Category: Art and crafting styles

So I had a little bit of playtime using the distress resist spray and distress oxides on glossy cardstock.

I created this fabulous textured and marblised background.

I put this to one side and then needed to clear up the craft room and sort out some random bits and pieces.

I ended up grabbing some stamped images I stamped about 3 or 4 years ago at a crop and never ended up using and also a cute little image from the winter friends set that I was obsessed with in the run up to christmas.

I layered these onto a canvas tag I had painted some turquoise on previously… and then layered it onto a pale green background. I love the colours and the images together.

Happy crafting!

Catherine

My final swap for this month for UK stampers forum was the inchies… and of course I kept to the brushos theme!

I cut the mountboard to size and stamped the cute little seahorse from the Magical Day stamp set and the little bubbles and then coloured the board with brushos in sea green and turquoise. I then flicked some art alchemy sparks paint onto them.

Then I stamped and die cut the seahorse onto white and used gamboge and brilliant red to water colour him in before sticking him down.

Once he was dry I added a layer of clear embossing to give them some shine.

Super happy with these cute little inchies.

Happy crafting!

Catherine

Hello.

It’s been a little while since I shared a video with you… so today I have one making three ATCs for the UK stampers forum swap. And as per the theme of the last few days I have been a bit brusho mad!

So follow along with my process on the video.. and here is the final results

Really happy with all of these and how bright and cheery they ended up.

Happy crafting!

Catherine

I decided to use the fabulous Sheena Douglass Hare stamp again and brushos to create this month’s postcard. It is very similar to the ATC I made… just bigger!

I added more orange tones to the hare itself and the background is the light brown brusho. I love this stamp and how easy it is to create some stunning artwork.

Now part of the challenge for this swap is that you have to be able to post the postcard so I had to seal the brushos.

I decided to give the full postcard a couple of layers of clear embossing to do the seal. This gives the whole piece a glazed appearance. Love it.

Happy crafting!

Catherine

I loved this stamp that came with the Making Cards magazine last month and the bright and cheery papers that came with it.

I chose to create two cards using the stamp and colouring them differently.

The first one I went for a shabby look. I mat the paper onto some coredinations card which I had sanded the edge of. Also I distressed the edge of the paper first.

Then I stamped the image onto Very Vanilla and coloured the image with Inktense blocks and a waterbrush. Again I distressed the edge. This time I took the wine glass paper and brushed it with a stencil brush to give it some staining and make it less white.

I added the gorgeous pleated ribbon and tucked the paper and image behind it.

I then added the sentiment too.

The next one is more bold and I coloured the image with promarkers. The sentiment for this is from the Half Full stamps as I thought it worked well with the focal image.

I love the use of circles with the dotty paper!

So there are my two girly best friend cards. Fun and love how different they look.

Happy crafting!

Catherine

I have some cards I made using the fab Mama Elephant stamps … this time the cats came out to play too.

I stamped the full image and coloured them with promarkers and then die cut the image using two different dies.

This gave me two different card toppers. I created the cards using bright Daffodil Delight cardstock and some scraps of papers. I like the bold look of using the promarkers… it creates a very different look to the watercolour.

For the Dogs I used watercolour pencils to colour them and again chose some scraps of paper and then some Crushed Curry cardstock for the bases.

So two different looks for these super cute stamped images and different from yesterday’s tag too. And love using part of the big image rather than just leaving it as it is… makes the set even more versatile.

Happy crafting!

Catherine

I recently had a bit of a splurge including buying these fabulous stamps from Mama Elephant that I have been NEEDING ever since I first saw them months ago. So this is my first play with the Dogs Woof stamp… and I created a thin panel by masking and stamping different parts on top of each other. I used the stamp platform to ensure I got good crisp images.

I then added a very diluted amount of white gesso so I could add colour on the kraft cardstock. I added the colour using watercolour pencils and a waterbrush.

Once they were all coloured as I wanted them I edged the panel and then layered it onto another piece of kraft with a layer of waxy paper in between. I then punched a hole and added the string and ribbon.

This cute tag was made for the UK stampers forum swap last month so I hope the recipient likes dogs! Lol!

Happy crafting!

Catherine

Hello… and how quickly we have already got to the beginning of April.

Today I have another design team contribution to make for Craftyhazelnuts patterned paper challenge…where the challenge is to use some… you guessed it… patterned paper!

I managed to use two pieces of patterned paper, two washi tapes strips and a digi image I have had coloured for about 2 years just waiting to be used!

I wanted to keep it quite simple this month as the sentiment and image needed to be subtle and quiet against the pastel papers.

Now off to see what others have been up to with their stash of patterned papers over on the blog.

Happy crafting!

Catherine

So tomorrow is Easter which in our house means chocolate! But I realise for others it has far more meaning. So sending wishes for you this Easter no matter what meaning you add to it.

I did make a set of Easter cards from a set of papers in a Making Cards magazine which I am sharing with you today.

I used the papers and images from the magazine, some scrap cardstock and ribbons and sequins from the stash to make these fun cards.

I started by fussy cutting the six bunny images which are super cute and then used the patterned papers to create backgrounds and multiple layers.

Then I chose cardstock from my stash I thought complimented the papers to mat and layer and added in doily pieces to soften too.

Then I went through the ribbon basket and pulled out twine and ribbons that I thought worked with the cards to add to them.

I either stamped an Easter sentiment from Stampin Up or used alpha stamps to create the sentiments choosing a few different ways to add the sentiments. Then added sequins in colours that worked with the cardstock colours and papers.

I love this final one with the netting bow. May have to buy more of this netting trim as it works so well for fun added texture for cards.

Hope you like my cute bunny Easter cards.

Happy crafting!

Catherine