Ittle Bitty Birthday

Hello lovely peeps,

Just popping in to show you the card I made for my goddaughters little girl who has just turned one.

The main image is an old stamp by Lili of the Valley, called Baby with Teddy. I stamped in black archival ink onto watercolour paper and then coloured in with Tim Holtz distress markers.

Sunday Papers

Hello lovely peeps, I hope you are well.
 

Today's card features one of the Simply Prints from Lili of the Valley that was on their mega bundle, it's called 'Sunday Papers'. 

Perfect Stripes

Hello lovely peeps

Before I tell you about my card, a heads up for my fellow Lili of the Valley fans. 

They have an amazing 18th birthday offer on. You can download ALL of their 1,432 digi stamps for £49.99 !!

There's also an offer on the Simply Prints - download all 959 for £39.99

(extra £10 to get either of them sent to you on a USB stick)

Be quick if you want these, half of the stock has gone in 4 days -  click here to see the offers

This is a slimline card that I made for my Uncle's birthday with Perfect Stripes by Lili of the Valley (I've used the clear stamp but he's still available in digi format).

Racing Green

Hello lovely peeps
 

The men in flat caps from Lili of the Valley are my favourite images to use for men's cards and I was delighted when I managed to get hold of the clear stamp versions of their latest release.

I stamped the 'Racing Green' image onto watercolour card with grey memento ink and coloured in with distress markers, using some water to draw out the colour. 

Country Gent

Hello lovely peeps
 

For today's card I've used one of the old Lili of the Valley art pad images. They're great for when you don't have time to colour in.

Lucky Cats

Hello lovely peeps and welcome to my new email follower.
  

Today's card was made with the 'Lucky Cats' stamp from Lili of the Valley which I stamped in grey memento onto Pink Frog watercolour card and then watercoloured using distress inks 

(black soot, hickory smoke, rusty hinge, weathered wood and mowed grass)

The sentiment is also from Lili of the Valley (Block Sentiments).


I would like to enter my card in the following challenges:-

Show us Your Pussycats Challenge #67 Furrything Goes

As You Like It Challenge CAS or fully fancy - I once found a little shop in Bath that sold fabulous cards in a CAS style and I loved the fact that a card could be so great with so little on it.  With all the gorgeous stamps you can buy nowadays it's easy to create something simple but eyecatching.

Little Red Wagon #605 Make it CAS

Alphabet Challenge E is for easy simple card

Colour Crazy Challenge #23 AG

Thanks for stopping by, stay safe
Katrina x

May Calendar Page

Just popping in to share the 'May' page I made for my calendar. I printed it off in March and stamped the image but I've only just had the chance to colour it in.
 

I used an old LOTV stamp called 'Watering Can' which doesn't seem to be available as a digi stamp in their shop, but you can get the Simply Print version 

Archie's 1st Birthday

This is the second card I made for my god-daughter's little boy Archie (after I made his giraffe card into a framed picture).
 

I used an old 'Baby with Teddy' stamp from Lili of the Valley, stamped onto watercolour paper and coloured with distress inks.  You can still get him as a digi here - and I've just seen that there's 50% off most of the items in store for the next couple of days so it's the perfect time to get him if you want. 

Calendar page for April

I've finished another page of my handmade calendar, this time with an Easter theme.

 

The image is 'Hoppy Easter' from Lili of the Valley - a digi which I printed straight onto the card before I cut it down. I increased the brightness before printing so the lines were fainter.

Calendar Page

I didn't remember to get a calendar before Christmas and with stationery shops still shut I decided this week to make a start on doing my own.
 

I did the bottom half in Excel and printed onto 240gsm white card (two months to an A4 sheet).

Rocker card

Today's card is one I've repurposed - I'd made it back in 2016 when I was on the Polkadoodles DT but I'd never got around to using it (you can see the original card here).

 

I replaced the stamp topper with a pre-coloured image from an old LOTV art pad (you can still get digital versions of their art pad images from their Etsy shop)

Snappy Birthday

A quick post from me today to show you a card made with the 'Watch the Birdie' digi stamp from Lili of the Valley.
 

I coloured him in with Copic markers and cut him out (he has a little birdie on top of his head but I chopped it off)

Deer Mum

Hello lovely peeps, I hope you all had a good Christmas.

So it turns out that I haven't shown you all my Christmas cards - I posted this one without taking a photo of the finished card, so I had to wait until I visited my Mum  :D

Baby’s First Christmas

Hello lovely peeps, I hope you are well.

Today I'm sharing the Christmas card I made for my goddaughter's son (my god-grandson if there was such a thing :D )

Sledging Penguin

Hello lovely peeps, I hope you are well.

Another penguin for you today - this is Frosty Fun, an old rubber stamp from Lili of the Valley.

He's coloured in with Promarkers:

Scarf: Tea Green, Soft Green, Crimson, Burgundy 

Penguin Body: Cool Grey 1-5, Black 

Feet: Apricot, Amber, Burnt Orange 

Sledge: Sandstone, Caramel, Umber 

Little Holly

Hello lovely peeps, I hope you are well.

 

For today's card I've built a wreath with the Berry Branches stamps from Inkylicious. 

I wanted a slightly softer look so I spritzed the stamp after inking for a watercolour effect and used first and second generation stamping. After mucking up a couple of attempts doing it freehand I got out my stamping platform so I could overstamp if the image wasn't clear enough. The 'Merry Christmas' is also from Inkylicious. 

Northern lights

Hello lovely peeps, I hope you are well.
 

So I've made a start on my Christmas cards at last :D

After being inspired by the wonderful watercolour backgrounds created by Tracey Hey at Alpaca Pals I wanted to have a go myself. My Gansai Tambi paints are out on loan so I treated myself to a watercolour travel set. 

There is a nice range of colours but with hindsight I should have gone for larger paint pans because you can't use a large paintbrush without picking up neighbouring colours, which is a bit of a pain if you want large areas of colour.

My first attempt looked really blocky because I painted onto dry watercolour paper. For my second go I wet the paper first, so the colours blend together much better. 

Ingredients:-

Snow Buddies rubber stamp (Lili of the Valley)

Black Versafine ink

Large Christmas Greetings (Lili of the Valley)

Wishes die (Impression Obsession)

Stitched Landscapes die (Memory Box)

Iced Spruce Distress Ink

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

We love Chocolate Baroque Christmas

ABC Christmas Challenge W for Winter Wonderland/X for Xtra Special

Cute card thursday #659 Anything Goes

Tinker- Dream  #btchallenge94 Background

Thanks for stopping by, stay safe
Katrina x

Country Gent

Hello lovely peeps, I hope you are well.

For today's card I've used a sheet from an old Lili of the Valley artpad called 'Vintage Boys', die-cut into a circle. The papers are from the 'New Leaf' collection by First Edition

I would like to enter this in the following challenges:-
As You Like It Challenge Favourite way to add ribbon and why (I love to staple it, a great way of using up tiny scraps)
Crafty Hazelnut's Patterned Paper  Anything goes with Patterned Paper

Allsorts #587 going round in circles

Cardz 4 Guyz #252 explore outdoors

Mojo Monday #544 always a sketch 

Thanks for stopping by, stay safe
Katrina x

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

Present Kitty

Hello lovely peeps, I hope you are well.



For today's card I've used a stamp from Lili of the Valley called 'Present Kitty', coloured with Promarkers.

I would like to enter this in the following challenges:-
Creations in pink #25 Anything Goes mostly pink
Creative Moments #197 Anything Goes opt pretty papers
Passion For Promarkers Challenge  #557 buttons and/or bows
I love Promarkers #417 AG opt use die cut or punch
Papercraft Challenges  #61 animals
Simon Says Stamp (Wed) Anything Goes
My Favourite Things Sketch Challenge #504


Thanks for stopping by, stay safe
Katrina x