New Home

Hello lovely peeps

Our nephew moved into his first flat last week so I made a new home card for him using this fab Cityscape digi from Oddball Art.

New Home

Hello lovely peeps, I hope you are well.  Apologies for the lack of posts and visiting your own blogs to comment. Between work, gardening and my new crafty addiction (more to come on that soon), I've not had much time left for blogland. 

Today I'm sharing a card I made for my friend to give her son and partner when they moved into their new home.
 

She sent me pictures of the house beforehand and it's so lovely I wanted to move there myself :D 

I decided to do a variation on an easel card I designed a few years ago but designed it specifically to look like their new house.



There is a beautiful stream running past too so I have incorporated that onto the base of the easel.
 

Ingredients:

Tim Holtz (Sizzix) mini tattered florals and garden greens dies

Cheery Lynn fence die

various scraps of paper

LOTV circle sentiment stamp

wadding for the chimney smoke

watercolour card and grey paint for the windows/door

I would like to enter this in the following challenges:-
Pixie's Snippets Playground #400

Through The Craft Room Door - AG

Aud Sentiments Challenge #272 AG & a sentiment

Crafty Hazelnut's Patterned Paper  AG with Patterned Paper

Thanks for stopping by, stay safe
Katrina x

New Home for Leonie

Hello lovely peeps, I hope you are well.

Thank you to everyone who has sent me well wishes over the last several weeks while I have been recovering from my elbow operation. Progress has been slower than I'd thought but I have to keep hoping I will recover the strength in my arm. I had a follow-up with the surgeon last week and he thinks I may have nerve and/or muscle damage so I am waiting for some tests (not sure I want to know the results ;D )

Anyway, I'm still managing to do a bit of crafting so that is keeping my spirits up :D
Here is the second card that I made for the launch of Leonie's new stencils/masks and stamps last week.

First I inked up part of a stamp from the 'Flower Burst' stamp set with black memento ink and stamped it in the centre of a 5"x5" card blank

I then drew in the 'snail' body with Ice Grey 5 Promarker and coloured in the shell with Tan, Cinnamon and Walnut

To do the wording I masked off individual letters on the stencils and stamped through the aperture with the scribbly circles stamp (from the same set)

Tip: draw a horizontal line in pencil along the bottom of the card to help line the letters up

I did one letter at a time and drew in outlines with a fineliner pen, using the stencil as guide.

To write Home I used the o,m, and e from the Memories stencil and H from Laugh

and for 'new' I used the n and e from Imagine and an upside down m from Memories

To finish the snail I added tiny black pearls for his eyes and stamped the dotty squiggle for his slime trail (with added Clear Overlay Sparkle pen)

And there he goes, off to his new home

I would like to enter this in the following challenges:-
Addicted to Stamps and More #216 Anything Goes
Simply Papercraft  #38 AG always
That's Crafty! Challenge Blog clean and simple
Artistic Stampers  Patterns
Happy Little Stampers (Mixed Media)  nature
Noor! Designs UK #23 CAS OR FULLY LOADED
Squirrels Not-So-Random Challenge #2 one colour
Glitter n Sparkle #210 AG

Thanks for stopping by,

Katrina x

A New Home

Hello Peeps.

Hope you are well :)

Just sharing this house-shaped easel card, my second July card for the LOTV Design Collective.

The papers are all from the Heartfelt 8x8 paper pad and the 

sentiment is from the For You Circular Sentiments stamp set, both Lili of the Valley.

The stepping stones and chimney are cut from grey Bazill card.

I also used a die-sire die for the grass (Icicles), an old flower punch

and the Woodland Branch die from Memory Box

The chimney smoke is cotton wool.

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

613 Avenue Create - Anything Goes
Crafting From The Heart - Anything Goes
Craft your passion - Anything Goes
TTCRD - Anything Goes
Crafting by designs -  August Anything Goes
Crafts Galore - Use a stamp or Digi Anywhere on your Project
Crafting by designs (monthly) - Anything Goes in July
Craftyhazelnuts Patterned Paper Challenge - July
Simon Says Stamp - Anything Goes

 I'm off to the bat cave now to do some last minute makes for the summer fayre tomorrow.
Thanks for stopping by,
Katrina x