The Big 60

Good afternoon friends.
I am having a break from Christmas crafting today and would like to show you a Butterfly Box I have made for a friend and colleague who is celebrating her Sixtieth Birthday next month.

Christmas Decorations

Hi everyone well I have managed to completed two

Curly Paper Christmas Wreaths:

Materials used

2 x 12" Polystyrene wreath bases
Dressmakers straight pins
Stampin Up  papers. Printed onto A4 paper then cut into 1/2" x 12" strips then curled using bone folder.
Winter Frost (blue wreath)
Jolly Holiday (red wreath)
these I purchased via Stampin Up  M.D.S  and printed them off with my trusted Epson printer.
Festive Flurry Stamp set and framelits dies used for snow flake decoration.
White and red floristry ribbon for the bows.
Centre banners Stampin Up Designer Rosette Bigz XL die
Merry Christmas centre  embellishment's  from Cricut Winter Wonderland cartridge

Christmas is Coming

Hi everyone it has been awhile since I posted .
 I would like to share a Christmas card I have been making. This card will fold flat for posting.
I used red card stock 1 x A4 to make the Box Card
I used Stampin up M.D.S for the background papers used in this card printed off with my trusted Epson printer.
The Stampin Up stamp sets used are:

Santa's List for Santa

Christmas Messages for the tag

Sensational Season for tree,gingerbread man candy can and cut these out using Framelits Holiday Collection.

The back panel I used white card stock to enable a message to be added.

Continuing the Autumnal Feel

Good evening, I would like to share another card I have made with the autumnal look.

Stamps used :   Stampin Up Autumn Splendor
                            Stampin Up Simply Sketched
Inks      Stampin Up Pumpkinb Pie, Crushed Curry, Cajun Craze
Embossing Folders:   Stampin Up Square Lattice
                                Tim Holtz Alterations Woodgrain
Cutting Dies :   Stampin Up Framelits Labels Collection
                                Tim Holtz Alterations movers and shapers mini Tattered Leaves
                                Tim Holtz  Alterations movers and shapers mini Acorn and Pumpkin Set            

Autumn Leaves

Today is a wet dull day here in the U.K,

so to brighten things up I have made an autumnal card I would like to share.with you.

Stamps Used are : Stampin Up Autumn Splendor and Occasions Alphabet.

          Ink              Stampin Up Inks  Pumpkin Pie, Crushed Curry, Cajun Craze

Embossing Folder: Stampin Up  Square Lattice

Sizzix sizzlits         Acorn

Snowy Weather Christmas Box

Snowy Weather Christmas Box !!!

Hello everyone . 

I have been working on my idea for a Christmas Exploding Box. 

Below are some pictures of how it has turned out.

 I have used :

Stampin up stamps Christmas Post and Lovely as a Tree Stamps.

For the Christmas tree centre piece I die cut 3 Marianne Creatables  Tree Die LR0174 and used snow marker embellishing for the tips of the branches then  folded each tree in half and glued together in the centre,

 I added a gold star to the top and used snow marker embellishing for the tips of the branches

To make the snowflakes

 I used white glitter card cut with  Cheery Lynn Snowflakes die C146 .

The Pointsettia I die cut using Poppy Stamps Blooming Poinsettia Die.

I  love making these boxes they are a great alternative to a card for someone special. 

Butterfly Flutter By

Wishing you all a good evening. I would like to share a project I have been working on over the last couple of days.
 I saw this on you tube as a tutorial by Caroline Hallett  and I just had to have a go I have  added a bit extra to my version, but just love this tutorial see link below :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-JRSumsqkw

Here is my version closed and open.

New Baby

Well firstly I would like to thank Lynne Fahey Stampin Up demonstrator for her baby box blog see link below:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNNvgsXaixg&list=UU83otapaROZfUr9I_3RHUpw




Here is what I have made for my hairdressers new baby  a box of goodies and  a card.

Patchwork Stars

Well here is my last blog for today. I discovered the next technique  from  France Martin  see her blog below

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUTnpqjtdoA

Here are the cards  I  made very easy and effective.

Sea Bound

Here is a card I have made for my Grandsons 9th Birthday, I got the inspiration from seeing someone else on the Internet doing pop-up cards. I have put my own twist to this as in  the treasure chest on inner card you are able to fold up paper money and slot it down an added surprise for the recipient as shown in picture. I used my Cricut cartridges My World and Paper Dolls Dress Up for the ship, flags, scroll, treasure chest flags and number. For the Owl I used Sizzix Bigz Die Owl #2, the sea was cut out with a circle punch then embossed with Couture Creations Intrinsic embossing fold through the Big Shots machine.

Lovely Summer

Back once again with some of my latest creations . I  am starting with a couple of cards I made using Stampin Up  Pleasant Poppies stamp in two different colourways. The flower embelishments were made using Susan Tierney Cockburn Flower Dies .

Hello everyone I hope you are all well this evening.
Today I would like to share with you a card I made using the eggshell mosaic technique this technique I have found works best when using white egg shells which I  found hard obtain in my part of the U.K  there are plenty of brown eggs available, however I did manage to source a few white ones.
This is the card I made below I also used  on this the Stampin Up Bird Punch and of course some of my home made paper flowers.

Egg Shell Mosaic

I will also add a video  link  for the technique  I followed on egg mosaic 

splitcoaststampers.com/resources/tutorials/eggshellmosaicbackground/

                                 Magnolia Tilda Stamps

Good evening everyone, I have had a crafting day today. A couple of cards I would like to share with you. I have used a couple of my Magnolia Tilda Stamps which I coloured with copic markers. and some of my homemade paper flowers plus a bit of glitz.

Kathleens Card Creations

Here are some of my card creations using Stamped images from : Rubber stamps Ching-Chou Kuik's Fantasy Art Collection sheet 14 plate #43 and the flowers were made using Susan Tierney Cockburn dies and punches. I really enjoy making paper flowers for embellishments.

Getting Started With My Blog

Hello out there in cyberspace this is my first attempt at blogging , hopefully I will find my way around and show some of my crafting skills shortly when I discover how to add pictures lol. Back to you soon.