Mother's Day Wildflowers

Morning everyone and welcome to my three new followers.

 

With one week to go until Mother's Day here in the UK I thought I'd better get on and show a couple more cards that I made for the occasion.

Sleeping Dragon

Hello lovely peeps, I hope you are well.

 

I am delighted to say that I am a Guest Designer over at Rabisco Challenge for the next fortnight, thank you so much ladies for having me.

Aged to Perfection

Hello lovely peeps, I hope you are well.

 

I found a printed paper in my stash this week which reminded me of the rings you get from a coffee cup/wine glass. Luckily I'd written on the back since I didn't have the foggiest idea where it was from (a free CraftArtist kit called 'Mexican wave').

Leafy Spelling

Hello lovely peeps, I hope you are well.
 

Just popping in to show you the card I made for my Mum's birthday.

I covered an A5 landscape card blank with a paper from the Rose Garden paper pack (First Edition) and then cut lots of foliage from Falling Leaves papers (again, First Edition).

After a bit of judicious snipping I arranged the various sprigs to spell Mum and attached them to a strip of vellum with dabs of Cosmic Shimmer glue. This was then attached to the card by only adding glue where it was hidden by the lettering.

For finishing touches I added some knotted organza ribbon, a computer sentiment and tiny flowers made with Tim Holtz tattered florals thinlits and little gems.

 

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

Penny's Paper-Crafty Challenge Blog #485  Anything Goes using paper 

Rabisco Challenge  Anything Goes with haberdashery item 

Crafty Calendar Anything Goes

Cut it Up #213 For a woman/girl with a die-cut

Through the Purple Haze #173 tic tac toe (top row)

Thanks for stopping by, stay safe
Katrina x

Goddaughter's 18th

Hello lovely peeps, I hope you are well.
 

Whilst I was looking for a teenage image to do my Goddaughter's 18th birthday card I came across this set of digital image freebies courtesy of Making Cards & Papercraft magazine. 
 

I chose the top left image so that I could colour most of it in myself. On printing it out I discovered that what I'd thought was a phone in her hand was actually a coffee cup. Since I'd already done a coffee theme card for her 16th I decided to digitally erase a couple of lines and print it out again. It needed a little touching up with a fineliner pen to give the 'phone' a solid outline and I also drew in a camera lens.

After die-cutting the image into a circle and then marking with a pencil roughly where it would go on my card, I stamped on some flowers in Brilliance/Versamagic inks to match the ones in her hair.

I coloured the rest of the image with Copic markers and then added a computer generated sentiment and die-cut the '18' from black card. The red organza ribbon adds a touch of luxury.

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

Penny's Paper-Crafty Challenge Blog #485  Anything Goes using paper

As You Like It Challenge Favourite his or hers - I definitely prefer making female cards, so much easier than men's cards as you can add pretty much anything :D

Rabisco Challenge  Anything Goes with haberdashery item

Thanks for stopping by, stay safe
Katrina x

Country Gent

Hello lovely peeps, I hope you are well.

For today's card I've used a sheet from an old Lili of the Valley artpad called 'Vintage Boys', die-cut into a circle. The papers are from the 'New Leaf' collection by First Edition

I would like to enter this in the following challenges:-
As You Like It Challenge Favourite way to add ribbon and why (I love to staple it, a great way of using up tiny scraps)
Crafty Hazelnut's Patterned Paper  Anything goes with Patterned Paper

Allsorts #587 going round in circles

Cardz 4 Guyz #252 explore outdoors

Mojo Monday #544 always a sketch 

Thanks for stopping by, stay safe
Katrina x

Elsa the Piggy

Hello lovely peeps

We've got a 'Recipe' theme this month at Crafty Calendar Challenge

 - use 1 ribbon and 2 or more designer papers

Good Friend

Hello lovely peeps

Nick is back on Hochanda again today at 11am and 3pm with another new collection of stamps, stencils and dies. There's a bit of a floral theme going this time, as well as an amazing dolphin die.

Christmas Ribbon Slider

Hello lovely peeps

Before I start, thank you to the people who left comments for me yesterday - they were very much appreciated. It was a lovely service and Treverva Male Voice Choir did Uncle Paul proud with very powerful performances. They were a hard act to follow but I managed to read out Paul's poem OK (luckily they finished with an uplifting number so I was able to compose myself 🙂)

I've just got a quick post today to share the ribbon slider Christmas card I started at our club session last Thursday (I took Christmas papers but no Christmas sentiments, oops).

New Beginning tag

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

Just popping in to show you a tag I made at crafting club, hosted by the lovely Kristi.

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.

Sausage Dog Bridesmaid

Hello lovely peeps



I realized I haven't shared this commissioned wedding card with you yet.  I was asked for a personalised card for the couple's big day in May, possibly featuring a winnebago or a sausage dog (their's was going to be part of the wedding party). Well it was going to be hard to make a winnebago look romantic, so I went with the dog theme.

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.

First Copic Creation

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For today's card I have used 'Tiny Townie Garden Girl - Violet' from Stamping Bella which I bought at the Sincerely Yours show in Taunton on Sunday. Isn't she adorable?

Snowball Fight

Hello lovely peeps

For today's card I've used one of the old LOTV art pad images featuring Jack, Patch and Puss.

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.

Make you feel my love

Hello lovely peeps

Just popping in to show you a commissioned wedding card that I made.

My customer wanted the lyrics from 'Make you feel my love' as a background (written by Bob Dylan, sung by Adele) so I added them with the text tool in Craft Artist using Galeforce BTN font and put a 'material' from the Paper Town digikit behind.

Other ingredients
6"x6" card blank
Funky Heart dies by X-Cut
The Promise 8"x8" paper pad from Trimcraft
Centurion Alphabet die by X-Cut
Gorjuss 8"x8" paper pad
Ampersand die from the Cuttlebug Olivia Alphabet 
Wedding charm from Docrafts
Walnut Stain distress ink

I would like to enter this in the following challenges:-
C.R.A.F.T. #439 add ribbon and distress your card
Craft-Dee BowZ  CDB54 Anything Goes with a Handmade Bow
Get Creative Challenges #63 Wedding
Really Reasonable Ribbon #174 Anything Goes with Ribbon 
Moving along with the Times #57 add a charm or tag
Just Keep on Creating October Anything Goes

  Thanks for stopping by,

Katrina x

Merry Christmas from the Penguins

Hello lovely peeps

Another quick and easy card today, using the LOTV Simply Print 'Christmas Sign'

Peeking Out to Say

Hello lovely peeps

There's a new challenge at Crafty Calendar today. The theme is

Kids/Babies

and we are sponsored by the fabulous Wild Orchid Crafts.



For my inspiration card I have used James Peeping from Lili of the Valley.

I stamped him onto Elegance Satin 160gsm card then fussy cut and coloured him in with Graph'It markers (3210, 3255, 0000).

To do the paper burst I pencilled in a circle on some double-sided card (Citronella from K&Co), 'painted' some lines in with water and then dragged my scissors down the lines to give rough edges.

After erasing the pencil circle I peeled back the edges to reveal the other side of the paper. I tore the points of the triangles off and curled what was left with my pokey tool.

For the sentiment I wanted to make little squares to echo the squares on the peeled back edges so I cut 2cm x 2cm squares from white card and rounded the corners before colouring them in to match the paper. The letters were stamped with Hobby Art's 'Alphabet - Typed' set and the 'birthday' was stamped straight onto the card with a Stamps Away greeting.

The American Crafts ribbon down the left hand side gives a better balance to the card I think.
To finish off James I added Glossy Accents on his nose :o)

I would like to enter this in the following challenges:-
Kitty Bee Designs #102 Birthday
Crafty Friends Challenge #65 birthdays
Brown Sugar #265 Try Something New (paper burst)
Polkadoodles   Anything Goes option Hot colours
Dream Valley Challenges # 162 Use a stamp or digi
Lemon Shortbread #49 Anything Goes
Alphabet Challenge M for Make your mark

Thanks for stopping by,

Katrina x

Watering Can on Throwback Tuesday

Hello lovely peeps

Today's oldie features the Summertime stamps from Polkadoodles, which debuted on Create & Craft TV last June.

First I used the Bigz XL die 'Watering Can 3-D' (658454) from Sizzix to cut the pieces of the can from Kraft card. I inked the edges with Vintage Photo Distress Ink before assembling it.

I applied some green paint to the bottom of the can using a stencil brush and added flowersoft to imitate moss/algae.

The flowers and leaves were all stamped onto watercolour card and painted with Spectrum Aqua markers before cutting them out.  I attached them to the can with strips of clear acetate and filled the inside with coco fibre - you can see little wisps poking out of the top.

Thanks for stopping by.
I hope you can drop in on Thursday when I have a very exciting GDT spot :o)

Katrina x