Last Hurrah for Sugar Nellie Challenge

Hello lovely peeps, I hope you are well.

I had my first physiotherapy session this morning which went very well. No new exercises for my elbow but I have to do the two I've already got a lot more often. He also said I can start using my hand to do little things, so I might have a go at finger painting :D

Sadly the title of my blog post today is not the title of my card, but is due to the fact that the Sugar Nellie blog challenge is ending.

Today would have been the start of a new challenge but the co-ordinator has taken the hard decision to close it down. The closing date of the current challenge is a week later than normal to allow people one last chance to get an entry in (now closes 1/9/2016 just before midnight).

The prizes have been doubled so dig out your beloved Gorjuss/Sugar Nellie stamps and ink them up. You can use any stamp/image from Funky Kits -  the home of Sugar Nellie.

For my no-longer-needed inspiration card I've coloured in 'I gave you my heart' with a mix of Promarkers and Graph'Its, and layered it on papers from the 'Vintage Charm' 12x12 pad from My Minds Eye. I also die-cut some flowers from the papers using Leonie's Floral Bursts mixed media dies. The sentiment is from the Handwritten Phrases set by Lili of the Valley and I've tinted the edges of the papers with Vintage Photo distress ink.

I would like to enter this in the following challenges:-
Crafty Sentiment Designs - Anything Goes
Simon Says Stamp (Wed) It’s Hip To Be Square
Crafty Friends Challenge #38 Anything Goes
Chocolate Baroque Challenge Blog  #26 colour

Thanks for stopping by,

Katrina x

200th post blog candy

Hello lovely peeps and welcome to my 200th blog post :)

That means it's candy time  !!

Well, I've been busy in the 7 months since my 100th post.  I have:

• been one of the runners up in the Card Designer of the Year competition in Simply Cards & Papercraft magazine (coincidentally, the advent calendar on my 100th post was part of my competition entry)
• joined the lovely (and slightly mad) ladies on the Polkadoodles Design Team, thank you girls for making me so welcome
• seen my very first Design Team (Lili of the Valley Design Collective) disbanded which was obviously a sad occasion for me but I'm so grateful to have been on the team and made so many wonderful crafty friends (EDIT - the Design Collective is still going, but with reduced involvement as there is a new core Design Team)  
• been chosen as a member of Leonie Pujol's very first Design Team - I was (and am) chuffed to bits as I have been a fan of Leonie since her QVC days.
• joined the Sugar Nellie Blog Challenge team for a 4-month stint, as well as having Guest Designer spots at Crafting By Designs, All Dressed Up and Color Throwdown

Wow, no wonder the year is going by so quickly :D

And through all this I've had support from you, my fabulous followers. It means so much to have you visit little ol' me, and your wonderful comments really make my day. As a thank you I'm having a huge giveaway worth over £80.

The dies:

Thank you to Craftasmic in Taunton for donating the Cottage Cutz Ice Cream die, and Crafters Companion for the Leonie Pujol dies, two of which are from her latest launch. The heart is especially useful as you can roll up the spiral parts to make 3D flowers.

The Stamps:

There is no packaging included with the 'Off She Flew' stamps but this is a picture of it

The Paper:

This is a full 8x8 paper pad from Lili of the Valley which has been discontinued and includes one of my favourite wood effect paper designs.

The rest:

A few embellishments, including 100 dew drops and a .005 black fineliner pen which I use on practically everything (yours is new and unused!)
I will also include a £5 Polkadoodles gift certificate for the winner

To be in with a chance of winning all you need to do is

1. be a follower of my blog (either a Google follower or an email subscriber),  and 
2. leave me a comment below*
3. IF you add a picture of my candy with a link to this post on your own blog you can add a second comment below to get an extra chance of winning

*If you do not have a Google profile you will not be able to leave a comment directly, so please email your comment to me at 

kernewekkat @ gmail . com 

and I will post your comment in myself - make sure to remove the spaces from the address above when you are typing this in the 'To' section of your email

The draw will close on Sunday 14th August at 9pm BST

Good luck everyone,

Katrina x

Foxy for Sugar Nellie

Hello lovely peeps and welcome to my new followers, I am thrilled to have you here.

It's time for a new challenge at Sugar Nellie, the theme as always is Anything Goes. You could win some fabulous goodies and you just need to make something with a Sugar Nellie image

For my inspiration card I've used the Gorjuss stamp set called The Fox. I love this set - as well as the main adorable image you get two cute little foxes plus some leaves and funky stars.

I stamped the main image onto Joanna Sheen's Elegance Satin card with black Memento ink and coloured her in with Promarkers (Pear Green, Lime Zest, Ice Grey 1-4, Budding Rose) and Graph'its for the skin and hair (sorry, I didn't make a note of them, doh).

I stamped the foxes onto some 'Falling Leaves' paper by Trimcraft/First Edition. After cutting them out I coloured the tails in with a white pen.

My card is layered up with some more papers in the same set, plus a gingham paper from Nitwit (Butterfly Kisses) and a circle of Hunkydory foiled acetate.

Please pop over to the Sugar Nellie blog to see some more inspiration from my fabulous teamies. If you have a Sugar Nellie image why don't you join in the fun this month? :)

I would like to enter this in the following challenges:-
The Ribbon Girls July any image
Crafty Sentiment Designs - Animals
A Gem of a Challenge #174 Animals

Colour Your World with Lacy Sunshine Anything Goes  

Stamping Sensations  Anything Goes with a stamp and ribbon

Thanks for stopping by,

Katrina x

First Birthday for Sugar Nellie

Hello lovely peeps

 It's the start of a new challenge today at Sugar Nellie and I've used the very cute Made with Love digi stamp for my inspiration card.

My cousin's granddaughter is one today and I wasn't sure what to put on her card until I came across this cutie holding a cake with one candle. Obviously it can be used for any birthday or occasion but it seems particularly appropriate for a first birthday.

I've coloured the image in with Promarkers and Graph'Its
Budding Rose, Rose Pink, Almond, Oatmeal, Lemon, 9500, 9501, 9502, 9503

The cupcakes are cut out with Marianne dies and the letters are by Quickutz. I wanted to add my favourite embellishment (buttons) but was worried that Ava might pull them off and put them in her mouth, so I've used a button die instead by Impression Obsessions to cut them from paper.

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

Thanks for stopping by,

Katrina x

Princess for Sugar Nellie

Hello lovely peeps, I hope you are well
 

It's time for a new challenge at the Sugar Nellie blog and as usual it is 'Anything Goes' (so long as you use a Sugar Nellie image)

I have used 'Princess' which is one of the retiring digi stamps.

She's coloured in with a combination of Promarkers and Graph'Its

Dress: Budding Rose, Ice Grey 1, 5210, blender
Skin: 4115, 4155, 4170
Hair: 3210, 3245, 3250

The sentiment and papers are from Lili of the Valley but both retired.

I would like to enter this in the following challenges:-
Addicted to Stamps #127 Lace and Pearls
The Craft Barn 2 Different papers
Passion For Promarkers Challenge #347–Ribbon and/or lace 
I love Promarkers #309 Anything Goes
 Melonheadz Friends Challenge Ribbon, lace or twine
Crafting for all Seasons  #127 Make it girly

Thanks for stopping by,

Katrina x

Off She Flew for Leonie

Hello lovely peeps, hope you are well.

Welcome to my two new followers, I'm thrilled to have you :)

Today's card is using stamps from 3 of Leonie's new stamp sets.

  

First I made my own ink spritzer by colouring a piece of kitchen towel with a Spectrum Aqua pen and placing it into a spritzer bottle with water (a brilliant tip I got from the colourist Sarah Hurley). I think for this card I used 'Evergreen'.

I put a Clarity seedheads stencil on top of a piece of Sheena's white stamping card, spritzed through it then removed the stencil & dried the card with a heat gun.

Next I stamped parts of the 'Flights of Fancy Background' and some butterflies from 'Flight to Freedom' onto tissue paper with black archival ink.

I glued the tissue paper onto my background with Mod Podge and doodled some lines around the edges



Next I stamped up one of the fab sentiments from the 'Off she flew' set onto white card. I wanted to have the lines separated but there is not a lot of space in between the lines on the stamp, so I inked up the sentiment one line at a time by covering the other lines with post-it notes. After stamping one line I cleaned & dried the stamp before inking up the next one.

Once that was done I coloured in a Gorjuss stamp called 'My Own Universe' with Graph-It markers

I stamped butterfly wings onto vellum and attached them to the back of the cut-out image.

I added some Crystal Glamour Dust to her wings for a little touch of bling

The finished piece was then mounted onto a 7x7 white card blank

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

Crafty Sentiment Designs - Something with Wings
Creative Moments #93 Anything Goes w/optional twist Black, white & 1 colour
Country View Crafts' Challenge Use a Stencil
Little Claire's #69 Butterflies
Penny Black and More Anything Goes with Stamping
A Beautiful Mess #2 Anything Goes (Always)

 Glitter n Sparkle #189 Anything Goes
Sisterhood of Crafters No designer paper
Creatalicious Challenges #91 - Anything Goes with optional no design paper
Stamping Sensations  Anything Goes

Thanks for stopping by,

Katrina x

Thanks sew much for Sugar Nellie

Hello lovely peeps

 I'm very excited to announce that I have been invited to be on the Sugar Nellie design team for the next four months. Woo hoo! What an honour, I'm very chuffed :D

I came across some lovely sewing themed papers that were free in issue 147 of Papercraft Inspirations magazine. I've printed them off at twice the size onto 120gsm Super Smooth paper.

So, looking for a character to match the theme, I came across this Gorjuss™ stamp -  'I found My Family in a book' - which I used for my Paperchains card last year. I thought this would work equally well for sewing, so this time I've drawn little stitch marks around the dolls.

She's coloured in with my Graph'It markers and then fussy cut.

To decorate the card I used some buttons from my mahoosive collection, and made some cotton reel embellishments using a stamp from a magazine freebie set. I coloured the card and some white cotton with my markers and wrapped the thread around the reels a few times, leaving the ends free. I tied the threads in a knot to keep them in one place.
 

The letters are stamped with Retro alphabet stamps from My Sentiments Exactly and outlined with a black fineliner pen.

I would like to enter this in the following challenges:-
Penny's Paper-Crafty Challenge Blog #275 Sew Charming (stitching on dolls)
Simply Create Too #107- Use Stitching (real or faux)
 Melonheadz Friends Challenge Pastel colours
The Crazy Challenge #221 Buttons
Cardz 4 Galz # 21 Include a Button or 2 or More
Julia Spiri Challenge #17 Anything Goes with an optional twist of For a Child 

Please pop over to the Sugar Nellie blog to see some fabulous inspiration for this month's challenge.

Thanks for stopping by,

Katrina x

Life's a Beach

Morning peeps, hope you are all well  :D

I have some exciting news this morning. After coming first in the Father's Day/Masculine Challenge at Crafty Boots Challenges back in June with Happy Fathers Day, I was invited to appear as a Guest Designer.
I've made this card for their mid-way challenge reminder today - the theme this fortnight is 'Life's a Beach/Summer Fun'.  I'm so thrilled - please pop over and have a look, and thank you to everyone at Crafty Boots for the opportunity.

I've used an old stamp called Rockpool Fun! by Sugar Nellie, which has been coloured in with Graph'It markers and Pastel Beige/Khaki Promarkers for the rocks.

The background paper is from the Antebellum 8x8 Paper Pad from Lili of the Valley.

I've overstamped it with 'Starfish Sentiment' stamp by My Sentiments Exactly in Butterscotch Adirondack.

I drew the crab shape myself and cut it out of coral coloured card, then inked the edges with Ripe Persimmon distress ink. The jellyfish body is cut from turquoise card using an old magazine template for icecream. The edges are inked up with Evergreen Bough d.i. and I've attached strings of 'pearls' for it's tentacles.

 

I've finished off with jute cord, white sinamay ribbon/mesh and buttons from my stash. The sentiment stamps are by Woodware and Debbie Moore.

I would like to enter this in the following challenges:-
Sugar Bowl - Anything Goes

Quirky Crafts Challenges - Go Fishing

Top Tip Tuesday - Ribbon and Pearls

Country View - Summertime

Sparkles Monthly Challenges - Sun, Sea and Sand
613 Avenue Create - Anything Goes w/optional use black, white and your favorite color

Papertake Weekly - Anything Goes  w/optional torn edges
Penny's Paper-Crafty Challenge Blog - A card for a child, or featuring a child
Allsorts Challenge Blog  - Inspired By Summer 
The Ribbon Girl - Any Image, Anything Goes
Incy Wincy Designs - Sun, Sea and Sand

Thank you for stopping by. Please leave me a comment if you can, it really makes my day.

Katrina x