Crafty Catz DT - Anything Goes

Morning all,

Here's to the end of another week. Anyone else want to sleep the weekend away? well, before we get to that possibility we need to launch the new Crafty Catz Challenge. This weeks theme is Anything Goes and we are sponsored once again by Bugaboo Stamps who are offering our lucky winner 7 images of their choice. 

My project is not a card this week but rather a review of an ongoing charity project that I've been working on. 

In May I entered a draw to win some slight second, glass baubles from a local bead company Spellbound Beads. As it turned out, I was gifted 40 baubles in various sizes, free of charge, with the understanding that they were used for either a community project or for fundraising. 

As a Church we do a lot of work with communities in Malawi, sponsoring schools, hospitals and helping local girls learn skills so that they can earn money and be independent. Twice a year we send containers full of clothing, books etc to our projects. The money I raise will be to support these projects. 

So here are just some of the many beaded bauble projects I've been working on. I've used my personal stash of beads and some which have been donated by a friend. I'm hoping to sell them at a coffee and cake event in November.

Anyway, a bit different this week, but hope you enjoyed it. Don't forget to swing by the blog to see the other amazing projects. Until next time though, happy crafting. 

Crafty Catz DT - Embossing

Morning all

Another Friday, another challenge over at Crafty Catz. This weeks theme has been set by Cindy and she wants to see you use Embossing on your card. We are sponsored this week by KennyK and our lucky winner will receive 5 images of their choice. 

 

I went for wet embossing and embossed both the polaroid frame with glitter powder (sorry it doesn't show up too well) and a piece of acetate with silver powder to create a film strip. I used odd papers from various packs and finished it with a couple of tickets and tags I had lying around. I used promarkers to colour the image in Apricot, Blush, Ivory, Cinnamon, Henna, Apple Green, Forest Green, Light Grey 1 and Gold. 

I was going for a vintage vibe so I hope you like it. 

Until next time, happy crafting!  

Crafty Catz DT - Fantasy/Fairy

 

Morning all, 

Here's to the end of another week - it's been a trying one, not least because of the stupid cold I'm suffering with. Got to love to hate this time of year. 

Anyway, Friday morning means a new challenge at Crafty Catz and this week its my theme and I would like to see Fantasy or Fairy inspired cards. We are sponsored this week by Morgan's Art World who are kindly offering our lucky winner a  3 images of their choice

The image I used on my card this week is called Gerient and Enid.

My card this week is inspired by my love of reading and the books are all scraps of paper, I created a book with the digi and made it stand up from the page, I manipulated it in photoshop so that it was at an angle. The image is coloured with distress inks and promarkers.

I printed one of my all time favourite Pratchett quotes out onto velum to finish the design. It's the perfect sentiment about Fantasy - "So you're saying humans need fantasies to make life bearable?" "No, humans need fantasy to BE human" - too right! 

I hope you like the design, it was fun to make, more like a journal page really but it was an idea that wouldn't leave me alone. I quite like how it turned out, even if it is quite muted in colour. 

Anyway, I look forward to seeing what you create. Until next time, happy crafting! 

Crafty Catz DT - Men at Work

Morning all,

Here's to another Friday and another challenge at Crafty Catz. This weeks theme is set by Jac and she wants to see cards with Men at Work as the central theme. We are sponsored this week by Bunny Zoe crafts

My card this week uses as fabulous image from Mo's Digital Pencil called The Engineer. I'm not sure it's work as such, more fun but hey! 

The image is just so wonderful that I kept it as the focal point with little embellishment. I coloured the image using promarkers in Ivory, Blush, Poppy, Red, Maroon, Slate, Moss, Pear Green, Apple Green, Cinnamon, Pale Blue and Sky Blue. I double mounted on silver and then black and finished with blue pips. 

So there you go, clean and simple and I hope you like it. Until next time though, happy crafting! 

Crafty Catz DT - Special Occasions

Morning all

Well here we are at the end of another week. My free time has shrunk as the new term of events have stared back, so between 2 choirs and Yoga my nights are spent stretching and straining various parts of my body from my vocal cords to my spinal cord. The only downside is the cold nights that come with this time of year and sometimes the lure of the blanket and sofa are so tempting!

I've also been busy reading and I'm well on schedule to finish my discworld challenge on time - but I did take a small detour to read the new Millennium title - The Girl In the Spiders Web.

Anyway, on to this weeks card challenge which has been set by Christine and she wants to see cards for Special Occasions. We are sponsored this week by Bugaboo stamps, who are offering our lucky winner 7 images of their choice:

I've not used a sponsor image this week as I needed to make a 30th Birthday card, so I thought I'd share that with you instead. 

I know there are loads of these types of cards around but I always thought they were kind of fun, so I did some research, chose my favourite facts and printed them up in different fonts on the computer. I coloured white card stock with various inks in my collection, heat set them dry and then printed a number of facts in each colour before mixing and matching to get to the final layout. I matted black card onto the base and raised everything on foam pads.

So there you go. My friend loved her card and I have to say I really enjoyed making it, so I may make a few more in this style.

Hope to see you over at Crafty Catz this week but until next time, happy crafting.

Crafty Catz DT - Autumn Colours

Morning all,

Another Friday, another challenge over at Crafty Catz. This weeks challenge has been set by Dianne and she wants to see Autumn Colours. We are sponsored this week by Aurora Wings.  

$15 Voucher

My card this week uses lots of scrap papers and buttons from stash. I hand cut all the elements for this card and I have to say, I wouldn't do that again. There is something to be said about the dies which do the work for you! 

Nothing much to explain, just a simple card this week. Until next time though. Happy Crafting! 

Crafty Catz DT - Anything Goes

Morning all,

So I've been a bad blogger and a bad DT member this week as the College kicked off the new year on Tuesday and all I can say is I have had a baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaad week. But you guys don't need to read my moaning so I'll just apologise to anyone who I may have missed this week on commenting. It wasn't intentional, simply circumstance - I'll be better this week - I promise.

So on with this weeks challenge which has been set by the lovely Anna. It's a nice and easy one to ease you back into the School year if you're involved with such things, as it's Anything Goes. We have 2 sponsors this week: Crafty Ribbons and Inky Impressions

$10 Voucher

My card this week is fairly simple, but I wanted to play with some new inks and stamps:

The sentiment is from Digi Stamps 4 Joy. The background was created with a lovely set of stamps from Clearly Besotted that I treated myself too and stamped using Tim Holtz Minis in Victorian Velvet, Dried Marigold, Evergreen Bough, Seedless Preserves and Festive Berries.

I edged the sentiment in Victorian Velvet and then rubbed Victorian Velvet, Evergreen Bough and Festive Berries on card stock to create matching colours to punch out the leaves and flowers using woodware punches. I finished the whole thing with a circle coloured in Dried Marigold, Ribbons from stash, an off cut of paper and some pearls.

So there you go. A bit different for me but I had fun making it nonetheless.

Whatever you get up to this weekend, have a good one and until next time, happy crafting!