have your cake and eat it too

Hi there! My word, it is almost a month since I blogged. Somewhere along the way, I completely lost my crafting mojo, which kind of frightened me when I look at how much stash I have. I thought what on earth would I do with it all, if I never crafted again? Now there's a thought! Anyway, in the last few days I think I have recovered it, so panic over. Phew! But it's not nice when you lose your mojo!

Well, today we have a FOOD theme at Crafts 4 Eternity.

I decided to use this birthday cake paper that I've had in my stash for FOUR years! It is Heidi Grace ~ It's My Party.

I made a little bag in the middle using my Tim Holtz ~ In the Bag die. I love this die but hard to think of what to do with it other than uhmmm, make little bags!

I stuck it on the front and because it seemed strange to have an empty bag, I made a little book to put inside, with my left over scraps.

Excuse my colouring on this cute Tilda. I actually coloured her up a couple of years back to go with this very paper and then didn't do anything with it, fortunately I remembered her and decided to go with it. I would certainly colour her differently now, but I liked the bright colours of her.

Image: Magnolia ~ Tilda with Balloons.

I am entering this in at the following challenges:

• pink, green, yellow, blue ~ Crazy 4 Challenges 
• anything goes ~ The Crazy Challenge and Craft Your Days Away
• no rules ~ Simon Says 
• bling it up ~ Cute Card Thursday 
• let's hear it for the girls ~ Stamptacular Sunday 
• bling ~ Stamp with Fun 

Thank you for looking.

keeley

a little bird's tale: Day 3 ~ Tim Holtz 12 tags of Christmas 2010

Hello

Well this is my 'official' 3rd tag of Christmas, although of course it does not follow a Christmas theme ... again.

For my tree I used a Tattered Angels ~ Garden: Blossom Trees stamp. This image has a little bird's nest filled with eggs so I rubbed some Scattered Straw Distress Stickles into the nest and highlighted the eggs with Star Dust Stickles.

For the tag I used Shabby Shutters, Peeled Paint and Pine Needles Distress Ink and Walnut Stain for the edges. The script stamp used was by Paper Artsy. I just love this technique and will use it time and time again ... so thank you Tim.

Here is a close up of the bird cut with the Tim Holtz ~ Caged Bird die.

Unfortunately, I cut off his branch before I decided that I wanted to keep it, so stuck it back on again but forgot to ink the edges. Ho hum. I used Pink Paislee ~ Anthology scraps for the bird which acted as a great resist for the alcohol inks.

The 'a little bird's tale' tag was cut from Heidi Grace papers of the same name and also used thes as my background papers.

The floral ribbon trim is Webster's Pages.

I'm popping this in at the following challenges:

'anything goes': Creative Card Crew 

'use a die cut': Little Red Wagon

'add texture': If the Shoe Fits

Thank you for looking.

keeley

no place like home

The Sunday challenge this week at Dottie's World has been set by Louise. The task is 'to make a shaped card this week - any shape other than squares or rectangles please!Oh and don't forget your Charmed download!'.

My card is shaped like a house:

All papers used are from the Heidi Grace ~ A Little Bird's Tale collection. I cut the shaped roof base from Paisley paper. I then cut out some of the paisley motifs from the remaining cardstock, curled them up and stuck part of each motif over its corresponding motif on the base card. I was trying to achieve a roof tile effect with a difference!

I made the door separately and attached it with brads, having first created a crease down one edge so that it could be easily opened. It even has it's own little door knob and letter box, both by Tim Holtz. The letter box is grunge board which I embossed.

What is behind the door?

A co-ordinating journalling sticker from the same HG collection, all ready for writing a new home congratulations message.

It went without saying that the image I would use is Madison ~ Moving Home from the Holly & Madison Collection.

I coloured her with my copics and raised her up on foam pads. I made the box she is carrying out of kraft paper. I printed the Madison image twice onto a piece of scrap paper. Cut out two small pieces of kraft paper just slightly bigger than the box, stuck them onto the printed images where the box is (with double sided tape) and ran it all back through the printer. Then I peeled off the kraft paper and cut out the box. I cut it out in full the first time and the second time, just cut the flap and stuck it on to the first box with a foam pad.

Thank you for looking.

Kat

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Candy Cane Mistletoe Tilda

I coloured up Tilda wearing Christmas wreath with my Copic markers a couple of weeks ago, but put her to one side as I didn't like the way I had coloured her dress and also wasn't sure about those rosy cheeks! Today I came across her again and decided to put her into a Christmas card. Seeing as I have only made one card so far, I'm getting kind of desperate, so can't be too fussed!

Looking round on the net for a sketch to follow, I found this one on Papertake Weekly Challenge ~ Dawny's Sketch # 2.

This is what she ended up looking like:

I used a white card blank to start and layered it up with red and white Bazzill cardstock from my scraps. All white cardstock, including the base card was inked with Magenta ColorBox Pigment Brush Pad.

The red candy paper is Heidi Grace ~ Jolly & Bright: Candy shimmer glitter paper.

I used a ribbon from the Doodlebug Boutique Trims: Christmas Assortment for Tilda to sit on. The corner flowers are cut from a ribbon from the same pack of trims.

The Merry Christmas sentiment was from the Hero Arts ~ Owl Christmas set which I stamped and embossed.

Something For The Birds - Challlenge

This week's challenge at Stamp Something is to "make a project using bird images; any types, sizes, shapes, and colors."

<<< --- Here is my card.

I used a basic white card blank.

The two patterned papers are both from the Basic Grey ~ Gypsy collection. The floral blue is Sandal and the green is Dragonfly. The dashed line around the edge of the green card was a Doodlebug Stitch rub-on. I used white broderie anglaise ribbon from Making Memories ~ Fresh Anthology trims.

I cut the plain and scalloped circles with my Cricut machine and inked the edges with Colorbox chalks. The little stork stamp is from Heidi Grace ~ Baby collection and I coloured it up with my Copic Markers.

Thank you for looking!

Kat

Having a {me} day

Friday Sketch 22

Here is this weeks sketch from the Friday Sketchers Challenge Blog.

This is my take and I'm not sure I'm completely happy with it, I've spent a lot of time fiddling with it and searching for the right colours! I can't decide whether I prefer it with or without the ribbons underneath. In fact I am so unsure about it, I haven't actually stuck the ribbons down yet, that's why it all looks a bit off centre.

I used an A6 ivory card blank. The orange flowery paper is Heidi Grace - It's My Party Flowers. It has a wonderful shimmer glitter effect and I just love the orange colour and tiny flowers. The green buttons in each corner are from S.E.I. - Chick-a-doo range. The orange and green ribbons are both taken from Making Memories - Abby - Cheeky Trims.

The word 'baby' is made up of American Craft - Thickers and the chipboard letters were originally white. I coloured them in with Marvy Matchables - Wet Looks Embossing Marker No. 9. I then sprinkled them with clear embossing powder and heated them up. I repeated this process again to give it a deep glossy look. I then layered the letters on to Doodlebug cardstock in pale orange and then again on to a pink Bazzill cardstock. The mini green brads are from Making Memories - Springtime Button.

Kat

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