MAWTT #79 - Use Gingham/and or Buttons

Hi Everyone,

Edited to add: This post was scheduled to go live at 9am yesterday (or so I thought) but being the numpty I am I put the wrong date !

A new challenge has started today over at MAWTT and this time it was my turn to choose the theme. I chose two of my favourite things to add to my cards Gingham and Buttons :) I absolutely love gingham and the way it suits lots of occasions with its fresh look and who doesn't love buttons !

For my card I have used a DSB image, the sentiment caught my eye first and I just knew I had to use it.

The gingham paper I have used is a download from The Lovely Studio (formerly Pink Petticoat) and you get it in lots of colours. I have coloured the image with Promarkers and mounted onto green card. Some gorgeous black gingham ribbon finished it off together with the trio of pink flower buttons.

My lovely teamies have some gorgeous inspiration cards for you over on the Challenge Blog and we look forward to seeing your wonderful entries.

Over the next few days I plan to do a post with news of what I have been up to while I have been absent from my blog and I hope to have chance to catch up on what I have been missing on your lovely blogs too,

Bye for now,
Hugs Kaz xxx

My Time to Craft #372 - Holidays

Hi Everyone,

Hope you are all well, I started this post 3 days ago and I'm eventually here posting it !

This fortnight's theme over at My Time to Craft is 'Holidays' so we would like to see cards that could depict any seasonal holiday...Christmas, Thanksgiving or maybe a summery card.

The idea for my DT card came when I got my last copy of Papercraft Inspirations and saw the gorgeous seaside themed free papers and I had been wanting to use an image I had bought recently from DSB :-)

So this is my card

I love beach huts and I thought the sentiment that came with the image was great. I coloured with Promarkers then lightly inked around the edges with Memento Summer Sky ink. I decided to use the cute seagull paper from the magazine matted onto red cardstock. Just added a bit of twine to finish it off.

I had a little 6 x 6 frame which I have never found anything to fit so I decided to make a little picture too.

I hope you will join us at My Time to Craft we look forward to seeing what you create,

That's all for now,

Hugs Kaz xxx

Still Alive !

Hi Everyone,
I feel like I'm always apologising lately for being such a bad blogger :-( I have been so busy I need an extra 24 hrs in a day lol. I finally decided to take the plunge and try to build up a little business now that our granddaughter is at nursery full time and starts school in September so I am no longer on nanny duty every day. I have booked up for quite a few craft fairs over the next few months too so I have to do lists coming out of my ears ! I'm loving it though after dreaming of having the time to do something for me for a long time, I just need twice as much of it !

Anyway apologies to Shell and my lovely teamies that my DT post for the new challenge at My Time To Craft is so late, I had the card made in plenty of time I just haven't been able to get on the PC to blog it !

The Challenge this fortnight is Circles so quite a lot of scope for ideas there, as I am woefully behind on Christmas cards for my stash box I decided to make one of those.

I used some of the images from the 'Scrumptious Christmas' set from DSB coloured with Promarkers and a sparkle gel pen. I cut the circles with my stitched circle dies and then matted onto the red and Kraft panel. The reindeer paper I downloaded years ago and can't remember where it was from now but I thought it was really cute. The sentiment came with the images and I just punched the corners with a Tonic corner punch. Some Josy Rose nail heads just finish it off.
I decided to make an A5 card this time which I hardly ever do but think I will be making more this size and this card is also nice and flat for posting.

Well that's all for now, while I am on the computer I am going to do some visiting of your lovely blogs as I have really missed seeing all of your gorgeous cards,

Big Crafty Hugs
Kaz xxx

MAWTT Challenge #71 - Sentiment no Image

Hi Everyone,

A new Challenge has started at Moving Along With The Times Challenge blog today and this time the theme is Sentiment No Images so we want to see the sentiment as the focal point on the card.

For my card I used one of the lovely 'Milestone Birthday Sentiments' from DigiStamp Boutique, I found some pretty Damask type paper in my bits box which I matted onto gold pearlescent card and the sentiment is matted onto the same card. I have added some pearl string from Buddly Crafts around the edge to finish it off.

My team mates have made some gorgeous inspiration cards so pop over to the blog and take a look, we look forward to seeing your creations too !

That's all for now,

Hugs Kaz xxx

My Time to Craft - Challenge #370

Hi Everyone,

I can't believe it's been 2 weeks since I have put in an appearance I'm such a bad blogger lately. I've been poorly the last 10 days with a bad ear infection which affected my balance quite a bit, if I tried to stand up I fell over so I have been hardly daring to move out of my chair during the day while hubby is at work just in case.
I feel a lot better today though so I managed to get my DT card done for the new challenge that starts today over on My Time to Craft. The theme is Coloured card so we want to see you stamping or colouring on coloured card....No white !

For my card I used Daisy Bear from Di's Digi Designs which I printed onto blue card and coloured with Promarkers. I used a dotty method (technical term lol) for colouring the sweet bear and was quite pleased how it turned out. I was much less pleased with the placement of the ribbon though but by the time I decided I had stuck it down with red tape and there was no way it was coming off without totally ruining the card.

I will be catching up on your lovely blogs over the next couple of days, enjoy the rest of the weekend whatever your plans.

Bye for now

Hugs Kaz xxx

Follow the Yellow Brick Road !

Good Afternoon Everyone,

It's time for a new Challenge at My Time to Craft and this fortnight the theme is Inspired by a Film

As a kid my absolute favourite film (and still to this day) was The Wizard of Oz, it was so magical and always the highlight of Christmases growing up. Unfortunately my hubby and daughter don't share my enthusiasm for it but luckily my granddaughter absolutely loves it, she is 4 yrs old and for the past 18 mths she has watched it virtually every day !
As luck would have it I recently came across a fab blog called Dearie Dolls which is full of wonderful digis free for crafters to use and while I was looking through the tons of images I found this one and knew I had to use it for Freya's birthday card this year.

I coloured the image with Promarkers using a bit of artistic licence with Dorothy as my granddaughter has blonde hair and loves polka dots !
The papers are Pink Petticoat and the little resins are from Ebay yrs ago.

Pop over to the blog and check out my talented team mates gorgeous creations and we are looking forward to seeing your fabulous entries too :)

That's all for now,

Hugs Kaz xxx

Simple Daisies

Hi Everyone,

Hope you are all well and enjoying some better weather it has been gorgeous here this week !
My card today is a CAS one that I made for my stash, I am hoping to to do a couple of fairs soon so I'm trying to stock up with some different styles to sort different tastes.

I used my stitched squares dies to cut the squares from pink card and papers from Anna Marie Designs pad, then cut the daisies from matching papers and popped up on the squares with glue gel.

I embossed some lines on the card blank for a bit of interest and stamped an LOTV sentiment and finished with 3 large pearls.

I would like to enter this in the following Challenges:

CAS on Sunday - Mother's Day
CASology - Parent

That's all for now,

Hugs Kaz xxx

MAWTT #69 - Springtime

Hi Everyone,
Once again I'm very late with this post, my apologies to Wendy and my lovely teammates I'm such a rubbish blogger lately :(

I'm here with my DT card for the latest Challenge at Moving Along With The Times

The theme for this Challenge was chosen by Diane and it's a lovely one - Springtime...let's face it we have all been waiting for a bit of Spring haven't we !

I used a preloved LOTV stamp that I bought from Ebay but it wasn't labelled with a name so if anyone can help with that ? I coloured it with Promarkers and then matted onto lilac card. The paper is from Anna Marie Designs.
Sentiment is Clearly Besotted and I just finished with some die cut butterflies and clear gems.

We look forward to seeing all of your lovely creations so pop over to the MAWTT blog and join in !

That's all for now

Crafty Hugs,
Kaz xxx

Butterfly Challenge

Hi Everyone,

I just about managed to come up with an entry for this month's Butterfly Challenge run by the lovely Mrs A.

I have used 2 elements this time Teal and 2 Identical items (my butterflies).

I started by stamping the Indigo Blu 'Stylised Flowers' in Versamark on some teal card and heat embossed with white embossing powder. I cut a circle aperture out of white card which I had cut to the same size as my card base and stuck that down over the top then stamped the sentiment which is from Clearly Besotted 'Many Mini Messages' set onto a snippet of black card and again embossed in white. Finished off with my 2 little butterflies with some tiny teal pearls.

That's all for now,

Hugs Kaz xxx

Daffodil Bunny

Good Morning,

I had planned to post this last night but I fell asleep ooops

For my card I have used a cute digi from Di's Digi Designs called Daffodil Bunny which I printed onto hammered card and coloured with Promarkers. Papers are Pink Petticoat. The flowers are a Die'sire die.
Computer generated sentiment courtesy of Hannelie aka Desert Diva and I filled it in with Promarkers.

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

disdigidesignchallenge #04 - Hand coloured image
CCC Digi Creations #91 - Include an animal
Craftyhazelnuts Patterned Paper Challenge April - ATG
Creative Inspirations April Challenge - Springtime
Cute Card Thursday #524 - ATG
Fab'n'Funky Challenge #388 - Handmade flowers

Back later,
Hugs Kaz xxx

My Time to Craft - Challenge #368

Good Afternoon,

A new Challenge has started today at My Time to Craft and this fortnight we would love to see your Boxes or Bags with Matching Tag !

Now me and measuring/measurements do not see eye to eye lol and whenever I try making anything resembling a box the results are never good so this fortnights challenge really was a challenge for me ;)
I put it off as long as possible but finally a couple of days ago I put my big knickers on and thought that's it I'm doing this ( a bit like how Edmund Hillary must have felt when he was about to set off up Mount Everest I'm sure hehehe). I spent most of the day Thursday watching You Tube videos looking for a box that didn't require any cutting as this is where I usually come unstuck, I came across Pootles blog/videos and found some she had demo'ed using 6x6 paper and I finally settled on this cute little milk carton.

I used a sheet of Stamping Up 6 x 6 paper that was part of the goodies I won in a giveaway on the lovely Rebecca's blog aka Mellymoo Papercrafting which I have been saving for a special project. I absolutely love the colour and it goes with my colour scheme in my craft room so now my little milk carton can sit on my shelf to remind me of beating my phobia ! Ok phobia is a bit dramatic but you get my gist of how proud of my little box I am :)

I followed this project video here  to make the little carton and used a heart peg from Hobbycraft on the top, I cut a little tag with a Clearly Besotted die and the flower is a Joycrafts die. I have lots of these little resin flowers in my stash so I added one to the centre of the flower then stamped 'Hugs' from the Many Mini Messages set from Clearly Besotted to finish.

The finished carton is the perfect size for a nail polish or lip balm stocking filler.

Pop over to the blog and check out my teamie's fab creations and we look forward to seeing your entries

That's all for now, I will be back with my second post of the day later

Hugs Kaz xxx

Super Dad Alf

Happy Easter my lovely crafty friends !

I'm here early today with an 'Alf' card, he hasn't had an outing for a while and I was missing him haha

I used some starry paper I found in my bit box matted onto navy card, Alf is coloured with Promarkers and I have added some punched stars in matching colours.
The sentiment comes with the image from DigiStamp Boutique (they have a sale on at the moment too) This is a 7x7 card.

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

Cardz 4 Guyz #191 - Superheroes
Crafty Creations Challenge #363 - Anything Goes
Crafty Sentiments 03 - Anything Goes
Creative Inspirations March Challenge - Any Occasion
I love Promarkers #355 - Things that Fly ...well superheroes do fly don't they ;)

Hope you are having a lovely Easter weekend with not toooo much chocolate (who am I kidding there is no such thing as too much choccy lol)
We are hoping to have an Easter egg hunt in the garden later for Freya providing the rain holds off of course,

Hugs Kaz xxx

Finally some Good News !

Hi Everyone,

Firstly I'm sorry I have been largely absent the last few weeks from both blogging and commenting, I've been feeling a bit low since my op and my mojo had also deserted me which hasn't helped either.
But yesterday I had the news I had been hoping for that my biopsy was all clear and my lump is benign ! I suppose I hadn't realised how it was affecting me but now I feel like someone has taken their finger off the pause button on my life and I can stop moping about and get on with things again :)

Sooo anyway with that weight lifted I finally managed to make a couple of cards thank goodness, especially as I was desperate to join in with Scrappymo's March Rudolf Challenge and the Merry Monday Challenge both of which I'm just catching in time with this card.

I found this image already printed out in one of my folders, I think he is so cute ! I thought it was a DigiStamp Boutique image but I can't find it on the site so I think it has been retired.
I have coloured him with Promarkers and sadly you can't see on the photo (it's been raining all day and so the lighting was terrible) but the fur on his hat and the ribbons on the gifts have had the Wink of Stella treatment and are really sparkly.
The tartan paper is from The Works and the gold pearlescent card is Anna Marie Designs.
I finished off with some punched snowflakes and a Clearly Besotted snowflake which I have added a red gem to. I have a small confession to make, the snowflake right next to the pup wasn't meant to be there it was intended to be further up but I dropped it and would have been left with a glue mark so there it had to stay Lol.

That's all for now

Crafty Hugs,
Kaz xxx

MTTC Challenge #367 - Sketch Time

Hi Everyone,
I'm sorry I have been awol all week, I have had one of those stomach flu bugs which my thoughtful hubby lovingly shared with me ! I wouldn't mind but his only lasted about 36 hrs while I have had it since Monday :( Feeling much better today though and this afternoon I suddenly realised the date and that it was the start of a new Challenge at My Time to Craft.
This fortnight our theme is a Sketch

For my card I have used a magazine freebie set which I found in my NBUS box, it's by Spellbinders and there are loads of stamps on there so I have left it out on my desk to hopefully use some of the others too.

I used paper from Dovecraft 'Floral Muse' and smooth buff card, I cut the panel and then used my Tonic corner punch. I stamped the same little flower stamp 3 times and coloured them with Promarkers then cut out with a stitched circle die. The sentiment is from a CBS set.

Finished off with some faux stitching and pearls from stash.

Don't forget to pop over to the Challenge blog and check out my lovely teamies creations and we look forward to seeing yours too :)

That's all for now,

Hugs Kaz xxx

Best Friends

Good Morning,

Well that blooming white stuff is back ! It snowed all day yesterday, doesn't look as if we have had any more in the night though so hopefully it won't hang around too long.

My card today is one I made for a customer recently using  'Party Time Zoe & Flo' from DSB, unfortunately I think it has been retired as I can't find it on the website.

I coloured them with Promarkers and used a Gelly roll Sparkle pen to colour the fizz and bubbles. I also doodled around the edge of the panel and around the sentiments with the sparkle pen. It's really sparkly IRL but I couldn't get it to show up in the pic very well. The pink heart paper is Lawn Fawn and the spotty strip I found in my bit box.
I used a Tonic punch to punch some flowers to match the one in her hair. Sentiments - computer generated.

Challenges:

CCC Digi Creations Challenge#90 - For the Girls
Aud Sentiments Challenge#199 - Bingo + Sentiment (Patterned paper, digi stamp & favourite colour Pink)
I Love Promarkers#354 - For a Girl
Cute Card Thursday Challenge#521 - Celebrate !

That's all for now, have a great Sunday and thank you for looking today :)

Hugs Kaz xxx

Single Rose

Hi Everyone,

Hope you are all well, the weather has been better this week and we have had a fair bit of sunshine. Snow is forecast for the weekend though so we might not have seen the last of it yet.

My card today is using the single rose from a Penny Black stamp set called 'Petal Party'

I stamped it in Memento black ink and coloured with Promarkers and added detail with a white gel pen. It was then cut out with the stitched rectangle from MFT Blueprints 13 and then matted onto cream hammered cardstock. The papers were from a Kaisercraft booklet free in a magazine and the striped ribbon was recycled from a M&S flower gift.
Sentiment is one of the new clear stamps at DigiStamp Boutique. Pearls from EBay.

I am entering this card into the following Challenges:

Aud Sentiments Challenge #199 - Bingo + Sentiment (Patterned Paper, Stamp, Favourite colour)
CraftyCreations Challenge #362 - Anything Goes
Creative Inspirations March Challenge - Any Occasion
I love Promarkers #364 - For a Girl



That's all for now, thank you for looking today

Hugs Kaz xxx

Easter Chick - MAWTT Challenge Easter

Good Morning Everyone,

A new Challenge is starting over at Moving Along With The Times today and the theme this time is Easter ! Here is my DT card

I used another cute DigiStamp Boutique image 'Quacky Easter' to make my Granddaughter's Easter card. Coloured with Promarkers and used a white gel pen to add polka dots to the eggs ribbon to match the real ribbon. I matted the panel with pale blue cardstock and then used an Edgeables die that was a magazine free gift a while ago to cut a fancy top in white. I love the effect but goodness it was a nightmare to cut ! Even using wax paper and a 3 in 1 tool to prise it out it still took 4 attempts before I got one that didn't tear getting it out :(  Got there in the end though Lol.

The papers were from my snippets box and I added some little butterflies, ribbon and pearls to finish off.

Pop over to the MAWTT blog and check out my talented teamie's gorgeous creations and we look forward to seeing your entries too.

That's all for now,

Hugs Kaz xxx

Garden Veggies

Good Morning Everyone,

I have started working on some Father's Day cards, quite early I know but these important dates tend to creep up and as I have been sharing mainly girly cards lately I thought it was time for a masculine one !

I used 'In the Garden - Veggies' from DSB and printed it out twice so that I could decoupage the image. I also printed some of the seed packets out bigger to use as embellishments. Everything was coloured with Promarkers and the layers popped up with glue gel and I finished with twine and a little trowel charm.
I have made this as a male card but it could just as easily be for a female by changing the papers and maybe the colour of the wellies hmmm polka dot wellies ....next time !

I am entering this card into the challenge at As You Like It where the theme is Single/Multiple Layers & why....recently I have been enjoying the challenge of making more CAS and one layer cards but I love pretty papers too so keep gravitating back to layers ;)

That's all for now,

Hugs Kaz xxx

Mother's Day Rosie

Hi Everyone,

Hope you have all been having a wonderful weekend and enjoying a fabulous Mother's Day all of you lovely Mums out there !
I was thoroughly spoilt with flowers and choccies from my girls :)
Sadly my own Mum is no longer here so today is tinged with sadness at no longer being able to spoil her...I miss not making her a card as she used to love receiving them in fact she is the reason I started this blog.

I shared my MIL's card with you quite a while ago now so I thought I would show you the card I made for my grand-daughter to give her Mum.

I used another image from DigiStamp Boutique from Rosie Collection 1 as soon as I saw her she reminded me of our Freya !
I coloured her with my Promarkers and cut her out with my Ebay Stitched Circle Dies, the sentiment was created on the computer using Crushed font. The pretty paper was a pullout from a magazine and I love it so much I kept the rest of the card as simple as possible so as not to cover it up just added some bright blue ribbon and a few butterflies.

I'm entering this card into the following Challenges:

Alphabet Challenge - Y is Your Choice
Aud Sentiments Challenge - ATG
CCC Digi Creations Challenge #90 - For the Girls
Craftyhazelnut's Patterned Paper Challenge March -  ATG
I love Promarkers Challenge #354 - For a girl
Passion for Promarkers #434 - Only Girls Allowed
Cute Card Thursday #520 - Mothers

That's all for now,
Hugs Kaz xxx

My Time to Craft #366 - Easter or Spring

Good Morning Everyone,

I'm here with my DT card for the new Challenge that has started over at My Time to Craft, the theme this fortnight is Easter or Spring.

For my card I used a cute bunny from a DigiStamp Boutique set 'Easter Bunny Set' you get 3 images in this set for 60p !! Bargain :)

I coloured him with Promarkers and went over the Easter bunting with Wink of Stella. The papers I used were snippets from a 12 x 12 pad from The Works years ago, I think I've nearly used them all up now. The flowers were punched with a Tonic punch and are from the reverse side of the same papers.
A few pearls to finish and that's it. This card is for my daughter so I kept it fairly simple as she doesn't like frilly ;)

Pop over to the Challenge Blog to check out the fab creations from my talented teamies and we look forward to seeing your entries there too.

Have a wonderful Saturday whatever your plans,
That's all for now,

Hugs, Kaz xxx