Oh dear..

The last time I was on here was a while ago!  Well with my dad's 80th, our 1st holiday in 9 years and the little one starting school it's been a lovely and hectic summer!

Now I will have a bit more time with the monster at school Friday is going to be my blog/craft day!  As the PC was broken it will just have to be a few days late this week!

I will start from where I left off! The last project the Alice In Wonderland book was quite a task so it was nice to get back to something smaller and quicker!

These are the thank you cards and gift bags I made for the kids teachers at the end of term in July.

This was from my son to his pre-school teacher. She is lovely so I spent a bit more time on these!  I found the image of the boy on Google images which was coloured with Spectrum Noir pens and pencils.  The blue paper is dainty dots from Create & Craft, the banner is made with a stampin up punch and stamps and everything else is cut out with spellbinder dies.  The ribbon was just from my stash!

The bag papers are Craftwork Cards and the bows are Just Rite dies.  Again everything else is cut with Spellbinders.  The pearl domes are from China, ebay is becoming my friend now I buy in bigger quantaties!

These were for my daughter's PE teacher who she really liked and who was leaving.  He loves rugby so I used Papermania male sports 12 x 12 papers and Tim Holtz rosette dies and that was about it other than a bit of mirri card!  The gift bags are from Create and Craft.

These two were for my daughters teacher and assistant teacher. They were made again with just spellbinder dies, some scrap papers and some ribbon from my stash!  The boarder punch is by Martha Stewart and I used the stampin up punch and stamps again.  The teacher stamp is just a single one in my stash, possibly from a magazine!

Well that takes me up to the end of July!  August birthday's and an emotional photo album next week!

Kay

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Alice In Wonderland...

This is a project I've been working on for months on and off.  I had to order lots of bits and pieces and do a huge amount of painting and colouring so that is why it has been in the planning for a while!  If anyone wants to know where any of it came from please comment on the post!

It was made for a special friend who loves Disney and as she had a Mad Hatters Tea Party for her 18th thought this was quite apt for a 21st pressie!

I started off with a Tim Holtz Idea-ology book...

and ended up with this...

I found an Alice book falling apart at a May Day Fete and as it was so tatty and only 50p I didn't feel so bad ripping it up!

Sneak peak of inside...

The distressed paint was really easy to do thanks to a tip by Ali Reeve.  I painted the whole thing with red acrylic paint then with a scourer dragged some black acrylic paint over the top. It was so quick and easy!  I was going to cover so you would have only seen the edges but it turned out so good I wanted it to be seen.

The Inside...

 

 A necklace that can be removed.

A keyring that can be removed

 

The mad hatter and cheshire cat were my favorites to colour!

 

 

 

And yes, she did cry when she opened this.  Made all the hours worth while!

Happy 21st Birthday Chloe

Kay

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Special Birthdays....

A 21st birthday of a very special friend...

These Scruffy Cat stamps were a recent purchase and now I have 2 I need the rest!

This is the first one I played with and it is coloured using Spectrum Nior pens and then Spectrum Noir pencils.

The flowers, leaves, Happy Birthday and 21 were all from my stash.  The background paper is from the Scruffy Cat CD by Crafters Companion from Create & Craft TV. The ribbon was from QVC years ago the doilies are from Hobbycraft.  The Wish Big stamp is by Stampin Up as is the Pixie Pink ink pad used to edge the whole thing and the tag is from Framed Tags One Spellbinders set. The middle punched band is Martha Stewart as is the eyelash glitter. The pink embossing behind the main image is a Tim Holz Paris folder and the white embossing folder I am unsure of as borrowed from my mum ages ago and I just embossed lots! 

The pearls and gems are do crafts and the big pearl is from Ebay.  The pink leopard print Candi is by Craftwork Cards and lastly the spellbinders die used to cut the character out is the largest from Timeless rectangles.

I love this image and have done a few other colours....images coming soon!

Kay

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Going digital...

My first play with Seriff Craft Artist 2!

I've been busy but managed to design these in between doing other things but I need to sit and watch some demo's to see what it can really do!

Thought I'd try Scrapbooking as well just to see what I thought of it...Looks great, but would like to print it out separately and make it up like a normal page!  Traditional scrapbooking is still my preferred way although it's definitely not as quick!  But as the design of the page is usually what takes the time I have already planned it here ready for when I want (well get time really!) to scrapbook.  For anyone who is stuck on time but wants to sort out their photo's it's great and realistically I did only spend a total of about an hour making all these in total so it's easy to use.

I have a few people who want to sell my cards but I have not had the time to sit and hand make them.  This software means I can!  

Kay

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Playing Catch Up...

Just because I have so much to post, I'm going to try and get through it all in the next few weeks to catch up!

This was a card for friends, so a normal size for a change!  I used the toppers from a recent Hunkydory kit from create and craft as is the mirri.  The ribbon was from QVC as were the flowers.  The centre's are pearl brads from papermania .

I used spellbinders Nestabillities Stately Circles for the "New Home" matt and Nestabillities Timeless Rectangles for the main topper backing & the doily is from Hobbycraft.

Paper is by My Minds Eye.  All edged with a Rocket Red Momento Ink Pad also from QVC years ago!

Look out for more posts this week!

Kay

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Eek! ...It's been a month! Happy Birthday to Ewe...

Oops get carried away with making so much stuff that I forget to post them!  

This is a card made on request for a girl who is from New Zealand. A4 again. I used papers by Papermania and the daisies are from a show at Sandown a few years ago.  See I knew I would need them eventually!

The pins are from create & craft and the ribbon is from my local craft store. I used a type face stamp for the tag and did a play on words to make it a more fun card.

I covered the sheep with white flocking and decoupaged him.  I love his eyes!

I think he turned out well as not something I've been asked for before!

Till next time

Kay

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Never enough time!

Well I never got round to the daylight picture for my last post!!!  

I have been busy with work, the kids and making cards again so the blog suffers and although I would like to be able to do this more I can only do what I can in the time I have.

So a few cards have been made again!  I seem to get about 4 a weekend to do and as mostly A4 and busy kids with social lives I made my mums birthday card yesterday and her birthday is today!  Just been to Hobbycraft for supplies for pressies and for me!  Also finally got some Flitter Glu from Indigo Blu.  It's awesome!  

So this is the smallest card I've made in years!  It was the left over paper from making a larger card, the Auntie tag and butterfly are by Hunkydory from Create & Craft.  The flower die is a Bigz die by Tim Holtz Tattered Florals.  The background paper is a vintage set I picked up from Hobbycraft a few years ago and I think the pink paper is from Tim Holtz again.

Took this pic to show the dimension on the card!

The full front of the card.  It was teeny compared to my usual makes yet it had the biggest flower!

Sent to my other half's Auntie who told his dad she loved it!  That's what counts even though it was scraps it was still made with love!

Kay

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