Crafty Catz DT - Anything Goes with twist of CAS

Good Morning and welcome to another Friday Challenge at Crafty Catz. 

This week's challenge is, as always, Anything Goes but our optional twist is Clean and Simple - we are sponsored this week by Digital Papercraft who are offering our winner 3 images from their shop

My card this week features heat embossing and watercolours. I've always loved messing with watercolours but rarely do I mix the medias and use it on a card, but I thought it would make a really nice change to use my Stamping Up flowers to make a floral design for mother's day. I used a really old stamp for the sentiment (so old the label has come off and I have no idea who made it) and matted everything onto hammered cream and blue card stock from paperbox.

I hope you like the final effect. 

Until next time, happy crafting!

Crafty Catz DT - Anything Goes with the Twist of Numbers

Morning all

Well I hope you all had an egg-celent easter weekend! (sorry bad puns end here) and for those of you back at work, the week hasn't been too bad. I always find that the days after a long weekend seem harder. 

Anyway, this weeks challenge is, as always, Anything Goes with the optional twist of including a number in the design. We are sponsored this week is Melon Headz  who are offering our lucky winner 1 bundle pack of their choice from the shop

The image is coloured in the following promarkers - Blush, Lime Zest, Lime Green, Gold, Red, Blue Pearl, Sky Blue, Duck Egg, Apricot, Spice and Honeycomb. 

The papers are from stash and the sentiment is computer generated. The numbers were stamped using Tim Holtz mini distress inks and cut out with a rangers die 

That's it for this week. Hope you all like the card. Until next time, happy crafting

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!