As You Like It Challenge #72 - One Layer or Multiple Layers and WHY

Hi Crafters,

Hello and welcome, it's lovely to have you visit me today.

I'm sharing my DT card for the challenge at As You Like It today where we would love to see your creations using your favourite one layer or multiple layer styles.

You must remember to tell us WHY you have chosen this particular style please.

I much prefer, and also find it easier to create a project with multiple layers because I like to have a variety of embellishments, colours and textures on my cards. A clean and simple design is a very daunting prospect for me as I find it difficult to walk away after one layer, lol.

Here is my card...

Recipe

Image - found on the Internet

Papers - Fizzy Moon with Love - Mr & Mrs Paper Pad

Word Die Cuts - Britannia Dies

Corner Die Cut (underneath background) - Marianne Designs LR0281

Corner Die Cut (on image) - Joy Crafts 6002/0172

Glitter

Satin Ribbon

Pearls

Challenges I'd like to enter:

Crafty Girlz - #11 ATG

Craft-Dee Bowz - ATG + Bow

OSAAT - #254 Tic Tac Toe (3 or more layers, Lots of blue, Pearls)

Crafty Cardmakers - #156 - Punches and/or Dies

Our sponsor this time is

Crafts U Love

who are offering a £10 gift voucher to the winner.

Please pop over to the challenge blog for some more inspiration from the rest of the design team.

See you soon,

Lorraine 

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New Home

Hi Crafters,

This post is being blown to you from a very windy Norfolk today.

I have a New Home card to share with you all today created using a rather lovely stamp from Inkylicious.

Recipe

Sentiment Stamp - Inkylicious - New Home

Black Embossing Powder

House Dies - CraftEmotions

Distress Inks

I began by inking some white card with a range of blue Distress Inks until I had the sky how I liked it. Then I stamped and heat embossed the large sentiment and added the house die cuts in a row popping the red one up on foam pads for a little definition.

A quick and easy make this time.

Challenges I'd like to enter:

Aud Sentiments - #147 ATG

Winter Wonderland - Something New - New Home

Creative Fingers - #101 ATG

One Crazy Stamper - January Challenge ATG

Crafty Calendar Challenge - Something New - New Home

Incy Wincy Designs - Tic Tac Toe (Embossing, Red, Die Cut)

Crafty Cardmakers - #156 Punches +/ Dies

TTCRD - ATG

Well we are at the middle of the week, it is down hill from here, hope you have a good Wednesday!

Lorraine 

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Passion For Promarkers Challenge #330 - Clean & Simple

Hi Crafters,

We're asking for your 'Clean and Simple' creations at Passion For Promarkers this week. Remember to use your Letraset markers to qualify an entry in the draw and tell us where on your project you have used them.
For my card today I have used this lovely stamp from LC Designs who is our sponsor for this challenge and coloured the tulips and ground with my Promarkers.

Recipe

Stamped Image - Wavy Cats & Tulips - LC Designs

Medium - Pro/flexmarkers

Papers - Bo Bunny - Isabella Designer Paper Pack

Gems

Challenges I'd like to enter:
In The Pink - Bling It On
Aud Sentiments - #147 ATG
One Crazy Stamper - January Challenge - ATG
Crafting From The Heart - #96 ATG

LC designs are offering 6 digital images to the winner so get out your markers and let's play!

Lorraine
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613 Avenue Create Challenge # 160 Anything Goes

Hi Crafters,

**If you're looking for my Christmas Card Club card then please scroll down**

How are you all on this Sunday morning?

Well I hope and enjoying your weekend.

We have a totally 'Anything Goes' challenge this week at 613 Avenue Create with no twist so you can create whatever you wish for this challenge. Let's see what you can all come up with.

I have used this beautiful image from one of our sponsors, Stitchy Bear, called 'Darling Daisies'.

Recipe

Image - Darling Daisies - Stitchy Bear

Medium - Pro/flexmarkers

Creative Expressions Die - Californian Collection, Corner and Border

Silver Mirri Card

Spotty Organza Ribbon 

Challenges I'd like to enter:

That Craft Place - ATG

Fab n Funky - #288 Buttons or Bows or Both

Craft-Dee Bowz - January challenge
The Ribbon Girl - January Any Image Challenge

I have created quite a simple looking card for today although I think these types of cards take me just as long as a more elaborate card, lol. The colouring on this image was quite time consuming to go in and add the shading around all the tiny petals but it was very therapeutic. What looks like black card in the photo is actually silver mirri card - there goes my award for photographer of the year !

I wish you all a happy and relaxing Sunday, I will leave you with the details of our sponsors below so pop along and join in the fun here.

Our sponsors this week are:-

Robyn's Fetish Digital Stamps

winner receives 3 digital images (no papers)

&

Stitchy Bear Digital Stamps

winner receives 3 digital images

Lorraine 

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Christmas Card Club Challenge #2 Sleigh

Hi Crafters,

It's time for our friendly Christmas Card Club to meet again and our theme which was chosen by Maureen is 'Sleigh'.

I have used this fabulous image from Bugaboo Stamps featuring jolly old Santa and his sleigh in a snow globe.

 Recipe

Image - Snow Globe - Santa's Sled - Bugaboo Stamps

Medium - Pro/flexmarkers

Papers - Me To You - Happy, Jolly Christmas

Kraft Card

Sizzix Word Die

Marianne Designs & Impression Obsession Snowflake Dies

MFT Stitched Square Dies

Crafters Companion Christmas Embossing Folder

Gems

Glamour Dust

I've seen lots of crafty folk recently making these types of backgrounds with patches of coordinating papers so I thought I would give that a go. I like how it turned out, especially using the MFT stitched square dies, which took all the work out of cutting and measuring. I embossed the panel behind Santa with a CC Christmas Words embossing folder but then covered most of it up with the snow globe, never mind. Lastly, I cut out the word 'believe' from my new set of Sizzix dies, loving these as there are so many combinations using the words included in it, and adhered it and the snowflakes to balance out the card.

Challenges I'd like to enter:

Crafty Time - #9 Make It Sparkle

CHNC Christmas Challenge - January

The Ribbon Girl - January Any Image Challenge

Incy Wincy Designs - Tic Tac Toe (Embossing, Red, Die Cut)

I Love Promarkers - #300 Use Something New  

( New Image & New Word Die)

Creative Moments - #85 ATG/Let It Snow

Aud Sentiments - #147 ATG

Creative Fingers - #101 ATG

I hope you all have an enjoyable weekend, I think it's meant to be dry here for the next few days thank goodness.

I'll be back tomorrow with my Design Team inspiration for 613 Avenue Create, see you then.

Lorraine 

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Sharing an Oldie on Friday

Hi Crafters,

It's Friday again and time to share an old crafty make with Erika.

If you'd like to join in, just pop along to her blog and leave a comment letting her know that you have and she will visit you.

This was a commissioned card made a while ago for a pet lover. The brief was to have a cat and a dog and the recipients name the rest was up to me - I think I covered all that.

A short post from me today, I have a few errands to run and a crafty afternoon making cards for DT commitments and my stall next week.

Happy Crafting and Happy Friday!

The weekend is nearly upon us.

Lorraine

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Art Pad Calendars

Hi Crafters,

As it's already three weeks in to January I thought it was time I shared  the calendars that I made at the end of last year!

I would have shown them before but with all the issues I've had of late with my old computer crashing and then this new one I thought the photo's were gone....

...but good news, most of my files were recovered. I lost a few things but not nearly as much as I'd first thought and these photo's were among them.

Both were made with LOTV Art Pad images and some pretty die cuts and papers.

I had one calendar booklet left and so decided to make an MDF hanging one.

This has the dinky measurement of 12cm x 9cm and looks really cute hanging from a magnet on my fridge door.

Challenges I'd like to enter:

Crafty Girlz - #11 ATG 

Creative Inspirations - #343 ATG

It's started off the day very frosty and cold but bright and dry, just how I like it - so chores done, I'm off to play in my craft room.

Lorraine

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