It's A Triple with those Secret Crafter Manga's for Grimsby Crafts

Good afternoon to you all in the land of blog

Today I ran another great class at Grimsby Crafts for our copic addicts.

We had a lovely relaxed class and two wonderful fans as the weather here today has been hot hot hot!!!!!! So hot that almost all of us were heading off for a BBQ.

In today's class I taught facial blending, tip to tip blending, different types of copics, refilling copics and replacing copic nibs

This is the Triple Easel Card that we made

The clear polymer images available at Grimsby Crafts are Secret Crafter Manga Images - the beauty of these is that the face is rather large and allows the extra room to create the facial features using the copics.  These can also be purchased in digital format by clicking on the Secret Crafter shop logo in my side bar.  The papers are also available in the shop, the pearls are but have been coloured with the copics.

Here is a close up of each image

Colours used were

G99, G94, G82 (greens) Little boy

W1, W3, W7 (warm greys) hair on both images

E53, E51, E50 (creams) on both images

RV23, RV21, RV13 (red violets) the pinks on the little girl

R27, R22 (reds) for the little boys red apple.

E11, E00, E000 (earth tones) skin for both

BG000 (blue green) for the eyes

C1 (cool grey) for the outline on both images and the little girls inner mouth.

White gel pergamano pen from Grimsby Crafts.

The distress ink used around the image is Tim Holtz Crushed Olive

The swirl was a Prima clear stamp from my stash.

The centre Sentiment is from Grimsby Crafts

The inner sentiment is by My Sentiments Exactly and from my stash.

If you are local to me and a copic addict then the next class is

24th July 1pm - 3.30pm 

please do pop in or call Grimsby Crafts to book your place.

The techniques being taught on the next class are

Feather Blending

Hair Colouring

Colouring Pleats and Folds

Hope you can join us, we are a right friendly bunch

I would like to welcome all my new followers and wish them all luck in my celebration candy, now if you have not already entered please hop here to find out how.  I would also like to thank all my wonderful visitors who take the time to leave such inspirational comments, THANK YOU I love them all.

I am going to enter this creation into the following challenges

Just Some Lines - Spots and Dots

Inspire Me Fridays - Anything Goes

Totally Papercrafts - Spots and Stripes

Crafty Purple Frog - Swirls and Pearls

Meljens Designs - Stripes and/or Plaid

Southern Girls - Anything Goes

Stampin B's Designs - Use a Friendship sentiment

Crafty Creations - Sparkly (the papers)

Hugs 

Kate 

xx

Embossing With the Secret Crafter Saturday Challenge DT

Good morning to you all in the land of blog

Now today brings the last challenge of the month at the

Secret Crafter Saturday Challenge

which means that this is your last chance this month to be included in the draw for our monthly prize.

The Stamping Boutique have very kindly offered 5 digis of choice for the winner.

Store: http://thestampingboutique.com/

Challenge Blog:http://thestampingboutiquechallengeblog.blogspot.com/

So the theme this week has been set by our very talented Teamie Beate, she has chosen

Embossing

So here is what I created for my design team inspirational piece

I decided to go white on white and used my doily punch, and several of my embossing folders.  I used some Marianne dies for the swirls, made the flower from my punches but embossed the paper first.  I then used a geo die to create the raised flower bed, such a great die, so pleased I treated myself :).  The pearl in the middle is a large brad .  I added a couple of smaller pearls too on the swirls.

The dies and embossing folders are available at the secret crafter shop here 

Now don't forget to hop over and take a look at the rest of the design team inspirational pieces.

I would like to welcome all my new followers and thank each and everyone of them for their lovely comments, and thank you to all my visitors for taking the time to leave such inspirational comments, love each and everyone of them.

Don't forget I have candy on offer here if you are interested

I am entering this creation into the following challenges

Paper Pretties - White on White


Enjoy the rest of your weekend

Hugs

Kate

xx

Winter Wonderland and Pretty In Pink with Kenny K's Xmas Girls

Good morning to you all in the land of blog

Today Team Marianne are in the hot seat at the

Winter Wonderland

and the very talented Denise has set the theme of

Pretty In Pink

As you know I just have to maintain my one Xmas card each week so here is what I came up with as a little inspiration to those of you who have maybe not yet started on your Christmas card collections.

wow did I enjoy this theme, I have used black as the contrasting colour and some gorgeous papers available from the Secret Crafter.  The image is easily recognisable one of the hot girls from Kenny K's fabulous collection.  I matched the inside of the card to the front of it.

I used one of my new round the page MS punches to create a base frame for the image and added swirls of spun sugar distress ink to the frame. Adding some gorgeous baby pink pearls to the top and bottom of the image plate and this gorgeous Wild Orchid flower, with some embossed holly leaves to finish and a little Xmas glitter.  The sentiment is from My Sentiment Exactly.

The image has been coloured in with copics and I have used liquid appliqué to give the fluffy bits that extra depth.  As it was wet I added some glitter so it sparkles too.

Don't forget to pop over and see the design team inspirational pieces.

Don't forget I have Candy here 

I would like to enter this creation into the following challenge

Creative Craft World - C5 Christmas in June

I would like to say hello to my new followers and thank you to my wonderful visitors for all the inspirational comments you leave, love and appreciate each and every one of them.

Enjoy the rest of your day, I know I will

Hugs

Kate

xxx

COPICal Hop - Do Come and Join in the fun!!

Good morning to you all in the land of blog

Welcome to the Mad for Markers BIG Copical blog hop! We are excited today to be hopping around the blogworld with bloggers from all over the world who all LOVE colouring with COPICS! 

If you came here from Gina's Blog  then you are right on track.. if not then please go to Sammi's blog  to start at the beginning!

Once you have completed the hop please leave a comment and vote for your favourite creations... and you and the person you voted for might receive a little surprise prize!!

But to get there make sure you follow the hop and leave some love for all the participants... your next stop is Hazel.....Have a colourful day!!

Here is my hop creation

I used a Kenny K image

The base colour and contrast is a lime green with some lovely Prima papers from the Hobby House.  The doily is from my stash as are the flowers.  I have used a couple of different nestie labels to create a tag and some edging detail.  

The image has been coloured with the copics below

The YG03 has been used to colour the original white pearls along with the originally white ribbon, see below

Here are some close ups of the ribbon details

Down the edge of the My Sentiment Exactly Sentiment

The addition to the tag, and you can see the matching pearls here too

and the ribbon and bow down the side of the card, if you look closely you will see that I have distressed all the edges of the papers too.

I really enjoyed creating this piece.

Now don't forget that  I have candy here if you are interested.

I would like to welcome all my new followers and say a BIG thank you for all the lovely comments that my recent visitors have left, love them all.

I am going to enter this creation into the following challenges

Mad 4 Markers - Brown Hair

CMC - Brunettes

Scrapbook Sisters - Anything Goes

Deep Ocean - Flowers

House of Gilli - Ribbon and Bows

Well if you have not hopped yet - thanks for staying around a little longer - but of you pop now and hop on to the next inspirational piece :)

Enjoy the rest of you day

Hugs 

Kate

xx

Sketch It!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! with Stampin with the Dragon

Good morning to you all in the land of blog

Today sees the next challenge at 

Stampin with the Dragon

This weeks theme is a 

Sketch

This was a lovely sketch to work with

Here is what I created

Very Pink!!!!!

I used one of my favourite images Penny Butterflies, created by the awesome Janette, owner of the Dragons Lair.  There is currently 30% off the original price in the store, so hop on over now and take full advantage of the savings.

Here is the card taken from the angle

I matched the papers on the outside to the inside, the papers are by Wild Rose and available at Grimsby Crafts.

Here is the front on shot

The base colour and contrast is a deep olive green.  The ribbon is from my stash and the pretty pink pearls are available on line from the Hobby House. This is the smaller of the grand nestie circles.

Here is a close up of the image

It is coloured in with copics and I have used a little clear glitter sakuro for her wings and some green glitter stickles for the frame.

Don't forget to pop over and see the rest of the Design Team inspirational pieces, there are some gorgeous creations.

I still have my candy running if you are interested see here 

I would like to welcome all my new followers it is lovely to have you join me, and I would like to say thank you to all my wonderful visitors that take the time to leave such wonderful comments, so inspirational, thank you.

I would like to enter this creation into the following challenges

Crafty Creations - Sparkly

Stampavie and More - Butterflies

A Spoonful of Sugar - Ribbons and Bows

Bunny Zoe's - Fairies

House of Gilli - Ribbons and Bows

Enjoy your day

Hugs

Kate

xx

Copic Stamping

Good evening to you all in the land of blog

Today I have played with more copic techniques and this one is copic stamping.  I used the same image as when I did the copic water colouring. This way it gives you such a delicate image

This is a Clean and Simple card the copic stamped image is framed by some lovely purple card again and a simple My Sentiment Exactly sentiment has been added.

Here is a close up of the image

Such a pretty array of flowers and so Summery. I added some liquid pearls in gold to the flower centres.

I would like to say hello to all my new followers and also thank you for the lovely comments.  I would like to also thank my wonderful visitors for the time taken to leave such inspirational comments.

Don't forget I have celebration candy here if you are interested

I am entering this card into the following challenges

Amber's Crafts and Stuff - Summer

Crafting for all Seasons - Summer

Clear it out - CAS

Bows and Berries - Thank you

Karen's Doodles - Flower Power

Moving Along With The Times - Clean and Simple

Dutch Dare - Clean and Simple

Hugs 

Kate

xx

Please Read ........................................

I would be really grateful if you would read the information below and visit the link, this lady is a very dear work colleague of mine and I would like to support her in the only way I can 

she was diagnosed in November with Neuro Enocrine Carsinoid which is a very rare form of cancer, for which there is no cure

I admire Barbara for her courage, as I am sure you will too

http://www.raceforlifesponsorme.org/babsbunnies

thank you so much for taking the time to consider the above

Hugs 

Kate

xxx

Did I have the Blues?????

Good morning to you all in the land of blog

This is a card I started for a DT piece, however I was not feeling in my head 100% and therefore what was created really did not do a DT piece justice, so I created another piece in stead.

I decided to try out a totally blue and white card, don't think this image was the best thing for it, as a blue little hedgie did not quite look right to me, you may thing differently but you know when you get that No! it just does not look right, well this is one of those creations.

It is a Birth of a Little Boy card

The base layer is a deep blue card as is the contrast.  The papers are some new Prima ones I got from the Hobby House.  The flower is Wild Orchid and the pearls and little butterfly pearl are from the Hobby House too.  The lace is from Grimsby Crafts as are the Marianne die hearts.  The swirls and scrolls are Marianne dies too. All the edges have been distressed and the sentiment is from My Sentiments Exactly.

The image has been coloured in a variety of blue copic shades.

I would like to welcome my new followers and say thank you to all my wonderful visitors who leave such inspirational comments, I love them all thank you....

Don't forget I have candy here if your interested, 

I am going to enter this creation into the following challenges

2 Sisters - For a Guy ( a little guy that is)

Craft Your Days Away - Monochrome

Little Claire's Designs - For Men ( a little man)

Paper Creator's - for the Men ( a little man)

Penny Black Saturday Challenge - Peskie Critters

Totally Gorjuss - Pearls and Swirls

Word Play - Blue

Well the ironing calls, so must move on - hope you all enjoy your day

Hugs

Kate

xxx

Did You Ever

I just had to blog this, thought I would never actually receive one of these beauties

I am so very thrilled, proud, honoured.......oh what else can I say!!!!!!

thank you ladies from Magnolia Down Under

for selecting me as one of your

top five

with this creation

do pop over and see the rest of the gorgeous creations

maybe I should use my Maggies more often :)

hope everyone else is having such a great day

don't forget my candy here 

Hugs

Kate xx

Let's See Your Household Item Images at the Secret Crafter Saturday Challenge

Good morning to you all in the land of blog

Today sees the next challenge at the

Secret Crafter Saturday Challenge

The theme this week has been set by the very talented Andi, who chose the theme of

Images Containing Household Items

now I have to admit that this one threw me for a while and I spent ages going through all my stamps and eventually I found a Kanban image that just fit the bill.

So here is what I created as my inspirational piece this week, hope you like it

The base layer and contrast is again black, think I have a thing for black at the moment.  The papers are from a Wedding Stack I got from the Hobby House and I am so sorry do not know what the name of them is.  The image is a cup of coffee, the nearest thing I had honest.  Now I am not that good at embossing with a versa-fine ink pad and embossing powders but this image just said use me............... I then added shadow using my copics and a little cream colour to shade the cup.  I added a very fine sand flower soft for the froth, well what is a cuppa with out that froth.  I used pearls and the bow from stash.

Now don't forget to hop over to see what the other fabulous design team members have created for your eye candy and talking about candy don't forget I am celebrating my 200 followers here

I would like to welcome my new followers and say a big thank you to my wonderful visitors who take the time to leave such inspirational comments, love them all.

I am entering this creation into the following challenges

Stamp Something - Pretty Papers

Inspire me Fridays - Anything Goes

The Poodles Parlour - Anything Goes

Southern Girls - Anything Goes

Enjoy the rest of your weekend

Hugs Kate xx

Christmas Flowers at the Winter Wonderland

Good morning to you all in the land of blog

Today sees Team Kate inspiring you all at the

Winter Wonderland 

this week, and it is my week to host and I chose the theme of

Christmas Flowers

(any type of Christmas Flower)

So here is my inspiration piece for this week

I have not used this stamp in around I would say a year and it has been ages since I used these papers too, so sorry unable to remember the name of them.

The base layer is gold mirror card and the papers have been cut diagonally to leave a thin gold strip down the diagonal.  I then used my lotus flower nestie to create an image plate frame and a Marianne die to create the image plate, the sentiment on this one is WOJ.  The poinsettia's are in the papers in gold on the cream and in the addition of the Prima poinsettia which I added the little red pearls to compliment.

Here is a close up of the little mouse, dragging his Christmas tree to his home ready to decorate for Xmas.

Now don't forget to hop over and take a look at the rest of the fabulous inspiration from the rest of my team.

I would like to welcome my new followers and say thank you to the very kind visitors that take the time to leave such inspirational comments, just what a girl needs to keep her going, thank you

 no challenges to link to for this one, unless you spot some I have missed

Hugs and enjoy the rest of your day

Kate

xxx

Fairy Hearts from the Dragon's Lair and a Quadruple Win

Good morning to you all in the land of blog

Today I get to show you another of the fabulous images available at the 

Dragon's Lair

home of Stampin With the Dragon and creations by the fabulously talented Janette.

This one is called "Fairy Hearts"

and this was a lovely image to work with and so easy to colour up so here is what I created

Here is a close up of the card showing the lovely inner complimenting the front of the card

I used a black base layer and contrast and some spotty red paper to enhance the colour of the hearts.  

I added some larger red pearls to the corners of the image plate, the image has been coloured in copics

and I added a triple bow to finish the card off.

I hope this inspires you to take a peak in the store to see what other beautiful images and papers are available for you enjoyment.

Don't forget to pop over to 

Stampin With The Dragon

to enter the current challenge of

Friends

It has one more week to run and there are some lovely entries already.

Quadruple 

I would like to thank the ladies at Craft Us Crazy for another win on my OVA Grandparents entry

I would like to welcome my new followers and say Thank You!! to all of my lovely visitors that take the time to leave such inspirational comments, love them all..

I would like to enter this creation into the following challenges

My Mum's Craft Shop - Spots

Simply Scrapping Creative Card Crew - no Sentiment

Bunny Zoe's Crafts - Fairies

Craft Your Passion - It's Magical

Lexi's Creations - No Sentiment

There's Magic In the Air - Pick 2 Ribbon and Pearls

Hugs and enjoy your day

Kate

xx

New Releases at Stampin with the Dragon

Just had to pop in and let you know about these yummy papers

Check out these Must have paper packs, for your stash, there are three new packs in store today all in the season's latest colours an essential for your card/scrapbooking needs available in both 12 x 12 and 8 x 8 and you get 30% for the first week in store so HURRY before the offer ends :)

See them in store now HERE

Enjoy your Browsing

Hugs Kate xx