Honey I Shrunk The Kit #14

Hey there friends, I'm so excited to be sharing another day out with my fellow Honey Babes for another HISTK post! BUT I'm absolutely dreading it at the same time as it's my turn to host! What I thought might be a fun kit to work with turned into a bit of a nightmare as my mojo went AWOL in the last few weeks so I'm relying on the Babes to showcase it to the MAX!

The name of my kit is 'Sugar Fix' and here's a little piccy of the contents: 

... and here's the list of contents:

Stamps: Reverse Confetti: Donut You Know (plus donut die), Neat & Tangled: Say Yes to Donuts, Avery Elle: Pick N Mix (plus dies) and Mama Elephant: Carnival Cupcakes (plus dies)

Other Dies: L’il Inker: Smile, Mama Elephant: Columbus Circle and Neat & Tangled: Hooray word dies

Other Items: Hobbycraft Basics: patterned paper, Action Wobbler, Doodlebug: bakers twine & Anita’s: half cut pearls

Somehow I managed 5 cards, some I like a lot more than others and this first one has to be my favourite. I made it for my niece and nephew for Halloween using the action wobbler behind the bag of sweeties. I used a couple of extra images from a CBS dis-continued set called In the Spirit.

No additional items were used for this one other than the kit and the images are coloured with Promarkers.

My colouring medium for the next one was the Kuretake Zig Clear Brush Pens but my doughnut looks a little burnt, don't you think? I used a wonky stitched die-cut panel (thanks to fellow Honey / LIM teamie, Anita ... quite convenient that she came to stay at my house recently and brought some of her treasured stash with her)!!!

Ooooh! What's this ... another wonky stitched panel (thanks again Anita)! Images and die-cut sentiment once again coloured with Promarkers, with the 'it's a boy' sentiment by CBS.

I'm really not sure about this one but had a few bits and pieces to use up so a framed display of sugary, jelly sweeties, all coloured with Promarkers and coated with wink of stella and glossy accents.

I hope you like my cards but I'm sure you'll love my teamies cards even more! Don't delay, check out these lovelies as I'm off to do now! Thanks for calling by and I hope to be back with more Honey I Shrunk the Kit kits next year! 

Hazel Hodgkins: Hazel's Paper Designs Sarah Gray: Funky Fossil Designs Shona Chambers: Twine Around Anita Bowden: Neet & Crafty Sarah Platt: Sazzle Dazzle Crafts ... that's ME!

Honey I Shrunk The Kit #13

Hey there friends, I'm so excited to be sharing another day out with my fellow Honey Babes for another HISTK post and our lovely host for this outing is none other than my F-A-B-U-L-O-U-S teamie and right-hand girl over at Less is More .... drum-roll please for Anita!
What a magnificent bundle of summer beauty she packed into one small envelope before dispatching around the world for us all to play. It wasn't so much a case of where to Start this time but when to STOP! Read on for all the details.


Here's the line up
Hazel Hodgkins: Hazel's Paper Designs Sarah Gray: Funky Fossil Designs Shona Chambers: Twine Around Anita Bowden: Neet & Crafty Sarah Platt: Sazzle Dazzle Crafts ... that's ME!
and here's a picture of Anita's goody bag followed by an impressive list of contents 

As well as various patterned / plain coloured, gems and ribbons here's the list of stamps and dies Anita packed into this kit! 
Your Next Stamp - Flippin' Fabulous (crab/sentiments), Clearly Besotted - Life's a Beach (flip flops/sentiments), So Sweet II (ice cream), Hung Up on You (mini cocktail/sentiments), Good Times II (sentiments), Petite Plushies (lolly/pinwheel), Hero Arts - Let's Chill (palm/hibiscus/cocktail/beachball/sentiment), Avery Elle - Sip Sip Hooray (sentiments), The Greeting Farm - Rain Snow Shine (girl), Little Claire (beach huts), Clear Impressions - Sea Breeze (deck chair), Paper Smooches - Warm Wishes, Birthday Words (cheers), Echo Park - Flamingo Palm die set, Newton's Nook - Hibiscus, Clearly Besotted - Scalloped Edges die collection

and here's my cards - I messed up the beach huts and couldn't think what to do with the deck chair image so hope you'll forgive me ... I managed 6 anyway!

I absolutely love this crazy crab image and the reverse of the patterned paper inspired my colour-way for this one. The image is coloured with promarkers and I added some glossy accents to the straps of the flip flops and his eyes!

Well what better way to retire than under a palm tree on a desolate beach sipping a cocktail! How many years must I work!!! LOL! Anyway a little scene created with the images, coloured with promarkers and a teeny piece of the plain coloured paper to create my 'beach'.

I grabbed my ziggys to colour these gorgeous die-cuts although having stuck everything down I do wish I'd positioned those leaves a little better. A little sentiment from my CBS stash and mounted on a little more of the plain papers from the kit.

Colouring isn't my strong point and I think that's why I started off with a stencilled/inky background! Distraction works a treat eh! Having said that this rather cute and sassy chick didn't need much distraction and I really enjoyed colouring her and setting this little scene. The card is on it's way to one of my daughter's friends who's nickname is 'CHill'

Once again inspired by those gorgeous patterned papers in the kit and this ice-cream card was born. I went with the mint, pink and chocolate colour scheme and coloured everything with promarkers. A little wink of stella on the ice cream and some glossy accents for the beach ball. 

Are you still with me? I promise this IS the last one. Another ziggy coloured couple of die-cuts. The flamingo and palm tree weren't really in proportion so I scrapped the bottom half of the tree and found this little strip of Brusho coloured cardstock, left over from a previous project, and thought it set the scene quite well. I just couldn't decide what sentiment to use or where to put it so it's 'blank' for now! 

Thanks for this adorable pack of goodies Anita! I'm now absolutely terrified as it's my turn next ... I guess someone has to be last! I'm off to check out what the rest of my teamies have made with this fantastic bundle and thanks for popping by today!

Honey I Shrunk The Kit #12 - Going Up

Hey there friends, it's time for another day out with my fellow Honey Babes for another HISTK post! I can't believe how quickly the weeks passed as it doesn't seem long since we were showcasing Shona's super cute set. This time our host is the lovely Hazel, who named this kit 'Going Up' - read on for more details ...

There was so much to work with that I ran out of time before using everything but it does mean I can play some more with what's left and here's the cards I've made so far ...

For this first one I die-cut a window in a panel of black cardstock using the MFT Rectangel Peek-a-boo die and popped that up on fun foam for dimension. A piece of design paper behind with my little koala scene. The sentiment is die-cut with a snow-drift die, also MFT Die-namics and the images and sentiment are all coloured with Promarkers.

It's an Anything Goes Challenge over at Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge so I'd like to link my card up there. 

Here's I've coloured the die-cut butterflies with distress inks, before placing them in an embossing folder from WeR Memory Keepers Next Level folders. Another MFT die used here to separate the black and white card stock - basic stitched border dies. The sentiment is die-cut using a Sizzix oval stax and I've added some colour-coordinated enamel dots - just because I love them and it needed a little extra 'lift' I thought!

First of all I created a frame for these lovely die-cuts using the WPlus9 Sunshine Layers dies. The images were coloured with promarkers and fuzzy cut (where necessary) before mounting my little scene on foam or directly on the cardbase for differing dimension. I couldn't resist adding those gorgeous diamond gems for extra detail and the sentiment seemed perfect for the scene.

As luck would have it when I made this card I had been using the 'Time To Party' set by Clearly Besotted and I realised the balloon die-cuts (which I don't own) were the perfect fit! Hey what a stroke of luck. Using a little more of the design paper I picked 3 colours to tone with it and stamped the balloons in Altenew Inks, adding a little water to spread the pigment on the water-colour cardstock. I coloured the 'make a wish' die-cut sentiment with the same inks and adhered everything to the card also making use of the twine as the strings for my balloons. 

Over at Time Out their having a 'celebrations' themed challenge and I'd like to play along there although sadly I've certainly not twisted with the one layer option!

It was such a joy to work with this kit Hazel and thanks so much for sending it and inspiring us with such gorgeous bits and pieces from your stash ...

Kit contents include:

Stamps: Gerda Steiner Designs - You're Koalafied/ STAMPlorations - Noteworthy 2/ Bella Stamps - Tomorrow's Dream & A Beautiful Day/ 
Dies: MFT - Brushstroke Birthday Greeting/ Clearly Besotted - Let's Party Die Collection / Spellbinders - Day Dreams (sun and clouds) / Butterflies (not sure) 
Other: Patterned paper: Stampin' Up! - Birthday Basics (retired) / Yellow twine


As always thanks for calling by my blog today and I'm off to check out what the rest of my teamies, below, have made with this fantastic bundle. 
Hazel Hodgkins: Hazel's Paper Designs Sarah Gray: Funky Fossil Designs Shona Chambers: Twine Around Anita Bowden: Neet & Crafty Sarah Platt: Sazzle Dazzle Crafts ... that's ME!

Honey I Shrunk The Kit #11

Hi blog friends, I'm thrilled to be sharing another day out with my fellow Honey Babes for our latest HISTK post and it was Shona's turn to 'host' the kit, which she's called .........

Here's the line up of Honey Babes followed by the picture of Shona's goody bag!
Hazel Hodgkins: Hazel's Paper Designs Sarah Gray: Funky Fossil Designs Shona Chambers: Twine Around Anita Bowden: Neet & Crafty Sarah Platt: Sazzle Dazzle Crafts ... that's ME!

Here's a picture of Shona's kit and a list of contents:

Neat and Tangled: Sequins, Big Hugs die-cut, Awesome die-cuts, Awesome Stamp set

Winnie and Walter: Friend die-cut

My Favourite Things: Hugs die-cut, Cool Cat stamp set, Beast Friends stamp set, Otterly Love You stamp set

Studio Katia: Stitched Creative Nested Squares die-cut 

Pretty Pink Posh: Stitched Rectangle die-cut, Stitched 3-window die-cut

Although I wasn't entirely sure where to go with the kit or what colour scheme to use I thoroughly enjoy playing with these gorgeous images and die-cuts. In the end I went with the colours of the sequins in the kit and tried to colour, not so successfully (particularly the otters) along these lines too so here goes. 

I used a few additional items for this one: Stencils by My Favourite Things - Scallops and Concentric circles which were both inked through with distress inks and the frame die is by Paper Smooches. The images and sentiment strip are coloured with Promarkers.          

                     

For this one I dry embossed the card base with a We R Memory Keepers next level embossing folder with a basket weave texture, coloured the die-cut friend sentiment and the images with Promarkers and mounted them onto a die-cut panel from WPlus9: Sunshine Layers dies

There was no need to use any additional items on this one. I merely coloured the images and the inner squares from the filmstrip die with Promarkers as well as the BG to the Awesome die cut sentiment.

I have to admit that I messed up the colouring of the 'heart-style' yeti but his face and head survived!!! I created a little wintery scene with a purple sky (as if!!!) blended with Wilted Violet distress inks and some landscape dies from Mama Elephant. The heart frame is from WPlus9.

And just enough to make this one which I was determined to make into a Christmas card with the twinkly fairy lights around this little beastie's neck BUT I couldn't resist the Big Hugs die cut sentiment which is coloured with Promarkers and all mounted on a scalloped panel from the WPlus9 Sunshine layers dies.

Thanks for another perfect pack of goodies Shona, I've had a brilliant time playing with these cuties; it was like receiving 3 whole new stamp sets that I'd never imagined owning. I can't wait to see what you and the rest of the playmates have created with the kit!  

Thanks for your visit and catch up soon.

Honey I Shrunk The Kit #10

Hey there friends, I'm here on another day out with my fellow Honey Babes for

another HISTK post! What's more we've another 'babe' joining us this year ... drum roll please for my super duper buddie and fellow teamie at  Less is More and HLS CAS Challenge
Anita of Neet & Crafty

Our host for this outing was another fellow teamie at Less is More and Uniko; Sarah G and she was certainly feeling all loved up and romantic when she put this beautiful kit together, which she's named 'Heartfelt'   I couldn't wait to get playing with all these yummy goodies and today  I simply can't wait to zip around the other blogs to see what's been created!
Here's the line up
Hazel Hodgkins: Hazel's Paper Designs Sarah Gray: Funky Fossil Designs Shona Chambers: Twine Around Sandie Munroe: London Days Anita Bowden: Neet & Crafty Sarah Platt: Sazzle Dazzle Crafts ... that's ME!
... and here's a picture of Sarah's goody bag and the list of contents   

Supplies: "There are a range of images in the kit including Mama Elephant, Winnie & Walter,  Paper Smooches and Neat and Tangled.  The die cuts are from Simon Says Stamp, Avery Elle & Tonic. "
and here's my cards but once again I struggle to keep these HISTK cards CAS. In trying to use every little element I end up forgetting that white space! 
So most CAS to begin with 

Using one of my WeR Memory Keepers embossing folders I've created a 'wave' texture to some black card stock ... no idea why this goes with hearts but I liked it! So using the chipboard hearts, sending word die and I snipped the 'U' off the Love sentiment, added a strip of glitter paper beneath and a couple of sequins ... DONE!

I stuck with the flowers but skipped the hearts here! 

I fuzzy cut the floral bouquets (over snipped actually - ooops!)

Coloured with Promarkers and mounted on 3d foam along with the

die-cut 'You' on top of one of the paper doilies. I then heat-embossed

the 'Thank' from Winnie & Walter in white onto black card.

I'd like to pop this one in at Simon Says Stamp - Wednesday Challenge

where it's Anything Goes this week! 

Totally OTT with love and hearts here! There were so many 

heart die cuts in the kit that I couldn't resist layering them up here.

I've fuzzy cut the 'love' sentiment and added a die-cut 'You' from

WPlus9 then once again mounted on 3d foam onto another doily.

To add a little interest to the pink cardstock from the kit I've added a 

stitched border to one edge.

Yikes I have this faceted Heart die but not the stamp so I 

was grinning from ear to ear when this dropped out of the little

packet. The patterned paper has such delicate pink and green tones

with a dash of lime green so I decided to watercolour the heart

with distress inks in Tattered Rose, Hickory Smoke, Cracked Pistachio

and Twisted Citron. I even inked the edges of my card base in the

Cracked Pistachio and added a couple of coordinating enamel dots by Doodlebug.

Last but not least and these bits were simply shouting 'Shake me!'

Using the flower power #1 set by Uniko I've stamped a 

tone on tone floral print on the heart frame, added all the

teeny die-cut hearts inside the shaker with some seed beads. The

second piece of patterned paper is behind with lots of heartfelt words.

I've fuzzy cut those adorable bunnies and coloured them with zig clear

brush pens then added the 'bunny' sentiment below.

Thanks for this adorable pack of goodies Sarah and thankfully I've

a few months to think out how I'm going to compete!!!

As always thanks for calling by and I'm off to check out what the 

rest of my teamies have made with this fantastic bundle. 

Honey I Shrunk The Kit #9

Hey there friends, guess what ... it's time for another day out with the honeys! For this outing it was Hazel's turn to host and she chose a  Vintage Theme
 I was and still am swooning over her bundle of yumminess!  So many elegant elements that work perfectly together.  I simply can't wait to zip around the other blogs to see what's been created! Here's the line up Hazel Hodgkins: Hazel's Paper Designs Sarah Gray: Funky Fossil Designs Shona Chambers: Twine Around Sandie Munroe: London Days Sarah Platt: Sazzle Dazzle Crafts ... that's ME! ... and here's a picture of Hazel's goody bag and the list of contents   

Supplies:
Stampin' Up: Jars of Love stampset and corresponding Everyday Jars framelits;  Beau Chateau patterned paper; Tea for Two patterned paper
Paper Smooches: Free Spirits and corresponding Free Spirits Icons
Clearly Besotted: Time for Tea; Feel Better
Other: large gold rhinestones; cork label and gold doily - my stash
and here's my cards but I have to admit they are pretty NON-CAS ... my excuse there were too many gorgeous bits and pieces to use!

This was a huge risk ... slicing the golden doily in two! 

Did it work out? I'm happy with it against the gorgeous vintage

blue florals and I couldn't bear to risk colouring the teapot and cup

for fear of spoiling them so I added a little floral stamp by Uniko!

 This jar simply shouted 'shake me' so that's what I did!

Using a shaker mix from Lucy's Little things. I know pink wasps and bees 

don't appear in nature but I just couldn't resist colouring them this way!

Oh two more yummy jars and they were crying out for some blooms!

These are the Freehand florals by WPlus9, trimmed with some strips of DSP

from the kit that I think looks like washi tape!

It's Thanks / Thanksgiving over at Simon Says Stamp - Wednesday Challenge

so I'd like to pop this one in over there!

Crumbs I ran out of DSP! So grabbed a neutral pack of my own!

Told you I skipped the CAS element for these. Managed to use up the little 

slither of gold doily too. Another shaker, this time with mini hearts behind some 

vellum in the taller jar. The mini jar was coloured then winked with stella 

and drizzled generously with glossy accents! I'm hoping it looks like some 

luscious cream or bubble bath! I even found some paper flowers to coordinate!

I was struggling here but there was still the wine glasses and wine related

sentiments to use along with the gorgeous cork label. I've coloured some 

rather 'pink' wine into the glasses, with wink of stella and Glossy Accents.

Then die-cut the 'wine O'clock' sentiment with a heart die from MFT Die-Namics, 

added a die-cut glittery 'Cheers' sentiment by Lawn Fawn and a couple of sequins.

This one is probably the most CAS card so I'm heading over to 

Addicted to Stamps & More with this one where they are looking for

Clean and Simple this week!

As always thanks for calling by and I'm off to check out what the 

rest of my teamies have made with this fantastic bundle. 

Thanks for the kit Hazel ... I've had a brilliant time making these.