Time To.....

 Hi Crafters,

It's been very windy here over night, I hope it has been uneventful where ever you are.

Just popping in today with a quick post to enter my card in a challenge or two.

Recipe

Clock Face, Hands and Cogs cut on my Silhouette Cameo 

Happy Birthday Banner Die

Background Paper - Bearly Mine Crafts (no longer in business)

Gems

Challenges I'd like to enter:

The Male Room - #159 Clocks

Daring Cardmakers - In the Nick of Time

I haven't used my Silhouette Cameo for a very long time (maybe that's because it's somewhat hidden under all the crafting supplies - I really must find time to tidy up after each project).

Happy Monday!

Lorraine

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Shake It! - Pink and Girly

Hi Crafters,

Another post from me today... I'm on a roll ;o)

I'd like to share with you this pink shaker card. I have seen Jennifer D sharing some of her gorgeous shaker creations over the past few days and this got me to thinking and creating my own.

Now, This isn't anything like as stunning as Jennifer's but I'd like to thank her for the inspiration.

Recipe

Unicorn Silhouette - Silhouette Cameo Cut File

Glitter Card

Sequins, Beads and Course Glitter

Tattered Lace 'Happy Birthday' Sentiment Die

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

In The Pink - #111 What's New? (Cut File & Assorted Sequins)

Aud Sentiments - #171 ATG + Sentiment

Delicious Doodles - #20 Use Something New (Cut File & Assorted Sequins)

Deep Ocean - #146 Anything New (Cut File & Assorted Sequins)

Try It On Tuesday - Anything BUT Square

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Thank you for all your recent visits and I hope you have a wonderful Friday.

Lorraine

xXx

Terrible Two's

Hi Crafters,

I've been playing with my Silhouette Cameo again recently and come up with these two card designs for little boys cards.

Quite simple designs but I love the bold colours.

I have highlighted with a white gel pen and the background papers are from a Decotime pad from The Range.

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Challenges I'd like to enter:

Fab 'n' Funky - #333 Birthday with a Number

Lil' Patch of Crafty Friends - #50 ATG

Incy Wincy Designs - For the Men in your Life

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I do love to join in with some challenges, they help with inspiration or just to decide what theme to create with but lately I've had three separate challenges where I have won a prize and despite emailing and doing all that's necessary to claim my prize I haven't heard a thing back from them which is quite disappointing. Whilst we don't enter these challenges just for the prizes it is nice when you win one to actually receive that prize don't you think? Has anyone else experienced this lately?

Well I will hopefully see you back here tomorrow when I will be sharing my DT card for Passion for Promarkers.

Thank you for visiting

Lorraine

xXx

Look in to the Mirror - What do you see?

Hi Crafters,

I had so many Birthday wishes for Sunday I hope I thanked you all, if I missed anyone then a big thank you again as I really appreciated your kind thoughts. 

I joined in a Halloween/Autumn card swap recently and now that my swap partner has received her Halloween card I can share it here with you all.

Recipe

Digital Papers

Silhouette Cameo Files - Spider Web Mirror, Ghosts, Poison Bottle, Trick or Treat words.

Witch Image - Internet, printed on acetate

Muslin

Googly Eyes

Cosmic Shimmer Embossing Powder

I had great fun making this and here's the inside.

Challenges I'd like to enter:

Crafty Cardmakers - #175 Things that go Bump in the Night

Deep Ocean - #140 Halloween

Try It On Tuesday - Scary, Spooky

Creative Moments - #104 ATG/Pumpkins

Creative Inspirations - #260 Halloween/Fall

Crafty Friends - #43 ATG

Unicorn Challenge - #14 Pretty Pinks/Halloween

Country View Crafts - All Things Spooky

Crafty Calendar - Halloween

Noor Designs - #23 CAS/Fully Loaded

Delicious Doodles - #17 Halloween

OSAAT - #273 ATG + Halloween

Thanks for joining me today, I'd better hop to it and get some dinner ready now before the family start shouting :/

Lorraine

xXx

Sharing an 'Oldie' on Friday

Hi Crafters,

I haven't joined in with Erika at Snappy Crafts for a few weeks now so thought I had better find an old craft project to share today and join in the fun.

This was a sweet little Christmas Gift Box that I made a few years ago when I first owned my Silhouette Cameo cutting machine. It was to gift wrap some earrings and looked so cute being only 10 cm x 7 cm. The organza bow is the closure and passes through the layers of the flap securing it tightly shut.

It has been a lovely, bright day here but quite chilly and I'm sure the heating will have to on this evening, {groan} winter is on it's way, but we are forecast a few more brighter days this weekend so I will make the most of it.

Hope everyone is ok and I'll see you again soon.

Lorraine

Happy Retirement

Hi Crafters,
I was asked to make a retirement card for my husbands' work colleague and although he doesn't have a specific hobby right now I am sure that when he retires he will soon find some interest to fill the days ahead. So I went for a generic theme on his card and here it is...

I got out my 'All Occasions Dies' by Robert Addams and cut out the tools twice - once in silver mirri and once in a blue cardstock and layered them together to look like real tools. I found a picture of a peg board on the internet and printed this out to 'hang' my tools on. The wood paper is from My Minds Eye (forget which pad) and the sentiment was cut on my Silhouette Cameo in blue cardstock and layered on silver mirri cut to form a shadow. The pegs are tiny black gems that I found in my stash.

Challenges:
A Creative Romance - Anything Goes
Creative Fingers - #60 Anything Goes
Sentimental Sundays - #237 Anything Goes
TTCRD - Anything Goes
Diva's By Design - Anything Goes
 

Hope you enjoy your day, whatever you get up too.

 

See you soon,

Lorraine

Carrying on with the Christmas Theme

Hi Crafters,
A short and sweet post today - lots to do but I thought I would share these cute little Santa gift boxes I have made to package some small gifts in for family at the Christmas table.

I've been using my Silhouette Cameo again and made eight of these for my Christmas table favours this year, - now to find suitable presents that fit inside. I read on Annette's blog that she had the same problem, maybe I should have done it the other way around, presents, then box -  ah well, they're cute anyway.
On a completely different subject, I've had to change my comments to embedded for the moment because of Blogger's silliness. Everyone has had this issue over the past few days with word verification being automatically switched on with the pop-up box comments and although you can still leave a comment without adding the numbers, a lot of people will not comment because they think they have to fill in the box. Also, although it has disappeared from some blogs that had it previously, it is still present on mine and is a bit irritating so therefore I have changed to embedded commenting for now. Hope this doesn't affect too many people as I do love reading your comments.
So glad you could join me today,
See you again soon,

Lorraine

Spooky Creations

Hi Crafters,
As it's October 1st, my thoughts started to drift towards Halloween so I have been making some scary treat holders. These were cut on my Silhouette Cameo, layered and inked, then I added a piece of Halloween coloured twine.

 The papers are from Bearly Mine Designs and were a freebie at the time I got them but there are some lovely new Halloween papers on the site now. They measure about 11 cm x 8 cm x 4 cm wide and will hold quite a few sweets.
I'm entering these in the challenge at Diva's By Design - Spooky Creations.
Bearly Mine Designs - Halloween
I also made a few Christmas items for my upcoming stall which I will share with you another time.
Bye for now,

Lorraine

Christmas Card Club Challenge #12 ~ Nativity

Hi Crafters,
Hope you are well and getting plenty of crafting done.
Life has been a bit hectic here for the past fortnight and so my post for the Christmas Card Club is a couple of days late. Our challenge was set by Sue J. and was a great theme - Nativity - however, having searched through my stash of stamps and digi's I could not find anything to fit the bill, I have Christmas trees, Santa's, Snowmen, Snowflakes and all manner of Christmas goodies but not ...a Nativity scene. Then after seeing some of the great inspirational cards from the other members of our group I had a light bulb moment and remembered the extensive range of cut files that they have at the Silhouette Cameo store. I tend to overlook my Cameo and it's versatility. The fact is that it sits at the back of my table and tends to be partially covered in all manner of things as I rummage through boxes and drawers looking for things that I know I have somewhere but can't quite remember exactly where. ( Am I the only one who does this?....please say I'm not). It also has to be pulled forward from the wall to allow room for the cutting mat to freely go back and forth so this means clearing a space for that too. I'm in desperate need of a re-org in my craftroom I think and it is well overdue. Over the years I have collected quite a lot of crafty goodies and my room is bursting at the seams so I think it's time so ask Hubby for some more shelves.
Sorry, waffle over and on to the card....

The scene was cut from black cardstock and 3D on top of a night sky scene made using Distress Inks. I added some tiny gems for stars. The words were also cut using my Cameo and the glitter snowflakes are a mix of Marianne Designs  and Cheery Lynn dies.

I'm entering in to the following challenges:

TTCRD - Anything Goes

Winter Wonderland - No Red or Green

Crafty Catz - Anything Goes #233

Completely Christmas - Anything Goes #14

CHNC Challenge Extra - Anything Goes Christmas

 

Thanks for stopping by today, as always the links to the other members blogs are in the page tab at the top of my blog, go and see what they have been up to.

 

See you soon,

 

Lorraine

Christmas Card Club - Christmas Lights

~Hi Crafters~

It's that time again folks where our friendly bunch of ladies at the Christmas Card Club share a card they have made around the theme set. This time it was Asha's turn to choose and she came up with a great theme of 'Christmas Lights'. Now I knew exactly what I was going to do when I heard this because I have been sitting on a pack of embellishments just waiting for the right occasion to use them - a set of coloured Christmas tree light beads. Here is my card.

Aren't they cute!

I cut the tree shape with my Silhouette Cameo and then covered it with fronds made with a Martha Stewart punch, added some green tinsel string and the light beads, cut a trunk and embossed it with a wood grain embossing folder. I used a torn piece of glitter card for the snowy ground and can you see those gorgeous little snow balls? I won a mixed pack of these in a blog candy from Bumblebee Creations and they arrived just in time from America for me to combine them in this card.

I will be entering this card into some challenges which I will edit later today, Sunday is rather busy for me, visiting family and catching up with housework so I will be back later to add these.

Challenges

Scribble & Scrap - Anything Goes #16

TTCRD - Anything Goes

ABC Christmas Challenge - G is for Glitter ( Glitter card for snow)

Completely Christmas - Anything Goes #7

My Mum's Craft Shop - Anything Goes #16

CHNC  - Anything Goes - April

Hope you liked my card today and do go and visit the other ladies blogs to see what they have created - the links are up in the tab at the top of my blog.

Hope you enjoy the rest of today, catch you later for a blog visit.

 

Lorraine

Easter Cards

Hi Crafters,
I've been busy today mass producing some simple Easter cards and thought I would share them with you.

 

The Easter word in the frame was cut using my Silhouette Cameo then I used lots of glitter and a flourish stamp for the detailed edges. I struggled a little with the Silhouette program today because it had updated and had a different look to the screen and features. I'd only just managed to get a partial grasp of where most of the tools were and what they did on the last version, so it took a bit of figuring out and playing around but I got there in the end. I'm the kind of person that likes things to stay the same but I guess that's unlikely in todays world eh?

Hope you all enjoyed the Sun today it was gorgeous here in my part of Norfolk.

 

See you soon,

 

Lorraine

Tea Bag Dispenser

Hi Crafters,
Well the turkey has been eaten and the Christmas pudding is gone too, I still have a few Quality Street left in the tin but they won't be there for long so I guess Christmas is over for another year :o(
but just to make it last a bit longer I would like to show you one of the gifts I made this year using my Silhouette Cameo machine. It's a very versatile cutting machine and although I've had it for about  a year now I have still only scratched the surfaced with what it can do.
This Tea Bag Dispenser holds a full box of individually wrapped tea bags, these ones were rose flavoured herbal tea and it looks so much better displayed on your worktop than a plain box.

This is a top view of the lid...

This was very easy to put together and can be made in any colour you like, the design was purchased at the Silhouette online store.

Come back later for my list of 5 favourite creations of 2013 - I'm joining in the fun at A Scrapjourney why don't you join in, there's Candy too.
See you later
Lorraine