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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Creative Expressions Thursday

Hi Everyone.

Massive huge thank you to all the lovely blogglies that sent in emails , I went through the cup after the show Sunday and read them all so no fear I got them and appreciate every single one. Thank you to all the ladies commenting and leaving me messages since then also. It certainly is a wonderful feeling when you get messages on air but even more so when you recognise it is people you know are part of the blog family too.

Today is DT day for creative Expressions of course so I have a couple of the cards from the show in close up to show you  as I know you do not get to see them in any detail like I like to  show on here and as I spent all week locked in my craft room working on them I really wanted to show them to you.

Here is the first one.

 Look away anyone with a pink aversion here haha... It is rather pink  but I actually like it.
It of course is made with the gorgeous papers I had on the show from Couture Creations called Damask Delight. Anyone who had the Sew Jo pad from my last show will know the quality of this fabulous double sided paper and it is such a reasonable price for 48 pages of yumminess.
Anyway I wanted to make a little fan from the paper which I did and used loops of the pearls which is hard to see here but you will see it on the close ups. Also the reason all the patterns work so well together and do not clash is the small mats of blush card in between help to give it that tiny separation needed to help it blend.

So you can see here that central panel which has two types of card on blush card with 2 different ribbons round the centre, silky crush in white and the brown/pink double sided ribbon also. I also stamped my design and used it to wrap around the base of the fan to hide the glued parts. With a bow poked into the under part so you cant see up into the messy bit and a pearl embellishment in the centre with pearl strings left to dangle below it. This is a pretty one and very very feminine I mean realllllllly feminine.

So here is a close up of the fan with the sentiment from Just Rite, to get the old look i added the Cranberry Adirondak ink to the stamp and then simple blotted a few areas back off then stamped it out onto some blush cardstock.

Here is a closer view of the side and you can see I used a ribbon to hide the gap behind the fan to give it a nice neat finish and to cover the foam etc to raise the fan up from the card also.

Another side view.

This one shows the little rolled ribbon I tucked into the side of the fan, If you were watching you will see me make a rolled ribbon on air and a bow but I thought we would spend some time on that this week along with the other tutorials I had promised for last week but ran out of time for.

Here is the last view of this one in full so you can see all the mats and layers etc. I hope you like the composition even if you are not a pinkaholic and those of you that know me now know I actually am not but It is part of the pad and so I wanted to show it can be mixed and matched well , I am much more a fan of the shabby chiq pinks which are much more muted but I actually like how this one came out.

Ok next I thought for this twofer as the first was soooo girly I would show something a little less so. Well a lot less so, here is a  masculine one made from the same pad. All the elements were cut from the paper too and mounted onto taupe card.

It looks complicated but it isn't at all ladies it is all matting an layering with wonky layers and a tiny strip toward the bottom of the first mat that helps to draw your eye in.

Here's a close up of the central panel. I just love this Just Rite stamp and it would be perfect as a chalk board effect with white ink on black card too. 

I used a burlap string from CE to make the bow on top of an old boot lace which I wrapped around as a ribbon haha waste not etc. I topped it with a brown Dazzler to match. You will also notice a couple of small wood buttons with a brown bling in the centre of each which are very small just for a couple of accents.

Here is the full view again from the bottom , as you can see the whole thing was matted onto black to frame the card nicely to finish.

Well I hope you have enjoyed today's twofer and please leave your comments etc below as always and if there is anything you need to know or want shown of course let me know I hope you loved Carols Bracelet that she sent me as a present I love it, I am going to photo it nicely for you all to see this week and if you love love it as much as I do and would like to buy one from her I will also give you her details and you can wear one too whoop whoop ...My daughter also has a beautiful set which Carol sent her so I will show that too, it really is close to my heart not only cos Carol is one of my lovely friends met through blogland but also cos myself and my daughter used to make jewellery together for a few years during her gcse's to keep her mind off the worry so I still have my little lol hmm stash to play with when ever I get the time hahahaha alright..... I know...

Anyway everyone have a lovely Thursday I will be back tomorrow with more of the cards so will see you all there.

Lots of crafty hugs to all.

Love

Kim

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