LOTV June card challenge

Hello lovely people,

The weekend is here!!

Yes, I know I'm still on a career break but I'm just excited on behalf of all you hard-working peeps out there!

And of course, I get to spend time with Dr. Hubby, so that's fab, although we don't really have plans for the weekend.

If you don't have plans then you could always join in with our LOTV June card challenge, which has the theme 'SPORTS.'

 You can find all the details on the Facebook page, including the 5 amazing prizes on offer and it runs until Weds 15th June so you still have time to join in the fun :-)

Here's what I came up with for my inspiration card for the challenge;

This is one of the Little Folk images, which are a little smaller than the regular images, so are super quick to colour but still a good enough size to make a great focal point for your design.

I bought a HUGE set of washi tape whilst in America; I had no idea what I wanted it for but I just couldn't resist the pretty colours - sound familiar?!

So for this card I tried using it to add detail to the top and bottom of the image and I like it :-)

Card recipe;

Image: Little folk - sporty girls - LOTV

DP: Summer crush - Maja Design (available from Live and Love Crafts)

Flowers and stamens: Wild Orchid Crafts

Sentiment: from stash (Kaisercraft mini stamp set)
Washi tape: Recollections (bought in USA)

Copic colours;
Skin: E000/00/21/11/04 & R20
Hair: E53/57/59
Sun visor / shorts / shoes: R21/32/35
Shirt: B52/BG72/75
Golf club: W00/1/3
Grass: G20/21/46

I hope you all have a fab weekend whatever you are up to :-)

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

These are a few of my favourite things...

Hello lovely people,

I'm glad so many of you are enjoying my running countdowns; if you missed the latest update it's on my previous post!

Time is just flying by and it's Creative Inspirations challenge time again, and this week we have the theme...

TWO (or more) FAVOURITE THINGS

Our sponsor for this challenge is Crafty Charlie with a £20 voucher - wow!

I think I have used more than a few of my favourite things on this card!

Firstly, I chose to use use my favourite colour combo and some of my favourite pretty papers.

I have also added some of my favourite dies and flowers on my design, and of course I finished my card in my favourite way with a bit of hand stitching!

I have used a favourite image too...any fairy image is pretty much guaranteed to be on my favourites list!

Oh, and of course I have used my favourite colouring medium; my Copics!

Card recipe;

Image: Time Flies - LOTV

DP: Roses and Romance - available as digi download from Nitwit Collections

Flowers: Wild Orchid Crafts
Twine: Ivory button twine - The Ribbon Girl
Twine: Natural button twine - The Ribbon Girl

Dies: Happy birthday banner - Taylored Expressions, Old Swedish lace - Magnolia Doohickeys

Copic colours;
Skin: E000/00/21/11/04 & R20
Hair: Y21/YR23/E53
Top / socks: BG10/11/13/15
Skirt / shoes: R81/83/85
Wings: RV0000/000/R81
Dandelion: YR30/31 & E41 & G21/24
Ground: G40/21/24/28

The DT have made some wonderful samples to inspire you so pop over to Creative Inspirations to take a look :-)

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

Spring fairy

Hello lovely people,

LOTV are currently running a fab Spring themed challenge on their facebook page and you can find all the details here.
There are some absolutely brilliant prizes on offer so do take a peek.
Here's my Design Collective card that I hope will inspire you to join in with the challenge.

If you think the image is looking a little different to my usual it's because I've used my new Inktense pencils!
I still need a lot of practice but feel I have got the basic method of shading and I do really like the softer look than I can get with my Copics.

I used a new die to create the little swirls and beaded sprays tucked among the flowers.
I don't think I would ever use this die all in one piece but it looks really lovely cut into smaller pieces.

Card recipe;

Image: Petal - LOTV

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

Flowers: Wild Orchid Crafts
Twine: Ivory button twine - The Ribbon Girl

Tag: Sentiment tags - LOTV

Dies: Large frames frilly #7 - Go Kreate, Tilda lace - Magnolia Doohickeys, Beaded swirl flourish - Sue Wilson for Creative Expressions

Inktense colours;
Skin: 0520/1800/1740
Hair: 1730/1740/2010
Dress / leaves: 1320
Wings: 0520
Flower: 0220/0240
Tights: 1720
Shoes: 2010

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

Hello fairy!

Hello lovely people,

Are you all back in the swing of 'normal' life after Christmas and New Year?!
Since I'm on a career break (did I mention that at all?!) it's less change for me but I did take a break from coursework and let the cleaning slip a little so I have picked that all up again this week.

I have also been planning away in my head to do some different crafty projects and more tutorials on my blog this year.

I also finally got myself on Twitter so if anyone wants to follow along you can find me under @KatWaskett.

Phew, after that little bit of waffle, it's time for me to share the new Creative Inspirations challenge and this week we have the theme...

FLORALS

This card saw me in full-on girly mode and using my fave colour combo and some of my fave papers too.
So, it's no wonder I really love how it turned out!

The die cut 'hello' has been unused in my stash for a while but it was the perfect match for this image, and I have layered up 2 die cuts to make it a little sturdier.

I grabbed a load of Tiddly Inks images in the Black Friday sale last year ('last year' still sounds kind of odd to me!) so I am trying to find the time to play with them all...starting with this gorgeous little fairy :-)

Card recipe;

Image: Fairy sunny day - Tiddly Inks

DP: Romance and roses - LOTV (discontinued)

Flowers: Wild Orchid Crafts
Twine: Ivory button twine - The Ribbon Girl

Dies: Tilda lace - Magnolia Doohickeys, Hello words - Paper Smooches

Copic colours;
Skin: E000/00/21/11/04 & R20
Hair: E11/15/18
Dress / shoes / wings / flowers: BG10/11/13
Dress / flowers: R81/83/85
Flower centres: Y21/23/26
Leaves: YG03/25/17
Wand: E57/59

The DT have made some wonderful samples to inspire you so pop over to Creative Inspirations to take a look :-)

Our sponsor for this challenge is Crafty Ribbons with a £10 voucher

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

Challenges I am entering;

Spring fever at LOTV

Hello lovely people,

It's been a little while since I blogged...I was having so much fun over my birthday bank holiday weekend and time has flown by!

Today I have a card to showcase some LOTV products as part of the Design Collective and to let you know that there is a fabulous special offer on at the moment...

This is one of a pair of cards I created for a colleague who wanted birthday cards for 2 of her sisters.  I thought it would be nice to use similar images for each but different colours so she could decide which one suited each sister best!

This is the slightly simpler one of the two...

Pretty Spring colours + Happy bears = happy Kat :-) 

Card recipe;

Image: Happy bears - LOTV

DP: Pastel dreams - LOTV

Flowers: Wild Orchid Crafts
Twine: Ivory button twine - The Ribbon Girl

Tags: Sentiment tags - LOTV and Family sentiment tags - LOTV

Copic colours;
Bears: E40/431/42/43 (&E44 on foot)
Pink bits: R81/83/85
Turquoise bits: BG0000/000/01/53/57
Ground: T0/1/2/3/4

Hurrah for the weekend...oh wait, I have to work :-(
I can still sneak in a bit of crafting though and look forward to having Monday off.

I hope you all have lovely weekends whatever you have planned :-)

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

Challenges I am entering;
1.  Deep Ocean (flowers)
2.  Fab 'n' Funky (May flowers)
3.  Papertake Weekly (anything goes +/- no DP)

Tilda with flowers

Hello lovely people,

It's time for a new challenge at In The Pink and our theme this time is...

PINK AND PEARLIE

We are also delighted that The Ribbon Girl are going to be sponsoring some of our challenges this year

So this week we have a £10 voucher to give away to one lucky person :-)

I came over all distressed for today's card but without inking any of the edges.
This is the first time I have matted my image panel onto white and I really like the subtle effect.

I don't have too many Magnolia stamps (yet!) so you have probably seen me use this one before but I did find a nice new pink combo as I wanted to keep the tones quite pale.

I love adding little pearl dots to the flower bunch on this image :-)

I was very excited to finally get my hands on the Magnolia heart swirl die that I have wanted for absolutely ages; I have cut it into small sections to tuck under the flowers here.

I also added a few more scattered pearls around the flowers clusters.

Here's a shot to show my little ribbon/flower/swirl cluster plus some cute little rosebuds that I haven't used before... but will be using a lot more I think!

Card recipe;

Image: For you Tilda - Magnolia stamps

DP: Sofiero (limited edition) - Maja Design (available from Live and Love Crafts)

Flowers: Wild Orchid Crafts

Seam binding: Rose quartz - Crafty Ribbons

Dies: heart swirl and heart flower lace - Magnolia Doohickey

Sentiment: mini clear stamp set - Kaisercraft

Copic colours;
Skin: E000/00/21/11/04 & R20
Hair: E41/43/44
Dungarees / flowers: RV91/R81/83
Top / lace: C00/N0/1/2
Shoes: E40/41/42/43
Leaves: G40/YG61/63

If you haven't already done so then do pop over to In The Pink and check out the pretty creations from the rest of the Pink Ladies... including our TWO new Pink Ladies!

Yes, we have some new teamies and I know you'll love their work so please do go and give them a warm welcome :-)

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

Challenges I am playing along with;

1.  Marvellous Magnolia (anything goes)

2.  Midweek Magnolias (new stash)

3.  Fussy and Fancy (pearls and swirls)

4.  The Ribbon Girl (colour challenge - pink)

Snowball fight!

Hello lovely people,

It's a double blog post day from me today so if you're after my card for In The Pink then just scroll on down.

However, if you are here for the new challenge at Crafty Little Fairies then you are in the right place and our theme this month is...

SPARKLE AND BLING

We have 4 fabulous sponsors this month so do check those out on the blog to see what you could win :-)

I am on a roll this year with my Christmas cards and for this one I have teamed up a new-to-me Tilda and some of my enormous new stash of Pion DP!  I bought loads of Christmas papers, some from new and some from old collections.
My bling is a little shy in the photos but I have some from the Frantage in the corners, gems on the snowflakes, a little charm and the snow is all covered in glitter...fairly subtle I'll admit but that's how I like my bling :-)

I adore skiing so of course I had to get this Tilda stamp although she does appear to be snowball fighting rather than skiing!
I did think about giving her gloves but it's quite hard to roll a good snowball with gloves on so she has bare hands... just in case anyone was wondering!

Card recipe;

Image: In the snow Tilda - Magnolia

DP: Silent Night - Pion Design (available from Live and Love Crafts)

Twine: The Ribbon Girl

Tag: computer generated sentiment and hand cut into fishtail
Dies: Impression Obsession snowflake set

Frantage / snowflake charm - from Live and Love Crafts

Copic colours;
Skin: E000/00/21/11/04 & R20
Hair: E444/47/49
Blues: BG0000/B91/93/34
Skis: E40/41/42
Greys: W0/1/2/3/4

If you pop over to Crafty Little Fairies you can check out the fabulous sparkly creations from my teamies.

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

Challenges I am playing along with;

1.  Midweek Magnolias (Christmas is coming)

2.  As You Like It (fave season - Winter of course because I adore making Christmas cards, there are so many wonderful Christmas images out there to use!)

3.  The Ribbon Girl (Magnolia only & a charm)

4.  Marvellous Magnolia (anything goes)

Pretty pastels

Hello lovely people,

My day off yesterday was filled with shopping, a haircut and a spot of exercise - all good stuff but not so much time for crafting :-(
I did receive an enormous parcel of goodies from Sarah's Cards though with some amazing paper pads so I can't wait to play with those!

And now it's Thursday so it's time for a new challenge at In The Pink and our theme this time is...

DIE CUTS AND PUNCHES

We are also super excited to be sponsored for this challenge by All Dressed Up Stamps so the winner will get to pick 2 digi images of their choice :-)

I have gone for sugary sweet pastels this time... mostly pink of course!  Oh, and those all important punched and die cut elements which add a lovely girly feel I think :-)

I have used one of the super cute ADU digi stamps and I am so sorry but she isn't actually available in the store but if you pop over there are many other lovely images to choose from.

Card recipe;

DP: Vintage summer basics - Maja Design
Dies: Memory box cherry blossoms and fancy blossoms, Magnolia Doohickey leaf and swirl

Punch: Martha Stewart deep edge punch - fans and flourishes
Flowers: Wild Orchid Crafts (smaller pink ones coloured with RV91 Copic)
Pearls: Wild Orchid Crafts (some coloured with Copics)

Copic colours;

Skin: E0000/000/00/21/11

Hair: E25/27/29/47

Dress / bow: RV0000/000/91/93

Wings: RV0000/000/91 & BG0000/70

Butterflies / bow: BG000/70/72

Ground: T0/1/2/3

If you pop over to In The Pink you can check out the fabulous creations from my teamies and I hope you will join in with our challenge.

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

Hugs,

Kat xx

Challenges I am entering;
1.  Wild Orchid Crafts (spring photo inspiration)
2.  Divas by Design (anything goes)
3.  Bunny Zoe (stitching)