Stretch N Bubbles

Hay - super cool image from Stretch n Bubbles (just had to ditch the ferrets for a while - growing teeth and claws here).

This wonderful pumkin is available HERE

I have a new publishing program for my images (pageplus).  I inserted the image 4 times - made than all different sizes - and layered them together.  Then I copied the 2 pumpkins on the front and pasted them below so that I could decoupage them.

The whole white centre is one piece - I printed the pumkins in the corner - allowed for the size I needed - and cut it to size with a deckle edge.  Then I matted it with an orange paper and hand made black paper



 

Yours

kitten xx

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Ferret, ferret, ferret

This is a stamp that I got from the US with the idea that I could start experimenting with ferret colours.  I have a chart with all the markings that they have and there are some really pretty blonde colour combos which are just about impossable to draw.

This is stamped with a menento brown and coloured with Copic E series 5x group.  Very pleased with it - and it's actually quite a quick, simple layout.  Double sided scrapnook paper and an embossed strip

Yours

kitten xx

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CRAFT CLASS

Yeah - card bag crisis solved!  Janet's delivery arrived yesterday - so my day tomorrow? Bagging up all the ferret cards!

The theme at class today was - Christmas water colour

This stamp is an Art Impressions of a row of cottages - you know - the old Hovis ads street

Watercoloured in browns and set under a round apperture top.

oh - and glitter everywhere!

Yours

kitten xx

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NEW CARDS

Now I know why a load of ferrets is called a business!

sure are keeping me busy!

This is a stamp that I got from http://rubberhedgehog.com/Ferret-Rubber-Stamps.htm  - would love to import if I get enough interest!

My whole bench is totally covered with ferrets - hay they like to snuggle!!

http://www.cumbriaferretrescue.org.uk/

loads of new ferrets ready for re-homing - and counting down to the show on the 7th November

If they don't like my cards - you are ALL getting ferret cards for Christmas

Yours

kitten xx

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World Shortage???

We have a bit of a crisis!!!

How odd is this???

Ferret cards coming out of my ears (basic range and all the Christmas ones - plus all the crochet broaches I have just made) - little heaps (and growing) of WHITE cards everywhere.

Can't get any poly bags for A6 cards to put them in.  Tried several places.

Are we facing a world shortage here?

Got a few days more before I have to drive down to Lancaster to see if they have any - but how silly is that?

Yours

kitten xx

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DAY OFF

Monday is kitten's say off

(actually I am going to my cabin to snuggle with fidget all afternoon and fill my Facebook shop with listings)

Yours

kitten xx

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FERRETS

This month is FERRET month for me - finally got an image to use for the basic range

- so now I can add all sorts of bits and bobs to make it fun

The big show is next month - and just hoping!!!

This is a totally new venture - just on spec because the ferret lovers say - there is nothing out there for them to buy.

So if I can support a local rescue cenre that is working really hard

 http://www.cumbriaferretrescue.org.uk/

AND get some crafting fun out of it

- we all win - and I get loads of ferret kisses and cuddles

support the guys

http://www.princesskitten.co.uk/shopfront/cat_299591-Ferrrts-and-friends.html

Yours

kitten xx

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STRETCH N BUBBLES

 

New project - hanger for my window

 The original is a digi image from Stretch n Bubbles (of course)

I inserted the image into my Pageplus program - them flipped pne pf them horazontally so they were opposites.  Then I coloured them to match with Copics and cut them out and stuck them back to back with a bit of gold cord to hang in up with in the middle

This is the original image.  Would be a great project to keek the kids amused - tree decorations

Yours

kitten xx

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ART RAFFLE

The new UK Art Raffle is now live over at

http://ukartraffle.blogspot.com/

The theme is 'Hubble, Bubble, Boil and Trouble' - anything that that brings to mind - go for it
do come over and join in

Better be the first to post haden't I?

Yours

kitten xx

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FERRETS

Found this pretty image to copy - made a card - like you do

my adviser on the ferret issue says raisins are really bad - and can poisin them!  Who would have thought?
http://www.cumbriaferretrescue.org.uk/


Oh well - start agian
got a few silhouette cards though

safe there!

Yours

kitten xx

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LIFE

Taking the night off.  Princelet is 16 today and we are taking him out for Chinese (his favourite)

Yours

kitten xx

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UK ART RAFFLE

The UK has been about for several years - and had a couple of 'curaters'.  In it's hayday there were 30 - 40 people entering every month, but this year it has dropped to single fingures.

Jean has decided to close it - so I have agreed to take it over from her.  My thinking being - I can cope with just a few entries  to start with and build it back up to it's glory days.

The thing that makes the UK Art Raffle so different is that it welcomes all types of art and craft media - if you can post it to me - you are in.

The idea os that there is a theme for the month - you send me your project, put a link on my blog with linky - at the end of the month linky choses a winner and they get ALL the projects sent in.

Sound good?

I am setting up a new blog for it and waiting for everyones emails from Jean - hope to be set up behind the scenes this week so we can catch October with the first projects.

More to follow

Yours

kitten xx

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MONDAY

Monday is kitten's day off

Buzzing about trying to catch up with computer stuff -  get the Christmas shows sorted and start the Winter Lewsletter

Yours

kitten xx

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SHOWS

It was just the most amazing sunny day on the promenade at Grange-over-Sands to day.  Glorious sunshine - loads of stalls - people - dogs - such fun.  Did loads of nattering - sore throat now! - sold a few bits - met a couple of local crafters - got some interest for Christmas.

Great fun - thanks all

Have got the forms to sign up for the whole of next year - yeah - can't wait.

I have got next month free of shows - then the Christmas rounds start.  Going to have a proper rest and work on my ferrets - AND Lisa Victoria has some new dragons out.  Sporty boys ones.

Gosh I am lucky

Yours

kitten xx

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NEW IDEA

Book marks anyone? - getting carried away with all this crochet stuff- hope it all sells

all sorts of crochet flowers - in the shop now

Yours

kitten xx

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CHALLENGE

The theme for Helen's challege this week is - hand made flowers - http://ellephantasticchallenges.blogspot.com/2010/09/challenge-12-handmade-flowers.html

what choice did I have?  I am so proud of my new crochet broaches

So that's my entry this week!!!

Yours

kitten xx

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Thursday

Sorry - can't believe I haven't posted here for so long - I could swear I had - wonder who's blog I put them on?

Just wanted to show you the differnt look you can get from changing the sige of you digi images.

This is a sandcastle image from SNB

One is an A5 card with the image taking up most of the front - the other is a DL with a much smaller image.

Both are coloured with Copics - and the papers are similar - but you can see just how flexable digis can be

Yours

kitten xx

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NEW CARD

Sometimes I worry about my thought process!

One of the SNB images I got to work with this month is a really cute fruit slice

Did I think 'ooooh love stuff' ? - naugh - not me - 'oooooh COCKTAIL'S'

So I came up with a winter get well card.  The lemon 'slice' are copic coloured. have a tenny tiny gem in the centre and a swish of glitter on the segments

oh - oh - oh - I could do a Winter one with 'Mulled Wine' and colour them orange

Yours

kitten xx

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CROCHET

This is it - this years Christmas gift range - CROCHET

These are broaches.  Crochet in 100% pure cotton - which is dream to work with and bit of felt on the back for support - with a broach pink sewn on.

I also have bookmarks - which are great fun.

All (slowly) being added to the web site under GIFTS

The bookings for the Christmas fairs are starting to come in - and the last show of the summer season is this weekend.  Princelet is 16 next week - and Granny Jill's birthday 2 days later.  Gosh another year almost put to bed - eeek

Yours

kitten xx

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LIFE

Had to take fidget to the eye docs this morning - hour drive there - half hour to see vet - hour drive home - £84 lighter

That was fun - - - because - - - ?

Better news though, fidget's eye is responding really well and after another injection and eye drops until at least Christmas - we might get away with no big problems.

Bless his little socks - he is so good - he has to have one eye drop morning and night and he just dips his head (oooh must I mum???) and braves it - then goes nuts (I am so clever - I am so clever - I am so clever) - big hugs and kisses all round.

Then, this afternoon, we had to puppy sit for the little girlie next door.  She is such a Sweetie pie - 4 months old Choc lab, and into everything.  The palace guard dog is beside himself with joy to have a baby to nurse - and poor old fidget can't work out what this odd 4 legged thing is all about.

They all piled onto my lap for an afternoon nap - hay - so no work - playing with doggies !!!

Yours

kitten xx

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NEW DRAGONS

It is ages since I got to play with my dragons - I have been so caught up with the Stretch n Bubbles work and the Ferrets everything else has slipped.
These are from Lisa's new release At Sweetpea Stamps - Lisa is on a roll now - there is another set due later this month - sports boys

Love this - so cute
used it as a baby Christmas card - can personalise it for your baby's 1st Christmas

And this

- at the end of the holidays - what else could it be?

Yours

kitten xx

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Stretch N Bubbles

I have been 'fiddling with my digis' again!

Today I am using Dee the Dino from the Stretch n Bubbles shop

You know we always re-size digis to suit the mood?  - So how about making them teenie-weenie, weenie and adding LOADS of them to a patterned backing paper

This is printed on a pink background white spotted paper with all sorts of pinks/purples/browns/reds/blacks so it it is quite subtle

And the Final card??

Hay - would I let you down??






Yours

kitten xx

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NEW CARD

Have you seen the new McDonald's Breakfast Menu advert?
That's me 24/7/365!!!!

Oh well

I have seen several ways to spell Beardie / Bearded collie - so I hope this is correct

- my drawing - matted on black and then silver - that's the strange glow round the edge
- the papers are a scrapbooking paper I pcked up and used both sides - LOVE that double sided!!!


Yours - see my beardie

kitten xx

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LIFE

I have worn out a parallell pen - how about that?  The nib is totally knackered - it fans out at the tip and splodges the ink everywhere.  I have been using it for about 6 years I guess, and it has been getting very scratchy for ages.  I baught a new one for 'best' last year, but it is really usegul to have 1 with my sepia ink which I use the mose - and 1 for coloured work

The other decissions of the day is - I have given up reying to draw my ferret image to use as the basis of the every day range and baught a stamp.  I don'y know why I can't crack it  - I have drawn a super Bearded Collie and a Spanial this morning - but I just can'r get the ferret shape right.  They either have hampster cheeks - or if I try for a more angular look - nasty, sour, pointed faces. 



So - here's my beardie



Yours

kitten xx

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DAY OFF

Gosh it's a grotty, wet, blustery, grey day today - summer really is over.

I have been making ferret Christmas cards - and now I am off to see if I can get the ferret sketch cracked.  I have found a few more samples to copy


Yours

kitten xx

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NEW CARD

New look for my new stamp

Stamped with coloured inks (one for each season) and embossed with holographic powder.  Trimmed very close and matted with pearl green card.  The sections are raised over a scrapbook stripe pattern that echoes the ink colours and the whole thing is set on a handmade paper that has 'velvet' bits as the spots.

See how different it can look?

Ah well - back to the ferrets next week.  Got the Christmas card as I want it - and several larger images - but still not cracked the look I want for the small everyday range like the dogs one


Yours

kitten xx

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NEW CARD

I actually got some time for myself at the bench today to try out some of the bits and bobs I picked up.

I saw this stamp and fell for it - I just love trees

I was tinkering away - and I had a brainwave

Embossed with black sparkle and matted with a tiny bit o silver mirri
Halloween is my favourite season for patterns - I love all the images and papers much more than Christmas


Yours

kitten xx

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CHALLENGES

Today I am entering the Cuttlebug birthday challenge with a fantastic elephant from Stretch N Bubbles
The challenge is a birthday card with at least 2 layers using the cuttlebug

The pink under the elephant is embossed and the green marble strip is embossed from each end to make the longer strip.

Coloured with Copics - no shading just an assoetment of bright colours like they paint the elephants for the parades




Yours

kitten xx

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NEW CARD

Monday is normally my day off - but I tell you after the past few days I just had to colour.

My passion for dragons is well known - so this little chap won't be a surprise.  It may be a surprise that it's a Stretch N Bubbles image though - in the shop

I need to think of a 'time' quotation to put on it.

He is really super - and simple for me - just the image coloured, cut out and put over a scrapbook paper

Yours

kitten xx

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LIFE

Another - painful / serious - session of decorating - so no 'proper' work done.

Next week guys - promise - you have me ALL to your selves - with stuff to show you

- - - ooooohhhh yeeeeegh

- it's a date then :-)


Yours

kitten xx

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