Category: Art and crafting styles

I made a few 8×8 pages using the Kingston Crafts Everyday stories kit – this time just for fun not for DT work.

Fun to put three pages together that were quick and easy to do!

Happy crafting!

Catherine

Decided to mix things up a little for this weeks Festive Friday with some gift tags rather than a Christmas card project as I got very low in my stash by Christmas last year!

I made a whole stash of tags using a few strips of dark green cardstock and some patterned papers and cut apart elements from a magazine kit I bought last year.

These were such fun to make!

I cut the cardstock into the two inch strips and then punched the top with the scalloped tag punch. Then I added the bits of patterned paper. And then the cut apart elements.

I then stamped some sentiments and added those.

I then used a pen to add some hand drawn elements. This gives some fun edging and framing to the panels and sentiments.

I then grabbed the Kingston Crafts glitter glue and added either dots to the edges or to add sparkle to the images. This adds some fun to each of them!

I haven’t added ribbons at this point – I usually only add those to the tags as I gift wrap presents to that I can combine a bow or streamers with the tag so for now these sit in a box I keep with the cards ready to pull out in December when we get round to gift wrapping!

Happy crafting!

Catherine

Our lovely friend had a special birthday so I made a special card for her! And I remembered to stick the camera on and video the process!

I decided on a purples colour scheme and that I wanted to use the Splendid Bouquet set from Altenew.

I loved putting this together and put lots of patterns together but think they worked well.

I also added in the foam numbers for the recognition of the special birthday!

Finished off with the little gems.

Happy crafting!

Catherine

I did join in with this 1 sketch : 3 ways challenge a few times last year but haven’t had the chance to join in for a while. The challenge is to take the sketch and make it your own but Helen, Jackie and Sarah give you three interpretations as inspiration. Then we all share our versions on the Facebook group.

Well on Sunday I decided to join in and scrap the photo of me that is going to be my ID badge for my new role which I started this week and decided to make it a positive page to give me confidence ahead of my first day!

I used scraps from the yellow pouch for the papers and then lots of bits and bobs from the stash to add in words that helped me with the positivity and went with the colours of the yellow and turquoise.

The sketch itself has the big snowflake in the background but I went with the circle and the stencilling underneath as my background element.

I kept the circular element to the bottom left of the photo but reduced it down to one larger photo rather than the two photos.

I kept the border from the sketch and also the location of the journalling and the little top right cluster. It’s handy having the bright solid colours in that Kingston Crafts summer collection paper to create the colourful border!

Once I’d got the main elements sorted I then ignored the sketch and went with whatever I felt worked at the time.

I love the bright colour scheme – again radiating positivity and cheerfulness!

And the little pops of the turquoise I think work nicely. I would have preferred more teal coloured letters for the title but I didn’t have any so made the more green turquoise work by dotting those colours around in other places too!

Happy crafting!

Catherine

When I saw this gorgeous paisley themed paper I knew I wanted to cut it apart! I just had a vision of the paisley elements raised …not sure why that was but sometimes it’s just how it goes!

I decided it would work well with black too – so I added some mats of the black but for the base under the cut apart piece I inked the solid colour paper from the pack and added lots of shimmer paint splatters.

When I was adhering it all together I decided to rotate the cut apart piece and pop the sentiment in a different place from the original idea but otherwise I pretty much kept to the plan.

I added that Altenew stamped and die cut sentiment to bridge the two cut apart pieces with the same foam adhesive under the middle part to keep it level.

I also added the black gems to tie in a bit more of the black and made the card base from the solid papers in the kit. I’ve said before it’s a thick paper but not quite cardstock but I think when you add the layers on the front and inside it can function as a card base too!

I took one more piece of the cut apart paisley and mounted it on black and cut around that too to add to the inside and a wide border of the smaller print side of the paper.

I love the paper as it came so can’t wait to use it again but for now this was my first thought when I saw it and it came out perfectly!

And it got to be seen on the tv on the show 5th January. So exciting!

Happy crafting!

Catherine

On Friday I did a little tidy up of the embellishment box and it reminded of all the lovely stash I have and that I need to pull that out and not just grab new stash. I also put away the concertina folder that has paper scraps in sorted by colour and decided to pull together some scraps to make a page!

As you can see from above I went for an orange and turquoise theme and I grabbed a picture that is a collage of pics of the charcuterie board my daughter made for us the weekend before Christmas.

I gave myself a vague layout to start with and then using gesso through a stencil I added some mixed media. The background was a piece of the 12×12 summer collection pad from Kingston Crafts but it is a solid colour and I loved the coral/orange colour.

I got this far on Friday morning and then left it as it was to dry whilst I popped over to Manchester to take M back to uni and have some lunch there before coming home!

Once home I finished off … I fussy cut those lovely leaves from the patterned paper and layered things up. I then spent a while going through the pouches of embellishments (most which are lollipop box club kits or bramble fox club kits) and adding in things I think worked.

I also grabbed some very old alpha stickers for the yum title!

I love all the textures and bits of interest on this page which is very much ‘thrown’ together.

I added my journalling towards the bottom and made sure I added the date into the page too.

Where I had added the tag at the top I added some twine and looped it to come down the right hand side with some carefully applied glue underneath elements to keep it in place.

Really enjoyed putting this non-person focused page together and using up old papers and bits of stash!

So this is an extra page done for my scrapbook and I’m sharing it on a Monday not a Saturday! This is in part because I already have a page done and ready to post for next Saturday and also because today I start my new job so I think it highly unlikely I will get any crafting done today so this is a much needed get ahead and ready on the blog kind of post!

Happy crafting!

I ended up grabbing those twinchies I made in error not realising there is a colour scheme and using them to make a fun card.

I really like how this looks – so fun!

I added the twinchies to a piece of the pink cardstock and then added the sentiment diecut on top.

I raised the panel up onto the foam so it has some dimension and adhered it to a square card blank.

Then I added some blue sequins to bring the blue colour out a little more and of course add some sparkle.

Happy crafting!

Catherine

I went back to playing with the page kit I got from Sarah at Hey Little Magpie and used the leftovers to make an impromptu page! It was also inspired by the challenge for this month over at the Hey Little Magpie Facebook group to use thread!

I videoed the process so check out the YouTube video.

I added in some bits and pieces from 49th & Market and the bit of stencilling under the main panel too.

Love using up leftovers and this page was a great way of doing that! I hadn’t realised when I started that it was actually a spring photo not an autumnal one but the colours in the photo work well with the papers so it doesn’t matter!

Hope you like what I made!

Happy crafting!

Catherine

Combined my DT stuff with my Festive Friday today – using supplies from the Everyday Stories kit from Kingston Crafts to make these two smaller cards using the fabulous Kate Crane stamps from Paperartsy.

I actually won the stamps on a competition with UK Stampers Forum so this was my first use of them but can only share them now due to the fact Kingston Crafts didn’t release the Everyday Stories collection until more recently and it was cards from that collection I used to make the card fronts.

I did two choosing different colour scheme for each and I added colour to the stamped images I had heat embossed to match.

I kept both cards quite simple – the stamped panel, a sentiment and a couple of layers of the card panels that were designed for the Everyday stories album but I knew I could also use as card toppers… and once again here I am using products not designed for Christmas for my Christmas card obsession!

Cute and quick and easy cards! And I got to see them on the tv back on the 5th Jan – sitting on either side of the Chester Zoo pages I made …

An early post for me today as no work today – instead I’m off to take M back to her uni flat and a lunch out in Manchester – so best stop lazing in bed and get myself showered and ready!

Happy crafting!

Catherine

For this card I really wanted to represent the PSL joy! Not sure what I mean – well Pumpkin Spice Latte is one of my go to treats as soon as the coffee shops start selling it. It’s a hideous amount of calories though so I’ve try to limit myself but do miss it when it’s not available anymore! Also I love it iced as well as hot so when I saw these shrink plastic images that was what came to mind!

So I started with the shrink images and cut them out and coloured them in with the pumpkin colours and shrank them!

Aren’t they just the cutest?

I remembered that in my digital stamp collection I had these cups so printed out a whole panel full of them onto the white and did ink blending in lovely autumnal colours.

I die cut a circle for the little shrink PSL’s to sit on.

Now at this point I paused crafting for a few days and when I came back I had a small disaster and I tipped some water onto my desk and it ruined one of the shrink plastic pieces by disturbing the colouring – so note to self water based inks don’t mix well with water on shrink plastic! Doh! But fortunately everything else was safe it just meant two drinks became one!

I grabbed a couple of scraps of everyday cardstock to make a panel across my card and stuck all of those pieces down but then I had an idea … firstly I wanted Pumpkin Spice Latte on the card so printed that off on some of the solid cardstock that is in the spring slimline kit and then from the same piece I die cut this wood slice die from Altenew. I then inked it up with some distress inks and used that as the base for the circle die cut.

I also decided it needed some actual pumpkins so out came the Scenic Pumpkin patch stamps and stamped and fussy cut the set of three and then cut one out of the same set to raise it up on the foam adhesive.

I decided that was then done – a perfect PSL card – perfect for sending a Gift card to a fellow PSL lover I thought!

Happy crafting!

Catherine