Deer Mum

Hello lovely peeps, I hope you all had a good Christmas.

So it turns out that I haven't shown you all my Christmas cards - I posted this one without taking a photo of the finished card, so I had to wait until I visited my Mum  :D

Scribble baubles

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This is the last of my 2020 Christmas makes, I've put all my Christmas stash away now (I hope I haven't forgotten someone's card 😅)

Scribble Snowman

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Getting towards the end of my Christmas makes now, for this one I've used 'Scribble Snowman' (Funstamps) which I stamped in grey. 

Baby’s First Christmas

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Today I'm sharing the Christmas card I made for my goddaughter's son (my god-grandson if there was such a thing :D )

Fa la la la Llama

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Today's make is a pyramid card using Dovecraft papers, Stamping Bella stamps and computer generated sentiments. 

Coffee Time

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Just popping in to share the card I made for my niece's birthday, plus a tip for covering two 7x7" cards using one sheet of 12x12" paper.

Sledging Penguin

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Another penguin for you today - this is Frosty Fun, an old rubber stamp from Lili of the Valley.

He's coloured in with Promarkers:

Scarf: Tea Green, Soft Green, Crimson, Burgundy 

Penguin Body: Cool Grey 1-5, Black 

Feet: Apricot, Amber, Burnt Orange 

Sledge: Sandstone, Caramel, Umber 

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

Stars

Hello lovely peeps, I hope you are well.
 

Another card to use some of my paper scraps, using 'Swirling Stars' dies by Tim Holtz. I doodled outlines around each star after die-cutting.

The greeting was stamped with one of the greetings from the 'Label Love' set by Altenew

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

As You Like It Challenge Favourite colour combo blue and: green, they make a perfect combo, the colours of the sea (and great for masculine cards) 

AAA  #177 Maxi white space & opt stars 


STAMPlorations CAS Challenge anything CAS goes (opt gray & orange )

 

Make My Monday - #134 masculine

Thanks for stopping by, stay safe
Katrina x

Otterly Cute

Hello lovely peeps, I hope you are well.
 

I only have 2 Lawn Fawn stamp sets (😢) so it's not often that I'm able to follow the theme of their challenge. This time it is a sketch though - yippee! - so I've had a go.  

The sentiment in the 'Otterly Great' stamp set is over two lines, so to get it to match the sketch I had to do a bit of masking to get it all along one line - I ended up using my stamping platform after a couple of failed attempts to do it freehand.

Driving Test Celebration

Hello lovely peeps, I hope you are well.
 

I delved into my bag of paper scraps for today's card, to do a bit of paper piecing. 

My youngest nephew has passed his driving test and I thought the 'Exploration' stamp set designed by Stacey Barras (Crafter's Companion) was ideal for his 'well done' card. The signpost is only half the height you see on my card - I stamped it straight onto the bottom half of a 5x7" card and then masked off the top of the stamped image before stamping the signpost again in the top half.

After that I stamped the signpost onto several matching scraps of paper - it doesn't matter if it's only a tiny scrap as long as it's bigger than one of the signs.

Using my stamping platform to line things up I stamped sentiments from various stamp sets onto the signs before cutting the signs out and glueing them onto the main image.

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

Pixie's Snippets Playground #389

Papercraft Challenges  #63 autumn colours

Artistic Stampers travel

Stamplorations - Celebration
 

Thanks for stopping by, stay safe
Katrina x

Present Bella

Hello lovely peeps, I hope you are well.

I've got an 18th birthday card to share with you today, using 'Posh has a Present' by Stamping Bella. The papers are from a digital paper pack called 'Doodle Deux' by Prima which I got at Snap Click Supply. As they are digital papers I was able to add a personalised sentiment on my computer before printing.  

I would like to enter this in the following challenges:-
We love Chocolate Baroque Anything Goes

Colour Crazy Challenge #41 Anything Goes

Through The Craft Room Door - Anything Goes

Creatalicious Challenges #197 Anything Goes

Penny's Paper-Crafty Challenge Blog #482  Anything Goes using paper 

Thanks for stopping by, stay safe
Katrina x

Cherry Blossom Champagne

Hello lovely peeps, I hope you are all well.

A quick card today using a gorgeous Hunkydory topper. The white base layer was done with the 'Cherry Blossom' Punch Around The Page punches by Martha Stewart.

I would like to enter this in the following challenges:-
Creations in pink #27 Anything Goes mainly pink

Creatalicious Challenges #197 Anything Goes with optional Halloween

Thanks for stopping by, stay safe
Katrina x

Book Hedgehog

Hello lovely peeps, I hope you are well.

 

We did book folding at one of our craft club sessions a couple of years ago but I never got around to decorating the hedgehog I made (it took the whole 2 hour session just to do the folding). Since I've had lots more spare time this year I decided to get him/her out of hiding and give it a go. 

I kept it simple because I wanted something next door's kids could have a go at if they were bored. The lovely black button and googly eyes came out of my stash and I made the rest from card/paper. The hat is two circles and a strip of paper, the flowers are circles cut into spirals and wound around a quilling tool, and the feet were done with black card and a flower die.   

I would like to enter this in the following challenges:-
 As You Like It Challenge Favourite non card project and why - I love to upcycle things and this was a lot of fun to decorate.    

Dream Valley Challenges #234 more than one fold

Creative Fingers #194 Anything Goes

 Creative Moments #200 Anything Goes

Thanks for stopping by, stay safe
Katrina x

Gnome Pile

Hello lovely peeps, I hope you are well.
 

For today's card I've stamped Gnome Pile by Stamping Bella directly onto an A6 card blank made from thick watercolour card and coloured in with Distress markers.

For the sign I used the smallest happy birthday stamp I could find in my stash and drew the sign around it with a black fineliner.

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

As You Like It Challenge Favourite bright or pastel - as well as being cheerful I love the way brights really pop with a white background.

AAA  #175 one layer & optional coffee

STAMPlorations CAS Challenge optional gray & orange 

My Favourite Things Colour Challenge #150

 

Thanks for stopping by, stay safe

Katrina x

Monster Reveal

Hello lovely peeps, I hope you are well.

Just popping in to share the card I made for hubby's 50th. When  you open it the grumpy monster disappears to reveal smiley ones :D

I would have liked to finish the inside properly but I spent so much time working on his BB8 cake that I didn't have enough time left for the card.

Ingredients:

Monster Hugs stamp set from Aall & Create

Monstrous Party digi by TiddlyInks

Promarkers

8x8 card blank

Nitwit digi papers

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

I love Promarkers #420 AG opt  CAS

Colour Crazy Challenge #38 Anything Goes

Creative Inspirations Spots and dots or inky splats

Incy Wincy Designs - funny and/or celebrate

As You Like It Challenge Favourite bright or pastel (I love the cheerfulness of bright colours)

Thanks for stopping by, stay safe

Katrina x

Autumn colours

Hello lovely peeps, I hope you are all well.

I love this time of year - leaves falling, beautiful colours, and hopefully still a bit of sunshine - so I didn't have to look far for the inspiration for my card today.  

I'm taking a break from stamping at the moment so dragged some of my dies out instead. The leaves are by Craftascope and the sentiment is from a Crafters Companion advent calendar. To get the coloured card I smooshed distress inks onto my craft mat and dragged white card through before drying.

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

Simon Says Stamp (Wed) No stamps allowed

 Allsorts #590 my lovely garden

Mod Squad Challenge -  autumn foliage

Crafter's Cafe #251 seasons

Tinker- Dream  #btchallenge93 Fall/Autumn 

Crafty Friends Challenge #145 autumn colours

Thanks for stopping by, stay safe
Katrina x

Have a Hoot

Hello lovely peeps, I hope you are all well.



Just popping in to share a really quick card made with an embossing folder and a Woodware owl stamp, coloured with promarkers.

I would like to enter this in the following challenges:-
 Dream Valley Challenges #232 embossing

I love Promarkers #419 AG opt use an animal

Thanks for stopping by, stay safe
Katrina x

Monster Line Up

Hello lovely peeps, I hope you are well.

Just popping in to show you a spinner card I made with 'Line Up' from Stampotique, coloured with Copic markers. I used IO cloud dies for the sentiment aperture and to hide the brad that allows you to spin the sentiment wheel around.

 The sentiments are a mix of brands - I picked the words that fit best for size and with my theme.

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

MFT The Birthday Project I like to move it move it 

Allsorts #589 I Love ... (colouring in, quirky characters, cards that move)

Dies R Us Challenge #153 one for the boys

Thanks for stopping by, stay safe

Katrina x