Forever Friends Easter

Hello,

Ive got a definite problem with Mr Blogger so until I can come back to change the fonts etc please excuse!

I love The Range as you will know so a couple of weeks back when I saw a set of Forever Friends Easter decoupage for just £1 it just jumped into my basket! Ive made all of my family an Easter card and Ive just finished off with a card each for my girls and hubby.

The fab papers are from Funky Hand, the dotty ones are a recent release and go perfectly with the stripey one that is currently a freebie.


Id like to enter this card into:

Get Funky Stripes and spots
Simon Says Challenge For a Child
Creatalicious Challenge Easter with pink, blue, green & yellow
Secret Crafter Stitching
Totally Stampalicious Anything Goes


Back later with a final few Easter cards!

Keryn x

DIY cards

Morning!

Does anyone else end up making their own cards?  My eldest always gets really upset when she has to buy a card for me and does her best to get me to make cards that she can give me!  I used to refuse but over the years Ive gradually given in on some occasions and Easter is one of those;

I was asked to make 2 cards suitable for parents!

So I made 2 fairly similar cards with this freebie image from Bugaboo.  Ive layered the front couple of eggs for a bit of extra dimension and finished them off with my new Bigz bloom by Sizzix.

Well I hope her 'inlaws' like it!

Id like to enter this card into these challenges

Totally Papercrafts Springtime

Papertake Weekly Truly Dimensional
Pollycraft Easter
Die Cut Dreams Easter
Stampin for the Weekend Easter

Keryn x

Stitching up Easter

Good morning crafters!

Heres my DT card this week where the challenge is to use stitching, real or faux it doesnt matter.  Ive used this as another opportunity to slip in another Easter card.  This card is now winging its way to one of my sisters who is religious so hopefully she will like it.

Keryn x

Welcome Max

Hi,

When asked to make a welcome card for a dog I did a double take!  Its not exactly your everyday request but then my DD1 isnt exactly ..........!

This card is for a couple who tragically lost their beloved GSD a short while ago due to fits.  They have now reserved a tiny little puppy, also a German Shepherd and he's already been named as Max.

Ive used the sketch over at Sketch n Stash and it requests that we detail what weve used that is old from our stash and what is new.  For image and the blue card I have had both of them for many months but hadn't used them before now so they are both old and new at the same time.  I hope that counts.

Keryn x

Easter set

Hello!

Back again with a set Ive made for my youngest.

Ive used the gorgeous Dotty Bunny from Bugaboo, it was a Friday Freebie last year.  Im sure I used a sketch for inspiration but cant find it anywhere now but thank you anyway!  (Dont you just hate it when you do this?!)

Ive used papers by Anne Langpap at 2 P's in a Bucket with Sizzix photo corners and nesties sentiment labels.

They're not exactly small though, 6" squares, I struggle to remember to scale down the images when Im printing them off :/

Keryn x

Baby Makes

Hello,

Back with a couple more items Ive made for a friend of DD1.

Mega apologies for the photos, I cant wait to get the little photo booth!

I have loads of these papier mache shapes and this is the 1st time Ive done anything other than paint them!  I really dont know what Im doing with them! I painted it first in a watered down white acrylic paint then covered it in a variety of baby papers and edged with a matching ink.  Ive die cut his name and birth date and added a few little buttons but Im now at a loss as to what to do with it now!!  Do they need to be sealed?  If so, with what?  Ive scoured the internet for many hours but to no avail.

And something that I do know what to do and thats this little hoodie!  DD1 is mad for her hoodies so when she saw this pattern it was clear that she would request one of these!  Today when I rang to say that theses were ready for her to collect she said she loved the hoodie so much that she may decide to keep it for her own baby.  I said that the wool will have disintegrated  by the time she has a baby so her friend Beth is lucky, she will be getting this for her little George!

Thanks for your visit!

Keryn x

ps. This post is especially for Chris as I told her ages ago that Ive been busy with baby makes and she wanted to see some!

I got it but dont tell Honey!

Just when Honey wasn't watching me I snook out of the river and she didnt pinch my ball!  Then Mum went and threw it in again!

Poppy x

Tropical Wedding

Morning crafters!

I saw the current challenge over at Cute Card Thursday 'Totally Tropical' and knew instantly what card I would make!  

My youngest daughters favourite colours have always been hot tropical colours and she has been trying to find flowers and dresses etc etc in her favourite shade of coral for 2yrs now for her wedding next year and we are very pleased as the colour is just appearing more and more so fingers crossed she will be having her wedding in her favourite colour!

Meanwhile here is the card I have made.

The sweet image and sentiment is by Stampendous and the papers are scraps and my favourite bit is the new big bloom by Sizzix that I got for Mothers Day!

Here's our Honey watching her Mum go swimming for her ball (shes just grabbed it in her mouth) and it was taken down at the river last week!  Honey runs into the water everytime she sees it but is too scared to swim instead she just waits for Poppy to reappear and then snatches the ball from her and runs off!

Keryn x

Christmas Card Club 10.04

Hello,

The last fortnight has just flown by, its been so special having spent such a lot of time with my 2 girls on both weekends and what with the weather well, its just been perfect.

Our CCC is growing so well and its been lovely having new faces join in with the fun each time.  The last challenge was set by the lovely Sally and she chose a super sketch and this is what I did with it:

As I only used the small tall cards I thought Id better do 2, I used the fun image by Bugaboo and used up some scraps from last years xmas papers.  I tried to vary the look slightly which was interesting as there really isnt much room on these little cards anyway!

Right, below is what Id like to set as my challenge for this fortnight.

Id like you to choose one from each column and make a Christmas card using the 3 factors that you select.  Just 1 from each column!  Hope you like it and if you'd like to get a couple of xmas cards ready for this year then why not show us your makes on Sunday 24th April - Easter Sunday.  We'd all love to see what you come up with.  The CCC crew is listed on my sidebar, just click and go and see what they have made also!

Have a super day,

Keryn x

Easter Ribbons DT

Morning!

We trotted off to Lee on Solent yesterday with the dogs and I am officially now married to a belisha beacon!  Poor soul has the face of a beetroot and even though I was sat right by the side of him throughout, I am still as white as I was the day before.  We are surprised as it was warm and sunny but we never imagined it was hot enough to get burned!  

Am I just getting old or is it normal for every teenage girl to strip to her shorts and bikini top in April at the first glimpse of the sun?!

Anyway here is this weeks DT card using ribbons by Crafty Ribbon.  As you will see I was still on my 'white' phase and love the warm soft colours that remind me of Easter.  Hop on over if you'd also like to join in this week with your Easter makes to Delicious Doodles as we'd love to see you.
I would like to enter this card into:


ABC Challenge R - Ribbon
Simon Says Challenge Easter or Spring Colours

Creative Inspirations Punches/dies

Enjoy the beautiful sunshine everyone!

Keryn x

Sailing boat

Good morning bloggers!

Ive been told off for not blogging so here's something thats been keeping me quiet!  My little great nephew - the only one to carry on our family name! - is soon to be 4 so I used this fab image by Lily of the Valley 'Sailing Boat' I was unsure if this image would fit in the nestie so my super friend Claire kindly sent me this one to have a test before I buy it, thank you Claire!

For this card I followed this months sketch over at Kathys Waffle Sketch which I loved.  I used Pink Petticoat papers a comp/gen sentiment, a button and a single card candy.  It was quite hard not overcrowding the card but Im getting used to it!

Have a super day, will be back soon with some more shares.

Keryn x

A quick share for Easter

Hello,

Ive been going Easter crazy here for a few days, here's a couple I wanted to share.

A cute one and a floral one for today both made using Teri's images from the Delicious Doodles shop. If like me youve used flowers on your cards then why not come over to the Challenge blog and join in with our current challenge of flowers?


I would like to enter my top card into this weeks Friday Sketchers, I used their sketch on my card.

Hope the rain moves on asap as the sunshine is very sorely missed!

Keryn x

My new ribbon storage

Ive been a busy bee today!

Makes a nice change I hear you shout!

This is what my ribbons looked like earlier, I hasten to add, this was just the loose cut ribbons, not the reeled ones as Id already done those a few weeks back.

I used scrap card and cut squares of 7cm then punched a half circle from 2 of opposing sides and began to wind the ribbon.  Finished off with a little rubber band, an A4 storage box and this was the result!

Keryn x

Going round the twist

Hello,

Here's a card Ive made with a couple of challenges in mind.  The first challenge is having technical problems loading but the sketch I found on one of their DT's.  Here's the sketch

It reminded me of the fancy decoupage that was all the craze last year.

Here's my card

My friend Claire is the designer of this fab doodle and I think he looks such a striking chap in his monochrome coat!

Id like to enter this into these challenges

Sunday Sketch & Stamp (try back later if you want to join in too)

Bugaboo

Keryn x

Christmas Club using Pinky's sketch

Thanks Pinky for your sketch I really enjoyed playing with it.

I dont know about you but in my xmas boxes Ive always got loads of surplus toppers so I thought Id try to use them up.

These are little A6 cards and were oh so simple and quick to make.  The first card used a Kanban topper that I backed onto black card, I used my new bargain MS xmas lights punch and added a little peel off sentiment.

This one I kept in the monochrome theme and the stamped image is one from 2 xmas's back!  I really love my new BP and for this one I punched 1 in black and 1 in silver mirri card then snipped and glued, I loved it and can see I will really be using this punch alot for this xmas!

Our new challenge has been set by the lovely Sally and she has chosen this sketch

  If you fancy getting a few early Christmas cards made then why not come and join us?  All you will need to do is to make a xmas card using this sketch as inspiration then post it on your blog and let us know!  

The whole CC gang are listed on my sidebar.

You may wish to make a card as and when you choose or if you fancy joining us to make one every fortnight then why not contact one of us and you will be able to set a challenge through the year.

Keryn x

Gardening Bea for Jules

psst, the weather wasnt meant to be very good today here but its gorgeous!  Cant shout incase it realises and shoots off!

Here is Gardening Beau and isnt she a little beauty!  Perhaps the colours are more for an autumnal card, I should have thought of that more, oops :(

The kraft type card is by Pink Petticoat and the pp is by Bearly mine.  The big bloom is Water Lily by MS - which was a swap with Clare x

Happy Birthday Jules (always with a heart Jules)!

Thanks for calling by

Keryn x

Helebore

Hello,

Oh its been a really lovely week here in the UK, Spring is very much on her way!  Its going to be even better from Sunday when the clocks go forward, at least this year it isn't going forward on Mother's Day!

Here is my card for this weeks challenge over at Delicious Doodles Challenge the theme is 'floral'.  Ive had this image a little while but hadn't used it prior to this as (and Annie please forgive me!) I didn't know what colours they were!  I did a quick Google and found lots of beautiful images.  The one that caught my eye the most was a water-coloured image.  So I hoiked out my paints (brand new and untouched by human hand) and had a go at watercolouring.  

Have to say it was so easy because Teri has done all of the shading so I just had to add a few light washes.  I think Im going to keep the paints out this weekend and have another play as it was quite addictive!

Hope you like the card and if you'd like to join in too, make a floral card and come and play!

Keryn x

Ever had one of those days.....

when you need a smile?  Me too!

I know most of you have seen this couple before but I felt the need to have a smile.  Ive got little Honey wimpering all over the place - shes been speyed but clearly it would have been her season as she's trying to huddle into every little nook and cranny she can find or create!

Plus, its Budget day, oh blimey well if that isnt reason enough to need a smile I dont know what is!

Gus and Stella from Bugaboo - link on the side, mocha papers by Pink Petticoat.

To be honest I think the fact that I couldnt find my new glasses for 36hrs then Steve found them on his bedside cabinet.........and before you ask, no it wasnt me, that probably hasnt helped!

Talking of him, have a peep at his latest painting on the right too, he's really loving his pet portraits at the moment but the next one will be a stonker!  Its poppies in close up!

Keryn x

Flower Pot Card

Morning!

I had a very busy weekend one way or another, I spent a lot of time researching an innocent looking card as seen on the fab San's blog (now if you look at this card you will have to close my blog as my version is very very amateur!).  I found utube videos and saw lots of written instructions and by that time felt compelled to give it a go!

Remember yesterday I said Steve took 2 cards for a colleague's sons...well this is for the younger son to give his Mum so please bear that in mind!

For a 1st attempt I suppose Im fairly happy but next time I will use larger flowers!  Plus, after all of this I realise the 'card' cant even stand up alone!  I played with a couple of bits of card to try to make a stand behind it but I soon gave up!  So if anyone knows a way round this please shout!

Keryn x

Hero Arts Clings

Hello,

I hope youve all had a lovely weekend, Ive been busy with cards and also managed to finish some baby makes that Ive knitted so Im happy.

I am smitten with this new stamp!  I promise not to show it every day though!  I saw this last week on a blog by way of another 2 blogs and I just HAD to have it!  You know how it is, I was completely unable to restrain myself and if anyone else is interested it is Hero Arts Clings 'Large Blossom' and its best price (incl p&p) is at The Glitterpot!

Its stamped in Versamark clear and then embossed in white then the fun begins!  I made 6 yesterday and tried a different way of colouring them for research obviously!  This was inked with teardrop Colourbox chalk inks and the surplus rubbed off the white with a tissue.  I had a lovely time!

I made a couple of cards for a colleague of Steve to give his sons for Mother's Day, this is the card from the older of the boys so I hope he likes it!  More so, I hope Mum likes it!  

Thanks for calling in today

Keryn x

Yorkshire Air Ambulance Appeal

Hello,

Ive come on to ask if anyone could spare £2 to help keep the vital service of the Yorkshire Air Ambulance.  Crafty Emma has pledged to raise £1000 towards this service following the sad loss of her much loved Dad despite the valiant attempts of the air crew.

She is having a push towards the final stages of her target and as such she has some totally amazing candy up for grabs for the princely sum of a £2 donation.  I know we are all feeling the pinch and it is straight after Comic Relief last night but if sometime between now and 1st April you feel that you would like to assist then here are a few suppliers of some of the candy!  Take a look!

Thanks for reading,

Keryn x

Stampin' for the Weekend

Hello all,

Yesterday we had the most wonderful day with my youngest and her fella and Murphy.  It was sooo lovely seeing her in her home with her little family.  I dont get many chances to get to her as hubby works weekends and as she's an hours fast drive away its not like I can manage it on my own in just an afternoon.

Anyway am back in my craft pod now and loving it too!

Here's a card Ive made and would like to enter it into the current challenge at 

Stampin for the Weekend which is Something for Mum.

Again Ive used Chris Darks beautiful shoe and finished it off with lots of tiny black seed beads.  I think Ive shown enough cards with this shoe so really should put it to bed for a while now!

Hope you have a great weekend.

Keryn x

Rant about Santander

Well I'm sure I'll feel better after this rant so feel free to ignore!

It's taken my bank 2 months of me ringing and complaining to get a very simple issue resolved.

I have to say when I first heard that Santander were going to be taking over Alliance & Leicester my little heart sank and sadly, it has proved to be justified.

A simple online one off payment that glitched and went who knows where ended up with me being told by them in writing twice to request the money back from a NatWest account somewhere as I had entered the wrong details.  I wouldn't have minded if I had put in the wrong details but the system didn't let me get that far.

  Anyway after yet another call, costing me for the privilege a very nice man credited back the missing payment immediately and apologised.  No mention of recompensing me for my 7 emails, 9 phone calls etc etc.

What a RUBBISH bank they are.

Is it only me but is anyone else sick of the lack of Customer Service in this country?  No one seems to be bothered to do their job properly, it wasn't like this when I was working, if I had messed up, I had to apologise and rectify it but not these days.

Right, Im off now to find another bank who will give us the same OD facility!

Thanks for listening!

Keryn x

ssssh, dont tell Claire

but here's another card!  She's really gonna tell me off!

Im a bit confused though as I am feeling fine now but it's nice to be cared for, either that or she just doesnt want to see any more of my stuff!!  lol!

Here's a card using the handbag image by the fab Chris Dark Ive used more papers from Michelle Martin at Designer Digitals.  A band punched with an MS border and a few little flowers using off cuts.

Best be off before Im caught!

Keryn x

Back to Nature Notelets

Good afternoon,

I am whacked!  Steve has got whatever I had (but without the asthma attack) so Im run off my feet, I suppose I shouldnt have decided to hoover the stairs and landing, lounge and dining room before breakfast as I think that was the day's energy spent!

As I might have mentioned on yesterday post the beautiful image was from a set by the very talented Katie Pertiet and if you are interested you can find more of her work on www.designerdigitals.com

Here is a little set I made with the remaining images

My photography skills leave a lot to be desired, I am hoping to get a white out tent shortly so hopefully things can only improve!

Ive made them into a set of notelets, I hope you like them.

As you can tell, it took me ages inking the papers and die cutting the embellishments!

Have a lovely Monday everyone!

Keryn x

Christmas Club 13.03

Hello,

Have had a nice and quiet week, it gave me enough time to catch up on some much needed makes and this was top of the list.  This is my card using Clare's gorgeous sketch:

Ive stuck with ivory and black for this card and this is the 1st airing of a new set of images I bought from Designer Digitals, it is 'Found In Nature 3' by Katie Pertiet and comes in a set of 7 vintage engravings.  The card is A5 in size.

Our club is growing by the week so why not come and join in too?

The next challenge is set by Pinky and this is what she has chosen:

She's chosen a fab sketch to get our xmas stash increased by at least one more card!  If you fancy playing along just use this sketch to inspire you and post your card in 2 weeks time, Sunday 27th March and let us know, it couldn't be easier!

I think my turn to choose is coming up in the next couple of challenges and I wont be choosing a sketch - just a little sneaky preview!

Thanks for calling in, have a lovely week.

Keryn x

Crochet a Rainbow with me?

Back again, you know me I am a complete sucker for a good cause and when I saw this on Monday on Fi's blog I just knew I was going to participate!  Im a self taught crocheter (techie term I guess!) and doubt I could do anything other than a Granny Square but to be honest, that is all that is needed so I am happy!

Sarah London is behind this brilliant idea to help the people of the recent floods in Australia, namely Queensland and Victoria.  Go here to get more information.  Sarah has even loaded step by step photos for those of us that need a gentle reminder as to what to do so we can actually get going on a few Granny Squares!  Why not get your hook out with some spare wool and give it a go, it is so addictive!  Just watching tv last night I rustled up 5 squares, here's 3 of them.

Whilst I was sick I couldnt face any card making at all but not able to just do nothing I found myself whizzing up some snazzy socks for my daughter!  Now if I was to tell you that as a Mum of 2 young girls, I was very anal about socks!  They just HAD to be white and only white so for me to knit these, you can tell Ive had a bump to the head!!  Hope you like them!

Keryn x

Twinkle Shine

Good afternoon!

It is a beautiful sunny day here and it really does make me excited for Spring to arrive any time soon!  I managed my first walk out yesterday with the dogs and Steve, it took simply ages but the weather was just too good to sit indoors.  I thoroughly enjoyed it even though it completely exhausted me.  I dont think Ive ever had a chest infection that's been this bad before as it is taking weeks to completely shake off!  Onto some cards!

I found these gorgeous digital papers on Designer Digitals (designerdigitals.com) and this set is by Andrea Victoria and is called Twinkle Shine paper pack.  Oh what a beautiful name!

This set were to be image free.  I want to diversify a bit with my cards at the moment, things are feeling quite stale for me so Im going to try a few different things.

The 6" square is probably my favourite of them although no image and no sentiment left me feeling quite unsure about it!

Thanks for visiting!

Keryn x

Hello!

Hello girls, it is sooo lovely to be back even if just briefly.  Im over the worst now and just counting the days until I can get my life back to normal.  

Here is a card I have made for our last sketch by the Christmas Club, this was supplied by the very lovely Claire and Ive been admiring Pinky's White cards for some time now and it was in my mind that I wanted to give it a go.  She made it all look so easy and Im glad I stuck with it as Im quite happy with my first attempt.

I used some pearlised white card that shimmers a soft gold.

Right, now that Im up to date I just need to crack on with the current challenge for this fortnight!

Thanks for calling in,

Keryn x