Author: Catherine

For today’s scrappin Saturday I am sharing the second page I made using a page kit from Sarah at last weekends crop – although I went totally rogue on this one and totally ignored the inspiration page Sarah gave us!

Sarah is always interested to see how we use the kits in alternative ways so I was more than happy to just play with the supplies. I also have to say thank you to my lovely friend Helen who shared some of her supplies with me (more on that in a future blog) and so the title came from her stash!

I added some stencilling and splatters to the background and then used the pieces from the kit to add to my page – and I love it!

I don’t often get to scrap Christmas pics as we are usually too busy having fun to make good pics so it was good to use this kit to scrap some pics I did manage to take last Christmas – wonderful if I might remember to take more pics this year?

I love all the elements Sarah gave us – the chipboard shapes and the wooden elements are so lovely.

So that was my take on the second page in the kit that I got at the crop (Sarah’s second page was very different but with an equally gorgeous outcome!)

There are a lot of the chipboard elements left – just need to decide whether they go into the Christmas box or to make some more scrapbook pages with them! Decisions decisions!

Happy crafting!

Catherine

Penultimate card of the challenge!

I saw the word cocoa and remembered that some chipboard stickers I had leftover from a scrapbooking page kit had got a cup of something yummy – so I went with that!

A very simple card, using Kingston Crafts papers and those chipboard stickers.

Added in touches of sparkle with the die cut leaves and circles and the little panel of punchinella.

Then the glimmer foiled sentiment in silver just finished it off perfectly! As with the others in this series a video sharing the process is on my YouTube channel.

Happy crafting!

Catherine

Today’s post has a lot of cards – because I wanted to use up lots of scraps that had accumulated using the Kingston Crafts paper kit – I just wanted the pouch of bits done with so I could start to clear the decks and make some different things. So I videoed the full process for putting together all the cards!

I kept them all pretty simple and followed my usual rules of making them in stages – panels first, then chose the sentiments, then made the card blanks and then one by one went through and put them together!

A fun few crafting sessions were had – and by the end only a small pile of scraps left!

So a big pile of cards made – and a bit of a tidy up of the stash done! Didn’t get around to taking pics of all the photos individually – so instead just the big pile of them here…

And yesterday I said I had about 50 cards too many … guess that number has gone up quite a bit now! 🤣

Happy crafting!

Catherine

Today’s theme didn’t immediately push me towards a specific project …

… but I went with peaceful vibes and some simple glitter glue elements.

I started with a panel of the light blue grey just smaller than the card blank I made and added just a light amount of ink to the edges and across the panel to slightly differentiate from the back.

I then took the new stencil I bought from Hey Little Magpie at the crop last weekend and used Gloss clear gel through it and then set it aside to dry.

Next I took the die cut wreath, stacked it twice to give it some strength and added blue promarker to the bow and then glitter glue to the stars and the bow. Again I set it aside to dry.

Once it was all dry – about 90mins later – I assembled the card. I added dimension behind the wreath die cut and then added the Peace die cut sentiment that I had already got in the stash that had the perfect colour background.

This was such a simple card to make – obviously it takes time for the medium to dry – but it really doesn’t take long or much to make an impressive card when you do add texture mediums.

Want to see the process – check out my YouTube video.

Happy crafting!

Catherine

Jingle & Mingle made me think of bells and as the only bell stamp I could see in my stash was this vintage Santa stamp set I decided to go vintage – for the first time this month!

Of course vintage makes me think of Kraft so browns became a theme! and of course quite a bit of gold too!

I also went with ripped edges and a bit of thread!

A simple card really – and I do love this vintage Santa!

I love the texture and the different finishes I created in the card – and that bell stamp is really sweet!

I also added the Santa to the inside of the card – just a simple stamped image – but sometimes something this simple is all that is needed to finish a card off!

If you want to see the process please check out my YouTube video.

At the start of the month I had no intention of doing everyday – and yet here we are at day 27 and 27 days completed! Guess I got inspired and then focused on doing each day! I now have around 50 cards more than I probably need for this years Christmas – guess quite a few will head to charity again this year so at least they might get used!

Happy crafting!

Catherine

I went with a simple scene card for today’s theme of Woodland Wonderland. To see it come together check it out in my video.

Just one stamp repeated and embossed to create the woodland…

And then inking to create the sky and the snowdrift. Some splatter of gesso for the snowfall.

I then decided rather than stamp the stag I would use a die cut instead.

I mounted the panel on black before adding to the card blank.

Then grabbed my glimmer to create the sentiment.

Just love how this came out – simple but very effective!

Happy crafting!

Catherine

Colour challenge time and of course the Alex Syberia dies came out to play again – for the fifth time this month!

My interpretation of these colours … wildberry because I actually own that, then Lost Lagoon for the Lakefront and then Smoky Slate for the Harbour alternative. It looks like it is more of a blue than a grey from Martin’s cards he has made but never mind – I went with the grey tone instead!

So I die cut the flowers from white and then painted them with the wildberry and lost lagoon – I then also added a painted layer of the shimmer spritz in lilac and hydrangea to make them super shimmery!

The flower centres were then circle die cuts which were already cut out of the glimmer cardstock. I used the same for the letters.

Then I worked on the background.

The smoky slate lightly brushed through a Tim Holtz stencil. I then also added versamark through the stencil and added clear embossing to add texture.

I took a piece of pink cardstock and inked the edge with the wildberry and then spritzed the lilac shimmer spritz all over to give it a good coat of the mica.

I then splatter some of that onto the white background too.

Just love how this card came out and the pretty colour combo!

And as much as I don’t enjoy working with glimmer paper – those letters do look fabulous!

This is the final colour combo challenge for this month and I must admit I’ve loved doing these so much! Thanks Martin for the great combos!

And I am so pleased I got myself ahead on this challenge and made this early as my IBS has flared up again and been fit for nothing the past day and a half. At least I can look at the pretty card I made and that will help cheer me up!

Happy crafting!

Catherine

I knew I wanted to go with Christmas lights for this theme and originally thought I could go with die cutting but instead remembered this stencil from Claritystamp and used this instead!

My card ended up very clean and simple for me – the stencilled background, a doodled frame and then two die cut sentiments!

Oh and lots of glitter glue!

I had to make it in a couple of sessions as I needed the glitter glue to dry on the bulbs before I accidentally put my fingers in the glue and messed it up!

And then I needed to set aside to dry after the second session with the glitter glue to add to the sentiment!

Just love the jewel coloured lights and the sparkly finish!

To see the process video please check out my YouTube channel 🖤

Happy crafting!

Catherine

Back to a sketch! And back to using the Christmas tags and more dsp kit.

This time I chose to not actually use the patterned paper and instead used the die cut elements from the kit to create the sketch elements.

I decided to create the panel from the sketch using masking and inking with a subtle pattern of the snowflakes.

I raised up the central element for the sketch; the wreath and bird with the sentiment. Behind this I added the ribbon.

I also added splatter to the card which I think gave a lovely extra touch!

Especially as it is shimmer splatter!

Inside the card I added a strip of the paper and some more die cut elements to finish off!

If you want to see how I made this all though please check out my YouTube.

And so this is another lovely card using the speciality dsp – I didn’t think that this was the SU paper I bought that I would use the most – can’t believe I haven’t touched the Modern Christmas dsp yet – although that might be because I am hoarding it to stroke! 🤣

Anyway that’s another sketch challenge done and I think this one is probably the one I’ve kept closest to the original sketch!

Happy crafting!

Catherine

Today was our Warrington crop and it was our charity Christmas one so a day full of chatting and creating and wearing our Christmas attire!

I did a couple of page kits and then one using my old papers … but only sharing the first page now … you’ll have to wait for next week to see another one!

So this was a page kit Sarah designed and I kept it fairly similar to the original … just added a few bits, moved the photo cluster further to the top, changed the colour to the background and side and used different embellishments from the kit Sarah included!

But other than that … kept it simple and similar ! 😂

Loved scrapping this pic of hubby and princess with the busty snowwoman that they made at the beginning of the year!

I did add in a couple of bits and bobs from new stash I bought at the crop – but really most of the design came from the kit Sarah designed ❤️

Happy crafting!

Catherine