Penny Black and More - August challenge.

It is my turn from the Allsorts team to be the guest designer at Penny Black and More.

The theme for this month is 'Something beginning with B'

For my card I have used 

Penny Black - 40-439 - Good Neighbours

Birds, Bird Boxes and a tad of Blue

I paper pieced the boxes with a wood grain paper and then coloured the flowers to sort of match.

The backing mats are gold coloured and the DP is digital paper.
I did go over the background with some pale blue chalk but the photo hasn't really picked up on it.

Kath x

Use an embossing folder

That is the challenge over at Back to Basics and Beyond.

For my card I have used the EF - Daisy Trail by Creative Expressions

I embossed it twice on white card, cut down the first one to fit a 6 x 6 card blank and then cut down the second one to create a square to place on the first.

I then coloured all the dots on both squares with ProMarkers. Placed sticky pads on the small square and then matched it onto the larger square.

Coloured an old Craftwork Cards sentiment and placed as shown.

Unfortunately the photo does not really give a good impression.

I think a new camera will be on my Christmas list this year.

Thanks for popping by and any comments you are kind enough to leave.

Kath x

Allsorts challenge week 478/479 - Tags

Good Morning, it is the turn of the lovely Susan to host our challenge which will run for TWO WEEKS she has chosen the theme of TAGS.

This can be either just a tag or a tag on a card.

We have a new Sponsor for you this week which is.....

Lost Coast Designs are a rubber stamp company offering a sophisticated line of unique vintage, collage, shrine, angel and other images to excite your creative impulses. 

Split Coast Designs are also offering anyone who enters our challenge and places an order with them a discount, using the code Allsorts15. 

Here is my Tag

Here are a few more

I have used the Penny Black stamp Santa's Hat 

and the Penny Black die Santa's Hat cut out.
Bit of a poor photo as the red glitter strands cover up some of the tags but I hope you get the idea.

I really never make tags and I was quite stumped what to do (although we could make a card, with a tag on it and not just a tag)

Then this idea came into my head, so I made one and then got carried away and made some more. Because the colouring showed through on the back I used the die to cut the shape again out of white card and glued it on the back of the image.

These were going to be entered into the RD challenge for July but due to unforeseen circumstances the July challenge will not be starting until the 1st of August so while this post will still be current then I will be entering these tags on the 1st of August

Also because all the backing card for these tags were from scraps of white card I am also entering into Pixies Snippets Playground week 331

To be honest I was a bit hesitant about entering tags in both challenges but couldn't believe my luck when the Snippets Playground opened last week and the lovely Di had made a tag. Yipee.
Please do pop over to the challenge blog to see the lovely creations by my team mates.

Thanks for popping by and any comments you are kind enough to leave.

Kath x

A simple Stepper card

That is the challenge title over at Back to Basics and Beyond and this is the card I have made for this challenge and also a reminder that our 'Flowers all over' challenge over at Allsorts is still running for another week.

Papers are Lawn Fawn

Woodware stamp - Bold Blooms

Thanks for popping by and any comments you are kind enough to leave.

Enjoy the weekend.

Kath x

Allsorts challenge weeks 476/477 - Flowers All Over

Quite a change for us at Allsorts this week as the challenge will be running for two weeks due to the holiday season starting. It starts today and finishes on Friday 27th of July

Our lovely Mervi has chosen the theme of 

Flowers all Over

Our sponsor for the fortnight is

Swedish House Crafts.

I have sort of cheated this week as the papers are from Craftwork Cards - Embroidery paper pad.

My card uses the papers only as I thought it was too nice to cover with an image or cut out the flowers and layer them. So I just made a frame and added a wink of Stella on the flowers, which of course does not show on the photo's.

No sentiment as I thought these would be good for a few occasions.

Here are some more cards I made with these papers with different coloured frames.

Which is your favourite, answers on a postcard please.

Never thought I would ever say this but we had some very welcome rain yesterday, a small amount in the Morning and then quite a heavy down pour in the Evening.

Thank you so much for popping by and any comment you are kind enough to leave.

Kath x

Allsorts challenge week 475 - In my Garden

Another Saturday and another challenge over at Allsorts.

This week it is the turn of our lovely Brenda to choose the theme and she has chosen.

In my garden.

Our sponsor this week is Chocolate Baroque and this is the prize for one lucky winner.

What a lovely stamp

Another Woodware stamp this one is called Fab Flowers.
You have probably seen it before

I have paper pieced the images with LOTV/Nitwits papers.

The backing paper is Craft Creations shimmer paper.

Sentiment Craftwork Cards.

Thanks for popping by and for any comments you are kind enough to leave.

Kath x

Sweet Sketch Wednesday2

I was invited by my friend Anne to be a guest DT on the Sweet Sketch Wednesday2 challenge blog.

This is the sketch for the challenge.

I really like this sketch.

            I was given this image to use by the sponsor this week which is Sparkle n Sprinkle.
Thank you for popping by and any comments you are kind enough to leave.

Kath x