Robots Rule for Leonie

Hello lovely peeps

Here's the last of the cards I made for Leonie's Typography launch - I saved the fun one til last :)

To do the robot's head and body I stamped some of the frames from the Banners and Frames set. They were a bit too wide for what I wanted so I stamped off the edge of the card and stamped the extra ends on.

I used Versamark ink with Pewter embossing powder on two different shades of grey card

For the robot legs and arms I embossed the legs from the Ragdoll stamp set and cut them out. Because the stamps are polymer they are easy to bend.

I attached the arms and legs at the back with tape

and then glued the robot onto layers of  paper from the Wild at Heart 8x8 pad by Trimcraft. There's a little circle in the Banners and Frames set that I used for the eyes, and I used one of the buttons in the Ragdoll set for the 'screws'

To do the lettering I covered some card with black embossing powder and heated it

then cut it up and placed it over the relevant letters on the Typography dies before running through my Ebosser.

I finished off with some gears that I die-cut using the 'Cogs and Gears' dies from Sara's Just For Men collection.

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

Southern Girls 156 Use die-cut
One Crazy Stamper  Anything Goes
World Wide Open Design Team Challenge 20 Anything Goes
Penny's Paper-Crafty Challenge Blog #322 Anything Goes
Love to Scrap  #95 - Anything Goes

Thanks for stopping by,

Katrina x

Ragdoll Photos for Leonie

Hello lovely peeps, and welcome to my two new email subscribers xx

I'm popping in with another card made with Leonie's new Typography collection, this time using the stamps and one of the embossing folders.

The 'smile' folder in the Keep Shining set gave me the idea to do some photo style toppers using the sweet little Rag Doll stamp.

So that I could build some scenes behind her, I first made a mask by stamping her onto paper and cutting her out. I put some Zig 2-way glue on the back and let it dry so it became repositionable (it goes on blue and is permanent until it dries clear)

Next I stamped Rag Doll onto some smooth white stamping card with Black Memento ink and covered her over with the hand-made mask.

I added a fence by repeat stamping with one of the Banners and Frames

then covered the fence with a scrap of paper and stamped the Funky Tree behind

After removing the masks I coloured my scene in with Promarkers and a couple of Graph'Its

For the next 'photo' I stamped the top of the Funky Tree around her and drew in straight lines with a black fineliner pen to make flower stems.

To make the photo frames I cut rectangles of card with my paper trimmer and then die-cut square apertures with one of my Nellie Snellen Multi Frame Dies

I attached the photos to the frames with double sided tape at the back and then backed them with an extra layer of card to give them strength.

To make the tag I started with a rectangle of card and ran it through my Ebosser machine with the Smile embossing folder, which I had inked up with Butterscotch Adirondack ink and a brayer.

The first one came out patchy as the ink pooled a bit on the plastic folder, so I did it again but first brayered some Versamark over the inside of the folder before brayering over the Butterscotch. This gave a much smoother coverage.

I inked up a corner of one of the frames and stamped round the edges of my tag, filling in any gaps with a black fineliner pen.

For embellishments I made up some lollipop flowers to match the central photo. I coloured circles of card with the alcohol markers and glued black wires on the back with Collall 3D Glue Gel
(I left these to dry for an hour before handling them)

I layered everything up on a 7"x7" white card blank with some First Edition papers (New Leaf and Boho Chic) and Green Sugar Sprinkles ribbon from The Ribbon Girl

I would like to enter this in the following challenges:-
 Addicted to Stamps and More #232 Make your mark
The Ribbon Girls March any card
Craft-Dee BowZ  CDB47 Anything Goes with a Handmade Bow (always)
Dream Valley Challenges # 151 Lots of layers
Deep Ocean Challenge #150 Dots and/or Stripes
Crafty Gals Corner # 113 polka dots and/or stripes
Colour Crazy Challenge #9 Anything Goes
Penny's Paper-Crafty Challenge Blog #319 Anything Goes
Classic Design Team Challenge #12 Anything Goes

Thanks for stopping by,

Katrina x