21st Birthday with KennyK and Spellbinders

21st Birthday with KennyK's Queens Cutie Digi and Spellbinders

Just a very quick posting today as I'm so busy, busy, busy - so many things seem to be happening now and I'm getting a bit overwhelmed with all the cards I've been asked to make. I have loads of others to put up and I'll get there eventually :)

This one is for the girlfriend of a lovely guy in work and I wanted it to look young and springy and romantic. I'm just loving these little bitty blossom dies, it's great being able to make your own flowers in any colour.

Oh and she's driving a black mini car, hence the little mini embellishment - I did put her name and age on the number plate but it's quite hard to see.

I won this little digi stamp Queens Cutie from kennykdownloads in a kennykkraftykrew challenge - isn't she lovely. ( http://kennykdownloads.contentshelf.com/product?product=I1301140000006F5 )

Products used -

Digi Stamp - Queens Cutie - Kennykdownloads.com

Dies - Spellbinders Grand Big Scalloped Circles - Bitty Blossoms - Foliage

Lacy circles

Crafts too - circle die

Marianne LR0157 Fern Flowers

Heart Punch

Tiny roses from Wild Orchid Crafts

Backing Paper - Digi from Katarina Art

Coloured with a mix of Letraset Promarkers and Spectrum Noirs

Ribbon and Gems from stash

Challenges - #141 tic-tac-toe, 3 down --- Embellies, Ribbon, Image & Pink 

http://kennykskraftykrew.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/challenge-141-tic-tac-toe.html

and

http://lovetocreatechallenge.blogspot.co.nz/2013/04/challenge-63-punches-andor-dies.html 

WINNER - this card won the "KennyKKraftyKrew Challenge 141" -

look at what I won - Marianne Design goodies

and

It made the TOP 5 in the "Love to Create Challenge" :D

Happy 18th Birthday with Lili Of The Valley Stamp - Emma Shoes and Spellbinders

Happy 18th Birthday with Lili Of The Valley Stamp - Emma Shoes and Spellbinders

Just love this little stamp from LOTV and as I needed a card for Emma's 18th who also loves shoes, fashion ad shopping it seemed very appropriate for my job.

I've been digitally messing around with the backing papers again although there's so much on this card that it's quite difficult to see them. I wanted this card to have lovely spring colours as those are my favourite at the moment, I think thats because it's been so cold of late and this last few days the beautiful sunshine is making me hope we've got to the end of the winter at last. Mind you I'm not sure the forecasters would agree with me.

Products used -

Dies - Spellbinders - Grand Big Scallop Circles, Floral Ovals, Lacey Circles

          Crafts Too - Circles and Marianne LR0157

Backing Card - Centura Pearl from Crafters Companion

                        Green and Pink from Papermilldirect

Backing Paper - Digitally manipulated

Stamp - Emma Shoes from LOTV

Flowers - Wild Orchid Crafts

Coloured with Promarkers and Sakura Glaze

Tim Holtz Distress Inks

Lace, Ribbon, Gems, Pearls and Pearl Centered Button from Stash

Challenges entered -

http://ilovepromarkers.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/good-morning-everyone-here-to-new-i.html 

    162 - What's Your Favourite Colour

http://wildorchidchallenge.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/challenge-73buttons-and-bows.html

Here is another one but I left out the Sakura this time and just used Promarkers on the shoes
which is definately looks better in the photograph.
I think the mix of colours is a bit better on this one too -

Happy 25th Silver Wedding Anniversary with Spellbinders Elegant Labels Four

Happy 25th Silver Wedding Anniversary with Spellbinders Elegant Labels Four

Back again, it's been a while now since I posted but I've been busy, busy, busy - I though this might happen when I started blogging but at last I've got some projects to share.

This is a new Spellbinders die, it's very pretty and this is my first card with it. It's sized to go with a C5 card sort of, but I wanted it a bit bigger. This card measures approx 19 cm square.

I've been a bit naughty here with my backing paper as the original was a peachy colour, I really loved it but I wanted it to be pink for this card, and there's not much point having a computer and printer if you can't put it to good use occasionaly so with a bit of digital manipulation I got the colour I wanted.

Products used -

Backing Card - 300gsm Centura Pearl (my favourite) from Crafters Companion

                        Silver Holographic (Ribbons of Light I think) bought online from Ebay

Backing Paper - Graphic 45 (Secret Garden) digitally manipulated

Dies - Spellbinders Elegant Labels Four, Floral Ovals and Fancy Tags Two

Embossing Folder - Swiss Dots

Flowers - Wild Orchid Crafts

Ribbon and Gems from stash

Happy 50th Birthday Sister with Kennyk's Chef Digi

Happy 50th Birthday Sister with Kennyk's Chef Digi

I needed a birthday card for a lovely Lady Chef who was turning 50 and this

Kennyk Chef image was just perfect.

I didn't have anything that was suitable as a backing for this card, so I made my own tile effect

and I didn't want it to be just black and white so I added the little bit of red to pep it up

and because I love all things red.

It's just a series of squares turned 45 degrees and copied numerous times -

I hope it makes it look sort of kitchen tile-ish.

I popped in lots of little recipe cards along the top ribbon for effect.

Products used.

Card - White Centura Pearl - 300gsm, my fav as it's nice and thick for card bases.

Red - Papermilldirect,

Black - from Stash

Dies - Spellbinders Lg Scalloped Circle & Foliage/Leaves  

Crafts Too Circle Die and Label

Backing Paper - my own and a little bit of something from stash.
Image - Chef Digi from Kennykdownloads.com

Flowers - Wild Orchid Crafts

Coloured with Promarkers.

Ribbon, Button, Gems and Recipe Cards from Stash

http://kennykskraftykrew.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/challenge-135-its-one-for-girls.html
http://ilovepromarkers.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/anything-goes.html

21st Birthday Card with KennyK's, Boogie Down Digi and Spellbinders Dies

21st Birthday Card with KennyK's, Boogie Down Digi and Spellbinders Dies

Yes, I'll admit it, I'm addicted to these digi'sfrom KennyK and I love bold bright colours.

The spec for this card was for a girl with bright red (Ginger) hair who loves music and goth colours,

so I went with red and black as those are two of my favourite colours too.

I've had this little digi for a while now, so she's long overdue an airing.

Products used -

Digital Stamp - Boogie Down from Kennykdownloads.com

Background paper - can't remember name but pretty sure I bought it, a while back,
in my local craft shop - Doodle Craft

Coloured Card - Papermilldirect

Dies - Spellbinders Labels 20, Parisian Accents, Lacey Circles

A variety of Heart and Circle Punches

Gems from Stash
Coloured with Promarkers

http://kennykskraftykrew.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/challenge-134-happy-birthday.html

Mother's Day with Spellbinders Botanical Swirls & Floral Ovals

Mother's Day Card with Spellbinders Botanical Swirls & Floral Ovals

Well I've had another go with this badboy die - Botanical swirls by Spellbinder.

I think I've now got cutting with this die down to a T, and in general the

embossing ends up in the right place.

Still don't like the fact that it doesn't cut out any of the edges,

 leaving you to do all that with a craft knife, but the end result is quite stunning.

This time, I've cut it out twice but used only part of the second cut on this card.

This card measures 19cm x 18cm

Products used -

Dies - Spellbinders Botanical Swirls, Floral Ovals, Fancy Tags 2

Card - Snow White Silver Centura Pearl by Crafters Companion

Violet Colour by Papermilldirect.

Punch - Butterfly from Tonic Studios

Ribbon, Lace & Gems from stash.

WINNER - this card won the Lovetocreatechallenge - Lavender and Lace / 18 Mar 2013

http://lovetocreatechallenge.blogspot.co.nz/2013/03/challenge-56-lavender-lace.html

Happy Birthday with Kennyk's Rock Dude and Sizzix Stars

Happy Birthday with Kennyk's Rock Dude and Sizzix Stars

Another of Kennyk's Digital stamps makes this a fun birthday card.
This time for Tommy, we missed his 60th birthday so this was for his 61st
and yes he's still playing gigs at 61.
This is a fairly large card at 19cm x 19 cm

Products used -

Digi Stamp - Kennykdownloads.com

Die - Stars from Sizzix and Spellbinders Classic Ovals Large

Backing papers - digital from Nitwitcollections although I did alter them slightly

Coloured Card - from Papermilldirect and stash

Star Punch, Little Black gems and Music Die Cuts - from stash

CHOSEN in TOP 3  - This card made the Kennyk'skraftykrews TOP 3

http://kennykskraftykrew.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/challenge-134-happy-birthday.html