Category: Art and crafting styles

Tag Thursday… True Love Dsp

Catherine

Today I have a quick tag I made using scraps leftover from the card making zoom session kit … what card making zoom session… well the one I am hosting tonight. When making up kits, I portion out the supplies for the attendees and myself as a sample kit, then make the cards and then play with the leftovers… I aways give enough supplies so there are leftovers to play with. Well this time there are a few projects I made with leftovers, but one was this cute little tag.

I backed the dsp with some card and then cut to size and punched it out. I find just punching dsp means the paper tears when you add the ribbon so like to back it in cardstock first

Then the flower was an edge piece from one of the pieces of dsp left over … perfect size for a little tag.

I coloured it in using my Stampin Blends.

In real life the colour match on the flower and the Blackberry Bliss ribbon is much closer but for some reason the colour looks pink on the picture. I added the sentiment on a tiny scrap of cardstock and then the matt black dots and the scrap of ribbon to finish off!

Loved the cute tag and it will make a perfect added element when sending some Happy mail in the post.

Entering this in the pink/red challenge at Get creative

Happy crafting!

Catherine

Heart ATCS for UK stampers forum

Catherine

I don’t always join in with the ATC swap at UK stampers forum, but this month the challenge was hearts and I am still absolutely in love with this stamp Darcy designed for Paperartsy. It’s been one of my favourites for a long time.

I kept to the theme of using the same dsp on the ATCs as I did for the coins… the red gingham from Berry Delightful. Then I embossed the heart onto white and cut it out.

I decided that it needed something behind the heart so I added strips of black washi tape. Then I added the red heart punched shape and added stickles to it for some bling.

I outlined the cards in black pen and called it done. Super simple and super effective!

Entering these for the red/pink challenge at GET CREATIVE

Happy crafting!

Catherine

Stampin Up Sunday – Whale of a time Dsp

Catherine

OK confession time… I actually made these during the craftalong zoom session I had a few weeks ago and have saved them up for a Stampin Up Sunday blog.

I was using the Whale of a Time dsp I had been given and I’ve nearly finished using it up… probably got enough for another 2 or 3 cards max.

I decided to fill the backgrounds on the cardblanks and then layer up panels before adding the fussy cut whales/ turtles and some dies cuts and a sentiment.

There are just so cute! Love how they all came out and they were super simple to make.

I have to admit I would never have bought this paper but it is gorgeous and fun to play with and because of the ones you can cut apart to create the focal points you don’t need to also have the coordinating stamps to work with it!

Entering this into the Anything Goes challenge at Crafty Creations

Happy crafting!

Catherine

UK stampers forum Artist trading coin swap

Catherine

Well that was an odd 36 hours. Had my covid vaccine but the reaction to is was like a repeat of my covid experience in December on fast forward for 36 hours. No temperatures but instead a very painful arm and then all the other symptoms came and went over the time. Now, a couple of aches but otherwise back to how I was precovid vaccine… and hopefully full of lovely strong antibodies!

Thankful I had this post ready done as I didn’t manage to do anything at all yesterday.

I have three more artist trading coins to share with you this time using the Sweet Strawberry stamps and the Berry Delightful dsp…

I made these for the UK Stampers Forum swap. I added a piece of doily underneath and then stamped and fussy cut the pieces… I would have used the punch but I hadn’t got a large enough piece of card to fit all three on at once so just went for fussy cutting!

I also added the sentiment and then the little gems to finish off.

I went for a theme of the red gingham paper for all three swaps I made for the UK stampers forum swap … I’ll share the other things I made in a few days.

Happy crafting!

Catherine

Tag Thursday… Pierced blooms tags

Catherine

Hi… well these tags were actually my first play with both the Pierced Blooms dies and also the In Bloom stamps and I made them a few weeks ago, but they only went out of my house yesterday and wanted them to be received before I blogged about them.

I used some white card which I had on the desk from other projects to create the tags, hence the difference in sizes… it was just what was to hand! Of course I used the Scalloped Tag Topper punch to create them!

Then I went to town die cutting the flowers and leaves using all sorts of scraps from off the desk and the piles of bits and pieces I saved for die cutting tiny bits from!

Once I had a decent stash of bits to work with I chose some of the tiny stamps in the set to create backgrounds on the white tags using colours I thought would work with the colours in the die cuts.

Then I created the cluster of flowers and leaves and glued them into place.

Next I chose a sentiment (from the Waterfront stamp set) that worked for the reason I was making these (for my zoom crafting friends) and stamped that and then cut up the sentiment into little strips. I edged each strip and then adhered them down. I love doing this with stamps so I can place the sentiment in different places.

Finally I finished with wink of Stella which I added to each of the flower centres.

Love how they turned out… they did need some ribbon to finish them off but forgot to photograph them at this point so you are missing that on the pics!

Still not sure if Tag Thursday will be a weekly thing or just random throughout the year… we will have to see how I get on?

And now for a slice of life as its been a few days since I included one in a blog… well sleep has not been good the past week with two terrible nights of very little sleep, not good when it’s busy at work and I have to be alive and use my brain! I am also super obsessed still with journalling … a bit of bujo and a lot of making junk journal signatures and I’ve started filling my first one. I’m also currently obsessed with Ms. Paper Lover on You Tube and could watch her create all day!

In other news I’m trying my hardest to reduce calorie intake but still enjoy my food…. mixed results on how well I am doing with it to be honest, but happy that I am at least trying even if not always succeeding!

That’s it for now folks. Thanks for reading my blogs. I really appreciate it.

Happy crafting!

Catherine

Project half done: Venetian Romance, Birch background & flower die cuts

Catherine

A quick one today, with more of that Venetian Romance paper I still haven’t finished with! This time just one little strip on the card I made… although it is super cute!

I also videoed the process… here is the link.

I love the embossed background using the Birch stamp and the pearlescent embossing powder.

Then the Calypso Coral and shaded spruce really pop on the patterned paper. Also that little sentiment strip looks great!

As I said, quick and easy but also looks great.

Entering this into the Anything Goes challenge at Crafty Creations

Happy crafting!

Catherine

Stampin Up Sunday… Keeping it simple… birds and branches

Catherine

Another crazy week has passed, possibly one of the busiest I’ve had for a few months, so once again crafting had dried up… but then on Friday a SU order arrived. So a few YouTube videos were filmed … unboxing and then tidying up!

I did do plenty of crafting yesterday and today but for projects I can’t blog about yet so I had to make this quick card for today’s blog.

I am doing some sort of creative stuff daily that I started this week … journalling. I’m sort of mixing writing journalling with bullet journalling and junk journalling all in one… fancy seeing it? Well maybe I will share that when I have a decent number of spreads… although will need to cover a fair bit of the writing up for privacy.

Anyways… as I said today I have a card I made using the Birds and Branches stamps and dies but I kept it all really simple.

First an embossed panel of some slightly shiny cardatock. I brought out the embossing by adding some Sahara sand ink and using the blending tool. So pretty and delicate.

Next I stamped and die cut three birds… Blushing Bride, Pool Party, Pistachio Pudding (I would use soft sea foam but don’t own the ink yet!).

Then stamped the sentiment along the bottom.

Finished off with a tied piece of linen thread across the whole front of the card and adhered on the inside with a piece of card.

Pretty and simple.

Happy crafting!

Catherine

Tag Thursday… Berry delightful dsp

Catherine

This week for Tag Thursday I actually turned the two tags I made into cards. I played with some dsp I had cut into for another project and left over Pear Pizazz card I had on the desk.

I started with this little tag and a scrap of the dsp with a bit of fussy cutting and layering (the bottom berry is layered up with a dimensional.

The sentiment I had to ink a bit at a time to get it to fit but I think it still looks great.

The second tag is a bit bigger and I went for a horizontal layout.

Again fussy cutting the berries and using the reverse for the main background panel.

I decided these would make great toppers for cards and that the reverse paper with all the berries would make a fun background.

The first one I added the doodle lines like on the tag, the second one I added one more berry as it needed it for balancing the layout.

Love these cheery fun cards and tags.

Happy crafting!

Catherine

Mixed Media Monday – Project half done: Venetian Romance and… junk journalling

Catherine

So a few weeks ago I shared a post using up some of the Venetian Romance failed One sheet wonder i had found when clearing up. Well today I used some more of the paper… junk journalling!

Well I am not sure if this is junk journalling… its just making a mixed media page but hey ho!

Its a page to go into the journal I am doing under the title of junk journal!

Can you spot the patterned paper piece? I actually used the reverse of the paper in the grey and yellow rather than the coastal cabana … I thought it worked better this way!

I also added lots of other stuff from the junk journal box, including gelli prints, book print and played with plenty of fun mediums like paint and distress crayons.

If you fancy watching how this came together check out my YouTube video here…

Super happy with how this page came together… and two more pieces of the paper used! I still have a fair amount left to use… wonder what else I will make with it?

Happy crafting!

Catherine

Stampin Up Sunday… forever greenery cards

Catherine

Today I have done lots of SU crafting as I spent time with some of the team I belong to, crafting on zoom together.

I grabbed some of the forever greenery papers and die cuts leftover from the zoom session I had done months ago and made up three cards whilst we chatted and shared info and our lives via zoom. It was great fun.

Here are the cards I made…

The gold and the patterned papers work so well and I love the patterns so much I wanted them to fill the cards. The cardstock I used were just bits and pieces from the scraps folder.

I love the gold twine too… in fact I may have to order another of those in my next order as I’ve come to the end of my stash of it and it works with loads of different projects!

As for the other things we made… my upline Valerie did a little tutorial on the corner bookmark… so I used the same papers and some stamped and die cut images for mine…

And then Sue showed us a very intricate multi layered card… I’ve turned mine into a Mothers day card so you’ll have to wait a while before I share that!

As for the rest of my day, well I treated myself to a lie in, then did the food shop, then cooked brunch and now am just chilling. The teenager is in charge of tea so the only task I’m giving myself for the rest of today is clearing and cleaning the desk ready for turning it back into a workplace tomorrow.

Hope you’ve had a good Sunday.

Happy crafting!

Catherine