WOYWW 176

Hi all, got to be really quick as it's my daughters 16th birthday tomorrow, she is having a party this Saturday for family and the following Saturday a sleepover with her mates, so I am in the middle of finishing invitations, trying to decorate the living room for the morning, and eeeeek I don't know lol, need to ring my mate, she is good trying to get me sorted lol.  So it's Wednesday (just lol) which means it's time for my weekly dose of woyww where everyone shares their crafty space, mine is a mess lol. Also a quick mention, I am involved in my very first blog hop and I am giving some candy away as well, if you want to have a peep see the post here.

Invitations drying, all the paper on the table is scrap paper

I use :-)

Complete Mess lol lol lol

I also would like to say that things are calming down a bit at home with my son, I am just about healing from my fall downstairs last week and my daughters broken finger is healing. Thank you all for your support during this tough few weeks, I am just about getting there and slowly managing to cope. :-)
Happy Woyww :-) Hugs Kerry xxx

Halloween Blog Hop

Hi all, where having a blog hop over at That Craft Place Challenge Blog, I'm really excited as I have never done a hop before :-) all details are below, our Challenge will be Halloween during this fortnight as well.  Guess what? I'm also having some halloween candy during the blog hop so don't forget to comment :-). Also just to mention further on are the challenge blogs I would like to enter my card into :-)

Blog Hop Details
It's also That Craft Place first ever blog hop woohoo :-) and wow we have some amazing prize's up for grabs and as you know the theme is halloween. Our blog list is below, all you need to do is comment on each of the DT's blog and become a follower of That Craft Place Shop Blog, also come join us over on our Facebook Page but this isn't an actual requirement but may hold some candy!!!
The prize's are 1st £30, 2nd £20, 3rd £15, 4th £10, 5th £5 to be spent in the That Craft Place Shop aren't they fantastic :-).

BLOG HOP LIST

That Craft Place Challenge Blog

Lisa

Erin

Laney

Kerry (your here)

Trudie

Shop Blog (must become a follower)

Anda

Cathy

Lorraine

Shell

Jan

Louise

Suzi

Carrie

As you can see there is a few things for you to do!!!! lol

Make sure you comment on all the DT's blog's and

don't forget to become a follower of our shop blog.

Onto my card and my halloween candy :-)

I would like to enter my card into the following challenges:-

I Love Promarkers - Halloween

No Matter Which Challenges - Halloween Creations or Colours

Raise The Bar - Hey Pumpkin

I coloured the pumpkins on the patterned paper as they were only

white, also the image is bouncing on acetate :-)

Close Up she was coloured with pro and flex markers

Picture showing how the image is bouncing on acetate so it

looks like she is flying.

Halloween Candy
I shall be giving away some halloween candy shown below, a new simply betty stamp (I bought two by accident lol), some ribbon and an hanging skeleton.  You don't have to be a follower, nice if you was but not a requirement, all you have to do is comment and I shall use random org to pick a winner :-)

Wow that's alot of information all at once and hopefully I got it right :-)  Thank you for joining me. 

Hugs :-) Kerry xxx

Recipe

Stamps - Simply Betty Stamps (witchy boo), Tim Holtz (halloween)

Inkpads - Archival (jet black), Memento (tuxedo black), Brilliance (moonlight white), Distress Ink (rusty hinge, black soot)

Patterned Paper - Echo Park (chillingsworth manor)

Dies - Spellbinders (standard circle, halloween fence, scenes & shapes) Memory Box (creepy spider)

Dylusions Sprays (black marble and squeezed orange)

Creative Expressions (cloud mask)

Black card and black shrink plastic

Cosmic Shimmer (sparkle black embossing powders)

Acetate

Sakura gelly roll green pen and green and orange gems

Colouring - Promarkers (caramel, cocoa, cool grey 1,3,4,5, lime green, sandstone, lime twist, gold, pumpkin, rose pink, pear green, marsh green, coral, blush, oatmeal, mandarin, burnt orange), Flexmarkers (blue grey 2), Tria markers (CG01)

Free Hug

Hi all, I started this card Tuesday evening but couldn't finish it until today due to me trying to be in the circus by flying downstairs on one's arse, yep I slipped and fell all the way downstairs, I feel like I have had a few rounds with Frank Bruno lol lol. As I have been doing lots of sofa craft colouring I thought I had better make a card up, and went for the saturated canary free hug stamp with bright orange for a cheer up colour.  I want to enter my card into the following challenges -
                                                                           Sketch Saturday - picture of sketch I followed below
                                                                           Totally Gorjuss - Anything Goes
Sketch

Card

 Close Up

Can you see my mistake?

The problem with coming back to a card that you only needed to put topper on and need to finish quickly as the sketch challenge was finishing, yep I put the centre piece on wrong, so this card will be great for a left handed person to open lol.  Better be off, and I send lots of free hugs to you all :-) Kerry xxx

Recipe
Stamp - Saturated Canary (free hug), Stampin Up (tiny tags)
Inkpads - Memento (tuxedo black) and Archival (jet black)
Dies - Provocraft (mini tag), Spellbinders (border classic scallop, standard square, standard square scallop)
Flowers coloured with Orange (dylusions squeezed orange spray and cosmic shimmer rich gold mist) and Blue (cosmic shimmer teal wash mist) Flowers from Wild Orchid Crafts
Ribbon (from a friends birthday cake!!!)
Papers - October Afternoon (9-5)
Creative Expressions Twine
Stash - gems, sewing thread
Colouring - Card (stampin up), Promarkers (coral, oatmeal, blush, cocoa, burnt sienna, cinnamon, putty, mango, orange, burnt orange, pastel beige, morning mist, azure, rose pink, true blue) Flexmarkers (light fawn, egyptian blue, blue grey 2)

WOYWW 175 Oops Late Again!!!

Hi all, it's Wednesday (sort of Thursday but trying to fool you all lol) which means it's time for WOYWW hosted by Julia where everyone shares their desks :-).  Thank you all for your lovely comments last week, they were all very uplifting.  The good news is I am feeling a little more postive, I have to admit I believe this is after being so low as the week has been complicated, I'm afraid my son got worse at the weekend which led to me having a complete meltdown on Sunday evening, my daughter broke her finger quite badly last Thursday playing basketball and we have been going to and from hospital and then just as mojo is returning Tuesday evening I fell down the stairs yesterday, thank goodness nothing broken, just very bruised and pulled muscles, and lets just say at the moment I am definitely sitting on one side of my body, sitting normally is painful lol lol.  I guess you have to hit rock bottom to start feeling better which has helped me laugh after my fall, well 24hours later, yesterday I couldn't even get upstairs to my computer.  I have been completely away from work, blogging, crafting for a week so I'm afraid I didn't get to comment but I really want to catch up with everyone who gave me such inspiration, I took all of it on Tuesday and chaneled into doing some work from home, Alison said listen to music and wow this really helped, hence the crafting Tuesday evening.  So I shall get back to you all and a big thanks again.

Please be aware this was taken this morning and yes I had to leave my craft space a mess like this since Tuesday on the basis of not being able to clear any of it up yesterday due to the fall lol.

Right I shall be off, I have a card to put on later for a challenge and have more for tomorrow so lots of posts compared to non.  Thank you again to everyone being so supporting.  Hugs :-) Kerry xxx

WOYWW 174

Hi all, it's Wednesday which means it's time for WOYWW which is hosted by the amazing Julia.  I was going to miss this week, things have been a bit stressful and hectic around here at the moment.  As you know my 13yr old son has had a few problems and at last he has a support worker, but it means that things seem to have gotten worse, I know the saying is things have to get worse before better but it's hard, especially when he admitted that on Friday when he had his angry tantrum he thought he was going to hit me, he was trying to escape out of the front door, I stood there while he was shoving but crying after he said that it was a good job his step dad walked in as he lost so much control that he was going to hit me, while crying he turned around and said please help me stop becoming a monster, heart breaking.  Also my back is now at it's worse and my injections are not due until November, but I'm in lots of pain, (I have morphine when it's really bad but I hate taking it but last night I had no choice) not sleeping well, struggling with house duties, can't walk and at 38 I feel peeved off. I'm working on accounts from home so that's not too bad, I know I'm really lucky their are loads of people out there that are in more pain, have worse illness. Crafting at this point normally helps so much but I seem to be in a craft turmoil, I'm lucky to have so much stuff, new bits etc but I can't seem to work out what I want to do, I start doing for a challenge but then find another I want to do, then I see something else and now when I need my craft to escape it's stressing me more.
How do you get out of that situation, does anybody ever feel like that with craft? I need it more then ever at the moment lol so any ideas will help.
I am so sorry that I have said all of this, but I really needed to tell somebody.  I am so sorry that I didn't get to visit anyone last week, the tutorials through September are now finished but it took until Monday to wrap it all up and then of course life has got in the way.
But I'm planning on visiting loads this week, not just because I want to see all the wonderful desks but also because it helps to know YOUR ALL OUT THERE :-) and I really appreciate everything you have done for me, every word, comment and hug as been gratefully received so a BIG thank you.

Right desk .......

Sofa Craft

Dumping desk :-)

A mega mix of bits

Right I shall be off, hope you all have a good week, I'm off to visit :-) Lots of hugs Kerry xxx

Make your own background

Good morning, it's time for another challenge at That Craft Place Challenge Blog and this fortnight it's my turn to host the challenge and I have chose 'Make your own Backgrounds', this could be something simple like altering a patterned paper with a little stamping.  I love adding a little extra to my backgrounds even if I only use an embossing folder and I so wanted others to have a go, hence the challenge.  Over on the Shop Blog I have done a few tutorials through September ready for this challenge to give others some ideas, I'm no way an expert, they were just simple ideas and today I shall put up a tutorial on masterboards.  Really it's not much of a tutorial as a follow me while I'm learning lol as this was the first time I had done one!!!!.  If you saw my post on Friday you will see the first one I did and here is the other one I finished last night .......

I decided to do a bit of stamping to give it a little extra -

I would love to enter the following card into these challenges :-
                      Passion for Promarkers Challenge Blog - Autumn Leaves
                      Crazy 4 Challenges - Leaves
                      Everybody Art Challenge - Autumn

And here is the card I made from the background above

I have really enjoyed doing these backgrounds and have plenty left for more cards this week, think I might go for some CAS cards with just a background and sentiment, that might look good lol.  This won't be the last time as I think I shall probably do loads more, I would love to do a christmas one as that would make loads of cards after.  Thank you to everyone who visits and truly appreciate it.  Happy Crafting :-)
Hugs Kerry xxx

Recipe
Masterboard
Sheena Douglas (a little bit sketchy Autumn leaves)
Distress inkpads (forest moss, aged mahogany, gathered twigs, rusty hinge, seedless preserves)
Adirondack inkpads (butterscotch)
Archival inkpad (jet black)
Cosmic Shimmer mica pigment (red bronze and lava red)
Cosmic Shimmer embossing powder (bright gold metalic)
Crafty Notions (mixed colour gold/autumn leaf)
Frantage  (aged scarlet and aged gold)
Other Embossing powder - Copper and Stamp n Bond
Rest of Card
Saturated Canary Stamp (Autumn)
Inkpads - Stazon (jet black), Adirondack (pitch black)
Xcut corner punch
Spellbinders - Lattice Rectangles
Black embossing powder
Copper glitter
Sheena Douglas (embossing folder heavy swirls)
Fiskars scissors (stamp)
Ribbon
Ribbon girl mini pumkins
The leaves were made out of a acetate, alcohol inks, mica, glaze and tissue paper done ages ago)
Colouring - Promarkers (burnt sienna, umber, cocoa, ginger, spice, burnt orange, aubergine, crimson, burgundy, coral, oatmeal, blush, walnut, henna, olive green, moss, pear green, mustard, amber, apple cidar, plum preserve) Flexmarkers (rose peach, light fawn, firebrick)

Last Days of Summer

Hi all, Yep it's late and I have about 1.5hrs to join the challenge over at Crafty Individuals Blog which is 'Last Days of Summer'.  I have started to become a huge fan of crafty individuals stamps, their English, great quality, everywhere sells them, the value are excellent, I normally buy them from all over the place but a fews ago I wanted a specific stamp so I bought from the Crafty Individuals Shop and wow the service was quick (next day) and I even got a goody stamp, and they emailed personally to say my bits were on the way, fantastic service and I shall buy from them in future.

So I recently found they had a blog and saw the latest challenge, but couldn't think of what to do so left it lol, then earlier in the week I found a picture and some ribbon that inspired me to make a masterboard which I finished last night, problem was I have had one of those days that makes  you want to curl in a corner shouting go away lol and have only just managed to do the card and finish it hence why I'm late.  Also this challenge (not sure if it's everyone, probably the odd one) you get 25%off in their store how fab is that.

Picture and Ribbon

Masterboard I made (12by12)

Close Up

Card for the Challenge

Right I shall be off, I'm in the middle of another masterboard for a Challenge on Sunday.   Thanks so much for visiting :-) Kerry xxxx

Recipe
Masterboard 
Distress Ink Pads (picked raspberry, mustard seed, ripe persimmon)
Crafy Individuals - (CI - 235,248,329)
Archival jet black ink pad
Versamark dazzle
WOW vanilla white embossing powder
Card
Ribbon
Crafty Individuals (In a Gilded Die, Bird Mask, Stamps CI 248)
Sewing