Kimber Kreations
Independent stampin' up! demonstrator uk, since 2010 Handmade cards, Rubber stamping, stamping techniques, card making ideas, Stampin' up Stampin' up, card making inspiration, scrapbooking, papercrafts.
Friday, 20 December 2024
A blast from the past
Tuesday, 29 October 2024
Golden Rocking Horse
Hubby wasn't quite so sure about it though....Eww... that's different for you, not sure about that. I told him, I loved it and that it was made a long time ago, I just hadn't turned the card front into a card until just now. He walked away totally unimpressed and said no more. Which was probably just as well.
A tip I would like to offer now, is to use a smooth really intense black card, this wouldn't have turned out nearly so nice if I had used the... umm.... black card on sale in most craft shops that's pretending to be black.
I think this was a card I made using a sweet poppy brass stencil, which I picked up at a craft show some years ago, it retailed at around the £7.00 mark at the time.
I used a gold embossing paste through the stencil to create this golden rocking horse, (after removing the stencil from the paste and dropping the stencil into a bowl of warm soapy water immediately to soak)
I sprinkled some ultrafine diamond glitter over the wet paste and let it set overnight. The glitter stuck well to the paste and many years later its still sticking well.
Once the paste was completely dry and had hardened off I add a small red bow to the horses harness for a pop of colour. Then mounted the black panel onto a matching red paper and gave it a very fine 1 /16th of an inch border of red before adding it to my cream 7 x 5 inch base card.
As much as I like the look and simplicity of these embossing paste cards, I do not have a lot of patience or space to spare when it comes to waiting for things to dry or set hard, the consequences have usually been a total disaster so I mostly refrain from working with these types of products . Having said that...I am tempted to give it another whirl , that is, if my embossing paste hasn't hardened in the pot!
Thursday, 17 October 2024
summer silhouettes
I have made this 7 x 7 inch card before but in navy and crumb cake inks. I fancied making it again but in a different colour. So this time I used crumb cake and blackberry bliss.
I think this colour combo works quite well. The stamp set is an old S.U set called summer silhouettes.
Thursday, 10 October 2024
Post Box Christmas cards
I have been doing a little reorganizing in my craft room and I came across the post box stamp in these cards, It was one of the first stamps I ever bought. I was never happy with colouring mediums at the time. There were none of the quality colouring products that are available today. So I was always disappointed with the results.
So this stamp got packed away along with the rest of my meagre collection. That was when I decided stamping wasn't for me.
Since then, stamps and the products used with them have come a long way, making the whole experience a lot easier and more pleasurable.
So upon reacquainting myself with this lovely stamp, I decided to try creating a scene around the post box using Lavinia stamps.
After blending in the horizon and the sky, I stamped the postbox , masked it off and began building up the scene.
Using the edge of a piece of torn paper and a small blending brush with next to no ink on, I brushed in a few snow drifts.
I used copic markers to colour the post box and white Posca pen to add snow to the branches and create snowflakes.
This was the finished card . I enjoyed creating this card so much I decided to make a few more and tried to vary the background, by either using different tree stamps or drawing in the trees myself.
On this card I decided to draw in the background trees with copic markers.
I stamped a fence in but didn't line it up too well.
On the card below I added a rabbit and missed out a few trees.
Most of the stamps I used to create these scenes are from Lavinia's mini stamp collection.
The sentiments are from an S.U set called itty bitty Christmas.
The size of these cards are 4 x 8 1/2 inches.
Friday, 27 September 2024
The smaller withches
On this card I used all three of the smaller witches in the set and one of the small cats on this blended background. I added some tiny evergreen trees along the horizon and larger deciduous trees behind the witches. And an assortment of mini foliage stamps as silhouettes around the outer edges.
Wednesday, 25 September 2024
spooky house
This one I'm not so happy with. I loved the purple splattered background I started, but I didn't think one through before starting. But as I said, I was just experimenting with background colours.
Saturday, 21 September 2024
Halloween cards.
Sunday, 15 September 2024
Halloween cards 2024
Another Halloween card using the newly released witch bundle from Lavinia stamps.
I have used the same stamps as I used in my previous post below
I just changed the background colours. I used S.U dye based inks, regular stamping card rather than watercolour card.
Thursday, 12 September 2024
Halloween cards
I have enjoyed playing with these stamps after my long break from stamping.
Saturday, 24 February 2024
News
I have some news to share... After 14 years, I have finally dropped as a Stampin'up Demo.
I found there were not enough products in the catalogues I liked enough to buy. Which means I couldn't make my quarterly figures. So last month I decided to drop.
I will now be a customer and buy only the products I like, but from another demo.
I will continue with my blog as and when I make something worth sharing. You'll probably find my creations will be more varied now.
I have a few projects in mind I want to try. I think you'll love a couple of them. But it's going to take some planning and some time before I can get started. My craft room is due to get new windows in a couple of weeks, so I need to clear everything away and make space for fitters to work in. I don't want to start this project until the windows are done and I'm back to normal.
Laptop Mended I'm up and running.
Wow!!! I can't believe how long it's been since I last posted. It's been a few months now. There are a couple of reasons for this, the first being my laptop has been playing up for quite a while. To log on would take about an hour on a good day which was really frustrating.
The last two weeks it's been in the repair shop having new organs fitted and programs. It came home yesterday and I am now up and running.
The second reason is because, I haven't been making any cards. No handmade Christmas cards this year, no handmade Valentines card for hubby, and no Birthday cards. However , I have been kept very busy sewing.
We were supposed to be going to a wedding in October, as we were packing, I realized we didn't have any toiletry bags. This gave me the idea to make some. Everyone that saw them said they were lovely and that gave me the idea to make sets of travel bags for the granddaughters for Christmas. Then it was suggested the other female family members may like a set , either for Christmas or those with January /February birthdays.
There are a few different methods to put them together, I suggest watching a few tutorial and decided which way suites your sewing skills the best.
If you plan on making them in vinyl I strongly recommend using a walking foot or a teflon foot. for the top stitching.
Wednesday, 27 September 2023
Two tone floral wedding card
Sunday, 24 September 2023
Sunset scene.
Another little sunset scene using little Pipin and one of the foxes from Lavinia stamps. (I can never the names of the foxes or which one is which) The fence and tree I believe were from Inkscapes.
Thursday, 21 September 2023
Baby welcoming card.
Saturday, 15 July 2023
single layer card.
Sunday, 9 July 2023
In the harbour.
For the rest of my samples I chose to do blue skies using torn paper and blended blue ink to create the wispy clouds.
On this last card, I added some tree tops. This was because I somehow managed to get an inky mark in the sky so to cover the mark I stamped some trees. Hubby pointed out the trees were not straight, my reply....it's a windy day.
Saturday, 8 July 2023
Lots Lavinia Stamps
I have been distracted from crafting and blogging by the lovely weather we have had. When it's dry and sunny, it's time to get out in the garden to do lots of pruning, fence painting, cleaning and painting a few pots, planting up the pots and generally tidy up. I have to say it's been a lot of hard work, but well worth the effort. I also made a little friend while working outside. He pops in every day for breakfast, lunch, dinner and a few snacks in between. He will come very close and sit in the feeder next to the garden table and cocks his head to one side as I sit close by and talk to him. He doesn't seem to be too bothered that I am sat so close if I put my hand out I could touch him. You probably think I am crazy talking to a blackbird, but as he sits there with his head cocked to one side and looking directly at me, he really does look as though he is listening to every word I say.
The weather has taken a turn now and we've had some heavy rain and a thunder storm, which will do the garden good and give me some time to catch up with my crafting and blogging.
I used a whole host of stamps from Lavinia stamps to create this card. I used Stampin up ink pads, Blending brushes, seven or eight colours of posca pens for the flowers, plus a black Versafine Clare ink
Sunday, 28 May 2023
Coffee filter hydrangeas
About two years ago I started making these hydrangeas, I'd been looking for a suitable container for them every time I went shopping, but could never find just what I had in mind for them. So I lost interest in the flowers and stashed them away. Last week I was looking at garden ornaments in Home Bargains and spotted a small tin bath. That was exactly what I wanted and that in turn inspired me to getting out the re inkers and coffee filters and start making.
I posted a photo on facebook of these flowers and received a few requests for instructions on making them. Although I had already written a post on the making them two years ago I have decided to re write it, as I have changed a couple of things to make construction easier. I also think I was on another planet when I wrote the first post, so here's hoping the re write, with extra photos will make more sense.
You'll need :
8 large basket type coffee filter papers for each flower.
Re inkers, in hydrangea colours. 2 pinks, 2 blues, 1green and 1yellow.
3 spritzing bottles
Green garden wire
Florist tape, optional
Tools.
Scissors, hot glue gun, a stapler, and wire snips.
Something to display them in,
Brown Oasis for artificial flowers.
Take two coffee filters, fold them in half and keep folding them in half, four times in total if I remember correctly.
In my last tutorial I said dye the coffee papers first. In this re write I recommend cutting out the flowers first. I'll show you the reason why later in this post.
Draw a four petal flower at the top and give that flower a long neck and shoulders, as in the photo below. Cut out the flower, neck and shoulders carefully.
The next step is to add the stem. I cut a length of garden wire to approximately 12 inches, I folded over one end by about and inch. just to give the glue a bit more to grab onto.
Find the centre of the coffee filter and glue the wire in place.
Now I found it impossible to take a photo while doing the next bit, as I need two hands to hold my camera. I placed a line of hot glue across the first half of the filter and began to roll the filter into a cone shape, keeping it fairly tight to the wire at the bottom.
Other ideas might be to cut the leaves from evening evergreen card, or try water colour paints or food colouring.