The Little Land Of Me: February 2013

Friday, 22 February 2013

Crafty Catz DT - Dies or Punches

Good morning lovely makers and creators,

It's Friday, which means it's time for a new challenge over at Crafty Catz. This weeks challenge has been set by the lovely Beth, who would like you to use your dies and/or punches on your creation this week.

We have two lovely sponsors this week; Crimson Cloud and Digi Stamps 4 Joy who are offering our lucky winners:

3 Packs of Die Cuts

5 Digi's of the Winner's Choice

So for my project this week I decided to put the sentiment at the heart of the card and came up with this:

I began by edging my card base with a white gel pen and then going over the top with stickles stardust. Whilst that was drying I printed and cut the sentiment using spellbinders nestablities, which I edged with colorbox chalk; Blush Rose and then added a light coat of stickles over all of that.

Whilst the stickles dried, I used a couple of sheets of old design papers (no idea what they are, sorry) and did some good old fashioned paper weaving. I mounted that onto some scrap card, just to help it hold its shape whilst I cut it using the largest of my nestie dies. This too was edged with the chalk ink and put to one side.

I then cut three roses using my Marianna dies collection, using the smallest rose, from cream card and once they were assembled I dusted the edges with Blush Rose. Finally I cut out some leaves using my Woodware leaf punch and dusted them with Memento Olive Green Ink to darken them.

Once all the inks and the stickles had dried it was a simple case of assembly. So there we have it. Don't forget to drop by the other girls blogs and see their fab creations.

Until next time, thanks for dropping by and happy crafting!

Friday, 15 February 2013

Crafty Catz DT - Eyes Down, it's Bingo Time

Good Morning fellow Crafters!

How are we all today? It's almost the weekend, yay! just another day to get through until a much needed lie in.

Before that though we have a new challenge over at Crafty Catz and this week the challenge has been set by Me! I would like to see you all playing Bingo with your cards. The rules are simple you can use the following bingo board to use any three squares horizontally, vertically or diagonally to create your card. So as long as the squares touch you're fine, but three random squares i.e. Lace, Flowers and Glitter isn't acceptable.

We have two lovely sponsors this week; Mei Flower Craft and The Stamp Fairy.

So for my card I decided to use the middle run on the bingo board; Buttons, Dies/Punches and Glitter and this is what I created.

I used promarkers in the following colours for the image; lime zest, pear green, lime green, buttercup, gold, mustard, pumpkn, apricot, honeycomb, satin, pastel pink, sandstone, caramel, cinnamon, terracotta, pastel blue, moss and forest green.

I used up oddments of design papers from various pads and cut circles using my woodware 11/2" punch and the smallest of my Nellie Snellen circular dies. I cut the image using my Nestabilities oval set and free cut the rest.

I lined the card first with a white gel pen and then went over the top with stickles stardust. This gives the stickles extra depth on the Kraft card. Finally I finished the designs with odd buttons from my stash.

So there you have it. Don't forget to pop by the other girls blogs for some stunning inspiration and I can't wait to see what you come up with.

Until next time, happy crafting!

Friday, 8 February 2013

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!

Sunday, 3 February 2013

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

Friday, 1 February 2013

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!

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