Inkyfingeredcat

I am back from my weekend away and will be editing pics etc of what I made in the next couple of days and sharing them… but for now a post I had prepared… I found these fabulous images of dogs with glasses on in the stash of Making Cards magazine and needed to use them. I am currently trying to work through the backlog of the magazine stash and some of my patterned papers as I really have far too many!

Had of course to add glossy accents to the lens’ of the glasses to give them shine and dimension.

Aren’t these the cutest ever? Love the knitwear on two of them… they just look so cuddly!

So here we go four more cards for the stash and some more stash worked through!

Happy crafting!

Catherine

Today I am sharing the last layout I have for this round of circle journals… And it is Wandas fab envelope journal that I get to work in. Her envelopes were a fab texture and purple colour and I didn’t want to cover that up entirely so I decided on a paint scraped background. When I was half way through applying gesso i remembered to put the camera on to record the process. So if you want to see that… here is the link.

Now the final pictures…

I decided to use the lovely Darcy stamps as I love this character so much and wanted her in a magical land of fun flowers and lollipop trees.

So I used lots of layers of colour and mediums to create these interesting flora and had the watercoloured girl with her heart in her hands in amongst them all.

I added lots of sparkly and shiny finishes and I hope Wanda enjoys this whimsical page in her journal.

This weekend I am at a class with some of the other circle journal participants so we will no doubt be spending some time pouring over the finished journals that make their way to the retreat along with creating new art of course!

I’ll share what we are up to here on the blog when I get a chance.

Happy crafting!

Catherine

Today I have the three ATCs made from the masterboard I shared yesterday… it’s been a bit of a month of this techique!

I finished off the ATCs with lots of doodles and marks and then some printed vintage photo girls I had bought. The sentiments were cut from book print. And finally added some pearl accents for dimension.

Super happy with this…

Loved making these with no reason to make them.

Will probably post these on a swap group on Facebook to see if anyone fancies them!

Happy crafting!

Catherine

Another set of coins made… and another video… yes I’ve been full on video making recently!

So here they are…

I used the Creative Stamping magazine stamps to create the feature images and to add some patterns to the masterboard backgrounds.

Love all the white pen details and the texture of the embossing.

These are being entered in the UK stampers forum swap.

And a quick version of the video for those pushed for time…

Happy crafting!

Catherine

Still working with those Making Cards magazine images but this time teaming them with very different papers… these are from my stash but I know I originally got them from a magazine too… just can’t remember which one!

I love the soft finish to these… completely different from the bright rainbow papers that the images actually came with. As with all these images I added Wink of Stella for shimmer and glossy accents for shine and dimension on parts of the images.

Happy crafting!

Catherine

Today I have a half finished job to share… I made a masterboard and then cut it into pieces ready for Artist Trading Coins, Artist trading cards and Inchies. Perfectly good fun!

Want to see it? Pop over to YouTube here and then pop back tomorrow to see the finished coins!

Happy crafting!

Catherine

Yes its fathers day so I have a card I made for the hubby… because although he’s not my father he is the best father I could have asked for to raise our princess with!

He is sci-fi mad so couldn’t resist using this digi image to create the focal image. Then teamed it with black and cream papers for a monochrome look with just the little pop of red on the astronaut! I added a little red heart to the flag to finish it off too!

On the visor and the heart I also added glossy accents to give it dimension and shine.

Happy crafting!

Catherine

Today I have a card I made just because I was playing at my desk!

After layering up the main sentiment focal point I decided I wanted there to be another image so chose this lovely digi from All Dressed up that I had coloured in spectrum noir pencils.

I’ve been colouring in front of the tv quite a bit the past few weeks so I have a stock of digi images coloured in and ready to craft with now!

Anyway finishing touches were the sequins which I filled with glossy accents as it adds an extra element of fun!

Happy crafting!

Catherine

Today I’ve the card I made to celebrate the arrival of my latest Great Niece …. Clover Nicole Elizabeth.

I used the lovely rabbit stamps for the focal image. I then created the background by brayering ink and then adding glimmer paste through the flower stencil from Claritystamps.

Love this gentle card.

So welcome to the world gorgeous little girl and congratulations to my lovely niece, her partner and Clovers big brother’s Finlay, George and Jax.

Happy crafting!

Catherine

So tonight I have an experiment to share with you… a coin made from layering fabrics and playing (badly!) with my sewing machine.

I layered a piece of thin cotton onto some thick black fabric and then started playing with the tension and stitch choice on my sewing machine. This created a really fun effect and was very funny and equally frustrating. It did result in the needle being rethreaded several times! Plus I kept thinking how much my Mum would be upset at my misuse of the machine! Lol!

Anyway when I had finished sewing I added the colour using Inktense blocks and water. Love how this turned out… so bright and funky!

I finished it by mounting to a mountboard circle I had cut using a die.

What do you think?

Don’t forget I have the new trading swap group over on Facebook if you want to join in and make some coins for a swap?

Happy crafting!

Catherine