Craft Academy

Me again…lol.

I really am off to bed but I forgot to say that it’s my turn to do a tutorial over at Sarah’s Craft Academy.

This week it’s creating texture when colouring with ProMarkers. So if you would like to see how I coloured the fur on this card just head over and take a look.

Patterned paper is from the First Edition 6x6 Dreamcatcher pad, sentiment is from Craftwork Cards, roses and stick pin are from Wild Orchid Crafts, image is from Whimsy Stamps and coloured with ProMarkers and the lace and ribbon are from The Ribbon Girl.

I based my card on the following sketch from A Gem of a Challenge 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
• MAWTT – Cute & Cuddly
• My Mums Craft Shop – Stamp Something
• Divas by Design – Stamp Something
• Simon Says Stamp – Anything Goes
• Stampin for the Weekend – Anything Goes
• Little Claire Challenge – Spring
• Lollipop Challenge – Anything Goes
• Paper Sundaes – Spring Blossoms
• Creative Belli – 3 Shapes (Circle Square and Rectangle)
• Joanna Sheen Challenge Blog – Spring is in the Air

Night night all.

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

Time for Tea at PCJ

Afternoon all, I’m running a little behind today. Little One and I spent a lovely lazy day yesterday, with my sister and niece, in the garden at my parents house. Little One did so much playing with sand, watering Nanny's plants and general running around that he tired himself out. He was so tired he fell asleep in the car on the way home and didn’t wake up until 9am! I don’t bother setting an alarm as usually he wakes me about 7am, so this morning I stayed asleep until 9am as well, so I must have needed a lie in.

Enough waffle, it’s time for a new challenge over at Paper Crafting Journey and this week it’s time for a PHOTO INSPIRATION challenge:

photo credit

However the picture inspires you just go with the flow. It could be the colours, the cakes, the shop, the shapes.

As you can see I’ve used the colours from the photo as inspiration for my matting and layering. The patterned paper is part of Sarah Hurley’s fab Easter Digi Kit and I resized the paper so the little teacups were in proportion with the card, but they don’t show too well on the picture.

We were very lucky this challenge and were given some Jelly Park images to use. I’ve used a combination of Bunting, Wedding Cake and Cake Shop. I’ve paper pieced the bunting and cake and coloured the cake shop with ProMarkers and FlexMarkers.

Don’t forget to stop by Paper Crafting Journey and see what the rest of the DT have created.

For now thanks for popping by and I’ll see you later for the new challenge over at Sarah Hurley Challenge Blog, where I’ve used yet more goodies from Sarah’s Easter Digi Kit.

Lisa

Ps: Jelly Park are supporting Little Havens Hospice this year and 100% of the proceeds from the sale of these stamps will be donated to the Charity!

Hippy Chick

As I said in an earlier post I’ve been trying to get ahead with other things so I can just sit and play and join in some challenges. This one is for the sketch challenge over at The Sugar Bowl.

Here’s my take on the sketch:

I’m still busting that stash of patterned papers so this card uses Echo Parks Springtime 6x6 pad which I’ve teamed with some green Core’dinations. I’ve also used the gorgeous Simply Sassy ‘Hippy Chick’ image (coloured with ProMarkers and FlexMarkers), a PolkaDoodles sentiment, a Papermania flower punch some bling and some lovely velour/velvet ribbon found in Hobbycraft. Although in the picture it looks a slightly odd colour when IRL it matches beautifully to the dark pink on the patterned paper.

I actually finished this card yesterday but as I had already made a fair few posts I thought I would wait and share it today, albeit a little later than planned as we took an impromptu picnic out to the New Forest to make the most of this Summery weather…

And with the cute picture of Little One and his Ben 10 ball I will leave you….but I may be back later with another card if I get 5 minutes.

Thanks

Lisa

It All Worked Out

Well my idea that I mentioned yesterday worked out just how I wanted, so that may just be two LIM cards on the trot that I really like. Wonders will never cease!

It’s a different take on yesterdays card and uses the negative of the punched circles. The three weeks challenges I have used for inspiration are:

• Week 56 - Recipe Don’t Scrap It
• Week 51 – Theme Cut it Out
• Week 43 – Bit of Bling (hope my little pearls count, i tried it with gems but they looked too sparkly..lol)

This time I stamped and embossed a second image on patterned paper and layered this beneath the punched panel using foam pads for dimension. I’ve added some pearls, inked some edges, matted it onto some pearlescent pink card and added a small pink ribbon. This has all been added to a DL card base with a sentiment from PolkaDoodles.

The picture doesn’t do this card justice, the images on the two layers are embossed in gold and silver and not sure this shows up in the pic. IRL it looks a lot more delicate.

Thanks for stopping by.

Lisa