Stretch N Bubbles

You all know how much I love the Stretch N Bubble monsters - I have quite a few and decided to create a new modern fun version on the poem Monday's child.

The book its self is a very simple accordian made from green card - it is A7 so quite small

I used 2 x 12"x12" double sided pattern paperso that all the pages and the cover co-ordinated.

The ink is a teal colour - which was great fun after all the formal black I have been using lately

I have kept the pages faily simple because the paper is so patterned and I wanted the monsters to stand out.

Yours

kitten xx

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New idea

You know - sometimes I see a photo of something and it triggers memories - and then I get itchy and want to re-make it.

So .. . . . . ... . . . . . .

I saw this
 - when I was a kid - the ultimate of cool was a vanity caseYours
 and it had to be this shape
so I was back in my teens again

and playing . . . .

This is MY take on the totally hot vanity case that we all HAD to have - totally re-created from scratch - in card - as a gift pouch

It's a darling little chap - 7cm on the base line - 7cm total height (in an oval shape) and 4cm deep.

All it took was 1 sheet of 12" double sided paterned - but I did add an extra layer to all the inners to firm it up.  The buckle is made from grunge board painted with metallic gold.  Ribbon handle, with an added matching tag and a bead fob.  And - just by chance - I had some tissue paper the esact colour of the inner pattern

kitten xx

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Stretch N Bubbles

It's Friday - so there is a new digi for just $1 in the Stretch N Bubbles shop.

The image I have used today is Cheesy Cake - - - available in the SHOP.
He is just so cute.  This layout is really simple and you can adjust to suit any size card (this is A5 using a large size Cuttlebug embossing folder), do feel free to copy the style.





Yours

kitten xx

www.princesskitten.co.uk

Do You Stack Up? #7 - DOTS

Week 6 at DYSU Challenge Blog flew by so fast! Thanks to all of you who entered their amazing projects into our challenge! It is so much fun for us to hop from one blog to the next, seeing the faces behind the cards and projects :-)

YOU ALL ROCK - so many interesting projects out there - wow

This week it´s all about  -   -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -

Let´s have a look at our fabulous sponsors this week:

A Day For Daisies is offering a $16 Gift Certificate from their store!

JLJ Designs is giving 3 digital stamps from their store!

we have also got some exciting news to share! From now you can even follow us on facebook! Keep up with your favourite DUSU Challenge Blog while having a cup of tea :-)

So.......... this week ........... ready ???????
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GO.....

The image I am using is Expecting Daisy from a day for daisies

WOW - seriously guys -  have a good old rummage through this site.  There are loads of modern, practical, every day images all drawn with a light touch that is just amazing - and really useful.  I always say - you never really know how good an image is until you get your pens into it - and this was just wonderful to colour.  Just think of all the colour combos you could have.  I can see me using this again and again 

Yours

kitten xx

www.princesskitten.co.uk



What's On Your Workdesk Wednesday

Posting to WOYWW this week (you never know I may manage to add the link - both here AND there - and even have a browse through other workdesks.  The Memorial Book is done - phew - space to do other stuff.

Today on my work bench is a parcel from darling David and Brenda over at Craft Obsessions.  I don't reall buy in a lot of supplies - a bottle of ink lasts years - but this is my fave supplier.  I have wanted the Oriental Cuttel bug folders for ages and picked then up reduced plus a few sheets of 12 x 12 papers in the clearence too.

So here's to more fun

Yours

kitten xx

www.princesskitten.co.uk

UK ART RAFFLE: FEBUARY

UK ART RAFFLE: FEBUARY: "Hi all. This is the soppy month - and we are all feeling the love, so this month's challenge has to be a love one. From the song - 'I fee..."

Yours

kitten xx

www.princesskitten.co.uk

Challenges

I have had the idea to produce a list of all the challenges out there.  I often have to submit to challenges as part of my design stuff - and really struggled to get a grip on it.  What I want to do is produce an alphabetical list of all the challenges I can find - if the are a product/company/theme based one - I will add it in brackets.  I want to include all UK blogs that have REGULAR (week/bi-week/month) challenges - not blogs in other languages or one off birthdays and calls.

It is very much a work in progress and you will find the start on my main site HERE.

Any additions are welcome - just drop me a line - will update you as I go


Yours

kitten xx

www.princesskitten.co.uk

Stretch N Bubbles

Now - I don't know if it's because I have dabbled in so many arts and crafts all my life - or just that I have a warped mind!

But I saw this BRAND new digi from Stretch N Bubbles

And I thought - STENCIL - yes

Print out the digi the size you want - this covers the front of an A5 card.  Then cut out the 'holes' - you may need to tweek the deisgn a little so that you don't have a blank space (after all, they weren't meant for this!).

Then I sponged through the holes with my finger dabber and Distress Inks.  There are about 4 shades of each colour - which makes a fab effect.

I have been really good and left it very plain - it's just so pretty

yours
kitten xx

www.princesskitten.co.uk

UK ART RAFFLE

Ok every one half way through the month in the UK Art Raffle - better get my entry in (people will think I don't care)

For this month there is a love theme so I came up with

Artist's background papers - love this technique.  Oil pastals 'melted' over an inked and stamped background.  The heart embellishment is hand made too.
Yours

kitten xx

www.princesskitten.co.uk

NEW SITE

Just HAVE to show you these

A mate of mine over at Elibee gifts has started making needle felted animals.  You don't see needle felting much these days - it's different from the felted bags because you don't hot wash it to create the felt - you sit with a multi-needle device and kinf of tangle the fleese fibres up to create your piece.  It is huge fun because you 'grow' the piece under your hande - but - boy - do your fingers know it!!

Go and have a look - I am sure she will have a go at any animal you fancy.  Just say the kitten sent you.

Yours

kitten xx

www.princesskitten.co.uk

New idea

Bit of a reaction to the 'flattness' yesterday I think.  I have had this idea brewing for a while.  Cut an aperture in a piece of cerd/paper big enough to cover the whole front of your card and emboss it.  find an image to suit - this is a Woodware set I picked up in a closing down sale months ago and only just re-discovered.  As I use Copics I stamped my image onto my Copic card and coloured it in.  Then put some low raisers round the apperture and stick the image under the hole.  Add double sided over the back of the piece and stick it to your card - and add your flowers and bling.

Neat - eh?

Yours

kitten xx

www.princesskitten.co.uk

New dragons

Well I am fairly up with everything - even the memorial book in in the last stages - so - a few hours to do my own thing

and - dragons

As the postage has become such an issue these days - I wanted to do something that looked like it had layers - but was still flat.

So - do you think they work?

Both are all flat - think I do prefer a bit of depth



Entering in the Sweetpea challenge
Yours

kitten xx

www.princesskitten.co.uk

Stretch N Bubbles

It's Friday - so there is a new digi for just $1 in the Stretch N Bubbles shopYours

The image I have used today is a kissy monster - - - available in the SHOP

Just could not resist!!!

Left it fairly vague so it could be a birthday or thinking of you as well as a lovie card.  It does not show in the scan - but the lips are flooded with 3D glaze and sprinkled with a bit of glitter

Challenges entered -

A Spoonfull of Sugar

Crafty Sentiments
Purple Frog
Bee-Crafty
Easy Craft Projects
Penny's Paper Craft Challenge

Yours

kitten xx

www.princesskitten.co.uk

New Site

Do you like using digital images? - and have you discovered Crafters Digital Art Center?

The comunity has just hit 5,000 members and Priscilla has loads of EXTRA giveaways - as well as all the normal challenges - digis - tutorials etc - so pop over and have a nose arround

Yours

kitten xx

www.princesskitten.co.uk

Do You Stack Up? #6

The theme for this weeks challenge over at Do You Stack up? Challenges is:-

WOW - were you all just the tops last week.  Thank you all for joining in with us - and I looked at all your blogs

This week we have 2 sponcers - Kristian's Power Ink is giving 5 digi stamps

 And my dear friends over at Bugaboo - whose stuff I just love who are also giving you some of there images free

The image I am using is from PKINK HERE

I love to colour - it's my faverate thing - so I just fell in love with this Scandanavian looking heart - and I wanted to make it look like the old embroidery style that is done on felt with wool.  I turned the image in my program and made it as big as (almost) 6", - so that it would be the whole card - and creased on the 'bump'.  Then I cut round it so that it was just the shape.  I kept my colours basic and solid - no shading or tones here!  Then I added a bit of bling - well you have to don't you?  There is a small 'stand' on the back layer so that it stands up properly which you can just see in the picture

Yours

kitten xx

www.princesskitten.co.uk

What's On Your Workdesk Wednesday

Joining in with WOYWW again this week. What is still taking over my world is one of the local church's memorial book

I have to say, although this has been a long job - is the most wonderful book I have ever worked on. It is hand stitched and bound and the pages are cream watermarked heavy paper. I thought the ink might feather a bit because the surface of the paper is rough and normally the smoother the better - but it is absolutluy perfect. Can't begin to think what it must have cost to buy.



Yours

kitten xx

www.princesskitten.co.uk

Albums

I have been working out sizes to make the different size albums with my Bind-it-all.  I want to be able to make blank albums in various sizes and colours for you to alter yourselves.  Then I thought I would make them up as finished books for the stall this year.

Hope you like them

The blank albums will be in the shop soon


Yours

kitten xx

www.princesskitten.co.uk

Day off

Monday is kittens day off

and it rained ALL day

Yours

kitten xx

www.princesskitten.co.uk

New Card

The Grasmere Memorial book is still in progress - and is dominating my bench.  I am about half way through now (working through 2007).  It's quite - I don't know - reverant? - thinking about all the people who's names I am scribing - and their families and the people who will come to look at the book in the coming decades.  Very grounding - who will scribe my name in our church book - when I an the person who does it?

I did however get a bit of a break and play for myself.

Remember the minimal style card with printed digis?

 - re-worked it with text

- and then kept adding

- I just CAN'T do minimal guys

- not even if my life depended on it!!!

This is such a mixture of new and old. Tickled pink digi heart - re-sized and printed in Magenta - Graffiti art lettering filled with pink pearl ink - black outlines and dots (from illuminated scripts) - and a sprinkling of bling

Yours

kitten xx

www.princesskitten.co.uk

New Card

I have had a few hours to myself - no other people's work  - and brewing up a storm outside - so I actually got to use an image of my own drawing.  I am really getting into just piling up matching papers - love this little chap

Yours

kitten xx

www.princesskitten.co.uk

Stretch N Bubbles

It's Friday - so there is a new digi for just $1 in the Stretch N Bubbles shop


The image I have used on my project today is - - - my very fave little fawn (I am so hooked on this little chap) available in the SHOP

This is a little gift bag - so side view (of another one)

small and neat and really cute

- now don't laugh

- it is based on a Starbucks gift bag

I had a Crimbo pressie from someone - with this little pouch in it.  Hubby pounced on the cocoa - I pounced on the box!!!!

I stuck the opened box on to a piece of card - and extended the base to make it more secure.  All you do is cut round the shape in your coloured card stock - and decorate.

Hope Starbucks don't mind!

yours
kitten xx

www.princesskitten.co.uk

WOYWW / project done

Hi to all the WOYWW guys - a couple of you have commented about the gift cards in progress - and I thought I would show you the final result

I have a couple of people I make gift cards for  - and this is for an amazing gardener friend who specilises in vegetables

They are on their way now huni!!!

yours
kitten xx

www.princesskitten.co.uk

Do You Stack Up? #5

Gosh week 5 already - we are all blown away by the entries we have had

The theme for this weeks challenge over at Do You Stack up? Challenges is:-

Our sponcer this week is TLC Creations - who is giving the winner a $10 gift certificate for digital images 

Also - four digi images from the store.  Sassy Studios DesignsThe image I have used is from TLC HERE.  This is a really unusual site because it's mostly word art.  One of the biggest comments I get when I am on the stall is that people don't have the confidence to write their own text - and stamps are ok - but a bit limiting.

AND (there is more!!)  Copic Marker Scrapbooking is giving 6 ciao copic markers - your choice!

Mega or what?

Everyone adds a bit of a greeting to a card - so I really wanted to push the text to the limit.  I made the image big enough to fit a DL size and there was no loss of image quality at all.  The image is matted with mirri gold and red, and raised over the red and gold foiled paper (also matted with gold mirri).

Yours

kitten xx

www.princesskitten.co.uk

WOYWW

There is a blog that you can add your workbench and work in progress on a Wednesday.  I love to see other people's work benche/table/desk/space, and
I want to try to keep up with adding my mess to it all  It is called What's On Your Workdesk Wednesday - and it happens on a Wednesday.

so - ok -  I have been working on a batch of gift cards for a mate that grows vegetable plant seedlings and sells them to gardners (http://www.vegetableplantsdirect.co.uk/)

Yours

kitten xx

www.princesskitten.co.uk

Day off

Monday is kitten's day off

and I have promisted to sleep all afternoon 

Yours

kitten xx

www.princesskitten.co.uk