Inspirational Card Sketches #3

At the wonderful Inspirational Card Sketches blog it's our second week and sketch challenge #3

This is a great & easy sketch by the fabby Dawn to follow and then this paper did most of the work for me. Love the colours and the pattern, the pages are double sided so lovely on an acetate card!

I have gone for a manly card, quite pleased with the result it wasn't how I imagined. I am so happy with the foam alphabet, the "super cool" is a rubon, as is the damask (representing one of the semi circles).

The die cut swirl in the collection kit I was thinking of like a spring and added the paper gear with a small brad, I have created layers using 3D foam. Acetate cards are not easy to photograph!

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Materials:

Paper: Crate paper - Static collection kit, funky foam - cream, textured pearl - brown

Stamps: None used rubons - American crafts mini marks Accessories book two,

Die's: Sizzix - broadway alphabet, gears, Nestabilities square, circles,

Ink: colourbox - white,

Other: Letraset sticky sheet, 3D foam (black and white), small brad, WRMK - designer gromlets - party!

hope you will join in and make your own card using the wonderful sketch. Remember you can turn, flip or do anything you like with the sketch. And it's even easier to show us your wonderful creations using Mr. Linky that way we can see your creations directly!!!

Thanks for stopping by and am really looking forward to your creations,

Happy HuGs Kim x

Whiff of Joy Candy!!!

Have you heard about the new Whiff of joy release? It will be on February 14th a totally fun Medieval Collection designed by Alison Acton, with the characters

"Charlotte & Charlie"

do check out the woj DT all this week for previews and that's not all... There is also the chance to win a whole set of the new release (which is 10 stamps)So check out Katharina's blog Here to see how...

All sounds good I have my fingers crossed very tightly!

HuGs Kim x

Basic Grey Challenge - Lets Mix it Up

Challenge 21 - Lets Mix it Up

This week we would like you to mix it up, we would like you to use at least two different BasicGrey ranges in your creations, for eg: Blush papers and Boxer Brads or Archaic chip stickers, Sultry papers and cupcake fibers, the possibilities are endless, so what are you waiting for lets mix it up....

My good friend Martine gave me this gorgeous Tilda stamp and thought it really needed a bit of dimensional paper piecing.... I have stamped different sections of image onto some BG papers from ranges offbeat, blush and cupcake! The circle that Tilda is stamped on I have created background using the hearts with swirls from the inspire me BG stamps and softened the edges with distress inks. The Balloons have also been paper pieced! Click on images to get close up of detail!

Materials:

Paper: Basic Grey - offbeat, blush and cupcake, heavy weight cartridge, Brown pearl textured,

Stamps: Tilda with Balloons, BasicGrey - Inspire me, HOTP - Sentiment,

Die's: Nestabilities - Circle's, squares,

Ink: Distress inks, Colourbox - Chestnut roan,Q's, gel pen, stickles, copic sketch markers,

Other: Pretty Lace trim, 3D foam,

Thanks for stopping by and hope you get the chance to have ago, HuGs Kim x

Photo tag

I have been photo tagged by friend's Kelly and Chris, thank you ladies

OK so you are supposed to:
1. navigate to where you keep your pictures, select the 4th/6th folder, and the 4/6th picture in that folder.

2. Then post it on your blog with an explanation of the story behind the picture

3. tag 6 other people to do the same, and make sure you let them know about it

but I have only two photo folders and the six folder had all of three pictures of invites in, you see I haven't had this computer for very long and I tend to have loads of photo's stored on lots of disk's! Not in any order either, so I've gone to second folder and fourth folder and six photo which is a combination of both the tag's...

Well here's Maoleidigh, Reading her book I'm sure she thinks it's just a funny shaped toy and it gets turned, chewed and thrown about, but she loves it all the same! It was a gift from the Christmas just gone (2008) and she is over eight months old in this pic! We all had major colds and flu too!

OK, I am never very good at playing along and actually tagging people, but I thought this was kind of fun! This tag has gone round quite a few blogs so if you've had it already don't worry, now I would like to tag...

Michelle

Terrie

Kim

Joana

Clare

Have a great weekend, HuGs Kim x

Sketch Saturday AND Colour Create!!!

Thought I would have a go, this is my first time trying the Sketch Saturday challenge...

I have used the tree from father knows best set again, but this time I have heat embossed with clear ep masked it and stamped more with distress inks giving a softness to the distant trees! I kept to the colour tones of the dp! The brads I wanted to keep to a natural theme and I inked the thread to match the colours of these buttons.

Materials:
Paper: WeRMM - Write Out explore collection, PTI - Kraft
Dis: Nestabilities rectangles, labels 1,
Stamps: PTI - Father Knows Best ,
Ink: Versamark, mix of Distress inks, Versafine black,
Other: American Crafts grosgrain ribbon, Tim's Edge distresser, clear ep, Glossy accents, BG buttons, natural string, 3D foam,

The Next Card is for the new challenge blog created by the very talented Tara called Colour Create.....

The first challenge just happens to be my favourite colours I think you'll find most of my BG papers cover this one! Which is exactly what I used, the photo's are the worst and the pink is much brighter IRL, on this I have printed the wonderful rose digi drawings from the talented Chris! I then used my copic's to enhance the details and added a few highlights, they're so pretty and delicate! This was such a quick card to create and thin for posting too!

Materials:
Paper: BG - Sultry, Textured Pearl - Brown,
Dis: corner rounder,
Stamps: Sketching stamper - lots of flowers, HOTP - sentiment,
Ink: Colourbox, copic sketch markers, white gel pen,
Other: American craft ribbon, 3D foam,

Wow! two cards in one post, thanks for stopping by and getting this far, hope you have a good Friday we're having another snow day at home the hills are too bad here and the council has stopped all the school buses!!! HuGs Kim x

DCM Prints Charming with a little My Time,

If I had read the dare over at DCM properly I would have used three different patterned paper brands, but went with the flow of offbeat papers! I used the great MY Time sketch#22! This Father knows Best set is so good for men's card's and I find I'm using it a lot lately!

This is a bit of a quick post today it's another snow day with the schools off again to plans change a bit... but should be posting another later today!

Materials:

Paper: BG - offbeat, MM - Naturals,

Dis: Nestabilities rectangles,circles,

Stamps: PTI - Father Knews Best , JustRite - Border kit with small letters,

Ink: Versamark, Colourbox Q's, Versafine black,

Other: Glossy accents, BG buttons, natural string, 3D foam,

Thanks for stopping by will hopefully be posting some more later, HuGs Kim x

Inspiration Card Sketch #2

Yeeaaahh!!!! Well today is my first Sample for the wonderful Inspirational Card Sketches blog!!

We are launching our first DT cards using sketch #2.

I hope you will join in and make your own card using the wonderful sketch. Remember you can turn, flip or do anything you like with the sketch. And it's even easier to show us your wonderful creations using Mr. Linky that way we can see your creations directly!!!

This was a great sketch to follow and then this paper did most of the work for me. Love the colours and the pattern. I have cut out the flowers and doubled up on a few to raise them on 3d foam. The butterfly I have embellished with pearls and sakura stardust, the swirl from the sentiment I have hand drawn.

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Materials:
Paper: October Afternoon - Detours collection,
Stamps: Silhouette Blooms II - KIM HUGHES COLLECTION
Die's: Sizzix - Bigz scallop card, punch - butterfly,
Ink: Distress inks, colourbox - dark moss, Versafine - black, sakura - stardust,
Other: glossy accents, American Craft velvet ribbon, lace from stash (hobby craft), 3D foam, adhesive Bling and gems!

Thanks for stopping by and am really looking forward to your creations, Happy HuGs Kim x