BAM! I'm awake - so I lie there for a while trying to ignore the fact that I am awake but no good.

Well as I am here (and probably wont be in the morning) I have a PIF, or Pass-It-Forward, for you. I was PIF-ed (is that a verb?) by Allison over at Allison's Crafty Moments. So the idea is that the first three people who comment on this post will get some stamped images from me and then they have to do the same on their blog - offer a PIF that is, not stay awake 'til stupid hours in the morning.

It's a chain mail with stamped images :)

Right, gotta get me some sleep - if anyone could PIF that, I would be very grateful.

ZZZzzzzzzzz

More on Christmas

So I've ramped up the Christmas cards, seems that every card I'm doing is for Christmas. Lucky I like doing them :) This one uses Designs By Krista Tula papers.


Materials:
Papers - Designs by Krista Tula kit
Stamp - Studio G Alphabet
Inks - VersaFine Onyx Black; Brilliance Pearlescent Sky blue and Crimson
Usual Suspects - Scissors; Trimmer; double-sided tape
Other - Crop-a-dile; Stickles glitter glue

Craft Stamper Blog

Craft Stamper has set up a new blog, I love thumbing through their new look mag, so am looking forward to following their blog too.

Welcome to the Blogosphere Craft Stamper.

They also have some blog candy on offer to mark their launch, so even more reason to go check them out.

I Apologise...

Yes I am obsessed with my new limitless limbs stamps AND with Christmas cards, I'm sure I warned you in a previous post?...Er this one is for the Basic Grey Challenge blog which has a Christmas theme this week (so that absolves of all responsibility for this Christmas card).

Tee Hee. Off to make some more Christmas cards - Mmmm what stamp should I use....?



EDIT: I've had a suprise comment on this card from Melissa of Pink Cat Studio Fame, I think she must have seen how obsessed I am with her stamps and has asked to put this card into the Pink Cat Studio Gallery :) How exciting is that? Thank You Melissa :)

Materials:
Stamp - Pink Cat Studio Limitless Limbs
Papers - BasicGrey Sultry from Sassy Crafts
Ink - VersaFine Onyx Black
Colouring - Koh-i-noor watercolours
Usual Suspects - Double-sided Tape; 3D-foam; Trimmer; Scissors; Glue dots
Other - Circle template; Crop-a-dile; Ribbon; Coloured Staples

Another Kaboodle Doodle Chrimbo Card

Well after doing yesterdays Kaboodle Doodle Challenge card I just kept going and here is another Christmas card using the Kaboodle Doodle Merry and Bright kit. Great fun getting covered in glitter putting this card together. I used double-sided tape and loose glitter, if you have ever done that you will know that the glitter just gets everywhere. I am now finding it in various rooms around the flat.


Materials:
Papers - Kaboodle Doodle Merry and Bright Kit
Usual Suspects - Double-sided tape; 3D-foam pads; Glue dots; Trimmer
Other - Glitter; Brads; Ribbon

Kaboodle Doodle Challenge Number 10

Christmas has reached us at Kaboodle Doodle. Well ok, we have skipped from Halloween straight into Christmas, I don't want to scare you but those Christmas cards ain't going to be done by anyone else now are they? So this week hows about getting started with some bright and cheery Christmas colours? I've used the new, about to be launched, Kaboodle Doodle Christmas kit for my card this week.


Materials:
Papers - Kaboodle Doodle Merry and Bright
Inks - VersaColor Blue
Other - Free glitter chipboard from a magazine; Fine marker pen; Index card
Usual Suspects - Trimmer; Scissors; 3-D foam pads; Double-sided tape; Glue dots

Some Fab News For Me...

I made it onto the Sassy Crafts DT for the next 6 months. I'm very happy and very excited. Just calming down enough to post this card for this week's Friday Sketchers :) Made with my new limitless limbs (ok so there are some more cards cued up with this stamp!) Thought that I would do some thank you cards as a break from Christmas cards.


Nope, just too excited.......

Materials:
Stamps - Pink Cat Studio Limitless Limbs; Studio G Alphabet
Papers - K&Co; Basic Grey
Inks - Staz-on black; VersaFine Onyx Black; Rangers Distress ink tea dye, walnut stain, Peeled paint
Colouring - Koh-i-nor watercolours
Usual suspects - Trimmer; ruler; silicon glue; double-sided tape
Other - Clear button; Stickles Glitter glue

Anniversary

It was my OH and my anniversary mid-October and I put all of my love into making this card ;) I've since made other cards using variations on this design becouse I liked it Sooo much, but this was the first.


Materials:
Paper - Basic Grey; K&Co
Ink - Ranger distress ink Walnut stain
Other - Button; thread; fine marker pen; eyelet; crop-a-dile; seam ripper

Christmas Trees

Been playing with my Limitless Limbs stamps from Pink Cat Studio and thinking about Christmas. So here is a card using circles cut from patterned paper stamped with one of the tree stamps.


Materials:
Stamp - Limitless limbs; Studio G Alphabet
Papers - Dovecraft Victorian Christmas
Inks - VersaFine Onyx Black; Rangers Distress Ink Walnut Stain
Colouring - Koh-i-noor Watercolours; H2O Twinkies
Other - Dovecraft Victorian Christmas brads; Circle template;
Usual suspects - Scissors; Trimmers; Silicon glue; double-sided tape

Sassy Crafts DT Call - Round Two

I got through to the second round of the Sassy Cafts DT call. How cool is that? So the next challenge is to make a project without using any ready-made embellishments of any sort. So, for example, you can not use ribbon unless it is to turn into an embellishment. Mmm - Interesting!

I think I went a little mad and decided to do a little embroidery. So the sentiment is stitched onto card and the edges distressed then covered with crackle accents glue. The flowers where cut from the papers, edges distressed and then the centre is an embroidery knot. Just had to stitch a swirl in chain stitch and a buttonhole - a desire to put a buttonhole on a card had just overtaken me :) The two mini-buttons are also cut from the papers, edges distressed and covered again with crackle accents.



Materials:
Papers - K&Co. Classic K Bailey, McKenna and Life's Journey
Inks - Distress inks Walnut Stain; Tea Dye
Other - Embroidery thread; Needle; Pin; Inssentials Crackle Accents; White hammered card; silicon glue; Scissors; Paper trimmer; Cut-N-Dry Foam

Be Ready To Be Spooked - Kaboodle Doodle Style

There are some Spooky goings on other at the Kaboodle Doodle challenge blog this week with some free downloads to boot. Anyone having a spooky Halloween party would be glad of this scary banner. So get your costumes on and go satisfy that sweet tooth.....but beware of the bogey man!

I would do an evil laugh a this point but I'm not very good at them.



Materials:
Papers - Kaboodle Doodle Halloween kit
Ink - VersaFine Onyx Black
Other - ribbon; staples; glue

Take Care Of Your Garden

A Blooming Marvellous card for an avid Gardener, with a bit of a gardening twist. The card uses the Kaboodle Doodle Blossom Berry Bright kit with a watering can stamp from Elzybells Art Stamps. I had fun glittering the sentiment and the flowers on this one.

I made this a while back now for a birthday this month and I've been sitting on it so that it got to it's recipient before I posted it on my blog :) I made it such a long time ago that I almost forgot about it and just remembered before I made another one for the same person! Do you do that?


Materials:
Papers - Kaboodle Doodle Blossom Berry Bright Kit
Stamp - Elzybells Art Stamps
Colouring - Letroset Promarkers; Glitter
Other - Glitter; ribbon

Holly tree For BasicGrey Challenge

A Christmas card for the BasicGrey challenge this week which is about stitching. So look closely and you will see the stitching on the ribbon :)

The stamp is from Pink Cat Studio which I managed to get from Dies to Dies For. I had been desperately wanting these fabby stamps and the lovely Tracy stocks them :) There is just all sorts of combinations you can make with this plate of stamps I just didn't know where to start!

Do you get obsessed as I do about a crafty want? Just got to have it :) Desperately 'need' some nestibilities and a scor-pal at the moment (just don't tell my boyfriend).



Ps. If you are looking to get these fab stamps too just take a look here (you might recognise the card! - thanks Tracy). She stocks Copic pens as well - Mmmm adding those to my wishlist :)

Materials:
Stamp - Pink Cat Studio Limitless Limbs
Ink - VersaFine Onyx Black
Colouring - Twinkies H20
Papers - BasicGrey sultry
Other - Ribbon; brown sparkly card; white hammered card; circle template

Birthday Pink

The card today is for the competition over at Poppicrafts. The competition is open until the 31st Oct and the prize are some beautiful flowers. The theme is 'no images' in any combination of pink, green, black, white. Well I decided to go for all four colours - I'm greedy like that :)



Materials:
Papers - DCWV; the patterned paper is from a friend so I'm not sure where it is from
Inks - VersaColor pink, green
Other - embroidery threads

Sassy Crafts DT Call

I thought I might have a go at the DT call going on for Sassy Crafts. The challenge is to make three projects as outlined on the Sassy Crafts blog:

1 - A stamped project:
A new Christmas card for you.


Materials:
Stamp - Sugar Nellie; HOTP
Papers - Basic Grey; note paper
Colouring - Derwent pencils and sansodor
Ink - Versafine Onyx Black; Adirondack Rust
Other - Glitter glue; Fimo clay; brads; Flower soft


2 - A favourite piece
It is difficult to pick a favourite piece, my thoughts change daily on the matter! But here is one I made a few months ago. I love how the embossing works on the designer paper and highlighted with inks. Then there was the fun I had with the flower, wire, tab and beads as well.


Materials:
Stamp - Sarah Kay; HOTP
Colouring - Letroset Promarkers
Ink - VersaFine Onyx Black; VersaColor pink; Distress ink Walnut Stain
Papers - BasicGrey Sultry
Equipment - Cuttlebug and embossing folders; Crop-a-dile
Other - Beads; eyelet; metallic thread; wire


3 - A project that contains 4 squares, 3 small and 1 large
And not that I'm getting Christmas obsessed or anything but here is another Christmas card :)


Materials:
Papers - BasicGrey Mellow; 7Gypsies
Inks - Distress Inks Walnut Stain, fired brick; tea dye; peeled paint
Other - Shapes designed by me; Cardboard; Seam ripper