Happy Halloween

Evening all. We are just about to have a quick tea before we take the children out Trick or Treating. So while it finishes cooking I thought I would pop on and share my final Halloween make of the year.

This is the card I made for my partner in a card swap I take part in. The theme was either Halloween or Autumn and me being me I just had to pick Halloween. 

This card uses Sylvia Zet’s adorable Hazel image and she is also available in rubber from the Whimsy Stamps Store here:

  If you read my blog you will know that this year I really have been a little bit addicted to making Halloween Projects.

I have really made use of these digi papers from Snap Click Supply  

Supplies:

• Image: Hazel image (also available in rubber from the Whimsy Stamps Store here)
• Colouring Medium: Copics 
• DP: Fancy Pants October 31 Paper Pack 1 and Fancy Pants October 31 Paper Pack 2
• Card: Black Card and Copic X-Press It Blending Card
• Dies & Punches: Spellbinder Floral Oval Dies 
• Sentiments: From a Whiff of Joy set (retired)
• Embellishments: Pearl Trim, Cheese Cloth, Wycinanka Chipboard Heart Background, Glitter Glue and Pearls

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

 

Thanks for stopping by

Lisa

Aurora Prayer

Evening All. Just a quick post before I head off to bed.

The routine starts again tomorrow, after what has been a relaxed half term holiday’s full of migraines, icky bugs and things. At least we have Halloween tomorrow, we managed to get our Pumpkins carved!

Anyhoo, It’s time for a new challenge at The Sketchy Challenges and this time it’s a sketch challenge designed by me:

Lucky I had made this one a while ago as I’ve not done much (if any) crafting for the last week. I’ve used Aurora Prayer from The East Wind:

I have left this one without a sentiment at the moment, but I think it would make a good ‘Thinking of You’ card.

And I’ve had a play with those lovely Maja Design Papers again!

Supplies:

• Image: Aurora Prayer from The East Wind
• Colouring Medium: Copics
• DP: Maja Design 
• Card: Lilac Card, White Card and Copic X-Press It Blending Card 
• Ink: Ranger ‘Weathered Wood’ Distress Inkpad
• Dies & Punches: Spellbinder Plain and Scalloped Circles and a Sue Wilson for Creative Expressions Border Die
• Embellishments: Pearls, Lace and Doodling

If you would like to see some more fabulous inspiration please hop across to The Sketchy Challenges to see what the other girls have created.

Thank you for stopping by

Lisa

Winter Snowflakes

Morning all.

Good job I’ve had a few projects made in advance as I’ve been suffering really bad this week with Sinus Pain, Ear Pain and to top it off two migraines We have also been enjoying half term and trying to get ready a few decorations for Halloween.

Anyhoo, over at A Gem of a Challenge it’s the Pinks turn to host the challenge and we have a fabulous theme of ‘Snowflakes’. Unfortunately I didn’t get anything new made for this challenge, but I thought I would share a make from last Christmas that hasn't made it’s way onto the blog yet:

Unfortunately since then this image has retired from the Pink Gem Designs Shop but please do pop over as Janet has plenty more adorable images for you!

Thanks for stopping by and for some seriously cute Snowflake makes hop across to the A Gem of a Challenge blog.

Lisa

Poinsettia Flower

Me again! And this time it’s for the midway challenge inspiration over at the Polkadoodles Challenge Blog. As always it’s  Anything Goes, but the team are showing some creations using beautiful Christmas Greens & Reds.

For my make today I’ve used the fabulous Festive Christmas Download Collection:

I have used the leaf/petal image to digitally paper piece the poinsettia flower.

And I’ve added a bit of shimmer with some gilding wax

Supplies:

• DP: Festive Christmas Download Collection printed on White Linen Cardstock
• Card: Red Card, Kraft Card , Smooth White Card and White Linen Card 
• Dies & Punches: Bubbleicious Frames Dies from Polkadoodles  
• Sentiment: From Festive Christmas Download Collection
• Embellishments: Gilding Wax, Glitter Glue, Doodling and a Pearl

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

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Thanks for stopping by.

Lisa

Christmas Pixie

Morning All! It’s Fab Friday over at Tiddly Inks Challenge Blog and I have made another Christmas Card! For a change lol! 

I’ve used Christmas Pixie:

And I’ve dusted off the pencils.

Supplies:

• Image: Christmas Pixie from Tiddly Inks
• Colouring Medium: PrismaColor Pencils
• DP: Papermania Craft Christmas 6x6 Paper Pad
• Card:Red Card, Black Card and Kraft Card
• Sentiment: Wycinanka Chipboard from Live & Love Crafts
• Embellishments: Pearls

Thanks for stopping by

Lisa

Snowman Bell

Morning all! Short and sweet today as I’m still not feeling on top form.

It’s time for another challenge over at the Crafty Sentiments Designs Challenge Blog. This time we have a fabulous theme of   ‘Anything Goes’!

Here is my card using the sweet digi Snowman Bell:

Another Christmas card for the stash.

Supplies:

• Image: Snowman Bell digi from Crafty Sentiments Designs
• Colouring Medium: Copics
• Card: Red Card, Kraft Card and Copic X-Press It Blending Card
• DP: Papermania First Noel 6x6 Paper Pad
• Stamps: Clearly Besotted
• Ink & EP: VersaFine ‘Onyx Blank’ Inkpad 
• Dies & Punches: Whimsy Hand Stitched Nested Rectangles
• Embellishments: Pearls, Wooden Star and Glitter Glue

If you would like to see some more fabulous inspiration please hop across to the Crafty Sentiments Designs Inspiration Blog.

Thanks for stopping by

Lisa

Birthday Boy

 

Morning all! Just a quick post as we are enjoying the half term holidays.

Anyhoo, I have a quick boys card to share today using a super cute The Greeting Farm digi called Birthday Boy

Supplies:

• Image: Birthday Boy from The Greeting Farm  
• Colouring Medium: Copics 
• Card: Blue Card, Black Card and Copic X-Press It Blending Card

Thanks for stopping by

Lisa

Have a Magical Evening

Evening all! We’ve had a fabulous new release this month at All Dressed Up so without further ado here are the fabulous new images Wendy has added to the All Dressed Up Etsy Shop.

Please meet Double the Trouble, Have a Magical Evening, Little Birdie and Monsterific:

For today’s make I have used Have a Magical Evening.

I’m loving trying out different colour combos for Halloween and this is a rather bright green and orange.

A short and sweet post as I’m suffering with and ear and sinus infection at the moment

Supplies:

• Image: Have a Magical Evening  from All Dressed Up
• Colouring Medium: Copics
• DP: Fancy Pants October 31 Paper Pack 1 and Fancy Pants October 31 Paper Pack 2 
• Card: Green Card, Purple Card and Copic X-Press It Blending Card
• Dies & Punches:MS Border Punch
• Embellishments: Pearls and Doodling

Don’t forget to hop across to the All Dressed Up Challenge Blog and take a look at the rest of the new release inspiration.

Thanks for stopping by

Lisa

Snowballing

Morning all! Counting down the days to half term now. Can’t wait for lie-ins, PJ days and lot’s of snuggles, crafting and baking with my little ones.

Anyhoo, I’m here to share a little Polkadoodles Christmas loveliness today and I’ve used one of my favourite colour combos of aqua and red. 

All the elements I’ve used are from the Work & Play 5 Festive Hollybobs Full Download Collection but you can also get the fabulous Snowballing digi image separately as well:

Isn’t that little paper bow fabulous? It’s also part of the kit and I used a strip of matching paper to make it look like a proper ribbon.

Supplies:

• Image: Snowballing from Polkadoodles 
• Colouring Medium: Copics 
• DP: Work & Play 5 Festive Hollybobs Full Download Collection printed on White Linen Cardstock
• Card: Red Card, Aqua Card, White Linen Card and Copic X-Press It Blending Card
• Dies & Punches: Magnolia Old Swedish Lace Die and Spellbinders Plain/Scalloped Circle Dies
• Embellishments: Paper bow (from the above collection), Pearls and Glitter Glue

I would like to enter this into the following challenges:

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Thanks for stopping by

Lisa

Witchy Molly

Morning all! It’s Tuesday and that means one thing…… Tiddly Tuesday! Over at the Tiddly Inks Challenge Blog we want to see your Spookalicious Tiddly makes so go get your Halloween groove on! 

If you are a regular reader of my blog you will know I’ve become a little bit addicted to Halloween this year. So far I’ve made a several cards and several cards. So for something a little different I decided to make a little witches hat.

And I've used the little witch image from the Halloweeny Molly set to decorate it with.

And just because I haven’t included a little googly eyed spider on a make this year….I added one to this.

Supplies:

• Image: Halloweeny Molly by Tiddly Inks
• Colouring Medium: Copics
• Card: Yellow Card, Purple Card, Orange Card and Copic X-Press It Blending Card
• Dies & Punches: Spellbinder Plain Oval Dies and Woodware circle punch
• Embellishments: Doodling, lace, pearl bead trim, cheesecloth, googly eyes and ribbon

Don’t forget to pop across to the Tiddly Inks Challenge Blog to see all the fabulous inspiration from the rest of the girls.

Thanks for stopping by

Lisa

Think Pink For Breast Cancer Awareness

Evening all. Just a quick post to remind you that we are still running our Think Pink For Breast Cancer Awareness challenge over at A Gem of a Challenge.

Please share your PINK Cards with us and you have until Sunday 23rd October at  6pm GMT to get your entries in.

Thanks for stopping by

Lisa

A Star is Born

Evening all. It’s time new challenge over at the All Dressed Up Challenge Blog. The theme is always Anything Goes but you have to use an All Dressed Up image.

I’m still making Christmas cards and Wendy has loads of fabulous Christmas images to choose from. For this card I’ve used A Star is Born:

Another Xmas card for my stash!

Supplies:

• Image: A Star is Born from All Dressed Up
• Colouring Medium: Copics
• Card: Navy Blue Card, Silver Card, White Card and Copic X-Press It Blending Card
• Dies & Punches: Spellbinders Scalloped Square Dies
• Embellishments: Heart Stamp & lemon chalk ink, Doodling and Pearls

Thanks for stopping by

Lisa

Eat More Cake

Morning All! It’s Fab Friday over at Tiddly Inks Challenge Blog and for a change I’ve made something that isn’t a Christmas or Halloween make!

I’ve used Eat More Cake  and some scrummy new Maja Design Papers, to make a sweet little birthday card:

Quite clean and simple for me today.

Supplies:

• Image: Eat more Cake from Tiddly Inks
• Colouring Medium: Copics 
• DP: Maja Design Coffee in the Arbour
• Card: Kraft Card, White Card and Copic X-Press It Blending Card
• Sentiment: Wycinanka Chipboard from Live and Love Crafts 
• Dies: Whimsy Stamp Sweetest Birthday Shaker Builder Dies
• Embellishments: Pearls, Glitter and Doodling

Head over to the Tiddly Inks Challenge Blog for some fabulous inspiration from the rest of the team.

Thanks for stopping by

Lisa

Mini Poinsettias

Morning everyone! I have been having a play with some Polkadoodles goodies. Some of the new Polkadoodles Dies and the Festive Christmas Download Collection to be precise!

The die set I’ve used is the Bubbleicious Frames Dies and I’ve made another Christmas card for my pile:

Do you like the mini Poinsettia Flowers? I made them using the small leaf die that is part of the Bubbleicious Frames Set. I cut them several times and just layered them up with some pearls for the centres.

Supplies:

• DP: Festive Christmas Download printed on White Linen Cardstock
• Card: Kraft Card, Maroon Card and White Linen Card
• Dies & Punches: Bubbleicious Frames Dies and Cherry Blossom Branch Die
• Sentiment: Festive Christmas Download printed on White Linen Cardstock
• Embellishments: Pearls, Glitter Glue.

I would like to enter this into the following challenges:

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Thanks for stopping by

Lisa

Jasmin the Witch

Morning All! It’s time for another challenge over at the Crafty Sentiments Designs Challenge Blog and this time we have a fabulous theme of  ‘Anything Goes’!

I’m a bit addicted to making Halloween stuff at the moment. So here is  a tag using the super cute stamp Jasmin the Witch:

Supplies:

• Image: Jasmin the Witch stamp from Crafty Sentiments Designs
• Colouring Medium: Copics
• Card: Purple Card, White Linen Card and Copic X-Press It Blending Card
• DP: Scraps from a digi paper set
• Dies & Punches: Whimsy Hand Stitched Rectangles
• Ink & EP: Perfect Medium Inkpad and Purple Sparkle/Black Embossing Powder
• Embellishments: Doodling (Spider, Cobweb and alphas), Cheesecloth, Chipboard Corner, Chipboard Hearts, Ribbon, Glossy Accents and Glitter Glue

If you would like to see some more fabulous inspiration using this gorgeous new image please hop across to the Crafty Sentiments Designs Inspiration Blog.

Thanks for stopping by

Lisa

Festive Chloe for Breast Cancer Awareness

Morning All! As October is Breast Cancer Awareness we are having a special PINK challenge over at A Gem of a Challenge. This Special Challenge will run alongside our current Halloween Challenge which is still running.

It’s a sad fact that Cancer has touched so many peoples lives so let’s show our support with a PINK card. Just make sure for our special challenge to create A Prominently Pink Card to be in with a chance to win.

And surprise surprise I have made another Christmas Card, but instead of Traditional colours I have gone PINK PINK PINK. And doesn’t Festive Chloe look good in pink!

Supplies:

• Image: Festive Chloe from Pink Gem Designs 
• Colouring Medium: Copics
• Card: Pink Card, Black Card and Copic X-Press It Blending Card
• DP:  An old DCWV paper stack
• Dies & Punches: Spellbinder Plain and Picot Edge Circle Dies and Magnolia Lace Border Die
• Sentiment: From a Clearly Besotted Stamp Set
• Ink: VersaFine ‘ Onyx Black’ Inkpad
• Embellishments: Glitter Glue, Wink of Stella Pen, Gems and Pearls

I would like to enter this into the following challenges:

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Please hop over to A Gem of a Challenge and see the fabulous PINK makes from the rest of the team.

Thanks for stopping by

Lisa