Merry Moose one sheet wonder

Merry Moose, One Sheet Wonder OSW, Pinewood planks, Woodland

I’m back with another one sheet wonder, but this time I stuck to one stamp set to add the focal feature, whilst going mad with lots of die cuts!

I chose a piece of 12 x 12 I had in the stash … it had actually been folded and gifted to me so it required a bit of flattening out! It’s similar to one of the dsp packs in this year’s mini catalogue but it isn’t actually that!

I created a template to create some cards that I knew wanted to work on square cards rather than the usual rectangle cards.

There isn’t a measurement this but if you can see the little dots each square is half an inch… so number 3 is a 3×3 inch square!

Anyways… there are the 15 cards I made!

I mat and layered the panels with either some brown or cream card stock. I also used some cream laid paper for the background panels, most of which were 5×5 squares.

Some of the brown cardstock is coredinations so I also dug out the sanding block to give it some different textures.

The Merry Moose stamp set came out and I went for some of the detailed image, and some of the block image.

For the block image I went for some as they were using the Soft Suede, and some with kiss stamping using the Dictionary stamp to give the moose image some texture.

The detailed image I did some colouring with pencils… just four of them, but enough to last a few minutes of relaxing!

The final ones I used the coredinations cardstock to punch the image and then used my sanding block to distress it.

I created the sentiments from the same Merry Moose set. I just used the sentiments in the set and Early Espresso set to create panels and banners.

Next I dived into the die stash and cut lots of foliage and decorative elements and circles from cream, satin gold and gold glitter card.

Then it was time to stick them all together and get some embossing done too with old embossing folders and the lovely Woodland and Pinewood Planks.

Card 1: entering this into the Great outdoors challenge at Sir stampalot challenge

Card 2: entering this into the use gold challenge at Jingle Belles Rock

Card 3:

Card 4:

Card 5: including this in the challenge at 2 crafty critters crazy blog as it imclide

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Card 12: entering this in the challenge at CRAFTY ANIMALS

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Card 15:

I embellished the cards using either the rose gold metal discs or the pearls.

At the end of finishing off all of these I headed off for a shower to “deglitter” myself. I really don’t like glitter but these cards needed the special touch of a bit of shine! So I persisted and added it in!

So happy with these 15 cards and love the Merry Moose so much … such a versatile bundle and good price at £29.50 for the 17 stamps and moose punch! … And if this project makes you think you need this in your life just pop me an email catiecuddles@yahoo.co.uk

Happy crafting!

Catherine

Stampin Up Sunday: Arrange a Wreath

Arrange a Wreath, Wreath Builder

Last Monday was my anniversary… 13 years of marriage with my lovely hubby! But I decided to use the card I made as this week’s Stampin Up Sunday.

I used some of the patterned paper on my desk as the background and then created a graphic looking card using the Wreath Builder dies and the Arrange a Wreath stamps.

Arrange a Wreath caters to a few seasonal celebrations and the hearts work for Valentine’s day… so I worked with the heart theme to make this into my anniversary card.

I die cut the two wreaths from black and white card to layer up the Wreath with the black making it more striking rather than pretty … which I think works better when making a card for a man.

The sentiment is from an old set but works as a white embossing onto the black. I then layered up the panels a few times to frame the image and tie in the colour scheme.

Entering this into the black white and one other colour challenge at Papercraft-challenges blog

So a late acknowledgement on the blog of the 13 year anniversary of this event… love you Mr J.

Happy crafting!

Catherine

DT: Craftyhazelnuts Christmas challenge blog: Joy

Design Team, Joy, Peace & Joy, Ribbons, Wreath Builder

This week at CHNC Hazel gave us the optional challenge of using the word Joy in our projects so of course I went straight to my Peace and Joy stamp and die set. I decided on using the die cut word rather than stamping and die cutting and then wanted to add the wreath too from the Wreath Builder set.

I used some old patterned paper from the stash and then used a few of the All the Trimmings embellishments to decorate the wreath.

I also changed up the sentiment a little to heat emboss in white rather than stamp in colour or black.

I layered up the thin green die cut three times for dimension and the largest bottom layer I added pool party ink to the textured white cardstock to blend with the colour scheme of the paper.

Love how this came out… and know exactly who this going to already! In fact I started writing my Christmas cards last weekend so I know if I have enough or if I need to do a final push on making for the next couple of months. The good news is that I should be fine and should have enough with any I make between now and then as extras… and I’m pretty much done with the sets I need to gift too!

That’s the good news about making them all year round! No mad rush at the end!

Happy crafting!

Catherine

Numbers postcard

Hot Picks

Today I am sharing the numbers postcard I made recently for this month’s postcard art swap. It’s a numbers postcard because the challenge was to use numbers in the postcard somewhere. Well I might have used a few in mine!

Firstly I used a Paperartsy hit picks mini stamp to add white embossing to the black background. Next I created a panel of white and added the laser cut red paper which I’ve had in the stash for an age!

I decided to finish off with the stamped image I had been gifted and a printed quote.

Love this funky postcard.

Happy crafting!

Catherine

Using gifted till roll

Till roll art

I made a card using a piece of the till roll I received in a swap decorated by Maria Adams.

I started with the wood paper mounted on some white card. Then I added the strip of autumn decorated till roll. Then I went through the bits and bobs box and found the printed sentiment and the printed image.

I also added two circles of card stock and added some doodles.

Lovely mixed media card.

Love how Maria’s artwork works with the printed elements. And love the little shiny patches of gilding flakes.

Happy crafting!

Catherine

Stampin Up sunday: Bird and Branches inchies

Birds and Branches, Birds and More, fresco finish paints, Paperartsy, Inchies and Twinchies

This week I have an odd thing to share with you for my stampin up Sunday post… six inchies using the flower stamp from Birds and Branches.

I made these for a swap at UK stampers and as I haven’t got any other SU projects on that I can share I figured why not share these for the Stampin Up Sunday.

I painted the inchies I’d cut from thick cardboard using my fresco finish paints and then stamped the flower using black versafine ink.

Next I stamped them again in Calypso Coral, die cut them with the coordinating dies and used some old flower brads to embellish before sticking them to the inchies.

Not my usual style but fun inchies nonetheless. And a different stampin up Sunday for me to share!

Happy crafting!

Catherine

DT: CHNC: plaid/checked paper

Design Team, Peace & Joy

Hi

This week Craftyhazelnuts Christmas challenge design team challenge was to use plaid/ checked paper.

I found some scraps of this cute green and pink coloured patterned paper and made this little tree card.

All the elements came from the patterned paper stash. All I added was the green cardstock and the stamped sentiment using the Peace and Joy stamps (I am obsessed with this set!). I also added a little yellow star on the tree!

Cute and quick!

Happy crafting!

Catherine

Autumn Leaves artist trading coins

Artful Days Goodie Box, Artist Trading Coins, fresco finish paints, Paperartsy, Gilding flakes

Today I have the coins I made for the swap I organise on Facebook. This month the theme is Autumn Leaves…

I had a hunt through the stash and found these fab metal leaves from an old Artful Days Goodie box.

I took three precut coins and gave them a coat of paint using mudsplat and autumn fire. I also stamped onto them using mudsplat to give a textured background.

Next I stamped in flitter glu the swirl from timeless textures and added gilding flakes. I love the effect this gives of a mottled metal.

Next I added the leaves with some linen thread. Then finished off with the sentiment stamped in fired brick distress ink.

As the leaves are so cool I didn’t think it needed much else.

Entering this into the autumn mood challenge at Challenge up your life and the anything mixed media challenge at Creative artiste challenge blog

Happy crafting!

Catherine

One sheet wonder part 4 pointsetta

Claritystamps, Decorative Dots, One Sheet Wonder OSW, Papermania, Peace & Joy, Promarkers, Letraset, Ribbons, Sheena Douglass Embossing Folders

Final installment for my one sheet wonder I’ve been sharing this week… and it was time to grab a flower stamp… the pointsetta from an old Creative Stamping magazine set to create the focal point.

All of them I chose the green 5×7 card base and the white background panel I embossed two of them to give them texture.

I coloured the flower using my promarkers and kept the colouring simple and in blocks as it is quite a graphic image. I also added a layer of wink of Stella over the flower part to give it some shimmer, but it doesn’t show in the photos!

I again raided the ribbon stash for some scraps of ribbon and added enamel dots for the embellishment.

The sentiment I chose the Clarity stamp Merry and the Peace and Joy Christmas to mix it up a bit.

Love how they came out…

Card 12:

Card 13:

Card 14: entering this into the embossing challenge at Dream valley challenges

So that’s all 14 cards shared over the past few days…

I did make one variation to the template

I added a strip from number 5 to number 14 as it wasn’t working with the 4 strips on card 5. Otherwise the template worked well. Especially with the larger 5×7 card blanks. Imagine it would be different again with different size card blanks.

So wonder if anyone else wants to join in and use this template… if so please let me see what you make as I love how different these cards can turn out!

Happy crafting!

Catherine

One sheet wonder part 3… stockings

One Sheet Wonder OSW, Papermania, Peace & Joy, Ribbons, Sheena Douglass Embossing Folders

Ok so I may have slightly cheated with this… and one of these cards has been shared already as part of the CHNC challenge of something beginning with S a few weeks ago… but I suppose you know by now I often make ahead of time and write up blogs later!

Anyways back to this blog… this is a continuation of the one sheet wonder I started sharing with you at the beginning of the week where I made 14 cards. Here are three of them in detail.

These ones I chose the green 5×7 cardblanks and added green in my stamping along with basic grey to go with the red and white patterned paper.

I chose stocking stamps from an old Creative Stamping magazine set and fussy cut each out and created a little hanger from twine for each of them.

Then on each card I layered up the dsp panels with a sentiment, the stockings, some ribbon and some rhinestones for bling.

Card 9:

Card 10:

Card 11:

I love the two where I sort of created a mantle piece for the stockings to “hang” from. Also love the embossing on card 10. Nice and snowy!

One more set of cards to share tomorrow so please remember to pop back and see them!

Happy crafting!

Catherine