A new year begins......

I hope everyone stayed safe and well over the festive season.......it has been some time since I managed to blog anything so apologies for that, Christmas/New Year came and went with out much celebration as times are tough and sadly we have a serious illness in the family.

Anyway, I thought it about time I sat and did some card making and I have spent the last few days sat infront of my desk working furiously. These first few months of the year are full of birthdays for me so I wanted to make sure I was organised........it has also been quite theraputic (not sure on the spelling!!) to do some craft work.

These first 3 cards I made to try and use up some of my very large scrap pile..............


I also thought it about time I used my Three for You punch box set...I bought this from the retired list and up until the other day had not used it. I know the flowers are not centred and it was a genuine mistake but I thought it didn't look too bad so I left it as it was!

Back to my beloved browns and greens below!!!

This next card I coloured using the SU markers and blender pens.....I really like the way this came out as I tend to only use my markers to put colour onto the stamps before I stamp them, but with this one I put pen to paper so to speak and then blended!!

And last but not least a water colour using the SU crayons, I have always wanted to be able to paint a real water colour but I should think this is the closest I will ever get to that!!!!!

Unfortunately I am not sure whether I will be able to continue with Stampin Up as financially things a very tight for us at the moment. SU was only ever a hobby for me and I dont have the time or space to make it a business, although I do want to keep posting on my blog so dont go anywhere folks, I will continue to post my cards as long as people are interested in seeing them!!

Ok dont want to over do it on my first blog back for the new year, take care out there in the snowy weather (no Mum I dont want to hear how lovely and warm it is at home!!!) and will be back soon with some more cards.

Stay safe

Kylie xx

Water colour wonders!!

Good afternoon everyone

I managed to get away from work a bit early today so thought I would get a post in before the electric goes off due to this massive storm we are having!!!!!!



Ok so I got some new stamps recently and settled in last weekend and did some card making.... I wanted to get some water colour practice in and here is what I came up with......on this first card I have used the water colour crayons.













On this next card I wanted to try something different...for me anyway......so I used the Stampin' Write makers as they kind of gave me more control over getting darker colours where I wanted them....

I really like how both cards turned out!!!! Let me know what you think, would love to get some comments.......

Stay safe

Kylie xx