lilkatscrafting

Good To The Last Bite

Today I started the day with a stack of pancakes, some turkey bacon topped off with maple syrup, it was delicious great way to started a Sunday(that’s the day I wrote this, by now its Tuesday) it’s a shame it wasn’t in bed, my partner hates breakfast in bed , he says I will get crumbs everywhere which is probably true haha.

As we are approaching October I thought I would give some Halloween…

A Sunday Full Of Thanks

Today is the last day from my thank you card showcase. I will probably do more in the future but a bit more sporadically, any way for today’s card I use a cool blue colour combination.

This is one of those few cards I didn’t actually plan, I knew I wanted to use watercolour paper and the new thick cardstock in a project just no idea what it should look like, till I spotted an interesting card…

Woo it’s Friday!

As I said on Tuesday this week is all about thank you cards and today’s card is based off one i seen in the main catalogue on page 16 and I finally got my hands on the stamp set they used on it so I thought I would make my own version of it.

The colour in the original was Mint Macaron but I felt I should try using more pink and one of the few that I actually like is Calypso…

I had a fab weekend of making a variety of thank you cards some of which I will be sharing with you this week. They are all really easy to make and very customisable so give them a go and put your own spin on them.

Here is the first card, something bright and fun to start the week.

Now I don’t have any big flat circle stamps with some sort of pattern on them so what I did for this image is use…

Happy Friday!

I’m super hyped for the weekend this week. I have just one job to take care of then I have the rest to sit and make a whole bunch of cards not to mention tomorrow is the Pootle’s blog hop and there will be lots of fun projects to have a go at.

Now today’s card is something I don’t usually do and that is Halloween Cards. Never really felt the need but I spotted this cool web…

Watercolour Wings Card Collection

Today was my eldest sisters birthday (there are five of us and I am number 4) or yesterday as I am writing this Monday but posting it Tuesday. Anyway as part of her birthday present I made her a card collection using watercolor wings which is a fantastic stamp set and she just happens to love watercolour effects so It went down a treat and as she has already seen and opened it can now share it…

You’re On My Mind Again…..

Well it has been a hell of a week for me. 5 days of posts but I made it. I know I said a post every day of this week but I should clarify that I meant weekdays as I will be making lots of other fun stuff at the weekend.  Not to mention writing a post for the next Pootles blog hop.

This final card uses the sentiment You’re On My Mind. I think this is a rather useful stamp as it can be used in a…

And Suddenly it’s Thursday!

For today’s project I am combining the stamp set of the week That Thing You Did with a die set that I purchased recently and that’s the bakers box thinlet dies. I absolutely love this die set as soon as I seen it I new I had to have it. It make producing baker boxes so much easier no faffing about cutting and scoring and it comes with extra dies for embellishing like a…

So I had planned to have this and another two posts ready by Sunday evening and then just schedule everything but Sunday evening came and went and here I am typing the rest on a rather dreary Tuesday Morning.

Todays project is a card (I decided to alternate so tomorrow is 3d). Still sticking with that awesome stamp set That thing You Did.

For this card I tried out a technique I haven’t used…

Its Birthday Card Tuesday…. Only joking as I said yesterday this week its all about That Thing You Did stamp set.

Todays project is a 3d project but its really simple and I really had fun making it.

I just love the petite cafe gift bags you can get because they are great for putting little gifts in especially edible ones and they are so fun and easy to decorate.

So to decorate this one I used…

Well I am finally back!

So for a couple of months I took some time out from my craft blog as I was getting a little stressed with work and learning to drive along with a multitude of other things that I wont bore you with. Needless to say my crafting suffered because of this and I just lost interest in posting all together but I think I have finally got my mojo back and I am ready to start…

It’s Tuesday!

For this weeks card I decided to go for a watercolour look. Now me and watercolours have a love hate relationship I love them they hate me haha. I think I just need to practice using them more and eventually it will turn out the way I want it to.

I deliberately made this image dark so that you could see the clear embossed image that I have on the card. I think I added too much…

Morning everyone.

Having a nice weekend so far?

Mine has been nice and relaxing but after this blogpost have to go do the dreaded weekly shop (I would do one for two weeks but my freezer isn’t big enough).

Here is this weeks sketch.

I like this sketch. I felt a lot more inspired when I looked at this one compared to last week so maybe I have got my mojo back.

So for this weeks card I wanted to…

Friday!

Well that week flow over. I have been so busy lately between full time work, baseball, driving lessons and managing my blog the days just disappear. Luckily I have a holiday coming up in August and it will be nice to take a break and just relax. So this weeks demonstrator highlight is Sam Hammond Donald aka Pootles.

I am sure a lot of people reading have heard of her. She is amazing and…

Morning everyone.

Not sure if anyone noticed but I didn’t actually do a post on Sunday. Very naughty of me I know but I wasn’t really fired up to make anything this weekend and Sunday turned into a very busy day so I didn’t get time in the end (I usually do that post live).

I have also been a little naughty with this weeks birthday card as I have used a little strip of dsp that is no longer…

This weeks demonstrator video highlight comes from the lady who’s videos inspired me to start crafting and set me down my Stampin up path. Although this lady doesn’t actually know that. It happened around the lead up to Christmas last year where I was on youtube looking for gift tag and card ideas and I stumbled upon one of her videos and after one I had to watch the rest. It was also in one of…

Oh dear I am a little behind this week and writing my post so today I am writing it live, which means it may be shorter than usual as I have about 10 mins to write this before I need to get ready to go to work.

So on with the show. For this weeks card I decided to keep the overall design simple with a touch of elegance.

In the middle of the card is a piece of watercolour paper that is coloured…