Love...

Hi Crafters,

Happy Leap Year Day!

Monday morning soon comes around and I have a card to share with you all.

I have been playing with the CD Rom that comes free with this quarters Crafters Companion Magazine. There are some lovely taster images on it from the 4 featured CD's and here's one of the cards I've made.

It was created using a card companion from the 'Downton Abbey' section of the CD Rom. I have cut it out and layered it up for a little dimension and added some glitter, paper flowers with flower brad centres and the word 'love' is a fancy brad too.

Challenges I'd like to enter:
Try It On Tuesday - Transport
Cute Card Thursday - #414 Florals
Crafty Friends - #26 Floral - Feature a Flower

It's a short post today, thank you for stopping by and taking the time to leave a comment, I read and appreciate every one.
It might be a little quiet here for the upcoming week as I have a stack of orders to get finished and if I get drawn in to the computer then I will never get them done. Is it me or does your computer suck hours out of your day too?

Take care and stay well.

Lorraine
xXx

Sharing an 'Oldie' on Friday

Hi Crafters,

I'm here at last.... phew! it's been a busy day.

Had a great time at the Farmers Market this morning, it's good when all your hard work pays off.

So on to my 'Oldie for Friday' - a bit late in the day but here none-the-less.

This is the fun weekly post where some of us join in with Erika at Snappy Crafts and show an old, crafty project on our blogs.

This card was made a while ago using a stamp set from Habico which had different breeds of dogs and cats on it. This was created for a dog lover as you can tell.

The word stamp is from Woodware and a lovely large one it is too, I embossed this with white EP, the dogs are stamped in brown and embossed using clear EP. The brief was for it to be flat for posting so no embellishments I'm afraid.

Hope you have all had a good day too,

Take care and see you soon,

Lorraine

xXx

As You Like It Challenge #74 - Favourite Occasion and WHY

Hi Crafters,

We all have a favourite occasion right?

So this weeks challenge should be easy peasy!

At As You Like It this time we want to see your cards or projects depicting your Favourite Occasion and WHY.

I have chosen Birthdays as my favourite.

 Creating Birthday cards for friends, family and for orders has afforded me a very wide and varied platform in which to create all kinds of cards in varying styles according to the recipients tastes. I have been able to experiment with different techniques and designs and each card is a new challenge which I love.

This card was one I made for my eldest daughter's birthday last week.

Recipe

Image - Santoro Topper

Papers - Santoro

Organza Rolled Flowers

MFT Flourish Die

Die'sire Edge'ables Die

Corrugated Card

Doily

Gems

Challenges I'd like to enter:

Crafty Friends - #25 Girly

Allsorts - #351 - Birthday Wishes

Bunny Zoe's Crafts - Things with Wings (owl)
TTCRD - ATG

For more details of the challenge and our sponsor Bunny Zoe's Crafts 

please visit the challenge blog here.

Well that's all from me today, I have a busy day ahead getting packed up and ready for my monthly Market stall tomorrow.

Keep well!

Lorraine

xXx

Easter and Mother's Day Goodies

Hi Crafters,

Just a quick hello from me today to share a couple of projects I have been working on.

Easter Egg Boxes

and

Mother's Day Treats

As you can see they are quite deep so I could fit lots of yummy sweets inside.

These were fun and simple to do and make great little gifts for the occasion.

The Easter boxes filled with chocolate eggs were from a tutorial I saw on Pinterest and the Mother's Day ones filled with toffees and mints were inspired by a tutorial on Sam Pootle's blog.

Challenges I'd like to enter:

Crafty Creations - #309 Something To Eat/Drink

Not Just Cards - #29 ATG

Craft-Dee Bowz - Feb. ATG + Bow

OSAAT - 3D Bags and Boxes

Well I can't hang around here for too long, the family will be getting hungry and I haven't decided what we're having yet!

Bye for now,

Lorraine 

xXx

Passion For Promarkers Challenge #334 - Dies and/or Punches

Hi Crafters,

It's Tuesday and that means a new challenge at Passion For Promarkers.

We'd like to see your creations using dies and or punches and your Pro / flex / tria markers of course.

Our sponsor is Dies To Die For and they are offering a £15 Voucher to the winner. 

Now we could all spend £15 on some new dies couldn't we? so what are you waiting for, come and join in!

I've used both dies and punches on my card along with this sweet little Penny Black stamp...

Recipe

Stamped Image - Penny Black, Seeing your face...
Medium - Pro/flexmarkers
Papers - Printable Heaven
Dies - Spellbinders Lacey Circles, Circles and Scalloped Border
Crafty Notions Hedgehog Die
Stampin' Up Ticket Punch
Sentiment Stamp - Magazine Freebie
Flowers - Wild Orchid Crafts

Challenges I'd like to enter:
Creative Inspirations - #345 ATG / Sketch (Flipped)

Aud Sentiments - #149 Cute + Sentiment
One Crazy Stamper - ATG
Penny Black and More - ATG with a Stamp and a Die
Addicted To Stamps - #120 Stamp and Die Cuts
The Ribbon Girl - Feb. Use any Image
Lil' Patch of Crafty Friends - #28 ATG
Crafting From The Heart - #100 ATG

For more details and inspiration please pop over to the blog, where you will see what the rest of the team have created.

By for now,

Lorraine

xXx

613 Avenue Create Challenge #164 - Anything Goes / Colour Challenge

Hi Crafters,

**If you are looking for my CCC card then please scroll down to the previous post thanks**

Why not join in the fun at 613 Avenue Create this week? 

Our challenge is always a nice and easy Anything Goes one with an optional twist this week of using a Colour Grid.

We have a prize of 3 digital images for the winner from our sponsor Crafty Sentiments.

I have used this image called Mia for my card.

Recipe

Image - Mia ~ Crafty Sentiments

Medium - Pro/flexmarkers

Clothing - Paper Pieced

Papers - Unknown and various, (bought in a batch from Ebay)

Spellbinders Floral Oval Die & Scalloped Border

Creative Expressions Petite Peony Cluster Die

Sentiment Tag - Lili of the Valley

Pearls

Instead of colouring all of this sweet image with my Promarkers I decided to paper piece her jacket and leggings and add shading with my markers. I like how this turned out and am very pleased with the card over all. It's colour combo is a little unusual for me but I think it works.

Challenges I'd like to enter:

Addicted To Stamps - #120 Die Cuts

I Love Promarkers - #302 Bingo (Ribbon, Sentiment, Flower)

Creative Inspirations - #345 ATG / Sketch

Cute Card Thursday - #413 Warm Colours

Aud Sentiments - #149 Cute + Sentiment

Brown Sugar - #186 ATG

Creative Fingers - #103 ATG

Crafty Friends - #25 Girly

Allsorts Challenge - #351 Birthday Wishes

Crafty Girlz - #12 ATG

Craft-Dee Bowz - Feb. ATG + Bow

For more details and inspiration please follow this link to the blog. There you will find the colour grid to follow if you choose to and some fabulous cards and projects from the rest of the team.

Lorraine

xXx

Christmas Card Club Challenge #4 - Icicles

Hi Crafters,

I'm posting my CCC card a day early as I have another DT card due tomorrow. 

Kate is our hostess this time and has chosen the theme of 'icicles'.

Recipe

Memory Box Die - Cute Cottage & Frosted Roof and Ledges

Sizzix Striplet Die - Stacked Words - Christmas

Paper Smooches Stitched Dies 

Distress Inks - Tumbled Glass, Salty Ocean

Perfect Pearls Shimmer Mist

Crafts Too Embossing Folder

Black Brad

Glitter Card

I made my own sky background for this card. I used water colour paper and my distress inks and swooshed the wet paper through the inks on my craft mat, dried it a little with my heat gun and then sprayed the Perfect Pearls Shimmer spray, which is very shimmery in real life but a little shy here.

Dried the paper again, embossed the snow using the embossing folder, then ran a white ink pad carefully over the raised bumps and used clear embossing powder to further highlight them.

The cottage and words were cut from textured core'dinations cardstock and I sanded the cottage after running that though a wood-grain embossing folder. This card has lots of texture and lots of  shimmer too, hope you like it.

Challenges I'd like to enter:

That Craft Place - ATG
Creative Moments - #87 ATG / Wet / Dry Embossing
Crafty Catz - #312 CAS, No DP
Brown Sugar - #186 ATG
Creative Fingers - #103 ATG
Country View Challenge - Make your own background
Crafty Girlz - #12 ATG
The 12 MoC Link Up - #14 ATG / Winter Wonderland
CHNC Christmas Challenge - February Challenge

I have quite a few Christmas cards made already this year and am feeling rather pleased about that, looking forward to a 'no rush' approach to Christmas this year.

Enjoy your weekend and see you tomorrow,

Lorraine

xXx