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I’ve been wanting this stamp set for years thanks to all the videos I’ve watched of Amy using it! But since I’ve owned it I’ve barely used it – so it seemed like the right one to grab for making my friend a card sending her love as she finishes work for maternity leave.

I added in the little sentiment stamps from Alpaca Pals too and then the die cut letters and hearts.

If you want to watch the process – here is the video as I remembered to put the camera on whilst making it!

I love these flowers and how easy it is to loosely watercolour them and because it is such a big stamp it’s perfect for making a background.

I added some lovely splatter using both the rose gold and platinum shimmer ink.

Inside the card I added the same stamped image but just kept it simple stamping in pink.

Enjoyed making this and looking forward to making more cards with this stamp.

Happy crafting!

Catherine

Hello!

Thought I’d pop back in with the next three days worth of #dyicad2024

Day 16 I didn’t add any circles to – but I did keep to the old stamps as the consistent – not sure why no circles – guess that day I didn’t think of it at the time!

I am still using raffle tickets though as a fairly consistent collage element.

Loving getting bits and pieces used up and elements that have been just hanging around for ages!

Happy crafting!

Catherine

It’s Father’s Day but not spending it with my Dad today as he is on his holiday at the moment – so we will be celebrating in a couple of weeks. So keep this secret as he hasn’t seen it yet! lol!

I made a background paper using lots of alpha stamps with different green and blue inks.

I then die cut some letters which I added some ink to the bottom to give a nice ombré finished.

I die cut a circle and some ready die cut labels for making the central feature. I then added the hearts which I had die cut from scraps as little embellishments.

I made the sentiment on the label by stamping the tiny words and then the tiny alphas for the Fathers.

Added a strip of the paper I had cut off the edge to the inside with some more hearts to finish off!

If you fancy seeing this come together I did remember to video it!

So happy Father’s Day Dad and also a happy Father’s Day to my lovely hubby who is the best Dad my princess could ever have!

Happy crafting!

Catherine

Another quick round up of my progress so far for #dyicad2024 and I’ve managed 15 so far … which I think means I am one quarter done (or I will be just over that tomorrow!)

I’ve kept up with the use of old stamps and circles! I’ve also used raffle tickets a lot too!

I’m starting to run out of ready prepped cards so a couple of these started as blank canvases which has been fun – especially the day 15 with those bright inks!

46 days to go!

Happy crafting!

Catherine

Continuing from last weeks post I did manage to make another card using those backgrounds I had added the rub ons to.

This time I chose that grungy brown and amber coloured one.

I mean … I am so in love this!

Firstly those oxides make the background amazing. Love it!

I decided to use the die cut trees and do layers of embossing to make an amazing dimensional textural tree.

To do this I used both the Seth Apter baked textures embossing powder and then the top layer is using the frantage that has blobs of white and gold.

This gives it a really unique texture.

I kept the card simple … a wrap of a scrap of lovely satin ribbon, a mat of black and some gold gems.

Then I also mat a Tim Holtz sticker onto white to add to the tree.

The tree is adhered with foam tabs to give it some dimension over the ribbon.

I just love this and doing this with the different embossing powders was also fun as I wasn’t sure how they would all work together … but they worked magnificently!

I’ve popped the other two rub on backgrounds away for now though and will play with them in a month or so to make sure my Festive Fridays don’t all look the same!

Happy crafting!

Catherine

I mean … how zingy and bright is this?

So at the start of the month I started sharing the cards I made using the last bits of the True Love dsp and I still had this and one other card to share because I took them in a slightly different direction. This one I picked out a bright inky background I had made and decided to make the flowers reds and pinks to go with it.

The background also has elements of black in it so it went well with the dotty dsp panel too.

I decided to wrap some thread around the panel to add interest and texture and added the Altenew sentiment on top of that to ground it.

I mounted it to the left of the card blank to all the flowers to go over the edge of the panel and then added the gems to finish off!

Delighted with how this turned out. Especially as whilst I was colouring the flowers my yellow pens decided they had dried up so had to turn the yellow rose into a pinky coral one… can you tell which that one is?

One more of these to come … and then True Love dsp has officially gone away!

Happy crafting!

Catherine

I’m back with another design team contribution for Addicted to stamps and more where the challenge is die cuts/ stencils. And on this card i used a few die cuts.

Let’s start from the back up … I die cut the large leafy background panel die from Honey Doo. It’s slightly larger than the card blank I added it to but I just trimmed it down after adhering in place. This gave some interest to the background.

Then I chose a piece of inky background I had made. It’s lots of yellows and greens and all smooshed together. I added a green edge to the panel but otherwise left it as it was.

I found in the stash the gold laser cut panel and adhered that down to create another layer of leaves.

Then I grabbed the Altenew Eclectic bouquet stamp and white embossed the image. Then I watercoloured it loosely using pinks and greens I thought would work with that background.

Then I embossed it, and wow what texture! The 3d embossing folders are just amazing!

I added that onto the main topper and then decided to place that top right on the card so that the leaves could trail off the topper.

Finishing it was easy … a stamped and die cut sentiment from Waffleflower, an embroidery floss bow and then some gold gems!

Perfect!

Inside I stamped the image again this time using pink and added one of the sentiments from the same set.

A really pretty card!

Pleased with this and all the layers … and that embossing folder is just glorious! ❤️

Happy crafting!

Catherine

Hello again… back with another #dyicad2024 round up!

Days 4 to 6 looked like this …

Lots of collage bits and stickers and some randomly created shapes too.

I’ve kept on with the adding an old stamp to each as the connecting element but otherwise pretty much just creating as I fancy from the bits on the desk and in my box of bits and bobs – feeling good to use up this stuff and get it onto some finished collages!

Days 7-9 are as follows…

Another common feature I am noticing is circles – not all but a lot have circles on them … and those raffle tickets also keep making an appearance – well I do have just under 2000 of them to use!

Happy crafting!

Catherine

Yesterday was the Warrington crop day and I got the pleasure of crafting alongside friends (new and old) and made two layouts from a kit Sarah at Hey Little Magpie had put together.

The first one is relatively similar to the inspiration Sarah provided but the second one I turned to #30dscbl15 and loosely followed that!

So page one … Sarah’s inspiration was this which I’ve lifted from the shop page hence the magnifier icon!

And my page – well I think you can see the original in there a bit but I added sewing and stamping to the background, adjusted the photo on the right and also changed up the quote panel in the middle.

I also added more fussy cut flowers and dotted them around the page too.

I then used scraps to make the second page using this sketch from day 20 by Miss Carrie.

And ended up with this page

I added the cluster top left as I wasn’t keep on just the strip flat across the top and also added in more stamps.

The stamps I used on both layouts are new Hey Little Magpie ones (yes I spent a “bit” of money at the crop too!) and in both cases stamped with my oxides.

This still needs some kind of title but I ran out of energy so didn’t get to finish it off- will do that this next week when I get round to tidying up and putting away my stuff from the crop!

Pleased with both these pages and how I made them my own and also still at least one more page I think I can get out of the papers that are left so maybe that will also happen when I get around to putting things away!

Happy crafting!

Catherine

This week we marked the end of an era in our household as the princess finished her ALevel exams and so the end of school/college!

I made a card to mark the occasion of course with a little gift for her to receive when she got back from her exam.

It’s an arty one (well she is arty!) with a painty background on the text paper. Then the main feature is of course the gorgeous Altenew floral (Eclectic bouquet) which is stencilled, die cut and embossed!

Loved using the translucent fresco finish paint on the background so the text is still visible.

I added the sentiment that was already die cut and stacked (easy) with some copper thread underneath to add texture.

Mounted the panel on the aqua card and then a layer of embossed white to again add texture.

So congratulations to our girl on finishing this stage of her life – now onto the next. Pending results we are hoping for her next step to be Fashion Marketing at Manchester Fashion Institute. 🤞🏼

Happy crafting!

Catherine