Let’s Bake!

Morning All! It’s my turn to share some Elisabeth Bell love over on the Digi Bells Blog today. I’m starting to make a recipe/baking book and I thought Apple Berry was the perfect image to use:

My style is bouncing all over the place at the moment I think it’s just how the mood takes me as I sit down to craft and as you can see I was in a frou frou mood when I made this one (well for me anyway!).

I liked the font on the chipboard letters but they were cork effect and didn’t match so I coloured them with a marker and doused them in glitter!!

Supplies:

• Image: Apple Berry by Elisabeth Bell 
• Colouring Medium: Copics
• Card: Red, Blue, White and Kraft Card and Copic X-Press It Blending Card
• Dies & Punches: Hobbycraft Heart Punch, Go Kreate Frilly Frames #10 Dies, Spellbinders Plain Circle Dies and Cutlery Dies from Whiff of Joy
• Embellishments: Doodling, Doily (covered in paint), Glitter Glue, Flower Trim, Jute Mesh, Ribbon Bow, Pearls, Paper Flowers and Glitter Glue.

Hope you can play along with us and thank you  for stopping by

Lisa

Whatcha Doing?

Morning All, it’s time for Tiddly Tuesday over at the Tiddly Inks Challenge Blog and we have a new challenge for you. Our theme this time around is Let’s Get Krafty, which is a big hurrah from me as I love to use Kraft card on my makes.

I originally made this card for our last challenge but my little triangles under the main image looked to0 much like a square (the challenge was no squares allowed!!) so I made another card knowing I could use this one for this challenge instead.

I’ve used the image Whatcha Doing? and it was a fabulous image to practice my hair colouring on!

Supplies:

• Image: Whatcha Doing?  by Tiddly Inks 
• Colouring Medium: Copics
• DP: A very old Papermania 6x6 Pad
• Card: Kraft Card and Copic X-Press It Blending Card
• Dies & Punches: X-Cut Square Punch, Go Kreate Large Circle Dies, Spellbinder Plain Square Dies and Spellbinder Plain and Scalloped Circle Dies
• Sentiment: Paula Pascual Double Saying Stamp Set
• Ink: Archival ‘Sepia’ Inkpad
• Embellishments: Doodling, Lace, Pearls, Glitter Glue and Mini Staples

Hope you can play along with us and thank you  for stopping by

Lisa

Apple Tree Chloe

Morning All. Thank goodness it’s the weekend and time for a little wind down after a hectic week.

I’m here to share my make for the new challenge over at  A Gem of a Challenge where we have a fabulous theme of ‘Autumn’.

I have used the adorable Apple Tree Chloe to make an autumn themed birthday card:

Supplies:

• Image: Apple Tree Chloe from Pink Gem Designs 
• Colouring Medium: Copics
• Card: Orange, Red, Brown and Kraft card and Copic X-Press It Blending Card
• Stamps: Sentiment  from Clearly Besotted
• Ink: Archival ‘Sepia’ Inkpad
• Dies & Punches: EK Success Border Punch and a magazine freebie embossing folder
• Embellishments: Doily, Glitter Glue, Gilding Wax and Pearls

Have a great weekend whatever you are doing and thanks for stopping by

Lisa

Sweet Country Harvest–Digi Bells Release Hop

Afternoon all.

It’s release day at Elisabeth Bell and we are really being spoiled this month! We not only have ONE new image but TWO fabulous new images.

Sweet Country Harvest was previously released as a rubber stamp by Treasured Times and Harvest Puppy who was once part of the "Change-a-Belles Collection for Belles 'n Whistles, however, he has been tweaked a little to fit the Harvest season.

For my first creation I’ve made a card using Sweet Country Harvest:

And for my second creation I’ve made a tag using Harvest Puppy:

The blog hop will will run for one week and will end on Friday 2nd October 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 Valou for some more inspiration.

Blog Hop Line-up

• Lisa (Me)

• Valou 
• Sebrina
• Bettina
• Lynda
• Alethea
• Linda
• The Digi Bells Blog

Supplies:

• Image: Sweet Country Harvest and Harvest Puppy from Elisabeth Bell 
• Colouring Medium: Copics
• DP: Echo Park and My Minds Eye  (scraps I’ve been saving)
• Card: Kraft,and green card and Copic X-Press It Blending Card
• Dies & Punches: Hobbycraft Heart Punch Spellbinder Label 1 Dies and Nesting Plain Square Dies, Go Kreate Tag Dies, Whiff of Joy Fence Die, Clearly Besotted ‘Thanks’ Word Die and Britannia Small Ivy Flourish Die
• Embellishments: Seam Binding, Wooden Heart, Doodling, Glitter, Gilding Wax

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.

I would like to enter the following challenges:

For the card:

• Crafting for All Seasons – Layer It Up
• Lil patch of Crafty Friends – Anything Goes

For the Tag:

• Crafting for All Seasons – Layer It Up
• Fab n Funky – Cute Critters (and/or Christmas)
• Lil patch of Crafty Friends – Anything Goes

Thanks for stopping by

Lisa

Daisy Daisy…

Give me your answer do….!!  Haha I think this cold medicine is getting to me.

Anyhoo, afternoon everyone it’s time for a new challenge at Elisabeth Bell’s World Challenge and our theme this time around is a nice and easy Happy Birthday.

I use so many digi stamps now that I forget that my love of Elisabeth Bell artwork started many many moons ago with this adorable stamp Daisy that I bought from Sugar Nellie, unfortunately she is no longer available but she sure is a cutie.

Here is my card:

I’m loving the no-lines colouring technique at the moment but I’m not too happy with her eye and I coloured a bit I shouldn’t so she now has a massive neck!! I really should get in the habit of having a black lines version next to me as I colour…it would make things a little bit easier.

Supplies:

• Image: Daisy from Elisabeth Bell  (from Sugar Nellie/Funky Kits but now retired)
• Colouring Medium: Copics

• Card: Kraft and blue card and Copic X-Press It Blending Card
• Dies & Punches: Hobbycraft Heart Punch and Clearly Besotted ‘Happy’ and ‘Birthday’ word dies.
• Embellishments: Doodling, Gems and Glitter Glue

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!

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

• Chocolate Coffee and Cards – Any kind of Celebration
• Southern Girls – Whimsical, Cute or Fun
• The Paper Shelter – Birthday card with a sentiment
• Lil patch of Crafty Friends – Anything Goes

’Thanks for stopping by

Lisa

Greeting Fairy

Morning all. Thank goodness it’s the end of a long week. Two poorly children and now I’m starting feel a bit under the weather as well…time for a peaceful weekend I think!

Anyhoo, back to the point of my post and it’s time for another Fab Friday post over at the Tiddly Inks Challenge Blog.

I’ve used Willow the Greeting Fairy 

I’ve gone a bit clean and simple this time, partly because I went a little bright with my choice of hair colour!!

Supplies:

• Image: Willow the Greeting Fairy from Tiddly Inks 
• Colouring Medium: Copics
• Card: Navy and Aqua card and Copic X-Press It Blending Card
• Ink: Milled Lavender and Broken China Distress Inkpads
• Embellishments: Sequins and Perfect Pearls Mist

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

• Fussy and Fancy – Fantasy
• Cute Card Thursday – Things with Wings
• Simon Says Wednesday Challenge – No DP
• Southern Girls – Whimsical, Cute or Fun
• Lil patch of Crafty Friends – Anything Goes

Have a great weekend and thank you for stopping by

Lisa

#HB2U

Afternoon All. Just a quick post as I’m about to do the school run. I spent a bit of time on Monday Blog Hopping, which I haven’t had the chance to do much of recently. I was inspired by these weeks challenge at Less is More where the theme is technology.

I had this little envelope on my desk that I cut out for another project but didn’t end up using and I thought it would work well for an email symbol and then I added the little wooden letters to show a Happy Birthday Message.

Supplies:

• Card & Paper: Kraft, Cream and Blue Card and Vellum
• Dies & Punches: MFT By the Letter Dies and mini envelope die from Whimsy Stamps.
• Embellishments: Studio Calico Wooden Alphas

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

• Less is More – Technology

Thanks for stopping by

Lisa

It’s Christmas Mavis

Morning All. I’m hoping for a better day today as yesterday was the kind of day I shouldn’t have bothered coming out from under the duvet. Headaches, cut fingers, downpours on the school run and little ones bumping there heads

Anyhoo, it’s time for Tiddly Tuesday over at the Tiddly Inks Challenge Blog and we have a new challenge for you. Our theme this time around is Don’t Be Square (no squares aloud at all!!). I’ve made another Christmas card for my stash using the adorable Mavis Christmas:

After a day filled with quite a few accidents I decided to go clean and simple with this one….thinking the less time I spent in the craft room the less chance there was of doing something silly or hurting myself!!

Supplies:

• Image: Mavis Christmas by Tiddly Inks 
• Colouring Medium: Copics
• DP: Patterned Velum from a Lidl craft pack
• Card: White and Green Card and Copic X-Press It Blending Card
• Dies & Punches: Sizzix Framelits Hexagon Dies and a Hobbycraft Heart Punch
• Sentiment: Magazine free stamps
• Ink: Archival ‘Jet Black’ Inkpad
• Embellishments: Doodling, Glitter Borders and Mini Staples

Hope you can play along with us and thank you  for stopping by

Lisa

Bite Me!

Morning all. All that keeping my fingers (and toes) crossed has paid off as I’m very lucky and honoured to be joining the Tiddly Inks Girls for another 4 month stint….whoop whoop….happy dance

Anyhoo, the point of my post is that it’s time for another Fab Friday post over at the Tiddly Inks Challenge Blog.

I love to make cards with my Tiddlys but up until now one hasn’t made it into my journal. Well all that has changed with this fabulous image Vamp Me.  I’m reading the Sookie Stackhouse books at the moment (I’m on book 10 of 13) and watching the TV series based on them (True Blood) so I thought this would be perfect for a journal page.

When I think of vampires I think of rich colours and old things, leather furniture, stuff like that so I thought this embossed background suited the image perfectly.

Supplies:

• Image: Vamp Me from Tiddly Inks 
• Colouring Medium: Copics
• Card: Purple, red and white card and Copic X-Press It Blending Card
• Ink: Dusty Concord Distress Inkpad
• Dies, Punches & Embossing Folders: Go Kreate Large Circle Dies and Couture Creations Tied Together Embossing Folder
• Embellishments: Lace, Ribbon, Pom Pom Trim, Pearls and Tim Holtz Chit Chat Stickers

Have a great weekend and thank you for stopping by

Lisa

50 Shades of Grey

Afternoon all……it wasn’t quite 50 shades but I sure managed to get quite a few greys in there when I was colouring!! I have made this for the challenges over at Make It Crafty where the CAS challenge is Black and White and the Make it Colourful challenge is Shades of Black.

Here is the full card using the adorable Faye's Sunflowers:

All that hair was a big big challenge but I took it a curl at a time and I’m really pleased with how it turned out.

Supplies:

• Image: Faye’s Sunflowers from Make It Crafty 
• Colouring Medium: Copics
  • Skin: W5, W3 , W1 and W00
  • Eyes: C7, C5 and B60
  • Hair: C9, C7, C5 and C3
  • Dress, Hat and Lipstick: BV29, BV25, BV23 and BV20
  • Sunflowers: W9, W7, W5, W3 and W1 (stems are C5, C3 and C1)
  • Shadow: W5, W3, W1 and W00
• Card: Black, Grey and Light Grey Card and Copic X-Press It Blending Card

Thanks for stopping by

Lisa

Goggles

Morning all! Well we had a gorgeous day yesterday and today’s is looking to be pretty nice as well. My prediction about the weather improving when the children returned to school looks to be coming true!!!

Anyhoo, it’s my turn on the Digi Bells Blog today and I’ve I’ve coloured up one of Elisabeth’s newest digis Goggles:

As you can see, apart from colouring this cute digi up with a beach scene as a background, the only other thing I have done is mat and layer onto some teal card. That’s because I’m not sure what I’m going to turn this cutie into! He may end up in my colouring journal or I think he would like nice popped onto a calendar.

Supplies:

• Image: Goggles from Elisabeth Bell 
• Colouring Medium: Copics
• Card: Teal Card and X-Press It Blending Card

Right, that’s my tea break over, thank for stopping by

Lisa

Christmas Houses

Morning All.

It’s time for a new digi stamp challenge over on the Little Claire Blog. This month our theme is Christmas.

I’ve used the Christmas Houses Digital Stamp:

A nice clean and simple card from me today. I printed the digi twice, once onto Copic card and once onto water colour card. I created a wash of blue on the watercolour card to look like a snowy sky and then coloured the other image with Copics and fussy cut before fixing over the other image with foam pads.

Supplies:

• Image:Christmas Houses from Little Claire
• Colouring Medium: Copics and watercolours
• Card: Grey Mirri Card, Navy Card, Smooth Watercolour Card and Copic X-Press It Blending Card
• Dies & Punches: Kars Starburst Punch and an MS Snowflake Punch
• Embellishments: Glitter Gem

Thanks for stopping by

Lisa

Back to School

Morning All.

I’m sharing my September Calendar page over on the Gems of Inspiration blog today. And as my eldest goes back to school on Thursday it’s quite an appropriate theme.

Here it is using  School Girl Chloe:

Supplies:

• Image: School Girl Chloe from Pink Gem Designs
• Colouring Medium: Copics
• DP: Lili of the Valley ‘ Candles and Cake’ 8x8 Paper Pad
• Card: Kraft and White Linen Card and Copic X-Press It Blending Card
• Dies & Punches: Go Kreate Frilly Frames Dies, Spellbinder Plain and Scalloped Oval Nestabilities, MFT By the Letter Dies and X-Cut Square Punch
• Embellishments: Ribbon

I’m not sure I showed you my page for August, although I shared it on the Gems of Inspiration Blog. Here it is using Chloe on Swing:

Enjoy your day, we are off on a little day trip to Swindon where we used to live. We are going to do some shopping in the Outlet Centre and also drive by our old house as my eldest would like to see it.

Enjoy your day and thanks for stopping by

Lisa