Easter creatures

Good Monday morning everyone

This is the start of my last week at work before Easter so it is a happy Monday if there can be such a thing.

Today's card is one I have made to celebrate Easter - 

It uses a lovely new stamp from LOTV called Little lamb which I have coloured with my Spectrum Noir pens and pencils.

Ingredients - 

• Promises and Promises solids paper pads (from LOTV)
• Spectrum Noir pens and pencils -  EB1, GB8, GB9, 104, FS2, FS4, FS9, CR1, 089, LV1, LV2, LV3, GT1, GT2, GT3, 079, 063, TN1, TN2, TN3, TN4, 089, EB1, EB2, BG6, BG7, PP1, PP2, 107, 109, CG2, CG3, DG3 and IB1
• Spellbinder's oval nestie, floral ovals, circle nestie, scalloped circle and pretty petals B
• Tonic's twisted twine die set
• Little lamb stamp and happy circular sentiments (from LOTV)
• purple spotty buttons (from Ribbon Girl)

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges - 

http://allsortschallenge.blogspot.co.uk - week 304 - feature a creature

http://fantasystampers.blogspot.co.uk - #33 - Easter time

Thank you for stopping by

Lesley

New home

Hello and a very happy Sunday to you all

Today's card is one I made for my cousin who has just bought her first house with her fiance.

It is a very simpe card really. The die did all the work! It is a lovely die set which I recently bought. I have a lot of friends at the moment who are in the process of buying and selling houses so this die set will come in very useful.

Ingredients -

• Spellbinder's Out on a Limb die set (from Hope and Chances)
• One Bird Lane paper pad (from Lili of the Valley)
• brown core'dinations
• white hammer card
• Crafter's Companion cloud embossing folder

A short post today. I am trying to write an assignment today. It is a bit of  a struggle!

Thanks for stopping by

Lesley

21st celebrations

Hello and a very happy Saturday to you all

Tonight my hubby and I are off to help celebrate a friend's 21st birthday. Here is the card I made for the birthday girl - 

Purple is her favourite colour so I used that as my starting point.

Keeping with the trial layout here are the ingredients I used for the card - 

•  Core'dinations card, hammered card and rainbow mirriboard
• Scruffy Little Cat Chanel stamp set (from Crafter's Companion)
• Spellbinder's garden lattice embossing folder
• Spectrum Noir pens and pencils
• Tattered Lace champagne bottle and glass dies
• Spellbinder's Matting basics A dies and sentiments 2
• Number peeloff
• silver gems

A close up of the embossing

The Tattered Lace dies

Thank you for stopping by

Lesley

Birthday cake

Hello folks

After working hard over the weekend with my college work I decided I deserved some time in my craftroom. 
Here is a card I made for the Allsorts challenge. This week's challenge is cake and cupcakes which I thought I had nothing suitable for but after a search through my stamp boxes and it turns out I have several stamps which would have been suitable (who would have guessed). I have chosen to use this one from Crafter's Companion - 

I have been reading some of my older blog posts and I am wondering if my blogs are too long winded so I have decided to try a shortened version today. Please let me know which you prefer.

• stamp - yum, yum, yum (the Bebunni range from Crafter's Companion)
• Spectrum Noir pens and pencils - BGR1, BGR2, BGR3, PP1, PP2, 031,119, EB4, EB6, EB7, PP3, PP4, PP5, IGI, blender, 030, 031, 117, 098, BP1, CT1, CT2 and OR1
• Bonnets and bowties and Bonnets and bowties solids paper pads from LOTV.
• Hot pink saddlestitch ribbon (from the Ribbon Girl)
• Joanna Sheen border die
• Spellbinder's sentiment die
• pearls (from my stash) coloured with PP3 Spectrum Noir pen.

The border die

I would like to enter this card into the following challenge -

http://allsortschallenge.blogspot.co.uk - week 303 - cakes and cupcakes

Thank you for stopping by.

Lesley

Seeing your face

Good morning folks

Another little card today - 

I began by covering a 4 inch card blank with some green core'dinations paper and then embossed a piece of hammer card with a Sheena embossing folder. Sorry not sure of the name of this one. I think it came free with a Crafter's Companion magazine. I then attached it to the card base.

The image is Penny Black's Seeing your face which I stamped onto watercolour card and coloured with the following Spectrum Noir pencils - 

• Hedgie - 096, 099, 104, 004, 005 and 009
• daffodil - 056, 050, 052, 012, 014 and 018
• sky - 065
• ground - 112

I cut the image out with s Spellbinder's nestie, inked whilst still in the die with tumbled glass distress ink and matted onto a scalloped circle nestie cut from green core'dinations.

To finish I stamped and cut out a sentiment from LOTV's sentiment tags stamp set. I attached it to the card as shown.

  I would like to enter this card into the following challenge - 

http://ribbongirls.blogspot.co.uk - going green

Thank you for stopping by

Lesley

Hedgehog and Ladybug

Hello Everyone

Happy Wednesday to you all. Another thank you card today - 

I began by covering a 4 inch square card blank with a paper from my scrap box and then I stamped Penny Black's Ladybug and Hedgehog onto watercolour card and coloured with the following Spectrum Noir pencils - 

• Hedgie - 096, 099, 104, 004, 005 and 009
• Ladybug - 024 and 027
• daisy - 050, 052, 012, 014, 018 and 112
• sky - 065

I cut the image out with a Die'namics stitched circle die and attached it to a Spellbinder's scalloped circle nestie cut from another paper from my scrap box.

I stamped and cut out a sentiment from LOTV's sentiment tags and added it to the top corner of the card as shown.

Thank you for stopping by

Lesley

Thank you trio

Hello folks

A scheduled post today of a set of cards I made for my son to say thank you for his birthday presents.

These are very simple cards to make which is always helpful when you have a few to make.

I used Tonics Just a note die set and some papers from my scrap box. I cut them out and layered them up with foam pads onto a 4 inch square card blank.

The sentiment is from LOTV's mixed circular sentiments which I cut out with scissors and attached to the card with foam pads.

Thank you for stopping by.

Lesley

For Mum

Hello Folks and a very happy Mothering Sunday to all those Mum and Grandmas out there

Here is the card I made for my mother in law from her little angel (well big one now!!)

Apologies for the photo quality. I took these photos very early the other morning so my hubby could post the card and the sun had not quite woken up so I was dependent on my kitchen lights. 

I began by covering a 6 inch square card black with papers from First Edition's Botanical notes paper pad and adding a cream lace corner (from the Ribbon Girl) and some paper swirls cut using a Die'namics die.

The image is from Penny Black's Stitches stamp set which I stamped onto watercolour card and coloured with the following Spectrum Noir pencils - 

• hair - 097, 098 and 101
• skin - 004, 005 and 009
• wings - 003, 065 and 066
• grass - 047 and 058

I made a frame from another of the papers using Spellbinder's floral ovals and an oval nestie, added some tumbled glass distress ink to the image and attached the frame. I attached the topper to the card base with foam pads.

I cut and layered several Spellbinder's blooms 1 and 4 and attached them to the card as shown.

To finish I added some pearls (from the Hobby House) and stamped a sentiment from LOTV's sentiments to fit scroll stamp set.

I would like to enter this card into the following challenge - 

http://allsortschallenge.blogspot.co.uk - week 302 - flowers and pearls
http://pennybfriendssaturdaychallenge.blogspot.co.uk - spring flowers

Thank you for stopping by

Lesley

Pricilla

Good morning folks.

A scheduled post today of a card I made at the weekend.

I have bought a lot of Saturated Canary stamps recently. I really enjoy colouring them and practicing getting the shading of the hair right. 

I began by making a shaped card using ivory centura pearl and Go-Kreate's XXL square frame frilly #2. I cut a smaller frilly #2 from red core'dinations which I embossed with a Tattered Lace embosing folder called Spring. I then added this to the card base. 

I cut a Spellbinder's Grand decorative circle from a heart paper from my stash, attached it to the base and then added some ivory lace from the Ribbon Girl along the bottom of the card.

As I said earlier the image is Pricilla from Saturated Canary which I coloured with the following Spectrum Noir pens and pencils -

• Skin - FS1,TN1, TN2, TN4 and 089
• Hair - GB1, Gb7, Gb9 and 087
• Eyes - tB3
• Lips - TN4
• Clothes - CR8, Cr9, CR11, TB1, CR4, CR5, CR6, EB1, EB2, 028 and 093
• Ground - BG1 and BG3
• Sky -TB1

I cut the image out with a Spellbinder's labels 11, inked whilst still in the die with tumbled glass distress ink and matted it onto a Spellbinder's decorative labels 8. I attached the topper to the card base with foam pads.

I cut a Memory Box Heart Flourish and added it to the top of the card, and then cut a LaLa Land heart banner, shadowed it with red core'dinations and attached it to the bottom of the card.

I added some red flowers and a heart charm (from the Ribbon Girl) to the side of the image.

I stamped a sentiment from LOTV's sentiments to fit scrolls, cut the sentiment out with a Die'namics mini tabs die and added it to the opposite side of the image.

I would like to enter this card into the following challenge - 

http://ribbongirls.blogspot.co.uk - birthdays (any image)

Thank you for stopping by

Lesley

Spring flowers

Hello folks and a very happy Sunday to you all

Yesterday the spring sunshine encouraged a few of the daffodils in my garden to flower. I love daffodils and the promise of the summer that (hopefully) is to come. I purchased this Penny Black stamp this week and had a play with my Spectrum Aquas.

I began by matting and layering Tonic's Just a note die set cut from white hammered card and some green core'dinations. I used foam pads between each layer to add dimension.

The image is Penny Black's Daffodil dance. I coloured directly onto the stamp with my Spectrum Aquas and then stamped it onto watercolour card. I added some extra depth with the fine point of the markers and then softened the colour with a paintbrush and some water.

I used the floral set of Spectrum Aquas and the colours I used were bud green, leaf green, meadow, sunflower and marigold. I also used a Tumbled glass distress marker for the outer edges.

I cut the image out with a Tonic layering square and matted it onto a square from the Just a note set.

To finish I added a bow (ribbon from my stash) and a button (from the Ribbon Girl).

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges - 

http://pennybfriendssaturdaychallenge.blogspot.co.uk - spring blooms

http://allsortschallenge.blogspot.co.uk - week 301 - Spring is in air

Thank you for stopping by

Lesley

Gothica

Hello folks

Happy Wednesday evening to you all

Here is today's card - 

I began by matting and layering a 6 inch card blank with papers from First Edition's Bird song paper pad. I created a border with two of the papers and a Tonic Dotty Lace border punch and attached to the card as shown.

The image is Saturated Canary's Gothica which sounds very dark but I thought I'd try colouring her with pale pinks and was very pleased with the result. I coloured her with the following Spectrum Noir pens and pencils - 

• hair - GB7, GB10, GB11 and 087
• skin - FS1, TN1, TN2, CR1 and 089
• eyes - JG4
• lips - CR1
• dress - PP1, PP2, PP4 and 041

I created a frame using one of the papers from the pad and Spellbinder's Floral ovals and an oval nestie and attached it to the image. I then attached the topper to the card with foam pads.

I cut several Doohickey daises from scraps of the papers, layered them and put brads in the centre of each flower. I then cut several Tonic Royal ferns, attached them as shown and then added the flowers.

To finish I added two sentiment tags from LOTV's sentiment tags stamp set.

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges - 

http://allsortschallenge.blogspot.co.uk - week 300 -  use brads

Spectrum Noir March facebook challenge

Thank you for stopping by

Lesley

A sad demise

Good morning folks

Last Monday morning, yes I do try and craft before I go to work, my Grand Calibur sadly died. After many years of loyal service it could no longer carry on. It had been struggling for a while, clunking whenever I turned the handle, the handle kept falling off and there was a strange rattling sound from inside whenever I moved it around. Well what could I do? I tried resurrecting my Cuttlebug but he was just to small and couldn't cope with my larger dies. 

So I decided to ...............

buy a new one. With some help from Christine at Hope and Chances I bought a new teal Grand Calibur.

So now I get to go from this -

To this - 

Now I can get back to crafting. A big thank you to Christine for such fantastic service. If you want to purchase a new GC visit Christine, her knowledge of Spellbinders as a company and their products is fantastic.

Thank you for stopping by

Lesley