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Graphic 45 The Secret Garden

 

 

What a horrible wet day. Shorts and T shirst yesterday today long trousers, socks and fleece! British weather at its best! lolx Even the better half has decided to stay in and watch the England match rather than go on his usual Friday night jaunt to the town!  Now I think he is showing his age. lolx  Anyway I thought I would share with you some little pieces that I have done the last couple of weeks. I dont usually do wood. If you know what I mean but a couple of weeks ago i went to suzicrafts for a workshop with Annette Lee  and we were supposed to be decorating a wooden house but they didnt arrive in time ( Well they arrived half way through our workshop. Bah!!!!) So instead we made a lovely card but got to take our boxes home. We went back the next week to do the boxes with Sue. Well we didnt get them finished so we all took them home. I have just finished mine and you know what? I am not giving this one away as I love it. Last week when I went to suszicraft sue had just had a delivery of wooden objects of all descriptions so she asked me if I would take one home and decorate it for her for the shop. I wanted to use things that she sold in the shop so I stamped with Sam Poole stamps by Creative Expressions and coloured with distress inks. Around the edges of the box was finished with guilding waxes. Hope you like and thank you for taking the time to visit my blog.

 

Have a good weekend.

Happy Crafting

Kayx

 

 

 

 

Some more Splodge Away Samples

 

 

A few more of the samples that I made for Tom for Create and Craft

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Good morning everyone and a lovely morning it is. I hope you can all make the most of this glorious September sunshine as we dont know if we will get any more days like this.

I just htought that I would share with you some more of the samples that I made. Susan is still showing some great work on the Splodge Away blog. Carols are on at the moment and believe me they are well worth a look. Her work didnt arrive for tom to take to the show and what a shame that was as they are amazing. enjoy your day and if you would like to see some more just follow this link

 

http://splodgeaway.blogspot.co.uk/

 

Happy Crafting

Kay

DIGI KIT BY IMAGINE THAT

 

 

 

Good mornign bloggers/ A lovely morning it is too after such a cold miserable day yesterday. Well today sees the launch of a new challenge at Crafty Bloggers Network. It is sponsored by Kris at IMAGINE THAT. The winner will recreive the digi kit that the DT team have used for their inspiration and it is such a gorgeous kit that you must enter. The theme is Things with Wings so there is lots of scope. Good luck to any all of you who take part. Just follow the link to see all of the inspiration.x

 

http://craftybloggersnetwork.blogspot.co.uk/

 

Have A Lovely Day

Happy Crafting

Kayx

Splodge Away Sample

 

ONE OF MY FAVOURITES.

 

 

ONE OF MY FAVOURITES.

 

Good morning. Well I dont know about where you live but what started out to be a

beautiful warm sunny morning has turned into a rather dull slightly chilly day. Well never  mind as I dont feel so bad sitting crafting on a dull day. I love my crafting but I adore the sunshine and love to be outdoors in nice weather.

Today I am busy doing some samples for the Crafty Bloggers Network which I will share with you when they go live but for now I thought I would share with you another of my samples that I did for Splodge Away. This was just a simple little card but was one of my favourites. Hope you like it too.

 

Happy Crafting

Kay.

 

PS Susan is busy showcasing the samples from the C& C show so why dont you pop over to the blog and get inspired. There is some amazing work there.

 

http://splodgeaway.blogspot.co.uk/

 

 

 

 

 

 

Create and Craft inspiration for Splodge Away

XMAS HOUSE

 

 

This is my house made of Splodge board shapes that featured on create and craft yesterday. Tom gave me some to do samples for the show and I immediately decided that I was  going to make a scene out of them and asked Tom if he would cut me a house shape. He did and this was the result. the splodge board seems to accept all types of mediums and was grea to work with. The roof of the house was made useing Splodge Away bick wall mask and the eves and backing were xmas papers from a magazine I have had for who know how long. the shapes were mainly coloured with distress inks but I also used some spray and sparkle, gilding waxes, pearl markers and glue and glitter. The glue all the parts together I used glossy accents. The reason for this was because I know it has a good bond and dries fairly quickly and as I hadnt used the board before I felt most confident with this.

 

 

 

 

This one was the nativity scene made from the Splodge board. I also mounted this onto a frame and although it s not obvious from the picture it has a hanger made from ribbon and twine. for those of you who are observant  )lolx)  and watched create and craft it was sitting on an easel behind Tom and Nigel. Below it was a card that was very similar but useing the mask. The sentiment which I stamped on is one of my favourites. Next is the other one that got a good showing my christmas pudding card. To make this I cut off one of the puddings on the pudding border, inked it with brown adirondack and ran through the e bosser. I did this several times. I then glued and glittered the top half of the puccing and cut them out and formed wreather of puddings in the centre leaving enough room to make the bow flower in the centre. this was real fun to make and one of those cards that you are so pleased with when its done. Hope you like it too.

 

 

Well I think I am in danger of going on and on and boring the pants off everyone so I am going to save some for later. I will blog again tomorrow with some more of my Splodge Away Samples.  To see more of the lovely creations watch the Splodge Away blog over the next few day. Just follow this link.

http://splodgeaway.blogspot.co.uk/

 

Happy Crafting

Kayx

 

 

 

HAPPY CAMPERS CHALLENGE.

A New Challenge at the Happy Campers

 

 

Hi all sorry but this has to be a very quick blog as I am relly busy doing my DT work for Splodge Away. I thought it would be just lovely to share with  you the first piece of inspiration that I have done for the Happy Campers blog challenge. the theme is useing a stamp. That was easy for me as I had just bought some new Chriistmas stmps from Hobby Art and I love them. Hope you like it and if you would like to see some more why not pop over to there blog by following this link

 

 

 

http://happycamperscc.blogspot.co.uk/

 

Happy crafting

Kayx

 

SPLODGEAWAY AT NISSAN

Ross Paper Craft Show

 

Good morning everyone. Hope you all had a great weekend.I spent Sunday at the Ross Paper Craft Show at Nissan in Sunderland helping out on the Splodge Away Stand. Tom and Susan worked very hard and designed a fabulous stand. it was amazing and they got loads of compliments so it made it all worth while. It was a hugely busy day from start to finish and I even did some demonstrating.  We met some lovely people and if any of you read this thank you for helping us make our day so successfull and worth while. It was hard trying to get some decent pics of the stand but these are the few I managed to get. Oh and the show was honoured with the presence of Hels Sheridon!!!!! She was visiting in the area and called in at the show . Lovely to see her.

 

Hope you all have a good day.

Happy Crafting

Kayx

 

GRAPHIC 45 SECRET GARDEN.

Annette Lee Workshop at Suzicraft

 

 

 

Good Morning All. The weather is not looking too promising but hope whatever you have planned for the weekend you enjoy.

This morning  thought I would share with you a card that I made at a workshop at Suzicrafts yesterday. Annette Lee was our lovely tutor and this is what I produced. We all used Graphic 45 papers in The Secret Garden rang wich were beautiful . I was soooooo happy with what i produced. It was a fabulous day thanks to Annette, sue and all the lovely crafters.

 Hope you like it too.

 

Have a good weekend.

Happy Crafting

Kayx

 

Crafty Bloggers Inspiration

2nd Sarah Hurley Digi Kit Inspiration.

 

 

 

 

 

Hi Folks. well another sunny windy day. You can feel the nip in the air and I am thinking. that summer didnt last long. Oh well there is nothing we can do about it. Hope you are all enjoying whatever it is you ar doing. Those of you on your jollies I hope you have a lovely relaxing time and dont miss your crafting too much.lolx

Well today I thought it may be nice to share with you the second piece of inspiration that I did for the Crafty Bloggers Network Challenge blog. Every week they show some of the DT teams work as inspiration and this week saw mine . i had great fun with this kit even though I am a newbie to Digi Kits.I am afraid my picture is a bit "pale" maybe I should be putting a new camera on my list to Santa. Haha.

Why not pop over to the blog and be inspired. You still have plenty of time to enter the challenge which is this month. My favourite thing.

http://craftybloggersnetwork.blogspot.co.uk/

 

Have a lovely day.

Happy Crafting

Kayx

My lovely Hobby Art Christmas Stamps

 

 

 

Blogging twice in one day!!!!!! Never been known but just had to share with you my lovely new Christmas Hobby Art Stamps which popped through my letter box this week. A big thank you to them for the amazing service. Jenny and Becki very Kind Regardsxxxxx 

Hope you like them.

 

Happy Crafting

Kayx

SPLODGEAWAY INSPIRATION

SPLODGEAWAY INSPIRATION

 

 

Hello everyone. I hope that you all have nice planned for the weekend. Weather not as nice as has been but at least its dry. Well I was a bit late this week posting this as it appeared on Splodge Away blog on Thursday but sometimes life just takes over. Any way I would like to share with you my project this week for the splodge away inspiration blog. I am not going to go into the recipe as if you pop over to the Splodge Away blog it has a brief explanation. There is some amazing work on there so its definately worth a visit. I am currently busy making samples for toms next show on Create and Craft. If my memory serves me right its 26th August but dont quote me. I will post the correct date and time later. Here is the link.

 

http://splodgeaway.blogspot.co.uk/

 

Happy Crafting

Kayx

HARRY TUTORIAL

Meet Harry,s Mate

 

 

 

 

Hi Everyone. Hope you are all keeping well and making the most of the lovely weather. ( Appart from that massive deluge of rain we had the other day that is.) Anyway I did say that if requested I would post a brief tutorial of how to make Harry and so I shall as he proved to be extremely popular. Now why wouldnt he be. I have taken a series of photos step by step as I made it and I hope you can follow this. if not let me know and I will help. Well here goes.

 

This is how Harry started out. Any small paper backed book will do. About the size of a Mills and Boon

 

You open your book and fold the first page in half.

 

You then fold the page from the right over to the crease. A bit like making a paper aeroplane.

 

You then repeat this until you have folded every page in the book.

This is how it looks when you are part way through.

This is how it looks when all pages are folded. Can you see Harry coming to life?

And here he is. To complete you cut off the excess of the base. I then stuck it onto a piece of brown card and trimmed to shape. This gives it some stability and also hides the book cover. Useing pinflair glue I then stuck on some eyes and a nose out of buttons. Simplze! told you it was.

 

Hope you all enjoyed and I would love to see any Harrys that you make. You may be pleased to hear that Harrys mate has gone to a very good home at Suzicrafts in Stockton upon Tees.

 

Good Night

and

Happy Crafting

Kayx

 

 

The Crafty Bloggers Network Inspiration.

 

 

 

Good Afternoon ladies and gentlemen. Well today I would like to share with you a piece of inspiration that I have done for the Crafty Bloggers Network August Challenge, your favourite thing. The design team have all used the Sarh Hurley Bookworm Digi Kit to make there cards and a lot of fun it was doing it . Once I had mastered how to use a digi kit!!!!!!! lol. The prize for the lucky winner is a copy of this kit and it is well worth  having. Why not pop over to the blog and take a look. If you are a crafter its well worth entering. Just follow this link.

 

http://craftybloggersnetwork.blogspot.co.uk/ 

 

Happy Crafting

Kayx

UPDATE ON HARRY

 

 

Todays creation made useing Stamps by Chocolate Baroque

 

 

 

First things first. Well It seems that harry cooked up a storm so today I have popped to the charity shop and bought a book so this evening Harry,s friend will start his life. I will be takeing photos so that I can show you step by step how he came to be. You will be amazed at how easy it is. I can see lots of little Harry,s coming into this world. haha.x

 

In the meanwhile I would like to share with you a card I made today. I have eventually got round to plauing with my stamps that i bought on my hols. this one was bought in a gorgeous shop called Snazzys. it is by Chocolate Baroque and is called clockwork butterfly. Just a quick recipe for you. I have stamped the corners with versfine and painted with mica powders, stamped the butterflies in the centre with versamark and embossed in clear and then dusted with tattered rose and milled lavender distress inks. I then stamped the flower and again painted with mica powders. Bothe the base card and the rose were layered onto black card. i wrapped a piece of ribbon around the card and made a bow to the right and placed three pearl gems to the left. before glueing my flower to the centre of the card. Hope you like.

Thanks for takeing the time to visit my blog.

 

Happy Crafting

Kayx

 

Splodge Away Inspiration

 

 

 

I know to some its scary Christmas in Ausust but as we crafter know you have to start early so that is why this week I chose to use the Holly the Lot splodge Away mask for my inspiration for THROUGH YOUR MASK week. This mask has always been one of my favourites so I was more than happy to get it out and use it again. Watch out for more Christmas inspiration. to see more why not pop over to the Splodge Away blog. the team do so very inspiring work.

 

http://splodgeaway.blogspot.co.uk/

 

Happy Crafting

Kayx

MEET HARRY

 

 

My Little Friend

 

 

Well what a morning I have had. packed the card ready for my weekly visit to Suzicraft and so far down the A19 the card lost its power and I had to coast into a lay by!!! I wont bore you with all the details but I eventually got the AA and they escorted me home so that put pay to that. It completly threw me as I now had to re think my day. the outcome was that I decided to introduce you to Harry my little hedgehog friend. I made him out of an old paper back book and a few buttons. I am not going to go into the details but if anyone would like to know how to make one if you let me know either in the comments or pm me on facebook I will do a little tutorial. A very easy project but lots of fun. Hope you like him as much as I do. he now takes pride of place in my Lounge.

Happy Crafting
Kayx

 

 

 

 

My First Inspiration for Crafty Bloggers Network Design Team

 

 

 

 

Well first can I say that I am proud to announce that I have been asked, and joined, the design team for Crafty Bloggers Network. ( It would have been rude not to accept) the above is the first piece that I have done for there inspiration. Sadly I dont think that the picture does it justice. Maybe if you enlarge it more detail will show. I feel that joining this team will broaden my crafting activity as I have some very talented people on this team to live up to. ( It certainly has my IT abilities lol.x

If you havent viewed this site before please pop over and have a look  it gives bloggers a chance to show off there work and some fabulous stuff there is too.  Just follow this link

 

 

http://craftybloggersnetwork.blogspot.co.uk


PS   I have managed to doctor the image and I think its a little clearer now.

happy Crafting
Kayx 

Hi all just a quick blog. Just come back from suzicrafts and have seen the new masks. So many which one do you choose!!!!!!!!!!!  I love the Zebra , what do you think? pop over to the splodge Away website for a quick peak of some and have a look at todays inspiration while you are there.

Happy Crafting
Kayx

IM BACK

Hi all you lovely crafty bloggers. I haven't been blogging for a little while as I have been down the South visiting all my lovely relatives and oh do I have some adorable great nephews and nieces.x
After only being  home a few days I then had some visitors of my own so I am chasing my tail at the moment trying to play catch up and the heat has slowed me down such a lot. I am not complaining though as after 8 months of cold and rain etc it is very welcome even though it has come with a vengeance. hope you all enjoy it but please be sensible and don't sit in it for too long.
I thought to start with I would share with you another sample I did for the last splodge away show. This one was a bit of fun and very simple to make. I simply placed the mask over some card and coloured in the splodges with different brightly coloured distress inks. The letters were stamped with the Dylusions alphabet and then embossed and cut out. I edged the cards with a lit bit of weathered wood just to take the starkness off and then mounted onto black card and put some black pearl marker faux brads in each corner.  I am off out tonight with my best buddies who I went to France with for a meal and catch up and then tomorrow night its a meal with my hubby of 45 years as its our Anniversary so hopefully by next week it will be back to normal and I can catch up on my crafting duties. While I was away I did manage ( suprise suprise) to fit in a visit to a few craft shops. Snazzys in Swindon was my first stop and then later on I visited the Craft Barns new premises. wow so much space. have to admit though that I did like the quirkiness of their old premises. The result is I have some nice new stamps that I need to play with and I am getting withdrawal symptoms.
Can I just say again a great big THANK YOU to all the visitors to my blog and an extra big thanks to those that take the time to comment. It is so so much appreciated.

See you soon
Happy Crafting
Kayx

Hi Everyone.

Hi everyone. Well I have literally just got back from two weeks away down in Kent, sussex and Wiltshire visiting all my lovely relatives and the sunshine came out for me for nearly all the time. In fact by the end of my break it was sweltering. I hope that all of you enjoyed the same kind of  weather. While I was away Tom had another show on C&C with some more of his amazing masks. I didn tget to do so many samples this time because of my break but thought I would share this one with you for now. ( Had to copy from the splodgeaway blog as havent got them downloaded onto my PC yet) http://splodgeaway.blogspot.co.uk/

I loved how although the DT members come from all over the country lots of us did some Zentangle in on our samples this month without each other knwoing. I dont know about the other ladies but this is my first go at it and the above is the result. It is so relaxing. I used the honeycomb mask as a background and then stamped the dylusions stamp and hat on a seperate piece of card and just marked of a little area at a time and doodled until the dress and hat were finished. I think I am addicted now as I am zentagling everything in sight. lolx I then cut the images out and mounted them onto my background and mat and layered on black and finished with a pearl in each corner.

Before I get back to the unpacking and dreaded washing that is inevitable after a holiday can a just say a huge big thank you to everyone who has taken the time to pop to my blog and left messages. They are genuinely much appreciated. Also welcome to my new followers and that you for joining me.

Well bye for now and see you soon I hope.

Happy Crafting
Kayx