Being inky and creating pretty stuff
Had a playtime with the Tropical Hideaway background stamp and this is the card I made…
I had no plan making this card… I videoed the process… which shows how I had zero idea what I was doing, but had fun as I did it!
I teamed it with a label, gold laser cut embellishment and the lovely green twine. I finished off with an Avery Elle sentiment stamp and die set.
Love this!
Happy crafting!
Catherine
Today I have a fall / autumn themed card made for the latest Creative Knockouts challenge blog as my design team contribution.
I used the lovely Sheepski Designs image called Winter Warmer which I printed onto mixed media cardstock and watercoloured using watercolour pencils.
I used some papers from the stash to make up the background and used Calypso Coral cardstock for the background.
I actually filmed the make (it’s been a long time since I’ve done this!) so check out the video.
Happy crafting!
Catherine
Today I have the tag I made for this months UK stampers forum tag swap… and I went BIG!
I decided to use a tag I’ve had in the drawer for a long time which is an Art by Marlene one. I decided to cover it with word stamping … using the word Happy from all the stamp sets where I could find it!
I kept to a blue theme choosing blue and teal coloured inks. I then chose some star stamps from the stash and filled in areas around the words with the stars.
Next I added a strip of the black cardstock across the middle. This gave my main star and ‘happy’ a bit of grounding.
I die cut lots of stars from the glimmer speciality paper I still have a bit of in my stash and stuck them down all over the tag.
I finished off the sentiment with the white embossing onto black to make the full sentiment of sending a little Happy your way
I added some silver and blue ribbon to finish the tag off and called it done!
Happy crafting!
Catherine
Hi there! Thanks for popping along to my little corner of the Web. I’ve got another Happy Little Stampers design team contribution to share with you today. This was for the Anything Goes with Dies blog.
This card turned into a labour of love … lots of stamping, masking and colouring with just a bit of die cutting!
I made this for my cousins daughters birthday as the girl images reminded me of her.
I cut a piece of 6×6 white and stamped the Polaroid image from Concord and 9th all over it, and then masking I filled in some of the gaps. Next I took the girl images which were magazine stamps and stamped those as the photo images… again lots of masking to keep the images within the frames.
I then coloured them using both Stampin Blends and promarkers until the whole sheet was coloured in. I also edged the panel with black.
Next I stamped and die cut the camera image and then coloured that in. I also die cut some hearts and coloured them using the same colours so they would coordinate.
I decided to then put a few things together to make the sentiment. Firstly the smile die from Lawn Fawn which I stacked a few together to give it dimension and then some little alphas. Then Your from Happy Celebrations and Birthday from Biggest Wish.
I added some foam behind a few elements and behind the main die cut panel I added some ribbon.
I then went to town with wink of Stella on the hearts and the smile die cut.
Inside the card I added three individual Polaroid images I had cut out and coloured and some more of the hearts.
For the envelope I kept it simple and just added the stamped hearts in similar colours.
Love how this turned out.
Happy crafting!
Catherine
Saturday was my lovely friend Sue’s birthday. I made this colourful card for her.
I decided to use the lovely Nature’s Prints stamp and used some glossy photo paper to create a fun alcohol ink background to stamp onto. I must admit my alcohol ink background didn’t blend as well as I would have liked but when die cut and stamped it looked fabulous.
I decided to add them to an embossed panel and then added the sentiment using the Biggest Wish stamps. I also added a little strip which I added some ink to so it had a little rainbow popping under the sentiment.
I finished off with sequins just to add some sparkle.
Happy crafting!
Catherine
So here is my design team contribution for this months Anything Goes Birthday challenge over at Happy Little Stampers.
I’ve gone bright and funky with a pop of gold and black.
I grabbed the Cottage Rose stamps and dies and after a blending inks across the Basic White I decided to stamp in black and have them teamed with a black label to contrast the bright distress oxide inks I used.
I created the cluster and then decided I wanted some background stamping. I decided to use the splotches stamp from Nature’s Print and added that using the Mowed Lawn distress oxide so it was in keeping with the colours of the flowers and leaves.
I had wanted to add in the additional elements of the gold laser cut leaves from Forever gold pack so I slotted a few in so there was some shine, and also the glittery gems from the stash.
Love how this finished up … so bright and cheery.
Happy crafting!
Catherine
Hello! Happy 1st September! I’m actually writing this post ahead of time and scheduling it because by the time you read this I will hopefully in the sun by a pool and cocktail in hand on my holidays!
Today I have my design team contribution for Craftyhazelnuts patterned paper challenge blog and once again I turned to the stack of Making Cards magazine kits and made these two cute boy birthday cards.
Last month I said I don’t use characters in my cards often and then 2 months on the run I’ve ended up with character based cards! Lol! The reality is I needed to make some little boy cards so these images and fun papers came in handy … and so I saved them to share for my design team contribution!
Both cards are similar with the same big Heffy Doodles die cut as a big feature and then the same sentiment stamp, but I did mix them up a little with the colours as the first I added the royal blue into the mix, and the second I made a watercolour/ smooshed ink cardstock to die cut and stamp onto!
For both cards I die cut the 💙 from the top of the i a few extra times to add as embellishments. On the first card I also stacked the sentiment to give it even more dimension.
Inside the cards (and on the envelopes) I added scraps of the paper left over. Oh I also must mention that the stripey paper was not diagonally striped originally but I thought it looked better at the angle hence I ended up with a triangular piece inside the card. May seem like an obvious way to use striped paper but I rarely twist the paper and so thought I ought to mention it!
Love how both of the cards came out, particularly like that watercolour/ smooshed ink die cut.
Happy crafting!
Catherine
Today was GCSE results day for my princess. I am writing this blog post ahead of time as I know that she will have done an amazing job on her GCSEs and at this point we will be out celebrating before packing for a holiday!
I know we will be proud of her regardless of the actual results so I made a card a few weeks ago in readiness …
I used a Dylusions background (promise there aren’t any more left from the stash I made years ago … might actually have to have some inky time sometime soon to make some more! 😀 )
I also used a Memories and More card, another dylusions background cut down and a die cut ring. Then I added some flowers I had stamped and fussy cut out, some black die cut leaves from the Cottage Flowers set and a ribbon.
I chose to then add a sentiment from the Amazing Phrasing saleabration set and finished off with some black gems.
Inside I added a strip I had cut off the background and a remaining flower onto a panel of white as I had chosen a black card base.
Just love this… if I get a chance I will edit this to add in the actual results… but if I don’t get a chance just know we are proud parents regardless!
Happy crafting!
Catherine
Edited …all 10 GCSEs passed, she’s happy, we are happy and of course very proud… but then we already were… just have papers to explain one of the reasons why!
Hi!
How quickly the weeks go … how are we already mid August?
Well it is time for me to share another design team contribution, this time for Creative Knockouts where we have an Anything Goes challenge this week. There is a prize sponsored by Pretty Cute stamps so I encourage you to join in.
Here is the card I made…
I decided to have fun fussy cutting and using some old dsp …
This was a half sheet of 12×12 so it have me a big pile of fun flowers to use. I also had half a sheet of one of the other pieces of dsp from the pack so used some of that in the background and as a banner strip.
I decided to have a bit of texture with the chevron embossing folder and then the sentiment strip across the middle raised with the larger flower as the focal image. Of course I used the Biggest Wish stamp set again to do this … I really don’t know what I would do without this stamp set!
I added some of the smaller flower images around the card too and then added the panel to the right hand side of the card.
Inside I added one of the other flower images I had cut out.
Love this … it was actually quite relaxing doing all the fussy cutting and I still have lots left so will pop them in a little pouch so I can come back and use them on another project another time.
Happy crafting!
Catherine
Played with some blending onto white cardstock and then added some stencilling with iridescent modelling paste.
Then I went to town with Forever Fern stamps and a few different coloured inks. I decided to make it into a card for my friend’s who recently got engaged (I unfortunately couldn’t go to their party 😔).
So I then cut a few of the bowl shapes from the Splendid Stems dies set and created a bowl of foliage.
I added a little organza bow and some pearls to finish off.
Not 100% sure about the placement of stencilling, think it might have looked better more central under the bowl of foliage, but love the final card.
Happy crafting!
Catherine
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