Ribbit

Hello lovely peeps

For today's card I stamped Pen Pattern Frog (Stampendous) onto white shrink plastic with black stazon. Once the ink was dry I coloured it in with pencils and cut it out before shrinking with a heat gun.

The Ribbit sentiment is from the Be Hoppy stamp set from Aall & Create.

I would like to enter my card in the following challenges:-

Crafty Animals  #67 Anything Goes always with animal

Simply Less is More #477 Colour wheel - use 2 or more colours 

Bizzy Becs  Anything Goes

Thanks for stopping by, stay safe
Katrina x

Happy Mother's Day

Hello lovely peeps

I made a few different versions of these as I didn't have a great deal of time to make them and my mojo went on a break. This one was my favourite because of how one of the shrink plastic butterflies turned out.

Bubbling bottles for Leonie

Hello lovely peeps

For today's card I've used Leonie's In a Spin die in two different ways.
First I cut several of them from Sheena stamping card and glued them to an A5 piece with Cosmic Shimmer glue.

Next I dragged some Distress Oxide inks over the top

and spritzed with water.

I repeated this a few times to build up the colour, drying with a heat gun in between each layer

adding a bit of Fossilized Amber into the mix

The die-cuts were starting to lift away in places by the time I finished because of the heat so I just needed to stick them back down in a few places before trimming the excess off.

For my topper I die-cut some Apothecary Bottles - this is a Bigz Die by Tim Holtz.
I coloured these up with the Distress Oxides again, using some applicator foams and spritzing/drying between layers of colour.

For the corks I stippled on Ground Espresso distress ink with a stencil brush

I inked and distressed a rectangle of white card to layer the bottles on top of and added highlights to the bottles with a white gel pen.

For the bubbles I cut the In a Spin die from clear shrink plastic and gently heated it to shrink. There was a bit of a hairy moment when it curled over and stuck to itself but I managed to pry it apart :o)

It's finished off with a sentiment from the Hey There, Dreamer rubber stamp set

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

Deep Ocean Challenge #157 Die-cuts/chipboards and/or punches

Sisterhood of Crafters Use your imagination

Creatalicious Challenges #117 Anything Goes with optional Diecuts/Punches

Crafty Purple Frog Make it manly

The Mixed Media World Challenge MMW#26: Anything Goes

We Love 2 Create #12 Anything Creative/Mixed Media Goes

Creative Artiste Challenge #27 Anything Mixed Media 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

Doodle Drop Hearts for Leonie

Hello lovely peeps, and a very warm welcome to my two new followers :)

I've used a mix of Leonie's products on this card, they all work so well together.

First I wet some watercolour card and painted on some dollops of colour using Leonie's orange Sparkle Pen (from the Bright Lights set).

Once that was dry I stamped the mini hearts from the Doodle Drops set a few times with Versamark, sprinkled with Detail White embossing powder and heat-set.

I had previously (very carefully) cut one of the hearts away from the rest and this is what I used to add little accent hearts, stamped using Distress Inks.

I cut the Funky Heart Base from white shrink plastic and shrank it with my heat gun, then cut the 'Love' die that comes with it from black card and glued it over the top using Glossy Accents.

One of the Pretty Borders stamps was used around the outside of the card - I stamped it in black Memento ink so I was able to easily rub it off the white embossed hearts.

 The 'you' is from Leonie's From The Heart stamp set.

You can just about see the sparkle from the glitter pen in this shot, it looks much more blingy in real life.

I would like to enter this in the following challenges:-
Allsorts #402 Hearts and/or flowers
 Come and Get It  Love is in the air
Deep Ocean Challenge #148 Hearts
Glitter n Sparkle #226 Love is in the air
Aud Sentiments Challenge #173 Valentine or Love Sentiment
That's Crafty! Challenge Blog I heart you
Crafter's Cafe #167 no red or pink 
Sparkles Forum Challenges # 89 Love

Thanks for stopping by,

Katrina x

Home plaque for Leonie's Launch

Hello lovely peeps

Exciting news - the very lovely Leonie Pujol is launching her own range of crafty goodies on Hochanda.
Right now
Yes, right this minute :D

AND

I'm on her first design team. Woo hoo!

Since Hochanda stands for 'Home of Crafts, Hobbies and Arts' I thought it was appropriate to show you my 'Home' plaque first.

I started off with a thick chipboard square which I painted with white gesso.

 Next I dragged/dabbed on some Dusty Concord and Shaded Lilac Distress Inks using a sponge.

I stamped the zentangle circles several times down the right hand side in black Memento ink

I forgot to keep taking photos at this point so I'll just talk you through what I did. 

The circles were coloured in with alcohol markers and I stamped and embossed some dangly hearts along the top with white embossing powder.

I stamped some script in black using second generation ink (i.e. I stamped the first time onto scrap paper to take off the intensity)

For the paint circles I put small puddles of black and white gesso on my craft mat and dipped some old plastic caps in it and used them as 'stamps'

Overdid it all a bit and gessoed over the top of half of it again....  :D

[and here the camera makes a very brief reappearance]

I laid the 'home' stencil over the top and masked off the sizes I didn't want. I also made post-it masks for the centres for the o and e.

I spread white texture paste through the stencil then lifted it off and removed the o and e masks with my pokey tool.

I made some bird houses by inking up rectangles/squares/triangles with co-ordinating colours* and overstamping with some of the zentangle stamps.  The roofs are covered with glossy accents.

* same colours as above plus Evergreen Bough and Weathered Wood

The birds were cut from black shrink plastic with a Marianne die set and shrunk with a heat gun before sitting them on top of the letters with silicone glue.
 

The handle is just 3 strands of ribbon twisted together and knotted at the back.

If you've missed the show don't forget you can watch it on Hochanda's catch up service for up to 7 days afterwards. Leonie will also have shows at 9, 12, 4 and 7pm (stock permitting).
You can also 'meet' the other members of the Design Team over on Leonie's blog.

I would like to enter this in the following challenges:-
 We Love 2 Create #8 Anything Mixed Media Goes
Happy Little Stampers (Mixed Media)  Wings
 Really Reasonable Ribbon #139 - Things with Wings and Ribbon or Trim
Come and Get It  #114 Things with Wings
Kitty Bee Designs #69 - Living Things with Wings
Love to Scrap  #76 Anything Goes
Creative Fingers #107 Anything Goes
Crafting By Designs (monthly) Anything Goes
 The Crafty Addicts Anything Goes/Girly
Classic Design Team Challenge #1 Anything Goes
As You Like It Challenge Favourite Anything but a Card (I love these square plaques -they're very similar to decorating a card so not too daunting)
SSS Work it wednesday Pastels


Thanks for stopping by,

Katrina x