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

Floral Stepper Card for Leonie

Hello lovely peeps

Leonie is back on Hochanda today with her Typography collection and we were asked to make some more samples combining Leonie's products with Pebeo Metal Leaf and/or Sara's Shabby Chic collection.

My first make is a side-stepper card and I used one of the Fancy Card Blanks from Crafters Companion as my base.

I wanted to cover the front of the card with patterned paper and thought the easiest way to get the shape right was to make a template, so I cut one of the card blanks up.

I traced the 'hat' shape on the back of some pink card and cut it out slightly inside the lines.

Next I used the pink shape to trace on the back of some Blissful Cotton patterned paper (from Anna Marie Designs) and cut it out inside the lines again.

The side panels were easy to decorate as they are just rectangles. To distress each panel I roughened the edges with my scissors.

For the sentiment topper I started by die-cutting one of Sara's Antique Frames from white card, the pink card and the patterned paper.  I then took the white 'innie' bit and embossed it with one of Leonie's mini 'Swirls and More' folders

Tip: if you place the folder on your platform so that the edge of the folder peeks over the edge of the platform then you don't get a line on your card from the edge of the folder.

I turned the shape around and embossed the other corner (using the same trick as above to avoid getting a line in the middle)

I fitted this centre piece inside the pink frame/'outy' bit and taped it at the back to hold it in place, then added the patterned paper frame/ 'outy' bit with a slight offset.

The letters for 'Mum' were cut from matching pink card using Leonie's Typography dies.

To make the flowers I used the Aged Rose die from Sara's Shabby Chic collection with some slightly textured white paper, using two die-cuts per flower. I put a spot of glue under the second petal

and laid the second die-cut on top, slightly offset from the first

Once the glue was dry I used a quilling tool to wind it into a flower shape, pinching really tight at the start to give a nice curly centre

and added lots of Tacky (PVA) glue to the bottom to secure it to the base. I held the flowers together for 60 seconds while the glue dried to make sure they didn't unravel.

Everything was then layered up on the card base with some cheesecloth, white organza ribbon and a white 'Weathered Window' die-cut.

Leonie's Hochanda shows are on at 7am, 10am and 5pm BST today. You can watch live online, Sky channel 663, Freeview 85 or Freesat 817. The shows will also be on Rewind for about 10 days.

Please pop by to my teamies' blogs if you get a chance, their links are in my sidebar  ------>

I would like to enter this in the following challenges:-
Crafty Ribbons (on FB)  Use ribbon
Really Reasonable Ribbon #161 Flowers
Noor Flowers
Crafty Hazelnut's Patterned Paper  Anything goes with Patterned Paper
Eclectic Ellapu - Shabby Chic/Vintage
A Vintage Journey - The Magic of 3
Deep Ocean Challenge #153 Spring
Shopping Our Stash #29 use a rose
Unicorn Challenge #20 Petal power
Tinker- Dream  #52 Mothers Day/for woman or girl

Thanks for stopping by,

Katrina x

Willson Wood Pop and Twist

Hello lovely peeps, and welcome to my new follower :o)

We did Pop up and Twist Panel Cards at Cardmaking Club on Thursday, here's the one that I made using the Tales from Willson Wood collection by Docrafts and Kraft card.

There is a great video here by Srushti Patil that shows you how to make these. I adjusted the measurements slightly for mine, making the panels 7cm wide instead of 6.5 cm

The owl and greetings came already die-cut but I cut around the trees/branches myself and layered them up on cream linen textured card.

For the front I cut down one of the A6 card blanks and a panel using a couple of the papers. The fabric leaves are from the matching embellishment pack, glued on with Pinflair glue gel.

I would like to enter this in the following challenges:-
 Pile It On  #129 Interactive card and/or birthday
Crafty Catz #366 Anything Goes optional twist Animals
Crafty Animals  Anything Goes
Fussy and Fancy #185 Fancy Folds/Shaped cards
Aud Sentiments Challenge #177 Birthday/number 7
Fairy Tale #166 More than one fold

I'll be back on Wednesday morning with a card that I made with Leonie's Typography collection, hope you can join me then.

Katrina x

Forever Swirls for Leonie

Hello lovely peeps, I hope you are well.

I'm just popping in with one of the cards I made for Leonie last year which made a reappearance on TV during the sale shows in March.

For the swirly layer I ran some peach core-dinations card through Leonie's Forever Swirls embossing folder and sanded the pattern lightly with a sandpaper block.

I die-cut the Big Heart Base from some darker peach card and some patterned script card, then wound some of the swirly bits in between the frame and the centre. The 'Love' die comes with the Funky Heart Base and I cut it from olive green card.

The paper flowers are from Wild Orchid Crafts and the metal charm and pink twine are from The Ribbon Girl

Thanks for stopping by today, I hope you enjoy the rest of the Easter weekend.

Katrina x

Have a hoot and an apology

Hello lovely peeps, and welcome to my new follower :0)

Sorry for the sporadic blog posts in the last couple of weeks, my elbow continues to be dodgy so I've not been able to do much crafting apart from doing my DT cards.

Since I don't have anything new to show you yet, I've had a trawl through my computer for cards that I never got around to blogging. This one is relatively recent and was made in the February session of our card club. The lovely Heather was our hostess and she brought along lots of owl toppers for us to play with, including some fabulous foiled owl wrapping paper.

I cut one of the wrapping paper owls out and layered him up on a 6x6 card with 'New Leaf' papers from Trimcraft/First Edition and some foliage cut with the dies I got from China via Ebay (link here).

The sentiment was stamped in black using a clear Woodware stamp and I drew the speech bubble in by hand before cutting it out.

I would like to enter this in the following challenges:-
Crafty Friends Challenge #55 Animals or birds

I'll be back at the weekend with a card I made for Leonie, so I hope you can join me then,

Katrina x

Sail-ebrate

Hello lovely peeps, I hope you are well.

Just popping in to show you a quick CAS card I made for my Uncle in the USA.

I wanted to keep the card light to minimise postage costs, so I created a one layer card using CraftArtist.  I pulled in a few elements from the Coastal Collection by Nitwit - I've got a mini version which came with Complete Cardmaking Magazine Issue 49.

I resized and arranged everything in a little group and added drop shadows to everything so it looks 3D - doesn't it look realistic?

Hope you'll pop in to see me again soon,

Katrina x

April Showers for Crafty Calendar

Hello lovely peeps

It's the first Saturday of the month, so it's time for a new challenge at Crafty Calendar. The theme is "April Showers" or Spring and the sponsors are

 SheepSki Designs 

and

Miss Daisy Stamps

Jennifer Nilsson Art ♥︎ Mari Digis ♥︎ Miss Daisy’s Collection ♥︎ We Are 3 

Join us at Miss Daisy Stamps Create & Share Facebook Group to meet the artists, 

share fun & inspiration, receive freebies and special deals. See you there!

For my inspiration card I have used Drops of Love - Jennifer Nilsson Art

 which I brightened to get grey outlines and then printed at 60% size onto a white fabric print from Nitwit.

I printed selected sections of the image onto the top of my background paper (from the Indian Dreams digikit) and cut them out

I coloured a few highlights with Lyra Rembrandt Polycolour pencils

Medium Grey 97

Light Cobalt 44

Dark Carmine 26

For the sentiment I stamped the blank tag from Lili of the Valley's Christmas Sentiment Tag set and stamped one of Woodware's Tiny Phrases inside.

I would like to enter this in the following challenges:-
The Ribbon Girls March Use any image
Crafty Ribbons On FB
Crafty Catz #364 Anything Goes optional twist metal
Creatalicious Challenges #112 Anything Goes with optional flowers
Creative Craft Cottage Digi Creations #50 Include an animal
Card Mania #91 April Showers bring May flowers
Crafty Hazelnut's Patterned Paper  Anything goes with Patterned Paper

Thanks for stopping by,

Katrina x