Snowy and sparkly

Good evening everyone

The challenge at The Ribbon Girl this week is 'make it sparkly' and here is my card for this challenge -

As you can see it is another easel card and has been made using Spellbinder's Grand decorative circles one. I have used this technique previously on a card called Anniversary wishes. If you click on the link the blog post will show you how it is done. The image is from LOTV and is called Snow Angel. It has been coloured with the following Promarkers -

• bear - warm grey 1, warm grey2 and warm grey 3
• coat, hat and boots - pastel blue, arctic blue, sky blue, midnight blue and icicle
• scarf - aegan blue and french navy
• snow - ice grey 1

I put lots of glitter on the hat and the snow. I cut the image out using the smallest Spellbinder's Grand decorative circles 1 and inked whilst still in the die with tumbled glass distress ink. Once I'd removed it from the die I inked the edges with tumbled glass distress ink. The papers are from LOTV frosty Christmas paper pad and I matted and layered the next 2 sizes of the die cuts as shown. Using Die'sire snowflake die I cut several from 2 colours of glitter card and added them to the card as shown. I added blue gems from The Ribbon Girl to the centre of the snowflakes.

To create the stopper I cut a Memory Box Frostyville border from white centura pearl card and wrapped some blue velvet ribbon from The Ribbon Girl around the border. I added it to the card with foam tape. I stamped and heat embossed with silver embossing powder a sentiment from LOTV handwritten Christmas sentiments and cut out using Spellbinder's Resplendent rectangles. Whilst still in the die I inked it with tumbled glass distress ink and then added it to the stopper.

I would like to enter this card into the following challenge -

http://www.ribbongirls.blogspot.co.uk/ - make it sparkly (October challenge)

Thank you for stopping by

Lesley

Aother winner

Hello

I can't believe it - I won the Magnolia challenge this week at The Ribbon Girl blog. This is the card that won - 

Many thanks to Mary and Andrea - can't wait to go shopping at The Ribbon Girl.

Thank you for stopping by.

Lesley

Ding dong merrily on high

Hello

Good Sunday afternoon to you all. I hope you are all enjoying this beautiful weather we are having today. Winter seems an awful long way off but to bring things back to earth here is another Christmas card -

Today's card uses an image from Crafter's companions Makey Bakey mouse range and is called Christams carols. He is so cute. It has been coloured with the following Promarkers -

• mouse - ivory, oatmeal, spice, burnt orange, terracotta, baby pink, pastel pink, warm grey 1 and warm grey 2
• coat and hat - red, poppy, berry red, ice grey 1 and ice grey 2
• song sheet - cool grey 1, pine green and berry red
• sky - pastel blue
• shadow - cool grey 1

I cut the image out using Spellbinder's decorative labels 22 and inked whilst still in the die with tumbled glass distress ink. Once I'd removed the image from the die I inked around the edge with antique linen distress ink. I cut a border using Die'sire Lace border 6 on a piece of red paper from a Boofle paper pad and matted it onto another piece of paper from the same pad. I embossed a piece of red card stcok with a music Embossalicious embossing folder and rubbed over with some gold gilding wax. I then added the image as shown.

I then cut several pieces of holly using a Dies'sire die and some green core'dinations and several pieces of ivy using a Marianne die and the same green Core'dinations.

I arranged them on the card as shown and added some red dew drops (from The Ribbon Girl).

I stamped one of the sentiments from the stamp set with versamark and heat embossed with gold embossing powder. I then cut the sentiment out using Spellbinder's Marvelous squares and inked whilst still in the die with tumbled glass distress ink. Once I had removed it from the die I inked around the edge with antique linen distress ink.

To finish I added some pearls again from The Ribbon Girl.

 I would like to enter this card into the following challenge -

http://ilovepromarkers.blogspot.co.uk - challenge 188 - songs - which is of course the carol Ding Dong Merrily on High.

Thank you very much for stopping by.

Lesley

A smile sentiment

Good morning folks

Yeah its Saturday once again and its also my sister in laws birthday and here is the card I made for her -

I have tried to switch the focus of the card to the sentiment on this card. It is a fantastic saying and is from LOTV Quotables - Friendship (set 62).

I cut it out using Spellbinders Butterflies circles and inked whilst still in the die with tumbled glass distress ink. I removed it from the die and then ink the other edge of the die cut with tumbled glass distress ink. The papers are from LOTV and Raspberry Road Beach bliss paper pad. I matted and layered a 6inch square card blank as shown and wrapped some lace from the Ribbon Girl around the card. I then added the sentiment topper. The lovely little cat is again from LOTV and is called Thomas - flower (ST027). I have coloured it with the following Promarkers - 

• Thomas - cinnamon, henna and cocktail pink
• flowers - cool aqua, duck egg, turquoise, saffron, blush, grass and emerald green
• sky - pastel blue
• shadow - cool grey 1

I cut Thomas out and added him to the card with Pinflair for added dimension. I then cut several flowers and a flourish from the papers using Spellbinder's Floral doily accents, Anemone flower topper and Venetian motifs.

I added the flowers to the card base and to finish added pearls to the centre of the flowers.

Happy Birthday Caroline.

Thank you for stopping by.

Lesley

Vegetable patch

Hello

Today is my dad's birthday and here is the card I made for him -

The image I have used is from LOTV and is called Vegetable patch (ST417) and I have coloured it with the following Spectrum Noirs -

• carrots - OR1, OR3, DG3 and DG4
• robin - GB5, DR4, EB5 and EB6
• spade - EB7, EB8, GG2 and GG3
• skin - FS2, FS4 and FS6
• hat and boots - TB1, TB3 and TB5
• trousers - GB7, GB9 and GB11
• shirt - TB4
• pots - TN5 and TN7
• hair - EB7
• soil - EB4 and EB6
• sky - IB1
• seed packets - EB1, DG2 and OR3

I cut the image out using Spellbinder's label 29 and inked whilst still in the die with tumbled glass distress ink. I then cut a faux nestie from Kraft card and matted the image onto it. I matted a piece of paper from LOTV Petal fresh paper pad onto another piece of Kraft card. I cut a Lala land heart fence from Kraft card and added it to the card base as shown. I then added the image using foam pads to the card base. I then stamped some seed packets using a stamp from Docrafts Home to nest range and coloured the image with the following Spectrum Noirs -

• EB1, JG2, JG3, DG3, DR3 and DR6

I cut the image out and added it to the card base as shown. I also cut some clouds, a spider, some pots and some gardening tools from scraps of cardstock using Memory Box dies. These were added to the card as shown.

To finish I stamped a sentiment using Docrafts Nostalgia past times stamp set, cut with labels 29, inked whilst still in the die with tumbled glass distress ink and matted onto a faux nestie of Kraft card. I then added this to the centre of the card as shown.

I would like to enter this card into the following challenge -

http://www.allsortschallenge.blogspot.co.uk - how does your garden grow

Happy Birthday to my Dad

Thank you for stopping by

Lesley

One for the boys

Good evening everyone

The Magnolia challenge at the Ribbon Girl is "One for the boys" so here is my creation -

The image is called Game on Edwin and has been coloured with the following Promarkers -

• hair - henna
• skin - ivory, blush and satin
• jumper - poppy red and berry red
• trousers - aegan, french navy and sunflower
• hat and boots - sunflower, gold, berry red, ice grey 3 and ice grey 4
• gloves - ice grey 1

I cut the image out with scissors and matted it onto a piece of red card. I then matted a piece of spotty paper from Papermania Capsule spots and stripes collection onto red card and then cut various sizes of other papers from the same collection and matted them again onto red card. I arranged these onto the card base as shown. I cut some stars using a Xcut die and some yellow card and attached them onto the card base.

I then attached the image with foam pads to add dimension. To finish I stamped a sentiment using black and red ink and a LOTV Mixed circular sentiments (set 9) which I then cut using a circular nestie. I then matted it onto a scalloped circle nestie.

I would like to enter this card into the following challenge -

http://ribbongirls.blogspot.co.uk/2013/09/magnolia-only-challenge-one-for-boys.html

Thank you for stopping by

Lesley

Sunflowers

Good evening everyone

A very late and quick post tonight. The challenge at Crafty Little fairies this week is Autumn colours and here is my entry -

The ingredients are -

• stamp - LOTV Sunflowers (ST430)
• Promarkers - sunflower, gold,walnut, lush green, pine, icicle, april showers, cool grey 1 and pastel blue
• papers - gold core'dinations and LOTV Country Gent
• EK success punch, Spellbinder's Floral oval and Spellbinder's Anemone flower topper dies.
• pearls coloured with walnut Promarker

I would like to enter this card into the following challenge -

http://liliofthevalleythursdaychallenge.blogspot.co.uk - Autumn colours

Thanks for stopping by

Lesley