Inkyfingeredcat

Another five of the cards made using the Kendras card challenge I started at the beginning of the month!

Some of these were a little fiddly and didn’t quite go to plan but love them still!

Card 6:

Added the extra strip to this one and also some die cut swirly shapes that I thought worked well with the papers.

There is a lot going on with this card but it’s fun and bright!

Card 7:

I love the way the patterned paper is placed on this one – albeit a little tricky to get it properly lined up.

I added the pebble shaped die cuts to ground the otters … which are of course very cute!

Next up another card that was a bit tricky!

Card 8:

I struggled a little to get the strips lined up but hoping the cluster in the bottom with the die cut bits coming out of it distracts from slight misalignment of the papers! Also those die cuts I thought looked a little seaweed like which seemed to fit for the theme of the card.

A fun way to add to the card!

Next a card that I still can’t work out how it was meant to be … but I love how I put it together!

The strips to the right when I put them together ended up too long a panel and then I cut it to be too narrow!

Fixed it with the added strip of glitter paper down the gap between the panel on the left and the one on the right.

Really love this card though. Also added the die cut little leaf elements as a border which I think is quite cute!

Card 10:

I know I’ve used the word cute a fair few times in this blog post but these otters really are adorable!

This card just had the one panel of patterned paper – so having the otters be all over made sense to add this – the cutest of the images – to be the focal point! And then turned it into the perfect card to send my niece who has recently given birth to her son, my latest great nephew, Albie.

Still got five more cards to make from this set – hopefully before the end of the month.

Which is your fave from this five .. mine is either this one for my niece or the thank you one.

Happy crafting!

Catherine

I have the following page to share today which I actually made and videoed the process a few months ago but just never got round to blogging and uploading! So now it’s up on YouTube for you to see the page come together.

It was a page kit I bought from Hey Little Magpie shop at the crop in May and love how I used it for my picture of my daughter at the marina in Torquay.

Absolutely love the tickets strip!

Fussy cutting these out of patterned paper was worth the effort!

A fab page!

Happy crafting!

Catherine

Hello! Time for another Festive Friday and this time I went back to the Christmas Tags and More speciality dsp kit but to make a card inspired by something I took screenshot of back in November last year.

I follow this lovely SU demo who goes by the name of PurtyPartay (such a fun name) and she does reels making cards and I love quite a few she did using this dsp and decided to have a go at this one!

I went with 3/4 inch strips which I made into banners and added them along the panel for the base (I didn’t emboss the background like she did although I think that would look cute). Then I trimmed the excess off the top.

Next I made a tag from the paper and some cardstock and threaded some ribbon scrap and some thread through for a cute bow and texture. I added the tag with foam at the top and then glued it at the bottom so it’s got a sloping dimension to it.

I added a bauble fussy cut from the sheet that has those on and then used two candy canes crossing on top of that with some foam adhesive for more dimension. I then gave those candy canes a generous coating of glossy accents.

For the sentiment I added in a vellum one from the Kingston Crafts kit which I added to cardstock and cut into a banner.

I adhered this with foam on the right hand side and then glue on the left.

Then I added some gems for finishing touches.

Inside I added one more banner and another bauble fussy cut out.

Love my cute version of the card that PurtyPartay made – she makes such fab cards and I think they are a bit different so encourage you to check her out!

Happy crafting!

Catherine

So I filmed an update on my 100 patterned paper challenge progress and put together some page kits and still ended up with 59 full sheets of 12×12 to get through so I’ve quite some way to go! But then to feel productive I made a card using the scraps I’ve already accumulated in this challenge – plus bits off the desk!

I really should have done a better job on the water coloring of the image – but still think it’s cute! And yes it is the same image from Creative Knockouts challenge as the printed image was still sitting on the desk!

I added scrap papers from the pouch and then the tape measure bits came from the tray of ephemera bits that is sitting on my desk awaiting use! Well they got used!

Added more to the inside too!

A really cute card with the vintage papers getting their use! And I felt productive at the end as something was ‘used up’ even if I still have over half of the challenge yet to do!

Happy crafting!

Catherine

So I have two cards to share today because I made a mistake with the original make and forgot the actual challenge of fun fold!

So card one is actually not my make for this fortnights challenge over at Creative Knockouts! in fact it was only when I went to upload the picture did I realise I had totally done the wrong thing – but as it’s a cute card I am sharing regardless!

So the image is from All Dressed Up who are one of my fave digi stamp designers – I think their images are so cute and this one of the two mice is absolutely adorable! I kept the colouring simple with some pale pink and grey water coloring and just a pop of the green for the foliage.

Then die cut the panel out and two patterned papers to make the background layers.

I added the ribbon bow behind the front two panels so it peeps out the side and then kept the whole thing quite flat.

I added the foiled sentiment and the gems for some shine and further embellishment.

I mean those mice are just so cute and love these frame dies I bought a month or so ago. So lovely.

Ok now for the actual card where I made it remembering the whole challenge!

And what a different vibe this one is!

I went with the ‘faux stepper’ fun fold card that my friend Tricia taught me as it’s one of the easiest I know! And went with very zingy bright papers taken from the #100patternedpaperchallenge scraps pouch!

After adding all the papers I grabbed some Alex Syberia die cut flowers and leaves to layer behind the main image as thought this worked well with the graphic papers.

I went with a more messy watercolour version of the image with my inks and lots of splatter. I added the frame of the orange and then raised this up to give further dimension and layer it above those flowers.

And finally a foiled sentiment – this time the bigger one as I had space for it on the top left of the top step element.

Really love this fun fold and that actually I ended up with two very different ways of using the cute image!

Happy crafting!

Catherine

Hi! Back with another design team project for Addicted to Stamps and more and our theme is Birthdays. I wanted to go with something cute and summery so grabbed Kingston Crafts papers and made a daisy themed birthday card.

The papers are the Kraft slimline papers and I remember a sample I made where I cut out the daisy’s and layered them up – this time I added them to different papers from the stack in the kit and this made for a really cute panel.

Adding in the torn edge is also lovely as it exposed the white core to the cardstock.

I wrapped the panel with the orange thread and made a simple bow to go behind the sentiment – this added some texture.

I added all the daisies and the sentiment on foam adhesive to give them dimension and then added glitter glue to the centres of the daisies for some sparkle.

I used a patterned card base also from Kingston Crafts and then inside added a strip leftover of the yellow and one more daisy to finish off!

Happy crafting!

Catherine

Right straight back into the normal challenges – starting with using up the patterned paper stash … in this case the cute otter themed papers I got given by the lovely Tricia … so off we go with Kendras Card Challenge. I’m a bit behind so this is my first play with number 22 but I know 23 is already available – so that will be next months!

Today I have just the first five cards … but the video has the cutting and organising for all the cards on it!

Card 1:

I did some stamping of seaside elements prior to making the cards and fussy cutting of the otters from some of the leftover papers. These became the focal points ready to add onto the card.

I also pulled all my sentiments for these five from the ready made stash I have! I inked up the panels to give some depth of colour.

Card 2:

I decided on a mix of birthday and anniversary cards.

This one I twisted the sketch as I wanted the fish to go left to right not up and down!

I also added in the die cut from the silver glitter cards stock.

I added some dimension for the panel to be lifted above the background panel – and also under the otters.

For all the cards I added them to 5×7 card blanks as toppers as the templates are for US sized cards not UK 6×4 card sizes.

Card 3:

This one is probably my favourite of the first five … I added edges to each bit using a promarker pen and then added foam under the otter cluster too.

Love the colour and the sketch and of course those cute otters!

It was fun to get the gems out too and scatter them across the cards with some different colours!

Card 4:

This one I went to town inking to bring out the embossing on the background and to make sure the panels of paper worked well together.

And then that seagull is so fun!

Can imagine him grabbing your ice cream at the seafront! 🤣

Finally … card 5:

I wanted the otters to stand out more than they did against the bold patterns and so added the layer of vellum between the top elements and the background.

This worked perfectly to tone down the background but still have the patterns and colours coming through!

I used the placement of the top elements to choose how to adhere to the background so the adhesive is less obvious!

All in all a fun set of five cards – looking forward to making the other ten but I think the five in one go was more than enough for one day!

Happy crafting!

Catherine

Ok now Christmas in July is finished – time to get back to sharing some scrapbook pages through my usual Scrappin Saturday! I made this page about my lovely parents back in May but only just getting around to sharing it … to be honest it is perfect for sharing today as the pic is of my parents at my Mums birthday last year – and today she turned 81!

I had put together the page kit to make this from papers from the #100patternedpaperchallenge pile and added in the leftover Love laser cut paper from Kingston Crafts.

I made this whilst at the crop in May and so I did add to the oat with the fab title Perspex piece.

I fussy cut the floral paper out to tuck the photo behind … I then adhered to the polkadot paper with some foam adhesive at the top part so it has some dimension.

I love how the laser cut piece looks too – perfect for a pic of my parents!

Really pretty page with those bold florals and the pretty embellishments.

We are off to a meal with the birthday girl this afternoon but later today I have another blog coming out (with a video) so please check back to see that!

Happy crafting!

Catherine

Whoop! I did it! 31 days of Christmas projects all with videos over on my YouTube channel- what a lot of fun it has been, along with a fair amount of work obviously!

Final card was of course about Father Christmas!

And it ended up being a sewing themed card as I used fabric instead of patterned paper and buttons and the cool measuring tape ephemera I had in the stash!

Some fun textures and of course the gorgeous vintage Santa

Kept the fabric and sewing theme going for the inside of the card too.

What a fun and different style of card to end the month on! It really has been a full month of different styles and ideas – hope you’ve enjoyed it as much as me!

Happy crafting!

Catherine

Final sketch of the month and I went with a grid background…

… but instead of patterned paper like I’ve used for the other sketches I made my own with a layered stencil.

So the poinsettia layered stencil for the background which I then cut into squares for the grid effect. With hindsight I would trim them smaller if doing this again so more of the gap would be evident and match more to the sketch – but hey hindsight is a lovely thing isn’t it?!?

Then used an old Waffleflower poinsettia layered stamp and die set for the focal point.

I die cut some circles from the plum coloured cardstock I had made the card base from and then added a banner under the die cut sentiment.

Love how the circles give some separation under the flower from the heavy patterned background.

Also think the gems look pretty that I added – nice to choose a slightly different colour scheme for the poinsettia too!

Inside I added the offcuts of the background to finish off.

Love this – but then we know I love a poinsettia themed anything!

Happy crafting!

Catherine