Big birthday month!!

Evening all,

Hope you have all had a good weekend, it has been another quiet one for us......we finally got our car back, 2 days on the road and something else went wrong with it so it was another week on the bus to work for me and restricted to the house this weekend......fingers crossed we get it back tomorrow afternoon!



Ok, so onto some cards, I have got quite a few birthdays this month, hence the title of this post and this first one is for Steve's mum, her birthday is 2 days after his this week. Unfortunately she is going into hospital tomorrow so will spend her birthday there, although we are hoping that this op sorts everything out and she will be on the road to recovery.





Although it is not the same, I got the 'idea' from the SU Idea Bool and Catalogue on page 44. When you dont have the stamps to totally CASE something you just have to make do with what you do have eh!!

This next card is for Steve, I find it really hard to make cards for men and really must invest in some more masculine stamp sets. It is his 4oth on Wednesday and he is not looking forward to it so did not want to make a card that screamed 'YOU ARE NOW 40'.

Steve is an angler and loves his fishing so last years birthday card had a very comical picture of a man caught on is own belt by this fishing rod, this year I went a bit more 'mature' but kept to a watery/sea/fishy kind of theme.........I hope he likes it.

Well folks, thats it for now, sorry it is so long between posts at the moment but I am flat out at work and catching the bus is taking its toll and eating into my 'down' time, which means I have not had much time to do any crafting either.......I have done a little bit this weekend, making a wedding card for a friend at work and I need to get started on one for my brother and his fiance, they get married in March and as we wont be able to be there I want to make something extra special.

Stay safe

Kylie xx

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

DCBD #2

I really liked the colour combination in the DCBD Challenge this week so I decided to make another one swapping the colours around to showcase them differently. I also wanted to take some better pictures of my original challenge card, it has been such a beautiful day today and natural light really does do wonders for photo's!!!

I generally like to stick to using the colours of the challenge but decided to go a little outside the boundaries with my second card although not much.....I have just purchased some SU markers and wanted to play so used a little Regal Rose and Old Olive on part of the stamp for the next card.

Well thats it for today I think.......need to get a few more bits sorted for my workshop this week, so hopefully I might have some more cards/projects later in the week.

Take care, thanks for looking

Smiles xx

Variety is the spice of life!

Evening everyone,

As you are all aware I have my first workshop coming up soon and I want to be able to show as many different cards as possible. So I have been busy using different stamp sets, different colour card and different layouts so that I have a good variety to show people what they can do with Stampin' Up's amazing products!

Here are 2 more cards to add to my display....

Recipe:
Stamps: Baraque Motifs, One of a Kind, Seeing Spots
Card: Basic Black, Pink Passion, Lovely Lilac, Whisper White
Ink: Basic Black, Pink Passion, Lovely Lilac
Accessories: Boho Blossom punch, 1 1/2" circle, 1 1/4" scalloped circle, 2" Scallop circle (non SU)

Recipe:
Stamps: Delight in Life, Oval All
Card: Tempting Turquoise, Ballet Blue, Certainly Celery
Ink: Tempting Turquoise, Certainly Celery
Accessories: Oval & Scalloped Oval punch, flowers and gems

Thanks for looking
Take care

Smiles xx