Card Idea for Mum

Good Morning, I have a day off today so getting a few jobs done and them I am going to put my feet up, make a card and watch Meet Me in St Louis ( a film I have never seen). I have made this card for the Mum of a very good friend of mine.

I made it using the alphabet from one of the My Craft Studio CD's and the numbers from one of the clip art fairy CD's. I thought for a change I would use a piece of acetate on the front of the card and then I added lots of bling with glitter and gems. I am really pleased with it and I am going to have a go with a few others but perhaps on a smaller scale. My friend was absolutely delighted with it to.

3D Flowers

Good morning, it's a bit cold and frosty outside today so I have made some 3D flowers to brighten the day up. I got the idea from Sue Wilson on Create and Craft months ago for making these but have only just got round to having a go. You just stamp your flower image onto scraps of paper, cut them out, give them a little spray with some water and then scrunch them up and leave them to dry off a little. Then punch a small hole in the centre of each one, add a brad and layer them up, if you do this while they are still a bit damp you can arrange the petals how you want them to lie, I used about 6 layers to make each of these flowers. It's a great way to use any scraps of paper you have, plus a different way of using your stamps. You can view Sue's blog at http://particraft.blogspot.com.

Thanks for taking the time to read my blog

Kitty

Happy New Year - One and all

Happy New Everyone - and apologies for my lack of entries recently. Unfortunately I haven't been a well Kitty, even before the bad weather kicked in I some how managed to get pneumonia ! So that totally knocked me off my paws and then just as I thought I was on the way to being back to my old self I got flu. Honestly it's been a mad few months my granny has been able to move quicker than me and she's in her 90's. I wouldn't mind but I live a far healthier lifestyle now than I did ten years ago and I hardly take my woolly hat off from October to March !!!!!

Here is how I would have spent a typical Saturday night in 2001

Jacket Spud and cheese for tea

Shower, hair washed, dried, straightened, make up applied, get dressed for night out (these procedures would take at least a couple of hours)

Hit the local pub for early doors (8pm at the latest), drink copious amounts of alcohol and final stagger home to my bed at about 2am.

Here is how Saturday nights for 2011 are planned

Jacket spud and cheese for tea

Nice relaxing bath, with a face mask and as a special treat top bath up with a drop more hot water. PJ's on by 8pm at the latest, a few diet cokes and into bed by 9pm to watch Wallender.

Lights out by 10.30pm, if I see 2am it's because I have had to get up to TC.

Now don't get me wrong I wouldn't swap the life I have now to go back to the one I had in 2001 but then I never even caught a chill - and I never wore a coat, even when it snowed !!!!!!!

Anyway enough of my ranting TC and I are in our PJ's and it's only 7pm how organised are we.

So after all that I haven't done that much crafting really over the past few months but I intend to back into it now we are in 2011. I did make some boxes of cupcake socks for my God-daughters little girl who was born just before Christmas.

Let me know what you think.

See you soon

Kitty

Girls 1st Birthday

Hello, I am so cold today I have got lots of layers on but just can't seem to warm up. Here is a card I have made for a friend's friend little girl.



Apparatus:



Gems

Ribbon

Cardstock

Souffle the duck image from popcorn series

Alphabet digi images

Bind it Machine

My Craft Studio Pro



Method:



Using MCS on landscape I arranged my letters on the lower half of the card and copied the letters I wanted to decoupage onto the top half of the card. I then added Souffle and copied this so it could also be decoupaged. After printing I cut the individual letters that I was going to layer out and cut the name 'Annie' and Souffle image into a rectangle. I than cut my piece of A4 pink card in half and just trimmed a little off the end of each piece (this means that you can make a envelope out of a piece of 12/12 - and don't have lots of waste as you would with a piece of A3). I then used the bind-it machine to make some holes down the side of my card and threaded individual pieces of pink ribbon through and tied them in a knot. I then mounted my Annie onto the card, added the decoupage and a few gems.



Have a lovely day



Kitty x

Cards For The Boys

Good Afternoon, I have managed to make some more cards for my stall and the photo shows a little selection of them. I wasn't sure about them at first but now I have looked at them again this morning they have grown on me.

Here is a list of ingredients

The images were bought from a website called WWW.Scrappindoodles.com

Backing Papers and greetings free from an issue of Simply Cards and Papercraft

White Card

Coloured Card

Scraps of Ribbon

I cut everything out on Friday night while watching Big Bro and then matted and layered everything yesteday. Which is the way I am planning to now do my batches of cards instead of sitting there and only managing to make one card a night. !

Happy Sunday

Kitty x

Kanban Girl Stamps and Paper Piecing

Good afternoon, sorry I have been such a bad blogger I don't know where the time has gone recently. TC has started reception class at school and so I have been a bit occupied with that. He was so ready to go to school but has made us laugh with some of the things he has been saying. One frantic morning this week he instructed me 'To keep your feathers on love' I don't know how I kept my face straight and goodness knows where he has had that saying from.

Also I am trying to get a load of cards made as I have signed myself up to do my very first craft stall to which I will donate some of my funds to the local hospice. As is always the case though I have had card makers block ! Anyway I now feel my mojo is returning so I need to now make a least ten cards a week between now and the end of November.

I am now set for the afternoon, hubby and TC are sat in front of the TV watching the football and I have come and locked myself in the craft room and will only leave if I need chocolate.

I have made these cards using my new Kanban Stamps, I stamped them onto white card and coloured them in using my copics and then stamped again onto patterned paper, cut the dress etc out and then glued it on to the image I had colored in. I then just matted and layered a few layers and added a few gems.

The square card is for TC's little friend at school he wanted to send her a card as he had missed here over the summer - bless.

Let me know what you think of my samples.

Following Lindsy's advice from Loopy Lindseys Crafty Corner (see link at side of my blog), I am also going to enter this into Crafty Cats Friday Challenge. http://craftycatzweeklychallenge.blogspot.com/

Now lets hope all my links work !

Enjoy the weekend and Happy Crafting one and all

Hugs

Kitty

Lucas Word book

Hello, I made this word book ages ago for a friends little boy and then forgot about it. I have finally got around to putting the holes in the side and adding some book rings and ribbons. I thought my friend could add her own photos of her little boys christening day.