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Fairyland Tags

Here's some more inspiration for those Magical Tags.
Tutorial on the blog here and over on
Lavinia Stamps website
Enjoy!

Fun with Fairies, Gelli and Lavinia

Morning all,

Hope you had a good weekend.

Well yesterday at our jubilant Jubilee Hall we had a super day.

We revisited my first workshop from two years ago where we a great time using the Gelli plate, a Tando Cuckoo clock kit and Lavinia stamps.

Here's my samples and the fantastic results from the lovely ladies who attended the class in Oct '13.

Having seen these our groups ladies decided they wanted to play too.

So putting a different spin on things this time we revisited some of the techniques and used them to decorate Tando Faery Door kits.

Everyone thoroughly enjoyed the day, thank you for the wonderful feedback.

We had mum's and daughters (of all ages!) crafting together and some of our usual group were joined by another two brand new crafter's.

Oh my! They took one look at the project sample and thought they couldn't reproduce anything to resemble it.

I just love seeing their faces when things come together.

We did laugh so much through the day and I think yet again the cake my daughter made was a big hit!

When I demo the techniques I just know who's going to be thinking "Oh my word, I can't do that!"

We have such a giggle at these challenges.

Apart from crafting we chatted about out Christmas Crafting Extravaganza on the 6th Dec and our plans for 2016.

So many ideas and enthusiasm for the crafting times ahead.

I'm always left extremely proud by everyone's achievements, honestly, and yesterday was no exception.

This for me is what it's all about, a super day with so many lovely friends having a great fun time
crafting and when they produce results like this I'm left on cloud 9!

Feeling deliriously happy and contented, thank you all so much.
Hope your Monday is good and I'll be back soon.
Warm thanks for following and reading my blog.
Much love and crafty hugs xKx

Nearly time for the next workshop

Morning all,
Can't believe it's not long until the next Kent workshop, where does the time go!
There's lots in store coming up but for now here's a round up of this month's samples.
We're using Air dry clay to create simple embellishments on stencilled backgrounds alongside various stamps.
It's nearly the weekend and I wish you a good day.
Crafty Hugs xKx

Lavinia Stamps June Challenge - Use Any Colours

Hi everyone,

It's the start of the June Lavinia Stamps Challenge, a nice and easy brief of "Use Any Colours"

We do receive so many lovely entries each month and a record number for May which is fantastic!
The artwork sent in is truly gorgeous and the support for Lavinia Stamps is enormously appreciated, thank you.

So for a chance to win a £40 voucher to spend on
Lavinia Stamps Website why not join us this month.
Please be mindful of the rules and use only Lavinia Stamps and you don't have to have a blog as we accept email entries.
As always the DT have excelled with their inspiration so please pop along and take a look at the work.

For this month I've made two tags and an easel card, which was actually the second of my daughter's birthday cards as its in her favourite colour purple.

Four of the five stamps used are from the latest additions to
Lavinia Stamps and I've been so excited about using them, they're truly stunning.
These include the beautiful Background Script, Standing Hare and the Heart and Flower Borders.
I've also used the lovely Sky Fairy.
All stamped and coloured using Adirondack inkpads in Eggplant, Purple Twilight and Wild Plum along with Versafine Onyx Black.

I recently obtained a fabulous supply of Crealies dies, here I've used a couple of the extreme tags along with one of the Peekaboo nesties and the lovely extreme shaped nestie for the card.
They are extreme due to their size as the largest of the tag dies I've used is 10.5 x 21cm.
Anyway I'll be doing a lot more with these and there are a few places that will be stocking them if you are into dies.
The sentiment dies I've used are from Penny Black, more favourites of mine, Heartfelt and Envision.

That's me for today, I've a heap of things to get on with so I'll love you and leave you.
Wish this weather would settle into something more warm and pleasant.

Have a good day...
Crafty Hugs xKx

Lavinia Stamps May challenge Pretty in Pink/Blue

Welcome to the Bank Holiday weekend and the start of the new
Lavinia Stamps challenge.
Last month's Zingy Lemon and Lime challenge was so cheery and the entries were all brilliant.
I loved that combo for the challenge.
Hope you can join us this month, as always the DT have provided lots of inspiration to get you started.
Please be mindful of the challenge rules,
using Lavinia stamps and or Dies.
You could be the lucky random winner of the super £40 online voucher.
If you don't have a blog then there's a link for email entries HERE.
I hope you have a lovely Saturday and I'll leave you with my makes.

An 8 x 8 canvas,
a fabric/mixed media clock
and a mixed media style of card I really enjoy making...

Crafty Hugs xKx

Zingy Lemon and Lime with Lavinia

Morning crafters,

The April challenge starts today over at lovely Lavinia Stamps.
A nice spring theme "Lemon and Lime"

The winner of the challenge, selected at random, receives a Voucher worth £40 to spend in the 
The Lavinia Stamps Web shop. 
As always the DT have put together lots of inspiration over on the
Lavinia Stamps Challenge Blog.

You don't need to have a Blog,  Email entries are accepted.

Many thanks to everyone who entered the last challenge, really wonderful work and congratulations to the lucky winner.

I'll leave you with my makes, two canvases and some fun tags.

On the first canvas I've stamped and embossed onto vellum, the second I've stamped directly onto the canvas and also stamped onto stamping card and cut out.
For the tags I've stamped and clear embossed, used Brusho's for colour along with the addition of the cute die cuts.

I've used stamps from the Zen range for all my makes here, if you'd like any further info please just ask.

Hope you can join us for this month's challenge.

Have a good day, I'll be back soon with some Easter makes...

Crafty Hugs xKx

I'm also entering this post into the following challenges:-
Great Impressions Easter/Spring

New Lavinia Stamps Challenge starting today!

Morning All,

A scheduled post from me as I'll be travelling back from my weekend workshops in Bristol and Warwickshire.
Update and lots of photo's to follow! 

Today is the start of a new Lavinia Stamps challenge - Add some Gems.

The winner receives a Voucher worth £40 to spend in the 
The Lavinia Stamps Web shop. 
There's lots of inspiration from the rest of the DT over on the
Lavinia Stamps Challenge Blog.

You don't need to have a Blog,  Email entries are accepted.

I've been playing with Paper Clay from which I've made the tag below and the two card embellishments.

We'll be using this technique at my Kent workshop in May, the cards are super quick to make and great fun.
Further info craftyk@hotmail.co.uk

Back soon, crafty hugs xKx

With Sympathy...

It's Friday!
Phew, a very busy week but I've finally got back on track, still a fair bit to do but don't feel quite so overwhelmed.
I hate that feeling that you don't seem to be getting anywhere and so much to do don't you...

Anyway there's some exciting things in the pipeline for later in the year, I can't say anything at the moment but I'll be having a glass or two of something this weekend that's for sure...

So onto today's make, Sympathy cards, they're difficult cards to send anyway and making them can be a challenge too, keeping things simple is usually the answer I feel.

I've used the lovely Sizzix Layered Angel Wings die by Tim Holtz.
I'm a huge fan of Bigz dies, they're extremely versatile and
I just love 'em!
Anyhow I had inspiration to use them along with the Lavinia Stamps Floral Spray.
I used, as I have done quite a bit recently, the die as a stencil and blended distress inks in Frayed Burlap and Tea Dye through the "stencils"
They layer perfectly in top of each other to create gorgeous Angel Wings.
The Floral Spray then just sat nicely in the middle with a touch of Platinum Stickles to finish before adding the sentiment.

Sympathy cards, not cards we like to send but it's good to know there's a design we can turn to if needed.

Have a great day.
Crafty Hugs xKx

Bright and Beautiful...

Hey ho Monday morning again,

Hope you had a lovely weekend and not too much snow...

I had a wowser of a weekend after launching my new workshop project.
Such a lot too do so while you're reading this post I'll be cracking on with it all, all good though...

So today sees the start of the
Lavinia Stamps Challenge, Bright and Beautiful perfect looking ahead to Spring.
There was a great number of fabulous entries last month, so many very talented crafters out there.
Many congratulations to the lucky winner who receives a whopping £40 voucher to spend online in the Lavinia Stamps Shop.
Entries can be via your blog or by EMAIL, LINK HERE.
We look forward to seeing all the lovely artwork sent in and appreciate you taking part and joining us.
The rest of Design Team have created some wonderful inspiration to tempt you so please pop over to the BLOG and their own blogs to see what they've all been up to.

Anyway here are my offerings, I haven't use my alcohol inks for a while so they saw an airing with the laminator for the clock along with Fairy Pods, Bubbles, Dreams and delights sentiment.
The lovely Floral Spray and Those who don't believe sentiment was perfect for the distress ink hearts background on the second card.
Finally I used the Celtic Dream Timeless die for the circle card, cut out twice for the cats and applying Sparkle Medium. Mounted on to a background blended with Adirondack, Purple Twilight, a lovely vibrant colour!

All stamps and dies can be found on the website HERE

I hope you like these and they tempt you to join in.
I wish you a good week ahead and a lovely day.
Crafty Hugs xKx

Lavinia Stamps January Challenge, Anything Goes

Evening everyone,
The 2nd of January saw the start of the New Years
Lavinia Stamps blog challenge, nice and easy with the theme of "Anything Goes"
Now the prize is a fantastic £40 to spend in the
Lavinia Stamps Web Shop so well worth entering!
The rest of the DT have provided fantastic inspiration as always so why not pop over and have a look.
Please read the rules about using Lavinia products for your entry.
You don't need to have a blog either you can enter by email link Here
I'll leave you with my inspiration, an Ikea mirror,
Celtic Dream Elegance Die, some chalky paints and torn book pages.
Thanks so much for looking, crafty hugs xKx

Lavinia Stamps Challenge - Add a Flower

Here are the last of my Lavinia Stamps challenge makes of this year " Add a Flower"
For the first I've used Zen flower 1 and a flower from the
Zen small flower pack.
My second make uses Zen flower 2 and Fir Cones.

You don't need a blog to join in this challenge, you can enter by email too! 
Using Lavinia Stamps or the New Dies.
Here's the LINK!
The prize is a whopping £40 to spend in the online shop.
The DT members have super inspiration on The Blog so take a look and join in the fun, we'd love to see your entries.
Thanks so much for your visit today, I'll leave you with my makes xKx

Lavinia Stamps November Challenge

Good Morning!

Lavinia Stamps starts the new challenge for November today.

The theme, Snow and Sparkle.

The prize is a very generous £40 voucher to spend on the Lavinia Web site shop and with the launch

of the New Celtic Dream Dies it's a opportunity not to be missed!

The Design Team have provided wonderful inspiration over on the Challenge Blog.

I've made two cards adapting some ideas and techniques from my recent attendance to 

Finnabair's Workshops and another card using one of the New Celtic Dream dies.

So get crafting, it's so easy as we now accept Email Entries so it doesn't matter if you don't have a blog. 

All the details are HERE on the blog.
Thanks so much for looking today, have a great Sunday xKx