Hels Sheridan workshop

My masterpeices

 

 

Hello bloggers and followers. thank you for takeing the time to pop to my blog and for all your lovely comments. I know I promised over a week ago to share these with you but once again technology beeats me. I have some beautiful photos on my i pad not only of my work but everyone elses too and a real fun photo of Hels but unfortunatley I havent worked out yet how to get them on the blog so I have given up for the time being and used the good old faithfull camera. I cant begin to explain to you how we made them as we used so many different techniques but if you  go to Hels blog I believe she may have a tutorial on ther and she also has an article with asimilar project on in Marches Craft Stamper magazine.

I know I am not very good at blogging regular but this next week I have a real good excuse as tomorrow I am off to Langle Castle with hubby and Daughter and son in law for afternoon tea to celebrate there wedding anniversary as that is where they were married. I am so excited to be going back as it has memories of a wonderful day. Then on Monday I am off to Sussex to visit my Brother and all his wonderful family. Its an extra special visit as I will be meeting for the first time my latest great nephew Lucas James who was born last November. No crafting for me for a while then but keep fingers crossed that i get to visit a few craft stores while I am there. The Glitter Pot is just down the road and if we manage a visit Eastbourne there are a couple of shops there. Hope you all have a wonderful week of crafting and see you all when I get back.

 

Happy Crafting

Kayx

 

NEW CHALLENGE AT CRAFTY BLOGGERS NETW0RK

My Crafty Bloggers Network DT Card

 

Hi crafty bloggers and followers. Well this week sees the start of a new challenge over at the Crafty Bloggers Network and this is my contribution. This months challenge is All Ablout Men and the sponsors are Just Some Lines. This card is an 8x8 but I have cut a piece of white card at 7x7 and the silver mirri card to mount it on just slightly bigger so the card has a white boarder. i have distressed the card useing Tim Holtz distress inks in Salty Ocean, faded jeans and a purple which I cant remember the name of. How shocking is that. i have used a shaving brush first as you get a more misty effect. The fish are then very roughly painted which different shades of reds and oranges. The sentiment was typed on the conputer then cut out distressed and then mounted on mirri as well. this was glued accross the centre of the card . Die cut flourishes added on the bottom corner and finished of with clear dew drops over the flourish and in the top right. I then went around the edge of the card with inka gold in silver  before mounting. I love any trpe of guilding wax at the moment. Its my favourite thing How about you. If you would like to joing the challenge then why not pop over to
.http://craftybloggersnetwork.blogspot.co.uk/
Before I go I would just like to mention that I said in my last post that I would share with you what I made at my Hels Sheridan workshop. Well I will but I have a dilemma. I took photos on both my camera and on my newly aquired mini i pad. The i pad ones are much superior and really show up the dimentions on the projects but I cant work out how to get them on. I dont know yet how to access my blog on the i pad unless someone has put a link on. Any hints would be most appreciated.x

Happy Crafting
Kayx

 

Same Stamp different technique

DYLUSIONS COUTOURE COLLECTION

 

 

Hi everyone. Thank you for popping over to my blog and for those of you that comment an extra special thank you as your words are so much appreciated.

Well I thought I would try and get another quick blog in in January just so I could say I had blogged twice. Even though there was only two days between them. haha.

I have ussed the same stamp as in my previous blog and it just shows the versatility of these stamps. Suzicraft are launching a new range called Majestic Fandangles which can be bought either in the shop or on there e bay shop and Sue has so kindly asked me to make samples for her so I have combined the stamps with the fandangle muxical notes. They are made by Tom from Splodgeaway from his splodge board.I have used a piece of Graphic 45 typography paper and distressed the edges and then gone round with inka golk in gold and silver. I do like this medium. I then used black Gesso for the musical notes and then inka gold around the edges. Next I stamped the dress and hat onto the paper direct and then stamped it again onto another piece of  Graphic 45 paper. I then cut the dress and hat out and paper pieced it onto the stamped image. To complete I put silver sticky back gems randomly onto the dress and added a god flower from my stash. Hope you like it.

Well I am now off the prepare for tomorrow. I am so excited as I am going to a weekend workshop with Hels Sheridan and friends who attended last week said it was amazing but they have been sworn to secrecy and wont tell me what we are doing. Early night for me so I am bright eyed and bushy tailed for tomorrow. Not that I expect to sleep as I am so excited.

Will share with you the projects that we make and so photos next week.

Good night all and hope you have a fabby weekend.x

 

Happy Crafting

Kayx

 

 

Happy New Year

 

Well hello to all you bloggers and followers. I am back. I have had a series of problems with computers printers and then lost my camera! After that I lost my mojo but I am back so hope its not to late to wish you all a Happy new year.!!!!

I have managed to do a few cards which I will post over the comeing week and hope you find time to come and have a peek and tell me what you think

 

These first ones are from the Dylusions Coutoure Range and I have chosen to Zentangle them. Have you ever tried to make a clean classic card? Its not easy.  Mind I did snak a bit of colouring in on one.Well I dont think so anyway as I just want to keep adding things but I forced myself in the case of these ones. What do you think? I chose not to zentangle all of the stamp as I think it gives it a bit more of a punch.

Reading everyones post it looks like we have some beautiful work to look forward to seeing in the comeing year. I am very excited ( and hope it really kicks my mojo back in) to be attending a Hels Sheridan two day workshop at the weekend. I am so excited. Some of my crafty buddies went last weekend and said it was amazing so I cant wait. the following weekend I am going to an Annette Lee workshop which I have been to before and just loved.

Thank you all for supporting my blog last year and sticking with me and visiting this year.

 

Happy Crafting

Kayx

Bonfire Night

 

 

Sparkle and Gems

 

 

 

 

 

Good Morning Bloggers and Splodgy Splodgers. Just a quick post today to share with you my contribution to this weeks Splodge Away Blog theme of Bonfire Night. Glitter an gems. I thought that this maks just lent itself to fireworks. to make I simply coloured through the mask with distress inks and then left the mask on and sprayed with spray and sparkle. I then added the gems and mounted on red card. simplz. what do you think. I love your feedback. Hope you all have a fabulous weekend. Why not pop over to the Splodge Away blog and see more inspiration.

 

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

 

Happy Crafting

Kayx 

Splodge Away Stenscape.

Good evening bloggers and splodgers. Well today I should have been sharing with you some of the samples that I did for this mornings Splodgical Inspirations show but guess what? I forgot to photograph them!!!!!!!!  so I will have to photograph them the next time I visit Suzicraft and share them with you then. I did however photograph this one which didnt go on the show as C&C changed there mind about what to put on and the Owl didnt appear. If any of you didnt see the show I have just looked and the programme and if you are not a good sleeper it is being repeated at 3am in the morning!!!!!! Tom did an amazing job and if you are not yet sold on the idea of Stenscapes his new DVD is a must. Once you get the hang you will be amazed at the results you can achieve.I have had a busy day today . Went to a Christmas Fair at Newcastle racecourse with my daughter and her mother in law and there were some amazing gifts there. A lot were hand crafted. there are some very talented people out there.

Happy Crafting
Kayx

CHRISTMAS

 

 

Fistly can I just say thank you so much for visiting my blog and leaving such wonderful comments. I do appreciate them and find that they inspire me, Secondly can I apologise for not blogging as much as I should but I dont feel I can blog without a pic to share and a lot of the time as I am doing stuff for DTs etc that have to be kept under wraps  that I just dont have anything I can share. I had a lovely day on Sunday at the Ross paper craft fair with Splodge Away and did a little more deomonstrating which I so enjoy as you get to chat to lovely people and get a really good laugh. I am sure the lady wont mind me telling you about her getting her words mixed up when she meant to say she liked Kanban and said Gang Bang instead. Well we all screamed with laughting and I have never seen anyone go so red!!!!! Pioor soul. This week I am working to get some samples done for Splodge Away as they on Create and Craft again on Friday at 10am.

 

My card I would like to share with you today is inspiration that I have done for Crafty bloggers network. Yes its that time again. The months just roll by. this months sponsor is Just some lines. ( Hope I have that right and apologies if I havent) and the theme is Christmas. I love to see all the entries as we have such talented people who share there work with us and not just from the UK neither. seeing work made by people in America and Europe is great as although they get lots of British materials they very often have stamped images etc that we dont see here so it really is worth poping over to the blog to have a look and I am sure you will have some lovely work that you could enter. Why not pop over and take a look .http://craftybloggersnetwork.blogspot.co.uk/

Well I think I have waffled enough. thanks again for visiting and

 

Happy Crafting

Kayx

AUTUMN IN SPLODGE LAND

Hello to all you Splodgy Splodgers and bloggers. Today i am shareing with you the inspiration I made for the Splodge Away blog whos theme this week is Autumn. I am sorry if I am a bit late in shareing this with you but been a very busy day as I had to take my cousin to hospital to have a procedure done which took up a lot of time so I know you will understand. I used three maske to make this card, well four if you include the mask for the sun. I placed that onto the card and then blended around the edges fading it as I got towards the middle. I then went in with the dotty mask around the 3 corners gradually fading the colours. I then did the leafy swirl to the right  and used just the leaves randomly around the card. Finally I did the tree which i then used guilding flakes over. A little bit of ink across the sun and a Hobby Art sentiment finished it of. I was trying to get the feel of the wind and falling leaves into the card. Did I succeed? Love to hear your thoughts.

Happy Crafting
Kayx

2nd post for today.

Gremlins in the works!

 

 

Good Afternoon. Well I wasnt going to post this till tomorrow but as I had such a problem with my first post today and the wrong blog address was posted I thought I might as well just do a new post and hopefully get the right blog address on. This was made with the third stamp in the Clarity set we used at the workshop and the centre arch was a Clarity mask. I wont go into too much detail as I am now short on time but can I just say that the sentiment is A Hobby Art one and the little acorns were finished with glossy accents. what a difference this made.
Enjoy the rest of your day and

Happy Crafting
Kayx

 

More workshop projects

Happy Monday

 

Good morning all. Well I dont know about where you live but although its drying up here now the day started with torrential rain and very windy. Good excuse to stay in and craft. Yesterday I shared with you my first Gelli Plate project that I did at a workshop with Annette Lee and today I would like to show you another of the pieces I made but first I would like to say a big thank you for all your comments. I so appreciate them .Like the gelli plate one I made the basics at the class and then finished off at home.

We were very lucky because part of the package for the days workshop was one of the new Clarity Stamps and mask. While we were playing with them a very similar product was being launched on Create and Craft. This stamp set includes the sillouette leaf and positive leafe and also a flower spray which I used on a different card and will share with you tomorrow. Useing various auntumnal shades of distress inks we stamped the sillouette stamp radomly from top left to bottom right. Now this was new for me. Wait for it. Can you believe I have had a speedball brayer in my stash for absolutely years and never used it! Well its true and it came out on Saturday and I brayered the top right and bottom left of card. I was very proud of the result. Next I stamped 5 leaves and painted with distress inks. When I got home I highlighted the leaves with guilding wax down the veins. Finally I stamped the sentiment. Oh I forgot I went round the edges with black soot. A must to make your card pop. It was then mounted onto a yellow card just slighly bigger than the project and finally onto a 7x7 card.
I will be back tomorrow if I can with the final project. In the meanwhile.
Happy Crafting
Kayx

First Piece of Gelli Plate

My first Piece of Gelli Plate work.

 

 

Well Happy Sunday bloggers. On Saturday I went to Sedgfield to  a workshop with the lovely Annette Lee and we made a number of projects but today I would like to share this one with you to see what you think. Hubby is buying me a Gelli Plate for christmas and as luck would have it we had the opportunity to have a go on a one at the workshop and this is the result. What do you think. I am not 100% happy with the pic. As often happens when you use mettallics you get glare etc. anyway I think you get the drift. We used all Clarity products that were provided and any of your own you wished to use. This one was made with all Clarity. I didnt get it finished at the workshop but I brought the bits home and had an extra play and matted and layered into the final card. I trimmed the print as I wasnt happy with the edges. ( A bit messy for me) then mounted onto Easy ink card from Splodge Away which I then distressed with scattered straw and black soot. The birds and leaves were highlighted with cosmic shimmer guilding wax made into a paint with blending solution and also a white pen. would love to know what you think. Please be honest!

 

Happy CraftinKayx

Crafty bloggers Network October Challenge

Rick St Dennis Digi Stamp

 

Hello my blogger friends. Well I have to say that I havent been very active lately as I started with a problem with my eyes which made it difficult to focus and then after haveing my first flu and pheumonia jab I can down with a terrible cold that just made my eyes stream which didnt help. I had tickets to go to The Great Northern Papercraft Show at Harrogate on Sunday and  didnt think I would make it. I did and am so glad that i did. Its a fab show and I had a wonderful time. I had a little catch up with my good friend and crafting buddy Sam and the gang on The Clarity Stand. I must say that they all worked really hard. I have a placed booked for a workshop with annette Lee on Satuday so will be wrapping myself in cotton wool to make sure that i am well enough to go.
enough of me. today sees the start of a new challenge on The Crafty Bloggers network and the sponsor this month is Rick St Dennis who has a great range of digi stamps. I chose Bratty Little Witch for my inspiration. I started by useing my Splodge Away cracked glass mask and rubbing through black soot distress ink. I then inked around the edges with dust concord . I mounted onto black card. The witch was printed out and coloured with pro markers and some highlighting done with glossy accents.. to finish it off I made a bow of a mixture of ribbons and wool in blacks and greys. Why not pop over to the blog at         http://craftybloggersnetwork.blogspot.co.uk/ and take a look at some of the amazing inspiration that the DT team have produced and have and why not enter, The theme this month is anything goes.

Happy Crafting
Kayx

GRAPHIC 45 AT SUZICRAFT

Claire Charville and Graphic 45 at Suzicraft

 

 

Hi all. This morning I thought it might be nice to share with you a project I made last Saturday when I went to a workshop at Suzicraft. It was hosted by the lovely Clare Charville and we all made this fabulouse bottle carrier. Well actually that was what it was inspired by but everyone had different thoughts on what they were going to use it for. I havent made up my mind yet but I m sure it wont take me too long to decide. One of the ladies was going to fill it with preserves for a friend for xmas. what a lucky lady to receive this as a gift. It was made from Splodge Board and covered in Graphic 45 papers. We could chose from either steampunk which had a spooky theme or xmas. I chose xmas as I am not really into hallowean etc. The nice thing about the xmas papers is that they are not "In your face " christmas themed. Very subtle so it can be kept on show throughout the year. Sadly it would turn into war and peace if I tried to give you even a brief tutorial so I wont even try but I believe that if you go to Claires web site she will have it on there. Hope you like and if any of you are around in November Claire will be doing another workshop this time making a book /photo album. Just pop to the suzicraft facebook page for details.

 

Enjoy your day

Happy Crafting

Kay.x

 

INSPIRED BY KAY HALLIWELL-SUTTON

 

 

 

 

Good morning crafty friends. this morning I thought it would be nice to share with you my mannequin that I made after going to a demo day with kay halliwell-sutton last Saturday at Suzicraft. This lady knows her stuff. The friend I made the 65th card for has a lounge in red black and white and so I thought I would do it in those colours and if it turned out OK i would give it to her for her birthday. What do you think? Well cant stay long on here as we are getting ready to go out and enjoy what might be the last good weekend this year. We are heading off to Wallington National Trust. A lovely place to go for a wander and enjoy the weather. I am wondering what the flowered garden is looking like at this time of the year as by now most blooms are dyeing off. Whatever you decided to do today I hope you enjoy.

 

Happy Crafting

Kayx

CREATIVE EXPRESSIONS SHOE STAMPS

Creative expressions stamps and spellbinders dies.

 

 

 

Good evening all. (Sounds like Dixon of Dock Green for any of you who are old enough to remember) lolx Well I chose to share with you today a card I have made for my friends birthday next week. Now I know that I can put it on here as she is definately not into computers or crafting but she is always excited to open up my cards to see what I have made for her this time! this is one of my makes that I particularly like. I do like mono but I have used my new Creative Expressions Stamps and I have to say that they are lovely so if any of you are " thinking about getting them" I can recomend. I stamped them with versamark and then embossed with black wow powder and they came up great. I stamped all of the designs before making up my mind which ones to use and I have put the other shoes to one side to make othere cards.The background is an embossing folder.

Hope you like it. Please let me know what you think.

 

 Thank you for taking the time to visit my blog and can I just say that I wait for your comments with baited breath and always feel honoured that you have taken the time to visit and leave comments.

 

The weather forecast is looking good for the weekend so I hope you all have a good one. Take time to enjoy as I dont suppose we will have many more good days.

 

Happy Crafting

Kayx

 

Kay Halliwell-Sutton at Suzicraft.

Creative expressions stamp designed by Sam Poole

 

 

Hi my blogger friends. I dont like to blog without a pic to show you and I must be honest that I havent done as muxh crafting lately as I should have done. This is a stamp designed by Sam Poole and I just love the zentangle effect. I love sentangle and this one is a big cheat as its done for you so you only have to colour. I coloured mine with various shades of beige, brown and peach pro markers and then highlighted some areas with a white pen. I distressed the edges with my favourite scattered straw, wild honey and then weathered wood. i made sure thatI didnt go right up to the owl so it left a halo around ti. I then stamped with chicken wire in brown courderoy and drew faux stiches around the edge. I finished of with words off a JOFY stamp.x

 

On Saturday I went down to Suzicraft in Stockton as Sue and Tom were hosting a demo day with Kay Halliwell Sutton of Indigo Blue. Well I cant say how fantastic a day it was. Great hosts and fabulous company . Amazing demos. I even saw my pal Sam there who I havent seen for ages for it was a perfect day. Here are a few photos I took of her great work.

 

 

 

I had a lovley chat with Kay and we talked about our name as its not a very common one but we said how we have met more in the crafting world than in the rest our life so it must be a creative name. lol.x What was really interesting is that we discovered during our chat that we were both named after our grandfathers favourite film actress Kay Francis and she told me that she had discussed this with Kay Carley and she also was named after her. I think we should start up a Kay Francis appreciation society. hah.x

 

Well thats all for me today. Hope you all keep well.

 

Happy Crafting

Kayx

Altered Art Projects

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/