Easter Bunny

Morning all. It’s time for this weeks Lili of the Valley inspiration and I have an Easter Card to share today.

If you visited the Make-It Craft show a few weeks ago in Farnborough you may have seen it on the Lili of the Valley stand. You can find the rubber stamp in the Lili of the Valley store or the digi stamp Spring Rabbit with Egg from the LOTV Etsy Shop:

And I’m in love with the aqua and Kraft colour combo, well anything with aqua really.

Supplies: 

• Image: Spring Rabbit with Egg from Lili of the Valley
• Colouring Medium: Spectrum Noir Original Markers
• DP: Bazzill Vintage Marketplace 6x6 Paper Pad
• Card: Kraft card and Copic X-Press It Blending Card
• Dies & Punches: MFT Die-Namics Scalloped Stitched Basic Edge Dies, MFT Die-Namics Blueprint 14 Dies, Spellbinders Teardrop Edge and Plain Circle Dies and Flower/Leaf/Swirl Dies from Polkadoodles 
• Sentiments: From Easter Eggstras digi stamp
• Embellishments: Lace, Gems and Pearls

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

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Thanks for stopping by

Lisa

Birthday Girl

Me again…lol! You’ll know what I mean if you saw my earlier post

We have a new challenge starting over at the Crafts & Me Facebook Group today and we have a fabulous theme of ‘Celebration’. And a good excuse to make something other than a Christmas card….if you’re a bit bored of them. I know I am.

I have used Hannah Lynn’s Birthday Girl: 



As I said I’ve had enough of red , green and gold. So this one is bright, colourful and cheerful.



Love the little bark hearts, they came from Live and Love Crafts and are so sweet, I got some stars too.

Supplies:

• Image: Birthday Girl by Hannah Lynn from Crafts & Me
• Colouring Medium: Copics and a Posca White Paint Pen
• DP: Bazzill Basics ‘Vintage Marketplace’ 6x6 Paper Pad
  
• Card: Turquoise and White Card and Copic X-Press It Blending Card
  
• Dies & Punches: Go-Kreate Large Oval Dies
  
• Sentiment: From a Kraftin’ Kimmie Stamp Set
  
• Ink: Memento ‘Tuxedo Black’ Inkpad
  
• Embellishments: Ribbon, Pearls, Doodling and a Bark Heart

Don’t forget to hop over to the Crafts & Me Facebook Group and check out the creations from the rest of the team and if you entered the last challenge see if you were a winner.

Thank you for stopping by
Lisa

Birthday Bunny

Good Morning. Thank goodness for the weekend. It’s been a busy week but thankfully we have a family BBQ to look forward to this afternoon….so fingers crossed for the weather.

Anyhoo, it’s time for a new challenge at A Gem of a Challenge and this time we have a fabulous theme of:

Embossing

I’ve used dry embossing and I have made a birthday card for my stash using Bunny with Gift…

Supplies:

• Image: Bunny with Gift from Pink Gem Designs
• Colouring Medium: ProMarkers
• DP: Bazzill Basics Vintage Marketplace 6x6 pad
• Card: Turquoise Card – Papermill Direct, Kraft Card from Anna Marie Designs and Neenah Solar White
• Dies & Punches: Spellbinders Plain Circles, Flower Punches and a leaf punch
• Embellishments: Glitter Glue, Card Candi, Craftwork Cards Sentiment Die Cut, Crafters Companion Spray and shine

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

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Thanks for stopping by

Lisa

Animals (and birds too!)

By the time you read this we should be on the road…heading north to the Lake District….fingers crossed for me on the weather, the weather reports are showing lot’s of showers :-(

Anyhoo, it’s time for a new challenge at A Gem of a Challenge and this time Marianne has picked a fabulous theme of:

Animals

I have made a birthday card for my Mother-in-Law using Birthday Ozzie…

This one was a tough make for me. I did the whole shuffling the bit’s about the card but nothing looking quite right. So I left it over night and came back to it the following day. I am happier now with the layout, but I’m not sure it will make my Top 5 list come Christmas…lol!

Supplies:

• Image: Birthday Ozzie from Pink Gem Designs
• Colouring Medium: ProMarkers
• DP: Bazzill Basics Vintage Marketplace 6x6 pad
• Card: Turquoise Card – Papermill Direct, Kraft Card from Anna Marie Designs and Copic X-Press It
• Stamps: Sentiments Stamp Set from Sarah Hurley
• Ink: Adirondack ‘Stream’ Inkpad
• Dies & Punches: Spellbinders Picot Edge Circles and Plain Circles, Flower Punches, leaf punch and an MS Border Punch
• Embellishments: Ribbon, alpha beads and gems.

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

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Thanks for stopping by

Lisa

Faux Letterpress Background

Morning All. A quick little scheduled post (I will doing the pre-school run as you read this) to let you know it my turn over on the Sarah Hurley 365 blog and I’ve been playing with the Chevron Stripe Stencil (again).

I like to see how may different ways I can use something. The more the better, my stash has to earn it’s place in my craft room. So to see my Faux Letterpress background pop over to the Sarah Hurley 365 blog.

Here’s a sneaky little peak…

Thanks for stopping by

Lisa

Basket of Bunnies

It’s my turn to share some inspiration over on the Whimsy Inspirations Challenge blog and as I’m dreaming of spring weather I’ve used an adorable digi called Basket of Bunnies released by Crissy’s Digis last spring but still available over at the Whimsy Stamps store.

In my family I have a lot of female birthdays at this time of year, so I have made a cute little spring themed easel card.

Supplies:

• Image: Basket of Bunnies
• Colouring Medium: ProMarkers
• DP: Papermania Vintage Notes 6x6 pad
• Card: Bazzill Basics Kraft and Joanna Sheen Elegance Ice White 300gsm
• Stamps: Whimsy Mini Ticket Sentiments
• Ink: Brilliance ‘Coffee Bean’ Inkpad
• Dies & Punches: EK Success Border Punch
• Embellishments: Viva Decor Pearl Pen, Stickles Diamond, gems and raffia

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

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Thanks for stopping by

Lisa

Buttons & Bows at Jellypark

It’s time for a new challenge over at Jellypark Friends and our theme this fortnight is:

Buttons & Bows

I have used Girl with a bow in her hair…

And I've also added a second ribbon bow and button as an embellishment.

Supplies:

• Image: Girl with a bow in her hair by Jellypark
• Colouring Medium: ProMarkers
• DP: Book print is Graphic 45 (I think) and a scrap from a Magazine freebie
• Card: Bazzill Kraft Cardstock
• Stamps: Personal Impressions Think Big sentiments
• Dies & Punches: Spellbinder plain and floral ovals
• Embellishments: Ribbon, button, gems, Viva Decor Pearl pen, Platinum Stickles and doodling with a Sakura Pigma Micron pen.

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

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Thanks for stopping by

Lisa

Spot & Stripes at A Gem of a Challenge

Morning All. Hope you all have good weekends planned. As you read this I will be heading home after a beautiful weeks holiday in Jersey and wasn’t I lucky with the weather? We have had a fabulous time, the children have loved it and I would thoroughly recommend it as a place to visit.

Anyhoo I’ll stop waffling as it’s time for a new challenge at A Gem of a Challenge and this week the lovely Helen has chosen the theme of…

Spots/Stripes (or both)

Here is the card I made…

• Image: Faye
• Colouring Medium: ProMarkers
• Card: Joanna Sheen Elegance Ice White 300gsm and Mustard card from Papermill Direct
• Patterned Papers: Bazzill Basics Vintage Marketplace 6x6 pad
• Stamps: Sentiment - Whimsy Fanciful Birthday Notable Rubber Stamps
• Ink: Brilliance ‘Coffee Bean’ Inkpad
• Embellishments: Indigo Blu ‘Morris Dance’ Mega Flakes, Viva Decor Pearl Pen, paper flowers, glitter glue, Glossy Accents and raffia lace.

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

• One Stop Craft Challenge – Summer Colours
• Totally Gorjuss – Something Sweet
• Crafts & Me – Anything Goes
• A Creative Romance – Ribbon or twine (please delete if my Raffia Lace doesn’t count)
• Totally Papercrafts – Things with Wings
• Emergency Crafters – Summer
• Country View Crafts Challenge – Summer Sizzler

Thanks for stopping by

Lisa

My Favourite Five Christmas Cards of 2012

As I mentioned in a previous post Debby is again hosting her Favourite Five Christmas Cards.


I found this quite a hard choice this year as I loved making all my Christmas cards and didn’t find it the chore that I have sometimes found it in the past. So with a little help from hubby on narrowing it down to 5…ahem 6, here goes….

#1 – This was the first card I created as part of the Whimsy Stamps Digital Design Team. I love Kraft and the image is so cute and I was thrilled that it’s here on the Whimsy Stamps store page. Original post is here.

#2 - I have a few favourite Pink Gem Digis and Winter Chloe is one of them. I really enjoyed making this card because of the non-traditional colour scheme and it also has some of my favourite things, pearls, sparkle, ribbon and lace. Original post is here.

#3 – This was part of my winning entry for Papercraft Essentials ‘Papercrafter of the Year 2012’. It’s a 3D Christmas Tree Card, but does in fact fold completely flat for posting. If you have the magazine I’m on page 18 but I haven’t got round yet to posting the pictures on my bog.

#4 – This time it’s one of my favourite Digi Stamp Boutique images ‘Skating Hattie’. I was pleased with how I managed to use up some scraps of old card and shock horror use a glitter peel off! The original post can be found here.

#5 – Another Digi Stamp Boutique image from a fabulous A4 sheet of 6 designs together with sentiments. This sheet of images (with a little colouring) allowed me to churn out a lot of fast and simple, but at the same time individual cards. Original post is here and shows some more cards made with the other images.

#6 – And the sneaky extra one is a Digi Stamp by Chrissy Armstrong for Whimsy Stamps. I think I like this one because although I’m not a religious person it is such an adorable image and I have family members who I knew it would be perfect for. The original post can be found here.

Thanks for stopping by and taking a peak at my favourite Christmas cards of 2012 and before I go I would like to wish all my followers (old and new) a Merry and Prosperous 2013.

Hugs

Lisa