Sweet birthday wishes

Hello lovely people,

I am still working my way through all my lovely new stash so today I am sharing a card I made for a very lovely lady using lots of my new things :-)

 Since the recipient is such a master with Copics, I thought I'd send her an Inktense card - lol!  To be honest, it wasn't a conscious decision; I find the papers and image just seem to direct me one way or the other or maybe it's just whatever takes my fancy on any particular day!

So, what's new on here?

Well, the papers, the image, the stitched fishtail banners, the stitched banner alphabet and the sentiment...yep, that is actually EVERYTHING on this card!

I am loving all this new stuff but I especially love the cute banner alphabet and I can see it's going to be soooo useful :-)

If I've tempted you with any of the lovely supplies I've used then you can go straight to the individual products via the thumbnails at the end of my post or just pop over to Dies to Die For and have a little browse around!

Thanks for visiting and I really appreciate any comments that you leave,

Inktense colours;
Skin: Baked earth, Madder brown, Saddle brown
Hair: Tan, Saddle brown, Sepia ink
Dress: Crimson, Shiraz
Cupcake: Crimson
Cherry: Shiraz, Red violet
Cupcake case / ground: Neutral grey
Aqua bits: Green aquamarine, Mallard green

Lovely things I've used from Dies to Die For;

Tiny Townie Sammy is Sweet - Stamping Bella	Victoria Park - Lily Bee	Big birthday sentiments - My Favorite Things	Stitched jumbo fishtail banner STAX - My Favorite Things
Stitched banner alphabet - My Favorite Things	Bazzill Kraft cardstock

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Cake glorious cake!

Hello lovely people,

It's time for a new challenge at As You Like It and our theme this time is...

YOUR FAVOURITE...occasion
...and don't forget to tell us why it's your favourite!

Our sponsor this time is Bunny Zoes Crafts with a £10 voucher

My favourite occasion to make cards for is birthdays because it's so nice to personalise each card with a specially chosen image or their name.

I especially like making girly birthday cards because I can make pretty cards like this one!

LOTV have been bringing back some of the previously retired stamps but sadly not this one...yet!
I totally adore this stamp and use her quite often.
Maybe I am drawn to it because of the size of that cake....yummy!

I don't think I have posted a card with this Happy Birthday banner before and I *really* love it so you will be seeing more of it!

Card recipe;

Image: Cake glorious cake (retired) - LOTV

DP: Romance and roses - retired from LOTV but available as digi download from Nitwits

Flowers: Wild Orchid Crafts

Dies:Happy birthday banner - Taylored Expressions, Advent drawer deco die set (for number 3) - Tonic Studios, Old Swedish lace - Magnolia Doohickeys

Name: freebie alphabet stamp set
Sparkle: Clear Wink of Stella 

Copic colours;
Skin: E000/00/21/11/04 & R20
Hair: E53/35/59
Cardigan: BG10/11/13
Skirt: BG10/11/13/49
Shoes: R81/83/85
Wings: RV0000/000/R81
Cake: E81/41/42 & R81/83
Candle: BG10/11/13 & Y21/YR23/27
Ground: W00/0/1/2/3/4

I hope you will pop over to As You Like It and check out the fabulously creative projects from the rest of the team :-)

Thanks for visiting and I really appreciate any comments that you leave,

Challenges I am entering;

The bunnies are back!

Hello lovely people,

If you haven't seen or heard about this yet then let me fill you in...the LOTV Ideas to Inspire blog is back - hurrah!

On top of that, some of the best loved LOTV  images are coming back too, including a couple of the gorgeous bunny stamps.  So, I thought I'd use one of them for my Design Collective card today.

This bunny was the first ever LOTV stamp I bought and he is just as adorable now as he was when I bought him :-)
I did a little paper piecing again on the balloon and cupcake.

Card recipe;

Image: Balloon bunny - LOTV

DP: Vintage baby - Maja Design (available from Live and Love Crafts)

Dies:

Copic colours;
Bunny: W00/0/1/2/3/4
Ears: R0000/00/01

Thanks for visiting and I really appreciate any comments that you leave,

Glamorous birthday girl

Hello lovely people,

I've had a fun but busy couple of days on my course in Bath, and I have slightly more of a clue what to do with the stethoscope I bought myself now!

After all that hard work, I am off to the Hobbycrafts show at the NEC today and will no doubt be treating myself to many new craft supplies!
I also hope to meet up with some wonderful crafting buddies, both ones I have met before and ones I haven't, so I'm super excited about that :-)

While I'm off spending my pennies, here's our new challenge at As You Like It and we have the theme of...

YOUR FAVOURITE...
HOBBY
...and don't forget to tell us why it's your favourite!

Our sponsor this time is

Other than crafting (obviously!) my favourite hobby is baking because I love to make yummy things to share with friends and family and I may have mentioned before that I have a very sweet tooth?!

So this is me with a great big cake...
Ha ha, I wish!

This image is HUGE!  So, it really had to be a CAS design because there's not much room for anything else...just that cute arrow paperclip with the sentiment :-)

Card recipe;

Image: Uptown girl Brittany the birthday girl - Stamping Bella

DP: Yours truly - Pebbles

Sentiment: done on computer (font = Jenna Sue)
Paperclip - Freckled Fawn short arrow paperclips (pink) - Hey Little Magpie

Copic colours;
Skin: E000/00/21/11/04 & R20
Hair: E11/15/18
Dress stripes: R81/83/85 & BG53/57/09
Dress frills and bow: BG0000/000/53
Cake: E0000 & RV000/R81 for icing
Plate: W00/1

I hope you will pop over to As You Like It and check out the fabulously creative projects from the rest of the team :-)

I'm off to see what crafty goodies I can find!

Thanks for visiting and I really appreciate any comments that you leave,

Challenges I am entering;
to be added

Cake and flowers

Hello lovely people,

Today was spent celebrating my Mother-in-law's 65th birthday but you'll have to wait a bit to see her card!

Instead I have another birthday card to show you, made purely for a few challenges and for fun :-)

One of the challenges I am playing along with is As You Like It and they are asking us to use our fave type of stamp - rubber or digi.
I use both and love each type for different reasons but if I had to have just one it would probably be rubber.
Using a digi means fiddling around on the computer and then waiting for the ink to dry before I can colour it and well, I'm far too impatient for that sometimes!

Stamping Bella are one of my favourite rubber stamp collections as they are so stylish.
I cropped this image to fit my hand cut polaroid frame.

Then I loaded it up with girly embellies, including some yummy lace from my latest shopping spree at The Ribbon Girl :-)

Card recipe;

Image: Ava loves to celebrate (Uptown Girls) - Stamping Bella

DP: Vintage Spring and Summer basics collections - Maja Design (available from Live and Love Crafts)

Flowers: Wild Orchid Crafts
Lace: Lyra - The Ribbon Girl - currently unavailable :-(

Twine: Ivory button twine - The Ribbon Girl

Tag: Sentiment tags - LOTV
Charm: Dragonfly charm small - The Ribbon Girl
Dies: Tea tags - Magnolia Doohickey

Sentiment: freebie stamp set with magazine
Pearls: from stash

Copic colours;
Skin: E000/00/21/11/04 & R20

Hair: E41/43/47
Dress: BG53/45/57/09
Pink bits: R81/83/85
Cake: YR30/E41/42/43
Tray: T0/2/4

Tonight I am going to chill out and watch a film with Dr. Hubby (who has a really awful cold, poor thing) and tomorrow I shall be crafting and baking :-)

I hope you are all having a lovely weekend whatever you are up to :-)

Thanks for visiting and I really appreciate any comments that you leave,

Challenges I am entering;
1.  Papertake Weekly (Mum's the word / any girly card)
2.  Cute Card Thursday (celebrate)
3.  As You Like It (fave type of stamp - rubber or digi - see above!)
4.  Sweet Stampin' (cakes)
5.  The Ribbon Girl (birthday)

Eat the cake!

Hello lovely people,

It's time for a new challenge at Top Tip Tuesday and our theme this time is...

SOMETHING SWEET

This time we have a $20 voucher up for grabs from our lovely sponsor;

I seem to have been making a lot of cupcakes and cookies recently so for the sake of my waistline perhaps I should stick to the virtual variety for a while!
This is a card I made for a lovely blog friend so the CAS style and stamp were selected to suit her and the fun sentiment was generated on my computer.

I decided to be a bit more adventurous with the skirt and added a whole bunch of folds to it... I *think* I like it!
I also have a terrible habit of dropping spots of Copic ink on the image I'm colouring, especially if there is a lovely big area of white.  So, yes, that happened on this card but all was not lost because I had already decided to add little pearl dots around the image so could cover it up.... well, almost...you can just about see which dot it is under if you look *really* hard as it is a very slightly different colour!

Card recipe;
Image: Ava loves to celebrate - Stamping Bella
Viva pearl pen

Copic colours;
Skin: E000/00/21/11 & R20
Hair: E21/25/29
Dress: V20/22/25/28
Bow / roses: R81/83/85
Leaves: G21/24
Cake: YR30/E41/42/43 & RV0000/00/R81
Plate: N0/2/4
Ground: N0/1/2/3/4

I hope you will pop over to Top Tip Tuesday and check out the fabulous creations and of course, the top tips from the rest of the team.
Also we have a lovely new team member in the shape of Lori Turner so do go and make her feel welcome :-)

Thanks for visiting and I really appreciate any comments that you leave,

 

Challenges I am playing along with;

1. Without Words (use a previous challenge - femme fatale)
2.  ABC (Q is for quote)
3.  A Little Bit Crafty (sew what?)

Happy 10th Birthday LOTV!

Hello lovely people,

I took the opportunity of the extra crafting time over the Easter break to make a card to celebrate LOTV's 10th birthday and for a couple of challenges.  I decided on a shabby chic look so the edges of the DP have been distressed, inked and stitched.  I also stamped a little scroll detail in 2 corners.

I experimented with a few new things on this card, one of which was adding a little pull-out tag.  Its a great way to add an extra little message and makes the card more interactive :-)

I also added lots of pretty flowers and another first for me... some pins to add to the shabby chic look.

This is one of the older LOTV stamps in my collection but I like to go back and make sure the older ones get loved too!
Of course, the shabby chic feel wouldn't be complete without a little scattering of Frantage so that's in there too!

Card recipe;

Image: Cake glorious cake - LOTV

DP: Vintage summer/autumn basics - Maja Designs

Lace: Hermione - The Ribbon Girl

Flowers: all from Wild Orchid Crafts

Seam binding / twine: The Ribbon Girl

Pins: Teardrop ivory pearl pins - The Ribbon Girl

Tiny tag: Sentiment tags (set 24) - LOTV

Large tag: cut by hand and letters are a Quick Kutz die alphabet

Copic colours;

Skin: E0000/50/000/51/21 & R30

Hair: E42/43/44

Cake: YR30/E81/E41

Top / candle: B41/91/93/95

Skirt / cake icing: RV91/93/95

Flame: Y21/23/YR23

Wings: RV0000/000/91/93

Ground: T0/1/2/3/4

I hope you are all having a lovely Easter weekend :-)  I have been up to my parents with Dr Hubby and my brother and his girlfriend were there too.  We had a lovely time including an Easter egg hunt - you are never too old for one of those!  Ooh, and I made some mocha cupcakes decorated with mini eggs...yum!

Thanks for visiting and I really appreciate any comments that you leave,

Hugs,

Kat xx

Challenges I am entering;

1.  LOTV (10th birthday card)

2. Inky Chicks (shabby chic)
3.  Bunny Zoe's Crafts (distress)

Sweet

Hello lovely people,

Ooh, look, it's still sunny!  I have had the last couple of days off work and have totally enjoyed the sunshine pottering in the garden.  I have so far harvested some broad beans, new potatoes, a few strawberries and lots of lettuce, and have so many raspberries I (almost) don't know what to do with them!
This morning I went for a long walk with Dr Hubby and for anyone who knows what I am talking about, found 17 Geocaches :-)
Oh, and I also found a bit of time to make a couple of cards while I was recovering from all that sunshine and outdoor stuff :-)

So, down to the important business and that is a new challenge over at Totally Gorjuss and this week the theme is...

Sweet!

Our sponsor this week is Crafters Companion with a voucher to spend in store on some of their many goodies; now that is sweet!

I have used one of my favourite Stamping Bella stamps and after my last few cards which had a lot of embellies I kept this one really plain as I like to change things up every now and then!

I paper pieced the dress and then added a touch of shading/folds with a couple of Copics.

Card recipe;

Image: 'Ava loves to celebrate' by Stamping Bella

DP: Maja Design Vintage Spring Basics
Lacy edge: Martha Stewart edge punch

Pearls: from The Hobby House

Copic colours;
Oops, I think I threw the list away by accident - sorry!

Thanks for visiting and I do hope you pay a visit to Totally Gorjuss to see what my teamies have created.

Wishing you all a lovely sunny weekend :-D

Hugs,
Kat xx

Spots and stripes

Hello lovely people,

I have everything crossed that Blogger does as he is told and posts this for me while I am still in bed after going to see Muse at the Ricoh stadium in Coventry last night :-)

Next up, thank you to Donna and Nat for becoming my latest followers - so lovely to have you along!

And eventually on to the main business; my DT card for Lili's Little Fairies and the theme this week is 'Spots and Stripes' - easy peasy right?  I have done a masculine card this week which is so not my forte, but this LOTV image made it a breeze to make  :-)

I have let the DP and image do most of the work here and only added a little twine and button for embellishment.

I have used an image from one of the new LOTV sketch pads, and wow, these are totally amazing.  They are such good value at £6 for 30 images and give you a really nice selection of images to work with.  The card is a lovely weight and the images colour up beautifully with my Copics.

Card recipe;

Image: from LOTV sketch pad 2 - Jack, Patch and Puss

DP: Simple Stories Documented

Sentiment: Personal Impressions Big Sentiments

Twine/button: from stash

Copic colours;

Jack: E41/81/42, YR30 (R000 for paws)

Cake: W00, YR30, Y0000 (E81 for spots)

Red spots/cake filling: R27/29/37

Candles: B93/95 & YR23/27

Do check out the creations from the rest of the Fairies and then break out those spots and stripes and join in our challenge for a chance to win £10 to spend over at My Crafty Heart.

Thanks for visiting,

Hugs,
Kat xx