Pandaversary

(Catchupmageddon Post). Always love an excuse to use the Little Panda Agenda set from Mama Elephant! Defo one of my fav sets from 2019! ( I got mine from Dies to Die For if you are interested.) 

One of my friends asked me to make a small set of cards to celebrate her 30 year friendaversary with her two besties.

I actually found doing something this CAS, and this clean, pretty difficult! I perhaps had approx ten attempts, even the tiniest smudge looked HUGE on such a CAS card, so had to keep starting again from scratch.

My friend chose some text to print inside the card too. I actually ended up with three of the cards so she could keep one for herself as well. 

Font is Courier New. I heat embossed the pandas using clear embossing powder immediately after stamping. I created a complete layout for the A6 card including the text, so it was a one layer card. (I left a gap for stamping the pandas).

Cactusness.

It's a bit of a cactus themed post today. I want to share with you a link to my friend Olga's new wordpress blog where she has very kindly uploaded a fab "Cacti and succulents" image that you can colour yourself! It's awesome! Please pop by and have a look at her new blog!

Prior to her posting that I had been on the hunt for some Cactus stamps! After a lot of looking at the huge choice of cactus/succulent stamps out there at the moment, I decided on the Hunkydory, For the Love of Stamps, Prickly Plants set! I love it :) Made this card for one of my besties. The "Luvyoo" is a long standing joke, I'm not sure any explanation will make sense!

One of the craft mags had a similar idea to this and I've had a look online but can't find who to credit the idea with but shall declare this as "inspired" by someone else's work.

I also got a chance to use some cute stickers and washi tape I have collected on the inside. The washi tape was from Hobbycraft and the stickers were cheapy ones from The Range.

I coloured the images with copics. I printed and stamped the greeting onto vellum.

Minion Kitties

Made some actual Minion Kitties (A bit like the Knitty Kitty Facebook Group Freebie) as catnip toys for my friend Helen who has just had two new cats! Oscar and Maisey :) I am pleased to report that Oscar already approves of them and so they were definitely worth sewing! :)

Bit of fellow Blogger News!

KT FitKitty has kindly organised some celebration giveaway candy for her "400 followers, 3 years blogging - Blogaversary!" and she would love you to take part. If you click the kitty picture, it will take you over to the blog post with all the details on how to join, it's not hard, even I can do it. 

It's worth signing up regardless of the candy, she has a great blog which she regularly updates and makes some awesome projects. (She's on the Knitty Kitty Digi Design Team too, so that's a double whammy bonus!)

Join usssssss. Follow the link! :)

Hero Arts Stamps :)

I admit, more evidence of me hoarding stamps and not using them!! This is a lovely stamp from Hero Arts called "Friends" (CG111) and I've had it ages, but never played with it. I tried it several ways and this turned out the nicest, but I think it deserves some more fiddling with. In the background I have used a couple of stamps also from Hero Arts from a set called "Brush Strokes" (AC026) and distress inks.(Seedless Preserves, Shaded Lilac and Worn Lipstick) I was going for a one layer card but ended up decoupaging the flowers and colouring them with copics and then added a bit of bling too. Shhhh,, I just can't help myself ;)