Uplifting

An 'uplifting' card today, using my favourite colour combo (yellow, pink and orange) to bring you a bit of sunshine on this horrible rainy day.
 

Despite all the showers today there was enough light for photos so I did a little step by step.

Wedding Hanging for Leonie

Hello lovely peeps

I've got another make from the archives to show you today, made with Leonie Pujol's Off She Flew set and the Flights of Fancy Background

This is the top of the box

and here's the little hanging inside

To do the purple heart panels I tried a bit of kiss stamping - where you ink up one stamp with another.
I inked the solid heart from Off She Flew with Versamark and inked the Flights of Fancy Background with Black Memento, then pressed the background stamp onto the heart.

After stamping the heart onto some ivory patterned paper I then dabbed on some purple chalk.

and die-cut it into a circle.

Next I stamped the background again onto some ivory card and rubbed over with the chalk. 

This was die-cut into a slightly larger circle to sit underneath the first one.

A die-cut circle of the same size from plain ivory card was used as a backing - I glued some pale purple organza ribbon in between the two larger circles.  

After I had done four of these I made eight flowers with a Tim Holtz Tattered Floral punch, more ivory card and some stamens. I inked the edges of the petals with Tattered Rose Distress Ink.

For the butterflies I stamped one of the images from the Flight to Freedom set onto white shrink plastic with black Stazon ink, then cut them out and heated to shrink.

For the panels on the hanging I stamped some of the word chains from Clarity Stamp, and the 'With Love' for the box lid was from Leonie's Off She Flew set

I'll be back in a few days with another oldie, but in the meantime don't forget to enter my giveaway if you'd like to win these goodies :o)

Thanks for stopping by,

Katrina x

Double Pleated Card

Hello lovely peeps

 It was Kristi's turn to bring an idea to our craft club last Thursday and we did double pleated cards. Once you get your head around them they are quite straightforward to make and I think they look very elegant.

Mine was made with double-sided papers from the A4 'Butterfly' pad by Prima and a loop of dotty organza ribbon. The circle sentiment was a magazine freebie stamp from Lili of the Valley.

I would like to enter this in the following challenges:-
Crafty Ribbons Facebook challenge
Fab 'n' Funky #334 Must use Ribbon
Crafty Hazelnut's Patterned Paper  Anything goes with Patterned Paper
Noor! Designs UK #26 Anything Goes
Crafty Creations #333 Anything Goes (always) 

Thanks for stopping by,

Katrina x

Brusho Butterfly

Hello lovely peeps

It will be my turn to demo something at our craft club in December and I've chosen Brushos to play with. I've been making up some quick cards cards to take along as samples and show what effects you can get.

I started this card by stamping an IndigoBlu butterfly onto watercolour card with Black Archival ink then painted over it with Pebeo Drawing Gum. I sprinkled Sandstone Brusho powder around the butterfly and spritzed it with water.

Once the card was dry I rubbed off the drawing gum then sprinkled Vermillion, Lime Green and Dark Brown Brushos onto my craft mat and added water to them to make paint. I coloured in the wings and body of the butterfly with these.

I made some dots by dripping some Ranger Enamel Accents

and some Tonic Nuvo drops onto acetate

and left them overnight to dry. I liked the idea of doing them this way because it doesn't ruin your whole project if you muck them up, plus you can do loads in one go.

I have two tips to pass on :-

1. don't do them too close together
- they merge into each other, as you can see in the second column

and 2. don't put Ranger Enamel Dots onto acetate
 - they stuck to it like concrete and wouldn't come off in one piece :D

So after doing some more Enamel Dots onto the leftover backing sheet from 3D foam squares I was ready to stick them onto my project with Cosmic Shimmer glue. I've finished off with some red organza ribbon and a stamped sentiment (Woodware)

I would like to enter this in the following challenges:-
Crafty Ribbons #173 Animal magic..with ribbon or lace
The Ribbon Girls OCTOBER ANY IMAGE 
Fussy and Fancy #175 Shades of Autumn
Penny Black and More Autumn
The Pencil Case #31 Anything Goes
Dream Valley Challenges # 143 one for the girls
Really Reasonable Ribbon #151 Orange you glad it's Autumn 
Simon Says Stamp (Wed) Anything Goes
Stamplorations CAS AG/option of black

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

And now for something completely different ...

Hello peeps, hope you are well.

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A bit of a departure from my usual style today - I thought I'd have a go at a 'mixed media' card. 

For the background I started off with a paper from the 'Buff' paper pad by Prima/Julie Nutting. 

I went around the edges with Vintage Photo, Victorian Velvet and Shabby Shutters Distress Inks and then I dabbed some more ink through the 'Bubble' stencil by Clarity Stamp to create the dots.
Once it was dry, I stamped and embossed the floral stamp (from the 'Nature I' set by Indigo Blu) with Versamark & white embossing powder.

In the top right corner I spread some texture paste through the 'Butterfly Tree' stencil by Clarity Stamp (I'd masked off the tree part) and then sprinkled on fine white glitter. After leaving it overnight to dry I then splattered on a little bit of watered down paint around the edges of the card. 

To make the trio of toppers I cut squares of paper from the 'Butterfly' paper pad by Prima/Jodie Lee and edged them with DI before matting them onto some mesh. The butterflies (Papermania) are stamped and embossed onto acetate with Versamark/white embossing powder, then cut out. I folded the wings over and put PVA glue on the 'body' part to attach them to the paper squares.

The Happy Birthday (Stamps Away) was done with brown Stazon because it's stamped over the top of glossy embossing powder.

I would like to enter this in the following challenges:-
Sweet Stampin - Emboss it
Allsorts Challenge Blog  - Sparkle
Little Red Wagon - Try Something New (first time doing paint splats, also new paper pads)
We Love 2 Create - #19 Anything Mixed Media/Creative/Inky Goes
In The Pink - For a Friend
 Polka Doodles -Shabby Chic
Crafty Friends - #14 Starting with B
Scrap & Craft Inspiration - Butterflies
613 Avenue Create - Anything Goes
Hiding In My Craft Room - #217 Freestyle
Crafting From The Heart - #78 Anything Goes
Craft your passion - #280 Anything Goes
Creative Craft Cottage -#48 Anything Goes
Crafty Girls Creations - #4 Anything Goes
Crafts Galore - Anything Goes!
Crafting by designs - Anything Goes in September

Before I go, I wanted to share some fab news with you. 

I have been invited to appear as a Guest Designer for the next two challenges over at A Gem of a Challenge. I feel very honoured that they have chosen me (not to mention thrilled to bits). My first outing will be this Saturday 26th Sept, so watch this space!