Kanban Thursday

Another week has passed and we're here again! I've gone for Kanban weddings this week with Mrs & Mrs, Mr & Mrs and Mr & Mr cards.

 KB159

8 x 8 blank card

901539 Love & Marriage paper pad

901601 Language of Flowers 12 x 12 paper pad

901602 Language of Flowers 12 x 3 paper pad

901531 Mrs & Mrs toppers

A4MRSI Silver Mirri card

Heart Sentiment

Gem 5mm Crystal AB

 KB160

8 x 8 blank card

ACEBU1WH Acetate Butterfly

ACEBU1WH Acetate Border

Gem 5mm Bling – Gold

900773 Romantic Script background card

901539 Love & Marriage paper pad

901526 A Day To Remember

A4MRGO  Gold mirri card

Occasions 1 Sentiment

KB162

BC200WH8 8 x 8 blank card

901539 Love & Marriage paper pad

901532 Mr & Mr toppers

A4MRSI Silver Mirri card

Gem 3mm Bling - Turquoise

I hope you like them and as always, I hope you find some inspiration from my work. If you are a Kanban fan then please join our We Love Kanban page on Facebook....the work in the gallery is just amazing! You can now buy all Kanban products from the new shop either in person or online. It's called Crafted By You and is based in Shipley, West Yorkshire.

Thanks for dropping by :)

Kanban Thursday

Good morning everyone, I don't know what is going on here but it is now Monday morning and I'm scheduling my post for Thursday! Oh and I'll let you into a little secret, I've made next week's Kanban DT cards too and will shortly start on my Funky Hand cards for Friday :)

 KB148

900790 Words Of Condolence – Sentiment

900793 Lilies On Black

900787 Flowers To Remember

A4MRSI Silver Mirri card

KB149

900790 Words Of Condolence – Sentiment

900796 Guardian Angels

CRD1487 Gilded Baroque Swirl

Ivory organza ribbon

KB150

900994 Aqua Harlequin back ground card

900974 A Vision Of Beauty – Pink

A4PRL240BK Black Pearl Card

900976 Beautiful Verses

P300GTDZB Glitz Card – Dense Black

900912 Pastel Bling – 5mm

The new Kanban online/bricks and mortar retail shop is now open and you can place orders online at Crafted By You and in person at Crafted By You, 114 Dockfield Road, Shipley, West Yorkshire, BD17 7SX You can also join in with a big gang of Kanban fanatics at We Love Kanban on Facebook. We look forward to seeing you soon.

Take care and thanks for dropping by.

Here's one I made earlier!!

Another scheduled post already, that's twice in one week. I have to take my youngest daughter up to Durham tomorrow to get a new passport. She used hers for ID in town and it has either been stolen or she has lost it. Apparently now the police have to send them straight back to Liverpool if any are handed in and if any of the regional passport offices get any handed in they are destroyed. They then sting you for £103 to fast track a new passport. She needs it urgently as she and a friend are going to a concert in Dublin in four weeks. I wouldn't mind but she has only had her (lost) passport for about 18 months :( Still, I suppose it gets me out of the house for a couple of hours and Durham is lovely. I haven't been for about 20 years so I suppose it will have changed a bit lol. My parents used to have a newsagents and tearoom in the town centre.

So more cards for you!

 I've had this Penny Black stamp for a long time and still use it quite a bit. I love the sentiment underneath it too.  

"A friend is like a good bra: hard to find, comfortable, supportive, always lifts you up, makes you look better, never lets you down or leaves you hanging, and always close to your heart."

Author: Unknown

 One of my favourite Lili Of The Valley images. Ribbon from Ribbon Oasis and finished with some small crystals.

 I didn't realise until I opened this that it was a Papermania card making kit, I thought it was just a decoupage kit. I will use all the elements separately though and get a few cards from the pack instead of just the one.

Another very quick and easy card to make. I bought this bassinet die cut years ago but haven't a clue where from. I think it was a pack of 10 and this might be the last one but I may come across others in my quest for organisation!! I put it all together onto a piece of white hammered card then mounted it onto a piece of the beautiful Kanban paper from the Sugar Buttons paper pad from Crafted By You. The ribbon, ric rac, teddy etc were all from my stock. I made this card for one of 'my couples' whose wedding stationery I made about two and a half years ago. Baby Alex is about 10 days old now....congratulations, Jo and Phil xx

That's it for now, I shall be back soon (unless I get kidnapped in Durham lol)

Happy New Year

I took last week off to try to sort my craft room etc before I started back at work this week but it didn't quite work out that way. My room is still a tip and as well as my DT work I took in two more wedding orders :)

Well here we are in another new year and we have a fabulous new design kit from Kanban. I know I keep harping on about it and that their 'mantra' is "Quality as standard" but the Kanban goodies and kits etc is just absolutely amazing, they really are beautiful as well as fantastic quality. The new online Kanban shop, Crafted By You is now live and new products are being uploaded almost daily so now if yoiu don't have a local bricks and mortar craft shop near you you can shop your little socks off online :) 

I think I mentioned before that I was changing my Kanban Thursday to Kanban Monday but I'm keeping Funky Hand to Friday and Kathy's Waffle will be on Wednesdays (I like the sound of Waffle Wednesdays :)) I don't know yet what I'm going to do with the other two week days but I'm sure I'll find something.

So here we go with my first Kanban Monday cards

KB132

6 x 6” card blank

CRD1517 Roses & Calligraphy

PCT1520 Birthday Gifts – Lilac

PCT1313 Anniversary – Sentiment

Kanban White satin/organza ribbon

KB133

6 x 6” card blank

900993 Pink Harlequin b/g card

MIR1273 Gilded Silhouette – Pink

900969 Pretty In Pink toppers by Yvette Jordan

900978 Special Sentiments by Yvette Jordan

PRL240BK Black Pearlescent card

900911 3mm Pastel Bling

KB134

6 x 6” card blank

Sugar Buttons paper pad

Prince Charming toppers

900911 Pastel Bling – 3mm

KB135

6 x 6” card blank

A4FOgm Gold Satin card

901159 Retro Music b/g card

901152 Retro Sounds Foiled b/g card

901147 Vintage Records toppers

Glossy Accents for the record (to give it a dull shine like the old records)

KB136

Gift box of your choice

Off cuts of card from card KB137

PCT1955 Beautiful Birds toppers

PRL 3mm – hot pink pearls

KB137

6 x 6 card blank

A4FOgm Gold Satin card

CRD1504 Bird Cages On Driftwood

PCT1955 Beautiful Birds toppers

PCT1950 Chelsea Elements

PRL 3mm – hot pink pearls

If you're looking to treat yourself to a little extra prezzy then look no further than Create & Craft.

Kanban have launched a new FOUR DAY DEAL with further shows at 

4.00 pm, 6. 00 pm, 8.00 pm and 11.00 pm today. Happy shopping :) 

Thanks very much for taking the time to read my blog, enjoy your evening and I'll be back tomorrow with more new cards :) x

A Card a Day Blogging

I am so sorry to Kathy and everyone else who has signed up for a Card a Day Blogging over on Facebook. As everything, I started out with good intentions and it all went down hill from there!! I've made the cards every day, in fact, since I finished the stationery on Thursday I have made 22 cards of which 10 are going to the NEC on Thursday to help showcase the new Kanban Baby, Crafted by You.

I'm going to schedule posts for the rest of the week and then if I make any more cards this week I can edit the posts and add the piccies. Why didn't I think of doing this months ago? I shall add my last week's Funky Friday card to this weeks post.

So let's make a start :)

This card was made for the daughter of a very special friend who is having a baby next year, I'm really pleased for them all.

 

The image is by Pink Petticoat and all the papers are from my scrap box. Do you know, I'm sure someone is coming in during the night and filling my scrap folders up. The only new sheets I've used for a long time are Funky Hand and Kanban and yet the contents aren't reducing at all. My mum and I sat and made a load of cards a few weeks ago for the troops abroad (I think we made about 150 in total and all the papers came from my scraps too and still they didn't go down).

I also sent another wedding stationery sample out 

I've just had an email this evening from the bride and both her and her fiance love them.

Post number one.....check :)
Tfl xx

Kanban Thursday

It's a really exciting time at Kanban HQ as, not only are there new kits abound there is also a brand new baby about to be born......(the details are copied and pasted from Emma's Crafty Challenge)

Onto this months Crafty Challenge
  'Challenge #10'
 the sponsor for this challenge is

'Crafted by You'

'Crafted by You' is the NEW retail division of Kanban Crafts.
They are going to be at the NEC, Birmingham on the 8th - 11th November on STAND C16
so please pop by if you can and say hello, we would love to meet you all.
A new website for 'Crafted by You' will soon be here too so you will be able to get all your Kanban crafty stuff and more on line.

The Prize
Karen is kindly giving a Kanban Crafty Goodie bag, thanks Karen.

The theme for this months challenge

is

'BROWN and BLUE'

Your project must be brown and blue, it can be a card, scrapbook page or 3d project.

We also have new members to add to our fab Design Team Welcome ladies (you all know who you are but as the announcement hasn't been made yet I can't name them ;) 

Right, onto my cards

PCT2283 Embossed Polka Dot & Plain White Scallop Circles

PCT9794 The Classic Textile Collection

900787 Flowers To Remember

CON9075 Celebration Romance A6 Aperture card

Silver mirri card

Acetate butterflies

White Satin/organza ribbon

Bling 3mm AB

Bling 3mm AB

Bling 5mm AB

Bling GE|M 5mm

900373 Holly – Red

900726 Santa Cutie

Ivory Spiders Web

Thanks for looking :)

Pick of the Day

Just take a look at the new kit from Kanban Crafts being show cased on Ideal World at 9.00 pm with Kathryn :)

Also, Kanban Crafts are opening a new retail arm of the business called 'CRAFTED by YOU'  and they will be show cased at the NEC in Birmingham (on stand C16) on 8th Nov. 

Another bit of news is that I have been invited to stay on the Kanban UK design team and was chuffed to little mint balls to be asked. Oh and I did say yes :)

TFL

Kanban Thursday

Well, Thursday has jumped up and hit me again without me realising it so it's KB Thursday again already. I had my DT with Emma nice and early this week (pats me on the head lol) and plan to do the same again this week instead of rushing them on Sunday! I'm really looking forward to making my DT cards this week as I'm going to break out my new "Thinking of you" kit which arrived on Tuesday and all I've had time to do with it so far is take it out of the box. 

If you need any inspiration when using the Kanban products, as well as tuning in to Create and Craft to see Dawn, Karen or Kathryn on the shows, you can visit the Kanban blog, the Kanban Facebook page

Create and Craft with Dawn
Saturday 27th at 12 noon and 7pm 

 Pick Of The Day with Kathryn 
Tuesday 30th 9pm and 11pm on Ideal World
Wednesday 8am,10am,1pm,4pm and 7pm on Ideal World
Wednesday 12 noon,3pm and 5pm on Create and Craft.

More details to follow!

So, my cards for this week

 White card blank

CRD1052 Festive Holly – Blue B/G card

900371 Christmas Sky – Blue B/G card

900111 Winter Wonders - Toppers

Silver Mirri card

 

900105 Christmas borders

CRD1029 Christmas Wrap – Red

900484 Christmas Angels printed acetate

900468 Fancy Frames - Gold

Right must get on. I've broken the back of my 'to do' list but I have completely run out of cards at home so I need to restock! But before I do I have a little news to share....

NEW Retail Division of Kanban ....

As you know Kanban is a trade company but we are pleased to announce that there is now a retail division of Kanban called 'Crafted by You' where you can get all your crafty products, not just Kanban.

We will be at the Hobbycrafts Show at the NEC in Birmingham on the 8th - 11th November on stand number C16 so please pop by and say hello if you can, we would love to see you all.

There will be a website for 'Crafted by You' coming very soon too, we will let you all know.

For more updates you can also follow 'Crafted by You' on Twitter@craftedbyyou.

Take care, back soon.