New Beginning's - January Challenge @ Crafting Musketeer's

Hiya and Welcome to my Blog Today

I hope you all had a Lovely Festive Holiday with your Families and Loved Ones

Wishing A Very Happy New Year to you all x x

I have been away from my Crafting Desk for quite some time but I am now back refreshed for the New Year and what better way to start than a New Challenge with Crafting Musketeer's - the theme is 'New Beginnings' this could mean anything from a New Baby card, A Wedding Card, New Year or any other Celebration with the Start of Something New - please visit the link below to see the gorgeous makes by the Design Team and for all the info about the Challenge

Crafting Musketeers Challenge Blog - New Beginnings

Here is my Example for the Challenge....

I went with a New Baby theme for mine but with a Vintage Clutter feel 

I used some pretty Handmade Stickers along with diecuts and Decoupage from my Stash - also some Flower Forming flowers, buttons & Brads. The Sentiment is one of my favourites 

I do hope you will join us over at the Crafting Musketeers Blog and enter one of your Gorgeous Makes for a chance to win a Lovely Prize

Thank You so much for visiting my Blog Today - Please visit again soon to see more of my New Makes for 2016 xx

Krafty Hugs xx

Crafting Musketeer's - Use A Christmas Ribbon

Hiya and welcome to my Blog today I have for you a recent Design Team make

Today begins a New Challenge over at the Crafting Musketeer's Blog and our theme is 'Use A Christmas Ribbon' we are being sponsored this month by the Fabulous 'Crafty Ribbons' please visit by clicking the link below to see all the Gorgeous Ribbons 

http://www.craftyribbons.com/

I had a lot of fun creating this card using lots of layers and some decoupage printed from a CDrom in my stash - I chose Aqua & Rose as my colour theme as those colours are in the decoupage so I matched to them - the Aqua layer is part of a Stamp Set Packaging was way too pretty to put in the bin and I love to be frugal

Card Recipe:

7x7 White Cardblank

Silver Mirror Board (punched down side)

Martha Stewart edge punch 

White Pearlescent Cardstock

Aqua Patterned Card (was... stamp set packaging)

Creata White Textured Metallic Card 

Core'dinations Rose Cardstock (embossed)

Cuttlebug dots Embossing Folder

Offcut of Silver Mirror Board

Decoupage - Docrafts 'Me to You' CDrom

Silver Snowflake Ribbon - Crafty Ribbons

I really enjoyed making this card, I've been making Christmas Cards off and on over the last few months and I fancied a change from the Traditional Colours

I am also entering this card into the following Challenges...

Creata with Carley - 'Facebook Group' Challenge - Funky Christmas 

Thank You so much for visiting today I will be back soon with more makes 

Krafty Hugs xx

Pretty as a Picture - for Crafting Musketeer's

Im so sorry this post is late - Blogger didnt play fair and I didnt think to check - ooops

This week we have a New Challenge starting over at Crafting Musketeer's - the theme is Anything Goes and we are being sponsored by Crafty Ribbons

Here is my project for the Challenge...

I always try to get started on Christmas Projects in July so this was the perfect chance to make one

I have used a gorgeous Digi Image from Delicious Doodles who I am glad to say are back selling their beautiful images from their Blog Shop :)

I coloured her using my Copic Markers and then coloured matched some diecut Snowflakes in Icy Blue and Mirror Board - I put the coloured Image into a lovely pretty frame and fixed the diecut snowflakes in the corners along with metal snowflake embellishments and sky blue organza ribbon from Crafty Ribbons

I thank you for visiting today and we hope you will join us for the Challenge

As she is an Angel - I am entering this project into the 'Myth & Magic' Challenge over at Delicious Doodles

Krafty Hugs

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Shades of Summer - Crafting Musketeer's

Hiya and welcome to my Blog

Today I am sharing my makes for the New Challenge over at the  Crafting Musketeer's Blog 

The theme this month is 'Shades of Summer' over on the Blog you can see all the Beautiful Makes from the Amazing Design Team

This month we are being Sponsored by 'The Hobby House'a lovely shop full of crafting lushness

The Hobby House

I created 2 cards for the Challenge as I got a little carried away with the Summer Colours

For the first card I have used backing papers and a glittered die cut topper from an old but pretty 'Woodland Friends' kit by Docrafts - embellished using diecuts, paper flowers, mirror board and heart shaped gems

The second card I have made using another oldie but goodie kit, I have forgotten the name of but is gorgeous and full of wild animals and pretty backing papers, I used a diecut Giraffe and Flowery paper from the kit and embellished with paper flowers, diecuts, mirror board and gold gems

Thank you for visiting my blog today - do please check out the Crafting Musketeers Blog and enter as the prize is really lovely

Krafty Hugs xx

Kerrie 

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Gorjuss Girl 'Pretty in Pink' - for Crafting Musketeer's

Hiya and welcome to my Blog. Today I am sharing with you my make for Crafting Musketeer's Challenge 'Midway Inspiration Post' 

This month we have been celebrating 'Crafting Musketeer's 2nd Birthday' such a lovely team to be a part of 

The Challenge this month is 'Use a Die-Cut' and we are sponsored by 'The Hobby House' and  JGD Crafts two really lovely companies

Here is the card I made for the challenge...

I chose a delicate floral paper and coloured a Gorjuss stamp to colour match using my Copic Markers

I then chose some Kraft Card, Pearlescent Cardstock's and Crochet Lace to tie in all the colours, I love to use lots of layers and pretty flowers so I really loved putting this one together

The die's I have used are 'Xcut - Doily' and a 'Spellbinders -Foliage', I also found a diecut Pink flower in my stash box so I curled the petals and pinched the ends and added this to the floral spray on the card

Thank You for visiting today and I do hope to see your gorgeous makes over on the Crafting Musketeer's Challenge Blog

Krafty Hugs xx

It's A Man's World - Crafting Musketeer's

Hiya and welcome to my blog - today I am sharing with you my Design Team make for the Midway Post for Crafting Musketeer's 'Man's World' Challenge over on the BLOG xx

This week's challenge is sponsered by www.jgdcrafts.com the prize for the challenge will be something of the Sponsor's Choice oooh I love a surprise

So for this Challenge we had to create a card/project suitable for a Man in our lives I decided it was a good opportunity to get a jump start on Father's Day cards so this one will be for my Dad-in-Law who we fondly call 'Puppa-Bear'

I chose a Papercraft Kit from Docrafts - 'Wellington Bear' its an older collection but I just love the soft watercoloured look and the toppers etc are perfect for all the Men in your family

I kept the background fairly simple with layers of backing papers from the kit and matting with Golden Brown Mirror Board. I even matted on of the border strips for accross the bottom. The sentiment is also from the kit, the corners were already rounded so I used my small rounding punch to round off the matt for it. I also rounded the corners of the Topper and its matt. Ive offset the layers to create a bit of interest - Im not a big fan of centering on cards myself. Lastly I added a metal charm under the sentiment using wire and attached it using foam tape that I fixed the sentiment to the card with, also a couple of little wooden buttons and a wooden banner embellishment.

I hope you like my card and it might inspire you to create a Manly Card to enter into the Challenge - we would all love to see them

Krafty Hugs

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Cute & Cuddly Cupid x

Hiya and welcome to my Blog

Over at the Crafting Musketeer's Challenge Blog today we are sharing with you our makes for the Midway Reminder for our February Challenge - 'Cute'

We have been kindly Sponsered this month by Cuddly Buddly Crafts

I chose to use this Gorgeous Cupid image with some of their papers and one of their sentiments

'Lilyboo - Little Cupid'

Image coloured using Copic Markers:

Hair: YR21, Y23, YR31

Skin: E11, E02, E00, E51, E50 Blush E93

Wings: RV10, YR000

Headband & ArrowTip: RV34, RV11

Arrowhead: RV11, RV10

Pants: RV23, RV21. RV11, RV10

Card Recipe:

3 papers kims digi papers pretty mix red - Cuddly Buddly 

Image 'Lilyboo - Little Cupid' - Cuddly Buddly

Sentiment sweet summer sentiments - Cuddly Buddly

Ruby Red pearlescent cardstock - my stash

Doily's - Hobbycraft

Border Punch - Martha Stewart

Paper Flowers - Wild Orchid Crafts

Leaf Flourish Die - Joycrafts

 Head over to the Challenge Blog to see more gorgeous Design Team creations from the Amazing Crafting Musketeer's Team and why not enter we have a brilliant prize £10 to spend at Cuddly Buddly Online Shop x

Thank you for visiting today and I hope you will come back soon

Krafty Hugs 

Kerrie x

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Crafting Musketeers - Midway Challenge Reminder - DT Make

Hiya today its the Challenge Midway reminder over at Crafting Musketeer's 

The theme of the Challenge is 'Hats/Valentines' - and our sponsor for this challenge is Lacy Sunshine the prize from her is very genorous head on over to the Crafting Musketeer's Blog to see all the details

Here is my make for the Challenge using... 'Patchy Penny Snowflake' from Lacy Sunshine

I have created a 'Winter Birthday' card for the challenge - I chose my papers first and then coloured the image to match the colours in the papers

I used Copic Markers:

Hat: RV25, RV21, RV10

Hair: E49, E43, E41 Bows: RV25, RV21

Skin: E11, E02, E00, E51, E50 Blush: R20

Eyes & Snowflakes: YG06, YG03

Coat: G28, G17, G16

Skirt: RV25, RV21, R20

Dress Patches: YG06, YG03, RV25, RV21, RV10, R20

Card Recipe:

Studio Light Backing Papers 

Joycrafts Silky Cardstock

Joycrafts Circular Die

Joycrafts Snowflake Die

Xcut Snowflake Die (free on Docrafts magazine)

Craftwell Embossing Folder (free with eBosser)

Tim Holtz distress ink Spun Sugar

Tim Holtz mini ink blending tool 

Pink Gems (from my stash)

Sentiment typed and printed from laptop

I hope you will join in the challenge and I hope to see you here again soon

I am entering this card into the following Challenge:

Love to Create Challenge Blog - Add Snowflakes

Krafty Hugs

Kerrie xx

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Crafting Musketeer's - Use Bling

Hiya and welcome to my Blog

Today is the Halfway point to our Monthly Challenge over at Crafting Musketeer's Blog, our theme for this month has been 'Use Bling' oh yay!! our challenge this month is sponsored by Jackie Western of Party Nights Creations and the prize is so lush you so need to enter

As it's the run up to our Christmas Holidays I have been making some gifts for the Teachers and I thought that this would be a perfect make for this Challenge too

I have made this pretty little Calendar/Notepad with Penholder for full instructions on how to make this project please visit my previous Blog Post using the link below...

http://www.cardsbykerrie.blogspot.co.uk/2014/12/easel-calendarnotepad-with-integrated.html 

Recipe for this Calendar/Notepad 

Centura Pearl Snow White Cardstock

3x3 inch PostIt Pad

Glittered Backing Papers from Studio Light

Pearlescent Pink Cardstock

Gem Ribbon Slider

Mulberry Paper Flower 

Martha Stewart Border Punch

White Cardstock

Flatback Gems

Papermania Calendar Tab

Mini Gel Pen

Once you have made one of these you will want to make more as they are so easy to do and can make use of lots of your offcuts and stash

Thank you so much for visiting my Blog today and I do hope you will visit the Crafting Musketeer's Challenge Post to see the gorgeous makes by the Amazing Design Team and get your entries in 

Krafty Hugs

Kerrie xx

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Crafting Musketeer's Challenge Halfway Inspiration

Hiya and Welcome to my Blog today I have to say a big sorry as Yesterday my Blog was scheduled to go live with my First Design Team Project as part of 'The Crafting Musketeer's' 

Its the Halfway point of  'The Crafting Musketeer's Challenge' where the theme is 'Anything but a Card' and we are being Sponsered by Delicious Doodles we are sharing some more Design Team Inspiration with you

I used the Delicious Doodles Image 'Angelique with Snowflake'

I coloured her up using Copic Markers

Hair: E49, E44, E43

Skin: E04, E11, E21, E00, E000

Eyes: B14, B12

Lips: E09, E07, E04

Wings: C5, C3, C1

Dress: B14, B12, B01, B00

 SnowFlake, C2, C1, B00 and Glitter

 

I really loved colouring her in this larger than my usual size for cards I printed her in A5 so I could frame her - I then decorated the frame with Paper Flowers, Diecut Snowflakes, Ribbons and Metal Snowflakes.

We do hope you will come over and join in with the Challenge, lovely prizes for the winner and lots of beautiful Inspiraton from the Design Team

Krafty Hugs

Kerrie xx

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