Author: Catherine

It has been a few weeks of Scrappin Saturdays of design team projects so I decided it was time to grab something different and do a Scrappin Saturday on video too!

I made up some page kit type pouches so it makes my life a little easier to grab a kit and at least the base of the scrapbook page will be easy as I have papers together – also means I am actually using up some of those old papers! Like the gorgeous Maggie Holmes scripty paper I have been hoarding! well this one came together quite easy once I tore that paper – it suddenly became easy to use!

The pictures are from Stoke Gabriel which was close to where we went on holiday and had a glorious day walking there, eating lunch and walking back.

I chose to print the pictures as small squares and so could create the strip of photos… and then one smaller one of me with my view at the millpond.

I teamed the maggie holmes paper with an old SU one where I used both sides of the paper to be the other two patterns.

I added in lots of embellishments and bits and pieces from my stash – and loved added the waxed thread curls down the page (very Sarah Davies inspired!)

I didn’t leave much room for journalling but did squish it in to the space between the photos and the papers.

I really love how this came out. Quite busy but I think it still works. I am so pleased with myself for getting this paper used in some way – still have half a sheet left too – so no excuses I need to now get that used up too! For now it’s gone into a pouch with leftovers from this and other pages I’ve been making as a future use the scraps project (or two!) 🤣

Happy crafting!

Catherine

Once again I have a design team project featuring the fabulous acetate and vellum kit from Kingston Crafts.

For this one I took one of the striped panels I made from scraps that went with the colours of the stars and used that for the base panel.

I really like the stripes with those solid and checked pattern stars.

I also love how the acetate shines when the light hits it!

I kept the card quite simple because the stripy panel and those stars do a lot of the work! I added two panels of the coordinating cardstock underneath and then a die cut word to the top with a cute foiled sentiment!

I did end up adding some glitter to the die cut sentiment just to add some sparkle.

Once again I will admit I made this some time ago – and it even has been on tv back in September!

Happy crafting!

Catherine

Today’s challenge at Creative Knockouts is to make something with the theme of Outside Fun and I thought these elves certainly look like they are having fun in the snow! The image is a digital stamp from Dr Digi who are sponsoring this challenge.

I did my usual trick of printing multiple of the same image onto one piece of card and then colouring them all in – so in addition to these two, I’ve got another two images coloured ready for a future point where I want to sit down and craft and just grab the ready coloured images!

I kept these super simple …

• Coloured with alcohol markers
• Trimmed the images down
• Found scraps of cardstock big enough to mount the images
• Found two pieces of cardstock already foiled with the fab pine plate and trimmed them to fit the card blanks

• Grabbed acetate sentiment banners from the stash
• Mounted them onto white cardstock (they were a little too see through and the image was distracting from the sentiment)
• Glued down panels and adhered sentiment with foam adhesive

• Added card Candi to embellish and bring out a bit more red

And that was two cards done! I actually did these in my lunch break – that’s how simple they were!

Ok if you had to foil the backgrounds as part of the make that would have taken longer but these were made when I first got the plate and was obsessed with trying it out so I had these panels already done!

So cute! And love these quite clean cards – a bit of a different approach to my normal crafting – but when the image is fun it is good to have that be the dominant element on the card!

Happy crafting!

Catherine

Today I went for simple – really simple cards for my patterned paper project for the first of the month …

Very flat cards where I just let the papers do the work with the really cute Lily of the Valley images.

For this one a mat of the pink and then a little rectangle of the foiled cardstock – simple!

This one had just the panel of the paper with two colours of cardstock for the layers – and again a die cut sentiment to finish off.

Sometimes I just need to do a simple no think type of project – and fancy papers like this I think do all the work!

And of course the super sweet images from Lily of the Valley that I have had in my stash for years! Finally they got their moment to shine!

Happy crafting!

Catherine

So I decided to keep the cards simple for this months Make it Masculine as I hadn’t much time and to be honest I have had little crafting time recently so I’m a little out of practice!

I hadn’t really got a theme but I think geometric sums up what I created!

I stamped using the stamp wheel the backgrounds with the word stamps and then added the balloons and sentiments with doodles as focal points.

I kept to aqua/blue/green colours but changed them up a little with both positioning and the colours.

Really happy with them and although the doodles were a surprise when I added the first strings I really like how they ended working!

So some simple stamped cards – definitely suitable for both male and female recipients – so these are my Make it Masculine cards for this month! 9 months completed! 👍

Happy crafting!

Catherine

I decided I wanted to put a few of the papers from the Christmas pad together to create a card – and so I am sharing this sample I made as my Festive Friday for this week!

I created the four 2.5” inch squares and then lightly inked each of them with navy ink at the edges.

I then glued them onto the dark red solid I had from the pad – I trimmed it down so it was just the small border. I decided to use a ready made card blank for ease so stuck that down.

I chose the two presents from the acetate kit and the deer. I decided to mount the acetate sentiment onto some white cardstock and cut it out – this helped strengthen this element and give it a little dimension.

The presents I adhered directly to the background and then the deer to the banner.

I found some glossy enamel dots that coordinated with the colours in the papers and added these.

Confession … This card was made so long ago … it actually was also one of those “as seen on tv” projects too! Here it was on Hobbymaker on the 7th September!

Happy crafting!

Catherine

I decided to use a big floral stamp image for this card and then make a really fun background from the pastel cardstock.

This time I chose peach tones of cardstock for the card.

I ripped the strips of the cardstock to make the background which exposed the core and then stuck them together. I then embossed it with the wood grain effect embossing folder.

Then I used a bit of ink to blend the edge and give it a frame.

I stuck this into place on the card base I made which is 6×6 using the palest of the peach tones cardstock.

Then onto the palest cardstock I stamped and embossed the Altenew Eclectic Bouquet image and used the stencils that come in the set to colour the image.

I then decided to add some of the coral colour ink in a splatter to the background too although it is quite subtle on the photos.

To ground the floral element and the sentiment I created I added the sand colour strip – again I lightly inked it to blend in with the others and tore it at one edge.

I love the torn edges with this white core cardstock. So pretty!

I stacked the sentiment up with about three layers of the cardstock to make it chunky and help it stand out and also inked the edge to make sure it felt in keeping with the rest of the card.

This is such a lovely colour scheme – really like working with peach colours and this cardstock has two of the creamiest peach/coral colours. Gorgeous!

Happy crafting!

Catherine

Another DT project to share for you that I made for the September show on Hobbymaker.tv for today’s Scrappin Saturday – I can’t believe I hadn’t shared this until now!

This one was using the fab Summer Fun kit and my main thought was to use a few of those fab borders that are in the kit – there are loads in this particular kit!

I started with the picture as always – a pic of hubby and teenager watching the waves eating ice creams (you can’t see that but I know it was happening!) from our holidays in Menorca in October 2023.

The blues in the photo mean I immediately gravitated to that for the base and I had known I wanted to use the borders so grabbed three of those that were relevant for the photo.

I decided I wanted to capture the splashes and also bring some white onto the page so used a mixture of gesso and Kraft ink on the page with blending foams and splashes. Was quite a messy but fun process to get this down!

I then added the three borders across the page towards the bottom.

Next I worked on the photo and added some mats underneath to create some interest and separate it from the patterned borders.

Once that was all layered together I added it using foam adhesive to raise it up. It helped again to give it some dimension.

I added some scraps to the top right to add interest there and then went through the die cut ephemera pieces in the kit to add the title and the interesting extra bits like the camera and the geotag.

I added my journalling and some extra bits of white using a white paint pen to add doodles round the blue patterned paper which helped lift it from the background panel too.

Decided against adding twine (although I was tempted) or the adhesive enamel dots as the mixed media in the background felt enough!

Loved this day out in Menorca and loved reliving the day through scrapping it – I think this is one of the joys of scrapping is the memories it evokes when making the page and then looking back at it!

Happy crafting!

Catherine

Hello! Three days on the run of Christmas projects – feels like July again! Especially as I went back into the box of half made stash and found the #kcc19 envelopes I had cut and organised during my Christmas in July and decided to make a couple more of them up.

I decided to pull out the Woodward deer stamps and colour them in, fussy cut them out and use them for my focal points – I love that there are two different sizes.

Sketch 13 suggested circles in a horizontal stripe but I turned it into a diagonal stripe instead.

I also decided against the mat and background layers of plain cardstock and went for an abnormal amount of white space for me! Just not like me to leave so much plain!

I added the waxed thread under the sentiment banner and then added some of the dotty card candi.

Really love how this looks.

Next up is sketch 15 and again I did change it up a little!

There should have been a horizontal stripe with the sentiment on but instead I added three of the deer and then the two Tim Holtz sentiment stickers.

Embossing the back panel of the card topper meant I got some nice texture in the card front as well as those lovely deer.

Inside both cards I added a spare deer to finish off … I also added a small off cut leftover of one of the papers to one rather than throw it away!

Another lovely pair of cards made for the Christmas stash!

Happy crafting!

Catherine

Hello!

So to keep our focus on Christmas crafting all year round our Christmas in July Facebook group decided to have a monthly prompt and this months was Trimming the Tree.

And my response to this prompt was to go full on shine and texture and well a bit mad really!

Here is my card…

I used the background die elements from a Spellbinders stitching die set as I thought baubles should feature heavily – but wasn’t in the mood for stitching – so instead a foiled background used for the die cut and then I used red for the baubles.

For the main element in the middle came a tree / but this time one of those die cut trees I had in the box and I went to town on inking it with different green colours and then cut a shiny black pot for the base.

I used gold for the tops of the baubles and then some red gems to finish off the tree.

There is so much shine on this and the dimension from the tree which I popped up on foam. I then added the die cut sentiment – I thought Deck the Halls was the right one for this prompt!

Now the final question is do I like this card? Well not 100% – I wish (hindsight is a wonderful thing) I had inked up the foiled background die elements to tone down the colour as the green is too bright I think – I also think that a different red for the baubles would have been better – although I did ink them so they are better than they started.

But I don’t dislike the card – I think it is fun and certainly eye catching and I love the inky tree and will never not love the foiling!

So a little bit mad as cards go – but sometimes that is what happens!

If you want to join our Facebook group please do … hopefully the inspiration from all the makes in there will help you with your festive creations too!

Happy crafting!

Catherine