Category: Ribbons

Design Team, Designer Series Paper, Digital stamps, Ribbons, YouTube video

DT: Creative Knockouts – add a sentiment

Catherine

Hello! Time for another design team contribution and this time for Creative Knockouts where the theme for this fortnight is to add a sentiment.

I chose to use this flowery watering can image which I was gifted by Connie Fong who are sponsoring the challenge. The image is called Garden Bouquet.

I printed it off in a couple of sizes but for this one I went large and ended up making a 7×7 card. I love the colour schemes and the pretty vintage style I ended up with.

I coloured the image using distress inks and water and a paintbrush and kept the painting quite loose so it has some depth but no precision. I also did some fussy cutting around a rectangle shape so some of the image fell off the edge of the rectangle.

I added the lacy trim and some brads and then the sentiment is hand stamped from a magazine freebie set. I then fussy cut, mounted it, and fussy cut the mount. I added foam to both the sentiment, the top rectangle and then the full background so there is plenty of dimension.

Love how it turned out. Think this image would be great for decoupage too so may give that a go at some point.

Also I did make a video of me making this if you fancy watching me in action!

Happy crafting!

Catherine

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Expressions in Ink, Promarkers, Letraset, Ribbons, YouTube video

Happy birthday to my princess

Catherine

My gorgeous girl turned 17 today … still can’t believe she’s reached this age already and that I’m old enough to have a 17 year old!

I made a fashion and green themed card for her.

It’s certainly a little different than my usual style with these fun fashion sketches but I thought it would be suitable for my fashion and textiles loving girl!

I used the Expressions in Ink dsp and some little templates from a little booklet I’ve had for ages. Then I made it up! I added in some cotton fabric and a bit of old olive ribbon.

I was going to add sewing but in the end I decided against it.

I added the happy birthday sentiment die stacking the green twice and then the white twice with the white slightly offset so it was a little like a shadow.

I finished off with a few gems. I considered adding Mayas name in gold or the word daughter but in the end decided that it would be too much for the already busy card.

I did video making the card so if you fancy watching me make it check it out on YouTube.

Happy crafting!

Catherine

Arrange a Wreath, Art by Marlene collage papers, Craft Stamper magazine stamps, Ribbons

Craft Stamper magazine sort out

Catherine

I’m still going with my craft stamper magazine stamps sort out and today I have an Easter card I made using the cute Hares stamp … which I will say straight away has gone straight into the keep pile.

To be honest I knew as sure as I saw the stamp in the box that I was keeping it as it’s such a cute image plus the silhouette style is perfect to stop it being too cute!

I inked up an acrylic block and spritzed with water to make the background that was perfect for then stamping the image onto.

Then it was a case of finding the right background paper to play with and make up the card. I ended up going with the Art By Marlene collage paper and some black for contrast.

I added the sentiment from the Arrange a Wreath set and then some pink gems and a green gingham ribbon for embellishment.

Simple and sweet. Love it.

Happy crafting!

Catherine

Ribbons, Splendid Stems, Splendid Thoughts, Stampin Blends alcohol pens

UK stampers forum tag swap

Catherine

Hello! Today I have a tag I made using the bits and pieces still on my desk from the patterned paper playtime blog post from the 1st. I often do this … make stuff from the stash left on my desk as I am rubbish at keeping tidy and hate to put things in the bin if I think I can get a little more use out of them.

So as I had the dictionary print paper there I started by covering a piece of sturdy card in the paper at a slight angle and then cut out the tag shape. I then chose two of the labels that were tag shaped, punched a hole and threaded some twine through. I raised these on foam and added them as background to the main images.

I then stamped and coloured using the stampin blends three of the leaf images from Splendid Thoughts and die cut them out. The bigger of the leaves I also die cut from cardstock to stack it and give it some strength as this paper is quite thin.

I stuck them down and then chose a sentiment and fussy cut that.again I added some dimension underneath to raise it up. Finished by inking the edge of the tag and some lovely silver gems.

Of course because it is a tag I also added some lace trim to the top with more of the twine that has a green running through.

Love how this all worked together. So pretty.

Happy crafting!

Catherine

First Edition, For My Family, Jar, Old Paper, Promarkers, Letraset, Ribbons, Splendid Stems, Splendid Thoughts

Patterned paper play

Catherine

How is it the beginning of March already? Wow this year is going so fast already.

So as its the first of the month it is time for my playtime with patterned paper.

Those of you who have popped by my blog for this before will know I got myself super organised last year, chose some 12×12 dsp and got fussy cutting and popped all the bits into a pouch so I could be ready to go with the starting point of a card! This time it’s an odd one as the dsp I cut up had lots of these labels on one side and the coral pattern on the other and I teamed it with some dictionary type print paper too.

So I grabbed some Pale Papaya cardstock and made up a card blank and used another piece to add texture then started layering up a few of the labels, a strip of the coral and the book paper.

This gave a nice spot for a focal feature to be added and I decided on a jar full of splendid Stems!

I did punch the jar a few times to give it some dimension and covered the top layer in wink of Stella so it’s very shimmery!

Inside the jar I added the die cut Stems and one of the stamped images which I stamped and coloured onto the bookprint which I think looks fabulous!

I finished off with a simple sentiment from For my Family and some pearl gems and a bit of twine wrapped round the jar.

Love how this finished up. A lovely mix of modern and vintage I think!

Happy crafting!

Catherine

Design Team, Digital stamps, Fancy Phrases, Pierced Blooms, Pinewood planks, Promarkers, Letraset, Ribbons

DT: Creative Knockouts – Birthday wishes

Catherine

Now the Creative Knockouts challenges last a fortnight I get a bit more breathing space between my contributions which I must admit is a little bit of a relief.

This time the theme is Birthday Wishes and we are sponsored by All Dressed Up whose images I love.

I chose to use the image Little Scottie Dog which I was gifted by All Dressed Up. I printed it and coloured it using my Promarkers with some really pretty pastels.

I then die cut the image out.

I then went to town with the Pierced Blooms die cuts in coordinating colours.

For the background I went with Kraft cardstock and ran that through the embossing folder to give some texture. I also added some dsp in the blue as some contrast.

When I had put this together I went with a Kraft card blank and so added a mat of white and then chose my sentiment from the Fancy Phrases set.

I also added in some splatters of the pink shimmer ink and then some flower embellishments.

I also added a metallic button with some twine as the final embellishment.

Happy crafting!

Catherine

Emma Godfrey, Ribbons, Splendid Stems, Splendid Thoughts, Stampendous, YouTube video

Another purple background card

Catherine

This card is like the one I shared last Saturday in that it is using the purple background inspired by … yes you’ve guessed it … Jennifer McGuire and the distress ink resist mono print type technique. This was the background that worked well although I then end up covering most of it up with the stamping and the focal point but still I love how it turned out!

I decided to play with the Splendid Thoughts stamps and added some additional pattern to the background using the more solid stamps. Then I stamped, coloured the images and die cut them and added the finer diecuts to create the cluster.

I decided it needed a frame so I die cut the larger shape from the Seasonal Labels dies. I inked the edge of that and the background panel to frame it.

Then added dimension using foam and texture with the silver bow.

The sentiment I added was from the little tray of bits and bobs I have to the side where I make things for projects and then don’t use them.

Inside I added a piece of white and a leftover stamped piece and die cut to coordinate but forgot to take a pic … oops!

I finished off with the little iridescent gems.

No one would probably work out that the background was handmade not a bought paper I think but I love how this ended up and enjoyed the playtime.

If you fancy watching this one come together than you can watch it as I did video the whole thing!

Happy crafting!

Catherine

P.S. I still have 2 backgrounds left from this playtime but might give purple a rest for a few weeks! But watch this space to see the other things I make from them!

Pierced Blooms, Ribbons

Getting dotty card

Catherine

I found a stamp set that I have not used in some time so decided to make a background with it.

I embossed all the stamps and created a lovely background which I then added some blended distress inks in yellows, pinks and oranges.

I also found some random stamps on the desk to add some other patterns into the background. I also added in some splatters of shimmer ink. I don’t think you can see that on any of the photos but you can in real life.

I then grabbed the die cut pierced blooms flowers and decided they could be a a lovely cluster around a sentiment.

I used some ripped Kraft cardstock to create a contrast to the flowers. I then layered the background onto a layer of Kraft to frame it and wrapped some paper twine around it.

I then added a stamped sentiment which again is one of the random ones I came across whilst tidying up.

I added foam behind it to give it dimension. I then added some sparkly gems from the stash as a finishing touch.

Quite a pretty but also funky card.

Entering into the anything goes challenge at Paper Funday Challenge

Happy crafting!

Catherine

Art by Marlene, ArtJourney.nl, Gilding flakes, Inktense, Derwent, Masks/Stencils, Ribbons

UK stampers forum tag swap

Catherine

This month for the tag swap I went a little grungy but also a bit cute!

I decided to use the Art By Marlene beach house stamp and to do some paper piecing but with the base on Kraft cardstock. I then decided to add some white ink behind the main image, some splattering and some stamping using a random wood mounted stamp from the stash. I then decided everything needed a coating of ink to make it blend… this turned my pretty cute house into a cute but grungy house!

I then added more white pigment ink through stencils around the edge but used the sticky embossing powder in the hope that I could add gilding flakes to those sections. This didn’t work well so they look only a little gilded and mainly white and textured. But I like the effect so I didn’t mind.

I stamped and embossed and inked the sentiment from Art Journey nl and added that.

I then used my inktense pencil to add some shading and definition to the image, the sentiment and around the edge of the tag.

I added some ribbons to finish off and decided it was a finished piece ready for the swap.

The first few photos were taken at night with flash, this is the tag in daylight.

It was good to use the Beach house stamp in a different way. It is such a cute set of stamps and I don’t think I’ve ever gone grungy with them before!

Happy crafting!

Catherine

Emma Godfrey, Gummiapan, Ribbons, Sizzix, Stampendous, YouTube video

Playing with purple distress inks

Catherine

Last weekend I grabbed a stack of distress inks to make a background inspired by Jennifer McGuire but ended up not using the two that I made originally but instead the ‘fail’ background and made that into a card. If you fancy watching it come together I did video the whole thing.

If not … read on!

So the background was made by using distress ink resist mono print type technique. But this one didn’t come out very clearly so I decided as it was pretty to carry on playing with it regardless and come up with something. It ended up quite grungy and I love it!

I used the Gummiapan alphabet stamp and then lots of splatters. Then the Stampendous stamp that had been used as the resist pattern originally.

Then I picked out some new to me dies (I know no spend but I bought these with the money I had used selling stash so I’m not counting it as spends! – yes I’ve found a loophole in my no spend resolution I’m willing to work with!)

Anyways I die cut some leaves and the circle in white and stacked them up.

I grabbed the denim blue ribbon and added that before adding the banner and sentiment. I also die cut the little circles from the same cardstock and die set and added wink of Stella and used them as gem type embellishments.

I used Rich Razzleberry as the base and added a layer of white to frame the background panel and added white inside to make sure it was good for writing on (but didn’t decorate the inside).

Really pleased with this inky card and what’s more from the play I ended up with another three backgrounds to play with.

I did end up using one of them straightaway and filmed another video but I’ll blog about that once I’ve got round to editing and uploading it!

Happy crafting!

Catherine