Happy Birthday ~ Dad

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I hope you enjoyed a lovely Bank holiday ♥ our week was busy with May fair, and I just got the chance to get into my craft area for the new anything goes challenge on the blog today...

I created a masculine card using the wonderfully muted tones of the Vintage doll patterned papers, along with the Birthday Wishes stamp set.

 The animal print patterned paper can be embellished with the same stamp image in this die set as they are the same scale, great for adding a metallic effect with embossing powder.

The DAD sentiment was such a fun element to create, I thought I would try die cutting some frosted acetate to get a floating look and I've added some patterned papers to the letters only. To get the added shadow I've die cut the same letters in adhesive black foam and only applied it behind the paper letters to achieve a neat dimensional look.

and I would love to enter my project to these wonderful challenges too...

Simon says stamp ~ Masculine

A Perfect Time to Craft ~ Anything Goes

Polkadoodles 17 ~ Anything Goes

Incy Wincy ~ Die-cut or Punch

Creative fingers ~ Anything Goes

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Enjoy a wonderfully creative

weekend ♥ HuGs Kim x

Flourish and Grow ~ One Layer Card

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I hope you enjoyed a lovely Easter ♥ ours was shadowed by covid, but we're all clear now Yay! and I got the chance to get into my craft area for the new anything goes challenge on the blog today...

I created a one layer card, I used the Flourishing hair stamp set along with the wonderful 3/4 view left dinky, I added a few extra curls and shaded her facial features with a little black pencil.

I got to use my newest distress inks, salvaged patina, rustic wilderness, prize ribbon with hints of saltwater taffy too.

and used the Flourish and Grow and Dinky sugar skulls for extra interest in the background.

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Enjoy a wonderfully creative

weekend ♥ HuGs Kim x

Spring Time ~ Paper Art Doll

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Today is the last day of term, ready to break up for Easter ♥

We have a new anything goes challenge on the blog today and...

 I created a jointed paper art doll, with a simple dress, using all those extra flowers I had left over from my last challenge piece.

I've used the Body base along with the portrait head and stamps, the hands and the cute Serena hairstyle, all joined together with the wonderful paper brad.

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Enjoy a wonderfully creative Easter ♥,

HuGs Kim x

Rainbow Springtime Hippie Chic

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Wishing all the mothers a very happy special day ♥

We have a new anything goes challenge on the blog today and...

I created this super bright colourful springtime card using the Jointed paper Art doll collection. It's a larger A5 card so I could fit everything on lol.

I die cut the body but trimmed away the holes from the torso I was going to add arms but went with this look instead. I die cut the Portrait Head first and stamped her face and ears in a mix of inks, using a stamping platform meant I could keep adding colours.

To complete her look I have used the super fun the Ashryn hairstyle, I thought it would look wonderful and fun.

To make her an interactive part of the card I have used the paper brad fastening so her head can move side to side. I've added foam adhesive to the card behind her head but didn't remove the backing so it would give height but not stick.

The background... well I have had this stackable florals die set from sizzix quite a while it's unfortunately discontinued now but so happy I've got to use it, it's so quirky. I've used six colours, a pastel rainbow of sorts and die cut all the elements in each colour then went to town creating this floral pop background.

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Thank you so much for stopping by,

enjoy a wonderfully creative weekend with ♥ mums,

HuGs Kim x

You don't have to be Perfect...

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We have a new anything goes challenge on the blog today and...

I created this cute little card featuring the very versatile whimsical woodland set.

The patterned panel was very simple to create stamping the dinky images in the four sets, using a few distress oxides inks. The fox and the bunny were stamped in versafine twilight, which is much more blue than the darker colour in the pictures.

I fussy cut them out and raised them with dimensional adhesive.

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Thank you so much for stopping by,

enjoy a wonderfully creative weekend,

HuGs Kim x