Little Best Friends

Happy Saturday Everyone!

I’m here today with my last post as a Guest Digi Bell and boy, those last three months sure did fly by.

I've had a fabulous time and I would urge any of you that want to guest for a Wonderful Artist and Design Team to visit here for the details.....you have until 12pm MST (5pm in the UK) should you wish to apply :-)

Here is my card using the super sweet digi stamp Little Best Friends:

Supplies:

• Image: Little Best Friends from Elisabeth Bell
• Colouring Medium: Copics
• DP: Dovecraft ‘Sugar & Spice’ 6x6 Paper Pad
• Card: Pink and Mint Green Card and Copic X-Press It Blending Card
• Stamps: Paula Pascual Double Saying Clear Stamp Set and a heart stamp (make unknown)
• Ink: Adirondack ‘Eggplant’ inkpad
• Dies & Punches: Go Kreate Large Oval Dies
• Embellishments: Pearls, Pink Ribbon and Stickles Glitter Glue

Thanks for stopping.

Lisa

Farewell Henry

Morning All! Did you hear the really sad news that Whiff of Joy is closing it’s doors? Well today is my last time to post over on the Whiff of Joy Blog

To see my post and also some fabulous tributes from the Design Team to Whiff of Joy and Katharina please head over to the Whiff of Joy Blog.

Thanks for stopping by

Lisa

Love You Mostest

Morning All. It’s time for Tiddly Tuesday! Did you see the new wedding images Christy released a few weeks back? There are so darn romantic that I had to colour this one up and although I don’t know anyone getting married at the moment, I thought I would make a wedding card to keep in my stash.

As it’s Tiddly Tuesday it means we have a new challenge and our theme for the next fortnight is Easel Cards! Here is my card using Love You Mostest:

Supplies:

• Image: Love You Mostest  by Tiddly Inks 
• Colouring Medium: Copics
• DP: An old Magazine freebie from Pink Petticoat
• Card: Pale Blue Pearlescent Card, Neenah Solar White Card and Copic X-Press It Blending Card
• Sentiment: From a Woodware Set
• Dies & Punches: Go Kreate Large Circle Dies
• Embellishments: Doily (sponged with Gesso, silver Acrylic paint and weathered wood DI) Pearls, Paper Flowers, ribbon trim and Sparkly Heart Gem

Thanks for stopping by

Lisa

I Love You This Much

Afternoon all! By the time you read this we should have arrived at out little holiday and hopefully being enjoying a little sunshine. Fingers crossed the weather men did predict a little sunshine for Bank Holiday Monday!

Anyhoo, enough waffle. It’s time for a new challenge at Elisabeth Bell’s World Challenge and I get to play along as a Guest Digi Bell. Our theme this time around is Flowers. Hurrah, I love flowers!!

This little cuties is a favourite of mine and she is called I Love You this Much! And if you click on the link you can find her in Elisabeth’s Digital Collection. Here is my card:

After I picked my papers I thought I would try colouring the images in more pastel tones. Since I’ve been learning shading, depth, cast shadows, etc., over at Kit & Clowder my colouring seems to always be quite bold and bright hence trying out some pastel tones on this one.

My flowers are on the DP and the embellishments. The gorgeous roses were created with the MFT Mini Royal Rose Die.

Supplies:

• Image: I Love You this Much!  from Elisabeth Bell 
• Colouring Medium: Copics (will add colours later – when I find my list!!)

• DP: First Edition ‘Daydream’ 6x6 Paper Pad
• Card: Kraft Card and Copic X-Press It Blending Card
• Stamps: Personal Impressions Double Sayings Stamp Set
• Dies & Punches: Spellbinder Floral Oval Dies, Go Kreate Frilly Frames #2 Dies, MFT Mini Royal Roses, CC Designs Leaf Dies and a Hobbycraft Mini Tag Punch
• Embellishments: Beads, Hessian Ribbon, Pearl Trim, Butterfly Charm and Gems

To play along just head over to Elisabeth Bell’s World Challenge Blog for the full details and also see the creations from my fabulous team mates!

Thanks for stopping by

Lisa

Let Us Eat Cake

Morning All. My goodness time is flying so quick. I can’t believe it’s half term already, but at least we are taking a little holiday…should be fun.

Anyhoo, the point of my post (other than to waffle!) is that it’s Fabby Friday once more and I’m sharing a card using the super sweet Let Us Eat Cake Digi Stamp:

I have been a little brave again with my colour choices on this one and tried to pick out the coral and aqua colours from the DP. I think it turned out OK!!

Supplies:

• Image: Let Us Eat Cake from Tiddly Inks 
• Colouring Medium: Copics
  • Skin: E04, E11, E21, E00, E000 and R20
  • Hair:E39, E37, E35, E33 and YR20
  • Dress/Shoes: Coral: R39, R08, R05, R02, R00 and R0000 and Turquoise: BG09, BG15, BG13 and BG10
  • Candles/Crown: RV29, RV25, RV23 and RV21
  • Flames: YR07, Y17 and Y02
  • Cake: C3, C1 and Blender
  • Ground: E74 and E71
  • Shadow: B91, B0000 and Blender
• DP: A very old MME magazine freebie.
• Card: Aqua and Coral Card and Copic X-Press It Blending Card
• Ink: Adirondack ‘Stream’ Inkpad
• Sentiment: Personal Impressions Double Saying Stamp by Paula Pascual
• Dies, Punches & Embossing Folders: Fiskars Threading Water Border Punch and Go Kreate Tag Dies
• Embellishments: Ribbon, Pearls and Gems

Have a great weekend and thank you for stopping by

Lisa

Scooting by with some Flowers

Morning All. It’s time for Tiddly Tuesday…except I almost missed it….who would have thought Tiddly TUESDAY was actually on a Tuesday?? Not me obviously, I thought I needed my card ready for Wednesday….doh!! As Hubby says “If you had a brain you’d be dangerous”

Anyhoo  did you see the new images? We have some new Scooting By Wryns! On her own and also with her cute little doggy or kitty. There are just too cute and I couldn’t resist colouring her up for today’s challenge. So, speaking of the new challenge our new theme is May Flowers!

As I said I couldn’t resist colouring up cutie Wryn Scooting By to make my card:

I have flipped the image and added a little background to Wryn.

Supplies:

• Image: Wryn Scooting By by Tiddly Inks 
• Colouring Medium: Copics
  • Skin: E04, E11, E21, E00, E000 and R20
  • Hair: E49, E74, E71 and E43
  • Dress/Shoes: R89, R85, R83 and R81
  • Tights/Jumper: E71, E43 & E41 and B99, B95, B93
  • Sky: BG01, BG10, BG0000, C3, C1 and C00
  • Scooter: C7, G99, YG67, YG63, YG61, C3, C1 and Y15
  • Wheels: Black, C7, C5, C3, C1, C00
  • Basket/Flowers: E18, E15, E13, V09, V06, V04, Y15 and YG06
• DP: Lili of the Valley ‘Always and Forever’ 8x8 Paper Pad
• Card: Kraft Card, Pink Card and Copic X-Press It Blending Card
• Sentiment: Written on Microsft Word
• Dies & Punches: MFT Mini Rolled Roses Die, Memory Box Lorelei Outline Leaf Die and Tonic Border Punch
• Embellishments: Stickles and Pearls

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

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Thanks for stopping by

Lisa

Lady Piggin’ Gardening

Edit: It actually helps if you click Publish when scheduling a post!! This one should have been posted Saturday! I think someone may have stolen my brain and replaced it with a huge ball of cotton wool ;-)

Morning All. I hope it’s a nice today as I’ve got a few jobs to be getting on with in the garden but before I do I’m here to share my card for the new challenge at A Gem of a Challenge. The theme this time is ‘More than one fold’ and I’ve used one of Janet’s super cute new images Lady Piggin’ Gardening:

As I’ve made a few easel cards lately I thought I would make a stepper card. I always seems to struggle when decorating these (which is why I don’t make them often!) but I like how this one turned out. This is going to be my Mum-in-Laws Birthday card.

Supplies:

• Image: Lady Piggin’ Gardening  from Pink Gem Designs 
• Colouring Medium: Copics
• DP: Lili of the Valley ‘Country Gent’ 8x8 Paper Pad
• Card: Kraft card and Copic X-Press
• Stamps: Sentiment from Personal Impression Paula Pascual set
• Dies & Punches: Spellbinder Plain and Scalloped Oval Dies, X-Cute Flower Punches, Britannia Small Ivy Flourish and Small Elvendene Butterfly
• Embellishments: Stitching, Gems, Pearls, Thickers Alpha Stickers and Ribbon Bow

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

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Thanks for stopping by

Lisa

Fabby Friday at Tiddly Inks

Morning All. Did you see the post title?? Whoop whoop whoop, when I entered Tiddly Inks DT call I didn’t imagine for one minute that I would actually get chosen. My luck was in  and I got picked to join the team. I can’t begin to tell you how excited I am :-)

Here is my first post for Fabby Friday and I’m sharing one of the new digi stamps that Christy released on Tuesday. This one’s called Wedding Bells. It comes with and without a veil, so is perfect for Engagement, Valentines and all sorts of cards as well as Wedding Cards.

I coloured the background with my Copics and tried to make the little clouds heartshaped. I love lot’s of white space on wedding cards, so to stop it looking too plain I’ve used a lovely Sizzix Heart embossing folder.

Supplies:

• Image: Wedding Bells from Tiddly Inks 
• Colouring Medium: Copics
  • Skin: E04, E11, E21, E00, E000 and R20
  • Hair:E49, E39, E37, E35 and E33 & Black, C7, C5, C3 and B60
  • From Memory will update the rest when I find my list!!
• Card: Neenah White Card, Pink Pearl Card and Copic X-Press It Blending Card
• Ink: Broken China Distress Ink
• Sentiment: Written on Microsoft Word
• Dies, Punches & Embossing Folders: Spellbinder Plain and Scalloped Circle Dies, X-Cute Square Punch and Sizzix Heart Embossing Folder
• Embellishments: Paper Flowers and a Sparkly Heart

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

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Thanks for stopping by

Lisa

Someday My Prince will Come…

Afternoon All. It’s my turn to post on the Digi Bells Blog today and I have made a…..Valentine Card!!!

I thought the My Prince image was adorable and I absentmindedly started making a Valentine’s card!  This one may have to sit in my box for a while though, unless I give it to Hubby just because :-).

Supplies:

• Image: My Prince from Elisabeth Bell 
• Colouring Medium: Copics
  • Skin: E04, E11, E21, E00, E000 and R20
  • Hair: E49, E39, E37, E35 and E33
  • Dress and Gloves: E77, E74, E71, E43 and E41
  • Red (Dress, Hearts and Ribbon) R59, R08, R05 and R02
  • Frog: G99, YG67, YG63 and YG61
  • Chocolate Box: Brown: E39, E37 and E33. White: BV20 and BV0000
  • Ground: C7, C5 and C3
• DP: Lili of the Valley ‘ Country Lady’ Paper Pad
• Card: Brown Card and Copic X-Press It Blending Card
• Dies & Punches: Go Kreate Large Circle Dies
• Embellishments: Shimelle Gold Thickers, Pearls, Sequin Heart, Paper Flowers and a Doily (painted with Gesso sponged with Gold Acrylic Paint)

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

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Thanks for stopping by

Lisa

Monochrome at Little Claire

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

Here is my card using the Man Squares Digi Stamp:

I said the same last month but easel cards are hard to photograph, but I love making them!! It was Hubby’s Birthday on Sunday and he doesn’t really like the cute cards I make so I thought this image would be perfect for him.

Here is a close up of the top:

I had a little play this time and I think you can just about see that I created the background by repeating the image on a page in Word, before printing onto coloured cardstock. After I printed the main image I cut it apart so that it would fit the sentiment/layout better.

Supplies:

• Image: Man Squares Digi Stamp from Little Claire 
• Colouring Medium: Copics
• Card: Neenah White Card, Aqua Pearlescent Card 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: Archival ‘Jet Black’ Inkpad
• Dies & Punches: Star Punch, MS Zig-Zag Border Punch and Spellbinders Plain and Pinking Circle Dies.
• Embellishments: Hobbycraft Alpha Letters

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 2nd June.

Thanks for stopping by

Lisa

Rainbow Chloe

Morning All.

Just a quick post from me today, got a busy weekend as it’s Hubby’s birthday tomorrow and I haven’t made his card yet!!!

I’m sharing my May Calendar page over on the Gems of Inspiration blog today. Here it is using  Rainbow Chloe:

Supplies:

• Image: Rainbow Chloe from Pink Gem Designs
• Colouring Medium: ProMarkers and Copics
• DP: Unsure of make but I think it was a magazine freebie
• Card: Kraft and White Linen Card
• Dies & Punches: Go Kreate Frilly Frames Dies, Spellbinder Plain and Scalloped Circle Nestabilities, Tonic Butterfly Punch and X-Cut Square Punch
• Embellishments: Pearls, ribbon and wooden butterflies

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

Enjoy your day, I’ve got a cake to finish, a card to make and lot’s of other birthday related bits and bobs for Hubby’s birthday.

Thanks for stopping by

Lisa