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Hello lovely peeps, long time no see. I hope you are well

At long last I have some spare time/energy for crafting again so I'm popping in to share the Valentine's card I've made for hubby, using an old Docrafts stamp set. 

Bunnies In Love

Hello lovely peeps

I've got a commissioned anniversary card to share with you today, using Bunnies in Love from Lili of the Valley which you can still get as a digi stamp.

Thinking of Iris Folding

Hello lovely peeps

I've got an iris folding card to show you today.

I cut an aperture into a 6x6 Kraft card blank using an X-cut nesting heart die and cut three different  papers from my stash into 1.5 cm strips.  I used a standard triangle iris folding pattern to build up the layers behind the aperture, securing each strip with a tape pen.

To finish off I added a sentiment from Visible Image, stamped with Rich Cocoa memento ink.

I would like to enter this in the following challenges:-
Penny's Paper-Crafty Challenge Blog #382 Anything Goes
Craftaholics R Us #22 Gingham

Thanks for stopping by,
Katrina x

Fuzzy Friends for Crafty Calendar

Hello lovely peeps

The theme for this month's challenge at Crafty Calendar is

Shaped Cards

and we are sponsored by SheepSki Designs and Crafty Ribbons.

For my heart shaped card I used Fuzzy Friends from Sheepski Designs, which I coloured with alcohol markers and cut out leaving a small border.

The background papers were from a Cottage Arts digikit called Fall Flutter which I managed to buy before the Daisytrail shop closed it's doors on Monday. The sentiment was stamped using the Woodware Tiny Phrases set and the flower is from The Ribbon Girl.

I realised the teensy flaw in my choice of card shape when I came to take a photo of it, as it wouldn't stand up, lol. I cut a small section from the back of the card base to make it more stable.

I would like to enter this in the following challenges:-
Sheepski Designs #5 Flower Power
Creative Knockouts #205 Furry Friends
Penny's Paper-Crafty Challenge Blog #340 Anything Goes

Thanks for stopping by,

Katrina x

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

Marshmallow texture for Leonie

Hello lovely peeps, and welcome to my new follower - I'm thrilled to have you :)

I'm back with another of the samples using Leonie's new products.

So I started off my card by making a spritzed background.
To make my spray I spooned a tiny bit of Brusho crystals into an empty spritzer bottle, added a bit of water and gave it a good swoosh around. I cut a 6" square of Sheena's Stamping card and sprayed it first with yellow and then orange. The orange pretty much obliterated the yellow but you can still see a bit of it :)

I glued on a strip of natural Sinamay ribbon for some texture and then made a start on the focal point.

I die-cut some pink patterned paper with the 'All the Love' hearts and glued it on with Cosmic Shimmer glue (Note to self: don't use glues that cling on like cement unless you're happy with the design). 

Having decided I didn't like the pink I die-cut some white card instead and then covered it with Versamark ink. I sprinkled on loads of Chunky White Embossing Enamel...

Doesn't that look cool? I'm might have a go at doing this with glue so I can leave it that way. However, as I'd used Versamark I needed to now melt the powder else it would all fall off.

Really pleased with how this looks, it's like melted marshmallow :)

I layered it on top of the pink version and then added a bit of washi tape and a white flower. The sentiment in the corner is from the Funky Texture stamps that are also on the shows, stamped with Black Memento ink.

I would like to enter this in the following challenges:

Crafty Friends Challenge #36 Use your dies
Cardz 4 Galz # 27 No patterned paper

613 Avenue Create  #185 Anything Goes w/Optional Twist:  Colour (white, pink, orange)


 

Leonie is on TV right now (9am) and again at 12pm, 4pm and 7pm, assuming that the stock lasts that long. To watch the shows tune in to HOCHANDA on...

SKY 663 (24/7)

FREEVIEW 39 (6am-9pm)

FREESAT 817 (24/7)

Or online at...
https://www.hochanda.com/

You can get more ideas and inspiration on my teamie's blogs too, so please visit Nick, Jane and Elaine

Thank you for stopping by, I really appreciate all your support and lovely comments.

Katrina x

Love Heart for Leonie

Hello lovely peeps

I've another Leonie make to show you today, using the 'Off She Flew' stamp set

First I stamped the stitchy heart onto red georgette fabric, then turned it over and ironed onto a used tumble drier sheet with interfacing in between.

I stitched over the stitch marks with some silver thread and then cut the heart out.

To make the background I dabbed worn lipstick distress ink onto my craft mat and spritzed it with water before dragging a piece of Sheena's Stamping Card through it.
When it was dry I stamped some of the solid hearts all over with the same ink and then flicked a little rich gold paint at it.

At this point I glued the card onto an MDF heart with Mod Podge and cut off the excess.

To make the border I stamped the tip of the solid heart all the way around the edge using Versamark ink and then sprinkled on'Classic Pewter' embossing powder. I also used the same powder to do the sentiment.

To finish off I added a button and some red organza ribbon.

I would like to enter this in the following challenges:-
Simon Says Stamp (Mon)Monochrome
Craft Rocket Challenges #16 Monochrome
Sweet Stamps Technique Challenge Anything but a card
 Crafting from the Heart #114 Anything Goes (Always)
We Love 2 Create #11 Anything Mixed Media Goes
A Vintage Journey - Sew Special (include fabric)
Sweet Stampin Embossing (and stamping) 

Thanks for stopping by,

Katrina x

With all your Heart for Leonie

Good evening lovely peeps.

Leonie is launching her new stamps this evening on Hochanda TV and they are all gorgeous. I anticipate another sell-out (possibly before the end of the first hour). 

This is my favourite card out of all the ones I made and I was chuffed to bits to find out that it features on the packaging. How fab is that? What a huge honour.

So, here's a little bit about how I made it.  All the stamps I've used are in the Flight to Freedom set.

I wanted a colourful inky background so I dug out my mini Distress Inks (spiced marmalade, mustard seed, worn lipstick) and some glossy card.

To start off I stamped the smallest butterfly all over my card with Versamark ink. I then dabbed my 3 ink pads randomly around my craft mat, spritzed them with water and dragged the card through it to transfer the colour.

Hmm, OK but a teensy bit abstract and I don't like the way the colour has pooled.
So I grabbed a fresh piece of glossy card, spritzed some more water onto my mat and dragged the card through (no butterflies this time)

Much happier with the second one, so I stamped a few hearts along the bottom with worn lipstick and then stamped the sentiment on using Timber Brown Stazon

Next I stamped some butterflies onto super smooth 120gsm paper with Cocoa Memento ink and cut them out.

I've mounted the card panel onto dark brown paper and then onto a 7x7 card and (after 30 minutes arranging and re-arranging, lol) I glued the butterflies on top.

I would like to enter this in the following challenges:-
Through The Craft Room Door - Always Anything Goes
Love to Scrap  #78 Anything Goes
 The Crafty Addicts #15 Anything Goes/Add a Sentiment
Sisterhood of Crafters No designer paper
Creatalicious Challenges #91 - Anything Goes with optional no design paper
Little Claire's #69 Butterflies
Penny Black and More  Anything Goes with Stamping
Stamping Sensations  Anything Goes
Open-Minded Challenges #5 Favourite technique (making inky/spritzed backgrounds)
613 Avenue Create  #176 Anything goes
 Fab 'n' Funky #305 - No Designer Papers
Penny's Paper-Crafty Challenge Blog #278 Anything Goes

Thank you so much for popping by today. I'll be back tomorrow with another of the samples I made with this set. Leonie has more shows at 9am, 12pm, 4pm and 7pm on Hochanda, and my teamies have some fab samples to show you on their blogs.

Jane - Isleofcraftycreations.blogspot.co.uk
Elaine - Cakecoffeecraft.blogspot.co.uk 

  Nick - http://nickinbarnsley.blogspot.co.uk

Katrina x

Butterfly Heart

Hello lovely peeps, hope you are all well.

Before I show you my second LOTV card for May, I'd just like to tell you about the current special offer on their website. There's 15% off selected products, including the Perfect Pair paper pad that I made my door hanger with.

So, onto my card. Sorry the picture is a bit dark, we haven't seen much of the sun here lately!

I covered a 5.25" square card base with a paper from the Antebellum paper pad (which is also included in the offer) then tied some ribbon around the spine of the card.
I used some low-tack tape to temporarily attach a heart die to the front of the card, then filled the space with butterflies. These were cut with another paper from the Antebellum pad and an Impression Obsessions die. I folded each one around my pokey tool and dipped the centres into some PVA glue.

 I stamped 'with love' from the Handwritten Phrases set with Versamark and sprinkled on white embossing powder before heat-setting.

There is a 'for you' tag in the Sentiment Tags set but I decided that the font from the Sentiments to fit scroll set matched better. So I took the 'for you' from the scroll set and stamped it inside the blank tag from the Christmas Sentiment Tags set. I don't half make life difficult for myself sometimes :D

Well, that's all from me for now, I'm going to be a good girl and go do my arm exercises.
Katrina x