Happy 30th Birthday

Good afternoon and Happy New Year's Eve! 

Wow! where has Christmas gone - I can't believe that Christmas came and went as quickly as it did - I hope you all had a wonderful day with family and friends. Well it's the end of 2015 - wow!  and I'm finishing with a Birthday card.

So many of my friends turned 30 this year so I've been making more than a few of these and I'm already preparing next years! 

Much like the other 30th cards I did earlier in the year, the card has a number of facts from the year my friend was born but I also added the meaning of her name to this one. 

It's a great card to use up scraps of paper too. I would like to enter this into the following challenges

Crafting from the Heart - Anything Goes
Simply Papercraft - Anything Goes

Have a great New Years Eve and blessings to you all for 2016. Until next time - happy crafting! 

Crafty Catz DT - Sparkle and Shine

Hello and welcome to the final challenge of Crafty Catz 2015! 

I'm delighted to say that this week's challenge is my theme and I want to see cards with lots of Sparkle and Shine. 

After the mass production of Christmas cards it was nice to get back to something CAS this week

So I used the cute LOTV image which just screams glitter to me. I coloured it with Promarkers in Blush, Eggnog, Gold, Saffron, Polar Blue, Cool Aqua, Frosted Leaf, Icicle, Duck Egg and used the glorious gold hot pressed paper in the back. The butterflies are memory box and lots of stickles to make it all shine. 

So there we have it. Last challenge of the year and a reason to get the glitter out. Hope you can join us and we look forward to seeing you over at the blog.

Until next time, happy crafting

Crafty Catz Dt - Let It Snow

Evening All!

Not sure why I failed to set the time correctly for this to go live this morning, so sorry about that, but better late than never hey?!

So it's Friday and another new challenge over at Crafty Catz Challenges this week. Our theme has been set by the lovely Jac who wants to see cards on the theme of Let It Snow. We are sponsored this week by Crafty Sentiments who are offering our lucky winner 3 digi images of their choice. 

My card this week features an image From the Heart called In the Meadow

I coloured the image with pro-markers and then masked the image and dusted the background with Tim Holtz ink. I double mounted it onto black card and then layered it onto a hand cut piece of vellum which I embossed using a sizzix folder. 

So there we have it - this years alternative Christmas Cards. I hope you like it and don't forget to see the other fab cards by the girls over on the challenge blog. 

Until next time, happy crafting

Crafty Catz DT - Masculine

Hey Guys

Here's to another Friday and the end of another exhausting week. It is the season to be manic! or something like that anyway. It's new challenge time at Crafty Catz and our theme this week has been set by Christine who wants to see Masculine cards. Our sponsor is Fred She Said who are giving our lucky winners a $15 Gift Voucher

Well I'm not sure my creation is masculine per say but it is for a male friend:

I used a fabulous image by From The Heart Digi stamps called Birthday Candle. I coloured it with Promarkers: Buttercup, Mustard, Gold, Ruby, Maroon, Cool Aqua, Duck Egg and Cool Grey 1 and used Distress Inks: Vintage Photo and Wild Honey and the papers are Life of the Party by Basic Grey. I finished it with some pips from stash and there you go! 

I hope you like it and don't forget to swing by the blog to see everyone and their fabulous creations. Until next time though - happy crafting! 

Crafty Catz DT - Shades of Blue

Morning all,

Isn't the year running away with us? Before we know it Christmas will be here - eek! Well, the end of another working week means another challenge at Crafty Catz. This weeks theme is set by the lovely Dianne and is Shades of Blue. We are sponsored by the fab team at Bugaboo Stamps, who are always so generous and are offering our lucky winner 7 images of their choice

I'm on a simple streak with my cards at the moment - partly because of time constraints and partly because I struggle with elaborate cards unless I have lots of time to think about them in advance. So here's to another simple card.

I tried to make the image look a bit like a snowglobe, without all the sprinkles (I don't have any, so couldn't make a shaker card)

The image is coloured with promarkers in: Poppy, Pumpkin, Gold, Spice, Sandstone,  Cinnamon, Cool Grey 1, Pear Green, Sky Blue, Blue Pearl, Royal Blue and China Blue

The paper and silver card are from my stash and the circles were cut with my trusty Lifestyle Crafts dies. I finished the image with Stickles Stardust. 

So there you go. My card for the week. The girls have created some amazing cards so do swing by and see them at the blog. Until next time though - happy crafting! 

Crafty Catz DT - Girls Only

Morning all,

Where did the week go?! I know it's been because I'm exhausted but I'm not sure where it went..... anyway, it is Friday (right?) so that means a new challenge at Crafty Catz and this weeks challenge is set by the lovely Anna who is challenging you to make a Girls Only card. We are sponsored this week by Stamping Boutique who are offering our lucky winner 3 images of their choice

I went with a simple card this week

The image is, as normal, coloured with Promarkers: Blossom, Blush, Oatmeal, Gold, Amethyst, Lavender, Burgundy, Maroon, Plum, Honeycomb and Spice

The papers are from a gorgeous pad - which I've lost both the front and back to so I can't remember who it's by - sorry. All the papers are from the same pad and I used the scraps of one paper to create the bottom scallop and free hand drew and cut the crown

Bot much to say - the papers are all shimmery so perfect for a girly card. 

Hope you like it - don't forget to pop by the challenge blog to see everyone else's! 

Until next time, happy crafting! 

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!