Dressing the Snowman

Hi everybody

There is a lovely sketch by Bev over at the Lili of the Valley challenge this week, and I decided to follow it and enter this card using the Build a Snowman stamp.

Mr papers are Prima North Country - just love the colours and non-traditional patterns of these.   I have coloured with Copics and added a fair amount of stickles for the fur and snow.  I have used seam binding and a poinsetta from stash, and also a snowflake cut with my new Memory Box die.

I am entering this for the following challenges:

A Gem of a Challenge - Cold and Frosty
Come and Get It - Anything Goes
Crafty Hazelnut - for someone special
Dream Valley Challenges - Anything Goes
Hiding in my Craft Room - Freestyle
Just Us Girls - Wild Card challenge
Lili of the Valley - Sketch
OSAAT - Christmas
Pile it On - Keep Warm
Sweet Stampin - Anything Goes
The Ribbon Girl - Jingle all the way to Christmas
The Squirrel and the Fox - Hats or flowers
The Crafty Pad - Freindship
Totally Papercrafts - Glitter It


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Hugs,

Daisy Chains

Hi everybody

The Lili of the valley Challenge have a sketch I really liked, and as I have a few of their new girly images, I decided to use one for this challenge.  I don't think I will ever tire of using these, they are so easy to work with. 

 The image is Lili of the Valley 'Daisy Chains', which I have coloured with Copics, and brushed around the image with distress inks.  My papers are Memory Box Brioche - very pretty they are too.  The sentiment is also LOTV.  Flowers are from WOC, lace and gems from stash.

I am entering this into the following challenges:

Lili of the Valley - sketch
Phindy's Place - Going round in circles
Crafty us Crazy - Red, White and Blue or a Summer theme - mine is Summer
The Rubber Cafe - Summer
Southern Girls - Anything goes
Amber's Craft and Stuff - Summer
Cooking it up with Kaie - use a little yellow and follow a sketch from any current challenge
Crafting for all Seasons - Summer
Crafty Creations - Let it shine - I have sparkly gems
Fab 'n' Funky - Summer Lovin'
The Paper Variety - It's Summer
Bearley Mine - Summer is here
Ladybug Craft Inks - Use Red
Make it Monday - Anything goes
Stamps R Us - 1, 2, 3 Recipe - i image, 2 patterned papers, 3 types of embellishment

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It's the love bug at Sweet Stampin'

Hi everybody - a beautiful sunny Saturday morning.

At Sweet Stampin' today we have a theme of  Love Bugs - and I guess that could be all manner of things!  This week we are sponsored by Prairie Fary, who have a fabby range of Digi Stamps, and our monthly sponsor is Quixotic Paperie.

My love bugs are  Butterflies.

For this card I followed a sketch at the Lili of the Valley Challenge, and this fabby LOTV image is called 'I Do', so entirely appropriate for Valentine Day, but also suitable for wedding cards.  I have coloured with Copics.  My papers are from Nitwits, flowers are from Wild Orchid Crafts, the lovely silk ribbon from the ribbon girl.  The love brad attached to the pink bow is from Delish Designs, pearls from stash.  The senitment is computer generated.

I am entering this card for the following challenges:

Lili of the Valley - Sketch
Do you stack up - Ribbon
CRAFT - Valentine
Colour Create - Chocolate, Strawberry, Cream (mine is milk choklit this time!)
Crafty Senitments - Valentine/Love
Rainbow Lady's Challenge - It's all about love
Samuel Taylor's Monthly Challenge - Copics/Promarkers
Stamp-n-Doodle - Red/Pink and White plus one other colour - mine is milk chocolate
Penny's paper Crafty Challenge - Hearts a Flutter
Crazy 4 Challenges - Hearts
The Crafty Calendar Challenge - Love
Crafty Ann's - Love is all around
Crafty Catz - Valentine/Love
Stamping with the Dragon - Anything goes
Off the Wall Craftiness - follow the colour scheme
Dutch Dare - Red/Pink and White
Sassy Studio - Red/Pink and White
In Style Stamps - Colour Challenge
A Spoon Full of Sugar - Let's see some love
Paper Play - Hearts and flowers, but not valentine

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DT Post - One Stop Card Crafts meets several other challenges

Good morning everybody

I hope you are all looking forward to the weekend.  Today brings the 100th Challenge for One Stop Card Crafts, so the theme is Congratulations.  I would like to my congratulations to all the people who are working so hard to keep this challenge running - they are really great and there is a lot of talent amongst them.

This week we are sponsored by

DewDropz Crafts 

Nikki has kindly offered a £10.00 gift voucher to spend on Dewdrop Craftz Digi Images!!

My card this week features a stamp I have not used before - it has been sitting in my LOTV file for some time.  This is 'Baby Christening', which I have coloured with copics.    I decided that rather than the usual pink or blue, I would do a pale yellow theme.  The patterned papers are Papermania.  The pale yellow base card is Bazzill.   I have used this for the die cuts as well - Marianne D and Nesties, and Martha Stewart punches.  The flowers are from Wild Orchid Crafts which have been edged with stickles, but does not show in the photos.   Pearls from stash, and the sentiment is computer generated.

I am entering this for the following challenges:

Tuesday Throwdown #19 - Punches
The Sisterhood of Crafters - at least 3 flowers
Penny's Paper Crafty 19 - Circles - I have one behind my stamped image
Creative Cottage #24 - Bling - mind is pearls and stickles that does not show properly!!
Pixie Dust Studio #42 - Swirls
Anything Goes Challenge #18 - Circles - I have one behind my stamped image
Incy Wincy Designs #61 - I wonder what it could be - Anything goes
CRAFT Challenge #70 - Fancy Florals
Stamp Something - Something to celebrate
Catch the Bug - Happy World Cardmaking Day - anything goes
Craft your days awat #5 - Babies
Stamp, Scrap and Doodle - Anything goes





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DT Posting - One Stop Craft Challenge has summer fun

Good morning, and welcome to another One Stop Craft Challenge, and this week we are having summer fun.

I have followed a sketch from this week's Lili of the Valley challenge. 

My little boy has decided he wants to sail his boat, so off he goes.  The image is Lili of the Valley, Sail Boat.  I have coloured in Copics, and have paper pieced the sail to co-ordinate with the background papers, which are all Bearly Mine designs.  The border across the card has a punched edge for which I used a Stampin' Up border punch.  The co-ordinating buttons have blue thread through them.

I am also entering this for the following challenges:

Lexis Creations, Challenge #19 - paper piecing, where there is also a DT call

Secret Crafter Saturday Challenge #95 - It's a man's world



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DT Post - Sweet Stampin'

Hi everybody

Hope you have all had a great week, and are looking forward to the weekend.  I am just hoping the Wimbledon finals will be as exciting as some of the other matches this week.

On to the Sweet Stampin' Challenge this week - Pearls 'n' Pins.  We are really excited to be sponsored by Quixotic Paperie, and the prize is a £15.00 Gift Voucher to spend in their on-line shop, which has some brilliant stuff for sale - lovely DPs, stamps, altered art, new Viva Deco paint, stamps, etc, etc.  Have a look here.

My image for this card is Lili of the Valley - New Hat.  I think she is gorgeous, and I love hats.  The sentiment is Hobby Art.  The papers are MME Pretty Please, with co-ordinating Bazzill. 

I have coloured the image with Copics, the flowers, which are from Wild Orchid Crafts are edged with Stickles, and I have added ribbon, pearls and pins from stash.

I followed a sketch from the LOTV Challenge, no.56, for which I am entering this card.

I am also entering for the following challenges:

Stamp with Fun, #65 - Birthday

Everybody Art Challenge, #97 - Birthday

The Corrosive Challenge, #70 - Flowers, flowers

Alphabet Challenge, J is for Jewels - mine are pearls

Craftalicious Challenge, #3 - Cute

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One Stop Craft Challenge - DT Post

The theme at OSCC is Pink and Brown.  How easy is that you may think - well I love these colours - they go together well, and I thought easy-peasy - not so!  So I am not sure I am completely happy with what I have done ....

My image is Lili of the Valley - Glamourous Gardening.  I think if I gardened like this the neighbours might think I am mad - indeed I might tilt myself into the raised borders if I had high heels on!!!   However, I do have a big hat for sunny days.

I have coloured with Copics.  The papers are Stampin' Upm and everything else is from stash  No roses, but some paper flowers, which are all Prima, with a pearl brad through them.  I have also added some pearls to the bottom of the little girl's necklace.

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Who's going to win the race?

Another card for a boy or maybe a 'little boy' who is actually much older! This is another Lili of the Valley image, Computer Fun, and how many of our older generation spend just as much time in front of the computer playing games / X-Box as the younger ones ...

I had started this card for another challenge, but then I realised it had to be CAS - which this is not!.

I have coloured with Copics.  The papers are Basic Grey Granola, and I have added a few buttons with thread for embellishment.

I am entering this card for the following challenges:

Crafty Cardmakers #23 - Cards for Men
Creative Inspirations #65 - One for the Boys
Magical Crafts #17 - Something for a male


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A lazy Sunday afternoon - Sweet Stampin'- DT Post

Hi everybody

Hope you are all looking forward to the weekend.  As I write this, on what was supposed to be a warm, sunny day, it is cold, miserable and raining, and I am wearing a thck fleece over two t-shirts.  Aaargh!

The challenge on Sweet Stampin' this week is clean and simple.  To most people this is probably not clean and simple, but I was just itching to use this LOTV image for a male card.  I have coloured with Copicsa, used Nesties to cut out the image, and the textured background is a Tim Holtz embossing folder which I have run through the Cuttlebug, and then lightly rubbed over some Distress Ink.

I am entering this for the following challenges:

CAS-tastic Challenge #8 - Father's Day
Cupcake Craft Challenge #95 - One for the Boys
Cards for Men #12 - Father's Day
Stampin' Royalty #24 - Masculine theme


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Baby, baby .........

Hi everybody

I hope you are all looking forward to the weekend.  I certainly am - going to be up at the crack of dawn on Sunday to go to the Craft Barn with my friend Anne, for a day of shopping and seeing all the demonstrators, such as Lin  from LB Crafts, Suze Weinberg, Jean from Crafty Individuals, Leandra from PaperArtsy, and more and more.  Can't wait.

Anyway, on to this card.  I don't often do baby cards, but the other week on a little  spree to the Stamp Attic in Wantage I picked up some just delish papers by Scribble Scrabble called Circus Baby.  Just so yummy and very pretty colours.  So I have broken into one sheet.  It is lovely to find something where both sides are so useable for the ame project.  So out came my Baby Boy stamp from Lili of the Valley.  Isn't he cute with his doggie stroller.  I can remember mine from ??? years ago!  I have coloured with Copics, and added flowers from Wild Orchid Crafts, and some punched leaves.  The sentiment is computer generated.

I am entering this card into the following challenges:

Lili of the Valley #55 - a sketch is provided by Dawnie
A Spoon Ful of Sugar # 107 - Floral delight
Crafty Creations #71 - Child's play
Creative Inspirations #64 - Babies


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Fussy and Fancy - more is better ...

This card  is based on a sketch created by the very talented Mindy for the Fussy and Fancy Friday Challenge.

I have used a lovely image from Lili of the Valley, Born to Shop, as the main image.  The Sentiment is Penny Black, and I cannot tell you what the other one is - it is so old and dirty.  I coloured with Copics and liberally doused the edges with Stickles Stardust, which has also gone on the flowers.  The lovely roses are from Wild Orchid Crafts, as is the sparkly buckle, and the other items are from stash.  The plain dusky blue card is from a Core'dinations pack, and the mottled blue is from the Bearly Mine designs Vintage Collection.  The punch used for the fancy edge at the top is a Martha Stewart.

I am entering this card for the following challenges:

• Fussy and Fancy Friday Challenge #12 - a sketch and DT call
• Copic Creations #29 - Animals
• Pollycraft Monday Challenge #47 - Ribbon and Bling
• Corrosive Challenges #67 - Die Cuts
• Crafty Angels #38 - Favourite stamp - I have lots of favourites and this is one of them
• Cupcake Craft Challenge #94 - Dazzle us

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Weddings .....

We appear to be walking into the wedding season with the beginning of May.  So I am following. 

My card is a Lili of the Valley image, and I am ashamed to say that this is it's first inking!!  Bad lady ...  I think they are very cute couple.  My bride is slightly non-traditional, as I decided to give her a pale blue gown, and also another first, I have cut an out of frame nestie, following the very easy tutorial from the lovely Rach.  This can be found here. 

The image is coloured in Copics.  The background papers, which are very neutral, silvery grey, are printed from the Decadent Brocade CD available from Graphicus, on to White Silver Shimmer Card, which gives a lovely sheen  I have just slightly modified the intensity to get differing tones of the same sheet.  This is mounted on to Bazzill Bling card.  No idea what colour - but I think it was out of a Wisteria colour match pack.  Lace and ribbon are from Bunny Zoe's Crafts, and flowers from Wild Orchid Crafts, with punches used for leaves, and also the double edging across the middle.  The sentiment is from Magnolia, which I bought at the NEC.   I have also used Stardust stickles to give a little bling.

I am entering this for the following challenges:

Charisma Card Challenge, week 20 - its all about weddings
One Stop Craft Challenge, no. 79 - wedding wishes and DT call
CRAFT Challenge, no. 49, - wedding or birthday


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Lili of the Valley, Challenge 49

I adore the Lili of the Valley images, and no doubt tomorrow at the NEC I shall be filling my bag with the ones I don't already have!

Anyway, for this challenge, which is no 49,  there is a great sketch to follow, and some great samples from the DT. 

My image is  Lili of the Valley Thistledown Fairy, and she has been coloured with Copics.  The sentiment is Magnolia, and I have used the lovely new Basic Grey papers Kioshi.  Flowers are from Wild Orchid Crafts, pins from Tabby Crafts, and everything else from stash.

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My first easel card ... for several challenges

Why is it Stickles take so long to dry?  I thought it was dry, picked it up, it is now over my hands, which I promptly wiped on my trackie bottoms because I could not find the wet wipes, and so it goes ......... .  That said, you may have guessed that I have used stickles on my card.  Yes  - on the butterflies, flowers and on the image border.

It is positively spring like at the moment, although we seem to be getting some hard frosts, and my colours reflect this.

This is my first easel card, and I used the tutorial by the lovely Jacqui, which I found the easiest to follow.   My image is from Lili of the Valley - I think she is really cute.  I have used Prisma Pencils for the colouring.  The punches used are Martha Stewart for the butterfly and the leaves are L-Em, which I purchased at Make It.  Flowers are from Wild Orchid Crafts, and I have coloured with with Copics to match the paper, which is MME Market Street (I think - I cut the border off and binned it, so cannot remember).

This is a birthday card for a lovely lady who has been a really good friend for around 36 years, and decided she had had enough of the rat race, took early retirement and moved backed to Wales to follow other interests.

I am entering this card for the following challenges:

• Flutterby Wednesday, 99 - I have butterflies on my card
• Cute Card Thursday, 102 - Lucky Green
• Lili of the Valley, 48
• Creative Card Crew -  Celebration - my card is to celebrate a birthday
• Simon Says Challenge, Mother's Day/Girly
• Crafty Creations, 57
• CRAFT Challenge, 40 -  Mother's Day/Floral - my card has a floral theme, with the little girls holding a bouquet of flowers, and I have added flower embellishments
• Pink Elephant, 56 - Add green
• Crafty Catz, 22 - Shades of green - I think mine is bluey-green, so hope it counts!
• Rosie-D's Challenge, 66 - Think Spring

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Love is in the air .......

Well it certainly seems to be from the challenge point of view.  I normally don't do Valentines, but I loved colouring these  little Lili of the Valley bunnies - they are so cute.  This is the first time I have used Lili of the Valley, and their images are really easy to stamp with.

So what challenges am I entering this for:

• Lili of the Valley, 46 - Valentine
• Double Dutch, 36 - Be my Valentine
• Stamp with Fun, 45 - Hearts
• Creative Card Crew, 44 - Valentine
• Everybody Art Challenge, 78 - Valentine
• ABC Challenge, N is for New - this is a new stamp
• CRAFT Challenge, 36 - Love or Valentine
• Charisma Cardz, 5 - I love you
• Fussy & Fancy Friday Challenge, 3 - Hearts
• Stamp Something - Love Somethings
• Stamp Something for the weekend - Love is in the air, valentines
• Crazy for Challenges - Valentine
• By the Cute and Girly - Love
• Raise the Bar, 4 - Hearts

The image has been coloured with Prisma pencils, the papers are Basic Grey Sultry (I found them at the back of the drawer!), rose from Wild Orchid Crafts, and the ribbons and pearl string from stash.  The text is computer generated.

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