Crafty Catz DT - It's Our Birthday!

 

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO US

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO US

HAPPY BIRTHDAY DEAR CRAFTY CATZ 

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO US

 

Crafty Catz is 5 years old! Wooop! bring on the cake! Now, because it's our birthday we have a really simple theme this week - yes, you've guessed it Birthday Cards.

 

As we're 5 we have 5 lovely sponsors this week giving away lots of lovely goodies to our lucky winners:

 

Delicious Doodles  

4 images of winners choice

 

Crafty Ribbons

 

Marianne designs

A surprise gift 

 

Crafty Sentiments

prize 3 digital images

 

Sami Stamps

12$ gift card to the shop at www.samistamp.blogspot.com (that's equal to 3 images of  choice) to the winner. 

 

Two prizes will be allocated for random org winners and three prizes for the chosen TOP 3

 

So, having got through all of that - on with my card:

The flower image is from Sami Stamps. I've coloured them with promarkers and layered the images. The base card is embossed with a frame (not clear on the picture), which I then edged with a burgundy promarker. The yellow background is versa magic ink in straw. The oval is embossed with Cuttlebug flourish. The sentiment is computer generated and both it and the oval are inked with versa magic in Violet. It's all finished with pearls.

 

So there you go. Hope you like the card and don't forget to come and  join us in our Birthday celebration!

 

Until next time, happy crafting

 

 

Crafty Catz DT - Pretty Women

Good morning everyone - another Friday is here and another week has passed us by. Friday means only one thing - a new challenge at Crafty Catz. This weeks theme was set by the lovely Nick who wants to see cards on the theme of Pretty Women. We are sponsored this week by Kenny K who are offering our lucky winner 5 digi images of their choice.

My card this week uses Jeannie

 

The image is coloured with promarkers in the following colours; Ivory, Blush, Cinnamon, Henna, Ruby, Canary, Gold, Pumpkin, Lime Green, Pear Green, Amethyst and Plum. Papers: Scraps and Basic Grey - Life of the Party. The sentiment is computer generated on basic yellow card. I've dusted the edges with Versa Magic inks in Straw and Sahara Sands. The background of the circle is dusted with Stickles Stardust. Gems and Doily from stash.

 

So there we go - hope you like the card and don't forget to pop over to the challenge blog and see the rest of the girls amazing creations.

Crafty Catz DT - CAS

Good Morning!
Another Friday and another DT card for Crafty Catz. The theme has been set by the lovely Jac and the theme is Clean and Simple. We have two fab sponsors this week - Fitztown and Make it Crafty

3 digi's of winners choice

 

$10 gift voucher

 

Aren't you the lucky ones? So, on with this weeks card. I used an image from Fitztown for my card and made this card for my soon to be sister-in-law's birthday.

 

As always, the flower is coloured with promarkers in the following colours; Blush, Dusky Rose, Blossom, Moss and Pear Green.

 

The DP's are from the Spring Jubilee Pad, which came free with Cardmaking and Papercraft last year. The plain papers are dovecraft colour basics. I used a lace doily and cut a couple of butterflies from another sheet of paper and finished it all off with some pearl gems.

 

So there we go! I hope you like it and don't forget to pop by everyone else's blogs to see their fab creations too.

 

Crafty Catz DT - One for the Boys

Hello everyone! welcome back - I'm been MIA I know, I had meant to share a couple of other projects with you this week but work's been manic and time to sit and blog has been scarce.

 

I hope you'll all forgive me as I'm back with a new challenge card for Crafty Catz and this weeks theme has been set by Christine who would like to see you make One for the Boys. We are sponsored this week by Bugaboo 

7 images of winners choice

 

So we all know Bugaboo do some fab male images and although we were given some to play with, I had to dive into my stash to pull out Deacon Cake who is just perfect for my little cousin's birthday

As always he's coloured with promarkers in the following colours: Blush, Canary, Gold, Mustard, Buttercup, Caramel, Duck Egg, Midnight Blue and Meadow Green

 

I cut him out using sizzix shapelets and edged it with sky blue versamagic ink. The circles are from punches and the paper is all offcuts in stash. The buttons are all stock.

 

I love this layout as its a great one for using up odd bits of paper. I hope you like it though and don't forget to pop along and see the other fab creations by the girls. Until next time though, 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 - Recycle

Morning all,

Another Friday means a new challenge over at Crafty Catz. This weeks theme has been set by Ingrid and she would like to see you Recycle, so any of those things that would normally end up in the bin - try and use them this week.

 

We are sponsored this week by Fred She Said who are offering our winner $15 voucher

 

My project this week is a gift bag.

I had this little brown bag left over from a shopping trip to the famers market the other week and although I know you can buy these for craft projects - I don't. It's not really my kind of thing to do as a normal run of the mill craft project. So I thought this would be perfect for the challenge this week. I mooched for inspiration on Pinterest (I love that site!) and this is my final design:

The papers are left over 12x12 scraps - I don't know which brand they are, though my gut instinct is to say Bunny Zoe. I printed the sentiment on Kraft card, the ribbon is East of India, paper doilies from stash and the butterflies were sent to me by a friend so I'm not too sure which brand they are. I inked up the paper, doilies and the butterflies with sunflower and Sahara sands memento inks.

 

So there you go. It was fairly quick to assemble, although it took me an age to settle on the design. I hope you like it though and don't forget to take part in the challenge and see the swoon worthy projects from the other girls over at Crafty Catz.

 

Until next time. Happy Crafting



Crafty Catz DT - Lazy Days of Summer

Hello one and all!

 

Another Friday this year is shockingly flying by. I'd say I'm stressed by it but actually I don't think I have the energy. Life will take us where it will and it's just about hanging on long enough to enjoy the ride!

 

Anyway, enough of the philosophical musings.....

 

Our challenge this week has been set by Nina who wants to see cards on the theme Lazy days of Summer, we are sponsored this week by Bunny Zoe Crafts.

 

The DT have all had great fun interpreting this challenge in different ways, so be sure to swing by the Blog to see their gorgeous creations. As for me, well I decided to interpret it literally - it's summer and I'm feeling lazy - so summer colours and simple layout.

Everything about this card was already cut, coloured and in the stash ready to go. The image is coloured with promarkers, the background cut at the same time I did another card with this paper - the circle was coloured when I was experimenting with inks/doilies and masking and the ribbon and pips are always on hand.

 

So there you have it. My card this week. Hope you like it and looking forward to seeing you all play along. Until next time though - happy crafting!