Crafty Catz DT - Winter

Morning all,

Well I'm back (just about) from my break from blogland. Life got all a bit much recently and it's taken a while to get everything back to even keel..... well, as even as it ever is in my life. So my apologies for having not been round to see you all recently and my thanks to the Crafty Catz girls for picking up the slack while I had a breather. 

So with that said, here's to the new Crafty Catz Challenge. The theme this week is Winter, which has been set by the lovely Sue. We are sponsored this week by Creative Classroom who are offering our lucky winners a chance to sit one of their classes. 

My card this week uses an image from Make it Crafty, which is so detailed I decided to make it the feature and leave the card simple

I layered the image to give it some dimension and coloured it using promarkers in the following colours: Pumpkin, Spice, Burnt Orange, Gold, Sandstone, Henna, Cinnamon, Black, Slate, Cool Grey 1, Warm Grey 1, Midnight Blue, Blue Pearl, Poppy, Burgundy, Plum, Pear Green, Moss and Forest Green,

I finished the card with accents in metallic pens and layered it on black card before mounting it on a base of silver card stock.  

So there you go. Back in the saddle. I hope you like it and don't forget to come and join in the fun. Until next time though, happy crafting! 

Crafty Catz DT - Whimsical Fantasy

Morning all,

 

So here's to the end of another manic week. Last Saturday saw me hit up two shows at the NEC in Birmingham - The Camera Show and Hobbycraft/Creative Stitching - neither of which I was impressed with, but from which I did manage to walk away with what I wanted - well, just about. I don't think I'll be bothering with the Hobbycraft show again - although I was glad to see Magnolia were back after a few years of absence. Anyway, so that was then followed up with a trip to my local haberdashery shop to buy some fabric in order to make some PJ bottoms which are actually long enough - nothing more annoying than having full length trousers flapping 4 inches above your ankle! So at some point before I go on holiday I need get the sewing machine out...... goodness knows when though!

 

Anyway, this weeks theme at Crafty Catz is set by me and I want to see cards which are full of Whimsical Fantasy - so quirky houses which are mushrooms, fairies, pixies etc.

 

We have been sponsored this week by Make it Crafty who are offering our lucky winners a $10 gift certificate

 

So on with my card for the week:

 

Image is coloured with Promarkers: Cinnamon, Terracotta, Burnt Orange, Honeycomb, Henna, Cool Grey 3, Warm Grey 1, Cornflower, Cool Aqua, Buttercup, Moss, Poppy, Burgundy, Maroon, Mulberry. Sentiment is computer generated and card stock is basic coloured textured card stock

 

Clean and simple was my motto. I hope you like it and the theme. Hope you'll come and play this week with us at Crafty Catz.

Crafty Catz DT - Last Minute Christmas

Well here we are - at the last challenge over at Crafty Catz for the year and a fitting challenge it is too!  The theme was set by the lovely Jac and it's Last Minute Christmas.

 

We have two sponsors this week - Kenny K Designs and Make it Crafty

5 images of winners choice

 

$10 Gift Certificate

 

For my card this week I used the fabulous Winter Scene from Make it Crafty:

I printed the image twice on linen card and spliced it three ways so that the image was not only staggered up and down but layered up. I mounted each of the sections onto dark blue card and coloured the image with promarkers - I have to say that doing large areas of a single colour on linen cardstock is not fun - it just absorbs the ink!

 

The ribbon is from Wilko's Christmas gift-wrap range and the button is from stash. I finished the card with some stickles glitter all over the place and white pen to highlight the falling snow.

 

Hope you like it and don't forget to swing by and see the other girl's creations on the blog.

 

Until next time, happy crafting!