Walkies

Good Evening Peeps.

This is my second card for Lili of the Valley's Design Collective

 I have used:-

7" x 7" white card blank

Image from the My Best Friend art pad mounted on lilac card

Background paper from the Timeless Victorian paper pad

Leaves die cut from Turquoise paper in the Antebellum Paper Pad using Susan's Garden dies from Sizzix

Birthday stamp from Set 43 -Statements Fabulous, stamped onto shrink plastic

Silver pearlescent paper cut with Marianne Branch Die

Pennant Border die by Taylored Expressions

Letter stamps from MSE

Petaloo fabric flowers

Buttons, gems, netting and raffia from my stash

 Hope you are having a lovely evening.

Thanks for stopping by,

Katrina x

Love Grows and a Special Offer

Hello lovely peeps.

Before I show you my card, I wanted to tell you about
the fabulous offer over at the Lili of the Valley website .
If you spend £25 you get a free paper pad worth £7.50
(offer valid between 15th and 19th April 2015)

I've gone for Antebellum since I've used it in several of my recent cards.

So, this was going to be my second card for the LOTV Design Collective. 
Unfortunately the stamp is retired now, but you can still get the image in their True Love coloured Art Pad (although the colours are different).

 

I have used:-

7" x 7" card blank
Love Grows stamp and sentiment from LOTV
Papers from Antebellum 8" x 8" pad and Always and Forever - Solids pad
Marianne Design Creatables Die - Branch & Flowers 1 LR0256
Promarkers
Petaloo fabric flowers

Shrink plastic

Ribbon, buttons and mesh from my stash.


That's all for now, I'm going to put my feet up and watch some crafting telly :D

Thank you for stopping by,
Katrina x

Seaside Star Book

Good evening peeps, hope you are all well

Just sharing my first star book, we made them at club on Thursday 

(thank you Paula  for a very enjoyable session)

I used:-  

black, grey and white card

black and white spotty ribbon (from packaging on Gorjuss stamps)

Crafty Individuals stamp set CI-349

poem printed from computer

black fineliner pen

That's all for now, I'll be back soon with another Lily of the Valley creation.

Katrina x

Mr and Mrs

Morning lovely peeps.

This is my first ever Design Team card !
Still can't quite believe I'm in the Lily of the Valley Design Collective. I may just do a few last bunny hops today as it's Easter :D

For my wedding card I have used
Mr and Mr stamp with white embossing powder

Handwritten Phrases

Paper Pad - Antebellum
Paper Pad - Solids - Always and Forever
X-Cut Nesting Heart dies
Shrink plastic coloured with chalk
Buttons, netting, rose and ribbons from my stash

Hope you all have a great day, thank you for stopping by.
Katrina x

Young at Heart

Hello lovely peeps.

This is the card I made for my Grampa who was 90 on Tuesday. 

He's always had a lovely garden and even though he can't do much gardening himself now he still manages to produce smashing rhubarb.

My hands weren't up to much colouring in last week so I stamped the gardener with white detail embossing powder. The leaf background was created with a Sheena Douglass A4 folder - I rubbed over the debossed side with green distress ink.

I used

Vegetable Patch stamp

Stitched Alphabet

General Greetings small

 Papers from Antebellum, Beach Bliss and Father Knows Best 8x8 paper pads 

all from Lili of the Valley

On the Edge Torn Notebook die

Sizzlits Gardening Tools dies

from Sizzix

Sheena Douglass Embossing Folder - A Little Bit Oriental - Maple Leaf

I'd better go and have my lunch now, my stomach is rumbling at the thought of rhubarb crumble :D

Have a lovely weekend everyone x

Airbrushing fun

Hello Peeps.

I'm thrilled to announce that I have been selected as a member of the new Lili of the Valley Design Collective, so you may sense a bit of a theme in my next few blog posts :D

The MDF hearts I ordered from Joanna Sheen arrived yesterday so I thought I'd make a little wedding keepsake with some LOTV papers and stamps.

First I covered both sides of the heart with one of the papers in the 'Antebellum' paper pad

(poke the holes through on the first side before doing the second)

I wanted to add a little resin flower but the colour didn't match at all.

I tried colouring direct with my graph-it markers but couldn't get into the crevices 

(also it looked horrible and patchy)

So I spent a very entertaining ten minutes huffing and puffing over the chisel end of some red and purple markers to try and 'airbrush' it.

It blew off the table several times before I had the sense to glue it to my craft mat!

I stamped a couple of the LOTV Sentiment Tags onto white paper and cut them out, 

then threaded some white organza ribbon through the holes

It's finished off with a white die-cut branch (from Marianne I think)

 

That's all for today, I'll be back soon with my first Design Team submission. 

Yay, can't wait !!

Alphabetti Spaghetti

Afternoon All x

I thought I'd show you the birthday card I made this afternoon.
Ideal for people with three letters in their name!

Start off with two 5"x7" cream card blanks. One will be decorated on the front and back (M and A).  The other will be decorated on the right hand side of the inside of the card (X).

Cover the centre of each panel with a post it note (cut down to 5.5cm x 7.5 cm)

Stamp all over with various styles of the same letter. Here I've used a mix of Hobby Art, Lili of the Valley, Indigo Blu, Inkadinkado, MSE, Docrafts and See-D's with 'Walnut Stain' Distress Ink

 Remove the post it and roughly draw around the blank area with a fine liner pen

 Blend some distress ink around all four edges of the panel

Put the post it back over the middle and drag some ink 

over the bottom and right edges to create a shadow.

This just gives it a little bit of dimension

  To assemble the card I glued the back of the 'A' panel to the blank panel to make a zig zag.

Clear as mud?!

Hope you can work it out, here's the finished card:

Hope you have a good week, whatever you're doing.