Author: Catherine

Hello! Another day, another DT contribution.

Todays is for Happy Little Stampers Anything Goes Birthday challenge and I had a fun card I made with a LARGE printed digital stamp.

I had printed this onto quite a thin paper and coloured it with promarkers including a nice shadow outline.

I decided to cut round the image to give it a white halo and then stick directly onto a mix of patterned papers. I particularly love the dotty one with all those cool colours. So as I had coloured the girl in a mix of bright colours this worked fab. I grabbed some Sweet Sorbet cardstock and made my cardblank and then thought it would be good to do the peep of the paper at the edges by curling it back and this created both some dimension and interest.

I added a sentiment in bright pink and then some enamel dots to add to the “dottyness”.

Inside I just added a strip of the paper… but look at the dimension to the front of the card … you can really see it on this photo.

What doesn’t quite show on the photo is that I added wink of Stella to the flowers in her hair and the bow on her top… so in real life they are quite shimmery.

Super cute image and pleased that even though it took up most of the card front I was able to make a card this size using the image.

I am doing well in my using up stash I’ve got challenge I set myself for 2023 … and really enjoying playing with stash I had forgotten about and lay around unused for years.

Happy crafting!

Catherine

I grabbed the pouch with the patterned paper fussy cut bits and had another play. This time I integrated some die cut inlay with the sentiment die and also a real blast from the past for the embellishment … peels offs!

I added another piece of dsp from this pack and used that for the main background on a black card then I added the panel I had used for the die cut inlay.

I used the Tim Holtz die to cut the hole, then used it again on the white cardstock and then added a cherry cobbler die cut for the smaller cut.

I used the word stamp from Peace and Joy to finish off the sentiment.

I added the panel at an angle and cut off the excess and then added the deer and the black peel off stickers.

Inside the card I added the bit of paper I had cut off for the excess with another deer but forgot to take a picture of that! Ooops!

I still have a few of those peel offs but not likely to use them so think they may end up in the bin … for now I will keep them on the desk and if they get used in the next few weeks great… otherwise they are going!

Happy crafting!

Catherine

This month for the patterned paper playtime I decided to keep the patterned paper to a minimum! Which seems a little like I forgot the brief … but really as long as I’m using it I think it works.

So each month I’ve been cutting apart a piece of dsp (which I did way back in 2022!) And then using the cut apart elements mixed with any solid panels of patterned paper to make my card. This fabulous reindeer themed paper had both the snowflakes and the fabulous reindeer on one side and the Plaid on the other.

So whilst I did use a full piece of the plaid I then covered most of it with the white embossed panel. I then added a strip of the patterned with some snowflake elements (in honesty I preferred it without them but had nearly finished the card when I added them and didn’t want to waste it so decided to live with them!). Then a die cut oval which is stacked on black ones for dimension and the cut out reindeer.

With all the sentiments on the embossing I decided not to add another one and just finished with the gems for some sparkle and added wink of Stella to the reindeer to give it a touch of shimmer!

Inside I added another strip of patterned paper and another reindeer.

Love the clean look of this card with the beautiful prancing reindeer!

Happy crafting!

Catherine

The rest of the cards from the Kendra’s card challenge #12 …

So these next few I used the pointsettia from the Tidings and Trimmings set…

Next some one offs with some bigger sentiments …

I loved this set of cards I made … and all the lovely cute elements I added into the cards.

Really happy to have this set of cards made for my auntie.

Happy crafting!

Catherine

I decided to join in with Kendra’s card challenge again. It’s been a while since I did this but I loved doing this again.

The challenge #12 gave me a quite a few cards all of which will be gifted to the auntie for her to use.

I used Painted Christmas papers along with one other from Tidings and Trimmings. I then had lots of fun with embossing folders and stamps and cut apart bits of dsp.

So here are the first batch of cards and tomorrow will share the rest.

These ones all used the cut apart parts of another piece of dsp to embellish the cards.

The next few were one offs … each chosen differently.

This one using a stamp from an old kit from Stampin Up.

This one the Altenew Christmas flower stamp.

Tomorrow will share the next few cards.

Happy crafting!

Catherine

Well we are home from our holidays but sooooo much laundry to do so no time for crafting …. So this is from a few weeks ago!

So I have had an idea in my head for a while inspired by a few other crafters of having bright florals against a black or very dark background but struggling to work out which way to do it … this card came from one of the attempts and although I love the final card it isn’t quite what I had in mind originally so will keep trying to achieve that.

I started with the background and stamped the flowers on either side of the panel and then coloured them with promarkers. Next I coloured in the background with a warm grey and then as that didn’t look dark enough I went over it with black soot distress ink. This got me closer to the final effect I wanted. I then embossed the images again over the top of the colouring to make the line art stand out but chose gold instead of the black.

This reminded me of the cards I made using the one Liane had shared as inspiration so then I grabbed a text stamp and added that with embossing to the other spaces on background and I was happier with the background.

I then stamped, coloured and coloured the background to the floral stamp again before embossing and fussy cutting it to sit on top of the background. I then splattered everything with white gesso.

The background on the cut apart piece I kept with the warm grey to add contrasts with the background.

I stamped and embossed the sentiment and then coloured the cardstock with daffodil delight ink and the mat layer with black soot. I then sandwiched the bakers twine between the sentiment and the images to create a cluster of twine.

I added the black gems as final embellishment and then added it to the 5×7 card blank.

So I do love this but it isn’t quite what I had had planned so back to the drawing board on getting the effect I was really after!

Happy crafting!

Catherine

Hello all! Thanks for popping by my blog. I have a large card I made which has lots of bright cheeriness along with the beautiful Artistic floral cluster die.

Now there is quite a lot going on with this card. Firstly a pre-made gelli plate background for the patterned paper on the left and then a sprayed piece of cardstock I embossed in the debossing on the right.

There is a lot of Kraft cardstock layers and then the lovely Artistic die cut flower section that I stacked up a couple of times to give strength and then cut round to give it a white frame (this is my main grumble for this diecut – it didn’t come with a frame die cut!)

I added some pierced holes as a border on the Kraft middle panel and then that gorgeous yellow ribbon and the sequins to add more texture.

The sentiment is a mix of die cut letters (again stacked for dimension) and the Paperartsy sentiment which I embossed to pick up the gold from the embossed debossing panel.

All in all, lots going on and I really like the final card.

Happy crafting!

Catherine

One final card (the remaining panels of the masterboard are still sat in the to be used folder!) … and like the last couple I used the background die to create this.

I die cut the panel then die cut the frame a few times from white so it stands thicker then slotted in the middle sections again.

I then stamped and die cut the sentiment using the Colorado crafts stamps and dies.

Then I added the Darcy holly leaves which I had created using scrap cardstock I had inked and then embossed the holly leaves in silver.

I then added some gems to finish off.

Really love this … it is quite a chunky card with the raised frame but I love it… also love the monochrome scheme.

Happy crafting!

Catherine

I have another Paper Blooms card I’ve made using up those fussy cut bits of dsp from one the patterned paper playtime pouches.

I went a little overboard with the foam and created a dimensional background.

Not sure how evident it is but I had also stamped in the background using tone on tone a starburst type background using a turnabout stamp but I pretty much covered it with the flowers so you can barely see it!

What you can probably see is the dimension this card has with all those raised blooms—- I love it!

I decided to die cut the sentiment using white card stock and stacking up both the shadow and the actual sentiment. I did colour the sentiment though using stampin blends so it would work with the colours on the card.

I used the small happy from the Peace and Joy set for the rest of the sentiment, white heat embossed onto some of the coloured in cardstock again to match.

I then added lots of gems into the spaces between the blooms to finish off.

This is the last of this pouch of bits too as I added some to the inside of the card onto the white insert just to finish off!

Happy crafting!

Catherine

And here are cards 5 and 6…

I used the fabulous background die to cut the red panel and created two cards from it … one using a white frame to house the pieces and the other straight onto the card blank.

There is so much texture on this one because once I had added the frame I then used leftover pieces of the white frame to add back into the frame, sometimes three or four deep and sometimes leaving without a white piece which means when I then added the pieces of the inky background in it has different dimensions for each piece.

Next I created the flowers for both cards … I used the watercolour with embossing on the top …

… this really transforms the embossing and I love this technique.

I added the flower on this one with a piece of gold ribbon and a Colorado Craft company stamped and die cut sentiment with the Peace & Joy stamped sentiment to finish off.

I love the Kraft mat layer too to finish it off.

This one I added some die cut leaves … lots of them!

I then added an embossed sentiment which was on coral cardstock.

I really love these cards… admittedly the stacked one was a little fiddly but I enjoyed the puzzle of putting it back together again.

I have one more card to share with you … and two background panels left … but they are safely tucked away for another day and the final card I will share in a few days.

Happy crafting!

Catherine