Bows Bows Bows and my candy winner

Good morning to you all in the land of blog

 

I know, I have left the Winter Wonderland, however I did have some cards already made, so I thought I would take the opportunity to enter the challenge, well they do have the best line up of sponsors around :)

So here is my

Bows Bows Bows 

take, well you know me and my ribbon :) you hardly ever see a card without it.

It was another quick make for me, using the

Hobby House Topper Mo Manning Eskimo Kisses

The base layer and contrast is kraft

The papers are Kanban.

The trees are Marianne dies edged in DI Denim with some liquid appliqué for snow

The snowflake is a wooden embellishment covered in chunky white frantage

I used my own bow from my stash but complimented this with some Prima pearls  and then a little Hobby House snowflake charm and rhinestone sparkler and a small rhinestone for the centre of the enamelled snowflake.

I added liquid appliqué to the image for snow too

and now onto that bit we all love the candy winner, so once again with the assistance of Mr Random Org.  and he selected

Congratulations Caz, if you would like to e mail me here, with your home address and full name, I will get your little parcel in the post for you.

As always I would like to thank all of my wonderful visitors and followers for their inspiring comments, which encourage me and allow me to hop over in return to see their gorgeous work and welcome my new followers.

I would like to enter the following challenges

ABC - I for Ice 

Christmas Sweet Stampin - Glitter

Crafting by Design - Anything Goes

Fab N Funky - Christmas

Crafty Ribbons - Anything Goes

Little Miss Muffet - Anything Goes

MAWTT - Pastels

Winter Wonderland - Bows Bows Bows

Hugs

Kate

xxx

Current Candy Location

If you are looking for my current 

Wild Rose Studio Candy you can find it here

Emily with Ted - Wild Rose Studio Design Team

Good morning to you all

as you all know by now today is my day to showcase some more of those gorgeous

Wild Rose Studio

products.  

Don't forget that you can see more regular inspiration of those gorgeous products on the

Wild Rose Studio Inspirational Blog

So today I have for you

Using

Image  - Emily with Ted

Papers - Bluebell

Dies - Oval Frame and Bluebell

a female birthday card

The base colour on this number is lilac, I have used one of the plainer papers in the stack and run this through an embossing folder for texture.  I added an MS punched edge to wrap my ribbon around adding my triple bow along with that gorgeous pearl medallion and a little star charm from the Hobby House.  The lace is from Grimsby Crafts.  I added some clouds to put the sentiment on and then from my win on Facebook some gorgeous flowers from Live and Love Crafts, I also added some more grass using another die cut to finish off my little scene.

Here is a close up of that copic coloured image

now if you adore Wild Rose Studio products then

just a reminder of that current

Wild Rose Studio

Candy

As always I would like to thank all of my wonderful visitors and followers for their inspiring comments, which encourage me and allow me to hop over in return to see their gorgeous work and welcome my new followers.

I would like to enter the following challenges

Clear it Out - Purple

Crafty Sentiments - Anything Goes

Creative Card Crew - Girly

Die Cuttin Divas - Make it Girly

Fantastic Tuesday - floral

Magnolia licious - Anything Goes

Hugs

Kate

xxx

A fishy little number

Good morning to you all

hope you had a lovely weekend.  I spent all day Saturday watching my silhoette cut out bunting, well not all day, but it seemed like it.  I got my new glasses on Sunday and wow love them to bits, so light too, no more headaches.

so what have I got for you today, well I made one of many fishing cards for the males in the family and after seeing in the online silhouette shop these amazing silhouettes just had to have a go and wow so impressed.

So here it is

Sort of bigger than my normal cards and needed A3 card to make the base, but think if I had taken it any smaller it would not have worked so well.  I bowed the sentiment to stand away from the card.

I used several black and white layers and made the background with distress inks and a circle mask.  The water I have used those micro beads they look ace, shame you cannot see them so well and finished off with a few pearls.

Hope you like it :)

As always I would like to thank all of my wonderful visitors and followers for their inspiring comments, which encourage me and allow me to hop over in return to see their gorgeous work and welcome my new followers.

Don't forget I have candy here

Hugs

Kate

xxx

Snap Chatting

Good morning to you all

Today I am showcasing another of my cards using those fabulous new toppers from the 

Hobby House

for our current challenge of

Anything Goes 

Using a New Topper

Using

Hobby House Kenny K Topper - Sweet Melissa

Hobby House pearls

Hobby House Roses

stickles

The papers are digital sorry cannot remember where I got them from I distressed a doily underneath the grand nestie circles before adding the distressed edged topper onto this.  I added all those gorgeous embellies from the Hobby House to finish it off.

This was part of a three set made for the Hobby House for the release of the new toppers

I know awful photo well the background sorry

As always I would like to thank all of my wonderful visitors and followers for their inspiring comments, which encourage me and allow me to hop over in return to see their gorgeous work and welcome my new followers.

Don't forget I have candy here

I would like to enter the following challenges with today's card

Crafty Girls - Anything Goes

Kenny K's Krafty Krew - Anything Goes

Hugs

Kate

xxx

Bella's Party - Wild Rose Studio DT

Good morning to you all

as you all know by now today is my day to showcase some more of those gorgeous

Wild Rose Studio

products.  

Don't forget that you can see more regular inspiration of those gorgeous products on the

Wild Rose Studio Inspirational Blog

So today I have for you

Using

Image  - Bella's Party

Sentiment - Birthday Greetings

Papers - Bella

Dies - Oval Frame and Woodland Border

a female birthday card

So the base colour and contrast on this one is yellow, I added a couple of panels of those gorgeous papers, punched the corners and edge punched one of the panels, before adding some ribbon from the Crafty Ribbons again this is wire edged to hold the shaping beautifully.  I then used some lace from Grimsby Crafts some gorgeous flowers from Clickit4crafts and then the string of pearls, pearls, frantage, charm and tag sentiment are all from the Hobby House, the link is in my sidebar

Here is a close up of that copic coloured image

Sweet, now if you adore Wild Rose Studio products then

just a reminder of that current

Wild Rose Studio

Candy

As always I would like to thank all of my wonderful visitors and followers for their inspiring comments, which encourage me and allow me to hop over in return to see their gorgeous work and welcome my new followers.

I would like to enter the following challenges

Fantastic Tuesday - Anything Goes

Magnolia Licious - Anything Goes

ABC Challenge - Anything Goes Just as you like it

Natalie & Amy - Embossing

Hugs

Kate

xxx

Cheers or Bottoms Up!!!!!!!!!!!

Good morning to you all

Hope you are all enjoying your long Easter Weekend, I did not get to wish you a Happy Easter yesterday, so will do that today :) the reason I was not on, well, I made my first silhouette cameo, vinyl cut and then etched my first piece of glass. WOW !!!! oh sorry cannot show you it yet, not long and I will promise.

I had a fabulous night on Easter Friday with our A Team of crafters, we had a great catch up, drank lots and ate lots of chocolate oh and of course crafted honest, you can see us here towards the end of the night.  They were making one of my first own designed on the silhouette cameo, vintage or in Polly's version shabby chic, Easter Baskets

Thank you ladies, a great night :)

Now on to my make for today.  I have been enjoying hours of fun playing and this was from another one of my colouring days

I made another female birthday card, well you can never have enough of them :)

The base layer and contrast on this one is lemon yellow, it is paired up with some gorgeous Papermania Turquoise papers, layered with MS punched edges and some gorgeous lace from Grimsby Crafts.  The ribbon is from the ribbon girl, the flowers on this one in the main are from Click it 4 Crafts, just gorgeous aren't they, see my post below for the linky to find them :)  I added a sentiment from Wild Rose Studio and some Frantage from the Hobby House, along with the Hobby House rhinestone sparkler and little star charm.

Here is the close up of the copic coloured image

Cheers everyone, actually I could not drink any more, have had a few over the last few days, need to dry out a bit, me thinks.

As always I would like to thank all of my wonderful visitors and followers for their inspiring comments, which encourage me and allow me to hop over in return to see your gorgeous work and welcome my new followers.

just a reminder of that current

Wild Rose Studio

Candy

I would like to enter the following challenges

Magnolia-licious - Anything Flowery

Marvelous Magnolias - Anything Goes

Simply Magnolia - Gorgeous Blooms

Midweek Magnolia's - Frame it

Hugs

Kate

xxx

Little Robin Redbreast - Winter Wonderland DT and some Sad News !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Good morning to you all in the land of blog

 

Today is the next challenge at the 

Winter Wonderland

Where Team Icicles are showcasing their beautiful creations, with Miria hosting with the theme of

Little Robin Redbreast

but before I move on I just wanted to let you all know that today is my last day as one of the DT coordinator's for the Winter Wonderland.  Well I have been with them for such a long time, and I decided that I would like some more me time and maybe something new ;)

So if you have not already popped over, there is a Design Team call running at the moment
so if you are interested do hop over and put your name in the pot.  It is a lovely DT to be on and I am so very sad to be leaving as the team are so special.

So here is my last card and my take on the theme but don't forget to hop over to the main challenge blog to check out the wonderful inspiration there for you.

If you were expecting a large Robin on my card, it does say Little Robin, and yes this one is little :)

Just in case you thought I had forgotten how to colour lol :)

Image - Whimsy Rubber Stamp by Artist Sylvia Zet - Winter Fairy

The base layer is cream those papers Bo Bunny I believe.  The embellishments all from the Hobby House, link in my sidebar, so that is the rhinestone sparkler, the charm, and the poinsettia and mulberry cherry blossom.  

The white ribbon on this occasion is from my own stash.

and the image coloured in copics with some chunky white frantage for the snow

Do hope you will join us

As always I would like to thank all of my wonderful visitors and followers for their inspiring comments, which encourage me and allow me to hop over in return to see their gorgeous work and welcome my new followers.

just a reminder of that current

Wild Rose Studio

Candy

I would like to enter the following challenges

Crafty Ribbons - Anything Goes with Ribbon

Simon Wednesday - Animal Antics (hoping the little robin counts)

Whimsy - Anything Goes

Magnolia-Licious - All things flowery

Hugs

Kate

xxx

Happy Easter and a New Blog for Wild Rose Studio Inspiration

Good morning to you all

as you all know by now today is my day to showcase some more of those gorgeous

Wild Rose Studio

products.  

But before I move on, I know that so many of you follow me to watch those gorgeous Wild Rose Studio creations, products and new releases.  I am excited to tell you that Wild Rose Studio, now have their own 

Inspirational blog

we would love for you to come and follow us, for not just my own creations but the whole Design Teams

Back to today I have for you

Using

Image  - Bunny on Scooter

Papers - Peach Blossom

I made an Easter Card
Now I don't normally do this size of card, but wanted to enter the Sketch Saturday challenge, this for me and my Wild Rose Studio papers, caused just a little thought process, to allow the 6 x 6 papers to fit, so I needed to split the page and hide the join.  I did this with two of the complimentary papers out of this stack, adding the divide with a punched border with some ribbon wrapped around it.  I added my circular image, but then mmmmmmm the star stopped me again, so I replaced this with a large daisy flower and finished off the Spring spray, before adding all of those lovely string pearls, pearl bows,  pearls and pearl flourishes.  The sentiment was drawn with my silhouette cameo sketch pens and then neatly cut out with the silhouette cameo, all I did was colour it up with my distress ink, cool, will be doing this again. The flowers on this are from here

Here is a close up of that copic coloured image

cute, now if you adore Wild Rose Studio products then

just a reminder of that current

Wild Rose Studio

Candy

As always I would like to thank all of my wonderful visitors and followers for their inspiring comments, which encourage me and allow me to hop over in return to see their gorgeous work and welcome my new followers.

I would like to enter the following challenges

Allsorts - Spring Blossoms

Colour Me Copic - Anything Goes

Sweet Stampin - Flowers

Sketch Saturday - sketch

QKR - Easter

Dream Valley Challenges - Easter

Stamp and Create - Spring Flowers

Hugs

Kate

xxx

Love at Christmas

Good morning to you all

What a lovely weekend, had plenty of time to get the housework done and to play, all with a little sunshine that does help us get in the mood for lovely creations. Today I am off to the opticians to get some new glasses, that might help me to see better on my colouring :)

So today I have a little House Mouse for you, now this does not meet the current theme of flowers and flourishes on the

House Mouse and Friends Monday Challenge, 

but I would like to encourage you all to hop over and view the eye candy on offer for the mid week squeek!!!!!!!!!!!!

So here is my card

Just had to use my berries to match the image, I treated myself to them from Live and Love Crafts and they are gorgeous

So the base colour and contrast on this one is red with some of those gorgeous papermania papers.  I used my grand nesties for the circle layer and my holly PATP to create the corner detail and panel for the ribbon.  The little gold pearls are from the Hobby House and the ribbon on this one is from the local garden centre called Pennels, it is a wire edged ribbon so holds it shape really well and the double looped bow can be shaped for depth.

Here is the close up on that copic coloured image

So darn cute!!!!!!!!!!!!

As always I would like to thank all of my wonderful visitors and followers for their inspiring comments, which encourage me and allow me to hop over in return to see their gorgeous work and welcome my new followers.

Don't forget I have candy here

I would like to enter the following challenges

Crafty Hands - Anything Goes

Docerela - Anything Goes

Sister Act - Anything Goes

Colour Me Copic - Anything Goes

Completely Christmas - Anything Goes

Crafty Hazelnuts - Make it Square

Hugs

Kate

xxx

My Best Friend and I

Good morning to you all

Wow what a gorgeous day it was yesterday, I did a bit of housework and then played.  I had popped to see my best friend on Wednesday for coffee and we ended up colouring and playing as you do, this is one of the images I needed to finish off, that I did on Thursday and I made up the card yesterday.

So I made a birthday card with my image and then as I am enjoying my crafting, it has been a while, with the old mojo running low, well anyway I sort of got carried away with the embellishments again.

 So girly, isn't it...................

 I used a base layer and contrast of lilac card from Grimsby Crafts.  The papers are the lilac Papermania ones.  I punched the first layer on the right hand side corners before layering up the other two panels.  I slipped the off the edge Joy butterfly die just under the punched edged panel.  I added lace under the centre panel on the right hand side.................. I know then I almost hid it altogether :(  I added pearl strings, heart pearl flourish, pearls, pearl medallion, charm and frantage all from the Hobby House and then the flowers were white and from Wild Orchid Crafts but I used TH distress ink Liking Lilac and airbrushed the others with my V15 copic, before placing on the cards with some silver twiddly bits and some leaves.  Oh then I added a couple of tags and finally the sentiment, which is a Wild Rose Studio new release. Errrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrmmmmmmmmmmmmmm did I miss anything.................oh gosh yes I did that would be the lovely ribbon and bow from Lidl. Can I just say they do sell the most amazing ribbon :)

So on to that image coloured in copics with a little antique linen distressing around the edges

As always I would like to thank all of my wonderful visitors and followers for their inspiring comments, which encourage me and allow me to hop over in return to see their gorgeous work and welcome my new followers.

Don't forget I have candy here

I would like to enter the following challenges

My Mum's Craft Shop - Anything Goes

Magnolia licious Challenge - All things Flowery

Stampin for the Weekend - Favourite Stamp

Copic Marker Europe - Birthday

Crafty Ribbon - Flower Power

Marvelous Magnolia - Ribbon or Bow

Stamp and Create - Spring Colours

Ribbon Girls - Spring

Hugs

Kate

xxx

Kenny K meets bling

Good morning to you all

Today I am showcasing another of my cards using those fabulous new toppers from the 

Hobby House

for our current challenge of

Anything Goes 

Using a New Topper

I made another generic card, the papers and components similar to my last as this was a set of three and the other card I will show you soon.  The base colour and contrast is a deep burgundy and I topped this with some lovely olive green and plum digital papers and a pretty doily.  I cut out  the topper added lots of those gorgeous rhinestones to the dots on the paper and added some stickles along with some roses, little pearls, all of which can be found on the website via the link on my side bar.  

As always I would like to thank all of my wonderful visitors and followers for their inspiring comments, which encourage me and allow me to hop over in return to see their gorgeous work and welcome my new followers.

Don't forget I have candy here

Hugs

Kate

xxx