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Hello lovely people,

Happy Friday and roll on the weekend, when I will be spending time with some family including two of my lovely nephews so I am really looking forward to that.  

But first...I have a Dies to Die For DT card for you and it's hopefully an 'uplifting' one for a Friday - lol!

TGF were one of my fave brands when I first got into stamping and I realised I haven't really used a lot of them recently so I 'acquired' a super cute set to play with.

I decided to paper piece the balloon, partly because colouring balloons scares me and partly because I think it looks so good..and then I thought she could have a dress to match because every girl likes to co-ordinate right?!

The dress paper is from the Cool Summer pad and the background papers are from the other pads as listed below.

I used my new MFT stencil for the clouds but I really must get myself some DIs for shading because at the moment I can only do the clouds with Copics and although I think they look ok, I think DIs would be better.

If I've tempted you with any of the lovely supplies I've used then you can go straight to the individual products via the thumbnails at the end of my post or just pop over to Dies to Die For and have a little browse around!

I hope you all have something good planned for the weekend :-)

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

Copic colours;
Skin: E000/E00/E21/E11/E04
Hair: E21/E25/E29

Lovely things I've used from Dies to Die For;
(link for matching die set coming soon!)

Mega-mini lift off - The Greeting Farm	Tiny hearts brights - My Favorite Things	Dots & Stripe Sorbet - My Favorite Things	Stitched rectangle scallop frames - My Favorite Things
Stitched clouds - My Favorite Things	Blueprints 13 - My Favorite Things	Stencil cloud - My Favorite Things

LinkDeli.com

Other ingredients;
Cool Summer 6x6 paper pad - Carta Bella

Up, up and away!

Hello lovely people,

Uh oh...Monday again!
I had a most relaxing weekend but it never seems long enough :-(

I made several cards over the weekend but before I get into those I wanted to share a card I made a few months ago for a work colleague who was leaving for a new job.
For one reason or another I just haven't got round to sharing it, but I think it's too cute to stay languishing in my archive so see what you think...

The basic idea for this rather CAS design popped into my head one night as I lay in bed!

I die cut the elephant using the matching die set and added him with foam pads and I also used foam pads for some of the balloons...I have to say that I love these cute patterned balloons :-)

The sentiment was computer generated; as you know, I love the typewriter style, and of course, it was an easy way to personalise the card.

I do hope you all have a good week ahead :-)

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

Card recipe;

Image: Adorable elephants stamp set - MFT (and matching die set)

DP: various scraps from stash

Sentiment: generated on computer

Copic colours;
Elephant body: T1/2/3/4/5
Elephant ears / toenails: R0000/000/00

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)