UTEE Daisy on Throwback Tuesday

Hello lovely peeps

This week's oldie is a card I made with the Daisy Days stamp set from Polkadoodles.

Get Well Soon Daisies

Hello lovely peeps

Another unseen card from the archives today - this one is from when I was on the Polkadoodles DT. 

I stamped a few of the flowers from the Daisy Days stamp set with Black memento ink onto Elegance Satin 300gsm card then covered them up with sticky-note masks so I could stamp 'behind' them.

I filled in the gaps with the tiny circle/bubble stamps in the same set.

To colour the flowers I used Graph'It markers and a Mix-It Palette. 

For the darkest flower I scribbled 6140 onto the palette then picked up the colour with the blender pen 0000 and coloured from the flower centre outwards.

For the flower centres I drew lots of small lines with 9209 and 9207 

then coloured over the top of that with 8245

The other flowers were coloured in the same way using 6130 and 6110.
I doodled in a border and added a sentiment from the matching CD and layered it onto a 7x7" card.

Tip: Colour around the edges of some white card with one of the markers you've used to get co-ordinating card for matting & layering

There's a new Crafty Calendar Challenge on Saturday so I'll definitely see you then, but I hope to get another post in sometime during the week (depending on how my DT work goes)

Thanks for stopping by,

Katrina x

Pretty Flamingo for Polkadoodles

Hello lovely peeps

It's time for a new challenge at Polkadoodles, and in case you missed the announcement last time, they are now Anything Goes, but there is an optional theme, which this time is

'F for ....'

Well, they're so pretty (and apparently all the rage at the moment), so it had to be F for Flamingo. The digi stamp is from the Winnie in Wonderland CD and I've coloured it in with pink and purple sparkle pens. The gorgeous backing paper is from the same CD and for the greeting I used one of the stamps from the Daisydays set.

I would like to enter this in the following challenges:-
Crafting from the Heart #124 Anything Goes
Through The Craft Room Door - Always Anything Goes
Deep Ocean Challenge #136: "Things with Wings"   
In The Pink #101 Make It Sparkle (flamingo coloured with sparkle pens)

Thanks for stopping by,

Katrina x

Rustic daisies for Polkadoodles

Hello lovely peeps and welcome to my new follower :)

Just popping in to show you a 'rustic' card I made with the Daisy Days stamp set from Polkadoodles



First I stamped and embossed the daisy head, stems and tiny circles onto Kraft card with Versamark ink and white embossing powder. I wet the edges so I could tear it down to the size I wanted.

I went over the card with Walnut Stain distress ink and then spattered water on

Next I coloured in the daisies with Titanium White and Rich Gold acrylic paint by Daler Rowney

I covered up the daisy heads with sticky notes and spattered on white and then gold paint over the background.

I covered a 6x6 card base with corrugated card 'made' from a cardboard box (just peel the top layer of paper off) and then added some torn white card on top before layering on my topper.
It's finished off with a sentiment from the CD and a button on top of some natural fibres.

I would like to enter this in the following challenges:-
Simon Says Stamp (Mon)  Add Some Texture
Mod Squad Challenge - Use Kraft
Sisterhood of the Snarky Stampers #64 R is for Resist Technique
ABC Challenge L is for Lots of layers
Penny Black and More  Anything goes with a stamp
Happy Little Stampers (Mixed Media)  Recycle


Thanks for stopping by,

Katrina x

Bubble Grapes for Polkadoodles

Good morning peeps, hope you are well.

Today I wanted to show you how I made my grapes card that was on the Polkadoodles show last Tuesday on Create and Craft (if you're quick you can still watch the show on catchup here)

First I added some of the digi elements into Craft Artist to make the basis of my card. I made a frame with the stem digi on the Summertime CD by copying & pasting and rotating each copy by 90 degrees before arranging into a square. Next I dragged a sentiment into the centre and also this bottle into the corner (both from the Daisy Days CD). 

I made the bottle thinner my moving one of the 'handles' on the side of the selected image instead of one of the corner handles (which would keep it in proportion). Once it was looking more like a wine bottle I made a copy of it and positioned one behind the other.

Everything was then grouped together and positioned so it would print on the right hand side of an A4 piece of landscape card. After printing I cut it down to make a 6x6 card.

Now, for the grapes. There is a really useful cluster of bubbles in the Summertime stamp set

I stamped it a few times underneath the top of the frame and filled in with a single bubble from the Daisy Days stamp set. I coloured the bubbles in with Graph'It markers and then added Glossy Accents. I drew a little stem with a black fineliner and added a highlight with a white gel pen.

To make the bottles look like wine bottles I drew in some labels with a scribbled church/chateux kind of motif and then coloured them in with alcohol markers before adding more Glossy Accents.
White wine: lime green & pear green Promarkers
Red wine: 6140 Graph'It & blender

In the finished card I coloured in the white gaps between the grapes and added a couple more bunches which I stamped & cut out from a separate piece of card.

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

Thanks for stopping by,

Katrina x

Miss You for Polkadoodles

Hello peeps, hope you are well.

I've got another card from yesterday's Polkadoodles launch to show you, using parts of the butterfly stamp in the Daisy Days stamp set and one of the sentiments from the CD.



First I made an inky background on some glossy card by dabbing Distress Inks on my craft mat and spritzing them with water. I used  dusty concord, seedless preserve, shaded lilac and picked raspberry.

Before it dried I quickly sprinkled some rock salt over the ink puddles

After it had dried I brushed off the salt and ran the piece of card through my printer to get the sentiment on there. I quickly blasted it with my heat gun to stop the ink bleeding.

I made more inky backgrounds with the same ink pad colours and then stamped the butterflies onto them several times with grey Memento ink. I cut out the top halves of each wing - they are heart shaped - and glued them onto my card.

I would like to enter this in the following challenges:-
Addicted to Stamps and More #197 Make your mark
Creative Craft Cottage Digi Creations #50 Anything Goes
Where the HeART is #10 Anything Goes
A Beautiful Mess #3 Anything Goes (Always)
Let's Craft & Create Challenge #114 Hearts &/or Flowers

If you missed the show yesterday you can catch it at
http://www.createandcraft.tv/shows/Polkadoodles-Stamping-2589405
for 7 days.

I'll be back tonight with one of the samples I made for Leonie's new product launch at 8pm on Hochanda.

Thanks for stopping by,

Katrina x