Special Birthday

Hello lovely peeps, I hope you are all well. 

We had a beautiful bank holiday weekend here in Somerset, I was so glad to see the sun after such a wet May. I had my second covid jab last Wednesday too, so all in all a fantastic week.
 

I made this card for a friend who turned 60 last week, using the 'Watercolour Poppy' stamp set from Inkylicious. I stamped with black Archival ink and coloured with watercolour paints.

Other Ingredients:

Pink Frog Watercolour Card

Large Birthday Sentiments (LOTV) 

A5 landscape card blank (Anna Marie)

I would like to enter my card in the following challenges:-
 Little Red Wagon #603 Say it with flowers

Stamping Sensations Beautiful blooms

We love Chocolate Baroque Bright sunny colours

As You Like It Challenge Favourite colouring medium - at the moment it's watercolour paint as you can get a lovely colour blend very easily

Thanks for stopping by, stay safe
Katrina x

Cheerful Mother's Day

This is the card that I made for my lovely Mum for Mother's Day here in the UK today. I'm so looking forward to seeing her again when lockdown is over.
   

 I got my inspiration for this card from Cindy Beach at Stamps, Paper and Ink but I did mine with stamping rather than stencilling. I just love the cheerful colours.

Watercolour die cuts

Hello lovely peeps, I hope you are well.

My craft room has been in a right mess for the last year and I keep trying to tidy it up - but then get distracted by finding something I'd forgotten I had, lol.  This time it was some spellbinder flower dies that I'd never used, so I thought I'd have a little play.  

After cutting one out of watercolour card I painted it with distress ink dabbed onto my craft mat.

I used the swirly end of the thank you die as 'ribbon' to give the impression of tying the stems together.

   

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

Scrapping 4 Fun #179 Thanks/Thanksgiving

Dies R Us Challenge #156 give thanks (spellbinders)

STAMPlorations CAS Challenge 

Thanks for stopping by, stay safe
Katrina x

Rose Vases for Craftascope

Hello lovely peeps, I hope you are well.

The lovely Nick Roberts is on Hochanda TV again today with a new collection of Craftascope stamps, dies and stencils. I've been having a play with the stamps, which he has designed in memory of his Nan.

Using the Lady Marjorie stamp set, coloured with Distress Inks onto watercolour card.
Triskaidecagon die used to trace the shape of the vase.

Special Auntie

Hello lovely peeps

I've got a tri-fold to share with you today that I made for a commission. I'd been dying to use the Large Birthday Sentiments* from Lili of the Valley with some flowers and I'm quite pleased with how this turned out.

Brusho Poppies

Hello lovely peeps and welcome to my new follower :o)

For today's card I've used the Poppy Paint Fusion stamps by Sheena Douglass.

Three of Something

Hello lovely peeps

There's a new challenge today at Crafty Calendar and the theme this month is 'Three of Something' - I've used 3 buttons and 3 patterned papers.

Red Squirrel

Hello lovely peeps

One last card with the fabulous new watercolour images from Lili of the Valley - this is Red Squirrel.

Daisy the Cow

Hello lovely peeps

Another of the fabulous new watercolour digis from Lili of the Valley for you today, this is Daisy the Cow. Isn't she just stunning? I fell in love with her at first sight.

Vintage Rosie Posy

Hello lovely peeps

As it's Throwback Tuesday I'm taking a quick break from showing you the new watercolour images and instead I've got another card using the rubber version of Rosie Posy from Lili of the Valley.

Daffodils and Catkins

Hello lovely peeps

Just popping in quickly to show you a card I made with 'Daffodils' from Lili of the Valley. You can still get it as a digi stamp here but I have used the rubber version.

Fast and Fabulous on Throwback Tuesday

Hello lovely peeps

Today's Throwback Tuesday card features Some 'Two-Step Stampin' stamps called 'Fast and Fabulous' from Stampin' Up, which I think are from 2011/2012?

Floral Sympathy Card

Hello lovely peeps, and welcome to my two new followers.

This was a hard card to make because I wanted it to be perfect (which of course it isn't). One of my work colleagues lost her 14 year old daughter and everyone at work is heartbroken for her family.  This is the card I made for us all to sign.

7 Today for Leonie

Hello lovely peeps, and welcome to my two new email followers :o)

I'm continuing through my trawl of samples for Leonie that I never got around to blogging. This hanging was made with the Zentangle stamps from her first collection last year.

For the background I stamped some flowers from Tangled Tails onto circles of white card using 3 different inks:-
 Encore Ultimate Metallic 'Honeydew'
Fabriko 'Burgundy'
Brilliance 'Pearlescent Orchid'

The '7' and 'today' were cut on my CraftRobo from thin white card and I stamped all over the shapes with one of the flowers using Black Memento ink. I coloured around the flowers with Rose Pink Promarker before gluing them to their backgrounds.

I backed each circle onto a slightly larger pink scalloped circle and glued them back to back with pink organza ribbon sandwiched in between

I added a frame front and back using some 'Catalina Wreath' die-cuts (Memory Box) which I coloured with the Honeydew ink. The little flowers are pink sweetheart blossoms from Wild Orchid Crafts - I twirled their wire stems around my pokey tool.



   The piece is finished off with adhesive pink/green/clear gems

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

Country View Crafts' Challenge Flower power

Classic Design Team Challenge #14 Anything Goes

Thanks for stopping by,

Katrina x

Flower Wreath for Polkadoodles

Hello lovely peeps

For todays make I used some of the gorgeous pre-coloured flowers on the Magic Garden CD from Polkadoodles.

 I started off with one of the wreaths that I made from birch twigs 18 months ago

I printed off lots of flowers from the CD and cut them out with my Craft Robo. I shaped each one with a ball tool and poked holes in the centres before layering them up two at a time with mini black brads.

It was a bit awkward trying to arrange the flowers on the wreath as they kept falling off, so I cut a rough outline of the wreath out of black paper

Once I was happy with the layout I started glueing them all on with a hot glue gun.

 Once that was done I wanted something to hang in the middle, so I picked one of the fab chalkboard sentiments on the CD.

I printed it off twice and cut them out (it's a nice easy shape to cut). I attached some fine thread in between the two layers which was then tied around the top of the wreath.

It's finished off with a loop of pink satin ribbon to hang it up with and a couple of pieces knotted around the wreath itself.

I would like to enter this in the following challenges:-
Everybody-Art-Challenge #368 - Flowers
 Shopping Our Stash #251 - April Showers Bring May Flowers
 Deep Ocean Challenge #128: "Flowers everywhere
Going Grey With Scrap-Creations Spring/Flowers 
  Live & Love Crafts Challenge  #47 Blossoms &/or Butterflies 
Quirky Crafts #5 April Showers bring Quirky May Flowers

I'll be blogging a Leonie card over the weekend but if you're a Polkadoodles fan then make sure to come back and visit on Monday for a very special post

Thanks for stopping by today,

Katrina x

Watercolour Meadow

Hello peeps, hope you had a lovely weekend.

It's a beautiful sunny day here in Somerset so I thought I'd show you a bright cheerful card. 

This was so simple to make but I love the effect, I got the idea from an old stamp brochure. I coaxed some wood mounted flower stamps out of hiding (these are all Hero Arts) and Distress Ink pads in various colours. 

Just ink up the stamp and then spritz it a couple of times with a fine mist of water before stamping onto watercolour card.  Spritz again without re-inking to get even more of a watercolour effect.  

I've finished off with a Crafters Companion butterfly (inked and spritzed using the same technique) and a Stamps Away sentiment stamped in black Memento. The doodled black border makes the colours pop a bit more.

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

 Stamping Sensations - Anything goes
THE PENCIL CASE  M = More than one
Simon Says Stamp (Wed) - One Layer!
 Suzy Bee's Bloomin' Challenge #117 Anything goes with a twist: sentimental
 Craft your passion - #299 Anything Goes
 TTCRD - Anything Goes (always) 9Feb
ABC Challenge - B is for B (Bright)
 Cardz 4 Galz 15 - Fantastic Florals

Thanks for stopping by,

Katrina x