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Another page made to meet the challenge over at Scrapbook Challenges UK winter team challenge week 2. This page added 5pts to our team score as it included all the elements needed.

Three or more word title, sequins, ribbon, balloons, triangles

I used papers leftover from the Wicked page I shared last week along with a softer green panel leftover from a different page. Again these are all pulled from my 100 patterned papers pile!

The photo I scrapped (if it’s not obvious from the title) is of me on my 21st birthday – which was only a few years ago! 🤣

So the triangle bunting and the balloons work well with that theme – and of course all the sparkly sequins! As I hadn’t put the die and stencil set away it was a perfect thing to pick up and play with for the layout – I just snipped the panel into two to have it on either side of the photo!

It was really good to scrap such an old photo and remember the day and some of the oddities of my 21st which was on a campsite in Chertsey.

It was also nice to use pretty colours and pull in some gorgeous flower embellishments from the Hey Little Magpie embellishment kit!

A fun page! This challenge has absolutely given me a drive to scrap and will have many more pages to share with you over the coming months!

Happy crafting!

Catherine

So I decided this months Make It Masculine project would be balloon themed!

I prepped ahead of the video, choosing the colours based on the Colour Cube Card 001, and then stopped to foil some sentiments in readiness!

Of course a couple of days later when I came to actually make the project I totally forgot the foiled sentiments so they didn’t end up making an appearance!

Anyway – this is a filmed process project – so please do grab a cuppa and go and watch the video!

I love how it came out!

Perfect fun card!

I love the little white highlights I had added and the combination with the die cut sentiment.

Inside the card I decided to add some more stencilling and then a white panel on the top.

So a good fun start to the Make it Masculine challenge for the year – eleven more to go!

Happy crafting!

Catherine

Today I have another page I actually made a few weeks ago as part of the Scrapbook Challenges UK week one in the Winter Team event.

It fulfilled the following requirements- used the Freaky Fast recipe …

And included thread and circles to also score some points for the team.

It was also meeting the criteria for week one on the 100 patterned paper challenge group where the challenge was a take 5 …

Circle, small word sticker, die cuts, thread, something new

And of course I used three papers from my pile of papers ❤️

So I love how this came out. I paired the coral heavy page with the black and cream and the duck egg blue elements.

The pic is one of me looking glam for our Boxing Day meal out! This was actually after the meal and I was about to get back into pjs – after all this is the rule of Christmas period to spend as little time as possible in proper clothes! 🤣

I used a lot of lovely die cut foliage in both black and the shiny bronze.

I used stickers and elements from the stash like the Hey Little Magpie embellishments – the hearts were my something new as these were from the December kit I had not opened and used until this point!

I did use very sparkly letter stickers for the title and then Tim Holtz stickers for my little word sticker requirement for the challenge.

I added the embroidery floss thread bow to add another texture and then dots of black enamel accents across the page to finish off!

I loved the Freaky Fast recipe as it really was a quick way to determine layers and still flexible in approach to design my own layout.

A fun page and pleased to have used more papers from the 100 patterned paper challenge pile! I still had a fair amount of one of the coral pieces left and some of the black and cream so left it on my desk after this page I made to see what else I could do with it – although on the day I made this page I had run out of energy so didn’t immediately do anything with it!

So you will have to wait to see what I did!

I am off to the crop shortly so hopefully will come back with more pages completed – if I manage to stop chatting long enough to make anything!

Happy crafting!

Catherine

Hello! Friday comes around so quickly some weeks – so I am glad I had this project made, photographed and video edited and loaded so it was ready to share for this weeks Festive Friday!

I had woken up the day I made this thinking I fancied using this stag stamp which is one of my all time favourites – a very old Creative Stamping Magazine one I think.

He is so handsome. I stamped him in archival on crumb cake cardstock and then added colour with my watercolour paints.

I also added lots of splatter, in both paint and the shimmer ink.

I then created the card using green cardstock and layers of the lovely papers – the tartan is Indigo Blu paper and the red check was actually cut from an envelope I received a card in and loved so I cut a panel from it and stuck it in the Christmas paper stash!

I used card Candi and a little loop of ribbon to embellish.

Inside the card I added some of the off cuts of the paper that were left on the desk to bring the outside of the card inside and repeated the same sentiment.

I really love that stag stamp – I just think he adds a touch of elegance and perfect for a tartan based card too! Could just imagine him in the highlands!

Happy crafting!

Catherine

Yes I know it isn’t Saturday but I wanted to share this scrapbook page I made a couple of nights ago as part of our Scrapbook challenges UK FB group Winter Team challenge. I’ve been doing quite a lot of pages and not sure when I will get around to sharing them all but wanted to share this one now.

I love it!

I will say though that it took forever to make! Far longer than I normally take when scrapping at home – I wouldn’t mind the thing that looks the fiddliest bit (the triangles) was easy and quick – really don’t know why the rest of it took so long!

Anyway our challenge earns us a point for our team for each of these things …

Minimum of Three word title, sequins, triangles, ribbon and balloons (hot air counts!)

So my page scored us five points!

I pulled all the papers for this page from my 100 patterned paper pile – so another good starting point on the page.

I cut some 2” squares and then cut them in half for the triangles. I decided I wanted a frame for the page so that was the starting point adding an 11” square of white into the centre.

The papers are all Kingston Crafts ones so that made it easy to add some plain card in with the coordinating solid cardstock.

The sequins and the ribbon came from a few different Hey Little Magpie embellishment kit.

I decided against adding more bits and pieces from the stash as the triangle pattern seemed busy enough. I also decided I liked the negative of the die cut letters for the first part of the sentiment.

Of course my highlight of the page has to be the swoonworthy Mr Bailey picture who of course I had to had a selfie with! 😍

As I said earlier I love this page – the photos aren’t the best but the memories of our trip are now there for us to look at and remember that on the way out at least two of us had very blotchy faces from the crying! 🤣

Happy crafting!

Catherine

Time to start working through a new magazine kit – this time the one from Indigo Blu.

My video includes a show off of all the elements – but then I get on with making my first project …

Isn’t that Lavender so pretty?

I did ink up and add the white embossing to the background paper along with the stamping and of the image and making the topper for this card and I LOVED making it!

So happy with how it turned out and to be starting on this new series of projects.

I think that the slightly grungy mixed media type effect is right up my street!

What do you think? A good start for the new series?

Happy crafting!

Catherine

So those who watch my YouTube will have seen a video tonight all about how I bulk make foiled sentiments … after the video I decided I would rearrange my stored sentiments into types of sentiment rather than by brand etc … this left me with rather a lot in one pile … encouragement type sentiments.

And so I thought as I don’t make and send those sort of cards often I would try and make a card like I do with scrap strips in some way!

And here it is!

Really chuffed with how this worked out. It’s been catching my eye all day in my office too as so different from what I normally make!

I separated all the ‘you’ve got this’ ones and then chose a panel of black and made myself a wonky brick wall! I made a line of matching ones and then a different type for the next line down.

I left room across the middle for the main big sentiment strip.

I wasn’t bothered that there were different foil or cardstock colours – I think this is the beauty of the actual panel – lots of fab colours and fonts and sizes.

Once I had adhered them to the panel with the exception of the larger one I trimmed off the edges and then decided to kept the base of the card simple – just some stencilled dots.

I then adhered the panel in place.

I raised the main big sentiment up onto about four layers of scrap cardstock strips to give some dimension and the just doodled a little outline around.

Inside the card I added another line of stencilled dots and then one more foiled sentiments.

Really pleased with how this came out and that I could use some many sentiments on the one piece to create a fun background for the main sentiment.

Might have to give this another go with one of the other sentiment types I have quite a lot of to use some of those up too! Maybe die cut the panel into a circle or different shape once I’ve adhered them? But that’s a task for another day! This is it for today’s blog!

Happy crafting!

Catherine

Hello! I grabbed the pouch with the magazine kit in it that I have been working through most of last year as a series on YouTube and made another card.

I chose the largest panel of the papers left and cut it to be 4.5” square and then put the stencil from the kit onto it and pounced the versamark through it before then embossing it with gold.

This came out so much better than I even hoped and looks so shiny and elegant in real life.

I mounted this onto some purple cardstock. Then I chose a piece of the patterned paper with the hummingbird on it and cut that to a nice 3” square with a mount of the same purple too!

I then chose the sentiment from the stamp set and embossed that in gold too. I trimmed it down to have a similar border on each side and then added that to the topper with an overhang.

Both the topper and the sentiment were raised on foam to give some nice dimension.

I adhered this to the 6” card blank and left the outside at that – a really elegant and simple design I think!

Inside I did stamp both the hummingbird and the sentiment as a finishing touch.

So another card made and now I really am down to the smaller scraps – but I still think I could make a few cards from those – so suspect more cards yet to come in this series!

Happy crafting!

Catherine

My lovely friend moved into her new home quite a while ago but we only just managed to see each other last night so could finally give her a card and present to celebrate her new home (also two Christmas presents were handed over as turns out we are rubbish at meeting up!).

I chose to use the cutie little house die to create a focal point and teamed it with papers from the stash that were from a Scrapbook page I made ages ago:

I thought the wooden cabinet pattern was good for a home card.

I also added in a bumpy border die cut and then the flourish type embossed die cut I bought last year and this is my first use of … looks like a sconce type of thing so again I thought quite house related.

I die cut the oval and embossed that too and then used the yellow colours to add some brightness to the card with both the mat and the enamel dots and of course the little jolly house.

Whilst the house itself isn’t exactly like Sue’s (🤣 – she doesn’t own a yellow and green house!) I did personalize it to her house number as a sweet little finishing touch!

Oh I also added some of that new braided trim I had bought to add in another texture.

Didn’t take a picture but inside I added some of the coral coloured cardstock and another hugs die cut to bring the outside design inside the card too!

Happy crafting (and of course happy new home Sue).

Catherine

Today’s Scrappin Saturday project is meeting quite a few different challenges!

First of all I followed a sketch which Helen designed for the 1 sketch: 3 ways challenge that she does with the lovely Sarah and the lovely Jackie.

It is also the first project I made using the papers in my 100 patterned paper challenge pile of papers!

And finally it also scored some points for the team challenge for week one in the Scrapbook Challenges Uk FB group I’ve joined. It score points by including circles, thread, layers and something white (the stars)

The picture s are of my Mum, daughter and hubby on Christmas Day and the many attempts to get a good picture of the three of them!

I adjusted the sketch to accommodate the large collage picture I had but I think it works well.

I used lots of random embellishments from the stash and I love how it finished up.

A really fun page to put together! I actually recorded the process so you can check that out on my YouTube!

Happy crafting!

Catherine