Sunday and ooo its chilly..

Hi Lovelies

Well I thought we were in for a warm weekend as yesterday was sooo hot here but noooo so thank heavens for the neighbour at the end of my gardens kitty well she came running in at 8 this a.m cuddled up on my lap wrapped in a blanket of course and sat with me while I had my cuppa and warmed me up a treat. Then I twigged I was warming her up as she had her bottom half on my lap top too and did not want to move , even the paint smell did not deter her today. So she won and I had to wait til she was warm and went off home for fear of cat hair in the paint or paint in the cat hair hmm not sure which would be worse lol

Welcome to the couple of new gals joined onto the blog since Friday , we are a lovely bunch of wonderful ladies on here so feel free to leave comments and start chats as I do try to reply as often as I can. Once I reach 200 subscribers as I said last time I will have a nice giveaway so yayyyy , so looking forward to that. love giving things away.

Ok usually you would see me blogging for Visible Image today but we have had a shuffle around so I am now on Wednesday for that and in the meantime I have been showing the cards from my last show with Creative Expressions on Create and craft tv, so here is another.

 This one is a little different in that I used the Hemp ribbon on the show to make a background and coloured the edges with some of the Hazelnut Adirondack and Lord Holtz's Vintage photo, I cut the bottom which I left free into forks so you could see the mat and layer underneath. I also stamped the word Soar 4 times on the bottom of the next mat and layer set. I also stamped out the Hot air balloon from the Just Rite gorgeous set of stamps on the show and cut it out with one of the vintage labels 4 dies also Just Rite, I turned it over and drew around the die also to get a faux mat.
I all stamps out 'Be a traveler not a tourist' and cut it into a ribbon band with fork ends, matted onto black and added to the card with a bend in the middle and some flat back 5mm pearls finished the job. The embellishment consisted of a ribbon bow made from hemp and coloured to match a beige zipper rose atop of that with a couple of the metal tassel's showing from under the rose too.

 Here is another angle so you can see that it really is quite dimensional with all the layering and the way I have encouraged the ribbon to curl in all the same direction etc.

 A close up shows the lovely words on the tag, the shading on the balloon to give a domed appearance and a close up on the hemp.

Here is the full view again what do you think, another winning male one do you think?

Ok here is part two card for Sunday.

Here again I have used Just Rite products , here is the map background stamp in Plum which looks a little more pinky on film but it is very purple in person, I have brushed the colour out with a water brush after stamping as there Adirondacks I am using are die based so I can blend with them and they react to water just as the distress stains do but take a little more work to blend. As you can see this is very simple but looks more because of the extra mats etc. But even the Bike stamp which is gorgeous was so easy to stamp and is a creative expressions one as I just used the one colour and brushed it out a little and added a tiny sparkle to the rims and handle bars etc but it really doesn't show much on here I am afraid.

 I think you can just see it in this close up along with the script in the background behind the bike.

 This simple 3 layer seam binding bow has some tassel's and a vintage flat back embellishment with a 5mm pearl on top and pearls in the corners to finish the look.

Here it slightly laying back to show its layers etc.

And lastly the corner shot which picks up the colours,layers and sparkle more I think and gives you a little close up on how dimensional it is and of course keeping your layers matching and straight makes the over all finish look so much more professional. A little tip when you finish is to make sure you have no fingerprints on the back and if you do simply add a clean sheet over the back and cut the same size of give it another mat the same colour either way but wash those mitts and work surface first and dry them, I have started to keep a dry micro fibre cloth on my lap always usually tucked in my waist band so It is always there each time i wipe down and wipe fingers, silly tip maybe but it really does help me.

Ok my lovelies I hope you have all been watching our lovely Sue today on C&C and wow doesn't she look stunning, although I am not demoing at Aly Paly now this coming weekend I will still be popping in to give them all my support and have a cuppa so if any of you do go please say hi , I really would love it and of course Visible Image and Craftwork cards will all be there too ,so yay all round.


                                                        See you soon my Blogglies.

Hugs

Kim 

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