Leather Embossed Card

Morning! I'm singing in the rain, just singing in the rain, what a glorious day... Yep, raining heavily in Yorkshire and here is my Crafty Catz GDT post for this week. (My Week 4/5.)

Challenge 232 - EMBOSSING 
Crafty Catz is a weekly challenge blog with fab bunch of talented crafters and they also have monthly GDT post and I'm Miss May so to speak :D Theme is embossing, and it could be wet embossing, heat embossing, dry embossing... You name it.

Sponsor for this week is Fitztown. Fitztown is a group of talented artists and crafters. we make a variety of products including fine art, sculpting, woodcrafts, papercraft, cardmaking and many more.

Fitztown Store

PRIZE.....3 digis of winner's choice. 

We can't wait for your creations! Join us this week (and weeks to come) at Crafty Catz. Remember to follow the theme "embossing".

I had a chance to get really beautiful leather embossed card from Papermills Direct and I used it for this creation. Image is from Fitztown. Maybe I've watched too much of The Game of Thrones? Wanted to name wolves as Ghost and Grey Wind, but chose Pearl and Diamond instead. ;)

Image is called "wild 8" and because one wolf seemed too lonely, I added mirror image to keep one company, printed it and coloured.

Wolf is a beautiful animal, one of the most beautiful I know. (At least when they are featured on the photos, pictures and framed)

Frame is handmade with old fashion ruler, scoring board, scissors and couple of test runs. And 12x12 cardstock and glue and metallic embellishments. By the way, beveled frame is NOT as difficult to make as you might think. You just need to get it sorted in your head. Well, I took my time. :D 

Eyes are highlighted with Glossy Accent to make them glow and it looks good.

Background is shaded only with a bit of metallic rub wax(?) or maybe it is chalk, no idea! Bottom part with bronze and natural white and upper part with two shades of blue. Sort of earth and sky.

Picture:

Digistamp - Fitztown "wild 8"

Cardstock - Papermills Direct Leather Embossed card 

Colours - Letraset Flexmarkers

Glossy Accent

Metallic Rub-on chalk or wax

Peel offs for naming the wolves

Frame:

12x12 sheet 

Metallic corners 

Challenges :)

Ruby's Rainbow - #79 Animals

Doodle Pantry - #46 Any Digi Goes

Lia Stampz Challenge - #64 Anything but a Card

The Crafting Cafe -  Creatures

Fan-Tastic Tuesday - One for the Guys

Through The Craft Room Door - Always Anything Goes

All Crafts Challenge - Anything but a Card

Melonheadz Friends Challenge - All about Animals

I Love Promarkers - #220 Anything Goes

Country View Challenges - Nature's Glories

Thank you!

Just for Sport

Morning, it is Friday again. What happened, because last I remember it was Monday morning! I've been told golf is a very relaxing sport. Ok, I need it. Seriously :) Not.

Here we go, this is my third week (Already! Argh! Time really flies when having fun.) Guest Designing for Crafty Catz and we have a wonderful sponsor again, this week it is KennyK! 

KennyK's Shop

Digi and rubber stamps from KennyK are a fun and edgy way to add the perfect dose of attitude and style to all of your creations!

The creator, the artist, the man: KennyK is a NYC-born professional illustrator who has brought his funky-but-slick, urban-influenced look to the cardmaking and papercrafts world. His signature style can be seen throughout his various collections of sexy pinup babes, sweet 'n sassy girls, cool rockin' dudes, kid’s stuff, retro characters and more at KennyKDownloads.com.

PRIZE

5 digi images of winners choice

This week Crafty Catz Challenge is

 #231 Just for Sport. 

Now it is time to blow few kisses to 

Jack Nicklaus, Tiger Woods and Happy Gilmore

Digistamp is from KennyK Golfer

Colours - Letraset Flexmarkers 

DP - Docrafts, Smirk, stash

Bronze colour metal corners - stash

Ribbon - stash

Brads - We R Memory Makers

Golf-a-holic pic - Smirk

Sentiment - just very normal saying and printed out

Challenges

• KennyK's Krafty Krew - AG with a twist - Male
• ABC Challenge - L is for lots of layers
• Crafty Hazelnut's Patterned Paper – AG  with Patterned Paper
• Doodle Pantry -  #46 Any Digi Goes
• 4 Krafty Girlz - # 18 AG
• Crafty Ribbons - AG with Ribbon
• Paper Crafting Journey - For That Special Man
• Just Inspirational Challenges – Anything Goes
• Through The Craft Room Door - Always Anything Goes
• Crafting from the Heart - Always Anything Goes
• Digistamps 4 Joy -  #92 Anything goes
• Penny's Paper-Crafty - #177 anything goes

Black n White +1 Other Colour

Morning all and welcome to my second Guest DT blogging for Crafty Catz! Yay, here we are with very delicious sounding challenge, # 229 and it is 

Black n White +1 Other Colour

We have TWO sponsors this week, hehee, I say "we", because it is so nice to be a GDT with other ladies/girls/catz at Crafty Catz. Generous sponsors are: 

Delicious Doodles is offering 4 images of winner's choice

MeiFlower is offering either £20 worth of goodies or £20 voucher to spend in their online store

(remember to check details from their blog)

Now photo alert! I blogged about a hundred photos because of so many details I needed and loved to share with you. Here we go:

The digi stamps are from Delicious Doodles and they are Blossom  and Iris Flower.

 

Front when card is closed tied with orhid/purple satin ribbon and bow.

Inside 

There are eyelets coloured using Flexmakers to get the same shade as ribbon. Background is distressed inked and smoothed with scissors. Foam double side tape raised embossed layer nicely up.

2 layers of Iris Flower, second layer cut by scissors! Then plenty of glossy accent and white snow glitter.

Inside again. Ribbon ends are hidden under the Iris Flower and secured with glue. Girl has no "make up", only printed using matching colour and layered it with background frame die cut. Left and right Iris Flowers are cut exactly to match the front to make it a full bunch. Not mirror image.

Because of the gap between layers I cut thin stripes and glued them on the lenght of the flower bunch.

That's it! Easy and simple. Final touch are flat back pearls on each corner. 

What did I need:

Cardstock purple, black and white - Papermill Direct

Digi stamps - Delicious Doodles.

Die cuts - Sizzix Framelits

(the bigger ones I had to draw and cut)

20x4mm and 24x3mm white flat back pearls - stash

Ribbon and eyelets - stash

Ranger Glossy Accent

Art Deco Snow Glitter

Challenges I would like to join are:

4 Crafty Chicks - #193 Flowers

4 Krafty Girlz - # 17 Anything Goes

Simon Says Stamp - Spring Flowers (Iris)

Fan-Tastic Tuesday- #34 Flourishes

Twisted Tuesday - Theme: Black & White Twist: only 1 other colour

Whoopsi Daisy - Fancy Folds

Lacy Sunshine - #32 Use your Favourite Colour 

That's Crafty! Challenge Blog - Spring Is In The Air

The Ribbon Girls - Card Challenge - Flowers

Anything but Square

Welcome!

I have an honour joining Crafty Catz as a Guest Designer for May. This is my first week out of five. Lucky me, there are FIVE Fridays in May. Yippee!

Theme for this week is "Anything but Square" and  challenge is sponsored by the popular and well known Bugaboo. Design Team is providing us all fabulous and inspirational creations HERE.

The prize is 7 images of the winner's choice from Bugaboo!

Every Friday Bugaboo offers you a free image!

Bugaboo

This is what I came up with. Image is sponsored by Bugaboo.

Anything but square, well, I chose rectangle. It all started with the image of a flower and lady bug. It cheers me up and it's lovely to colour. There are 5 different size images that I put on uneven row, printed it out and coloured all with Flexmarkers. Oh, summer, you are just around the corner!

Upper part is embossed, added it on the card, and to give a bit extra bling, there are little gems glued. It really didn't need more flowers or embellishments, because I wanted the image to be the main point of the card to let is shine. Just sentiment added. 

Now it's your turn. Create "Anything but Square" and join our challenge :) 

Big Smiles!

Cardstock - Papermill Direct

Digistamp - Bugaboo

Colours - Flexmarkers

Embossing Folder - Beatrix Potter (Crafter's Companion?)

Sentiment - Lili of the Valley

Die - Sizzix

Ribbon and gems - stash

One or two challenges, I'd like to take part are

The ABC Challenge - K for Keep It Simple
A Little Bit Crafty - Flower Power

A & T Emerald Faeries -  #55 Flowers Ribbon &/or Lace

Bearly Mine  -  Flowers

Really Reasonable Ribbon -  #94 Bright Summer Colors & Ribbon.

The Cupboard Trilogy - #21  Flowers

4 Krafty Girlz -  # 17 Anything Goes

Simon Says Stamp - Anything goes

The Sisterhood of Crafters  - Things with Wings

Whimsy Inspiration - #70 Anything Goes 

Thanks for popping by! Till next time.

Annie