A happy new year card

Hello to everyone and I hope you all had a lovely and peaceful time this christmas. A good day was had by all in my house and even some time for a bit of relaxation in between.
Well the next celebration is about to be upon us and I wish all of you a very happy and healthy new year ahead.
I have used a greetings stamp from Inkylicious and a smaller one from Little Claire's for this card.
The papers are from Papermania which I think are really elegant and have an Art deco feel to them. The flower has been stamped and embossed in white onto Vellum and layered several times.

I am entering this card into the following challenges:
Mojo Monday challenge 273 - sketch
Simon Says stamp challenge - Anything Goes
Charisma Cardz challenge #51 - Anything Goes
Crafts 4 Eternity challenge R#104 -1-2-3(1 flower, 2 sentiments, 3 sets of die cut leaves)

Thanks for stopping by and see you soon

x Catherine

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you all

Good morning everyone and are we all ready for the big day now. I am but just need to shift this cold!!!!
I wanted to say thankyou to all my followers and have so enjoyed blogging this year and reading all your comments you have left me. I have really enjoyed visiting you all and seeing all the wonderful talent out there and making so many lovely blogging friends.
This card is one I have made to all of you.

This is my last post now before christmas so I wish you all a very merry christmas and all the best for the new year. Hope you all have a great time and see you again soon

x catherine

With Love at Christmas

Good afternoon all and hope life is not too fast at the moment!! It's getting closer and who is all ready then?
A last minute christmas card for me today and just love this vintage image of these children. Papers are from my stash box and image from Joanna Sheen Enchanted Christmas CD rom.

I am entering this card into the following challenges:
Sketch Saturday challenge # 238- Jen's sketch

Thanks for stopping by and see you soon

x Catherine

Believe

Good evening everyone - yes two posts in one day! I'm promising to try and keep up with myself this week so let's see how I go!!
This card has been made using an image from the Joanna Sheen Enchanted Christmas CD rom and I'm loving using these vintage images of Father Christmas at the moment. I have used a sentiment in the banner from Stampers Anonymous which is a favourite of mine.
I used the sketch from this weeks Sweet Stop sketch challenge:

I am entering this card into the following challenges:
The Sweet Stop challenge SSS189 - sketch with a spin (winter wonderland) 

Right off now to catch up and try finish a few more things on my desk here.There are some cross stitch ornaments needing some attention!!!Hope to show you them soon.
See you again soon

x catherine

Cupcakes Anyone?

Good Monday Morning everyone and this is where it starts to get a bit manic now!!!! I have some poorly people to attend to at home as well- no peace as they say but I love christmas and looking forward to it all.
Today sees my last Guest spot over at Cupcake Crafts challenge blog and it has been such a pleasure to play along with them all this month. Today's challenge is - Cupcakes and the design team have provided some wonderful projects for you to look at. You can pop over here and take a look and join in the fun.
Now I know this is something a bit different for me but there does come the occassions when maybe my style doesn't fit the card needed and something more appropiate is called for.
I do love these mice and I know a certain other person who loves them so much(card intended for that person)so I hope they like it.

Yesterday I won over at Sketchy Colors challenge blog with my Christmas Joy card and so thankyou everyone there for choosing me.

Thanks for stopping by and visiting me and see you soon

x Catherine

Exciting news to share with you all

Hi to everyone and hope you are having a good weekend. Not long to go now to the day and getting busy, busy!!!
Well what is my exciting news then?
Yes I have been chosen to join the wonderful team at Sunday Sketch and Stamp challenge blog and today sees my first time with them. I was so excited to be asked by them as I have joined in with this weekly challenge for a long time and just love the sketches to work with. They have a wonderful team of designers to work alongside.
This weeks challenge sees you pick your own choice of sketch from previous challenges and I have picked this one sketch #78:





 

This week we are sponsored by Crafty Ribbons and they are giving a fantastic prize. There are also some other new DT members to the challenge so please pop over to the challenge blog here and check out what everyone has created this week and join in the fun.

 

Thanks for stopping by today and sharing in my good news. Will be round to visit you all very soon

See you later

x Catherine

 

Christmas Joy

Good afternoon everyone. As I sit here blogging today I am feeling very sorry for myself. Just come back from a trip to the dentist and wisdom tooth extraction. Pain killers at the ready!!
This is another card using the Joanna Sheen Enchanted Christmas CD rom. I just love this traditional image. I have added some stickles glitter to the snow but I am never to keen on too much so just enough for the effect.

I am entering this card into the following challenges:
Sketchy colors challenge# 143 - Sketch(WINNER)
Fab'n'Funky challenges #151 - a vintage christmas(WINNER)
Crafts and Me challenge #114- no blues allowed


Thanks for stopping by today and see you again soon.

x Catherine

Vintage Christmas

Hello to everyone and hope your week is going ok. Feeling a bit cold up here in North Yorkshire!!
This card uses another of the images from the Joanna Sheen Enchanted Christmas CD rom. I love this image as it's such a different colour for me to associate with this image but I love the vintage feel to the image and the colour works so well with it.
The papers are from Papermania and the die cut embellishments are from Marrianne Dies.

I am entering this card into the following challenges:
Sketch Saturday challenge#237 - sketch
The CD Sunday challenge blog- Frosty Days
Joanna Sheen challenge blog - With love at Christmas

Thankyou for stopping by today and visiting me.
See you soon

x catherine

Christmas at Cupcake

Good monday morning everyone and hope you all had a good weekend. Everywhere is starting to get really busy here now in the shops. I'm going to go to York tommorrow and finish some things.
Today I am a guest for my second week this month over at the wonderful Cupcake Craft challenge.
This week the theme is "Merry Christmas" and they would like to see all your Christmas projects. We all have lots of them on the go at the moment!!
There are some great prizes on offer so pop along and visit them here to see all the other fantastic creations from their design team.

My card uses a wooden stamp which has been in my stamp box for a long time!! I love the traditional victorian kind of feel to this one. I choose to go with Black and white. There are some die cuts from Spellbinders, Marianne dies and a paper rossette from Tim Holtz. The sentiment is from Little Claires and the papers are from my stash box.

Thanks so much for stopping by and visiting and see you again soon.

x Catherine

Xmas Greetings

Good morning everyone and nearly the weekend now. I am going to a family wedding tommorrow so hope the weather behaves for us then!Todays card features a vintage image from Joanna Sheen's Enchanted Christmas CD rom.It's such a lovely image from a postcard I would imagine.
I have used papers from Kaisercraft as they are also a vintage set and go well together. I have used the Tim Holtz pine cone and foilage die.

I am entering this card into the following challenges:
C.R.A.F.T challenge 184 - Christmas
Cute Card Thursday challenge 246- red and green
Charisma Cardz challenge #48- christmas!!
Paperplay challenges 12 week 49 - christmas is coming
Crafts 4 Eternity challenge R#101- colour combo christmas wishes
Fussy and Fancy challenge 77 - I love christmas

Thanks so much for stopping by and visiting. see you soon

x catherine 

Merry Christmas

Good morning everyone and hope your week is going ok so far. It is quite a busy week for me,
This card uses a stamp from Indigo Blu(Merry Christmas Deer). I love the image and I have inked it up using Blue Archival ink. The ppaers are from Echo Park and the image is nested into a spellbinders die with ribbon threaded through. Love the colours on this and not colours I would have chosen for xmas but I think they are working well for a non traditional look.
The tickets are from Stampers Anonymous sets. I have also added silver gems to the inside of the snowflakes for a bit of bling!!

I am entering this card into the following challenges:
Creative Inspirations challenge 192 - Case It!Layout and colours)(TOP 3 SPOT)
Fab'n' Funky challenge #150 - Not a traditional christmas(colours)
Papertake weekly challenge - Anything goes
Simon Says Stamp challenge - Snowflakes

Thanks so much for stopping by today and see you again soon.
Bye for now

x Catherine

finishing xmas

Good morning everyone and hope all is well. As the title of my post says I am finishing the last of my xmas cards now.
I would also like to say hello to new followers who have joined me and so glad you have and hope you enjoy your visits here. Thankyou .
This card uses the vintage image from Paperartsy. I have also used a spellbinders holly border die and a flower stamp from Chloe. I stamped and embossed this several times and layered up each flower with a brad in the centre.
I used the sketch from Mojo Monday for this one and rotated the sketch to give my image a better place on the card.

I am entering this card into the following challenges

Mojo Monday challenge 270 - sketch
Sketchy colours challenge #142-white, red and green

Thanks so much for stopping by today and having a look.
Bye for now

x Catherine 

December Guest Cupcake

Good Monday morning everyone. I have a very busy week ahead of me finishing at the weekend with a wedding!!
Today sees my first guest appearance with the wonderful challenge blog Cupcake Craft. I was so honoured to have been asked by them as I have played along with their challenges from the start of my blog and been very fortunate to have been chosen as a cupcake cutie and a winner a few times.

This weeks challenge has been chosen by Helen and is "It'll  Be All White On The Night"
Yes lots of White this week please!! Please pop over to the challenge blog and check out the fabulous Design Teams projects and the wonderful prizes on offer.

My card uses a stamp from Kanban and I have chosen a winter birthday. I have teamed the image with embossing and die cuts. I added organza flowers and lace for embellishments.

Well I hope you have a great week planned ahead and hopefully not too busy considering the time of year.
Bye for now

x Catherine

Merry Christmas 25

Good morning everyone and hope you are all enjoying your weekend. It is all go for me now and lists galore!!!
I love this time of year and have all my trimmings down from the loft ready to go!!!!
Anyway I have made this card using one of the images from a Joanna Sheen CD rom (Enchanted Christmas) I just love the vintage images on here and this one of Father Christmas behind the tree branches is a stunning.
I have teamed it with some papers from My Mind's Eye and added some branch die cuts from Marianne's dies.
The sentiment is from Stamper's Anonymous and is just beautiful for a christmas countdown.

I am entering this card into the following challenges:
Sketch saturday challenge#236-Steph's sketch
Creative Inspirations challenge 191 - Traditional christmas colours
Craft 4 eternity challenge R#100 - christmas Chaos
Cute Card Thursday challenge 245 - snowflakes
Fussy 'n' Fancy friday challenge 77- I love christmas
The CD Sunday Challenge Blog-Oh Christmas Tree
Christmas Cards All Year Round December challenge - Santa

Thanks so much for stopping by and hope you enjoy the rest of your weekend.
Bye for now

x Catherine

Canterbury Bells

Hi everyone and hope your enjoying your weekend. Today see's my last post for the wonderful Sweet Stampin challenge blog as their Guest Designer for November, It was so good to be part of the team and I am so very grateful to have been asked to join them. Thankyou all at Sweet Stampin for the opportunity. Also I would like to wish the challenge blog a happy 3rd birthday today and hope there are many more to come.
This week the challenge is "flowers" and they are being sponsered by:

So pop on over and check out the prize on offer and the fabulous inspiration from the DT team .
I have choose to use one of the flower fairy stamps. I used to love these when I was younger and have several books on them. I think the details in the images are so beautiful.
I have used promarkers to colour the stamped image and papers from Papermania. I used one of the little stamps for the corner embellishments

Thanks so much for stopping by and visiting me and hope you enjoy the rest of your weekend. I have had to make an unexpected visit up to Scotland this weekend and so will be a bit less on the posts till I return next week but will catch up with you all then.
Bye for now

x Catherine

Vintage Snowman

Good evening everyone and hope you are all having a good start to your weekend. I am a little late with my GDT post for Sweet Stampin today - sorry!. The truth I had to be out the house super early as I am on a weekend workshop at Art From the Heart learning all mixed media journalling techniques. Only just got in  and another full on day tommorrow. Well worth it and learning so much!!
Back to today and the challenge over at Sweet Stampin this week is "There's no people like snow people"".
We are being sponsered this week by:

and:

Pop on over to the challenge blog and check out the great prizes on offer and also the fantastic inspiration from the Design Team this week.
My card uses a stamp from La Blanche and I kept to Black and White for this one as I think it suits the image well. The papers are from DCWV and are already sparkly to add that extra embellishment. The sentiment is from Little Claires.

Thanks for stopping by and visiting me. See you soon

x Catherine

Winter Wonderland

Good afternoon everyone and hope you are all having a good week so far. Mine has been busy hence the lack of blogging!!
Anyway today sees a brand new challenge over at My Mum's Craft Shop and this week the theme is "Winter Wonderland". We want to see all your projects with a winter theme to them.
Last week I was sorting through some old stamps and came across some Medallion stamps on wooden Blocks. I must have had these stamps for about 10 years. I found the snowflake one and thought it would be nice to have a go at this for xmas. So lots of repeat stamping, heat embossing and layering up- here it is. I nested it onto a siver spellbinders die and attched it with a brad. The greeting is die cut from my new Tim Holtz die .

We are being sponsered this week by:

So why not pop over to the challenge blog and check out the other DT's wonderful work and have a go at joining us.

Thanks so much for stopping by and visiting me.
Bye for now

x Catherine 

Anything goes

Good morning to you all and hope your ready for a good weekend and for any of you of going to the hobbycrafts at the NEC - hope you have some treats to yourselves and lots of new goodies!!
Today sees my second spot as GDT for the Sweet Stampin challenge blog.
The theme is "Anything Goes" which we all love!  So come along and join in and check out the great prizes on offer. Please pop over to the Design Team blogs and check out their inspiration for this weeks challenge.

I have made another Xmas tag and used inspiration from Tim Holtz 12 days of christmas from a few years ago. They are great to give you some ideas.
The stamp is from Stampers Anonymous( I do have other santa images but this is by far my favourite!)
I have painted a grungeboard letter with red acrylic paint dabber and used the pinecone die. I added some buttons with some festive trim. Hope you like it.

I am entering this into the following challenges:
Crafts 4 Eternity challenge R# 97- Terrific Tags
Winter Wonderland challenge - one for the boys

Well thanks for stiopping by and visiting me and hope you all have a great weekend whatever you are doing
Bye for now

X Catherine

Reds for Remembrance

Good morning everyone and it's Friday already. I am going to brave it and go to Hobbycrafts this Sunday at the NEC in Birmingham. Need a few things that are hard to find elsewhere!!
Recently I did the online Creative Chemistry course with Tim Holtz and one of the techniques shown was the watercolour stamping one. I really liked the effect so thought I would try it with this stamp. I have not been arty and done a watercolour myself just a clever mix of distress inks and water but such an effective result. I was so pleased with the outcome and reminds me of a vintage postcard image. I love the red colours in the distress inks and these two are Fired Brick and Barn Door.
With this I kept the rest of the card a vintage style and used a spellbinders (Bitsy Blosssoms) for the flowers and leaves. The sentiment is from the same stamp set as the image and they are (A little Bit Sketchy stamps from Sheena Douglass - Poppies and Daisies). This card has been made with Remembrance day in thought for this month.

I am entering this card into the following challenges:
Creative Inspirations challenge 188 - Red's for remembrance!
Crafts and me challenges #108 - Reds
Simon Says stamp challenge -Thinking of You /Sympathy
Crafty Catz challenge #158 - anything goes and December GDT call
Crafters Companion Monthly challenge November - Favourite colour combination

Thanks so much for stopping by and visiting me today. Hope you like this technique I have had a go at and like the outcome of the card.
Bye for now

x Catherine

25 Joy tag

Good morning everyone and hope all is well. I have been a bit poorly over the last few days but hoping everything is settling down now.
Anyway today sees another xmas tag . I enjoy making these and I am going to string them all together and hang them up at xmas so you will see a few more to come..
This one uses a stamp from Stampers Anonymous which I think you can tell by now is definately a big fave of mine. It is such a timeless image. I have used distress inks for colour.
Also this tag sees a big use of Kraft which I am really enjoying using at the moment. I have made a jumbo tag from the Kraft and die cut the pine cones and foliage from Kraft too for a really natural type of look.(I think I am getting better at these pine cones!!!) I'm really pleased the way they have turned out. I have used a new Tim Holtz die for the numbers and greeting and a stamp from Chloe for the flowers.  I really love the look of this one.

I am entering this tag into the following challenges:
Cupcake Craft challenge 217  - Get Krafty
Penny Black and more @ Allsorts challenge November (Any Die Will Do)

Thankyou so much for stopping by and visiting me today. Much appreciated from you all.
Bye for now

x Catherine

Purple Rose

Good afternoon everyone and hope your all having a good start to then week. This card uses a stamp from Kanban and I have used my waterbrush to shade some of the image in with. The papers are from Papermania capsule set.I have used a glittery ribbon and added 3 pearls for embellishment.

I am entering this card into the following challenges:
The Sweet Stop challengeSSS183 - sketch
Charisma Cardz challenge #43 - cooking up a recipe(" patterned papers, 3 embellishments, 1 image)
Fussy'n'Fancy Friday challenge 75 - flowers and pearls
Crafts 4 Eternity challenge R#96- colour challenge supernova
The Crafty pad challenge# 195- Anything goes
Papertake Weekly challenge - anything goes

Thanks so much for stopping by and visiting me today.
Bye for now

x catherine

25 christmas

Good evening everyone and yes two posts in one day!! Just come back from a visit to a lovely craft shop in Skipton and was thrilled to have found the two Tim Holtz dies I have been wanting. You will be seeing them used very shortly!!
This is a christmas card I have made as I am thinking it will soon be upon me and have I enough made or not!!
Stamped with my favourite image of the Jolly Old Man from Stampers Anonymous  and distress inks(Fired Brick, Peeled Paint and Frayed Burlap)
The papers are a freebie from Kaisercraft which I have just received with my magazine  and are fantastic for a free gift.
The sentiment is from a Paperartsy stamp set and I have embellished with some gold and very gllittery(believe me glittertastic was not the word!!)ribbon.

I am entering this card into the following challenge:
Sunday Sketch and Stamp#131 - Marie's sketch

Thanks for stopping by and visiting (perhaps for a second time today.) I really do appreciate all of you who do :) x

Bye for now

x catherine

Vintage car

Good morning everyone and hope your all enjoying your weekend. I went to a great organised fireworks display last night in our town.
Today card is for a male. I find vintage works really well for these and this one uses a stamp from the Stamps Away Pilkington Lane sets. I have stamped onto Kraft using archival ink. The papers are from my stash and I have die cut some cogs from a Spellbinders set. I punched some holes around the stamped image and threaded some rafia string through for some texture. I thought it works well with the image and look. A few buttons for some embellishments.

I am entering this card into the following challenges:
Allsorts challenge 179 For men only
Sketch saturday challenge week#232 - sketch
Crafty Catz challenge #157 - add some texture 
Here comes the Boys challenge#39 - Die Cuts/Punches
Gingerloft challenge GL51 - no colouring allowed


Thanks so much for stopping by today and visiting me.
Bye for now

x catherine

Glitter and surprise GDT news

 

Good morning everyone and hope you are all looking forward to the weekend. Not much happening for me but I think we may go to a fireworks display somewhere.

Well today sees me starting as Guest Designer for a month for the great Sweet Stampin challenge blog. I was so excited to be asked by them and jumped at the chance.
This weeks challenge is "All that Glitters" so we want to see lots of lovely sparkle on your projects.
We are being sponsered this week by:

who are offering a fantastic ribbon prize to the winner. Please pop along and check out the brilliant projects from the Design Team.

My card for the challenge is:

The background uses the whitewash technique with acrylic paint and distress inks and the main image is from Stampers Anonymous. I have added some glitter snowflakes and a glittered ribbon.

Thanks so much for stopping by and visiting me and hope you pop along to the challenge for a look.
Bye for now

x catherine 

Believe

Hello to everyone and hope your week is going well . This week I wanted to start some christmas tags and browsed back through some of "Tim Holtz 12 days of christmas" for some inspiration. This is my variation on one of them.
I love this image from Stampers Anonymous. I have used distress inks(Fired Brick, Peeled Paint and Frayed Burlap).
I also used the Alterations Die (Tattered Pine Cone) which I am just loving. I used co-ordinations card for die cutting and distressed them. I love the look this gives to the pine cone. I also die cut and distressed some leaves and arranged them all together. I also painted some grungeboard numbers in black

I am going to enter this tag into the following challenges:
Creative Inspirations challenge 187 - Let's Celebrate
Fab'n'Funky challenge # 145 - Die cuts/and punches
Creative Craft challenges 2 -special occasion not birthday
Anything goes challenges 79-anything goes
Stampin for the weekend challenge 20 - anything goes

Thanks so much for stopping by and visiting me. Hope you like my tag.
Bye for now

x catherine

Best Wishes

Good morning everyone and it's time for another challenge this week at My Mum's Craft Shop.
This week we would love to see all your projects using Bright and Bold colours. We all have these in papers and pens etc in our boxes and it would be great to see your creations using these.
This week we are being sponsered by Digi Stamp Boutique :

who are offering a fabulous prize to one lucky random drawn winner.

My card uses the wonderful Dylusions sprays which are so bright and bold with colours and have a great selection to choose from. I have used-Lemon Zest, Lime Green, and Squeezed Orange for my card. The stamp is from a Dylusions set (C urious Corrin) and I added some green applique glue to her dress for some dimension. The flowers are from a stamp by "Chloe" and are great for adding embellishments.The sentiment is from Inkylicious.

I hope you like my Bright and Bold offering for today and would love to see what you create for the challenge this week.
Thanks so much for stopping by and visiting me.
Bye for now

x Catherine

Curiosities Cube

I know I have been missing from my blog for a week or so. I am sorry if I did not visit and comment during this time.  I will now try to catch up with you all.
I have a project to share with you today which was a recent workshop that I went on at Art from the Heart with Marie. This was to make a Curiosities Cube for halloween. There are a few photos here as I am trying to capture it the best I can.

I loved this one and being able to go and decorate it was great. The box and all the furniture was shown to us and made from Mountboard. We used papers and inks from Tim Holtz to cover the cube and paint the furniture. I added a border from a Tim Holtz die cut around the outside and skulls and skeleton from my collection. There is some spiders webbing cascading all around the top and the windows.
I hope the pictures are good enough for you to see this. I added some links on a chain with some book rings to the top so that it could be hung up somewhere.
Well thanks for visiting me today and having a look at this project.
Bye for now

x Catherine

Sketch challenge at My Mum's Craft Shop

Hello everybody and it's time for a new challenge over at My Mum's Craft Shop. This week we have a great sketch for you to work with  and our sponser this week is our very own

This is my take on the sketch:

I have chose to use a stamp from the "Alice in Wonderland" set from Indigo Blu. I used a mask and some distress inks for the background colour.
So come and join in this week and show us your interpretation of the sketch and pop over to the other DT's blog and check out their fabulous projects .

Bye for now

x Catherine

Autumnal Birthday

Good morning everyone and hope your week is going ok so far. The weather is really quite chilly now and gloves and coat time!!
I still have a few flowers in my garden at the moment so thought I would do an autumn card with a flower but still keep the autumnal colour.
The stamp is from La Blanche and distress inks(Spiced Marmalade, Rusty Hinge, Vintage Photo) were used. I have stamped a flourish on to the background piece. I added this lovely orange ribbon(found at the bottom of my ribbon box!!) . I think it contrasts well with the vintage colours.

I am entering this card into the following challenges:
Cupcake Craft challenge 213- Autumn/Winter
The Crafty Pad challenge #191 - Vintage
Fab'N'Funky challenge #142- Vintage
The Pink Elephant challenge TPE169 - Photo inspiration
Love To Create challenge #36 -Autumn Colours
Incy Wincy designs challenge Anything goes
Make it Monday #110 with Bugaboo- linky party

Thanks for stopping by today and visiting. Really appreciate it.
Bye for now

x Catherine

A Little Bird Told me..

Good Sunday morning everyone and hope your weekend has been ok so far. I enjoyed the show yesterday and even thinking of going back again today as it is only up the road for me. I managed to get some real bargains yesterday.It was also so lovely to see my blogging Friend Donna again.
Anyway todays card uses the alcohol inks(in case you haven't guessed by now they are a big favourite of mine) I love the vibrancy of the colours.
I have used a central image of the tree from a Creative Expressions stamp set and heat embossed it. I like the grid layout way and thinks it looks great as a window effect.
The central border panel has been stamped and embossed with a leaf stamp. The sentiment is from Little Claires and I have added some spellbinder die cut leaves. I love all the autumnal colours in this one.

I am entering this card into the following challenges:
Allsorts challenge 175 - Autumn leaves and Trees
Sweet Stampin challenge - Through the Window
Sketch saturday challenge#228 - Donna's sketch
Stamptacular Sunday challenge#184 - photo inspiration
Crafts 4 Eternity challengeR#92 - Lots of Leaves
Crafty Catz weeekly challenge 153 - Autumn

Thanks so much for stopping by and visiting. hope you enjoy the rest of your weekend.
Bye for now

x Catherine

Happy Birthday

Good Friday morning everyone. I have a busy day planned for tommorrow. First I am going to Art From The Heart for their open day and workshops. After that I am going to the Great Northern Papercrafts show here in Harrogate. It's great as it is only 5 mins away for me!!. Is anyone else going to the show?
Todays card was one of those that could have gone either way and worked or not worked!!!. I have used an owl stamp from Flonzcraft. All the background pieces have been distressed with different autumnal colour inks and each one put into a different embossing folder. Now what happened next was- I had some Copper Perfect Pearls mist on my desk from another project. I wondered what would happen if.... So I went for it and sprayed over the card. It's such a shame the camera won't show all the glimmer but I think you can see it. I think it worked nicely in the end.
The flowers are made from Glassine paper and die cut with a Tim Holtz flower die.They had a light spray as  well.

I am entering this card into the following challenges:
Creative Inspirations challenge183 - sketch(TOP THREE SPOT)
Fab'n'Funky challenge #141- no patterened Paper
Stamptacular Sunday challenge #183- It's your Birthday
Crafty Creations challenge#190 - fall colours
Loves Rubberstamps challenge 20 - All about Autumn
Charisma Cardz challenge #39 - Badda Bling/Shiny(Perfect pearls mist)
Paperplay challenge 12 -week 40 - Shine on!(Perfect Pearls mist)
Anything Goes challenge 77 - Animals
Scrap Creatiions challenge - Fall Flowers
Make It Monday #109 with digi my world - linky party

Thanks so much for stopping by and visiting me. Hope you all have a good weekend whatever your plans are.
Bye for now

x catherine

Pink Rose

Hello to everyone and hope your week is going ok so far. Soon be the weekend again!
Todays card is really pink for me. I do struggle sometimes with colours if they are not a natural palette for me but with the help of some distress inks it makes it easier. This card uses Worn Lipstick and the new Picked Raspberry set. I have stamped and embossed the background with a flourish and the main rose image is from La Blanche stamps. This has also been embossed.I added the ribbon (which I may add is very pink for me) and I think it really makes the card "POP".

I am entering this card into the following challenges:
Cupcake Craft challenge212 -Think Pink
The Crafty Pad challenge #190-Floral
Papertake Weekly challenge - We are 5- birthday and Anything goes
Dream Valley challenge 42-go Pink
Crafts and Me #104- My sentiments exactly
Make It Monday #109 with Digi my World- linky party
Link Up For Pink- 2nd Annual Link up

Thanks for stopping by and having a look today and thanks for all the congrats on my first DT spot. I really appreciated it.
Bye for now

x catherine

My Mum's Craft Shop challenge and first DT spot

Good morning everyone and welcome to my very first post as a DT member for My Mum's Craft Shop.Yes I kept this one quiet didn't I!!!!
I was asked to join the wonderful team and this is my very first DT spot ever. I was so thrilled to be asked by them.

This week the theme for the challenge is "Love is all around us" and we are being sponsered by :

I have made a wedding card for this challenge. The image and background stamp are from a La Blanche and have been embossed with gold embossing powder. I have added some pink ribbon and lace along with some love heart brads.

We would love you to join in this week and please pop over to the other DT's blogs and see their wonderful projects.

Thanks for stopping by and visiting.
Bye for now

x catherine

Vintage Motor

Good morning all. Today I have a vintage style card to share which uses a stamp from Pilkington Transport stamp sets. I think there is so much detail in these stamps and are great for male cards.
I have stamped in Vintage Sepia ink and embossed with clear powder. The background uses distress inks and a mask of cog wheels. I have die cut some cog wheels from a spellbinders die and arranged them as a border in the middle.

I am entering this card into the following challenges:
Sweet Stampin challenge - Vintage
The Sketchy Challenge - #33sketch
Here Comes the Boys challenge #37 - Monochrome
Challenges 4 Everybody#4-Anything Goes
Make It Monday #109 with digi my World- linky party

Thanks for stopping by and visiting me and stay tuned for some surprise news from me tommorrow

Bye for me

x catherine

Especially For You

Good morning everyone and hope a good weekend was had by you all. I have just bought a new Cd "80's music"(what an era for music) and am singing away while I write this(I seriously hope you can't hear me though!!!)
This card uses some new stamps which I was lucky to win and are from Flonzcraft and I am extremely pleased with the way they stamp.
I have made a background with the alcohol inks and stamping with copper embossing powder.
The main image is nested into a spellbinders die and ribbon threaded through.

I am entering this card into the following challenges:
Sketch saturday challenge#227 - sketch
That craft place challenge - Make Your Own Background
Joanna Sheen challenge - Down in the Garden
Crafty Cardmakers challenge #76-Indian Summer
Make It Monday#109 with Digi my World - linky party
Creative Stamp Friends challenge#61- Autumn Colours


I hope you all have a good week ahead and thanks so much for stopping by and visiting today.
Bye for now

x catherine