Stretch N Bubbles

I picked up some page templates with cookie edge shapes.  I wanted to use this adorable little Stretch N Bubbles airoplane as the feature on a holiday album.

I love the way the side of the pages have arrows pointing all over the place - really makes you think of going somewnere..

I covered the pages double sided paper - using one side to cover the big back shape and, with the contrasting colour, what was left over to cover the front.  There are several card pages in the middle - I kept them small so that you can see the back through the cut out arrow.



Yours

kitten xx

www.princesskitten.co.uk

Do You Stack Up - #23 Birthday

Hey everyone!

It has been an exciting week! So many things to celebrate: we got some brand new Design Team Members who will start inspiring you from July on, we had so many wonderful applications, so many entries for our last challenge, new followers from all over the world... we really feel like having a party! Which leads us to our current theme (haha, how did you like that intro?!):

DYSU Challenge Blog #23: BIRTHDAY!!

You can use any birthday related stamps, papers, ribbons,... to create cards, layouts, mixed media stuff, home deco or WHATEVER you would like to share with us (as long as its handmade/digital ;) ).

This week´s sponsors:

Bugaboo: is giving 7 digital images winner´s choice!

Crafty Emma: is giving 10 Pound voucher for their shop (p&p not included!)

Pink Cat Studios: is giving 5 digital images winner´s choice!

Please welcome our Guest Designer!

Cathy Santie - http://papiergirl.blogspot.com/

My name is Cathy Santie,  and I live 25 miles West of the "Windy City" - Chicago, Illinois.  I have two adult children; a daughter who graduated with her Masters in Forensics,  and a son who gave me my first Grandson , January 2010. I have a wonderful, supportive husband who actually gave me a nudge in the direction of this wonderful world of paper! Seven years ago, after watching me for a few months dabble in card making, I asked for a sewing machine for Christmas. He and my daughter had a bet going that this interest in paper wouldn't last for more than a few months. Well, as you can see, I received my sewing machine and after hundreds of cards later.....they lost! Thank you for visiting my blog, and for all your wonderful comments - they are greatly appreciated!

Now get inspired by our Design Team!

I love these side step cards - you get loads of extra area to cover - and space to play with.  This 'darling' litle chappie is from Bugaboo - just love her stuff - it's such fun.

I covered all the 'steps' - but left the paper at the back standing tall - the greeting is her digi too.

Yours

kitten xx

www.princesskitten.co.uk

Pencil Museum

Just had the pictures through of the birthday cake for the Pencil Museum

The are going to stock a few of my cards - it's a totally different concept for them.  They work alot with gerat pencil artists - but this is the first time a crafter has been invited.  Their cards and prints are all copies of the original picture - mine are all hands on coloured amd each one is different.  I am putting togeter a small protfolio of designs that I can reproduce in a similar way.  It is so hard - the papers will always be different - so the colours used have to match the papers - but basically the images are the same.

I am going to use the worm & apple and the big present (both Stretch N Bubbles) - and a couple of the dragons (from Sweetpea).  Need a couple of teens and a baby, love and a couple of cutie animals/people that should do it.  It's brewing away at the back of my brain at the moment.

Will launce here soon


Yours

kitten xx

www.princesskitten.co.uk

Life

You are going to have to let me off today - my son has a new job and I am shattered.

It is his first real proper job and we have had to go about getting ID and bank stuff sorted - then he had to take all his details in and get it approved so that he really could have the job.  He was flapping and panicking - and I was pushing and shoving - we were both so stressed by the end of yesterday afternoon it's just not true.

One big thing I struggle with is when you get all hyped up and full of adrenalin - it just knocks me out - I don't know if it's the fibro or the fatigue that causes it.  I am so stiff and sore today.  I have tidied up my little office a bit, swept the floor and sorted out the buttons - and started on a new Soxlets project for tomorrow.  but I haven't really sat properly and worked.

If we are this bad just for the interview and induction - goodness knows how we will cope with the actual start day ;-)

Kids - don't you just love 'em

Yours

kitten xx

www.princesskitten.co.uk

Day Off

Monday is kitten's day off

YES!!!

Yours

kitten xx

www.princesskitten.co.uk

Busy - Busy - Busy

Busy little bees we are at the moment.  My son and I spent Friday making more flowers for the shows this weekend

And one of me working with the stall

Yours

kitten xx

www.princesskitten.co.uk

Stretch N Bubbles

I have great plans for this harmless little stitched flower!!!!  I love the rustic look of it


First of all - A card


I created the browns background with the alcohol inks - Very lightly blended with a bit of gold.  The corners are a Martha Stuart punch.

The flower and the leaf are cut out from a 2nd printing and raised over the image - I seem to be doing this more and more at the moment.  It gives so much more interest to an image in such a simple way.

Yours

kitten xx

www.princesskitten.co.uk

ODDS & SOXLETS

Erica Martin - the Creator of the Daisy and Dandelion characters - has a new range out, and I am delighted to be chosen as a designer to work with her again.

Meet  - - - - THE SOXLETS

 

  

Aren't they just sooo cute?  Erica is drawing a range of digi images using these characters - both to colour and for decoupage - as well as matching backing papers.  Every 2 months there will be a new collection which will consist of the following:

• 4 digital character stamps with sentiment/tag
• 4 character decoupage with sentiment/tag
• 8 backing papers

She will be selling the collection as individual downloads at full cost, small collections of each character at small discount and the whole collection with a larger discount! All on the Odds and Soxlets website.

Each Tuesday there will be a post from one of the design team  - and each Thursday the  post will feature either a sock monkey or other news about the development of Odds and Soxlets

Does that sound fun or what?  - I am so pleased to be working with Erica again.  Her designs are so friendly and useable.

To start us off - here is Toots - on a seriously cute door hanger for a 'little' girl.  Toots is available as a FREEBIE - there will be a freebie at the beginning of every month.  So pop over and grab your first freebie - and keep an eye on the soxlets site for all the new goodies

Yours

kitten xx

www.princesskitten.co.uk

Do You Stack Up - #22 Orange

Hey everyone!

New week, new sponsors, new Guest Designer and new inspiration by our Design Team! Wowza!

Thanks for all applications we received regarding our Design Team Call! It will be hard to choose only a few .. make sure to check back here and on Facebook to see who it will be :) Now to the important things .. hehe :D

DYSU #22 ORANGE!

Create an orange project ... not just a bit, ... C´mon, it´s SUMMER TIME!

Give us a some REAL ROCKIN´ ORANGE, ladies!!!!

This week´s sponsors:

Copic Marker Scrapbooking: 

6 copic ciao marker (North/South America), Martha Stewart punch (rest of the world)

Inky Impressions:

Challenge winners will receive 1 stamp of their choice and a goodie bag (contents chosen by the store owner)

Karen Doodles:

3 digital images of the winners choice

Please welcome our Guest Designer:

Iulia Pasca

My Adored Adorables

Now get inspired by our Design Team over at the DYSU blog

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

I used this logn cool drink image from the Copic Marker Scrapbooking site.  I printed the image twice and cut out just the top glass image.  Then I shaped it up and stuck it with silicon glue so that the glas really does shape out of the card front.  The colouring is copic - but in a wash type style - more like water colouring rather than the blended look

Yours

kitten xx

www.princesskitten.co.uk

yikes - Stretch N Bubbles

Well I don't know about you - but where did May go?  I swear someone nicked the middle 2 weeks and now it's June - do you think that means summer will be back?

Right - onwards - todays project.  I have used this great image from Stretch N Bubbles HERE.

This is such a useful image.  It's a great for either a boy or girl birthday and you could dress it up or keep it plainer like I have and it looks stunning.

This is A6 size and I have made the image very big so it is the total feature on the front.  The colouring is copic, the big spots are matching glitter, and the dots at the top are matching gems.  Great for us colouring lovers 

Sharing with -
Paper Craft Journey - anything goes

Cute Mondays - anything goesFab and Funky - what-eva
Pear Tree Designs - sparkle
Scrappy Frogs - birthday

Yours

kitten xx

www.princesskitten.co.uk

Catch up

What an amazing couple of days at The Pencil Museum Keswick - they are such lovely people - I met the fabulous Tony Hogan - who is so kind and helpful - and I met another calligrapher - first one I have ever come across.  We had the most amazing chat - I so wish she lived near and could teach me!  I bought an amazing picture of giraffes from the wildlife artist Carole Ann Peart.  There was birthday cake, and clowns, and balloons - it was just the most wonderful weekend.

And they are going to stock a small range of my cards coloured with Inktense - how cool is that?

Then this afternoon - a huge box arrived from David and Brenda over at Craft Obsessions - wow - that is the icing on the cake - thanks so much guys

Now I have tons and tons of work to catch up with because I am out again next weekend

Yours

kitten xx

www.princesskitten.co.uk

Day off

Monday is kitten's day off

yeah so that was the plan - on my way out from the pencil museum Alex said 'do you want to come tomorrow'?

Like - HOLD ME BACK!!!!

So - back in the pencil museum Keswick for another fun day - do drop in and see us if you about
woooooo - - hooooo

Rest of the week? - aww that will all fall into place!!

Yours

kitten xx

www.princesskitten.co.uk

Show

Sunday - I am at the Pencil Museum Keswick

For a great day of events

Yours

kitten xx

www.princesskitten.co.uk

GRRR

Blogger is giving me such grief tonight - it won't keep me signed in - or allow me to comment on the threads.

So I can't get on with anything - grr



Yours

kitten xx

www.princesskitten.co.uk

New Site

Hot news - sneek preview

Erica Martin - who used to design the Daisy and Dandelion range - had a new site launching in a few days called Odds and Soxlets

I am on her design team again - will update you as things develop - they are just soooo cute!!!



Yours

kitten xx

www.princesskitten.co.uk

Stretch N Bubbles

Sometimes it's nice to just fiddle about!

The Oriental Lady From the Zen collection is a new one for me and I wanted to fiddle about with the side step cards.  These facinate me and I have a frowing heep of master templates that I have made with various fold and cuts.


So I have had a lovely time cutting paper to cover all the bits - and making loads of swirls to add behind her.  I also did a quuick recap of black hair from Suzanne Dean on youtube - and was quite pleased with the way it turned out

Yours

kitten xx

www.princesskitten.co.uk

Stretch N Bubbles

I don't know about you - but I just LOVE trees

I could not resist this Spring leafy tree - and there are several more to work my way through!






I really, really did have this paperhanging about - it is a prefect match.

I coloured the tree very simply with Copics and cut it out - I cut the top off the trunk and set the trunk flat and raised the top on foam pads - it really does make the difference

Yours

kitten xx

www.princesskitten.co.uk

Do You Stack Up? Challenge - #21 Animals

Hey everyone! 

How are you doing? You are excited? Why?? 

Well, maybe because of this post :)?! Yes, it´s true! DYSU Challenge Blog is looking for 2-3 new Design Team Members and a new DT Lead Coordinator! If that aint a reason to be excited ... :D

The Call ends June 2nd and meanwhile we would love to see more of your aaaaawesome creations! No idea what to create today? Not sure which theme you would like to craft about? Unsure which paper to choose?! No problem at all! How about ...

DYSU Challenge 21: ANIMALS *roar*

Get out your animal stamps, your patterned paper or whatever you´ll find to relate to our animal theme this week!

This weeks sponsors are:

Stichy Bear: gives a $10 Gift Voucher for the shop (Stitchy Bear, Floppy Latte, Delicious Doodles images only)

and would you believe it?! Our talented Design Team member Miranda! Miranda gives 2 newly for winner-only made digital images!

Please welcome our Guest Designer

Jennifer Zeeb

"stamplified"

My name is Jenn Zeeb, I will be married 20 years on May 25 with 4 kids from 7 (first grade) to 18 (just finished her 1^st year in college). I am the PTA president at my youngest son’s school and work 2 days a week at a lunch/coffee shop. 

I have been playing with paper for as long as I can remember.  I started selling for Stampin Up, but stopped because I found out I liked buying and playing a lot more than selling.  Then I started scrapbooking and found out I have a paper hording problem. My husband calls it “kindling” but think I might have to get help one day.  I have met great people both scrapbooking an n card making, so I wouldn’t have it any other way.

Now get inspired by our Design Team over at DYSU

princesskitten


PeggySue

Denise

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• 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).
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• Mr. Linky closes at 2pm on wednesdays

I used the penguins from Stitchery Bear for this.  Have you seen the 'letters to Santa' advertised in the papers around Christmas time - more importantly - have yuo seen the cost of them!!!  So Make your own. I used a fairly heavy weight paper - full A4 size - added the digi and some text for the child to fill in - then creased it Z shape (that's ar the 10cm mark).  They sit nicely in a DL envelope which you can print Santa's address on the front and a smaller version of the digi - I just love digis!

Yours

kitten xx

www.princesskitten.co.uk

New Card

This is one of the wonderful Woodware butterfly stamps that I have just bought (3 in the set).

I stamped and embossed with silver - then I simply coloured in all the circles with a bright blue and a bright green Copic (just the 2 colours) - I filled each space with 3D glaze and left well alone overnight.

 

It is so pretty - it looks like tiny jewels and it has the most wonderful texture.

 

I am waiting fod a new shed to arrive today so I can get my summerhouse area finished - then I will take some photos for you

Yours

kitten xx

www.princesskitten.co.uk

Craft life

I love my crafting - I just love making things.  I have got to the point where I just do what I want with the end in mind and bumble about until it suits me.  I covered that little case the other week and today I needed a note book for the flat I am decorating - just something to scribblein.I did not want to go and buy one and the only one I had knocking about had been used several times over - so I covered it!

I wanted to use up some scraps (ever frugal) - so the spine is covered in one bit - than the front and back - then a thinner strip to cover the join.

It is all neatly tucked over to the inside - and the tag was in the bottom of my 'odds' box.

Super cool new life and look for an old note book

you have a go



Yours

kitten xx

www.princesskitten.co.uk