Chunky Snow on Throwback Tuesday

Hello lovely peeps

Today's Throwback Tuesday card features Leonie Pujol's Christmas Entwined Collection

Winter Antlers for Leonie

Hello lovely peeps
 

Woo hoo! It's new launch time - Leonie is on Hochanda TV with a fab new set of Entwined dies and some lovely stamps to go with them.

 The first card I wanted to show you is using the 'Entwined Christmas Tree- Frost' die. This is a beautiful design but if you've been following me for a while you'll know that I often find other ways of using things, so I've not used it as a tree at all. If you turn it upside down it looks like fancy antlers :D

 To start off my card I painted a square of black cardstock with white gesso, leaving some thinner patches for interest.

Next I 'painted' part of a Claritystamp deer with a black Spectrum Aqua marker

and stamped it onto my background.

 Next I cut a wavy shape in a piece of copy paper with my craft knife to use as a mask

and used a sponge and Distress Ink to add hills

There's a cute little fir tree at the bottom of the 'Christmas Cheer' stamp so I inked that up with black memento ink (I used post-it notes to mask off the rest of the stamp)
  

This was stamped several times over my 'landscape'

I stamped lots of snowflakes from the 'Swirls and Flakes' set around the edges of my card, using second, third and fourth generation ink.

To do the deer's antlers I cut the 'Frost' die from silver mirri card and snipped off the tree top, leaving me two lovely swirly bits. I glued them on top of the deer's head with cosmic shimmer glue and layered it onto a 7"x7" card with some papers from the Wild at Heart paper pad from Trimcraft.

For the sentiment I cut the 'Winter' die from white centura pearl and stamped 'Wishes' from a previous stamp set (Flight to Freedom) onto a circle of the same card. They're layered up onto the base card with strips of two more of the papers.

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

 Winter Wonderland Show us your gold/silver and or an embossed background

Happy Little Stampers (Christmas) Snowflakes

My teamies have some gorgeous samples to show you too. I have links to their blogs on my sidebar --->

 Leonie will be back on Hochanda tomorrow (Thursday 11th August) at 9am, 12pm, 4pm and 7pm.

You can watch Hochanda live online, Sky channel 663, Freeview 39 (6am - 9pm) or Freesat 817.

I hope you'll pop back again tomorrow when I'll have another card to show you,

Katrina x

Skating Fun

Hello lovely peeps

Another snowy acetate card today. My texture paste came out a bit bumpy this time but as I'd already folded the acetate I couldn't use the reverse side. Hey ho.

This time I've used a rubber stamp - Skating Fun from LOTV (retired).
I've coloured it in with a mix of Promarkers and Graph'Its

Fur: Ice Grey 1-4,
Bunny's Ears: Budding Rose
Scarf: 9504, 5245
Ice: 9100
Outline: 7105

The 'ice rink' has been covered with Glossy Accents and I sprinkled Glamour Dust on it while it was wet.
I stamped the greeting along the top and then cut a wavy line with my craft knife to match. The stars are cut from blue glitter card with an X-Cut die. The silver striped card is from the 'Silent Night' paper pad by First Editions/Trimcraft

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

C.R.A.F.T.   #341 Christmas
 That Craft Place - Christmas
Papertake Weekly - Fun Fun Fun
Passion for Promarkers #326 Let's Celebrate
 Penny's Paper-Crafty Challenge Blog #257 Anything Goes
Cute Card Thursday 403 - Add some glitter!
http://sendasmile4kids  Winter Fun 4 Kids
The Ribbon Girl - AG/It's almost Christmas
Holly Jolly - Anything Goes Christmas
Inky Chicks #60 - MERRY CHRISTMAS
That's Crafty! -Seasons Greetings
Graph It Colour Challenge #48-50 Gold or Silver
Fussy and Fancy  #154 - Happy Holidays!
Without words - FEELING FESTIVE
Stamping Sensations - Anything goes with a stamp and ribbon
SSS Work it Wednesday - a holiday card
Happy Little Stamper -  Christmas: Star

Time to go put up my tree and write out my cards as it's now twelve days until Christmas. I'll be back later in the week with my 100th post :)

Thank you for stopping by,

Katrina x

Tumble Dried Snow

Hello peeps :D

I've always been a big recycler and this has inevitably spilled out into my crafting. Before I throw anything away I always try and think of a crafty use for it (although this does lead to storage problems!)

Every time I tumble dry my clothes I think what a nice texture the tumble-drier sheets have, so I've finally got around to recycling one - I've used it here as snow. 

I tore it in half, which made it lovely and wispy, and then wrapped the ends around a square of card to hide the adhesive (I used tape).  I layered up my topper onto grey and red card and slotted it in between the two 'snow' layers. I've added little white pom-poms to represent a pile of snowballs and embellished with a few snowflakes and gems.

The sentiment is made using the Christmas Wishes stamp set by Lili of the Valley. 

The image is from the Furry Christmas Art Pad but is also available as a stamp - and you can currently get either of them for HALF-PRICE on the LOTV site. Whoop whoop!

Challenges:-

Papertake Weekly - Anything Goes + Option of Recycling

 Allsorts Challenge Blog  - Lots of layers

Pile It On - Fur

Brown Sugar - Use something recycled

Fan-Tastic Tuesday - Anything Goes/Make it Cute

A gem of a challenge - Do You Wanna Build a SNOW MAN?

Creative Card Crew - Christmas

Moving along with times - Cute animal

Creative Fingers - Anything Goes

Clear It Out - Anything Goes
Left of Center Creative Challenges - 93. Use Mainly Red

 Thanks for stopping by and please leave me a comment if you can, I love to read them.
Katrina x