The crazy cats

The crazt cats

Had a little time tonight  to make my first  card with the Crazy Cats stamps and dies from Tim Holtz and they were great fun.

I've also included a picture of the way as Mark my dies with different nail varnish to keep the dies in groups.  I hope this might help some of you find all the bits for these dies.

Poppy Box

Needed a little box for a gift for a friend and since I had my soft finish cardstock, Distress Ink Pads and Poppy die to hand I decided to use this.

I used sponge daubers to apply the inks.  

The soft Finish cardstock will be in stock at Crafts U Love soon.

Poppy - Karen Burniston Die

Tim Holtz Distress Inks in

Carved Pumpkin

Twisted Citron

 and Mermaid Lagoon

Karen Burniston Designer Challenge - November

Hi Crafters and today and I am here with my first of two designer challenge cards for November and this month's challenge was :

Pop it Ups Video Techniques - Choose any technique from any of my Pop it Ups videos going back to the beginning and use it for a card of any theme. Put your spin on the video techniques and make them even better! It's your take on (say) an Explosion, Double Pivot, Pivot Accordion, Floating Floor, Double Lorna, Bridge Spinner, Double high Pivot, etc. Peruse my videos here:https://www.youtube.com/playlist

I chose Karen's video HERE which is the DOUBLE HIGH KATIE PIVOT

By using the double high technique it gives you even more space to add your decorations and I chose Buster and Whiskers to adorn my card.

Now you may notice that mine is a slightly different shape to Karen's. That is

due to the position that I placed the Pivot die on the folded paper at which has given me a different shape.  So you can play around with the die placement to get the the shape you would like.

Here is a close up of Whiskers.  I used white card and ink pads

to give her the colour.  Lots of inking with daubers to tie it all in together.

Here are both Whiskers and Buster, Best of friends.  There isn't a sentiment on this 

card at the moment.  But you could use it for so many different occasions.

Now I did use a lot of dies for this card and I will list them below :

Whiskers the cat

Buster the dog

Butterfly Embossing Folder

Katie Label Pivot

Butterfly from Butterfly set

Heart from Heart Pivot set

You can purchase your dies from Crafts U Love in the UK

or from Elizabeth Craft Designs HERE

Other Items Used :

The paper used was a very old Bo Bunny from my stash 

and the heart flowers are Penny Black.

Ink colour is Abandoned Coral

I will be back tomorrow with my second card for the challenge and don't forget

to check out my talented team mates.  Links on the left of my blog 

See you soon

Caz xx

Crazy Christmas

It's a Crazy Bird Sleigh ride here when Tim Holtz Crazy Birds meet Karen Burnistons Gift Card Sleigh.

Last night in my shed was all about play time, just for fun.  Shed time is precious, at most an hour or two in the evenings and mostly its been doing work stuff, or deadline stuff and last night I just wanted a bit of play time. I watched 2 episode of Game of Thrones  and I made this card. All in all a very enjoyable evening, made better since I didn't have to work today so I was able to stay up late and a lay in this morning as I didn't get up until 7.47am!!  This is a huge lay in in this house as my boys are both early birds.  

These birds work so well  with anything and bring a smile to your face!

The Sleigh of course works brilliantly with Karen Burnistons character dies

but proof it can work with other things too.

All materials from Crafts U Love.

HERE for the Karen Burniston Dies

HERE  for the Crazy Birds

Karen Burniston - Whiskers and Adirondack chair - CHA 2015

Back again and here is another sample card I made for the CHA 2015 stand.  Hard to believe that my cards were being seen by retailers from all over!!  The turn around for these cards was tight, along with the before Christmas manic time but I managed to make a few cards that I was happy with.

Here I am with the Adirondack chair and Whiskers the cat.  Adorable.  I styled the cat to be a ginger striped cat, much like Marley my old cat that lives with my Mum.

I painted the chair with some white distress crackle paint to give it a weathered look.

For Whiskers collar I used some of the A4 glitter foam sheets

these are self adhesive and come in many colours.

Glitter Foam

As well as the two above mentioned dies I used the 

All Seasons Tree, Grass from Outdoor edges, Paw from the Pet Accessories and 

postage stamp from the Rectangle Pull Card set.

The papers are Crate Paper Kiss Kiss Collection

Available to PRE ORDER very soon at

www.craftsulove.co.uk