Category: Art and crafting styles

So I wanted to share with you the cards I made from the leftovers from those scrapbook pages I made which were from scraps from other pages – it’s like some kind of weird inception type thing where it’s scraps within scraps within scraps! 🤣

Anyway – here are the scraps …

And from this came card number one!

A very cute and bright new baby card featuring a very old stamped image I have had in the stash for ages working out when I might use it – turns out it is now!

I thought the green tulip squares worked well with the striped panel and then a larger square of the orange and this became the background behind the image.

Because the image is quite large and contains the sentiment I didn’t think I needed much else so mounted the panel onto a pink 4.5” square card with a small mat of the white and then added the gem to the top left corner of the orange square.

Inside the card a panel of white and then the orange and green patterned paper to finish off!

The second card …

Just a few of the random panels and two more of the squares and then one of the roses leftover from the stampwheel first play.

I also found the cute hello acrylic piece which I am not sure where it was from but the colour worked well.

Inside I added the white panel and then two more bits of the paper.

A cute notecard!

Final card made from the scraps …

This time I focused on using those squares and this time the other side … this made a nice base for the card topper.

I kept this quite simple with the orange panel. Then one of the leftover cute creatures from Christmas in July came out of the pouch to be the focal point.

I used some sequins to finish off with the sentiment from the stash.

And so that was the final card made from those scraps! And leftover …

I suspect I could make a tag from them but just can’t find the inspiration to do so! So I will now clear these into the bin and move away from the scraps! But pretty chuffed with how much I managed to make from them all!

Happy crafting!

Catherine

Two posts today as I did a bit of extra crafting today I wasn’t really planning on doing … I made three ATC for the UK stampers forum swap!

The theme is ‘blue yellow green’ … so I went for a fun non specific theme with the squiggly circles from Indigo Blu … I embossed them in green powder and then used my brushos to paint the colours.

I did a little extra stamping with a random script stamp and then edged with archival. I also added black doodle line.

I then took some postive quote stickers for the title and edged them with the black pen too.

A fun set of ATCs.

Happy crafting!

Catherine

This one was inspired by one of the projects in the magazine as I was struggling to think what to do when I pulled the pack of supplies out to play with! Also I didn’t mention it in the video but the maker of the project (Monika) on the front of the magazine has recently started following my videos and so I will also be checking out her projects soon – maybe I will use one of her cards for a future video too!

So thank you to Marie Jones for the inspiration! Wish I could find her online presence to tag her but can’t find her!

Love the colours in this card so much! I think Crisp Canteloupe ink is still one of my favourite SU colours that ever existed (island indigo remains the absolute fave!). Mixed with More Mustard it worked so well using the packaging technique to create the background for the flowers that were stamped and embossed on panels of the papers in the kit.

The leaves were those brushos ones I did a while ago – but added mossy meadow ink with a blending tool to darken and tone them down to make the colour more appropriate for the other elements.

There was quite a lot of fussy cutting and layering for this card with the flowers and the sentiment – I raised the sentiment on foam adhesive to make sure it didn’t disappear behind the bold floral elements.

I added quite large pearls to the centre of the flowers and then scattered tiny pearls around the card to finish off. As I hadn’t any mid size pearls I then added the yellow gems to the centre of the smaller flowers.

Inside the card I added the sentiment again along with the flowers leftover from the front!

Love how this card came out and happy that I had the magazine to hand to inspire me to make this one as sometimes the mojo just want to play and needs a bit of a prod to get me started!

Happy crafting!

Catherine

My stash of birthday cards has been depleted recently (I sent some to a charity shop) so decided to make some cheerful cards using the Spring Slimline Kingston Crafts papers as the base of the background.

Once I had cut them down into the panels for the DL sized cards I then grabbed the gold laser cut panels which have been in my stash for a while. I mounted one on peach cardstock and the other one onto pink cardstock. These became the base for the floral elements.

The floral cluster is a magazine stamp which I coloured with my alcohol markers.

I fussy cut both out and then decided to use a little doily to also add some texture and softness to the cards.

I used the Altenew die cut sentiment for the main sentiment but with an additional sentiment of the stamped happy birthday.

Finishing touches of the gems and hey presto two pretty cards!

Must admit I’ve not been feeling the love of making birthday cards and so ordered myself a few new bits to play with that may get me back in the love of birthday card making as my stash of them is so depleted – my new stash has arrived and I’ll post about it soon- but it was nice to also get some use of older stash and make these pretty cards whilst I was waiting for the new goodies to arrive!

Happy crafting!

Catherine

I decided to go a bit rogue with the Summer Fun kit and make a different kind of memory keeping project as one of my samples for the design team.

I made a meander book from the 12×12 paper and turned it into a little book about the village we stayed in when we went to Crete in May.

I used other papers in the kit to add layers and mats for the photos and journalling I added and a few of the die cut elements and stickers from the kit to add embellishments.

Such a lovely way to get lots of photos included and documenting our exploring round the village of Analipsi.

Well I think this is a fun project!

Happy crafting!

Catherine

I wanted to make a really colourful page with lots of the papers in the Everyday Papers kit and I find when I use lots of colours I often want a more neutral photo – so I went with a sepia photo from when we had a photoshoot back in 2016 – so quite a while ago (if only we were still this young! 🤣) – and today is a perfect time to post this page because the photo was taken in CenterParcs in Cumbria – and this is where we currently are on a weekend away!

I chose the yellow base and then chose three of the patterns – I ripped the edge and then layered the panels so there are waves going vertically across the page.

Then I mat the photo with the blue pattern and a strip of the darker green pattern.

I used dies to create tabs for the journalling above the photo and a tag (I used the twine from one of the Kingston Crafts kits). I also used the letter dies to create the title from the solid colours in the pad,

I also die cut some tiny flowers from the red patterned paper and scattered those down the page. I added some yellow glitter glue to the centres to just add a little bit of sparkle!

I added journalling using a white gel pen to help tie in the white of the torn edges.

Martin did a great sample card using this pack on the tv last weekend with die cut circles so may have to pull out this pack and see if I can do something similar but as a scrapbook page as it looked so cool with these papers! It for now I will leave you with this snap of us on the tv! You can probably imagine there was a big squeal when we spotted ourselves! 🤣

Happy crafting!

Catherine

Back with another Kingston Crafts project – this time using the Christmas pad and also added in a couple of the vellum pieces too!

I decided to make a DL card using the lovely tree themed paper and then created a panel from the dark red solid colour paper. I used a stencil to add snowflakes using the glass bead gel – this is such a fun medium to use – lots of texture and shine! Not used it in ages and forgot how long it takes to dry!

So I left that to dry overnight and then added a little cute image from MFT of Santa and polar bear watching the skies. I added the vellum sentiment banner to white card and then cut that out and added it with the focal image on adhesive foam. I also added a string of lights in vellum underneath as an extra element – I love that the vellum coordinates so well with the papers!

Inside the card I added a panel of white cardstock and then a little strip of the patterned paper with the red border as a finishing touch!

A fun card and love the colours of the paper they are so pretty – and not quite traditional so it’s a slightly more modern look – the patterns also work so well with other items in the stash too like the MFT stamps.

Happy crafting!

Catherine

The card I shared on the 31 August that Tricia designed using a fun fold and this cute pear based paper from SU had leftover pieces of both cardstock and the patterned paper and I wanted to put them to good use – so here are the cards I made.

I obviously had to add the card bases, sequins and the sentiments but the paper elements and the coloured cardstock were leftovers from the kit Tricia sent.

This one covers the entire front of a standard card base and with those reverse strips mounted I think it makes for quite a cool design – may even revisit this at some point as a sketch.

I added the three gold sequins for shine and then the Altenew thank you sentiment.

This one I went overboard with the sequins adding them to the flower centres. Otherwise a simple two panel design.

Really happy with these cute cards and how nice I got three cards out of the kit Tricia kindly sent me.

Love it!

Happy crafting!

Catherine

I was sorting through some of the stuff on my desk – my projects half done (PHD) – and came across this floral stamped element which I did back in July (I stamped two in case the first one didn’t work out) stamping it with Brushos. The other card I made was a sympathy card – I decided for this one to go with a thank you card!

This is a perfect card for the Make your mark challenge at Addicted to Stamps and More.

I mounted the stamped image onto navy cardstock and then onto the white card blank.

I made some matching cardstock using the Prussian Blue brushos painted onto the card and then dried off with the heat tool.

I then used the spellbinders glimmer plate to create butterflies and then die cut them.

I added the one on the front and then another on the inside with a little strip of the painted paper.

I then added the sentiment to the front of the card. This is one of the Dina Wakely press plate and die and I stacked it a few times to make it nice and chunky.

I then added the pale blue enamel accents.

Loved using this stamp set to create something pretty and those butterflies are so gorgeous!

Happy crafting!

Catherine

Three more of the KCC19 cards made up as part of my Use up a magazine kit series.

This time I went with glimmer foiling to add some other elements!

It started with the stripes on the sketch which went behind the top paper element and it made me think of the stripe glimmer plate so decided to foil this one – but once I had the glimmer out I went through and looked at other sketches where I might add the same stripes to do them all at the same time!

So this first one I added the purple foil directly onto the patterned paper element.

As I chose the square card blank I turned the back panel to ground the panel and then added the floral stamped image to link the two sections of the card.

Adding texture to the background panel with the Painted texture embossing folder gave a nice finish too!

The second card I added the foil on the banner panel of the patterned paper using the satin gold.

My learning point on this card is I should have checked how straight it was and trimmed it accordingly as the stripes are slightly off kilter!

For all three I used a stamped flower made from the two size of images layered up. On this and the third card I also added leaves but by masking the flower so it is one piece not separate leaves layered up.

Card Candi make perfect flower centres for all three cards too!

The final one I added the purple foil to the background cardstock.

This sketch has all the circles with just two circles of the patterned paper. Adding the foiling really helped to step up the card into something special.

I changed up the colour of the flower and the leaves to coordinate with the papers and the cardstock. Apart from turning the sketch I kept this one very similar to the sketch and although I added it to the square card blank it worked well. Adding the sentiment across the topper and the base helps to connect them.

Also that foiled cardstock of the circle behind the flower works so nicely to have the pink foiling as well as the purple in the background.

It is good to get another three cards made for my series and of course a big thanks to Kendra for the fun sketches!

Happy crafting!

Catherine