A new Priest of the Church

Afternoon all, 

Just a quick card to share with you all today. Summer means lots of Ordinations to the church and as I have the privilege to know a number of Priests to be through the course of their training, I'm also blessed to get invitations to attend their ordinations also. 

I try to make every card unique to the Priest and this year, this was my card. The design isn't mine - it's from an embroidery pattern by Mary Corbet over at needleandtread. The design was printed onto heavy weight watercolour paper and layered. The image was coloured with my really old windsor and newton travel watercolour pallet. 

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:

My Creative Scoop/ Colour Inspiration - Anything Goes 

Cards und More - Anything Goes

Lemon Shortbread - Anything Goes 

The Craftroom Door - Anything Goes 

Until next time, happy crafting! 

Crafty Catz DT - Anything Goes with twist of Anything but a Card

Good Morning! 

Well today marks the last challenge for Crafty Catz for a month whilst the team take a short summer vacation. It is also my last challenge as a Design Team member. I've had an amazing few years with the team and I can't thank my fellow DT members enough for all their support and kindness but it's time to step down and let someone else out there share their talents. 

With that being said, this weeks challenge is - as always - Anything Goes with the optional twist of making Anything but a card. We are sponsored this week by the fabulous team over at Crafty Ribbons and they are offering our lucky winner a £10 voucher to the store

My final project this week is a cross stitched baby sampler. 

So that's it for me as a DT member but not goodbye for good. Until next time though - happy crafting! 

Crafty Catz DT - Anything Goes with Twist of Party Time

    

Morning all

We'll here's to the end of another week - where's the year going. Well Friday means only one thing, a new challenge at Crafty Catz. This weeks challenge is, as always Anything Goes but our optional twist is Party Time. We are sponsored this week by Melonheadz who are offering our lucky winner a bundle pack of their choice from the shop.

Melonheadz do brilliant pre-coloured images ready for you to print and use as you like. My card this week uses one such pack

This card's self explanatory so i'll sign off here and say happy crafting!

Crafty Catz DT - Anything Goes with twist of Ice Cream

Happy Friday! 

Here's to end of another week and a new challenge at Crafty Catz Challenges. Our theme this week is, as always, Anything Goes but our optional twist is Ice Cream be it colours, images or whatever ice cream means to you. 

We are sponsored this week by Bugaboo Stamps and they are offering our lucky winner 4 images of their choice. 

My card this week uses their cute ice cream cone digi

I shrunk the digi and copied it to create a repeat background paper which I coloured with whisper pens in the colours that remind me of ice creams from when I was a kid (and last week...... ) I topped the card with a computer generated sentiment, some coordinating summertime papers and finished it stickles. 

That's it for this week. Until next time, happy crafting! 

Crafty Catz DT - Anything Goes with Lace

Morning all

Here's to the end of another week. Hope it's been a good one - for our American Crafting friends - belated Happy 4th July.

Our challenge this week at Crafty Catz is - as always - Anything Goes, but this weeks optional twist is to Add Lace. 

I coloured the image using promarkers: Pastel Pink, Red, Ruby,Burnt Orange, Terracotta, Henna, Pumpkin, Apricot, Gold and Moss. The papers are from Craft Asylum, the Flowers and lace are from stash.

That's it this week, hope you like it and until next time - happy crafting! 

Crafty Catz DT - Anything Goes with optional twist of Embossing

Morning all

Hope you've all had a good week. This weeks challenge over at Crafty Catz is Anything Goes with the optional twist of Embossing. We are sponsored this week by Digital Papercraft who are offering our winner 3 images. 

My card this week was for Father's Day which was a couple of weekends ago now. 

I hope the close up images are better at showing the embossing for you all. The card is embossed with a Sizzix folder and the stars cut out using Sizzix Dies. The card base is bronze card and I mounted the embossed panel on that then added foam squares behind the smaller star and added the word Dad in the same bronze card and connected the whole card by putting stardust stickles on the smaller star and bronze stickles on the embossed base. I edge the whole card with black pen. 

That's it this week. Hope you all have a good weekend. Until next time, happy crafting! 

Crafty Catz DT - Anything Goes with Twist of Baby

Good Morning All, 

Are you enjoying the weather? everyone's craft rooms suitable for baking bread more than being creative? oh good! lol! don't get me wrong, I actually like the heat but sleeping? not really happening so I'm getting grouchy now.

Anyway, the end of the week means a new challenge and this week it's my turn to host and as always we have Anything Goes but the added twist if you want to play along is Baby 

We are sponsored this week by Di's Digi Stamps and they are offering our lucky winner a $12 voucher

The images I used this week are from Emily Peterson and can be found here

I coloured the images in promarkers - Cool Grey 1 and 2, Ruby, Red, Apple, Lime Green, Honeycomb, Pumpkin, Gold and Canary. 

All the papers are scraps and the die is one I found on ebay - not sure of the maker. I edged everything in Wink of Steller Glitter or White Gel and staggered the images using glue and foam pads

Hope you like it, until next time, happy crafting!