Crafty Catz DT - Girls Just Want to Have Fun

Hello and welcome to our third challenge of the year over at Crafty Catz. This week's theme has been set by the lovely Nina who said Girls Just Want to Have Fun and she's sure right! we are sponsored this week by the Stamping Boutique who are offering our lucky winners 3 images of their choice.

My card this week features a lovely image by Tiddly Ink Stamps called Wryn - Just Keeping Swimming. 

The image and background are coloured using promakers in Blush, Cinnamon, Caramel, Henna, Ruby, Lilac, Aubergine, Duck Egg, Sky Blue and Blue Pearl. I punched some circles and used stickles star dust on them and finished with crystal gems.

The message inside reads - 'When life gets on top of you and you feel like your starting to drown, grab the snorkels and remember to just keep swimming'

I hope you like it, don't forget to swing by the challenge blog, leave an entry and see the other fabulous creations.

Until next time, happy crafting! 

New Home

Evening all,

Well here's to the end of another week. For those of you expecting a Crafty Catz DT card then I'm afraid to say you're going to have to wait a couple of weeks as the DT is on vacation. We're back on Friday 5th September with our next challenge.

 

But rather then leave the blog empty for a couple of weeks, I do have a few projects to share with you. So kicking off today I have a New Home card for my Best Friend and her Boyfriend. As this is her second house I had to go trawling through the old photos to see what I made her last time - as she keeps most of the cards I make her, it would have been too embarrassing to give her the same design again.

 

Luckily, I have a fabulous Tiddly Inks image on hand and plan up my sleeve.

I printed the house onto brown textured paper from Hero Art's: Life of the Party 6x6 pad. I then dug out my whisper pens to colour over the top and add texture to the building and highlight the roofs etc. I prefer the whisper pens to promarkers for this task as they're not as heavy, so you can add the colour but not loose the original texture.

 

I used a square from a 12x12 sheet of What's Up - Friendly skies for the background. Printed a sentiment onto some scrap red paper and then used this fab picket fence that a friend of mine sent me and finished the hole thing with some flowers, MS butterflies, gems and stickles.

 

I was thrilled with how it turned out in the end.

 

I would like to enter this card into two challenges this week:

Creative Inspirations: Anything Goes

Tiddly Inks Challenge: Anything Goes

 

Hope you all have a great bank holiday weekend if you're in the UK or just a great normal weekend for everywhere else in the world. Until next time, happy crafting

 

Crafty Catz DT - Anything Goes: New Home

Good Morning and another happy Friday to you all.

 

It's the last Friday of the month, so that means it Anything Goes over at Crafty Catz. We have two fab sponsors this week: Yours and Mine and Make it Crafty

 

 

$10 Voucher

 

My card this week was a new home card for a friend who has just brought her first property, as I didn't have much time to get it made and in the post I kept it nice and simple

I printed Tiddly Ink text from the Steam-punk Range and over the top the Home Sweet Home image. I then duplicated the house image several times so that I could layer it up. I coloured it with whisper pens and mounted it on some spare teal cardstock, added a ribbon with a key charm and a couple of pips.

 

Not the most imaginative card I've ever done but she loved it (and the coasters I sent) so I won't complain.

 

Don't forget to stop by the blog to see some truly inspirational cards from the girls this week.

 

Until next time, happy crafting! 

Happy Fathers Day

Good Evening!

Well nothing like leaving things until the last minute, but I've only just finished my father's day card for tomorrow! ooops. Oh well, at least its done!

I used this fabulous image by Tiddly Inks and coloured them with pencils for a change as I wanted a softer look. Double mounted onto stock card and printed a sentiment off the computer. I added some ribbon that I've had from the ribbon fairy since last year and added a couple of buttons which I brought at the market in Bakewell when I was up there last week and a couple of pearls to finish the whole thing off.

 

So there we have it. I would like to enter this into Creative Inspirations Challenge of Father's Day and Fussy and Fancy's Challenge of buttons.

 

So there we have it, until next time, happy crafting!