Author: Catherine

Another project I made as a sample for the Kingston Crafts design team using the Rainbow Shimmer spray kit. I had fun playing with these and expect to see more shimmery shiny projects again – I am not usually a big fan of spray products but the shimmer from these made it worth it for me – just advise you to use a box to spray into to minimize mess!

It may be safe to say I went a bit mad with this one as I really got into some fun with the mixed media feel and went a bit grungy but also kept it bright with the colours! I thought it would make a special birthday card with a masculine feel.

I started with a panel of cardstock in the bottom of the box with a cogs stencil over the top and sprayed using both the fern and the Dalia coloured sprays. I was quite generous with the sprays and also did some drips too so there were some more intense spots on the panel.

I then left it to dry.

I then grabbed some of my random old wood mounted stamps and stamped them on the background with Archival Ink. I also edged the panel with the same ink to give it a frame.

I splattered some black gesso across the panel and again set it aside to dry.

Next I took a different panel of cardstock that I had been using as backing for spraying other elements and die cut it twice using a stitched frame from the shiny card. Again I used archival ink to edge the panels before adhering them together.

Next I took some old Paperartsy stamps and embossed them for the 60 and fussy cut them. I also took an Altenew stamp for the congratulations sentiment. This one I added to another piece of that sprayed background.

The colours in the sprays although they are floral based still work for some fun backgrounds which can then become more masculine in style with the right decoration. So much fun playtime with these!

Once again this is an ‘as seen on tv’ project … I’m glad I could try and get a bit of grunge into the samples for something a bit different!

And I also have to say I am glad I craft ahead sometimes as currently poorly with a horrible cold. Got gradually worse over the weekend and not really left bed all day. Have managed to watch quite a lot of crafting on YouTube in between napping though so that was nice – albeit it would have been nice to have been able to create whilst watching like I normally do but never mind! Fingers crossed I can be back tomorrow health quickly!

Happy crafting!

Catherine

I’ve got a whole host of new products to play with from Kingston Crafts – all of which went live on Hobbymaker.tv on Saturday – I thought I would start with sharing the rainbow shimmer spray samples I made!

I started with this gorgeous green die cut leaf card.

I die cut the panel out three times from white cardstock and stacked it up so it is very chunky and then sprayed it with two colours of the rainbow shimmer spray – the lettuce and the hydrangea. They are so so pretty and so shiny!

Once the die cut was dry I added it to the front of the card base. I then die cut the Happy Birthday sentiment and stacked that up too before adding it to a vellum die cut circle.

I added it to the card and then added some pink flower embellishments.

They gave the special background some pretty extra pops of colour.

I’ve got plenty of other projects I made using these sprays so please keep following my blog.

And as the saying goes this project is ‘as seen on tv’ …

Happy crafting!

Catherine

This was another one of those use up the scraps type of pages and teamed it with lots of 49th & Market embellishment bits and pieces.

I videoed the process of me pulling this together!

I particularly like the stencilling in the background and the soft ink smooshing!

It was fun to use these very old Polaroids of me and my Mum!

Happy crafting!

Catherine

Gosh it has been a busy week in my life and this project was only finished late on Wednesday as a result – I really feel a little behind on my blog posting. Partly it’s because I spent a good chunk of early March doing projects I can’t quite share with you yet – but will start doing after Sunday (Kingston Crafts are back on Hobbymaker.tv on Sunday! 🤩)

But also work is super busy at the moment and haven’t had much time to grab time to craft in the evenings. Wednesday night though I made sure I had an hour at the craft desk and this is what I made!

Firstly I used the new to me spellbinders embossing folder that came with my new Soellbinders Platinum 6 machine – I thought it looked like a chunky knit jumper so perfect for a fun background on this card.

Then I grabbed the My Favorite Thing stamps and stamped and coloured and die cut them all out twice to create a little fun forest scene across the card.

Next I added the Joy die which is from the pouch of ready die cut elements so it was an easy grab and go.

And then the main thing I wanted to try was foiling the sentiments. This came from the Joy press plate set I bought and I had tested out but failed when I tried it to get a good finish … so this time I tried it out on scrap cardstock and it worked well. I don’t have a die that fits these specific sentiments so I just cut them into strips and then mounted and cut the strips with the dark red behind them.

I just love the gold foil on these detailed sentiments – looks really fancy!

I finished off the card with some clear gems scattered across the card and called it done. Happy that I got to play and especially pleased that I got to play with new goodies – and for those that don’t know about the goodies please check out my far from professional influencer unboxing video!

Happy crafting!

Catherine

PS the foiling definitely takes some practice and I’m not sure I’ve totally got the hang of it yet but the finish is amazing – the better press turns out to be not as fool proof as they say as I seem to get rather inky and end up with ink where it shouldn’t be so need to do more practice with that – but having a diecutting machine that works as well as this platinum 6 machines does is amazing to me! Everything cuts so well! I love it!

Third month of making at least one masculine card each month for my ‘Make it Masculine’ challenge.

This time I went for some really simple cards letting the paper do all the work!

The DCWV paper has some texture with encapsulated glitter in it so that adds some interest along with all the alphas for the pattern!

I kept both cards simple with just the colour of the mat changed for each one – one grey and the other a dark purple/blue.

I used the same sentiment but this time different die cut shape underneath.

I then adhered the panels to the DL shaped card blanks I made.

Simple and easy! Not exactly my usual style of card making (very much missing a flower! 🤣) but at least that’s another two cards made for the stash.

Happy crafting!

Catherine

Hello!

Back to that pouch of digital stamps that are ready printed and ready to play with for today’s Addicted to stamps and more challenge.

I went with this gorgeous Octopode image. I teamed it up with some Spring Slimline papers from Kingston Crafts.

I decided it would work best as a slimline card with the long slim image! I created the panels of the patterned paper for the base and then a little tab for the left hand side. I decided to add in a few die cuts.

I coloured the image with promarkers – tried really hard to get some highlights and texture to the image.

I then added an Altenew sentiment that was die cut and stacked a few deep to make it chunky and give some dimension.

I then added the gold gems to finish off.

Love this image and love the colours I chose to go with those spring slimline papers.

Happy crafting!

Catherine

Back with a second project from the magazine kit I have decided to try and video all the projects I make from it – so if you want to see how this project came together please check out my YouTube video.

I am really pleased with how this turned out – I think it is a nice mix of modern and a more vintage design.

Really love the stencilled background and the beautiful flowers I added to the top left.

A fun project – and interesting to use the stencil in the background like this.

I also remembered to add some stencilling to the inside of the card too.

Happy crafting!

Catherine

Ploughing on with my swaps – this time the coins!

I really wanted to keep going with the Spring Slimline papers from Kingston Crafts so that is what I used for the background and the strip across the coins.

I next stamped the sentiment on some scrap green cardstock and cut it into strips. I then stamped the bunny rabbit from My Favorite Things stamp set and coloured all three in different colours using my promarkers.

I then die cut the bunny out.

I then assembled the coins adding in a circle of foiled cardstock to each one in a different colour. Love the pop of shine of the foiled cardstock!

When I had put everything together – including the little rainbow I cut from one of the other papers – I then went round the outside of the coin with the yellow glitter glue from the Kingston Crafts set. It’s such a lovely delicate yellow glitter and works so well with the papers.

Happy crafting!

Catherine

I am wide awake far too early – actually I’ve hardly slept – which does not bode well for the fact I’m going out tonight! Ah well – thought I would get my blog sorted now and then if I end up napping most of the day to try and survive at least this is done!

I carried on scrapping last weekend after a little break to eat lunch and made another page using the leftovers from the page I had previously made!

This time I started with a crumb cake background and added stamping to that along with some splatter.

I had fun then going through the embellishments stash and adding them. If you fancy watching how it came together please pop along and watch the YouTube video.

Happy crafting!

Catherine

Today’s Festive Friday project I switched the camera on and videoed the process … so if you want to see the process please check out my YouTube channel.

I used my trusty messy watercolour process with the embossing for this gorgeous detailed Festive Poinsettia stamp and then fussy cut it out.

I embossed the Merriest Moments panel as a frame and added some splattered gold embossing.

I then used the same stamp set for the sentiments.

Love how beautiful this came out.

I used the gold gems to embellish and then inside I used a white panel but kept it plain as I’d already popped the stamped image away otherwise it might have been nice to stamp that inside!

Happy crafting!

Catherine