Luna Moth

Just had to stop in for a minute, I know I am slacking again on my blog, life has just been to busy and chaotic to be crafty...anyways check this guy out. This is a Luna Moth, he is about 3-4 inches from wing tip to wing tip and about 2-3 inches long...he was beautiful! He is the LARGEST moth that I have ever seen, he was stuck in the grocery store entrance and the lady who works in the floral department got him outside. He then landed on several bags of soil, trying to recover from being inside a hot window...

Inky Hugs,
Catherine

Passion for Crafts HUGE bday giveaway

It is Debbie's bday, and she is celebrating by giving all this good stuff away over on her blog called "Passion for Crafts" so hurry on over to wish her a Happy Bday and enter to win these goodies :)!

Inky Hugs,
Catherine

"Oh Alice" challenge 13 Mushroom inspiration

I thought I would redo the card I did the other day, and even use my NEW camera (okay so it is a new to me camera)  to take the picture of the card. For those of you who are wondering I did layer several of the pieces of the card again, I layered the following pieces: her face, the cat's face, the mushrooms and I did so using dimensionals of varying sizes. I wanted to redo this card to do the "Oh Alice" Challenge 13, which you can check out and be part of too :)!

Thanks for stopping by,
Catherine

Chesire Cat Illusion

Yep, I did it again :D! This time I used Sweetpea's "Cheshire Cat Illusion" image to make this card, and I made several parts of the card dimensional again. The funny thing is you can't tell by my pictures straight on, but in person  you can...weird! I cut out seconds of the cat, the mushrooms, her face and put dimensionals on them to make them "pop" off the base image. I will be doing more images this way, gives these GORGEOUS images a new look...

Just to give you a better idea as to what I did, here is a angled shot of my card!


Inky Hugs,
Catherine

Asian card

Here is another stamp that I bought from Deborah, that I have been wanting to play with since I got it :)! I wanted to make the fan look like a real fan, I stamped out the image colored it in and then re-stamped it onto Vellum...then I cut out the Vellum fan. Once I did that, I glued it to the base stamped image on either end and along the bottom of it, so that it would flare out along the top of the fan.

You can sort of see by this picture I took of the fan, and I even made sure that both images lined up so that the color from the base stamped image would show through the Vellum.

Thanks for stopping by,

Catherine

Sweetpea Coral Immersion Card

So this morning I decided to take on a challenge for myself, what challenge is this you ask?? Well first I must say either I am crazy in attempting this or just in need of a challenge which I certainly got by doing this challenge.  I wanted to make this image pop off the page, make her more realistic looking...you can't really tell what I did by this photo but not to worry I will show you and tell you what I did.

Yep, I am crazy :p!  I did exactly what you think I did!  I stamped out this Sweetpea image 2 times, then I colored in the base image and then colored in the 2 pieces I was going to use to "pop" off the page. I cut out the 2 pieces that I used to "pop" off the base image, but before I attached them I ran the base image through the Cuttlebug using the Decal Oval Nesties. Once I did that I attached the 2 pieces that I wanted to "pop" off the page, and then I built my card up from there which didn't take me that long. I would have to say that the cutting out of the pieces that I wanted to use as the second layer was the hardest and the most time consuming. Can't wait to do this with other Sweetpea images :D!

Inky Hugs,
Catherine

PaperArtistry card

A few weeks ago at our Crafty night, Deborah brought along some of her stamps that she was looking to sell and asked us to look through them to pick out what we wanted before she posted them for sale. So I picked out a "PaperArtistry" set called "School Days plate3", and decided that this morning I wanted to make a card using this set :).  I wanted the card to be bright, so I picked out a piece of patterned paper that Val gave me in a patterned paper swap we had a few months ago...which I thought was perfect for my card :)!

Inky Hugs,
Catherine

5 Mother's Day cards

Yep, you read that correctly 5 Mother's Day cards! Why do I give out 5 Mother's Day cards?? See there is my Mother, my Mother in Law, my hubbies Nanny, there is my Birthmother (since if it wasn't for her I wouldn't be here today), and my Birthfather's wife. So I looked and looked for a great card to case, and as soon as I came across Kim MacNutt's cards I knew I found the card I wanted to do.

For each of these cards I took some designer K&CO. patterned paper and I ran it through the Cuttlebug using the Flourish Floral embossing folder. Then I added the other touches to the card after :)! 

 Just wanted to show you two close ups of the cards I made :)!  HAPPY MOTHER'S day to you all *HUGS*!

Inky Hugs,
Catherine

Ty, Brenda Santer

I went to my mailbox this morning to find this lovely card from Brenda Santer, thank you so much Brenda for such a beautiful card :)! It will be up on my crafty room wall, that is where I usually put all the cards I get from friends or other crafty souls like myself..oh yeah, this card is for the May CCE (Canadian Card Exchange). Wait a second...wow, I am impressed you are early Brenda!


Inky Hugs,
Catherine

Card for my Sunday night group

Here is the card we made last Sunday night at our "Encouragement Group" card making group :)!  Everyone, including my Father in Law did amazing with making this card and they want to make our next card harder (plus, they want to use the Nesties and Embossing Folders some more).

Thanks for stopping by,
Catherine

I AM Inktegrity May's Guest DT member

For those of you who don't know me, my name is Catherine and I am a full time stay at home mom of 3 beautiful children...am happily married to an amazing guy for 10 years this June. I LOVE to make cards but also like to alter things, photography (not a professional but love to take pictures), like to make jewelery. My other passion is trying to get better support services/resources for children with Special Needs/Learning Disabilities in all schools across the province I live in (Nova Scotia). I know no small feat, even if I don't move "mountains" at least I would have gotten people talking and perhaps then fix the seriously lacking education system for these children. You are probably wondering why this is one of my passions, well...it is because my middle child has some Special Needs that we are trying to sort out and have found out that the services in our schools are seriously lacking. If I don't speak up who will??

 Okay, so I am the guest designer team member for "Inktegrity" for the month of May, I was sent a few images from the digital set called "Monsters Ink." and here is the card I came up with using one of the images that was sent to me.  I am sorry I took this long to post my card or even say hi, but my computer and also printer were giving me a bit of trouble! I look forward to getting to know the other DT members, sharing my style of card making/craftyness and to meet a bunch of new people that share my crafty passion :). Or is it an addiction?? This card looks a whole lot better in person, sorry for the poor pic...

Inky Hugs,
Catherine