Kanban Thursday

I hope you have managed to stay warm and dry wherever you are with all of the appalling weather we have had this week.

Just a very quick post today as I have to go and have blood taken at 8.30 then it's back home to start emptying our bedroom ready for the new carpet arriving today. I have windows to clean and curtains to iron and furniture to move in DS's room as we have decorated his room too this week. I think we must be a bit mad decorating two rooms but both are finished now....roll on tomorrow night when I can fall into our lovely new bed :)

Anyway, I digress...you didn't come to read about my decorating lol I have my usual two Kanban DT projects to show today but for the first time in ages I don't have just cards to show as you are about to see.

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900442 Merry Christmas Mr Snowman

900441 Dreaming of Santa

900465 When Mr Snowman Met Santa

Silver mirror card

HOB1072 Diamante Snowflakes

3mm Gem AB

KB076

Green die cut card blank

Gold embossed paper

900730 Kraft Stripes

900731 Kraft Stars

Gold mirror card

Green ribbon

900725 Nativity Cuties

KB074

All of the following b/g cards were left over scraps from other projects

900171 Jubilee Sentiments

900173 Union Jack Bunting

900174 On Duty toppers

900184 On Guard – Red

900178 Cool Britannia – Navy Gingham

900179 London Icons – On Parade

900219 Jubilee Parade

900194 Westminster Red

900182 Cool BRITANNIA – Polka Navy

900193 London Kraft

900176 London Icons – Transport

900189 – About Town

Spotty Embossed card

I decided to make the little scrapbook as I had some blank C6 cards on my desk and wasn't sure what to do with them as I don't use this size very often, just when making cards for DH to give to his clients. I think it worked pretty well! :)

I'm going to enter my projects this week into the following challenges

Allsorts Challenge - Inspired by a song I(I have song for all three of my cards/ note book and they are

1. Frosty The Snowman

2. O Little Town of Bethlehem

3. Rule Britannia

Di's Snippet Challenge over at Pixie's Crafty Workshop which I haven't taken part in for such a long time!

Simply Create Too

Love To Create (Challenge #34) - Anything goes

Make It Monday - Anything goes

Thanks for dropping by :)

Made in Zakynthos

I thought I would show you some of the jewellery I made whilst on holiday in Zakynthos last month. I always take some beads with me when we go over there as I find it a great way to unwind, sitting by the pool making jewellery. However, if I took less beads I could probably take more clothes, well actually the three of us could as I always share my beads between all three cases :)

 

 The earrings are made from Lucite flowers in various colours and each flower centre is a Swarovski crystal.

 The necklace is made using AB acrylic 'crystals', silver lined clear seed beads and from silver frosted round beads

 The bracelet is made using the same beads as above but without the silver frosted beads. It also uses Lucite flowers and is finished off with a sterling silver clasp.

This bracelet / bangle is so effective. One half of the bangle is silver plate and the other half is purple suede thong. It closes by looping the thong over the heart and is kept shut using the round diamante bead which slides up and down.

There, I hope this has made a change as it's not very often I get to just sit and make jewellery unless it's commissioned but we're back to cards tomorrow. Well it's actually a card and a.....ha, not telling, you will just have to pop by tomorrow and have a look :)

Thanks for looking.
Sleep tight. xx

MacMillan Coffee Morning

Just a reminder to those of you that can make it, that Kanban are holding a Coffee Morning this Friday in aid of MacMillan. It will be on between 10am and 1pm in the retail outlet at Shipley. There will be coffe, tea, cakes and cards for sale, along with a raffle to raise funds for charity. Hope to see you there. 

For details - http://kanbancrafts.blogspot.co.uk/2012/09/macmillan-coffee-morning-at-kanban.html

Funky Friday

Late again but at least I'm still on the right day. I'm having a nightmare with one of my printers and it's thrown the whole day out with faffing about with it. I use two printers...one I use for printing of papers because it will take compatible inks. I've had it for years but it needs a kick every so often as the pink/red prints like a dirty brown and it usually works again once I've pampered it with a head clean etc but today I had two put 2 different lots of magenta ink in it for it to work. It seems to 'refuse' to work properly whenever I buy new ink for my other printer which I use just for my wedding stationery so maybe it just doesn't like the competition lol.

I sort of got carried away early this morning and instead of just the one card, I made 3 :) Anice has come up with a couple of fabby new downloads called Santa Baby and Christmas Tree from a new collection called Oh Come All Ye Crafters. The downloads are available as papers, word books or both together at a discounted price. I printed off two of the papers then I decided that I would use one of the solid colours as a mat for the patterned papers, then I decided that I wanted another paper but not much of it so I printed this at A5. I then needed another sheet which made 5 in total which is how I came to make 3 cards. My challenge to myself now is to see how many cards or projects I can get out of these four A4 and one A5 sheets of patterned paper. Watch this space......(and I haven't even started on the Christmas Tree selection :)

The Santa image is a pre coloured digital stamp from The Twelve Crafters Crafting cd from last year, I went over his belt and boots with a black Sakura Glaze pen.

Right, I'm now away to print off my Christmas Tree papers and hope Mr Mojo stays right where he is lol.

Sleep tight and thanks for looking :)

Kanban Thursday

I have a few cards to show today as I forgot to add them when I got back for my jolly hols! I always struggle with Christmas cards before I go away as I know that we will be sat in temperatures of between 35 and 40 degrees. Once we come back I know that the days in this country will probably be grey and miserable, a bit like today really lol

Anyway this is my second DT card for this week and it's all made from my 'scrap' bag.

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A3 card or 2 x 144 x 144 cm card blanks

900182 Cool Britannia – Polka Navy

900295 Pebbles

Silver mirri card

And now for the Christmas cards

 KB067

CRD1050 Festive Holly b/g card – Cream

900373 Holly b/g card – Red

900108 Christmas b/g card – Green

900095 Christmas Delivery toppers

PCT Mirror Polka Dot Roses - gold

Red card

Gold ribbon

 KB068

CRD1052 Festive Holly b/g card – Blue

900371 Christmas Sky b/g card – Blue

900382 Christmas Snowflakes b/g card – Blue

900101 Christmas Decoupage toppers

GEM 3mm AB

Diamante Snowflake

Blue & white twine

A penny

KB069

900101 Christmas Decoupage – flowers

900463 Trim The Tree topper

900443 One Christmas Night b/g card

Bling 5mm – red

Bling 3mm – red

Gold mirror card

Gold ribbon

So there we are, a fair selection I think. If you love Kanban you might be interested in joining our Facebook page, We Love Kanban, you will be made very welcome :).

Right, I must get on, I'm trying to get my accounts finished (for last year) then I have a couple of DT cards to sort and the ironing is calling too. Have a lovely day, whatever you are up to and I will be back tomorrow. 

Thanks for looking :)

Wedding....

Wednesday is here again, I'm sure there aren't seven day since last Wednesday!!! It's amazing how fast the weeks are flashing past.....only 47 weeks till we go back to Zakynthos lol.

This beautiful lady bought her tiara from us as well as her bridesmaid tiaras and all of her stationery. It was lovely working with her.

 Thanks for looking :)

Manic Monday

Good morning, I hope everyone is ok. It's not very warm in the Scruff's Corner part of the country but the sun is shining which is ok after the rain we had last night! I had to shut the patio doors as the noise was horrendous.....it was like sitting in  a caravan :)

So onto my card....I actually made it on Friday for a Kanban DT (Jan (and Bob) Loves To Craft) colleague who was getting married on Saturday. I made it as a DT card and was going to save it till Kanban Thursday but it fitted with a couple of card challenges so I thought I would show it today. It's absolutely ages since I entered any challenges.

Materials used were from the Romance kit bought from Create and Craft a couple of weeks ago

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White stepper card made from A3 card

CRD1452 Bella Fiori – Light Pink

PCT9794 The Classic Textile Collection Sentiment toppers

Embossed Vellum

Acetate Butterflies

Silver Mirri card

PCT2091 Cream Polka Dot Roses

Cream die cut flowers

Gem 3mm Bling

I would like to enter the card into the following challenges

Daring Cardmakers - Vellum

Simply Create Too - Anything Goes

Love To Create - Things With Wings

Make It Monday - Anything Goes

I hope you like my card, Jan did :) Thanks for looking. xx 

Weekend news round up!

I have two main items to tell you about this weekend and they are:

1. There is a brand new challenge on the Funky Hand blog, Get Funky! and this month Lou is in the hot seat. She has come up with the wonderful challenge, WORDBOOKS. Now some of you may not have seen these before so take a look at what Lou came up with HERE.

We have one rule at Get Funky! and one rule only and that is that you MUST use a Funky Hand product but fear not, If you don't own anything by Funky Hand it isn't a problem as Anice creates a freebie each month to enable everyone to join in. The freebie this month is absolutely amazing, just take a look at this

Click on the image to take you to the rest of the alphabet. Please don't just take the image if you are not going to join in with our challenge, it's not fair on Anice who works damn hard to come up with a freebie every month and apart from that , it's just down right rude!!!

2. The next piece of news I have to share are the TV listing for the new Kanban sale on    Create and Craft and Ideal World starting at 11 o'clock this morning

KANBAN Pick of the Day / Blockbuster

 On Create & Craft and Ideal World (Sky 671 | Freeview 36 | Freesat 813)

Kanban 1/2 Price Sale

Create & Craft Sun 16th Sept at 11am and 5pm

SHOW TIMES

Tuesday 18th 

9pm and 11pm on Ideal World

Wednesday 19th 

8am and 11am on Ideal, 12 noon on Create & Craft, 1pm on Ideal World, 3pm on Create & Craft, 4pm on Ideal World, 5pm on Create & Craft, 7pm,10pm and midnight on Ideal World

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Thursday 20th

11am on Create and Craft, 3pm and 8pm on Ideal World.

Thanks for looking.

Funky Friday

Sorry I'm late with this post, at least it's on the right day this week lol, but the explanation is on the post below.
So onto my card, what a nightmare it was to get a decent photo of this card. As there is quite a bit of silver mirri card showing the light just kept reflecting off it. Also, I had a bright pink top on and it kept reflecting in the photo. If you look carefully next to the right hand glass you can still see me lol

So what did I use to make my card?

Papers - Hey Baby Girl (Wishes & Kisses cd)
Yellow gingham - Wishes & Kisses cd
Spotty paper - Rainbow Polka Dots (download)
Glasses - Happy Happy Birthday cd
Bunting - Happy Happy Birthday cd
Silver mirri card
Pink satin ribbon
Clear gems
Glossy Accents (on cocktail glasses)

All of the cds and downloads are available from Funky Hand.

Tomorrow is the launch of the new Get Funky challenge and it's a really good one (you'll like it Beryl :)) so please call over and take a look.

Back tomorrow, tfl.

Cricket birthday card

My Funky Friday post won't go live until this evening this week as my card is my daughter's birthday card. It's her birthday today but she decided this morning that as she was going to work at 7.15 she would leave her cards to open this evening! I never thought about that when I made it lol

I will, however show you hubby's card (it was his birthday on Wednesday!!)

I've got two more of these stepper cards to show this weekend including DD2's this evening. I do like them but I keep forgetting I've got them.

I made him some cupcakes to take to work to share with his collegues on Wednesday. They went down ok as he took some more on Thursday :)

Just a gentle reminder while I'm here that Kathy's Waffle Sketch File challenge is still live and we would live it if you could take part with us.
                                             
Right-o, I will be back in a while with my Funky Friday card.See you later, thanks for looking.

Kanban Thursday

Here are my two Kanban DT offerings for this week. I'm a bit  behind in sending them but have done next weeks projects too:)

  CRDWhite butterflies – blue

CRD1805 Swirl Quilt Stitch - Blue

900170 Celebration Cupcakes toppers

900168 Britannia Hearts toppers

900177 Keep Calm Signs

PCT2302 Delightful Decoupage

15cm x 15cm tent style card blank

Pale pink pearlescent card stock

Dotty embossed card

Silver mirror card

PCT1939 A Floral Flurry toppers

GEM 5mm hot pink bling

I hope you like them and thanks for looking. I will be back tomorrow with my Funky Hand Funky Friday project, so I will see you then. xx

Anything Goes

Good morning, I hope you are having a lovely weekend and that the weather is being kind to you!

It's my turn (Jackie) to show you my challenge card today for Lou's chosen challenge of "Anything Goes". Lou set the challenge off with a stunning wordbook on 15th August and as the challenge doesn't close until 14th September there are still a few days to play along with us. We do have one stipulation when entering our challenge and that is that you must use a Funky Hand product. If you don't have any of Anice's fabulous papers (you don't know what you're missing ;)) then every month she comes up with a freebie paper for you.

All the papers on my card are from the new download,  Daisy Day (see below) including the flowers. My only additions were the ribbon which I pleated across the bottom of the green panel and I added gems to the middle of the small punched flowers. Daisy Day is available from the Funky Hand web site at the miniscule price of £3.49!!!

I hope you can take the time to join in our challenge and who knows, you might be the lucky winner of a free Funky Hand download including the new one.

Thanks for looking :)

Swedish Chef!!

Have you had a good day today? We have had glorious hot sunshine all day :) Hubby decided to cut the front and the back lawns and I had some DT samples to make so I took my stuff outside to work.

 The gloves were hubby's, he was cleaning the pond, just in case anyone thought they were mine for crafting lol

We decided to barbeque for tea and here is my little Swedish chef in his Grumpy Old Man apron. He used to wear my flowery one but it looked a bit daft on him....he's 6'3" and I'm 5'5" and I'll leave the image to your imagination :)) He's not actually Swedish either, he's from Somerset!

I have been trying to upload this post and two for tomorrow since about 5 o'clock and I just keep getting an error message from stupid Mr Blogger. Why can't he behave for more that a few weeks at a time...grrrrr!

Thanks for dropping by (assuming you get to read this post.)

xx

Funky Friday

When we were in Zakynthos last week we all said that we felt as though we had been over there for months....we've been a few times and are getting to know a few of the locals now, now I feel as though we haven't been away at all, even my poor baby thinks the same and she is only 18!!!

So yes, as it's Friday already I have a couple of Funky cards for you.

 The papers used for this card are from the Wishes and Kisses cd as is the pre-coloured image, the ribbon is available on the web site too. The only extras on this card are a few s/a crystals at the bottom of the white panel.

For this card I used papers from the brand new, just released Daisy Day on the Funky Hand web site. I just added some gems (in the middle of the flowers) and a piece of ribbon.

Thanks for dropping by :) x

Over The Hill!!

The sketch challenge over on Kathy's Waffle Sketch File went live on Tuesday of this week as it was the first Tuesday of the month.

For my card I used the freebie paper from Funky Hand (which was designed for the August challenge on the Get Funky! challenge blog). The 'Little Monsters' are from the Happy Happy Birthday cd which was designed by Anice and is for sale through the web site. I downloaded the coloured version of the monsters and gave their balloon a bit of a lift by applying Glossy Accents. The sentiment was computer generated and I finished the card with a few crystal gems.

I hope you like what your see, :)

Kanban Thursday

Hi everyone, well I'm now back from a fabulous two weeks in Zakynthos. Two weeks of wall to wall sunshine and temperatures of 35 during the day and 29 at 11 o'clock at night, of no house work and the only decision I had to make was what I wanted for my dinner at night! It now seems a millions years ago after I've caught up with the housework, the washing done and sorted out my 974 emails :). However, the ironing pile stares at me every time I go in the kitchen so that is this mornings task! 

My 'To Do' list is growing too with a pile of birthday and Christmas cards to make, restock the web site etc etc., oh and the accounts are calling too :) I'm going to make a start on my DT cards for next week too as I only made up until tomorrow before I went away as I ran out of time (the story of my life!).

So onto my Kanban cards for this week

 KB065

PCT2120 Copperfield Toppers

PCT2124 Steam Punk ribbons

Industriana Paper pad

Cream base card – C5

Gold mirri card

KB066

White base card

900382 Christmas Snowflake b/g card

900350 Christmas Angels Quad toppers

900105 Christmas Adhesive Borders

900111 Winter Wonders toppers

“Star” acetate

Silver mirri card

Friday September 28th is going to be the World's biggest Coffee Morning to raise funds for MacMillan and we at the Kanban Retail Outlet in Shipley are taking part. So if you can make it, come and join us between 10am and 1pm on Friday 28th September. There will be coffee, tea, cake and cards for sale to raise funds and also a raffle. It will be lovely to see you if you can make it, so if you’re free, put the date in your diary and come and join us.

Thanks for looking :)