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Saturday, 2 May 2020

Butterfly birthday card

Just a quick update on the card I was making, finally finished it with a rub on butterfly that I added some glitter to (its one of those double sided sticky ones, I have had it loose for AGES).

and the rest? From my scrap box of course!! Yes, it is quite a big box BUT I have ordered it into small folders of similar colour ways so it does make it a bit quicker to see what I have!

What have you guys been making?

I hope to pop round a few blogs this weekend and check them out

Happy crafting

kyla

Saturday, 25 April 2020

Easter card

Hello peeps, just a quick update as realised I hadn't shared the Easter card I made.

It was an embossed background, hand coloured stamped image and a peel off (the left over wording) in the centre of the card. Nice and simple and uses more scraps up so all good!

Happy crafting

kyla

Wednesday, 4 March 2020

Happy hump day and another What's on your Workdesk Wednesday and check me out, yet again getting some crafting in!! To be honest, it is usually only 30 mins here and there at the moment and the weather has helped over the past few weeks as not been able to get out on the allotment much, but still, crafting!

So on my desk this week are some more stamped images I am working through to make some more cards, I seem to have an animal theme over the past couple weeks, no idea why, but I am going with it!

My "Man Bites Dog" cards this week are 'Blonde Star Stabs Tourist'-ooh not a great headline, but then to be honest they rarely are!

So are you going to bare all and share you desk?

If so all the details are over on the Queen of Desks blog here

Happy crafting

kyla

Friday, 28 February 2020

A few more cards

I finished my penguin cards!

I thought I would keep then nice and clean with just a little colour on the beaks, some shading and a sentiment. I then matted it onto a micro dotted background paper.

Then I was on a roll and found some embossed papers I made ages ago so decided to add some ribbon, flowers, leaves and pearls to another card!

I am hoping this productive run continues!

Happy crafting

kyla

Friday, 21 February 2020

Cards update

Hello peeps, just a quick update on the card I was making on Wednesday.

This is the hot air balloon card, not too much going on (nice and flat so perfect for posting overseas etc) but it used up one of my masterboards and a stamped image so I suppose thats 2 bits of card less in the room!!

This is the valentines card I made for my hubby. It was some leftover masterboard from ages ago and I die cut it and stitched round it. I used 2 backing papers one with the kiss and one with a guitar (since my hubby is a bass guitar player in the punk band The Setbacks).

2 makes and hopefully I can find time to make some more soon

kyla

Saturday, 25 January 2020

Christmas Cards update

Just a quick update, I have managed to make a few Christmas cards.

I like to have about 20 made by the end of January so that when I panic in November it gives me a 'phew' moment!

Most of them are upcycled cards we received this Christmas, which means they are reused as you cannot recycle cards with any glitter on them so at least they get a 2nd use!

So, not the amount I would like to have made but a good starter for ten at least!

Onwards and upwards

Kyla

Monday, 30 September 2019

Tag cards

Just a quick update on some cards I made recently.

I used some tags to mop up some inks I was using and left them to the side until inspiration hit me! Well, a few weeks later I suddenly remembered I had some purple flowers so decided to add them with a sentiment to the tags. They then sat there for a few more days until inspiration struck again and managed to get 3 cards out of one sheet of backing paper so happy with that.

Slowly but surely I am getting through some of my older stash, seriously, it always amazes me how much I have!

kyla

Sunday, 18 August 2019

Quick card update

I made a couple more cards, this time upcycling pictures from the back of a calendar I had the other year. I also added some glass fishes as embellishments.

Nice and clean cards which is unusual for me!

Kyla

Monday, 5 August 2019

Oriental cards

Finally made some cards recently, I know the recipient of one of these has opened it so I can publish it now.

I used pages from a book I bought as background papers, love oriental books as the papers are often really thin but smooth so take inks etc really well.

I also added images I matted and layered and some embellishments in the bottom right.

Now off to make more cards, I may be on a roll!!

kyla

Saturday, 25 May 2019

Japanese inspired card

I am trying to use up my stash as I have amassed far too much over the years.

This card is made using a page from a book (love the script) as the background and I matted and layered a Japanese image adding a dimensional topper (I cut the back post off so it sits a bit more flush against the page.

A clean card which for me is unusual (I nearly added some ink around the edges but resisted!)

Happy crafting

Kyla

Saturday, 30 March 2019

Birthday cow card

I made this card recently for my mates birthday.

I love the saying "call when its time for cake"!

The background is once again my paint sprays this time with some watercolour splashed over the top.

I fussy cut the cow out and mat and layered the sentiment onto green foiled card and edged the card with the chisel tip end of a promarker, which if you draw it along at an angle is really easy to get a nice even line all around your card.

Happy crafting

Kyla

Saturday, 16 March 2019

This is a really late post as I just realised that I forgot to blog about the cards I made in February for valentines day (or any other reason as they are always blank inside so can be multi use). I die cut some painted card and used my craft sewing machine (a small mini cheap one I bought a few years ago for paper crafting only rather than using my decent sewing machine as paper and card created a lot of fluff and blunts the needles SO quickly if you want to use them on fabric after-so I keep the 2 separate) to add a zig zag stitch all around the edge and left the threads dangling.

Then I added a strip of patterned card down the edge to bring it all together.

Quite plain and simple but I quite like the added dimension of the thread.

Kyla

Saturday, 10 November 2018

Another scrap card

Whilst I had my scraps out earlier this week I thought I would use the left over pieces from the card on Wednesday to make another scrap card.

To make this card I had to layer many thinner pieces of scrap card but as all the colours tie in nicely I think it works ok and the texture of the embossed piece (the pale) doesn't show up that great in the photo but it does add some nice dimension.

So another scrap card made and my scrap box is slowly reducing-I say slowly because I am not really sure I can see a difference even though I have made quite a few cards only using scraps over the past few weeks!!

Any other tips for scraps would be grateful received.

Happy crafting

Kyla

Wednesday, 7 November 2018

WOYWW

Hump day again so that means "What's on your workdesk Wednesday"

Not a photo of my whole desk today as most of it is covered with work (sigh...) but I have managed to finish another scrap card. This time using some more of the GudrunSjoden catalogue (the paper on the right) which is one of their new fabric designs.

I have also used a left over moth die cut (the waste paper left over with some inks and dyes dripped onto the card) which I layered over a stamped image and some green vellum. I also added some angelina fibres, embossed paper and a torn piece, so quite a few pieces of scraps used up.

No "man bites dog" cards this week as I forgot!

Happy crafting

Kyla

Saturday, 3 November 2018

Scrap card

I finally found time to make another scrap card.

This time the papers have come from a clothes catalogue!

One of my favourite designers is Gudrun Sjoden. She has one shop in the UK (in London) and I am a HUGE fan of her colourful, sustainable, organic clothing range (most of my clothes come from charity shops but this is the one indulgence I allow myself).

The catalogue is printed on lovely paper and I managed to use one of the pages to create a card with some flat backed toppers that I have had for AGES!

Another scrap card made-yet still the scrap box looks full!!!

Happy crafting

Kyla

Saturday, 13 October 2018

Wedding anniversary Card

Hello peeps, hope you are surviving the awful weather that seems to be plaguing so many parts of the world at the moment.

Just a quick update from me to show you the card I made my hubby for our 21st Wedding Anniversary last week.

Its a small card which I covered with a variety of rub-ons (don't often see white ones, quite like them) which I distressed first by applying them lightly to my apron before adding them to the card. I then added a topper and wrote some sloppy stuff inside (no photo of that!!)

Happy crafting

kyla

Monday, 8 October 2018

Clean scrap card and organised too

Just a quick update for another scrap card I made.

This one is unusual for me as it is quite a 'clean' card.

I don't tend to do neat and clean cards as I tend to be messy and end up flicking paint or ink over anything pale or clean (hence I tend to craft in dark clothes or wearing a special apron and old dust jacket of my dads that is already covered in paint and glue!

But here is proof! A clean and organised scrap card!

Woo-hoo! Long may this continue as I have a lot of card blanks to use up and the scrap box isn't feeling any lighter!

Happy crafting

kyla

Friday, 5 October 2018

Anniversary card

Just a quick update to show a card I made for my brother and sister in law for their wedding anniversary a couple of weeks ago (wanted to be sure it got there before I blogged it!)

My sister in law loves hummingbirds so I used a topper and created some depth using some foam sticky pads. I created the base card by embossing just one side of the card on my sizzix. I don't have any large embossing plates so had to work out where the repeat was in the plate so I could match up the pattern to cover the whole card. A bit fiddly but I like the effect as it adds some good depth and texture.

Happy crafting

Kyla

Saturday, 29 September 2018

Butterfly scrap card

Well I cannot believe it, another card made from my scraps box!

The butterfly is on painted card which I gesso'd over and used as a die cut butterfly a LONG time ago but I liked the left over piece-hence it was in my scraps box.

I attached it with my Tim Holtz tiny attacher as I love the fact that these staples go through so many different mediums and are easy to colour with permanent markers or alcohol inks

I matted and layered it onto a couple of pieces of scrap card and added a greeting and voila, another card for my collection!

At this rate I may see the light of day from my scrap box-or even the bottom of the box (doubtful to be honest)!

Happy crafting

kyla

Saturday, 22 September 2018

Kiwi calendar scrap card

So, if you saw my desk Wednesday you would have spotted some of these items on it.

I managed to use some of the bits from the scraps box (including one of the images from a calendar from last year from my kiwi family) to make another card with some legless iridescent card brads and edging the picture with my marker pens to add a little definition.

Ever so slowly I seem to be reducing my scrap box!

It does appear to be bottomless sometimes though!

Happy crafting

Kyla