Gorjuss Birthday Card

Made this card over the weekend. My eldest daughter claimed it for her upcoming Birthday as she said she loves it.
 Just love these little girls - so sweet.

Stamped and coloured image with Copics. Layered her onto nestability ovals and Papermania "Rose Garden" paper. Used my Martha stewart Doily punch on a strip of pink card, added the flowers,punched leaves,buttons, ribbon,Stickles glitter glue and "Rose Garden" sentiment to finish.

Also made a card for the Magnolia challenge and the Friday sketchers challenge ( 2 in 1) which is so organised for me. Will post later in the week.

Thanks for looking, Have a Lovely day.

Another Froggy card

I'm making no excuses -- I love this froggy stamp - so have used him again. He's just so happy isn't he?

Heres a close up of my little froggy friend.

Stamped the Penny Black image and coloured with Copics, layered onto backing paper and card. Added ribbon, buttons and Stickles glitter glue. The sentiment I made on the PC.

Back to work this morning. Aahh well.Hope you all have a good day.

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Penny Black Saturday Challenge Wk 96

Heres my entry for the Penny Black Saturday Challenge wk 96. This weeks challenge is called "Buttons Galore" Well now, I love buttons and often add a few to my cards so this weeks challenge was a pleasure.

Stamped "Country Lady" PB stamp onto a  nestabilitie cut piece of card, coloured her with Copics and added teeny tiny buttons to the flower posy she is holding. Layered her onto a scalloped nestabilitie shape  and then onto some "Rose Garden" pretty backing paper by Papermania. Added the sentiment and flowers with button centres also.

Actually went and did my first bit of gardening of the year this afternoon (thats bad isn't it, it been April and all) Quite pleased with myself although i'm aching a bit now. Still got a long way to go with it but it's a start right!

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Dino Birthday card

Made a point of buying some stamps that are suitable for Boys Birthday cards as I don't have many cause the super cute stamps suck me in and say "buy me"..... So here is a Dinosaur stamp I bought at the NEC.

Love the goofy faces on this "Great Impressions" dino stamp. Stamped and coloured with Copics. Layered onto K and Co Hopscotch collection  backing paper. The drippy edge was a sample strip of a Martha Stewart punch I received in with an order for something else. The Happy Birthday To You sentiment is Hero arts. Added buttons,edged card with Old Paper Distress ink and spread lots of drippy green Stickles glitter glue.

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Penny Black Saturday Challenge Wk 74

The challenge over at Penny Black Saturday Challenge this week is to make something which is based on a Song Title/Lyric. So out came one of my all time favourite Christmas Penny Black Stamps ( although I think I say that every time I use a PB stamp)Here is Jingle All The Way.

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Stamped image in versafine ink and coloured with Copics. Added Glitter glue for twinkling snow. Layered onto doodlebug card and then on to DCWV backing paper. Over stamped backing paper with white liquid chalk snowflakes. Added punched out snowflakes (beautiful Martha Stewart punch) and added buttons.




Here (above) is a little close up to show the lovely Doodlebug backing card and the large snowflake is the Martha Stewart punch

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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

Signs Of Spring at Cute Card Thursday

This weeks challenge at Cute Card Thursday is "Signs Of Spring". So here is my attempt. Haven't used this Penny Black stamp in a long while but it is very sweet. I stamped, coloured with Copics and layered the image directly onto the card. I added the little fluffy tails, ribbon and buttons. A very simple card but cute too!

Here's a picture to show the cute little tails.



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Cute Card Thursday

Made a card for the Cute Card Thursday challenge blog.This weeks theme was "metallica" and for this i used a new "Maggie" Sugar Nellie stamp I had purchased at the weekend at The Stitch & Creative Crafts Show at Manchester Central.
I stamped her in Versamark Smokey Grey and then coloured her with copics. I followed an old Sketch Saturday sketch for the card. I layered glitter card and DCWV patterned backing paper and then for the "metallica" theme I added a strip of metallic gold card and a gold sentiment. To finish I added the little star buttons in matching colours.
Here's a picture below of the lots of layers on this card.





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Penny Black Saturday Challenge Wk 34

Haven't been able to do much crafting in the last few days, hubby was away at the weekend and now he's on a late shift and my youngest has been off school with a cold. I did manage to get up there for an hour earlier on and decided to do the Penny Black Challenge. This weeks challenge was to make a circle card.





The card was cut on the fold with nestabilities and then punched with a little hole punch all around the edge. I had the little bear stamped and coloured already ( my Mums stamp). I then layered on to a patterend backing paper and green DCWV card both cut with nestabilities. Punched a little purple heart and added the sentiment. Added ribbons, buttons and glitter glue to finish.

Sorry about the bad picture. Not alot of natural light around at the moment!!!!
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Sketch Saturday and A blog Award

Just had to have a go a this lovely sketch when I saw it on Sketch Saturday Challenge Blog It was a really nice sketch to follow. I used my new Leanne Ellis "Wish" stamp. I coloured her with my Copics and then decoupaged her to give her a bit more depth. I layered her onto a piece of K and Co backing paper, cut the strip and used my Fiskars border punch on it. Punched out hearts and decorated with miniture buttons and glitter glue. The sentiment was a freebie with a magazine aaagggges ago.




I had a nice surprise this afternoon when I found I had received these blog awards from Shelley and her fabulous blog Minkies Paper Paradise
Do drop by her blog and have a look at her scrummy work. Now i've to pass the awards on to 5 other people
I would like to pass these Awards onto:-

Aneljakki
Debbie at Inky Smudges
Nadia
I'm not sure if challenge blogs receive awards but here goes
Penny Black Saturday Challenge
I just love that place and would just like to show how much I appreciate the hard work and time it must take to run the Challenges every week
I'm not sure the next one is allowed either but she is my daughter and she is Fab.
ChloeThanks for looking
Louby xxxx

Magnolia Vs Stampavie wk 10

Today I've made a card for the Magnolia Vs Stampavie Wk 10 blog challange. The Challenge was to "show us your bow making skills"

I stamped Tilda in Versamark Smokey Grey and coloured her with Copic pens. I layered her onto a couple of Nestability ovals and then layered them onto some DCWV backing paper. I added the sentiment and buttons and finally the bow.

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Louby x

Baby Card

Hello
Made a card yesterday for a friend who has had a baby girl. Stamped image twice and coloured with copics.Layered onto some cut nestabilitys. Punched holes either side and added ribbon. Cut out the lettering from sizzlits, glued on and glittered.Added the little heart buttons. Wow this was a quick post - going to work soon.

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Cute Card Thursday #31

Made this card for the Cute Card Thursday Challenge Blog. I got the stamp at the weekend in a bargain bucket at the Happy Stampers Northwest Stamp Festival at Hulme Hall, Port Sunlight. It's always a good show with plenty to look at but it's always very very busy and hot in the hall. Managed to spend all my pennies though despite the crowds.

Anyway back to the challenge which was to make a card incorporating "buttons and bows". Well I love bows and am always sticking buttons on my projects especially little teeny weeny buttons that are so cute.

The image is Penny Black stamped in versafine and watercoloured. She's very sweet isn't she?

I then layered her on to green and pink card and then on to Basic Grey paper. Added the Birthday sentiment layered on to a small nestability circle. Put the ribbon and bow on and then glued all the little buttons on. Last but not least added stickles glue to her flowers and hat. Hope you like her.

Stampendous Christmas

Chloe and I went up into the loft last night to craft. We don't craft together as much as we used to as she usually has alot of Homework from school. We decided to do Christmas things, so I made two cards both with Stampendous Stamps

First I did this snowman with his string of bulbs, stretched out and glowing in front of him. I stamped him in Versafine Smokey Grey and them watercoloured him. I layered him on to backing paper (don't know what brand -had it for ages!)and added punched snowflakes. I used crystal lacquer on the bulbs to give a glass effect. I wasn't overly happy with the colour scheme on this card.

Next I stamped this little tree also from Stampendous in Versafine Vintage Sepia. I have succumbed to purchasing some Sansodour for coloured pencil blending and gave it a try. I was quite pleased with the outcome but not sure if it's more messing around than using watercolours. The sentiment stamp is from Penny Black and reads "Christmas isn't under a tree, Christmas is in your heart" It hasn't shown up very well on the Photo. I added a Sizzix original Primitive Heart and also stamped on that and them layered it on to the Sentiment. Stamped the swirls around the edge of the card and added glitter. I put chrystal lacquer on the Christmas baubles on the tree and buttons from stash.

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Tilda "without" Balloon

I hadn't been able to get in my craft space last week as I'd been busy doing other things like organising my eldest daughter to go on a school trip to Germany - so nothing new to post. But managed to get up there on Sunday and get a card making fix. Phew.

I wanted to do a "Thankyou" card for the leaders at my youngest daughters playgroup as she is leaving in July to go to School in September. I can't take credit for the blackboard idea as I've seen it done on many websites and thought it was cute.

I stamped Tilda with Balloon using versafine smokey grey, but missing out the balloon part and watercoloured her. Cut two squares one black one brown to make chalk board and mounted onto the K and Co backing paper on the front of the card. Wrote on the black card with a white sharpie to look like chalk. Added flowers, rik rak, brads and buttons to finish - oh and of course a bit of glitter to Tilda and a cocktail stick to point.