Happy Day for Leonie

Hello lovely peeps

It's a happy day today - lots of Leonie on the telly :o)
As well as 'Let Leonie Loose' at 11 and 2, she is back on Hochanda at 8pm to kick off her one day special Sale shows.

My card today was made with her latest collection - 'Typography'

I started by heat embossing some of the Funky Tree and Fly Free stamps with Versamark ink and clear embossing powder onto Sheena's stamping card to make three different patterned strips.

Each panel was coloured with a different distress ink and wiped with kitchen towel to remove the ink from the embossed areas

Cut the strips down into squares and ink around all of the edges

To make a colour co-ordinated background for the squares to sit on I dabbed the same inks onto my craft mat, spritzed them and dragged some card through the ink

Once that was dry I inked around the edges with Pumice Stone

I arranged the squares onto the background and the added a mix of Leonie's letters, die-cut from plum coloured card.

To finish off I matted and layered onto plum and white card and added some plum ribbon.

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

Thanks for stopping by,

Katrina x

Sticky Notes for Leonie

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

Just popping in to show you how I made a little sticky note holder with Leonie's new Typography collection.

To make the cover I cut a piece of card down to 8cm by 17.5cm and scored it at 8cm from either end.

Tape ribbon to the inside of each end

and cover the ribbon with 8cm squares of card (no, you're not seeing things, I changed my mind and used Kraft card at this point)

Tape down the sticky note pad to the inside

To decorate the cover I coloured some Sheena stamping card with Distress Inks

then die-cut lots of letters using the Typography dies and glued them on. I used the waste from some letters also.

I trimmed around the edges and then inked over the top of the white letters.

 I finished off with a flower and leaf stamped with the Fly Free stamp set

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

Thanks for stopping by,

Katrina x

Hanging Hearts for Leonie

Hello lovely peeps, I hope you are well.

I'm back to show you another card I made with Leonie's Typography collection.

I started with one of the Banners and Frames stamps, which I bent into a curve before inking up with black Archival ink.

I stamped it twice onto a square of Sheena's stamping card with some copier paper behind

then stamped again on the copier paper so I could use it as a mask. I cut along the line and kept both halves.

The bottom half was used to cover underneath the stamped line on my card. I coloured the top with worn lipstick and spiced marmalade Distress Inks

To add some texture to the coloured panel I used a flower from the Fly Free stamp set and 'inked' it with water. I first tried pressing the stamp into some kitchen towel sprayed with water, but this didn't remove much colour and was barely visible.

I got a much better impression when I spritzed the water into the air above the stamp

Once I was finished with the coloured section I used the other half of the copier paper mask to cover it up. I used the frame (straightened this time) to stamp some vertical lines down the card for the hearts to 'hang' from.

I inked up some more white card with worn lipstick DI and die-cut some hearts using Leonie's Lots of Love mixed media dies

I placed the hearts inside 5 different Typography embossing folders and ran them through my Ebosser machine.

After embossing I sanded the hearts lightly with an emery board to highlight the raised patterns

The card is finished off with some Typography letters die-cut from inked card - I cut the 'L' from the  waste

I would like to enter this in the following challenges:-
TIME OUT Challenges Love and/or Friendship with the Optional "Spotlight Stamping"
Crafty Girls Creations  #34 Always Anything Goes
Through The Craft Room Door - Always Anything Goes
Crafting With An Attitude  #25 Anything Goes Always 

Thanks for stopping by,

Katrina x

Fly Free for Leonie

Hello lovely peeps

 Leonie is launching a new 'Typography' collection on Hochanda this evening (8pm)

There are some lovely new dies, stamps and embossing folders on the shows, and I'm sure Leonie will have some great demos for you.

My first sample is a z-fold card.

To start off I folded a piece of A4 Kraft card in half to make an A5 card, then folded the front into half again. I cut the card down to 6" high to give me my z-shaped base, and saved the other piece for fixing to the front.

Next I made my 'backing paper' - I stamped one of the 'Banner and Frame' stamps several times onto a strip of white paper with grey Memento ink.

and then stamped in between each gap with the same stamp again to make closer stripes.

For the larger panels I stamped all over with one of the flowers from the 'Fly Free' set.

I grunged up the panels a little by sponging around the edges with weathered wood Distress Ink, then I put some ink on my craft mat and added a little water. I picked up the ink with an old toothbrush and flicked the bristles to add speckles to the paper

I attached the finished panels to my card blank and the extra strip, then turned the strip around 180 degrees and attached it to the base.

I stamped the butterfly from the 'Fly Free' set onto two panels in black Memento ink.
 (I realise I should have done this before glueing the panels onto the card, but with a bit of masking I got away with it)

I stamped the butterflies again onto decorative paper and cut them out to paper-piece over the top

The Fly Free set also has some lovely side-on images of flowers where you can see the tops of the stem. I stamped several of these onto different colour papers and cut them out.

I wanted the stems to reach to the bottom of the card but on the stamps themselves they are quite short (and in one case, curved), so I just inked up the sepal part before stamping onto my papers, then drew in long stems with a black fineliner pen.

I cut these out and attached them in place over the flower petals then arranged them on the stripy sections and trimmed the bottoms off so they were all flush with the bottom of the card.

To finish off I die-cut some letters from dark grey card and glued them to the side panel.

I would like to enter this in the following challenges:-
 Tuesday Throwdown #332 Things with Wings
Southern Girls  #154 Nature
Artistic Stampers  Springtime
Noor! Designs UK #28 Spring
Love to Craft #8 Anything Goes
 The Crafty Addicts #34 Anything Goes/CAS
Crafting By Designs March Anything Goes
Crafty Hazelnut's Patterned Paper  Anything goes with Patterned Paper 
Classic Design Team Challenge #12 Anything Goes 

Leonie will be back on Hochanda tomorrow (Friday 3rd March) at 9am, 12pm, 4pm and 7pm.

You can watch Hochanda live online, Sky channel 663, Freeview 85 or Freesat 817.

Please pop by to my teamies' blogs if you get a chance 

Nick Roberts

Jane Royston

Elaine Mellor

Natalie Ellis

Anne Richardson

Diane Ingram

Anne Dimitriou

(Claire and Nicola don't have blogs at the moment)

Thanks for stopping by,

Katrina x