Crafty Catz DT - Recycle/Upcycle.

Good Morning.

Well it's the end of the week and that means that it's time for a new challenge at Crafty Catz. This week's challenge has been set by me and I would love to see you all recycle/upcycle.

We are sponsored this week by the lovely Stamp fairy, who is offering the lucky winner $10 to spend in their online store:

So it's time for you rescue those bits of ribbon off chocolate boxes or maybe give a christmas decoration a new lease of life. Whatever it is, make sure you tell us what it is you've rescued from the bin.

 

So my project for the week turned this:

 

Into this:





This weeks recipe is 1 metal tin, rescued from work; scraps of paper from the Dovecraft Back to Basics Modern Christmas range, ribbon from a box of chocolates; a button from an old cushion my friend at church was throwing out; the fantastic image from stamp fairy coloured with promarkers in the following colours: cinnamon, caramel, ivory, blush, buttercup, duck egg, cornflower, china blue, moss, pear green and finally, some stickles to add that glittery finish.

I hope you like the project and I look forward to seeing all yours. For full information pop over to the challenge blog.

I would also like to enter this into the Pink Elephant's Challenge this week of Pretty Packing.

Until next time, thanks for stopping by and happy crafting!

The Bell Still Rings....

Good Morning,

Just a quick little fun project that I've thrown together for my craft stall on Saturday; Polar Express inspired ornaments. Now if you've read the book or seen the movie you should understand but for those of you that haven't, the ringing bell stands for faith, for believing in something special, for magic - be it father christmas for young children or Jesus Christ for practicing Christians. Whoever, or whatever it represents to you, it's just a fun little thing that reminds us all of the joy and magic that christmas time envokes.

I'd seen numerous versions of this project on Pinterest but was most influenced by this one. I'd picked up a mixed box of 9 bells and made my own little tag to go on them and used up oddments of red and green ribbons. I then stumbled on this fantastic free printable and printed them off to go in the bag with the bells, for a fuller explination.

 

They were fun and super quick to do and make me smile when I look at them, so hopefully they'll be off to new homes soon to make other people smile and feel the christmas joy.

 

I would like to enter these into Creative Inspirations - Traditional Christmas Colours challenge if I may.

 

Until next time, happy crafting!

Crafty Catz DT Card - Snowflakes, Star and Sentiment

Hello!

So another week has come and gone and friday is here once more, which means a fabulous new challenge has started over at Crafty Catz. This week theme has been set by Dianne who would like to see Snowflakes, Star and Sentiment on your design somewhere.

We are sponsored this week by Crimson Cloud  who will give one lucky winner 3 packs of die cuts

This week I have returned to my simplistic style - it was originally going to be white on white but I think the little bit of colour really adds to this design:

The background is a sizzix embossing folder with snowflakes from which I freehand cut a star shape. I then added some red organza ribbon from stash and mounted it onto red card. A then free cut a second smaller star shape which I mountd on foam pads and smothered in stickles then drew some letters to spell Noel, cut them and embossed them in my cuttlebug spots and dots folder. These too were mounted on foam pads and the whole design was finished with some tiny red gems.

 

Thanks for stopping by. Until next time, happy crafting! 

Mistletoe and wine...oh wait! no, that's holly!

Good afternoon one and all,

 

How are we doing today? the weather here is grey and miserable and making it impossible to get any decent light to photograph cards! So rather than share this morning's project, I thought I would show you these little hearts that I've made.

 

I made one last year for my mum - although a slightly different shape heart and she loved it and then everyone who came to the house over the festive period said how much they liked it and could I make them one. Well, a year down the line, I've tweaked the design slightly and made a matching Holly version and so half a dozen of these little hearts will be winging their way to various family members and friends as part of their christmas presents.

Cross stitched on 16 count blue aida they are finished with some beads and organza ribbon. They took about 6 hours each to make and I am now a little bit sick of the sight of them lol!

 

 

However, if you too would like one, I made a few extra's and they can be found on my etsy store here.

 

I would like to enter these into the following challenges (I hope its ok with them not being cards)

CRAFT - Use Fabric

Allsorts - It's a gift

 

Until next time, thanks for stopping by and happy crafting!

Crafty Catz DT Card - Lets have some sparkle

Good Morning all,

Friday is here once again and that means so too is a new challenge at Crafty Catz. This weeks theme has been set by Janette who chose a theme that makes me very happy as I do love glitter! She would like you all to add some sparkle to your cards this week - yipee!

We are once again sponsored by the fabulous Stamping Boutique who are offering our lucky prize winner 3 digi stamps:

Once again we were provided with a couple of image choices for our DT cards this week and I chose the fabulous Merry Go Round Horse which you can find here:

This week I decided to colour the image with watercolour pencils, as I wanted a softer 'cotton-candy' type feel to the card. I kept to three colours for the card and matched them through the paper, ribbon and buttons.

 

The papers are from the Boho Chic collection, the ribbon is a glitter organza from stash which is actually pink and blue (sorry it doesn't show up very well in the images). The buttons are from stash and I finished the card off which is as much Stickles Star Dust as I thought I could reasonably get away with; each of the papers is edged in glitter as too is the big button. I looked like the glitter fairy had got me by the time I had finished.

 

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:

Stampin for the weekend - All Stitched Up

Dream Valley - Anything Goes

Creative Inspirations - Sketch

 

So that's it for this week. Thanks so much for popping by. Until next time, happy crafting!

Crafty Catz DT - Anything Goes

Good Morning lovely people,

Thank goodness for friday's hey? it means the weekend is almost here and the fun times can begin! it also means that it's time for another challenge over at Crafty Catz! This week the lovely Sassy has set the theme of Anything Goes! So we're looking forward to seeing all your lovely creations - whatever they may be.

This week we are sponsored by the fabulous Digital Delights who are offering the lucky winner $5.00 to spend in their store

As usual, the DT were lucky enough to be given some fabulous images to play with and I chose to use this fabulous candy train on my creation.

My project this week was a tag for a Santa Key. I've made a pile of these for the church fundraiser this weekend (which is where I'll be, setting up, when this post goes live). I wish I could claim originality but I can't, I found this fabulous project on Pinterest and you can find the original here.

Nevertheless, the tag design is entirely my own and this weeks recipe list for my project is: Kraft card, Dovecraft Modern Back to Basics Christmas Collection, Red and White cardstock, White peel-off snowflakes from stash, Red and Blue Gems from stash, Caramel Ribbon from stock - part of my birthday present from Aunty Sue and Stickles star dust.

The image was coloured with promarkers in the following colours: Blue Pearl, Forest Green, Ruby, Gold, Buttercup, Honeycomb and Ivory.

I would like to also enter this project into the following challenges:
Dream Valley - Glitter and Bling
Cupcake - Get Krafty
Oh-la-la Challenges - Christmas
TPE - Favourite Colouring Medium


So thanks for stopping by and leaving comments, they're always appreciated. Don't forget to pop by the other girl's blogs to see their fab creations and until next time, happy crafting!

Little Robin Redbreast sat upon a tree...

Morning all,

Just a quick post this morning to share Mr Robin with you:

These little fellows are needlefelted, like the Doves I've shared before. This time though they are on hanging threads, ready for your Christmas tree!

I had so much fun making these, they're entirely my own design and I'm so pleased with how they've turned out. I've made a dozen for the church charity fundraiser this weekend, so I hope they sell, but I will be making more in due course to sell on my Etsy account and at my craft stall in December.

They're about 11x 6cm in size, just to give you some idea of how big they are.

Thanks for dropping by and until next time, happy crafting!

The Wedding!

Evening all,

I just wanted to share with you a little bit of the excitement I felt on Saturday when I was part of the wedding of an exceptionally dear friend of mine, Rachel, to her other half, Nick.

Way back at the beginning of the year I was thrilled to be asked to be a bridesmaid for Rachel, which I instantly said yes to and so began the trials and tribulations of the role..... oh wait, no it didn't! Rachel had to be the most laid back bride ever!

Rachel, Jenna and I had a fun day dress shopping in April and after that we had to worry little else until Saturday. Rachel left us to choose shoes and hairstyles - not minding if we didn't match at all, as long as we were comfortable. In the end the only differance was the hair slide (although they were close) and the fact that Jenna had the silver version to my black pair of the same shoes.

All in all, I think we had the easiest role of any bridesmaids in the history of weddings and I'm trilled to say the day went off without a hitch - minus my somewhat bruised and black thumb (a story for another time!)

Part of my wedding gift to them was a sampler I stiched. I hope they liked it, but as they hadn't opened it when I left Cardiff and they're now on honeymoon, I'll have to wait until they return to hear the verdict.

My mum and dad's wedding present to them was the wedding cake, which mum made to match Rachel's dress. I can't begin to tell you how stressed she was over it, but it was beautiful and the happy couple were delighted with it!

So the two of them are now in Sri Lanka for their honeymoon and I'm eagerly awaiting their return so I can see the photos, but until then, here's the sneak peak from the photographers!

Gary and Sue were great, a real pleasure to be photographed by (and considering I HATE having my picture taken, that's saying something). I hasten to add that the images remain the sole copywrite of garyandsuephotography and are here only as a small indication of how incredible they are at their jobs and how fabulous the whole day was.

I can't wait to see the rest!

xxx

Crafty Catz DT Card - Add Texture

 Good Morning,

Do we all have that Friday feeling? are we all looking forward to the weekend? does anyone else have a strange craving for a Crunchie? No? just me then! lol! Well friday morning means only one thing, time for a new Crafty Catz challenge.

This week's challenge has been set by the fabulous Kim, who wants to see you all add texture to your cards. We are kindly sponsored by Stamp Fairy who are kindly donating $10 to one lucky winner!

We were kindly given a couple of images to use for our DT cards this week, although you'll notice which one we all fell in love with! 

I kept it clean and simple to show off this cute image! he was so much fun to colour and it also gave me an excuse to use my brand new winter collection from promarker - such a fab set. This weeks colour palette is: Polar Blue, Frosted Leaf, Pink Mittens, Icicle, Sandstone, Cinnamon, Cool Aqua, Pastel Blue, Ivory and Duck Egg.

I mounted him onto blue card, from a multicard pack from the range and then embossed white card with a Sizzix Snowflake folder. I double mounted the snowflakes onto two different blue cards and layered it all up; mounting the image on foam pads.

The card edge is embossed using by hougie board and I layered a length of floristary lace on the base and edged it with blue ribbon. I mounted everything up and finished the card with a snowflake button, some blue gems and lots and lots of stickles to make it sparkle!

I would also like to enter this into the folloing challenges:
Dream Valley - Glitter and Bling
Ooh la la - Christmas
Stampin for the weekend - Anything Goes

That's it for this week, but please pop by the the other girls blogs to see their fabulous creations.

Until next time! Happy Crafting!