Furry Choir sneak peek

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

 There are some more adorable Christmas stamps being launched at Lili of the Valley early in September - this one is called Furry Choir.

I've had the digi version to play with and I printed it onto Simply the Best 250gsm card from Limetree Craft with a large margin on all sides. I coloured it with Promarkers, Flexmarkers and Graph'Its and stamped on the sentiment at the top using the letters from the Retro Alphabet by My Sentiments Exactly.



I layered the image onto a 6x6 card blank with a Grand Merry Christmas die-cut (Memory Box) and drew in musical notes with a black Sakura fineliner to match the ones around the choir.

The snowflakes were made with a mix of Robert Adams/Chinese dies from Ebay, with pale blue gems in the centres.

I would like to enter this in the following challenges:-
Die Cuttin' Divas #332 Sequins, gems or pearls
A Gem of a Challenge #201 Snow Fun
Moving along with the Times #52 Things beginning with B (Bunnies)
ABC Christmas Challenge P, Q and R People Quick and/or Red
Christmas at Sweet Stampin' - Anything Goes
The 12 Months of Christmas Link Up  #32 Optional theme: traditional christmas colours
Dream Valley Challenges # 162 Use a stamp or digi
Passion For Promarkers Challenge  #410 Make it digital

Thanks for stopping by,

Katrina x

In a Spin on Throwback Tuesday

Hello lovely peeps

This week's unblogged card features Leonie Pujol's In a Spin die.

First I used it to cut the outline in white card and glued this onto a cream textured card blank.

I cut the same shape from several different papers in the 'New Leaf' First Edition pad by Trimcraft and saved all the 'innie' bits [I saved the outlines for other projects, but there is no need to cut the whole design from each paper - you could use up all your little scraps of paper instead].

I glued the innie bits inside the gaps, with all parts of each circle having the same pattern.
  

The Best Wishes sentiment is from Leonie's Flight to Freedom stamp set, which I just stamped onto a circle of matching card.

Thanks for stopping by,

Katrina x

Say Cheese

Hello lovely peeps

Just a quick post today to show you the birthday card that I made for my nephew.

Ingredients
Mankind 6x6 paper pad from Trimcraft
Say Cheese cling stamp from Stampendous 
Daler Rowney watercolour paper
Black Archival Inkpad
Spectrum Aqua markers Olive, Blossom, Desert, Tan, Black
Black card
MFT Mini Film Strip
Brush lowercase alphabet dies by Debi Potter

01 Micron Black Fineliner by Sakura

I would like to enter this in the following challenges:-
 Crafter's Cafe #179 Black, white & 1 other colour
Animal Friends Challenge  #53 sports/hobbies
Dragonfly Dreams  Animals
Craft Rocket Challenges #40 Animal Kingdom
Colour Crazy Challenge #33 Anything Goes
SSS Work it wednesday  STAMPtember

Thanks for stopping by,

Katrina x

Fur or Feathers at AYLI

Hello lovely peeps

I'm chuffed to bits to be appearing as a Guest Designer at As You Like It today. They have challenges once a fortnight where you have to choose between 2 options and explain why.
The theme this time is Fur or Feathers, and as my logo includes a cat it really had to be 'Fur' for me.

Strangely I don't actually have many cat stamps as I don't often come across one that I like, but I love this background from IndigoBlu - 'Kibble Kits'. I stamped it onto watercolour card with Black Versafine ink and coloured it with Distress Oxides (I splodged them onto my craft mat and picked up the colour with a damp paintbrush).

I fussy cut along the top around all the ears and trimmed the edges down before mounting it on more watercolour card.

There are larger cat stamps that go with this background but I don't have them (yet). Instead I've used one of the images from the Three Amigos set by Mama Elephant which has three adorable critters holding up signs.

The set includes lots of little words but I wanted some a little (OK, a lot) more cheesy so I printed some sentiments off onto watercolour card from my computer (Verdana font, size 11).

 and stamped the cat around them.

I coloured in with the Distress Oxides again and cut out the cat with a little border.

I would like to enter this in the following challenges:-
Show us Your Pussies-Cat Only Challenge #21 Furrything Goes
Cardz 4 Galz # 54 Cats or kittens
SSS Work it wednesday  STAMPtember
2 Crafty Critter Crazies #5 Anything Goes with a critter
Crafty Animals  #5 Anything Goes
Oddball Art Stamps  Life in technicolor
That's Crafty! Challenge Blog Only cards
Deep Ocean Challenge #162 Fave Colour combo 

Thanks for stopping by,

Katrina x

Watering Can on Throwback Tuesday

Hello lovely peeps

Today's oldie features the Summertime stamps from Polkadoodles, which debuted on Create & Craft TV last June.

First I used the Bigz XL die 'Watering Can 3-D' (658454) from Sizzix to cut the pieces of the can from Kraft card. I inked the edges with Vintage Photo Distress Ink before assembling it.

I applied some green paint to the bottom of the can using a stencil brush and added flowersoft to imitate moss/algae.

The flowers and leaves were all stamped onto watercolour card and painted with Spectrum Aqua markers before cutting them out.  I attached them to the can with strips of clear acetate and filled the inside with coco fibre - you can see little wisps poking out of the top.

Thanks for stopping by.
I hope you can drop in on Thursday when I have a very exciting GDT spot :o)

Katrina x

May the Forest be with you

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

Just popping in to show you the birthday card I made for hubby. He is a Star Wars fan so the sentiment that came with the Forest Friends stamp set from MFT is perfect :o)

I stamped several of the characters onto Neenah Super Smooth 120gsm and cut them out with a small border. I coloured them in with Promarkers and a white gel pen for the deer's spots.
Oatmeal, Burnt Orange, Fire Brick
Ice Grey 1,2 and Blender
3210, 3255, 3290, 9400, 9403, 9404 (Graph'Its)

Each animal was glued onto a stitched circle, die cut from First Edition papers. The fox and owl have little light sabres made from matching paper. The HB stamp is from an old Kanban set.

I would like to enter this in the following challenges:-
Allsorts #429 Forest Friends
Simon Says Stamp (Wed) Add a sentiment
I love Promarkers #340 One for the boys
CAS On Friday #114 Birthday
Penny Black and More  All Creatures Great and Small
Craft Rocket Challenges #40 Animal Kingdom
One Crazy Stamper  My favourite things (these are my new favourite stamps)
Incy Wincy Designs - Go wild

Thanks for stopping by,

Katrina x

Little Summer Girls

Hello lovely peeps

Today's card features 3 Little Summer Girls from All Dressed Up, coloured with Promarkers
(sorry, I lost the list of colours but they include Daffodil Bloom, Pastel Yellow, Apricot, Spice, Lime Zest, Rose Pink, Caramel, Tan)

The papers are from the Citronella collection by K&Co and the buttons are from my stash.

I would like to enter this in the following challenges:-
Squirrels Not So Random Challenge #6 Holiday Fun
 Send a Smile for Kids Anything Goes (for kids)
My Time to Craft #352 hats and/or bags
Moving along with the Times #52 Things beginning with B (beach, buckets, buttons)
Kitty Bee Designs #101 Anything Goes opt twist summer
Love to Scrap  #100 Kidz Rule
Stemplegarten #64 Summertime
Polkadoodles   Anything Goes option Summertime/Holidays

Thanks for stopping by,

Katrina x