Teal sunflowers

Good morning folks

A scheduled post from me today as I am heading off to work this morning. I have been a bit hit and miss posting lately so I spent yesterday afternoon scheduling a few posts for this week.

This is a little card I made recently - 

This is another example of heat embossing that I learnt to do properly during lockdown.

For this card I have used - 

• Chloe's Creative cards box kit number 6 stamps and papers
• Sparkelicious glitter - grasshopper and fire opal
• WOW opaque bright white embossing powder
• Papermania silver embossing powder
• Neenah stamping card
• tumbled glass distress oxide
• white centura pearl for the card base

Apologies for the fuzzy photos, the camera struggles to cope with all the sparkle.

The camera never seems to catch the sparkle on these Chloe style cards. 

That's all from me today.

Crafty hugs

Lesley

Father's Day double

Hello and a good Sunday morning to you all

Today I am sharing the two Father's day cards I made to celebrate my dad and father-in-law's day last Sunday.

Here is the first - 

For this card I have used - 

• Happiness is ...... the winning goal Deco-large card kit and inserts from Hunkydory
• gold mirri
• white centura pearl (for the card base)
• Sara's signature collection - Just for men male sentiments die set

And here is the second one - 

For this card I have used - 

• white stamping card (for the card base)
• Sara's signature collection - Just for men brights paper pad
• blue core'dinations
• Tonic layering circles and scalloped circles die sets
• happy father's day sentiment die from Pretty Pink Posh
• pewter sequins
• black fine liner pen
• white gel pen

That's all from me today. Household chores to complete unfortunately. Have a good day.

Crafty hugs

Lesley

Flying high

Good morning folks

How are we all doing? Work has gone really well. It has been lovely for school to feel like a school again with all the sounds of children enjoying their learning. It has meant me not having much time to craft but life is a balance after all.

Today's card is one I made during lockdown - 

I adore these stamps from Janet Klein at AALL and Create and have had great fun playing with them. This gorgeous girl is from the stamp set called Fly and I have used my Illustrators and Copic to colour them.

For this card I have used - 

• AALL and Create stamps - fly, flowers and sunshine and #2
• AALL and Create stencils - sunrise and broken circle 
• Distress Oxides - picked raspberry, wilted violet, fossilised amber, antique linen, mustard seed, ripe persimmon, twisted citron, tumbled glass and peacock feathers
• Illustrator pens - CG2, CG3, CG4, PP3, PP5, PP6, TB1, TB3, LV2, BGR3, CT3 and OR3
• Copic pens - C00, C1 and C3
• Triblend pens - fairskin blend
• Crystal clear sparkle pen
• matt black card
• white stamping card
• black gems from my stash

For the background I started with a background I had already made using the broken circle stencil and then added different layers of inks, stencils and stamps. 

That's all from me today. I am off to see my dad (from a social distance) to deliver his card and a lovely parkin.

Crafty hugs

Lesley

Happy Bee day

Good afternoon everyone

A little late posting today, I have been busy doing housework (yuck) so I can have some crafty time tomorrow.

Today I am sharing a card I made for my eldest son from his Grandparents. They are currently shielding so I have been providing all the celebration cards that they needed during lockdown.

For this card I have used - 

• Chloe's creative cards box kit number 6 - stencil, stamps and die
• distress inks - spiced marmalade, faded jeans, hickory smoke and fossilised amber
• Chloe's creative cards bee and honeycomb stamp set
• stamping card
• matt black card
• yellow core'dinations
• Woodware's sweet honey bee stamp set (for the sentiment)

I stamped and coloured the bees with black ink and then stamped it again and fussy cut the bees. I then 3D them onto the original stamp.

That's all from me today folks. 

Crafty hugs

Lesley

Fabulous flowers

Good morning

After a very busy day yesterday everything is now ready to welcome the children on Monday so I am at home today watching the Christmas craft shows on the telly box. My card today, however is not at all festive. You may remember that I told you a couple of weeks ago that I was following Chloe Endean's craft-a-longs to improve my heat embossing, well this is one of the cards I made - 

This card is very glittery and sparkly but the photos don't show that very much which is a little disappointing.

For this card I have used - 

• white centura pearl
• white linen card 
• baby pink pearl paper 
• baby pink pearl card
• heat resistant acetate
• Chloe's creative cards best wishes, fabulous flowers and fabulous foliage stamps
• Chloe's Sparkelicious glitter - strawberry sorbet, crystallina and unicorn sparkle
• WOW opaque bright white embossing powder
• Papermania silver embossing powder
• Chloe's creative cards sunburst stencil
• Imagination crafts diamond sparkle texture paste
• Gemini stitched circles 2 die set
• gems from my stash

I had great fun making this card and ended up with glitter everywhere.

Thanks you for stopping by today

Crafty hugs

Lesley

Art for art sake

Good morning folks

A scheduled post from me to day as I am back in work getting ready for the children to return to school on Monday. 

This is a card I made for my eldest son's birthday - 

For this card I have used - 

• white stamping card
• matt black card
• Honey Doo paint splodges stamp set
• Woodware Creative quotes and Art easel stamp sets
• Espresso Adirondack ink
• Memento ink - peanut brittle, London fog and bamboo leaves
• Copic pens - T7, E49, E44, C1, C3 and C5
• Tonic layering circle die set

The sentiment is from the Creative quotes stamp set. 

I created the background using the paint splodges stamp set and the Memento inks.

That's all from me, enjoy your day.

Crafty hugs

Lesley

Birthday balloons

Good afternoon folks

A little late in posting today but better late than never I suppose. Today's card is one I made for my charity card box, although these shops are not open yet hopefully they will be soon.

For this card I have used - 

• Crafter's Companion Balloon sentiments stamp and die box kit
• white stamping card
• baker's twine
• Spectrum Noir Harmony inks - honey pot and ocean blue
• blue Memento ink
• ribbon from my stash

A very quick and easy card made using the contents and instructions from the box kit. 

Thank you for stopping by today

Crafty hugs

Lesley

Best friend Birthday wishes

Good morning

Monday again and for me this Monday is a little different as I am in my normal place of work getting ready for the new term. It promises to be a very interesting time for all concerned.

Today I am posting another recent birthday card made for a very good friend - 

For this card I have used - 

• matt black card
• Sara's signature collection - Parisian collection paper pad
• Sara's signature collection - Parisian collection linen card
• Gemini silhouette dog die set
• Gemini peek-a-boo dog stamp and die set
• Gemini circle frames elements die set
• Sara's signature collection - floral delight collection - pretty petals and leafy flourish dies set
• Spectrum Noir metallic markers - blue topaz, pink pastel, lime green, pink quartz, green citrine and silver ingot
• Honey Bee happy everything stamp set
• gems from my stash

Sorry the photos are very washed out. There is a green linen card behind the patterned paper.

Thank you for stopping by today

Crafty hugs

Lesley

Spotty dotty birthday

Good morning

It has been a busy few weeks chez moi hence the absence from my blog. I have been busy at work and in the garden but the weather has put paid to the gardening, although we did need the rain, and I have a little time this morning I thought I would share a recent birthday make -

For this card I have used - 

• stamping card, matt black card and Neenah desert storm card all from Crafter's Companion
• green core'dinations
• spotty dotty layering stencil from Crafter's Companion
• Spectrum Noir Harmony inks - spring meadow, grasshopper and sandstorm
• Gemini happy birthday stamp and die set
• Spectrum Noir Illustrators - EB1, EB2, EB4, CG1, CG2, CG3, GB1, GB2, BO4 and IB1
• black gems from my stash

A very simple card to make but really useful for those tricky male cards.

Thank you for stopping by today.

Crafty hugs

Lesley