hap-pea birthday

Hello lovely peeps

For today's card I've used the adorable 'Be Hap-pea' stamp set by Lawn Fawn.

Me and My Dragon

Just popping in to share a card I made with another of my latest purchases - 'Me and My Dragon' stamps by Mama Elephant.

I stamped and watercoloured the dragon and girl on watercolour paper then cut them out. To make the ink for spritzing the background I just loaded some green paint into an empty spritzer bottle using a wet paintbrush and added a little water. A little goes a long way.  

I tried the same with the grey paint at the bottom, using copier paper to mask off the rest of the card. This left too harsh a line though so I softened it with a wet paintbrush. 

Ellie loves Phant

Hello lovely peeps

Yesterday was the start of a new 30 day colouring challenge so I coloured up this cutie from Stamping Bella called Ellie Loves Phant using Copic markers (C7, C5, C3, C0, R00, R32).

I found a spritzer bottle with a centimetre of red ink left in the bottom lurking on my desk so used this to spray directly onto some Sheena Stamping Card for the background.

I would like to enter this in the following challenges:-
 Stamping Bella Anything Goes
Crafty Cardmakers #260 create your own background
Sweet Stampin create your own background
Pammies Inky Pinkies CAS

Thanks for stopping by, stay safe
Katrina x

Miss you for Leonie

Hello lovely peeps

I'm back with another card made with Leonie's Typography collection, this time combined with some Metal Leaf from Pebeo.

To make the background I dabbed some Distress Inks  - faded jeans, tumbled glass and weathered wood - onto my craft mat and spritzed with water

before dragging some Sheena Stamping Card through

I dried each layer with my heat gun before repeating the process to build up interest and texture. On the last layer I added some 'Ice Drop' Sparkle Pen for a bit of shimmer

For the overlay I spread some Pebeo Gilding Paste from the tube onto a piece of Cut and Dry foam, 'inked' up Leonie's Funky Tree stamp with it and stamped onto a piece of vellum

 You can just about see the glue on the vellum :o)

When this was dry I rubbed on some Pebeo silver metal leaf.
It only took me three attempts before I remembered that it has to go foil side up when you apply it :o)

I flipped the vellum over and coloured in the reverse of the tree with Promarkers

then tore the edges of the vellum and I dabbed some Pebeo Silver Gilding Wax along the rough edges. To attach it to the background layer I wrapped the top and bottom of the vellum around the background layer and taped it down.

For the greeting I attached some Stick-It double-sided adhesive to a darker piece of spritzed card and die-cut the small script letters using Leonie's Typography dies.

I peeled the plastic carrier sheet off to reveal the adhesive and applied some more Pebeo silver leaf.

I stamped one of the Banners and Frames stamps onto the darker spritzed card and cut it out with a small border.  The letters were attached with Collall Tacky Glue

The whole thing is attached to a 6"x6" white card blank.

I would like to enter this in the following challenges:-
Simon Says Stamp (Mon) Splash It On
My Time to Craft #343 No Designer Papers
Cards und More  #182 - Monochrome 
Stamping Sensations  Anything Goes 
Passion For Promarkers Challenge #391 Going dotty (used Promarkers)
Lost Coast Designs #35 - Favorite Background Technique (ink smooshing)

Thanks for stopping by,

Katrina x

Seahorse Dream for Leonie

Hello lovely peeps

I'm back with the third and final card that I made for Leonie's new launch of stencils/masks and stamps. I started by spraying Stick and Spray adhesive onto the back of one of the Dream masks, then placed it onto a square of watercolour card.

I stamped images from The Deep Blue stamp set around the mask using Black Archival ink
 

I stamped the large swirl along the top of the card to make some waves, masking as I went with sticky notes. I also masked the seahorses and shells with some Pebeo drawing gum to protect them

 To make spritzers I added Inkadinks (Blueberry Ice and Beany Green)  and water to some spray bottles

and sprayed them onto the card

Once this was dry I removed the 'Dream' mask to reveal the white card underneath.

I mixed some of Leonie's sparkle pens on an acrylic block

and coloured in the waves with them (I also did the Seahorses)

A bit more seaweed at the bottom completes the scene

I would like to enter this in the following challenges:-
 Allsorts #386 - Sparkle and Shine
The Pencil Case #31 Anything Goes
Love to Scrap  #88 Anything Goes
Creatalicious Challenges #101 - Anything Goes with optional Halloween
Stamps & Stencils elements of nature
Love to Craft #3 Anything Goes
Card Mania #85 let it shine

Thanks for stopping by,

Katrina x

Marshmallow texture for Leonie

Hello lovely peeps, and welcome to my new follower - I'm thrilled to have you :)

I'm back with another of the samples using Leonie's new products.

So I started off my card by making a spritzed background.
To make my spray I spooned a tiny bit of Brusho crystals into an empty spritzer bottle, added a bit of water and gave it a good swoosh around. I cut a 6" square of Sheena's Stamping card and sprayed it first with yellow and then orange. The orange pretty much obliterated the yellow but you can still see a bit of it :)

I glued on a strip of natural Sinamay ribbon for some texture and then made a start on the focal point.

I die-cut some pink patterned paper with the 'All the Love' hearts and glued it on with Cosmic Shimmer glue (Note to self: don't use glues that cling on like cement unless you're happy with the design). 

Having decided I didn't like the pink I die-cut some white card instead and then covered it with Versamark ink. I sprinkled on loads of Chunky White Embossing Enamel...

Doesn't that look cool? I'm might have a go at doing this with glue so I can leave it that way. However, as I'd used Versamark I needed to now melt the powder else it would all fall off.

Really pleased with how this looks, it's like melted marshmallow :)

I layered it on top of the pink version and then added a bit of washi tape and a white flower. The sentiment in the corner is from the Funky Texture stamps that are also on the shows, stamped with Black Memento ink.

I would like to enter this in the following challenges:

Crafty Friends Challenge #36 Use your dies
Cardz 4 Galz # 27 No patterned paper

613 Avenue Create  #185 Anything Goes w/Optional Twist:  Colour (white, pink, orange)


 

Leonie is on TV right now (9am) and again at 12pm, 4pm and 7pm, assuming that the stock lasts that long. To watch the shows tune in to HOCHANDA on...

SKY 663 (24/7)

FREEVIEW 39 (6am-9pm)

FREESAT 817 (24/7)

Or online at...
https://www.hochanda.com/

You can get more ideas and inspiration on my teamie's blogs too, so please visit Nick, Jane and Elaine

Thank you for stopping by, I really appreciate all your support and lovely comments.

Katrina x