Oliver Kicking About for LOTV

Hello lovely peeps and welcome to my new followers

Today's card is using Oliver Kicking About from Lili of the Valley. I stamped him with black Versafine ink onto watercolour card and coloured him in with my new Distress Markers.

The dies I've used are 'arrows' from QuicKutz and 'Grand Happy Birthday' from Memory Box

I would like to enter this in the following challenges:-
Fab 'n' Funky #350 Kids and Teenager birthdays
Classic Design Team Challenge #14 Anything Goes
Happy Little Stampers Anything Goes with Dies Challenge May
Open-Minded Challenges #17 Men and Boys
Simon Says Stamp (Wed) Going dotty
Not Just Cards  #44 One for the boys
As You Like It Challenge favourite die (I find men's cards quite difficult to embellish, so this set of arrows is very useful. I love the 3 different styles too, the spiral is fun for wrapping around things and you can stamp a sentiment straight onto the chunky one)

Thanks for stopping by,

Katrina x

Happy Birthday to LOTV and a Sneak Peek

Hello lovely peeps and welcome to my new followers.

 There are big celebrations over on Facebook today as Lili of the Valley becomes a teenager :o)
The party starts at 10am BST so pop on over for a chances to win some goodies.

The new stamp launch has been postponed until 20th May as there are even more images being released.  Woo hoo!  This is one of them - Oliver Studying. With exam season almost upon us I think this one will be very popular (there will be a new Jasmine Studying image available too).

I printed him onto Super Smooth 250gsm card and coloured him in with Promarkers and Graph'Its

My card is layered up with papers from my stash (Homeroom Alphabet and School Graffiti) and I overstamped 'Good Luck' from the Block Sentiments stamp set with black Memento ink.

I would like to enter this in the following challenges:-
 The Male Room #60 Theme - stars
Sisterhood of Crafters  Encouragement
Creative Craft Cottages Challenges #87 Three of a kind
Simply Create Too #127 Use a digi stamp
Open-Minded Challenges #17 Men and Boys

Thanks for stopping by,

Katrina x

100 Followers Giveaway

Hello lovely peeps, I hope you had a lovely weekend. I'm absolutely thrilled to say that I reached 100 followers yesterday - a very warm welcome to you Tina :o)

As promised, I am having a little giveaway to celebrate.

The lucky winner will receive:
an 8x8 Happy mask and stencil set designed by Leonie Pujol
a Butterfly Dance die designed by Sara Davies
a 6x6 Butterfly paper pad designed by Jodie Lee for Prima

All you need to do for a chance to win is
a) be one of my Google followers*
b) leave a comment below telling me what your favourite crafting style is
(e.g. shabby chic/clean and simple/grungy/cute etc.)

*Sorry, this giveaway is only open to my Google followers, but don't worry if you follow me by email/Instagram/Pinterest. I will be having another giveaway in 2-3 weeks to celebrate my 300th blog post and that will be open to all of my followers

The closing date for this giveaway is 15th May 2017 at 9:00pm BST
THIS GIVEAWAY IS NOW CLOSED

Thanks for stopping by today and good luck everyone,

Katrina x

Happy Birthday Challenge at LOTV

Hello lovely peeps, I hope you are enjoying the weekend.
Will today be the day I get my 100th follower I wonder? :o)

Lili of the Valley are celebrating their 13th birthday on the 10th of May, so the theme for this month's Challenge is Birthdays. This is the inspiration card that I've made, featuring the Simply Print image 'Bunny Blooms'  

The pre-coloured image comes with daffodils but I wanted something pink, so I cut the bunny and stems out so I could attach my own flowers.

For the background I took a paper from the Romance and Roses paper pad (discontinued, but available as a download from Nitwit), roughened the edges with my scissors and then inked the edges with Picked Raspberry distress ink.

This was attached to a 6x6 card blank and I added some grass which I'd die-cut from another paper in the pad using the Die'sire Icicle die. I glued Bunny down onto the card and then attached some pink sweetheart blossoms from WOC at the end of the stems using blobs of Collall 3D glue gel.

The sentiment was stamped onto white card using one of the 'Happy Circular Sentiments' from LOTV and cut out - I used the second impression as it went better with the soft colours.

The card is finished off with a pink organza bow and some clouds die-cut from white card.

I would like to enter this in the following challenges:-
Shopping Our Stash #301 fussy cut
The Ribbon Girls May - any card
As You Like It Challenge favourite die (the Icicle die which I always use for grass, it's so useful. And you get two uses out of one cut as the negative works just as well as the positive)

Thanks for stopping by,

Katrina x

Little Flower Fairy for Crafty Calendar

Hello lovely peeps, I hope you are well.
If you weren't aware already, I'm having a little giveaway when I get to 100 Google followers - just one more to go :o)

 There's a new challenge starting today at Crafty Calendar and the theme this time is 'Flowers'.
We have 2 sponsors this month -  All Dressed Up



and Lemon Shortbread



For my inspiration card I have used Little Flower Fairy from All Dressed Up. I coloured her with alcohol markers (named=Promarkers, numbered=Graph'Its)

Skin: Coral, Sunkissed Pink, Blush
Hair: Tan, Cinnamon, Cocoa, Walnut
Red Flowers: 5210, Poppy, 4147, 8290, Pear Green, Lime Zest
Leaves:  8290, Olive Green, Soft Khaki
Yellow flowers and dress: 1280, Mustard, Pastel Yellow, Daffodil Bloom, Ivory
Wings: Blender and 4147
Ground: 9505, 9503, 9501, 9500

then die-cut the image with a large circle die and colored the edges with Antique Linen Distress Ink.

I layered this up on papers from the 'Blank Canvas' 12x12 paper pad from Trimcraft/First Edition, the pink one was edged with my newly acquired 'Cherry Blossom' punch from Martha Stewart.

The card is finished off with ivory organza ribbon, pink twine, a pink rose bud and tags made with Lili of the Valley's Sentiment Tags stamp set

I would like to enter this in the following challenges:-
All Dressed Up #68 Anything Goes
 Southern Girls #159 Use a punch
 Creative Inspirations #274 Blooms and Bows
Creatalicious Challenges #114 Anything Goes with optional Mothers Day/for the girls
Passion For Promarkers Challenge  #393 Make it Bloom
Glitter n Sparkle #237 Flower Power 

Thanks for stopping by,

Katrina x

Funky Flower for Leonie

Hello lovely peeps

Just popping in to show you a quick card from the archives that I made with the heart stamp from Leonie's Off She Flew set.

I stamped the heart seven times onto pink patterned paper and twice onto green paper, then cut them all out. For the centre of my flower I die-cut a circle from the green paper and stamped one of the sentiments from the Flight to Freedom set in the middle. I drew stitches around the edge of the circle with a black fineliner pen to match the hearts.

The pink hearts were then arranged as 'petals' around the circle and the green ones were used as leaves. My stem was a piece of florist wire, attached at the back of the flower with silicone glue.

I also used florist wire to make antennae for my ladybird, the ends were curled around my pokey tool. Her body is just a circle die-cut from red paper, and black spots made with a regular hole punch.

The background layer of the card is the reverse of some white card that I ran through the 'Gothic Script' A4 embossing folder from Crafters Companion.

Thanks for stopping by,

Katrina x

7 Today for Leonie

Hello lovely peeps, and welcome to my two new email followers :o)

I'm continuing through my trawl of samples for Leonie that I never got around to blogging. This hanging was made with the Zentangle stamps from her first collection last year.

For the background I stamped some flowers from Tangled Tails onto circles of white card using 3 different inks:-
 Encore Ultimate Metallic 'Honeydew'
Fabriko 'Burgundy'
Brilliance 'Pearlescent Orchid'

The '7' and 'today' were cut on my CraftRobo from thin white card and I stamped all over the shapes with one of the flowers using Black Memento ink. I coloured around the flowers with Rose Pink Promarker before gluing them to their backgrounds.

I backed each circle onto a slightly larger pink scalloped circle and glued them back to back with pink organza ribbon sandwiched in between

I added a frame front and back using some 'Catalina Wreath' die-cuts (Memory Box) which I coloured with the Honeydew ink. The little flowers are pink sweetheart blossoms from Wild Orchid Crafts - I twirled their wire stems around my pokey tool.



   The piece is finished off with adhesive pink/green/clear gems

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

Country View Crafts' Challenge Flower power

Classic Design Team Challenge #14 Anything Goes

Thanks for stopping by,

Katrina x