A little birdie

Hello lovely peeps

Just popping in to show you the card I made for a friend's 70th birthday. She's not the kind of person who would want the age on her card though so don't tell anyone 😉

Sketchy Flowers on Throwback Tuesday

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

This week's Throwback Tuesday features some old scribbly flower stamps by Artemio. There's no date on the packet, but they were on QVC when Dawn Bibby was still presenting so they're donkey's years old :0)

Holly Wreath for Leonie

Hello lovely peeps

Our Leonie is on the telly box again today with her fabulous Christmas dies, stamps and embossing folders. The shows are at 8am, 12pm and 4pm on Hochanda.

This is the second card that I made for the shows, using the 'Softly Falling' embossing folder and some of the stamps (if you missed my first card 'Christmas Kisses' click here to see it)

First I made the background by embossing a 7"x7" piece of card

I made sure the folder edge was hanging off the edge of the sandwich before running it through the machine - to make sure I didn't get a line down the middle of the card



After the first pass I turned the card around so I could emboss the rest of it.

It matches up pretty well

This left just one un-embossed area in the bottom right corner which by happy coincidence is where I want to put part of my greeting later :o)

Next I made a topper by die-cutting a large circle from Sheena's Stamping card and stamping the small row of houses from the Welcome Home set in Black Archival Ink.

I made a sticky-note mask to cover the houses up and then stamped some trees around and behind the houses.

To colour them in I used my Gansai Tambi watercolour paints and a tiny paintbrush

These paints are so lush, but it's only the second time I've used them so I had to make a colour chart beforehand to see which colours I wanted.

I also used them to colour in some holly leaves that I'd stamped up from the Perch stamp set onto watercolour card. I ended up using three different shades of green as it looked a bit 'samey' having them all in one colour.

I added a bit of Clear Overlay sparkle pen for the snow and chimney smoke and left it to dry

then added blobs of Pinflair 3D Glue Gel around the edge of my topper

to stick all of the holly leaves to.

There's a lovely sparkle from the pen once it's dried.

I finished off with a sentiment from the Christmas Greetings set, stamped onto white card.

I would like to enter this in the following challenges:-
Deep Ocean Challenge #159 Christmas in July
Inky Chicks #85 Christmas
Creative Craft Cottages Challenges #91 Christmas in July
Sparkles Forum Challenges # 93 Embossing
Retarte  #101 Christmas in July
Get Creative Challenges #60 CAS 
My Time to Craft #349 Christmas in July
Happy Little Stampers (Christmas) option die cuts

Thanks for stopping by,

Katrina x

Robin gift bag

Hello lovely peeps.

I found a lovely card on Pinterest by Minna0402 and it inspired me to do something similar with some kraft paper bags that I bought last month for decorating.

First I stamped the snowbird (Stampendous) onto Kraft card with Black Archival Ink and coloured it in with my new Gansai Tambi paints

I used some Artemio stamps and Timber Brown Stazon to add some interest around the edges

and then splattered on white acrylic paint to make it look snowy.
I attached a snowflake charm (Dovecraft) by wrapping white twine around and then matted and layered onto a Kraft bag with red and white card

It's finished off with a Christmassy red bow and some white pine sprig die-cuts (Impression Obsession)

I would like to enter this in the following challenges:-
Simon Says Stamp (Wed) Christmas to die for
Crafty Ribbons #177 Christmas..with ribbon
Creative Corner Winter
Penny Black and More Christmas
Live & Love Crafts Challenge #53 White Christmas
Noor! Designs UK #24 Winter
A Snowflakes Promise  #33 AG/optional theme seasons
Sweet Stampers #1 Christmas
Open-Minded Challenges #11Christmas/Hannukah 
Sparkles Forum Challenges # 86 Christmas is coming

Thanks for stopping by,

Katrina x