Inkyfingeredcat

Today’s challenge is a colour challenge. Martin used Concord & 9th colours – plumberry, rainforest & lilac.

And for my interpretation … Blackberry Bliss, Shaded Spruce and Bubble Bath (I think I called it ballet slipper on the video by mistake) were the cardstocks I chose to use along with a pop of satin foiled cardstock and used a few tricks to vary up the greens!

As for the card – well the Alex Syberia dies came out to play and I put this together based on the layout that the larger die suggests.

I even used the die cut frame for the inking to give the base of the card a light inking of the Rainforest ink.

It did take a while to put the card together as it was the first time of assembling this – and although straightforward I kept having to stop and start to make sure I had enough elements.

I added some difference to the greenery by either adding some promarkers to darken them, some inking and in the case of the smaller leaves I added clear embossing!

I added some shimmer to the centres of the flowers and also to the rosehip type berries.

Then the sentiment is a Tim Holtz sticker mounted onto the lilac satin foiled cardstock.

I just love these dies so much! So much fun to work with and although I don’t think I got this perfectly aligned I did quite a good job and so consider it easy once all the die cutting is done!

If you want to watch the process video please check out my YouTube.

Happy crafting!

Catherine

I decided for today’s theme to go with lots of glitter glue – because I usually get into trouble when using glitter glue – but I managed to only make one tiny blip and could clear that up easily!

I ended up with a super bright and sparkly card in a very different colour scheme for me than my usual Christmas cards – so good to play with a different scheme!

I chose the digital stamp image from LeeAnn’s world 101 which was already in my folder of images and coloured in with the alcohol markers and then plenty of glitter glue for adding accents.

I loved putting this together. Definitely different from other recent makes!

A fun card! If you want to see me put it together please check out my YouTube.

Happy crafting!

Catherine

Another Scrappin Saturday project that is a design team project for Kingston Crafts – this time using the pastel cardstock.

I decided to scrap these pictures from 2023 of my snuggles with my youngest great nephew Henry using a few different colours of the cardstock.

You probably know by now I love the white core of this cardstock and how fun it is when ripping it – so that became a major part of my design and created the waves of colour down the page.

I chose the soft blues and lilacs with the sand for the the background and peachy tones for the embossed flowers to work with the picture.

The cardstock die cuts brilliantly which was perfect for the title on the page.

I also added some sewing in which again the cardstock coped with really well!

I finished off with some dots of glitter glue which just added that little bit of sparkle to the page.

Overall I adore this cardstock and that’s a really good thing as the pack is huge so I’ve got loads left still to play with!

Happy crafting!

Catherine

So today we have another sketch Martin has provided for his #30daychristmascardchallenge

Well I went a little rogue and went for a flat card rather than layers and used stamping to create the shape of the sketch – but I think it is still fairly visible!

Ok maybe not totally visible but I promise it was originally my plan to follow the sketch but got carried away with inking! You can watch my process video over on YouTube.

I used the stamps from Creative Stamping magazine sets for both the tree and the words.

I then created a banner label for the sentiment and sandwiched some bakers twine for some softer texture,

Just love how it turned out!

Those gems were the perfect finishing touch!

Happy crafting!

Catherine

I know I am posting lots of Christmas cards for the 30 day challenge so didn’t need a separate Festive Friday post but I had made this so posting it anyway!

Today’s Festive Friday was a case of spotting a piece of text print paper and deciding I wanted to use it but wasn’t sure what for – so went for a black, cream and kraft Christmas card.

I inked the paper which is old SU dsp where the base is cream not white, and added black soot to it.

Then I chose scraps of cream and stamped the foliage images in both Black Soot and the Versafine to get a variation in the greys/blacks.

I then added splatter to the panel using the shimmer ink in champagne which provides just a bit of shimmery fun!

I did a double layer banner with Kraft and black and then did a die cut sentiment – admittedly this is white as the top layer but I think it works!

I then added some black waxed thread as a bow and added this under the banner which I raised on foam adhesive to give dimension.

I next stamped and cut the other two parts to the sentiment and added those.

I mounted the panel onto some cream and then onto the Kraft card base, adding a panel inside to make it easy to write the message.

Then I spotted the charcoal shiny puffy star in a Hey Little Magpie embellishment kit and decided it was the perfect little extra to finish off! Cute!

So quite a different design with all the blacks and then the cream – but I like it a lot!

Happy crafting!

Catherine

Today’s theme I struggled with. Fortunately Martin included some hints/tips and I saw Santas workshop, thought Elf and went with that as my jumping off point!

I also had been watching a Sarah Stampin Retreat video and she made a circle card – so I cut myself one and went with that for the base!

As per usual I videoed the process (it was quick) of making this card.

I used the Christmas Tags and More dsp for the papers and the little die cut gifts. I used the Mirtillamente digital stamp of the elf for my main focal point – I just love these digital stamps so much!

I used my promarkers to do simple colouring and then added the Tim Holtz sticker for the sentiment and some gems to finish off.

Inside I added another gift, a strip of the paper and the sentiment.

Such a cute card – not entirely sure it is obvious what the theme is from what I did – but that was the starting point of the card!

Happy crafting!

Catherine

A new challenge starts at Creative Knockouts today – Time to be Merry – yes my Christmas obsession continues!

We are kindly sponsored by Rachelle Anne Millar and I am using the cutest digital stamp – Christmas Mice! Of course I realise I could have also used this for the Winter Whiskers challenge for #30daychristmascaedchallenge – oh well – instead you got two posts from me in one day!

I took a piece of paper from my stash that is printed but looks like distress ink smooshing and added to is with some stamping in versamark and then added some perfect pearls in blue to add some subtle shimmer.

Next I added a mat and layer of pink and purple and then die cut the circles for under the digital image from the same.

I coloured the image using my promarkers and then fussy cut it out.

The image did come with a sentiment but I decided to not include that on my card. Instead I used a die cut Christmas.

Before I stuck all the layers down I did decide to add in those vellum snowflakes from the Kingston Crafts kit – just thought they added to the cute card.

I added some silver stickles to the centre of each to add that bit of sparkle!

Loved making this cute card!

Happy crafting!

Catherine

I decided to use the fabulous Hare stamp in the Creative Stamping magazine set from a few months ago to represent the whiskers in today’s challenge and created a wintry scene with the mountain stamp and then some brushos to create the fab northern lights type scene. Maybe I was inspired by the fabulous Hamza programme that was on tv which showed the Hare in the highlands – although admittedly I went with a brown one not the gorgeous but very camouflaged white one! Anyway I digress … the card!

It was such a simple card to make with just the two stamps, some brushos and a paintbrush – and then the doodled frame and sentiment sticker!

I always like to mat these arty type cards on black to frame them and then straight onto the card blank as a flat card.

So so cute!

Love the way the brushos work for the sky and can’t wait to create other scenes with the other stamps in the set.

But for now … this is my card for today!

I did film the process so please check this out.

Happy crafting!

Catherine

Today is the first colour challenge of the month. And of course I videoed the process!

And concord & 9th are sponsoring the colours which is great but I don’t actually own these colours so I’ve had to do my best with alternative inks! And I chose distress inks that I thought were in keeping with the idea of these – although I went slightly more blue with tumbled glass than the sea glass colour!

So I used tumbled glass as my sea glass, evergreen bough for evergreen and candied apple for poppy and I think it isn’t too bad as an alternate colour combo and still works with the general theme! Just a more pastel version! 😀

So I started with the sizzix layered stencil direct onto the card blank using the inks.

Then out came the Alex Syberia dies I NEEDED to buy after seeing what Martin and Amy and the rest of the blog hop gang had made with them. Perfect for this colour scheme I thought!

I die cut them from white and added the ink to them with my blending brushes adding the hickory smoke as a neutral colour.

I layered them up and added the sentiment on foam adhesive so it sat nicely amongst the floral element.

I then added the gems for the finishing touch.

Such a simple card to make – next time I get that die set out I am going to die cut loads of those elements as they are sooooooooo gorgeous! Also want to try layering them with the main plate as a full front cover but for now this is my first play!

And I think as an alternate but similar colour combo I love this! And that stencil is just to die for!

Happy crafting!

Catherine

Today’s cards were made for the design team over at Addicted to Stamps and more where our challenge is to use die cuts and/or stencils and I fancied pulling out the stitching dies again.

I die cut scraps of pinks and purples and whites for these little flowers and created two cards with the Kingston Crafts card blanks as the base.

I love the pop of the pattern behind the panel on which I created a pattern of the die cuts that I had sewn with different threads and in different ways.

I think it gives each flower a different feel and I love the white on white for the leaves and stems.

I raised the panel up on this one onto foam adhesive and the same with the die cut sentiment.

So pretty!

I didn’t have many of the flowers left for this one so instead a smaller panel and this time kept it flat – I just raised the sentiment up.

The pink looks a little weird on the sentiment on the photos but in real life looks like it goes better I promise!

I added lots of little gems to fill the white spaces and love how this one finished up too!

Happy crafting!

Catherine