Fishing

Hi, hope you are all keeping warm and dry today. What a mixed bag of weather, I woke up to pouring rain and now, as I'm writing this, the sun is shining brilliantly although it's quite windy.
I've been busy in my craft room but I'm afraid they are all cards that I can't share with you yet. Both my daughters' have birthdays coming up soon and I have been making cards for them from various family members and of course they look at my blog so I will show them when it is safe to :)
Here is a card I can show though....

Card Recipe:

6 x 6 textured cream card blank

Background paper - 'Go Fish Stripes-Carolyn Holt

Image - Art Impressions stamp ( pre-coloured images given to me in a swap)

Sentiment - Computer generated

Spellbinders Classic Circle Die

 

I got the idea for this card from none other than, wait for it......Pinterest. Where would we be without it? lol. The original card can be found here. Hope you like my version too.

I'm entering it in to these challenges:

Through The Craftroom Door - Anything Goes

Papertake Weekly - Anything Goes

Scribble and Scrap - Anything Goes

One Crazy Stamper - Anything Goes

My Mums Craft Shop - Spots &/or Stripes

 

Thanks for all the wonderful comments here recently, they are very appreciated and also a big welcome to my new followers, hope you can find some inspiration here and enjoy my ramblings.

Hope to get round some of your blogs today and leave some love.

 

See you soon,

 

Lorraine

Marvelous Magnolia

Hi,
I was inspired to enter the challenge over at Marvelous Magnolia by Linda Levoir, one of the DT members. She has made a wonderful card for the challenge and you can see it on her blog Sticky with Glitter . I only have three Magnolia Tilda stamps at the moment so I chose one which looked fairly simple to colour as I intended to try something new. Instead of using my Promarkers I thought I would try water colouring with Distress Inks for a change.

Card Recipe

Cardstock - Kraft

Papers - Doodlebug Designs (spotted)

Distress Inks and waterbrush

Stickles

Flowers and lace - WOC

Corner Dies - Marianne Designs LR0280

Frame Die - Memory box Small Felicity Frame

 

As it's my first attempt at water colouring with DI's I don't think it turned out too bad. I know what to change for next time now. The challenge at Marvelous Magnolia requires lace in your project and as I've almost covered mine up here's a close up just to prove it's there, lol.

I'd like to enter this in to the following challenges:

Marvelous Magnolia - Lovely Lace

Papertake Weekly - Anything Goes

Crafty Little Fairies - Kraft

Through The Craftroom Door - Anything Goes

Scribble & Scrap - Anything Goes

A Creative Romance - Something New (Water colour technique)

 

Well that's it from me, hope you've all had a lovely day and looking forward to the weekend.

 

See you soon,

Lorraine

Floral Birthday

Hi Crafters,
Hope the weather has been better today where ever you live, and lets hope for brighter days to come.

Here is a card I was commissioned to make which has a Spring, floral feel...     although I must say that the green leaves were not that vibrant in real life, as you may have noticed Santa didn't bring me a new camera after all :(  anywho on to my card...

Card Recipe

Spellbinders - Fancy Lattice Die & Fancy Framed Tags One

Cottage Cutz Die - Bella Leafy Branch

Flowers - WOC

Ribbon and peel-offs from stash

 

I'm entering this in to the following challenges:

 

Papertake Weekly - Anything Goes

Through The Craftroom Door - Anything Goes

Scribble and Scrap - Anything Goes

 

 

Thank you for visiting and for all the lovely comments left here recently, off now for a little Blog catch up.

See you soon,

 

Lorraine

Christmas Wishes

Hi all,
Just a quick post to share 3 commissioned cards that I finished recently.

I'm entering this card into a challenge at  Papertake Weekly -Christmas Creatures

 

I'm entering this card in to a challenge at Crafty Little Fairies - Let It Snow

 

I'm entering this card in to a challenge at Through The Craft Room Door - Anything Goes

 

Hope you are all organised for the 25th ! I'm almost there now thank goodness.

Catch you all later,

Lorraine

 

 

Crafters Companion - Barkley

Hi Crafters,

What happened to yesterday?
I meant to post this yesterday but the time just got away from me, so here it is - one of my latest Christmas cards.

This is Barkley and Friends, a Christmas pre-coloured digi from a decoupage sheet and a great shaped card that I purchased from the NEC recently. I tried out my new snowflake die from Joy and glittered it up with Cosmic Shimmer Aurora Crystal Sparkle embossing powder, I've used this a lot lately, I love it. The sentiment is from a Dreamees set of stamps. Sorry the lighting is rubbish.

Here is a closer view...

... you can just make out the layers of decoupage.

And a nice close up of the snowflake and embossing.

As you can see Father Christmas really needs to bring me a new camera and a light box, I've been very good, promise. We will have to see, it could just be the photographer lol.

 

I'd like to enter this in to the following challenges:

 

Papertake Weekly - Christmas Creatures

Country View Crafts - Bah-Humbug

Bearly Mine Challenge - Sketch #116

Through The Craft Room Door - Anything Goes

Winter Wonderland - Embossing (Dry & Heat)

A Creative Romance - Sparkle at Christmas

Scribble & Scrap - Challenge #7 Anything Goes

 

Thanks for visiting, I really appreciate your comments and try to visit all your blogs too. I always look at your work even if I don't have time to comment.

The glitter is calling, must dash,

 

Lorraine

 





 

 

Birthday Wish

Hello again, what a change it is to wake up to sunshine.
Today I'm going to share with you a Birthday card that I have made for my Hubby's birthday which is in a couple of weeks time. (It's ok, he doesn't read my blog). He rather likes steam engines whether large or small as in this great Mo Manning image The Engineer. I had seen this image a long time ago and purchased it with the idea of this card. A bit of dry embossing, inking, some promarkers and embellishments and here it is......

 

 

I hope he likes it, in fact apart from the moustache this could be him, lol, don't tell him I said so :)

 

I'm entering in to the following challenges:

Scribble & Scrap - Anything Goes

A Creative Romance - Add Metal

Through The Craftroom Door - Anything Goes

Crafty Little Fairies - Anything Goes

Papertake Weekly - Sketchie Free For All #55 (flipped)

 

Have a great day crafty pals,

See you soon

 

Lorraine

Happy Birthday to a Wonderful Friend !

I'd like to share with you a birthday card that I made for a good friend of mine. She loves her holidays and so when I saw this card on a blog the other day I just had to purchase the image from Mo's Digital Pencil and create my card. I used the original card layout for inspiration and changed a few things to make it appropriate for my friend.



The two digi's can be found here and here.
I coloured both the background and sunbather with Promarkers, cut her out and stuck her on to the background and put shading around the edge of the towel to ground the image. I used polka dot papers and buttons to carry on the theme of her bikini. In my stash I had a starfish charm and a small pair of silver coloured sunglasses which went beautifully with the beach theme also. Here is a close up of her enjoying her cocktail...

 





I'd like to enter this card in to these challenges:
Mo's Digital Pencil - 'H is for'........ Hot
Papertake Weekly - Anything Goes

I love Mo's images, I have quite a few now, they are so easy to colour and uncanny in that they resemble someone you know, lol.

Thanks for joining me today,

See you all soon,

Lorraine

World Card Making Day

Hi Crafters !

As it is World Card Making Day I had better show you all a card, hadn't I. Although I haven't been posting on my blog this week, I haven't been idle either. I have now caught up with all the blogs that I follow and seen some beautiful creations from you all, left a few comments and made a few cards of my own. I have had a lot of commissioned cards to catch up with and here's a peek at some of them now...

 .... I'd like to enter this card in to the Through The Craftroom Door Challenge - Anything Goes.

and Papertake Weekly Challenge - Anything Goes.

The young lad who asked for this card was very specific about what he wanted on it, these were all the things his mummy loved so I was pleased he liked it.

 

 

And finally I would like to enter this creation into the Challenge over on In the Pink - their challenge theme this time is Luscious Lace.

Hope you've had a great day,

See you soon,

Lorraine

M.I.A.

Phew where has this week gone?...
Sorry I've been missing in action this week, it's been very hectic in our household. I've also been beavering away in my craftroom trying to make lots of things for a stall at a Macmillan Coffee Morning that I have been kindly asked to attend. The only thing was that it was very short notice and I did not have many items to sell. So many hours later, I now have Christmas tags, packs of cards, a few items of handmade jewellery, notebooks etc to take next week. I will show a picture soon of my table set out.
For now though, I would like to enter this card in two challenges:

Through The Craft Room Door - Anything Goes

Papertake Weekly Challenge - Make It Sparkle

 

 

 

 



Firstly, I die-cut the reindeer and tree line and then heat embossed them with black and white embossing powder. the starry night background was inked using Distress Inks -Stormy Sky and Chipped Sapphire. I had already dry embossed the cardstock with a snowfall embossing folder so I then high-lighted each 'bump' with stickles. the moon was punched out of pearlescent card and two snowflakes added to the corner.

Hope you like.

 

See you soon

Lorraine

The Mighty Oak

Hi, evening everyone,

This is my latest card....a masculine card...I struggle with these. I like putting lace and flowers and trims and glitter and pretty things on my cards but guy cards don't allow any of these and that causes me to ponder and scratch my head about what to embellish it with. However, I finally finished it and I'm quite pleased.

The lovely oak tree stamp is from Sheena Douglas which I have heat embossed with black embossing powder and then created the background with my distress inks. A few patterned papers matted and layered to create a staggered background and a banner sentiment. Doesn't sound like much but I spent hours swapping and changing things around until I thought it looked ok.

I'd like to enter this card in to the Papertake Weekly Challenge - Anything Goes

See you soon

Lorraine

Got The Blues

Hello Crafters....
....I haven't really got the blues, it's just that for two days in a row I have somehow been drawn to make blue cards and I never use that colour normally. I was asked to make a card for a lady whose birthday is coming up soon and her favourite colour is.....blue.
Here it is....

The layout of this card was inspired by an example I found on Pinterest (bad place, I spend far too much time looking at stuff, lol.) I'll put a link to her boards, she makes some wonderful cards. Paperpastimes .

I used:

 

Couture Creations embossing folder-Tied Together

Spellbinders Dies- Splendid Circles, Classic Circles, Fancy Lattice and Nested Pennants
Die-namics Die- Fancy Flourish

Flowers- Wild Orchid Crafts

Pearls- Woodware pearl border

Sentiment- Waltzingmouse Stamps
 

 

 I'm going to enter this for the Papertake Weekly Challenge . 'Flower Power' . This will be my second entry but I'm sure you are allowed up to five. So fingers crossed coz the sponsor this time is The Ribbon Girl and I would really love to choose some goodies from there, great range in flowers, ribbons and trim.

 

Well, the family are hungry again I can hear their stomachs from here, lol, crafting hat off and cooking hat on.

 

See you soon,

 

Lorraine



Flower Power

Goodness! It's a whole week since I last blogged, where does the time go?
I've been really busy with family this week so crafting time has been limited. I have still managed to look at all your blogs though, and there have been some stunning cards from you all to inspire me, so, here's what I came up with...

I thought I would try a different shape card this time, I seem to be stuck in a rut of just grabbing an A5 card blank so it's time to change it up a bit. I looked around the internet and found this centre step card fold, so here it is....

 

 

I also gave myself a bit of a challenge to use the colour 'blue'. It's one colour I tend to avoid using, I think it turned out ok, don't you?
I stamped the image and coloured it using my Promarkers and then gave the petals a coat of Glossy Accents. The oval mats are Spellbinders  Classic Ovals and Floral Ovals Dies. The rest of the card was made up of matted layers of patterned paper from Papermania and lots of silver peel-offs. Oh, and a blue ribbon bow.

Today I would like to enter my card into the Papertake Weekly Challenge - 'Flower Power'.
Take a visit to their page and check out all the creations there and maybe join in yourself, it's great fun.

Enjoy your day,

Lorraine

Papertake Weekly Challenge

Today I thought I would enter this pretty New Baby card in to the challenge taking place on Papertake Weekly.

 

                                                                                                                                                                          

The theme this week is 'Anything Goes'.

 

I've used a selection of different cutting dies on this card, here's a list:

• Spellbinders Nestabilities Labels Twenty-Five
• Spellbinders Nestabilities Majestic Labels Twenty-Five (Love these new dies)
• Spellbinders Shapeabilities Fancy Framed Tags One
• Marianne Creatables LR0218 (Pram)

 

I embossed the yellow cardstock with my favourite embossing folder 'Tied Together' by Couture Creations and added an adhesive pearl where the pattern intersects. Finally I stamped the sentiment and added an organza bow and pale yellow cabochon.  







 Hope you like it,

Come back soon,

Lorraine