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It’s becoming a bit of an obsession this 100 patterned paper! I am really enjoying grabbing bits from the pile, including scraps to create pages! This one I made last week after work for the Scrapbook Challenges UK winter team challenge.

Absolutely delighted to use that green panel up from the stash and on a none Christmas themed project even though the paper was originally from a Christmas pad from Kingston Crafts.

Also added in some scraps from a page kit I had made up (I must get around to photographing it and blogging it too!) so that’s the brown scalloped elements to the right.

I used quite a few little laser cut pieces from a 49&market pack for the greenery and tags and then stickers from other leftover sheets I had from other page kits.

I added the lovely lacy rub ons too – now these are really a blast from the past as I think I’ve owned them at least 7 years and hadn’t used them once!

My page needs journaling adding about how I am always waiting for my family to leave the house or in this case the lodge at CenterParcs – they are often trailing me by quite some distance!

Really love how the page came out.

Also a quick little note – apparently it is my WordPress birthday today – 14 years since I logged in on WP – I know I didn’t start this blog at that point though – think my original was still in operation at that point – and I know I regularly ‘clear the old stuff’ from here to stay within the storage limit – but still 14 years ago! A lot has changed in my crafting since then I can tell you! But still loving blogging and sharing my makes with the internet and friendly crafty folks!

Happy crafting!

Catherine

Normally when it comes to this challenge for ATSM I choose to go with die cuts so I decided to challenge myself to instead go with stencils!

I chose to use an Altenew stencil and stamp duo that creates these fab letters and then also has the wobbly flower elements. So I cut myself a panel for a DL card and had fun selecting pinks, purples and blues for this card.

The insides of the letters are then stamped and so I went with black to make it bold which meant I then added the black elements to both the flower centres and the little dotty elements I chose to stamp as contrast.

I then heat embossed the second sentiment onto black with white embossing and chose to mount the panel on black to give it a really slim frame.

I think this helped to make the colours pop a little more!

I added the gems but wanted just something a little more – so I used my wink of Stella to outline the flowers and add a little definition to the letters too!

I kept the inside simple with just a strip of black – not exactly massively hard work – but I think it helped finish it off.

Hope you like my fun and slightly funky card! I am quite pleased with how it came out!

Happy crafting!

Catherine

Back with the second session of the cards I am making using the Crafters Companion paper and the Kendras card challenge #kcc21 templates.

I videoed the process again and these five all had die cut elements and some also some foiling. I selected the card sketches that had the circle or the oval die cuts and did all that first and then had the idea to do some foiling so did that all in one go too!

Card 1

Card 2

Card 6

Card 14

Card 15

I mounted the card fronts onto 6×6 card blanks – so these become pretty special cards.

I still need to finish the other five in this series but it will be soon – so please keep an eye out!

Happy crafting!

Catherine

It’s the first of the month which means patterned paper time and this time using Kendras Card Challenge 21!

I made the first five cards for this first video – which also include the cutting and organising for all 15 cards.

I’m using a Crafters Companion paper I was gifted by a friend quite a few years ago and the great thing is that a few of the papers have some cut apart elements to I could use them to create focal points or embellishments on the cards.

I chose which cards to make at random …

Card 3

Card 4

Card 9

Card 10

Card 13

I picked a few different sentiments from my stash of ready made ones – but all birthday ones as those are the ones I need the most in my stash!

I chose to use a few different bits and bobs of stash … gems, doilies… to add bits of texture and finishing touches.

I also used embossing on three of the cards using embossing folders.

A lovely set of cards – more details will be on the instagram!

I’ve already filmed the making of the next five cards in the set – so watch out for those coming soon!

Happy crafting!

Catherine

Hi!

Today I’m sharing both here and on my YouTube the scrapbook page I made last Saturday!

This bright and cheerful page was a scraplift from Amy Kattenbelt…

This was a page she made for the Scrapbook Challenges UK for week one of our winter challenge and in week 3 we got extra points if we did a scraplift of one of the three choices we were given!

I used papers from my #100patternedpaper pile and most of the colourful ones were Kingston Crafts ones so I also pulled in KC embellishments from the Rainbow paper kit.

I added ink and splatters and references to happy and the colour yellow to also meet the challenge – plus you got points if you did two or more photos! 💛

Great to scrap these pirate golf photos from our holidays in Devon – great to turn the grey sky photos into a sunny page too!

Happy crafting!

Catherine

Took some scraps and made a fun card for today’s #festivefriday

I had leftover panel of the Indigo Blu tartan and some of that Kingston Crafts snowflake paper and so made a few panels to layer up along with some foiled cardstock for some bling and different texture.

Then I chose one of the die cut trees I was gifted many years ago but still have some left to use.

I decided to ink it up with the Pine Needles and Lucky Clover inks and then overlay with a layered stencil and use the same inks to add that pattern.

The little stars are die cuts so added some of those and then added glitter glue to them to give them sparkle and texture.

I then added a die cut foiled sentiment – it’s not perfectly straight so on this photo it looks weird but overall it’s not that bad! 🤣

Oh actually it looks really wonky now I look at it so will now have to fix that my making another one but straight and adding it on top – but that’s a job for another day!

Inside the card I added remaining scrap pieces of the paper and a strip of the foiled cardstock and one of the die cut stars!

Still on a bit of a mission to remember to decorate the inside as well as the outside of the cards! Scraps of paper leftover really make that easy!

Happy crafting!

Catherine

So the lovely Tricia created a little class which I joined on Sunday – I still have to finish the inside of the box project off – but as I’ve been AWOL the majority of the week I thought I would just pop on and share the quick pic of what we made!

Two little 3×3 notecards and then a box with a pull out concertina memory keeping element.

I need to find pics to add to this so I can give to my Mum for Mother’s Day – but seriously how cute?

I just changed up the sentiments but otherwise kept the projects as they were designed by Tricia.

Sorry the posts have been a bit lapse – had a big piece of work on and had to have the crafting take a back seat – hoping that tonight I might get a bit of craft time and normal service will resume in the coming week!

Happy crafting!

Catherine

Today I am sharing the four layouts I did last weekend at the Warrington crop. I had such a fabulous day and had a really good laugh whilst also being pretty productive! There were a few of us who were involved in the Scrapbook Challenges UK group so there was a fair amount of competition going on and great deal of banter! All four of mine were included in the challenge for the week as either 4 or 3 pointers – I couldn’t work out a way to get balloons in the pages! 🤣

Page one was a page kit I tweaked. Sarah designed this one and I loved working with it but felt it was too vertical with the photo so had to turn the layout and then mixed it up a little more.

Really happy with how this turned out.

Next I used the leftovers of the papers from the page kit and added in some other bits leftover from #100patternedpaper challenge pile which I had taken along with… this made this page of me and the hubby.

Really liked how the dark background helped to make the colors pop and the pinks picked up on the colours in the photo.

It was fund to also hunt through my limited supplies from being at a crop to make this work – I think the star gems I added must be around 15 years old – definitely good to get something old used!

Next I will share the page I actually made last because I made use of a lot of the stickers left from the page kit – plus a few bits of the paper – but teamed them with very different papers from my #100patternedpaper pile.

Those stickers were perfect for making the subject of the photo and story work and I loved working the torn red circles for pulling out the pattern on M’s hat – plus the check in the background just helps ground it all I think!

A fun page that came together quickly – although I will admit I left the journalling to the day after as I was super tired at this point in the day! Who knew crafting could be so exhausting! 🤣

To be honest I was probably exhausted by this final page I am sharing where I decided to add lots of sewing!

I was inspired by having seen a lot of pictures of other peoples makes where they used strips to make a Christmas tree in the background – and so that is what I did. I did make it a little different by having each strip be a triangle (the challenge for week 2 included using triangles on a page).

I then used a new stitching ruler that Sarah has designed for Hey Little Magpie that I bought at the crop to pierce the different designs across the tree and then sat and sewed them all with the brown thread.

This was time consuming and headache inducing (the pattern on the other side of this paper did not make it easy to see the holes!) but I think well worth the effort!

I loved adding the Pom Pom ribbon on this and all the embellishments from the embellishment kit (and a couple of new purchases from the HLM shop like the title!).

So those are my four pages. I’ll share more details on instagram but here is a quick collage!

Happy crafting!

Catherine

I’m combining this weeks Festive Friday with my prompt response for the Christmas in July group too – as I must admit I kind of forgot about it and then Karen has been posting all those fabulous snowmen cards in the group so I got crafting!

Our theme for January was do you wanna build a snowman and this is the card I made featuring many many snowpeople!

Now it is quite an unusual colour scheme for a Christmas card but I love it!

I chose the colours based on the ColourCube card I selected from the Winter selection.

I must admit I might have been tempted to say this is more autumn than winter vibes but I think it still works! Admittedly my colour choices might have been more pinky than orangey but still not bad!

What really amused me was that I was visiting my friend Deb’s blog last night and she had used a random number generator and it gave her the same card I had chosen! Can’t believe in the same week we’ve used the same card as inspiration by accident!

I used my alcohol markers to add the colour and then base of the grey and the coral pink colour to keep it going!

Added the Mossy meadow sentiment, because I wanted to bring in a bit more of the dark green.

I then went to town with the wink of Stella for shimmer! 💖

Inside the card I added a strip with a few more snowpeople and edged it with the pen to give it some framing – otherwise kept it simple!

So it turned out I did wanna build multiple snowmen … but as someone who hates being cold and physical work I only like building them like this inside my warm craft room! 🤣

So there we go – four Festive Fridays done – including this one which is also my Christmas in July January project.

I did record the process of this card too if you want to check out my YouTube video

Happy crafting!

Catherine

So this cute otter card was a card kit that was gifted to me by the fabulous Tricia.

I needed a quick project to do when I only had 30 mins till an episode of the Traitors last Friday night and so grabbed this that has been sitting (along with some more of the cute otter papers she also gifted) in my to do pile for quite some time and made up the card.

Of course you know me I did change it up a tiny amount! Firstly I used the reverse of the paper for the main square and also trimmed down that square a bit more so I could see more of the embossed panel of blue. I sort of wish I had trimmed it down a bit more but hindsight is of course a wonderful thing!

I changed the sentiment and grabbed this one from an Indigo Blu old magazine paper as I thought the colours worked with the papers and the otter image.

I also grabbed the thread from my stash to add a bow and love how this adds some softer texture – oh and also the cream sequins.

I raised the patterned paper panel up on foam adhesive to give dimension.

Inside the card I just added the off cuts of the paper and brown cardstock to the bottom as a fun staggered strip.

A lovely project to put together – now having thoughts as to what to do with the other otter papers too as they are so cute!

Happy crafting!

Catherine