Katzelkraft Collage Tag

Hi everyone! It's my day on the Katzelkraft blog today and I have a tag to show today stamped in a collage style with the beautiful stamps from Single Arch, Bois A6, Chapitre A6, KTZ77 Vu d'ici, Cage et Chandelier, Vinci Joconde KTZ64m, I hope you'll pop over there and see what we've all been making :).

The woodgrain stamp that I used isn't that visible in the photograph as I used it on the base layer as a resist with clear ink and then sponged my distress ink background over it. The rest of the stamps have been used collage style with permanent olive green ink. I've added doodling in white pen, dimensional gloss on the birds and letters and gold pen, ribbon and trinkets at the top. 

I'm entering my tag into the Simon Says Stamp and Show Challenge where this week theme is a 'show a word'. My word is 'art' and I've used it stamped and also in the TH Ideology embellishments at the top of the tag. 

Katzelkraft stamps are available exclusively in the UK at The Craft Barn and also direct from France.

Enjoy your day.

TOMIC - challenge # 4

Hi everyone!. It's Monday, so it's a new TOMIC Challenge today with our theme this week being 'Shimmer and Pearls'. There's wonderful inspiration from my DT friends, a gorgeous prize from Magnolia for our randomly picked winner, the chance to be one of our Top 5 entrants and a guest DT spot to be won so we hope you'll join us.

I've stamped the sweet Magnolia Tilda with bird for my flower shaped card and coloured her with markers. I stamped the circle under the image panel with a Magnolia flourish stamp using Distress Ink and all the edges are sponged with Walnut Stain distress ink. I've also added a DooHickey die cut fence, Sizzix Alterations die cuts and some hand dyed seam binding. My shimmer is from Stardust Stickles glitter glue and a spray of Pearl glimmer mist over everything and I have pearls at the corners.

Have a good Monday :)

The Craft Barn - product of the week - Grunge Paper/Board

Hi everyone and I hope you've had a good week! For Product of the week at the Craft Barn blog this week we're showcasing Grunge Paper/Board I've made a sunglasses sliding pouch from grunge paper and as grunge paper is one of my favourite things to work with I enjoyed myself :D! I love the flexibility of it, it's moldable, paint-able, ink-able, die cut-able (is that a word :) and seems to take whatever you put on it beautifully. I did all the things I've just mentioned and I also did some sewing to hold it together. 

My DT friends have come up with some great ideas and beautiful projects so I hope you'll pop over to the blog to see what they've been up to :D.

Materials: Grunge Paper, Eco-Green Paints in Pure Copper and Ocean, Marianne Creatable Die set Open Flowers Trendy, Tando Mask - Sequin Waste, Distress Inks - Broken China, Aged Mahogany, Stormy Sky, Walnut Stain, Studs, waxed cord.

Enjoy your day :).

Sweet sitting Tilda

Hi everyone and I hope you've had a good weekend. A card to show today that I made a while ago for a sweet friend using  Magnolia Sitting Tilda and the friend sentiment stamps. She's coloured with distress inks and the card base is die cut using a GoKreate die. I've used Webster's Pages Hollywood paper, hand dyed ribbon, pearl pen, prima flowers and gems.

Challenge #3 at TOMIC blog has started today so if you're a Magnolia lover I hope you'll join us this week and be in with the chance of a lovely gift from Magnolia or a top five mention :).

Enjoy your day!

The Craft Barn Wishing Well - Embossing Paste

Hi everyone, hope you've all had a good week. The Craft Barn Wishing Well this week is all about embossing pastes and stencils. Lots of lovely inspiration from my design team friends through the week and today there's an explanation of how I made my project so I hope you'll pop over and have a look at what we've all been doing :D.

Materials: Chipboard, Dreamweaver Paste - Glossy White, Distress inks - Broken China, Chipped Sapphire, Forest Moss, Fired Brick,Scattered Straw, Self Adhesive canvas. Tando - Butterflies, Tando Mask - Sequin Waste, Brilliance Ink - white, Grunge PaperKatzelkraft Grillage Stamp, Sizzix alterations dies: Mini Butterflies and hardware, self adhesive gems, Ranger pearl shimmer spray, White Gesso, string, Rub 'n' buff - white, white pen and the end of a round eraser! 

Have a good day!

Katzelkraft - Notebook

Hi everyone! A notebook that I've made to show today for Katzelkraft using stamps KTZ91, KTZ93, KTZ 94 and KTZ96 and which I'm entering into the Simon Says Stamp and Show Challenge which has a theme of distressed/torn edges this week, hopefully distress means sanding and sponging the edges which I've done on the covers using walnut stain distress ink.

The notebook covers  are chipboard covered with card that I stamped on. The front cover image was coloured with copics and pencils and the title is handwritten. The card for the inside and back covers was inked with distress ink, sprayed with perfect pearls and water, sanded and then  sponged around the edges, then glued to the covers. I've painted the covers with a layer of gloss medium to protect them as I'll be keeping the notebook in my handbag. The book was put together with some printer paper cut to size using my binding machine.

Katzelkraft stamps are available exclusively in the UK at the Craft Barn and from Katzelkraft Stamps in France.

Enjoy your day!

The Craft Barn - Simply Saturday

Hi everyone, hope your weekend is off to a good start! We have a new feature starting on the Craft Barn blog today 'Simply Saturday' and we're creating clean and simple cards. We've followed on with the Product of the week which is misters to create our cards and it's great to see the different results from my DT friends with this style of card so I hope you can pop over to the blog  for a peek. 

Materials:

Cosmic Shimmer chalk mister pastel blue
Sizzix Alterations Movers and Shapers mini butterflies die
Katzelkraft KTZ97
Walnut stain distress ink
Sakura blue sparkle gel pen
Woodware butterfly punches
self adhesive gems
Craft Barn white card

Have a lovely weekend :D

The Craft Barn - product of the week - misters

Hi everyone, hope you've had a good week. A card to show today for the Craft Barn Blog and a new bi-weekly feature that we have over there which is 'product of the week'. This week the focus is on misters and every day  wonderful projects using the different brands and also how to make your own. Inspiration projects from my design team friends, I love their ideas.

I tried out the Cosmic Shimmer chalk misters which I've very much enjoyed using for their flat but vibrant colour and Tsukineko Psst! with it's pretty clear sparkle. We've also been using stencils and masks along with the mists and I have the Tando sequin waste mask which I know I'm going to use a lot. Hope you'll pop over to the blog where I also have another project using the misters in a different way and if you haven't been there this week there's lots to catch up on :). 

Materials:
Cosmic Shimmer Chalk Misters - Pastel Orange and Pastel Pink which was spritzed through the mask
GoKreate large frames - plain circles to cut the circular card base and centre panel

Tando mask- sequin waste to mist through

Sizzix alterations movers and shapers magnetic die - Mini Bird and cage set to cut the birdcage and birds

Distress Ink pads: Stormy Sky, Broken China, Chipped Sapphire to ink the background of the card base

Tsukineko Psst! - Sparkle, spritzed onto the birds and bird cage

Tatty's Text stamps

Texere Yarns - Pink

Black pen

Have a lovely Friday!

The Official Magnolia Inspiration Challenge - Grand Opening Challenge

Hi everyone and welcome to the Grand Opening Challenge for The Official Magnolia Inspiration Challenge (TOMIC)!

Myself and many of the Magnolia DT are very excited to be bringing you the new challenge supported by Magnolia Stamps and our first challenge is to honour Pauline, who's birthday is today and who's beautiful Magnolia characters we all love, Happy Birthday Pauline!

Our first challenge theme is Birthday :) and we hope that you'll join us for Challenge #1 and take your chance to receive a lovely prize from Magnolia or to be one of our top five. We hope to be visiting your blog to see your Magnolia creations! 

Craft Barn Wishing Well - Acetate

Hi everyone, it's Part One of this fortnight's Craft Barn wishing well which is all about Acetate and I'm kicking off the week with a die cut and stamped acetate card and a step by step of how to make it. Lots more great ideas to follow tomorrow and Friday from my DT friends and a new challenge also starting on Friday so I hope you can join us.

Products:
Acetate - GoKreate Die set - Large Frames Frilly # 2 - Nestability Circle Dies - Plain and Scallop
Cart Us Stamps -  Birds with branch -  Viva Decor Pearl Pen - Ice White - Paper Roses - Martha Stewart punch - Crafts Too Embossing Folder - Butterflies - Stazon Ink - Cotton White - Distress ink - Vintage Photo, Clear self-adhesive gems
 

Enjoy your day!