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Friday 31 May 2013

A bit of decoupage

Good evening all.

I'm back yet again with another card.

This one is a decoupage image I printed from the forever friends male cd.


I kept it very simple and just added card stock for the mat and layering and a wood effect paper as the backing, simples!

I'm entering this into the following challenges

That's it from me for today.
Off to my craft room for an hour or two

Back tomorrow,

Hugs Kelly 

Gift bags

Hello again crafty friends.

Hope you are well and have some of the lovely sunshine we have here in the Midlands today.

I have been working on some gift bags for my stall at the craft fair that's at the end of July.

Here are two of them - I used toppers from LOTV


These images remind me of Tinkerbell from out of the Disney books/films Peterpan

I used scraps of papers from my cut off box.. I think they were originally from a Boofle pack.
I embellished with die cut swirl. Roses from WOC. Ribbon and buttons from my stash.

I have decorated both sides of the bags the same. 

Hope you like them.
I'm entering them into the following challenges

Thanks for stopping by. Before I go just want to tell you that Ali from Crafty ribbons as now joined blogspot. 
If you become a follower you could win some fantastic ribbons..


If you would like to win these gorgeous ribbons.. All you need to do is become a follower of the blog,
 for every 100 followers we get we will draw a winner so please pass the details on.  The more followers the more candy and the more chances to win.
 
That's all from me now off to do the boys dinner.

Hugs Kelly 






WARNING!!!!!!! You may need sunglasses

Good Friday morning everyone..

This week has just flown by, but I'm glad it's the weekend again - hoping to get lots of crafting done, starting today...!

What do you have planned for the weekend, any crafty time?

Now onto my card, and as the title says you may need your sunglasses for this one


I used a digi that I printed from my cupcake crafting cd - tumble Ted. Coloured with promarkers. 
Dp's are papermania. I punched stars and added buttons. The sentiment was also printed from the cd and coloured with promarkers, 

I'm entering this card into the following challenges

Thanks for visiting today and a big welcome to my new followers.
Hugs Kelly 

Thursday 30 May 2013

Another Wellington

Good evening bloggers,

How's your day been? Good I hope. The weather has been so dull again today but not too much rain thankfully lol. Lets hope it brightens up for the weekend

I have another card to share with you tonight and I have used another Wellington topper.



The dp's are also from the Wellington pack. I cut the image out using my nesti's.
The sentiment is from a Boofle topper pack.

I'm entering this into the following challenges:

Thanks for stopping by my blog today. 
Back tomorrow with another creation

Night night Kelly xx






Yellow and purple

Good morning all.

Hope you are all well. 

Today is fairy day, so we have a new challenge starting at Lili's little fairies
And this week the theme is YELLOW AND PURPLE

Our sponsor this week is 

The DT have made some amazing creations, please pop by to see them.

Here is what I made


I used a pre coloured topper from LOTV. DP's are Boofle. I layered the image onto nesti die cut. I embellished with ribbon, buttons, sentiment and flowers from my stash. The large rose was from WOC. 

We would love to see what you create, please make sure you use a LOTV image to be in with a chance of winning. 

Hugs Kelly 

I am entering this card into the following challenges 





Wednesday 29 May 2013

A christening card

Hello bloggers.. I'm back with my second card for today.

This one is another commissioned one. 


I used one of my fav baby images from LOTV coloured with promarkers and it and layered onto nesti die cuts. 
The pretty papers are from Craftworks. The gorgeous organza dotty ribbon is from Crafty ribbons
I printed the sentiment from the computer. Pearl hearts and heart charm as from my stash. I die cut the cross and embossed using a spellbinders die set.



I drawed a stitching border around the edge of the card with white pen. I decorated the inside to match as normal. 




I enjoyed making this card. I usually panic when people ask for christening cards lol..

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges


Thanks for stopping by today.

Hugs Kelly 



Have fun

Good morning crafty friends.

Hope you are all well.

Today is the start of a new challenge at I love promarkers - the theme this time is USE DIES (no punches allowed)

I have loved being GDT for May, sorry it has to end lol.. But thanks to Karen at I love Promarkers for asking me, I've loved it. 

Here is my final gdt card


For this cutie I have used one of Janet's new digis from Pink gem designs coloured with promarkers.
I'm not sure of the papers as the front cover was missing (think they may have been a magazine freebie). I used my nesti's to cut the image and sentiment and I die cut the bunting and added peel off letters. 

I would like to enter this into the following challenges:


Thanks for stopping by today.
Have a good day
Hugs Kelly 

Tuesday 28 May 2013

Football

Hello, me again. Back with my third and final card for today.
I will leave you alone then - I promise! Well until tomorrow anyway lol

This card is another commissioned one - spec 8years with name on and football theme


This cute topper I printed from forever friends cd rom. Papers are papermania. The happy birthday ribbon can be found Here and the dotty bias binding can be found Here both are from Crafty ribbons

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges

That's all from me now. Off to make another card.
Hugs Kelly 

90th birthday

Good evening bloggers, how are you today?

Thanks for all the lovely comment you have been leaving me, makes me smile reading them all. I love it when you pop by so Thank You Very Very Much xx

I have another card to share, this one is a commissioned one for a regular customer that wanted one similar to one I've already made - with added spec of wanting auntie and 90th birthday on it. This is how it turned out


I have used first edition papers. I die cut the image and sentiment panels using my nesti's.
The sentiments are peel offs. The ribbon, shoe charm, flowers and pearl hearts are from my stash. 
The lace trim is from an old blind that I had in my kitchen lol..

I hope you like my card, I would like to enter it into the following challenges:

I have used ribbon,charm,pink  and also cream, flowers, charm

I used ribbon,flowers, sentiment and charm, text and pearls)


Thanks for stopping by today. I'm hoping to be back later with another card.
Have a good evening
Hugs Kelly 

Fairy Cake

Good morning crafty friends

How was your bank holiday/weekend, good I hope.

For today's card I have used a cute milkcoffee image coloured with promarkers


Sorry for the wonky pic lol..

I cute out using my nesti's. Dp's are forever friends. I added some metal mesh sentiment and button from my stash. Roses for WOC. 


I would like to enter this card into the following challenges
 
Thanks for stopping by today. Have a good day
I will be back later with another card.
 
Hugs Kelly


Monday 27 May 2013

Wellington bear..

Hello again bloggers, back with my second card for today.

For this one I have used the super cuddly Wellington bear


I have used a topper and script DP both from the Wellington paper pack.
I may and layered onto Kraft and brown card stock.
Used raffia to try around and attach the tag sentiment (from boodle topper pack). I added two eyelets through the corner of the topper panel.

I quite like how this card turned out, hope you do too.

I would like to enter this into the following challenges

Have a good evening all.

Big hugs Kelly x

Happy Father's Day

Good afternoon crafty friends,

Sorry for not posting for a few days, we have had a couple of days down the caravan. The weather has been great and we have had a great time. But glad to be back home. The washing is now on the line, I have done a little blog hopping and am now hoping to get some cards done and more blogging later.

Hope you have all had a good weekend and enjoyed the nice weather.

I made this card last week using a topper from forever friends cd rom


I used papers from my scraps box. Brown raffia and a button.
Die cut tree. Easy peasey.!

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges

That's all from me for now, off to put another load in the washer then up to my craft room.
Hopefully back later with another card

Hugs Kelly x



Friday 24 May 2013

Wedding gift

Good morning bloggers. Hope you are well and looking forward to the weekend.

The boys are staying at my mums tonight, so me and hubby are taking his mum out for dinner for her birthday that is on Sunday.  Looking forward to some yummy Mexican food and a delicious dessert mmmmmm! Lol

Ronnie's preschool teacher is getting married tomorrow, here is the card and little gift I made for her.


I decorated a candle to match the card.


I used my fav wedding stamp for this card coloured with promarkers, I used the freebie paper pad that came with this months quick cards mag, gorgeous papers. I punched the heart border with my MS punch and added some gorgeous lace that I picked up from a local warehouse. Wedding sentiment stamp was from a free set that I had ages ago. Flowers from WOC and gems from my stash.

I really enjoyed making this card, hope you like it,


This is another pic with the candle wrapped up in some beautiful organza fabric that I purchased from the warehouse. 



I would like to enter this card into the following challenges

Thanks for stopping by today. Have a Good Friday. I'm hoping to pop back later with another make.
Hugs Kelly 








Thursday 23 May 2013

Purple and green

Good afternoon bloggers.

How are you today? Hope you have better weather where you are. Here we have hail storms, then sunshine, then rain. It just can't make up its mind what it wants to do today.

I have another card to share with you today. For this one I have used a gorgeous image from delicious doodles and coloured with my promarkers


Dp's are Dovecraft back to basics. I added a little glitter to the image but doesn't show brilliantly in the picture.  Sentiment, ribbons and charm(in the bottom corner) are all from my stash.
Flowers are from WOC.

I hope you like it, this is a bit different to what I usually do..

I'm entering this into the following challenges


Thanks for stopping by today and for all the lovely comments you leave
Hugs Kelly 

Keep Calm and Eat Chocolate

Good Morning bloggers..
Today is the start of a new challenge over at Crafty Ribbons Challenge Blog and the theme this week is ANYTHING GOES WITH RIBBON.
This challenge will run from 8.30am 23rd May until 6pm 5th June
The prize will be ....


Here is my card

Sorry for the wonky picture..lol

For this card I have used a topper and papers from Forever Friends CD Rom.. I have die cut the flowers and threaded with organza ribbon and pearl brad.. The sentiment is from my stash.
I used the Keep Calm ribbon from Crafty Ribbons.

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


That's all from me for now.. Have a good day
Hugs Kelly

Wednesday 22 May 2013

Tumble Ted

Good evening bloggers,

Hope you are all well, I'm back with my second card for today for this one I have used tumble Ted digi that I printed from the cd rom (cupcake crafting)


I've coloured with promarkers.  Dp's are from papermania capsule collection. The happy birthday ribbon is from crafty ribbons. The sentiment from my stash.

I would like to enter this into the following challenges

Just before I go just want to tell you about the great bunting event happening at Crafty ribbons inspiration blog this week. Ali had some amazing ideas to show you.


That's all from me today, enjoy the rest of your evening.
Hugs Kelly 





I Love Promarkers GDT

Good Morning crafty friends..
 
How are you today? Hows your week going? Good I Hope
 
Today is the start of a new challenge at I Love Promarkers.. This weeks theme is an easy ANYTHING GOES
 
Here is the card I made for the challenge:
 
 
I have made an easle card for this one.. And used my fav colour Green too..
The image is from Stamp Fairy, coloured with promarkers.. The DP is a 12x12 sheet I've had for ages, sorry not sure of the name.  I have used a sentiment from my stash.. Embellished with die cut tree, flowers, ribbon, charm and gems.
 
The DT have some amazing inspiration for you. Pop by the blog to see their amazing creations.
 
I hope you like my card. I would like to enter it into the following challenges:
 
 
Thanks for stopping by today.
Hugs Kelly

 

Tuesday 21 May 2013

Happy birthday sailor

Hello again, back with my second post of the day..hope you are all well and have had a good start to the week.

For this card I have used my new Ahoy papers and a topper that I printed from forever friends cd rom.


I cut out using my nesti's. I embellished with twine and a charm to finish. A very simple and quick card but quite like how it turned out.

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges


Before I go just want to let you know that the current challenge at Forever Friends challenge blog will be our last challenge.

 It was a difficult decision to make, but we've decided that it's time to say goodbye to our beloved bears, so we're going to close the challenge blog. 

We do, however, have some good news - the entire design team are moving to a brand new challenge blog! 

is the newest weekly challenge blog on the block!

The first challenge will go live on June 1st, and between now and June 30th, we have a fabulous welcome candy going on over there, so please do head over, follow the blog, enter the candy and come back again on June 1st to enter our first challenge! 

I do hope you will join us.

Hugs Kelly 

Gift bag

Good afternoon blogging friends. 

Thank you for all the lovely comments you left on my gift sets, they really made me happy,

For today's creation, I have a gift bag to show you that I was asked to make for a little boy who is poorly in hospital at the moment. It was very well received and he was very happy with it (especially because it had his name on) bless him x

Sorry for the washed out colour on the picture 

This little character is from bugaboo. I've coloured with my promarkers. The dp's are papermania. Spotty ribbon from my stash. Wording and letters are old peel offs from my stash. 

I decorated Both sides of the bag the same.

I'm entering this card into the following challenges 

That's all from me for now, back later with another card 
Hugs Kelly x 



Monday 20 May 2013

Another gift set

Good afternoon bloggers,

Hope you have all had a good weekend. The weather was great here but it didn't last long and we back to another dull day today :-(

I have spent the morning sorting my ever growing stock of cards, I am hoping to sell some at a craft fair soon.. I've never done one before so I'm a little nervous but I'm sure I will enjoy it once I there.

I have another gift set to show you today.. For this one I have used Mollie from Pink Gem Designs.


I have coloured with Promarkers. The DP's are Paris - vintage papers from Pink Gem Designs. Ribbon, tag sentiment, crochet flower and button all from my stash.


I decorated a box for the card to go in. You can see the papers a little better on the box. 

Then I decorated a gift box to go with the card.


I used paper mania papers for the box. Flowers from WOC. Ribbon from my stash.

I hope you like my little set
I'm entering this into the following challenge

Thanks for visiting my blog today.
Have a good evening
Hugs Kelly 






FF DT cards

Good Monday Morning blogging friends.. Hope you had a good weekend.
 
Today is the start of a new challenge (fortnightly) over at Forever Friends challenge blog
 
The theme this time is Make a card/project for a Child
 
The Sponsor of the Randomly Selected Winners Prize is

Cupids Clear Stamps
Link to web store - Cupids Clear

Prize

Code: BASET2 Baby Pram & Toys

Pack Size 10cm x 15cm
Contains 8 seperate clear stamps
Size of Pram 5.6cm x 5.3cm

Plus...
A handmade stamp of the winners choice
Here is an example of what is on offer
 
Here is my card
 
I used an image from Cupids Clear coloured with promarkers.
I used papers from the Forever Friends Party pack.. The gorgeous teddy ribbon is from Crafty Ribbons. I die cut the balloons from purple card and doodled the patterns on with white pen
 
I am entering this card into the following challenges:
 
The Sponsor of the Forever Friends Favourite Winner is

A Day For Daisies
 
 ADFD website : www.adayfordaisies.com
 
Prize -
The winner will recieve a $12.00 gift card to spend at the web-store
(that's equal to 3 images)
 
 
Here is my card with a FF image
 
I used papers from my scraps box for this card. The topper was printed from FF CD Rom and added stickles glitter glue around the edge.. I punch a star and added button and twine.. Die cut the bunting and added peel off letters.. The Happy Birthday ribbon is from Crafty Ribbons
 
I'm entering this card into the following challenges:
 
Pop by the challenge blog to see what the rest of the DT have made
 
Have a good day.. I will be back later to see what you all been up to.
 
Hugs Kelly
 
 
 

 

Sunday 19 May 2013

Gift set

Good afternoon all.. Hope you are having a good weekend and have some sun today. We have some lovely sunshine here for a change. Been in the garden with the boys and poppy. Off to have a play in the craft room in a bit.. Lovely!

My card for today is one I have made as part of a gift set.. I used the adorable vintage digi from Pink gem designs coloured with my promarkers.



The DP's are kaiser craft memories set. Loving these at the moment, the swirl topper and sentiment are also from this set.  I have followed the theme of 1.2.3 to enter several challenges at the moment. I have used 1 image, 2 papers and 3 types of embellishes (flowers, ribbon and charm), all from my stash.



I made a box for the card to go in and an extra gift box to pop a little present in.


I hope you like it, I am entering this into the following challenges:

That's all from me for today.. Back later with another card. Enjoy the rest of your afternoon

Hugs Kelly 





Saturday 18 May 2013

Yellow and Grey

Hello crafty friends.. How's your Saturday been? I've been for a walk in the park with the boys and then spent a few hours in the craft room..
 
I have a card to show you today using one of my fav colour combo's. (yellow and grey).. I'd never used these colours together before Janet from Pink Gem Designs created the Lemon Drizzle papers, then I was totally in love lol... I think they compliment each other really well..
 
 
This is a LOTV image coloured with promarkers.. The Black and Grey paper is from an old paper stack with different letters (sorry not sure who it by).. The yellow DP is dovecraft..
I cut the image out using my nesti's.. Sentiment and ribbon bow from my stash..
 
I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:
 
Thanks for popping by today.. Enjoy the rest of your weekend
 
Hugs Kelly