Ahoy

Hello lovely peeps, I hope you are well.

For today's card I've used the Gorjuss girl stamp 'Piracy', coloured with Copic markers. Her hands are behind her back on this one but I wanted her to be holding the sentiment so I used the hands from another Gorjuss girl stamp. 

The papers are from the 'Land Ho' collection by Nitwit.

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

Incy Wincy Designs - girls, girls girls

Crafty Hazelnut's Patterned Paper  Anything goes with Patterned Paper

Through The Craft Room Door - Always Anything Goes

Crafty Calendar Anything Goes

Thanks for stopping by, stay safe
Katrina x

Retirement card

Hello lovely peeps, hope you are well.

A really quick post to show you a retirement card I made with a free stamp from Making Cards magazine, coloured with promarkers. I like to personalise my cards wherever possible so here I coloured the cat to match my friend's siamese.

I would like to enter this in the following challenges:-
Passion For Promarkers Challenge  #553 girl power 
Pixie's Snippets Playground #383
Show us Your Pussies-Cat Only Challenge #56 Furrything Goes
Rabisco Challenge  AG with haberdashery item

Thanks for stopping by, stay safe
Katrina x

Floral sneakers

Hello lovely peeps

Just popping in to share the card I made for a 15th birthday.

Cherry on top

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

Taking a break from the Large Sentiment stamps today to show you the birthday card I made for my sister using Cream Cake from Lili of the Valley.

Coffee with no lines colouring

Hello lovely peeps

This pretty young lady was previously released as a digi stamp at Lili of the Valley and is now available in rubber as part of the 'So Lovely' stamp set.

Dom and Emma Get Married

Hello lovely peeps

Another commission to show you today - a wedding card using Brett and Brenda Get Married from Stamping Bella, coloured to match the bridal party.

Brown the Deer for LOTV

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

For today's card I've used one of the new felt patterns from Lili of the Valley, but instead of using the templates to cut out fabric I've done paper piecing with them.

Bunnies In Love

Hello lovely peeps

I've got a commissioned anniversary card to share with you today, using Bunnies in Love from Lili of the Valley which you can still get as a digi stamp.

Ink Smooshing with Purrfect Digi Stamps

Hello lovely peeps

This is another one of the cards I had published in Creative Stamping magazine, made with the Purrfect set from Simply Sweet Stamps.

Sweet Birthday on Throwback Tuesday

Hello lovely peeps and welcome to my new follower :o)

Today's oldie is from the Micey Day set by Penny Black from 2009. coloured with Distress Markers.

Hello Lovely for LOTV

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

Just popping in to tell you about Lili of the Valley's Facebook challenge for December - it's Anything Goes this month, so nice and easy.

For my inspiration card I've used Thoroughly Modern Misses - January with a winter birthday theme.

It's Christmoose

Hello lovely peeps

It's the first Saturday of the month (aargh, it's December already) so it's time for a new challenge over at Crafty Calendar. Our theme this month is "It's Christmas".

We have two fab sponsors this month:- 

Crafty Ribbons

and 

Bugaboo Stamps 

For my inspiration card I've used Moose Ornaments from Bugaboo, which I printed onto Simply the Best card from Limetree Crafts and coloured with Promarkers/Flexmarkers (with a couple of Graph'Its/Marvy markers thrown in).

To turn the picture into a bauble I die-cut it into a circle and then cut out the cap and hook shape* from a scrap of yellow card. I edged both pieces with Antique Linen distress ink and added a green organza bow. 

* (I enlarged the 'red' bauble on my computer until it was the same size as my die-cut circle, printed it onto thin paper and cut it out to make a template)

Other ingredients:-

computer sentiment using Troutkings font

Cookin Cookies papers from Nitwit

Sizzix holly die

standard 2 hole punch

white uni-ball gel pen

red card

3D foam

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

 The Ribbon Girls Any image
Catch The Bug  merry and bright
Fab 'n' Funky #373 Christmas
Crafting By Designs December Anything Goes
Penny's Paper-Crafty Challenge Blog #357 Anything Goes 

Thanks for stopping by,

Katrina x

Snowball Fight

Hello lovely peeps

For today's card I've used one of the old LOTV art pad images featuring Jack, Patch and Puss.

Emma Shoes on Throwback Tuesday

Hello lovely peeps

I'm back with another one of the first Lili of the Valley stamps that I bought, to tie in with the Retro challenge on the LOTV Facebook page . 

Bunnies Post Box for LOTV on New Release Day

Hello lovely peeps

Hooray! It's release day - the lovely new Lili of the Valley Christmas stamps are available now on the website, with some special prices for 48 hours.

For my final inspiration card I have used Bunnies Post Box.
Aren't they sweet with their armfuls of cards?

After printing the digi version off onto Super Smooth 250gsm card, I die-cut the card using a large Sizzix tag die, then coloured the image in with Promarkers (named) and Graph'Its (numbers)
fur: ivory, sandstone, caramel
snow: ice grey 1-3
post box: poppy, crimson
tree: forest green, bright green, 8250
blue scarf: cool aqua, duck egg
tree:  caramel, 3250
robin: sandstone, caramel, poppy 

The tree looked a bit odd ending  an inch from the top of my tag, so I extended it a bit by adding a pencil line

then colouring it in with my markers and finishing off with a black fineliner pen

The bottom half of my 6x6 card is covered with white card embossed with a snow texture embossing folder and the top half is a paper from the retired Twas the Night 8x8 pad (now available in digi format at Nitwit Collections)

To make the card for my stars I dabbed some Faded Jeans and Tumbled Glass Distress Inks onto my craft mat and spritzed with water before dragging some Sheena Stamping Card through it. I dried with a heat tool and repeated a few times to get some texture.

I edged the stars with Pumice Stone Distress Ink, added little white pearls and then arranged them with some die-cut snowflakes around the tag. The sentiment was stamped with words from the Christmas Wishes clear set (now available as digis)

I would like to enter this in the following challenges:-
Simon Says Stamp (Wed) We're seeing stars
The Ribbon Girls July any image 
C.R.A.F.T. #425 Christmas
Cut it Up #126 Christmas in July
Craft-Dee BowZ  CDB51 Anything Goes with a Handmade Bow
Christmas at Sweet Stampin' - Anything Goes
As You Like It Challenge pearls or gems and why - pearls - I'm not really a bling person so I prefer the matt finish of pearls, they are more subtle

Thanks for stopping by, I hope you will join me again tomorrow for Throwback Tuesday :o)

Katrina x

Flamingo Shaker Card

Hello lovely peeps

I'm back with the second shaker card that I started at cardmaking club on Thursday.

This was as far as I got initially :o)

The flamingo die was from a Chinese seller on ebay and I used it to cut an aperture in one of the papers in the First Edition Paradise Crush 8x8 paper pad.  I backed it with acetate and cut a slightly larger mat of a matching paper to frame it. It looked a bit busy with the pattern behind the aperture so I added a rectangle of white card before adding 2 layers of foam tape and pink sequins.

I picked out some more of the gorgeous papers to layer up a 7x7" card and cut flowers out of one of them to use as embellishments.

There are a couple of other papers in the pad that have butterflies and flamingos on, so I cut some of those out too. To match the lovely turquoise colour around the flamingo I cut some Bonnets and Bowties Solids paper with a Memory Box 'Tropical Leaf' die.

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

Allsorts #419 2 or more dies
Quirky Crafts #4 Quirky things with wings
Animal Friends Challenge  #51 animal with wings
Crafty Animals  #3 Anything Goes
Crafty Awesomeness Anything goes always opt shaker
Little Red Wagon #397 Move It
Glitter n Sparkle #243 Bright Colours
 Creative Inspirations #276 Your favourite things (First Edition papers)

Thanks for stopping by,

Katrina x

Patch and Puss shaker card

Hello lovely peeps, I hope you are having a great weekend.

The lovely Evelin was our hostess for the evening at cardmaking club on Thursday and we made shaker cards.

I had printed several papers from the Perfect Pair collection by Nitwit onto 250gsm card stock so I used a scalloped circle die to cut an aperture in one of them. I taped a square of acetate behind this and then stamped on one of the Tiny Phrases greetings by Woodware with Black Memento ink.

Next I layered up a 7x7" card with a couple more of the Nitwit papers and cut flowers from a third design to use as embellishments.

The image behind is from one of the retired Lili of the Valley Art Pads called Jack, Patch & Puss. After putting a double layer of foam tape all the way around the image I added sequins from my stash and some pink Stix2 beads into the 'well' before placing the acetate frame over the top.

I started on a second card after our cake interval (chocolate, yummy) but I didn't get to finish it so I'll show you that one later in the week after it's completed.

I would like to enter this in the following challenges:-
 Crafty Awesomeness Anything goes opt shaker
Little Red Wagon #397 Move It
A Gem of a Challenge #16 Wedding or Anniversary
Crafty Animals  #3 Anything Goes
Sparkles Forum Challenges # 92 Four or more legs (animals)

Thanks for stopping by,

Katrina x

Patchwork Balloons for LOTV

Hello lovely peeps, and a very warm welcome to my 2 new followers.

The theme for this month's challenge at Lili of the Valley is 'Summer'. To enter you just need to make something with a LOTV image and add it to their Facebook page here.

For my inspiration card I've used a retired stamp called Patchwork Bunch of Balloons.

To make life easier for a change I picked my papers out before colouring my image. They are from the Butterfly Kisses paper pad (still available as digi papers at Nitwit)

I went around the edges with my stab and stitch tool

then drew in stitches with a pencil (Lyra Rembrandt)

For the trees at the bottom of the card I die-cut some stitched circles and then with the leftover scraps I cut little tree trunks and coloured them with a brown pen.

Next I stamped the Patchwork Balloons image onto watercolour card with Black Archival ink and coloured it in with Distress Markers before cutting it out
pumice stone
picked raspberry
worn lipstick

I stamped just the balloon part of the image onto more watercolour card

then coloured them in and cut them out (I used mowed lawn for the green highlights)
For the '50' balloon I stamped numbers from the Stitched Alphabet set (also retired) and added little strings with a black fineliner pen.

For the background behind the bear I cut a circle of white card and embossed it with the 8x8 Die'sire Embossalicious folder 'Clouds'

The card is finished off with a double bow of organza ribbon and some sweetheart blossom flowers from Wild Orchid Crafts (the sentiment is from Handwritten Phrases by LOTV)

I would like to enter this in the following challenges:-
In The Pink #120 Embossing
Crafty Catz #372 Anything Goes option summertime
Crafty Friends Challenge #59 make it pink
Tuesday Throwdown #345 stitching
Deep Ocean Challenge #156 Bingo (flowers, stripes, stitching)
Cardz 4 Galz # 48 Inspired by a song (Up, up and away)
Craft-Dee BowZ  CDB50 Anything Goes with a Handmade Bow (always)
Incy Wincy Designs - Anything Goes
The Ribbon Girls June any card

Before I go, have you entered my 300th post giveaway yet? The prize includes the fabulous Jasmine Shopping stamp from Lili of the Valley. 
Click on the picture below to find out how to enter :o)



Thanks for stopping by,

Katrina x

Happy Birthday Challenge at LOTV

Hello lovely peeps, I hope you are enjoying the weekend.
Will today be the day I get my 100th follower I wonder? :o)

Lili of the Valley are celebrating their 13th birthday on the 10th of May, so the theme for this month's Challenge is Birthdays. This is the inspiration card that I've made, featuring the Simply Print image 'Bunny Blooms'  

The pre-coloured image comes with daffodils but I wanted something pink, so I cut the bunny and stems out so I could attach my own flowers.

For the background I took a paper from the Romance and Roses paper pad (discontinued, but available as a download from Nitwit), roughened the edges with my scissors and then inked the edges with Picked Raspberry distress ink.

This was attached to a 6x6 card blank and I added some grass which I'd die-cut from another paper in the pad using the Die'sire Icicle die. I glued Bunny down onto the card and then attached some pink sweetheart blossoms from WOC at the end of the stems using blobs of Collall 3D glue gel.

The sentiment was stamped onto white card using one of the 'Happy Circular Sentiments' from LOTV and cut out - I used the second impression as it went better with the soft colours.

The card is finished off with a pink organza bow and some clouds die-cut from white card.

I would like to enter this in the following challenges:-
Shopping Our Stash #301 fussy cut
The Ribbon Girls May - any card
As You Like It Challenge favourite die (the Icicle die which I always use for grass, it's so useful. And you get two uses out of one cut as the negative works just as well as the positive)

Thanks for stopping by,

Katrina x

Sail-ebrate

Hello lovely peeps, I hope you are well.

Just popping in to show you a quick CAS card I made for my Uncle in the USA.

I wanted to keep the card light to minimise postage costs, so I created a one layer card using CraftArtist.  I pulled in a few elements from the Coastal Collection by Nitwit - I've got a mini version which came with Complete Cardmaking Magazine Issue 49.

I resized and arranged everything in a little group and added drop shadows to everything so it looks 3D - doesn't it look realistic?

Hope you'll pop in to see me again soon,

Katrina x