Daisy bird

Hello folks

Today I am sharing another card made with an image I coloured whilst on my holibobs in Scotland. It was a little bit of a challenge to only use one set of pens. At home I tend to use as many markers as I can but there was no way my hubby would allow me to take all of those on holiday!!

I have used Woodware's Daisy bird stamp which I coloured with my Triblend pens from Spectrum Noir - 

• bird - light yellow blend, blue turquoise blend and lavender blend
• flowers - true blue blend, citrus green blend and light yellow blend
• grass - citrus green blend
• sky - ice blue blend

For this card I have also used - 

• LOTV's promises paper pad and promises solids paper pad
• matt black card
• white centura pearl (for the card base)
• sentiment from Woodware's Special bird stamp set
• ribbon and gem from my stash

That's all from me today, thank you for stopping by.

Crafty hugs

Lesley

Christmas robins

Good morning

After my marathon Christmas card making I have occasionally making the odd one or two festive cards. Today's card is one of them -

This is a Woodware stamp called Robin stack which I coloured with my Triblend markers from Spectrum Noir - 

• robins - earth brown blend, dark red blend, golden brown blend and white gel pen
• crown  citrus blend and golden brown blend
• bauble - true blue blend and crystal clear Sparkle pen
• ground - ice grey blend
• sky - ice blue blend

On my recent trip to Scotland I took some stamped images and my Triblend pens for a little nindfull colouring. This is one of the images.

For this card I also used - 

• white centura pearl (for the card base)
• Christmas red and old gold centura pearl
• Sheena Douglass' holly embossing folder
• ribbon and gems from my stash

Detail of the embossing.

That's all from me today folks, I am off into the garden to enjoy the beautiful Bank holiday sunshine. Enjoy your day.

Crafty hugs

Lesley

Congradulations

Good morning folks

 I am feeling very sorry for myself this morning due to a tooth extraction yesterday.

To take my mind off things I thought I would do a little blogging. I made this card to celebrate my daughter's A level results - 

This is a Stamping Bella stamp called Oddball girl graduate which I have coloured with Copic pens - 

• cap and gown - C7, C10 and 100
• ground - C1 and C3
• skulls and eyes - C00 and C1
• skin - E50, E51, E21, E11 and E04
• hair - E18, E37 and E29
• eye shadow - BV00 and BV02
• book - BV00, BV02, BV08, E000 and E00
• shoes, tights and bows - BV00, BV02, BV08, R46, R59 and V99
• sky - B000

I have also used - 

• Sheena stamping card
• purple core'dinations
• white centura pearl (for the card base)
• dusty concord and mill lavender distress ink
• MFT plentiful petals die set
• Sue Wilson double stitched rectangles dies
• skull embellishment from The Works

I created the background using the distress inks and the sentiment from the stamp set.

That's all from me today. Thank you stopping by.

Crafty hugs

Lesley

Sparkly 18th birthday

Good morning folks

Well I am back from my lovely break in Italy. Florence is a beautiful place and I would love to go back for another visit - there is so much to see and do. 

My daughter celebrated her 18th birthday a few weeks ago and this is the card I made for her - 

I have used some new stamps from a company called That's Crafty. Bunny and grunge flowers are both coloured with Spectrum Noir Sparkle pens - 

• moonstone, blue topaz, iced denim, sterling silver and crystal clear

I also used - 

• matt black card
• Sheena's stamping card
• moonstone Spectrum Noir sparkle ink
• Harmony inks - midnight and ocean blue
• That's Crafty stencil - circles
• Gemini expressions numbers 1 and 8 die and stencil
• pearls from my stash

That's all from me today folks. Thank you for stopping by.

Crafty hugs

Lesley

Christmas bits and bobs

Good morning

Yes I am back from Scotland - the weather was very mixed but we had a great time. I can heartly recommend a visit to the Scottish borders if you are up that way.

Today I am sharing some Christmas cards. Whenever I visit Inspirations in Preston they give me a free gift with my purchases which I carefully put into a box and leave them there. So I challenged myself to open this box (well I was struggling to get it to closed at the time) and use some of its contents. Here are some of the cards I made - 

For all these cards I used - 

• toppers from Hunkydory
• gold and silver mirri
• red Adorable Scorable
• patterned card from Hunkydory
• a Sheena Douglass Christmas words embossing folder
• Gemini Christmas sentiment dies
• variety of gems from my stash

Now I can shut the box (kind of) and have more Christmas cards to add to my stash.

That's all from me now; today I will be catching up with my laundry and trying to get organised to go to Florence tomorrow morning. My Hubby is whisking me away on a little holiday to celebrate a special wedding anniversary.

Crafty hugs

Lesley

Sparkly flowers

Good morning folks

Today you find me on the road to Scotland for a weeks holiday with the family. Fingers crossed for some dry weather - doesn't need to be hot just dry so we can get out and about.

Today's card is a new style for me - 

 I love watching Chloe (from Chloe's cards) creating her magic and although I have a couple of her stamps I haven't really gone down the full sparkly Chloe route with them. So I decided to give it a go. Not sure if I heated the embossing powder too much or not enough but it just didn't seem to sparkle as much as it did on the TV. Need to practice a wee bit more me thinks.

For this card I have used - 

• white and lilac centura pearl
• Sheena's stamping card
• Neenah card
• Stamps by Chloe - fabulous flower corner, fabulous flowers and fabulous flowers verse (for the insert)
• violet speckle WOW embossing powder
• gems from my stash

I stamped and embossed the flowers onto Neenah card, cut them out and then decoupaged them onto the base stamp.

That's all from me today. I will be quiet for the next few weeks but will be back towards the end of the month with more crafty makes. Thank you for stopping by.

Crafty hugs

Lesley

Figgy pudding

Hello and a very happy Friday to you all

Some more Christmas cards for you today - 

For these cards I have used - 

• Seasonal style - Oh bring us some figgy pudding card kit from Hunkydory
• white centura pearl (for the card bases)
• gold mirri
• gold ribbon and gems from my stash

A short post from me today as I am getting ready to go on my holibobs.

Thank you for stopping by.

Crafty hugs

Lesley

A partridge and a few doves

Good morning folks

Anyone know how to build an ark?!!  I know we have a lot of rain in Manchester but this is ridiculous! Roads flooded, trains not able to run and houses submerged - what a lovely summer.

On days (and weeks) like this thw best place to be is my little piece of crafty heaven. 

Today I am sharing another couple of festive cards.

For these cards I have used - 

• Seasonal style - A partridge in a pear tree card kit from Hunkydory
• white centura pearl (for the card bases)
• gold mirri
• gold gems from my stash

These are big cards - 8 by 8 and 7 by 7. No these will not be going through the post!

For the above two cards I have used - 

• Seasonal style - peace, love and joy at Christmas card kit from Hunkydory
• white centura pearl (for the card bases)
• silver mirri
• blue pearls and silver sequinns from my stash

These two cards are 8 by 8 and A5 in size.

That's all from me today, thank you for stopping by.

Crafty hugs

Lesley