Simply Sketched 20

Thank you for joining us for another Simply Sketched Saturday Challenge! 

We’re so excited to be sharing this hop with you.  The products used are all available in the current Annual, or seasonal, Stampin’ Up!® Catalogues*. 

Simply use the buttons at the bottom of the post to keep hopping.

This time we've been set a colour challenge by Hannah - here are the colours -

I made a card base out of Smoky Slate, picked out re-inkers in the remaining colours and some Glossy White card.  I sprayed the glossy card with water and dropped blogs of ink onto the surface while it was still wet and then - blew on the ink to move it around.  In my days as an Early Years teacher, we used to get the pupils to use drinking straws.  I used the air duster spray you get for cleaning computer components, which was much less like hard work.

Here's the result (embellished with a bit of ribbon and some heat embossing)

There's a YouTube video showing how I did it if you want to see it, visit my channel in a couple of days and it'll be there.  Don't do it now, though, because you really need to see what Hannah has made- click here to go to the 

Or if you're the independent kind and and working your way through the hop from the other end, then visit Jillian at the

Do come back and join me again another day, won't you?  

See you again soon,

Crafty Hugs,

Keren

Product List

A4 Glossy White Cardstock

[144241]

Card Stock A4 Smoky Slate

[131291]

Fresh Fig 1/2" Finely Woven Ribbon

[144132]

Fresh Fig Classic Stampin' Ink Refill

[144088]

Calypso Coral Classic Stampin' Ink Refill

[122934]

Blushing Bride Classic Stampin' Ink Refill

[131157]

Colorful Seasons Photopolymer Stamp Set

[143726]

Gold Stampin' Emboss Powder

[109129]

Versamark Pad

[102283]

Double aperture card

Hello bloggists, and welcome!

Happy April!  

April is my birthday month, so I'm sharing a birthday card today.

It could be an anything card really, but I've put a birthday message inside so it's a birthday card! 

I was given a similar card to this on my birthday a few years ago and I really liked the design.  So I wanted to re-create it.

Here's the tutorial -

Do you like it too?

I really hope so!

See you again soon,

Crafty Hugs,

Keren

Triangle Box

Hello bloggists! As I write this, I'm at the start of a week's leave from work, and I'm hoping that I will get lots of crafty projects done and recorded.  I like to have a few videos in the bag, so that if for any reason, I can't get on with things as planned I can still keep to my schedule (I try to get a video up on YouTube on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays) because, you know, stuff happens.  Today started with a total absence of hot water, and we had to call the gas man in.  He got the back boiler going, but it's on its last legs so we may need a new water heater.  

Fortunately, I'd got my next project ready to go.  I saw a triangular box on TV and wondered how it was done - so I decided to have a go at one myself.  It turned out to be easier than I thought - see what you think...

This Saturday I will be at the Stampin' Up! On Stage Local event -  I've pre-recorded a video and I'm hoping that the scheduling works OK. (I've just reached 2,000 followers on YouTube and I'm so happy, considering my original target was 100, and if you're one of the lovely people who subscribes to my channel, thank you, thank you!)  I'll be telling you all about it (as much as I can) when I get back and showing you the swaps I've collected.  I LOVE being a demonstrator...

See you soon,

Crafty Hugs,

Keren

Timeless Elegance

I don't know about you but I'm not the world's tidiest crafter.  It's not unknown for me to put something down and for it to disappear into hyperspace.  I started the base of this card about six months ago, when the 2015-16 Annual Catalogue was published - and then couldn't find it, so went away and made another version.

I found it again the other day and it seemed a shame to waste all that good work.  So I added a few glimmer paper hearts (punched out with the sweetheart punch) and a sentiment, and there it was.  

Hope you like it!

See you soon
Crafty Hugs,

Keren

My Twisted Valentine

Hello there and welcome!

Something that most crafters seem to have in common is that we never waste anything.  I have boxes full of scraps of “precious” paper, and every now and then I give myself a firm talking-to and promise myself that I will get rid of all of those things I don’t need any more, usually without much success  (I am going to be selling off my retired SU stamp sets ANY DAY NOW...I MEAN it..)  Today’s card proves that I was right to keep all those little bits , because it was made with  bits and pieces that were left over from other projects.

The twist-fold card base was one of two I got from the same piece of Sahara Sand  card I used when I made the Going Global card.  I cut the Bloomin’ Heart in Glimmer paper and Blushing Bride card when I was making the Pot Pourri box, and I also cut the small flowers at the same time...the DSP was cut from scraps of Timeless Elegance paper that I’d used on another project, and the sentiment is stamped onto a scrap of Blushing Bride from my scraps box.

Don’t you just LOVE it when you can make good use of the leftover bits?

Here’s how it went together!

Hope you enjoyed,

See you soon

Crafty Hugs

Keren (feeling thrifty!)

Hanging about!

Hi everyone, thank you for calling!

We'll, that's Halloween done and we've got a short breathing space before we start building up to Christmas.  For one of my "Dark Side" projects for the month-long blog hop I've just finished, I made a card with a dangling embellishment inside, so  I thought I'd take the chance to show you how I did it.

In fact, I made two versions - 

Here's the video -

Oh, and if you're wondering why I haven't photographed the cards in my mini studio as I usually do - this is why - it's Occupied!

Yes, that cat is spoiled rotten.  Really, though, she was quite unwell not too long ago and I'm just happy she's well enough to be naughty.  I'm not really such a soft touch.  Well, perhaps a bit...

Don't forget, if you want any of the Stampin' Up! products I used to make the card you can visit my online shop- the link is over at the top of the page.

See you on Saturday for the second Simply Sketched!