Hip Hip Hooray

Good Afternoon Everyone, 

Thought I would hop in and share with you a card I made for my Father In Law's Birthday. 

The card is an 8x8 card, matted and layered. The image is a stamp from Lili of the Valley, and is coloured with Graph It Markers, and Promarkers. 

Around the image I used Fran-tage to give extra detail. 

The sentiment was stamped and embossed using a bronze/gold embossing powder. 

I finished the card with a button, some twine and fake stitching.

I am entering this into the following challenges. 

7 Kids College Fund - #100 Anything Goes - 04/06

Creative Moments Challenge - #43 Anything Goes / Twine - 04/06

Fan-Tastic Tuesday - #37 Anything Goes - 03/06

Through The Craft Room Door - Anything Goes - 02/06

Well that is it for me, thank you for stopping in and I look forward to reading your comments. 

Crafty Hugs

Kelly

xxx

Meet Shirley

Good Morning Guys, 

Have you heard the news?

Bee Crafty have just launched a new range!

How great are these? I am sure you will be just as excited about them, as all of us at Bee Crafty are!

Clare introduced you to Vera yesterday, so today I am going to introduce you to Shirley. 

The card blank is an 8X8 Card matted with cream, yellow and pink card, finished with a flowery backing paper.  The swirls are made with funky foam, wrapped around a pencil and I used my heat gun to heat it up, once it had a good few seconds all around, I removed it and tripped it down to fit the card.

Shirley was coloured in with Promarker Pens and Graph It Marker Pens, I added glossy accents to her glasses to give it a bit of texture.

 The sentiment is from the wordage and I think this goes really well with it.

 The items I used:

 Card Stock

Wordage Stamp

Shirley

Fabric Flowers

Foam Swirls 

Alcohol Marker Pens

Corner Die

 So what do you think? 

They are so sweet and I can not wait to see what you create with them.

I am entering this into the following challenges:

Brown Sugar Crafts - #95 Anything Goes - 30/05
Craftitude - #65 Thats Die-licious - 30/05
Jelly Park Challenge - Bold and Bright - 01/06

Crafty Hugs 

Kelly

xxx

Oh So Pretty

Good Morning Everyone, 

How are we all? 

I have been super busy at the moment decorating (well buying all the bits and doing a lot of shopping not so much of the decorating) me and my hubby always like to take on a lot, and we decided it would be fun to redecorate our whole house from top to bottom - I think the only room that isn't getting touched is the kitchen and even that might get a fresh lick of paint over it. All this as well as my DT commitments, family commitments, college commitments and my hubby doing over 50 hours in over time whilst he is on call, along side is normal 40 hour week. - You can say things have become a bit manic in my household. 

Anyway enough about that! 

Today is the start of a new challenge over at Fab n Funky and this week it is the Fab Team, and Pat has picked a really great theme of 

"PRETTY HAIR"

Our challenge has been sponsored by the talented Lacy Sunshine stamps, and the design team were lucky enough to be able to pick an image each. 

I started by picking my design "Fressia Flower Pot Pretties"

As this was a digital image I took it into my Cameo software and then downloaded a fantastic design from Birds Cards I decided on "Swirly Frame 7"

I resized this to fit the image, printed the image and then cut the design out. 

I coloured the image in using Promarker pens and Graph it pens (but I forgot to write down which ones - sorry)

I inked the background with a "teal" momento back- though when you spray it with water it goes a lovely blue colour

I added a ribbon, some gems, some glitter to my hair, and liquid pearls around the image, to finish it I added a sentiment that I stamped and embossed using Silver embossing powder, I cut this out with a nestability, and that was that done. 

The Card -

The challenges I am going to enter this into are:

Paper Make Up Stamps - Digi Makeover - Anything Goes #139- 12/05

That is it for me for today, 

Thanks for stopping in. 

Crafty Hugs

Kelly

xxx

Birthday Wishes

Good Morning Everyone, 

How are we all today?

Well today is the start of a new challenge over at Eclectic Ellapu, some of you will know we changed to an every three week challenge blog, but with two themes, you can enter both the pink team theme and the purple team theme, providing your card/project/layout/craft matches the theme, we would love to see it. 

Normally I am part of the Pink Team, but I am jumping on board the purple team this week and hosting their challenge of "Birthday" I picked the theme Birthday for this challenge as in the next week we will be celebrating, three birthdays in my family.

Anyway on to the card

The card is an standard A5 card (a4 folded in half) I haven't done this size/shape for a while, I have been sticking to the 8x8 so thought I would do something slightly different. 

The colour theme is brown and white, originally it was going to be brown and aqua,but I changed my mind last minute. 

The image is from Lili of the Valley and I have used my graph it markers to colour him in.  I embossed the brown layer added a white flag, white ribbon and bow, stamped and coloured a sentiment in, added card candi and white liquid pearls around the image.

The challenges I am entering this into are:-

613 Avenue Create - #69 Anything Goes - 04/05

Addicted to Stamps - Things With Wings - 10/05

2 Sisters Challenge - #175 Teddy Bears - 01/05

Thanks for stopping in, and I hope you all have a great day. 

Crafty Hugs

Kelly

xxx

Hugs and Kisses

Good Afternoon Everyone, 

How are we all today?

Today's card is a card I made for valentines day for my father in law to give to my mother in law. 

The card is an 8x8 card blank and matted and layered with pink card and pink backing papers, The top layer is a white layer and is embossed with a heart embossing folder, the folder I used was one of Sue Wilson's A4 Embossing folder. I think it is called tumbling hearts.

The image is James the bear from Lili Of The Valley and was stamped using memento ink  and coloured using Graph It Marker pens, the heart was re stamped on coordinating backing paper, cut out and placed over the original stamped image.

I used a heart border punch added some ribbon to it and placed this across the center of the card. 

To finish the card I added two heart dies from Memory Box Designs Dies, a sentiment that I stamped and three pieces of card candi.

The challenges I am entering this into are 

Craftitude - # 60 Anything Goes/ Something with green - 21/03

Crafty Catz - #221 - Paper Piecing - 14/03

Jo's Scrap Shack - FFC #40 - Anything Goes - 17/03

Sister Act Card Challenge - #47 Anything Goes - 14/03

That is it for me, I will be back on Monday with another card for you. 

Crafty Hugs

Kelly

xxx

James Butterflies Birthday Card

Good Afternoon Everyone, 

Can you believe that it is February already?

Today is the start of the challenges back over at Eclectic Ellapu and today's challenge is 

TEXTURE

Today's card is a card I made for my lovely mum who celebrated her birthday on Tuesday. 

I decided to do an 8x8 card and go with a blue theme for the colour scheme. 

I matted and layered my 8x8 with different backing papers, card stock and embossed the top layer with a butterfly embossing folder I used one of the new crafters companion a4 embossing folder "Butterflies"

The image I have used is from the new launch over at Lili of the Valley and it is James - Butterflies. 

I love James he is such a cutie, and looks like a bear I got of my grandparents when I was a child, he was yellow in colour so I decided to call him "Yellow" I still have him safely packaged away so he doesn't get damaged I am thinking he is about 22 years old. 

I used nestablilties for the frame around him. 

Here is the card

 Close up of the topper

Close up of James 

Now I coloured James in using a selection of Graph'It Markers and promarker pens
Graph' It Markers

James - 3190, 3170, 3130, 3110

Butterflies, 7260, 7250, 7240

Promarker 

Flowers - Soft Pink, Rose Pink, Pastel  Pink

Grass - Emerald, Lush Green, Forest Green, Grass

Flex marker - Edge James - Soft Aqua.

I then used my chalks to chalk more grass and sky around him, but was looking for a more softer feel then alcohol markers

To finish the card I added Ribbon, a sentiment  and card candi.

The challenges I would like to enter this into are:

Cards Galore Encore Challenge Blog - # 2 Add Gem, Glitter or Candi - 1/03

Hiding In My Craft Room - #135 - Use Blue - 8/02

Paper Creator's Crafts: #19 Anything Goes - 08/02

Paper Crafting Journey - Emboss That - 13/02

 

That is it for me for now, thanks for looking. 

Crafty Hugs

Kelly 

xxx