Present Penguin

Hello lovely peeps, I hope you are well. 

Just popping in to share another Christmas card.

Ingredients:

6x6" card blank

Christmas Promise 12x12" Paper Pad (First Edition)

Gift Card dies (Tim Holtz)

Cosy Christmas & Snappy Christmas stamp sets (Becky Seddon)

white supersmooth 200gsm card (Limetree Crafts)

Promarkers

Merry Christmas wreath die (can't find the packet, I think a magazine freebie?)

Everyday sentiment tag stamp (Lili of the Valley)

button & white twine

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

As You Like It Challenge Favourite snowman or penguin - penguins of course, they are so cute and I love their little waddle when they walk.

Cutie Pie Challenge #153 add a button(s)

I love Promarkers #424 Anything Goes opt Christmas

Pammies Inky Pinkies 2048 animals

Christmas with the Cuties #44 feature a creature

Thanks for stopping by, stay safe

Katrina x

Skating penguin

Hello lovely peeps, I hope you are well.

Today's make is inspired by this fab card by Inge Groot 

which I found on Pinterest absolutely ages ago. The expression on his face is brilliant and I love the layout.

Happy Birthday to Ewe

Hello lovely peeps, I hope you are well.
 

I found this unfinished card while I was having a tidy up session, it's got one of Leonie Pujol's pattern stamps stamped all around the edge.

Little Holly

Hello lovely peeps, I hope you are well.

 

For today's card I've built a wreath with the Berry Branches stamps from Inkylicious. 

I wanted a slightly softer look so I spritzed the stamp after inking for a watercolour effect and used first and second generation stamping. After mucking up a couple of attempts doing it freehand I got out my stamping platform so I could overstamp if the image wasn't clear enough. The 'Merry Christmas' is also from Inkylicious. 

Finally Finished Project

Hello lovely peeps, I hope you are well.

Some of the bits for this project have been sitting in a cello bag for the last 4 years, lol. The background is one of Leonie Pujol's stamps (Flights of Fancy), clear embossed on white card and then inked over with distress inks.

I also clear embossed one of the leaves that I die-cut from snippets of green patterned paper. 

The little orange butterflies were cut from a tiny scrap of textured card using Impression Obsession dies - it shifted slightly as it went through my machine so the corner of one butterfly was missing but as I didn't have enough card to do another one I tucked it underneath one of the leaves to disguise it.

Other ingredients:

American Crafts ribbon

sentiment stamp from Personal Impressions.

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

Pixie's Snippets Playground #390

Sisterhood of Crafters embossing

Pammies Inky Pinkies 2046 Anything Goes

Crafts Galore Anything goes

Thanks for stopping by, stay safe

Katrina x

Happy Christmoose

Hello lovely peeps
 

I've had a bit of fun with the Merry Moose dies by Tim Holtz for this Christmas card by adding a customised sentiment with Hobby Art Alphabet stamps (I do love a pun). 

He's cut from brown core-dinations card which I then sanded to reveal the white core.

 

The trees were cut from dark green card with a Marianne die and then I stippled white paint onto them to make them look snowy.

The card base is a z-fold that I made from dark green card and some decorative paper (the 'Frozen Snowflakes' paper at the bottom is from Lili of the Valley and the main paper is a positively ancient 12x12" design from my stash (papermania?)

For extra dimension I attached a strip of acetate inside the centre of the card with red sticky tape so that one of the tress appears to 'float'.

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

That's Crafty! Creatives Christmas

ABC Christmas Challenge W for Winter Wonderland/X for Xtra Special

Creative Inspirations Winter wonderland

Simon Says Stamp (Mon) Happy holidays

Thanks for stopping by, stay safe
Katrina x

Leafy Spelling

Hello lovely peeps, I hope you are well.
 

Just popping in to show you the card I made for my Mum's birthday.

I covered an A5 landscape card blank with a paper from the Rose Garden paper pack (First Edition) and then cut lots of foliage from Falling Leaves papers (again, First Edition).

After a bit of judicious snipping I arranged the various sprigs to spell Mum and attached them to a strip of vellum with dabs of Cosmic Shimmer glue. This was then attached to the card by only adding glue where it was hidden by the lettering.

For finishing touches I added some knotted organza ribbon, a computer sentiment and tiny flowers made with Tim Holtz tattered florals thinlits and little gems.

 

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

Penny's Paper-Crafty Challenge Blog #485  Anything Goes using paper 

Rabisco Challenge  Anything Goes with haberdashery item 

Crafty Calendar Anything Goes

Cut it Up #213 For a woman/girl with a die-cut

Through the Purple Haze #173 tic tac toe (top row)

Thanks for stopping by, stay safe
Katrina x