Let's Go Fishing !!!!!! as it is raining again.................................

Good Afternoon to you all in the land of blog

I could smile and say yipeeeeee I am crafting, but no that was not the original plan for the day.  Matt and I were suppose to be re weeding the raised bed, cutting the grass and putting in some bedding plants, but the horrid rain put that to bed.

Yesterday Matt went fishing although I am sure he looked good in his light weight fishing suit, I do not think he looked as dapper as Rupert here on his fishing trip in his ace little boat.  

Rupert Goes Fishing 2 

can be located here in the Dragon's Lair, home of Stampin with the Dragon's fabulous Images, although don't forget that the Dragon's Lair has a wide variety of Digital Papers too.  The set I have used is called 

Blue Harmony 

and is a newish release

Here is Fishing Creation

The base layer and contrast colour is lemon yellow.  The image has been die cut with the smaller of the grand Oval Nesties and the image plate is layered onto the same sized scallop oval.  I have used an MS punch and some Papermania Mono Collection ribbon, along with some gorgeous pearls from the Hobby House.  The sentiments are both My Sentiment Exactly.  Flowers are a mixture of Hobby Craft, local department store and Wild Orchid. The little silver fish charm I am sorry cannot remember where he came from

I would like to say hello to my new followers and thank you to my wonderful visitors for their lovely comments

I am entering this little one into the following challenges

Scrappy Frogs - Birthdays

2 Sisters - Anything Goes

Allsorts - Things with wings

Crazy 4 Challenges - Vacation Spot

Ellephantastic - Birthday

Hugs and enjoy the rest of the day

Kate 

xx

Winter Wonderland DT Card - A Single Layer Card for easy Posting

Hi all and happy Winter Wonderland Day

I am so sorry for not getting around to snooping on those lovely desks and not leaving my usual comments on everyone's posts and WW entries, but blogger keeps giving me errors, so I do not even know if I am going to get this actually written.

I hope I managed to leave messages with everyone or twice if it blipped and if not I will keep trying until they are all done.

We had some really great entries for Marianne's recipe challenge and it is lovely to visit you all.

Today is Friday (if  it is not to obvious) and that sounds the crafting bell for the weekend along with the new challenge at Winter Wonderland and our sponsor this week is

 with this amazing prize

 Our very talented Danielle is hosting the challenge this week and she has chosen the theme of

 A One Layer Card 

The main thing to keep in mind is easy postage - so no bows or embellishments that are going to bump your card up into the next postage level

Following on from my first entry into the Keep It Simple Challenge last week, I thought that this might be quite easy.  How wrong was I :(

I decided to review my Barbara Gray DVD and to look at some of her fabulous techniques.  I came across the resist technique, which just looked fabulous and all on one level, just perfect.

So I went up to my little Beach Hut and tried it out as per the DVD instructions...................maybe not.

  All in a flap I contacted my good friend Sam who very kindly put me back on track.  She also gave me the link to the technique zone and its section on Resist Stamping her words of wisdom sent me back to my Beach Hut and with renewed vigor I tried it again, success.  Not convinced it was good enough to use as a DT card to inspire people I sent it to her to show her and she said it was good to go.

So key requirements for this says Sam -  glossy card, the glossier the better and once you have inked up your brayer as you roll it over your clear watermark image, keep going until all the image is showing and the colour has been pushed off the image.

So here is my very first posted Resist Stamped Christmas Card, you could make an awful lot of cards with this technique very quickly if you wanted too.

I have used one of my really old stamps and not sure where it is from now with a papermania sentiment and a Big Juicy pad and high gloss photo paper.  The base card is gold card and I have used some stickles around the edge of the resist stamping piece and to highlight little bits on the image and the dots on the"i's".  With no embellies :( 

Now as you know us ladies of the Design Team do like to combine our cards with other challenges but I really was not sure what I could combo this with... but I managed a few.

Charisma Cardz - Try Something New - well it is new for me

Paper Play - Autumnal Colours

Tuesday Throwdown - Fall - the colours of the leaves in the inks

Saturday Challenge - clean and simple (well it is when you figure it out)

think that is it.

I would like to take the time to thank all of those lovely visitors who take the time to read my sometimes long posts and leave such lovely inspiring comments, thank you xx

Now as always I am at work tomorrow, so Mr Blogger will do that thing that he is so good at and publish this post for me (isn't he fabulous) well he will be if he is back working properly and I will try link on the mobile at some point during the day and if not after the weekly shop.

 Oh and I am still running my celebration candy here if you are interested

So enjoy this weeks challenge and your crafting weekend

Hugs

Kate 

xxx