Another Mother's Day Card

Evening everyone,

I hope you are all cosy and warm inside this evening - couldn't believe about some people being trapped in their cars for 12 hours - must have been awful.

This evening I am going to share the Mother's Day card that I made for my Mum.

For this card I again used the Spots and Stripes Pastel papers from DoCrafts and another one of the filigree papers from the Vintage Notes range from DoCrafts which I cut into a circle. The other bits and pieces are from my stash. 

The stamp is a lovely little Country Companions mouse from DoCrafts. As I had used pastel colours I thought it would be a girl mouse and that I would give her some nice clothes to wear! I stamped the image onto some white card, then I stamped the t-shirt part of the image onto the pink stripe card and the wellies onto spotty card. I then coloured in her head and belly using copics: E35, E57, E59 (browns) E51, E53 (creams) and R20 for her ear and nose. Finally I cut out all the individual parts and stuck them on another stamped image so that they all fit together.

I'm pleased with how it turned out and my mum liked it too. I even gave her a lesson on colouring the mouse during the afternoon on Sunday!

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:

My Mum's Craft Shop - Spring has Sprung
The Crafty Bloggers Network - Spring or Pastel
That Craft Place - Anything Goes
Whoopsi Daisy - Buttons or Bows
Papertake Weekly - 1,2,3 (1 bow, 2 flowers, 3 letters)
Allsorts - Spring Time

Thank you to my regular readers for all the lovely comments - I love to read them!

Katie x

Mother's Day Card

Evening folks,

This evening I am going to share the card I have made for my Mother-In-Law for Mother's Day. I have used the fab Spots and Stripes Pastel papers from DoCrafts. I have to say that these papers wouldn't have been my first choice but I had some vouchers to spend so I did buy them. I am now really glad I did as I have used them for quite a few cards. They are perfect for Easter and Mother's Day cards as they make me think of Spring!

I think the stamp is by Penny Black, but not I'm certain as it is one of my Mum's. We have a great arrangement whereby whenever one of us buys a stamp the other gets a load of the stamped image!! I then coloured it in using copics.

I also cut a circle from the filigree paper from the Vintage Notes range from Docrafts and added a flower and bow that I was lucky enough to win in a card challenge with Crafty Bloggers Network. I seem to have been lucky recently as I won a massive bag of flowers for that, then I won some blog candy and I also won a few bits from the Coffee Break Teaser in the DoCrafts Creativity Magazine. They say things happen in threes so I guess that's it now, or maybe I should buy a lottery ticket!

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:

My Mum's Craft Shop - Spring has Sprung
Crafty Bloggers Network - Spring or Pastel
Whoopsi Daisy - 2 patterned papers
Papertake Weekly - Anything Goes (Mother's Day Card)

Thanks for looking and hope you are all having a crafty evening!

Katie x

Peach Card

Hi everyone,

Well I have been busy doing a lot of crafting over the last week so need to take photos of everything and blog them for you! Here is another Thank You card that I made. You might have seen me use the Penny Black Hedgehog image before. I love this image - it's so versatile as I colour the flowers to match whatever papers I am using. These papers come from the First Edition "New Leaf" paper pack and I used coral and honeycomb promarkers to colour the flowers on the image. These two colours together match perfectly with the peach coloured papers.

I hope you like this card. I would like to enter it into the following challenges:

Simon Says Stamp - Anything Goes
DoCrafts Card Makers Challenge - Anything Goes

Thanks for stopping by.

Katie x

Bird Thank You Card

Evening all,

Today I am going to share a Thank You Card that I made last year but never blogged.

The card was for a man so wanted to make it masculine. I used some script stamps for the background, and the bird and music stamps are from one of the Urban Stamp sets by DoCrafts. I twisted the ribbon randomly before adding it on. I haven't done this before or since but think it adds a different dimension. I then added some brown adhesive pearls and some buttons.

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:

Papertake weekly - Buttons & Bling
DoCrafts Card Makers Challenge - Anything Goes

Thanks for looking and I'd love to know what you think...

Katie xx

First Smash Book Page

Hi everyone,

This evening I am going to share my first Smash*book page with you. I received the Red Smash*book for Christmas and have only just got round to doing my first page.

If you would like some inspiration you can join the lovely people in the facebook groups SMASH*aholics and SMASH*ing UK.

As always, thanks for looking!

Katie xx

Happy Valentine's Day

Evening everyone,

I hope you have all had a nice Valentine's Day. Well my hubby took me to the dentist... and they say romance is dead!! He did give me a nice card and some chocolates too though so they cheered me up!

Here is the card that I made for him. Just after Christmas I ordered some fab new craft stuff and it arrived whilst I was ill so was keen to use them when I felt better. It included the new Chronology papers by Docrafts which I love. I used walnut stain on everything apart from the white blank card as I wanted everything to have that distressed feel to it.

I was really pleased when I found the "LOVE" rub-on as it was just a random pack that I have had for years and I don't really have any sentiment stamps or anything for Valentine's Day so wasn't sure what I would use.

I'm really pleased with how it turned out, and hubby really liked it too!

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:

The Crafting Cafe - Anything Goes
My Mum's Crafty Shop - Valentines/Love
Cards Galore - One for the Men
The Crafty Bloggers Network - Anything Goes

Thanks for looking

Katie xx

Jewellery

Hi everyone,

Sorry I haven't blogged for soooo long. I was struck down by a vicious flu virus so had 2 weeks off work and then one week only half days to ease myself back into real life! Haven't been that ill in a long time, but glad to say although I am still a bit tired I am feeling much better now.

Before I was ill, I made a necklace and some earrings for a friend's big birthday...

I thought the little humming bird was really cute, so wanted that to be the main focus. 

I then added some leaves a bit further up along with a few tiny beads just so there was a bit of colour other than silver.

I made some earings to match with leaves and tiny beads. 

My friend seemed pleased with them, so I hope she gets lots of pleasure out of wearing them.

I would love to hear your comments on them. I plan to get back into crafting now I'm better so hopefully will have lots more to show you soon!

Thanks for looking.

Katie xx