My new Sugar Nellies arrived......

......Ok, it was a week or two ago but I have christened all of them now (was naughty & got 4 of them) .........well, there was a sale on! One you may have already seen in my last post....my attempt at a goth card.


This one is Miss Clause, couldn't resist her. Coloured her with water colour pencils and added Stickles glitter to all the 'fur trim' bits of her clothes. Greeting stamp by Inca.

This next one is Baubles, just LOVE this image....she's so cute!
Again coloured with water colour pencils & highlighted all the baubles with Glossy Accents.
I followed a sketch from http://papertakeweekly.blogspot.com/ challenge but am about a week too late taking the pic. Oh bring back those long, light days of summer!
But never mind its another Chrimble card completed.

This last one is for a challenge a lovely crafting friend set ~ to use the colours pink, blue & yellow in a spring or Easter card. Must say it made a refreshing change from Christmas cards and gave me a great excuse to use the last of my new Sugar Nellie stamps~ Reflective.

Dug out my Prismacolors & Zest it for the first time in ages to colour her. Have given up trying to use blending stumps and resorted to cotton buds :0

That's it for now, back to Chrimble cards if I want to get finished in time to post for this Christmas.
Thanks for stopping by.
Kaz xx

Three more.....

....the craft frenzy continues! Must be close to a personal record for cards in one week by now.

These 3 were all for my daughter's 13th birthday yesterday.

This first one is from her Nana who loves Henry almost as much as me. Wish I hadn't done the embossing now but it seemed like a good idea at the time.

Next was from her brother who chose this PB bear image

And finally from her Dad & me and my entry for this months

http://justmagnolia.blogspot.com challenge which is to use distressing on your card or project.

So I have used my scissors to distress the edges of the Bazzill card layers.

Thanks for visiting

Kaz xx

44 days to go.........eeek!

Seeing all those Christmas count down things on blogs I visit has spurred me into a crafting frenzy & I have two more cards done this week. Challenges are helping me no end.......Oh thank goodness for challenges!

My first card fits two challenges http://pennybfriendssaturdaychallenge.blogspot.com/ who's challenge this week is Song titles/lyrics.

My song is "When the red, red robin comes bob, bob, bobin' along"

And I instantly loved this sketch from the weeks

http://christmasblogchallenge.blogspot.com// ( will be using this one lots me thinks)

My second card fits the http://sketchsaturday.blogspot.com/ challenge which again uses a fab sketch

Its my daughter's birthday tomorrow so another busy crafting evening in store tonight.

Oh I am soooo last minute!

TTFN

Kaz xx

Well there goes another week! Oh boy they do seem to be passing fast. Have 3 cards to share this week.......not bad for me. Had two crafty friends with birthdays recently and a real toughy for me.......my daughter asked me to make a goth card for her friend......eeek! So needed some inspiration on that one!

Luckily (I think) a friend tipped me off to some discount on orders from Sugar Nellie and in a moment of weakness some fell into my basket and through the checkout before I knew it.......strange how that can happen.

Anyway, they have arrived and one of the stamps was a manga girl who was my only chance at a goth card. Lets face it cute bunnies, hedgies and florals just weren't gonna work!

I used the sketch from this weeks http://papertakeweekly.blogspot.com/ challenge and came up with this......

I do love the image and the sketch, but found the colours really depressing to work with and really tricky to photograph! I have used 3 shades of grey Bazzill and black. Managed to inject just a tiny bit of sparkle with black sparkly embossing powders for the text and a tiny splash of colour on her bow.
Just couldn't resist adding 3 fab silvery Dew Drops too.
Phew.....need some ribbons, flowers & glitter after that, which brings me to my other two cards.

Same image but way different colours. Used a fab sketch from ......ooops sorry I can't remember! But it's a good one. P.S My lovely friend Helen has let me know the sketch is from this weeks

http://www.christmasandbirthdaycards.blogspot.com challenge.......Thanks Helen!

And last but not least.....

A lovely Magnolia image with lace, ribbon, a charm and a flower, much more me.

Right I am off to play with my other new Sugar Nellies. Have a great weekend & thanks for peeking at my blog.

Kaz xx

Hi all,

Hope you are enjoying what's left of half term and the weekend. Had half term off :0)

but back to work tomorrow for me .....boo! :0(

Still, soon be Christmas! Eeeeeek....what am I saying!

And on that note......... I have given myself a kick up the .... and got on with a few cards.

Lots of lovely sketches & challenges about, but being slow coach me, I have missed most of the dead lines! Still, I enjoy the inspiration.

Just got this one done in time for a challenge. The http://housemouse-challenge.blogspot.com/

Their challenge this week is "Aperture." After some thought I decided to have a go at my first shaker card 1. cos it needs an aperture, & 2. cos I wanted to make a 'snowy' kind a card.

After a lot of changes to my original plan, a very sticky pair of scissors and snow & glitter all over the place! I finally managed to come up with this....

This card was inspired by sketch #26 over at the Papertake challenge......loved the simplicity.

Image by Pink Gem 'Winter Milly'

My next card used a sketch again, this time from the Just Magnolia challenge........only trouble is I was so focused on the layout I forgot all about a magnolia element.....oooops!

Image by Hero Art 'Winter Kitty'

My final card was made for my daughter's friend, the brief was she likes green & yellow , so here's what I came up with....

Thanks for visiting...

Kaz xx

Sketch Saturday challenge....

Decided as I have so many birthday cards to make at the moment I needed help & inspiration to keep me going. Soooooo I am looking to all those lovely challenges. Now I am rather partial to sketch challenges and really like this one over at http://sketchsaturday.blogspot.com/ so this was my inspiration for this card for a friend.......shhhhhhh hoping she doesn't see it on here before the postie pops it through her door!





Used an image a lovely friend send me ages ago....thank you Samantha.....te hee he ...I told you it was a long time ago, I bet you don't even remember! And I still have the gorgeous wallet you sent me too.
Water coloured the image and highlighted the roses with glossy accents.
Hope the recipient likes it!

Kaz xx

Its been a while.......

....but I have found the tine to join in with a few challenges this week :0)

And oh boy are these so many to choose from!


Two of my favourites are http://housemouse-challenge.blogspot.com/ 'cos I just LOVE all the gorgeous images, and http://papertakeweekly.blogspot.com/ly.blogspot.com/ , especially love their sketch challenges and this weeks sketch is no exception......just had to do it!
My card fits both challenges as I have used the fab sketch from the Papertake Challenge and included buttons which is for the Housemouse Challenge. Hope you like my card.



I have managed to make a few other cards for birthdays this month but in my haste to post I forgot to take pics :0( just managed one other pic of this card sent to a dear fluffy friend a while ago to thank her for some totally adorable images she sent me. Bless her!



Well that's it from me for now, thanks for popping by!
Have a great weekend
Kaz xx