With Love from Ellie

Hello lovely peeps



Another card with the fabulous new Large Birthday Sentiments from Lili of the Valley, this time stamped in black Memento and Festive Berries Distress Ink.

Fairy Shaker Card for LOTV

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Today's card features another stamp from the 'Sweet Christmas' set by Lili of the Valley and one of the Swirly Festive Greeting stamps - both available on their website tomorrow from Monday 16th July.

Peas in a Pod Shaker Card

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Before I tell you about today's card I wanted to let you know that Lili of the Valley have produced some simple step-by-step guides on how to buy and download their digital products, then how to resize/flip them etc. in Word before printing. They are really easy to follow, with pictures, so if you've been hesitant up until now why not give it a go?

So, for today's make I've done a shaker card using the digi stamp version of Peas in a Pod from the new release.

Fairy Shaker for Leonie

Hello lovely peeps

Today's make is a shaker card that I made with Leonie Pujol's Christmas stamps.

First I stamped the fairy from the Fairy Godmother set onto watercolour card with Black Archival ink

I stamped it again onto copy paper and cut it out

before adding Zig 2-way glue onto the back and leaving it to go clear (so it is repositionable)

With my handmade mask in place I overstamped the wings

and wording from the Christmas Greetings set

After covering the wording and wings with more masks (small enough to fit on sticky notes this time), I stamped on stars from the Tree Time set.

Once all my stamping was done I wanted to add a Brusho background, so I removed the paper masks (which would have got soaking wet) and painted all the stamped areas in with Pebeo Drawing Gum

After wetting the background with water, I brushed on diluted Crimson Brusho crystals

then sprinkled on Purple Brusho crystals and spritzed with water

I dried it off with a heat gun, rubbed off the drawing gum and then left the card under a large stack of books to flatten it out overnight.

To colour the fairy in I used Spectrum Aqua markers -
Peach for the skin, Tan and Boulder for the hair, Charcoal for shading

and diluted Crimson Brusho for the dress, shoes and wording.

I cut the top part of the dress out using a craft knife - using a glass mat makes it much easier to cut

I added double-sided tape around the back of the aperture and then attached a square of acetate.

For the base card I glued some more watercolour card to a 6"x6" card blank (to go behind the aperture) and then added two layers of foam tape.

I added more foam tape around the edges for stability and then added little white stars into the well in the centre before attaching the front layer (the white stars did not show up at all on TV, I should have gone with pink :o)

To colour in the stars I mixed Lemon, Copper and Clear sparkle pens on my craft mat to get a light gold colour, then applied with a slightly damp paintbrush.

As I had removed the collar and heart earlier when I cut my aperture, I stamped, coloured and cut out another one to glue over the top of the acetate.

I would like to enter this in the following challenges:-
Simon Says Stamp (Wed) We're seeing stars
Catch The Bug   Christmas in July - Make It Sparkle
Crafty Gals Corner # 132 Christmas in July
Little Red Wagon #403 Christmas in July
Oddball Art Stamps  AG/ optional A sky full of stars 
 Brown Sugar #259 Colour  

Thanks for stopping by,

Katrina x

Flamingo Shaker Card

Hello lovely peeps

I'm back with the second shaker card that I started at cardmaking club on Thursday.

This was as far as I got initially :o)

The flamingo die was from a Chinese seller on ebay and I used it to cut an aperture in one of the papers in the First Edition Paradise Crush 8x8 paper pad.  I backed it with acetate and cut a slightly larger mat of a matching paper to frame it. It looked a bit busy with the pattern behind the aperture so I added a rectangle of white card before adding 2 layers of foam tape and pink sequins.

I picked out some more of the gorgeous papers to layer up a 7x7" card and cut flowers out of one of them to use as embellishments.

There are a couple of other papers in the pad that have butterflies and flamingos on, so I cut some of those out too. To match the lovely turquoise colour around the flamingo I cut some Bonnets and Bowties Solids paper with a Memory Box 'Tropical Leaf' die.

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

Allsorts #419 2 or more dies
Quirky Crafts #4 Quirky things with wings
Animal Friends Challenge  #51 animal with wings
Crafty Animals  #3 Anything Goes
Crafty Awesomeness Anything goes always opt shaker
Little Red Wagon #397 Move It
Glitter n Sparkle #243 Bright Colours
 Creative Inspirations #276 Your favourite things (First Edition papers)

Thanks for stopping by,

Katrina x

Patch and Puss shaker card

Hello lovely peeps, I hope you are having a great weekend.

The lovely Evelin was our hostess for the evening at cardmaking club on Thursday and we made shaker cards.

I had printed several papers from the Perfect Pair collection by Nitwit onto 250gsm card stock so I used a scalloped circle die to cut an aperture in one of them. I taped a square of acetate behind this and then stamped on one of the Tiny Phrases greetings by Woodware with Black Memento ink.

Next I layered up a 7x7" card with a couple more of the Nitwit papers and cut flowers from a third design to use as embellishments.

The image behind is from one of the retired Lili of the Valley Art Pads called Jack, Patch & Puss. After putting a double layer of foam tape all the way around the image I added sequins from my stash and some pink Stix2 beads into the 'well' before placing the acetate frame over the top.

I started on a second card after our cake interval (chocolate, yummy) but I didn't get to finish it so I'll show you that one later in the week after it's completed.

I would like to enter this in the following challenges:-
 Crafty Awesomeness Anything goes opt shaker
Little Red Wagon #397 Move It
A Gem of a Challenge #16 Wedding or Anniversary
Crafty Animals  #3 Anything Goes
Sparkles Forum Challenges # 92 Four or more legs (animals)

Thanks for stopping by,

Katrina x

Fishy Shaker for Leonie

Hello lovely peeps, and welcome to my new followers. I'm delighted to see you here :)

Today's card is the one that appeared on the packaging for Leonie's 'In a Spin' die from the Mixed Media collection. I can't tell you what a thrill it was to receive a packaged die from the lovely people at Crafters Companion.

To start off I cut an aperture in a piece of patterned paper with the die, and then cut it again from some sturdy white card.

 I fit the white version inside the aperture and taped it at the back.

Next I taped some acetate on the back and put foam tape all the way around the aperture.

To make my background I cut a vague fishy shape from a waste bit of rubber, glued it onto a block and stamped all over a patterned paper.

I glued this onto a 6x6 base card and sprinkled some sequins on before attaching the shaker aperture.

I've finished off with a lighthouse stamp from Inkylicious and a sentiment from the Flight to Freedom set stamped onto some die cut circles.

Don't forget you can win some fab Leonie stash, plus other goodies, in my giveaway.
Anyone can enter - including my teamies - as long as you are a follower :)

I would like to enter this in the following challenges:-
Cardz 4 Guyz # 130 a shaker card
Penny's Paper-Crafty Challenge Blog #288 Anything Goes
Pile It On  #113 Shaker
Love to Craft August Anything Goes 

Thanks for stopping by,

Katrina x