Inkyfingeredcat

Last Friday in February and it is not just Festive Friday but also my response to the Creature Comforts prompt for the Christmas in July Facebook group!

Now if you watch my video you will see that it started with a colour cube to choose my colours – albeit it sort of went off track so I haven’t included the colour in my blog post as it doesn’t really match. But I don’t mind as it is still a really cute card!

I had two panels but decided rather than make two cards I would include the second smaller panel as an insert flap on the inside.

I added the lovely stamping and embossing in the background behind the panels with the cute creatures and each of the animals outfits have been paper pieced from papers I originally selected based on the colour cube but to be honest with images this small it would have been easier to just use pens to colour in.

I finished off the front with the foiled sentiment and then left it at that!

Cute and a really sweet set of winter creatures.

Happy crafting!

Catherine

I made three cute notecards using the chipboard shapes as my embellishments!

I used a mix of the navy and green cardstock from the everyday cardstock pack and used a Dina Wakely press plate to add foil to the background panel. I chose different colour foils for each – white, gold and rainbow!

For each I chose a different chipboard shape and I added ink to each of them around the edge to just add a little extra definition.

I also added gems to embellish with a different sentiment for each card.

I love how simple these are – but very effective!

Happy crafting!

Catherine

Ok so the gingerbread theme in all of the Kingston Crafts sets are just the most darling designs … so having a background stamp full of the gingerbread people is just perfect!

I went with a Kraft and cream theme for this cute card – I stamped the gingerbread with brown ink and then after cutting the panel I inked it up in a few places to give it a lightly distressed finish.

I decided to offset the layers and ruffle up the corner at the bottom right using gold staples to secure. I did the same with the brown layer.

I then wrapped it round the panels with brown waxed thread.

I added the acetate gingerbread man from the pouch of acetate ephemera – so so cute!

I added a die cut and foiled sentiment and added the panels to the cream card blank.

Really love this stamp with all those gingerbreads on it – although it is making me a little peckish! 🍪

I did end up with a little off cut of the cream stamped card so decided to also make a tag (although this didn’t go in the sample selection so I did keep this one!)

The tag I added a little snowman on a little hinge I made from cardstock to make it pop up a little and then added sequins and some seam binding to finish off!

Happy crafting!

Catherine

Having background stamps like this set from Kingston Crafts that cover an entire card front as game changers – even better when they cover a 5×7 card front – as it means you can decorate the whole of a card without the need for patterned papers or extra layers.

I means you can keep designs simple like this one – with the full Kraft card blank embossed with the gold snowflakes and then added a panel I stamped with the trees as a bit of contrast.

Then all it needed was the die cut sentiment and some die cut stats as embellishments.

Whilst I don’t normally mind layers, sometimes you want to keep the weight and thickness down to make postage a little cheaper – so being able to stamp the background directly on the card blank is a great way to jazz it up without extra weight/dimension.

And of course embossing is a glorious way to use the stamps!

Happy crafting!

Catherine

I decided to switch up one of the samples I made with the Christmas themed stamps and make a birthday card instead!

I stamped the background in full onto the white cardstock and then used my alcohol markers to colour the gifts using a pastel rainbow. I then cut the panel down to fit the front of the white cardstock blank.

I then decided to die cut out the frame and add in a frame of the black foiled cardstock.

I added the die cut sentiment as the main focal point.

I added some gems and then kept it simple – a funky card – which of course with a different colour scheme and sentiment could be a Christmas card – but for now – this is my play with it to make something not Christmassy!

Happy crafting!

Catherine

Today’s #scrappinsaturday is one I made a couple of weeks ago but popped the camera on to record the process but only just got around to loading up to my YouTube channel… you can watch it here.

I made it with a challenge in mind (Scrapbook Challenges UK) where the challenge was to include

Botanical – rocket – coloured cardstock – grey

I managed all four of these!

Started with the base of Kingston Crafts pastel cardstock in the pink and stencilled using the grey ink so a subtle finish but it is there!

I then used the pretty paper that was from the same pack that I did all those cards from at the beginning of the month!

I fussy cut to soften the edge and follow the pattern – then fussy cut the leaves that were left to add in as embellishments.

Then I grabbed some doilies and lots of stickers and elements from the stash – most of them leftover from a page kit I did a week or so earlier so was still hanging out on my desk!

Love how this came out – I did add little touches of glitter glue on the centres of the flowers plus the heart top right of the photo.

Happy crafting!

Catherine

Snow crystal came out to play for this simple card …

Isn’t this just so cute?

I used some Kingston Crafts snowflake paper and then embossed the Snow Crystal onto that with white powder.

Then I mounted it onto the turquoise foiled cardstock.

I also embossed the sentiment onto the patterned paper and cut that into a banner and mounted that on the same foiled cardstock.

I layered all this onto a Kingston Crafts card blank – the light turquoise really worked with the rest of the card – so cute!

Finishing touches were the sequins I added!

Inside the card I did some stamping … and a panel of the paper.

A fun but super simple card.

I videoed the process so you can catch that on my YouTube channel.

Happy crafting!

Catherine

When you get a box of six different background stamps you want to try them all immediately! Well I didn’t quite do all of them but I managed a few to create a fun large background panel!

I masked off areas before I stamped and then went on with a blending brush to add ink inside the masked and stamped area to create a patchwork effect.

In doing this I managed to get the trees, snowflakes, presents and the words stamp all onto the same background.

I added little pen marks for faux stitching and then splattered the whole panel with the spritz for the dark blue shine!

I then added five of the vellum sentiment banners (you get so many in the pack it doesn’t feel wrong to use five in one go!) and then die cut some circles, inked them and added the little acetate reindeer to finish off!

So the stamping and masking was a bit fiddly but a fun way to get lots of pattern into the background!

Happy crafting!

Catherine

I’ve realised that these stamps are available over on Hobbymaker.tv so I can share the samples I made with them (didn’t realise that they were available!)

As soon as I saw this gorgeous tree based background stamp I wanted to do a varied colour stamping – although I decided to stick to teal and green to start I am thinking rainbow would also work well – and to stamp directly to the card blank.

After stamping using all the teals and greens I blended the central part with a pale turquoise and green to create a frame for the focal image. I also added a little splatter too!

I chose to use a digital stamp as my focal point along with a die cut embossed sentiment – but could have easily chosen a die cut shape or sentiment banner instead. But I thought the cutesy image worked well against the tree background.

I did raise the image and sentiment on foam tape and then added the sequins to finish off the card.

I think the trees are my favourite of the stamps in the set – although the words and the gingerbread people ones are towards the top – oh and the snowflakes 🤣

Basically it’s a great set with six great stamps!

Happy crafting!

Catherine

Hello & welcome to my little bit of the internet! Time for another Addicted to Stamps and More challenge and this time I went for stamping and colouring as our theme is Make your Mark!

I think it has been a while since I’ve done so much colouring with promarkers and it made for a relaxing hour just colouring in!

I used the Charming Day stamps I bought in January and stamped one long panel with the big cluster of flowers twice and then another panel I stamped that again twice.

Then I stamped the smaller flower three times on the large panel.

Then set to on colouring with a mix of both promarkers and Stampin blends.

Once I had coloured everything in I then die cut the two that I had stamped separately.

I then started putting everything together. I mounted the long panel onto black cardstock and then mounted it on a DL card I made.

I added dimension to the die cut I added to the front using foam adhesive and then I chose the foiled sentiment I had made previously adding foam on the side hanging off the floral element.

I added the black gems scattered along the card to finish off the front.

Inside the card I drew a rectangle to replicate the black mat layer on the front and then added the remaining die cut.

Just love how this came out – quite simple to create but the colouring took time – a perfect relaxing thing to do whilst listening to the radio!

Happy crafting!

Catherine