Perfume Tilda

Hello everyone. Happy Friday evening. Whooooo it's the weekend.

Today's card uses on of my new Tilda stamps. I am still trying to use up some of my stash but the internet is a very tempting place - lots of lovely crafty sites. (Some dies slipped into my basket this week!!) You can spend hours browsing from the comfort of your armchair - lovely. Maybe my New Year's resolution should have been to stay off the internet - ah well there is always next year.

Here is my card for today - 

I began with a 8 inch card blank which I cut with a Go kreate die XXL Square frame frilly#2 to create a shaped card blank. I inked through the die with spun sugar distress ink. The papers I have used are First Edition summer breeze which I cut with a smaller die and matted and layered as shown. I then cut 2 Die'sire circle doilies and arranged them onto the card base along with 2 flourishes cut using a Die'namics fancy flourish die. The image is Perfume Tilda and has been coloured with the following Spectrum Noirs - 

• skin - FS1, FS2, FS3 and PP2
• hair - GB7, GB8 and GB9
• robe, slippers and rollers - IB1, GT1, IG1, CR1, CR2 and CR3
• perfume bottle - CR1, CR2, CR3, IG3 and IG4
• shadow - IG2
• sky - IB1

I cut the image out using Die'namics stitched circle die and inked whilst still in the die with spun sugar distress ink. I then matted the image onto a Die'sire Chantilly lace stamping frame and attached it to the card with foam pads.

Thank you for stopping by.

Lesley

Anything goes

Hello everyone

The Ribbon Girls have a new place for their challenges called Ribbon Girl Challenge Blog and you can find it here. The new challenge is "Anything goes" and here is my entry for the challenge - 

I began with a 8 inch card blank which I cut with Go Kreate's XXL Square frames frilly #2. I laid the die onto the card blank so that I left a spine in the card. It does take a couple of passes through the Calibur to get it to cut but it means you have a constant supply of shaped card blanks. I then cut two contrasting papers from Papermania's capsule collection papers (again from my stash) with the next 2 dies in the set, wrapped some white lace (from the Ribbon Girl) and a piece of blue ribbon (from my stash) around it and then matted and layered them onto the card base.
The image is called "For you Tilda" and has been coloured with the following Spectrum Noirs - 

• skin (these were a happy accident. I thought I had picked up the FS colours but had instead picked up the TN colours. Should really wear my reading glasses more often) - TN1, TN2, TN3 and CR1
• hair - GB8, GB9 and GB10
• shirt, shoes and bows - TB1, TB2, TB4, BGR2 and BGR3
• dungarees - TB5, TB7 and BGR4
• flowers - GB1, EB1, TB1, TB4, TB5, DG2 and DG3
• shadow - IG1
• sky - IB1

I cut the image out using a Spellbinder's circle nestie and inked lightly whilst still in the die with tumbled glass distress ink. I then matted the image onto a Die'sire Chantilly lace die and attached it to the centre of the card with foam pads. 

I added some flowers and some wooden heart buttons (all from The Ribbon Girl) to the bottom corner of the card and to finish I added two dragonflies cut using a Doohickey dragonflies die. I added some blue pearls (from The Ribbon Girl) to the centre of each dragonfly.
I would like to enter this card into the following challenge - 

http://www.theribbongirlchallengeblog.blogspot.co.uk - anything goes

Thank you for stopping by

Lesley

For the boys

Happy Monday morning to you all.

The challenge at I love Promarkers challenge blog is "For the boys". Here is the card I made for the challenge - 

I began with a 6 inch kraftcard card blank which I matted and layered with papers from LOTV's country gent paper pad. I cut a piece of paper using Spellbinder's A2 bracket borders 2, wrapped some twine (from my stash) around the centre and then attached it to the card. The image is from LOTV's new stamp launch and is called James - laptop (ST485) and has been coloured with the following Promarkers - 

• James - cinnamon, cocoa, walnut, burnt sienna and black
• laptop - cool grey 4, cool grey 5 and metallic silver
• shadow - cool grey 1
• sky - pastel blue

I cut the image out using Spellbinder's labels 18 and inked whilst still in the die with antique linen distress ink. I added this to the card base with foam pads. To finish I added some small buttons from my stash.

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

http://ilovepromarkers.blogspot.co.uk - challenge 203 for the boys

Thank you for stopping by

Lesley

 

Vintage Rugby

Hello everyone

Happy Sunday afternoon to you all. I hope you are not getting too wet. Can you believe it is possible to rain any more? The rain here has been unbelievable. I feel very sorry for those people still struggling with the flooding from Christmas - the last thing they need is more rain. I have taken advantage of the horrible weather and spent the day crafting - I've put off the ironing until tonight.

Here is today's card -

I began with a 6inch card blank onto which I matted a piece of brown textured cardstock. I distressed the edges of the cardstock with sandpaper. The image is from Papermania's Nostalgia past times stamp set and I stamped it using walnut stain distress ink. I then used walnut stain and antique linen distress ink to colour the image.

I cut the image out using Spellbinder's labels 11 and inked whilst still in the die with antique linen distress ink. I then matted it onto a larger labels 11 cut from brown textured cardstock.

I ran a piece of beige card through a Darice embossing folder and then sanded it back to reveal the core. I then inked around the edges with walnut stain and antique linen distress ink. I added this to the card base and then attached the image with foam pads. To finished I stamped "happy birthday" (from the stamp set) into the top corner using walnut stain distress ink.

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

http://www.allsortschallenge.blogspot.co.uk - week 243 vintage

http://craftylittlefairieschallenge.blogspot.co.uk - sport

Thank you for stopping by.

Lesley

Bunni love

Good afternoon

Happy Saturday to you all. It has just started to rain here so I am glad to be tucked up nice and snug in my craft room. The challenge at In The Pink is punches and die cuts which is right up my street. Here is my card for the challenge -

I began with a piece of pink core'dinations cardstock which I embossed along the bottom with a hearts M-bossabilities embossing folder (from Spellbinders). I then sanded it back to reveal the core and attached it to a 8 inch card blank. I punched a piece of pink hearts paper from LOTV Bonnets and bowties paper pad with an EK success border punch, then wrapped some pink ribbon (from my stash) around the paper and attached it to the card base. The image is called Bebunni hearts from Crafter's Companion's Bebunni range which I coloured with the following Spectrum Noirs - 

• bunny - BGR1, BGR2, BGR3, PP1 and blender
• hearts - PP2, PP6, BP3, BP4, BP5, BP6 and BP7
• sky - IB1
• shadow - IG1

I added some glitter to the spotty heart. I then cut the image out using Spellbinder's Labels 11 and inked whilst still in the die with spun sugar distress ink. I matted it onto Spellbinder's Decorative labels 8 cut from pink core'dinations and attached the image to the card using foam pads.

To finish I punched some flowers using a Martha Stewart punch, layered them up, added some pink pearls (I coloured cream pearls with BP7 spectrum pen so they matched the rest of the card) and attached them along the bottom of the card.

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

http://inthepinkchallenge.blogspot.co.uk - diecuts and punches

Thank you for stopping by

Lesley

If friends were flowers

Happy Friday everyone

Today's post is a very quick one I'm afraid. I write my posts the night before I post them and this evening I have been at a parents evening so I am very late home hence the short post.

Here is today's card -

Ingredients -

• Makey bakey bouquet stamp set (from Crafter's Companion)
• Spectrum Noirs - TN1, TN5, TN7, true black, GB4, CR2, BG1, BG2, LV1, LV2, LV3, CG4, JG4, JG6, IB1, IG1, IG3
• Bonnets and bowties paper pad (from LOTV)
• white centura pearl
• white lace and lilac gems (from the Ribbon Girl)
• lilac ribbon (from my stash)
• Spellbinder's A2bracket borders 2 die
• Doohickey vintage daisies die

Normal service will resume tomorrow.

Thank you for stopping by

Lesley

Sending you hugs

Hello folks, happy Thursday to you all

Here is today's card - 

I began with a piece of Kraftcard which I folded in half and then cut using the largest Spellbinder's matting basics A to form the card base. I inked around the outer edge of the card base with walnut stain distress ink. I then cut a smaller Spellbinder's matting basics from LOTV's Country gent paper pad. I inked around the outer edge with walnut stain distress ink. I then attached this to the card base. I cut a Spellbinder's Tranquil moments die using another paper from the pad, inked around the outer edge with walnut stain distress ink and then attached to the card base. The image is a new one from LOTV and is called James- big heart and has been coloured with the following Spectrum Noirs - 

• James - GB8, GB9, GB10 and black
• rose - DR6, DR7, DG2 and DG4
• shadow - IG1
• sky - IB1

I cut the image out with scissors and attached it to the centre of the die cut with Pinflair.

The sentiment is from a Papermania set which I stamped onto the smallest die in the Spellbinder's Tranquil moments set.

Many thanks for stopping by.

Lesley

Spring Heart

Good morning folks

Another card made with my new purchases and this one uses a really cute new Tilda stamp - 

I began with a piece of ivory centura pearl which I scored into a gate fold card and trimmed into a 6 inch card blank. I then cut the edges of the card with Spellbinder's A2 bracket borders 2. I then matted the front of the card with a paper from First Edition's J'dore paper pad. I cut a Die'sire heart doily from another of the papers and matted it onto this onto a Xcut heart, inked around the outer edge with antique linen distress ink and attached it to one side of the gate fold with foam pads.

Inside the card I added a piece of the paper from the J'dore paper pad and cut the largest die from Die'sire heart doily from another paper. I added the heart to the centre of the card base. The image is called Tilda with spring heart and has been coloured with the following Spectrum Noirs - 

• skin - FS2, FS3, FS4 and CR2
• hair - EB6, EB7 and EB8
• dress and bow - CR1, CR2 and CR5
• hearts and shoes - CR10, TN8 and TN9
• shadow - IG1 and IG2
• sky - IB1

I cut the image out with a Spellbinder's oval nestie and inked whilst still in the die with antique linen distress ink. I attached the image to the inside of the card, onto the heart with foam pads. To finish I added some small hearts which were the waste from the heart doilies die cuts.

Thank you for stopping by

Lesley

Thinking of you

Hello everyone

As promised here is a card made with my recent crafty purchases. Sorry about the photo quality - the sun was very bright today, shouldn't complain really.

I started with a piece of lilac centura pearl card stock which I scored and folded in half to form the card base. I ran half the card through an M-bossabilities garden lattice embossing folder. I then cut a piece of paper from LOTV's Promises paper pad using a Spellbinder's matting basics A die and matted it onto the card base. The image is James - umbrella (ST488) from LOTV and has been coloured with the following Promarkers - 

• James - warm grey 1, warm grey 2, warm grey 3, black and blender
• umbrella - lavender, lilac, orchid, amethyst, ice grey 3 and ice grey 5
• puddles and rain - april showers and polar blue
• sky - pastel blue

I added some glossy accents to James' nose and as rain drops on the umbrella, cut the image out using scissors and inked around the edge with milled lavender distress ink. I then matted the image onto a Spellbinder's Reflective moments die cut from Promises paper pad which I inked whilst still in the die with milled lavender distress ink. I attached the image to the card base.

The sentiment is from a Papermania set which I cut out using the smallest die in the Reflective moments die set and inked whilst still in the die with milled lavender distress ink. To finish I added a lilac bow and spotty button.
I would like to enter this card into the following challenge - 

http://www.allsortschallenge.blogspot.co.uk/2014/01/week-242-buttons-and-bows.html

Thank you for stopping by

Lesley

Confessions of a Crafter

Oh dear I have a confession to make, my New Year's resolution to limit my crafty spending has been well and truly broken, Now in my defense there have been lots of crafty launches recently and they are all really lovely and I will use them loads of times so I think I could be forgiven.
This is what I have bourght - 

• 3 lovely new Spellbinder sets (blame Create and Crafts CHA coverage)
• 3 beautiful new Tilda stamps - oh these are so cute
• 3 cute new James Bear stamps from LOTV (sorry just couldn't resist this gorgeous bear)

Here are the stamps stamped out - 

Now all I need is some time to craft. Does anyone know where I can purchase that necessity???

See you all soon

Lesley

Ribbon Girl Giveaway

Hello everyone
 
Over at the Ribbon Girl challenge blog there is another giveaway.





You can find the blog here. Leave a comment and you could be in with a chance of winning these lovely embellishments.
 
Lesley

Football crazy

Hello and good Sunday morning to you. I am up and about early this morning as I have to collect my youngest from a sleepover. I think this should be changed to a stayover as not much sleeping goes on! It means a very grumpy 9 year old today - great!

This is the card I made for the party - 

The birthday boy is a Manchester City fan hence the colours. I started with a 6 icnh card blank which I covered with pale blue core'dinations. I than cut a smaller piece of paper (from LOTV's Petal fresh paper pad) and inked around the edge with tumbled glass distress ink. The image is from LOTV and is called Super striker (ST309). It has been coloured with the following Spectrum Noirs - 

• skin - FS2, FS3, FS4 and PP2
• hair - EB5, EB7 and EB8
• shirt/shorts - TB1, TB2 and TB4
• boots - FL3 and IG10
• ball - IG10, IG8 and FL3
• grass - CG2 and DG4
• sky - IB1

I cut the image out using Spellbinder's Marvelous squares and inked whilst still in the die tumbled glass distress ink. I also inked around the outer edge of the die cut with the ink. The sentiment is from LOTV's Happy Circular sentiments (set8), cut out using a circle nestie and matted onto a blue faux nestie.

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

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

Thank you for stopping by

Lesley

Party, party, party

Good Saturday afternoon to you all. I hope you are enjoying your weekend. I am glad the weekend is here - a much quieter week this week and a relaxing weekend too. I am hoping to do a little more crafting - I am not being a good blogger at the moment so I need to get crafting so I have something to blog about!

Here is today's card - 

It is an unusual colour combination but it was inspired by the backing paper which has little blue butterflies on it. I started with an 8 inch card blank which I covered with pale blue core'dinations. I then cut a piece of pink paper from my stash (yes that resolution is working well) using Die'sire lace border 6 and wrapped a piece of blue and pink ribbon (from my stash) around the paper. I then matted it onto the card base. The image is from Crafter's Companion and is called party with Bamboo. It has been coloured with the following Spectrum Noirs -

• Bamboo - IG1, IG6, IG7, IG10, and PP1
• shoe - BP2, BP6, PP5, PP1, PP2, PP3, BGR1, BGR2, BGR3, BGR4, BGR5, GG1 and GG2
• flower - BP1, BP3, BP7, CG3 and DG2
• butterfly - BP1 and BP7
• shadow - IG1
• sky - IB1

I cut the image out using Spellbinder's Grand decorative circles and inked whilst still in the die with spun sugar distress ink. I added lots of glitter to the shoe and the flower. I matted the image onto a large decorative circle cut from blue core'dinations. I did ink this whilst still in the die with spun sugar distress ink but it didn't show up very well. I attached the image to the card base.

The sentiment is from LOTV's happy circular sentiments (set 8) and has been cut out using Spellbinder's stately circles. I inked it whilst still in the die with spun sugar distress ink and then applied some ink to the outer edge of the die cut.

I cut some butterflies using Tonic's Marazine blue die and some pale blue core'dinations and attached them to the card as shown. To finish I added some pink pearls (from The Ribbon Girl) to the centre of the butterflies and a very messy bow using pink and blue ribbon.

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

http://inthepinkchallenge.blogspot.co.uk/2014/01/its-anything-goes-at-in-pink.html

http://www.spectrumnoir.com/challenge - animals or critters

Thank you for stopping by

Lesley

Perfect couple

Hello everyone

Here is today's card -

I began with an 8 inch card blank which I matted with a piece of red core'dinations and a piece of heart paper which I created using the heart stamps from Crafter's companion's Strawberry Kisses Babe stamp. I coloured the hearts with CR8, DR5 and DR7 Spectrum Noirs. I inked the outer edge of the paper with fired brick distress ink. I added some white lace and red ribbon to the centre of the paper and attached it to the card base.
The image is Bebunni Perfect couple stamp from Crafter's Companion and has been coloured with the following Spectrum Noirs - 

• bunnies - IG1, IG2, IG3, IG4, IG6, IG7, PP1 and blender
• heart - CR8, DR5 and DR7
• background - BG1, BG2, BG3 and blender

I then cut the image out with scissors. I cut 2 hearts using redcore'dinations and Die'sire heart doily die. I sanded the core'dinations slightly and attached the hearts to the card base. I then attached the image to the card. 

The sentiment is from the stamp set and I cut it out using the small die from Die'sire Elegant stamping frame. I inked around the edge with fired brick distress ink and attached it to the card with foam pads.

To finish I added some small red and white flowers from the Ribbon Girl.

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

http://www.spectrumnoir.com/challenge - animals/critters

http://www.crafterscompanion.co.uk/blog/crafterscompetition/2014/01/january-2014-hearts/

Thank you for stopping by.

Lesley

Lesley

Kungfu fighting

Good evening folks

Here is today's card - 

I started with a 6 inch kraft card blank which I inked around the edge with walnut stain distress ink and then matted and layered with a paper from LOTV's Country Gent paper pad. I inked around the edge of the paper with walnut stain distress ink before I attached it to the card base. The stamp is called Karate kid (ST178) from LOTV which I coloured with the following Spectrum Noirs - 

• skin - FS1, FS3, FS4 and FS8
• hair - EB5, EB7 and EB8
• suit - EB1 and EB2
• belt - EB3 and EB4
• shadow - IG1
• sky - IB1

I cut the image out using a Spellbinder's circle nestie and inked whilst still in the die with antique distress ink. I then inked the edge of the circle with walnut stain distress ink. I cut a Spellbinder's scalloped nestie from kraft card and inked around the edge with walnut stain distress ink. I attached the image onto the card as shown.
I cut 3 stars from kraft card using a Xcut star die and inked whilst still in the die with antique linen distress ink and then aorund the edge with walnut stain distress ink. I attached a smaller star cut from the country gent papers and attached it to the largest star. I attached the stars to the card as shown using Pinflair.
The sentiment is from LOTV's happy circular sentiments (set 8) which I cut out with a small circle nestie and matted onto a scalloped circle cut from kraft card. I inked both whilst still in the die with antique linen distress ink and then around the edge with walnut stain distress ink. I attached it to the card with foam pads.
I would like to enter this card into the following challenges - 

http://craftylittlefairieschallenge.blogspot.co.uk/2014/01/kraft

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

Thank you for stopping by

Lesley