Bleached Flowers

Evening,

A couple of quick floral cards tonight using bleach and pearlescent paints.

I stamped and gold embossed the floral image across the brown base card.

I then painted the images with thin undiluted bleach. Not all card stock will bleach out the colour so you need to experiment a little before creating your card.

The main floral image has been coloured using pearlescent paints and then added to the main panel along with a sentiment.

The second card uses the same floral image only this time the background panel has been stamped with bleach.

I do love this technique, it is the nearest I like to get to cleaning lol.

Thanks for stopping by.

Love and Crafty Hugs

Kimx

Sometimes the Smallest Things.........

Evening,

What an appropriate sentiment on my card tonight.

I have just spent the most enjoyable evening babysitting the Littlest Grandchildren. Jack was sound asleep, but the Girls and I watched Frozen. We haven't seen it in ages, so it made a lovely change.

This is a very simple card, but the sentiment says it all.

Thanks for stopping by.

Love and Crafty Hugs

Kimx

Many Happy Returns

Evening,

I've got another couple of cards for you tonight made using one of Jane's fabulous floral stamps JGS829 Many Happy Returns.

I stamped and embossed the image onto a piece of watercolour cardstock,

and then used Cosmic Shimmer Icy Pink Airless Mister to colour the image and the background.

The green is also an Airless Mister, Kiwi Twist, which I used to paint the leaves.

I used a ruler and craft knife to trim the panel and then fussy cut around the image before layering it over a dry embossed panel.

The second card was created in the same manner,

only this time I dry embossed a piece of handmade background 

for the panel on the right of the card.

Thanks for stopping by.

Love and Crafty Hugs

Kimx

Jane's Sunflower Rays

Evening,

As you know from yesterday, I got given a beautiful bunch of Autumn flowers by my colleagues when I retired from work on Friday.

By happy coincidence one of the stunning new floral stamps from Jane Gill's latest collection for Woodware at Creative Expressions, is this large Sunflower.

My flowers immediately reminded me of this card that I had made for the release.

I stamped, embossed, coloured and fussy cut the large floral image and layered it over a white frame cut using a Sue Wilson die set.

The background to the card has been created using a stencil and stencil paste and some ink sprays.

A reminder of my beautiful bouquet.

I hope that you have a good evening.

Thanks for stopping by.

Love and Crafty Hugs

Kimx

Countdown to Christmas - Day 3

Evening 

It's Day 3 of my Countdown to Christmas, and another Friday. It really is quite scary how quickly they come round, as much as I look forward to them.

Here is a lovely floral Christmas card,

made of lots of tiny die cut flowers.

I added a die cut sentiment

along with some tiny stars and hearts.

Thanks for stopping by, have a great crafty weekend.

Hugs Kimx
 

Die Cut Flowers for Gill

 Evening Everyone,

Well our nice bright day, has turned into torrential rain, so I'm going to hide indoors I think. 

Since today is Wednesday it is time for my lovely friend Gill to set her weekly challenge at Christmas Cards and Papercraft Challenge over on Facebook. This week she is looking for Die Cut Flowers.

I delved into my box of cards and came up with a couple that I made in a class at the beginning of the year. I do miss my Saturdays teaching my group of lovely crafty friends.

The background to the card was created by running a stencil through my embossing machine and then sponging it with plenty of ink.

They really are the most fabulously useful things and so very affordable. 

You can use the debossed side as in the first card,

or you can use the embossed side as with this one. I then added the required die cut flowers and foliage, along with a stamped and embossed sentiment.

Same design just a different colour combo. 

I used Distress Oxides for all of them and then added some gilding wax to the finished panel to highlight the dry embossing.

I added some gems or glitter glue to the flower centers. I'm sure that Gill will appreciate the added bling.

This final card uses some die cut and heat embossed snowflakes. 

I die cut the snowflakes and then covered them in versamark ink before adding Frantage Embossing powder.

I hope that these will inspire you to dig our your floral dies and stencils.

Thanks for stopping by.

Hugs Kimx

Dies and Punches for CCM

Evening Everyone,
We have a fabulous new challenge over at CCM.
Jo is our host for Punches or Dies.

Now I have to say that stamping is my first love, but for all that I seem to have amassed a huge collection of dies over the years. This made choosing which ones to use for the challenge a rather difficult decision.

I clearly remember thinking that die cutting was not my thing, until I saw my friend Stamping Caz using a Cuttlebug at The Craft Barn more years ago than I care to think about.

And now I have a truly huge collection which I seem to add to quite frequently.

I particularly love alphabet and sentiment dies, probably because they are the easiest ones to compliment my stamping.

They are also fabulous when you have an unusual or foreign name. I wish that I had had them when my Girls were young. Granted Jenni and Becki may not be particularly unusual but they are spelt a little differently so I could never get anything with their names on without ordering it, usually at extortionate cost.

Stamps with matching dies are also extremely useful.

My card was made for my Boss. The cards that I have made for his girls over the years have been much admired so he asked if I could make one for a friend of his to give to his daughter.
Of course with all those flowers I had to make a box for it, which is probably just as well since I found out later that it had to go all the way to Australia.
I hope that you will find the time to join in with our challenge, I look forward to seeing your creations.
Happy Crafting and hugs
Kimx

Birthdays at CCM

Afternoon All
We have a new challenge starting today over at CCM. Josephine is our host for Birthdays.

 I often get asked to make a special birthday card for someone, and this is one such card. It was made for a friend to give to his Mum for her birthday.

She is fond of steam trains, but he also wanted something that would outshine his brothers and sisters! Nothing like a bit of sibling rivalry lol.

An easel card is always a really good way to make plenty of impact, and of course it stands up perfectly.

The image of a steam train is a delightful digi image from LOTV.

I added her name and age (as requested)

 and then some fussy cut flowers stamped and embossed onto background paper.

I also added a few die cut leaves and some sparkly gems.
I'm told that it fitted the bill perfectly, which is always nice to hear.
I hope that you can find time to join in with our challenge. I'm sure that we can all find a nice birthday card amongst our stash.
Have a great evening.
Happy Crafting and hugs
Kimx

Flowers for CraftyCardmakers

Hello Everyone,
We have a new challenge over at CCM today, and as your host I am looking for flowers on your creations.

This card was made for my sister's birthday in January.

The flowers and leaves are die cut from cardstock

which I then coated in Versamark ink and Frantage Embossing Powders.

The sentiments are from a Woodware stamp set designed by the wonderful Jane Gill.

The card was actually made to match the box that I had made for her.

The box was a plain wooden one from The Works which I coated with versamark ink and Frantage Powder.

I removed the lock and hinges before I covered the box to make it easier to work on.

The flowers have been created in the same manner as for the card.

The box had a fancy openwork lid,

so I placed a piece of matching cardstock on the underside of the lid.

I filled it with tiny chocolate bars which I think went down quite well.
I really hope that you can join us this time.
Don't forget to check out what the rest of my fabulous teamies have made, and please forgive me if I am a little tardy with my commenting. Nothing new there then I hear you say, but I am off to Kent tomorrow afternoon to be with my youngest daughter for the birth of her new baby. Well that is the plan anyway, but you know what babies are like, they haven't read the rule book lol.
Have a great day.
Happy Crafting and hugs.
Kimx