1st Anniversary Award Night at Kit and Clowder

Hi there,

Yesterday we celebrated the 1st Anniversary Award Night at Kit and Clowder. If the Oscars can do it, so can we! On Valentines day it was Kit and Clowders 1st Anniversary and we certainly celebrated that in style yesterday.

Alyce Keegan had made us a challenge - to make a project for the occassion, and our inspiration should be based upon her collage of Words as to what Kit and Clowder meant to her.

My project in the challenge was a card where I used the colours of Kit and Clowder as my basis. The image I used was "Little Artist" from Whimsy Stamps which I found very appropriate, since we are a colouring community. And lastly I used some of the sayings I've noticed Alyse is using, when she encourages us to go on colouring and not give up, if we don't succeed the first time.

You can see my project below. It's a better Photo  than I put into the challenge (the sun is shining here today).

Alyce liked my project and I was one of the ladies, who were lucky enough to win one of the Clowdies Awards last night. My prize was a free digi from Tiddly Ink after my own choice, so I chose the "Wryn - Have Heart"-digi, which I simply adore.

You'll definitely see me using that one at a later time.

 

We always have lots of fun during celebrations or other occassions, and this time there also was a free digi from Scrappers Delight and free digital paper from Michele R and a few give aways to be distributed later. Not to mention discounts on colouring classes as well.

 

Apart from all this fun at Kit and Clowder, we also learn to colour :-D

 

If you think you need to improve your colouring, there's no better place to learn than at Kit and Clowder. Before Alyce non of our images had noses - they do now!! LOL So go take a peek at her website www.kitandclowder.com and learn about all the benefits you get from joining us.

 

We are a huge community that support each other both regarding colouring but also in our daily lives, should any of us need it. 

 

Be happy crafting.

It's almost Valentine

Hi there,

It's almost Valentines Day - something that's becoming more and more popular to celebrate in Denmark - just like other American special days - Halloween, Thanksgiving etc..

For this occassion I've coloured two digis from Alicia Bell, one of my favourite designers to colour, so I hope I've done her justice with these.

I've not yet started on the clothes class at Kit and Clowder, so please bear with me, it will be much better (I hope).

The first one is Queen of Hearts I loved colouring her, even though her dress is not that good, I had some backing paper with the four Card motives on, which I thought was very suitable for this project.

I added a Heart sticker on her cane some black and red home made roses, a string of Hearts and a wooden Heart whereupon I wrote "Be my valentine" and a Heart with an arrow going through it.

The second one is called Love and is also an Alicia Bell image. I think I might have coloured this one better (apart from the nose) - Sorry, Alyce ;-) When I saw the nose on the photo, it was too late to do anything about it.

I've used a background paper with various pink hearts on, some of them with glitter on. I've added a chequered bow and three big red Heart gems as well.

I hope you all like these two, which will probably be my only Valentine cards this year.

I'm entering them both into the Kit and Clowder February contest and Challenge #4 on the Alicia Bel challenge Blog.

http://kitandclowder.ning.com/challenges/february-challenge-love
http://aliciabelchallengeblog.blogspot.com.es/2015/02/challenge-4-anything-goes-or-love-is-in.html

Have fun crafting!

Winter card

Hi there,

I've finally had some time to put a few cards together, which I'll show you over the next month or so.

Today I'm going to show you a card with an Alicia Bell motive "Hug". I'd also made the "ski-slope" from Makeitcrafty and placed the "hug"-motive on top of it.  I coloured them both during my Christmas Holidays and they've been in my binder with coloured items looking at me every time I opened it.

I really didn't have a clue as to how to assemble the motives to a card. So today I decided to go through all my papers and see if I could find some inspiration.

 

I found some Pergamano paper from a couple of years back with the sledges on, and that got me thinking, that kids playing in the snow probably would have a sledge nearby, and luckily I have a die with a sledge. I added a few simple icicles and put a matching Pearl in the centre.

 

Looking at the card now, I think that maybe I shouldn't have tilted the "Hug" motive as the children was already on a ski-slope, but it's too late to do anything about that now. I hope you like it anyway :-).

 

I intend to put this project into this challenge:

 

http://aliciabelchallengeblog.blogspot.com.es/2015/01/challenge-3-anything-goes-or-use-our.html

 

Be happy crafting!

 

 



Baby card

Hi there,

On Wednesday January 21st my nephews wife gave birth to their second child, a baby girl, to be named Luna. Their eldest daughter is called Freyja and is almost 3 years old (next month).

I had made this card for the proud parents in celebration of the birth. Since there's no colouring on the card, I don't think it's necessary to watermark it. If I'm wrong please let me know.

I've used my dies to make it and the roses are punched and assembled by myself. I have hundreds more of them in various colours to make, which I do when watching TV. I also added some pearls, and the small flowers on the pram are actually nail embellishments. As soon as I'd put the ivy leaves onto the card with my super quick drying glue, I noticed that I'd forgotten to emboss it :-(. Well, it's still ivy leaves though.

 

 

A friend of mine liked this project so much, that she wanted one for a birth in her family - also a baby girl. I had to make different pink colours on her card as I'd run out of the above coloured paper.  However, I think it turned out very well. This photo was taken before I put on the pearls and the small flowers. I think old age is beginning to set in, because I forgot to take a photo afterwards. BUT at least I didn't forget to emboss the ivy leaves this time :-)

 

 

 

That's all from me for now.

 

Be Happy Crafting!

 

Colour palette challenge contribution

Hi there,

Here is my "Green Moth Maiden" from the colour palette challenge at Kit and Clowder. She's was a free digi from Ching-Chou Kuik to the contestants in the challenge.

I don't think I'm going to win the challenge, and that's OK. I really enjoyed using the new techniques of skin and hair, that I'm learning at the moment in the Skin and Hair classes at Kit and Clowder and it's great practice.

We had a colour palette that we were supposed to use of turquoise/purple nuances, and I love these colours, so I was very happy colouring her.

Yesterday, a friend and I visited a wonderful craftshop in Denmark called Hobbygården about an hours drive from my home, and there I found the wonderful backing paper. (They have absolutely everything for papercraft - except the markers).  Immediately I saw it, I knew it was perfect for the Green Moth Maiden.

I also bought the big light turqoise flowers there. The Photo doesn't do them Justice, they match the backing paper more in real life. I thought that it would be more suitable with a little bit bigger flowers than my usual roses, so I had to buy them. They were in a bag with other coloured flowers as well, so it was a good buy.

I had a few turqoise star pins, which I added and a turqoise felt heart as well.

I have a few more project finished, but they are waiting to be sent, so I cannot show them before they have been received at the other end :-). Isn't that exiting?

Hopefully I'll be back soon to show you other finished projects.

Be happy crafting!