Bunoalas live!

Here for a Knitty Kitty Post! After a bit of a bonkers chat with Lea on Instagram the other day, I was challenged to draw a Bunoala, and here they are! Half bunny, half koala, they sleep for 18 hours a day in carrot trees. :D

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I had a go at colouring them up, and in order to use something other than polychromos (My comfort pencil) I did this in Spectrum Noir pencils. Still on kraft card.

Background paper is from a pad by Kanban called Garden Vistas. Font is Atlas of the Magi. I added some glossy accents to their noses too :)

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Hop Day Five!

Day five of the hop already, half way kind of! :) If you are looking for the hop post with all the details on, please GO HERE Thanks :)

Whilst I had my Kanban card kit "Keep Britain Crafting" out I thought I might knock up a couple more cards for personal use, for my partners Cousin and my BIL.

The card on the left, for my BIL, I wanted to title " Hazards for cyclists" as he is a keen cyclist and I realised I had done him a card possibly with things he hates on, lol! oops. Card faux pas! :) Hope he chuckles.

The card on the right, for my partners cousin I chose because one of her relations, Giles Gilbert Scott was the guy that designed the Red Telephone Box. Quite a claim to fame :) Wish someone in my family tree had done something exciting!

Hop day four!

Fourth day of the hop! If you would like to take part please visit THIS POST to see what you need to do and where you need to go. It's also where you need to go to comment if you want to win Kittiski! :)

In between hop things I have been making a few cards for personal use. I saw this great teapot card and thought it would be perfect for my MIL, however, because I make cards and don't feel I can use shop bought cards, I had to give it a bit of a make over!

I have a Kanban kit from 2012 called "Keep Britain Crafting" and I have to admit it's probably the most used full kit I have ever purchased. I've actually used it to make several cards for my MIL before but I am hoping she can't tell! :)

There is so much in the set it's very easy to decorate the inside too! I used Lobster Two Font for the inner greeting, my current fav font! :)

At the Beach - Stepper Cards

I've really being admiring people's use of stepper cards recently so thought I would have a go at it myself. This is a very simple three step card base, but it does add a lot to the fanciness of the card. I did two versions of this card, one for me to give to my Mum-in-law and the other one was a commissioned card. I'm writing this in February and scheduling this post for the end of May, because I actually finished a commission card 3 months early! Makes me sound organised :)

Both cards were made using elements from a Kanban seaside kit and stamps that were freebies with a magazine I think, alas I don't have any details of which one. Laser cut buttons were all purchased from the NEC. I added an additional child to the black silhouette card for Lisa as she has twins. All colouring done with distress inks used as water colours.

Kanban Beside The Sea Collection

A very kind friend  ( Thanks Grace! :)) liberated part of her stash for me and it was all from a lovely collection by Kanban called "Beside the Sea". Although I actually had it on the pretext of putting it towards my very-long-running-altered-art-seaside-project I thought it would be nice to make a commissioned card for a long term customer who wanted something seascape-ish!

I used to really love Kanban things when I first started crafting and could regularly pick up bargains from the QVC shop in Shrewsbury. It's all such lovely quality, and although sometimes people's foiling can be rather brash and brassy, Kanban foiling is really nice!

I'm not sure what this card fold is called, but the main card is 22.5 cm x 15 cm with a valley fold at 7.5 cm. The smaller card inside (10cm x 10cm), faces the wrong way round and you glue it in the centre of the back piece. Hope that is explained well enough? I normally put the message inside the smaller centre card, and a place to write your own greeting on the inside of the front small flap, or if there is room, on the left hand side of the card hidden by the 7.5 cm by 15cm flap. There are images inside the flap on this card too.

If you want a diagram of how this card works let me know and I will gladly draw one.

Talking of handy diagrams... I found this on pinterest the other day... it's a set of miniature  instructions for how an easel card works! I normally draw one to include with my card but this would be super handy. Going to print it and cut one out every time I need one. Easel cards are not common sense, even very bright people have been baffled by them....;)