Repeat Post

Hi Everyone,
Well that's the first time I've encountered that! Mr Linky won't let me enter a second card in to a challenge if it has the same URL as another card that's already entered. I'm sure I've managed to post two cards on my blog and enter them in to the same challenge before. Nevermind, I'm afraid you will have to endure a repeat post for my second Maisie card so I can use a new URL.
So here is 'Maisie' revisited...

 

So this card uses  'Maisie Two Balloons' by LOTV and My Minds Eye papers - 'The Sweetest Thing - Tangerine' and some cut apart banners from the pad with a few MME enamel dots thrown in for good measure.

 

Challenges

Sketch Saturday - #332

Come And Get It - Childs Card

TTCRD - Anything Goes

Sister Act - #79 Anything Goes

LOTV Ideas To Inspire - Anything Goes

CHNC Patterned Paper Challenge - October challenge

 

I'm off now, I mean it this time, lol

 

Lorraine

Practising Colouring Balloons

Hi Everyone,
I've had this gorgeous little Lili of the Valley stamp in my stash for ages and haven't used it before - shame on me -  so I thought I had better ink it up and colour it today. The balloons were a challenge to colour because I wanted to be able to see through the front one and make it translucent. So I have been practising and made two cards to show today and another that I will share tomorrow.

This is 'Maisie Two Balloons' and isn't she a sweetie !
I coloured her and the balloons with my Promarkers but paper pieced the dress using a design paper from 'The Shabby Shack' paper pad, also from Lili of the Valley.
Both papers on this card were from the same pad. I embossed the green one with a Stampin'Up embossing folder.
The little banners are MFT dies and that's an LOTV sentiment stamp too.
Then I glittered around the image with glamour dust, something I picked up from Dawny P.

Challenges,

Sketch Saturday - #332

Come And Get It - Childs Card

TTCRD - Anything Goes

Sister Act - #79 Anything Goes

Creative Fingers - #53 Anything Goes

Suzy Bee's Bloomin' Challenge - #51 ATG + twist Add Pink

LOTV Ideas To Inspire - Anything Goes

Crafty Calendar Challenge - Bingo

(embossing, sentiment, sparkle)

 

 

My second card is along the same theme but with an orange and yellow colour scheme.

 

 

So this card is similar but uses My Minds Eye papers - 'The Sweetest Thing - Tangerine' and some cut apart banners from the pad with a few MME enamel dots thrown in for good measure.

 

Challenges

Sketch Saturday - #332

Come And Get It - Childs Card

TTCRD - Anything Goes

Sister Act - #79 Anything Goes

LOTV Ideas To Inspire - Anything Goes

CHNC Patterned Paper Challenge - October challenge

 

So glad you could visit me this evening, please join me again tomorrow for another 'Maisie' card.

 

Bye for now,

 

Lorraine







613 Avenue Create Challenge #94 - Candy Treats

Hi Everyone,

This is my DT project for the new challenge at 613 Avenue Create. The Design team were asked to come up with candy treat holders but it's 'Anything Goes' for all who want to enter. There are some fab sponsors again this time, all the details and rules can be found HERE.

Recipe

Image from Doodle Pantry - Bitty Bat and Pumpkin

Promarkers

Treat Box - Silhouette Cut File

Rustic fence and spider web stamp - Chocolate baroque

Silver Embossing Powder

Sweets - In my tummy, lol.

 

 Doodle Pantry have a huge variety of great images to choose from and I thought this little bat fitted beautifully with the theme of my treat holder.

 

Challenges

Not Just Cards - #4 Anything Goes

The Shabby Tea Room - #237 Show Your Shape

Papertake Weekly - Super Fly

Crafty Catz - #251 Black + One other colour

Creative Fingers - #53 Anything Goes

Fussy And Fancy - #125 Orange and Black

A Little Bit Crafty - Boo!

Bunny Zoes Challenge - Animals

 

Please pop over to the blog for lots of inspirational projects from the rest of the DT and why not join in while you are there?

 

See you soon,

 

Lorraine



Christmas Card Club Challenge #22 Christmas Reindeer

Hi Everyone,
Yay! the weekend has arrived, it's been such a busy week I'm glad that Saturday is here and I can slow down a bit. It's also time for another Christmas Card challenge too and today it is Rita's turn to choose a theme and she came up with 'Christmas Reindeers'.
I have chosen this cute stamp called 'Peeking Rudolphs' and unusually for me a CAS card.

 Recipe

A6 card blank

Peeking Rudolphs wood stamp

Promarkers

Crafts Too 'Snow' embossing folder

Crafters Companion sentiment stamp 

Dotty Ribbon

I do like to give myself a challenge now and again and this CAS card was most certainly a challenge. I have always found them difficult to do, I just want to keep putting more on it, I can't seem to be comfortable leaving the open spaces alone on the card. Now I've seen many beautiful CAS cards on the internet and they look fine with very little on them but when I do it, it just doesn't look right. But that said, I am quite happy with how this has turned out now.

Challenges

Addicted To Stamps - #89 Anything Goes

Scribble & Scrap - #29 Anything Goes

Crafting From The Heart - #40 Anything Goes

TTCRD - Anything Goes

Deep Ocean Challenge - #88 Christmas In October

Diva's By Design - Texture

Cute Card Thursday - #343 One layer Card

Sister Act - #79 Anything Goes

Creative Fingers - #53 Anything Goes

One Crazy Stamper - Halloween/Christmas

Penny Black & More - Get Ahead For Christmas

Bunny Zoes Crafts - Animals

Little Claire's Designs - #50 Christmas Theme

CHNC Christmas Extra - October Challenge
CHNC Challenge Saturday - Use something forgotten of never used (New Stamp)

Please check out the other CCC members blogs, list in tab above, there will be some great inspiration for your Christmas card makes there but also do remember that I am a day early posting my entry so theirs won't be until tomorrow.

See you tomorrow,

Lorraine

Halloween Treat Holders

Hi Crafters,
 Well it's sunny here at the moment and I'm enjoying that for as long as it lasts, I think we are in for a wet weekend though. The sun has been streaming in through my craft room window and yet I have been making snowy, frosty Christmas cards and Halloween treat holders, lol.
I will share the Christmas cards later but for now, here is my little battalion of witches, Frankensteins, Pumkins and skull treat boxes.

These were all cut on my Cameo, which takes a lot of the fiddly part out of making them but when you make 14 and the witch one has 20 pieces alone to stick together, then it was quite a task. This was an order for a couple of friends of mine but I don't think I will be making any more, they just take too much time.

Challenges

A Little Bit Crafty - Boo!

Not Just Cards - #4 Anything Goes

TTCRD - Anything Goes

 

Take care everyone and I will be back soon with some DT posts for the 'CCC' and 613 Avenue Create over the weekend.

 

Lorraine



 

Guest DT Spot at Quirky Crafts Challenge

Hi Crafters,
A couple of weeks ago I won the challenge at Quirky Crafts and was then asked if I would like to do a guest spot on their next challenge. Well, of course I said 'Yes please'!
The challenge this time is called 'Quirky Frame It' - there are some great sponsors for the challenge so why not join in? Here is my project which I hope will give you some inspiration to enter the challenge yourself.

Isn't this a gorgeous image? It's from The East Wind Etsy shop. I coloured her using my Promarkers and she measured 8 1/2 x 12 1/2 cm. after I had printed her out.
The frame is constructed from Kraft card which I embossed with a wood-grain embossing folder and inked with Gathered Twigs Distress Ink. I cut the four sections of the frame and curved them before adhering to the backing card to make it dimensional. Here is a side view so that hopefully you can see the dimension.

   I was really pleased that this turned out just as I had envisioned it in my head. This doesn't always happen, lol.
I would like to enter this in to some challenges...

Addicted To Stamps - #89 Anything Goes

Papertake Weekly - Anything Goes

Cute Card Thursday - #342 Anything But A Card

Creative Fingers - #52 Anything Goes
Scribble & Scrap - #29 Anything Goes



Hope you are all having a great day,
See you soon,

Lorraine

Relax! It's your Birthday!

Hi Everyone,

Where has this week gone it's Friday already?
I've had my head down, crafting away for most of the week. I've had some DT work to do then I was kindly asked to do a guest DT spot - more about that in a day or two - also this month and next is the busiest time in my family for birthdays and anniversaries so I have been beavering away making cards for friends and family. Probably why the week has gone by so fast.
Here is my card for today...

It's another image from Ladybug Crafts - Slobbing Nikki - I prefer the word 'relaxing' but that's what it's called.

Recipe

Slobbing Nikki - ladybug Crafts

Promarkers

'Happy Birthday' Embossing Folder

SB scalloped Grand Circle Die

SB Grand Decorative Circle Die

Mini gems

 

Challenges

A Creative Romance - Photo Inspiration (hope this qualifies with the blues and purples)

Sister Act - #78 Anything Goes

Creative Fingers - #52 Anything Goes

Bunny Zoe's Crafts - Animals

Crafty Calender Challenge - Bingo (Sparkle, Die cuts, Blue)

Crafting From The Heart - #39 Anything Goes

Papertake Weekly - Anything Goes

 

I love these images they are so easy to colour and this one suited my friend, whose birthday it was, she likes nothing better than to curl up on the sofa in her dressing gown in the evening.

 

Hope you have a fun weekend!

 

Lorraine