Thanks for Helping Me Grow

Hello All! It’s Fab Friday over at Tiddly Inks Challenge Blog and I have two projects to share with you.

I have made bookmarks as thank you presents for both Mr 8’s and Miss 5’s teachers:

I have used School Girl and School Boy and coloured them with Distress Inks.

Supplies: 

• Image: School Girl and School Boy from Tiddly Inks
• Colouring Medium: Distress Inks
• DP: Girl – Nitwit Collections and Boy – Basic Grey
• Card: Sheena’s Stamping Card, Matt Black Card and Watercolour Card 
• Dies: Scalloped Rectangle Frames from Pretty Pink Posh (available at Dies to Die For) 
• Embellishments: Pearls, Gems, Ribbon and Mini Staples

I would like to enter these tags into the following challenges:

• Crafty Catz – Anything Goes
• Crafty Creations – Anything Goes
• Creative Moments – Anything Goes

Thanks for stopping by

Lisa

Chloe with Ice Cream

Hello all. Well we haven’t had the best end to the school term and start to the summer holidays….both children have been ill with fevers and Tonsillitis so I am a bit behind with my blog post for Pink Gem Designs.

So, over at A Gem of a Challenge we have a new challenge and we have a fabulous theme of ‘Summer Time/Holidays’.

I’ve used the super adorable Chloe with Ice Cream:

And I’ve coloured her with Distress Inks…..I think I may be getting the hang of them.

Supplies:

• Image: Chloe with Ice Cream from Pink Gem Designs 
• Colouring Medium: Distress Inks
• Card: Sheena’s Stamping Card, Blue Card and Watercolour Card 
• DP: Lili of the Valley/Nitwit Designs
• Dies & Punches: MFT Die-Namics Tag Corner Stitched Rectangle Stax and Tonic Doily Punch
• Sentiment: From a Lili of the Valley Clear Stamp Set
• Ink: VersaFine Onyx Black
• Embellishments: Ribbon, Paper Flowers and Pearls

I would like to enter this into the following challenges:

• Lil Patch of Crafty Friends – Anything Goes
• Allsorts – Flowers all Over
• Crafty Catz – Anything Goes/Dies and Punches
• Alphabet Challenge – I for Ice Cream
• Crafty Creations – Anything Goes
• Penny's Paper Crafty – Anything Goes
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Thanks for stopping by

Lisa

Christmas Carollers

Morning all. As it’s the beginning of a new month we have a new challenge over at the All Dressed Up FB Group. Our theme for the month is Warm Winter Wishes…….so anything Christmas as long as it’s All Dressed Up.

I have used the girls that come as part of the 3 Little Christmas Girls set separately before, so for this card I thought I would use the complete image:

I think this image is so fab I have kept the rest g the card fairly simple with just a little patterned paper and part of a doily.

Supplies:

• Image: 3 Little Christmas Girls from All Dressed Up
• Colouring Medium: Spectrum Noir Original Markers
• AP4, TN2, FS4, FS2, DR7, CR11, Cr9, CR7, CR3, DG3, AG5, AG3, AG2, CG1, RB4, RB2, RB1, MB1, BGR3, BGR2, BG1, BG3, BG2, BG1, Blender
• DP: Nitwit Collections/Lil of the Valley
• Card: Red Card, Kraft Card, Copic X-Press It Blending Card
• Dies & Punches: MFT Blueprint 27 Dies and Whimsy Hand stitched Nested Rectangles
• Embellishments: Doodling and a doily

Thanks for stopping by

Lisa

Molly Fairy

Evening all. We have started the month of May with a new challenge over in the Conie Fong Art & Design FB Group.  And this month we want to see lot’s of Bling.

For my make I just had to use Molly Fairy:

Isn’t she just adorable?

Supplies:

• Image: Molly Fairy from Conie Fong 
• Colouring Medium: Spectrum Noir Original Markers
  • Skin: Illustrators TN8, EB1, FS7, FS8, FS9, DP1, PP2, PP1
  • Hair: IG10, IG8, IG6, IG4
  • Purple: LV3, LV2, HB2, HB1
  • Turquoise: BT8, AB3, AB2, AB1, BT2, BG3
  • Blue: TB4, TB3, TB2
  • Flowers: BP3, BP2, BP1, CR9, OR2
  • Basket: TN9, TN5, TN2
• DP: Lili of the Valley/Nitwit Collections 
• Card: Lilac Card, Aqua Bazzill Bling, Neenah Solar White Card and Copic X-Press It Blending Card
• Dies & Punches: Joycrafts Butterfly Edge Die and Whimsy Stamps Hand Stitched Nested Rectangle Dies
• Sentiment: From Lili of the Valley Teenage Girl Sentiments
• Ink: VersaFine Onyx Black Inkpad
• Embellishments: Ribbon, Pearl Trim, Doodling and Paper Flowers.

For inspiration from the rest of the team and to join us in our challenge be sure to check out the Conie Fong Art & Design FB Group.

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

Birthday Monkey

Evening all. A nice relaxing day today, but boy did we have some awful rain and hailstones. We’ve just had a nice fish and chip supper, so I’m popping my feet up with a quick blog post.

As it’s the beginning of a new month we have a new challenge over at the All Dressed Up FB Group. Our theme for the month is Creatures.

A Clean and Simple Boys card from me using Birthday Monkey:

And one of my favourite colour combos…blue and red.

Supplies:

• Image: Birthday Monkey from All Dressed Up
• Colouring Medium: Spectrum Noir
• Monkey: E8, E7, E6, TN8, TN7, TN5, TN3, TN2 and Illustrator FS9
• Branches: DG4, GB10, DG2
• Leaves: DG4, AG4. AG2
• Bird:LG5, BT7, CT4, CR8,
• Speech Bubble: IG2, IG1, Blender
• Background/Sky: TB3, TB1, IB1, Blender
• DP: Sunny Side Up from Lili of the Valley/Nitwit Collections 
• Card: Copic X-Press It Blending Card
• Dies & Punches: MFT Blue Print 14 Dies from Dies to Die For 
• Embellishments: Doodling

Don’t forget to pop over to the All Dressed Up FB Group and see the inspiration from the rest of the team.

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

Birthday Boy

Morning all! Feeling a bit sorry for myself this morning as the kids have given me a rather awful head cold. So I thought I would take 5 minutes with a hot cuppa and do a few things on the laptop.

Anyhoo, I have been having a good sort out and I have quite a few makes that I may or may not have shared on FB but just haven’t got round to blogging. So I thought I would start sharing them with you.

This card uses Birthday Alton from The Greeting Farm (but I think he may have been discontinued):

  This one was a Birthday card for my Dad, so I kept the layout quite simple.

  Supplies:

• Image: Alton digi stamp from The Greeting Farm 
• Colouring Medium: Copics 
• DP: Candles & Cake Paper Pad from Lili of the Valley/Nitwit Collections  
• Card: Red Card, Black Card and Copic X-Press It Blending Card
• Dies & Punches: Whimsy Stamps Balloon Die, MFT By The Letter Alpha Dies and Clearly Besotted Word Dies 
• Embellishments: Twine, Glossy Accents and Doodling

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

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Thanks for stopping by

Lisa

Star Player

Morning all. Hubby let me have a cheeky little lie-in this morning so I’m a little late posting

Anyhoo, over at A Gem of a Challenge it’s the Pinks turn to host the challenge and we have a fabulous theme of ‘Boys Birthday’.

Apart from Mr 7 I don’t get to make many little boys cards so this one was quite fun. I’ve used Football Andy:

I dug out the old Whispers Watercolour Markers for this one.

I even found some football embellies lurking in the bottom of a drawer.

Supplies:

• Image: Football Andy from Pink Gem Designs 
• Colouring Medium: Whispers Watercolour Markers
• Card: Langton Hot Press Watercolour Card
• DP: Lili of the Valley/Nitwit Collections Candles & Cake Paper Pad
• Dies & Punches: MFT Blue Print 14 Dies from Dies to Die For
• Sentiment: From a magazine freebie
• Ink: VersFine Onyx Black Inkpad
• Embellishments: Doodling and Football Embellishments

I would like to enter this into the following challenges:

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Thanks for stopping by

Lisa

Bunny Wishes

Evening All! I mostly make card just for myself but this evening I have a card to share with you that I made for an order. The only requirements were it was for a Mum who is turning 85 and it had to be A4 size.

I thought that would be a breeze, until I started to make it…..A4 is a large space to fill without everything looking a little lost.

So I used a couple of Lili of the Valley digi trios for this card, love that I can make them whatever size is needed and mix and match them too. This card uses Bunny Wishes Trio and Birthday Trio:

Not knowing what the recipients tastes are, I decided to use some soft and pretty colours

And some pretty flowers too

Supplies:

• Image: Bunny Wishes Trio and Birthday Trio from Lili of the Valley 
• Colouring Medium: Spectrum Noir
• DP: Country Meadow Paper Pad from Lili of the Valley/Nitwit Collections  
• Card: Centura Pearl Fresh White Card, Pink Pastel Core’dinations Card and Copic X-Press It Blending Card
• Dies & Punches: Tonic Simplicity Lattice Border Punch. Tonic Layering Circle Dies, Spellbinders Plain Circle Dies, MFT Flourish Die and All Occasions Number Dies
• Stamps:Whimsy Stamps (Wonderful Mum) and Woodware
• Embellishments: Paper Flowers, Pearls, Liquid Pearls, Glitter Glue and Crackle Accents

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

• Lili of the Valley FB Challenge – Flowers
• Creative Inspirations – Lili of the Valley

Thanks for stopping by

Lisa

Hippie Chick

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.

For todays card I’ve used Hippie Chick

At the moment I have left this one without a sentiment as I’m not sure what I’m going to use it for.

Supplies:

• Image: Hippie Chick from All Dressed Up
• Colouring Medium: Spectrum Original Markers
• Skin: Illustrators TN8, EB1, FS7, FS8, FS9, PP2, PP1
• Dress/Hair Band: PV44, PV3, PV2, PV1 PP1
• Butterflies: PL3, PL2, PL1, BT9, BT8, BT4
• Hair: IG10, IG9, IG7, IG3
• Background: VB1, IB1, BG8, BG7, BG6
• DP: Nitwit Collections/Lili of the Valley Bonnets & Bowties Paper Pad
• Card: Neenah Dessert Storm Card
• Dies & Punches: Whimsy Stamp Sweetest Birthday Shaker Builder Dies
• Embellishments: Doodling and Pearls

Thanks for stopping by

Lisa

Sunshine

Morning All! Time for some more new release inspiration for Crafty Sentiments Designs.

Over at the Crafty Sentiments Designs Inspiration Blog we are showcasing the third of the new images, Sunshine:

And another image fabulous for male cards. I’ve made another Birthday card, as this time of year is pretty busy for Birthday’s in our family!

Supplies:

• Image: Sunshine rubber stamp from Crafty Sentiments Designs
• Colouring Medium: Spectrum Noir
• Skin: TN8, EB1, FS7, FS8, FS9
• Hair : TN9, TN7, EB2, GY1
• Umbrella: GG5, GG3, GG2, GG1, CR11,  
• Metal: BG6, BG4, BG, 2, Blender
• Sunglasses: BGR4, BGR3, BGR1
• Top: IG2, Blender, TB5, TB3, TB1
• Shorts: BT9, AB3, AB1, BT1
• Sand: GB9, GB7, BO2, EB4, TN3, FS8
• Deckchair: DG4, AG3, LG4, LG3
• Shell: AP3, AP1, FS3
• Starfish: BO3, OR3, CT3
• Sky: BGR1, IG2, Blender, IB1, BT1
• DP: Lili of the Valley/NitWit Collections Up Up and Away Papers
• Card: Copic X-Press It Blending Card
• Sentiment: Written on the computer
• Dies & Punches: Whimsy Stamps Hand Stitched Nested Rectangles and The Greeting Farm Enjoy Word Die
• Embellishments: Doodling and 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.

Thanks for stopping by

Lisa

Molly My Sweet

Morning All! It’s Fab Friday over at Tiddly Inks Challenge Blog and I’ve used Molly My Sweet for today’s make: 

I thought Molly looked super cute with these patchwork papers.

Supplies:

• Image: Molly My Sweet from Tiddly Inks
• Colouring Medium: Copics 
• DP: NitWit Collections
• Card: Kraft Card and Copic X-Press It Blending Card
• Sentiment: Everyday Sentiments from Clearly Besotted 
• Ink: VersaFine ‘Onyx Black’ Inkpad
• Dies & Punches: Spellbinder Plain and Picot Edge Circles and an MS Border Punch
• Embellishments: Pearls

Thanks for stopping by

Lisa

Golfing Dave

Morning All. Hope you have had a good weekend, we’ve just chilled out and had a quiet one.

Anyhoo, Pink Gem Designs are sponsoring the current challenge at Cutie Pie Challenge where the theme is Work, Rest and Play. A few of the Pink Gem DT are joining is the fun with some creations and here is mine using Golfing Dave:

I’m so pleased with how his little checked trousers turned out. I thought about about paper piecing them but at the last minute decided to create the checks with my Copics instead.

Supplies:

• Image: Golfing Dave from Pink Gem Designs 
• Colouring Medium: Copics
• Card: Black Card, Green Card and Copic X-Press It Blending Card
• DP: NitWit Collections Up Up and Away Digi Papers
• Dies & Punches: Sizzix Framelits Stars, All Occasion Number and Word Dies and Nellie Snellen Pierced Rectangle Dies
• Sentiment: Lili of the Valley Block Sentiments
• Ink: VersFine ‘Onyx Black’ Inkpad
• Embellishments: Bakers Twine, Doodling, Paperclip, Wooden Stars and Crackle Accents

I would like to enter this into the following challenges:

• Southern Girls – Anything Goes Team Lou
• Seize the Birthday – Anything Goes
• Craft Your Passion – Always Anything Goes
• Come and Get It Challenge – Punches & Dies
• Lil Patch of Crafty Friends – Anything Goes
• The Pencil Cases – Anything Goes

Thanks for stopping by

Lisa

Princess Chloe

Morning All. A very quick post from me as I’m still feeling very ropey.

We have a new challenge over at A Gem of a Challenge it’s the Pinks turn to host the challenge and we have  a fabulous theme of ‘Get Krafty’.

I use a lot of Kraft card so this was a good challenge for me but  thought it would be nice to push myself so I broke out the pencils and decided to colour straight on the Kraft.

This is Princess Chloe 2 and I’ve printed her a little larger than normal so I could crop her into a circle:

Still practicing my skin and hair with my Prismacolor pencils.

Supplies:

• Image: Princess Chloe 2 from Pink Gem Designs 
• Colouring Medium: Prismacolor Pencils
• Card: Kraft Card
• DP: Nitwit Collections ‘Bonnets 'n Bowties various kits
• Dies & Punches: Go Kreate Large Frilly Frames # 10, Go Kreate Large Circle Dies, Spellbinders Picot Edge Circles and Magnolia Tildas Lace Border
• Sentiment: From a Clearly Besotted Stamp Set
• Ink: VersFine ‘Onyx Black’ Inkpad
• Embellishments: Paper Flowers, Doodling, Glitter Glue and Pearls

Thanks for stopping by

Lisa

Graduate Wryn

Morning all! It’s Tuesday and that means one thing…… Tiddly Tuesday! And over at the Tiddly Inks Challenge Blog we want to see Tiddly makes for our ‘TINGO’ challenge. 

This is our board and I could of used a couple of different lines……I didn’t quite make a full house though! In the end I used Dies + Tiddly Inks Image + Ribbon and Graduate Wryn :

I love the flowery paper so cut a nice big aperture to show it off, but of course cute little Wryn takes centre stage.

Supplies:

• Image: Graduate Wryn  from Tiddly Inks
• Colouring Medium: Copics
• Card: Dark Blue Card, Mid Blue Card and Copic X-Press It Blending Card
• DP: Sunny Side Up from Nitwit Collections
• Stamps: Block Sentiments from Lili of the Valley
• Ink: VersaFine ‘Onyx Black’ Inkpad
• Dies & Punches: Go Kreate Large Frilly Frames #10 and Nellie Snellen Pierced Circle Multiframe dies 
• Embellishments: Doodling, Ribbon, Lace and Pearls

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