Little Birdie for Crafty Calendar Challenge

Hello peeps.

 Today's an exciting day - this is my first post as a 'Calendar Girl' ;D
No, I haven't been posing for photos with strategically placed teacakes: I have joined the lovely Design Team at Crafty Calendar Challenge (thank you ladies for the warm welcome)

This month's challenge is Anything Goes and is sponsored by

 

Robyn's Fetish Digital Stamps And More, a division of I Did It Creations, was created and is owned by Robyn Weinrib. Robyn offers a wonderful variety of digital stamps and digital papers, designed to meet the needs of all digital paper crafting addicts for every occasion.

So, for my DT inspiration card I have used the digistamp 'a little birdie told me'. 

I was struggling a bit with colouring him in so I decided to paper piece him instead.
He's printed onto plain white card and then several different Lili of the Valley papers (mostly Country Lady, the tree trunk is from Timeless Victorian). After cutting out all the different parts of the image and glueing them onto the white version I matted & layered onto another patterned paper and a 7"x7" card.
The sentiment was stamped with an Inkydoodles stamp and the ribbon and buttons are from my stash.

Crafty hugs,
Katrina x

Pretty Petal

Hello peeps, hope you are well.

My card today is a twisted easel, made with Petal from Lili of the Valley. She has been coloured in with promarkers and decoupaged (sorry, I can't remember which ones - I coloured her ages ago).

The papers are from the 'Country Lady' and 'Antebellum' 8x8 pads, also from LOTV.

The white flowers were made with the 'Black-eyed Susan' Bigz die from Sizzix and the red ones were created with the Marianne Design Creatables die 'Branch and Flowers 1'

The greenery is pressed/dried leaves. I was dead chuffed to find a freezer bag full of mixed leaves and flowers at a car boot sale for £1, what a bargain :D

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

Craft your passion - Anything Goes

Crafting by designs -  Things with Wings

Creative Inspirations - Anything Goes + Option of a Sketch!

Fab'n'Funky challenge - Things with Wings

Crafty Catz - Golden Oldies 

Sparkles Monthly Challenges - More Than One Fold

Southern Girls - Flower Power 
Craftyhazelnuts Patterned Paper Challenge - August
Stamping Sensations - Anything Goes with a stamp and a die

Sketch Saturday - Any sketch 215-375, I've used #224

Thank you for stopping by,

Katrina x

Country Lady Bird House

Afternoon peeps, hope you are all well.

I've decorated a little wooden birdhouse shape I bought at The Range with some LOTV papers.

I die-cut the bird and swirl from plain card and papers from the Country Lady 8x8 paper pad then glued the layers together before attaching them to the house.
The (Bigz) die is called Bird Scroll by Brenda Walton.

 
The flowers are punched from another paper in the pad using a papermania punch.
These are shaped with a ball tool before adding black adhesive pearls.

I'm entering this in the following challenges:-

Crafty Calendar Challenge - THINGS WITH WINGS

Crafts Galore - Anything Goes

Dream Valley -  Anything Goes

Crafting From The Heart - Anything Goes
Crafty Sentiments Designs - Anything but a card
TTCRD -  Anything Goes

Millie has decided it's time to sit on my lap now, so I'll sign off 'til next time :D
Katrina x