Being inky and creating pretty stuff
Today I have another of those cards I made for the parents which is suitable for male recipients!
I decided to go back to the Waterfront stamps and use them with brushos to create this sweet little scene.
A simple (albeit using a method that made my fingers very inky!) Birthday card! Finished with a Lawn Fawn sentiment stamp.
Happy crafting!
Catherine
I actually art journalled for fun! It’s been so long since I have done this. It was fun to just play.
I started with a base of distress stain onto a page in my Dylusions journal.
I then added some stencilling to the background with some gesso (black and white).
Next I added some fabric stamped items, a bird image from a magazine and a little corrugated tag.
I added some doodling and then so rub ons and called it done! Such a fun thing to do, to play without purpose. Really enjoyed myself!
Happy crafting!
Catherine
Yesterday I shared the “scraps” from this project… Today I share the actual project.
My friend Chris who runs the Mini Marvels group suggested something a bit different for a swap… we were to make Russian art dolls which was inspired by some thing she saw on Instagram.
I knew I wanted to join in immediately! I started by creating a batch of gelli prints at random … no rhyme nor reason to the colours or patterns I used. Just played!
Some of the papers I chose were plain paper, some were book print or patterned.
I then created a template for the base and cut them from mountboard.
My mountboard cutting skills are not good so each one ended up as an individual but hey ho! They were roughly the same size and shape so they would do! I decided to paint them with black gesso front and black.
Next I decided to add stamping and mark making to the gelli prints before I cut into them. A relaxing 30 mins went by in no time just doodling and adding random additional patterns with posca pens in pink, blue, white and black.
Next I decided to make one doll as a trial… and I needed to decide on a face. I tried a few different ones but settled on this one from my Badass artchick stamps. Love the funky look!
So first one made it was time to cover the other dolls in prints and start layering up.
I also added more stamping and doodling. The stamp set the face was taken from also included a stamp with the words
Empowered women
Empower women
I decided this would be added to each of the dolls as well as used on the back of each doll in some way. Wondering if you can spot it on all the dolls?
I then gave each doll a coat of glossy mod podge to seal and protect the papers and the doodles and added the pearl gem to the hair flower to finish off!
Once they were dry I added black gesso to the edge and covered any messes I created on the back with more gesso before I added stamping and details to the backs of the dolls.
Done!
The dolls have now been split into three pairs. One pair for me to keep, and two pairs have gone to their new homes.
Loved this challenge. Well done Chris on suggesting it and of course credit to @catherinescraftcorner on Instagram for the inspiration.
Happy crafting!
Catherine
Today I’ve got the coins I made for the Facebook swap group I run. Each month we do a swap with a theme. This month the theme I chose was “use your scraps”.
I chose this as I had lots of mini scraps on my desk of gelli prints and wanted to use them.
So I collaged the scraps onto coin bases and then mod podged them to give them a glossy finish.
I then embossed the Tim Holtz butterflies onto other scraps and fussy cut them out.
I then added gems and the sentiment which I embossed onto black card. I edged the coins with black gesso and called them done!
Love them!
And the project that I made to create the scraps … well I will be sharing that in another blog! Consider this a sneak peek!
Here are the daylight pics to show the colours better!
Happy crafting!
Catherine
Ooops I am a bit late posting this but I have the card I made for Craftyhazelnuts Christmas challenge blog that went live this morning.
This week Hazel challenged us to use a sentiment… easy as I rarely don’t use a sentiment. So I decided to use a big sentiment stamp as the focus of my design.
I started however by lightly brushing over a stencil from clarity to get the snowflakes on the background. Then I stamped the sentiment in Black soot distress oxide.
Next I added the small snowflake stamps to frame the sentiment and added sequins for some texture and shine.
Love how easy this was and how it turned out.
Happy crafting!
Catherine
I’m back with another of the cards I made for my parents stash of “male” themed birthday cards.
Just like the one I shared last week this has the distress oxide on glossy photo paper background. Such an easy way to create something dramatic. This time I added to it with the partial stamping of a map to add more interest.
This time, in keeping with the transport theme of the last one, this one I used a Creative Stamping magazine stamp of a ship and mounted the panel onto a pale bronze cardstock.
Really pleased with how this came out.
I will be back next week with another one of these “male” themed cards.
Happy crafting!
Catherine
Hi there
It is Saturday and that means it is time for a new DT contribution for Craftyhazelnuts Christmas challenge blog. This week the challenge was to feature a creature, and I chose this reindeer pulling a sleigh image to fulfil the criteria.
I created the background using distress inks and distress sprays and some random text and sentiment stamps. Then I stamped and embossed the image and sentiment onto white cardstock.
I decided to add to the texture by using staples and sequins to embellish.
Love how funky this came out.
Happy crafting!
Catherine
So about once a year my mum asks for some cards for their stash. Most of the ones she asked for she could just grab from cards already made, but I didn’t have many cards suitable for the men they send cards to… So I had to do my least favourite type of crafting… making “male” themed cards.
Anyways I made them and will share them over the next few weeks with you.
This is the first one. I used the photo paper and distress oxide trick to create a background and then used the Sky’s the Limit stamps to create the focal image and sentiment.
I decided to create interest by splitting the image up and creating the two panels. I think it worked quite well.
Card 1 for a man achieved!
Happy crafting!
Catherine
I’m delighted to say that I am still doing this challenge for the second half of 2019… So this time just a 1 card make. I ran out of time to do the usual batch of card making but the rest of the kit is sitting there waiting to be used so maybe I will get to it in the next couple of days…
Once again I used Making Cards Magazine freebie papers and card topper image for the card and kept it really simple as the image really is the focal point of the whole card.
Love the zingy colours the funky artwork.
Now pop over and see what everyone has been up to at Craftyhazelnuts patterned paper challenge this month.
Happy crafting!
Catherine
Hazel set us the challenge of using snowflakes for the CHNC blog this week. So I chose snowflake paper, and added more snowflakes to it using stamps and white embossing powder.
I then added the main image of a Digital stamp I coloured using promarkers onto a band of darker green, with the sentiment and some sequins!
Love the little penguin. So cute.
So definitely went for a few snowflakes for this one!
Happy crafting!
Catherine
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