Click

It’s been a right old day. Still not very well and I have got an eye infection now to top it all off. I’ve been chasing my tail all week so we took a few hours out this evening to go Trick or Treating. My little boy (3.5 years) dressed up as Dracula and was so excited and although my baby girl looked cute as a pumpkin she kind of had a look on her face that said ‘what are we up to Mummy?’. Here is a quick snap of them…very hard to get as baby girl like to crawl over and grab the camera…

And on another sad note it’s my turn to post my last GDT make over on the Digi Bells blog today. I have had a fantastic three months as GDT and want to thanks all the girls there for having me play along. For my final post I have used Click…  

I’ve been using some of those  unloved DCWV Matstacks, that I found at the bottom of a drawer, again. The colours in this stack are very Halloween, so is was nice to use them with a non Halloween image…

This is one of my favourite layouts at the moment and looks equally good CAS as it does overly embellished…as you can see by the amount of flowers I went with the later on this one.

Supplies:

• Image: Click from Elisabeth Bell 
• Colouring Medium: ProMarkers
• DP: DCWV ‘Latte’ Matstack
• Card: Joanna Sheen Elegance Ice White 300gsm and cream card from my stash
• Stamps: Sentiment is from Sarah Hurley’s Rose Stamp Set
• Ink: Brilliance ‘Graphite Black’ inkpad
• Dies & Punches: Quickutz/Lifestyle Crafts corner die
• Embellishments: Paper flowers, pearls, ribbon bow and a Viva Decor Pearl Pen

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

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Thanks for stopping by

Lisa

Double Double Toil and Trouble..

 

Happy All Hallows Eve!  My week isn’t going to well, I’ve got a really bad head cold, littlest one is teething, my little boy is home from Nursery as it’s half term and Tuesday I managed to hurt my finger on the tumble dryer!! I bent it backwards…it’s not too painful but is feels a bit numb and stiff :-(

And on another not so happy note it’s my last week as a GDT for I Love ProMarkers, but I’m happy really as I have enjoyed playing along so a huge big thank you to Karen and the Girls for having me join them for October.  The challenge started yesterday and you still have plenty time to enter this weeks challenge of…

Anything Goes

This challenge is being sponsored by Crafty Sentiments so hop across to the I Love ProMarkers blog to see all the details.

 

I think I’ve mentioned before I’m not one for Halloween, but my little boy is really excited by it. He has a little costume all ready to go Trick or Treating later and my littlest one has a pumpkin costume.  So for the children I have made another little sign to put in the window. This time I’ve used Chloe with Cauldron…

I’ve coloured Chloe with my ProMarkers and as she’s a little witch I tried to get a spooky grey tone to her skin. And spot the hair…inspired by last weeks attempt at pink hair this week I thought I would give green hair a try…

 

I’ve made another little bat as well (I’m a bit addicted to these at the moment) and if it doesn’t stay still long it gets googly eyes put on it….the kids better watch out!!!

Supplies:

• Image: Chloe with Cauldron from Pink Gem Designs 
• Colouring Medium: ProMarkers
• Card: Joanna Sheen Elegance Ice White 300gsm and card from my stash
• Dies & Punches: Small Circle Punch
• Embellishments: Raffia Lace, Glitter, Googly Eyes, Dymo Label Maker, Card Candi, Gems and Stickles glitter glue

 

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

 

Just playing catch up so I will be back later with my card for the new Whimsy Challenge.

 

Thanks for stopping by

Lisa

Barclay Bear

Good evening! All the headaches I’ve been getting have been leading to something…a cold! I woke up this morning with a sore throat and bunged up nose :-(

Anyhoo enough feeling sorry for myself, it’s time for a new challenge at A Gem of a Challenge and this week Helen N has chosen a theme of…

More than 1 Fold

I’ve gone Barclay mad and used Barclay with Presents, Barclay with Envelope and Barclay with Bauble to make a concertina tag card…

A few close-up pictures…

The sentiments are also from Pink Gem Designs from the Vintage Occasion Sentiments set.

Supplies:

• Image: Barclay with Presents, Barclay with Envelope and Barclay with Bauble from Pink Gem Designs 
• Colouring Medium: ProMarkers
• Card: Joanna Sheen Elegance Ice White 300gsm, concertina tag card from Little Claire and red, kraft and gold mirri cardd from my stash
• Dies & Punches: Martha Stewart Snowflake punch and Kars Starburst punch
• Embellishments: Gems, Viva Decor Pearl Pen, padded hearts, Stickles, ribbon, button, embroidery thread and wooden snowflake

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

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Thanks for stopping by

Lisa

Witches at EB World Challenge

Oh boy, I’m still suffering….this time it’s just a bad headache and thank goodness not a full migraine. It’s affecting my vision a little so I’ll keep this short and to the point.

It’s time for a new challenge at Elisabeth Bell’s World Challenge and the theme this month is…

Witches

Well it is nearly Halloween so we want to see your little witches. I have used the adorable Belladonna and Hoot from Elisabeth Bells’s digi collection…

I have coloured this little cutie with my ProMarkers. I’ve used really typical Halloween colours and dug out yet another unloved DCWV Matstack…

And who could resist a couple more cute Card Candi Spiders and doodled cobwebs.

Supplies:

• Image: Belladonna and Hoot by Elisabeth Bell 
• Colouring Medium: ProMarkers
• DP: Glitter DCWV Matstack
• Card: Joanna Sheen Elegance Ice White 300gsm and purple card from stash
• Dies & Punches: Waste from a Whimsy Lace Border die, word dies from All Occasion Dies and X-Cut small leaf punch
• Embellishments: Paper flowers, green metallic trim, Viva Decor Pearl Pen, Card Candi and doodling with a black fine liner.

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

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Thanks for stopping by

Lisa

Anything Goes

Morning all. It’s time for a new challenge over at Paper Crafting Journey and this time our theme is…

Anything Goes

I’ve made another Christmas card to add to my pile…

This one uses the adorable Andy on Sledge from Pink Gem Designs…

Quite a quick make as I kept the layout and embellishments simple.

Supplies:

• Image: Andy on Sledge by Pink Gem Designs 
• Colouring Medium: ProMarkers
• Card: Joanna Sheen Elegance Ice White 300gsm and red, blue pearl and silver glitter card from stash
• Stamps: Greetings Stamp set from Stamp Addicts
• Ink: Brilliance ‘Graphite Black’ inkpad
• Dies, Embossing Folders & Punches: Spellbinders plain circles, Marianne Snowflake dies and a Crafts Too Snowflake embossing folder
• Embellishments: Card Candi

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

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Thanks for stopping by

Lisa

Pink Hair

 Morning all! Hope everyone is well. I'm still a little under the weather, I have been getting a lot of headaches at moment so crafting time has been limited. Thank goodness I have had quite a few images coloured up ready to be made into cards as I'm not sure how long I could concentrate at the moment.

It's time for my GDT card for I Love ProMarkers where the challenge this week is…

Pink Hair

This challenge is being sponsored by Sherri Baldy so hop across to the I Love ProMarkers blog to see all the details. Here is my card…

This is my first attempt at colouring pink hair and I must say I am quite pleased with the outcome.

Supplies:

• Image: Sherri Baldy
• Colouring Medium: ProMarkers
• Card: Joanna Sheen Elegance Ice White 300gsm and Core'Dinations Textured Card
• Stamps: Personal Impressions 'Think Big' Sentiments
• Ink: Brilliance 'Graphite Black' inkpad
• Dies & Punches: Woodware tag punch and Spellbinders Picot Edge Circles and plain circles
• Embellishments: Ribbon, pearls, stick pin, leaf, paper flowers, Viva Decor Pearl pen and Stickles

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

Thanks for stopping by

Lisa

Digi Bells New Release Blog Hop

Hurrah! It’s time for a new release at Elisabeth Bell and we have a **Bewitching** new Digi this month. Without further ado please welcome…

** Little Witch on the Moon **

…to our little family at Elisabeth Bell.

You should have arrived here from Lori’s Blog but if you didn’t and you would like to take part in the hop please head over to the Digi Bells Blog to get started.

You have plenty of time to join in the fun as the hop runs for a whole week, ending on Friday, October 25th, 2013 at 9:00am Arizona time (which should be 5pm UK time!).

 

I have coloured Little Witch on the Moon with my ProMarkers and I’ve gone for completely traditional witchy/Halloweeny colours.

Supplies:

• Image: Little Witch on the Moon by Elisabeth Bell 
• Colouring Medium: ProMarkers
• Stamps: Personal Impression ‘Double Saying’ Stamp Set
• Ink: Distress Inkpad ‘Dusty Concord’
• Card: White, Purple and Green Core’Dinations and Joanna Sheen Elegance Ice White 300gsm 
• Dies, Punches & Embossing Folder: Marianne Corner Dies, Spellbinders Plain and Scalloped Circles, an X-Cut square punch (to create the fishtail) and a ‘Tied Together’ Embossing Folder
• Embellishments: Bow, Pearl, Paper Flowers, Viva Decor Pearl Pen and Orange Stickles

Your next stop should be the lovely Mary Lou’s blog.

For a chance to win don’t forget to leave a comment on each blog and at the very end hop back to the Digi Bells blog and let us know you’ve hopped along and what you thought of the of hop.

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

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Thanks for hopping

Lisa

Snowflakes

Morning all! Can you believe we are already halfway through October? I can’t! I’m not sure where the time is going but it’s going to be Christmas before know it. And with that said I have made another Christmas card for my collection. It’s my GDT creation for the new challenge over at I Love ProMarkers where the challenge this week is…

Snowflakes

This challenge is being sponsored by Stamp Fairy so hop across to the I Love ProMarkers blog to see all the details. Here is my card…

I’ve used the super cute Snowflake Chloe from Pink Gem Designs and (apart from her skin) coloured her with just Cool Greys and Blue ProMarkers. I’ve kept the rest of the card quite simple using just blue and white plain cardstock.

Supplies:

• Image: Snowflake Chloe from Pink Gem Designs 
• Colouring Medium: ProMarkers
• Card: Joanna Sheen Elegance Ice White 300gsm and American Crafts Textured Pale Blue Card
• Stamps: Stamp Addicts ‘Greetings’ stamp set
• Ink: VersaFine ‘Deep Lagoon’ Inkpad
• Dies & Punches: Go-Kreate Square Frilly Frames Dies, Marianne Christmas Tree Die and a small Tonic snowflake punch
• Embellishments: Ribbon, pearls and Stickles

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

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Thanks for stopping by

Lisa

Halloween is Coming…

Evening all! I am still playing catch up so now Tuesday night’s essential TV viewing of ‘The Great Brittish Bakeoff’ has finished I thought I would do a quick post to let you know there is still just over a week left to enter the latest challenge at Paper Crafting Journey…

Halloween Colours

It doesn’t have to be a Halloween project but just the colours, so I surprised myself by making another Halloween project, not being a great lover of all things spooky!

My image is Little Witch 2 from Just Some Lines and a big surprise from me as I’ve not used any DP. I’m quitw please with my bats and spiders made from some Card Candi and doodling…

And I even doodled the cobwebs as well!

Supplies:

• Image: Little Witch 2 by Just Some Lines
• Colouring Medium: ProMarkers
• Card: Orange, Purple and Green card from stash
• Stamps: Personal Impressions ‘Double Sayings’ Stamps
• Ink: Brilliance ‘Graphite Black’ Inkpad
• Dies & Punches: Tonic Doily Edge Punch and X-Cut Corner Rounder
• Embellishments: Card Candi, Raffia Lace, Stickles and Dymo Label Maker

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

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Thanks for stopping by

Lisa

Creative Genius Michelle

It’s my turn to post over on the Digi Bells blog today and I have used Creative Genius Michelle…  

I came across a few really old DCWV Matstacks at the bottom of a drawer a few weeks back and I decided it was time they got used again. So I coloured up this little cutie to match.

Supplies:

• Image: Creative Genius Michelle from Elisabeth Bell 
• Colouring Medium: ProMarkers
• DP: DCWV ‘Garden Party’ Matstack
• Card: Joanna Sheen Elegance Ice White 300gsm and black card from my stash
• Stamps: Stamp Addicts ‘Greetings’ Unmounted Stamp Set
• Ink: Brilliance ‘Graphite Black’ inkpad
• Dies & Punches: MFT Die-Namics Mini Rolled Rose, MFT Die-Namics Double Scallop Border and Sizzix Fancy Tag Framelits
• Embellishments: Gems and Pearls

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

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Thanks for stopping by

Lisa

31 Spook Street

Well that didn’t quite go to plan…I was supposed to be back to share this Wednesday afternoon. After scheduling by I Love ProMarkers GDT post Tuesday evening before I went to bed I awoke Wednesday morning with the worst Migraine I have had in a while. Luckily I was staying with my parents as they looked after the children so I could sleep through it. So now a few days later and I’m back to playing catch up again….maybe this time I can go more than a week without being ill.

Enough waffle we have a new monthly challenge over at Sarah Hurley Challenge Blog and this months theme, chosen by the lovely Carol, is…

Halloween

Now I’m not usually one for Halloween, but I really enjoyed making this. It’s a little hanging plaque and I thought I would hang it in the window on All Hallows Eve…

The images and papers are from Sarah’s latest kit ‘31 Spook Street’.

I merged the ‘Angelica’ and ‘Muffin’ images before printing. I then coloured them in with my ProMarkers.

…my little spiders made with an ‘L’ alphabet punch, a circle punch and some glitter FlowerSoft.

Supplies:

• Image:  ‘Angelica’ and ‘Muffin’ from the ‘31 Spook Street’ Digi Kit
• Colouring Medium: ProMarkers
• DP: ‘31 Spook Street’ Digi Kit
• Card: Joanna Sheen Elegance Ice White 300gsm and white and purple card from my stash
• Dies & Punches: Alphabet Punches and Circle Punch
• Embellishments: Glitter FlowerSoft, gems, sequins and Dymo Label Maker

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

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Thanks for stopping by

Lisa

Orange & Brown

Morning All. Hope you are all well. Unfortunately I have had a bug so haven’t done much apart from sleep all weekend and haven’t felt up to anything crafty. I had to miss a few DT makes and a World Card Making Day Blog Hop :-( but something ‘spooky’ I had already made was my project for the Sarah Hurley Challenge and I will pop back on later to share it with you.

I managed a quick make yesterday afternoon for my guest designer spot at I Love ProMarkers, but it seemed to take a lot of effort for a simple card. I think Mr Mojo may be off fighting that bug!! Anyhoo, our theme this week is…

Orange & Brown

The challenge is sponsored by Dr Digi so please hop over to the challenge blog for the full details and inspiration from the fabulous I Love ProMarkers DT.

Orange and Brown mean one thing to me…Autumn, so I have used the gorgeous Autumn Wagon by StampArt by Kathryne…

My Little boy spotted the Pumpkins on this and reminded me of my promise that we would carve pumpkins this year for Halloween.

Supplies:

• Image & Sentiment: Autumn Wagon StampArt by Kathryne
• Colouring Medium: ProMarkers
• DP: First Edition ‘Boho Chic’ 6x6 pad
• Ink: VersaMagic Inkpad
• Card: Joanna Sheen Ice White Elegance 300gsm and brown & orange Core’Dinations card
• Dies & Punches: Joy Crafts Flower Die and Lifestyle Crafts Nested Square Doily Dies
• Embellishments: Gold stickles and gems

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

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Thanks for stopping by

Lisa

Vintage at Whimsy

 

It’s time for a new challenge at Whimsy Inspirations Challenge and our theme this month is…

Vintage/Shabby Chic

I’ve used one of the gorgeous new digis that was released on yesterday, Christmas Birdie by Lia Stampz:

This month our prizes are…first winner:

Second winner:

And third and final winner:

A Mystery Rubber Stamp

Please hop across to Whimsy Inspirations Challenge to see what the other designers have created and to check out the challenge rules.

Supplies:

• Image: Christmas Birdie by Lia Stampz 
• Colouring Medium: ProMarkers
• DP: A mix of Whimsy digi papers
• Card: Joanna Sheen Elegance Ice White 300gsm and coloured card from stash
• Stamps: HobbyArt Christmas Sentiments
• Ink: Distress Inkpads ‘Walnut Stain’& ‘Tea Dye’
• Dies & Punches: Spellbinders Plain & Teardrop Circle Dies
• Embellishments: Viva Decor Pearl Pen, ribbon braid, paper flowers and card candy

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

Thanks for stopping by

Lisa

Winter Wonderland

Morning All.

I was thrilled to receive an email from Karen at I Love ProMarkers asking if I would like to be the Guest Designer for October. It was a big yes from me so I’m here to share my first challenge card. The theme this week is…

Inspired by a Song

I went for ‘Winter Wonderland’ although this little fell from Marianne Designs (Ice Skating Don') is skating rather than walking in a winter wonderland!

I used Marianne Designs papers and stamps that came free with a card making magazine and some Marianne Designs dies from my stash.

Supplies:

• Image & Sentiment: Ice Skating Don from Marianne Designs
• Colouring Medium: ProMarkers
• DP: Marianne Designs Magazine freebie
• Ink: Memento ‘Tuxedo Black’ and ‘Danube Blue’ and Brilliance ‘Graphite Black’
• Card: Joanna Sheen Ice White Elegance 300gsm and red card from Lidl
• Dies & Punches: Marianne Designs Christmas Tree and Snowflake Dies and Spellbinder Circle and Picot Edge Circle Dies
• Embellishments: Viva Decor Pearl Pen and gems

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

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Thanks for stopping by

Lisa

Whimsy October Digi Stamp Release Blog Hop

Welcome to the October digital release blog hop!

We have lots of new images to share with you today created by:

All Whimsy Stamps digital images are 300dpi for high print quality. You can re-size, flip, or rotate to fit your own project.

Here is my card using the wonderful new Snowman Country Cute by Crissy’s Digis…

I have coloured the image with my ProMarkers.

To find all of today's new fabulous new digital releases please visit the Whimsy Stamps Store.

Whilst you are hopping don't forget to leave comments on each blog along the way as there will be two mystery DT Members who will each be choosing a winner from the comments left on their hop posts!

These winners will each win a Whimsy digital image of their choice. The Grand Prize winner of the hop will be chosen from the very last stop. This winner will receive 5 digital stamps of their choice from the Whimsy Stamps Store.

The hop will run for one week and end on Tuesday 8th October at 12 Noon EST, when the lucky winners will be announced on the Whimsy Blog.

Below is a complete list of the hop in case you get lost along the way:

1. Marjolein Dekker

2. Judith Gowdy

3. Jackie Randolph

4. Charlene Brown

5. Jackie Smith

6. Judith Hall

7. Kelly Mannix

8. Me

9. Michelle Oatman

I would also like to enter this card into the following challenges:

 

Lisa