Flowerfly Wishes

Hello lovely peeps

A really quick card for you today using the lovely Flowerfly stamp from Stampendous.

Sister Tag

Hello lovely peeps

Today's make is a tag using the Perfect Partners Victorian Floral Anemone stamps from Sheena Douglass.

A Little Bit Floral on Throwback Tuesday

Hello lovely peeps

Today's card features one of the Lily stamps from the 'A Little Bit Floral' range by Sheena Douglass.

Say Cheese

Hello lovely peeps

Just a quick post today to show you the birthday card that I made for my nephew.

Ingredients
Mankind 6x6 paper pad from Trimcraft
Say Cheese cling stamp from Stampendous 
Daler Rowney watercolour paper
Black Archival Inkpad
Spectrum Aqua markers Olive, Blossom, Desert, Tan, Black
Black card
MFT Mini Film Strip
Brush lowercase alphabet dies by Debi Potter

01 Micron Black Fineliner by Sakura

I would like to enter this in the following challenges:-
 Crafter's Cafe #179 Black, white & 1 other colour
Animal Friends Challenge  #53 sports/hobbies
Dragonfly Dreams  Animals
Craft Rocket Challenges #40 Animal Kingdom
Colour Crazy Challenge #33 Anything Goes
SSS Work it wednesday  STAMPtember

Thanks for stopping by,

Katrina x

Funky Tree for Leonie

Hello lovely peeps, hope you have had a great weekend.

This is another of the samples I did for Leonie's Typography launch show, using the small script letters and the beautiful tree from the Funky Tree stamp set.

First I stamped the tree onto watercolour card with Versamark and sprinkled on clear embossing powder before heat setting

I scribbled some green Spectrum Aqua markers (Evergreen, Sea Green, Bud Green and Meadow) onto a white tile and coloured in the foliage with a wet paintbrush.

To get the colours for the tree trunk I scribbled the same greens onto my tile again and mixed each one with Begonia Aqua marker to get 4 different browns.

I cut down my card and inked around the edge with Vintage Photo Distress Ink, before roughening the edges with my scissors. I also flicked some of the ink at the card to give me some splats.

For the backing I drew around my topper onto the back of some old cardboard packaging and tore along the lines. I flicked some more Vintage Photo ink onto the front corrugated bit.

To do the letters I inked up some thin white card and cut it up to place over the small script sections of the letter dies.

This didn't give me quite the depth of colour I wanted so I pressed my ink pad directly over the top of all the letters again

I've finished the card off with white twine and a button before mounting it onto a Kraft card blank.

I would like to enter this in the following challenges:-
We Love 2 Create #5 Anything Creative/Mixed Media Goes
Crafty Cardmakers #183 Go Green
Simply Create Too #125 Lots of green
Creatalicious Challenges #110 - Anything Goes with optional Lots of green
Penny Black and More  Anything Goes
Stamping Sensations Close to nature
Happy Little Stampers (Watercolour)  AG option of smoosh
SSS Work it wednesday green

Thanks for stopping by,

Katrina x

Icy Hugs for LOTV

Hello lovely peeps, I hope you are well.

It's the start of a new challenge today on the Lili of the Valley Facebook page and in honour of Remembrance Day we have this lovely colour palette for you to follow.
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 Your make must include a Lili of the Valley image and at least one of the colours from the palette. Easy peasy! There are 3 prizes on offer and the winners will be drawn at random from all the entries;
1st - £20 LOTV voucher
2nd - £15 LOTV voucher
3rd - £10 LOTV voucher

For my inspiration card I have used Icy Hugs and two of the Christmas Sentiment Tag stamps

To start off I stamped Icy Hugs onto Sheena's stamping card with Black Archival Ink and then coloured it with Spectrum Aqua markers.
  
Rather than colouring the image directly with the pens, I scribbled the pens onto a white tile and picked up the colour with a small paintbrush.

I did the shadows and skin first (Charcoal and Peach)

 

then added the rest of the colours:
Her dress: Desert
Her hat/scarf: Begonia
His hat/jumper: Slate
His scarf/gloves/trousers: Navy

(I did add some Begonia directly onto the card for the darkest areas of red since the colour wasn't intense enough otherwise).

I layered up the finished image onto a 6"x6" card blank with 'Frosted Winter' papers from Trimcraft and a bit of cheesecloth. The snowflakes and Christmas trees were die-cut from white card (Joy crafts and Sizzix dies)

As a finishing touch I added some Glamour Dust glitter to the ice

and Ranger Enamel Dots in the corners

 I would like to enter this in the following challenges:-
Allsorts #387 - Let's make a start on Christmas
Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas #305 Anything Goes
Holly Jolly Christmas Challenge #84 trees
Noor! Designs UK #24 Winter
One Crazy Stamper fall/winter fun
Art Impressions Stamp Challenge   #196 prepare for Christmas
Winter Wonderland Frosty or Well wrapped Up 
Simon Says Stamp (Wed) Anything Goes
Deep Ocean Challenge #141 Use die-cuts or punches
Live & Love Crafts Challenge #53 White Christmas 

Thanks for stopping by,

Katrina x

Flying Free for Leonie

Hello lovely peeps

I've got another Leonie make to show you today, using some of the stamps that were launched on 18th May



I stamped several of the butterflies onto Sheena's stamping card, masking with sticky notes as I went.
They were then coloured in with Spectrum Aqua pens
Peacock Blue and Evergreen
Sunset,  Sunflower and Topaz
Boulder for the bodies

After colouring I painted Pebeo drawing gum over the top to protect the colours.
I made my own spritzer by soaking a piece of kitchen towel in Peacock Blue aquamarker and placing it into a spritzer bottle with water.
 

I spritzed all over my card and made some little inky puddles on my craft mat with a green aquamarker and clear wink of stella which I flicked all over the card with a wet paintbrush before drying with a heat gun

I cut the card down but left some wing tips poking out over the edges

I matted it on top of some white card which was embossed with a Crafters Companion Hessian folder before I tore the edges.

I stamped and coloured a few extra butterflies onto lightweight watercolour card and cut them out for decoupaging on top, and then wrapped cheesecloth around the card so it looks like they're escaping from a butterfly net. 

The whole thing is mounted onto a 7x7 card blank and then to finish off I stamped 'Free' with black memento ink and added some clear dew drops

I would like to enter this in the following challenges:-
 Simon Says Stamp (Wed) Mask It
Double D Challenges PEACH/CORAL & BLUES!
Southern Girls Layers
Little Claire's #69 Butterflies
The Corrosive Challenges #6 Lots of layers
Stamping Sensations  Feature a creature
Sparkles Forum Challenges # 80 Animal Magic
Crafty Catz #328 - Add a Butterfly
The Ribbon Girls June any card
Make My Monday - Photo Inspiration

Before I go, I'm excited to tell you that Leonie is launching some brand new dies and stamps this Wednesday evening on Hochanda at 8pm, with further shows on Thursday (9th June) at 9am, 12pm, 4pm and 7pm. I'll be posting some of my samples here while the shows are on.

Hope you can join me again soon,
Katrina x

The Birds for Leonie

Hello lovely peeps and thank you for visiting today, it's means a lot to me.
First off I'd like to welcome my new follower, I'm thrilled to have you here :)

I've got another sample to show you from Leonie's launch show last night.
This time I've used the bird stamp from the Just Be set

To make my background I scribbled Bud Green, Sunflower and Rose Pink Spectrum Aqua pens onto watercolour card, spritzed it with water and dried with a heat gun.

Then I stamped the bird with black archival ink, covering with post-it masks as I went

Once I had covered my piece of card I coloured a few of the birds in with the same pens.

It just needed trimming down a little then to fit into my frame.



I would like to enter this in the following challenges:-
613 Avenue Create  #176 Anything goes
Colour Your World with Lacy Sunshine Anything Goes
Lil Patch of Crafty Friends  #34 Anything Goes
Lemon Shortbread #15 Anything Goes (Always)
Eclectic Ellapu - Anything Goes

My lovely teamies Jane,  Elaine and Nick have some more samples to show you over on their blogs today too and Leonie has more TV shows at 9, 12, 4 and 7 o'clock.

I'll be back again later with one more Leonie make, I hope you can visit again,

Katrina x