If You Go Down To The Woods.....

 Hello everyone!

I couldn't resist this sweet stamp set from Avery Elle when I saw it and it came in perfectly for a birthday card for my nephew last month.

Image stamps: Avery Elle

Colouring medium: Faber-Castell Albrecht Durer pencils

Background scene dies: Hello Bluebird

Cloud stencil: My Favorite Things

Paper: St Cuthberts Mill botanical ultra smooth watercolour paper

Ink pad: Lawn Fawn Crunchy Leaf

 

Thank you for visting 💗

 

Kelly. xx

Enjoy!

 Hi everyone

It was my Dad's birthday the other day and this is the card I made him. These cats from Penny Black are ace, so I used two of them 😄

Image stamps: Penny Black Inc

Colouring medium: Faber-Castell Albrecht Durer pencils

Sentiment stamps: Craftwork Cards

Paper: St Cuthberts Mill Botanical ultra smooth watercolour paper

Ink pad: Lawn Fawn Crunchy Leaf

Other materials/mediums: Shaker sprinkles; Stickles Diamond glitter glue

Thank you for visiting today 💖

Kelly. xx

Let's Pretend

 Afternoon peeps!

Making shaker cards is ace but they're a nightmare to photograph, that's why there's only 1 photo of this card! Lol!

Image stamp: Stamping Bella

Colouring medium: Faber-Castell Albrecht Durer pencils

Sentiment stamp: My Favorite Things

Papers: St Cuthberts Mill Botanical ultra smooth watercolour paper; Canson XL mix-media paper

Ink pads: Lawn Fawn Crunchy Leaf; Distress Oxide Festive Berries; Versafine Clair Monarch

 Other materials/mediums: Stickles Stardust glitter glue; Acetate; Shaker sprinkles

Thank you for visiting today 💗

Kelly. xx

Thinking Of You

 Hi everyone!

It's gonna be very hot today, we're already starting to melt! Perfect day to sit and colour I say. Anyhoo, I made this card for Dad-in-law for Father's Day last week and I really enjoyed colouring this stamp in. I decided to make the bird look like a Blue Tit as they're so pretty with their blue, yellow and green colours.

Image stamp: Penny Black Inc

Colouring medium: Faber-Castell Albrecht Durer pencils

Sentiment stamp: Clearly Besotted

Paper: St Cuthberts Mill Botanical ultra smooth watercolour paper

Ink pads: Lawn Fawn Jellyfish; Versafine Clair Fallen Leaves

Thank you for visiting today 💗

Kelly. xx

Father's Day Fuchsias

 Hello everyone

I bought my Dad a fuchsia hanging basket for Father's Day so I thought I'd do that theme for his card too. I don't do many flower themed cards but I really enjoyed this one so I think you may be seeing a few more in the future.

Image stamp: Penny Black Inc

Colouring medium: Faber-Castell Albrecht Durer pencils

Sentiment stamps: DoCrafts and Clearly Besotted 

Paper: St Cuthberts Mill Botanical Ultra Smooth watercolour paper

Ink pads: Lawn Fawn Jellyfish; Versafine Clair Fallen Leaves

 

Thank you for visiting today 😊

Kelly. xx

Birthday Pilot

 Hi folks

We have rain this evening! Hopefully my grass will turn green again! Lol! 

Today's card I made for a friend's birthday recently using a cute stamp set from Hello Bluebird.

Image stamp and co-ordinating die sets: Hello Bluebird

Colouring medium: Faber-Castell Albrecht Durer pencils

Cloud stencil: My Favorite Things

Other materials/mediums used: Botanical Ultra Smooth watercolour paper; Archival Sepia ink pad; Canson multi-media paper; Distress Oxide Salty Ocean ink pad; Stitched oval die; Mini action wobbler; Sentiment stamp; Glossy Accents; Stickles Stardust glitter glue; Gem embellishments

Thank you for visiting today 💖

Kelly. xx

Heck Yes!

 Afternoon everyone!

Boy is it a hot one out there today! Perfect excuse to stay in and craft I say! Lol! Anyhoo, I made this card for my brother's birthday and just realised it looks like this little guy is floating in the air, should've done some grass at the bottom ha! Nevermind, that's what happens when you make it last minute!

Image stamp: Stamping Bella

Colouring medium: Faber-Castell Albrecht Durer pencils

Cloud stencil: My Favorite Things

Sentiment stamp: My Favorite Things

Other materials/mediums used: Botanical Ultra Smooth watercolour paper; Archival Sepia ink pad; Distress Oxide ink pads; Versafine Clair ink pad; Rectangular die

Thank you for visiting today 💗

Kelly. xx

Grumpy Cats Day

 Hi everyone!

I'm back with a card I made for my brother's birthday and just had to use these fabulous cat stamps from Penny Black! Lol!

Image stamps: Penny Black Inc

Colouring medium: Faber-Castell Albrecht Durer pencils

Other materials/mediums used: Botanical Ultra Smooth watercolour paper; Archival Sepia ink pad; Distress Oxide ink pads; Sentiment stamps; Stitched circle die

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

 

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

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

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

The Big One Zero

 Happy New Year's Eve!

Hope everyone is well, I'm in my pj's for tonight lol ! Thought I'd pop on with my last card of the year which I made for my nephew's birthday in November! So one of my.......sorry my only new year's resolution is to get lots more crafting done this year!!!

 Thank you for visiting today and wishing you all a happy and safe new year!

Kelly. xx

A Pter-rific Birthday

 Hiya peeps!

I hope you're all well. I'm back with a shadow box card featuring a cute pterodactyl stamp from Heffy Doodle.

I stamped this wee guy with a Versafine Vintage Sepia ink pad on to Botanical Ultra Smooth watercolour paper, painted with my Faber-Castell Abrecht Durer pencils and fussy cut them out.

For the base of the card I cut two pieces at 7x7 inches and scored both at a half inch and one inch. This makes the finished portrait size 7x5 inches. I then cut a window from one piece using a rectangular die. My inspiration for making this card was from Jennifer McGuire's YouTube video, which you can find here.

For the background I ink blended with Salvaged Patina and Broken China Distress Oxide ink pads and a cloud stencil with white gouache paint. I die cut the mountains, ink blended those with Shaded Lilac and Wilted Violet Distress Oxide ink pads and added more white gouache paint for the snow peaks.

For the front frame I used the same blue Distress Oxide ink pads and splattered with the white gouache paint.

I stamped the sentiment with a Versafine Imperial Purple ink pad, adhered everything together, sticking the stamped images on to acetate and sandwiching them in between the two pieces of card.

Then for the finishing touches I added a few wee clay stars and some Stickles Stardust glitter glue.

 Thank you for visiting today :)

Kelly. xx

Have A Ball!

 Hi peeps!

I'm back with a card featuring another one of Anita Jeram's super cute illustrations, he looks like he's having a fab time! Lol!

I used Versafine Vintage Sepia ink to stamp the image on to Botanical Ultra Smooth watercolour paper and painted with my Faber-Castell Abrecht Durer pencils.

I ink blended with Distress Oxide ink pads in the colours Tumbled Glass and Broken China, splattered this with water and the same inks.

I hand stitched a heart, stamped the sentiment with Versafine Vintage Sepia ink and to finish I stamped some wee hearts with Versafine Clair Glamorous ink and dotted Stickles glitter glue next to them.

 

Thank you for visiting today :)

Kelly. xx

Hot Dog

 Hello everyone

Isn't this stamp ace?! It's from Woodware and it's huge! I think the finished card measured 8.5 x 4 inches if I remember correctly! 

I used Vintage Sepia Versafine ink to stamp with on to Botanical Ultra Smooth watercolour paper. I then coloured him with my Faber-Castell Albrecht Durer watercolour pencils.

I used Distress Oxide ink pads to ink blend in the colours Dried Marigold and Rusty Hinge. I splattered this with water and the same inks.

I stamped the sentiment in the same Versafine ink and to finish off I dotted around with Stickles Diamond Glitter Glue.

Thank you for visiting today :)

Kelly. xx

Dragon Wishes

 Hi everyone!

It's a good old British summer's day today! Lol! 

So today's card features a stamp from Whimsy Stamps, inked with Vintage Sepia Versafine and stamped on to Botanical Ultra Smooth watercolour paper and coloured with my trusty Faber-Castell Albrecht Durer watercolour pencils.

I ink blended around the image with Salvaged Patina Distress Oxide, splattered with water, the same Oxide ink and Lawn Fawn Liquid Stardust.

The sentiment is stamped with Deep Lagoon Versafine ink and for the final touches, a few wee clay stars and Stickles Silver Glitter Glue for sparkle. Oh and Glossy Accents on his eyes for shine.

Thank you for visiting today.

Kelly. xx

Cupcake Cat

 Hi everyone!

What a dreary old Saturday! Here's a card I made for my brother's birthday, which I hope cheers things up a bit!

The fab stamp is from Penny Black, which I inked with a brown Versafine ink pad and stamped on to Botanical Ultra Smooth watercolour paper and painted with my Caran D'Ache Supracolor pencils.

I ink blended around the image with a Distress Oxide in the colour Peacock Feathers, then splattered this with water and the same ink. I then stamped the sentiment with a blue Versafine ink pad.

For the icing on the cakes I added some Nuvo Crystal Drops and glitter and then finally popped a few sequins and star embellishments on too.

Thank you for visiting today and enjoy the rest of the weekend :)

Kelly. xx

Birthday Roses

Hi everyone!

It was my Dad's birthday on Sunday and this is card I made him, slightly different to what I first had in mind but men like flowers too right?

The stamp is from Penny Black Inc, which I stamped with a Distress Ink 'Antique Linen' ink pad onto Botanical ultra smooth watercolour card and also painted with Distress Inks. I then stamped and embossed the 'Dad' sentiment with a Versamark ink pad and silver embossing powder, then decided to go over that with silver Stickles glitter glue. The 'Happy Birthday' stamp was stamped with a Memento ink pad.

For the finishing touch I die cut three tiny butterflies, painted them with a shimmery purple watercolour paint and stuck them on :D

Thank you for visiting today.

Kelly. xx

For You Pops

Hi everyone!

It was my Father-in-law's birthday yesterday and this is the card I made him. I battled with this one, the background stamp didn't stamp properly, I think because I tried to stamp onto blended Distress Oxide ink that wasn't quite dry with Distress Oxide ink :(  Anyway, I didn't have time to start all over again so it had to do!

On to the details, the cute doggy and sentiment stamps are from Penny Black Inc, which I've watercoloured with my Distress Inks and done some shading with my Prismacolor Premier coloured pencils.

The background stamp is from Simon Says Stamp.

The letter dies are from Memory Box which I've die cut three times each and layered so they stand out.

The Distress Oxide ink colours I used for blending are Speckled Egg and Vintage Photo.

For the finishing touch I used my silver Wink Of Stella pen for a wee bit of sparkle on the pup's collar.

Thank you for visiting today and have a lovely weekend!

Kelly. xx