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

Ralph in the Easter Parade

Hello lovely peeps

Just popping in with my second entry in Bloobel's Progressive Challenge.
The theme for March is 'Easter Parade' - there was a choice of 5 characters with hats which you have to decorate, I chose 'Ralph'. Isn't he fab ?!

 I coloured him with Promarkers
Cool Grey 1,3,4,5
Pastel Beige, Khaki, Umber
Cardinal Red

then added shading with Lyra Rembrandt Polycolor Pencils
Black/Dark Sepia/Van Dyck Brown

I layered him up on 'Gentlemen Folk' papers from Nitwit, then added buttons and a sentiment printed on my computer using the font Mister Sirloin BTN Rare.  His hat is decorated with a punched flower with a dab of 'Buttermilk' Nuvo Crystal Drops from Tonic in the centre.

I would like to enter this in the following challenges:-
Bloobel Progressive Challenge - Easter Parade (decorate the hat)
Animal Friends Challenge  #48 Animal with big ears
Colour Crazy Challenge #12 AG 
Incy Wincy Designs - Happy Birthday

Thanks for stopping by,

Katrina x

Robots Rule for Leonie

Hello lovely peeps

Here's the last of the cards I made for Leonie's Typography launch - I saved the fun one til last :)

To do the robot's head and body I stamped some of the frames from the Banners and Frames set. They were a bit too wide for what I wanted so I stamped off the edge of the card and stamped the extra ends on.

I used Versamark ink with Pewter embossing powder on two different shades of grey card

For the robot legs and arms I embossed the legs from the Ragdoll stamp set and cut them out. Because the stamps are polymer they are easy to bend.

I attached the arms and legs at the back with tape

and then glued the robot onto layers of  paper from the Wild at Heart 8x8 pad by Trimcraft. There's a little circle in the Banners and Frames set that I used for the eyes, and I used one of the buttons in the Ragdoll set for the 'screws'

To do the lettering I covered some card with black embossing powder and heated it

then cut it up and placed it over the relevant letters on the Typography dies before running through my Ebosser.

I finished off with some gears that I die-cut using the 'Cogs and Gears' dies from Sara's Just For Men collection.

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

Southern Girls 156 Use die-cut
One Crazy Stamper  Anything Goes
World Wide Open Design Team Challenge 20 Anything Goes
Penny's Paper-Crafty Challenge Blog #322 Anything Goes
Love to Scrap  #95 - Anything Goes

Thanks for stopping by,

Katrina x