The Magic of Christmas for Leonie

Hello lovely peeps

I've got a pastel Christmas card for you today made with one of Leonie's Magic Masks.

Hey There Flower for Leonie

Hello lovely peeps

Just popping in with a card that I made with Leonie Pujol's Flower Bursts and Bark Texture dies

First I covered a 6x6 card with one of the papers from Sara Davies' Shabby Chic collection - printed from the CD that came with the Crafters Inspiration magazine issue 14.

Next I dabbed some Twisted Citron Distress Ink onto my craft mat and spritzed with water before dragging some Inkylicious paper through it. I then cut this out with the Bark Texture die and then snipped into it with scissors to make stems, leaves and grass.

To make the orange paper I used the same technique as above but used a few drops of the ink from Leonie's Amber Glitter Pen. I cut one of the flowers from Floral Bursts from this and added a face using shapes cut with the Suffixes die in Leonie's Typography range.

For the sentiment I stamped the 'Hey there' from the Hey There Dreamer stamp set onto a scrap piece of the background card in Black Memento ink. The 'flower' letters were cut from white card using the Typography dies and attached with Cosmic Shimmer glue.

I used the same glue to attach the 'grass' that I'd cut earlier and add a couple of tiny orange flowers

I would like to enter this in the following challenges:-
 Glitter n Sparkle #245 Anything Goes 
Crafty Hazelnut's Patterned Paper  Anything goes with Patterned Paper
Allsorts #421 Flower power
Always Playing with Paper  #88 Keywords

Thanks for stopping by,

Katrina x

Boat Scene for Leonie

Hello lovely peeps and a very warm welcome to my new followers. I hope you have all entered my giveaway (click here or see the link in my sidebar).

Just a quick post today to show you another card made with Leonie's Mixed Media dies.

For the sea/waves I used the Bark Texture die and some patterned paper, then added white wave tops with a gel pen. The boats are made with shapes from the Mosaic set and the sun is cut from yellow paper using one of the dies in Floral Bursts

The sentiment is made up of two words from the Love Hearts clear stamp set

I would like to enter this in the following challenges:-
 Creative Inspirations #255 Seaside/Sunshine/Summer Holidays

I'm delighted to announce that there will be another One Day Special to launch some of Leonie's new products, starting on Wednesday 10th August at 8pm with more shows on Thursday 11th at 9am, 12pm, 4pm & 7pm.

Want a little sneak peek? Oh, go on then, you twisted my arm :D

You can watch Hochanda live online, Sky channel 663, Freeview 39 (6am - 9pm) or Freesat 817.
Thanks for stopping by,
Katrina x

Heart carving for leonie

Hello lovely peeps and a warm welcome to all of my new followers. I'm such a lucky girlie :)

 Today I'm sharing my little heart carving with you.

As a youngster, did you ever carve yours and your boyfriend/girlfriend's initials into a tree's bark, surrounded by a heart? This is what popped into my mind after I'd been playing with Leonie's 'Tree Bark' and 'All the Love' dies for a while.  Of course I only ever got as far as drawing one in my school books as a lovestruck teen, not wanting to mutilate a poor tree.

Anyway, I've tried to replicate the idea with my little heart hanging. To start off I die-cut some Kraft card with Leonie's 'All the Love' die

and snipped off the top left heart with my scissors. I did this twice and then painted both hearts with Titanium White acrylic paint
 

Next I glued a heart onto another piece of Kraft card with Cosmic Shimmer glue (this is a really strong adhesive) and repeated with the second heart onto yet another piece of Kraft card.

Now I ran the first piece through my Ebosser with the 'Bark Texture' die and glued the die-cut over the top of the second piece (with the same glue).

I painted over the top with a mixture of White Titanium and Burnt Umber acrylic paints, watered down and was slightly horrified to find that it turned purple!
 

I persevered and this time just painted on watered down Burnt Umber, which massively improved it (phew). It turned out to be a happy accident because I think the purple gives an added depth of colour to the finished piece.

Once it was looking a bit more like wood I 'carved' the initials into it by scratching it with a pokey tool. I've added a little cupid's arrow too :)

The 'W' refers, of course, to my fabulous hubby, Will

To finish off I glued the piece onto an MDF heart, trimmed the edges off and added some ribbon & tiny buttons.

I would like to enter this in the following challenges:-
 Crafty Friends Challenge #37 Favourite Embellishment (buttons)
We Love 2 Create #16 Anything Mixed Media Goes
Love to Craft #1 August Anything Goes
The Sisters of Craft  Always Anything Goes

You still have time to enter my blog giveaway, which runs until the 14th of August. You can enter twice if you add the link & pic to your own blog.

 

Thank you for stopping by today, I hope I'll see you again soon.

Katrina x