Inkyfingeredcat

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

At the start of the month I finished up the five remaining cards from the KCC22 I started back in March – this left me some bits and bobs on the desk – so I made a final card!

The strip panel I had made from tiny bits of the papers I had cut off and then there were a few flowers left, one leaf and some sentiments I had foiled and cut out.

I then had some scraps of the plain cardstock I had used to mat and layer and add in as solids so created the little topper.

I then cut myself a card blank from a remaining full sheet of the paper (it’s just about thick enough for a card base!

Inside the card I added a panel of white and another leftover flower.

I added some sequins to the flower centres for the front and called this done!

Two flowers and a couple of sentiments remain but decided to throw those away as not going to try and make another from those bits so I’m being uncharacteristically ruthless! 😂

Happy crafting!

So the name for this kit from Kingston Crafts is Kraft Slimline papers but is also contains some other lovely colours and I concentrated on that for this page.

I chose the two greens and the blue to create a landing cluster for the photo (sunset at Whinfell Park, CenterParcs). I went with a pastel blue base from the pastel cardstock kit and added some stencilling in light blue along with a bit of packaging technique to give a smudgy look!

Then I added the cluster using the slimline papers. I did also added in some bits of the cloud patterned kraft as I thought it worked well with the photo.

I mat the photo with black and then raised that up on foam adhesive for some dimension. Then I added lots of die cut leaves I had cut from scraps of different greens and white.

I stamped and die cut the title – Christmas sentiments sometimes work for other purposes and Peace is definitely perfect for how this photo makes me feel!

Then grabbed some stickers for adding some little phrases to the page!

I then went round the panels with pen and doodled lines and added the journalling.

A gorgeous page!

Happy crafting!

Catherine

This card came about because I decided to ‘tidy up’ my Christmas boxes ahead of the chaos of Christmas in July but I didn’t get very far as I got distracted with the papers and made a card instead!

I grabbed these green themed papers and made a card base and then a topper and a strip for the left hand side. Then grabbed a digital stamp that was already coloured in and cut out.

I decided to die cut the vellum scrap with my Alex Syberia snowflake die – oh so cute – and added that too.

Then added the image on top with some foam adhesive to give it dimension.

I then grabbed the sentiment die cut that had been foiled and added that too … then I went Wink of Stella mad and added it in a generous coat over my snowman!

I’m not sure that the photo captures the sparkle well but I think you can see some of the sparkles on the snowman’s head!

Inside the card I added a white panel and then some strips of the patterned paper.

Love this – it’s quite a funky looking card I think – of course this was a great distraction but hasn’t meant I have finished the tidying up and organising! 😂

Happy crafting!

Catherine

Back to the colour cube challenge as I wasn’t sure what to make with the new to me Waffleflower stamps I had bought … so I went with whatever the random generator gave me … 938 … which meant lots of teal greens!

So I first of all created the topper panel with the plant pot and vases using distress inks in Tumbled Glass, Evergreen Bough and Pine Needles.

I then created the background panel inking with the same three colours.

I grabbed a stencil from the stash to add some pattern in opposite corners and then some of the stamps from the stamp set got stamped too.

Then I started adding a bit of depth to the edge with black soot on both the topper panel and the background panel.

I added the banner using a scrap of black and then added the rub ons from 49&market just add a little extra pattern and grunge.

I chose an Alex Syberia sentiment die cut for the finishing off … a vellum shadow layer and the words from black.

I added everything to the black card base and inside added a panel of card and stamped one of the vases and some greenery.

I just love the drama of this card.

And lovely to have the card determine the colour scheme for me!

Happy crafting!

Catherine