Katzelkraft dogs and fussy cutting fun!

 

Hi everyone, I'm trying to make Christmas cards regularly throughout the year.

So far so good, although it is still early days lol!

I was inspired by a few challenges: 

At 52 Christmas Card Throwdown, the theme is fussy cutting.

One of my favourite techniques.

I love the Katzelkraft cats and dogs and always seem to fussy cut them to use on my cards.

I like the extra dimension it gives, as well as keeping my hands busy waiting at appointments!

I stamped the images in versafine clair nocturne ink and clear embossed them. The dog is coloured with Prismacolor pencils and the gifts and Santa hat, chameleon pens. All are fussy cut.

The sentiment is a new to me die from Waffle Flower. Love this shade of sparkly blue card.

It's double layered for dimension.

I'm also linking up to these challenges:

Addicted to Stamps & More

Krafty Chicks

Merry Little Christmas Challenge, anything goes

The Male Room

Supplies:

Katzelkraft dogs; Taylored Expressions gift stamp from the Big Grumpy Christmas set; Stampers Anonymous mini bird crazy & things santa hat; Waffle Flower merry christmas print die; Crafts 4 U stitched rectangle die; diamond stickles; hammered card base.

Thanks for visiting,

Cathy x

Kraft & Red for Seize the Birthday

 

Hi everyone, it's time for a new challenge at Seize the Birthday and Glenda has chosen a colour theme for us.

Or play along with our anything goes birthday theme and build up your birthday stash.

We have a new team member joining us, welcome Jenny!

 Looking forward to seeing your lovely cards.

Our party guest Amanda and my team mates have some wonderful inspiration for you so I hope to see you in the gallery.

I pulled out my packs of kraft card and found a range of colours, from light kraft right through to a very dark one! I used the more traditional kraft for the card front and a lighter one for some of the stars.

I added a range of reds for the other stars.

The inlaying of the stars took a while but was fun. I diecut the star panel in each of the colours so will have enough stars for a few of these cards!

 The hardest thing was trying to get the card base curved to match the rounded edges of the starry card front...hmmm. (My corner punch only manages lightweight card or paper.)

I diecut the top layer of the sentiment from glossy black card for a bit of shine.

I'm linking up to these challenges:

Addicted to Stamps & More

Unicorn Challenge, birthdays

Darnell's NBUS Challenge

Both the rounded star panel and the sentiment are from my stash of unused goodies!

Supplies:

Waffle Flower rounded star panel die; Creative Expressions birthday wishes mini shadowed sentiment die; scrap of black gloss card.

Thanks for visiting,

Cathy x

Something new for Seize the Birthday

 

Hi everyone and Happy New Year!

It's time for us to start off the year with our Seize the Birthday challenges again and I am the host for this first one in 2025.

I thought it would be good to use some new goodies - I'm hoping to use more of my existing stash this year!!

Or play along with our anything goes challenge to add to your birthday card stash.

Our party guests Amanda, Valerie, Denise and my team mates have loads of inspiration for you, so I hope you can play along.

I made this card for my sister's birthday.

She's a fan of roses and red so hopefully she likes it!

The die is new to me from Memory Box. I added ink to the rose base with a finger dauber and the background is designer paper. Love it on the hammered card base.

I'm linking up to these challenges:

AAA Cards, without the optional twist

Double D, congrats on your 9th birthday!

Darnell's NBUS Challenge

Simon Says Stamp Monday, something new.

Supplies:

Dies: Memory Box scribble rose trio & background; Spellbinders standard circles; Crafts 4 U stitched rectangle.

Other: Craft Consortium ink drops rose designer paper; picked raspberry distress ink; Happy Little Stampers doodled flowers sentiment; versafine clair nocturne ink & clear ep.

Thanks for visiting,

Cathy x

Thanks with artsy leaves and spray stains.

 

Hi everyone, I hope your festive season was a happy one.

We spent the time resting up at home. Sometimes that's what's needed! I'm on holidays from work for a few more weeks, so looking forward to more of the same with some card making thrown in!

Always a bit late to the party with new goodies, this Sizzix Artsy Leaves die was a Christmas present to myself. I had some scraps left over from projects using distress spray stains and managed to diecut quite a few of the leaves.

I sprayed the leaves with some gold glimmer mist to tie the look together, it's a bit hard to see in the photo, but they have a lovely subtle shimmer.

I'm linking up to these challenges:

The Male Room

Simon Says Stamp Monday, something new

Moving Along With the Times, Thank you

Mix it Up Challenge Blog, playing along with the anything goes option

AAA Cards, playing along with the anything CAS goes option

Supplies:

Dies: Sizzix artsy leaves; Birch Press Design handwritten thanks; Crafts 4 U stitched rectangle.

Other: scraps of gold card and scraps of card sprayed with distress spray stains; hammered card base.

Thanks for visiting,

Cathy x