A Tasty Read

Morning All. I have a post up on the Digi Bells Blog today and I thought I would put into practice some of the things I have been learning from the Create & Learn classes over at Kit & Clowder. The Marker class was all about creating a night sky background and the Pencil class was about creating a sunset. I thought it would be fun to try the sunset scene with markers and this is how it turned out…

I’ve used one of Elisabeth Bell’s gorgeous digis called A Tasty Read and thought she would perfectly with a sunset background. I had great fun creating this scene and if you want to learn just pop over to Kit & Clowder to find out how to join the classes.

Supplies:

• Image: A Tasty Read from Elisabeth Bell 
• Colouring Medium: Copics
  • Skin: E04, E11, E21, E00, E000 and R20
  • Hair: E49, E35 and E33
  • Trousers: BV29, B39, B29, B24 and B05
  • Top: BV08, V17, V15 and V12
  • Headscarf: V99, V95, V93, V91 and V0000
  • Book: E71, E43, YG67, YG63 and YG61
  • Sky: BG01, BG10, BG0000, YR04, Y17, Y08, Y06, Y02, Y00 and Y0000
  • Clouds: C3, C1, C00 and Blender
  • Grass: G99, G94, YG67, YG63 and YG61
  • Tree Stump: E49, E79, E77 and E74
• DP:
• Card:
• Stamps:
• Dies & Punches:
• Embellishments:

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

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Thanks for stopping by

Lisa

Henry on Cute Whale

Morning all. I’m sharing a card over on the Whiff of Joy Blog today using the very sweet Henry on Cute Whale. Here is the card I made:

Right I’d better a wriggle on. This time of year is always go go go with the garden starting to need attention and my veg patch to keep working on. And of course I need to squeeze in a little crafty time ;-)

Supplies:

• Image: Henry on Cute Whale from Whiff of Joy 
• Colouring Medium: ProMarkers
• DP: My Minds Eye Pad (although I can’t remember which one!!)
• Card: Grey Card and Neenah Card
• Stamps: From a previous secret stamp kit
• Dies & Punches: Go Kreate Large Circle Dies
• Embellishments: Enamel Dots

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

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Thanks for stopping by

Lisa

Peek-A-Bunny

Afternoon all! It’s time for a new challenge at Elisabeth Bell’s World Challenge and lucky old me gets to play along as a Guest Digi Bell. Our theme this time around is Spring.

I’ve used Peek-A Bunny and made an easel card…..boy are they hard to photograph!! Here is my card:

 

I thought the image suited the spring theme perfectly so I coloured her up, adding a little grass and some fluffy white clouds.

Supplies:

• Image: Peek-A-Bunny from Elisabeth Bell 
• Colouring Medium: Copics
• Skin: E04, E11, E21, E00, E000 and R20
• Hair: C7, C5, C3, C1 and B60
• Clothes Green: G99, G94, YG63 and YG61
• Apron: E71, E43, E41 and YR0000
• Belt and Shoes: R89, R85, R83 and R81
• Rabbit: E29, E27, E25, E23 and E33
• Tree: E49, E79, E77, E74 and E71
• Grass: G17, G05 and G02
• Flowers: YR23 and YR21
• DP: First Edition ‘Spring Feast’ 6x6 Paper Pad
• Card: Kraft Card, White Card and Copic X-Press It Blending Card
• Stamps: Personal Impressions Double Sayings Stamp Set
• Dies & Punches: Go Kreate Large Oval Dies
• Embellishments: Flower Trim, Paper Flowers, Pearl Pen and Sparkly Hearts

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

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If you want to play along just head over to Elisabeth Bell’s World Challenge Blog for the full details.

Thanks for stopping by

Lisa

Tilly’s Flower Cart – Digi Bells Release Hop

Afternoon all. 

I’m back to share the wonderful new digi image that has been released by Elisabeth Bell called Tilly’s Flower Cart. This image was once available through Whimsy Stamps Little Cottage Cuties Collection, but was far too adorable stay hidden so Elisabeth has released it as a digi and I for one am so happy.

Here is my card:

The blog hop will will run for one week and will end on Friday 1st May April at 9:00am Arizona Time (4pm for us UK ladies).

If you have stumbled upon this post and would like to join us on the hop you will find the line up below. However if you are already hopping along your next stop will be the fabulous Linda for some more inspiration.

Blog Hop Line-up

• Sebrina
• Lynda
• Pauline
• Lisa (Me)
• Linda
• Maya
• Alethea
• The Digi Bells Blog

Supplies:

• Image: Tilly’s Flower Garden from Elisabeth Bell 
• Colouring Medium: Copics
  • Colours will follow
• DP: Papermania Capsule Collection
• Card: Yellow Card and Copic X-Press It Blending Card
• Stamps: Personal Impressions Paula Pascual Sentiment Set
• Dies & Punches: Tonic Studios Doily Border Punch

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

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Fancy winning this new digi? All you have to do is hop through and leave comments on EACH blog. Two blogs at random will be chosen, and the winners will be picked from the comments and posted to the Digi Bells Blog shortly after the end of the hop.

Thanks for stopping by

Lisa

Tiddly Inks Beach Boy

 

Morning All! (Well evening really as I’m scheduling this post….5am is far to early for me…hehe!).

Back at the start of the year I entered a DT for Tiddly Inks but wasn’t lucky enough to make the team. Christy asked all of us who ‘Nearly Made It’ if we would like to take part in a blog hop and I am so glad to be joining in.

If you head over to the Tiddly Inks Blog you will find links to everyone taking part in the hop today. You can hop in whatever order you like and take as long as you like to oooh and aaah at everyone’s makes!

I’ve used My Beach Boy for my make today and I coloured him up whilst on holiday last week. My eldest was sitting colouring with me and was asking me to use specific colours (green being his favourite) and when I was done asked if he could keep it as he said it looked like him when we had been to the beach that day! How could I refuse?…..So, I’ve turned it into a little photo holder to hang in his room and I’m going to add some pictures of him and his little sister playing on the beach

The base is made from a recycled cardboard box, painted with Gesso and edged with red sparkle embossing powder. I’ve then covered it with patterned paper, mounted on green card. I’ve kept the embellishments simple… some stars, doodling and some pegs to hold the photos.

Supplies:

• Image: My Beach Boy from Tiddly Inks 
• Colouring Medium: Copics
• Skin: E04, E11, E21, E00, E000 and R20
• Hair:E29, E39, E37, E35 and E33
• Shorts, Sandals and Spade: BV29, G17, G05 and G02
• T-Shirt: B39, B24 and B23
• Sun and Bucket: E13, Y08, Y06 and Y02
• Crab: R08, R05, R02, BG09, BG49 and BG23
• Sky: B00, BG10, BG01 and Blender
• Sand: E39, E37, E33, Y17, YR23 and YR08
• DP: Lili of the Valley ‘ Up Up and Away’ Paper Pad
• Card: Recycled cardboard box, Green Card and Copic X-Press It Blending Card
• Dies & Punches: Sizzix Framelits Star Dies
• Embellishments: Wooden Pegs and Doodling with a red fineline pen

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

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Thanks for stopping by

Lisa

Geranium – Little Claire Blog Project

Morning All. If you are reading this Mr Blogger has played nice and has published this scheduled post. We are enjoying a few days away before my eldest has to go back to school next week. Hopefully (as the weather men have predicted) we have some nice weather!!

It’s my turn to share a digi stamp project over on the Little Claire Blog today. I have used the Geranium Flower digi stamp to create a little set of Thank You cards. These are always handy to have on standby, by little clean and simple ones can be rustled up quite quickly if needed in a hurry!

To see full details on how the card was made please hop over to the Little Claire Blog.

Supplies:

• Image: Geranium Flower from Little Claire
• Sentiment: Created in Word using Mistral Font 
• Colouring Medium: Copics
• Flowers: R59, R27, R08, R05 and R02
• Leaves: G99, YG67, YG63, YG61, YG03, YR23, YR21 and YR20
• Shadow around image: BG10, BG0000 and Blender pen
• Card: Coral Core’dinations Card
• Embellishments: Doodling and pearls.

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

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Thanks for stopping by

Lisa

Birthday Boy

Morning All. We are off for a few days holiday before the eldest munchkin has to go back to school  :-) And I’ve made sure to pack all the important things…..Copics, images to colour, pencils….lol!

Well Saturday morning I had to make a card for my Brother-In-Laws birthday and I decided to use the adorable Tiddly Inks Birthday Boy Image.

Well imagine how chuffed I was to find out Tiddly Inks are having another DT Call. I have tried before and wasn’t successful, but I love the images so I’ve just gotta have another try. I know the call was posted a few hours after I made my card so please let me know if it’s not ok to use it and I’ll happily make another card….after my holiday though!!!

I’m seem to be going through a Clean and Simple (ish) phase at the moment, bet hey that’s suits a card for a man pefectly.

I have combined the image with a digi sentiment from Make it Crafty before printing. Image has been coloured with Copics and just a few embellies…..but it was a big birthday this year so I had to squeeze the ‘50’ in there somewhere ;-)

Supplies:

• Image: Tiddly Inks Birthday Boy 
• Colouring Medium: Copics
• Skin: E04, E11, E21, E00, E000 and R20
• Hair: E49, E39, E37, E35 and E33
• Shoes: Black, C7, C5, C3, and C1
• Ground: E25, E23 and E21
• The above is from memory as I have lost my list, when I find it I will update.
• Sentiment: From Make it Crafty 
• DP: Basic Grey ‘Hey You’ 6x6 Paper Pad
• Card: Kraft card, Turquoise card and Copic X-Press It Blending Card
• Dies & Punches: MS Zig-Zag Border Punch, All Occassion Number dies and Sizzix Star Framelits
• Embellishments: Bakers Twine

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

•  Tiddly Inks – Design Team Call

Thanks for stopping by

Lisa

Wishful Asha

Edited to add Copic colours now Mr Blogger is playing nicer (and I’ve found my list!)

Make it Crafty are having a Clean and Simple Design Team Call and I thought I would give it a try. I used the gorgeous Wishful Asha to make this card with a simple background.

Have a few more pictures to add to show how the background was done but blogger is really playing me up today and I can’t get the pictures to load. It’s taken me about an hour to get this to post and I know I’m cutting it fine already! The pictures have now been added below.

I wanted a light background but not completely plain. I really wanted to use the pattern from a heart embossing folder but not have the raised texture. So here is how I achieved it.

1. Place card inside embossing folder and rub with a heavy/sturdy object.
2. Open embossing folder (the pattern won’t show at this point). Sand all over to reveal the pattern.
3. Using a piece of Cut & Dry foam lightly rub with ink to highlight the pattern.
4. Finished result.

Supplies:

• Image: Wishful Asha from Make It Crafty
• Colouring Medium: Copics
  • Skin: E04, E11, E21, E00, E000 and R20
  • Lips: E04, RV29, RV23 and RV10
  • Eyes: B29, B24 and B05
  • Hair: E49. E29, E27, E25 and E35
  • Dress:E15, E13, YR23, YR21 and YR20.
  • Socks and T-Shirt: BV20 and BV0000
  • Flowers and shoes: V09, BV08 and V04
  • Dandelion: E43 and E41
  • Butterfly: V12, RV10 and RV000
• Card: Kraft Card, White Linen Card, Lemon Core’dination Card and Copic X-Press It Blending Card
• Ink: VersaMagic ‘Thatched Straw’ Inkpad
• Dies, Punches and Embossing Folders: X-Cut Corner Rounder, Go Kreate Large Circle Dies and Sizzix Hearts Embossing Folder
• Embellishments: Ribbon, Studio Calico Wooden Alphas and Small MDF Butterflies

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

•  Make it Crafty Deign Team Call

Thanks for stopping by

Lisa

Chloe with Lambs

Morning All. We all (even the children) had a lie in this morning, so we’ve only just finished a lazy morning including a very late breakfast!! I’m here to share my latest card for the new challenge at A Gem of a Challenge. The theme this time is ‘Spring is in the Air’ so what’s more spring like than baby lambs? I’ve used the super super cute Chloe with Lambs:

I seem to be sticking with Clean and Simple lately, although this card doesn’t have as much white space as my previous post. I just couldn’t resist this cute paper with it’s little Ladybugs.

Supplies:

• Image: Chloe with Lambs from Pink Gem Designs 
• Colouring Medium: Copics
• DP: Spring Drop from First Edition
• Card: Peach Core’dinations card and Copic X-Press
• Stamps: Sentiment from Whimsy Stamps 
• Dies & Punches: Go Kreate Large Oval Dies and Fiskars 3in1 Heart Corner Punch
• Embellishments: Pearls, Small Tag, Ribbon Bow and Punched Hearts

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

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Thanks for stopping by

Lisa

Pati’s Kisses

Happy Thursday Everyone! I’ve been busy making the most of the good weather we have in the UK, by working in the garden. My new vegetable patch is ready to start planting things in. I’m hoping all this fresh air will help my sinus infection as well……I’m still suffering at the moment :-( On the upside only a few more days and we are having a little Holiday…wooohoo I can’t wait!

Anyhoo I’m waffling (again!!). As I’ve made a few embellished cards and things recently I was itching to do a CAS card. This one uses the Pati’s Kisses Digi Stamp from Elisabeth Bell and I’ve coloured her with Copics. I’ve even remembered to note down the colours I’ve used (the list is below :-)):

I love the finished look of the ‘No-Lines’ technique but it sure does take me a lot longer to do (that and the fact I was getting distracted watching Gray’s Anatomy!!!).

Supplies:

• Image: Pati’s Kisses from Elisabeth Bell 
• Colouring Medium: Copics
  • Skin: E04, E11, E21, E00, E000 and R20.
  • Hair: E29, E25, E23 and YR20.
  • Trousers: C7, BG09, BG49, BG15, BG13 and BG01.
  • Pink Clothes: R89, R85, R83 and R81.
  • Bear: E39, E37, E35 and E31.
  • Belt E29, E27, E25 and Y17.
• Sentiment: From a Pink Petticoat digi sheet
• Card: Turquoise card and Copic X-Press It Blending Card
• Dies & Punches: Fiskars 3in1 Heart Corner Punch and X-Cut Corner Rounder.
• Embellishments: Punched Hearts

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

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Thanks for stopping by

Lisa

Flowers at Little Claire

Morning All. It’s time for another Digi Stamp Challenge over on the Little Claire Blog and our new theme is Flowers.

Here is my card using the Birdhouse Garland Digi:

I almost forgot how hard easel cards are to photograph!!

So as you can see, I have gone a bit flower crazy and they are on my image, my patterned paper and I have added paper flowers as well.

Supplies:

• Image: Birdhouse Garland Digi from Little Claire 
• Colouring Medium: Copics
• DP: Magazine Freebie
• Card: Kraft Card, Pink Paper and Copic X-Press It Blending Card
• Stamps: Sentiment is a Little Claire circular stamp A Tiny Little Birthday Wish but it is also available in digi format here 
• Ink: Adirondack ‘Eggplant’ Inkpad
• Dies & Punches: Spellbinders Plain and Scalloped Circles.
• Embellishments: Paper Flowers, Pearls and Glitter Glue

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

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Please hop over to the Little Claire blog and take a look at the cards my teamies have made to inspire you. And if you want to join in you have until 4pm (GMT) on Tuesday 5th May.

Thanks for stopping by

Lisa