Paper Penguins for Leonie

Hello lovely peeps

I hope you managed to catch Leonie's launch show last night, she showed you how the entwining bits of her new collection worked together. There are more fab demos on at 9am, 12, 4 and 7pm.
 
So, onto my favourite sample out of the ones I made

To start, I cut down a small panel of Sheena's stamping card and blended on some tumbled glass, broken china and iced spruce Distress Inks

Flick water at it from your fingertips and dab with kitchen roll after a few seconds to remove the water.

Do three more of these, place them together, and stamp the swirls from 'Swirls and Flakes' over the top using Black Memento ink

Stamp lines of the hearts from the same set along the bottom of the panels.

Colour the hearts in with a white gel pen.

Now stamp one of the 'Christmas Greetings' stamps onto a strip of white card

then cut up the individual words and doodle outlines on with a black fineliner pen

Arrange them on the panels until they're how you like them

Next, cut down some A4 black card to 10cm x 29.5cm and score into four equal sections.
Add a coloured panel to each of the four sections.

Create another couple of panels using the same method as above and add parts of the Entwined Snowflakes Base die-cut with white card.

 Attach a long length of ribbon to the back of these extra panels and glue them onto the back of the first and last sides of our little 'book'.  

Fold the 'book' up and wrap the ribbon round a couple of times before tying the ends into a bow.

And I almost stopped there, but going back to it the next day, I felt that it needed a bit of a focal point.

Enter the penguins....

First I stamped the oval frame from the 'Love and Joy' stamp set onto a heavyweight white paper using Black Archival ink and then cut it out - you need to do this four times.

Cut two of them in half lengthways and cut a bit more off each half to make the inside edges curve a little so they look like flippers.

Cut a strip of yellow card and lay across the middle of Entwined Cross Base die before cutting out. Also cut the tip of the leaf from Leonie's Mixed Media dies.
 

Along with a circle of black card and a black pearl, you can now assemble your penguin.

I had to chop their feet off a little to get them to fit on the panels, but I'm so chuffed at how this turned out.

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

Noor! Designs UK #21 Christmas
Penny's Paper-Crafty Challenge Blog #290 AG  
Classic Design Team Challenge #5 AG
Crimbo Crackers 2W #113 Blue Christmas 
Unicorn Challenge #12 Animal Kingdom 
Addicted to Stamps and More #206 AG
Little Miss Muffet Challenges  #144 - Anything Goes
 Fab 'n' Funky #315 Christmas

Before I go,  just a quick reminder that you only have until Sunday evening to enter my 200th post giveaway (click on the picture to see how to enter)

Thanks for stopping by, and I hope you will leave me a comment to let me know you've visited,

Katrina x

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

Verdigris Love for Leonie Pujol

Hello lovely peeps, and a very warm welcome to my new followers.

I have one more sample using Leonie's Mixed Media dies to show you before the launch of her new dies tomorrow evening on Hochanda.

Did you want another sneaky peek? What am I saying, of course you do, lol.

This one is using the 'All the Love' die, which I cut from sturdy white card. I covered a 6"x6" card blank with a K&Co paper and used the die again to cut an aperture. I dabbed tiny dots of cosmic shimmer glue around the edge of the white die-cut to hold it in place.

The inside of the card was lined with a yellow First Edition paper and I stapled co-ordinating ribbons in the top right hand corner of the card front - I used buttons to cover the staples.

For the topper I poured some Verdigris embossing powder onto a heat-proof craft sheet and heated it from underneath with a heat gun until it had melted into a puddle. I inked up one of the sentiments from a previous stamp set (Off She Flew) with black ink and stamped into the puddle, leaving it there until it had set.

I would like to enter this in the following challenges:-
Crafty Friends Challenge #37 Favourite Embellishment (buttons)
That's Crafty! Challenge Blog Zesty Zing
613 Avenue Create  #188 Anything Goes
As You Like It Challenge Favourite papers  (& why) - My favourite papers are by K&Co, the colours and patterns are gorgeous. As I only have one or two sheets of each they don't get an outing very often because I don't want to use them up :D  My second favourites are Trimcraft/First Edition - they are lovely quality and you get a great mix of double sided/textured/foiled etc. Also you get three of each design in a pad so I don't have to be so frugal with them. 

Thanks for stopping by, I'll be back tomorrow at 8pm

Katrina x

Boat Scene for Leonie

Hello lovely peeps and a very warm welcome to my new followers. I hope you have all entered my giveaway (click here or see the link in my sidebar).

Just a quick post today to show you another card made with Leonie's Mixed Media dies.

For the sea/waves I used the Bark Texture die and some patterned paper, then added white wave tops with a gel pen. The boats are made with shapes from the Mosaic set and the sun is cut from yellow paper using one of the dies in Floral Bursts

The sentiment is made up of two words from the Love Hearts clear stamp set

I would like to enter this in the following challenges:-
 Creative Inspirations #255 Seaside/Sunshine/Summer Holidays

I'm delighted to announce that there will be another One Day Special to launch some of Leonie's new products, starting on Wednesday 10th August at 8pm with more shows on Thursday 11th at 9am, 12pm, 4pm & 7pm.

Want a little sneak peek? Oh, go on then, you twisted my arm :D

You can watch Hochanda live online, Sky channel 663, Freeview 39 (6am - 9pm) or Freesat 817.
Thanks for stopping by,
Katrina x

Snappy Birthday

Hello lovely peeps, I hope you are well
Welcome to my new followers, I'm thrilled to have you here.

 It's the first Saturday of the month so it's time for a new challenge at Crafty Calendar.

The theme this time is 'Summer Fun' and our sponsor is

with a fab prize of 7 digi stamps

They very kindly provided images for the Design Team to use and I chose 'Crab Boat' to make my card.

To start off I pulled the image into Craft Artist and sized it to fit a 6"x6" card. I added the sentiment using the Smarty Pants font and printed the project onto white card.

I thought the crab would look fab paper-pieced so I had a look through my stash of patterned papers and found a K&Co pad called Hopscotch full of lovely bright colours.

Making sure I didn't change the size of the image, I printed onto several different papers in the pad and then cut out the sails/boat/crab/sea in the colour/pattern I wanted.

I glued each piece into place on the base image with a Sakura Quickie Glue pen and added pale blue highlights to the cloud and his eyes with a Graph'It marker (7105)

Some doodled lines around the edge of the card finishes it off

I would like to enter this in the following challenges:-
 Stamp, Ink, Paper #59 Funny or punny
Squirrels Not-So-Random Challenge #1 Anything Goes

Creatalicious Challenges #96 - ANYTHING GOES with optional at the sea/beach

Animal Friends Challenge  #41 Summer 

Please pop on over to Crafty Calendar to see the fabulous samples from my teamies.

Have you seen my blog giveaway to celebrate my 200th post? You have until the 14th of August to enter (click on the picture below to see how to enter).

 

 Thank you for stopping by today,

Katrina x

Heart carving for leonie

Hello lovely peeps and a warm welcome to all of my new followers. I'm such a lucky girlie :)

 Today I'm sharing my little heart carving with you.

As a youngster, did you ever carve yours and your boyfriend/girlfriend's initials into a tree's bark, surrounded by a heart? This is what popped into my mind after I'd been playing with Leonie's 'Tree Bark' and 'All the Love' dies for a while.  Of course I only ever got as far as drawing one in my school books as a lovestruck teen, not wanting to mutilate a poor tree.

Anyway, I've tried to replicate the idea with my little heart hanging. To start off I die-cut some Kraft card with Leonie's 'All the Love' die

and snipped off the top left heart with my scissors. I did this twice and then painted both hearts with Titanium White acrylic paint
 

Next I glued a heart onto another piece of Kraft card with Cosmic Shimmer glue (this is a really strong adhesive) and repeated with the second heart onto yet another piece of Kraft card.

Now I ran the first piece through my Ebosser with the 'Bark Texture' die and glued the die-cut over the top of the second piece (with the same glue).

I painted over the top with a mixture of White Titanium and Burnt Umber acrylic paints, watered down and was slightly horrified to find that it turned purple!
 

I persevered and this time just painted on watered down Burnt Umber, which massively improved it (phew). It turned out to be a happy accident because I think the purple gives an added depth of colour to the finished piece.

Once it was looking a bit more like wood I 'carved' the initials into it by scratching it with a pokey tool. I've added a little cupid's arrow too :)

The 'W' refers, of course, to my fabulous hubby, Will

To finish off I glued the piece onto an MDF heart, trimmed the edges off and added some ribbon & tiny buttons.

I would like to enter this in the following challenges:-
 Crafty Friends Challenge #37 Favourite Embellishment (buttons)
We Love 2 Create #16 Anything Mixed Media Goes
Love to Craft #1 August Anything Goes
The Sisters of Craft  Always Anything Goes

You still have time to enter my blog giveaway, which runs until the 14th of August. You can enter twice if you add the link & pic to your own blog.

 

Thank you for stopping by today, I hope I'll see you again soon.

Katrina x