Present Penguin

Hello lovely peeps, I hope you are well. 

Just popping in to share another Christmas card.

Ingredients:

6x6" card blank

Christmas Promise 12x12" Paper Pad (First Edition)

Gift Card dies (Tim Holtz)

Cosy Christmas & Snappy Christmas stamp sets (Becky Seddon)

white supersmooth 200gsm card (Limetree Crafts)

Promarkers

Merry Christmas wreath die (can't find the packet, I think a magazine freebie?)

Everyday sentiment tag stamp (Lili of the Valley)

button & white twine

I would like to enter this in the following challenges:-

As You Like It Challenge Favourite snowman or penguin - penguins of course, they are so cute and I love their little waddle when they walk.

Cutie Pie Challenge #153 add a button(s)

I love Promarkers #424 Anything Goes opt Christmas

Pammies Inky Pinkies 2048 animals

Christmas with the Cuties #44 feature a creature

Thanks for stopping by, stay safe

Katrina x

Skating penguin

Hello lovely peeps, I hope you are well.

Today's make is inspired by this fab card by Inge Groot 

which I found on Pinterest absolutely ages ago. The expression on his face is brilliant and I love the layout.

Happy Birthday to Ewe

Hello lovely peeps, I hope you are well.
 

I found this unfinished card while I was having a tidy up session, it's got one of Leonie Pujol's pattern stamps stamped all around the edge.

Little Holly

Hello lovely peeps, I hope you are well.

 

For today's card I've built a wreath with the Berry Branches stamps from Inkylicious. 

I wanted a slightly softer look so I spritzed the stamp after inking for a watercolour effect and used first and second generation stamping. After mucking up a couple of attempts doing it freehand I got out my stamping platform so I could overstamp if the image wasn't clear enough. The 'Merry Christmas' is also from Inkylicious. 

Finally Finished Project

Hello lovely peeps, I hope you are well.

Some of the bits for this project have been sitting in a cello bag for the last 4 years, lol. The background is one of Leonie Pujol's stamps (Flights of Fancy), clear embossed on white card and then inked over with distress inks.

I also clear embossed one of the leaves that I die-cut from snippets of green patterned paper. 

The little orange butterflies were cut from a tiny scrap of textured card using Impression Obsession dies - it shifted slightly as it went through my machine so the corner of one butterfly was missing but as I didn't have enough card to do another one I tucked it underneath one of the leaves to disguise it.

Other ingredients:

American Crafts ribbon

sentiment stamp from Personal Impressions.

I would like to enter this in the following challenges:-

Pixie's Snippets Playground #390

Sisterhood of Crafters embossing

Pammies Inky Pinkies 2046 Anything Goes

Crafts Galore Anything goes

Thanks for stopping by, stay safe

Katrina x

Happy Christmoose

Hello lovely peeps
 

I've had a bit of fun with the Merry Moose dies by Tim Holtz for this Christmas card by adding a customised sentiment with Hobby Art Alphabet stamps (I do love a pun). 

He's cut from brown core-dinations card which I then sanded to reveal the white core.

 

The trees were cut from dark green card with a Marianne die and then I stippled white paint onto them to make them look snowy.

The card base is a z-fold that I made from dark green card and some decorative paper (the 'Frozen Snowflakes' paper at the bottom is from Lili of the Valley and the main paper is a positively ancient 12x12" design from my stash (papermania?)

For extra dimension I attached a strip of acetate inside the centre of the card with red sticky tape so that one of the tress appears to 'float'.

I would like to enter this in the following challenges:-

That's Crafty! Creatives Christmas

ABC Christmas Challenge W for Winter Wonderland/X for Xtra Special

Creative Inspirations Winter wonderland

Simon Says Stamp (Mon) Happy holidays

Thanks for stopping by, stay safe
Katrina x

Leafy Spelling

Hello lovely peeps, I hope you are well.
 

Just popping in to show you the card I made for my Mum's birthday.

I covered an A5 landscape card blank with a paper from the Rose Garden paper pack (First Edition) and then cut lots of foliage from Falling Leaves papers (again, First Edition).

After a bit of judicious snipping I arranged the various sprigs to spell Mum and attached them to a strip of vellum with dabs of Cosmic Shimmer glue. This was then attached to the card by only adding glue where it was hidden by the lettering.

For finishing touches I added some knotted organza ribbon, a computer sentiment and tiny flowers made with Tim Holtz tattered florals thinlits and little gems.

 

I would like to enter this in the following challenges:-

Penny's Paper-Crafty Challenge Blog #485  Anything Goes using paper 

Rabisco Challenge  Anything Goes with haberdashery item 

Crafty Calendar Anything Goes

Cut it Up #213 For a woman/girl with a die-cut

Through the Purple Haze #173 tic tac toe (top row)

Thanks for stopping by, stay safe
Katrina x

Goddaughter's 18th

Hello lovely peeps, I hope you are well.
 

Whilst I was looking for a teenage image to do my Goddaughter's 18th birthday card I came across this set of digital image freebies courtesy of Making Cards & Papercraft magazine. 
 

I chose the top left image so that I could colour most of it in myself. On printing it out I discovered that what I'd thought was a phone in her hand was actually a coffee cup. Since I'd already done a coffee theme card for her 16th I decided to digitally erase a couple of lines and print it out again. It needed a little touching up with a fineliner pen to give the 'phone' a solid outline and I also drew in a camera lens.

After die-cutting the image into a circle and then marking with a pencil roughly where it would go on my card, I stamped on some flowers in Brilliance/Versamagic inks to match the ones in her hair.

I coloured the rest of the image with Copic markers and then added a computer generated sentiment and die-cut the '18' from black card. The red organza ribbon adds a touch of luxury.

I would like to enter this in the following challenges:-

Penny's Paper-Crafty Challenge Blog #485  Anything Goes using paper

As You Like It Challenge Favourite his or hers - I definitely prefer making female cards, so much easier than men's cards as you can add pretty much anything :D

Rabisco Challenge  Anything Goes with haberdashery item

Thanks for stopping by, stay safe
Katrina x

Northern lights

Hello lovely peeps, I hope you are well.
 

So I've made a start on my Christmas cards at last :D

After being inspired by the wonderful watercolour backgrounds created by Tracey Hey at Alpaca Pals I wanted to have a go myself. My Gansai Tambi paints are out on loan so I treated myself to a watercolour travel set. 

There is a nice range of colours but with hindsight I should have gone for larger paint pans because you can't use a large paintbrush without picking up neighbouring colours, which is a bit of a pain if you want large areas of colour.

My first attempt looked really blocky because I painted onto dry watercolour paper. For my second go I wet the paper first, so the colours blend together much better. 

Ingredients:-

Snow Buddies rubber stamp (Lili of the Valley)

Black Versafine ink

Large Christmas Greetings (Lili of the Valley)

Wishes die (Impression Obsession)

Stitched Landscapes die (Memory Box)

Iced Spruce Distress Ink

I would like to enter this in the following challenges:-

We love Chocolate Baroque Christmas

ABC Christmas Challenge W for Winter Wonderland/X for Xtra Special

Cute card thursday #659 Anything Goes

Tinker- Dream  #btchallenge94 Background

Thanks for stopping by, stay safe
Katrina x

Watercolour die cuts

Hello lovely peeps, I hope you are well.

My craft room has been in a right mess for the last year and I keep trying to tidy it up - but then get distracted by finding something I'd forgotten I had, lol.  This time it was some spellbinder flower dies that I'd never used, so I thought I'd have a little play.  

After cutting one out of watercolour card I painted it with distress ink dabbed onto my craft mat.

I used the swirly end of the thank you die as 'ribbon' to give the impression of tying the stems together.

   

 I would like to enter this in the following challenges:-

Scrapping 4 Fun #179 Thanks/Thanksgiving

Dies R Us Challenge #156 give thanks (spellbinders)

STAMPlorations CAS Challenge 

Thanks for stopping by, stay safe
Katrina x