Crafty Catz DT - Anything Goes with the Twist of Animals

Morning all,

To those of you celebrating the tridium - have a blessed Good Friday and remember, Sunday is Coming! 

I'm back from my adventures - watch this space, I will do a report and photos for you to see. 

On to the challenge for Crafty Catz which is, as always, Anything Goes but this weeks optional twist is to to include Animals in your creations. 

We are sponsored this week by Crafty Sentiments who are offering our lucky winner 3 digi images 

My card this week features a very cute sloth by Saturated Canary which I coloured with promarkers. The leaves were punched from green paper with a woodware punch and mottled using Tim Holtz distress inks. The background is a free paper from stash and finished with gorgeous enamel arrows and dots from Create a Smile Stamps. 

That's it for this week. Don't forget to visit the other girls and hope to see you taking part. Until next time, happy crafting

Crafty Catz DT - Anything Goes with a twist of Easter

Morning all

Greetings from....... let me think, i'll be somewhere over South Africa I think when this goes live, heading home. 

This weeks challenge for Crafty Catz is my turn to host and ooops! not here, obviously. So a big thanks to Carol and Sue for covering in my absence to make sure it all goes live on time! As always our challenge is Anything Goes and the twist you can add, if you'd like, is to make it an Easter Card

So Easter is kind of a big deal for me, more so even then Christmas. As a Christian it's the chance to start again, face another 12 months renewed, forgiven and hopefully wiser. So with that being said, my card this week is very simply as a reflection of my faith. 

I'm get really bored of square cards but finding shaped cards is really hard (please leave suggestions of online companies that stock anything in packs bigger than 5/6.) so i used by sizzix shaped dies to create this card and the background. I used a nellie snellen die for the circle and the cross is a beautiful die by spellbinders, I used woodware punches for the flowers and leaves and used shimmer paper for everything. The design is finished with a few pearls.

Hope you like it, hope you like the challenge. I'll see you all soon. Until next time, happy crafting! 

Crafty Catz DT - Anything Goes with twist of Metal

Greetings from Malawi! 

Only joking, I am in malawi but this is a scheduled post for the Crafty Catz challenge blog. I hope you're all raring to go on this weeks challenge and my fellow team mates will be round to see you all in my absence. That being said - don't forget to leave me a comment, so I can catch up on my return! 

This weeks challenge which is Anything Goes has the optional twist chosen by Jac of adding Metal to your design.  Our sponsors this week are the guys and girls over at Bugaboo who are offering the winner 4 images of their choice

My card this week has a retro kick as pop-up cards seem to be all the rage again these days so I thought I'd give it a go. 

The image is coloured with promarkers in Sandstone, Caramel, Honeycomb, Spice, Cinnamon, Terracotta, Oatmeal, Dusky Pink, Mustard, Pastel Yellow, Pumpkin, Ruby, Lime Zest, Meadow Green, Lime Green, Cool Grey 3, Duck Egg and Sky Blue

The card is all from stock from Paperbox, the mulicoloured thread is Anchor and the 'Made with Love' charm is from my box.

That's it for this week. Hope you're all going to join in the challenge and i'll see you all soon. Until next time, happy crafting! 

Crafty Catz DT - Anything Goes with twist of Buttons

Morning All! 

Hope you've had a good week. I'm diving straight into this weeks challenge at Crafty Catz which is, as always, Anything Goes but this weeks twist, chosen by Christine, is Buttons. We are sponsored this week by Star Stampz who are offering our lucky winner 3 images from the store

I coloured the image this week with promarkers in Blush, Apricot, Pastel Pink, Terracotta, Burgundy, Spice, Sky Blue, Midnight Blue, Gold, Honeycomb, Mulberry, Red and Cinnamon. I accented using a white gel pen and cut out the image and frame with spellbinders nestabilities. The paper was a scrap in the box and the buttons from stash. 

I hope you like the card this week. Don't forget to swing by the blog and see everyone else creations. Until next time though - happy crafting! 

Crafty Catz DT - Anything Goes with a twist of Pink

Morning all, 

How's everyone doing? anyone else wishes for some warmer weather? The sun may have shone this week but it was far from warm here. 

This weeks challenge at Crafty Catz is, as always, Anything Goes but the added and optional twist this week is to use Pink

We are sponsored this week by Polkadoodles and they are offering our lucky winner a $15 voucher

This sweet image was coloured with promarkers in Cool Grey 3, Warm Grey 3, Lime Green, Blossom, Dusky Rose, Dusky Pink and Pastel Pink and accented with Whisper pens. The paper was Mix and Match Garden Roses and Garden Flowers die-cuts and the sentiment is from a really old pad of paper that was free with a magazine. 

Anyway, I hope you like the card and until next time - happy crafting! 

Crafty Catz DT - Anything Goes with the twist of Mainly Green

Morning all and welcome to the new challenge for Crafty Catz. 

So this weeks theme is - as always - anything goes, but this weeks twist is to keep the card mostly green. We are sponsored this week by Di's Digi's and our lucky winner will recieve a $12 voucher

My image this week is from Dustin Pike and I kept it CAS as it was a note card

The image is coloured with promarkers in Spice, Apricot, Mustard, Canary, Cool Aqua, Apple, Meadow Green and Pear Green. The sentiment is computer generated. The papers are Bo Bunny Back to Basics - Snow Day Stripe and some scrap spotty card. A couple of gems finishes the design. 

I hope you'll join us this week and don't forget to swing by the teams blogs to see their fabulous creations. Until next time, happy crafting. 

Crafty Catz DT - Anything Goes with the twist of Doilies

Hello and welcome to the end of another week! which can only mean one thing - another challenge over at Crafty Catz. 

Our theme is, as always, Anything Goes, but this weeks added twist is add a doily. We are sponsored by Sami Stamps who are offering our lucky winner a $12 voucher

Sami kindly gave us all images to use and I chose Braid in my hair

The image is coloured with promarkers in Ivory, Blush, Honeycomb, Apricot, Spice, Cinnamon, Henna, Burnt Orange, Ruby and Burgundy. 

I used Sizzix dies to cut the shape, used x&o ribbon from stash, copper card and rose print paper from stock and finished it with fabric flowers, a red doily and red gems

I hope you like it. Don't forget to swing by the blog to see the rest of the teams fab creations and until next time, happy crafting