A Four Legged Friend

 Good morning and a very happy Monday. 

Here is my second project for the Country View Crafts 'A Four Legged Friend' challenge.

I know, my baby has turned 30 and he now has a baby of his own! Where did those years go? But you know what they say, the best is yet to come!

I started by making my brick wall background for my graffiti. There's lots of stencil paste and metallic paint which will act as a resist when I ink the edges later.

Then I made my bins using a Katzelkraft stamp and some Deco Art Media paints.

Now it's the turn of the four-legged friends. These have all been coloured with Prisma pencils.

Much cutting and sticking later... These rats just crack me up every time lol.

And his favourite part was the dustbins and the cheese-eating rat!

All things Katzelkraft can be found here in Susan's store.

I hope that you join in with our fun challenge, just remember that 4 legged animals must be the focus of your project.

Have a very happy week, and thanks so much for looking x

Will You Do The Fandango?

 Good morning and a very happy Saturday, welcome to the weekend!

This month I'm hosting the challenge over at Country View Crafts and I've chosen "A Four-Legged Friend" Those of us who are of a certain age will now be singing along - you're welcome! Here's my first project.

These four just remind me of the Queen video for Bohemian Rhapsody - there's another song for your earworm, I'm really spoiling you today!

I started with a piece of black card and my new Lisa Horton Interference Ink pads.

Then I ran it through a music embossing folder and added some Stamperia gilding pastes.

These are my fun Funky Fosill stamps that I've coloured with my Prismacolor pencils.

And we're all done!

The Lisa Horton ink pads can be found here.

Please join in with our fun challenge and show us your four-legged friends.

Take care and have a very happy July x

Follow Your Heart

 Good morning and a very happy Tuesday.! Today I'm back at Country View Towers with my second project for our Vintage challenge.

I started by inking up a piece of card and then stamping my huge Stamperia Vintage Map stamp.

Then I stamped it again on some velum and heat embossed it in gold. I cut out various elements, and tore around others, then added them to the background.

Here is the very dapper Sir Vagabond. He's been stamped then coloured with Prisma pencils. I've added some extra cogs to his goggles.

I've added some glossy accents to his watch and goggles, and we're all done!

All things Stamperia can be found in Susan's store, and here are the stamps that I've used.

Sir Vagabond 

Vintage Map

Have a very happy week, and thanks so much for looking x

Tag Along

 Good morning and a very happy Thursday - can you believe it's June already!! I know the older you get the quicker the year goes, but I think I must be a teenager throughout the 19 months of Winter, and then here we are in June.

Anyway, speaking of old, the new challenge over at Country View Crafts this month is 'Vintage', and here's my first piece. Look it stands up and everything, little things....

These stamps would qualify as vintage both in their style, and also in the length of time I've had them!

These were really easy to make, so I don't know why it took me all day, or why it looked like I'd been burgled afterwards - just lucky I guess! I started by inking my backgrounds with Distress Oxides - I really like the 'vintage' bright pink!

Then I just stamped with a similar coloured Wendi Vecci archival ink. I have 9 stamps so one had to go twice so I could stick 'em all back to back.

Here's the other side. Spot the brown tag with the blue ribbon - you can't have everything!

So over to you now, please join in with our challenge for a chance to win a £20.00 gift certificate to spend in the store.

Take care, have a very happy June, and thanks so much for looking x

Be Unique

 Good morning and a very happy Thursday! Today I'm sharing my second project for the Country View Crafts Things With Wings, challenge, and this time I've made a postcard.

I started by making my background with some Oxide inks and a stencil.

Then I added some stamping with an old and a new Katzelkraft stamp.

I stamped my crazy bird and coloured it with Prismacolour pencils.

I liked how my background looked, but when I held my image against it, it looked a little bit lost.

To help cut down the background area I added some Tim Holtz tissue paper.

Of course, once I'd started it didn't end there! 

I added more stamping and some washi tape to my background

The sentiment is also a Katzelkraft stamp, and

Susan has a great range of them all here in the store.

There is still loads of time left for you to join in with our challenge, so please pop over to the blog and link up your Things With Wings for the chance to win a £20 voucher to spend in the store.

Have a very happy day whatever you are doing, and thanks so much for looking x

Make My Day!

 Good morning and a very happy Saturday, welcome to April and the weekend!

As always a new month is a new challenge at Country View Crafts, and this time it's Things With Wings. I've had these Katzelkraft stamps for quite a while now, so I thought it was time for me to use them.

These were really easy to make, so I'll just show you the pretty pictures.

The critters were stamped for placement and then some stencilling added with Distress Oxides.

I also stamped them onto some card, then had a very happy hour colouring them in with my Prisma pencils.

The sentiments are another fun Katzelkraft set.

This guy didn't come with wings so he's borrowed a pair from the critter above.

Now I'm not saying that these are my favourites, but they are very cute.

Susan has a wonderful selection of all things Katzelkraft here in the store.

Such a fun set of stamps and new challenge.

Please join in with us and show us your Things With Wings.

Take care and have a happy and crafty month x

I am joining in with the SSS Monday challenge Stencil It, and also the 

SSS Wednesday challenge Anything Goes x

Number 1 Dad !

 Good morning and a very happy Monday.

Today I'm sharing my second project for the Country View Crafts Masculine Birthday challenge, and this time it's a card for my No 1 Dad!

I started by making a background with a stencil and some Distress Oxides.

Then I added some stamping with a Katzelkraft set.

These are my characters, all stamped, fussy cut, and ready to go!

Susan has a great range of fun Katzelkraft stamps here in the store.

I hope you like our challenge and that you join in with your own birthday card for a man.

Have a great week whatever you are doing, and thanks so much for looking xx

Birthday Boy!

 Good morning and a very happy Wednesday, welcome to March!

After a lovely beginning to February (we were in Tenerife) we've had rather a poor ending as we both have Covid (again!) This time however I passed it on to Neil rather than him giving it to me as a birthday present. I will be able to let this go eventually, but not anytime soon!

Anyway, on to brighter things, it's time for a new challenge over at Country View Crafts, and the lovely Corrie has chosen Birthday Cards, but for a MAN! Yup, the thing all crafters love to make, a birthday card for a man who doesn't want it, already has it, or just can't remember where he put it!

As I've really been feeling quite poorly I haven't been in my craft room for ages. It's also the time of the year when it's soooo cold in there. So on Monday I literally found myself in need of a card for today (Wednesday)

So I decided that I had to keep it simple and pulled out a couple of sheets of designer paper. I knocked them back just a little with some gesso.

I added some stamping and stencilling and made the panels into tags.

These are my stamps, and of course Susan has a brilliant range here in the store. 

So it's over to you now, please join in with our challenge and show us your birthday cards for men,

Have a wonderful March, and thanks so much for looking x

A Sentimental Birthday

 Good morning and a very happy Tuesday. Here is my second card for the Country View Crafts "Be Sentimental" challenge.

I started by inking through a 12x12 Stamperia stencil, then I added some splatters.

Lots of stamping and fussy-cutting later....  This is my favourite "happy birthday" font and the stamp sheet has loads of great sentiments. It doesn't actually have "to" but it it was easy to mask and stamp.

These are the stamp sets that I've used - why limit yourself to one when you can trash your whole craft room??? 

It took me a few days to make this card as we were having a mega cold snap at the time, and it was 7 degrees in my conservatory one day! As you can imagine I only stayed for a little while at a time!

As always Susan has a fab range of Katzelkraft stamps here in the store.

Have a very happy week whatever you are doing, and thanks so much for looking xx

A Hug In A Mug!

 Good morning and a very happy Wednesday. It's time for a fun new challenge here at Country View Crafts and this time we want you to"Get Sentimental" and either use a sentiment or some words of inspiration on your project. As anyone who knows me at all well knows, coffee is my greatest inspiration, so here's my first project!

I started by stamping my Katzelkraft mugs, and the coffee rings are a really old Stampotique stamp.

I coloured them in with Prisma pencils and a white gel pen. The Hug In A Mug is part of the same Katzelkraft set.

My fun sentiment is from Carmen's Veranda, and these are words that I live by!

Although I don't use hair curlers, the rest is pretty much me in the morning!

And this is my main stamp set. Susan has a great range of Katzelkraft stamps here in the store.

I'm entering my card into the fun 'food and/or drink challenge at Simon Says Stamp Monday

and also Dot's February challenge at Ink Art Designs.

Now it's over to you to join in with our fun challenge! Take care and have a very happy February xx