Goodbye Uncle Paul

Hello lovely peeps, I hope you are all well.

It's a sad day today as we lay my wonderful Uncle Paul to rest. This is the card I made for his family, using Inkylicious Poppies.

Rosie Posy in Pencils on Throwback Tuesday

Hello lovely peeps and welcome to my two new followers :o)

Today's card features Rosie Posy from Lili of the Valley which was first released in 2011. I've used the rubber version but although that has now been retired you can still get her as a digi here.

Watering Can for Mum

Hello lovely peeps

This is the card I made for my Mum's birthday, using Watering Can from Lili of the Valley

Peonies and Roses

Hello lovely peeps, and welcome to my new follower :o)

It's the first Saturday of the month, so it's time for a new challenge at Crafty Calendar. The theme is "Mum's Day/Special Female" and the sponsor is Wild Orchid Crafts

The main image on my card is from an old Art Pad by Lili of the Valley - this one is now available as a digital download from their Simply Print range and is called Peonies and Roses

I  framed it with a Scalloped Square die-cut from Spellbinders and some chopped up
Catalina Wreath die-cuts from Memory Box

Next I covered a 7"x7" card blank with Raspberry Road and First Edition papers, plus some gorgeous lace from The Ribbon Girls - Charlotte Elizabeth Vintage Style

I've added a cluster of flowers from my stash, including some White Chrysanthemums from Wild Orchid Crafts. The leaves were die-cuts using a set of dies I got on Ebay (from China)

The tag was cut from matching paper using the Elisse Bigz die by Sizzix

and the 'Mum' was added with a Papermania Relations stamp 

I would like to enter this in the following challenges:-
The Ribbon Girls February Any Image
Deep Ocean Challenge #149 Add lace
Polkadoodles   Anything Goes option ribbon/lace
In The Pink #114 For a special lady
Noor! Designs UK #28 Spring
Double D Challenges Think Spring
A Vintage Journey - All Aboard
Crafting With An Attitude  #24 Anything Goes
Fussy and Fancy #182 Anything Goes
Shopping Our Stash #292 Colour palette


Thanks for stopping by,

Katrina x

200th post blog candy

Hello lovely peeps and welcome to my 200th blog post :)

That means it's candy time  !!

Well, I've been busy in the 7 months since my 100th post.  I have:

• been one of the runners up in the Card Designer of the Year competition in Simply Cards & Papercraft magazine (coincidentally, the advent calendar on my 100th post was part of my competition entry)
• joined the lovely (and slightly mad) ladies on the Polkadoodles Design Team, thank you girls for making me so welcome
• seen my very first Design Team (Lili of the Valley Design Collective) disbanded which was obviously a sad occasion for me but I'm so grateful to have been on the team and made so many wonderful crafty friends (EDIT - the Design Collective is still going, but with reduced involvement as there is a new core Design Team)  
• been chosen as a member of Leonie Pujol's very first Design Team - I was (and am) chuffed to bits as I have been a fan of Leonie since her QVC days.
• joined the Sugar Nellie Blog Challenge team for a 4-month stint, as well as having Guest Designer spots at Crafting By Designs, All Dressed Up and Color Throwdown

Wow, no wonder the year is going by so quickly :D

And through all this I've had support from you, my fabulous followers. It means so much to have you visit little ol' me, and your wonderful comments really make my day. As a thank you I'm having a huge giveaway worth over £80.

The dies:

Thank you to Craftasmic in Taunton for donating the Cottage Cutz Ice Cream die, and Crafters Companion for the Leonie Pujol dies, two of which are from her latest launch. The heart is especially useful as you can roll up the spiral parts to make 3D flowers.

The Stamps:

There is no packaging included with the 'Off She Flew' stamps but this is a picture of it

The Paper:

This is a full 8x8 paper pad from Lili of the Valley which has been discontinued and includes one of my favourite wood effect paper designs.

The rest:

A few embellishments, including 100 dew drops and a .005 black fineliner pen which I use on practically everything (yours is new and unused!)
I will also include a £5 Polkadoodles gift certificate for the winner

To be in with a chance of winning all you need to do is

1. be a follower of my blog (either a Google follower or an email subscriber),  and 
2. leave me a comment below*
3. IF you add a picture of my candy with a link to this post on your own blog you can add a second comment below to get an extra chance of winning

*If you do not have a Google profile you will not be able to leave a comment directly, so please email your comment to me at 

kernewekkat @ gmail . com 

and I will post your comment in myself - make sure to remove the spaces from the address above when you are typing this in the 'To' section of your email

The draw will close on Sunday 14th August at 9pm BST

Good luck everyone,

Katrina x