Crafty Catz DT - Feel the Music



Morning folks, here's to the end of another week, which can mean only one thing - another Crafty Catz Challenge. Our theme has been set this week by the fabulous Sue who want's us to Feel the Music - so cards with singers, musicians, instruments and notes, let your imagination run riot. We are sponsored this week by Kenny K who are offering our lucky winner 5 images of their choice

My card this week has a distinct monochrome feel - which was anything but intentional but I think it works perfectly.

The backing paper is scanned and printed from some of my own music collection - I tweaked it in photoshop to get a faded appearance. I edged it with versamark ink to make it stand out. The sentiment is hand written and one of my favourite music sayings. The piano keyboard was a freebie I found online. The ribbon is from stash, which I've had for a while and came from a local haberdashery. The heart was hand cut and edged with a fine liner and the wings are from Julie Nutting's range which I stamped, scanned, shrunk and cut out. Finally the musical notes are from quilled paper which I added a gem to the top of.

 

Think that's about it and hope you like the card. Until next time - Happy Crafting!



Crafty Catz DT - Clean and Simple

Morning all. Did you all have a good bank holiday weekend (if you're in the UK)? Sadly we had rain, rain and then I had to work Monday, but there you go.

 

Many thanks for all who sent well wishes for my voice. It settled down fairly quickly and normal service is resumed.

We have a new challenge for you this week at Crafty Catz and this weeks theme has been set by the lovely Janette who wants to see Clean and Simple cards. We are sponsored this week by Crafty Sentiments who are offering our lucky winner 3 digi's of their choice

 

My card this week is this:

The image is coloured in the following Promarkers: Red, Poppy, Burgundy, Lime Green, Moss, China Blue, Sky Blue, Cool Aqua, Gold, Pumpkin, Apricot, Burnt Orange, Mulberry, Plum, Amethyst, Terracotta, Honeycomb Spice and Blush.

 

 The papers are from an old pad which I've lost the cover from. I punched all the corners with my Xcut punch and edged the base and image with faber castell fine-liner.

 

Hope you like it; don't forget to join in with us this week at Crafty Catz. Until next time, happy crafting





Moving Pictures - Discworld Reading Challenge

Published: 1990

Plot Summery: The alchemists of the Discworld have invented moving pictures. Many hopefuls are drawn by the siren call of Holy Wood, home of the fledgling "clicks" industry – among them Victor Tugelbend ("Can't sing. Can't dance. Can handle a sword a little."), a dropout from Ankh-Morpork's Unseen University and Theda "Ginger" Withel, a girl "from a little town you never ever heard of", and the Discworld's most infamous salesman, Cut-Me-Own-Throat Dibbler, who introduces commerce to the equation and becomes a successful producer. The business of making movies grows rapidly, and eventually Victor and Ginger become real stars, thanks to the help of Gaspode the sentient dog

 

Meanwhile, it gradually becomes clear that the production of movies is having a deleterious effect on the structure of reality. Ginger is possessed by an unspecified entity and she and Victor find an ancient, hidden cinema, complete with portal to the Dungeon Dimensions. Back in Ankh-Morpork, during the first screening of Blown Away which the senior wizards of the Unseen University are also attending, a creature from the Dungeon Dimensions breaks through, and Victor fights it having found out that with a camera pointing at him in real life works out the way it does in the movies.

 

The end is..... well lets just say, that's show business folks

Adaptations: None known

  

Favourite Quotes:
"Meat pies! Hot sausages! Inna bun! So fresh the pig h'an't noticed they're gone!"

 

- "I thought swords had to be straight."
- "Perhaps they start out straight and go bendy with use. A lot of things do."

 

In retrospect, Victor was always a little unclear about those next few minutes. That's the way it goes. The moments that change your life are the ones that happen suddenly, like the one where you die.

Reading Time: Started Monday 27th April 2015 - Finished Friday 1st May 2015

Crafty Catz DT - Colour Challenge

Morning all

 

How's your week been? mine has finally slowed down, which is just as well as my voice has totally failed on me. It's making for fun at work - lots of miming! anyway, Friday means a new challenge at Crafty Catz and this weeks theme is set by Kim who wants to see cards influenced by this colour block:

We are sponsored by Fitztown

3 Digis of winners choice

I decided to make some notelet cards this week as I always need thank you notelets:

The image is coloured with the following Promarkers: Red, Gold, Canary, Apricot, Pumpkin, Spice, Burnt Orange, Cool Aqua, Lime Green, Warm Grey 1. I used scraps of pattern paper and a couple of pearls to finish off the set.

 

Hope you're inspired to play along. Until next time though - happy crafting!

Eric - Discworld Reading Challenge

Published: 1990

Plot Summery: The plot is a parody of Faust and follows on from the events of Sourcery.

Rincewind wakes in a strange place, having been summoned by the 13-year-old demonologist, Eric Thursley, who wants the mastery of all kingdoms, to meet the most beautiful woman who ever existed, and to live forever. He is disappointed when Rincewind tells him he is unable to deliver any of these things, and embarrassed when Rincewind sees through his disguise. Rincewind is disheartened to learn that the spells to confine the demon summoned are working on him; Eric's parrot tells him that because he was summoned as a demon, he is subject to the same terms.

 

The arrival of Rincewind's Luggage causes Eric to suspect deceit on Rincewind's part. Eric's demands are renewed; he makes three wishes of Rincewind. Rincewind insists he cannot grant wishes with the snap of a finger, and discovers to his horror that snapping his fingers really does work.

Mayhem ensues with much parody of much classical literature, finally resulting in Eric reversing his summoning of Rincewind and their descent into hell where they meet, confuse and escape from the Demon King, Astfgl.

Adaptations: None known

  

Favourite Quotes:
No enemies had ever taken Ankh-Morpock. Well technically they had, quite often; the city welcomed free-spending barbarian invaders, but somehow the puzzled raiders found, after a few days, that they didn't own their horses any more, and within a couple of months they were just another minority group with its own graffiti and food shops

"Multiple exclamation marks," he went on, shaking his head, "are a sure sign of a diseased mind."

Reading Time: Started Wednesday 22nd April 2015 - Finished Sunday 26th April 2015

Crafty Catz DT - Things With Wings

Morning all, Wow! where has this week gone? I've barely managed to keep on top of the general day to day stuff, let alone really sit down and blog - I promise I will do the cruise blog soon though! In the meantime the Discworld reading challenge is going well and I'm still encouraging fellow Pratchett lovers to share their favourite books and quotes

Now, on to this weeks challenge, which has been set by Nick and she wants to see you make a card which encompasses the theme Things with Wings we are sponsored this week by

Inky Impressions

$10 Gift Voucher

Crafty Ribbons

So here's my card this week - sadly the printer went out of ink and the new cartridges didn't arrive in time to use a sponsor image but I went with this instead

The sunflower die is sizzix and the petals are all dusted with sahara sand and thatched straw versamagic. The butterfly is from Memory Die and dusted with shabby shutter and indigo blue Tim Holtz inks. The leaf die was sent to me to play with and I'm not sure of the make.

 

A quick, simple card this week but I hope you like it non the less. Thanks for stopping by and don't forget to join in the fun at Crafty Catz. Until next time, happy crafting.  

Guards! Guards! - Discworld Reading Challenge

Published: 1989

Plot Summery: The story follows a plot by a secret brotherhood, the Unique and Supreme Lodge of the Elucidated Brethren of the Ebon Night, to overthrow the Patrician of Ankh-Morpork and install a puppet king, under the control of the Supreme Grand Master. Using a stolen magic book, they summon a dragon to strike fear into the people of Ankh-Morpork.

Once a suitable state of terror and panic has been created, the Supreme Grand Master proposes to put forth an "heir" to the throne, who will slay the dragon and rid the city of tyranny. It is the task of the Night Watch – Captain Vimes, Sergeant Colon, Corporal Nobbs, and new volunteer Carrot Ironfoundersson – to stop them, with some help from the Librarian of the Unseen University, an orangutan trying to get the stolen book back.

The Patriarch ends up in Prison, the Watch gets a dragon of its own and a Dragon becomes king. So just another day on the Disc then.

 

Adaptations: This book has to be one of the most adapted of all the Discworld novels. It has been a 6-episode serial on BBC Radio 4 ; a stage play for the amateur stage scripted by Stephen Briggs (the script later published in book form 1997); a professional stage play scripted by Geoffrey Cush, a Graphic novel drawn by Graham Higgins and based on Briggs' script; an audio play presented live at Dragon*Con in 2001; a video game loosely based on the plot of the book, with Rincewind substituted for Sam Vimes and a Board Game - including 90 Discworld character illustrations drawn by Stephen Player and respective text quotes from over twenty Discworld novels.

  

Favourite Quotes: A good bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read.

All dwarfs have beards and wear up to twelve layers of clothing. Gender is more or less optional.

Thunder rolled. ... It rolled a six.

A number of religions in Ankh-Morpork still practiced human sacrifice, except that they didn't really need to practice any more because they had got so good at it.

Reading Time: Started Saturday 18th April - Finished Tuesday 21st April 2015