Handicrafts by Kate Perry and other ramblings

Thursday, February 13, 2014

I don't do cute!


Well I don't do cute very often anyway. It's not that I don't like cute images - I see loads that I like when I am browsing blogs, but I have very few recipients of my cards that 'cute' is really suitable for, and I don't make cards to sell. But once in a while it nice to have a go, so here is what I made this week.

I bought a few stamps in the LOTV sale last month, and one of them was this cute bunny sailing down in an acorn cup. I coloured the image with copics and cut it out with a sizzix label die. I then routed through my snippets boxes and found the end of a blue/brown striped paper that I really like, and some computer printed blue crackle paper, and used these to create a background. I then found a little piece of pale brown that matched the stripes, and cut round the outside of the die to make a mat for the image. I used a piece of dark green card to cut a leafy corner, (I have forgotten what make this die is), and the last of the blue crackle bits to cut out some flowers using a cottage cutz die. The sentiment is an old Elusive images stamp. Although I have a huge selection of it, I couldn't find any ribbon the right colour, so I used a couple of ink pads to add colour to some white seam binding, and tied a bow for the top corner. Some tiny blue pearls in the centre of the flowers finished it off.
I shall be linking this one up to Pixie's Snippets Playground Week 111.

8 comments:

Dragon said...

Cute this definitely is.

Sarn said...

Morning Kate . . . well you may not do "cute" very often, but you've done "cute" brilliantly here!

Happy Friday. Have a great weekend.

Hugs, Sarn xxx

Jean said...

This is gorgeous, I love the cute image, and the backing papers you used are just perfect.
Jean x

Di said...

Aw, this is gorgeous Kate. As others have said, even if you don't do cute very ofter, you sure cracked this one. Such a sweet image, and how clever to colour the binding to match.

Hugs, Di xx

Saskia said...

Love the flowered corner die.

JoZart Designs said...

I too don't do cute but that is so gorgeous. Isn't the little bunny just adorable?
Jo x

scrappymo! said...

This is lovely...The colours you chose and the design help it not look Cute! I think it looks wonderful.

LesleyG said...

So very cute, and I really love those blue flowers xxx