James Beer

Hello lovely peeps, I hope you are well.

Today's card features the 'James Cheers' stamp from Lili of the Valley, coloured with Copic markers and arranged with scraps of Nitwit papers. For the 'buttons' I punched circles from little snippets of matching paper and shaped them with a ball tool.

I would like to enter this in the following challenges:-
Pixie's Snippets Playground #385
Allsorts #587 going round in circles
Crafty Hazelnut's Patterned Paper  Anything goes with Patterned Paper
Simon Says Stamp (Wed) Anything Goes
Creative Fingers #191 Anything Goes

Thanks for stopping by, stay safe
Katrina x

Technology mad Mum

Hello lovely peeps

A commission to share with you today - my friend's Mum is into all the latest igadgets so I dug out James Laptop from my stash of stamps. I used the rubber version but you can get him as a digi in the Lili of the Valley Etsy shop here.

Sending Hugs

Hello lovely peeps, I hope you are well and not suffering from one of the many bugs doing the rounds at the moment.

I just love these new Large Birthday Sentiments from Lili of the Valley  (can you tell, lol). Today I've used them with white embossing powder on Kraft card.

Less is More GDT

Hello lovely peeps

I am thrilled to say that I am appearing as a Guest Designer for the next fortnight over at Less is More. They are one of my favourite challenge blogs and provide fabulous inspiration for CAS cards (which I am still trying to get the hang of).

The challenge this time is to make a One Layer Card with a Holiday theme.

To start off I printed the digi version of 'James Balancing Act' half way across a piece of A4 card (left margin 15.5cm, top margin 12cm). After folding it in half I cut it down to make a 5"x7" card.

I coloured him in with Copics
Fur: E50, E51, E53, E23, E25, E59
Hat: R32, R35, R29, R89
Present: G21, YG63, G94
Ground: N0, N1, N3
Outline: BG0000

The greeting is from the Large Christmas Greetings set (LOTV) and I stamped a few snowflakes over the top with third generation Faded Jeans distress ink (snowflakes from the Inkydoodles Christmas Ornaments stamp set)

I would like to enter this in the following challenges:-
Cardz 4 Guyz #208 Christmas critters
Happy Little Stampers (Christmas) optional CAS
Copic UK Official FB Group  Anything Goes with optional Christmas
Simon Says Stamp (Wed) Baby it's cold outside
Cute card thursday #557 festive colours
Addicted to Stamps and More #319 CAS
 Crafting By Designs Something sweet

Thanks for stopping by,
Katrina x

James Bear on Mothering Sunday

Hello lovely peeps

Just popping to show you the Mother's Day card that I made for my Mum using James Daisy from Lili of the Valley. He's not available any more in rubber but you can get him as a digi here.

Countdown to Candy

Hello lovely peeps, welcome to my 100th post. Yay!

To celebrate this momentous occasion (!) I will be posting some blog candy this evening, so don't forget to come back later.

But first, here is today's post.
This is the advent calendar I made for a recent competition entry.

I started off with a cardboard box that I saved from when I bought some LOTV Art Pads.

I painted it all over with some white gesso and then covered it with some decorative papers (all edged with Frayed Burlap DI).

There was already a slot in the base, so I cut a 'tab' into another piece of cardboard for the upright.

I coloured in the adorable 'James in the snow' stamp (from Lili of the Valley, retired) with my Promarkers and fussy cut around him.  

Fur: Pastel beige, Khaki, Umber

Hat: Ice Grey1 , Ice Grey 2,  9100 (Graph'It)

To make the flip calendar I cut rectangles of card, covered them with co-ordinating papers and added numbers that were cut with a QuickKutz alphabet die. I used my Cinch to punch holes along the top of each 'page' and bind it.

I added some ribbon (from my stash) and tumble drier sheet for texture

To create the flower I dabbed Versamark ink onto some old skeleton leaves and covered them with white embossing powder.

 I glued the flip calendar onto the background board to make it more stable.

Then I realised that it would no longer fit into the base for storage. Oops.

I would like to enter this in the following challenges:-
Suzy Bee's Bloomin' Challenge #110: anything goes with a twist ... add some buttons
Just Keep on Creating Anything Goes
Pile It On  #98 - Anything Christmas/Winter
Digi Choosday #49 Christmas Decor
Crafting by designs - HERE COME THE HOLIDAYS
 Artistic Stamper Christmas
Crafty Friends #20 Christmas
Addicted to Stamps #115 Christmas
We Love 2 Create - #25 Anything Mixed Media/Creative Goes
Try it on Tuesday - Snowflakes/Snow
Deep Ocean #119 Anything Goes
Inky Chicks #60 - MERRY CHRISTMAS
Crafting by designs (monthly) - Anything Goes in December
Not Just Cards #27 Anything Goes
World Wide Open Design Team Challenge #6 Anything Goes
Stamping Sensations - Anything goes with a stamp and ribbon

See you again later,

Katrina x

Lili of the Valley Christmas Offer

Evenin' all :D

There's a HUGE 25% off all Christmas goodies on the Lili of the Valley website at the moment.

I've made a little card to show some of the lovely items on offer.

Start by sprinkling some Shabby White frantage powder around the edges of some kraft card and heat from underneath to melt. Scrape the card edges with your scissors to roughen them up and attach to a 7" x 7" white base card.

Cut some panels from the Krafty Christmas Paper Pad and roughen the edges of those too. Layer them up on your card with snowflakes cut from white card. I used an All Occasions triple snowflake die for the smaller ones. The large one was a magazine freebie.

Stamp James -Snow Angel onto white card with black Memento ink and colour in with alcohol pens.
I used Graph'Its 3150 & 0000 for his fur, 9400 & 9401 for his hat/coat/boots. Also Promarkers Ice Grey 1 and Ice Grey 3 for the scarf and snow.

Stamp a couple of tags from the Christmas Sentiment Tags set onto white card and cut out.
 Colour the edges of the topper with Frayed Burlap distress ink then attach the two tags with brads.
Layer it up on the base card with mesh and buttons.

Challenges:-
Crafting by Designs - June Anything Goes
The Ribbon Girl - Animals
Loves Rubberstamps - Spots and Dots


I'm off to a craft show tomorrow and will be meeting one of my LOTV Teamies. Super excited!

Hope you enjoy your weekend,
Katrina x

He loves me ...

Morning peeps, some exciting news today!

To tie in with the Summer Special Day at their shop on Saturday, Lili of the Valley are running a challenge on their Facebook page. It will run til Thursday and has the theme of 'Summer'.
There's fab prizes on offer, why not have a go?

I've made my first Design Collective card for June on the Summer theme. Daisies look so pretty growing in the lawn during the summer and who hasn't tried this fun little test on their first young romance?

 


I started off by colouring in the lovely 'James - Daisy' stamp with Graph'It markers

I layered this onto a paper from the 'Always and Forever - Solids' Paper Pad

Then I wrapped some ribbon around one of the papers in the 'Country Meadow' paper pad and stuck it to my base card (7" x 7"). I ended up having to twist them because I'd attached them the wrong way round, but by happy accident it looks much better this way!

For the daisy petals I printed off the words on my computer and drew petal shapes around them before cutting out. I shaped them a little before attaching with silicone glue

The flowers are made with more Country Meadow papers and a punch, with white glitter dots for the centres.

Well, let's hope this will encourage the summer weather to arrive soon!

I'm entering this into the following challenges:-
Creative Inspirations - Pastel Shades
Simon Says Stamp - Anything goes
Cute Card Thursday - Too cute
A gem of a challenge - Flowers
As you like it - Favourite Decade/Period in life - My favourite period was childhood summers - long sunny days playing in the garden, country walks, visits to the beach and, of course, icecream!

Hope you have a lovely day everyone,
Katrina x