Lilac Tilda

Hadn't made a card with a Magnolia Tilda stamp for a little while so to feed my habit I put this one together.



I stamped and then coloured her with Copics (as per). I then put her onto the die cut nestabilities and on to the lovely lilac patterned backing paper that I had edged with two different Martha Stewart border punches. Next I cut a strip for the middle and edged that with a Fiskars border punch. To finish I added the lilac gingham ribbon, the sentiment, punched flowers, glitter glue and button. The circular sentiment is from the lovely Lily of The Valley stamp collection, which I stamped, punched and coloured with a chalk inkpad.

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Scrap Affair Challenge

There's a new challenge over at the Scrap Affair  Blog this week. The challenge is to use

Pink and Brown on your cards. There's a nice prize for the winner, so go and check out this lovely new challenge blog. The challenge runs until April 11th so there's still plenty of time to get your entry in.

This is my example for the DT team.

The stamp is a little Prima set kindly sent to me by my friend Nadia, (available at the Scrap Affair online store) I stamped her and then coloured her with Copics, cut her out with Nestabilities and then layered her onto some backing paper added the little shells and the drink which were also in the stamp set. The punched edge is a fiskars punch.

Have a nice week

Penny Black Saturday Challenge Wk 142

The challenge this week at Penny Black Saturday Challenge is "Green" in honour of St Patricks Day. Had a think and out came my Penny Black frog collection. I love this happy little froggy.

I stamped and coloured in Copics and cut out with Nestabilites and layered onto green spotty paper. I added flowers, sentiment and the glitter ribbon strip which was an absolute bargain from the QVC shop in Shrewsbury (highly recommend it if your in the area. I got loads of sets of stuff all at £1.99 a pack) but then had to haul it around with us all day.

Here's the pic of us carrying all the bags of goodies from the QVC shop.

Have A Nice Weekend and hope the weather stays as good as it looks today for us all.



Hero Arts Birthday Cake

Made this card towards filling up my box of "just in case" birthday cards with no particular person in mind. I love the doodlebug backing paper with the sherbet colours.

I stamped and coloured with Copics, layered onto Nestabilities and then onto the Doodlebug backing paper. I added ribbon, buttons, Hero Arts sentiment and lots of Stickles Glitter glue.  I also added this picture to my flikr account and was so pleased to get a "Sweet Tweet" link on Twitter  from Hero Arts themselves about it.

Have a Nice Day

Kitty For You

Bought this digi-stamp a while ago now and hadn't used her. She's called "For You" and is from Mos Digital Pencil.  Her designs are fab, click on the link if you've never seen her work, well worth a visit and reasonably priced too.

She's a very pretty Kitty.

I printed her onto smooth card and coloured her with Copics. I cut her out with Nestabilities and layered her onto some pretty pink polka dot paper. I added the Craftwork cards sentiments, ribbon, and Stickles glitter glue to finish.

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Christmas Tilda

Well it's got to be official ..I am rubbish at regular blogging at the moment. Don't seem to be getting as many cards done as I need to either ( but am determined I wont be buying any Christmas cards from the shops) so I will plod on.

I made this card a few weeks ago but hadn't got around to blogging it. So here she is.

Stamped and coloured Tilda with copics, layered her onto nesties edged with distress ink and then on to fab Christmas backing paper and red card The scalloped card itself is from Craftwork cards and I also edged that in Tea dye distress ink. Added the sentiment, ribbon and flowers from stash.

I hope you are all finding it easier to get your Christmas cards done than I am at the moment

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Cute Christmas

Made this card at the weekend towards my Christmas card box. I love the Penny Black Hedgies especially in Christmas scenes. Didn't get as much done as I thought I would over the weekend but did manage to make my first ever Pumpkin pies which turned out better than I thought they would.  The family were a little unsure at first whether they were going to like it but they tried it and SAID they did.lol

• Penny Black "Cosy" Rubber stamp
• Copics
• Liquid pearl with glitter on top for snow
• Nestabilites
• Woodware circular greeting
• Creatables Poinsettia dies
• Stickles Glitter glue
• Button from stash.

Here is a piccy of one of my Pumpkin Pies

While you're blog hopping go take a look at Debby4000s blog  "A Scrapjourney" Debby has some fantastic and very generous Blog Candy on offer, a $50 Dollar gift card for Simon Says Stamp Store in honour of her own Birthday. How fab is that. While you're there do take a look at her lovely cards if you haven't visited before her cards are always tip top, always.

Have a nice day

Tilda Blowing Bubbles

Made this Tilda card a while ago but have been a very lazy Blogger (I said Blogger) and not uploaded the card. I've decided I'm a winter blogger cause I go right off during the summer!
 Stamped and coloured her with Copics and layered her onto nesties ( what did we do before nesties crafty people)  Layered whole thing onto card and added flowers, sentiments, ribbon and glitter glue.

Here is a close up of Tildas pretty bubbles.

Will have some more soon that i've made and not blogged.

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Pirate Card

Pirates seem to be all the rage at the moment don't they? I bought some Pirate stamps from the Stamposaurus stand when I went to the NEC HobbyCraft show earlier on in the year so I could make some "boys" cards for my youngest, classmates Birthday parties. Have so far only made one card with them...tut...tut...tut.

I found the treasure map backing paper on a free project website and printed it off and cut to size. I stamped and coloured the various elements with Copics and layered onto the card. I used a cocktail stick for the little Pirate flag. Of course I added Stickles Glitter Glue to finish.

I also finished the card by decorating the inside using script backing paper and the same nestie cut outs as I used for the front. I didn't get to photograph the card before it was needed for a party and was written in by Phoebe.

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Long Time No Blogging

Haven't blogged in ages. I have no valid excuses, I just haven't been cardmaking much at all as the weather has been sooooo nice. So this is a quick blog to show you a card I created.

Stamped the "Inkadinkadoo"  image, coloured with Copics and layered onto nestabilities. Added to the front of the scalloped edged card (Craftwork Cards) which I previously covered with "My Minds Eye" papers. Added ribbon, sentiment and flowers from stash

The stamp was something I bought with a "123 Stitch" voucher I won on the Penny black Saturday challenge blog a few months ago now.

Hope you enjoyed my quick blog entry, thanks for looking

Two Challenges.

Have excelled myself this week and made a card that incorparates 2 Blog challenges. Unheard of for me - I'm never that organised. So below this card is for the The Cute Card Thursday Blog Which is a Sketch by Andrea to follow and also for the Just Magnolia Challenge Blog where the theme is "Anything Goes"

So Changed the sketch a little with the shapes but the basic layout is the same.

I stamped and coloured Tilda with Copics, cut her out and layered her onto nestabilities, one from plain card edged with distress inks and the other with backing paper. Cut and punched a strip of "Little Sizzles" backing paper with Martha Stewart Doily punch to put across the middle. Added the flowers that I coloured with a chalk pad, "Craftwork Cards" sentiment and lashings of gold "Stickles". Edged the main card with distress ink too.

I decorated the inside too with some DCWV backing paper and a Nestabilty edged with Distress ink and gold "Stickles"

Off to work now, have a good day

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.

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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Mothers Day Gorjuss Girl.

Got myself organised and made a Mothers Day card for my Mum. Used this Gorguss Girl (Poppy Fields) and coloured her with Copics. Layered her onto Nestability ovals and then onto a card covered with backing paper (Daisy Plaid by Make and Create) and layered green ribbon and little white material flowers.

For the embellishments I punched the flowers  from white card and leaves from green card to match the flowers on the backing paper. I Scored each petal a little at the point and  pinched them up to add some dimension (a tecnique I saw in the Magnolia magazine - coz I never would've thought of it myself)  I added the green ribbon and bow, the sentiment (printed on PC) and glitter to the flower centres.

Below is a close up of the punched flowers

Well hope to be back soon with another post, Thanks for Looking

Gorjuss Little Star Girl

Aren't these stamps just so sweet. Made another card for the birthday box with Little Star Gorjuss Girl. I coloured her with Copics (still trying to get the shading business right) Covered the card with backing paper,both out the same book but forgot to look at what company it is from! (It's up in the loft) Will look next time I'm up in there if I remember and update then.

Added the punched stars, ribbon and sentiments to finish. I outlined the scalloped oval in white pen just to make it stand out a little more. The starflower shaped sentiment is from Craftwork cards and the Celebrate one was a freebie from a magazine.

Below is another picture of her taken with the flash on that  shows off her lovely sparkle.

  Hope your weekend hasn't flown by too fast like mine seems to have done!Thanks for looking,

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

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

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

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.

Another Cupcake

Hello Peeps,
Again, haven't been able to get much done as hubby on a late shift, and can't leave the kids on there own(as much as I'd like to do just that some nights - aaaaggghhhh)
So this is a make from last weekend that I've been saving to upload. The cupcake image and sentiments are Hero Arts stamped in Versafine Vintage Sepia and coloured with Copics, cut out and layered onto nestabilities and then on to DCWV backing paper. I then over stamped swirls onto the backing paper with a pink chalk pad. I used a sizzix die to cut the squiggly pink borders and glittered them with pink glitter. I layered the sentiments onto the card and added the various flowers to finish.

Thanks for looking