Hello Baby ...

Good morning, and welcome to my new followers.  Thank you so much for joining me.

Today I have two cards with the same image, but different coliourways.  If you love Lili of the Valley stamps then you will recognise this as one of their range.  Both images are coloured with Copics.

For this card I have followed the sketch at Sketch Saturday, with lots of circles, and I really enjoyed putting this together.  The papers are from  Memory Box pad I have had in my stash for a while.  I really like the pink and green combination - very pretty and refreshing.    The sentiment is LOTV.  Lace, pearls and flowers are from stash.

I am entering this into the following challenges:

All Sorts - Free and Easy February

Cupcake Craftroom - New Beginnings

Drunken Stampers - Texture

Lili's Little Fairies - Anything Goes

One Stitch at a Time - Anything Goes

Sketch Saturday - I followed the sketch

Scrappy Frogs - Die Cuts

For my babt boy card I have followed the sketch at Pixie Cottage from last week.  I think the papers are from a Kaisercraft baby pad - but have lost the outer covers from the pad so cannot be sure!  Again the sentiment is LOTV.  Pearls, ribbons and buttons from stash.

I am entering this in the following challenges:

Bling It On - Love is all around - and I guess love means lots of things
Crafters Companion - Anything Goes
Cupcake Craftroom - New Beginnings
Lili's Little Fairies - Anything Goes
Pretty Little Ribbon Shop - Anything goes with ribbon
Crafting for all seasons - Love


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A sketch at Sketch Saturday

There is a fabulous sketch at Sketch Saturday this week, so I have used it for this card.

I have a commission for a number of baby cards, so this will be one of them.  I have used an image from LOTV, and coloured with Copics.  Defintely my fave medium at the moment, but I have just watched a video of that fab Lord Tim demonstrating his new Distress Markers HERE,  Fabulous or what!!  I can't wait for them to arrive .......

Anyway  back to my card.  The pretty papers are Kaisercraft, and the flowers are from stash.  Leaves are cut with a punch.

I am entering this into the following challenges:

Divas By Design - Anything Goes
Simon Says Stamp - Animal Antics
Crafty Sentiments - Punches and / or Dies
Party Time Tuesdays - Anything Goes
Craft Your Passion - Beary Sweet
Incy Wincy Designs - Flowers
Karens Doodles - Cute and Cuddly
Make It Monday - Always Anything Goes
Stamp and Create - Anything Goes


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New beginnings

Lili's Little Fairies have their first challenge running this week, and lots of people know I do love LOTV stamps.  As it happens I have just made a baby card and thought it would fit this challenge really well.

I have used the Little Ducky image,  Now I know ducks don't normally come with pink spots, but sometimes it is just necessary to take a liberty!!  I have coloured with Copics, and the papers are all from Prima Pixie Glen.  I have embellished with seam binding, a prima silk flower, pearl pins, butterflies embellished with pearls, and also a flower charm.

I am entering this for the following challenges:

Lili's Little Fairies - New Beginnings
Crafty Ribbons - New Beginnings
Cute Card Thursday - What's New (I have not inked this stamp before)
Digi Doodle - New Beginnings
Dutch Dare - New Beginnings
Sassy Studio - Something New - my stamp
Seems a Little Sketchy - I followed the sketch
Simon Says Stamp - Something New

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Thank you

The challenge at Lili of the Valley this week is Thank You, and I thought this little girl with her present of a flowering pot was just right.  I know - no sentiment - but I tend not to put them on until I know who the card is for.

My image is coloured with Copics, and I have used paper from an Authentique pad which I was a RAK from a friend.  It is so pretty, and I love the pink colours.  I have team this was black cardstock.  Pearls, a piece of stripe ribbon, a handmade flower and butterflies complete the picture.

I am entering this for the following challenges:

Lili of the Valley - Thank you
The Sweet Shop - I followed the sketch
Make It Monday - Always anything goes
Paper Creations Ink - Flowers
Paper Playtime - Anything goes
There She Goes - Colour Challenge - Baby Pink, Coral, Black


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Flashback Friday 11.0 - First Wedding Card

A quick post from me this morning, and a bit of fun..  Flashback Friday 11.0 is asking entrants to post their first wedding card.  Well - I had to search the archives for this one - so here it is - a Lili of the Valley image - first posted in May 2010.  Exactly a year ago.

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A Spring Fairy for One Stop Card Crafts .... and lots of challenges

Good morning peeps

What a brilliant few days we have had weather wise - just lovely.  I also had a fab day at LB Crafts and did a workshop with Lin Brown.  So what with Artsy Crafts and this day, there was defintely no Hobbycrafts show for me this week.

At  One Stop Card Crafts this week we are looking for Fairies and Angels.  Do pop across to have a look at all the fabby designs from our team - we have lots of new designers join us over the last couple of weeks.  Our sponsors this week are the fabulous Stitchy Stamps.  You will find lots of lovely goodies in their store.

As it has been so lovely, I decided that this card should reflect it, and you know how I love my Lili of the Valley fairies.  So I have used spring colours.  I have layered Bo Bunny papers on to Bazzill, and the red/yellow side are the reverse side of the yellow/white.  I have coloured with Copics and the wings of the fairy have been liberally covered with Stardust Stickles.  My flowers were in the bargain bin at Hollycrafts, and I have taken out the centre and added pearls.  The leaves and draonflies were cut with Doo Hickey dies, and the punching down the side has been done with a Martha Stewart Doily border punch.

I am entering this for the following challenges:

Lili of the Valley - Punches
Alphabet Challenge - Up in the Air
Wednesday Stamper - Fabulously colourful
Simon Says Stamp - Mother's Day/Girlie
Flutterby Wednesday - Open challenge
Crafts and Me - Anything Goes
Crafty Catz - Pearls and Swirls - I have pearls
Delicious Doodles - Floral fantasy
Mami Doodles - Celebrate spring
Pattie's Creations - Flowers or Flowers and Pearls
Polka Doodles - Spring has Sprung
Sew Many Challenges - Spring Fling
Stamp Something - Spring
Stampin with the Dragon - Bring on Spring
Wags 'n' Whiskers - Spring
Little Miss Muffett - Brads, Gems or Pearls
Terrifically Thirlling Thursday Challenge - Warm Colours - ie. reds, oranges, yellows
Stamp Insanity - Punch it out
The Paper Shelter - Flower Power
The Creative Cottage - Spring has Sprung
Scrapbook Sisters - Anything Goes
Going Grey with Scrap Creations - Spring has Sprung
Creative Stamp Friends - Spring


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A card for a child - One Stop Card Craft Challenge meets several others

Hi everybody

What happened to the sun that came out Friday morning?  Who switched it off?   It has been dark, damp, dingey and cold since then.  Well - I knews I had to get my entry done for the One Stop Card Crafts Challenge, and that I needed to start on sorting out my craft room.  Easier said than done me thinks, but I have made a start.

At One Stop Card Crafts this week we want to see a card for a child.  We are sponsored by Robyn's Fetish.   The have a large range of digital stamps and papers - so why not go along and check them out.

Please pop along to One Stop Card Crafts to have a look at the fabby creations of the team, and enter our challenge.

For my card this week, I have followed the sketch from the Lili of the Valley Challenge.  I have also used an an LOTV image called Big Present, and I think you can see why - poor little boy - the present is almost as big as he is.  My papers are from Nitwit Collections, Bear Boys To.  The dark brown cardstock is some I discovered when having a sort - it is Cordinations Chocolate range - with brown one side and blue the other, so I used the reverse side for the corner pieces and the backing on the greeting.  I have used Copics for colouring.

I am entering this into the following challenges:

Lili of the Valley Challenge - - following a sketch by Dena
Charisma Cardz Challenge - Birthday
Crafty Sentiments - Anything goes
Moving Along with the Times - Ring out the old, ring in the new (Old - stamp I have had for more than 6 months, paper bought this week)
Rainbow Lady Challenge - It's all new -  My paper is new
Stampin' B's Design - Something Old - Something New (Old - stamp I have had for more than 6 months, paper bought this week)
The Creative Cottage - Something new - My paper is new.



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Collecting the tree ... for Sweet Stampin'

Good morning to one and all.  What a week it has been - snow everywhere, more to come, and lucky me I got a pretty nasty virus on my PC.   I was searching for a new Christmassy look for my blog, and looked at one site that has their own backgrounds and lists other blogs with free backgrounds as well.  I started going down the list, and opened one blog that has quite obviously had been hacked into or deliberately placed, and it was full of the most disgusting porn with the virus lurking.  It took me virtually all day to clean my PC.  Although I have all the standard anti-virus applications, none of them worked against this, because everytime I tried to do a scan this virus prevented it, until a free download from Microsoft called Security Essentials did the job.  This sort of thing makes me so angry.   I did email the blog concerned, and they have removed the offending link - it was not their fault.  Enough of the rants

Anyway I have a background I just had to have - the birds are my namesakes so what is a girl supposed to do when she is a Robin as well!!

On to this weeks' Sweet Stampin' challenge.  We are sponsored by LadyBug Crafts Ink, and I know there is a yummy prize for the winner.  We woud like to see your backgrounds created especially for your card - that means no branded DPs, but you can create one of your own.

I have done something fairly simple and have stamped and embossed with Winter Wonderland embossing powder straight on to my base card because I did not want to detract from this beautiful image from Lili of the Valley.  For the trees in the background I followed a project in the December issue of Craft Stamper  by Kay Carley for a technique using copics.  i thought it looked so effective so gave it a go.  The tree stamps I have had for years, and I have never used them, but they just suited this, and after colouring I added some Diamond Stickles..  For the sky I brushed some Distress Ink through a Spellbinder Impressabilities.  To finish I just mounted the whole thing on some Bazzill and finished off with a toning satin ribbon.  No greeting as I am not yet sure who this is for.

I am entering this for the following challenges:

• Winter Wonderland - Christmas and penguins or polar bears
• The Stampman - Christmas and only 3 colours
• Stamp Something - Christmas colour combo
• Raise the Bar - Trees
• Woodware USA - Anything goes
• Totally Stampalicious - Anything goes
• Paper Cupcakes - Anything goes
• Dutch Dare - Christmas card or tag
• Rainbow Lady's Challenge - Christmas animals
• Stamp and Create - 'Tis the season

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Snowy blues .... for several challenges

A card that seems somewhat appropriate given all the snow everywhere today.  My cats have been sitting at the window mesmerized with the snowflakes floating down.

 

 

 

 

Once again I have chosen a lovely Lili of the Valley stamp for this card.  Ths one is called Skating Along.  I have coloured with Copics, with copious amounts of glitter on the furry parts of her clothings, and added some silvery glass shards to the ice.  The sentiment is also Lili of the Valley from one of their newly released sets.  The papers are from a Bearly Mine Christmas set.  Edge punch is Martha Stewart as are the snowflakes.  The flowers are, as ever, from Wild Orchid Crafts.

 

 

 

 

 

I am entering this for the following challenges. 

• Bah Humbug - Feeling the Blues
• The Creative Cottage - Untraditional Christmas Colours
• Artful Inkables - Dies and punches
• Something completely different - Snow
• Stampaivie and more - Snow
• Tuesday Throwdown - Embellish it
• Lexi's Creations - Blue and Silver
• Stamps R Us - Holiday Card
• Cute card Thursday - The Blues

 

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DT card - Buttons and Bows

Hello Sweet Stampin' fans and of hello course to anybody else who tunes in here on this bright crisp morning.

I think I am finally getting over my fluey cold, with all its associated nasties.  Three weeks now - and I know of several people including my sister who have been suffering for much longer.

So, this week at Sweet Stampin' our theme is Buttons and Bows.  The prize this week is 6 beautiful pins from Pretty Pin Emebllishments.

My card is a boy's birthday card, so there is a little bit of ribbon, but no bows - I don't think a rugby playing little boy would like bows!

The image is LOTV as is the sentiment from their new range, which I purchased at NEC.  The image is coloured with copics and the background inking is Distress Inks.    This is supposed to be a mucky rugby field.  All the papers are from Basic Grey Oliver, with Bazzill for the dark green background.  Buttons, brad and ribbon all from stash.

i am entering this into the following challenges:

Elllephantastic  - Red and Green - well I have a red button, and the little boy has red hair!
Digi Doodles Best - Red and Green
A Spoonful of Sugar - Anything goes
Meljens Designs - Buttons and Bows
Prairie Fairy Designs - Buttons and Bows

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DT Card

A second card from me today.  This is my DT card for the One Stop Craft Challenge, and this week we are looking for Snowpeople on your cards. 

Our sponsor this week is Robyn's Fetish.

So, on to my card.  I have chosen this lovely snowman by LOTV.  Their stamps are brilliant, and I cannot enough of them.  I have coloured in Copics, and added a fair amount of Stickles in Diamond, plus added some Twinkles to the snow as well for some texture.  My sentiment is from one of the new LOTV sets, which I bought at the NEC.  Flowers are from Wild Orchid Crafts, with pine branches punched with a L.Em punch, and a swirl done with a Marianne D die, to which I have added a couple of crystals.  The papers are from the lovely Memory Box Mistletoe.  The ribbon is from stash.

Do pop along to the One Stop Crafts Challenge blog to see all the lovely projects from the team.

I am entering this card for the following challenges

Lili of the Valley - Glitter and Glitz
Paper Play Challenge - Let it Snow
ABC Christmas - X is for Christmas with the option of flowers
Stamps R Us - Sparkle and Scallops
Delightful Challenges - Winter weather
Digi Doodles Best - Anything goes


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Just an old fashioned girl ...

It is no secret that I love the stamps from Lili of the Valley and this week LOTV have a lovely challenge  - One for the Girls - and I think it suits this little lady down to the ground.  This was one of my purchases at the NEC last week.  Horror of horrors! - I thought I had got all the new stamps, and then when I glot home discovered I had not, so am going to have to wait until they are released on line on November 12!

This cute little lady is coloured with Copics, and I have added some Glossy Accents to the teapot.  The pearls are from a batch I bought from the Hobby House at the NEC, papers are Nitwits digi papers, the flowers from Wild Orchid Crafts, and the lace is from stash.

I am entering this into the following challenges:

Scrappekammeret:  Girly
Ooh La La Challenge - Remember Remember
Creative Inspirations - Girly (I am ignoring the glitter and glamour!)
My Time to Craft - Quick and Cute
Paper Play Challenge - Circles
Bugaboo - Anything goes
Crazy 4 Challenges - Square cards

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DT Post - Sweeet Stampin'

Good morning to one and all

I hope you have had a brilliant crafty week.  On Thursday I went with two crafty friends, Anne and Chrissie,  to the NEC for Hobbycrafts, and of course, it involved spending a fair amount of money, and having a great time!  I spent a fair amount of time drooling over the work on the PaperArtsy stand and watching Leandra demoing.

This week at Sweet Stampin' we have a photo to give you inspiration for your creation, which I guess will give you lots of choice for your colours.

We are sponsored today by Pollycraft

and one lucky winner will win a set of seasonal digis.

I have chosen to use the pinky colour as my main colour again - cannot get away from it at the moment - but there are tiny accents of the other colours as well.

I have used a Lili of the Valley image - Christmas Candle for this card, which has been coloured in Copics.  My backing papers are from the lush Tim Holtz Vintage Shabby paper stack.  The flowers are from Wild Orchid Crafts, and I have punched out some holly leaves and fern to go with them.  Some pretty pink and white lace, crtstals and loads of stickles complete the picture.

I am entering this for the following challenges:

Craft your passion - Anything goes
Charisna Cardz Challenge - With love at Christmas
Fairytale Challenge - Everything goes
PaperPlay Challenge - Circles
The ABC Challenge - G is for Glitter
Incy Wincy Designs - Anything goes


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An autumn coloured card for several challenges

A late Monday evening posting for me.  I sort of got waylayed because I wanted to watch Spooks during the evening, so did not finish until late.

I have folowed a sketch from Crafty Creations #88 .  This card has a Lili of the Valley image, which I have coloured with Copics.  I have used paper from K & Co Ancestry, which has autumnal colours, using both sides.  The base card is a pearlised card on to which is mounted some tan card to co-ordinate with the Ancestry paper.   I have embellished with flowers from Wild Orchid Crafts, which have some stickles on added a couple of pearl pins, and some little gems.

I am also going to enter this card into the following challenges:

• Lily of the Valley #68 - Autumn
• Kaboodle Doodles - Colours of Fall
• Stamping for the Weekend - Autumn Inspiration
• Crazy 4 Challenges - Birthday card - my sentiment is on the tag inside
• Sentimental Sundays - Tag It - I have a tag in the inside pocket
• Incy Wincy Designs - Faux Anything
• Paper Playtime - main colour Orange - I have orangey/brown tones
• The Pink Elephant - Childhood - anything with a child
• Pear Tree Designs - Autumn
• Craftalicious - Anything goes
• Paper Sundaes - A change of Season

The photos are pooh and I will try and get some more tomorrow.

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