Author: Catherine

I am an on-the-side and increasingly up front papercrafter who loves nothing more than getting inky and creating pretty things with paper and stamps! I am also a wife to lovely hubby and mummy to a wonderful 14yr old princess.
Alphabet, Art by Marlene, Concord & 9th, Gelli Plate, Stampin Blends alcohol pens

Gelli printing session

Catherine

I haven’t been feeling very well recently and focusing on things isn’t always easy so decided to just sit and play with ink and my gelli plate.

I made these three backgrounds and one where I was wiping off the brayer.

By the time I had made these I decided to make something with half of the yellow one.

I decided to emboss the background with some extra yellow ink. Then added some scraps of cardstock and then chose to stamp and colour the Art by Marlene beach house as the focal feature.

I also stamped the Corcord and 9th sentiment and cut that out.

Added the sequins as a finishing touch!

Happy crafting!

Catherine

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Design Team, Stampography

DT: ATSAM – #442 Christmas

Catherine

Hello!

Another Design team contribution this time for Addicted to Stamps and More which I’ve joined this year (to add to my collection of design teams) … the challenge has had a little holiday but is back now and the theme is Christmas.

I will confess I made this back in February and videoed the whole process with a lot of fast forwarding as I did a lot of stamping of these baubles before I got to the final idea of making the three panels. But then I corrupted the video so that went in the bin!

Now this is a super shiny card with all the gorgeous embossing and so I kept it quite simple with all the white… quite unusual for me!

I really love how it finished up and the pearlescent embossing shows up best in real life … I couldn’t get the camera to pick up how pretty it is here.

I went for a different sentiment originally but this more simple type font one works best keeping the card quite simple.

Hope you like this clean and reasonably simple card … I wouldn’t say completely simple because it takes time to stamp in all the colours but the combination of the stamp platform and the stampin write markers makes the job simple.

Happy crafting!

Catherine

Artist Trading Coins, Distress oxide ink, Dylusions spray inks

ATCoin swap

Catherine

It’s been a long time since I made any coins but just like with the inchies I found some I had got cut out of packaging in the drawer and decided why not make use of them and just have a little play with the bits and pieces on my desk. I also made inchies as toppers on the coins because why not when they were to hand.

So like the inchies I made the other day I used inks to add colour to some white cardstock and then stuck them to the packaging coins. I did the same with the inchies but in darker colours so there was some contrast.

I used my little rainbow themed stamp set to stamp the sentiment and then the three rainbows for the focal point. I did this on scrap cardstock and fussy cut them out before sticking them on.

I added wink of Stella to the rainbow to add some sparkle and then a sequin for fun embellishment!

Simple but cute coins and it was nice to both make use of them and to do something a bit different from my usual card making.

Happy crafting!

Catherine

Design Team, Designer Series Paper, Digital stamps, Ribbons, YouTube video

DT: Creative Knockouts – add a sentiment

Catherine

Hello! Time for another design team contribution and this time for Creative Knockouts where the theme for this fortnight is to add a sentiment.

I chose to use this flowery watering can image which I was gifted by Connie Fong who are sponsoring the challenge. The image is called Garden Bouquet.

I printed it off in a couple of sizes but for this one I went large and ended up making a 7×7 card. I love the colour schemes and the pretty vintage style I ended up with.

I coloured the image using distress inks and water and a paintbrush and kept the painting quite loose so it has some depth but no precision. I also did some fussy cutting around a rectangle shape so some of the image fell off the edge of the rectangle.

I added the lacy trim and some brads and then the sentiment is hand stamped from a magazine freebie set. I then fussy cut, mounted it, and fussy cut the mount. I added foam to both the sentiment, the top rectangle and then the full background so there is plenty of dimension.

Love how it turned out. Think this image would be great for decoupage too so may give that a go at some point.

Also I did make a video of me making this if you fancy watching me in action!

Happy crafting!

Catherine

Expressions in Ink, Promarkers, Letraset, Ribbons, YouTube video

Happy birthday to my princess

Catherine

My gorgeous girl turned 17 today … still can’t believe she’s reached this age already and that I’m old enough to have a 17 year old!

I made a fashion and green themed card for her.

It’s certainly a little different than my usual style with these fun fashion sketches but I thought it would be suitable for my fashion and textiles loving girl!

I used the Expressions in Ink dsp and some little templates from a little booklet I’ve had for ages. Then I made it up! I added in some cotton fabric and a bit of old olive ribbon.

I was going to add sewing but in the end I decided against it.

I added the happy birthday sentiment die stacking the green twice and then the white twice with the white slightly offset so it was a little like a shadow.

I finished off with a few gems. I considered adding Mayas name in gold or the word daughter but in the end decided that it would be too much for the already busy card.

I did video making the card so if you fancy watching me make it check it out on YouTube.

Happy crafting!

Catherine

Biggest Wish, Honey Doo Crafts

Playing with bits off the desk

Catherine

Today I managed to have some craft time and decided to put together a card with some of the random bits on the desk …

I used some of the bright yellow cardstock I had in the folder of card already cut into and then started layering up bits … like the die cut panel (Honey Doo Crafts) and the bits of patterned paper I got in the stash.

Next I added the sentiment from Biggest Wish stamp set (I don’t think I will ever get tired of this set!) and mounted that on a piece of red scrap.

Happy crafting!

Catherine

Dylusions spray inks, Gummiapan, Inchies and Twinchies, Skull & Crossbones

Inchies for UK stampers forum swap

Catherine

It’s been a little while since I made inchies but I was clearing out a drawer and discovered some inchies I had cut ages ago from packaging so I decided why not join in with the swap over at UK stampers forum.

I grabbed the bit of white card stock that was also on the desk and started adding colour to it using dylusions ink.

I then stamped and embossed using a white a gold glittery embossing powder to add the numbers in the background. I also added heart stamps too and then stuck the paper to the card and cut each one out.

Next I edged each one with a dark green ink and set them aside.

Next I stamped the little houses and coloured them in with stampin write markers. I then fussy cut them out and stuck them onto the inchies.

I looked at sentiments to add but decided against it in the end and instead gave them each a coating of Versamark and clear embossing powder to give them a nice glaze and to keep the vibrancy of the inks.

I love how this works making them into little tiles.

So these are my in hues for this months swap … have lots of bits of cardboard so considering making more inchies … but then I might just stick the precut inchies into the recycling bin instead.

Happy crafting!

Catherine

Design Team, Designer Series Paper, Playful Alphabet, Promarkers, Letraset, Splendid Stems, Stampin Blends alcohol pens, Stitched framelits

DT: Happy Little Stampers Anything goes with dies

Catherine

Hello! I’m so pleased my Happy Little Stampers challenge blogs are back after our little break. This time it is the turn of the Anything Goes with Dies challenge and I have the Mother’s Day card I made for my Mum … so shhhh… don’t tell her you’ve already seen it! Lol!

I used a few different dies… Playful Alphabets, stitched circles and some Splendid stems … and used lots of old dsp and some gorgeous flowers stamps from Creative Stamping magazine. A bit of a hodgepodge if I am honest but I love it!

I also did a bit of hand sewing and added charms and pearls. Just love how it all came together from my stash.

Hope you like this … of course please leave me a message below and then come and join in over at Happy Little Stampers.

Happy crafting!

Catherine

Arrange a Wreath, Art by Marlene collage papers, Craft Stamper magazine stamps, Ribbons

Craft Stamper magazine sort out

Catherine

I’m still going with my craft stamper magazine stamps sort out and today I have an Easter card I made using the cute Hares stamp … which I will say straight away has gone straight into the keep pile.

To be honest I knew as sure as I saw the stamp in the box that I was keeping it as it’s such a cute image plus the silhouette style is perfect to stop it being too cute!

I inked up an acrylic block and spritzed with water to make the background that was perfect for then stamping the image onto.

Then it was a case of finding the right background paper to play with and make up the card. I ended up going with the Art By Marlene collage paper and some black for contrast.

I added the sentiment from the Arrange a Wreath set and then some pink gems and a green gingham ribbon for embellishment.

Simple and sweet. Love it.

Happy crafting!

Catherine

Cottage Rose, Creative Expressions, Design Team, Prismacolour pencils, Wreath Builder

DT: Happy Little Stampers Anything Goes Birthday challenge

Catherine

Hello all!

After a few months of holiday from the challenge Happy Little Stampers is back and so here I am with a design team contribution. This is for the Anything Goes Birthday challenge.

I’m trying my hardest this year to not get new stash and to use more of what I already own… so this time I raided the pouch that has already printed and in some cases like this, already coloured digital images.

I also grabbed patterned paper from the stash and decided to make an admittedly autumnal looking card using the beautiful All Dressed Up image and the leaves paper.

Then to make it special I added the rose gold die cut leaves, the pretty peach die cut flowers and the pearls for the centre.

I then embossed the sentiment onto the black which coordinates with the black mats for the image and paper.

So quite quick to put together as the image was already coloured. Pleased I thought to dig into the printed digital stamps folder for this.

Happy crafting!

Catherine