Spotty Tilda

Hello and a happy Halloween to you all

Today's post is quite far removed from Halloween as you can see. The Magnolia challenge at the Ribbon Girl this week is spots and dots. This is the card I have made - 

The stamp I have used is Pink Ribbon Tilda and is the one I won on the last magnolia challenge from the Ribbon Girl. I was very lucky to receive a voucher to spend at the Ribbon Girl.s on line store and a packet of goodies from Magnolia in Sweden which included this stamp, a die, some papers and some gems. It was a lovely surprise. 

I coloured the image using the following promarkers - 

• hair - raw sienna, burnt sienna and henna
• skin - almond, putty and dusky pink
• suit - turquoise, marine and pink lobster

I paper pieced the ribbon and shoes from pink spotty paper. I cut the image out using an oval nestie and inked whilst still in the die with tumbled glass distress ink. I matted the image onto a Spellbinder's lacey ovals cut from pink spotty paper.  I made a shaped card base using Go Kreate XXL square frilly frames #2 and matted and layered some papers from my stash as shown. Then I cut 2 Spellbinder's splendid circles from pink card and embossed them with a dotty embossing folder. I sanded them back and added them to the card base as shown. Then I added some spotty ribbon (from my stash) and white lace (from the Ribbon Girl) to the centre of the card.

I arranged some flowers (again from the Ribbon Girl) onto the card base and added some dragonflies cut using a Doohickey die. To finish I added some pearls.

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

http://www.ribbongirls.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/october-magnolia-only-challenge.html

Thank you for stopping by

Lesley

Makey Bakey Christmas

Hello

The challenge at Allsorts is Treemendous. Here is my card fro the challenge - 

I made the card base using a new die (to me) from a company called Go Kreate and is called XXL square frames frilly #2 and white centura pearl. I matted and layered the card base with gold mirriboard and a piece of red cardstock from a Boofle paper pad. The image I have used is from Crafter's companion's Makey Bakey mice collection and is called Makey Bakey Christmas. I have coloured it with the following Spectrum Noirs - 

• mice - TN1, TN4, TN5, TN7 and CR1
• hat - DR2, DR4, DR6, BGR1 and BGR2
• trees - DG2, DG3 and DG4
• holly - CG3, DG3, DG4 and DR7
• snow - GG2
• stars - GB3

I added some glitter to the fluff on the hats. I cut the image out using Spellbinder's romantic rectangles, inked whilst still in the die with tumbled glass distress ink and then matted the image onto another romantic rectangle cut from green card from the Boffle paper pad. I added a tree cut using a MB die and gold mirriboard. To finish I added some dew drops to the holly and some gold and red gems to the corners (all from the Ribbon Girl).

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

http://www.allsortschallenge.blogspot.co.uk - treemendous

Thank you for stopping by

Lesley

Love birds

Good morning folks

Happy Tuesday to you all. I have an extra week off work this week and the house to myself - well nearly. Husband and 3 children safely off to work and school and the 4th child about to disappear for the day to uni. - CRAFT TIME!!!!!!

The challenge at Crafty Little Fairies is anything goes so here is my card - 

The image is from LOTV and is called Love birds (ST425) and has been coloured using the following promarkers - 

• birds - oasis and capri blue
• bird house - ivory, satin and blush
• flowers and leaves - grass, pink lobster, honeycomb, tequila sunrise and oasis

I cut the image out using Spellbinder's marvelous squares and inked whilst still in the die with antique linen distress ink. The papers I have used are from my stash and I matted and layered them onto a card base. I attached the image onto the card using foam pads. I cut several pieces of ivy, a birdhouse and a bird using a Marianne die and added them to the card as shown -

To finish I added a sentiment from LOTV's grungy everyday sentiments and two buttons from my stash.

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

http://craftylittlefairieschallenge.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/anything-goes-dt-call

Thank you for stopping by

Lesley

Pink hair

Good evening everyone

Yes I'm back fully refreshed after a lovely week in the Yorkshire Dales with my family and have nearly completed all my laundry too - just couldn't resist the call of my craft room any longer.

The challenge at I love Promarkers this week is pink hair so here is my card -

The image I have used is from Saturated Canary and is called Lilianna. She has been coloured using the following promarkers -

• hair - blossom, carnation pink, fuchsia pink and pink lobster
• skin - almond, putty and dusky pink
• trousers - cinnamon, umber and burnt sienna
• top and shoes - pastel blue, cool aqua and duck egg
• shadow - ice grey 1

I made my card base using Spellbinder's matting basics and ivory centura pearl. I then matted and layered papers from First Edition's Summer breeze paper pad. I cut the image out using matting basics A and inked whilst still in the die with antique linen distress ink. I then matted the image onto Spellbinder's branching out die (I found a lovely craft shop on the way home from my holiday and they had this die set which I have been looking for for ages so I treated myself - again!!!) using another paper from the pad. I cut the border using Die'sire lace border 6 and added it to the centre of the card. Then I added the image using foam pads. I cut several flowers using Spellbinder's jewel flowers and flourishes, added pearls to the centre and attached them to the bottom of the card as shown.

To finish I added a dragonfly cut using a Doohickey die I won last month on the Ribbon girl's  Magnolia challenge and added a pearl to the centre.

I would like to enter this card into the following challenge

http://ilovepromarkers.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/191-pink-hair

Thank you for stopping by

Lesley

70th birthday celebrations

Good Morning

This is a card I made for my Uncles 70th birthday - 

The image is my beloved Toot toot from LOTV - I love this stamp. It is suitable for men and boys of all ages and can be used for many different occasions (and he is very cute!). This time I have coloured the image with the following Promarkers - 

• car - lipstick red, red, crimson, cool grey 1, cool grey 2, cool grey 3, cool grey 4, cool grey 5, mustard and gold
• skin - putty and almond
• hair - henna
• hat and gloves - caramel and cinnamon
• scarf - marine and petrol blue
• sleeve - rock pool and capri blue
• sky - pastel blue

I cut the image out using a Spellbinder's rectangle nestie, inked whilst still in the die with tumbled glass distress ink and matted it onto a piece of paper from Docrafts All aboard paper pad. I created a background using paper from the All aboard paper pad, page tabs and travel labels and then added the image using foam pads for dimension. I stamped 70 in one corner of the travel label using Clarity Stamps numbers kit and then stamped a LOTV mixed circular sentiments to look like a travel stamp.

Thank you for stopping by.

Lesley

Floral fantasy

Good morning everyone

Today is my mum's birthday and here is the card I made for her -

To make my gate fold card I used my Ultimate pro and scored a piece of A4 ivory centura pearl card according to the score board and then trimmed the card to a 6 inch card. I then used a Die'sire Lace border 6 die to cut both sides of the card base. This proved a little tricky to begin with as the die was slightly longer than the width of my Grand Calibur base plate but I discovered with a bit of trial and error that if you use a lot of low tack tape to secure the die it will cut perfectly. I then matted some Docrafts Vintage notes paper to the card as shown.

The image I used is Joanna Sheen's Fantasy Floral - exotic sprays which I coloured with the following Spectrum Noirs -

PP1, PP3, PP5, DG3, JG6, IB1, TN1 and GB5

I cut the image out with scissors and inked the edge with antique linen distress ink. I matted the image onto a Spellbinder's Floral oval which I cut from ivory centura pearl. I added a sentiment from a set which came free with a Crafter's Companion magazine and some pearls to the die cuts. To finish I added some accents from Docrafts Vintage notes decoupage medley.

Happy Birthday Mum

See you all tomorrow

Lesley

Birthday wishes

Good morning folks

How are we all today - well I hope. As you are reading this I am off for a week of R & R so i am afraid things will be a little quiet on the blogging front.

Here is today's card -

A rather washed out picture - apologies once again - another of my dodgy photos. The image is a Magnolia one and is called Bikini Tilda. It has been coloured with a mixture of Promarkers and Spectrum Noirs as follows -

• skin - dusky pink, sunkissed pink, pastel pink and coral
• hair - GB5, GB7 and GB9
• bikini - grey green, soft green and burgundy
• sand - GB5 and GB9
• sky - pastel blue

I cut the image out using the oval from Spellbinder's Filigree delight and inked whilst still in the die with tumbled glass distress ink. I made a 7 by 7 inch card blank from ivory centura pearl and covered the card base with 2 pieces of paper from First Edition J'adore paper pad. I then cut the main die from Filigree delight and 4 of the corner pieces using another piece of paper from the paper pad. I added them to the card base as shown and added the image. To finish I added a sentiment from LOTV grungy everyday sentiments and some pearls to the corner pieces and the main die.

Thank you for stopping by.

Lesley

Woodland wishes

Hello

The lovely ladies at The Ribbon Girl have introduced a new challenge - a Lili of the Valley one! It is called the Lovely Lili challenge and you can check it out here. This month is an anything goes challenge so it has taken me ages to decide which stamp to use but I finally decided to go with a Christmas theme as I purchased a beautiful paper pad last week from LOTV called Woodland Wishes. The unusual Christmas colours really appealled to me and I thought the lovely Holy light stamp (ST439) worked beautifully with it. Here is my card -

The image has been coloured with the following Promarkers -

• hair - burnt sienna, chestnut and henna
• skin - almond and putty
• dress - wild cranberry and burgundy
• wings - stain and blush
• crown - moss, olive green and wild cranberry
• candle - ivory, cool grey 1, gold, pumpkin and pastel yellow
• snow - warm grey 1
• sky - pastel blue

I cut the image out using Spellbinder's labels 11 and inked whilst still in the die with Victorian velvet distress ink. Then I matted it onto a decorative labels 8 and a piece of paper from the Woodland wishes paper pad. I cover a card blank with a piece of the paper and then cut another piece of the paper using Die'sire lace border 6 as an edge. I added a piece of burgundy velvet ribbon from The Ribbon Girl and then added the paper to the card base.

I stamped and heat embossed a sentiment from LOTV handwritten Christmas sentiments, cut it out using labels 11 and inked whilst still in the die with Victorian velvet distress ink. I then matted it onto decorative labels 8 and added it to the card as shown.

To finish I added a flower from The Ribbon Girl (from my prize last week) and a piece of holly cut using a piece of the paper pad and a Die'sire die.

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

http://www.ribbongirls.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/october-lovely-lili-challenge.html

http://www.ideastoinspire.blogspot.co.uk/p/challenge.html - anything goes

Thank you for stopping by

Lesley

Knowing you

Happy Monday everyone

I hope you all don't have that Monday morning feeling. This is my last week at work before a fortnights holiday so I am in a really good mood - long may it last.

The challenge at Crafty Little fairies is pretty in pink - my favourite colour to craft with so I had to a card for this challenge and here it is -

The image I have used is from LOTV and is called Blooming wheelbarrow (ST389) and I have coloured it with the following Spectrum Noirs - 

• rabbit - GG1, GG2, PP1, PP2, PP3 and PP5
• bear - GG2, GG3, PP1, PP2, PP3, PP4, PP5 and BP1
• flowers - PP1, PP2, PP3, PP4, PP5 and BP1
• leaves and grass - CG3, CG4, LG5 and JG1

I stamped the image twice, cut out the rabbit and the bear and then decoupaged them onto the base image. I then cut out the image. The sentiment is from LOTV's Quoteables - Friendship and I have cut it out using Spellbinder's Heart circles. I inked it whilst still in the die with spun sugar distress ink. I matted and layered 3 pink papers from Docrafts Henbury lane paper pad (this is quite an old pad that I discovered at the bottom of my paper box so it might not still be available).

To create the border I cut 2 borders using Die'sire lace border 6 and layered them on top of each other. To finish I added some flowers from The Ribbon Girl.

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

http://craftylittlefairieschallenge.blogspot.co.uk - pretty in pink

Thank you for stopping by.

Lesley

Oh come all ye faithful

Good morning

Here is today's card - 

The image is from Crafter's Comapnion's Makey Bakey range and is called Christmas Carols. I have coloured it with the following Spectrum Noirs -

• mouse - FS1, TN1, TN3, TN5, GG1, GG2, PP1 and PP2
• coat and hat - TB1, TB2, TB3, BGR1 and BGR2
• carol sheet - EB1, JG1 and DR2
• sky - IB1
• shadow - GG1

I cut the image out using Spellbinder's floral ovals and inked whilst still in the die with tumbled glass distress ink. I matted a piece of paper from LOTV frosty Christmas paper pad onto a card base and then added 2 Memory Box frostyville borders cut from white centura pearl card, trimmed them to fit and added them to the card base. I embossed a piece of white centura pearl with an Ebossalicious music embossing folder, inked lightly with tumbled glass distress ink and cut out. I added this to the card base. 

I cut 2 snowflakes using Die'sire dies and some white cetura pearl and placed them in the top left hand corner. I than added my image with Pinflair for dimension. I cut 3 Memory Box snowflakes from blue centura pearl, layered them on top of each other and added them to the card base. I added some blue gems to the centre of all the snowflakes.

I stamped one of the sentiments from the stamp set using versamark and heat embossed with silver embossing powder, cut out with Spellbinder's floral ovals and added this to the card.

I have used this image before but used reds and more traditional Christmas colours -

Once again this shows the versatility of rubber stamps and why I love this craft so much.

Many thanks for stopping by.

Lesley

Marvellous time

Good morning

Here is today's card -

So sorry the colours have come out so wishy washy. In reality it is a grungy orange and grey (yes this is one of my photos!) but it just looks washed out on the blog. The papers are from Docrafts Chronology paper pack as is the topper. I matted a piece of orange paper onto a card blank and then layered a piece of grey paper onto it. I cut a clock from another piece of paper and added it to the top corner. I then cut several cogs using craft metal and Spellbinder's spritely sprockets and added them to the card base.I stamped and heat embossed a Chronology stamp. I then cut out the man and added him to the bottom of the card. I embossed a piece of orange card using a Docrafts cogs embossing folder and then rubbed black ink over it, added clear embossing powder and heat embossed. I then cut a piece out. I attached it to the card with foam pads for dimension. I then added the topper again with foam pads.

To finish I added another cog using Pinflair.

Thanks for stopping by.

Lesley

Autumn wishes

Good evening folks

A very quick post tonight. The challenge over at Allsorts is Autumn colours and here is my card -

As usual I have left things to the last minute and I so wanted to enter this particular challenge so apologies for the lack of detail in this post.
Ingredients -

• Docrafts Woodland folk stamp set and paper pad
• Promarkers and Spectrum Noirs
• tumbled glass distress ink
• Spellbinder's A2 Filigree delights, Floral flourishes and 5x7 matting basics A dies

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

http://www.allsortschallenge.blogspot.co.uk - Autumn colours week 227

Thank you for stopping by

Lesley

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