Inkyfingeredcat

I didn’t have any images I could use to really get today’s theme to work so I went to All Dressed Up digital stamps and found this gorgeous image of the three girls carolling and bought it. Digital stamps are so affordable for this kind of challenge to just boost your supplies! And All Dressed Up is a favourite of mine – I love the style of the images.

I went super shimmery with both the image and some shimmer paints and the background with the shimmer spritzes from Kingston Crafts (these are a sneak peek of colours which will be coming soon!).

I also added the glitter glue to the frame of the image and really love how sweet this came out!

I kept the layout simple and added the little charm to create a different texture and then the sweet little die cut sentiment to finish off.

Really love the sweet nature of both the image and the pretty finish with all the shimmer!

As usual check out my YouTube if you want to see the process and listen to my waffling! 🤣

Happy crafting!

Catherine

Today’s theme was cookie exchange and at first I was stumped but then I remembered the gingerbread biscuit images from the Kingston Crafts acetate kit and the Big Dots cover die from Waffleflower and I went to town!

I mean how cute?

Full of dimension and fun elements I think this worked so well! I did video the process so you can watch a short video of this coming together!

Also love that I used more elements on the inside – when there are so many elements in the kit you don’t feel precious about using a lot on your projects!

So a delicious treat of a card made – not bad considering I had struggled with this theme at first!

Happy crafting!

Catherine

Wasn’t sure I would get to some scrapbooking as not feeling 100% and also obviously I’m in the middle of a lot of Christmas card making – but I reminded myself I just needed to grab one of the ‘kits’ I had put together from old papers and start sticking things down! And so this page was made!

If you want to see me put this together please check out the video. 💚

Loved scrapping these pics of the Millpond at Stoke Gabriel from our holiday in July.

Happy crafting!

Catherine

Colour combo time! My versions of the colours Martin chose are Night of Navy, Island Indigo and Pistachio Pudding.

And because I wanted to use those dies I am obsessed with this became another Alex Syberia dies based card – although it started as a Waffleflower crafts stencil and die based card! To watch it come together please check out my video.

After stencilling and die cutting the overlapping words I then die cut the foliage and flowers from the die set from white and then used all the same inks to colour the elements.

I created the clusters to sit under the sentiment and then decided to add the scripty foiling using the Dina Wakely press plate.

I mounted the panel onto some navy card stock and then onto the white DL shaped card.

I then added the stars from the Waffleflower stencil and die set as final embellishments.

Happy crafting!

Catherine

Back to using that #KCC20 I cut up about a month ago to make three more cards! And despite already posting my 30 day challenge card and video – I’m sharing this today as my Festive Friday.

I went for lots of embossing for these three as the linking theme as all three cards had ‘white space’ I wanted to add texture to.

I know I covered a fair amount of the patterned paper squares on this but I think I love this card the most of the three – it is just so pretty!

The star acetate elements and the sentiment banner worked so well and I loved adding in the waxed thread for a different texture too.

This one I kept really simple with layering those wreaths and that was pretty much it!

I think the knit texture of the embossing folder looks so cosy!

And then the dimension by layering up the wreaths with adhesive foam – cute!

This one took a little more decision making but again I love the finished card – using the merriest moments embossing folder did mean I had to move the aqua panel up the card a bit to cover the central rectangle of the folder design – but I think it still works nicely.

And again that waxed thread just helped finish it off with a different texture added in!

Inside each card I added the white panel and then a bit of decoration too …

Love these card sketches and how easy it makes the making!

Great fun!

Happy crafting!

Catherine

The theme for today is Magic of Midnight and I knew I wanted to capture the magic of Santa flying through the midnight sky.

I used stamps from Creative stamping magazine to stamp the city scene and the Santa and reindeer flying and then went to town with inks and splatter to create the night sky.

I love the iridescent splatter I added as well as the white paint splatter.

The sentiment is a Tim Holtz sticker and then I added the gems to finish off.

Love the simplicity of getting such an atmospheric sky with distress inks – just so easy but effective!

I recorded the process of making this card so check this out on my YouTube channel.

Happy crafting!

Catherine

Martin gave us a sketch to play with today …

I decided to turn the sketch to make the horizontal strip a vertical one instead!

I decided to make a square card and used papers and die cut elements from the Christmas Tags and More dsp kit.

I used some waxed thread for hanging the baubles and then added in the die cut sentiment.

I added some glossy accents to the berries on the foliage elements and some shimmer pen to the sentiment.

Inside the card I added another panel of the paper and a little tag for decoration.

A simple and yet effective card and I think close enough to the sketch to count! Process video is uploaded on YouTube

Happy crafting!

Catherine

Today’s challenge from Martin was Reindeer Games… which I sort of departed from because I didn’t actually include a reindeer – just normal deer – but I am sure Martin will accept this!

I wanted to use the Indigo Blu stamps I bought a while ago and hadn’t got around to using till now – so created a lovely wintry scene with the deer and trees and some simple inking.

If you watch the video of this you will see this was created as one panel and then cut to make two cards – very simple and I think elegant!

I kept the cards very flat and simple – a real departure from my usual style!

Happy crafting!

Catherine

Today’s theme Martin gave us was frosted windowpanes and all I could think of was those die cut windows I used up for a Make It Masculine set of cards a few months ago! Doh! But after a hunt through the die sets I found the cute house with the little window and thought I could make it work.

And then I made a card I was really really pleased with!

I just adore the scene I made from the house die and the tree dies and love how I added the snow using both white craft ink and glitter glue.

In fact I loved it so much I had to immediately go and show it off to both the hubby and the princess – this rarely happens – but this time I wanted to share immediately!

If you want to see me put this together please head over to my YouTube video. Warning – I might gush quite a bit about how much I love this card! 😂

I can see me recreating this at some point and to be honest once the die cutting has been done it didn’t take too long to put together. Also love the fact I made this from scraps … certainly good to get some used up as in the last few weeks my pouch of scraps has got quite full! So may need to do a few more scraps based cards soon!

Happy crafting!

Catherine

Grabbed some time on Sunday to make a tag for this months swap over at UK stampers forum.

I started with some scrap cardstock and covered most of it with some dyed tissue paper and then some bits of angel hair. I then grabbed a printed tissue scrap and added that too.

This created an interesting background but I wanted to also add some texture so used the Tim Holtz dies that cut out from the panel at both the top and the bottom. This gave me some interesting pattern and I then glued this panel down onto a grey card and cut it to be slightly larger than the original tag.

I edged it with black archival and then grabbed the cute little butterfly stamps and stamped that a few times in black and used white embossing powder – as it heated some of the black came through to create a fun mottled effect.

I added the die cut leaf and the die cut and foiled butterfly that were on the desk and then stamped and coloured and fussy cut the green leaves to give the butterfly a grounding.

I then added the stamped and die cut sentiment to finish off.

I then mounted the panel onto the lilac tag again cut a little larger than the grey later. I punched the hole and then threaded through some fun ribbon and thread trims including a beaded one. I also added the trim bow which I think balanced it nicely.

Happy crafting!

Catherine