- stamps - Caring Thoughts/Dear Friend (Simon Says Stamp)
- card - distress watercolour (Ranger), gorgeous grape (Stampin' Up)
- other - Dimensionals, MISTI, Wordies Sentiment Sheets - Everyday (Creative Expressions), craft foam, water brush, clear embossing powder, heat tool, Zig Clean Color Real Brush Markers, black ink
Kerry's Papercraft
Confessions and ramblings of a compulsive obsessive paper crafter!
Friday, April 19, 2024
Just Add Ink #698 - Choose Two
Thursday, April 11, 2024
Dancin' Birthday Dragon
The Color Throwdown people have given us another gorgeous combo to play with, nice and bright and cheerful.
- stamps - You Matter background stamp (Simon Says Stamp)
- card - basic white, lemon lime twist (Stampin' Up)
- dies - Dancin' Birthday Dragon, Essential Arches (both Spellbinders)
- distress inks - kitsch flamingo, picked raspberry, squeezed lemonade, mustard seed, spun sugar
- other - cloud stencil (My Favorite Things), blending brushes, lemon lime twist and crushed curry markers (SU), mounting foam tape, craft foam, MISTI, Big Shot, Wordies sentiment sheets - Everyday (Creative Expressions)
Wednesday, April 10, 2024
The Card Concept #206 - April Flowers
Thanks for joining me for another challenge with The Card Concept. Hopefully our options will inspire you to create, whether it's for a birthday, wedding/anniversary, friendship, Mother's Day or perhaps just a 'thinking of you'.
- stamps - Garden Roses and matching stencils (Pink Fresh Studio), Postage Collage (Waffle Flower)
- card - distress white heavystock, vellum
- distress oxide inks - tattered rose, worn lipstick, picked raspberry, shabby shutters, peeled paint
- other - Postage Collage coloring stencils (Waffle Flower), blending brushes, MISTI, Blueberry ink (Altenew), Miss You die (stash), mounting foam
Tuesday, April 9, 2024
Practically Perfect
This week's Inspired by...challenge caught my eye.
Umbrellas immediately made me think of Mary Poppins. Anyone else or is it just me? 😉 No? Ok then, lol. Showing my age I guess. Well anyway, once I had the thought, of course it wouldn't leave me alone, so eventually I sat at my craft desk and made a card.
The sentiment was done on the computer (if you know of a stamp set that says this, please let me know!) and I tried to match the font styles from the movie as well as I could, lol. I cut a number of Mary Poppins' in different colour card and cut and layered them, setting them on a simple inky background. The little red bow tie is one of the kite ribbons in the die set and I used markers to colour her hair and flower. And of course I couldn't leave out the iconic parrot head on the umbrella, so I printed a teeny one of those too.
- card - white, black, blush, blue, red
- dies - The Park (Tim Holtz), stitched rectangle (Paper Rose)
- other - blending brush, Dimensionals, craft foam, Big Shot, markers, blue ink
Sunday, April 7, 2024
No Matter What, No Matter How
It was my elder daughter's birthday yesterday and she always asks for handmade things from me - you may remember the Harry Potter piece I made her a while back. This time around it's a general reading theme, a passion I have in common with both my girls, I'm thankful to say.
It's a shadow box and I've used a number of items from Stamperia's Vintage Library collection.
Friday, April 5, 2024
Just Add Ink #696 - Inspiration
Welcome back to another Just Add Ink challenge where this week we're offering an inspiration picture to help rev up your creativity. And a mouthwatering pic it is too - take a look:
- card - basic white, retired designer paper (Stampin' Up)
- dies - Celebrate colorize, Crochet (Tim Holtz), Curio Spring Findings (The Greetery), Congrats (stash)
- Copic markers - BV00, BV11, V09, BG11, BG34, C2, C4
- other - pearls, Dimensionals, craft foam, shaping mat and tool, flower punch
Friday, March 29, 2024
Just Add Ink #695 - Just Add Chocolate
It may not be my week to create for Just Add Ink but there was no way in the known universe I would miss the opportunity to ...
I mean, come on! 😂😉 CHOC. O. LATE.!!!
A number of years ago (we're talking more than 10 years, ohmygosh) Just Add Ink had a challenge to be inspired by the wrapper colours of our favourite chocolate bar (yep, they seriously expected us to pick just one, lol). I was lucky enough to win that challenge, so the bar is set high to best that mouthwatering winner, lol! As luck would have it, I not-so-long-ago scooped up a number of items from Stamperia's Coffee and Chocolate range - serendipitous, right? You betcha whipped ganache! Here's my card, which I feel is perfect for many occasions (and do try not to drool all over your keyboard!):
Mm mm mm m mmmmm...
BTW, while much fun was had, sadly no chocolate was consumed in the making of this card. I know, I know - I really didn't plan that terribly well, lol.
- stamps - Sentiment Strips 2 (Altenew)
- card - basic white, early espresso
- Stamperia Coffee & Chocolate collection - stencil, paper and Collectibles
- distress oxide inks - Victorian velvet, vintage photo
- other - white gesso, distress opaque texture paste, craft foam, MISTI, Sidekick, blending brushes, sponge dauber, creamy caramel ink (retired), fan brush, water spritzer, Nothing's Better Than die (SU retired)
Monday, March 25, 2024
Happy Easter, Mr Rabbit
I'm sure you've probably met the very dapper Mr Rabbit already if you haunt blogs, Pinterest or social media like I do. He joined me a week or so ago but I have been saving him for closer to Easter and now it's almost here I happily sat and became acquainted with the gentleman. Here's how our first meeting went:
I began by stamping him on two pieces of Tim Holtz's specialty stamping paper so I could get the crispest, clearest image. One of those pieces became my background, which I sponged over with distress ink and did some stamping with other stamps from the set. The second piece I coloured using distress watercolour pencils then restamped - this brings back any detail lost because of the pigment from the pencils - before fussy cutting him out and attaching over the first piece. I die cut some eggs in different sizes then coloured those with distress inks, stamping dots over the top with oxide ink and sponging the edges. The plaid stamp was used on my base and then I assembled all my layers.
- stamps - Mr Rabbit (Tim Holtz), Create Happiness - Elements (Stamperia)
- card - Distress specialty stamping paper (Tim Holtz), mossy meadow (Stampin' Up)
- dies - Nesting Eggs (Waffle Flower)
- other Tim Holtz products - distress inks, distress watercolour pencils, water brush, antique linen and vintage photo oxide ink, ground espresso archival ink, vintage photo archival ink
- other - blending foam tools, sponge dauber, Dimensionals, craft foam, mossy meadow ink (SU)
Friday, March 22, 2024
Love Every Minute
I'm back again with another entry for The Color Throwdown challenge - just kept getting ideas for these gorgeous colours - and this time I'm incorporating it with a second challenge, Inspired By.
- stamps - Do What You Love (Pinkfresh Studios)
- dies - Wildflower Stems 1 and 3 (Tim Holtz)
- other - woodgrain cardstock (Tim Holtz), Zig Clean Color real brush markers, water brush, distressing tool, Dimensionals, craft foam, Big Shot, opal rounds, white baker's twine, sponge dauber
Just Add Ink #694 - Just Add a Colour Combo
- stamps - Colour My World (Clearly Besotted)
- card - fresh freesia, basic white (Stampin' Up), watercolour
- other - blending brush, aqua painter, MISTI, Dimensionals, craft foam, SU markers, clear gems
Thursday, March 21, 2024
I Meant to Behave...
I'm playing along with the Color Throwdown challenge this week.
- card - basic white, basic black
- dies - Postage Collage (Waffle Flower), cats (stash)
- stencils - Postage Collage Everyday (Waffle Flower)
- distress oxide inks - spun sugar, squeezed lemonade, shabby shutters
- other - blending brushes, Big Shot, Small Talk Snarky stickers (Tim Holtz), mounting foam, Dimensionals
Friday, March 15, 2024
Just Add Ink #693 - Just Choose Two
Welcome to another Just Add Ink challenge. This week it's a choose two option, with your choices between
Here in the southern hemisphere March heralds the beginning of my favourite season of the year, autumn. Recently I noticed that one of my nearby neighbours had a crop of beautiful yellow sunflowers in their front yard and the cheerful, happy 'faces' not only made me smile but also inspired my card featuring autumn colours and sunflowers, with my 'choose two' options being squares and circles.
For my background I did some ink blending with oxides and after dry embossing, inked over the raised areas with another oxide. To preserve the vividacity of the colours I smooshed some distress micro glaze over everything. My window frame got some distressing treatment and ink, then I added the sunflowers (which were already made up in my stash) and attached them all to my background. I made some little bunches of sisal threads and added those, splattered with vanilla and gold paints and lastly added a sentiment.
- card - blackberry bliss, very vanilla, basic white (Stampin' Up)
- distress oxide inks - fossilized amber, ripe persimmon, candied apple, seedless preserves
- other Tim Holtz products - baseboard window frame, ground espresso archival ink, metallic sticker, blending tool, micro glaze
- other - floating foliage 3D embossing folder (Altenew), sunflower dies (Simon Says Stamp), Big Shot, fan brush, Dimensionals, craft foam, sisal thread, distressing tool, sanding block, sponge dauber, blending brushes, stitched rectangle die
Wednesday, March 13, 2024
The Card Concept #205 - Spring Has Sprung
- card - boho blue, basic white, Flight & Airy DSP (all Stampin' Up)
- dies - hello script (stash), Bird House A2 cardbase (Honey Bee Stamps), Essential Arches (Spellbinder)
- other - Big Shot, blending brushes, Dimensionals, sponge dauber
Friday, March 8, 2024
Just Add Ink #692 - Just Add a Sketch
Hey stampers, it's time for another Just Add Ink challenge and this week we have a great sketch:
- card - basic white, basic black, real red, gold foil, starry sky (Stampin' Up), Silverscreen papers (Nitwit Collections)
- dies - Movie Icons (My Favorite Things), stars thinlits (Stampin' Up)
- other - Copic markers, Dimensionals, Big Shot, Gardenia Filmstrip Frames (49andMarket)
Saturday, March 2, 2024
Wishing You Luck
Can you believe March is here already? Yikes!
- stamps - Bitty Buzzwords: Seasons (Honey Bee Stamps)
- card - kraft, watercolour
- dies - Bold Text 2, Tailored (Tim Holtz), Curio: Spring findings (The Greetery), stitched rectangle (Paper Rose)
- distress oxide inks - mowed lawn, rustic wilderness, spiced marmalade, ripe persimmon
- other - Big Shot, MISTI, crackling campfire archival ink, water spritzer, heat tool, blending brushes, Dimensionals, craft foam, clear sequins, mini glue dots