Author: Catherine

Back with another design team project and this is one of the samples I made for the Christmas pad – and well as it is Friday it is of course a Festive Friday project!

I really love the navy paper with the snowflakes and also the light duck egg blue colour of this solid also in the pad – and I thought it was crying out for some silver embossing!

I added some stamped snowflakes onto the die cut circle element I die cut and then the larger stamped design for down the panel of the snowflake paper.

I used the silver powder and then also added silver to the edge of the snowflake panel to give it some extra texture.

I made the card blank from the same duck egg blue paper- it is a thick enough paper to make a card blank I think – especially if you layer elements like an almost full front panel of the snowflakes!

I decided to used the large script sentiment from Colorado craft company again stamping and embossing with the silver and then die cutting and stacking it up! I also stacked the circle with another layer and then added a light blend of navy to frame it.

Inside I added a panel of the snowflakes with another smaller panel of the duck egg with a light blend of the navy ink again.

Love how elegant this is – and really love that navy paper!

Happy crafting!

Catherine

As soon as I saw the Christmas pad my heart went straight to these gorgeous gingerbread men – and then was so happy when they also appeared in the acetate kit.

So I made these two cards showing them both off and how well they work together too!

I used the paper for the background and a mat layer with a solid colour from the pad and then some small strips for the horizontal elements.

On this one I chose to use the paper with the bigger gingerbread design and then used foam adhesive to pop the gingerbread man up.

As the acetate is slightly see through I could see the brown adhesive foam through – and so I added a second acetate on the top and that did the job! I added some waxed thread and then a foiled sentiment which I used the solid paper to base it on.

This second one I used the smaller design and distressed the edges. I love exposing the white core in the Kingston papers and also the texture that this adds.

I added the two gingerbread men straight into the card this time – again I added the twine as a bow and then the foiled and die cut sentiments.

Really cute, albeit quite simple cards – I love those cute gingerbread peeps!

And both these cards got shown on the tv show on the 7th September – so they are super famous! 🤣

Happy crafting!

Catherine

I grabbed one of the striped scrap panels I had made and added some embossing to it using an old wood mounted stamp.

I then cut it into the inchies and then grabbed some other scraps to add the ladybird stamped images to it. I then added the colour using an old stampin write marker before fussy cutting the images out.

I then created the little Hello sentiments on shrink plastic to add to the inchies… so cute!

A simple and cute set of inchies for the UK stampers forum swap!

Happy crafting!

Catherine

So I wanted to share with you the cards I made from the leftovers from those scrapbook pages I made which were from scraps from other pages – it’s like some kind of weird inception type thing where it’s scraps within scraps within scraps! 🤣

Anyway – here are the scraps …

And from this came card number one!

A very cute and bright new baby card featuring a very old stamped image I have had in the stash for ages working out when I might use it – turns out it is now!

I thought the green tulip squares worked well with the striped panel and then a larger square of the orange and this became the background behind the image.

Because the image is quite large and contains the sentiment I didn’t think I needed much else so mounted the panel onto a pink 4.5” square card with a small mat of the white and then added the gem to the top left corner of the orange square.

Inside the card a panel of white and then the orange and green patterned paper to finish off!

The second card …

Just a few of the random panels and two more of the squares and then one of the roses leftover from the stampwheel first play.

I also found the cute hello acrylic piece which I am not sure where it was from but the colour worked well.

Inside I added the white panel and then two more bits of the paper.

A cute notecard!

Final card made from the scraps …

This time I focused on using those squares and this time the other side … this made a nice base for the card topper.

I kept this quite simple with the orange panel. Then one of the leftover cute creatures from Christmas in July came out of the pouch to be the focal point.

I used some sequins to finish off with the sentiment from the stash.

And so that was the final card made from those scraps! And leftover …

I suspect I could make a tag from them but just can’t find the inspiration to do so! So I will now clear these into the bin and move away from the scraps! But pretty chuffed with how much I managed to make from them all!

Happy crafting!

Catherine

Two posts today as I did a bit of extra crafting today I wasn’t really planning on doing … I made three ATC for the UK stampers forum swap!

The theme is ‘blue yellow green’ … so I went for a fun non specific theme with the squiggly circles from Indigo Blu … I embossed them in green powder and then used my brushos to paint the colours.

I did a little extra stamping with a random script stamp and then edged with archival. I also added black doodle line.

I then took some postive quote stickers for the title and edged them with the black pen too.

A fun set of ATCs.

Happy crafting!

Catherine

This one was inspired by one of the projects in the magazine as I was struggling to think what to do when I pulled the pack of supplies out to play with! Also I didn’t mention it in the video but the maker of the project (Monika) on the front of the magazine has recently started following my videos and so I will also be checking out her projects soon – maybe I will use one of her cards for a future video too!

So thank you to Marie Jones for the inspiration! Wish I could find her online presence to tag her but can’t find her!

Love the colours in this card so much! I think Crisp Canteloupe ink is still one of my favourite SU colours that ever existed (island indigo remains the absolute fave!). Mixed with More Mustard it worked so well using the packaging technique to create the background for the flowers that were stamped and embossed on panels of the papers in the kit.

The leaves were those brushos ones I did a while ago – but added mossy meadow ink with a blending tool to darken and tone them down to make the colour more appropriate for the other elements.

There was quite a lot of fussy cutting and layering for this card with the flowers and the sentiment – I raised the sentiment on foam adhesive to make sure it didn’t disappear behind the bold floral elements.

I added quite large pearls to the centre of the flowers and then scattered tiny pearls around the card to finish off. As I hadn’t any mid size pearls I then added the yellow gems to the centre of the smaller flowers.

Inside the card I added the sentiment again along with the flowers leftover from the front!

Love how this card came out and happy that I had the magazine to hand to inspire me to make this one as sometimes the mojo just want to play and needs a bit of a prod to get me started!

Happy crafting!

Catherine

My stash of birthday cards has been depleted recently (I sent some to a charity shop) so decided to make some cheerful cards using the Spring Slimline Kingston Crafts papers as the base of the background.

Once I had cut them down into the panels for the DL sized cards I then grabbed the gold laser cut panels which have been in my stash for a while. I mounted one on peach cardstock and the other one onto pink cardstock. These became the base for the floral elements.

The floral cluster is a magazine stamp which I coloured with my alcohol markers.

I fussy cut both out and then decided to use a little doily to also add some texture and softness to the cards.

I used the Altenew die cut sentiment for the main sentiment but with an additional sentiment of the stamped happy birthday.

Finishing touches of the gems and hey presto two pretty cards!

Must admit I’ve not been feeling the love of making birthday cards and so ordered myself a few new bits to play with that may get me back in the love of birthday card making as my stash of them is so depleted – my new stash has arrived and I’ll post about it soon- but it was nice to also get some use of older stash and make these pretty cards whilst I was waiting for the new goodies to arrive!

Happy crafting!

Catherine

I decided to go a bit rogue with the Summer Fun kit and make a different kind of memory keeping project as one of my samples for the design team.

I made a meander book from the 12×12 paper and turned it into a little book about the village we stayed in when we went to Crete in May.

I used other papers in the kit to add layers and mats for the photos and journalling I added and a few of the die cut elements and stickers from the kit to add embellishments.

Such a lovely way to get lots of photos included and documenting our exploring round the village of Analipsi.

Well I think this is a fun project!

Happy crafting!

Catherine

I wanted to make a really colourful page with lots of the papers in the Everyday Papers kit and I find when I use lots of colours I often want a more neutral photo – so I went with a sepia photo from when we had a photoshoot back in 2016 – so quite a while ago (if only we were still this young! 🤣) – and today is a perfect time to post this page because the photo was taken in CenterParcs in Cumbria – and this is where we currently are on a weekend away!

I chose the yellow base and then chose three of the patterns – I ripped the edge and then layered the panels so there are waves going vertically across the page.

Then I mat the photo with the blue pattern and a strip of the darker green pattern.

I used dies to create tabs for the journalling above the photo and a tag (I used the twine from one of the Kingston Crafts kits). I also used the letter dies to create the title from the solid colours in the pad,

I also die cut some tiny flowers from the red patterned paper and scattered those down the page. I added some yellow glitter glue to the centres to just add a little bit of sparkle!

I added journalling using a white gel pen to help tie in the white of the torn edges.

Martin did a great sample card using this pack on the tv last weekend with die cut circles so may have to pull out this pack and see if I can do something similar but as a scrapbook page as it looked so cool with these papers! It for now I will leave you with this snap of us on the tv! You can probably imagine there was a big squeal when we spotted ourselves! 🤣

Happy crafting!

Catherine

Back with another Kingston Crafts project – this time using the Christmas pad and also added in a couple of the vellum pieces too!

I decided to make a DL card using the lovely tree themed paper and then created a panel from the dark red solid colour paper. I used a stencil to add snowflakes using the glass bead gel – this is such a fun medium to use – lots of texture and shine! Not used it in ages and forgot how long it takes to dry!

So I left that to dry overnight and then added a little cute image from MFT of Santa and polar bear watching the skies. I added the vellum sentiment banner to white card and then cut that out and added it with the focal image on adhesive foam. I also added a string of lights in vellum underneath as an extra element – I love that the vellum coordinates so well with the papers!

Inside the card I added a panel of white cardstock and then a little strip of the patterned paper with the red border as a finishing touch!

A fun card and love the colours of the paper they are so pretty – and not quite traditional so it’s a slightly more modern look – the patterns also work so well with other items in the stash too like the MFT stamps.

Happy crafting!

Catherine