New toy - emmm tool

You know me - I am not one for gadgets and gizmos - but I have to confess that I have just bought a Hougie board.

I love making boxes and purses - and as I spend so much time on American sites all the instructions are for the Score-pal and Score-buddy.  I spend ages trying to work it out for my trimmer with the score blade in - and usually am out a bit - with the line not quite straight etc - etc.

So I invested in a Hougie.  The best place to get one I found was direct from the hougie site.  Much cheaper than Ebay or Amazon - and no postage.  Arrived beautifully packed by recorded mail in a couple of days - thanks Hougie.

So here we go - simple test tube box

I have great hopes of spending a couple of days next week sorting out all my box template notes and getting them into some sort of usable state!


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Cuddly buddly - Let's Keep Crafting - Amything but a card

This weeks $1 digi from Stretch N Bubbles is a darling little ghost

Yours

kitten xx

www.princesskitten.co.uk

Shelly's Images - Fall Friends - Layers

Shelly's Blog - HERE
Shelly's Images shop - HERE

This week we are working with the 'Fall Friends' images and the theme is layers.


I hope you can see what I have done - it looks really cool!


I 'copy and pasted' my image so I had 2 the same size - and I cut out just the pumpkin body for the top layer.  Then I cut out the eyes / nose / mouth and outlined them with black to exagerate the contrast.  I put some vrey shiny yellow 'crackle' pattern paper over the back pumpkin and raised the front with foam squares

Do join us with this weeks challenge for layers on the BLOG

Sharing with -
Crafting For All Seasons - Fall flowers / pumpkins
The Paper Shelter - Animals
Simon Says Stamp - Halloween / goth
Paper Pretties - Halloween

Yours

kitten xx

www.princesskitten.co.uk

Do You Stack Up? #41 - Use your scraps

Hey everyone! So glad to have you back this week at Do You Stack Up?! This week we want you to Use Your Scraps!

This week's Sponsors:

A Day For Daisies $16 gift certificate

Just Some Lines $15 Gift Certificate

Pink Cat Studios Winner’s Choice of 5 Digis

Please Welcome our Guest Designer!

E.T.

VIBGYOR Krafts

"Helloww! I am E.T. of VIBGYOR Krafts from Karachi, Pakistan. It's not because I am tall, lanky and green that I am called E.T., they are my initials :o) All the guys used to call me that in school because it was SO cool to have initials "ET", well it just kinda stuck and now it's like a 'real' name! Anyway,  I am so honoured and thankful to the DT for choosing me as a guest designer. I was told that the challenge this week would be "to use your scraps", I was kinda happy about it. Here in Karachi we have ZERO craft supplies so I treasure every bit of RAK I get, yes... I save every bit of scrap left from designer papers... even the free digi papers that I print out. You wont believe it but I even save my bad Silhouette cuts and I DO use them in my creations... no one can tell they aren't cut well after I am done working on them! All my creations that you are seeing today are made up of scraps left from various digi papers and CS. Hope you like my work and I'd love it if you stop by "my place" < vibgyorkrafts.blogspot.com> to leave a lil love."

Now get inspired by our Design Team!

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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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I love A Day For Daisy images - you can always spot the style across the room.  And they work so hard - there is new stuff all the time, theamed to the time of year or just for fun. I used all my scraps as the background - and I will give you a quick 'how to' on how to create the effect

For the background

Take some patternen paper - one print or several

Tear it up into rough scraps and ink all the edges - the rougher the better 

 Stick all the bits overlapping ramdonly on to a piece of backing card larger than you will need. Don't worry about securing all the tiny edges - just get it down!

 Then cover the whole lot with a good dollop of PVA - use one of these plastic glue spreaders to work the glue well over the whole surface and scrape off any excess so you don't get big lunps

Leave it to dry OVERNIGHT before you try to cut it into the shape you want. Yours

kitten xx

www.princesskitten.co.uk

Odds & Soxlets

Super cool - quick and easy project for you ready in time for the Trick or Treaters ariving on a door step near you VERY SOON - how quick has this year gone?

Erica also includes a pre-coloured image with the digi images.  This is handy to use as a colour guide - to use if you don't like to colour - or if you want to make tiny images that would be too small to colour.  The Haloween images I have used are HERE

Digi magic - insert the image onto a blank page in your PC program.  Make it quite small and copy and paste loads of times.  Then add the other image and do the same.  Spread and mix the images all over your page.  Use the 'rotate' tool to swing them round - make them unside down - sideways - anything.  Print the page and use it to make your project

This is the basic cone pattern - 1/4 circle drawn at the corner of a piece of paper - you can choose any size you want - just stick the edges together with double sided tape and fill with sweeties

Yours

kitten xx

www.princesskitten.co.uk

Stretch N Bubbles

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I love this little chaps big flicky tail - and I thought up a brilliant sentiment for another style of gift bag.

I really must get all my gift bag/box patterns sorted out so they are easy to find - rather than a tatty heap of scrawled notes shoved in a box!

This is kind of a cross between a bag and a purse
 

Comment to win!! -We are starting something fun and new over at SNB. If you would like the chance to win FREE digital stamps, all you have to do is comment on each post. The more posts you comment on that week, the better chance you have of winning. We will pick 2 random girls each week to win 2 Free digital stamps of their choice from the shop! I hope you will join us!


Comment on the Stretch and Bubbles Blog HERE

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Yours

kitten xx

www.princesskitten.co.uk

Day off

Mondsay is Kitten's day off

Don't forget every Monday Shelly has a new $1 digi image (that's 64p - cheaper that chocolate!). This week the image is

And is available HERE




Yours

kitten xx

www.princesskitten.co.uk

Yours

kitten xx

www.princesskitten.co.uk

Odds & Soxlets

Hanging on like crazy to the last of the summer images - won't be long before everything is winter.

This is Taio in a tree - available from Erica HERE



And this is my first mini pizza box.  I got the pattern from Papercraft Planet - the Tuesday 3D challenge is great if you like boxes and purses


I cut off the tree branch and tried to make it look as if he is swinging from the star.  He is raised on joam pads so you lotes of interisting shadows with the Swiss dots backgrouns.  It's a diddy little box - just right for a gift card - cinima tickets - beads (the guys are all into beads at the moment???) or memory stick.

Erica has been sewing and drawing like crazy and there are loads of handmade monkeys (and friends) in the pipeline - plus new digis for Christmas.  Check out the website and facebook

Yours

kitten xx

www.princesskitten.co.uk

Couple of small quickies for you to day - a tip for a new bow style and a new website for our canine friends

Jingle bells are all the rage this Christmas - but how to use them in a way that looks stylish and grown up?  New 'bow' style for you

Just how beautiful is this?

You will need 5 or 6 different style ribbons - mix up think and thin ribbons with glitter or fluffy fibres.  Cut short lengths - make then all slightly different.  Tie together by wrapping a crochet cotton thread (or similar) and thread it through the bell loop to attach the bell.  Tie very tightly so you can push and pull the ribbon lengths about to spread them out a bit.  Attach to the card with a glue gun or silicone glue.

or - use a wire to bind the ribbons together and curl the ends of the wire

or - you could stitch to a cushion.  - Just something a bit different.

My dogs have a new fave web side!

I - WE - met these guys at a show and just fell in love with their cookies.  Seriously - you should just smell the peanut butter ones!

The girls back everything themselves and the biscuits use gluten free flours and no preservatives for the highest standards and tastiest treats, There are cup cakes (soooo cute), chocolates, lollipops chews and shoes as well as the cookies.  My dogs favorite is the paw cookie with chocolate pads - they use molasses for the sweetness and the dogs love it.

Pop over to their site and support a genuine up and coming small business venture - I wish them all the luck in the world.  When I open my little shop (he-he-he) I will have a box a week to sell

Yours

kitten xx

www.princesskitten.co.uk

Life

Bit of an iddy-biddy mish mush of a post today - all sorts of things to cover

Good or bad first?
Better mix things up a bit.

Stretch and Bubbles $1 today

Get The Telegraph this Saturday and Sunday this weekend - there is a FREE Cath Kidston pattern book each day.

I have got my sewing machine at the flat now and I am re-discovering sewing.  I made the 'mistake' of going into Reticule the other day.  My-oh-my - a jewal box in fabrics!!!!!!!!  Just devine - and yes I did.  Going to make a Christmas table centre - then a patchwork cat pillow - then ........

My health has taken another back step this summer.  I can no longer do manual work.  I have always loved to do DIY - putting furnature together - restoring Charity shop finds - digging the garden - growing veg - doing all my own painting and decorating etc.  I baught one of those simple pine shoe racks and I could not put it together.  I just did not have the strength to screw in the screws.  I had moticed that I was struggling to sand up some an old dresser that I had picked up - but thought I would just pace myself.  Not a chance.  I can still do a bit of light manual work - bit of painting - hang 2 strips of wall paper - sweep the pation - but that's it.  No more DIY.  Mind you there are those who say a girl should not be hammering - sawing - and scewing things anyway.

Speeking of the flat - I finally took a photo of the living room.  Excuse the grotty lighting - I could not make the flash work

I painted the walls a pale pink - and baught a roll of wall paper with big motifs on it.  The shapes were leaves and art deco looking flowers in loads of different sizes and the are all glittery - yes glitter on a wall paper!  I spent a couple of very happy afternoons cutting out all the motifs - then I scattered them in one corner of the room and trailed them out along the 2 walls to the other corners - it looks so cool (and is son proof)
Lastly - the weather - what's that all about then?  Sunbathing on the beach Sunday - giant hail stones Thursday - talk about time passing too quickly 6 months gone in 3 days
Yours

kitten xx

www.princesskitten.co.uk

shelly's Images - TTT Challenge Somethin' Sweet.

Welcome to another week with Shelly - this week we are looking for Somethin' Sweet

See all the other designers' work on SHELLY'S IMAGES BLOG.  Here is my card.

I love how we all get the same image to work with - it really makes you think about being a bit different.

This week we have a mug image (in the shop HERE) - could be tea - coffee - hot chocolate - and guess what most of us went for!!!!

I made mine with a pocket so that you can tuck one of those sachets of Hot chocolate in - and I chose the card colours to match the packet.

The mat is a hamner tecture gold card that I drew gold swirls over - and the word pattern on the mug is a rub on that just happened to be the right colour.  There are die cut swirls in blue and gold useding my fave die.

Almost makes you look forward to winter - - almost ;-)

Yours

kitten xx

www.princesskitten.co.uk

Do You Stack Up? #40 - Brown

Hi everyone and welcome back to a new challenge at Do You Stack Up?!  In many areas, the weather is starting to turn a little chilly and the leaves are changing. The scent of autumn is in the air and with this wonderful season upon us we begin to think of the colors of the season. This week, while you don't necessarily need to make an autumn themed project, we would like to see you use the color Brown.

This week's Sponsors:

Copic Marker Scrapbooking 6 Copic Ciao Markers (North/South America), Martha Stewart punch (rest of the world)

Crafty Emma £10 Gift Voucher (exc p&p)

Delicious Doodles Winner’s Choice of 4 Digis

Please Welcome our Guest Designer!

 Chris Veneruso

Easily Amused

I’ve been an avid Arts and Crafter since I was able to hold a crayon. I particularly enjoy needlework and papercrafts, don’t even think about taking my sewing machine away. Papercrafts are the current obsession. Throwing clay and tatting are the two things that are on my “to learn” list.

When I retired I moved from New Jersey to Florida and love living in the Sunshine State. I miss my friends and the proximity of NYC but I don’t miss the cold or snow.

I’m fortunate to live with a supportive family, hubby, daughter and kitty and proud to see my daughter expressing herself through her drawings and paintings.

Now get inspired by our Design Team!

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.

This has to be the height of luxury - A Faberge egg.  The image is from Copic Marker Scrapbooking and you can get it HERE if you fancy living the rich life!  You may not think of them as first choice ro look for an image - but they do a lot of Digi images as well as oother stuff.  I have use several now and they are super quality.

I kept the egg as simple as possable - but there is lots of gold sparkle prn in there!  I use the Copic glitter pens  Atyou Spica - there are loads of colours - very glittery - and cheaper than Jelly Rolls (Cult Pens - wonderful chaps).  The ribbon band I made myself by pleating and pinning a wide ribbon and then stitching to keep in place.

Yours

kitten xx

www.princesskitten.co.uk

Stretch N Bubbles

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This is such a great image - it could be sisters - or friends - or a get-together.

The papers are actually this years Christmas release from Tatty Teddy - really pretty and delicate - not at all Christmas like.  And I embossed the background paper wth the embossing folder to match

Comment to win!! -We are starting something fun and new over at SNB. If you would like the chance to win FREE digital stamps, all you have to do is comment on each post. The more posts you comment on that week, the better chance you have of winning. We will pick 2 random girls each week to win 2 Free digital stamps of their choice from the shop! I hope you will join us!

Comment on the Stretch and Bubbles Blog HERE


Sharing with
Digital Tuesday - We like to party
Jen's Digital - Let's Hear it for the girls
Paper Take Weekly - Anything goes (it's their birthday)
Sweet Stamps - Anything goes
Crafty cardmakers - Anything goes
Cutie Pie Challenge - Bingo - lilac - 2 papers - sentiment


Yours

kitten xx

www.princesskitten.co.uk

Day off

Monday is kitten's day off

Bring it on

But with my luck

Yours

kitten xx

www.princesskitten.co.uk

opps!

UMMMM - you know all that tidying up?  All the clearing out, dusting and sorting stuff - the promise to re-form?

Well I have been really busy getting next week's projects ready and listing the blog posts - and I got in a pickle

Somewhere under that lot in my new weekly 'to do' planner - that's gonna work then ;-)

Yours

kitten xx

www.princesskitten.co.uk

Tip or the day

Got a really neat trick for you today - this is so simple - and so clever

- punch a pattern on all 4 front corners of your card

- this works with ALL Martha Stuart corner punches

First - punch your outer corners as normal

Then push one of the 'wings' in to the closed position.  Have a look at the side of the punch - bet you never noticed there was a little line at the bottom - just by where the wing pulls out!

Now - open up the card - line up the open wing with the paper - and that little line with your scored fold

Top view -

Side view - see how the line on the punch is along the fold line?

And PUNCH

Then push the out 'wing' in and pull the in 'wing' out and do the other corner

I added an extra border at the outer corners - Just how cool is this!!!

 REALLY clever people can work out the sizes and punch all around the card front - I quite like the variation

Have fun ;-)

This tip came from my dear friend Janet at The Paper Warehouse

Yours

kitten xx

www.princesskitten.co.uk