Voucher holder

Just a quick update, this was the card I was in the process of making on Wednesday.

It is a voucher holder/birthday card for my father in law (as we bought him garden vouchers). 

 I used racing horse backing paper (as he loves the horses) and created a pocket in the front to slip the vouchers into.

I then fussy cut the rosette and added a peel off

Much nicer than the card they give you when you buy a voucher.

Happy crafting

Kyla

 

A quick and easy card

Just a quick update on my latest card.

The background is actually tissue paper (covered in, I presume fake advertising) that I bought for £1 at the scrap store for about 1" thick of A4 sheets-bargain!

I then stamped a greeting (masking the flowers off the stamp as I didn't think it suited the card) and inked the greeting with distress ink which I flicked water over to lift off some of the colour.

I then matted and layered it on black card.

A nice quick and easy card.

Happy crafting

Kyla

 

WOYWW

 Hello peeps and welcome back to another Whats on Your Workdesk Wednesday.

This week I have not had much opportunity to craft as I have been busy with my pay the bills job and my brother and sister in law came to visit for the weekend, which was lovely and meant we were able to show off our city to them a bit more!

The other week my hubby brought home a sheet of wrapping paper with vinyl records all over it.  We are both vinyl junkies so I had loads of ideas on how to use it.  I decided to create a record with my nestability dies and a peel off.

 I used glossy card stock so that it shone like vinyl and was pleased with how it turned out. Not bad for wrapping paper!!

My "Man Bites Dog" cards are 'Tourist Saves Romantic Movie Singer'......a nice headline for a change!

So, why not join us and share your desk and enjoy a legal snoop at desks across the globe.  All the details are here

Happy Crafting

Kyla

Mens metal card

It is that time of year again when I have very little I can show as I am making Christmas pressies!!

So I thought I would show a card I recently made.  I stamped over some patterned paper, adding some die cut cogs and then used some metal from the ever trusty tomato puree tube which I cleaned, turned inside out and flattened before embossing is by hand with a ten second studio embossing plate.

I then painted it back with acrylic and when dry sanded it back to expose the pattern.

I added the final detail by doodling free hand around the card with a pitt pen, and voila a card perfect for a traveller or a man (lets be honest men are so difficult to make for!).

Right, back to making Christmas presents (and if anyone has a good idea for male presents I can make please leave a comment!).

Happy crafting

Kyla

 

Instead of paper crafting the past 2 weeks has seen me furiously making elderflower cordial!  At least twice a week off I go, carrier bag in tow across golf courses, footpaths and hedgerows picking elderflowers.  I try to make enough to keep me in cordial for a year (about how long it lasts) and to give as gifts.  It's lovely hot, cold, over crumble but especially with a Gin and Tonic ;-)

At the moment I am furiously bottling, but in time I make pretty labels, add some raffia and hey-presto a lovely gift for someone.

IF I do get a chance to craft then its mens cards, fathers day is just round the courner in the UK and if I'm inspired to make a male card then I need to make a couple each time as its always difficult to make a male card (why I don't know all you need to choose is: sport, beer, cider, music...but still I struggle).

So following my theory that it needs to be one of the subjects above I made a golf card using some vintage designs

and then my inspiration deserted me!  Luckily I had a weekend back at my parents planned, an evening at a spa with my mum (lovely, with roof top thermal pool-nice and chilled) and then my mum and dad took me to their local lavender farm.

Isnt't it amazing?  I have never been to a lavender farm before, I'm not sure what was more heady, the scent as you approached or the fields of bright colour...totally breathtaking.

Instead of paper craft I may have to get out my scrap bag and sewing machine and make some lavender bags (am I the only one who has both fabric AND papers (ooh, and maybe ribbons) that are TOO nice to cut up and use, so you end up just taking them out and looking/touching them? Even as I type this it is sounding SO wrong!!).

All this talk of fabric has set my palms a sweating....off the do something with cloth!

Happy crafting

Li'l Pidge