You are a star

Good Morning everyone

Today im sharing a 'You are a Star' card I made for a friend, she is a super star for sure.  I used my new XL star dies from Creative products which have a lovely cut out detail to the edges for a bit of interest. 

Size approx 8x8" with star points.   I used an old pennyblack koolkats stamp with this kitty on his surf board which I stamped onto white card and then die cut into a star, I then watercoloured with distress inks.  I stamped the cat a 2nd time, cut out just the cat and decoupaged onto the base image.  

I found a blue toned paper which has beach icons printed onto it which I die cut with the largest star and added to a star die cut from white card.  I die cut a another star from more white card, scored about an inch down on one of the points and adhered to the back thus making it a stand up card.

Taking 2 smaller stars I die cut a frame from white card, I wanted this raised and thought would be a nightmare to add foam pads to the shape so I die cut another 2 frames from scrap card from packaging, these I adhered to the back of the white frame and it gave it some height. This I then added to the cardfront.

I then adhered my cat topper into the middle.  Adding frosted lace stickles to the foam on the surf for a little subtle sparkle.

Sentiment made up from die cut letters and chit chat stickers on kraft card to pick up on the tones in the cat and a contrast to all the blue and white.

Showing it stood up

Just a close up of surfing kool kat.  Although my cats don't mind water and one has been known to go swimming, I think surfing is out of the question😁

Items Used:

Pennyblack kool kats stamp set

Creative Craft products 'torn edge supersize nestables' nested stars

Crafters companion alpha dies

CraftUk ltd smooth white & kraft card

Tim Holtz kraft chit chat stickers

Distress Inks 'tumbled glass, salty ocean, vintage photo, aged mahogany, wild honey'

Ranger stickles 'frosted lace'

12x12 paper pad from the works

Thank you all for stopping by once again and all your amazing comments on my previous makes, I do appreciate you taking the time. Big hugs Emmax

Id love to enter the following:

https://craftyanimals.blogspot.com/2025/05/challenge-94.html - 2nd entry

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https://2craftycrittercrazies.blogspot.com/2025/05/critter-crazy-98-theme-of-anything-goes.html - 2nd entry

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https://craftygalscornerchallenges.blogspot.com/2025/04/challenge-266-fill-in-blank-adorable.html - adorable cats

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https://girlzrebelchallenge.blogspot.com/2025/05/challenge-40-alles-mag-met-een-plaatje.html

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https://www.stampingsensations.uk/2025/05/may.html

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April showers bring may flowers

Good Morning everyone

Last month i was lucky to win this lovely penny black stamp called 'the bunch' so this is my first outing for it, not my usual style of image but its lovely to try something different and its such a lovely spring image with the tulips.

7x7" white scalloped cardbase.  I stamped and coloured the image with alcohol markers - very simply coloured as i don't have the patience for colouring in and for once i managed to stay pretty much inside the lines😁

I matted rainbow paper onto gold holographic card and then the base card.  I die cut the image into a circle, die cut a white card circle frame for it and matted onto a fancy circle die cut from gold holographic card - I actually die cut the fancy circle from the middle of my square mat layer so it makes the card go further.  

Clearly besotted sentiment stamp onto a white oval and then matted onto a fancy oval die cut again from the gold holographic card. 

Items Used:

Penny black Mo Manning stamp 'the bunch' 40-603

Clearly besotted sentiment stamps 'seasonal sayings'

Spellbinders grand circles and grand fancy circles

CraftUK ltd 7x7" scalloped card blanks

Alcohol markers

Kaisercraft paper pad 'fine & sunny'

Thank you all for stopping by.  I hope its a good week for you. Emmax

Id love to enter the following with my 1st card:

http://craftygalscornerchallenges.blogspot.com/2023/04/challenge-242-easter-spring.html

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https://www.simplyellibelle.com/2023/04/i-spy-with-my-little-eye-april-showers.html

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https://papercraft-challenges.blogspot.com/2023/04/challenge-93-spring.html

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https://thefourseasonschallenge.blogspot.com/2023/05/spring-season-may-2023-challenge.html

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https://allsortschallenge.blogspot.com/2023/05/week-727.html

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Opulent Orange

Good Morning everyone.

Well i must say joining in my first blog hop last week was brilliant fun, seeing how everyone used up little snippets is inspiring. Thank you to everyone that visited and left comments on my butterfly card.   Hopping to one of those blogs i came across a new challenge blog to me rainbowcardchallenge with the theme for this month being 'Orange Opulence' it really sparked my imagination.  Nice warm colours while we had the snow and ice.

I decided to go with a floral image and use a stencil for the background.  This will be a year for stencils i think after getting lots for Christmas.  Ive gone with a simple Oxide ink sponged through my stencil here. 

6x6" white cardblank.  I first took a piece of white card, taped on my stencil and using distress Oxide inks sponged through in a ombre effect, lighter in the middle and darker at the outside.  Greeting stamped in black. I then die cut it with a stitched square die, with the die being slightly larger than the stencil edge it gives a nice white border.  I mounted this onto burnt orange card and then my cardbase. 

I stamped my pennyblack lily stamp twice, coloured them in with wink of stella pens, i fussy cut out all of one and then just the main flower of the second one, i decoupaged them and then added to the card front. Orange glitter gems to finish.

Close up on the flower, you can make out the glittery sparkle wink of stella pens better.  I added some white gel pen highlights to the stamens.

Items Used:

Pennyblack slapstick cling 'Tiger Lily' stamp

Crafters companion sentiment stamp

Oxide inks - spiced marmelade, wild honey & ripe persimmon

Kuretake wink of stella pens

Mylar Stencil

Stitched square dies

Id like to enter the following:

rainbowcardchallenge/challenge-2-orange-opulence

bastel-traum.blogspot.com - stencil - background stencil

pennybfriendssaturdaychallenge -feb- flowers - tiger lily

Thank you once again for stopping by, i hope you have a good week. Emma

Dads Birthday

Good Morning everyone.

Today im sharing the 2 cards i made for my dads birthday last month.  The first one is another one of those triple panel cards ive been making and the second one isn't an normal male card but i was given a lovely stamp by stampendous and a Mo Manning lady cycling image and it just reminded me of fun postcards you can get in France which my dad has collected over the years of going to Brittany.  He loved both of them. 

So to make the card blank, take an A4 sheet of card, from the left score 3", 1", 2.5", 1" & 3", cut off the extra on the end.  And then cut as high as you like, i used a 6x6" paper so by the time i added my 2 layers for matting it took the card height to 7".  You can easily change all these figures, but its a starting point for those of you who asked how i made them. 

After picking the tree pattern paper i picked out olive green and Chocolate brown mirror card to mat and layer.  I die cut the MFT leaves from the olive green and chocolate mirror card and layered together.  I die cut an oval from the same cream card i used for the base card and layered up on larger ovals.  Computer printed sentiment die cut into a circle. Copper nail head gems to finish.

Just a close up.

Onto the 2nd card i made dad.

A5 white cardbase. I stamped the image & sentiment onto white hammered cardstock, doodled in some ground and a breton style hat, i then watercoloured with distress inks.  I stamped a second image and cut out and decoupaged onto the first one to add some dimension.  Mounted onto black card and then the cardbase.  All corners rounded. 

A close up.

Items Used:

MFT layered leaves die set

Spellbinders oval dies

Tree pattern paper

Penny Black slapstick Mo Manning 'Enjoy the ride' stamp

Justrite sentiment stamp

CraftUk ltd white card

Thank you for stopping by.  I hope you all have a good weekend.  Hugs Emma

Just Wanted to say Hi!

Good Morning everyone, i hope you are enjoying a sunny bank holiday.  

Today im sharing some simple hello cards trying out my new Katzelkraft stamps and my old favourites of brushos & pixie powders.  

6x6 white cardblank.  Using the stamp platform i first stamped my 2 dogs onto white card, being silhouettes the stamp platform is ideal for repeat stamping to build up a nice even black image and then added the sentiment.  After die cutting into a square i used turquoise brusho and purple pixie powders and spirzed with water and left to do its magic.  Adding the pixie powders adds a lovely pearlised shimmer.  Mounted onto black card and then the base card.  Orange gems to embellish.

Same as above just using gambage brusho and red pixie powder, blue gems to finish.  On each of them i doodled in some ground for them to sit on with a black fine liner pen.

and now the cats..

I first stamped the cat stamp, again using the stamp platform so i could get them nice and back.  I then die cut into a stitched octogen and added gambage brusho and red pixie powder.  I love the gambage brusho as its has a mix of colours in it.    Mounted onto black and then a 5x5 white card blank, cutting to the octogen shape. Blue gems to finish.

and a blue version.  

Items used

Katzelkraft stamps - cat 'Solo27'.  

Dogs - Solo30 & Solo31

Penny black stamp - 'Kool Kats' - the sentiment

Memory box stitched octogen die

Brushos

Cosmic Shimmer Pixie Powders

Thank you for stopping by and all your comments last week.  I hope you all have a good week.  Emma



I wish to enter:
craftyanimals 14 - anything goes

daisychainchallenge - Animals

A Mixed Medley of thank yous

Good Morning all.  

Thank you for the welcome back and all your views and comments on mondays card.  Today im sharing a few thank you cards i made recently.  All very different. 

This first one was to thank a good friend who sent me lots of lovely crafty goodies to 'play' with.   First i stamped the lily twice, once onto the topper and the 2nd one to cut out the flower and decoupage.  I coloured it all with Wink of Stella pens and added some splats to the background.  I die cut using tattered lace square die (you don't want to know how long ive had them without using!!!)  Matted onto a Turquoise 6x6 card blank.  Die cut thank you and gems added.

Close up catching the mica in the wink of stella pens.  I also added highlights with a white gel pen. 

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This 2nd one was is a thank you for looking after the cats while i was away,  I made 2 the same as Tilly goes to the farm to stay when im away and the other two stay at home being looked after. 

I first die cut the collage circle design then using my stamp platform i lined up the cat stamp so that its front paws were over the die cut as it its was hanging on, using the stamp platform i could stamp over the cat 3 times to get a lovely dark silhouette on the linen card. I then stamped the greeting. Due cut into a square and mounted onto a 6x6 black pearl cardblank. 

Close up, i slotted a scrap of orange card behind the 'aperture' 

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And below a simple CAS thank you to thank my neighbour for feeding my hedgehogs while i was away.

  First I die cut the floral border, mounted on foam pads over a scrap of brusho/pixie powder card.  Glitter glue to finish. 3x5" card

Close up showing the die cutting better.

Items Used:

Penny Black Slapstick Tiger-Lily 

Kuretake Wink Of Stella Pens

Tattered Lace 'Decorative Edge Square' dies

Katzelkraft MINI Catz 002 stamp

Poppystamps ring collage die 1760

Floral border die - make unknown

Stampin up 'curly cute' sentiment stamp

Thank you for stopping by.  I hope you have a lovely day. Emma 

A little cat card

Good Morning everyone, 

Today im sharing a simple little card to thank a friend who sent something for Suki the cat, Suki is black so thought it was apt trying out my new katzelkraft stamp.  The design is by katzelkraft and just my take on it.  

Ironically as id added the ink splats Suki came to add a helping hand and they turned into drops, so this card was definitely a joint thank you from Suki and I.  Many of you know the state Suki was in when I took her on, a year on and she is an amazing healthy fit cat, so all those vets bills and TLC were worth it, she is also settling down and much less nervous.  

DL white card blank, black patterned paper, white card layer, i found the card easier to roll back after wetting it to soften the layers.  I had stamped the cat first so could get the right placement of the 'tears'  Ink splats and sentiment to finish. 

Items Used:

Katzelkraft Cat - Mini 002

Penny Black - Kool Kats (sentiment)

Distress inks cracked pistachio, tumbled glass & ripe persimmon

As many of you know its my birthday today and i have a lovely big pile of amazing handmade cards to open, so thank you to you all, i will of course get around to thanking you all personally in a few days.  I have blood tests to kick start the morning - what fun, but then its a day with the family, with lunch in a restaurant over looking the beach and sea which im sure we will get down onto afterwards with the children.  

Ive been spoilt with lots of crafty presents too.  

I hope you all have a good day too.  Hugs Emma