I want ice cream!

Hello lovely people,

It's time for a new challenge at In The Pink and our theme this time is...

GOOD ENOUGH TO EAT

So, anything with some tasty treats on it will do and LOTS of pink of course!

This hot weather has definitely been making me want ice cream so I just had to use this fab image and some lovely summery feeling DP.
This is a pretty simple layout for a change but I did still sneak in a few flowers :-)

Little Wryn looks pretty pleased here with her lovely big ice cream... is it making your mouth water?!

Card recipe;
Image: Sweet Treat Wryn - Tiddly Inks
DP: Coffee in the Arbour - Maja Design (available from Live and Love Crafts)
Dies: Leaf and swirl - Magnolia, Precious stars - Memory Box (just used the bow)
Flowers: Wild Orchid Crafts
Sentiment: For you circular sentiments - LOTV

Copic colours;
Skin: E000/00/21/11/04 & R20
Hair: Y21/YR23/E15/18
Top: YR30/Y11/Y21
Skirt / shoes: E41/42/43
Ice cream cone: YR30/E40/43/44
Ice cream: RV91/32/34
Flowers: RV34/17
Ground: W0/1/2/3/4/5

If you haven't already done so then do pop over to In The Pink and check out the mouthwatering creations from the rest of the Pink Ladies.

Thanks for visiting and I really appreciate any comments that you leave,

 

Challenges I am entering;

1.  Simon Says Stamp (anything goes)
2.  As You Like It (fave die - leaf and swirl because it is so elegant and is very versatile because you can cut it up and just use parts of it)

Criss cross Tilda

Hello lovely people,

It's time for a new challenge at Top Tip Tuesday and our theme this time is...

2 OR MORE RIBBON/TWINE

We are sponsored by 2CuteInk who are offering the winner 2 images of their choice.

I had a sudden desire to do another criss cross card and thought I'd break into my new Maja Design papers too... oooh, these are *really* gorgeous!

As you can see I have been practicing my skin and hair colouring again with this cute Tilda.

I made a large tag to slide into the pocket of the criss cross design; this section of the DP with the sentiment across it was just perfect for it!

Here you can see the tag completely removed revealing the fancy label shape on the tag and even more pretty DP inside the card!

Card recipe;
Image: Tilda catching stars - Magnolia
DP: Coffee in the Arbour - Maja Design (available from Live and Love Crafts)
Dies: leaf and swirl and Tilda lace - both Magnolia
Tag: Sentiment tags - LOTV
Twine: The Ribbon Girl
Flowers: Wild Orchid Crafts
Satin ribbon: from stash

Copic colours;
Skin: E000/00/21/11/04 & R20
Hair: E31/23/27
Dress: B21/93/95/66
Crown: W00/1/3/5
Socks: W00/1/3
Shoes: E40/41/42/44
Wand: W3/5/7
Stars: YR30/Y21/35
Ground: W0/1/2/3/4/5

I hope you will pop over to Top Tip Tuesday where we have some fabulous creations from the rest of the team and a wonderful box card tutorial.

Thanks for visiting and I really appreciate any comments that you leave,

 

Challenges I am entering;

1.  A Little Bit Crafty (child's play)
2.  Tilda's Town (use dies/punches)
3.  A Gem of a Challenge (for a child/baby)

Shabby elegance

Hello lovely people,

Thank you to everyone who is here with me on my new blog and I really appreciate you taking the time to switch over.

I have had a few days off work and have been enjoying the gorgeous sunshine, the best bit was the mini Magnum I had earlier this morning in the garden - yum!
I have still found time to do some crafting especially as I feel like I'm on a bit of a roll right now!

Today I have a rare non-DT card just so I can enter a few challenges and because I really wanted to use my new collection of Pion papers!  They are so beautiful and lent themselves perfectly to a shabby chic card with a really soft colour palette.

All the DP panels have been distressed, inked and stitched plus I added a little swirl stamp detail to two corners of the main panel.

Some of you will already know that I am taking the class on skin and hair colouring at Kit and Clowder so I chose this image as a good one to practice on.  Plus she is just such a fab image and I haven't used her for a while... not surprising given how many stamps I have - lol!

For anyone who is interested to see the difference the colouring classes are making, I thought I would share my previous version of this image, coloured in May 2013.  The shading on the clothing is not particularly better in the new version but I feel there is much more depth, contrast and texture in the skin/hair.  And she has a nose in the latest version!

I had fun layering up the elements across the front of the card, gathering the lace slightly to add dimension and finishing with the roses and a couple of pearls sprinkled into the mix.

Copic colours;

Skin: E000/00/21/11/04 & R20

Eyes: B0000 & B91/93

Lips: R20/22

Hair: E50/53/35

Shirt: BG70/72/93

Top: T0/2

Trousers: E81/42/55

Hat: T0/1/2/4

Flowers: YR30/Y21/35

Grass: YG61/G21/YG63/67

Card recipe;

Image: Country Mama - Saturated Canary (now retired so unavailable)

DP: Shoreline Treasures - Pion (available from Live and Love Crafts)

Lace: Lucy - The Ribbon Girl

Twine: natural button twine - The Ribbon Girl

Flowers: Wild Orchid Crafts

Sentiment: Mini clear sentiment set - Kaisercraft

Corner swirl stamps: Grunge corners - LOTV

Thanks for popping in and I hope you have all had a lovely weekend :-)

 

Challenges I am entering;
1.  Kit and Clowder (shabby chic)
2.  Papertake Weekly (lace and pearls)
3.  Divas by Design (3+ layers)
4.  A Creative Romance (anything goes +/- Happy Birthday)
5.  Bunny Zoe Crafts (layers)

A birthday hop

Hello lovely people,

We have a new challenge at All Dressed Up combined with a special surprise birthday blog hop!

Today is the very talented Wendy’s birthday; for those who don’t know Wendy is the owner and artist behind All Dressed Up.

All the team would like to wish Wendy a very happy birthday and thank her for her amazing images, and for everything she does.

We normally have our new challenge on the 15^th, but as today is Wendy’s birthday we wanted to do a surprise birthday blog hop, along with our challenge.

Firstly the challenge, where the theme is 'Anything Goes' as long as it features one of our images or digital papers. Here is my card for the challenge;

This was a card that just came together so easily; it helps when you have such gorgeous artwork to play with!

Card recipe;

Image: Little Flower Girl - All Dressed Up

DP:Vintage Autumn and Frost Basics - Maja Design (available from Live and Love Crafts)

Hessian: 68mm natural fine hessian - The Ribbon Girl

Flowers: Wild Orchid Crafts

Die cuts: Filigree corner - La La Land Crafts

Tag: set 24, sentiment tags - LOTV

Copic colours;

Skin: E000/00/21/11/04 & R20

Hair: E21/25/29

Hat: E40/41/42/43

Dress / flowers: RV91/93/95

Flower centres: YR30/31

Bows: G40/YG61/63

Bird: E44/47

This is such an easy theme and we cannot wait to see all your fantastic entries, the winner will receive 3 images of their choice from the Store :-)

Onto the blog hop and below is a list of the Dressy Girls for you to hop around….we have a very big team here so you have until  1^stJuly midnight GMT to hop round them all.

At the end of the hop two random Dressy Girls will pick someone who has visited and commented on their hop card to receive 2 images of their choice from the Store.

Happy hopping!

All Dressed Up Blog

Marilyn

Anne

Nancy

Lyndsey

Viv

Keeley

Mandz

Rita

Kat (you are here!)

Bettina

Stacey

Maritha

Christine R

Tracy

Joey

Sarah

Holly

Deb

  

The challenge and hop will run until Midnight GMT 1^st July and the winners of the hop and challenge will be announced on 3^rd July on the All Dressed Up blog.

**PLEASE NOTE ANY ENTRIES NOT USING AN ALL DRESSED UP IMAGE OR PAPER WILL BE REMOVED FROM THE CHALLENGE**

We cannot wait to see all your creations, why not stop by our Facebook Group and share them there too.

I hope you are all enjoying some sunshine and have a lovely weekend whatever you are up to :-)

Thanks for visiting and I really appreciate any comments that you leave,

Hugs,

Kat xx

Challenges I am entering;
1.  Live and Love Crafts (summer garden)
2.  Bunny Zoe's Crafts (layers)

3.  Sweet Stampin' (say it with flowers)

Flower fairy

Hello lovely people,

It's time for a new challenge at In The Pink and our theme this month is...

FLOWER GARDEN

 So we want to see all those beautiful floral creations...in PINK of course!

Apologies for the wonkiest photo ever, it was just one of those days!  I have crammed in the flowers though, on the image, the DP and some lovely 3D flowers too :-)
I have had some hessian ribbon for a little while now and decided it was time to use it, and I do love it teamed with the seam binding and twine - both rustic and pretty.

I have just started the skin and hair colouring class at Kit and Clowder and whilst I have a long way to go I feel I have made some improvements already...like the hair on this little lady...what do you reckon?
This is just one of the many gorgeous new fairy stamps at LOTV; I could so have bought them all but had to resist!

Card recipe;
Image: Petal - LOTV
DP: Yours truly - Pebbles
Hessian / twine: The Ribbon Girl
Seam binding (pink tulip) / flowers: Wild Orchid Crafts

Copic colours;
Skin: E000/00/21/11/04 & R20
Hair: E21/25/29
Dress: RV32/81/83/85
Wings / stockings: RV000/00/32
Shoes: T0/2/4
Flower: E40/RV000/00/32 and R32/81/83
Leaf: G16/19/28

If you haven't already done so then do pop over to In The Pink and check out the gorgeous creations from the rest of the Pink Ladies.
Please also go and leave some love for our very special Pink Lady Christine C who is very sadly leaving the Pink Palace this week; you will be much missed Christine.
However, we do have a new Pink Lady as well so please go and give a warm welcome to Stacey, and check out her gorgeous first creation :-)

Thanks for visiting and I really appreciate any comments that you leave,

Hugs,

Kat xx

Challenges I am entering;
1.  The Ribbon Girl (lovely Lili - girlie)
2.  A Gem of a Challenge (use gingham ribbon/DP)
3.  A Creative Romance (anything goes +/- birthday)

Time for cake

Hello lovely people,

It's time for a new challenge at Top Tip Tuesday and our theme this time is...

SHAPED CARDS

We are sponsored by Shape EZ who are offering our prize winner 2 Shape EZ templates of your choice.

I have used one of the templates from Shape EZ, which come as both jpg/png files for cutting out by hand and svg files for electronic die cutting machines.  I had to go for the cutting by hand option and yes, it was a little fiddly but worth it for such a lovely shaped design.

Just as I was about to start making this card I was asked for a special 40th birthday card and thought this fab cupcake was perfect for it, hence the numbers!

I loved going through all my pretty embellishments to add detail and particularly love how the ribbon/twine/flower/tag combo works :-)

Oh, and after making this card I remembered that I have a lovely cupcake shape on one of my Cricut cartridges... I might do it that way next time!

Card recipe;

DP: freebie with a magazine
Lace: from Live and Love Crafts but no longer available
Seam binding / twine: The Ribbon Girl
Flowers: Wild Orchid Crafts
Numbers: cut on my Cricut
Tag: set 24, sentiment tags - LOTV
Pearls: from stash

I hope you will pop over to Top Tip Tuesday and check out the fabulous creations and of course, the top tips from the rest of the team.

Thanks for visiting and I really appreciate any comments that you leave,

Hugs,

Kat xx

Challenges I am entering;

Cheeky monkey

Hello lovely people,

Woohoo, it's new release time at All Dressed Up and we have a fabulous selection of images for you.  Just take a look...

3 Little Summer Girls

Best Teacher Ever

Cheeky Monkey

Prom Princess

I've got a bit of a stationary theme going on with my card; I started with the paperclip... and then the brad seemed like the perfect way to add the tags... and then I wanted to attach the twine without wrapping it round the panel so out came the stapler!

I chose to use Cheeky Monkey to continue with my challenge to myself to make more masculine cards... and because he is super cute!

Card recipe;
Image: Cheeky Monkey - All Dressed Up
DP: By the sea - Maja Design
Tags: set 24 - Sentiment tags - LOTV
Twine: from The Ribbon Girl
Brad: from stash

Copic colours;
Body: E41/42/43 & E43/44/47 for tummy/nose
Inside ears: R000/00/01
Skateboard / hat: W3/R27/46/89 & B34/37 & W5/7/9 for wheels
Ground: W0/1/2/3/4

Do drop in at All Dressed Up to see what the rest of the Dressy Girls have created; they are all stunning! While you're there, check our our current 'Bling it up' challenge and we'd love to see you join in for a chance of winning 3 images of your choice!
Don't forget to swing by our Facebook Group to share your creations and chat to fellow All Dressed Up lovers :-)

Thanks for visiting and I really appreciate any comments that you leave,

Hugs,

Kat xx

Challenges I am entering;
1.  Simon Says Stamp (Father's Day or masculine)
2.  Divas by Design (red, white and blue)

Coming soon...

Hello lovely people,

This blog will be 'going live' on 18th June and will have a link to my Etsy store where you will be able to purchase my handmade cards.

I hope you will join me then :-)

 

Balloons

Hello lovely people,

Here we go again with a new challenge at Crafty Little Fairies and our theme this month is...

SPOTS &/OR STRIPES

We are thrilled to have FIVE fabulous sponsors this month:

THE RIBBON GIRL

MARIANNE DESIGN

IVA NOVA CHEST

HANDY HIPPO

CRAFTY RIBBONS

I took advantage of the lovely birthday discount recently to stock up on LOTV stamps, a mixture of old and new.  Today I have used an older stamp but I thought it was a very versatile design and I've teamed it with some of the fab LOTV papers.  Oh, and the sentiment is from a LOTV set I got in my little spending spree as well :-)

I think I've got the theme covered with spots and stripes on the DP and the image!

Card recipe;
Image: Patchwork bunch of balloons - LOTV
DP: Petal Fresh - LOTV
Sentiment: set 7, for you circular sentiments - LOTV
Dies: leaf and swirl - Magnolia Doohickey
Seam binding / twine: The Ribbon Girl

Copic colours;
Fur: E40/41/42/43
Pads on feet: R000/30
Nose: E43/44
Balloons: YG61/63/G24 & B91/93/95 & W00/0/1

If you pop over to Crafty Little Fairies you can check out the fabulous creations from my teamies.

Thanks for visiting and I really appreciate any comments that you leave,

Hugs,

Kat xx

Challenges I am entering;
1.  Papertake Weekly (amnything goes +/- summer)

Scrap n' Art with All Dressed Up

Hello lovely people,

Thank you for stopping by and I have a very special project to share today as one of my cards has been published in the latest issue of the Scrap n' Art online magazine.

Scrap n' Art is an electronic magazine packed with articles, tutorials and inspiration all the paper crafter and has a reader base of over 20,000.

Wendy Burns and three brand new, exclusive All Dressed Up images are being featured in the current issue plus several of the design team have submitted projects.

The three exclusive digis are:

Love My Teddy

Princess for a Day

Too Good to Eat

These three digital images are currently available only by subscribing to Scrap n' Art.  Your subscription entitles you to a monthly magazine for $24/year or you can try it for $5 for one month and you can access tutorials, inspiration, editorials and downloads.

For my card, I used another cute image currently available in the All Dressed Up Etsy store called Little Flower Girl.  I went for a taste of summer with this design, choosing bright colours and florals.

I just LOVE this little lady's gorgeous huge sun hat although it was a little bit of a challenge to colour!  I cut out an extra flower for her hat and popped it up on a 3D pad, then added liquid pearls to the middle of the flowers in the basket.

I've used my fave twine and flowers combo to embellish; I'm still loving the 3D flowers right now!

One more shot from the side so you can see the stepper design I used;

Card recipe;

Image: Little Flower Girl - All Dressed Up

DP: Park Bench - Echo Park

Dies: leaf and swirl - Magnolia Doohickey, butterfly set - Impression Obsession

Edge punch: Scallop dot - Martha Stewart

Flowers: all from Wild Orchid Crafts

Twine: ivory button twine - The Ribbon Girl

Copic colours;

Skin: E0000/50/000/51/21 & R30

Hair: E41/Y21/E42/E43

Dress / hair bows: BG10/11/13

Bag / ground: W0/2/3/4

flowers / hat / bow on bag: Y15/19/YR14

Leaves: G46

Bird: E42/43

I am back from my holiday now and feeling very refreshed but that will probably only last until I get into work on Monday morning and see my inbox!

Thanks for visiting and I really appreciate any comments that you leave,

Hugs,

Kat xx