Tilda's Blue Christmas

Hi guys. Well, I hope Tilda's Christmas is not blue!!! I made an Easel Card this time. I've only made a couple of these and I always like how they turn out. I used the Martha Stewart Snow Flake Punch and I coloured Tilda with copics. The tree behind her is a Sizzix embossing folder. I just cut around the tree. Here's another closer pic:

I've entered this into the following challenges:

ABC Christmas Challenge - X is for Xmas

Fussy and Fancy Challenge - No Red or Green

Just Magnolia - White and 1 other colour

Totally Papercrafts - Snow and snowflakes

Die Cut Dreams - Christmas Anything Goes

Creative Inpirations - Anything Christmasy

Phew there are loads of Christmas Challenges going on at the moment. Why dont you join in with some. I'm having loads of fun.

See you all next time.

Hugs, Lorraine xxx

Show and Tell

Hey Ladies. Hows things? The technique used on this card is 'feathering'. So much fun and one of my favourite ways to colour with Copics.  Here's another one.

I made four of them in the end, because I loved them so much.  I have entered the purple one into the following challenges.

 Crazy 4 Challenges - Circles

My Partner in Crafting Crime - Mad about Markers

See you all soon.

Hugs, Lorraine xxx



Some Exciting News

Hey Everyone. I have some exciting news to tell you.

 I am now on the Inky Impressions Design Team!!!! Woo hoo, how totally cool is that? I've been dying to tell you all, but today is the first time I've had the chance since I found out. Nicole very kindly invited me to join her fabulous team and I'm still trying to get my head around it. I've been buying Nicoles stamps for about 2 years now and I just love them soooo much. If you havnt seen them, jump over to the Inky Impression  shop and take a look. Maybe come and join in some of our challenges. We'd love to see you. Just to celebrate my place on the team, I made a really quick card. Its a gate opening card with a twist and I've used the gorgeous Nickies Birdie stamp.
I entered this into the following challenges:
My Partner in Crafting Crime - Marker Madness
The Crazy Challenge - Thankyou or Thanksgiving
Crafts and Me Challenges - Glitter

Hope to see you all soon.

Hugs, Lorraine xxx

Dreaming Tilda and Happy Birthday Indei-Lou.

Well hello everyone. I hope you all had a 'scary' Halloween. I've just put all my halloween goodies away until next year. My punches, die cuts, stamps, cricut cartridges, etc etc. What a pity we only get them out once a year?

I made this card for my neice. Its her birthday today. Happy Birthday, Indei Lou. I actually made her a Waterfall Card, but can I find It!!??? It is nowhere to be seen. I cant believe it. So I had to throw something together in about 10 minutes. Still, I entered it into these challenges, just for the fun:
A Pocket Full of Poses - Champagne and Roses
Stamp with Fun - All that can Fly


  Phew, I'm now off to go and catch her after school, She has been going mad for a chocolate fountain, so I bought her one for her birthday. I cant wait to see her face. 

See you all next time.

Hugs, Lorraine xxx

Christmas Pretties

Hi Everyone. Today I thought I'd show you these super cute images from Lily of the Valley. I saw them on someone's blog and I thought "what a great idea". Superb for when you are in a rush. I wish I could remember whose blog I saw them on and then I could give her credit for alerting me to these. I remember she made a gorgeous card, but when I went back to look for it I couldnt find it. Thank you anyway.  I just love them. The images are already cut and coloured all ready for you to use. All you need to do is design the card. Simple stuff, hey??? Now, I love to colour, but, if I'm to be completely honest, my colouring is Terrible, yes, with a capital T....... so I thought I'd give these a go and have an easy Christmas this year, as far as cardmaking goes anyway. Its a pity you cant see the sparkles on these because they are 'really' sparkly. Also there are other images, not just Christmas and they are all extremely cute. Nip over to lilliofthevalley and take a look. By the way, the postage was SuperFast.

On to the card. I used my very favourite Snowflake punch from Martha Stewart. I only just found this and I know I'm going to use it soooo much for Christmas, so get ready for seeing it lots on my postings in the future. The holly is also a Martha Stewart Punch. I added a bit of ribbon and 'hey, presto', finished. Too cool. I have already made a bunch of these so take a look underneath for the different images. I entered this into 3 challenges:

trulyscrumptiouschallenges.blogspot.com - sketch (optional extra - easel card)

mypartnerincraftingcrime.blogspot.com - Sparkle and shine

liliofthevalleythursdaychallenge.blogspot.com - Winter Fun - Snow, snowflakes and glitter.

 See you all soon.

Hugs to you all.

Lorraine xxx

Easy, hey!!!!

Cute Witch

Hello all you wonderful bloggers out there, how are you all? Not long to Halloween now. I hate having to put all my goodies away when its all over. Lets face it, its another year before I get them all out again!!! I dont know about you guys, but if I see anything to do with Witches, Pumpkins, spooky trees and houses,  I just have to have it and for some reason I cant think out of the box with halloween. Some of you creative girls seem to be able to use them  throughout the year. I just cant. There's a challenge for you. Keep you halloween stuff on the shelves and see if you can use them during the year for other stuff!!!!!!! Mmmmmm, maybe I should take my own challenge up. Nah, maybe not. Anyway, I'm entering this into a few challenges just for the fun. Here are the challenges:

Fussy and Fancy

Copic Oz (wow, thats my 2nd card!!!)

Cupcake Craft

Wow, thats a lot for me. Enjoy your day (or evening) depending on where you are and I'll see you all next time. P.s Sorry, I have the usual problem. The colours are all washed out on this photo and I took 20 photos!!! Can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong?

Hugs

Lorraine xxx

Hallweens Coming

Hi everyone. Well I'm back after quite a spell away from the computer. Halloweens coming, and though we dont celebrate it much here in Oz, I'm originally a Pom and we did celebrate it in England so I still love everything about it. A very dear cyber friend sent me this Witchy Poo stamp all the way from France. Isnt she just the sweetest? My friend AND the stamp, I mean. I thought I'd better get her stamped up before its all over for another year. I just love this image.

I'm not the savviest of computer people, so keeping up this blog work is quite difficult for me, but I promise to try harder. Even taking a good photo is a challenge for me!!! I think I've told you all that before. 

I entered this into the City Crafter Challenge Blog and Incy Wincy Designs and Copic Oz (I hope). I've only entered a couple of challenges before and its been that long I cant remember how to do it!!!

I hope your all well and creating lots of good stuff. 

See you again, soon!!!

Hugs to you all.

p.s If someone could tell me how to put this signature on top of my card  I would REALLY appreciate it. Isnt that where its supposed to go? See, I told you I was hopeless!!!

ANYONE FOR ICE CREAM

Hi all. Quick posting today. I had time to make a card, but not enough time to chat to all my stamping friends!!! How bad is that? Hope your all crafting and creating. See you all soon.

Lorraine

Challenge #7 - Recipe

 

Hiya ladies. Well I've just learnt how to do this from my iPhone so this will be a short post as I'm just practicing. Desperate measures because I'm still waiting for my laptop to come back. So, how exciting is this. Anya Ink are now opening the Challenges to use  any image. So as well as CC Designs and The Greeting Farm, you can now use Magnolia, Kraftin Kimmie, Inky Impressions.....  absolutely any image you like. Woo Hoo. I love it. I can now put to use all my other stamps. Onto this Challenge. I made this for the new challenge  which was a recipe challenge - 3 flowers, 2 buttons and 1 bow. We are being sponsored by the fabulous Tickled Pink Stamps. If you havnt been to her site, you gotta go.  See you all next time. Hugs. Lorraine xxx

Inspiration week - Black, White and one other colour

I'm working off a really old computer at the moment so If you see loads of mistakes, please forgive!!! This card is for Inspiration Week over at Anya Ink. I havnt yet seen what the other DT members have done but I just KNOW they will be awesome. I made an Easel card as I have only done 1 before and wanted to give it another go. They are surprisingly really easy. Love them. I didnt exactly get my punching correct, though, so please dont look too closely.  I used a Martha stewart corner punch and punched around a whole circle instead of the edge. I think next time I will get better. If you are patient and line it up correctly you can get it spot on, but I obviously havnt got much patience ( I will NEVER admit to that!!!). Hope you all have a great weekend.

See you all next week, if not before.

Lorraine