Happy Easter

May your April be filled with gladness...xx
Just popping in to wish you all a very Happy Easter, filled with happiness, peace and love...xx
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A quick catch up and a crafty tutorial

Hope you're week is going well, and you are hopefully looking forward to a shorter week with the Easter weekend approaching...
Just popping in quickly to share the link to my recent tutorial for
The Craft Show Crafty Bloggers.
It's been a busy week so I'm taking some time out tomorrow, I've been prepping for an upcoming class and makes behind the scenes that will be revealed in April
Now time to start thinking about dinner...have a good evening...xKx

Happy Easter Weekend

Hello lovely people,
Today I'm popping by to wish you all a very lovely Easter Weekend.
For my makes this Easter I've used these gorgeous
Crowned Bunnies from Crafty Individuals and Designed by Alice Palace
I use to use Crafty Individuals Stamps a lot and decided they definitely needed revisiting.
The clock is the first of new designs that I am selling and taking commissions for.
I'll be adding a link for purchasing soon.
I really love these stamps and hope you like how I have used them here.

Enjoy your Easter Eggs and try not to eat them all at once!

Thanks for popping by today...

Crafty Hugs xKx

Eggs and Chicks

I thought the Eggs and Chicks would make a bit of different style New Baby card so for the next design I stamped the images with a brown Versafine ink pad and coloured with Pro-Markers before cutting them out leaving a white border edge all around the image.
The Letterbox Kit provided the idea for the alphabet building blocks and created the greeting.
All mounted using 3d foam pads and finished with some string "Pom Pom" style bows I made.

This next card uses the chicks in the nest stamp along with the Easter banner and greeting.

Done in a similar style but I embossed the chicks and nest with a brown embossing powder.

The last of my Easter samples uses the decorative eggs again.

This time I stamped onto a good quality paper with London Fog Momento ink and coloured ageing with Pro-Markers. White dots and accents were added using a Pergamano gel pen.

I shaped the eggs using an embossing tool and it appeared to give a "shell like" appearance, they were then mounted using 3d foam pads.

I finished with the Pom Pom bows again and some flowers I created using my Silhouette Cameo.

I will be back later with my last samples which were the lovely fun ladies and patterns, thanks for popping by xKx

Faberge Eggs

I've sneaked back to bed with a cuppa on yet another arctic morning out there!
This weather is atrocious and I think we're all yearning for some sun and warmth.
With the weather looking as it is for a good few days yet snuggling in the warm and hot drinks will have to suffice for now I guess.
Looking ahead to Easter arriving shortly after the first day of Spring, which seems hard to believe at present! I have the two Faberge Style cards I made for the March Clarity TV shows to share.
They were both embossed using an antique gold powder and coloured using Pearl-Ex metallic colours from my watercolour palette.
I've had these iridescent paints for years and loved using them on black card when I first purchased them for a Christmas card technique I'd seen demonstrated.
It was nice to re-visit this and I enjoyed making these cards and keeping the designs clean and simple.
I've had some nice feedback for these cards saying how it reminded people about the exquisite and collectable Faberge Eggs and I enjoyed looking at the designs and styles while I designed these cards.
Stay safe and warm and I'll be back with the rest of the TV makes later xKx