WEBSITE REVAMPED!!

Hi Peeps

I have been very busy with making commission cards for work colleagues and getting things ready for my forthcoming fairs. My Husband Paul has very kindly  revamped my website www.kraftywalrus.com

 check it out see what you think!!

See you soon, thanks for looking x KW x

Christmas Craft Fair Items

Hi Peeps,

I have been busy making cards and items for my upcoming craft fairs. Here are a couple of things I did recently. A 1D perpetual calendar and 1D tree decorations. Hope you like them?

Thanks for looking x KW x

Perpetual Calendar!

Hi Peeps,

Here is another item for my craft fair, a perpetual calendar...Hope you like it!

Thanks for looking xKWx

Wedding Card

Hi Peeps

Here is my latest commissioned card for a work colleague. Hope you like it? 

Thanks for looking x KW x

Happy 70th Birthday

Hi Peeps

This is a commissioned card I made for a work colleague of mine for her friend Karyl's 70th. Hope you like it? I used Hunkydory's floral collection for the topper and added my own patterned paper, ribbon, bow, pearl embellishments and greeting to finish it off.

Thanks for looking x KW x

Christmas sweet house

Hi Peeps,

I am busy starting to make items for my Christmas craft fairs and this is my latest one....It is a little sweet house...Hope you like it?

One down, only 50 to go :)

Thanks for looking x KW x

Monochrome Cards

Hi Peeps,

These are the cards I have made for a card making competition, the theme was 'monochrome' so this is what I came up with. I used a mask to ink the background and used die cut butterflies, gems, pearls and bows to embellish it. I added glitter to the white butterflies as well. Hope you like them?

Thanks for looking, fingers crossed I win the competition :) x KW x

Baby Girl commissioned card

Hi Peeps

I was asked by a work colleague to make a Baby Girl card, I used ink to cover the top baby card which started off white but I think the ink has made the baby feet stand out more. The baby girl image is a Digi stamp which I coloured in on Photoshop  Hope you like it?

Thanks for looking x KW x

Thank You cards

Hi Peeps,

I have nearly finished my course so I made a Thank You card for my tutor Joyce from all the class, and Katherine one of the other learners did her micro-teach on her chosen subject 'Textiles', in which she showed us how to make 'Suffolk Puffs' so I decided to use some on her Thank You card:)............

Hope you like them?

Thanks for looking x KW x

Starting cards for Christmas

Hi Everyone

I've started making Christmas cards for selling at the Christmas Fair....

Hope you like them? Thanks for looking x KW x

New style cards

Hi Peeps,

I tried out new style cards today hope you like them?

Thanks for looking x KW x

Happy 80th!

Hi Peeps,

I've been so busy this past week with work, my course and making lots of cards! Here is the latest commission card I made for a work colleague and another card I made for a neighbour...Hope you like them!

Thanks for looking:) KW x

3D Converse Card

Hi Peeps,

This is a 3D converse card my talented Husband Paul 

made for one of our Customers,

 it comes with a free pair of 3D glasses. They were delighted with it, hope you like it too!

Thanks for looking x KW x

Feathers & Butterflies

Hi Everyone,

Here a few cards I have been working one, Hope you like them.....

Thanks for looking!!

 I was experimenting with my embossing folders, ink and feathers

 with this card for 'Someone Special'

With the above two cards I used a mask to create the background design and inked it using distressed inks. I die-cut the butterflies added a sentiment, gems and candies to finish the cards off

Spooky Step-tacular

Here is the card I have made for a card making challenge - Challenge is to make a Halloween themed card....Hope you like it!

Thanks for looking Peeps!!!

BABY BOY CARD

Hi Peeps,

I was commissioned by a work colleague to make a New Baby boy card, 
Hope you like it?

Thanks for looking :)

SO SPECIAL

Hi Everyone,

Had a busy day today on a course from work and on it again tomorrow but I wanted to share with you a card I made for an elderly friend of mine.

Hope you like it?
Thanks for looking x KW x

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MUM!

Hi Everyone,

I was asked by a work colleague if I could make a card for her mother-in-law who likes Patience Strong and flowers...so I had a little think and this is what I came up with. Hope you like it?

Thanks for looking
Bye for now
KW x

THANK YOU TEACHER

When my Daughter Emily left her primary school she made covers for little notebooks for all the teachers she had throughout her time there and added a picture of herself and things from my craft stash. Here are the results....the wording says.....'When this you see, remember me, a little token take.

Hope you like it? x KW x

 The black book was before we added anything

This is the end result after adding backing paper, ribbon, flowers and picture, the edges was inked as well

Nana Josie's Garden Collection

Hi Everyone,

My Hubby Paul & Daughter Emily took some photographs in my Mum's back garden the other week as all her flowers were in bloom and my talented hubby transformed the flowers into cards. He has been working very hard on them and the collection is now ready. There are 23 altogether but I have only put 8 of them on here to show you. 

Hope you like them? Thanks for looking x KW x

 

NEVERENDING CARD

Hi Everyone,

My Daughter Emily starts High School on Wednesday (4th) so I thought I would try out a card I haven't made before the neverending card and this is the result! I was really pleased with it being my first attempt and Emily really loved it. I added pictures of Emily from birth, including her first day at primary school and used these along with peel offs and die cut letters and numbers.

The pictures are in the order that you open the card up unfolding each layer to reveal more pictures.

 Emily at 10 months old and in her high school uniform age 11

Age 3 first day at Primary School and age 5 in the middle panels

With best friend Katie on the left picture

Class photo year 6 on right picture

With Best friends Chloe & Kelsey (top picture)

Emily & Katie (bottom picture)

Hope you like it, thanks for looking x KW x

Wedding Card

A work colleague asked me if I could make a wedding card for her friends wedding that she was bridesmaid at. There was five bridesmaids each wearing purple, pink, blue, green and yellow dresses so I chose the flowers to represent them, also their honeymoon was going to be travelling in the Norfolk Broads on a barge and she wanted this incorporated in the design hence why I chose the map of the Norfolk Broads and the barge topper. She was delighted with the result so happy days :)

Hope you like it, thanks for looking, KW :)

NEW WEBSITE LAUNCH!

Hi Folks,

Well I have been really busy the last couple of months hence why I haven't blogged anything since May, I just never seemed to have a spare ten minutes to blog, anyway Krafty Walrus' web designer (my wonderful hubby Paul) has given the website a new face lift hope you like the new look :) and we have been very busy setting up craft sessions in our local community centres and residential homes for the forthcoming months so watch this space.......

I am also on a few courses at the moment which when finished will help me with the classes I will be running in the future. I also had my first school fair in July selling my wares and I was really pleased with the response I got and a lot of orders came from it so happy days:) Paul took a couple of pictures of my stall

My little stall at the school fair

Paul has been really busy creating 3D cards and has had a lot of orders coming in, I have also started using Paul's photography as toppers for my cards so it is all our own artwork that we are using on our cards. The following cards are Paul's images that I have made into toppers distressed the edges with ink and mounted them onto my cards. I love them and there is more of these to come, I will put them onto here when I have finalised the images.

Paul's butterfly pictures used as toppers for my cards

That's it for now folks, see you soon and thanks for looking :) KW xx