Get well note card

Blimey!!! Blogger have changed everything since my last post, not sure where anything is any more .....Duh!  That'll teach me to keep up with things.

Anyway down to the nitty gritty I made this card for my aunt who at 91 has had wonderful health until eighteen months ago when she had a stroke and last week she was in hospital fighting Septis, I'm not sure where she found the strength to fight the infection but she did and is now thankfully back at home making a full recovery......Hope this card helps to cheer her up, I know I enjoyed making it for her.

I've used a Penny Black stamp that I've had quite a while, can't remember if it was raining the last time I used it but it certainly was tonight as I coloured the image.   I chose Fabriano Classcio 5 water colour paper to stamp the image and used Faber Castell Polychromo pencils to colour the image.

I will enter this card into the following challenges.

Bunny Zoes's Crafts - Girls, Girls, Girls
Crafty Bloggers network - Anything Goes


Thank you for visiting
Kathleen

Gift bag

Hi All,  Sorry this is a short post,  I'd forgotten I had these blank Kraft bags and as I've never decorated one before I though this was the ideal opportunity to bring out my Maganolia Tilda stamp and create the birthday gift bag shown below.

I've used the sketch featured on Tomic and coloured Tilda with Aqua Markers

I will enter this into the following challenges.
Tomic #39 - Tilda's Birthday Sketch

A Clean and Simple Card

Hi all, sorry for the long absence from blogging I just could not find the interest to craft I seem to have been in a craftless void ( not a nice place to be in)  Still I came across a couple of stamps that inspired me to pull out the paints and inks and it's playtime again :-) 

I came across this stamp which is taken from one of Michael Powell's paintings.  I've always liked his work and it was a joy to see his designs for stamping.  I  just love detail and these stamps have plenty of it. 

I have to be honest and say that as much as I love these stamps they give a pretty poor print out when stamped, in the end I resorted to placing the card stock over the inked stamp to get a clearer impression, there is a little too much detail and I found it best to leave white area's and to omit painting some details otherwise you can end up with the image looking a complete mess.  Yeah this was my second attempt.

To colour the image I used a selection of soft muted Aqua Markers on watercolour paper.  I deliberately kept my brush strokes loose dropping different colours into each other.  I cut around the image and adhered to plain white card stock. the text is from a Lily of the Valley set of stamps.  A clean, simple card which I quite like.

I've also included a quick tutorial at the end of this post to show how I make my ticket strips.

I will be entering this card into the following challenges

Passion for Promarkers - 138 Colour Challenge

Crafters Companion - Anything Goes

Sir Stampalot - In The Garden

Stamps and Fun Creativity - #88 - Non Cute

Stampman - Colours of Spring

2 Sisters Challenge - anything Goes

Party Time Tuesdays - Anything Goes

TICKET STRIP TUTORIAL

I keep holding back from buying a die for ticket strips, mainly because I'm too lazy to figure out how to cut the strip without the extra long cutting platforms, I'd rather put my money into pens and ink with this in mind I came up with this method of creating tickets which I think look pretty good. 

First you will need cardstock the tickets can be any size but for this demonstration I cut a strip of cardstock 1" x  10"  I then marked the strip into 2" lengths  on both sides of the strip as shown below.

 I used a standard single hole punch to make the notches by placing the card halfway into the punch. 

Score along the dotted lines and Voila easy handmade blank ticket strip ready to decorate.

Hope you like and thank you for stopping by

Kathleen x

Cup Cake's galore

Hi everyone, last week I came across a great magazine dedicated to cup cakes as I always create a mess when baking I decided to take the magazine apart, laminate and bind the recipe's.  I've used a sweet image from  Mo Manning which I've coloured with Promarkers, sorry  I can't remember where I bought the wood letters or the papers used. Anyways I'm really happy with the end result except the picture which could have been better, still that's the way it goes.

I've not entered any challenges for ages and as the theme over at Sir Stampalot has a foody theme I though I would enter for the fun.

Sir Stampalot October Challenge

Thank you for stopping by

Kathleen x

Molly Blooms

Wow....... Another card in matter of days, the elusive card making mojo has returned, not sure how long it will last so I'd better make the most of it :-)  So in keeping with the celebration what is more appropriate than Molly with her banners.

For the this card I've used a Molly Blooms stamp using the sketch from this weeks challenge over at Passion For Pro markers, sorry the papers are mix of scraps so not sure who's they are.  The image was coloured with Pro markers, I've used seam binding for the bow and a Prima butterfly completes the card.

Hope you like
Kathleen xx

I will be entering this card into the following challenges
Passion For Promarkers - Sketch 
Charizma Cardz  - Sunshine Colours
Colour Create - Cream,Aqua, pale pink.
Craft Us Crazy - Anything Goes
Dutch Dare - Colour Combo
Divas By Design - Pastels
Flutterby Wednesday - #163 butterfly,Fairy or Angel

Molly Blooms Farm Yard Birthday Card

It's been weeks since my last post and for this I apologise, for whatever reason I lost that thing called Mojo having said this I had a pleasant afternoon painting this Molly Bloom stamp which I've decoupaged onto watercolour paper, once this was done I decided to take the opportunity to create a birthday card, it's a simple enough card no frills or surprises but I have to admit I really like the simplicity of it.

I do have an issue the larger Molly Bloom stamps, the one above just fit my 6" x 4" acrylic block and with my Christmas scenic Molly Bloom I had to resort to using a DVD case which I found really difficult to centre and stamp evenly probably due to me having small hands!!   If anyone has found a better alternative to using the larger stamps I would love to know.  There was also a problem with the above stamp despite stamping the image a few times for the decoupage there was an area of the tree which did not make contact with the paper fortunately I managed to fill the gap with paint so that it was not noticeable.  Anyways it's nice to be back and I hope you like my latest effort.

Oops nearly forgot I coloured the image with inks on watercolour paper keeping a watercolour effect as I painted.

Kathleen x

I will enter this card into the following challenges.

Sir Stampalot - Anything Goes
Creative Craft Challenges - Let's 3D It