April Showers Bring May Flowers

Hope you all had a fantastic weekend. I know I did. My Hubby was away on a Stag Weekend so Little One and I went to stay with my parents. It was fabulous. He's such a Granddads boy and loves playing outside in the garden with my Dad, helping him plant vegetables and watering all the plants, which is great for me as it gives me a little peace and quiet.

I'm here to share my card for this weeks Critter Sketch Challenge, where the theme this week is:

APRIL SHOWERS BRING MAY FLOWERS

My patterned papers are from the First Edition Spring Drop pad and I've matted and layered these with green card from my stash. My cute little image is Dandelion Clock from Lili of the Valley and has been coloured with a mix of ProMarkers and FlexMarkers. My sentiment is from a Personal Impressions Paula Pascual Set and the tiny stamped motifs are from a Woodware set. I've used my Nesties and the five petal flower die from CC Designs. There is also a bit of ribbon some felt, a few brads, a strip of aqua card and some Stickles Glitter Glue.

Don't forget to hop over to the challenge blog to see what the rest of the DT have made.

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

• Anything Goes Challenge Blog - Things with Wings

• Ladybug Crafts Challenge - Anything but a Square
• Oldie but a Goodie - Diecuts/punches (quite a few bits older than 6 months: Brads, Images, Nesties)
• Papertake Weekly -  Cute Cute Cute
• Crafts and Me - Punches/Diecuts
• My Mums Craft Shop - Fairy Tales
• Lili's Little Fairies - Favourite Craft Tool (Cuttlebug)

• The Paper Shelter - Anything Goes

• Alphabet Challenge - G for Garden

• Card Makin Mamas - May Flowers

• Stampin for the Weekend - 4 or More Layers

• Crafty Calendar Challenge - Things with Wings

• CES Challenge Blog – Anything Goes

•  Sweet Stampin – Flower Power

•  Totally Gorjuss – Pink and Green

• Paper Sundaes  - Things with Wings

• Joanna Sheen Challenge Blog – Happy Birthday

Thanks all for stopping by and I hope the weather is a little better in your corner of the globe as it’s turned rainy, grey and miserable here again today.

Hugs

Lisa

Tags and Tickets at Sarah Hurley

Evening all. Little one is in bed fast asleep so I thought I would pop on and tell you about the new challenge over at Sarah Hurley Challenge Blog. This week we are sponsored by Sarah and the theme is:

TAGS and TICKETS

I've used papers and an embellishment from the English Country Garden Kit, on Sarah's Britannia CD, to make a little tag shaped card.

I've used cream card to make the base and navy card for matting and layering. The flower has been coloured with ProMarkers and decoupaged to give dimension. I've also added a sentiment written on my Dymo label maker, some doodling with a black fineliner pen and a ribbon.

Don't forget to hop over to the challenge blog and see what the rest of the DT have created.

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

• Alphabet Challenge - G for Garden
• Card Makin Mamas - May Flowers
• Craft Your Passion - Torn or distressed edges (edges distressed with ink and a torn edge)
• Ladybug Crafts Challenge - Anything but Square

Thanks for stopping by and have a great weekend.
Lisa

Black plus One at PCJ

Afternoon all, I’m here to share my card for the new challenge over at Paper Crafting Journey. The theme this time is:

BLACK PLUS ONE OTHER COLOUR

I already had this cute little Tilda coloured up as a Bumblebee (although I think she’s supposed to be a Dragonfly!) so it seemed an obvious choice to go with Black plus Yellow as my colour scheme.

I’ve followed this weeks fab sketch at Sketch and Stash and rotated it 90 degrees anti-clockwise:

Tilda has been coloured with a combination of ProMarkers and FlexMarkers and I’ve teamed her with some fabulous papers from the Echo Park Springtime paper pad and also from the Yellow Papermania Capsule Collection. I’ve also used black card from my stash, my nesties, a Tim Holtz border die, a mix of stamps from a Woodware set and a Paula Pascual Personal Impressions set, ribbon, flowers from WOC, hatpins from The Ribbon Girl, gems and pearls from Kanban, Memento Tuxedo Black and Dandelion inkpads and a Brilliance Graphite Black inkpad.

Don’t forget to head over to the challenge blog and see what colours the rest of the DT picked as their plus one.

I would like to enter the following challenges:

• I Love ProMarkers – Hats Pins or Charms
• Just Magnolia - Anything Goes
•  Sketch and Stash – New stash are the pearls and the sentiment, old stash is the Papermania Paper and the Tilda.
• Anything Goes Challenge Blog – Things with Wings
• Oldie but a Goodie – Diecuts and Punches (old stash is the Tilda and the PP)
• Crafts and Me – Punches and Diecuts
• Paper Play  - Stamps with pins and pearls
• Stampin for the Weekend – More than 4 layers
• One Stop Craft Challenge – Celebrations
• Crafty Calendar Challenge – Things with Wings

Thanks for stopping by.

Lisa

Counting Sheep

Normally I’m a great sleeper, but not tonight. I couldn’t settle and rather than counting millions of sheep I thought I would have a little play in my craft room.

I have made a card for this weeks LIM Challenge, something I haven’t had time to do for  while (and I do miss it!). This week Chrissie and Mandi have set us a colour challenge and it’s to use predominantly yellow on our cards. Here’s mine…

I’ve added two photos, but neither are great. As you can imagine the light isn’t great at 1:30am, but seeing as I made the card I thought I would blog it now before I forget.

I took a C6 White Linen Card Blank and embossed the diagonal lines using a scoreboard. The panel has been inked with two shades of yellow ink and stamped using a Lili of the Valley Grunge background stamp and a couple of Hero Arts stamps. The panel has been matted and layered onto a scrap of yellow card and added to the card blank with foam pads. The sentiments are from a Personal Impressions set and are stamped in Brilliance Graphite Black Ink. Finally a few pearls to finish.

Little One and I go to Tumble Tots in the morning and then visit my parents so I suppose I ought to try and get some sleep. Perhaps I’ll try counting those sheep after all.

Thanks for stopping by

Lisa

Guest Designer at Jellypark

I have a memory like a sieve sometimes, so I think I forgot to tell you all that I was going to be a guest designer for Jellypark for the month of May. I love Claire’s images, they are so adorable and are a dream to colour, so you can imagine how excited I was when I found out the news.

My card is using a new digi just released today called Mermaid

The image is so fabulous I kept the rest of the card very clean and simple. I coloured the image with a mix of ProMarkers and FlexMarkers, just adding some patterned papers from the First Edition Isabelle 6x6 pad, a couple of die cuts, some ribbon and a sentiment from Craftwork Cards.

Don’t forget to pop across to Jellypark Friends Friday Challenge  to see what the rest of the DT have made using this new digi.

While you’re there it’s also time for a new challenge where the theme is:

GIRLY GIRL

I used this theme when making the above card, which just shows you don’t have to use a lot of embellishments to make a girly card, just some pretty papers and an absolutely fabulous image.

It was Hubby’s Birthday yesterday so we are off for a family day out. I’m not sure what we are going to do yet, although it isn’t raining as I type, it looks as though it’s going to start any minute.

Enjoy you day and thanks for stopping by.

Lisa