LOTV Looking Glass

Evening peeps!

Friday is upon us, I'm excited as my first DT card goes live tomorrow morning, don't forget to check it out over on the Sweet Stampin Challenge blog tomorrow morning *thumbs up*

Today my Nephew came to visit, he is just the cutest little dude around, it was lovely to see him, we always have such fun! I think I picked him up a little bit too much today, ooops! feeling a bit sore, but he was worth it, isn't he a cutie....

Today I inked up my newest LOTV, Looking Glass stamp.  I think she is gorgeous, but I am not overly happy with this card, it's not my best work, but I'll learn from it.  I did get to practice more distress colouring with my latest obsession TH Distress Inks so I thought i'd share it anyway.

I picked up some of the Stampendous Frantage embossing powder the other day and I tried it on the edges of this card, I really like it! i'm gonna get some of the bigger flakes for my Christmas cards!

Ingredients:

Image // LOTV Looking Glass Stamp

Papers // First Edition Collection, Rose Garden 8x8

Flowers // Wild Orchid Crafts

Embossing // Stampendous Frantage 

Pearls, Ribbon & Doily // Stash 

I would like to enter this card into the Top Tip Tuesday Challenge, the theme there this week is "Embossing"

Right i'm off to watch some more Bones, I've taken up watching the series since i've been on house arrest and I am loving it!

Much Love 

Kirsty 

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Love Potion Tilda

Hello lovelies

Another day resting up here at home, with nothing else to do I inked up one of my new Tilda's and gave her a whiz, I LOVE her!  It took me all day to make this card, I was back and forth at it for ages.  I am trying to master the shabby chic look, using layers and distressing, i'm not quite there yet but this is what I came up with...

I just think she is the cutest thing ever!  Look at her chubby cheeks!  I coloured here using TH Distress Inks, I love how the colours have turned out.  I watched a Youtube tutorial by Camila on colouring which was so helpful, you can find the tutorial ------> HERE if you're interested

Ingredients:

Image // Love Potion Tilda by Magnolia

Colouring // TH Distress Inks

Papers // First Edition Collection, Rose Garden 8x8

Flowers // Wild Orchid Crafts

Die // Magnolia DooHickey Romantic Tag

Ribbon, Pearls & Sentiment Stamp // Old Stash 

Shabby Chic Corners // Dunelm Mill Craft Section 

I am going to enter this card into a few challenges, I haven't done that in so long so here goes!  The challenges are as follows:

Magnolia-licious Challenge - Anything Goes 

Creative Inspirations - Something Old & Something New 

My something new is my Tilda stamp which I got on Monday and my something old is my flowers & ribbon which I have had since last year before I lost my mojo!

Party Time Tuesday - Friendship Cards

My sentiment is "One of a Kind" and I think this is the perfect sentiment to sum up any special friend.

Right it appears to be after midnight, so it's off to bed for me. Catch y'all laters!  Oh don't forget you can follow me on Bloglovin, or find me on twitter, links below!

Much love 

Kirsty xx

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Goodies & a New Name

Evening lovelies,

I've been a bit AWOL the last few weeks :( sad times!  Unfortunately I took unwell and ended up in hospital, a nasty attack from my gallbladder, i've since had surgery to remove my gallbladder and I am now on the mend.  I have been signed off from work for the next 2 weeks, so there is very little I can do except colour images and stick things together! The hubs has been a gem and moved my crafty stash right next to the bed so I can reach it all whilst I recover. 

With time on my hands, I have made a few changes on the blog, the biggest being the name, I have changed the name of the blog for a few reasons, but the main reason being, I didn't think little vintage cards was all that fitting, especially as I like to make cards of all kinds.  So Pearly Pop Cards is my new name, I dunno why but it just came to me and I liked it!  Please click my bloglovin link over there -----> and follow me (only if you wish of course)

I've been making good work of expanding my stash from my sick bed, and today I got a delivery of lots of goodies!

I am loving distress ink at the moment, I already had some ink pads but I wanted to try the other types of inks and see how they would work for colouring, they all seem to be blooming great!  I think the re inkers and stains work just as well if not better, and as the re inkers are cheaper, I think I will be purchasing these from now on.  I also got some Stampendous frantage embossing powder, I haven't tried it yet but I will give that a bash tomorrow :).

My first EVER magnolia's!  I know that is a complete sin, but to be honest I wasn't ever that drawn to them, but there recent collections have caught my eye and I am keen to try a few and hopefully get a few more!  A couple of dies I have been lusting after also fell into my basket, along with some papers, pearls and glittery gems.

I am going to be kept amused with this lot for a few days and I also have some Lili of the Valley stamps on there way, best not tell the hubs!

Look out for my first DT card for Sweet Stampin coming up on Saturday and hopefully a few more by the end of the week!

Much love 

Kirsty xx

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Gardener Gayle

Evening lovelies, big hello to my new followers and my old ones too :) thank you!  This week it has been so beautiful in Aberdeen, every day has been around 26 degrees, with a heatwave like this in town I haven't been card making, but last night it wasn't so warm so I decided to finish off this card.  I am loving the Saturated Canary stamps.  My local craft shop now stock them ( lucky me, poor bank balance) anyway here she is ...

Stamp: Gardener Gayle, Saturated Canary// Papers: old stash// Flowers: Wild Orchid Crafts//Feathers, Ribbon & pearls: Stash 

I coloured her using distressed inks, I only have 6 colours at the moment so I mixed some together, I would have liked the colours to be a bit deeper but I am just learning to distress colour, so I am fairly happy with her for now.

Much Love

Kirsty 

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Exciting news!

Morning lovelies,

Monday is upon us again, a fresh new week and a whole new diet to start (will it ever end) anyway, I hope the sunshines for the rest of the week, I had a fab weekend spent in the sunshine with family BBQ-ing and playing on a huge trampoline!  Isn't the world just a better place when the sunshines?

ANWAY......My exciting news....

I put myself in for the chance to be a DT member with Sweet Stampin' a week or so a go, they were running a DT call and never in my wildest dreams did I think I would be in with a chance.  I decided to put myself forward because although I've only just returned to crafting I wanted to have something to work to and to better my skills!  What dy'a know, I'VE BEEN SELECTED!

I am over the moon to be asked and selected to join the Sweet Stampin' team, I cannot wait to get my first card done for the challenge.  If you'r not aware of the Sweet Stampin' challenge blog already then hop on over there and check it out!  The challenges are FAB-U-LOUS!

Keep your peepers peeled for my first DT card coming soon!  So I just thought i'd share my news and fly the flag for Sweet Stampin'.  I am looking forward to visiting all the entries and finding fab new blogs to follow too!

HAPPY MONDAY xoxo

Much Love

Kirsty 

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Distressed Inks & a Haul

Evening All

No cards from me this evening sadly, but I thought I'd share with you a little image I coloured using distressed inks.  For many of you this is old news, I know, but I have been away from card making for over a year and so I am just getting to grips with things again.  I always used pro markers for colouring before but I have seen so many lovely cards that have been coloured with the distressed inks recently and I love how they look.  I only have about 6 colours at the moment but I will definitely be getting some more.  I've made a few boo-boos on this image but it was my first go at colouring with the inks, and I really liked the effect.  I love this image, isn't she super cute?

This is Ivy from Saturated Canary, you can download the digi HERE 

I coloured her big slouchy socks a little bit too pink so it didn't really all blend in but it was good for practice.  I am needing some blue tones so if anyone can recommend the cheapest place to buy the distressed inks please let me know!

Last Friday I read on another blog that Dunelm Mill were getting rid of all their crafty goodies, so I hopped it down there to see what my local store had and I was delighted, I picked up these goodies . . . 

There were only a few papers left but I really liked them, they are very vintagey looking, pale greens and blues, they were 14p each, winner!  I also picked up the mini shabby chic frames for 99p a pack.  I was delighted with them as they were originally £3.99 and were only suppose to be 50% off.  The ribbon and metal flowers were not reduced but I really wanted them so they fell into the basket too!

There wasn't much else left to be honest, there were a few paper stacks which I might go back and see if they still have but apart from that the shelves were empty.  Im a little sad they are clearing it all out, even though I hadn't crafted in a year I would still go along the craft aisle to see what they had, I actually just love collecting crafty goodies, and sometimes I don't want to use them because they look so lush in their packet.  Am I the only weirdo that thinks this??

Anyway it's super later, and I have an early start tomorrow so I am off to have a quick peek on Bloglovin and head to bed!

Much Love

Kirsty 

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it's been a while!

It certainly has been a LONG while!  I cannot believe I have been AWOL for almost a year.  I got right back into the crafting before my wedding but then I got married and it's just been a whirlwind since.  I finally dug out my stash this week and gave all my goodies some much required love!  I hope you will all forgive me!

I noticed over on the Sweet Stamping Challenge blog that they are looking for DT members, I would LOVE this.  It would give me a challenge every week and a great excuse to really work on my crafting and help me improve, so this card is especially for this challenge.  

The challenge this week is: NOT Cute

I dug out my Paris stamps which I have never used, I also found some old french script paper that I picked up in Dunelm Mill a few years ago and got to work.  I have added some embellishments, gems, ribbon and flowers.  I also found an Eiffel Tower charm in my embellishment box so I added this too.  I loved creating this card, it's good to be back!

Apologies for the lighting, I ended up putting the final touches to this, this evening in between watching the tennis, so I had to take these in the dark of night.

Much Love

Kirsty x