Author: Catherine

Colour combo time! My versions of the colours Martin chose are Night of Navy, Island Indigo and Pistachio Pudding.

And because I wanted to use those dies I am obsessed with this became another Alex Syberia dies based card – although it started as a Waffleflower crafts stencil and die based card! To watch it come together please check out my video.

After stencilling and die cutting the overlapping words I then die cut the foliage and flowers from the die set from white and then used all the same inks to colour the elements.

I created the clusters to sit under the sentiment and then decided to add the scripty foiling using the Dina Wakely press plate.

I mounted the panel onto some navy card stock and then onto the white DL shaped card.

I then added the stars from the Waffleflower stencil and die set as final embellishments.

Happy crafting!

Catherine

Back to using that #KCC20 I cut up about a month ago to make three more cards! And despite already posting my 30 day challenge card and video – I’m sharing this today as my Festive Friday.

I went for lots of embossing for these three as the linking theme as all three cards had ‘white space’ I wanted to add texture to.

I know I covered a fair amount of the patterned paper squares on this but I think I love this card the most of the three – it is just so pretty!

The star acetate elements and the sentiment banner worked so well and I loved adding in the waxed thread for a different texture too.

This one I kept really simple with layering those wreaths and that was pretty much it!

I think the knit texture of the embossing folder looks so cosy!

And then the dimension by layering up the wreaths with adhesive foam – cute!

This one took a little more decision making but again I love the finished card – using the merriest moments embossing folder did mean I had to move the aqua panel up the card a bit to cover the central rectangle of the folder design – but I think it still works nicely.

And again that waxed thread just helped finish it off with a different texture added in!

Inside each card I added the white panel and then a bit of decoration too …

Love these card sketches and how easy it makes the making!

Great fun!

Happy crafting!

Catherine

The theme for today is Magic of Midnight and I knew I wanted to capture the magic of Santa flying through the midnight sky.

I used stamps from Creative stamping magazine to stamp the city scene and the Santa and reindeer flying and then went to town with inks and splatter to create the night sky.

I love the iridescent splatter I added as well as the white paint splatter.

The sentiment is a Tim Holtz sticker and then I added the gems to finish off.

Love the simplicity of getting such an atmospheric sky with distress inks – just so easy but effective!

I recorded the process of making this card so check this out on my YouTube channel.

Happy crafting!

Catherine

Martin gave us a sketch to play with today …

I decided to turn the sketch to make the horizontal strip a vertical one instead!

I decided to make a square card and used papers and die cut elements from the Christmas Tags and More dsp kit.

I used some waxed thread for hanging the baubles and then added in the die cut sentiment.

I added some glossy accents to the berries on the foliage elements and some shimmer pen to the sentiment.

Inside the card I added another panel of the paper and a little tag for decoration.

A simple and yet effective card and I think close enough to the sketch to count! Process video is uploaded on YouTube

Happy crafting!

Catherine

Today’s challenge from Martin was Reindeer Games… which I sort of departed from because I didn’t actually include a reindeer – just normal deer – but I am sure Martin will accept this!

I wanted to use the Indigo Blu stamps I bought a while ago and hadn’t got around to using till now – so created a lovely wintry scene with the deer and trees and some simple inking.

If you watch the video of this you will see this was created as one panel and then cut to make two cards – very simple and I think elegant!

I kept the cards very flat and simple – a real departure from my usual style!

Happy crafting!

Catherine

Today’s theme Martin gave us was frosted windowpanes and all I could think of was those die cut windows I used up for a Make It Masculine set of cards a few months ago! Doh! But after a hunt through the die sets I found the cute house with the little window and thought I could make it work.

And then I made a card I was really really pleased with!

I just adore the scene I made from the house die and the tree dies and love how I added the snow using both white craft ink and glitter glue.

In fact I loved it so much I had to immediately go and show it off to both the hubby and the princess – this rarely happens – but this time I wanted to share immediately!

If you want to see me put this together please head over to my YouTube video. Warning – I might gush quite a bit about how much I love this card! 😂

I can see me recreating this at some point and to be honest once the die cutting has been done it didn’t take too long to put together. Also love the fact I made this from scraps … certainly good to get some used up as in the last few weeks my pouch of scraps has got quite full! So may need to do a few more scraps based cards soon!

Happy crafting!

Catherine

Grabbed some time on Sunday to make a tag for this months swap over at UK stampers forum.

I started with some scrap cardstock and covered most of it with some dyed tissue paper and then some bits of angel hair. I then grabbed a printed tissue scrap and added that too.

This created an interesting background but I wanted to also add some texture so used the Tim Holtz dies that cut out from the panel at both the top and the bottom. This gave me some interesting pattern and I then glued this panel down onto a grey card and cut it to be slightly larger than the original tag.

I edged it with black archival and then grabbed the cute little butterfly stamps and stamped that a few times in black and used white embossing powder – as it heated some of the black came through to create a fun mottled effect.

I added the die cut leaf and the die cut and foiled butterfly that were on the desk and then stamped and coloured and fussy cut the green leaves to give the butterfly a grounding.

I then added the stamped and die cut sentiment to finish off.

I then mounted the panel onto the lilac tag again cut a little larger than the grey later. I punched the hole and then threaded through some fun ribbon and thread trims including a beaded one. I also added the trim bow which I think balanced it nicely.

Happy crafting!

Catherine

Today’s challenge is a colour challenge. Martin used Concord & 9th colours – plumberry, rainforest & lilac.

And for my interpretation … Blackberry Bliss, Shaded Spruce and Bubble Bath (I think I called it ballet slipper on the video by mistake) were the cardstocks I chose to use along with a pop of satin foiled cardstock and used a few tricks to vary up the greens!

As for the card – well the Alex Syberia dies came out to play and I put this together based on the layout that the larger die suggests.

I even used the die cut frame for the inking to give the base of the card a light inking of the Rainforest ink.

It did take a while to put the card together as it was the first time of assembling this – and although straightforward I kept having to stop and start to make sure I had enough elements.

I added some difference to the greenery by either adding some promarkers to darken them, some inking and in the case of the smaller leaves I added clear embossing!

I added some shimmer to the centres of the flowers and also to the rosehip type berries.

Then the sentiment is a Tim Holtz sticker mounted onto the lilac satin foiled cardstock.

I just love these dies so much! So much fun to work with and although I don’t think I got this perfectly aligned I did quite a good job and so consider it easy once all the die cutting is done!

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

Happy crafting!

Catherine

I decided for today’s theme to go with lots of glitter glue – because I usually get into trouble when using glitter glue – but I managed to only make one tiny blip and could clear that up easily!

I ended up with a super bright and sparkly card in a very different colour scheme for me than my usual Christmas cards – so good to play with a different scheme!

I chose the digital stamp image from LeeAnn’s world 101 which was already in my folder of images and coloured in with the alcohol markers and then plenty of glitter glue for adding accents.

I loved putting this together. Definitely different from other recent makes!

A fun card! If you want to see me put it together please check out my YouTube.

Happy crafting!

Catherine

Another Scrappin Saturday project that is a design team project for Kingston Crafts – this time using the pastel cardstock.

I decided to scrap these pictures from 2023 of my snuggles with my youngest great nephew Henry using a few different colours of the cardstock.

You probably know by now I love the white core of this cardstock and how fun it is when ripping it – so that became a major part of my design and created the waves of colour down the page.

I chose the soft blues and lilacs with the sand for the the background and peachy tones for the embossed flowers to work with the picture.

The cardstock die cuts brilliantly which was perfect for the title on the page.

I also added some sewing in which again the cardstock coped with really well!

I finished off with some dots of glitter glue which just added that little bit of sparkle to the page.

Overall I adore this cardstock and that’s a really good thing as the pack is huge so I’ve got loads left still to play with!

Happy crafting!

Catherine