Lorraine's Loft: April 2015

Thursday, April 30, 2015

Simon's May Kit Card

Happy Thursday !! What started off as a dreary miserable day has turned into a beautiful sunny afternoon.

I have just made this card using products in the Simon Says Stamp May 'Happily Ever After' Kit

I think I am going to wear out these Stitched Rectangle Dies !!

Thanks for looking :-)

I just love all the foiled papers in there and the stickers ! I never thought I would say that, but these stickers are gorgeous and no comparison to the stickers of old ;-) LOVE LOVE LOVE the new Pale Blush Pink ink pad too, we can never have too much colour in our lives can we girls :-)

Challenges :

Sketch Saturday Sketch

FanTastic Tuesday Anything Goes + Twine

Cards In Envy Pretty In Pink

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Hope you all have a great weekend :-)
Happy Crafting
Luv Lols x x x

Wednesday, April 29, 2015

Simon Says Anything Goes

Hi all and welcome to another week on the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge

Thank you for joining us for the Clean and Simple Challenge and we hope you will all join us again this week too.

We will be back soon with the name of the lucky winner of the $50 Voucher

This week the challenge is

ANYTHING GOES

We are showcasing PRIMA PRODUCTS this week. You don't have to use them to join in but if you have some we would love to see them used

As always Simon Says Stamp will be giving away $50 voucher to shop at the fabulous Simon Says Stamp Store

I used Valentina Mixed Media Doll, Hats 2 Mixed Media Set. Black Say It In Crystals and Platinum Glass Glitter

I used various colours of Distress Inks to colour the background and then stencilled an underground map over the top. My daughter, Amy, will soon be setting off on her travels (sob) and I made this for her. ( Hope she doesn't read this !! ) :-)

I coloured her skin with Copic Markers and her dress and hat with Distress inks. I actually paper pieced her dress after colouring some scrap paper. I then shaped it with embossing tools and used dimensional adhesive to pop it up. This doesn't show up at all on the photo !!

So now it's YOUR turn, Happy Crafting !

Do you use Instagram ? If so please add #ssswchallenge to your challenge entry uploads so we can see them on there too !

You have until Wed 8am Ohio time. 1pm UK time, 2 pm CET to join in

No backlinking allowed, Only 5 new creations will be eligible in the prize draw

Challenges :
Fan-Tastic Tuesday Anything Goes + Twine
Craft Your Passion Anything Goes
Addicted to Stamps Flowers
Simply Papercraft Anything Goes/Lots of Layers

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Hope you all have a great week :-)
Happy Crafting
Luv Lols x x x

Wild Rose Studio 'Love Bird Tree'

Have YOU made a start on your Christmas preparations yet ? If you would like to avoid the last minute panic then I would suggest that you join in with our Christmas Challenges. Come December you will be glad you did ;-)

Please scroll down to see the winners of the last challenge.
The theme for the next 2 weeks is

'I' Is For I Love You/For A Loved One

You can use either a sentiment with love' in it,or an image of a couple or a card for a specific person/family member any of these options will do :-)

For my card I thought I would use this gorgeous Wild Rose Studio 'Love Bird Tree' Craft Die . It isn't specifically a Christmas die, but I thought it would work for so many occasions.

Although the tree looks black in the photos it is a very dark Midnight Green, lovely colour IRL. I decided to make the little birds Doves and love the stark white against the dark tree. I did colour them to look like little Robin's originally, but these looked better.

This was so quick and easy to make and I will make a few more before I put the supplies away. I think I will make the banner in vellum though, I didn't have time to make another sample but I do think vellum would look better :-)