Birthday Girl

Three cards in as many days, not bad for someone who had lost the desire to create cards.

I had a little shopping trip over at Mo's and just had to buy this image, my daughter just loves Giraffes and this image fit the bill perfectly for her birthday card.....I also had the idea to print a larger image onto velour paper and use pastel pencils to make a framed picture as part of her birthday box, I'll show this when I complete it.

The main backround was created by brushing on inks, I also used the same technique on the Giraffe section but this time masking out the Giraffe.  The image itself has been coloured with Promarkers, lastly I used LOTV sentiment stamps.....It's a very simple card and one I know my daughter will love for it's simplicity.......Hope you like and thank you for stopping by :-)  Kathleen x

I will enter this card into

Mo's Digital Challenge- Anything Goes

Guy Card

I'm back on form another card this time for my nephew....I'm still finding my way round the new blogger set up and hope I've switched off the word verification thingy, if not please let me know. 

I've used a Mo Manning image which I think my nephew will like as he spends most of his spare time playing any one of his numerous guitars, no idea why he has so many, maybe he's a collector-holic like his aunt.
I've used Promarkers to colour the image with LOTV sentiment stamps, the papers I've had a long time and were remnants from an earlier project,  I followed the sketch from 'Passion for Promarkers and as the card has a strong musical theme I thought I would also enter it into the ' I love Promakers' challenge.......Promarkers are my favourite medium for card making I find them really easy and quick to use and love the way I can build colour just where I need it, It's been a long since I last used them and it was a pleasant suprise to know I could still colour reasonably well with them.

 Hope you like and thank you for stopping by
Kathleen

I will enter this card into the following challenges....

I Love Promarkers - Music theme
Sir Stampalot - What's Your Crafty Passion
Top Tip Tuesday - One For The Men

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