Sweetie on Kraft

Hello lovely people,

I am so thrilled and honoured to have been designing for Papercraft inspirations magazine every month throughout 2017 but I never seem to get round to sharing my projects, so I thought it was about time I did!

In the June issue I did a Masterclass on colouring on Kraft and it was a special treat to see this as the main cover card too :-)

This little fairy has always been a favourite of mine and I enjoyed the challenge of colouring her on Kraft instead of white card.

This was a very 'me' style of card too, with the shabby chic finish and pretty flowers.  Lots of the goodies on here came from The Ribbon Girl and you can find all the links at the end of my post.

I hope you are all having a good week :-)

Thanks for visiting and I really appreciate any comments that you leave,

Copic colours;
Skin: E000/E51/E30/E11/E13
Hair: E53/E57/E59
Flowers / tunic: BG02/BG05/BG07
Wings / bottom of tunic: BG0000/BG000/BG01
Leaves: G94/G99

Lovely things I've used from The Ribbon Girl;

Gossamer Blue by Lemoncraft	white cheesecloth	15mm ivory asters	miniature ivory cream blossoms
Silver leaf charm	Ivory button twine	3mm-6mm self-adhesive ivory pearls

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Other card ingredients;
Sweetie - Wee stamps for Whimsy stamps
Sentiment tags - Lili of the Valley

Little Sweetie

Hello lovely people,

I very much enjoyed a day of crafting yesterday, especially as Dr. Hubby was nowhere to be seen for most of the day since he was happily playing a newly released, and much anticipated, game for the Playstation 4!

I had a lovely time experimenting with some more of my new stamps :-)

Now, it's time for a new challenge at As You Like It and we have a lovely theme for you...

YOUR FAVOURITE...FLOWER
...and don't forget to tell us why it's your favourite!

Very appropriately given our theme, our sponsor this time is Wild Orchid Crafts with a £12 voucher

My favourite flower might be a little predictable but it's roses, even more from a card-making sense than IRL!
I love the way roses can be used on both modern and vintage style designs and of course, I love to use 3D roses on my creations, but I have them on the image and papers here too!

It's quite a 'classic Kat' kind of card but I did do a couple of tiny things differently to usual.

The biggest difference is the use of Inktense pencils to colour the image rather than my Copics, and I have to say I am loving these more and more.

I feel happy that I have now figured out how to get a nice flicking effect on the hair which I think adds a lot of texture.

I used a darker Distress Ink to edge my papers and image to give more of an 'antique' feel, so this is Gathered Twigs instead of my favourite Frayed Burlap.

I also didn't take the twine across the entire card...ok, that's a VERY tiny difference - lol!

It's funny isn't it how we all have our favourite die cuts that get used a lot and some that don't...but just sometimes are perfect for a project.  That was the case with this corner die cut that I really like but don't use a lot as it often doesn't seem to suit the card...I hope you agree it found it's niche here!

I have still used my beloved Maja DP but this is some that I haven't used before even though it's from quite an old collection and I am loving the deep blue.

I hope you will pop over to As You Like It and check out the fabulously creative projects from the rest of the team :-)

Thanks for visiting and I really appreciate any comments that you leave,

Card recipe;

Image: Sweetie - Wee Stamps for Whimsy Stamps

DP: Vintage Autumn - Maja Design (available from Live and Love Crafts)

Flowers: Wild Orchid Crafts
Twine: Ivory button twine - The Ribbon Girl

Tag: Sentiment tags - LOTV

Dies: Filigree corner - La La Land

Inktense colours;
Skin: 1800 Baked Earth, 1520 Carmine Pink, 1740 Saddle Brown
Hair: 1740 Saddle Brown, 1730 Oak, 2010 Sepia Ink
Dress / flowers: 0830 Navy Blue, 0840 Iron Blue
Leaves: 1540 Light Olive