Beach Weather

Evening All. I’ve had a really busy day as I’ve been out in the garden and whoop whoop my greenhouse is now up and glazed, but boy was it hot and even now it doesn’t seem to be cooling down much.

Well with all the hot weather I thought this was quite the perfect image to colour up. Here is my card using Sand Play:

Supplies:

• Image: Sand Play from Elisabeth Bell
• Colouring Medium: Copics
• DP: Anna Marie Designs
• Card: Green and Kraft Card and Copic X-Press It Blending Card
• Dies & Punches: Go Kreate XXL Frilly Frames #10, Go Kreate Large Circle Dies
• Embellishments: Pearls, Hessian, Alpha Stickers, Felt Fishes

Now it’s my bedtime, thanks for stopping by

Lisa

Time for Ice Cream

Morning All.

I’m sharing my June Calendar page over on the Gems of Inspiration blog today. Here it is using  Chloe with Ice Cream:

Supplies:

• Image: Chloe with Ice Cream from Pink Gem Designs
• Colouring Medium: Copics
• DP: Garden Party 6x6 Paper from Dovecraft 
• Card: Kraft and White Linen Card
• Dies & Punches: Go Kreate Frilly Frames Dies, Spellbinder Plain Oval Nestabilities and X-Cut Square Punch
• Embellishments: Ribbon, Ice Cream Button and Sequins

Enjoy your day and thanks for stopping by

Lisa

Sweetest Surprises

Afternoon all!   It’s time for a new challenge at Elisabeth Bell’s World Challenge and I’m playing along as a Digi Bell…..yes you read that right. Whoop whoop, I was thrilled to be asked to stay on after my GDT spot and of course I didn’t hesitate to say yes.

Anyhoo, enough waffle. Our theme this time around is Anything Goes and I have used the super cute Sweetest Surprises…Here is my card:

I had such fun colouring up this cutie and creating the dotty back ground that I didn’t want to add loads of stuff to the card, so I’ve kept it pretty simple.

Supplies:

• Image: Sweetest Surprises  from Elisabeth Bell 
• Colouring Medium: Copics

• Card: Pink and Grey Card and Copic X-Press It Blending Card
• Stamps: Magazine Freebie
• Dies & Punches: Spellbinders Plain Circle Dies, Nellie Snellen Circle Dies and Tonic Simplicity Doily Border Punch
• Embellishments: Pearls, Sparkly Heart and Creative Expressions Enchanted Gold Gilding Wax

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

Dinkie Day

Morning all. Just a very quick post to let you know about a fabulous sale at Little Claire…..

Hurry though it’s for one day only!

’Thanks for stopping by

Lisa

Precious

Morning All. So far this week is starting no better than last week finished  

It started Sunday evening when I was out in the garden watering my plants and vegetable plot. Rushing around I vaguely remember catching my shin on something but thought no more of it and by the time I had a bath later in the evening it was just a little mark the size of a pin head. Anyway all day yesterday my leg felt a bit achy and after I’d done the school run my five year old  said what’s that on your leg Mummy….OMG….big red patch, hot to the touch and my temp started going up and up and up.  Well a trip to the out of hours Dr and looks like I have a big skin infection and now have antibiotics…..on the brightside they should help the sinus infection too!!

Anyhoo, enough of my waffles it’s time for Tiddly Tuesday over at the Tiddly Inks Challenge Blog! 

We have a new challenge and our theme for the next fortnight is Gothic. Now this was a challenge for me as well as I’m usually a cute and fluffy kind of girl. So here is my pretty pretty take on Gothic using the image Precious:

Supplies:

• Image: Precious by Tiddly Inks 
• Colouring Medium: Copics
• Card: Purple, Blue and Buff Card and Copic X-Press It Blending Card
• Sentiment: From a Woodware Clear Set
• Ink: Brilliance Starlight Black, Adirondack Eggplant and Memento Paris Dusk
• Dies & Punches: Fiskars 3in1 Corner Heart Punch and Tonic Delicate Lattice Simplicity Border Punch
• Embellishments: Viva Pearl Pen, Paper Flowers, Perfect Pearls Mica Powder and wooden corner embellishment

Right Dr’s orders are to rest my leg so as much as two littleuns will allow I am going to put my feet up on the sofa and do some colouring. Might even make a start on my June Create & Learn Classes from Kit & Clowder.

’Thanks for stopping by

Lisa

Beautiful Bride

Evening All. The downside to sleeping so much last night and this morning is that I now find myself quite wide awake, but the migraine is almost gone, just a small ache now, thank goodness. So I’m catching up on a couple of things.

Over at Saturated Canary Krista has released some fabulous new images recently and one or two (and one of the bundles) may have slipped into my shopping basket

I made this card using Beautiful Bride and had it finished yesterday afternoon but Mr Migraine has delayed me posting until now. I thought I would enter this into the Summer Saturated Canary GDT call over on Facebook.

I’ve gone for quite a clean monochrome look on this one, but I couldn’t resist a little sparkle……but I have a secret…sshh….the papers are from a Christmas Paper Pad!!

I added a pretty sentiment, a bow and a couple of pretty hearts that I was fortunate to receive from my Kit & Clowder card swap partner.

Right, time for some Hot Choccy and then I’m going to try and get to sleep.

Night All and thanks for stopping by.

Lisa

Beach Ball - Digi Bells Release Hop

Afternoon all.  Another short and sweet post from me…the migraine is subsiding but my eyes are sore and my concentration is zero at the moment.

I’m back to share a project with one of two wonderful new digi images that has been released by Elisabeth Bell.  The two images are Beach Ball and Sand Play.

This little cutie reminds me so much of my little girl that I couldn’t resist colouring up Beach Ball. Here is the card I made:

The blog hop will will run for one week and will end on Friday 26th June 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 Lynda for some more inspiration.

Blog Hop Line-up

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

Supplies:

• Image: Beach Ball from Elisabeth Bell 
• Colouring Medium: Copics
• DP: Glitz Design
• Card: Kraft, Pink and Blue Card and Copic X-Press It Blending Card
• Stamps: Personal Impressions Paula Pascual Double Sayings Sentiment Set
• Dies & Punches: Spellbinder Plain and Picot Edge Circle Dies and a Whiff of Joy Border Die

Fancy winning these new digis? 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

Magical Friends

Afternoon All, Happy Friday! Sorry I’m a little late today, but I’ve been struggling all week with a sinus infection and last night I developed a migraine as well I still have head pain but at least I can open my eyes and function again!

Anyhoo, back to my post and it’s time for Fabulous Friday again over at Tiddly Inks and I’m sharing a card made using the beautiful digi image Magical Friends which is also available as a stamp set:

I’ll pop back later and add a bit more my eyes are getting a bit sore now.

Supplies:

• Image: Magical Friends from Tiddly Inks 
• Colouring Medium: Copics
• Card:
• Dies, Punches & Embossing Folders:
• Embellishments:

Have a great weekend and thank you for stopping by

Lisa

Office Shed–Little Claire Blog Project

Morning All. It’s my turn to share a digi stamp project over on the Little Claire Blog today. I have used the Office Shed and Seed Packet digi stamps to create a Father’s Day card for my Dad

He will love this card as he really enjoys gardening but it’s also a little joke too, as just after Father’s Day he is helping me build a new shed as the current one that was here when we moved is falling apart a bit more everyday.

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

Supplies:

• Image: Office Shed and Seed Packet digi stamps from Little Claire
• Sentiment: Created in Word using Grandma’s Garden Font (available from www.dafont.com)  
• Colouring Medium: Copics
  • Shed: E18, E15, E13, E11, E39 and E33
  • Sign and door handle: B99, B95 and B91
  • Plant Pots: E29, E27, E25, E23 and E21
  • Spade: C9, C7, C5 and C3
• Card: Beige, Blue, Green and White Card and Copic X-Press It Blending Card
• Dies: Spellbinder Plain Circle Dies and Memory Box Puffy Cloud Dies

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

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Thanks for stopping by

Lisa

My Batty Hero

Morning All. It’s time for Tiddly Tuesday over at the Tiddly Inks Challenge Blog! 

We have a new challenge and our theme for the next fortnight is Super Power. Here is my card using My Batty Hero:

My children are both a bit super hero mad. Their Aunty made them each a cape with there names on. So I thought this image was perfect for them to give to their dad for Father’s Day.

Supplies:

• Image: My Batty Hero by Tiddly Inks 
• Colouring Medium: Copics
• Card: Grey, yellow and black Card,White Swiss Dots Card Card and Copic X-Press It Blending Card
• Sentiment: Written on Word using Super Hero Docall Font
• Dies & Punches: Spellbinders Pinking Circle Dies and X-Cut Corner Rounder Punch
• Embellishments: Hobbycraft Black Alpha Stickers

Thanks for stopping by

Lisa

Dotty Background Tutorial

Afternoon All. We just about to lunch here and as we are enjoying some lovely weather we are making use of the garden. The children are really enjoying it.

It’s my turn to post on the Digi Bells Blog today and we have been enjoying the garden I have been doing a lot of colouring but not a lot of making stuff. So I have shared a little tutorial on creating a simple dotty sky.

Here’s a peek at the the finished background for all the steps and Copic colours please head over to the Digi Bells blog.

Thanks for stopping by, I’m off to eat my lunch in the sunshine!

Lisa

Princess Maisy

Morning All. Hope the weather is still good where you are. The kids are enjoying being able to play outside and it’s good for me as I have a new shed to paint

Well back to the point of my post….we have a new challenge at A Gem of a Challenge today and my teamie Donna has picked the theme of ‘Something Blue’.  Janet has been releasing some really cute images of late and some of them might be vying for sweet little Chloe’s top spot in my affections…lol. Today I have used Princess Maisy:

I could waffle on for a bit, but I wont as this is quite a simple layout really and there isn’t a lot to say, lol!

Supplies:

• Image: Princess Maisy  from Pink Gem Designs 
• Colouring Medium: Copics
• DP: Melissa Frances ‘Kitschy Kitchen’ 6x6 Paper Pad
• Card: Blue and Pink card and Copic X-Press It Blending Card
• Stamps: Double Sayings from Personal Impression Paula Pascual
• Ink: Memento Paris Dusk
• Dies & Punches: Spellbinder Plain and Scalloped Circle Dies, Hobbycraft Mini Tag Punch and Tonic Dotty Simplicity Border Punch
• Embellishments: Ribbon, Gem, Pearls, and Sparkly Heat

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

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Thanks for stopping by

Lisa

Grace

Morning All, Happy Friday! I’m so looking forward to the weekend as it’s been a bit of a busy week for me. We  have a few things to get done tomorrow morning but then I’m hoping to get some crafty play time.

Anyhoo, back to my post and it’s time for Fabulous Friday again over at Tiddly Inks and I’m sharing a card made using the beautiful image Grace:

I had a little play with my Inktense Pencils to create the background on this one, I also created the shadow around the image using them but I think I need to use a lighter touch next time.

Not really sure what occasion this card is supposed to be for so I will leave it without a sentiment until I’m ready to give it to someone.

Supplies:

• Image: Grace from Tiddly Inks 
• Colouring Medium: Copics
• Card: Black Card, Smooth White Bristol Board and Copic X-Press It Blending Card
• Dies, Punches & Embossing Folders: Spellbinders Plain and Picot Edge Circle Dies, Britannia Small Ivy Flourish Die and an X-Cut Corner Rounder
• Embellishments: Paper Flowers 

Have a great weekend and thank you for stopping by

Lisa

Ribbon & Twine at Little Claire

Morning All. Who knew that 2 children and a husband could generate so much laundry on a 4 day holiday!! I have all the washing done but I’m only about a quarter of the way through the ironing. I hate ironing so to alleviate the boredom I was watching  the videos from my Kit & Clowder classes!

Anyhoo, enough waffle it’s time for another Digi Stamp Challenge over on the Little Claire Blog and our new theme is Ribbon & Twine

Here is my card using the Boxed Flowers Digi Stamp:

I thought I was try another different card shape for this one otherwise I seem to always be making square ones!

Here is a close up of some of the flowers:

I think I may have made a slight booboo though……I thought the theme was ribbon and/or twine so have used some cute little bows on my card but I think the theme meant I should have used twine as well….oh well too late now.

Supplies:

• Image: Boxed Flowers Digi Stamp from Little Claire

• Colouring Medium: Copics

• Card: Coconut Crush, Green and Blue Card, and Copic X-Press It Blending Card

• DP: Lili of the Valley ‘Bonnets & Bowties’ 8x8 Paperpad

• Stamps: With Love stamp is from another Little Claire Stamp Set and the circular stamp is A Tiny Little Birthday Wish but it is also available in digi format here

• Ink: Distress Ink ‘Peeled Paint’ Inkpad

• Dies & Punches: Tonic ‘Delicate Lattice’ Simplicity Border Punch

• Embellishments: Pink Satin Ribbon and Pearls

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 30th June.

Thanks for stopping by

Lisa