Birthday snippets

Hello lovely peeps, I hope you are well.
 

I am delighted to say that I am a Guest Designer for the lovely Di over at Pixie's Snippets Playground for the next fortnight. 

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

Two Quarters

Hello lovely peeps and Happy Easter to you.

 I'm delighted to say that I'm a Guest Designer over at AAA Cards for their latest challenge. 
 

They've got a new theme this time, which is 'Two Quarters' 



and I chose to follow the optional twist of 'Rainbow'.

Anniversary Pigs

Hello lovely peeps and welcome to my new followers.

I'm thrilled to be a Guest Designer over at Addicted to Stamps today for their latest challenge.

 

The theme for the next two weeks is 'Any Occasion'

Sleeping Dragon

Hello lovely peeps, I hope you are well.

 

I am delighted to say that I am a Guest Designer over at Rabisco Challenge for the next fortnight, thank you so much ladies for having me.

Dinomite

Morning lovely peeps, I hope you are all well.

Today's post is my second as Guest Designer for Pink Gem. The challenge this fortnight is
'Spots and or Stripes'

The prize as always is 
2 Individual Digi images
(NO SETS, PERSONALIZED WATERMARKS OR SENTIMENT SETS)
of the winners choice from PINKGEM DESIGNS

This little fella is Dino Dinosaur.
Isn't he cute? I've coloured him in with Graph'It markers

The 'dinomite' die-cut was created with my Craft Robo - I typed the letters using Caslon Oldface font and welded them together with the software before cutting it out from black card. I've hand-drawn little spirals in place of the dots over the i's to match Dino's nostrils :D

I've also used:-

 'hope your birthday' sentiment from Lili of the Valley

background papers from Nitwit
buttons from my stash.

I would like to enter this in the following challenges:- 
Pile It On  #89 123 (1 image, 2 papers, 3 buttons) 
Cardz4guys #91 Button It!
Crafty Sentiments Designs - Anything Goes
Papertake Weekly - Anything Goes
Fan-Tastic Tuesday - #106 anything goes with a twist ... use two patterned papers
Die Cuttin' Diva - October Sketch (diecut dinomite)
 Polka Doodles - Use a Die Cut
Crafting by designs - Anything Goes
Creative Inspirations #330 Stars and / or Stripes!
Little Red Wagon #310 - It's All About The Boys
Digi Choosday - Use Something New (new digi stamp)
Going Grey - Birthday
Simply Papercrafts #15 Anything Goes
Lil Patch of Crafty Friends - #19 Anything Goes
 Little Miss Muffet - #122 - Anything Goes

As you like it - Monochrome or Colour (& why) - I love colour , whether it's bright or subtle. I can spend ages picking out just the right combination for a project.

Please visit A Gem of a Challenge to see the creations from the rest of the wonderful team.
Thanks for stopping by today,
Katrina x

Autumn Owl for Pink Gem Designs

Hello everyone, and welcome to my new followers.

Well, days don't get much better than this. I've been watching some Formula 1 action over breakfast, I'm meeting my wonderful Mum and Sister at Exeter craft show AND today is my first outing as a Guest Designer for Pink Gem Designs.

Thank you so much for inviting me peeps :)
 Our challenge for the next fortnight at A Gem of a Challenge is Autumn and this is my 'inspiration' card.

and inside

I've used the digistamp Ollie on Branch from Pink Gem Designs, which they very generously gave me. You get the design as a JPEG and a PNG, in both the black/white AND coloured versions.

I brought the coloured PNG version into Craft Artist and used a background from the Aviary English Garden digikit (stretched and recoloured). I made a copy of Ollie and then flipped and shrank him a bit. I wanted the small one to sit on top of the bigger one so I removed the branch part of the image with the Erase Tool, then it was just a case of manoeuvring him into position. I then copied them both and flipped them to get the pair on the right hand side. The sentiment was done with the 'Adolpho' font.

For the front of the card I die cut a circle in some Basic Grey paper and then dry embossed it using the Wood Grain folder from We R Memory Keepers. Because my paper was A5 and the folder is only 6x6" I had to run it through twice - I've used raffia to hide the join.

The leaves were cut from various papers in my stash using a Cuttlebug die and attached with silicon glue.

Please pop over to A Gem of a Challenge to see more inspiration from the very talented team.

I would like to enter this in the following challenges:-
Pile It On  #87 Colour Combination  
Fan-Tastic Tuesday #104 anything goes with a twist ... colour me autumn
Tuesday Throwdown  #263 Colour challenge
Creative Inspirations - Something sweet
Fab'n'Funky challenge #274 Cute Critters and/or Christmas
Little Red Wagon - Happy Fall Y'All
Addicted to Stamps - Autumn
Deep Ocean #113 Autumn
Clear It Out - Autumn - use leaves/foliage
Little Claire's - Autumn

Thanks for popping by,
Katrina x