Me ol' Bamboo

I'm delighted to say that I'm a Guest Designer over at Retro Rubber for the next fortnight. You have to use stamps older than a year so it's the perfect challenge for me given that I'm a hoarder, lol.

Their challenge this time is an easy one - Anything Goes

The main stamp on my card is 8 years old and is called Party Paws 'Flowers from Bamboo', released by Crafter's Companion. I stamped him onto smooth cartridge paper with grey Memento ink and watercoloured him in with Distress Markers.

The sentiment was done in black Versafine ink with an old 'Large Birthday Sentiments' set by Lili of the Valley from 2 years ago. 

I added a few gel dots tofinish off and mounted on a 7x7" card blank.

Please pop over to Retro Rubber if you get a chance to see the wonderful creations from the team.

Thank you ladies for having me as GDT this time.

I would like to enter my card in the following challenges:-

Animal Friends Challenge  #98 bear

Crafty Animals  #50 AG with animal

AAA Birthday 25 Happy Birthday  

Thanks for stopping by, stay safe
Katrina x

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

Flamingo Wedding

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

I've got a wedding card to share with you today, using the Flamingos from the 'A little bit sketchy' range by Sheena Douglass.

Leaf Cluster on Throwback Tuesday

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

This week's Throwback Tuesday card has been made with stamps by Sheena Douglass - Autumn Leaves from the A Little Bit Sketchy range and the Rose Set from the Paint Fusion range.

Apricot Poppies on Throwback Tuesday

Hello lovely peeps

This week's Throwback Tuesday features the Paint Fusion Poppy stamp set by Sheena Douglass.

Sister Tag

Hello lovely peeps

Today's make is a tag using the Perfect Partners Victorian Floral Anemone stamps from Sheena Douglass.

Brusho Squirrel

Hello lovely peeps

Today's card features the Squirrel from the Little Acorn stamp set by Sheena Douglass.

Iris Folding for Leonie

Hello lovely peeps

Just popping in to show you the final sample that I made for Leonie's Christmas sale show on Hochanda.

Chunky Snow on Throwback Tuesday

Hello lovely peeps

Today's Throwback Tuesday card features Leonie Pujol's Christmas Entwined Collection

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.

Butterfly Pillow Box on Throwback Tuesday

Hello lovely peeps

This week's oldie is a Pillow Box made with one of the butterflies in Leonie Pujol's Flight to Freedom stamp set.

In a Spin on Throwback Tuesday

Hello lovely peeps

This week's unblogged card features Leonie Pujol's In a Spin die.

First I used it to cut the outline in white card and glued this onto a cream textured card blank.

I cut the same shape from several different papers in the 'New Leaf' First Edition pad by Trimcraft and saved all the 'innie' bits [I saved the outlines for other projects, but there is no need to cut the whole design from each paper - you could use up all your little scraps of paper instead].

I glued the innie bits inside the gaps, with all parts of each circle having the same pattern.
  

The Best Wishes sentiment is from Leonie's Flight to Freedom stamp set, which I just stamped onto a circle of matching card.

Thanks for stopping by,

Katrina x

Motherly Love on Throwback Tuesday

Hello lovely peeps

This week's Throwback Tuesday make is a card that I made with one of Leonie Pujol's Entwined Heart dies.

When I first saw the Funky Heart Base it reminded me of those abstract porcelain figurines of a mother and her child, so for my card I decided to sketch some faces inside the heart.

I kept the rest of the card very simple. The heart and 'Love' (from the same set) are cut from pink Adorable Scorable card, with cream AS for the base and banner. A little organza bow in the child's hair makes her look a little more girly.

If you would like to recreate this for your personal use you can download my drawing on my Freebies page.

Thanks for stopping by,

Katrina x

New Baby card

Hello lovely peeps

I've got a new baby card for you today, using a stamp from the Humphrey's Corner Collection by Crafter's Companion. I stamped onto super smooth card and coloured it in with Promarkers
Mustard, Daffodil Bloom
Khaki, Pastel Beige, Ice Grey 1 and Blender

All the papers are from an old Gorjuss 8x8 pad and I added faux stitching around the edges with a fine tipped pen. I hand drew and cut out flower shapes to match the tiny flowers on the centre paper and added pearlescent black card candi for the centres.

I would like to enter this in the following challenges:-
Cardz 4 Guyz # 175 Tiny fingers and tiny toes
Shopping Our Stash #315 spice up your life (baby)
Crafty Gals Corner # 135 Bingo (2+ designer papers, free, flowers)
Penny Black and More  All Creatures Great and Small
Crafty Hazelnut's Patterned Paper  Anything goes with Patterned Paper
Dream Factory #46 Zoomania

Thanks for stopping by,

Katrina x

Dotty About You on Throwback Tuesday

Hello lovely peeps

This week's unblogged card is using one of Leonie Pujol's Entwined Heart dies.

The inspiration came from the lovely dotty design in the Pretty Borders stamp set, which I've stamped all the way around the edge of the card.  I coloured in a few of the dots with a black fineliner pen and printed off the sentiment from my computer.

The heart outline was cut from white card using Entwining Joy, from the Big Heart set. After glueing it onto my card with Cosmic Shimmer glue I filled in the centre with small black dots and added tiny dots all around the outside.

Thanks for stopping by,

Katrina x

Home is the Heart of Christmas

Hello lovely peeps

Just popping in to show you a wooden heart that I decorated with Leonie's Welcome Home stamps and an embossing folder.

The surface of my wooden heart was a bit rough so I covered it with watercolour paper and sanded the edges down with an emery board

Next I painted on a layer of Daler Rowney Zinc Mixing White and then mixed some of this with drops of  'arctic' glitter brush pen from Leonie's Frosty Christmas set onto my craft mat.

I brushed this on with rough horizontal strokes, with some more Zinc white added in to give the impression of a cloudy sky

Near the bottom I stamped on some of the tiny trees from the Welcome Home stamp set with Black Archival ink and then coloured them in with a white gel pen.

I stamped one of the large houses onto more watercolour card and coloured it in with Begonia and Slate Spectrum Aqua Markers (plus the arctic glitter pen for the windows)

I covered the bottom of the heart with a small piece of card that I embossed with the Dotty Days folder and then glued the house on with the steps overlapping the embossed area.

For the sentiment I inked up one of the phrases from the Christmas Greetings set but masked off the 'Home' at the beginning. Instead I used the 'h 'o' 'm' 'e' stamps from the Welcome Home set.

I chose dotty white organza ribbon to hang the heart from, to match the embossed card at the bottom.

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

Let's Craft & Create Challenge #127 Just beachy/red, white blue

Pile It On #132 Primary colours

Crafting By Designs Get ready for Christmas

Not Just Cards #46 AG

Thanks for stopping by,

Katrina x

Bauble Tree on Throwback Tuesday

Hello lovely peeps

You may have spotted this one on Hochanda again recently - it's a really quick card made with Leonie Pujol's Entwined Christmas Tree collection - great for batch making.



I was going for a CAS card, so used the Baubles die on it's own rather than entwine it with the base. I cut the tree from green patterned paper and glued it to a 6x6 card before covering all of the circles with colourful card candi.

For the border I inked one of the stamps in the Christmas Borders set with Black Memento ink and stamped around all four sides of the card.

Thanks for stopping by,

Katrina x

Fairy Shaker for Leonie

Hello lovely peeps

Today's make is a shaker card that I made with Leonie Pujol's Christmas stamps.

First I stamped the fairy from the Fairy Godmother set onto watercolour card with Black Archival ink

I stamped it again onto copy paper and cut it out

before adding Zig 2-way glue onto the back and leaving it to go clear (so it is repositionable)

With my handmade mask in place I overstamped the wings

and wording from the Christmas Greetings set

After covering the wording and wings with more masks (small enough to fit on sticky notes this time), I stamped on stars from the Tree Time set.

Once all my stamping was done I wanted to add a Brusho background, so I removed the paper masks (which would have got soaking wet) and painted all the stamped areas in with Pebeo Drawing Gum

After wetting the background with water, I brushed on diluted Crimson Brusho crystals

then sprinkled on Purple Brusho crystals and spritzed with water

I dried it off with a heat gun, rubbed off the drawing gum and then left the card under a large stack of books to flatten it out overnight.

To colour the fairy in I used Spectrum Aqua markers -
Peach for the skin, Tan and Boulder for the hair, Charcoal for shading

and diluted Crimson Brusho for the dress, shoes and wording.

I cut the top part of the dress out using a craft knife - using a glass mat makes it much easier to cut

I added double-sided tape around the back of the aperture and then attached a square of acetate.

For the base card I glued some more watercolour card to a 6"x6" card blank (to go behind the aperture) and then added two layers of foam tape.

I added more foam tape around the edges for stability and then added little white stars into the well in the centre before attaching the front layer (the white stars did not show up at all on TV, I should have gone with pink :o)

To colour in the stars I mixed Lemon, Copper and Clear sparkle pens on my craft mat to get a light gold colour, then applied with a slightly damp paintbrush.

As I had removed the collar and heart earlier when I cut my aperture, I stamped, coloured and cut out another one to glue over the top of the acetate.

I would like to enter this in the following challenges:-
Simon Says Stamp (Wed) We're seeing stars
Catch The Bug   Christmas in July - Make It Sparkle
Crafty Gals Corner # 132 Christmas in July
Little Red Wagon #403 Christmas in July
Oddball Art Stamps  AG/ optional A sky full of stars 
 Brown Sugar #259 Colour  

Thanks for stopping by,

Katrina x