He asked, she said....

Good Evening,

 

Well for those of you who have already seen this on the Crafty Catz blog this morning, here it is in detail.

 

This is a card I made in January, shortly after Aunty Sue set her challenge. The reason I made it however, was entirely different - this is the engagement card I made for my Brother! :D excited much?! oh yes I was.

 

Mathew (yes it only has one T - I can spell my brothers name) proposed to Cheryl in Canada, where they were on holiday, snowboarding. She's crazy enough to say yes and join the mad band that is my family and this is what I made for them to celebrate the occasion.

I found the outline for the heart online and whilst it is meant to be for a die-cutting machine (which I don't have) I could open the file in Photoshop and print the outline onto plain white card, which I then hand cut to create the filigree work.

 

I dusted everything in pastel pink Versa magic ink and dusted the edge of the base card in rose pink. I then went to my handy stash of pre-punched flowers and butterflies and dusted the flowers in rose pink and covered the butterflies in stickles.

 

Some of the flowers are raised on foam pads and the whole thing is finished with pastel pink pearls and some crystal gems.

 

I have to say I was thrilled with the result and they loved it too which is good news.

 

So there you have it, thanks for stopping by and until next time, happy crafting x

Crafty Catz DT - Love is in the Air

Good Morning everyone!

 

I hope you're all keeping well and looking forward to the weekend. It's once again time for a new challenge over at Crafty Catz and this week's theme has been set by the lovely Aunty Sue, who has set the theme of Love is in the Air with Valentines almost upon us. So the rules are simple, your card must feature a heart on it somewhere.

 

We are sponsored this week by the lovely Kenny K who is offering our lucky winner 5 digi's of their choice from the shop

Well, I'm not one for really celebrating valentines day but when I was given the choice of which image I wanted to play with I fell in love with Jeannie as I had an instant vision of the project I wanted to do. And here it is: 

I had great fun making this project as I decided it was the perfect excuse to mess with a couple of techniques I've never attempted before - like resist embossing. I also wanted to try and make the front of the card looks something like a journaling page. I'm not sure I achieved that but I do like the final effect.

 

For this project I used Cores card in Magenta cut 14.5cm tall and the full run of the card (it was an offcut from a previous project - no serious thought given to the size). I scored it in three and then took off a couple of millimetres from the far right edge so that when it folded, the card would lay flat. I dusted the edges with Versa color ink in Peony and left it to try. In the meantime I cut the next layer of card from a bluey-purple cardstock that I had, which was made from recycled materials And then finally I cut the white cardstock to the required size.

 

I then stamped hearts (Cambridge daisy stamps) all over the white card and covered it with white embossing powder and set them. I then used Versa Color ink in Amethyst to go all over the card to create (I hope) a mottled effect and then cleaned off the excess ink from the embossed areas with some tissue.

 

Whilst the ink was drying I added a ribbon tie to the front and the first fold of the card (the third section being tucked inside) and printed off the text I wanted for the front and coloured in the image. I used Versamagic Sea breeze over the text and promarkers in the following colours for the image: ivory, blush, dusky pink, gold, burnt orange, terracotta, amethyst, duck egg and cool aqua.

 

I mounted everything up - finished the text off with a light covering of stickles startdust (not very clear on the picture) and printed off three wish cards for the inner pockets. The cards are left blank to be filled in in due course by either the recipient or the giver.

 

So that's it. I hope you like it. For those of you who have come from Crafty Catz blog you may be wondering where the other project is, if you pop back later I'll share that with you this evening.

 

Until then, happy crafting!

Crafty Catz DT Call

CRAFTY CATZ is having a DT CALL

we are looking for a few new DT members for the Crafty Catz blog!!!

and it could be 

YOU !!!

Our  fab team are friendly, who love to chit chat and have a laugh

and love cardmaking and if this sounds like you too, we would love to hear from you

 You also get to use some  digi  images from many of our fab sponsors.

In return all you have to do is:

Leave our lovely followers a little message every challenge

Make a card / creation every week.

Choose a challenge theme and write up the post for that week.

Does this sound like something you would be interested in?

 

All you have to do is show us your Creative Side, 

share with us a recent creation which best shows us your style.

You might already be on a DT or never been on one before, it doesn't really matter. 

 

Please leave a comment and a link to your blog on the Crafty Catz website

The  DT call will close at 8pm  Friday 22nd Feb.

GOOD LUCK

Crafty Catz DT Card - Anything but Square

Good Morning!

 

Do we all have that Friday feeling?! are we all looking forward to the weekend? I know I am - it means I can have a lie in lol!

 

But before then, we have another fabulous challenge over at Crafty Catz. This week's theme is set by the lovely Janette, who would like to see you make anything but a square card

 

We are sponsored this week by Crafty Ribbons, who are offering our lucky winner:

I'm seriously jealous - my favourite colours! aren't they lush?

 

So I thought for this weeks card I'd go a little bit wacky and  be inspired by my all time favourite beverage; tea!



I simple did a quick google search for a teacup template that I liked and then printed it out onto plain white cardstock. I lined the inside of the card with a pale pink patterned paper that I had left from a wedding scrapbook kit. I covered the front of the card with a cream card and then cute the main body of the cup from some really old 12x12 paper in pale purple with a fabulous flower pattern on it.

 

I created a half floret using the same pattern paper, but used the other side so that it stood out against it's background and finished the centre off with a candy pip. I printed the sentiment on the same cream card and then used a scrap of pink paper to lift it. I then dug out my box of pre cut shapes (from past projects) and added some MS punched butterflies and covered them in stickles.

 

I then edged the handle and base with a thin green pen and added some flowers from stash (from all my white on white projects) which are punched using woodware punches and then embossed using the cuttlebug flourish folder. I dusted them lightly with pastel pink chalk in and finished them off with some leaves from the same stash, previously cut using cuttlekids dies and added pearls to their centres.

 

So there we have it, my anything but square card :)

 

I would like to also enter this into Simon Say's Challenge this week, Anything Goes.

 

Until next time, happy crafting!

Smash* Time!

Afternoon all,

 

So what feel's like an age ago I showed you the front page of my Smash* folio for the Baltic Highlights cruise I went on last July. Well I've been stockpiling bits and pieces to compile the rest of the folio but the biggest problem I had came to getting the photo's printed in the sizes I wanted. I really struggled to get the full range of image sizes I wanted to do the layouts and several attempts failed and various online companies also didn't do what I wanted but I have finally found a company that prints 'collage' style images so I can have a 10x8 print which is compiled of pictures in any range of sizes I want and can be slotted together in a number of format.

 

Having waited patiently for them to be delivered and having been delayed due to the snow, I have finally compiled and completed the first three pages of my Smash* folio and wanted to share them with you. I'd love your feedback and any idea's for layouts or accessories. I want to keep it fairly CAS, as that's my kind of thing but any thoughts would be greatly appreciated.

 

So without further ado:

 

Until next time! Happy Crafting!

Crafty Catz DT Card - Cute as a Button

Good morning lovely makers and creators,

 

Friday is upon us once again and with it, a new challenge over at Crafty Catz. This week's challenge has been set by the lovely Dianne who would like to see you make something 'As cute as a button'. Nice and simple - just use a cute image and make sure you used buttons on your creation.

 

We are sponsored this week by Paper Shelter and Digital Delights.

 



 

 

For this weeks challenge I decided to use an old Mojo Monday Sketch from 2012 to create this:

I used this sweet image which is called Happy Birthday to Me and coloured him in with my beloved promarkers in the following colours; poppy, canary, saffron, gold, pear green, sky blue, lime zest, ivory, caramel, dusky rose, blush, cinnamon and cool aqua.

I decided to decoupage him slightly - only 4 layers in total and then I used up bits of paper from K&Co Citrronella Pad, My Minds Eye - Pretty Please Spring Collection and Papermania mixed sentiment stack.

The whole thing was finished off with corresponding plain papers and some buttons.

That's it for this week. Do pop over to the blog and see the fabulous creations by the rest of the team and until next time, happy crafting!

Live Life Beautifully

Morning all,

How is everyone? I hope you're all keeping warm and safe - to anyone whose been suffering from the snow, I hope you're life hasn't been too disrupted. I have to admit I love the snow and as I walk everywhere anyway it's not been too much of a pain - I just dug out the walking boots :)

Anyway, enough of this rambling. Today's card is a just because - mainly because I wanted to practice colouring hair and I find that the delicious Saturated Canary images are perfect for this.

I settled on the beautiful Rose Red (mainly because I have yet to use her in a project) and set about trying to get some depth and tone in her hair - I'm relatively pleased with how it turned out. It actually has more range and depth in reality but the light levels when I photographed it were awful!

I then decided to keep the colour palate as simple as I could and used lots of blues- which isn't my usual go to choice. I layered the image on plain blue card stock and settled on a beautiful background from Bunny Zoe and a sentiment from the same collection. Some blue ribbon a couple of silver pips and a couple of circles covered in glitter finished the layout.

I used the following Promarkers: burnt orange, terracotta, spice, apricot, ivory, blush, pastel pink, moss, duck egg, cool aqua, sky blue, pastel blue, henna, caramel, cinnamon and gold.

I would like to enter this into the following challenges:
Everybody Art - Girls
Creative Inspiration - One for the girls
Saturated Canary - Movie Inspiration (Cinderella)
Stampin for the Weekend - Something girlie
Dream Valley - Girls, Girls, Girls
Sketch Saturday- 













That's it for me today, until next time, happy crafting!