What a beautiful week we've had!

Hi everyone - what a gorgeous sunny week we've had! I've managed to read two books whilst sitting in the sun relaxing it's been that gorgeous! The house is a tip mind but priorities are making the most of it while it lasts! He he!

This week at CI we're challenging you to make spring coloured cards using GREEN, PINK and YELLOW. I used the gorgeous sketch from MDUC as inspiration....

Here's mine:

Stamp: Magnolia Tilda with heart lace

Colouring: DI's; White gel pen; stardust stickles

Dies: Spellbinders doily circle; Magnolia tag

Punches: MS border lace, MS lattice

Flowers and leaves: WOC and Magnolia. Pearl sprays Hobbycraft

Pearl Brads: stash

Sentiment: Stempelglede "just a note" collection

Charms, twine and ribbon: stash

And finally a pic of the card with the tag removed!

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

MDUC: Sketch

I hope you like her, it's the first time I've inked her up and I'm not happy with how her hair turned out so might have to use her again soon to have more of a play!

Have a fabby week, and if you're watching it enjoy the Royal Wedding on Friday! Or simply just enjoy the day off! Lol!

I look forward to reading any comments and I will pop by your blogs to comment later in the week.

Hugs and bunting! Katy. xxx



I'm Back!

Hi Peeps, sorry I missed you last week, had so much on, and I've visited to find I've now reached my target 50 followers to post up some candy! Whoopie! I'll get some bits together and put the candy up when I've accumulated items worthy of your lovely comments!

A real quick post as I'm pressed for time. Creative Inspirations Wednesday Challenge this week is pets/animals. I've had Tildas horse and Tilda with Holster/bridle for ages now so thought I'd ink these up and give them a whirl - here's the result!

The horse was a nightmare to colour, hope I've done it justice!

Flowers - Magnolia and WOC + stickles stardust

Seam Binding - mink - WOC

Sentiment - whimsy stamps

Thank you so much for browsing, and to those who leave a comment I'll see you on your blogs later!

Have a very cheery week you lovely bunch and happy crafting one and all! Lol!

Huge Sunny Hugs. Katy. xxx

1st go at a tent card

Hi everyone, I hope you are all well and coping with the blustery winds if you're in England at the moment! This week at Creative Inspirations Wednesday Challenge we're challenging you to use die cuts and punches. I have wanted to try out a tent card for a while so opted for this this week. The outcome isn't exactly how I envisaged it so if anyone has any hints or tips on how to do these better than this please let me know!

Stamps: Magnolia Sitting Tilda with tulips

Magnolia Butterfly Background

Punches: Martha Stewart 3 Hydrangea (the flowers on the swing)

Butterfly

Papers: Magnolia green vintage quilt

Bazzil - ice white shimmer, vanilla

There's stardust stickles on the sun in the background.

The swing is made from hand cut bazil cardstock inked with walnut stain, then threaded with cord and some small wooden beads at the bottom. This is suspended on jump rings through the spellbinder scalloped circle.

The small hydrangea from the 3 hydrangea punch was used, and moulded by rolling the petals with an embossing tool until they curled. A small gem was added to the centre of each. The leaves are single petals cut from the hydrangea punch. (all a bit fiddly this!)

The window was cut with circular nestie, then a scolloped cicle placed over.

All of the images are coloured with DIs.

This week I have entered this card into the following challenges:

Simon Says Stamp: Spring/Easter

The Shabby Tea room: Spring Colours

Colour Create: Pastels

Craft Us Crazy: Happy Easter/Spring

Papertake Weekly: Anything goes

Just Magnolia/Hanglar and Stanglar: Anything goes

Tuesday Throwdown: Spring

 

I look forward to any hints you might have, still not sure if I've done this correctly!

Have a fabby week.

Hugs. Katy. xxx

Nearly there!

Hi everyone, and welcome to my new followers, only another 4 to go before I offer some blog candy! So if you can, spread the word! Lol!
Peter's doing much better this week , he's eating normally now which is good as before he was only managing half a bowl of soup in total for a full day. :(

This week I got the chance to play with one of my new Kraftin' Kimmie stamps - I adore these, they're inspired by Grease I think. The one I've used today is Called "Danny". The minute I saw hime I knew I had to have him, my dad has had bikes for years, and recently as he's getting older he swapped his VFR racing bike for a classic - A Triumph Bonneville. I think the bike Danny has here looks just like it so this card will be going to my dad!

The papers are BG - Curio

As always, coloured with distress inks.

Danny's shades have 3d gloss on them, and there are crackle accents on his shoes.

The sentiment comes as part of the stamp set, there's another included "you ain't nothib' but a hound dog", so I always think these sets are superb value.

The sentiment sits in a spellbinders fancy tag, I stamped it, and then without reinking stamped again above and below to get the above effect.

The bike is coloured to match my dads! He has metallic cream so I've added some stickles stradust for a bit of shimmer. I also added silver stickles to the chrome areas, but these don't show up on the photo. 

I hope you like him! I'm not sure if it's still on, but Bunnyzoes crafts was offering 25% off all Kraftin' Kimmie stamps (gutted, I bought him before the offer but whatcha gonna do?!) so if you like him I'd urge you to have a browse at the rest of the collection and see if the offer's still on to grab a bargain!

Take care everyone, thank you so much for bwosing. Have a fab week, and as always...

Happy Crafting!

Hugs. Katy. xxx

Anything but a square... and how guilty do I feel?

Hi Peeps!
This week at CI wednesday challenge we are to make anything but a square card. I've seen some fab templates out there, tea pots, aprons, butterflies etc. but with everything that's happened this week I plumped for the simplest choice and made a scalloped circle easel card...

We are sponsored this week by Sassy Studios and were given their digi images to use - this little cutie is Victorian and she just reminds me of Cinderella or similar fairytale princesses. I think I'll use her again as my friend loves Pride and Prejudice and I think she would make a lovely Elizabeth Bennet!

The brilliant thing about digis is that you can resize them - I don't think this card would have been big enough for my full size Maggies, although I did sneak a Magnolia sentiment in! Lol! The card was made with my scalloped nesties - the largest size I had.

I LOVE these flowers! The one in the centre is a new Magnolia purchase (shhhh) from The Craftz Boutique Magnolia flowers are more expensive than WOC but I just fell in love with these. The stamens are wire too so you can manipulate them into shape where you want them. The dahlias and rose buds are from WOC (love these too!)

The top and bottom of the card are laid out exactly the same. White cardstock, then Magnolias "Something Blue" (wedding collection) and "love letter" (so special collection). All edges are distressed with walnut stain DIs and stickle stardust.

A quick pic of closed card

The image is coloured with distress inks (DIs) as always and I've used stardust stickles on the pleats of her dress.

I know last week I said I didn't have any news for you, well that wasn't strictly true. Peter (my other half) had been moping around the house for over a week with a sore throat. We'd been the doc's (I needed to go as he couldn't talk to explain why we were there!) and he'd been told he had excess fluid and to take antibiotics for a week and return the week after that. So that was last week.

He was grumpy and was making a mess in the house which I was having to clear up when I got in from work, as well as all the other bits n peices (making dinner, hoovering, washing, ironing, lunch box etc) and to be honest when I went to work on Monday I had a bit of a whinge about him being a typical bloke and complaining about a sore throat - come 2am Tuesday morning I was eating my words! He woke me up as he could barely breath and he was unable to drink even the smallest amount of liquid. I dashed him to A&E to be reprimanded for going there with a sore throat initially but then once the doc had looked at him he told us Peter would need his throat syringing as he had Quinsy... So a couple of syringes full of manky smelly puss were taken from inside his throat and he was kept in overnight while they gave him IV antibiotics and ordered him to eat and drink as much as he physically could. I have to say I felt terrible for moaning about him, and have been on a guilt trip all week! Phew, it's cathartic to get the guilt off of my chest! Lol! He's still not feeling too great and he has practically a pharmacy of meds but at least we know what the problem was.

I am entering this card into the following challenges:

Magical Mondays: Shaped cards

Crafts and Me: Anything goes

Ambers crafts and Stuff: Use die cuts

Your Next Stamp Challenge: Make it sparkle

The Crazy Challenge: No square cards

Thank you so so much for looking and any comments you might leave me, and I'll pop by your blog to say hi! Hugs and wishing you all a fantastic week. Katy. xxx

Tilda with Amaryllis

Hi peeps! I know I announced my blog candy win last week, but I have had no response from the winner, if I don't hear from the winner drawn last week by the end of day tomorrow, I will draw the candy again. Most of the entrants were not followers, so will probably not look here again to check this, so I will start it again using comments added below this post to draw a new winner next week. If I do hear from last weeks winner I will add a new mystery candy for the new draw to save wasting anyones time!
If you would like to be considered please put "candy" at the end of your post to save me time as I don't know how to use mr linky yet- I will not include you in the draw without this.
I will still add a little something else once I get to 50 followers, so if you spread the word there'll be another opportunity to grab a freebie!

Onto this weeks CIWC - Beige, Green and white - here's my effort!

Stamps: Tilda with Amaryllis, Sentiment - Kanban; corners - stempelglede grunge collection

Papers: Papermania boutique; magnolia (love letter)

Large flat gardenia, seam binding and corner flourish: Wild orchid crafts (sprayed with gold glimmer mist and added stardust stickles)

All edges sewed with sewing machine.

Tilda has been coloured with DIs (as always!)

The gems are from The Paperlane (Northallerton)

There is stardust stckles under her feet, on the flowers and in her ribbons. Clear star gel pen is on the flower stems. ANy questions please leave a comment and I'll get back to ya!

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

Friday Sketchers: Sketch

Just Magnolia: Anything goes + glitter

Magnolia Stamp Lovers: Buttons and Bling!

Magnolia-licious: Green

Simon Says Stamp: Anything goes

Well, hope you likey! Have a fab week everyone.

Hugs. Katy. xxx

Thank you to Cebelica!

Hi ladies, Just a quick post. Firstly, to thank Cebelica for awarding me this wonderful blog award:

Thank you so much hun, it is VERY much appreciated!

As with other awards, this award has some rules. And these are:

1.) I need to thank the person who gave me this award: Thank you Cebelica! And please to everyone else, check out her wonderful blog!

2.) I need to write 7 things about myself.

1. I spend half of my entire card making time just colouring the images, it usually takes me at least an hour to feel happy with the colouring!
2. I would love my own horse - ambitious I know but I can dream can't i?!
3. I have a terrible sense of direction - and often get lost, even with sat nav.
4. I am left handed.
5. My favourite colour combination on cards is blue and brown
6. I LOVE crisps- I could eat an entire multipack in one go if Peter doesn't hide them!
7. I have named my sat nav guy "Shane" - he's Irish! Love it!

3.) I have to pass this award to 15 bloggers and let them now they received this award from me.

I would like to pass this on to:

1. Caroline
2. Mona
3. Nat
4. Tanja
5. Aunty Sue
6. Shell
7. Rachel
8. Vicky
9. Coops
10. Carlyanne
11. Elizabeth
12. Juls
13. Teresa
14. Sadia
15. Rach

I would normally write a little about each one but 15 is a lot to write about so I'll leave you to browse these fab blogs at your leisure! Hugs. Katy. xxx