A few weeks ago I shared some little notecards I made for my design team contribution for Kingston Crafts – well I did an extra one for my Festive Friday challenge too!
Grey cardstock, a mask made by die cutting a circle from another piece of cardstock and then sprayed the shimmer sprays through the circle and left it to dry.
Then I added the die cut and used the same shimmer spray but this time painted it onto the die cut bow.
I used a Tim Holtz sticker for the sentiment and doodled a frame for the panel before adding it to a 4×4 card blank.
Hello! Back with another couple of cards I made using the Kingston Pet Collection kit and two of the cards based on the Kendra’s Card Challenge.
I love this kit so much as it’s so cute!
I really like playing with the sketches for the cards and the little sections of the paper that Kendra puts together to create cards that are a little different from what I might ordinarily put together.
I added three different colours of cardstock to go with the papers (as I had no solid left in the kit I just went with random cardstock from the stash) and created these bright dog themed cards using the embellishments in the kit and some other bits and bobs.
This first one I added a foiled sentiment to bring in a pop of red.
This one I stamped and embossed the sentiment and the bones from a My Favourite Things stamp set.
I also added in texture to this one with a wood grain embossing folder.
Sometimes the detail of a betterpress or a large floral element is perfect for contrasting with a bit of painty scrap! And that is what today’s card is all about.
The painty scrap is from the pouch of backgrounds made when I did loads of gelli prints. It this is a wipe off paper where I cleaned my brayer rather than an actual print.
I kept it simple and just added some stamping – an old Japanese stamp I’ve had for years – and then mounted it onto lilac scrap cardstock. This might have seemed an odd choice but I knew that I had this Betterpress print using purple already done in the stash and I wanted to add this to the print and the lilac frame worked with the purple print.
I added a simple foiled sentiment with a lilac mat layer. I then added the purple gems.
I thought it would work well on a white card blank but then I grabbed the Kraft one and was really happy with how that looked so used that instead.
I know a couple of corners have curled so will need to pop a dot of glue to get them to lie flat before I pop this in the box of made up cards. Otherwise a lovely and simple arty card.
For this design team contribution I actually put the camera on and recorded the process … I wanted to use some stamps and dies that I bought months ago but never got around to using it till now! It’s a very different style from normal for me!
I don’t have many vintage style Christmas products and this stamp set needed to be bought when I saw it on Hobbymaker and Martin was demonstrating it!
I teamed the stamps with the embossed and distressed background, a scrap of fabric and then some champagne splatter.
Not 100% sure that I love the way I placed the holly right at the end but otherwise I love this card!
I decided to join in with Kendra’s Card Challenge back in April as I was starting to feel better – I figured it was an easy thing to do in stages as I felt I had enough energy and could just pick it up as and when. I decided I wanted to use up as much of the Kingston Crafts pet collection bits and pieces as I could so chose six papers and cut them into the different panels and popped each of the pieces into envelopes with the sketch so I could do a card at a time with most bits there ready.
These two are the first two I finished – they were more generic in designs of the papers so I turned them into cat themed birthday cards.
For the first one I added in the little banner element to the bottom and rather than the top little element be a banner it became a square I added a mat to.
The card sketches are designed around American card sizes so I did them as toppers for 5×7 cards instead of the usual card size but think they work nicely with the frame of the white card blank.
I hadn’t really got sentiments in the kit left that worked as birthday type cards and I think they are the more useful types of cards to make when you don’t have a specific purpose to making them so I grabbed the My Favourite Thing stamp set that is based around cats and embossed the Happy Purr-thday sentiment into the navy cardstock.
I added the little gems from the kit to each of the cards and to this one I also added the bow using the coordinating twine.
I added texture to both cards with a wood grain embossing folder.
I have plenty more cards to make from this use of Kendra’s Card Challenge (some of which I have not yet finished!) – so they will be blogged in stages over the next few weeks!
I didn’t do a great job of joining in the swaps last month with being out of action for so much of the month – so I’m starting off quickly this month with my tag for that swap and hopefully will get to do a few other of the swaps soon.
I went with some of the leftover patterned paper from the project at the beginning of the month and covered a large tag I had cut from grey board from old packaging.
I did some outlining of the sections with pen and inked the edge with archival. Then I went for a full rainbow with distress crayons.
I then added the stencilling using white gesso and an Alpaca Pals stencil – plus some splatters of course!. Once dry I added some doodles to the stencilled shapes.
I next added some strips of the spring slimline papers from Kingston Crafts and a scrap of green I die cut using my favourite Hey Little Magpie die.
Next I stamped and embossed the cute MFT images and coloured them with my promarkers. I die cut them out and then die cut them again from scraps to stack them so they are a little more dimensional.
I added them to the tag and then used the Dina Wakely press plates to foil the sentiment and die cut it out with the coordinated die. I just love the foiling – it’s a joy everytime to peel back the foil and see the effect!
To finish off I added the pale yellow gems and the blue and white bakers twine in a double bow.
Such a fun tag and love the rainbow background with the fun patterned paper I transformed with the distress crayons.
I went back to play with the Kingston Crafts Pet collection kit because it is so cute and easy to play with and this time made two cards using some of the packaging as bases for the cards.
These were so quick and easy to put together – I think I spent most of the time cutting the packaging up not making the actual cards because the die cuts work so well and so putting them together equal a quick card!
I added layers of the solid along with the spotty paper from the kit.
I also added sentiments from some pet themed My favourite Things stamp sets as they needed something to finish off!
Inside the cards I added some more bits and bobs to just finish them off!
Cute and simple! I did stick the video on to record the process so please do visit my YouTube channel to see them come together.
Apparently today is also (inter)National scrapbooking day and there will be challenges all over the weekend on lots of the groups I am in – my only issue is I am super busy most of the weekend so probably won’t have much time to join in – but maybe if I can find an hour I might get to play along a little bit. Until then I have a page I prepared ahead of time!
I decided to keep going with those papers off the desk I was scrapping with and made another page.
This time I used a ledger based paper for the background and added some ink using both Worn Lipstick and Walnut Stain distress inks.
I then created a top left cluster and then a larger panel bottom right. This second one became the main part for the photos.
I added in lots of the embellishments from the Feb Hey Little Magpie embellishment kit and then also some perspectives from Bramble Fox kits. I then added some random other embellishments from the stash to create this cute page of my daughter and her best friends.
I think that title says it all about these girls who really are there for each other even when they aren’t physically located near each other.
I loved adding in the scraps of the trim leftover from the kit as little tabs on the page. I also added lots of lovely sequins scattered across the page too.
Really happy with how this page turned out and I love how it worked with the pictures.
Well it is already Friday which means back to my festive Friday projects … and this time I went back to the magazine kit and made some cards using scraps.
I took a large scrap of cardstock and used the little pieces of paper I had leftover to create a little panel which looked like mosaic – on this first one I kept the gap between each piece to make it look like a grout. I then added this to a larger panel of the word based paper and mounted it onto the card blank.
I then kept it simple with a tag from the kit adding some thread for the top of the tag to add texture. The tag I added using foam adhesive for some dimension.
Next try I just totally covered the panel I chose with the rest of the leftovers without the ‘grouting’.
I think I prefer this particular effect (and it was easier to do). Along the edge I then added the two flowers and the sentiment circle element. I wish I had added dimension behind the panel and the flowers but in this case I stuck it down onto the two mats of lilac and purple before adding to the card blank.
I did add in some die cut circles for the flower centres – that added a different texture – but otherwise a very flat card – far from my favourite card but I really liked playing with the scraps to create that background.
I’ve never tried to do anything like this so higgledy piggledy but it was fun to move away from my usual linear style.
I was running behind schedule and wasn’t sure if I would get this made in time – my design team contribution for Creative Knockouts – but managed to finish it last night after work and had to wait until this morning for decent photos as the sun had gone by the time I finished!
Our theme is For the Kids and chose to use the cute little girls tutu image from Patties Creations who are sponsoring the challenge.
I printed it off and watercoloured it using the Concord and 9th ink and then added the clear glitter glue from Kingston Crafts to make it extra sparkly!
I then left it to dry overnight. I then glued another piece of thin card to the back of the image before cutting it out to strengthen it as it was quite flimsy what I had printed on!
Then I took some pink cardstock and decided to create a fun background using the Altenew layered stencil.
I used ink for two of the layers for the flowers and then silver acrylic paint for the leaf elements. I then left the fourth layer off as it was already a busy enough pattern I felt.
Once the paint was dry I added the dress with glue to the front and then added some flat sequins as embellishments where I felt the background had some gaps.
I then took a sentiment that was already stamped and die cut and added that to the front with some adhesive foam.
I then raised the whole panel up on foam too to give even more dimension.
Love this! and considering it was a rushed job at the end of a busy few days at work it was still nice to take a little time to be creative!
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