Christmas Couple

Evening All! I have a Christmas card to share with you using an adorable image from Crafty Sentiments Designs:

I’ve gone for some very non-traditional colours.

Supplies:

• Image: Here Comes Christmas rubber stamp set by Crafty Sentiments Designs and sold on Hochanda 
• Colouring Medium: Copics
• DP: An old DCWV Christmas Stack
• Sentiment: From Crafty Sentiments Designs  
• Dies & Punches: Go Kreate Large Frilly Frame #10 Dies, Nellie Snellen Pierced Circle Multiframes and Spellbinder Plain Circle Dies
• Embellishments: Pearls and Ribbon Bows

Thanks for stopping by

Lisa

Christmas Helper

Afternoon all! When I was poorly at the start of the month I missed the new release at Crafty Sentiments Designs, I’d already coloured the images and they were so cute (and Christmas too) that as soon as I was feeling better I knew I had to get them made into cards.

First up is My Christmas Helper:

I have been practicing with my watercolour pencils again.

Supplies:

• Image: My Christmas Helper from Crafty Sentiments Designs
• Colouring Medium: Spectrum Noir  AquaBlend Pencils and Spectrum Noir Sparkle Pens
• DP: DCWV Christmas Stack
• Card: Green Card, White Card and Watercolour Card 
• Sentiment: From a Lili of the Valley Clear Stamp Set 
• Ink: VersaFine Onyx Black Inkpad
• Dies & Punches: Spellbinder Regal Circle Dies, Spellbinders Plain Circle Dies and MFT Stitched Scalloped Border Dies
• Embellishments: Gems, Doodling, Wooden Candy Cane, Chipboard Heart and Bow

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

Minnie’s Christmas Gift

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

I’ve fallen in love with the Minnie images, the hair is just so cute. So I’ve made another very Clean and Simple (for me) Christmas Card this time using Minnie’s Gift:

A little bit of no-lines colouring on this one and those glasses were just crying out for some Glossy Accents.

As with the last card I made with Minnie, I’ve purposely kept the card flat in case I post it to someone

Supplies:

• Image: Minnie’s Gift from Tiddly Inks
• Colouring Medium: Copics 
• DP: Old DCWV 6x6 Pad
• Card: Green Card, Kraft Card and Copic X-Press It Blending Card
• Embellishments: Doodling

Hop across to the Tiddly Inks Challenge Blog to see some more fabulous inspiration from the rest of the team.

Short and sweet today as I have a bedroom to clear of clothes and the current furniture, ready for decorating and some new fitted wardrobes we are getting in about a week and half's time.

Thanks for stopping by

Lisa

Minnie’s Christmas Lights

Morning All! It’s Fab Friday over at Tiddly Inks Challenge Blog and I have made another Christmas Card……sorry if it’s Christmas overload

I’ve used Minnie's Christmas Lights to make a very Clean and Simple (for me) Christmas Card:

I’ve added plenty of Glossy Accents to the lights and her glasses.

I’ve purposely kept this card flat in case I post it to someone, if not I think I’ll add a chipboard sentiment near the bottom right (and maybe a few pearl too – well I do love them!).

Supplies:

• Image: Minnie’s Christmas Lights from Tiddly Inks
• Colouring Medium: Copics 
• DP: Old DCWV 6x6 Pad
• Card: Green Card, Kraft Card and Copic X-Press It Blending Card
• Embellishments: Doodling

Hop across to the Tiddly Inks Challenge Blog to see some more fabulous inspiration from the rest of the team.

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

Wavy Elephants - LC Designs Blog Project

Morning All!

It’s my turn to share a stamp project over on the LC Designs Blog today and I have used one of the most recent wavy stamp sets, Wavy Elephants, to make this card:

For a little step by step on how it was made please hop over to the LC Designs Blog.

Supplies:

• Image: Wavy Elephants Stamp Set from LC Designs  
• Colouring Medium: Copics
• DP: DCWV
• Card: Pink Card, Grey Card and Copic X-Press It Blending Card
• Dies & Punches: Spellbinder Labels 4 Nesting Dies, Sizzix Fancy Tag Framelits, Memory Box Corner Bow Die and X-Cut Flower Punches
• Sentiment: From the Wavy Elephants Stamp Set
• Ink: Memento ‘Tuxedo Black’
• Embellishments: Pearls and Liquid Pearls

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

• C.R.A.F.T. Challenge – Animals
• Southern Girls – Anything Goes
• ABC Challenge – J (Just as you like it – anything goes)
• Craft Your Passion – Always Anything Goes
• Lil Patch of Crafty Friends – Anything Goes
• My Time To Craft – Summertime
• Creatalicious Challenges – Anything Goes
• Stamping Sensations – Creature Feature

 

Thanks for stopping by

Lisa

Little Flower Fairy, A Freebie and A Discount!

Over at Kit & Clowder FB Group the lovely Alyce has teamed up with Wendy from All Dressed Up to offer everyone a freebie and a super discount code too! Hop over to the Kit & Clowder FB Group for more details and also hop on over to the All Dressed Up FB Group to say hello!

I rustled up a little card using the freebie, the super cute Little Flower Fairy:

Isn’t she just adorable.

Supplies:

• Image: Little Flower Fairy from All Dressed Up
• Colouring Medium: Copics
• DP: DCWV Mat Stack
• Card: Teal Card, Off White Bazzill Bling Card and Copic X-Press It Blending Card
• Sentiment: Lili of the Valley Block Sentiment Stamp Set
• Ink: VersaFine ‘Onyx Black’ Inkpad
• Dies & Punches: Tonic Doily Border Punch
• Embellishments: Doodling and Pearls

Please hop over to the Kit & Clowder FB Group for all the details and while your on FB don’t forget to hop across to the All Dressed Up FB Group and play along with Animals/Insects challenge.

Thanks for stopping by

Lisa

Pretty in Pink

 
Afternoon all! I’m here today with the new challenge we have taking place at the moment over at the Crafts & Me Facebook Group. It’s anything goes with the optional theme of ‘Pretty in Pink’.

I’ve used Glowing Love Girl by Sara Burrier and made a sweet little Thank You card:

Supplies:

• Image: Glowing Love Girl by Sara Burrier from Crafts & Me
• Colouring Medium: Copics
• DP: An old DCVW Glitter Stack
• Card: White and Pink Card and Copic X-Press It Blending Card
• Dies & Punches: Whiff of Joy Circle Doily Die, Spellbinders Plain Circle Dies and Clearly Besotted word die
• Embellishments: Ribbon Bow, Heart Pearl and Wooden Border Strips

Don’t forget to hop over to the Crafts & Me Facebook Group and check out the creations from the rest of the team.

Thank you for stopping by

Lisa

Willow with Hot Chocolate

 

Hello All! It was my turn to share some Elisabeth Bell love over on the Digi Bells Blogtoday and I made a tag using the super cute Willow with Hot Chocolate: 

Supplies:

• Image: Willow with Hot Chocolate by Elisabeth Bell 
• Colouring Medium: Copics
• Card: Copic X-Press It Blending Card
• DP: DCWV Late Mat Stack
• Embellishments: Doodling, Black Enamal Dots and a Dymo Label

Thank you for stopping by

Lisa

Jinkles Elf

Evening all. I’ve made another Christmas card…surprise surprise! That is all I have been making of late!! This one has been made for the challenges over at Make It Crafty where the CAS challenge is Frame It and the Make it Colourful challenge is Christmas Colours.

Here is the full card using the super cute Jinkles Elf:

I have made a lot of traditional coloured Christmas cards this year, so even though this one uses red and green I’ve pulled out the pink from the DP and used it on the hair and mats.

Supplies:

• Image: Jinkles Elf from Make It Crafty 
• Colouring Medium: Copics
• Card: Green and Pink Card and Copic X-Press It Blending Card
• DP: A very very old DCWV Christmas Pad
• Dies & Punches: Spellbinders Scalloped and Inverted Scalloped Circle Dies
• Embellishments: Doodling, Viva Black Enamel Dot Pen and a wooden gingerbread man

Thanks for stopping by

Lisa

Kraftin’ Kimmie August Release–Day 3

Afternoon all!

It’s DAY THREE of the Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps AUGUST 2015 previews! It's going to be another amazing week of peeks with so many fabulous designs! I couldn't be more excited to share them all with you!

Today we have a witchy new set by artist, Annie Rodrigue! The set is absolutely  FA-BOO-LOUS! It’s called MY BEST FRIENDS ARE WITCHES! and has two be-WITCHING main images plus FIVE coordinating sentiments! You are going to see some amazing creations on today’s hop.

 

Here is my card using the witch and pumpkin and as we don’t celebrate Halloween quite so much here in the UK I thought I would make a card in some more girly colours:

And a another picture….a close up!

 

Supplies:

• Stamps: MY BEST FRIENDS ARE WITCHES Stamp Set from Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps
• DP: An old DCWV matstack
• Card: White Swiss Dots, Pink and purple card and Copic X-Press It Blending Card.
• Ink: Memento ‘Tuxedo Black’ and Archival ‘Jet Black’ Inkpads
• Dies & Punches: X-Cut Square Punch and Spellbinders Labels 31
• Embellishments: Gems and paper flowers

Below you will find all the Krafty Girls and Guests who have goodies to show you today and while you're visiting their blogs, be sure to leave some love at each stop because one lucky stamper is going to WIN some $$ to spend at the Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps Shop……Woohoo!

ALL of the AUGUST stamps will be available on Saturday night at the Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps Shop! Not only will you be able to purchase the NEW spooky stamps but there is also a Limited Edition HALLOWEEN KARD KIT! There are only a certain number available so if you want one, you'd better be at the party! Be sure to join us for an hour of celebrating the new stamp sets, fun and prizes on Saturday evening at our LIVE ONLINE RELEASE PARTY!! Come hang out with the us.

Thanks for stopping by

Lisa

Happy New Year and Some News

Hi All

Hope you are all well and had a fabulous Christmas. We have had a good time despite both us and the children suffering from awful viruses. I’m sort of glad to be getting back to the daily routine today and hoping these bugs hurry up and leave.

Anyhoo I’m about to do the school run, but thought I would pop on to share some absolutely fantastic fabulous super duper news…..I’m part of the new Little Claire Digi-Stamp Design Team. I applied just before Christmas and it was an extra present to find out I had been selected. Little Claire stamps are a staple in my craft room and to be able to play with their designs in digis is going to be so much fun.

My new teamies are Alison, Avril, Lynsey, Mags, Margreet, Sarah and Susan and if you hop over to the Little Claire Blog you will get to meet them.

Our first Digi-Stamp Blog Challenge will go live on Wednesday 15th January 2014 and we would love for you to come and play along with us.

To celebrate my good news I thought I would share a Little Claire card with you. It was made a little while back as with getting all the decorations down and put away, and giving everything a good clean I haven’t actually made it into my Crafty Hole yet this year….I haven’t shared the card here yet but you may have seen it in a past issue of Papercraft Essentials…

This one uses the Beach Huts Stamp Set but it’s also a digi stamp Beach Huts. It’s been stamped in Memento Tuxedo Black Ink onto cork (from a DCWV stack) and coloured using ProMarkers. A very CAS card and perfect for one of the men in your life.

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

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Thanks for stopping by

Lisa

Halloween

Morning All. What with my lack of crafting and blogging and Mr Blogger not publishing the post I did do, I’m not doing very well at the moment! But better late than never I’m here with my Halloween make for the current challenge over at A Gem of a Challenge where the theme is ‘Trick or Treat’

I like to decorate the window of the house on Halloween so that other Trick or Treaters know we are are friendly and don’t mind having them knock on our door. So I made this little plaque to hang in the window using the gorgeous Broomstick Chloe and lot’s of traditional Halloween colours.

Supplies:

• Image: Broomstick Chloe from Pink Gem Designs
• Colouring Medium: ProMarkers and Copics
• DP: DCWV Latte Paperstack
• Card: Copic X-Press it Blending Card and Black card from stash
• Stamps: Sentiments from the Whiff of Joy Fall Stamp Kit
• Dies & Punches: Fiskars Border Punch and Spellbinder Plain Circle Dies
• Embellishments: Flat back Pearls, Paper Flowers, Button, Ribbon, Twine and doodles with a black fineliner.

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

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Thanks for stopping by

Lisa

Chloe with Reindeer

Quick Edit: Mr Blogger has been naughty and didn’t post this Morning when he should have!

Morning All. I’ve been a little unwell again recently so haven’t really been into the craft room. I have mainly been resting up and catching up on some TV programmes…I’m enjoying ‘Cilla’ at the moment but I’ve quite a few other series on the Tivo box ready to watch!

Here is a recent Christmas make using Chloe with Reindeer:  

Another quick simple card for my Christmas stash.

Supplies:

• Image: Chloe with Reindeer from Pink Gem Designs  
• Colouring Medium: ProMarkers
• DP: An old DCWV stack
• Card: Beige Core’dinations card and Joanna Sheen Elegance Ice White 300gsm
• Stamps: HobbyArt Christmas Sentiment
• Embellishments: Pearls, Ribbon and Glitter Glue

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

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Thanks for stopping by

Lisa

Mummy Henry

Morning All. Hope everyone has a lovely weekend planned. I scheduled this post as hopefully I’ll be enjoying a lie in :-) We are staying at the In-Laws for the weekend to celebrate my Sister-in-Laws birthday and usually Nanny get up with the children!

In the week I shared a Halloween Trick or Treat loot bag I made for my little boy, well here is the one I made for my little girl. It is similar in design to the other by I tried to add more girly decorations.

Supplies:

• Image: Mummy Henry from Secret Stamp Kit Number 3 (Fall)
• Colouring Medium: ProMarkers and Copics
• DP: Prima ‘Reflections’ 6x6 pad, DCWV Latte Card Stack and DCWV Latte Matstack
• Card: Copic X-Press It, Core’dinations Purple Card and Black Card from Stash
• Stamps: Secret Stamp Kit Number 3 (Fall)
• Dies & Punches: Spellbinders Plain Circles, Go Kreate Circles and MFT By the Letter Lowercase
• Embellishments: Raffia Lace, Pearls, Gems, Ribbon, Tag and Paper Flowers

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

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Thanks for stopping by

Lisa

Witch Henry

Morning All.

Pre children, I didn’t really celebrate Halloween but the little ones love the fun of it all! The dressing up, having other children knock on the door. So getting into the spirit of things I have made some little bags for them to keep the fruits of their Trick or Treating in.

I have coloured the image with Derwent Pencil on Kraft card. The Bat and spider are handmade using circle punches and some freehand cutting.

Supplies:

• Image: Witch Henry from Secret Stamp Kit Number 3 (Fall)
• Colouring Medium: Derwent Pencils
• DP: Prima ‘Reflections’ 6x6 pad, DCWV Latte Card Stack and DCWV Latte Matstack
• Card: Anna Marie Designs Kraft Card, Core’dinations Purple Card and Black Card from Stash
• Stamps: Secret Stamp Kit Number 3 (Fall)
• Dies & Punches: Sizzix Hexagon Dies and MFT By the Letter Lowercase
• Embellishments: Raffia Lace, Pearls, Gems, Ribbon, Tag, Glitter Glue, Buttons, Googly Eyes and Paper Flowers

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

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Thanks for stopping by

Lisa

Click

It’s been a right old day. Still not very well and I have got an eye infection now to top it all off. I’ve been chasing my tail all week so we took a few hours out this evening to go Trick or Treating. My little boy (3.5 years) dressed up as Dracula and was so excited and although my baby girl looked cute as a pumpkin she kind of had a look on her face that said ‘what are we up to Mummy?’. Here is a quick snap of them…very hard to get as baby girl like to crawl over and grab the camera…

And on another sad note it’s my turn to post my last GDT make over on the Digi Bells blog today. I have had a fantastic three months as GDT and want to thanks all the girls there for having me play along. For my final post I have used Click…  

I’ve been using some of those  unloved DCWV Matstacks, that I found at the bottom of a drawer, again. The colours in this stack are very Halloween, so is was nice to use them with a non Halloween image…

This is one of my favourite layouts at the moment and looks equally good CAS as it does overly embellished…as you can see by the amount of flowers I went with the later on this one.

Supplies:

• Image: Click from Elisabeth Bell 
• Colouring Medium: ProMarkers
• DP: DCWV ‘Latte’ Matstack
• Card: Joanna Sheen Elegance Ice White 300gsm and cream card from my stash
• Stamps: Sentiment is from Sarah Hurley’s Rose Stamp Set
• Ink: Brilliance ‘Graphite Black’ inkpad
• Dies & Punches: Quickutz/Lifestyle Crafts corner die
• Embellishments: Paper flowers, pearls, ribbon bow and a Viva Decor Pearl Pen

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

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Thanks for stopping by

Lisa

Witches at EB World Challenge

Oh boy, I’m still suffering….this time it’s just a bad headache and thank goodness not a full migraine. It’s affecting my vision a little so I’ll keep this short and to the point.

It’s time for a new challenge at Elisabeth Bell’s World Challenge and the theme this month is…

Witches

Well it is nearly Halloween so we want to see your little witches. I have used the adorable Belladonna and Hoot from Elisabeth Bells’s digi collection…

I have coloured this little cutie with my ProMarkers. I’ve used really typical Halloween colours and dug out yet another unloved DCWV Matstack…

And who could resist a couple more cute Card Candi Spiders and doodled cobwebs.

Supplies:

• Image: Belladonna and Hoot by Elisabeth Bell 
• Colouring Medium: ProMarkers
• DP: Glitter DCWV Matstack
• Card: Joanna Sheen Elegance Ice White 300gsm and purple card from stash
• Dies & Punches: Waste from a Whimsy Lace Border die, word dies from All Occasion Dies and X-Cut small leaf punch
• Embellishments: Paper flowers, green metallic trim, Viva Decor Pearl Pen, Card Candi and doodling with a black fine liner.

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

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Thanks for stopping by

Lisa

Whimsy September Digi Stamp Release Blog Hop

Welcome to the September digital release blog hop!

We have lots of new images to share with you today created by:

   

All Whimsy Stamps digital images are 300dpi for high print quality. You can re-size, flip, or rotate to fit your own project.

Here is my card using the wonderful new Penguin Light Me Up by Crissy’s Armstrong…

I have coloured the image with my ProMarkers.

To find all of today's new fabulous new digital releases please visit the Whimsy Stamps Store.

Whilst you are hopping don't forget to leave comments on each blog along the way as there will be two mystery DT Members who will each be choosing a winner from the comments left on their hop posts!

These winners will each win a Whimsy digital image of their choice. The Grand Prize winner of the hop will be chosen from the very last stop. This winner will receive 5 digital stamps of their choice from the Whimsy Stamps Store.

The hop will run for one week and end on Sunday 8th September at 12 Noon EST, when the lucky winners will be announced on the Whimsy Blog.

Below is a complete list of the hop in case you get lost along the way:

1. Marjolein Dekker

2. Judith Hall 

3. Charlene Brown

4. Me

5. Judith Gowdy

6. Kelly Mannix

7. Carrie Robinson

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

• Dream Valley – For a Child
• A Creative Romance – CAS
• Card Crafters Circle – For the Boys
• Totally Papercrafts – Decoupage
• Sweet Stampin’ – Spots and Stripes
• Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas Challenge – Inky/Painty
• Crafty Hazelnut’s Christmas Challenge Extra – Always Anything Goes (Thanks for point in the right direction Hazel)
• The Glory of Christmas – Anything Goes
• The Cupboard Trilogy – Male
• My Mums Craft Shop – Boys Only

Thanks for stopping by

Lisa