Otterly Cute

Hello lovely peeps, I hope you are well.
 

I only have 2 Lawn Fawn stamp sets (😢) so it's not often that I'm able to follow the theme of their challenge. This time it is a sketch though - yippee! - so I've had a go.  

The sentiment in the 'Otterly Great' stamp set is over two lines, so to get it to match the sketch I had to do a bit of masking to get it all along one line - I ended up using my stamping platform after a couple of failed attempts to do it freehand.

Deer to Me

Hello lovely peeps

I didn't expect to do a second post today but as I was making this card I realized that the MFT challenge that I wanted to enter it in was about to close :o)

Bird Crazy after Crete

Hello lovely peeps

Apologies for missing Throwback Tuesday this week - hubby and I have been in Crete on holiday and I wasn't able to get enough posts ready before we went.

We had a smashing time. The hotel was fab and the weather was gorgeous - about 34 degrees most days.

In a Spin on Throwback Tuesday

Hello lovely peeps

This week's unblogged card features Leonie Pujol's In a Spin die.

First I used it to cut the outline in white card and glued this onto a cream textured card blank.

I cut the same shape from several different papers in the 'New Leaf' First Edition pad by Trimcraft and saved all the 'innie' bits [I saved the outlines for other projects, but there is no need to cut the whole design from each paper - you could use up all your little scraps of paper instead].

I glued the innie bits inside the gaps, with all parts of each circle having the same pattern.
  

The Best Wishes sentiment is from Leonie's Flight to Freedom stamp set, which I just stamped onto a circle of matching card.

Thanks for stopping by,

Katrina x

Christmouse Pudding for LOTV

Hello lovely peeps

 A sneaky peek for you today, and a reminder that you still have a week left to enter this month's Lili of the Valley Facebook Challenge 'Feature a Creature'.

This cutie is called Christmouse Pudding and is being released by Lili of the Valley later this month along with lots of other fantastic Christmas images.

I've very kindly been given the digi to play with, so first I printed the image onto smooth white card at 42% of original size (so it matches the size of the rubber version), then I coloured it with Promarkers/Flexmarkers and Graph'Its

I dug a few different papers from my stash to co-ordinate with the topper, and edged each of them with Vintage Photo Distress Ink after cutting to size.
grey, pink - First Edition Christmas Promise 12"x12" pad
brown - Dovecraft Back to Basics Modern 8"x8" pad
green - Dovecraft Back to Basics Vintage 8"x8" pad

For the sentiment I used one of the clear stamps in the Happy Circular Sentiments set and coloured it to match the topper. As an extra embellishment I printed off just the holly part of Christmouse Pudding - a little bit larger at 66% of original size - then coloured it in and fussy cut it.

To finish off I added some white Ranger Enamel Dots in the corner. The doodles around the edge of the topper were done by hand with a black fineliner pen.

I would like to enter this in the following challenges:-
Sweet Stampin  Christmas in July
Dragonfly Journeys #96 Christmas in July
Deep Ocean Challenge #159 Christmas in July
Creative Moments #122 Anything Goes, option of Christmas in July

Thanks for stopping by, I hope you will join me again on Tuesday when I'll have a Leonie Pujol sample to share with you.

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

Have a hoot and an apology

Hello lovely peeps, and welcome to my new follower :0)

Sorry for the sporadic blog posts in the last couple of weeks, my elbow continues to be dodgy so I've not been able to do much crafting apart from doing my DT cards.

Since I don't have anything new to show you yet, I've had a trawl through my computer for cards that I never got around to blogging. This one is relatively recent and was made in the February session of our card club. The lovely Heather was our hostess and she brought along lots of owl toppers for us to play with, including some fabulous foiled owl wrapping paper.

I cut one of the wrapping paper owls out and layered him up on a 6x6 card with 'New Leaf' papers from Trimcraft/First Edition and some foliage cut with the dies I got from China via Ebay (link here).

The sentiment was stamped in black using a clear Woodware stamp and I drew the speech bubble in by hand before cutting it out.

I would like to enter this in the following challenges:-
Crafty Friends Challenge #55 Animals or birds

I'll be back at the weekend with a card I made for Leonie, so I hope you can join me then,

Katrina x

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

New LOTV Trio - Squirrel Presents

Hello lovely peeps

This is the card I showed you a sneaky peek of on Friday, using one of the super-cute stamps being released at Lili of the Valley on Friday 16th - Squirrel Presents Trio.

I coloured him in with Promarkers and Graph'Its then cut him out with an X-cut circle die. I've layered him up on a kraft card 6"x6" blank, decorated with papers from the 'Falling Leaves' 8x8 pad by First Edition. The sentiment is part of a new stamp that is also being released next week.

I would like to enter this in the following challenges:-
 Sweet Stampin Animals
Passion For Promarkers Challenge  #375 use dies/punches
Animal Friends Challenge  #45 Anything Goes with an animal
SSS Work it wednesday  use dies
Craft Your Passion #341 Anything Goes
Colour Crazy Challenge #28 Anything Goes
Crafting By Designs (monthly) December Anything Goes
Sweet Stampers #2 Anything Goes

Thanks for stopping by,

Katrina x