Kanban Thursday

"Crafted By You is the new retail division to Kanban Crafts. We will be exhibiting at the NEC 8-11th November stand C16 so please pop by say hi and grab yourself a bargain from our many show offers!

You can also come and meet Kanban's very own Dawn Wheeler (as seen on TV) who will be on the stand everyday to give you any hints and tips.

We will be exhibiting for the very first time and after the show look out for our brand new website that launches on 14th November (details coming soon).

Buy at show, buy in store, buy online.

We look forward to seeing you soon."

I have been a lucky, lucky girl today  as I ordered the new Sugar Buttons kit designed by Kathryn Sturrock and produced by Kanban last week and it finally came this morning. I only need one word to describe it and that is ...stunning! Well done Kathryn. I'm a little bit miffed at Create and Craft though as I ordered the jar of buttons too but that hasn't arrived. If it doesn't come tomorrow I will not be a happy bunny.

So onto my cards (which have gone down to the NEC for the Kanban  displays)

 Bloomingdale Kit

 (Romance Kit)

 150 x 150cm card blank

Kanban insert (the sheet is in all of the kits)

Silver mirri card

PCT9794

Acetate butterflies

Bling GEM5mm & GEM3mm AB

Die cuts

 (My Thoughts Are With You kit)

Cream square card blank

Gold mirri card

900790 Words Of Condolence

900984 Photographic lilies

CRD1487 Gilded Baroque Swirl

PRL 5mm Pearls – black

(My Thoughts Are With You kit)

 White square card blank

900793 Lilies On Black

900786 Guardian Angels

900970 Words Of Condolence

Gold mirri card

Bling - GEM3mm Black

Steampunk Stepper Card

 A3 card for Step card

Industriana paper pad

Gold mirri card

Mink pearlescent card

PCT2124 Steam Punk – Ribbons

PCT2119 Amalia topper

PCT2123 Foil Sentiment – Steampunk 

STMP AS6007 – Keys

Bling GEM5mm AB

8 x 8” square card blank

PCT2115 Just The Two Of Us topper

Industriana paper pad

Mink pearlescent card

White pearlescent card

PCT2123 Foil Sentiment – Steampunk 

PCT2091 Cream polka dot roses

PCT2092 gold mirror polka dot  roses

(Bloomingdale Kit)

PCT2355 Meadow Frames - sentiment tag on card

PCT1950 Chelsea Elements - roses

PCt1955 Beautiful Birds - toppers

CRD1504 Bird cages on Driftwood

GEM 3mm Bling

Gold Mirri card

Pink Pearlscent card

Paper string

Flat packed gift box of your choice

I think I'm just about caught up with what I can show you, so this is a good place to stop.

Thanks for looking, bye for now :)

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.

Kanban Thursday

'Tis that time again peeps and I just have to let you know that I am still really enjoying working with the Kanban goodies, the quality is just amazing!

KB025

8” x 8” card blank

PCT2116 Estelle toppers

CRD1698 Simply Fabulous – Gilt Damask

PCT2091 Cream Polka Dot Roses

PCT2092 Gold Polka Dot Roses

PCT2123 Foil Sentiment – Steampunk

Cream spotty glitter card

Gold mirri card

Gem 5mm

KB026

Small white round scalloped card blank

PCT2321 Kandy core- Small Ivory Roses

Gold mirri card

PRL 5mm ivory

PRL 3mm ivory

Brown organza ribbon

KB027

15mm round scalloped card blank

900172 London Landmark Toppers

PCT1912 Victoriana Embellishments

Red card

White ric rac

GEM 3mm

Red bow

Punched butterflies

Gold ribbon

If you are looking for inspiration for your Kanban products then go to Kanban Crafts on Facebook and the Kanban Crafts blog

Thanks for looking.

Rosie Dee's

Challenge # 78

By the time you read this we will be thinking of coming home from the lovely island of Zakynthos (Zante) where we have been for the last two weeks. Thank heavens for scheduling posts (and thanks Rosie for showing me how to do it)

It's my turn to host the second challenge for August and this time I decided that as it is my wonderful hubby's birthday next month we would have "One for the boys" but for the big boys in your life not the small ones as our men often get forgotten in our card making.

I fell in love with this image on Mo Mannings blog and bought it just after DH's birthday last year. It is totally appropriate in my opinion, why? you ask. Well, he is called The Engineer, subtitled Matthew on his train........hubby's name is Matthew and he works for a rail freight company!!! How's that for coincidence lol

I coloured the image with Promarkers and mounted and layered it onto assorted papers from my scrap drawer, the sentiment was printed on the lap top, card Candy is from Craftwork Cards and the assorted ribbons are from my stash.

All I've got to do now is remember where it is nearer his birthday......this is the reason I usually make it the night before his birthday (yeah right!) :)

Thanks again for playing along with our brilliant challenges and don't forget to hop over and have a look at the lovely work by the DT.

New challenge

Yes folks, it's that time again, we only do a challenge once a fortnight but they seem to come round really quickly...I'm obviously a lot older than I think I am because is disappearing fast lol). There is a new challenge this evening on Rosie-Dee's blog and it's Saskia's turn to set them this month. She has chosen the theme of "So Yummy" for the challenge for the first half of the month then another equally fab challenge for the second challenge of the month (but you'll have to wait for that one :))

Saskia has also donated a fabulous prize for the month of two gorgeous stamps from Cuddly Buddly

 

and here's a sneaky peek of my card

So don't forget to hop on over to Rosie-Dee's and join us in the new challenge :)

Tfl

Rosie-Dee's

It's that time again....it doesn't seem two minutes since the last challenge yet it has been a fortnight! It's Brenda's turn this month to set the challenges and she has chosen "Think Spring" as her theme (and I am sat in the most brilliant sunshine while I'm writing this). The challenge this week is sponsored by Sir Stampalot.

Now for a sneaky peek at my project (I can't call it a card cos it isn't :)) which was commissioned for a lady's 80th birthday on Wednesday. She shares my birthday but she is ever so slightly older than me lol

So.....why not hop over to RosieDee's and take a look at the fabulous DT cards....and maybe join in and play with us :)

I'll be back later with some more of Carolyn's challenges

TFL

Busy little bee

and it's been a really good day for staying all warm and cosy in my craft room, why.......:)

My daft youngest showing off her sexy wellies lol. I was so surprised when it started snowing again this afternoon. It's stopped now so hopefull it will soon disappear.

So today I have made:

a commissioned birthday card

 

 

The small book sits in the pocket on the front of the card and contains a couple of colouring plane pictures and a set of instructions as to how to make a paper aeroplane! 

The numbers are hand cut from DCWV papers

planes are peel offs on acetate

sentiment is a Papermania rub on

image is from a free colouring site

ribbon from stash

wedding invitations

a couple of samples

and a couple of DT cards. I've also just got to finish a couple of extra invitations for an order and tomorrow I'm playing with beads :).

Sleep tight!

Late again!

Oh dear, I'll be getting my bum smacked!!
This is a sneaky peek of my dt card for the new challenge on Rosie Dee's blog. If you fancy saving my bacon please go over and join in :)) (or at least go and see what the other super talented dt members have come up with for the new challenge!)

TFL

Rosie Dee's

Challenge last week was to follow a sketch and this is the DT card I made

Materials: image and paper - Pink Petticoat, ProMarkers, MS punch, Diamond Glaze, flat back SA pearls.

Don't forget to check the blog tomorrow evening for the new challenge.
BFN

RD Peek

I can't believe it's already a week since I blogged. I have been really busy but never gave it a thought even though I managed to incorporate another couple of challenges into my work. I've just seemed to have gone from one job to anotherwith no time in between. I still have some commissions to do before I go away on Thursday plus some dt work which I will schedule for when I'm away just incase there isn't a broadband connection is darkest Cornwall LOL Here is the card I made for last week's challenge over at Rosie-Dee's The challenges this month are all based around holidays and the month started off with a sketch.

Papers - My Mind's Eye
Image and sentiment - Rubbadubadoo (many moons ago) coloured with ProMarkers
Ribbon - Ribbon Oasis

and now for my sneaky peek for this week's challenge

Please hop over at about 6 oclock to see the new challenge and the big reveal. The DT will have worked their little socks off creating something to wow you so we would love it if you could show us your support and join in too :)

TFL

Rosie-Dee's

Challenge #42 is the first challenge which the design team have taken part in and we are all a bit giddy about it. I feel really chuffed to have been chosen :)

The challenge this week is a sketch from Rosie (which I flipped round)
I had my paper on the table last night after making another card and just fell in love with this colour combination. Paper - Stampin Up Blue card from stash Ribbon and ric rac - Ribbon Oasis Butterfly - Sizzix Beads and bits from stash

We would love to see your take on the sketch so please hop over and join us and see all the DT work in one place for the first time :)

PS This is the pink card I showed on the other sneak peek.........I made it last week and decided this morning that I didn't like it so made this one LOL

TFL

Ps The post probably doesn't make sense any more but I will explain on Saturday *oops!*

Debbi Moore

My DT kit this month was Debbi's kit of the month and I really enjoyed using it. The floral stamps are just gorgeous and stamp brilliantly. I had shades of pink embossing powders and pink and purple assorted ribbons and I could've gone on making forever!!

This card was made by stamping onto cream card using black Versafine ink and colouring with Marvy pens. I then tied the purple ribbon round two squares of glitter card and mounted them onto the card and overlaid the image with it's silver mirror card mat.

This next card is a plain and simple envelope card. They always look difficult but impressive especially using the rich colours, but it couldn't be easier and once you've made one you can roll them out no problem :) I use 144 x 144 mm square cards and cut the back of one to measure about 2 cms. Join the two cards together with DS tape or glue and cut both fronts on the diagonal as per my card. Decorate the fronts as required, I've used a combination of gold mirror and glitter board and stick to the bottom of your card to make the envelope. Cut a band to go across the front and deorate and finally make the insert using the piece of waste card which was cut from the back.

Another easy card, this time it's an accordian card. I stamped four squares of orange card using the corner daisy stamp with a Versamark pad and brushed the images over with Perfect Pearls-this gives the image a lovely shiny look and doesn't detract from the main image. I stamped and coloured the main image and mounted it onto gold card again and used a piece of bright pink ribbon, tied round the middle of the left hand side, to hold the sentiment.

My final card for now is an acetate card but made with acetate on the front rather than the whole card, which I usually do. Once I'd cut off the front panel of the card leaving a piece of approximately 3 cms, I stuck the acetate onto the outside using DS tape. Add the 'awning' piece across the top of the card and you can't see the tape! My piece of 'Someone Special' glitter card is from Debbi's web site too. It's a mixed pack and is absolutely beautiful. Don't forget that when you are using acetate to add something to the back of your embellishments or the adhesive will show. I always polish mine with a soft cloth when I've finished, just to get rid of any finger marks :)

I hope you like my efforts!

TFL

Doubling up!

I've decided to double up on challenges this week as life is getting a little busy again at the mo (I'm writing this while watching Strictly - I've never thought of taking my lap top into the lounge before duh!) My friend went on holiday today and I am running her hair and nail salon while she's away! (That sounds so impressive but I just answer the phones and make jewellery :))

Anyway, the challenge I combined were Friday Sketchers , which is the sketch below (which I rotated) and Stamp Something We have a new challenge for you today, it's called Something For the Birds. Make a project using bird images; any types, sizes, shapes, and colors.

The holly backing paper is from one of Debbi Moore's new cds and it is just gorgeous and the greeting stamp is one of Debbi's too (from my new design kit which is full of the most adorable acrylic Christmas stamps!) :) The patterned paper is Season of Joy from Scrapworks and the little bird is by Imaginisce........I just stamped it three times and paper pieced it together.

Well as I mentioned above, here's where life gets busy again...........we are out for lunch tomorrow, Monday is DS's birthday and as well as not having made his cards yet we are going out for tea too, I'm at the shop from Tuesday till Saturday, I got my new DT kit from Debbi yesterday and I still have about 50 gazillion Christmas cards to make as well as a couple of personal planners (but not weddingy) and eldest DD's wedding invitations to make too:) It's a good job I work best like this LOL

On a weddingy note, we bought her dress today and it is just absolutely beautiful........it's ivory with a burgundy trim and I love it!

I hope you all enjoy what's left of the weekend.

Take care and TFL.