Inkyfingeredcat

Here we go … day 1 of the mammoth undertaking that is Christmas in July! And I decided to start this year with a look back at last year and chose my favourite card to use as my inspiration!

To the left is the card I made last year and then this years to the right has a different sentiment, sequins instead of the stars and I used different cardstock for the die cut panels!

I cut the background panels three times … a garden green layer, a shaded spruce and then a glitter cardstock from Alex Syberia.

I then die cut the pine cones from crumb cake cardstock but added vintage photo directly to the panel before I die cut for the base shapes and then blended some ink on the top sections to give them some depth.

The sentiment was already cut and layered and then added those sequins to finish off!

Inside I added the panel of white, a strip of glittered cardstock and then a final pine cone!

A really lovely, die cut heavy card to start this year off! Wonder what day 2 will bring?

Happy crafting!

Catherine

Wasn’t sure I would manage it with all the projects I need to get through but decided as paint was on the desk I would just go for it and create this fun easy painty card for my Make it Masculine series over on YouTube.

Just three colours of paint and no real tools needed … an easy background and a painty panel to cut the banner from.

I die cut the letters from a scrap of glitter cardstock and then a separate banner with a stamped sentiment finishes the card off!

Inside a leftover bit of painty cardstock added and a sentiment stamped.

Love how quickly this came together and fun to play with paint again.

Happy crafting!

Catherine

I knew when I saw the Kraft papers I had the perfect photo to scrap … a sepia version of photos from a photo shoot many years ago we had.

I went with a large panel of the scalloped stripe patterns onto the plain base. Then a few different scraps under the photo with white cardstock interspersed.

I then went to town fussy cutting elements from the floral paper.

I layered these up around the photo and then added some foam adhesive under some bits to give them dimension.

I then die cut the title using a lawn Fawn die set. I inked it to give it a little depth and stacked it three times to make it a bit chunky.

I added wink of Stella to both the title and centres of the flowers. Next I added some splatters of white gesso after covering the photo up so it remained clean!

Really love how the page came together – so pretty! A perfect pairing of photo and papers!

I’ve decided to give myself a bit of a break from scrapping for July as Christmas needs to happen and I have a lot on my plate – so no scrapbook pages for a few weeks! Sorry!

Happy crafting!

Catherine

Well here we are half way through the year and that’s 26 festive projects made so far including today’s … and this one is also my Christmas in June project where our theme is Father Christmas!

Admittedly it was a last minute make! it was only after tea tonight when I went to update Instagram with today’s post did I realise I still hadn’t made it … so a chatty video whilst I made this card happened on a very messy desk!

I used the Avery Elle Polar Pals set for the jolly little Santa and coloured him with ink and then added the flock to the beard, tache and the furry bits on his suit!

I created the background panels using bits and pieces on the desk leftover from other projects I’ve been making including the die cut foliage.

I mean he is a sweet looking Santa and keeping to traditional colours makes life easy I think!

My lovely friend Karen has made and shared in the fb group a few Santa Claus cards – wondering if we will see any more before the month is out?

So check out the video to hear how I am prepping and getting ready for Christmas in July – plus some other stuff I chat about!

Happy crafting!

Catherine

It’s time for another design team project for Addicted to Stamps and more where the theme is die cuts and/or stencils.

I went with both!

My card is probably quite autumnal themed but with summery colours!

I chose the colours for the card using Colour cube card …

I used Tumbled glass for the pale blue and then Bermuda Bay, Hello Honey, Calypso Coral and Sweet Sorbet.

For the stencilling I just used the middle three and then die cut some flowers and leaves. These I used all the colours to create the little cluster.

I die cut the hexagon shape to sit the cluster on and added the tumbled glass so that was similar colour.

I cut the stencilled panel into three and then cut a small strip off the middle panel at both sides too.

I then stuck it all down and added the sentiment. I added the two small strips down inside the card.

I then added some wink of Stella to the centre of the flower and the edge of the berries.

Happy crafting!

Catherine

I bought this set of stamps and dies (Concord & 9th) from Seven Hills to have some more masculine type themed dies and decided to make the Fathers Day card for my Dad from it!

My Dad isn’t massively into space travel (that’s my hubby’s thing!) but I figured this would still be a good card for him!

I used the turnabout stamp for the background stamping – although covered quite a bit of it up! Doh! And then used scraps of cardstock to die cut all of the elements out.

I then inked the planets and added stamping to the smaller ones and water splatters to the bigger one. I also inked the space rocket too and stuck it together.

I added dimension under the rocket and the smallest planet using foam adhesive and then a motion spring (aka Boinger) from Kingston Crafts for the sentiment.

I then adhered everything to the main square panel.

Then I chose the purple for a frame and added it to the patterned card blank from Kingston Crafts as a landscape card.

I added a die cut Dad sentiment too and then wink of Stella to the windows of the rocket for a tiny bit of shimmer!

I then die cut three small scraps with the star die and added those as embellishments!

A fun card and I hope my Dad appreciates it! I am collecting him and my Mum from a little holiday they’ve been on and can’t wait to see them safely home.

Happy Father’s Day to all the dads out there – especially to mine and my lovely hubby who is a fab dad to our girl!

Happy crafting!

Catherine

The Kingston Crafts 12×12 Kraft pad is perfect for scrapbooking and this is the first page I made …

I did base my page on a page kit Sarah designed that I made a few months ago as I loved the layout. I chose the star for the background and the rainbow stripes for the triangles.

I then fussy cut two of the scalloped lines of a sheet of that to create borders for the triangles.

I went with simple after that … mounted my photo onto white and raised it on foam adhesive for some dimension.

I added my journalling on strips of white to go above and below the photo.

I found the perspective title in my stash that I thought worked well with the photo of me at Alton Towers waiting to go on The Smiler!

And then used the puffy star stickers from an Everyday Stories kit in different colours to embellish.

A far more simple layout than I normally make but with the pattern and the large photo with all those twists and loops of the rollercoaster it seemed like more would have been too much so I stopped the adding and decided enough was enough!

This one got shown on tv back in May! So funny to see myself on telly!

Happy crafting!

Catherine

Getting close to Christmas in July and I’m getting nervous as nowhere near as prepped as I should be! Oh well! This one was very much about grabbing papers and then deciding what to make!

And what came together turned out pretty nice I think!

I grabbed some Kingston Crafts papers and then a strip of the Indigo Blu tartan paper to make up the layers and then some scrap cream cardstock to make up the bow.

I inked the die cut pieces with vintage photo and then stuck together the double bow.

Then I decided a vellum layer with an embossed sentiment would work nicely too.

I inked the edges and of the panels and ruffled them up a little on the smaller panels and then added to the red card blank I made.

Inside the card I added the cream panel and some strips of the patterned paper along with another stamped sentiment.

Happy crafting!

Catherine

I wanted to make another card using the Kraft floral papers…

I went with a slanted piece and then fussy cut a scalloped border under which I added a fussy cut floral element!

I then added the green panel, a scrap of ribbon and then the sentiment!

I also added the little chipboard stars to embellish!

Happy crafting!

Catherine