Friday Flora

 Hi everyone!

I was asked to make a set of notecards for a Christmas present and this is what I came up with :)

Image stamps: Penny Black Inc

Colouring medium: Distress watercolour pencils

Stitched rectangle die: My Favorite Things

Paper: Saunders Waterford CP watercolour paper

Thank you for visiting today and have a great New Years Eve tomorrow :)

Kelly.xx

Meowy Christmas

  Happy fourth day of Christmas everyone!

This card was the last one I made for this year and I just loved colouring this cute kitty tree in :)

Image stamp: Mama Elephant

Sentiment stamp, bow stamp and matching die: The Greetery

Distress Oxide ink pads: Saltwater Taffy and Festive Berries

Other materials/mediums used: Botanical Ultra Smooth watercolour paper; Archival Sepia ink pad; Metallic gold watercolour paint; Stickles Diamond glitter glue; White Flower Soft; Nuvo Metallic Mustard Gold Crystal drops

Thank you for visiting today :)

Kelly. xx

Bells 'n' Holly Wishes

 Hi everyone!

Something a bit different from me today! Not a cute critter in sight! 

These rubber stamps are from Penny Black Inc and they stamp the whole image not just the outline, so I used my Distress watercolour pencils with them and was really pleased with the results :)

Image and sentiment stamps: Penny Black Inc

Colouring medium: Distress watercolour pencils 

Stitched rectangle die: My Favorite Things

Other mediums/materials used: Saunders Waterford CP watercolour paper; Versafine Clair ink pad; Dr Ph. Martin's white paint; Kuretake Wink of Stella clear glitter pen

Thank you for visiting today :)

Kelly. xx

Merry Wonderland

 Hello peeps!

I'm back in my craft room at last! :D  Today's card features some super cute stamps from Hello Bluebird and a ton of glitter :D

Image stamps and background die: Hello Bluebird

Colouring medium: Faber-Castell Albrecht Durer pencils

Sentiment die: Pretty Pink Posh

Cloud stencil: My Favorite Things

Other materials/mediums used: Botanical Ultra Smooth HP watercolour paper; Archival Sepia ink pad; Patterned paper; Distress Oxide ink pads; DecoArt Snow-Tex paint; Glamour Dust glitter; White Flower Soft; Mini clay snowflakes

Thank you for visiting today :)

Kelly. xx

Sunny Sunflowers

 Hi everybody!

It's my friend's birthday today and she loves sunflowers, so this came together fairly easily :D  I've had the dies for a while and I bought the stamp recently, knowing I would more than likely use it on a card for her.

Image stamp: Trinity Stamps

Colouring medium: Distress watercolour pencils

Distress Oxide ink pad: Wild Honey

Cloud stencil: My Favorite Things

Sunflower dies: Creative Expressions

Grass die: Hello Bluebird

Frame die: Avery Elle

Sentiment stamp: Colorado Craft Co

Other materials/mediums used: Botanical Ultra Smooth watercolour paper; Archival Sepia ink pad; Strathmore multi media paper; Mini heart stamp; Handmade gold watercolour paint; Embroidery thread; Stickles Diamond glitter glue

Thank you for visiting today :)

Kelly. xx

Sweet Sonshine

 Hi everyone!

I needed to make a new baby card recently and decided that this die panel from Pinkfresh Studio looked a bit like the sun and went with baby's name :D  And chose the cutest wee kitty from Penny Black Inc for the image :)

Image stamp: Penny Black Inc

Colouring medium: Faber-Castell Albrecht Durer pencils

Die panel: Pinkfresh Studio

Letter dies: Memory Box

Distress Oxide ink pad: Squeezed Lemonade

Shaker bits: Little Things From Lucy's Cards

Yellow glitter card: Lawn Fawn

Other materials/mediums used: Botanical Ultra Smooth watercolour paper; Archival Sepia ink pad; Acetate

Thank you for visiting today :)

Kelly. xx

Hedgie Holidays

 Hi peeps

It's Christmas on my blog today.  I LOVE the hedgies from Penny Black, especially the xmas ones, they're too cute not to use them every year :D 

Image stamps: Penny Black Inc

Colouring medium: Faber-Castell Albrecht Durer pencils

Distress Oxide ink pads

Tree stamp: Penny Black Inc

Stars stamp: Lavinia Stamps

Sentiment stamps: Hello Bluebird and Penny Black Inc

Other materials/mediums used: Botanical Ultra Smooth watercolour paper; Verafine Vintage Sepia ink pad; White gouache paint; Versafine Clair Summer Breeze and Monarch ink pads; Stickles glitter glue; Ranger Glossy Accents

Thank you for visiting today :)

Kelly. xx

Pumpkin Days

 Hi folks

I'm back with a couple of autumnal cards using the sweet Bundle Girls stamps from Stamping Bella, I love these girls they're so cute 'n' cosy :)

Image stamps: Stamping Bella

Colouring medium: Faber-Castell Abrecht Durer pencils

Distress Oxide ink pads: Spiced Marmalade; Crackling Campfire; Rustic Wilderness

Sentiment stamps: Clearly Besotted

Small leaf stamps: Card-io Majestix

Other materials/mediums used: Botanics Ultra Smooth watercolour paper; Versafine Vintage Sepia ink pad; Gold metallic watercolour paint; Versafine Clair Rain Forest ink pad; Nuvo glitter glue

 

Thank you for visiting today :)

 

Kelly. xx

Time To Celebrate

 Hi everyone!

I'm back with my Dad's birthday card featuring a couple of stamps from Penny Black which I thought went nicely together :)

And this card also fits in perfectly with the challenge over at Penny Black Saturday! Yay!

Image stamps: Penny Black Inc

Colouring medium: Faber-Castell Albrecht Durer pencils

Sentiment stamp: Clearly Besotted

Distress Oxide ink pads: Tumbled Glass and Broken China

Musical note stamps: Hello Bluebird

Other materials/mediums used: Botanical Ultra Smooth watercolour paper; Archival Sepia ink pad; Versafine Clair Summer Breeze ink pad; Glossy Accents; Gems

Thank you for visiting today :)

Kelly. xx

 

You Are So Deer To Me

 Hello peeps!

It was my little sister's big birthday last month so I had to do the right thing and make a card with some old photos of her lol! I printed them out in sepia tones so the colours wouldn't clash with my theme for the card and also it made the pictures look even older ;D

I went through my collection of stamps from Hello Bluebird and came up with the idea of a woodland party. I really enjoyed putting together the layout and deciding where all the wee characters would go :)

Image and sentiment stamps: Hello Bluebird

Colouring medium: Faber-Castell Albrecht Durer pencils

Distress Oxide ink pad: Squeezed Lemonade

Other mediums/materials used: Botanical Ultra Smooth watercolour paper; Archival Sepia ink pad; Stickles Diamond glitter glue

Thank you for visiting today :)

Kelly. xx

Teddy Bear Thanks

 Hello peeps!

Thank goodness it's a lot cooler today! I can't be doing with 38 degrees celsius heat! :D 

Anyhoo, I've used a couple of old Penny Black stamps for these cards. Just love these teddies, they're the cutest :)

Image stamps: Penny Black Inc

Colouring medium: Faber-Castell Abrecht Durer pencils

Distress Oxide ink pads: Squeezed Lemonade and Shaded Lilac

Sentiment stamps: Anita Jeram @Colorado Craft Co

Other mediums/materials used: Botanical Ultra Smooth watercolour paper; Archival Sepia ink pad; Versafine Clair Summertime and Monarch ink pads; Ink On 3 Liquid Pixie Dust; Stickles Diamond glitter glue

Thank you for visiting today :)

Kelly. xx

Make A Minnie Wish.....

 Hi everyone!

I hope everybody's staying cool in this scorchio heat! 

So I was asked to make a Disney card.......and panicked, but then I thought, I know I'll download a colouring page and just make it smaller! Genius or what! :D

Disney image: Colouring page @Etsy

Colouring medium: Faber-Castell Abrecht Durer pencils

Distress Oxide ink pads: Tumbled Glass and Wilted Violet

Sentiment stamp: Woodware Stamps

Other materials/mediums used: Botanical Ultra Smooth watercolour paper; Ink On 3 Liquid Pixie Dust; Stickles Silver glitter glue; Versafine Clair ink pad; Mini star embellishments

Thank you for visiting today :)

Kelly. xx

Happy Purrrrrthday

 Hi everyone!

Two blog posts in a row!!! Virtually unheard of for me these days :D  Anyhoo, today's card features a cute kitty stamp from Whimsy Stamps :)

Image stamp: Crissy Armstrong @ Whimsy Stamps

Colouring medium: Faber-Castell Albrecht Durer pencils

Cloud stencil: My Favorite Things

Distress Oxide ink pads: Squeezed Lemonade and Dried Marigold

 Butterflies stamp: Lavinia Stamps

Sentiment stamp: Clearly Besotted

 Other materials/mediums used: Botanical Ultra Smooth watercolour paper; Archival Sepia ink pad; Versafine Clair Summertime ink pad; Handmade metallic watercolour paint for accents and splatter; Sequins

Thank you for visiting today :)

Kelly. xx

Roses For Dad

 Hi everyone!

So I'm finally showing the card I made for my Dad for Father's Day! This is a big 6x6 inch stamp, which I embossed with gold embossing powder then painted with some beautiful handmade metallic colour-shifting watercolour paint and then struggled to capture this in the photo, but it looks so lovely in real life :)

 Stamp: Simon Says Stamp

Colouring medium: Handmade watercolours from Galaxy Colours @ Etsy

Other materials/mediums used: Legion black watercolour paper; Versamark ink pad; Gold embossing powder

Thank you for visiting today :)

Kelly. xx

Pigs Might Fly.........Over A Rainbow

 Hi everyone!

I just love this piggy stamp from Penny Black and needed to make a card for a friend to cheer her up and this was the first stamp I thought of ;D

I'm also entering this in to the challenge over at Penny Black Saturday , which is 'Anything goes', optional 'Transport'. I think wings count as transport don't they? Lol!

Image stamp: Penny Black Inc

Colouring medium: Faber-Castell Albrecht Durer pencils

Cloud stencil: My Favorite Things

Distress Oxide ink pad: Saltwater Taffy

Sentiment stamp: Kaiser Crafts

Other mediums/materials used: Botanical Ultra Smooth watercolour paper; Archival Sepia ink pad; Handmade metallic watercolour paint; Ink On 3 Liquid Pixie Dust; Embroidery thread

Thank you for visiting today :)

Kelly. xx

Birthday Boy

 Hello peeps!

It's a scorcher today! Way too hot for walkies, so lots of colouring instead :)

I made this card for a friend who loves dragons, kinda wish I hadn't done the stitching on it now but hay ho I'm not starting again! :D

Image stamp: Wee Stamps @Whimsy Stamps

 Colouring medium: Faber-Castell Albrecht Durer watercolour pencils

Distress Oxide ink pad: Speckled Egg

Other materials/mediums used: Botanical Ultra Smooth watercolour paper; Archival Sepia ink pad; Handmade watercolour paints; Ink On 3 Liquid Pixie Dust; Sentiment stamp; Embroidery thread

Thank you for visiting today :)

Kelly. xx

Wonderful Day

 Hello everyone!

Another beautiful warm day here for us! We're so lucky! :D

Anyhoo, my card today was made for my Mum-in-law's birthday recently and I'd just got this humongous stamp from Pinkfresh Studio which I was looking forward to using, so I did :D

 

Image stamp: Pinkfresh Studio

Colouring medium: Faber-Castell Albrecht Durer watercolour pencils

Sentiment stamp: Phill Martin @Sentimentally Yours

Distress ink pad: Tattered Rose

Other mediums/materials used: Botanical Ultra Smooth watercolour paper; Archival Shadow Grey ink pad; Mini heart stamp; Versafine Clair Glamorous ink pad

 Thank you for visiting today :)

Kelly. xx

One Of My Greatest Joys

 Happy Saturday!

Wow it is very warm out there today, I have to stay in the shade when it's like this ;D

So today's card I made for my Archie boy's eleventh birthday. I had this image stamp in mind and then found the perfect sentiment stamp too.

Image stamp: Lili Of The Valley

Colouring medium: Faber-Castell Albrecht Durer watercolour pencils

Tree stamp: Penny Black Inc

Sentiment stamps: Anita Jeram @Colorado Craft Co 

Other mediums/materials used: Botanical Ultra Smooth watercolour paper; Archival Sepia ink pad; Mini heart stamp; Versafine Clair Glamorous ink pad; Versafine Clair Rainforest ink pad; Wink Of Stella shimmer pen

Thank you for visiting today :)

Kelly. xx

 

Congrats

 Hi everyone!

I hope Friday the 13th is going well for you all, at least the weather's nice anyway and should be for the whole weekend hopefully :)

I made this card recently for a friend's graduation and knew immediately which stamp I was gonna use :D  I just love the Penny Black hedgies.

Image stamp: Penny Black Inc

 Colouring medium: Derwent Inktense pencils

Sentiment stamp: Lawn Fawn

Grass stamp: Noolibird

Other materials/mediums used: Botanical Ultra Smooth watercolour paper; Archival Sepia ink pad; Versafine Clair Rainforest ink pad

Thank you for visting today and enjoy the weekend!

Kelly. xx

Mousey Birthday

 Hi everyone!

I hope you're all enjoying the bank holiday weekend :D  This is the card I made for my brother's birthday. He's recently taken up gardening so I thought this was a fitting stamp to use and I do still love using my old wooden Penny Black stamps too :)

 Image stamp: Penny Black Inc

Colouring medium: Faber-Castell Albrecht Durer watercolour pencils

Sentiment stamp: Clearly Besotted

Mini seed head stamp: Lavinia Stamps

Cloud stencil: My Favorite Things

Distress Oxide ink pads: Tumbled Glass & Twisted Citron

Other materials/mediums used: Botanical Ultra Smooth watercolour paper; Archival Sepia ink pad; Canson mixed media paper; Versafine Clair Warm Breeze & Verdant ink pads; Stickles Crystal glitter glue

Thank you for visiting today :)

Kelly. xx

Easter Daffs

 Hi everyone!

I'm back with the one Easter card I made this year :D  I really enjoyed painting these daffs with my Inktense pencils, which I haven't used for a while but enjoying again.

Image stamps: Pretty Pink Posh

 Colouring medium: Derwent Inktense Pencils

Sentiment stamp: Cleary Besotted

Other mediums/materials used: Botanical Ultra Smooth watercolour paper; Archival Shadow Grey ink pad; Versafine Clair Verdant ink pad; Ink On 3 liquid Pixie Dust

Thank you for visiting today :)

Kelly. xx

Let's Party!

 Hiya folks!

I'm not even going to mention the fact that we're near the end of April and this is only about my fourth blog post of the year!!! Lol! Anyhoo, this card was made for a friend of Archie's of course, ha!

Image stamp: Penny Black Inc

Colouring medium: Derwent Inktense Pencils

Sentiment stamps: Lawn Fawn and Craftwork Cards

Cloud stencil: My Favorite Things

Distress Oxide ink pad: Faded Jeans

Other materials/mediums used: Botanical Ultra Smooth watercolour paper; Archival Shadow Grey ink pad; Versafine Clair Twilight ink pad; White acrylic paint; Arteza pearlised gouache; Ink On 3 Liquid Pixie Dust; Stickles Silver glitter glue

 

Thank you for visiting today :)

 

Kelly. xx  

Wonderful Day

 Hello everyone!

I hope you're all well. This is a card I made last week for a special friend's birthday. She loves elephants and this was the stamp that came to mind for me to use. I've coloured him with my Spectrum Noir Illustrator markers. I haven't used markers for a few years now so it took a bit of practicing first before I was happy with the result! :D

Image stamp: Lee Holland @Whimsy Stamps

Colouring medium: Spectrum Noir Illustrator markers

Cloud stencil: My Favorite Things

Distress Oxide ink pads: Spun Sugar; Wild Honey

Sentiment stamp: Phill Martin stamps

Other materials/meduims used: X-Press It blending card; Archival Ink 'Shadow Grey' ink pad; White acrylic paint; Silver metallic pen; mini heart stamp; Nuvo Jewel Drops, Wink Of Stella pen; Stickles 'Diamond' glitter glue

Thank you for visiting today :)

Kelly. xx

Flower Friends

 Hi everyone!

Happy New Year! Lol! Here are my first cards for this year! Just love these adorable little critters and decided to colour them with my Polychromo pencils, which took me ages :D

 

Image stamps: Mama Elephant 

Colouring medium: Faber-Castell Polychromo pencils

 Sentiment stamp:Clearly Besotted

Distress Oxide ink pads: Worn Lipstick; Wilted Violet; Spiced Marmalade; Wild Honey

Other mediums used: Legion Stonehenge White paper; Versafine Vintage Sepia ink pad; Perfect Pearls powder; Stickles Diamond glitter glue; Nuvo Enchanted Elixir Dream Drops

Thank you for visiting today :)

Kelly. xx