tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26318212790714525922024-03-13T21:02:44.916+00:00Yours TrulyStamping and papercraft projectsKate Lewishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15275283771959457451noreply@blogger.comBlogger305125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2631821279071452592.post-10736465125867061542013-06-18T06:53:00.000+01:002013-06-19T06:54:14.820+01:00all wrapped up(*spoiler alert* - if you're a close stamping friend of mine who has a birthday very soon look away now unless you want to see your birthday card!!)<br />
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This week a very dear friend of mine celebrates her birthday. I loved this Orla Kiely wrapping paper and when wrapping her present I decided to use it as inspiration for her birthday card. <br />
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I used one of the leaves from the all-new <a href="http://www.clearlybesottedstamps.com/products/you-are">You Are set from Clearly Besotted</a> to replicate the pattern from the wrapping paper - I love the colour scheme!<br />
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Here they are together, reminds me I should try to use more colours on my cards - I tend to get stuck in a two/three colour scheme!<br />
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Thanks for visiting and a very happy birthday week to the recipient of this card (did you peek?!)!<br />
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I'm joining the celebrations of <a href="http://www.clearlybesottedstamps.com/">Clearly Besotted'</a>s June release today! Steph has again triumphed with some fabulous stamp sets and dies that are flying off the shelves!<br />
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I used the <a href="http://www.clearlybesottedstamps.com/products/you-are">You Are</a> set and <a href="http://www.clearlybesottedstamps.com/products/you-are-die-collection">matching dies </a>for my card, I love the sentiments in this set - let's tell more friends and family how great they are!<br />
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<br />Kate Lewishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15275283771959457451noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2631821279071452592.post-49791246444113662222013-06-13T08:45:00.001+01:002013-06-13T08:45:39.066+01:00hello you<br />
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I've been quiet for a while having had a few weeks holiday, visiting friends and then a holiday in Cornwall. Cornwall is one of my favourite places in the word, it's just a few hours from me and my family and I have always holidayed there. The past few times I've had a break in Cornwall it poured but this time I managed to pick the hottest week in the year and it was glorious!<br />
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One of my favourite things to do when I'm in North Cornwall is to get up really early and go for a long walk along the coastpath - there's nothing like having an entire beach to yourself at 6am:<br />
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Now onto a card - this is my sample for our current challenge on a A Passion for Papertrey. There's still a few days to join in, the details are <a href="http://apassionforpapertrey.wordpress.com/2013/06/05/challenge-going-round-in-circles/">here</a>!<br />
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I'll be back tomorrow with some samples featuring the fab new stamps from Clearly Besotted Stamps!<br />
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Here's a card I had to make in a bit of a hurry! I bought these polka dot cards from Amuse years ago and they're almost running out...sob! <br />
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Have you got anything fun planned for the weekend? Tonight
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<br />Kate Lewishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15275283771959457451noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2631821279071452592.post-26111333617320443502013-05-15T15:29:00.000+01:002013-05-15T15:29:14.110+01:00Background stampingHi there!<br />
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I hope you're having a good week. If you find some stamping time don't forget there's still time to join our challenge across on <a href="http://apassionforpapertrey.wordpress.com/">A Passion for Papertrey</a> - this time it's all about stamping your own backgrounds. I had lots of fun stamping my summery striped background! <br />
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Kate Lewishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15275283771959457451noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2631821279071452592.post-78436622255005894062013-05-03T18:40:00.003+01:002013-05-03T18:40:37.457+01:00Mother's DayHappy Friday!<br />
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And finally... the sun is out in England!! To celebrate I've just bought myself a new bike so I'm looking forward to a nice long bike ride over this bank holiday weekend (and with that probably comes the rain!).<br />
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Here's a card I made a few weeks ago for Mother's Day... using the WPlus9 Mother's Bouquet set.<br />
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<br />Kate Lewishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15275283771959457451noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2631821279071452592.post-58096792437370128012013-04-12T15:07:00.002+01:002013-04-12T15:07:49.680+01:00Sending hugsHi there, <br />
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Sometimes you just want to give someone a hug but they live too far away...<br />
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Have you given someone a hug today?!<br />
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Is it too late to share one last Easter card? This was made for a friends of my mum's, she's a very religious lady so no Easter bunnies for her! I hear that she liked this pretty springtime Easter card.. it's nice to hear when you're creations are liked isn't it?!<br />
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Wishing you all a very Happy Easter! I gave up chocolate for lent so have had a yummy day.. hope you have too!<br />
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Here's a CAS card using the sweet eggs from Lawn Fawn's Easter Time set:<br />
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<br />Kate Lewishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15275283771959457451noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2631821279071452592.post-64728023321315643742013-03-29T14:32:00.001+00:002013-03-29T14:33:04.893+00:00Easter BunnyI said I'd be back with some more cards made with my lovely new Lawn Fawn Easter set, it's an Easter set but I can see myself using it over and over, and for different occasions! Back with more tomorrow!<br />
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If you have a chance to get inky over the Easter weekend don't forget there's still time to enter our current challenge on <a href="http://apassionforpapertrey.wordpress.com/">A Passion for Papertrey</a>. This challenge is all about negative die-cuts, here's my sample... I've sadly needed to make a few sympathy cards recently.<br />
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<br />Kate Lewishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15275283771959457451noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2631821279071452592.post-24044436283995275032013-03-25T18:15:00.000+00:002013-03-25T18:15:56.057+00:00Easter TimeHiya,<br />
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Just sneeking in with not long to spare with my entry to the current <a href="http://freshlymadesketches.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/freshly-made-sketches-78-sketch-by-jen-m.html">Freshly Made Sketches</a> challenge. This is the sketch:<br />
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And this is my entry... this is the first of several cards made with the new Happy Easter set from Lawn Fawn... I can't stop using it!<br />
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Kate Lewishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15275283771959457451noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2631821279071452592.post-34314437057445996172013-03-19T16:43:00.000+00:002013-03-19T16:44:23.571+00:00chippy challenge<br />
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Time for a challenge! This week's <a href="http://cas-ualfridays.blogspot.co.uk/">CAS-usal Fridays challenge </a>is to use chipboard... hmmm, don't do that very often. But a few years ago I went through a thicker/sticker/chipboard alpha buying phase (mostly unused!) so I dug out some pretty Heidi Grace alphas and used them for this card:<br />
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I have some Papertrey Ink and Hero stamps listed for sale on ebay... you can find them <a href="http://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/katel1975.4537/m.html?item=200907179634&pt=UK_Crafts_RubberStamping_RL&hash=item2ec7004672&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2562">here</a>. If the link doesn't work search for katel1975.4537 on ebay. Hope you see something you like!<br />
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Well that was a slightly longer break than I intended to take! Even though I haven't been blogging I have been secretly still stalking all my favourite blogs and actually the break has been good as it's reinforced how much I love creating for me not because I 'have to' for a blog... know what I mean? But I have missed this lovely community so I'm back with lots of creations to share with you!<br />
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Here's a new baby card made for a sweet little boy born last week...<br />
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Happy Thursday! My dear friend and very talented friend <a href="http://craftingconfessions.blogspot.co.uk/">Aimes </a>recently got a new gig as a stamp designer with The Craft's Meow, way to go girl! Here's the card I made to congratulate her:<br />
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<br />Kate Lewishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15275283771959457451noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2631821279071452592.post-27345521376656655282012-06-08T18:56:00.000+01:002012-06-08T18:56:30.090+01:00Happy Friday all! If you're here in the UK I hope you had a wonderful Jubilee weekend last weekend - I had a lovely time with friends, watching the coverage and doing various Jubilee-themed activities, we all felt very proud to be British! <br />
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On that topic our current challenge on A Passion for Papertrey is still open for another few days - if you fancy whipping up a Jubilee-themed card this weekend. I went for a good old Union Jack card:<br />
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<br />Kate Lewishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15275283771959457451noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2631821279071452592.post-7765385374397351612012-05-05T19:13:00.000+01:002012-05-05T19:13:00.792+01:00Sunshine on a rainy day<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Well it's not quite BBQ weather but thankfully the rain has stopped for long enough to do a bit of gardening and enjoy a coffee outside.<br />
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Our current challenge on <a href="http://apassionforpapertrey.blogspot.co.uk/">A Passion for Papertrey</a> is all about this favourite of conversation-starters here in the UK - the weather! Because of the constant rain and flooding over the past few weeks I made a card that makes me think of lying on a beach and drinking cocktails... well I can dream!<br />
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If you have time for some stamping of your own this weekend why not join in our current challenge on <a href="http://apassionforpapertrey.blogspot.co.uk/">A Passion for Papertrey </a>- inspired by wildlife. Here's my sample:<br />
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My current favourite Hero set is the 'Just Saying Hi' set of vintage phones so I made a good-old one layer card:<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: x-small;">Card Details:</span></b><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Stamps</b>: Just Saying Hi (Hero Arts)/Background Basics Text (PTI)</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Card:</b> Vintage Cream (PTI)</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Ink: </b> Cocoa(Colorbox)/Crumb Cake (SU)</span><br />
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Thanks for visiting and enjoy the rest of your week!<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_5cMOSYHdXY/T4R8e1yxAxI/AAAAAAAACnA/n3csls3Xw-U/s1600/kate.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_5cMOSYHdXY/T4R8e1yxAxI/AAAAAAAACnA/n3csls3Xw-U/s1600/kate.png" /></a></div>Kate Lewishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15275283771959457451noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2631821279071452592.post-84239544588204539772012-04-08T17:35:00.000+01:002012-04-08T17:35:52.281+01:00Happy Easter!Happy Easter! I hope you're having a lovely Easter weekend. I've just got back from a few days down in Cornwall, so nice to have a few days off work with time to go for long walks on the beach, catch up on some reading and see old friends. <br />
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So are you sick on chocolate yet?! As if there isn't enough chocolate around today I had to make some cornflake crispies!<br />
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And here is the Easter card I made for my parents:<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Stamps:</b> Tags for Spring/Baby Button Bits (PTI)</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Ink:</b> Memento Tuxedo Black </span><br />
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Enjoy the rest of your weekend!<br />
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Here is the Mother's Day card I made for my mum a few weeks ago - I bought her a red and cream scarf so of course the card and wrapping had to match!<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Stamps</b>: Tage for Spring</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Ink:</b> Pure Poppy</span><br />
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Wishing you a wonderful weekend!<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">If you have any spare time today there is still time to join our current challenge at <a href="http://apassionforpapertrey.blogspot.co.uk/">A Passion for Papertrey</a> - black, white and a pop of colour. Here's my sample - jumping on the band wagon of negative die cuts! </span><br />
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