Zed fold gnomes

 Hello again

Back with more Christmas gnomes. This time though I have made a couple zed fold cards.

I have used the gnome boy, gnome child and gnome village stamp and die sets which I have coloured with my Triblends and original Spectrum Noir pens - 

• JG blend, JG shades, CR shades, GY blend, FS blend, IG blend, TN blend, EB shades, CG blend, DG blend, TN2, IB1 and TN4

To complete these card I have used - 

• white centura pearl (for the card base)
• gnome plain and patterned paper pads
• Harmony water reactive ink - bordeaux and baby blue 
• Gemini torn edge circle nesting die set
• clear glitter

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

Crafty hugs

Lesley

Tepee gnome

 Good morning

I am back after a little break and once again I am sharing Christmas makes - 

Once again I am back with the gnomes from Crafter's Companion but this time I have added them to a tepee card. This is a new style of card to me but I found an easy to follow video on You Tube and off I went. The stamps are gnome child, gnome village and gnome boy (for the presents) which I have coloured with my Triblends and original Spectrum Noir pens - 

• BT blend, BT shades, Ig blend, IG shades, MG blend, PL blend, FS blend, TN2 and IB1

To complete the card I have used - 

• white centura pearl (for the card base)
• gnome plain and patterned paper pads
• Tonic basic circles and scalloped circle dies
• hook and loop circle (to fastened the card)

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

Crafty hugs

Lesley

Kittens at play

 Hello

A simple card today - 

This fold back card has been made using the following  - 

• Hunkydory's It's a cat's life - kittens at play and kitty cats card kit
• gold mirri
• white centura pearl (for the card base)
• It's a cat's life papercraft pad
• gold gems

A straight forward card, simple but effective.

Thank you for stopping by.

Crafty hugs

Lesley

Pastures new

 Good morning

I thought we would have another break from Christmas. Here is a card I made to say goodbye to a colleague who is off to pastures new 

The flower stamp is delightful dahlia from Crafter's Companion which I coloured with my Triblends and Spectrum Noir Illustrators and original pens - 

• flowers - CR shades, CR6, CR7 and CR8
• leaves - CG2, CG3 and CG4

I stamped the flowers several times, coloured them and cut into them to form decoupage layers.

To complete the card I have used - 

• white centura pearl (for the card base)
• white stamping card
• Chloe's Creative Cards box kit number 8
• Crafter's Companion's beautiful butterflies intricate trellis die
• clear glitter
• gems
• Die'sire words of endearment set 2 die set
• abandoned coral distress ink

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

Crafty hugs

Lesley

Christmas at Toadstool village

 Hello

Here we are again, back with Christmas gnomes (brace yourselves there are a lot of these gnomes!!)

This time I thought I would use the whole family - 

Only one photo of this one I'm afraid. To make the scene in this card I have used gnome village stamp, gnome boy stamp and die, gnome girl stamp and die and gnome child stamp and die. I coloured all of them with a combination of Spectrum Noir pens and Triblend pens - 

gnome village -

• trees - JG shades and DG blend
• mushrooms - TN blend, EB blend, EB shades, CR shades and TN4
• flowers - DG blend and GY blend
• sky - IB1

gnome boy -

• nose - FS blend and TN blend
• clothes - CR shade
• beard - IG blend
• sky - IB1
• shoes - EB shades

gnome girl -

• face - FS blend and TN blend
• clothes - CR shades, JG blend and JG shades
• hair and shoes - EB shades
• sky - IB1

gnome child - 

• face - FS blend and TN blend
• clothes - CR shade, JG blend and JG shade
• shoes - EB shades
• sky IB1

To complete the card I used - 

• gnome plain paper pad
• gems
• Chloe's Creative Cards circle die set
• baby blue Harmony water reactive ink

That's all from me today. See you all tomorrow.

Crafty hugs

Lesley

Here come the gnomes

 Good morning

When I saw this new collection from Crafter's Companion I knew I had to have it. I told myself that it was all I would need this year to make all my Christmas card (how wrong was I but more of that later).

Here is my first card I made with this collection - 

To make this card I have used two of the stamps in the collection - gnome village and gnome child which I have coloured with my Spectrum Noir pens and Triblends - 

gnome village - 

• trees - JG shades and EB shades
• mushrooms - TN blend, CR shades and EB shades
• steps - EB blend
• flowers - CR blend, DG blend and GY blend
• sky - IB1

gnome child - 

• face - TN blend and FS blend
• clothes - CR shade, JG blend and JG shade
• shoes - EB shades
• sky - IB1

To complete the card I used - 

• gnome pattern and gnome plain paper pads
• clear glitter
• Chloe's Creative Cards circle die set
• Harmony water reactive ink - Bordeaux (to make the stripes on the little gnome's hat and tunic) and baby blue (to ink edges of die cuts)

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

Crafty hugs

Lesley

Molly's joy

 Hello

Back to Christmas again today  - 

This cute little lady is Molly's joy designed by Conie Fong for Crafter's Companion. Once again I have coloured her with my Spectrum Noir pens and Triblend pens - 

• skin - FS blend, TN2 and CR3
• clothes - TB blend, TB shades and IG blend
• hair - TN shades
• snow IG1 and IG2
• sky - IB1

To complete the card I have used - 

• baby blue centura pearl (for the card base and matting and layering)
• silver glitter card
• Sara's signature winter wonderland collection 6x6 paper pad
• WOW embossing powder - diamond white
• a very old Crafter's Companion snow flake die
• gem

Once again I have kept this card flat for posting.

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

Crafty hugs

Lesley

Take 1 stamp ......

 Hello

I thought we would have a change from Christmas today. Here are 3 cards all made with the same stamp but once again I have used different colours for each card - 

The stamp I have used is a rotation stamp called meadow wreath from Crafter's Companion. You ink up the stamp with one colour and stamp it, rotate the stamp and stamp with a second colour and so on until the wreath is complete. Great fun to use and easy if you have a stamping platform.

For this version I have used - 

• Harmony quick dry inks - smoked emerald, green topaz and frosty jade
• Harmony Finesse ink pad - flagstone
• Chloe's Creative cards circle die set
• Sara's signature shabby chic range - chic butterflies die set
• white centura pearl (for the card base)
• petrol core'dinations

For this 6x6 version I have used - 

• harmony quick dry inks - parakeet, fuchsia, honey pot and ocean blue
• white (for the card base) and fuchsia centura pearl 
• Chloe's Creative Cards circle die set
• gems 

For this 8x8 version I have used - 

• Memento inks - lulu lavender, grape jelly, elderberry and Paris dusk
• white centura pearl (for the card base)
• purple and white core'dinations
• flutterby butterfly embossing folder (an old one from Crafter's Companion)
• LV2 spectrum Noir pen (to edge each white square and circle)
• Chloe's Creative Cards circle die set
• gems

One stamp, three completely different cards.

Thank you for stopping by again today.

Crafty hugs

Lesley

Reindeer gnomes

 Good morning

Yes I am back, 2 days in a row to show yet more Christmas makes. Today I have 2 cards to show you - both made with the same stamp just coloured slightly differently - 

For both cards I have used Woodware's reindeer gnome stamp designed by Francois Reed which I have coloured with my Spectrum Noir pens and Triblend pens - 

• hat - DR blend or JG shades
• reindeer - GB shades, GB blend, DR blend, JG shades and a white gel pen
• skin - FS blend
• holly - DG blend and DR blend
• lantern - BG shades, CT blend, CT4 and OR blend
• beard - IG blend
• heart - DR blend
• clothes - JG shades and DR blend
• shoes - TN shades
• sky - VB1

To complete each card I used - 

• red and green card
• clear glitter
• red and green pearls from my stash 

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

Crafty hugs

Lesley

Hello

 Hello everyone

Yes I am back after a few weeks away from social media. I have been busy in my craftroom, garden and with family but now I am back ready to show you all some of the things I have been creating.

As it is the summer holidays I have been busy with Christmas crafting and so here is one of my recent makes - 

This is an older Woodware stamp, once again designed by Francois Reed, which I have coloured with my Spectrum Noir pens and Triblends - 

• nose - OR blend
• face - IG blend and IG1
• hat - BG shades, GY blend, DG blend and DR blend
• scarf - JG shades, DR blend and GY blend
• robin - EB shades and DR blend
• snow - Ig blend and IG1
• sky - IB1

To complete the card I have used - 

• red card
• clear glitter
• red and green pearls from my stash

Once again I have kept the card fairly flat for postage reasons.

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

Crafty hugs

Lesley