Birds on Branches

Hello lovely peeps and welcome to my new follower :o)

Another Craftascope make to share with you today, using the Weeping Willow stencil.

Winter Antlers for Leonie

Hello lovely peeps
 

Woo hoo! It's new launch time - Leonie is on Hochanda TV with a fab new set of Entwined dies and some lovely stamps to go with them.

 The first card I wanted to show you is using the 'Entwined Christmas Tree- Frost' die. This is a beautiful design but if you've been following me for a while you'll know that I often find other ways of using things, so I've not used it as a tree at all. If you turn it upside down it looks like fancy antlers :D

 To start off my card I painted a square of black cardstock with white gesso, leaving some thinner patches for interest.

Next I 'painted' part of a Claritystamp deer with a black Spectrum Aqua marker

and stamped it onto my background.

 Next I cut a wavy shape in a piece of copy paper with my craft knife to use as a mask

and used a sponge and Distress Ink to add hills

There's a cute little fir tree at the bottom of the 'Christmas Cheer' stamp so I inked that up with black memento ink (I used post-it notes to mask off the rest of the stamp)
  

This was stamped several times over my 'landscape'

I stamped lots of snowflakes from the 'Swirls and Flakes' set around the edges of my card, using second, third and fourth generation ink.

To do the deer's antlers I cut the 'Frost' die from silver mirri card and snipped off the tree top, leaving me two lovely swirly bits. I glued them on top of the deer's head with cosmic shimmer glue and layered it onto a 7"x7" card with some papers from the Wild at Heart paper pad from Trimcraft.

For the sentiment I cut the 'Winter' die from white centura pearl and stamped 'Wishes' from a previous stamp set (Flight to Freedom) onto a circle of the same card. They're layered up onto the base card with strips of two more of the papers.

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

 Winter Wonderland Show us your gold/silver and or an embossed background

Happy Little Stampers (Christmas) Snowflakes

My teamies have some gorgeous samples to show you too. I have links to their blogs on my sidebar --->

 Leonie will be back on Hochanda tomorrow (Thursday 11th August) at 9am, 12pm, 4pm and 7pm.

You can watch Hochanda live online, Sky channel 663, Freeview 39 (6am - 9pm) or Freesat 817.

I hope you'll pop back again tomorrow when I'll have another card to show you,

Katrina x

Off She Flew for Leonie

Hello lovely peeps, hope you are well.

Welcome to my two new followers, I'm thrilled to have you :)

Today's card is using stamps from 3 of Leonie's new stamp sets.

  

First I made my own ink spritzer by colouring a piece of kitchen towel with a Spectrum Aqua pen and placing it into a spritzer bottle with water (a brilliant tip I got from the colourist Sarah Hurley). I think for this card I used 'Evergreen'.

I put a Clarity seedheads stencil on top of a piece of Sheena's white stamping card, spritzed through it then removed the stencil & dried the card with a heat gun.

Next I stamped parts of the 'Flights of Fancy Background' and some butterflies from 'Flight to Freedom' onto tissue paper with black archival ink.

I glued the tissue paper onto my background with Mod Podge and doodled some lines around the edges



Next I stamped up one of the fab sentiments from the 'Off she flew' set onto white card. I wanted to have the lines separated but there is not a lot of space in between the lines on the stamp, so I inked up the sentiment one line at a time by covering the other lines with post-it notes. After stamping one line I cleaned & dried the stamp before inking up the next one.

Once that was done I coloured in a Gorjuss stamp called 'My Own Universe' with Graph-It markers

I stamped butterfly wings onto vellum and attached them to the back of the cut-out image.

I added some Crystal Glamour Dust to her wings for a little touch of bling

The finished piece was then mounted onto a 7x7 white card blank

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

Crafty Sentiment Designs - Something with Wings
Creative Moments #93 Anything Goes w/optional twist Black, white & 1 colour
Country View Crafts' Challenge Use a Stencil
Little Claire's #69 Butterflies
Penny Black and More Anything Goes with Stamping
A Beautiful Mess #2 Anything Goes (Always)

 Glitter n Sparkle #189 Anything Goes
Sisterhood of Crafters No designer paper
Creatalicious Challenges #91 - Anything Goes with optional no design paper
Stamping Sensations  Anything Goes

Thanks for stopping by,

Katrina x

Die cuts in 3D - no glasses required

Evenin' All, hope you are well.

 

Our Cardmaking Club theme for Thursday 9th is going to be 3D embellishments (made from die-cuts). This first one is a card I sent to a friend's son for his 16th Birthday.

 

 

('Happy' and 'Birthday' are from the Claritystamp word chain sets)

 

I die cut six stars from a Prima paper pad, scored them down the centre and glued three of them back to back for each 3D star (I used Collall Photoglue on these - you need something that you can move about a bit before it dries so can make sure your shapes are lined up properly).

 

I then covered the front and inside of an A5 card with patterned paper and die-cut a circle in the front of the card. The dark paper on the front is from the Robot Rust digi-kit and I have over-stamped it with a compass in black ink. I was going to put a third star on the inside so you could see it through the circle, but it covered up too much of the lovely background paper so I left it off.

 

 

The second card I made is with hearts, but I'll bring that one to club (don't want to risk my Mum seeing it before her birthday!)

 

 

This last one is using a Sizzix Movers and Shapers bat die (I've definitely been going a bit batty lately).

 

 

I die-cut nine bat shapes from a lovely leather effect black paper and used the same method as above to make three 3D bats. These were a bit more fiddly so took quite a bit longer to put together and I used Tacky PVA glue for a stronger hold.

 

The arch aperture was die-cut from the front of the card using a large Sizzix Tag die, and then I stamped all over the card with an Inkylicious brick wall stamp and Pumice Stone Distress Ink. The 'just to say' line sentiment is from Clarity.

 

 

So ladies, for Thursday you'll need to bring:-

 card blanks

paper or thin card for the shapes

scoring board if you have one

 repositionable glue

any ribbon/embellishments etc. you might want to add on.

 

And if anyone has a simple butterfly- or flower-shape die, can they please bring it along as I don't seem to have these in my stash (my die collection is not in the same league as my massive collection of stamps) 

 

Oh, and I almost forgot, we'll be doing the squeeze boxes as well, so bring along some thin card for the boxes (patterned would be nice), card or paper to cut the numbers out of, and ribbon/cord for hanging them. Plus red ultra-strong tape if you have it.

 

Ta-ra for now,

Karina x