Toot Toot !

Hi Everyone,

I have a masculine card to share today using an LOTV stamp 'Toot Toot' ...I love this series of images and really enjoyed making this card :)

The plaid paper was in my snippets box so I'm not sure where it came from, I matted it onto brown card and the little bit of green paper was a magazine freebie I think years ago. I coloured the image with Promarkers and inked around the edges of the image and sentiments which are also LOTV with Old Paper Distress Ink. The scalloped card blank is a 7 x 7 from Anna Marie designs.

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:

A Gem of a Challenge - Birthday Card

That's all for now,
Hugs Kaz xx

Holly Tree

Hi Everybody,

Hope you are all well, I have a pair of Christmas cards to share today that I made using the 'Holly Tree' image from DigiStamp Boutique. As you will see they are quite similar but not identical.

The first one I coloured the star and baubles with a gold metallic pen and matted onto forest green card.

The second one I coloured the star and baubles with a metallic silver pen and matted onto ruby red card.

I'm entering the first card into the following challenges:

DigiStamp Boutique October Customer competition - Anything Goes
Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Christmas

That's all for now,
Hugs Kaz xxx

Be a Unicorn !

Hi Everyone,

Firstly welcome to my lovely new followers :)

I have a cute card to share today using 'Cute Unicorn' from DigiStamp Boutique

I made a card blank out of pink card and printed the image quite large, coloured with Promarkers and a liberal dose of Wink of Stella on the tail, mane and horn of the unicorn and also the stars. You can only just see it in the photo but its very sparkly.
The sentiment is left over from the teddy cards I shared last week and since my Ebosser has died so I couldn't die-cut it I punched it out and ran around it with metallic silver Sharpie pen to match the silver mirri that I mounted the image onto. A clear gem in each corner finished it off.

I thought I would also share a plaque I made a little while ago for a friend's little girl using the cute unicorn

I used my MFT Stitched Alphabet dies for her name in various colours and gave the letters and the unicorn a good coat of Glossy Accents then added a few resin flowers that I bought from a lovely seller on Facebook.

Thats all for now,

Hugs, Kaz xxx

Woodware Winter Trees

Hi Everyone,

I have a trio of Christmas Cards to share today using a Woodware stamp set 'Forest'

I used various shades of Distress Inks for the backgrounds brushed on with my Ink Duster brushes then dropped water on with a waterbrush, left for a few seconds and mopped up with kitchen towel.

I then stamped the trees with Memento Ink, masking the tree in the foreground to stamp the others. This is where it would have been handy to have a Misti as on a couple of the trees I didn't get the clear impression I wanted, I stamped the sentiment also from the set underneath and then cut the panels just a fraction smaller than the card fronts.

I'm going to enter the blue version into the lovely Darnell's NBUS Challenge as I bought this stamp set 2 years ago and this is the first time it has got an inking :)

Thats all for now,

Hugs Kaz xxx

In the Garden

Hi Everyone,

Hope you are all having a wonderful weekend, I have had a lovely day in my craft room today colouring lots of images up ready for cards.

My card today is a bit of a summery one but I have actually made it ready for my MIL's birthday in December (I'm never normally so organised Lol) as she loves her garden and allotment so I always make her a card garden related.
I used the In The Garden set from Digistamp Boutique and I printed it twice plus some extra elements and had a lot of fun decoupaging the image.

You get the seed packets and little flowers separately as well so you can add them where you like so I resized them, coloured and fussy cut out to use as embellishments. I popped them up with glue gel.

Here is a side view

I'm really pleased with how this turned out and looking forward to doing the male version at some stage,

I'm entering this into the following challenges:

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Anything Goes
A Gem of a Challenge - Birthday Cards
Creative Knockouts - Lots of Layers

Thats all for now,
Hugs Kaz xxx

Odd Dog

Hi Everyone,

I'm back to share a pair of Odd Dog cards, again quite simple which seems to be my 'style' at the moment :) Hopefully they are not to simple to be boring !

For this first one I used some papers from The Works and a freebie sentiment stamp. I punched the corners of the image panel for a bit of interest and after mounting the papers onto black card I added a thin strip of black to cover the join in the papers. Mounted onto Kraft card blank and pearls from my stash.

The second one I used printed card from Anna Marie Designs which I matted onto blue card, a strip of paper from my snippets box and using my hole punch I made a few card candi to use in the corners to make this card more suitable for a male. The sentiment is another magazine freebie.

Thats all for now, thank you for all of your lovely comments/emails I am feeling much more human now. I have had the date through for my MRI...10th October so not long to wait to find out what needs to happen next.

Big Hugs, Kaz xxx

Simply Teddy Set

Hi,
Hope everyone is well, I have been busy catching up on your lovely blogs finally today...I had missed so many gorgeous creations !

I have a set of 4 cards to show you today that I made using the Simply Teddies A4 set from DigiStamp Boutique, I thought I would show them altogether so you can see what you get in the set as it is such good value for £1.25. You get 4 images with matching sentiments in both pre-coloured and outline. I have used the pre-coloured images which are great for quick cards or if you are not in the mood for colouring.

I apologise for the quality of the photos, the light was rubbish and I had a bit of a nightmare !

They are all 5x5 cards and i have used a mix of Dovecraft papers and a pad I got a while ago from The Works.

Thats all for now, I will be back later with some Odd Dog cards to share with you,

Hugs Kaz xxx