Stretch N Bubbles

Kitten Tip - just because an image is called something does not mean that's what it has to be!

This image is called Sunflower - in the SHOP HERE - but it is a great flower to layer which ever colour you use.


I wanted a more tropical feel to try out new inking technique - so I went purple.

I cut out the top flowers and shaped them - then I set them back slightly aside so that it looked like there were even more petals.

It's the first time I have done these 'painted stripes' - and I don't really have the proper stuff to get a clean solid line - but it's very effective and I will have another go.  Might work it up into a turorial for you.

Must clean my scanner plate - it seems to have smudges and dust on it (probably gliter)!

Yours

kitten xx

www.princesskitten.co.uk

Digi

WOW - thank you for all your wonderful comments.  I have been trying to decide which Stretch N Bubbles image to give the winner

So it will be this one - one of my all time fave and a real joy to colour

Yours

kitten xx

www.princesskitten.co.uk

Do You Stack Up Challenge #16 - add a flower

 DYSU #16 JOIN OUR EASTER BLOG HOP!!!

For 3 weeks you have been wondering, guessing  and tearing your hair just because you wanted to know what we were up to! This week we feel very honoured to introduce you to our

1^st official
DYSU Challenge Blog EASTER BLOG HOP!

We got some gorgeous sponsors for this special day:

 Amber Ink: $10 gift certificate

Little Claire: 3 sets of stamps [picture of stamps]

Papiersalat Digital Art: two newly (only for winner) made digital images

Stretch N Bubbles: 5 stamps to one winner

And we also have some SURPRISE bonus prizes! Here is what need to do to participate in our EASTER BLOG HOP @ DYSU Challenge Blog:

Each of our Design Team ladies hides one letter of our Blog Hop theme on her blog, make sure to hop in alphabetical order to find the correct letters:

Alison

Denise

Janna

Jo

Marcy

Miranda

Pandy - you are here

PeggySue

Tina

Wenche

Leave a comment on each of our DT blogs so we know that you stopped by. Afterwards send us an email with the correct theme at papiersalat@gmail.com (please write in the subject line “theme for EBH”). This will make you eligible for winning the DYSU Challenge Blog EASTER BLOG HOP surprise – prize (randomly chosen)! Furthermore everyone who is leaving a comment on one of our DTs blogs is eligible to win a Stretch N Bubbles image on each blog (randomly chosen)!!

•         From all entries we will have 4 randomly selected winners
•         Three handpicked Top 3 picks (one of them will be randomly chosen for guest designer spot for an upcoming DYSU challenge)
•         one EASTER BLOG HOP surprise-prize winner who is randomly chosen
•         each comment on DT blog is eligible to win one SNB image per blog (randomly chosen)!

Just to make sure no one is spoiling the fun we will set the comments on approval this week ;-)

Any questions left? Do not hesitate and write a mail to us at papiersalat@gmail.com before entering the challenge!

Last but not least:

A FEW RULES

•         our DT would love to leave comments on your blogs, please remove word verification to make this process easier (see right side bar for a how-to guide).

only 3 entries per person per Challenge

  make sure to link back to this challenge and mention it on your blog in your blog post

no back linking

entries that do not fit the requirements will not be eligible for Winner or Top 3

Mr. Linky closes at 2pm on wednesdays

 

PHEW - all that makes sense?  Just contact me if anything is unclear.  as we have so many amazing prizes we are going to be really strict with you - so please, please check the rules at the side of the DYSU? blog - we have even translated them to make it easier for you.

Now the pretty stuff - I have used this cute 70s looking camper van from Little Claire - the camper is coloured with copics and the flowers are cut round their big shapes and layered with 1mm - 2mm and 3mm foam pads so they all stand up more towards the centre.  The 70's and peace sign are cut froma Chttlebug alphabet set - I think it's curls and swirls - the little blue flowers are punched shapes

For my second project I have used a Love Bunny from Amber - this one is Bunny Hugs - I love these clean clear images and can't wait to add a few more to my collection.  The background paper has a flower pattern and there is a flower collage 'swag' made up of all the different sorts of flower shapes I culd find.  Punched shapes - sequins - gens - fimo slices - even the ribbon had a crochet flower string through the middle!

 I like flowers!!!


 

My letter got the blog hop is
'O'

Have a happy, happy Easter every one

Yours

kitten xx

www.princesskitten.co.uk

Surprise

Forgot to say

 H-U-G-E

 surprise planned for tomorrow - so be there!!!!!

 Yours

kitten xx

www.princesskitten.co.uk

Stretch N Bubbles

I didn't mean to scare anybody :-) - as if I could quit really!

I went to the osteopath yesterday - not been for months - and it totally knocked me out - still out of it today, but I have been sitting listing new stuff in the shop so check out the new cards - I have some great new images

Anyway - it's a Stretch N Bubbles day to day and this little chappie in the SHOP HERE, is exactly what the weather is like today!

And I had some wonderful summer pattern scrapbook paper squirreled away - and the rest just fell into place

There are loads of oval shapes piled up - some are raised - and the swirls are some new die cuts that I bought and will not star in just about everything!

In the mood for summer now!

Yours

kitten xx

www.princesskitten.co.uk

Day off

That's it!

I quit!

I am so out of here!

- the kitten is offically 'OLD'

I had to go for my first breast scan today - ewwww

- now I am an OLDIE

- I am soooooooooooo not a happy kitty

Yours

kitten xx

www.princesskitten.co.uk

Album

This is a sort of experiment.  I saw a post on a zutter forum asking about albums with hinge both sides - and I thought hmmmm.

So frontcover is gate opening - hinged both sides

next page full size hinged right

then another gate

then hinge left

then another gate

and the back page

It's a bit of a fiddle getting al the pages in the correct place - but it's great fun.  I did it with a boy theme - all scruffed up in blue, green and brown - with some old rub-ons that have been knocking about for ages and a tag that I covered to match with a bottle cap embellishment (did you know you can flatten bottle caps in the cuttle bug?).

I have just put in a massave order to re-stock the shop with 'o' wires, but i can't get any of the larger sizes - I do hope Bind-it-all is not on the way out - I love it.

Anyway - if you want the measurements and a plan to copy this drop me an email and I will send you one

Yours

kitten xx

www.princesskitten.co.uk

New ideas

 I don't often buy a craft magazine - when I do it's usually cards and papercrafting.  I bought one a few weeks ago and have just got round to trying out the origami flowers.

Super coool.  Took me a couple of gos to get the hang of it - but they look fab

Added loads of glitter round the top - and a big centre gem - and I put them on to wooden skewers with a bit of ribbon wound round the join.

I think they might make an interesting addition to the stall this summer - say £1 each?  And it uses up some of those huge 12" paper stacks I bought about 4 years ago!

Yours

kitten xx

www.princesskitten.co.uk

Sshhhhhhhhhh

Yours

kitten xx

www.princesskitten.co.uk

Stretch N Bubbles

It's scary - but my son has just about finished school - for ever!!!

So we are pretty near to the end of term and when I saw this apple in the SHOP HERE - perfect for a leaving card


The background is a scrapbook paper that I have had fot just ages..  The apple is coloured with Copics - and then glossed with 3d glaze which makes it look lovely and shiney.

May have to make a couple more for the stall

Challenges entered
Aud Sentiments - anything goes
Fussy and Fancy - perfect school card
Bugaboo - 4 or more layers - all of this is layers!
A Spoon Full of Sugar - All creatures great and smell (very small this one)
Pixie Dust - show a sentiment


Yours

kitten xx

www.princesskitten.co.uk

Do You Stack Up Challenge #15 - Scollops

Hey everyone!

Yes! The sun is shining ´cos you guys rocked our challenge #14 with all those beautiful yellow creations! Thanks so much! So, what else does remind you of summer, heat and holidays? What?! Scallops? Gorgeous idea, ladies! Get in your bikinis and swimsuits, grab your paper, scissors and some icecream and get ready for:

DYSU challenge #15

important note: we decided that we are going to announce our winner/top3/guest designer on wednesdays from now on (dead line remains the same), so you are not having a long wait anymore *cheers*!! The new challenge will be posted on thursdays 12:01AM as usual!


Some amazing new sponcers for you this week

Boni Bleaux Designs - are giving $10 to spend on digis

Guylou - are giving 5 digis

Stampfairy - are giving 3 digis of your choice

and of course Stretch N Bubbles are giving images as they do every week

I have just the Youth Football from Boni - cool, another first for me.  Fab images - really modern and fun.  I hope you will overlook any oddities in the look - we have a different stle of football in the UK, but I do think he looks super cute in his uniform.

The backing shapes are cut with nestabilities - then trimmed off.  The papers are my mate Erica Martain's design - they were actually a Christmas range but fab for boys all year round.  The pale blue looking background is actually silver and the fluffed up paper is a handmade Indian paper with tiny silver dots.  It is much thicker than mulbury paper and makes a wonderful fluffy edge is you run a wet paint paint brush where you want the 'cut' and just tear it apart

Yours

kitten xx

www.princesskitten.co.uk

Stretch N Bubbles

Brand new  image for you today - this darling little forest fairy Saraphena

It is a farily simple layout with the focus on the banner and the fairy.  You could make the flag shapes in any colour paper and keep the same words for any occasion



Yours

kitten xx

www.princesskitten.co.uk

Life

Life getting in the way of crafting!!! - should not be allowed

The old goat is at The Pencil Museum this week giving Manga workshops there so that left me to walk into church to do my stint in the office - then into town to have my nails done - THEN home - started my Stretch N bubbles project but just too tired to finish - grrrr

Yours

kitten xx

www.princesskitten.co.uk

Day off

Monday is kitten's day off - wet and cold fuff!!!

Yours

kitten xx

www.princesskitten.co.uk

Summer tags

It has been just glorious here - sun shining - clear blue skies - warm days - heaven.

I have just bought myself a new stamp set - it's the Hero arts Friendly Flags - it bunting pennants that are all the rage now/  Hero Art stamps do tend to be more expensive than some of the others - but by goodness they are such good quality.  They are good and solid - not at all squishy - perfect to use right from the first go.

Anyway - I have up one of my Summer tags into a card just so I could play with making bunting.  The flags are on a string with beads inbetween which is loose on the front of the card.  I have yet to add a greeting - thinking 'Summer Fun' .  Al l I want to do now is make bunting!!!!!

Enterted into
Get Hippity With Ippity 
Cute Card Thursday
A Spoon full Of Sugar

Yours

kitten xx

www.princesskitten.co.uk

Stretch N Bubbles

It has been so glorious today - sun shine and clear skies - bring it on.

So in that theme - these hot sunflowers - could not resist - I jusr know it would layer up beautifly - in the shop HERE

I don't often scribe on patterned paper - it has to have the right sort of surface otherwise the ink feathers throung the paper and looks dreadful - but it is something I really must explore more.

I tried a some text on a piece of this scrapbook paper and it looked fine - so I looked up these words and scribed it up.

Really pleased with the way it has turned out and will experiment more

- so the moral of the story - try using pattern paper for your sentiments

Yours

kitten xx

www.princesskitten.co.uk

shhhhhhhhh

Yours

kitten xx

www.princesskitten.co.uk

Do You Stack Up Challenge #14 - Yellow

Happy Thursday all - you know what Thursdays means don't you?

Another chance to grab some amazing fabulous PRIZES - yum yum 

Plus more for you ...   you might have missed the news: Our lovely DYSU site owner ALISON is rewarding each of the Top 3 picks with 2 (single) images of her awesome Stretch N Bubbles Shop ... with every challenge from last week on! Wowza!



This week - Crafty Emma is giving a set of 6x6 papers “Oh La La”

Copic Marker Scrapbooking: 6 Copic Ciao winner´s choice for those of you in North & South America only - 6 - how cool is that!!!!
for european winners: a Martha Stewert punch - equally cool!

The Stamping Boutique: Prize will be 5 digis of winner's choice.

Sassy Studios: 4 images of the winner's choosing.

My image this week is a glorious castle (very suitable don't you think) from Copic Marker Scrapbooking.  It is quite a delicate image and I did not want to loose all the little details so I chalked it.  I like chalking ( I know lots of people don't) - it gives a lovely airy feel to the image.  You can't be too fussy about the edges though.  The background paper is a all the same patter, turned arround and matted with Navy pearl.

Yours

kitten xx

www.princesskitten.co.uk

Stretch N Bubbles

I just love this pussy cat - it is so much fun.  In the shop HERE. 

I wanted to create something that was fun and active - but a bit more restrained than bright colours and bling.

I worked the oposite way round to normal - I coloured the cat first in grays - no blending - and then found some papers to match
 - and a few extra bits and bobs

I have not thought of a greeting yet - can't decide. Dead chuffed with the card though
Yours

kitten xx

www.princesskitten.co.uk

New site

flying in with a quick new site for you

- look on and drool folks - look on and drool

A touch of Grace

Yours

kitten xx

www.princesskitten.co.uk

Day Off

Monday is kitten's day off

I have been sitting lisstingon the new WOWthankyou.co.uk site - due to go live very soon and I have been sorting out images.

Found this on the camera from a dog show last year

SUNSHINE!!!!

Yours

kitten xx

www.princesskitten.co.uk

New card

What took my eye today?

I was tiding my desk (again!) and I found a couple of odd shapes I had cut from that perlie bazzil card - it is so pretty I can't bear to part with a srap!  Then I came across an image that I had stamped and was too big for the project I was doing at the time - - - - - -- and the wheels clicked

The greeting was scribes as an experiment (also re-discoverd) that I did a few days ago - getting back into mixing ink colours - oh and the background is a scrap too!

Secrets from the work desk ;-)



Yours

kitten xx

www.princesskitten.co.uk

New Card

It turned into quite a sunny day today after days of serious downpouring, and I was quite bright and chipper - so I was tinkering about with the scraps of paper left over from making my tiny spring cards.  I had cut all the pieces of paper the same way so I had a small heap of paper squares all the same so I stuck some of them together like a patchwork quilt, and put them on pink pearl mat - then I added a bit of faux stitching round all the edges.

The flower is cut and embossed with the cuttlebug 'Build a Flower' set.  Hubby bought me this a couple of christmases ago - it is such a pretty set.  The middle is flat and so are the petal edges - but the petal middles have a foam pad underneath to make them stand up a bit - and I rubbed a bit of ink over the very top of the embossing to add a bit of extra interest.

Yours

kitten xx

www.princesskitten.co.uk

Stretch N Bubbles

Something a bit different for you today - would make a super Mother's Day or Easter card for someone special

This darling little kitten - always loved this one - is just such fun and you could use it for just about any celebration

in the SHOP HERE








For this project I used 1 x pattern card. 1 x matting colour (this is one of the perlised Bazzil - just gorgeous), 1 x pattern paper.  I really wanted to make all the bits the same - before I started experimenting with both paper sides and bringing in other colours.

anyway - a card

With an interesting middle

- first you open it

Then you find the pocket

- and the tag

How cool is that!

I have added a blank piece so you can add a greeting, and I have to thank Kiki for the basic pattern (check out her blog)

when you use her design - one tiny tip - if you use a patterned card stock remember the template will have a right way to cut it out to get the pattern on top

Yours

kitten xx

www.princesskitten.co.uk