No Cards but here's why!

The Count and I



Mummy Wrap Game Chaos


Uncle steve who actually came as dracula but turned into a bad Harry Potter as the night wore on!!!!!


Some of the coven (Aunties,Phoebe and my Mummy)


The Rat catcher AKA cousin Charlotte


Ouch!


Phoebe after Mummy wrap game


More of the coven ( my cousin and auntie)
We had a Halloween Party on saturday - what a laugh- I usually throw one every year. So i've no cards to show but thought i'd share a few piccys of the evening.
Hope you all had a good night too
Louby xxx

50th Birthday Card

Oh dear, I don't know about you but I don't often make cards to order but when your boss at work asks you to make one - what do you do- Oh heck I said O.K. Then because the card is for someone ( if you know what I mean) my ideas just dry up. So this card took me aaaallllll day Sunday (I was so annoyed with myself) I just couldn't think what to do or how to place it, what colours to use etc etc.....it drove me mad and I don't think I like it anyway. Not sure at all.....




Cupcake stamp - Hero Arts
Backing paper - Bo bunny
Numbers - Sizzix
Circles - Nestabilities
Coloured With - Copics
Flowers -various
Foliage - Punch
Border Punch - Martha Stewart
Sentiment - Craftwork cards
and of course obligatory bling.....

Aaahhh well she'll either like it or she wont...LOL
thanks for looking

More Quick Christmas Cards

Just a quick post with some quicky Christmas cards I've made to make sure I'm on target with enough cards and in time.(here's hoping)when I say quick I mean quick for me cause I spend ages agonising over backing papers!!! (I drive myself batty with them sometimes) They are a bit easier because they are only small cards.


(Above)Cute snowman stamp coloured with copics and layered onto glitter card and DCWV backing paper. I added ribbon and a punched heart.


(Above) Stampendous stamp coloured with Copics.



(Above)Snowman stamp again coloured with copics and layered onto DCWV paper,added ribbon, tag, snowflake button and bell.



(Left) Penny Black stamp, watercoloured and layered onto DCWV paper.

Hope your all having a good day,

Thanks for looking
Louby x

Penny Black Saturday Challenge Wk 70

Decided to get back into the Challenge loop this week so to kick off have entered the Penny Black Saturday Challenge which I always love to do as Penny Blacks are my favourite stamps to use. So the challenge was to include buttons and bows on your card or craft item. Now this wasn't so hard for me as I nearly always include a bow and buttons on my cards somewhere....lol.




Below is a close up side on view of the card



Stamp - Penny Black
Backing Paper - Peace on Earth Collection from Creative Cardmaking Magazine
Buttons and Sentiment - Dress It Up from Craftime
Ovals - cut with Nestabilities
Edge Punch - Fiskars
Coloured with Copics
And last but not least Glitter Glue......

Have a nice day

40th Birthday Card

Morning All, just a quick post to show you the card I have made for my Sister-In-Law who is 40 this week. I stamped the image with black pigment ink and heat embossed with clear powder. I bought the stamp off e-bay a while ago now and unfortunately don't know who the manufacturer is as I think she's great. The backing paper is fab Doodlebug and yes I have succumbed to the MS doily punch (love it). The numbers were cut on the Sizzix and layered onto punched plain and scalloped circles. I nicked the sentiment of a card I received myself last year (waste not, want not LOL)




Have A good day, I'm off to work now.

Small Christmas Cards

Have been trying to catch up with making enough Christmas cards so have been making some little ones that are quick and easy to put together once the image has been coloured.



I haven't got the stamp info to hand as I'm doing this downstairs and the stamps are in the loft. I know the sheep is Penny Black and I think the Snowman is Stampendous but will have to check back. I used the Swiss dots cuttlebug folder on the Sheep card.
Hope you all out there are also making progress with your Christmas cards too!!!

Enjoy

Anniversary Card

Heres a card I made a few weeks ago for my husband on our wedding Annivesary. Sorry the photo is really bad with shadows etc..






The embossed heart is a Sizzix die and the birdy swirly background was done with a cuttlebug embossing folder.

Thanks for looking

Gosh How long Since My Last Post?

Toooooooo long! I've hardly made any cards of late and I really need to get my act together if I'm to make all my Christmas cards on time. So here's my first attempt in months.



Covered a card in red patterned paper.Made the snowman on the Sizzix machine and layered him up. Added sentiment, punched snowflakes and holly leaves, and glitter.

Have made some more cards but need to take photos again as the ones I took are full of shadows in wrong places.
I will be back!!!!!!!

Woohooo I won Blog Candy

How happy am I? Well very, I won one of the prizes on the new The Next Level Challenge Blog. I couldn't believe it I've never won one before so I was over the moon. Can't wait to get my hands on it and have a play.

Well after winning their candy I couldn't not enter there new challenge now could I?
Here is the challenge description-

Our very first Challenge is to make an Aperture/Cut out Card - that is a card with an opening in the front. There are no restrictions on the size of the opening, where it is placed, or the size and shape of your card - you decide. We felt that by giving you this flexibility we will all hopefully see a wide range of different ideas and styles that we can share and gain new inspiration from in our own future creations. There is one additional compulsory element though - your card must have your own hand made faux Prima Lollipop flower/flowers on it. These flowers are really pretty, and quite easy to make. We had originally added a UTube video as a tutorial but unfortunately there has been problems with linking to this, however the photograph tutorial near the end of this Issue will allow you to read the make-up instructions on-line or print off as you wish. You can use one or any many flowers as you like, you can choose how many layers of papers in your flower and its size - its all down to you.

So below is my aperture card cut with a nestability. The image is a Fairy Doodles stamp coloured with Copics. I covered the card inside and out with backing paper and added 3d mushrooms and a nesty frame to the front along with the compulsory lollipop flower. This was the 2nd attempt at the flower as the first one just didn't work. I then added sentiment, paper lace edging,glitter and ribbon to finish.



Below is a close up of the faux lollipop flower.



and a close-up of the mushrooms.



If you haven't been to The Next Level Challenge blog yet, click on the link and take a peek. It promises to be a great place - more like an on-line magazine with hints, tips, tutorials and challenges too.

Thanks for looking
Take care
Louby x

Sketch Saturday #52

Hello, thought I'd better put my entry on quick for the <Sketch Saturday blog Challenge,before I run out of time to enter.



I really enjoyed doing this sketch and the card fell together quite easily with it. I decided to use green and yellow for a change as I tend to stick to alot of pink and purple on my cards. Coloured Tilda with Copics and layered her onto the sissix cut out and DCWV spotty papers. Added flowers, sentiment, brads, buttons and bling.

Here's a different view of the card.



Thanks for looking
Take care
Louby x

Penny Black Saturday Challenge Wk 49

This weeks challenge over at Penny Black Saturday Challenge was to use a recipe of 3 flowers, 2 papers and 1 brad/charm on your card. I used this image that was sent to me by my blogging friend Shelley at Minkies paper paradise (Thanks shelley)I coloured it with Copics and then layered onto lilac card and backing papers. I added the 3 flowers,used 2 backing papers and added 1 brad to the centre of the top flower. The sentiment was a magazine freebie from a while back. I added some glitter glue, buttons and bling to finish.


Also this next week there will be a new challenge blog starting on 1st June called The Next Level It promises to be something quite new with tutorials, hints and tips and lots of information for us all to share in as well as a weekly challenge. Sounds good. Click on the link to go and check it out.
If you register as a follower of the challenge blog and give them a mention on your own blog your in with a chance of winning some fabulous blog candy. The winner will be announced on launch day. Below are some pictures of the scrummy, yummy stash up for grabs.

Dragonfly Tilda

Wow 2 posts in a week --- I'm really getting back into this!!!! Not for long though as I wont be able to get up into my loft this coming week as hubby is on late shift and my eldest has got GCSE exams all week (poor thing)and needs to revise in the evenings so I must be on hand to provide cups of tea and biscuits and keep the little one from mithering her every 5 minutes.



So enough of me waffling, here's the card. Bought this stamps last weekend at the craft show I went to. Have seen her many times on other peoples cards and thought she was so cute. I coloured her with Copics in sort of dragonfly colours and glittered her wings and collar. Layered her onto some backing papers added ribbon, bow and flowers. The sentiment stamp is my daughters(not sure of make) layered onto a small nestability circle- also glittered.

Will be back later in the week to post my effort for the Penny Black Saturday challenge . So have a good week everyone and thanks for looking.

Hello I'm Still Here!!!

Hello, sorry I haven't updated in a while, I haven't got any real excuses other than I couldn't muster up the enthusiasm to get my butt up into the loft and get crafting. Anyway after visiting the Happy stampers Northwest stamp show at Port Sunlight it seems I purchased some enthusiasm along with some yummy new stamps!!Haha



Isn't she a beautiful stamp, I just couldn't leave her there. A stand called Paper Pleasures from Nova Scotia, Canada were selling them. she is called "Crystal" from a collection called Enchanted Hallow.

I stamped her in Versafine and coloured her with copics, I layered her onto card and "little sizzles" backing paper. I added the Sizzix die cut swirls, glitter glue, ribbon and sentiment.

Easter Bunny Boxes

Have made these little boxes for my children and a couple of the neighbours little girls. I cut the boxes from pink card with a sizzix bigz die and decorated them with the sizzix bunny cut out in white. I added various punched flowers, glitter glue, a decorative wire handle and ribbons.......and of course I filled them with choccy eggs as every good Easter Bunny should!!!

Have been off work this week but not got around to much crafting, blogging or blog hopping for that matter. I have been Prom dress shopping with my eldest daughter(don't even ask how that went :-( fence painting, house sorting and getting into motorcycle riding again :-) which was excellent.(see pic below)



Hope you are all having a lovely Easter break
See you soon
Louby x

A Quick Post

Just a quick post to show the Mothers Day card that I made this year. Haven't been crafting all week so nothing else new to show i'm afraid.I am off work on holiday next week so hopefully will get some crafting done, fingers crossed.
see you soon
Louby xx