Easter greetings

Hello everyone.

Today is another Bank Holiday in the UK and I am spending some time concentrating on my college work. The deadline is drawing very near and I am starting to panic. I have been spending far too much time in my craft room lately and the time has come to knuckle down and get some assignments written!

Today's card is my final Easter one for this year and features not one but two super cute hedgies from Penny Black. I made a DL card blank from Centura Pearl using my Ultimate Pro.

Ingredients

• Ladybug n hedgehog and Seeing your face stamps from Penny Black
• Spectrum Noir pencils - 065, 024, 027, 096, 099, 104, 003, 004, 005, 009, 056, 049, 053, 010, 013, 017, 112 and 117
• Core'dinations card, hammered card and watercolour card
• Tattered Lace Spring embossing folder
• Spellbinder's circle nestie and scalloped circle nestie
• LOTV's happy circular sentiments
• tumbled glass distress ink
• ribbon from my stash

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

http://allsortschallenge.blogspot.co.uk - week 305 - Easter

http://pennybfriendssaturdaychallenge.blogspot.co.uk - Easter and/or chocolate brown

Thank you for stopping by

Lesley

Easter bunnies

Happy Easter everyone

It is a double celebration in my house today. As well as being Easter Sunday it is also my birthday so birthday cake and Easter eggs washed down with a little fizz. Yummy!

Today's card is one I made to send Easter greetings to my family and friends - 

A fairly simple card as I was batch making (and I left it to the last minute once again) and uses another new die from Spellbinders called Bunny (obvious really!!)

Ingredients

• white and purple centura pearl
• Tonic's Just a note die set
• Spellbinder's bunny, circle nestie and scalloped circle nestie
• LOTV's happy circular sentiments
• ribbon from my stash

I would like to enter this card into the following challenge - 
http://allsortschallenge.blogspot.co.uk - week 305 - Easter

Happy Easter to those who are celebrating and thank you for stopping by.

Lesley

Good Friday

Hello folks

happy Good Friday. I hope you are all enjoying the bank holiday(those of you who have bank holidays) I have spent and very damp morning in the garden preparing to have a fence fitted on Tuesday. This involved digging up and moving different plants unfortunately after a dry start the rain kicked in and my hubby and I were drenched so I decided to spend the afternoon in my craft room where it was warm and dry. This is the card I made - 

The challenge at the Ribbon Girl is anything but a square so I made a card blank using Spellbinder's grand decorative ovals and white centura pearl.

Ingredients

• Spellbinder's Grand decorative ovals
• Magnolia's Ballerina Bunny Tilda
• Spectrum Noir pens and pencils - FS2, FS4, FS9, CR1, 089, TN6, TN7, TH8, 095, GT1, GT2, GT3, CR4, CR6, IG1, IG2, 063, 030, 114, IB1 and BG1
• antique linen distress ink
• white centura pearl
• Graphic 45 papers
• flowers from the Ribbon Girl
• lace from the Ribbon Girl

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

http://ribbongirls.blogspot.co.uk - not a square
http://fantasystampers.blogspot.co.uk - #33 Easter time

Thank you for stopping by

Lesley

Easter creatures

Good Monday morning everyone

This is the start of my last week at work before Easter so it is a happy Monday if there can be such a thing.

Today's card is one I have made to celebrate Easter - 

It uses a lovely new stamp from LOTV called Little lamb which I have coloured with my Spectrum Noir pens and pencils.

Ingredients - 

• Promises and Promises solids paper pads (from LOTV)
• Spectrum Noir pens and pencils -  EB1, GB8, GB9, 104, FS2, FS4, FS9, CR1, 089, LV1, LV2, LV3, GT1, GT2, GT3, 079, 063, TN1, TN2, TN3, TN4, 089, EB1, EB2, BG6, BG7, PP1, PP2, 107, 109, CG2, CG3, DG3 and IB1
• Spellbinder's oval nestie, floral ovals, circle nestie, scalloped circle and pretty petals B
• Tonic's twisted twine die set
• Little lamb stamp and happy circular sentiments (from LOTV)
• purple spotty buttons (from Ribbon Girl)

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

http://allsortschallenge.blogspot.co.uk - week 304 - feature a creature

http://fantasystampers.blogspot.co.uk - #33 - Easter time

Thank you for stopping by

Lesley

New home

Hello and a very happy Sunday to you all

Today's card is one I made for my cousin who has just bought her first house with her fiance.

It is a very simpe card really. The die did all the work! It is a lovely die set which I recently bought. I have a lot of friends at the moment who are in the process of buying and selling houses so this die set will come in very useful.

Ingredients -

• Spellbinder's Out on a Limb die set (from Hope and Chances)
• One Bird Lane paper pad (from Lili of the Valley)
• brown core'dinations
• white hammer card
• Crafter's Companion cloud embossing folder

A short post today. I am trying to write an assignment today. It is a bit of  a struggle!

Thanks for stopping by

Lesley

21st celebrations

Hello and a very happy Saturday to you all

Tonight my hubby and I are off to help celebrate a friend's 21st birthday. Here is the card I made for the birthday girl - 

Purple is her favourite colour so I used that as my starting point.

Keeping with the trial layout here are the ingredients I used for the card - 

•  Core'dinations card, hammered card and rainbow mirriboard
• Scruffy Little Cat Chanel stamp set (from Crafter's Companion)
• Spellbinder's garden lattice embossing folder
• Spectrum Noir pens and pencils
• Tattered Lace champagne bottle and glass dies
• Spellbinder's Matting basics A dies and sentiments 2
• Number peeloff
• silver gems

A close up of the embossing

The Tattered Lace dies

Thank you for stopping by

Lesley

Birthday cake

Hello folks

After working hard over the weekend with my college work I decided I deserved some time in my craftroom. 
Here is a card I made for the Allsorts challenge. This week's challenge is cake and cupcakes which I thought I had nothing suitable for but after a search through my stamp boxes and it turns out I have several stamps which would have been suitable (who would have guessed). I have chosen to use this one from Crafter's Companion - 

I have been reading some of my older blog posts and I am wondering if my blogs are too long winded so I have decided to try a shortened version today. Please let me know which you prefer.

• stamp - yum, yum, yum (the Bebunni range from Crafter's Companion)
• Spectrum Noir pens and pencils - BGR1, BGR2, BGR3, PP1, PP2, 031,119, EB4, EB6, EB7, PP3, PP4, PP5, IGI, blender, 030, 031, 117, 098, BP1, CT1, CT2 and OR1
• Bonnets and bowties and Bonnets and bowties solids paper pads from LOTV.
• Hot pink saddlestitch ribbon (from the Ribbon Girl)
• Joanna Sheen border die
• Spellbinder's sentiment die
• pearls (from my stash) coloured with PP3 Spectrum Noir pen.

The border die

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

http://allsortschallenge.blogspot.co.uk - week 303 - cakes and cupcakes

Thank you for stopping by.

Lesley