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

Bunny Painting

Morning all. We have a new challenge over at A Gem of a Challenge and we have a fabulous theme of ‘Easter Time’.

And here is my card using Bunny Painting:

For a change I’ve used my AquaMarkers.

Supplies:

• Image: Chloe with Gift from Pink Gem Designs 
• Colouring Medium: Spectrum Noir AquaMarkers
• Card: Watercolour Card and Kraft Card
• DP: First Edition Spring Drop Paper Pad
• Dies & Punches: Whimsy Stamps Handstitched Nested Rectangles and MFT Dienamics Blueprint 27 Dies
• Sentiment: From a Lili of the Valley Stamp Set
• Ink: VersaFine Onyx Black
• Embellishments: Pearls and Doodling

Thanks for stopping by

Lisa

Bunita Shopping

Hello all and happy Friday! It’s time for a brand new challenge over at the Polkadoodles Challenge Blog and even though it’s Anything Goes the team are showing some creations along the theme of Easter.

Now if you haven’t seen the new Polkadoodles Collection that launched last weekend then you really ought to go and check it out, it’s here in the What’s New section of the store.

The new images are called FuzzyPuffs and they are all so adorable, and I think I have saved my favourite until last to share with you today…..please meet Bunita Shopping:

I’ve added a sentiment from the You're Somebunny Special download and added to it with some words written on the computer.

And the spotty paper is from Winston Deluxe Full Collection and the turquoise layer is from Lil Miss Sugar Pops 2 Mini Collection.

Supplies:

• Image: Bunita Shopping by Polkadoodles  also part of the FuzzyPuffs Big Value Download Kit 
• Colouring Medium: Copics 
• DP: Winston Deluxe Full Collection and Lil Miss Sugar Pops 2 Mini Collection printed on White Linen Cardstock
• Card: Matt Black Card and Copic X-Press It Blending Card
• Dies & Punches: An M Border Punch
• Embellishments: Gems and Doodling

Thanks for stopping by.

Lisa

Easter Friends

Morning All! It’s time for the March new release at Crafty Sentiments Designs.  Tuesday saw the start of the inspiration over at the Crafty Sentiments Designs Inspiration Blog and today we are showcasing the third new rubber stamp Easter Friends:

I have been playing with background again and I think I like how this one turned out.

Supplies:

• Image: Easter Friends rubber stamp from Crafty Sentiments Designs
• Colouring Medium: Copics
• DP: Maja
• Sentiment: From a Lili of the Valley Stamp Set 
• Inks: Mustard Seed, Dried Marigold and Broken China Distress Inks and VersaFine Onyx Black
• Dies & Punches: MFT Die-Namics Stitched Basic Edge Dies
• Embellishments: A Pearl

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.

And make a note in your Diaries that Crafty Sentiments Designs are going to be on Hochanda next Monday 12th March at 10am with some fabulous stamps.

Thanks for stopping by

Lisa

Easter Treat

Me again! Just trying to play catch up now

Today saw the start of a new challenge over at A Gem of a Challenge  and it’s the Pinks turn to host the challenge and also my pick for the theme. I went with a nice easy theme of ‘Ribbon &/or Lace’.

Mr 7 and Miss 4 tend to get a lot of choccy eggs from relatives for Easter, so each year I make them a little gift bag and fill it with several non edible treats as well as a few little chocolate things.

This is Miss 4’s bag and I’ve used the super cute Jodie with Easter Egg:

I decided that Jute trim looked better than the ribbon I was going to use, so I swapped it but luckily I still have some ribbon on the top of the tag.

Supplies:

• Image: Jodie with Easter Egg from Pink Gem Designs 
• Colouring Medium: Spectrum Noir
• Card: Kraft Card and Copic X-Press It Blending Card
• DP: Dovecraft Garden Party 6x6 Paper Pack
• Dies & Punches: Spellbinders Plain Circle Dies, Whiff of Joy Doily Die and Border from MFT Blue Print 14 Dies
• Sentiment: ‘Emily’ cut out on the Scan’n’Cut
• Embellishments: Jute Trim, Ribbon, Pearl Trim, Chipboard Heart, Chipboard Heart Background, Cheesecloth, Doodling, Glossy Accents, Glitter Glue

I would like to enter this into the following challenges:

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Thanks for stopping by and don’t forget to pop by the A Gem of a Challenge Blog and see the inspiration from the rest of the team.

Lisa

Easter Companions

Morning All! It’s new release week at Crafty Sentiments Designs and we are onto day 3 of the inspiration.

All the new images that will be available in the shop on Saturday and here is my card with Easter Companions:

Isn’t she adorable? And as you can see, Bunnies aren’t just for Easter! I have made a Birthday card with this cuties.

And I thought a spot of no line colouring would be perfect for this.

Supplies:

• Image: Easter Companions rubber stamp from Crafty Sentiments Designs
• Colouring Medium: Spectrum Noir Original Markers
• Colours to follow as I can’t find the list at the moment
• DP: Maja Vintage Spring Basics
• Card: Lemon Card, Kraft Card and Copic X-Press It Blending Card
• Sentiment: Teenage Girl Sentiment Stamps from Lili of the Valley
• Ink: Olympia Green VersaFine Inkpad
• Dies & Punches: Marianne Anja Large Oval Die and Spellbinders Label 4 Dies
• Embellishments: Doodling, Pearl Trim, Paper Flowers, Ribbon Bow and a wooden heart

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

Egg Hunt

Morning All! Yesterday saw the start of the inspiration over at the Crafty Sentiments Designs Inspiration Blog for the new images that will be available in the shop on Saturday. Today we are showcasing Isobel Egg Hunting:

I fancied making a shaped card for this.

And I’ve been colouring on Kraft again.

Supplies:

• Image: Isobel Egg Hunting rubber stamp from Crafty Sentiments Designs
• Colouring Medium: Spectrum Noir
• DP: Perfect Pair Paper Pad from Lili of the Valley/Nitwit Collections
• Card: Centura Pearl Fresh White Card and Neenah Desert Storm Card
• Sentiment: Written on MS Word
• Dies & Punches: Go Kreate Large Frilly Frame #7  Dies, Spellbinders Plain Circle Dies and Spellbinders Circle Delight Dies
• Embellishments: Doodling, Jute Trim, Wooden Heart and Pearls

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

Curse of the Were Rabbit

Evening all. After a horrid few days with a head cold, a migraine and feeling a bit bleurgh, I’ve had and evening of catching up on the Season 3 boxset of Nashville and colouring in, so it’s just a quick post before bed.

I am skating in right under the wire with my Progressive Challenge entry for Bloobel Stamps. This is my crazy hatted version of the Easter Parade Judy:

I have made a page for my colouring journal and I just couldn’t resist adding some bunny ears and a fluffy tail, oh and the basket of eggs and carrots too!

As it’s quite late I’ll pop back and add the rest of the colours tomorrow

Supplies:

• Image: Easter Parade Judy from Bloobel Stamps  
• Colouring Medium: Spectrum Noir – Original Markers unless mentioned otherwise:
  • Skin: Illustrators TN8, EB1, FS7, FS8 & FS9; DP2, DP1, PP2, PP1
  • Hair: IG10, IG9, IG7, IG4
  • Eyes: TB9, TB5, TB3 
  • Hat, Umbrella & Shoes: DR7, CR11, DR6,, DR3, CR8, CR7
  • Dress: TN3, TN2, GB1, TN1, TN5
  • Rabbit Ears and Tail: PP2, PP1, BG7, BG6, Bg4, BG2, BG1
  • Basket: EB8, EB5, EB4
  • Carrots: EB4, OR3, OR2, OR1, IG10,DR4, DR3, DR2
  • Eggs: GB8, FS1, FS2
• DP:  Country Lady from Lili of the Valley/Nitwit Collections 
• Card: Kraft Card, Red Card and Copic X-Press It Blending Card
• Dies & Punches: Nellie Snelleb Pierced Oval Multiframes, Draper hole punch and a flower punch
• Sentiment: Written on Word
• Embellishments: Pearls, Crackle Accents and Doodling

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

• Bloobel Stamp Blog – March Progressive Challenge

Thanks for stopping by

Lisa

Easter Bunny

Afternoon all! Not sure if it’s me or Mr Blogger but this post was sat in my drafts folder

Morning All. Hope you have a good weekend planned, we are just chilling out and pottering around the house and garden.

Anyhoo, back to the point of my post and over at A Gem of a Challenge it’s the Pinks turn to host the challenge and we have  a fabulous theme of ‘Easter’

I have used Easter Bunny and I’m trying out a more CAS look:

I trying to master using my patterned papers in a more simple less layered way, I’m pretty pleased with how this turned out.

Supplies:

• Image: Easter Bunny from Pink Gem Designs 
• Colouring Medium: Copics
• Card: Lilac Card, Lime Card and Copic X-Press It Blending Card
• DP: First Edition ‘Spring Drop’ 6x6 Paper Pad
• Sentiment: Written on Computer
• Embellishments: Ribbon, Doodling and a Pearl Flower Pearls

Thanks for stopping by

Lisa

Bella with Bouquet

Hello All. After a hectic weekend of Mother’s Day and my Birthday I’m a bit behind with sharing my most recent makes. I’ll start off with a make from Saturday…

Over at A Gem of a Challenge it’s the Gems turn to host the challenge and I thought I would join in. The theme is  ‘Spring’

I have used Bella with Bouquet and coloured her in pencils on Kraft:

And I’ve used some new bargain papers that I picked up in The Range.

Supplies:

• Image: Bella with Bouquet from Pink Gem Designs 
• Colouring Medium: Derwent Pencils
• Card: Kraft and Smooth White Card
• Stamps: Sentiment from Whimsy Stamps
• Ink: Memento ‘Tuxedo Black’ Inkpad
• Dies and Punches: JoyCrafts Fancy Square Die, Spellbinders Plain and Scalloped Circle Dies and Nellie Snellen Pierced Circle Multiframe Dies
• Embellishments: Doodling, Pearls and Gems

Thanks for stopping by

Lisa

Hoppy Easter

Happy Tiddly Tuesday and welcome to March! Only 7 days to my Birthday and I think Spring may be on the way!

We have a new challenge over at the Tiddly Inks Challenge Blog and this time our theme is ‘Easter’.

I already had the perfect patterned paper in mind for this card and the fabulous Emma Hoppy Easter made it the perfect pairing:

I used some new Nellie Snellen Dies that I picked up at the Farnborough craft show on Saturday, you can just see the lovely pierced/dotty edge in the photos.

Supplies:

• Image: Emma Hoppy Easter by Tiddly Inks
• Colouring Medium: Copics
• Card: Pale Blue, Lemon and Kraft Card and Copic X-Press It Blending Card
• DP: First Edition ‘Spring Drop’ 6x6 Paper Pad 
• Dies & Punches: Nellie Snellen Dotted Multiframe Rectangle Dies and X-Cut Flowers and Leaf Punches
• Ink: Memento ‘Paris Dusk’ Inkpad
• Stamps: Sentiment from Whimsy Stamps 
• Embellishments: Gems 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

Rose Bunny Rabbit

A very early start for me as my little girl (15 months) has only just got her first tooth and is teething really badly. She has been awake on and off most of the night as I think most of the teeth are now coming through at the same time :-( 

While I’m up (and have a few minutes peace) I wanted to share my creation for the latest challenge that started yesterday over at Jellypark Friends and our theme this time is:

Happy Easter

I’ve used an adorable image Rose Bunny Rabbit to make an Easter gift for my little girl. It only has a few little chocolate in it as she is bit young to have a big egg, but she does like a little treat….don’t we all?

The basic shape is a tent card but I haven’t sealed the top and I made a little cellophane bag for the inside. I have used eyelets and ribbon to tie it shut so that it can be used over and over as a little treat bag.

Supplies:

• Image: Rose Bunny Rabbit from Jellypark 
• Colouring Medium: ProMarkers
• DP: First Edition 6x6 ‘Spring Drop’ Paper pad
• Card: DCWV Textured Card, Papermania Kraft card and Crafters Companion Classic Crest Solar White Car
• Stamps: Alpha stamps and ‘Happy Easter’ Sentiment 
• Dies & Punches: EK Success Border Punch
• Embellishments: Paper Flowers, Ribbon, Eyelets, Viva Decor Cream Pearl Pen and Stickles Glitter Glue

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

•  Allsorts – Spring Blossoms
• Sweet Stampin’ – Flowers
• Love to Create – Anything Goes for Kids
• Created with Love – Easter
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Thanks for stopping by

Lisa

Easter at Whimsy Stamps

Hello. We have a new challenge starting today at Whimsy Inspirations Challenge and our theme this month is…

Easter (Bunnies, Chicks, etc)

I’ve used Funny Bunnies from Crissy’s Digis…

Supplies:

• Image: Funny Bunnies by Crissy’s Digis  
• Colouring Medium: ProMarkers
• DP: First Edition Spring Drop 6x6 paper pad
• Card: Crafters Companion Neenah Card and American Crafts grey card
• Stamps: Happy Easter Sentiment from Whimsy Stamps 
• Ink: Memento Paris Dusk inkpad and Spun Sugar Distress Ink
• Dies & Punches: Spellbinders Plain and Picot Edge Circles, CC Designs Phlox Flowers Dies and a Tonic Dotty Border Punch
• Embellishments: Sequins and Viva Decor Pearl Pen

This month our prizes are…first winner:

Second winner:

And third and final winner:

A Mystery Rubber Stamp

Please hop across to Whimsy Inspirations Challenge to see what the other designers have created and to check out the challenge rules.

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

Thanks for stopping by

Lisa

Easter at Sarah Hurley

Back, but a little later than planned as Little One didn’t have an afternoon nap today, so by the time everything like tea, bath, Hubby coming home from work and our own tea was done, I have only just managed to grab five minutes peace now to write this post.  It will be a quick post and then I’m off to bed to catch up on some sleep. It’s a shame as I had a few ideas in my head that I wanted to make a start on but I'm just too tired.

Today is the start of a new challenge at Sarah Hurley Challenge Blog and this time the theme is:

EASTER

My card base is made from a scrap of 12x12 Papermania Kraft card and my patterned papers are from Sarah’s Easter Digi Kit, as is the cute bunny which I have coloured with ProMarkers. I made some rolled flowers out of scraps of the blue gingham (just by cutting some small spirals by hand – no fancy dies for me), added a scrap of blue ribbon attached with tiny staples, a sentiment made on my Dymo label maker and lastly just a little bit of doodling with a red fineliner.

I based my card on the following sketch from A Gem of a Challenge  but rotated it 108 degrees so would like to enter my card to that challenge.

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

• Sundays with Crissy – Animals
• Anything Goes Challenge Blog – Get Ready for Easter
• Crafty Sentiments – Easter
• The Paper Shelter – Easter
• MAWTT – Cute & Cuddly
• Paper Play Challenge – Easter
• Dream Valley Challenges - Easter
• Lexi's Creations - Easter
• Clear It Out Challenge – Easter (my stash used up is the ribbon)

Don’t forgot to hop over to Sarah’s Challenge and see what the rest of the team have been up to and also for more details on the fabulous prize from our sponsor for this challenge…Joanna Sheen.

Thanks for stopping by.

Lisa