Fun with Lego !

Hi Everyone,
Happy weekend to you all whatever you are up to.
I had a couple of commissioned cards to make for a little boy who loves his Lego so I set about making my own set of Lego bricks...

Somehow the camera has distorted the top of this card but I can assure you the bricks are straight IRL

Aren't these fun!
I cut the blocks from bright cardstock and set about punching out the circles with a small Xcut punch.
A long time later, lol, I had them all edged with matching distress marker and foam pads on the back ready to make in to the blocks. After they were fixed on to the card I highlighted the shine on the blocks with a white gel pen. It turned out quite realistic I think.
(Top Tip Tuesday Challenge Tip) :Then I had the idea of making another card which I could sell at an upcoming event without knowing the age and cut out some black numbers, mounted them on foam pads and popped them onto some leftover backing sheet of an old foam pad packet. Now this card can be suitable for either a '4', '5', '6', '7', '8' or '9' year old. The customer can easily add the correct age for the Birthday boy when the time comes.

 The stamp set used on all the cards was from MFT - Die-namics By The Numbers and the number die comes with it.

Challenges

TTCRD - Anything Goes

Top Tip Tuesday - Anything Goes (TopTip- set of numbers on backing)

Diva's by Design - Happy Birthday

Brown Sugar - Anything Goes

Sister Act - Anything Goes

Creative Fingers - Anything Goes

 

Enjoy your weekend! September starts on Monday, I can barely believe it. I had better get stuck in to making some more Christmas cards, my box is not nearly full enough yet.

See you soon,

 

Lorraine

Furry Friends

Hi Everyone,
These new digital stamps from Sugar Nellie are so cute and I couldn't resist getting a few. They have a competition over on the blog and this is my entry...there's a great prize so fingers crossed.

This little cutie is called 'Highflyer' and is so sweet. I coloured him with my Promarkers and stamped a sentiment in the banner from a Scrapberry set. The papers were oddments that I had in my scraps box and the sentiment inside the Stampin' Up oval punch was from LOTV.
I followed a sketch for this card so would like to enter it in the Papertake Weekly challenge also.

Challenges

Sugar Nellie - Kit and Clowder Competition

 

Papertake Weekly - Sketchie Free For All (sketch # 26)

 

 

Eureka Stamps - CAS

Passion For Promarkers - Transport

Creative Moments - Anything Goes

My Mum's Craft Shop - Clean & Simple

 

Thanks for visiting today, see you soon,

 

Lorraine

 



Relaxing in the Man Cave

Hi Everyone,
Yay ! The sun has come out today here and it feels much better, hope you are enjoying some sunshine where you are.
This is another card I made for my Nephew, the image comes from Karen's Doodles and is called Man Cave.

recipe

6 x 6 card blank

Man Cave image - Karen's Doodles

Promarkers

Sentiments - LOTV & The Paper Studio

Go Kreate large Oval dies

Hand cut banners

Cuttlebug Embossing folder for background

Enamel dots

 

This image was so much fun to colour and I enjoyed creating the stone wall look in the cave. Here's a close up of the image...

 

 

The background was created by embossing the green cardstock with the cuttlebug folder and then applying Versamark clear embossing ink over the raised squares so they could be heat embossed with clear embossing powder - I thought this looked like animal skin.

 

Challenges

I love Promarkers - #234 Make Your Own Background

Diva's By Design - Happy Birthday

Sister Act - #71 Anything Goes

Creative Fingers - #46 Anything Goes

Eureka Stamps - CAS

TTCRD - Anything Goes

 

Thanks for joining me today and for your lovely comments over the past few days, it's great to get feedback and encouragement from you :)

 

See you soon,

 

Lorraine

F1 Card

Hi Everyone,
Hope you all had an enjoyable Bank Holiday Weekend (UK). Yesterday the weather was awful so any plans for outside events were a washout - such a shame. I spent the day in my craft room, although production was very slow, maybe today will be better. Here is a card I made for my Nephews' birthday a couple of days ago...

He is a real fan of F1 racing so I found a picture and 3d it up, although that's hard to see here. Hope I got the right car and driver that he follows, I'm afraid it's all gobbledygook to me, lol. Anyhow the 'Happy Birthday was cut using my Tonic sentiment die, then embossed with clear embossing powder and the banners are by Verve.

Challenge:

TTCRD - Anything Goes

 

Take care everyone!

 

Lorraine

 

613 Avenue Create DT Post - #86 Create A Post-It Note Holder

Hi Everyone,
It is time for a new challenge at 613 Avenue Create.
Our challenge theme this time - #86 Anything Goes / Create a Post-It Note Holder...

and our fabulous sponsors are...

All Dressed Up

 

Bugaboo Stamps



                                                      

 

I used two images from 'All Dressed Up' - Little Flower Girl and Fairy Magic. Both were coloured with Promarkers and I doodled around the edges. I found plenty of inspiration and tutorials for making Post-It Note holders on the internet. There are loads of different styles to choose from.

Why don't you join us and enter your Post It Note holder, you could win some fabulous digital images, go on... it's easy!

For more inspiration hop over to 613 Avenue Create and take a peek at what the other DT members have been creating.

Challenges:

TTCRD - Anything Goes

Top Tip Tuesday - Anything Goes

Suzy Bee's Bloomin' Challenge - #43 Anything Goes

 

Well that's all from me today, hope you enjoy the rest of your day,

 

Lorraine

Christmas Card Club #18 - Cardinal / Christmas Bird

Hi Everyone,
Hope all is well with you.
It's that time again where our friendly little group post our Christmas card makes and the theme this time was set by Mary - Cardinal / Christmas Bird.
Now I didn't have a cardinal bird die so you will have to use your imagination and believe that they are really cardinals :) . I so wanted to make a card like this since I saw an example on Pinterest by Kittie of KittieKraft. I have used the tree die cuts that I bought from Ebay, my own MB Stag die, SB Birds on a wire die and Lea'bilities pine branch and holly leaf die. The background was stamped in various green inks with a Stampin' Up 'Lovely as a tree' stamp and I used lots of Star Dust Stickles.

I'd like to enter in to the following challenges

Papertake Weekly - To Die For

Deep Ocean Challenge - Christmas in August

Creative Moments - #49 Anything Goes/Animals

Winter Wonderland - August Anything Goes for Xmas

Sister Act - #71 Anything Goes

Christmas Cards All Year Round - Sparkle & Shine

CHNC Extra - August challenge
Completely Christmas - #26 Anything Goes
Suzy Bee's Bloomin' Challenge - #43 Anything Goes

 

Check out the links to the rest of the CCC ladies in my page tab and see what gorgeous projects they have been making, although you might have to wait until Sunday for their post as I am early showing mine :)  I have my DT post tomorrow for 613 Avenue Create so join me then and see what I have been up to.

 

Bye for now,

 

Lorraine

 

 

Keeping Busy?

Hi Everyone,
Hope you are all well and busy crafting. I've been visiting your blogs as and when I can over the last few days and there have been some beautiful projects to fire up the creative juices.
I have been creating myself but I can't show most of them just yet, some are DT cards and some are for Birthdays that haven't happened yet so I can't spoil the surprise for the recipients. I can however share these two little lovelies....

Both of these are made from a Papermania Decoupage pack
On the first one I added some die cuts to the design -

Marianne Designs Creatables LR0279 & LR0280

MFT Rolled flower die

Joy Crafts flower die

I cut these die cuts and the flowers from the peach coloured packaging and inked through the die (the corners) to give it dimension. This backing card was the perfect match and if you look closely you can see the little butterfly design from the pack.

The second card just has the die cut shapes from the pack although I did make the rosette.

Aren't these images so girly? Handbags and dresses, what more could a girl ask for? :0)

Challenges

Scribble & Scrap - # 25 Anything Goes

TTCRD - Anything Goes

Papertake Weekly - To Die For

Top Tip Tuesday - Anything Goes

Brown Sugar Challenge - #107 Anything Goes

Sister Act Card Challenge - #70 Anything Goes

Creative Fingers - #45 Anything Goes

Suzy Bees Bloomin' Challenge - #42 Anything Goes

Crafty Catz - #244 Recycle It (Peach coloured die cuts are from the packaging)

 

That's all from me today, thanks for looking in, I'll see you soon,

 

Lorraine