boarding pass ~ pastures new

Oh my word! I can't believe I've just had two weeks off work and this is the first blog post I am writing this year. I have no idea where the time has gone, but clearly, when I am at home I don't have enough {me} time! I haven't even had time to go blog hopping, so I must rectify that asap.

My New Year's Resolution is to use up my stash and not buy anything new unless I 'need' it. I will define 'need' as the year progresses. LOL. At the moment, I define 'need' as Magnolia stamps and My Mind's Eye papers.

So, today I an joining you from Cupcake Craft Challenges where the challenge this week is: Something New. Well I have interpreted this as moving to pastures new, hence the travel theme.

Papers: Crate Paper ~ Portrait: Bouquet

Fabric frame: Little Yellow Bicycle

Boarding pass: Crate Paper sticker, cut with a Magnolia die

Lamp: Prima

Image: Magnolia ~ Tilda in a hurry. I love this image. This is me, going off on my travels, always leaving it to the last minute to pack and then just shoving it all in. Although I do insist on an iron and ironing board at the other end, I cannot bear to wear anything wrinkled. Coloured with copics and a few stickles.

Trying to use up some of my paper flowers. I have lots.

Little pull out note thingy.

As this is my first post of the New Year, I should end by saying 'Happy New Year!'. Unfortunately, I didn't see the New Year in, as I was poorly at the time and just slept through it all. Woke up at 1am with Jools Holland blaring on the box. How I slept through that, I don't know, as it was very noisy. It's a really weird feeling missing the New Year, I think it is the first time for me and it's kind of like it hasn't happened yet. 

I am entering this in at the following challenges:

• New something:  Simon Says
• Anything goes: Just Magnolia; Magnolia Down Under
• Something new: Fairy tale Challenge Blog 
• New Beginnings: Craft Your Days Away; By the Cute & Girly 

Thank you for looking.

keeley

play the game

Hello everyone! I hope you all had a really lovely Christmas. I am still enjoying some P&Q!

This week at Crafts 4 Eternity the challenge is to feature a QUOTE in your project.

Today I have a sporty Magnolia to share with you. I'm not really into sports images usually, but I am really loving this set.

I have used papers by Glitz Design ~ Love Nest and Scarlett, together with a Love Games ~ Whatnot and Peek-A-Boo. LOL. Love these words.

 

I've used Magnolia ~ Karate Tilda and coloured her with my copics. 

Layered up some lace & doilies & flowers to finish off.

I am entering this in at the following challenges:

• Anything goes ~ Creative Inspirations; Simon Says Challenge; Everybody Art; Stampin For the Weekend; Secret Crafter Saturday Challenge

Thank you for looking.

keeley

roses for you

 

Today at Cupcake Craft Challenges we have a fabulous sketch for you to follow:

This is our last challenge before we break for the holidays.

Papers: Glitz Design ~ Laced with Grace.


I used a lot of eyelets! Although unintentionally. I had originally planned to just add eyelets horizontally, but after merrily punching away at the holes, realised I had punched them along the wrong edge. Dohh!! Anyway. I still like it like this.

Image: Magnolia ~ Tilda in the Garden coloured with copics and of course added some stickles.

I used a Tim Holtz ~ Scallop die along the edge of the paper Tilda is standing on.


Thank you for looking.


keeley

snowman love

Hello! Today is my 2nd and final GDT spot at ABC Challenge where the challenge this week is F for Frosty.

I decided to decorate a kraft bag in a frosty, snowy theme and pop in a little book to match.

Here is the front of each.

Papers: Fancy Pants ~ Tradition.

I've used the Tim Holtz ~ Sizzix ~ Winter Wonder die to cut the snowman and the Tim Holtz ~ Sizzix ~ Love die to cut the word out.

I've smeared frosty stickles over the snowman on the front of the book.

 

I've decorated a little kraft tag and added that to the bag.

Here are the backs of the bag and the book.

The bag from the top.

I would like to enter this into the following challenges:

• Let it snow ~ Winter Wonderland & By the Cute & Girly 
• Packaging/box ~ Challenge up your life
• Snow ~ Quirky Crafts
• Snowflakes & Sparkle ~ The Pink Elephant
• I'm dreaming of a (your fave colour) Christmas ~ Papertake Weekly
• Get booked ~ City Crafter
• Tis the Season ~ Creative card Crew
• Winter & Christmas ~ Creative Belli
• Gift or giftbox ~ Fairytale Challenges
• Snowmen ~ Craft Your days Away
• It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas ~ Raise the Bar
• Cold & frosty ~ Crafty Calendar Challenge

Thank you for looking.

keeley

every day

 

Today at Cupcake Craft Challenges we have a theme of: don't look at the light, so we want to see lots of sparkly stuff!

Here is my piece.

Papers and layered stickers: My Mind's Eye ~ Lost & Found Two: Sunshine papers.

Image: Gillian Roberts ~ Teenage Love. I coloured them with copics and added some stickles.

I misted the flowers with glimmer mist and added some gold stickles to them also.

I am entering this in at the following challenges:

• Card with a sentiment - Crafty Creations
• Anything goes - Cute Card Thursday
• Anything but Christmas - Totally Papercrafts; Corrosive Challenge
• Bingo challenge - Sir Stampalot  I have used punch, flowers, pearls

Thank you for looking.

keeley

25th Silver Wedding Anniversary

I am so excited to tell you that I have been chosen as guest designer for ABC Challenge for the month of December! Thank you so much for choosing me!

So for the next two weeks, the challenge is E for embossing. Well there is a fair bit of embossing on this card!

I made this card for a 25th Wedding Anniversary. There is lots of molten silver!

I have used all Magnolia papers, mainly from the Something Old, Something New collection and embossed the edges with silver.

The images are Magnolia ~ Sitting Wedding Tilda and Sitting Wedding Edwin, coloured with copics and stickles.

I have used part of the Magnolia ~ Wedding Rose Arch bench as a background, which I embossed with silver.

For the tag I used a magnolia doo hickey die added some molten silver and embellished the numbers '25' with silver embossing too.

And finally, the inside, which I decorated. 

I am entering this in at Cute Card Thursday - Just a Number.

Thank you for looking.

keeley

vintage 2012 calendar

Hello, I hope you all had a good weekend, over too soon I know. But Monday is Cupcake day so can't be too bad. So, over at Cupcake Craft Challenges, we have a new challenge, which is colour on kraft.

Well I must admit, when I first saw this challenge, my heart sank. I thought I could never colour on kraft with copics. BUT ... WOW!! I started colouring and was amazed how easy it was. The only difference was that my darkest shade of each colour had to be a shade darker than I usually use. 

From the outset, I had decided I would make a 2012 calendar in a cd case.

 

Papers used throughout: Making Memories ~Travel 6 x 6 pad. So good to use some of these papers as I've had them for 3 years and never been used.

Image: Magnolia ~Tilda in Spring Rain. I coloured her with copics and added some stickles.

I made the flowers with my Marianne Design ~ English Rose die. So awesome, I love this! Need never buy another flower again ... but don't hold me to that! I added some stickles to glitz it up a bit.

I made the template for the calendar using excel. Took me forever, but I am pleased with the end result.

Here is the cd jewel case.

and here are my calendars ...

I am also going to enter this in at the following challenges:

• Recipe - Dutch Dare. I have: ribbon, image, patterned paper, layers
• Make a gift/anything but a card - Fussy & Fancy Friday
• Borders & flowers - Saturday Challenge
• Punches & dies - Sweet Stampin'

Thank you for looking.

Keeleyxx

little moments ...big memories

 

Wooohoooo!! I am very pleased and excited to tell you that the very sweet Faye has asked me to join her design team at Cupcake Craft Challenges, so here I am, stood here in my best clothes and newly polished shoes, as a shiny new cupcake. LOL!

So for my first challenge as a fully fledged cupcake, the theme this week is teenage boys and we are sponsored this week by Lili of the Valley who are offering a £10 gift voucher to the lucky winner, so it's worth joining in, isn't it?

It's been ages since I made an Edwin card, but these papers called for it.

 

Papers: Bo Bunny ~ Et Cetera. Just love these papers.

The image is Magnolia ~ Tennis Edwin, coloured with copics and not an ounce of glitter in sight!

I am going to enter this in at the following challenges:

• boy oh boy - Stamptacular Sunday
• clean and simple - Quirky crafts

Thank you for looking.

keeley

white woods

 

Hello everyone,

Today at Crafts 4 Eternity we have an embellishment bingo recipe. I have used: snowflake, bling and doily. In fact as you can see, I've used quite a lot of bling!

Paper: S.E.I. ~ Glitzmas: Frosty the Snowflake.

I made my trees using the Magnolia ~ Spruce die, inked up the edges and added some bling.

Image: Magnolia ~ Midwinter Tilda with Lantern. I coloured her with copics and added some stickles.

The square diecuts were made using Spellbinders ~ Fleur de lis squares.

There should be four little pearls on the mat, but one pinged off as I was trying to put it on and after a brief search, realised that there was little hope of finding it!

I've used Tim Holtz Sizzix ~ Snow Flurries die across the top ...

 

... and some Webster's Pages ~ Botanical Christmas Gems across the bottom.

 

I am going to enter this in at the following challenges:

• punch it - Stamptacular Sunday
• never been inked - Shopping Our Stash
• D for dazzle - ABC Challenge
• Christmas project with pearls or vintage - Truly Scrumptious
• Christmas girls - By the Cute & Girly
• winter wardrobe - Crafty Calendar Challenge

Thank you for looking.


keeley