Ruby Wedding Anniversary Card for the Secret Crafter Saturday Challenge DT

Good morning to you all in the land of blog

You know I do love a Saturday morning, especially when I have absolutely nothing to do for the day, yep got myself so organised that I can have a play day cannot wait :), have a couple of crafty parcels arriving too, with some more stash in them.

and before I move on I would like to thank the team at Midnight Madness for selecting me as one of their remarkables

Now I  best get down to business

Today sees the next fabulous challenge at the

Secret Crafter Saturday Challenge

with the theme being chosen by the very talented Janet, and she chose

Borders and Flowers

what a fabulous theme for me and for you too I hope, don't forget to hop on over to the challenge blog and check out the rest of the design teams inspirational eye candy and here is mine.

I made a Ruby Wedding Anniversary Card

The base layer and contrast is a combination of gold mirror card and burgundy pearlescent paper.  The paper on the top all though you cannot see much of it here is the Wedding Papers stack from Wild Rose.  The MS edge punch with those little hearts up the side and the tiny Hobby House gold pearls, with some Marianne fronds a lush gold ribbon and believe it or not all the flowers bar three are from Wild Orchid (they were all originally white and they have been airbrushed with R59 to varying degrees to create the tones within the flowers all touched with a little gold stickles.

The image has been wet embossed in gold, and the image is that old I really am not sure who it is by or where it came from.  The image plate has also been edged in  gold.

The inside here you can see so much more of those lovely Wild Rose Wedding papers.  The top sentiment computer generated and the other one from my My Sentiments Exactly stash.

Now if you have not noticed, although I am sure you have my new 600 follower candy has been posted and you can enter this here . I would like to welcome all my new followers  and wish all my followers luck in the 600 follower candy.   Just have to say you are all awesome thrilled to be over the 700 mark and looking forward to more candy buying:)

As always and very importantly I would like to say thank you to all my wonderful visitors who take the time to leave such inspirational comments on my blog, allowing me to hop back over to see your own beautiful work. THANK YOU!! 

I would like to enter this creation into the following challenges and thank Feline for your assistance as always

Colour Create - Pink, White and Gold

Crafty Purple Frog - For Someone Special

Dutch Dare - Recipe-ribbon, images, patterned papers and layers

Moving Along With the Times - Ribbon/bows

Paper Crafting Journey - Anything Goes

Cooking It Up with Katie - punch, ink and Emboss

Crafts and Me - Shabby Chic or Vintage

Get Hippity with Ippity - embossing

OK off to my craft room to play, think Matt is photographing my tutorial for my little bottle cover today, so will hopefully post this later on 

enjoy your day

Hugs

Kate

xxx

A Floral Bouquet on this Xmas Bottle

Good evening to you all in the land of blog

an update on the ironing, had to have a clear out in the wardrobes :) to gain some more coat hangers (what a shame) doing an hour each night, should be clear by the time the Xmas tree needs to go up.  Was a little disheartened that nobody offered you know but c'est la vie :)

Before hitting the board last night I managed to create this little number, as you can imagine, the more I make of these bottles for my colleagues the quicker I am getting, this one took less than an hour and that was start to finish, not bad going and 7 more to do :(

I really should not have such daft ideas you know. Had to order some more pinflair and flowers :) what a fabulous excuse................not that we crafters need an excuse :)

Any way here it is 

This time again the papers are slightly vintage and the gold ribbon on this one is wrapped and swirled around to the back.  The flowers go all the way around.  The die's are nesties the base is a Marianne fancy circle die and all the flowers have been air brushed with R59, in the main these are from Wild Orchid.  I have over sprayed with gold glitter lacquer for the Xmas feel.  

Now if you have not noticed, although I am sure you have my new 600 follower candy has been posted and you can enter this here . I would like to welcome all my new followers  and wish all my followers luck in the 600 follower candy.   Just have to say you are all awesome thrilled to be over the 700 mark and looking forward to more candy buying:)

As always and very importantly I would like to say thank you to all my wonderful visitors who take the time to leave such inspirational comments on my blog, allowing me to hop back over to see your own beautiful work. THANK YOU!! 

I would like to enter this creation into the following challenges and thank Feline for your assistance as always

Crafts and Me - Shabby Chic / Vintage

Little Red Wagon - Christmas

Papercraft Star - Anything Goes

The Paper Shelter - Sparkle (red, gold, green)

Scrapbook sisters - Christmas

Simon Says Stamp - Tag

Whimsy - Tag

Papertake Weekly - Christmas Crackers ( I must be still got five to go)

Top Tip Tuesday - More than one fold (7 in total)

well that is me, off to get on with the ironing and an early night me thinks, as travelling tomorrow

enjoy the rest of your evening

Hugs

Kate

xxx

Tickled Pink White Snow Fairy Xmas Card

Good evening to you all in the land of blog

After a lovely weekend, I was back to reality at work today, absolutely shattered, so please hold on I will be hopping and returning comments as quick as I can, I also still have the ironing to do, any offers???

This is another Xmas Card that I created over the weekend, I just had to play with a couple of my new digi images from Tickled Pink and just had to join in with the current challenge too.

Here is the sketch I followed from the Tickled Pink challenge

so here is what I created

I created a WOW card no not that I think it is WOW just White on White in the main.  It has been ages since I did this and got all my embossing folders out and my ribbon threaded lace, a little cheesecloth and my largest nestie snowflake die, topped off with a Wild Rose circle sentiment a little silver stickles, some snow flakes (pearls) from the Hobby House and finally the gorgeous image which is called

Tickled Pink White Snow Fairy

now I was going to cut her out totally however the depth required to lift the image over the lace needed a little more width, so I just cut around her instead :)

Now if you have not noticed, although I am sure you have my new 600 follower candy has been posted and you can enter this here . I would like to welcome all my new followers  and wish all my followers luck in the 600 follower candy.   Just have to say you are all awesome thrilled to be over the 700 mark and looking forward to more candy buying:)

As always and very importantly I would like to say thank you to all my wonderful visitors who take the time to leave such inspirational comments on my blog, allowing me to hop back over to see your own beautiful work. THANK YOU!! 

I would like to enter this creation into the following challenges and thank Feline for your assistance as always

Bunny Zoe's - Xmas and Pearls

Crafty Boots - Fantasy

Daisy Doodles - Christmas

Get Hippity with Ippity - Embossing

Paper Creations Ink - Christmas

The Ribbon Girl - pink and White with ribbon

Stamp Scrap and Doodle - Embossing

well that is me, off to do some commenting, blog hopping and of course the ironing

enjoy the rest of your evening

Hugs

Kate 

xx

Kanban Steam Punk

Good evening to you all in the land of blog

Today I attended to deliver my copic class at Grimsby Crafts and today's class started off with a special treat from Janet just for me, she had been camped on the doorstep said Lynn, think she was excited to give me my little pre birthday treat :) and I can see why she wanted me to open it early to see my face, as it is fabulous, another steam punk card with amazing little boxes underneath all with a little something in for me.  Here it is

Isn't it gorgeous, I felt so very special

Thank you Janet :)

The card that I taught today used a Kanban images and some gorgeous papers too, all with a contrast of gold mirror card  the flower is made with the largest paper shaper and star punch for the centre.

The cogs are a Tim Holtz die, the legs of the mannequin were made with craft wire wrapped around my good old tent peg and the lace added to replace the cross hatch of the stamped image.  Gold stickles has been used for the bodice and the neck metal wear. Pearls from the Hobby House and everything else from Grimsby Crafts.

 Now if you have not noticed, although I am sure you have my new 600 follower candy has been posted and you can enter this here . I would like to welcome all my new followers  and wish all my followers luck in the 600 follower candy.   Just have to say you are all awesome thrilled to be over the 700 mark and looking forward to more candy buying:)

As always and very importantly I would like to say thank you to all my wonderful visitors who take the time to leave such inspirational comments on my blog, allowing me to hop back over to see your own beautiful work. THANK YOU!! 

I would like to enter this creation into the following challenges and thank Feline for your assistance as always

Addicted to Stamps - pearls and lace

Gingerloft, lace, fabric or felt

Let's Ink it Up - Favourite technique (feather blending)

One Stitch at a Time - Anything Goes

Colour Challenge - 

2 Sisters - Let it Sparkle

Charisma Cardz - Pearls and Lace

Mad 4 Markers - anything goes

Right that would be me done, now off to get a cool glass of ***** for those of you who know me well (Janet) you can fill in the gaps :) and sit and watch the results for Strictly, X Factor and I'm A Celeb

enjoy the rest of your evening

Hugs

Kate

xxx

Birthday Wishes

Good morning to you all in the land of blog

Yesterday I got everything bar the ironing done, which I will do today after I have been to teach my class, I did not do it yesterday as I was crafting in my Beach Hut :)  such a fabulous excuse.

This is one of the creations I made yesterday, this is a Birthday card for the step mother in law, now please notice the totally different approach on this one, as this one definitely suits the occasion.  

Base layer and contrast on this one is black and I have used the Papermania Mono Collection papers, which are so very versatile.  I have used my around the page punch from MS once as an edge punch and twice as a corner punch.  The ribbon is from my stash as is the pearls and cheesecloth, the little corners are from Hobby House and flowers from Wild Orchid.  The image is from Tickled Pink and is called 

Lil Victorian Steampunk Lolita Lylah, 

this is the digital version

She has been coloured in copics using the warm, cools, neutrals and toner greys, with a little clear gel sakuro glitter. Don't you just love working in monotones :)

Now if you have not noticed, although I am sure you have my new 600 follower candy has been posted and you can enter this here . I would like to welcome all my new followers  and wish all my followers luck in the 600 follower candy.   Just have to say you are all awesome thrilled to be over the 700 mark and looking forward to more candy buying:)

As always and very importantly I would like to say thank you to all my wonderful visitors who take the time to leave such inspirational comments on my blog, allowing me to hop back over to see your own beautiful work. THANK YOU!! 

I would like to enter this creation into the following challenges and thank Feline for your assistance as always

Midnight Madness - Sketch

Mark's Finest Papers -  Black / White and one other colour (skin tone)

Crafty Ann's - Monochromatic

Pattie's Creations - Birthday

Totally Papercrafts - Black and White

okay that is me, off to prepare my bits for my class and if I get a chance finish another little something

hope you all enjoy your day

Hugs Kate xx

Let's Get Sketchy with the Secret Crafter Saturday Challenge

Good morning to you all in the land of blog

Today sees the next fabulous challenge at the

Secret Crafter Saturday Challenge

with the them being chosen this week by our fabulous organiser Jane

She has chosen a sketch, here it is

I had a leaving card to create for a member of my team, who was leaving to another post in the Company, so not actually leaving, so decided to use this sketch to create her, this card

The base layer and contrast is a chocolate brown card, and the papers are of course my favourite GCD Studio Paris Nights.  The sentiment is computer generated to suit the count down to her progression into her new role.  The little chain to give the idea of pocket watches.  The clocks were stamped from a large set that I won and the hands were separate so I could place the hands of the clocks where I wanted too.  I air brushed these in E33 and then I added glossy accents to represent the glass dome of the clocks.  Little amber diamante's added just to finish it off. She loved it hope you like it too.

Now if you have not noticed, although I am sure you have my new 600 follower candy has been posted and you can enter this here . I would like to welcome all my new followers  and wish all my followers luck in the 600 follower candy.   Just have to say you are all awesome thrilled to be over the 700 mark and looking forward to more candy buying:)

As always and very importantly I would like to say thank you to all my wonderful visitors who take the time to leave such inspirational comments on my blog, allowing me to hop back over to see your own beautiful work. THANK YOU!! 

I would like to enter this creation into the following challenges and thank Feline for your assistance as always

Shelly's Images - Anything Goes

Freshly Brewed Monthly - Anything Goes

Crafts and Me - Simple

Diva's By Design - Monochromatic

Mad 4 Markers - Anything Goes (airbrushed copic clocks)

Think that is me, need to do a quick hoover, a couple of wash loads and then into my craft room, hope you all have a great day

Hugs

Kate

xxx

Cute Alert over at the Winter Wonderland Challenge

Good morning to you all in the land of blog

Today sees the next challenge over at the

Winter Wonderland

with little old me choosing the theme of

Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwww What a Cutie!!

but before I move on I just have to say thank you to the wonderful design team and Kellie at Tickled Pink Stamps for my top three placement :) THANK YOU !!!!

So back to the business at hand there are so many cute images around that it is always difficult to decide on which one you want to use, this image is by Wild Rose and caught my eye whilst shopping for one of my candies, I created this card just to play with him and now the card is on display at Grimsby Crafts where I bought the image from, so I hope you fall in love with him like I did.

The base layer and contrast on this creation is silver mirror card and the papers are some of those that you need to stroke, so so so soft, got them from the Hobby House last year and sorry make had already been cut off as I used the left overs from a card I made last year.  The ribbon and pearls from stash as are the flowers except the roses which are Wild Orchid. The snowflake is a Marianne die with a nestie circle and Wild Rose sentiment on top of it. The image plate and sentiment plate have been air brushed with BG02 and the little penguin has been coloured in copics.  Silver stickles has been added to the flowers and a fine glitter around the image plate and sentiment.  With liquid appliqué for his fluffy bits.

Now if you have not noticed, although I am sure you have my new 600 follower candy has been posted and you can enter this here . I would like to welcome all my new followers  and wish all my followers luck in the 600 follower candy.   Just have to say you are all awesome thrilled to be over the 700 mark and looking forward to more candy buying:)

As always and very importantly I would like to say thank you to all my wonderful visitors who take the time to leave such inspirational comments on my blog, allowing me to hop back over to see your own beautiful work. THANK YOU!! 

I would like to enter this creation into the following challenges and thank Feline for your assistance as always

Delightful Challenges - Bingo (paper, die, flowers)

Mad for Markers - Anything Goes

DYSU - Splash of blue

ABC Christmas - Winter Sports

not many today, and I will link up after I have gotten home from work

Hope you all have a good day and are looking forward to the weekend, like I am :)

Hugs

Kate

xxx

A Sparkly Christmas Bottle Cover

Good evening to you all in the land of blog

I would like to show you today another Christmas Bottle cover that I have made for one of the lovely ladies in my team, tally so far is now four, with eight to go, better get my skates on.

This one is using some lovely pale blue glitter 12 x 12 papers which were a little on the thin side, (top tip)so I lined this with a white 12 x 12 sheet and it worked just fine.  Went for the Blue, White and Silver feel on this one, hope you like it.

All of the flowers on this creation are from Wild Orchid and the leaves and tag are made using nesties, with a Marianne die fancy circle as the base.  Over sprayed with a clear silver lacquer and the ribbon from stash.

Now if you have not noticed, although I am sure you have my new 600 follower candy has been posted and you can enter this here . I would like to welcome all my new followers  and wish all my followers luck in the 600 follower candy.   Just have to say you are all awesome thrilled to be over the 700 mark and looking forward to more candy buying:)

As always and very importantly I would like to say thank you to all my wonderful visitors who take the time to leave such inspirational comments on my blog, allowing me to hop back over to see your own beautiful work. THANK YOU!! 

I would like to enter this creation into the following challenges and thank Feline for your assistance as always

Divas by Design - Monochromatic

Fab n Funky - Baby It's Cold Outside

Cooking It Up with Katie - die cut/tag/Xmas

SweetStamps - Non Traditional Xmas Colours

Top Tip Tuesday - Tags and Tip

Cards and More - Photo inspiration 

Marianne Design Diva's - Sparkle and Shine (the base is a Marianne circle hope you can see it)

Bows and Berries - Make a Tag

think that is me, I am off for a long luxurious bath with some rose petals, followed by a Whiskey Mac me thinks, hope you enjoy your evening

Hugs 

Kate

xxx

Christmas Green with the Emerald Faerie Garden Design Team

Good morning to you all in the land of blog

Today sees the next exciting challenge over at the

Emerald Faerie Garden Challenge

with a theme just perfect for this time of the year which is

Christmas Green

Now initially I thought I would struggle with this theme, however when I got going I really was quite thrilled with my idea, hope you like it too, quite simple but quite elegant ?

The base layer and contrast is gold mirror card and so sorry I really do not know the papers as I have so many Xmas ones.  The grand large nestie scallop and circle dies have been used along side the original sized smaller ones for the WOJ sentiment.  The pearls are from the Hobby House, the little wooden tree, glued and glittered in green.  The bow is a pull string one that I just had to add for the flowersoft gold glitter garland to run from for this fabulous digital image The Larkins - Ashton and Boo to hang from.  The original digi has only been amended slightly so that they appear to be hanging from the garland. To aid the garland in transit I also over sprayed the whole card with a gold glitter lacquer.

The image as always coloured in those fabulous copics, available from the

  Emerald Faerie Garden on line store.

Please do hop over to the challenge blog and check out my teamies fabulous creations, such stunning eye candy for you :)

Now if you have not noticed, although I am sure you have my new 600 follower candy has been posted and you can enter this here . I would like to welcome all my new followers  and wish all my followers luck in the 600 follower candy.   

For those eagle eyed crafter's thank you so much I have also now reached my 700 follower mark, so will have to do some more candy shopping after my birthday, you all are so fabulous absolutely the best :)

As always and very importantly I would like to say thank you to all my wonderful visitors who take the time to leave such inspirational comments on my blog, allowing me to hop back over to see your own beautiful work. THANK YOU!! 

I would like to enter this creation into the following challenges and thank Feline for your assistance as always

Bunny Zoe's Crafts - Anything Christmas with Pearls

Cards For Men - Masculine Christmas

Daisy Doodles - Anything Goes with a digi

House of Gilli - Monochrome

OLLCB - Ribbon, die cut, sparkle

Paper Sundaes - digital images

think that is about it for me today, will be back tonight with another bottle on ice

enjoy the rest of your day

Hugs

Kate

xx

All Wrapped Up for Christmas

Good evening to you all in the land of blog

At the weekend, got the opportunity to create another bottle cover for another of the colleagues at work, went for a Victorian Vintage feel on this one with the plums and olive greens along with the golds, felt it worked really well, especially with the papers chosen.

I gave the whole creation a spray over with some glitter lacquer, it gives it really Christmas feel.  The flowers in the main are from Wild Orchid with some from local craft shops, the ribbon was a freebie from Wild Orchid and the leaves are a die from Grimsby Crafts.  The tag is a nestie and such a pretty one too. The base is a Marianne fancy circle die.

Now if you have not noticed, although I am sure you have my new 600 follower candy has been posted and you can enter this here . I would like to welcome all my new followers  and wish all my followers luck in the 600 follower candy.   

As always and very importantly I would like to say thank you to all my wonderful visitors who take the time to leave such inspirational comments on my blog, allowing me to hop back over to see your own beautiful work. THANK YOU!! 

I would like to enter this creation into the following challenges and thank Feline for your assistance as always

Heart Song Inspirations - Gold or Glitter

Hooked on Craft - Die cuts or punches

Karens Doodles - Anything but A card

Make it Monday's - Anything Goes

Christmas Inspirations - Bows

Whoopsi Daisy - The Colours of Winter

2 Sisters - Anything Goes

CES - ribbons and Roses

Digi design - Ribbon and bows

Totally Gorjuss - Christmas Traditions (drinking with friends)

Mami Doodles - Christmas

Totally PaperCrafts - Victorian

Crafty Ribbons - Anything But a Card

Crimbo Crackers - Make it Sparkle

Hugs and Enjoy the rest of your evening

Kate

xxx

£200 pounds worth of The Craft Barn Candy up for grabs!!!!!!!!

 The Craft Barn have candy, lots and lots and lots of  CANDY!!! 

It would be so rude not to join them in their 600 follower celebrations, do hop over.

 I am hoping that Father Christmas puts this lot under my tree :)

Vintage Victorian Christmas

Good morning to you all in the land of blog

Before I move on I just have to respond to all of the lovely comments that say "I don't think I would give that card to the Mother In Law" I suppose for most that would be the case, however I happen to have the very best and most unique Mother In Law, she thought it was so her, so please don't fret :)  However I have the other Step Mother In Laws birthday coming up, and this creation will be less sassy.

Yesterday I got to play with my winning digital images from Tickled Pink, thank you Kellie.  I have a big wish list with these amazing images, and although I only made one card, I just had to use both images as they work so well together. I also was going to play in my photo shop package, but think it is nice to see how these can be used together if you are not savvy with digital images.  But you guessed before I could play I had to post off to the winner my 500 candy, so a trip to the post office, then I had to got get my boots and shoes re heeled, I don't have give my shoes some wellie (sorry could not resist that) whilst waiting for them to be ready for pick up had to buy a new hand bag, as my old one was a deaths door so to speak and finally had to pop to the craft shop, well you just have to don't you :)  So on my return here is what I created.

This is an 8" Victorian Vintage Christmas Card, I followed one of the Pink Ink sketches from a couple of challenges ago, as I really like it at the time, but did not get around to creating anything for that challenge.

I have used an olive green pearlescent card for the base colour and contrast.  The papers are from the Papermania Silent Night collection and so very vintage, I just love them.  The lace around the first layer of the dp is from Grimsby Crafts it was pure white, was.............and did not look right white so distressed this with Tim Holtz Antique Linen, so much better with the card in it's mucky state.  The ribbon was a white pull through ribbon which again did not match my intended colour scheme so I coloured this with R39 copics.  The little gold bells are from a local department store. The floral array in the main is Wild Orchid and the leaves are nestie cut.

The images were cut out and raised from the glitter embossed image plate and coloured in copics, using a gold gel pen for the bells and a clear glitter sakuro pen for contrast. This image is called 

Lil Victorian Christmas Lolita Lylah

and isn't this image ace, he is called 

Lil Victorian Christmas Scrooge Damon

Now if you have not noticed, although I am sure you have my new 600 follower candy has been posted and you can enter this here . I would like to welcome all my new followers  and wish all my followers luck in the 600 follower candy.   

As always and very importantly I would like to say thank you to all my wonderful visitors who take the time to leave such inspirational comments on my blog, allowing me to hop back over to see your own beautiful work. THANK YOU!! 

I would like to enter this creation into the following challenges and thank Feline for your assistance as always

Tickled Pink Stamps Challenge - Vintage

2 Sisters - Anything Goes

CES - Roses and Ribbons

Crafty Hazelnuts Christmas - What ever lights your candle

Make It Colourful - Light Sources

Digital Design - Ribbon's and Bows

One Stop Craft - Ribbon and Lace

Totally Gorjuss - Christmas Traditions

Crafty Catz - digital image

Fabulous Friday - embossing

Flowerett - Christmas

Totally Papercrafts - Victorian

Wags N Whiskers - Christmas

Enjoy your day

Hugs

Kate

xxx