I Love Butterflies

Morning All! We are are showing 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 I Love Butterflies:

I’ve added a lot of frou frou on this one. A good antidote to the clean and simple Christmas cards I have been making.

Supplies:

• Image: I Love Butterflies rubber stamp from Crafty Sentiments Designs
• Colouring Medium: Copics
• DP: Maja Designs  
• Dies & Punches: Lifestyle Crafts Lacey Edge Square Dies, Joy Crafts Fancy Oval Die, All Occasion Bow Die and Greeting Farm ‘hello’ word dies
• Embellishments: Doodling, Pearl Trim, Jute Trim, Chipboard Heart, Ribbon and Wink of Stella Pen

I would like to enter this into the following challenges:

• Ribbon Girl Challenge – Anything Goes and GDT Call

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

Just My Type

Morning All! I have a little bit of news to share. For the last few months I have been a Guest on the Crafty Sentiments Designs Challenge Blog and was absolutely thrilled to be asked to stay on as part of their new ‘New Release’ Team.

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 Type My Valentine:

A little different from me today! I’ve ditched my usual matting and layering and opted instead for layering patterned papers.

Supplies:

• Image: Type by Valentine rubber stamp from Crafty Sentiments Designs
• Colouring Medium: Copics
• DP: Melissa Francis Kitschy Kitchen
• Sentiment: Written on my Dymo label maker 
• Dies & Punches: Go Kreate Large Frilly Frame #2 Dies, Whiff of Joy Die-Lights Doily Die and Spellbinders Plain Circle Dies
• Embellishments: Doodling, Pearl Trim, Paper Flowers, Ribbon Bow,Cheese Cloth and Gems

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

• Ribbon Girl Challenge – Anything Goes plus GDT call

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

2016 in Review (Part 2)

Evening all! Well that was a shock to the system. First school runs of the year and to top it off the weather was freezing!

Today I’m going to share July to December of my 2016 round up. You can find January to June here in yesterday's post.

July

One of my first few projects after I joined the DT for Polkadoodles was this cute card using Winston Bear Heartfelt and my favourite make from July:

August

This paper pad has already featured on my yearly round up, but paired with this Punch of Colour Girls image from Crafts & Me it has made my favourite card of August:

September

My favourite card(s) from September are these clean and simple (for me) cards. They were quite quick to make a little batch of, as they use digital elements from Polkadoodles’ Twiggy & Toots Festive Fun Download Collection:

October

Another month where Mr Mojo was running at 110%. There were quite a few cards I could have picked but this one stood out as I was so pleased with how the hair turned out. This is Aurora Prayer from The East Wind :

November

One of the few personalised Christmas cards I made this year was for my Mum and Dad and used this fabulous image Chilly in Love from Pink Gem Designs. This is my favourite make from November:

 

December

In a break from all the Christmas cards I coloured up some images that Nikky from Polkadoodles drew depicting the older lady….actually Old Bags…lol. This one is Revolting Kiss and is one of my favourite pieces of colouring for the year:

 

 

If you have done your own round review of last year please let me know in the comments as I would love to pop by and take a look.

Thanks for stopping by

Lisa

2016 in Review (Part 1)

Evening all! We have taken today to chill out and get a few things ready for back to work, school and routine tomorrow. So I thought I would pop on and do a quick review of my favourite cards from 2016.

Today I’m going to share January to June and so the post isn’t too picture heavy I will share July to December tomorrow!

January

Straight into the new year is always a busy month for Birthday cards for me, but this thank you card using Shy Violet from Tiddly Inks was my favourite make of the month:

February

New Arrivals are probably my favourite (other than Christmas) occasion to make for and this very pink New Baby card was my favourite make of the month. It uses the Wavy Baby stamp set from LC Designs: 

March

I remember falling in love with this paper pad when I saw it in the Range and I loved it even more paired with this wonderful All Dressed Up image, Gorgeous Bride: 

April

Needs a post all by itself! Mr Mojo was definitely alive and kicking and I didn’t think I’d be able to choose a favourite. However, I spotted this Pink Gem Designs Pirate Barclay card and remembered feeling so chuffed as I coloured it all with PrismaColor pencils (not my usual Copics):

May

I had a little bit of a clean and simple thing going on in May and this Christmas card using It’s Snowing from All Dressed Up was this months favourite, possibly because I love love love red and blue as a colour combo:

June

I was thrilled to be asked to be a Guest Designer at Crafty Sentiments Designs at the end of May and this card using Isobel Thinking of Spring was this months favourite as I love the bright summery colours:

 

As I said above, I think that’s quite enough pictures for one post, so I’ll pop back tomorrow with July to December.

If you have done your own round review of last year please let me know in the comments as I would love to pop by and take a look.

Thanks for stopping by

Lisa

Woodland Fairy

Happy New Year!

It’s 2017, it’s the first of the month and we have the very first All Dressed Up Facebook Challenge of the Year! Over at the All Dressed Up FB Group our theme for the month is Magical World.

I love Christmas Cards, and by the end of the month I may start on next years, but for now I’m happy to be making other cards again! This card uses Magical Woodland:

And even though it’s not a Christmas Card I just couldn’t stay away from my red Copic markers, lol!

And isn’t that border die incredibly cute, it’s new here from Polkadoodles.

Supplies:

• Image: Magical Woodland from All Dressed Up
• Colouring Medium: Copics
• DP: Maja Design Coffee in the Arbour 6x6 Pad
• Card: Kraft Card and Copic X-Press It Blending Card
• Dies & Punches: Polkadoodles Toadstool Border Die, Tonic Scalloped Square Layering Dies and Tonic Mixed Rectangle Layering Dies
• Stamps: Paula Pascual Big Sentiments
• Ink: VersaFine Onyx Black Inkpad
• Embellishments: Wink of Stella, Pearls and Doodling

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

Thanks for stopping by

Lisa