Monday 31 December 2012

Bear Skin....

Stamp-Bear Skin

Morning everyone!!
I hope you are all having a fabulous monday and are looking forward to new year? I don't celebrate new year so I will be tucked up all sleepy in bed when the new year comes in!!

Thismorning I have another Gorjuss girl to share with you all. They are still on sale in the dies to die for shop and this little Bear skin is just £5, I absolutely adore her. She is a kling mounted rubber stamp so she stamps like a dream.
I kept my colours simple (...because they were the ones still sat in my pencil case from working away friday night!! ) so the whole image is coloured on soft brown and pink promarkers.


The colours of my stamped Gorjuss matched beautifully with some of the papers from Lily bee Designs Persnickety paper pad....almost to gorgeous to use but they went so well i made myself use them instead of stroke them!! romfl!!! and oh my!! that May Arts crocheted velvet centre ribbon....swoooooon! I love it!! 

Well that's it from me today folks!!

Have a wonderful new year!
Hugs Lou xxxx

Sunday 30 December 2012

New Whimsy Stamps

Morning all, hope you had a wonderful Christmas.  For my card today I have used Bella Sole Special Delivery from the newest Whimsy release and coloured her with Copics and Pencils.  I have also used one of the new Vintage Thank You Tags for the sentiment. 

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The paper is MME Lost and Found 3 – Ruby.

hugs

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Thursday 20 December 2012

Fanciful Christmas

Hi there, hope you are all ready for Christmas? I am a little behind this year but saying that I am most years! Here is a card I have made using the CC Designs Amy R Fanciful Christmas set and combined it with the beautiful snowflakes from the MFT Christmas Ornament set.


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Wishing you all a very merry Christmas!

Tuesday 18 December 2012

November Challenge Winner!!!

The winner of the November Challenge as chosen by random.org is....
 
 
Congratulations Annie, please email me caroline.sears@btinternet.com and I will pass your email onto Tracy.

BABY - WELCOME


Well Hello Everyone

How are you all?  Not long until the big day is here now - I don't know about you but I am so last minute dot com this year; so much so I've even had to go out and buy some shop cards (I'm so hanging my head in shame!).


Today I would like to share with you a card I have made using one of the new releases from Bildmalarna called Baby - Welcome - oh my these stamps are just lush.

There is also a new challenge over at Die-ing For a Challenge and the theme this month is "Celebration".  There is a whooping £25 to spend in the Dies to Die For store up for grabs so make sure you get your entries in.

As always, there are a few rules to observe which are:

Rules:

* All entries must have a least one Dies to Die For product on it
* You can combine our challenge with NO MORE THAN 3 OTHER CHALLENGES
* You must back-link to the Dies to Die For Blog
NO back-linking please, we only want to see your new projects / cards
* Only 2 entries per person please
* Entries which fail to observe the above will be removed and will not be eligible for the prize

So, what are you waiting for?  Get out your Big-Shots, Cuttlebugs, Sizzix and Grand Caliburs and get your entries in over at Dies to Die For.

Here is the card I have made:


The recipe for the card is:

Image Stamp:  Bildmilarna - Baby - Welcome
Text Stamp:  Bildmilarna - Ten Little Toes
Papers:  Bildmilarna - Welcome Collection and Welcome - Baby Blue
Corner Die:  Whimsy - Corner Die Set
Sentiment Die:  Die-namics - Fishtail Flags - Stax

The image has been coloured with Copics and a Flexmarker:

Baby Skin:  E21 E00 E000 - R20 R30 (cheeks)
Baby Blanket and Flower:  B93 B91 Glacier Blue (Flexmarker) / YR21 YR20
Stork:  C1 / YR27 YR12 YR00
Bear:  E27 E25 E23 E31 E30

The image has been outlined with Weathered Wood Distress Ink
All the papers have been edged with Frayed Burlap Distress Ink

Here is a final picture of the inside of the card which shows off that oh so lovely text stamp:


And there you have it.

I do hope you will come and join in the fun with us over at Die-ing For a Challenge.

Enjoy the rest of your week.

Take care.

Toodles

Monday 17 December 2012

Lord Tim Tag!!!

Hello Peeps! 
I am really late in today! my weekend was full of awesome carol concerts at church and birthday fun for my little Mo and a wicked chesty cough and lergy for us all!!! grrrr!!! so I am late in getting my little DT make for you all done today. 2 paracetemol and a good old swig of covonia at 6pm and I felt well enough to go crafty ahead!!!

Its a bit of Tim Holtz for you all today! I am behind with my gift wrapping and wanted some really nice gift tags to go on top of the kraft paper I am going to be wrapping with this year. 
I poped the little reindeer mover and shaper into my bookplate and tag die and placed my MME paper so that it cut him out down in the corner, that left a gorgeous reindeer silhouette when I mounted it onto my Kraft card.Then I cut the 25 and a tattered pine cone out and distress inked them to give them some colour. I punched a circle out and mounted the 25 onto it then crackle accents the numbers.

I ripped a scrap of the kraft card and glued it to the top of my tag and the fir cone fitted perfectly in the little hole at the top of the tag. It looks so cute and the MME All is bright paper was just a gorgeous match with it yummy doily pattern. I can't wait to pop this tag on someone's gift.

Right, I am off back to mooching around and feeling sorry for myself!! romfl!!!
Huge hugs Lou xxx

Sunday 16 December 2012

10 minute cards

Here’s a couple of quick cards that I made yesterday (I made 20 in 3 hours) after I woke up realising I so did not have enough Christmas cards made!

The paper pad is Basic Grey Aspen Frost, the stamps I used are Whimsy Stamps – I just used sentiments from the Tis the Season Nobables 5.  They are just A6 cards but great for a girl on a mission lol.

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Style number 2, when I ran out of the paper patterns I had been using I just switched them for something similar from the pad.

I used The Vintage Christmas set for the candy canes stamp and added a sentiment from the Holiday Notables 2 set

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Tuesday 11 December 2012

MINI MIMOSA

Hello Everyone

I hope you all had a good weekend, not long now until Christmas finally arrives - gulp - I still have so much to do - including lots of Christmas cards still to make! :oO


Today I would like to share with you a card I have made using the just oh so cute Mini Mimosa Snowflake.  These stamps are just amazing, they are as they say 'mini' with all the same fabulous detail of a normal sized stamp.

Here is the full card:


The recipe for the card is:

Stamp:  Bildmilarna - Mini Mimosa - Snowflake
Papers:  Bildmilarna - Frosty Christmas - Mr Snowman
Snowflake Die:  Memory Box - Frostyville Wreath (I just snipped it to make a border)
Image Border Die:  Spellbinders - Floral Ovals
Corner Die:  Cheery Lynn - Lace Corner Deco A (I snipped this one to make it smaller)

I have coloured the image with Copics, Promarkers and Flexmarkers:

Skin:  E21 E00 E000 / R20 R30 (cheeks)
Hair:  E53 Y21 Y11
Hat and Dress:  B01 B00 B000 B0000 / R27 R24 (heart on the hat)
Gloves, Boots and Scarf:  Satin (Promarker) / Antique White (Flexmarker) / E0000
Shading:  W5 W3 W1 W0

I have used a Cool Grey 50% Prismacolour pencil for shading on the image

The image has been outlined with Iced Spruce Distress Ink
All the papers and everything else has been edged in Walnut Stain Distress Ink

I have used Glamour Dust around all the edges of pretty much everything that you can see on the card and for the snowflake on the image

Here is a picture of the inside of the card where you will see that I have followed the layout through to match the front:


Thank you so much for taking the time to come and visit.

Enjoy the rest of your week.

Toodle pip.

Monday 10 December 2012

Free Hugs.....

Stamp- Free Hugs.
Nestabilities- Floral Ovals.

Morning all!!!
I hope you are all having a wonderful monday.

I am sharing a little easel card with you all today (...though do any of you know a really good trick for taking photographs of them once they are made?!!!) using one on the new stamps from Krista Smith and Little Darlings stamps, Free Hugs. isn't she just adorable?

I coloured her up with promarkers and then nestied her out into this beautiful frame. I inked around her and the edges with Tea Dye distress ink and then adhered her to my card.

Everything you need is linkied up just below the picture of my card.

Huge hugs Lou xxxx

Wednesday 5 December 2012

October Challenge - Winner!!!!

Caz here, I am soooo sorry I totally forgot to draw a winner from the October Halloween Challenge....so let's do that now....
 
The Winner is....
 

Kat, please email me and I will pass your details over to Tracy.

Don't forget you have until December 17th to enter our November challenge...

Caz
x

Tuesday 4 December 2012

Xmas Hamster


Well Hello Everyone

I hope you all had a lovely weekend.  


Today I would like to share with you a card I have made using the ever so sweet Xmas Hamster from Whimsy "Wee Stamps" - I just love him.

Here is the full card:


Ain't he just adorable - I just love his little expression.

All the products listed can be found at Dies to Die For and the recipe for the card is:

Stamp:  Whimsy "Wee Stamps" - Xmas Hamster
Papers:  Kaisercraft - Turtle Dove
Fishtail Die:  Die-Namcis - Fishtail Flags Stax
Ticket Die:  Whimsy - Ticket Die
Ticket Stamp:  Whimsy - Friendship Ticket Sentiments

The image has been coloured with Copics and I have used a Cool Grey 70% Prismacolour pencil to shade the bauble:

Face:  E51 E50 E000 / R20 R30 (cheeks)
Fur:  E37 E35 E34 E31
Coat:  E29 E27 E24
Bauble:  YG99 YG97 YG95 YG93 UG91 / C3 C2 C1

I have outlined the image with Iced Spruce Distress Ink
All the papers have been edged with Walnut Stain Distress Ink

And that's it.

Have you entered Die-ing For a Challenge yet?  If not make sure you get your entries in as there is a whooping £25 to win to spend in the Dies to Die For store.

Enjoy the rest of your week everyone and thank you all for your lovely comments.

Toodles

Monday 3 December 2012

Shopping Ivy.....

Morning All!!
Its Lou here this morning with another chrimbly make, I can't get enough of them this week as I am so excited about christmas!!
For this card I used CC Designs Shopping Ivy she is fab isn't she?!! I just had to colour her up in traditional christmas colours with my promarkers.

The papers are from the First Edition Festive Treats pad , with a length of gorgeous Sparkle edge gold trim, (this trim is totally delicious!!) across the centre. I also added a cute bit of Loop Border over the top edge of the trim because it does so look like christmas lights and I love it.......I am actually a little addicted to it at the moment!!! oh and there just had to be some use of my fav doily die too!! its the Cheery Lynn French Pastry die.

So that's my share for you all for today!! its a cold frosty one here so I am going to wrap up warm and get a cuppa!
hugs Lou xx





Saturday 1 December 2012

Whimsy Prints

 

For my card I have used one of the Elisabeth Bell Merry Christmas prints, isn’t he just a little cutie!  The prints should be in stock at Dies to Die For soon!
 
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I have used my favourite 2012 Christmas papers – Lily Bee Christmas Cheer Tiny Tablet.  I have also used the Whimsy Snowflake Mini Letter Seal die and matching Snowflake Mini Letter Seals sentiments.