Under the weather!

Card thoroughly inspired by Simonne Clay using her Sugar Pea design's "Whatever the weather"set, which unfortunately I don't have, so we made do! :)

Love the idea of all the weather elements being combined in one image! My version is not as nice as hers but there are some bits I like!

Sun is a freebie stamp from Craft Stamper Magazine, coloured with copics and yellow stickles.
Clouds are from Joy dies.
Rainbow is a die from Daisysjewelsandcrafts.co.uk
Stitched rectangle is from Cottage Cutz. I used distress inks and water flicking to colour it up.
Raindrops are a combo of Nuvo Juwel drops in blue and gems from The Range.

New Haul!

Just wanted to share with you my awesome haul from Crafty Kitty Cat Shop! Super service as normal and am loving my somewhat kitty themed haul! Also had a prize from Fiki's blog - the lovely wedding arch die!  Fiki kindly added some freebies too (That Helen and I shared between us!).

Bunoalas live!

Here for a Knitty Kitty Post! After a bit of a bonkers chat with Lea on Instagram the other day, I was challenged to draw a Bunoala, and here they are! Half bunny, half koala, they sleep for 18 hours a day in carrot trees. :D

To buy them on Etsy Click Here :)

I had a go at colouring them up, and in order to use something other than polychromos (My comfort pencil) I did this in Spectrum Noir pencils. Still on kraft card.

Background paper is from a pad by Kanban called Garden Vistas. Font is Atlas of the Magi. I added some glossy accents to their noses too :)

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Free Floral Digi

This card was made using the free floral digi when you subscribe to email updates from Kit and Clowder (one of the best places for colouring classes, guidance and community).  It's a lovely image and I coloured it up with Copics and added lettering to fit the commissioned request.

Flowers are coloured with copics, there is a layer of decoupage too.  I added diecut circles to the centre (there is a circle in the centre in the original digi too, but slightly smaller). Font is Courier. Pearls from the stash and the background paper is from Tonic Mid Summer Mornings 8x8 pack.

Hedge Pigs!

Commissioned card using one of my fav new stamp sets from My Favourite Things! Set is called Happy Hedgehogs and I am hoping they make people smile!

Hedge pigs are stamped in Momento Ink and coloured with Copics. Card base made with red polka cardstock. Highlights with White Posca Pen.

Looking forward to using more of these chaps soon on cards, I used five to make this card and there are still more in the set! MFT stamps are awesome.

Scottish Wedding!

A wedding card I made for a commission, the theme was Scottish! I was pleased to have a lot of parts left from my Hunkydory Twilight Kingdom kit so used them with some diecuts (The kit has a stag but no doe!) that Helen cut for me.

Ribbon, leaves, flowers and feathers all from the stash.

Gelato messing.

Helen recently donated me a very nice Chocolate Baroque Stamp set that has a GIANT Patchwork butterfly stamp in it. I really want to combo it with Gelato's to make a cool card. This has involved a lot of messing about with Gelatos, and believe me, it's very messy!

Last session I managed to have a few left over trial bits that I thought I could make into a quick birthday card. Because the one gelato is metallic, the sheen made it a bit prettier in real life than the pic. It's not an exceptional card, but not bad from leftover messy bits.

This is the smaller butterfly from the stamp set. To make the background I made a swooshy gelato base, layed a stencil over the top and then with a wet wipe rubbed through stencil. This is still prolly the nicest thing I have found to do with gelatos. We are still awaiting the successful giant butterfly card, it hasn't happened yet! :)

Greeting is from Hero Arts - Message with Flourish, I wish it was straight, argh! :)
Stencil from Creative Expressions - Doodle Squares.
Gems from stash.

Thinking of You.

I kinda like to use up "spares" if possible, and after the last set of Sympathy/thank you cards I made, I had some spare cats!

The cat die I used is "Leabilities Cats", and I had previous created the watercolour paper they were cut from using my Gansai Tambi Watercolours. The frame was made by scanning in a large sheet of watercoloured paper and then using it in Paint Shop Pro to create a border.
The flower jar was a magazine freebie stamp that I coloured up with copics and added stickles and glossy accents. Pretty much a CAS card I think?

Card-io Medley

This is defo the most adventurous Card-io card I have tried, taking inspiration from cards on the brilliant Card-io facebook page, really fab if you want some ideas of things to do!

This is using A LOT of difference sets so I am not going to list them all, but if you have something you would like to know more about, pop me a message and I will let you know which set it is from.

 

 I actually used some of the inks and colours that Card-io recommend for the images in this, as well as distress inks. I love the combo they suggest for the wooden items, pots and even the tortoise. It's Versa Colour Ink in Pinecone and Cocoa. (Luckily Norms had already purchased them!)

 

I added some water (via a wet tissue) to the distress ink background to get a moody cloudy effect. I used some Lawn Fawn Grass diecuts to finish it off at the bottom, looked tidier with something covering it up!
Added flowers from Wild Orchid.
Font is a new fave, October Twilight.

Lucky Neko

Hi all! Just wanted to share with you today the new Knitty Kitty Digistamp - Lucky Neko! I should have made this post on the 8th Aug, which was International Cat Day! Excuse the lateness.

He is not only available in the shop, but you could also win the digi by taking part in the facebook group and sharing which Knitty Kitty digi you like best.

I had a go at colouring him, in my old fav, polychromo pencils on kraft card. Added a bit of stickles to finish and mounted him onto some Tonic Mid Summer Mornings paper and a 7x5 blank.

I tried to stick to a traditional Lucky Cat colour scheme, including the circular gold and black patterns on his arms and legs, it's wasn't very easy to do and I think it'd be fine to ignore traditional in this case, if you are having a go yourself!

Finally a little close up. I think he looks a pretty friendly lucky chap :)