Funky Fairy's Sketch Challenge AND GD Call !! :-)

This week on the Funky Fairy's Challenge
our fellow DT member ANESHA made this absolutely fabulous sketch for us to follow



Isn't it fab !! :-) I can't wait to see what creations you make this week. Not only do we have a GD call but there is also the chance to win a download from Funky Fairy's Papercrafts





For my card I used a new image from Pink Gems, isn't she gorgeous ! I thought that this sketch was PERFECT for this image :-)Even though I do say so myself I love this card ! I will be sending it to a child on the Post Pals website. The link is on the top right side of my blog. Please go and have a look ,,,,,

The paper I used was from the 'It's so distressing' and a free download,the Blue xmas kit which is available on the Blog Of Insiration I also used some whitewash coredinations and silver glitter card lovely eh !!

Thanks for looking I appreciate your comments so please leave me one :-) The DT have made some fabby creations for you to see so please go and see them and join in ! We NEED you !!!

Lorraine x x

Simon Says Happy Mail :-) and blog candy winner :-)

What a fabulous response to our Happy Birthday Simon says Stamp Blog last week :-) Thank you so much for all your wonderful entries. Also we had an overwhelming response to our Blog Hop !! I have never had so many comments on my blog ! It was amazing and I appreciate every one of them. I received a few emails too so thank you for taking the time to email me with your lovely comments :-0
I have had a few requests for an exploding box tutorial. I have never done a tutorial but I will have a go so watch this space !!

We have a very special challenge this week. We are sking you to make a card ( or 2 !! ) for a poorly child and send them to children on the POST PALS or MAKE A CHILD SMILE website.

POPPET is in our Designer Spotlight this week, she has made a fabulous card and has written a few words about what it means to receive cards so please go to the Simon says Stamp Challenge Blog to see them, don't forget to go to her blog too and leave her a comment :-)




As you can see I made my card using the lovely Simon Says Clear Stamps CAT and DOG ARE BEST OF FRIENDS Exclusive Set
that some lucky girl( no boys entered !! ) will be winning in a few mins !! I will be doing the random generator draw before I publish this post !! Am soo excited !! I wonder who it will be :-)



I coloured the image with copics and 3D'd parts of it. The background was made using distress inks that had been dabbed onto a non stick craft sheet, sprayed with water then the card was swirled around in it :-) I love this technique ! So easy and the effect is fabby I think !!
The papers are DCWV pets stack and the little blanket was an old bit of flannel ( face cloth to posh people !! )lol
The sentiment is from the same Simon Says Clear Stamps CAT and DOG ARE BEST OF FRIENDS Exclusive Set

I followed the fabulous sketch by Beatrix
on the Friday Sketcher's Challenge
so I will be linking this :-)

OK now for the Random Generator ,,, drum roll here ,,,,,

Here are your random numbers:

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Timestamp: 2009-06-24 07:56:48 UTC

Congratulations IRIT SHALOM
If you email me with your address I will ask Heidi to post this stamp set and a surprise out to you :-0

Thanks to everyone for taking part and I am sorry that I couldn't give the set to you all but it would bancrupt Heidi if we did that !! :-)

Thanks for looking. I really appreciate your comments so please leave me one but more importantly don't forget to actually post the cards you make for the challenge to a child. We have no way of enforcing this but we trust you all :-)

The DT have made some gorgeous cards for you to see so please go and see them :-)

Lorraine x x x

Simon Says Blog Hop and Challenge ending in a few hours !!

I made this card following the fabulous sketch on the House Mouse Monday Challenge.
The DT have made some adorable cards for us to see,,,, soo cute !! :-) I have to get all of the stamps they used on their cards !! :-)

I bought this stamp from Simon Says Stamp this one is called SITTING IN THE RAIN I coloured the image with copics and added stickles to the rain drops. The papers are basic grey and black magic coredinations.

I also made this following the fab fruity colour theme on the Colour Create Challenge We are aked to use 3 of these colours,,, strawberry, tangerine, kiwi, blackberry or rasberry,,, yummy :-) We are also asked for the optional extra of using a fruity image !!! Sorry but I didn't join in that bit :-(

I also made it for the Creative Card Crew Challenge whose theme was chosen by Joey and is 'Whatever the Weather' ,,, apparently she's been feeling a bit under the weather with morning sickness :-)

The sentiment is Simon Says Clear Stamps SENDING SUNSHINE Exclusive Set and I think this fits this image just perfectly lol !! :-)

Thanks for looking, please leave me a comment I do love to read them :-)

Don't forget the Simon Says Stamp Blog Hop finishes in a few hours so if you haven't been hop hop hopping along you'd better get moving !! :-) Details are on the post at the top of my blog :-)

Lorraine x x x

Message from above :-)

I made this card following the fabulous sketch on the Sketch Saturday Challenge and followed the colour scheme of Pink and Green on the Secret Crafter Saturday Challeng I also made it with the Penny Black Challenge in mind and used the message from above image, they are also asking us to use embossing on our cards so I used some whitewash coredinations and used a swiss dots folder to emboss it :-)
I coloured the image with Prisma pencils and blended with odourless spirit. The hedgie, bird and flower were 3 D'd and mounted on green cardstock. The design paper is from SU, I finished it off with punched daisies and adhevive gems. The sentiment is from Simon Says Clear Stamps SENDING SUNSHINE Exclusive Set This is a fabulous sentiment set,, :-)

Thanks for looking, I appreciate your comments so please leave me one :-)

Lorraine x x

p.s Don't forget this is your last day to enter the Simon Says Stamp Blog hop and the Simon Says Stamp Challenge :-) Don't miss it there are wonderful prizes to be won !! x x

Papertake Weekly Challenge.

I made this card following Dawny P's fabulous sketch on the Papertake Weekly Challenge :-) They also have a GD call so if you would like to be considered you'd better hurry up !! The challenge changes tomorrow ! :-)

The papers are Laura Ashley and I won them in one of Steph's mini candy draws :-) Thanks so much Steph x x The brad is also by Laura Ashley
The text stamp is Hero Arts and the roses stamp is papermania.
All the edges of the papers have been inked with antique linen distress ink.

before you leave we have a blog hop starting at the Simon Say's Stamp Challenge blog with lots of fabulous prizes along the way so don't forget to join in !! :-)

Good Luck to all :-)
Lorraine x x

Thanks for looking, I appreciate your comments so please leave me one :-)

By the light,,,, of the silvery moon,,,, ( sing along :-))

I made this card using a new digi image from the Doodle Palace. It will be released tomorrow so you're having a sneak peek :-) Cute eh !!






The background sky and moon was coloured with purple and silver pearlescent chalks from Pebbles Inc Pearlescent Color Kit CHALK SET SHIMMER.I love these chalks, gorgeous !!
The fence and image was coloured with copics and the cats were then 3D'd. The sentiment is a Simon Says Clear Stamps SENDING SUNSHINE Exclusive Set


I used black magic coredinations and a little bit of doodlebug glitter card. the fancy corners were cut out on my big shot using Spellbinders Die Cut Embossing Dies DECORATIVE PHOTO CORNERS
I followed Becky's fabby sketch on the Sketch and Stash Challenge
My new stash is the image !! They also asked for an optional animal theme so I have complied with that too :-)

I made it to qualify to the Stamp Something Challenge too where the theme is Black White + 1 other colour, well I do love black/purple together :-)


Thanks for looking, I appreciate your comments so please leave me one :-)

Also if you haven't joined in already don't forget to join in the Simon Says Stamp Blog Hop, you have to start on the Simon Says Stamp Challenge blog :-) Good Luck x x

Lorraine x x

Simon Says Stamp First Birthday Blog Hop :-)

To celebrate the first Birthday of Simon Says Stamp Blog, the Design Team members are participating in a blog hop, to inspire you with so many of the stamps that Simon Says Stamp sells! Some of us will be showcasing the EXCLUSIVE Simon Says Stamp brand of stamps – over 45 FABULOUS sets to choose from!!!

If you didn't start the blog hop at the beginning, then you want to head back to Simon Says Stamp Challenge blog so you do not miss anything. At each blog, there will be a MYSTERY LETTER – collect all of the letters, unscramble them, and post your answer at the end. Be sure to follow the blog hop all the way to the end, for a chance to win. When you get to the Simon Says Challenge Blog, leave a comment that you hopped to all blogs, and the mystery phrase and you will be entered to win some FABBY blog candy! Blog candy is $100 shopping spree at Simon Says Stamp store. You will get 1 entry for the mystery phrase and 1 entry for becoming a follower of both Simon Says Blogs (if you already are a follower, you automatically get an entry).

The hop will officially end at 5am CET Wednesday morning ( 4am GMT 12 MN( Tues) EST)

The MYSTERY Letter for my blog is ________ naaa not telling you yet :-) You have to see what I made first !! :-)

I used this fabulous Simon Says Clear Stamps CAT and DOG ARE BEST OF FRIENDS Exclusive Set



Heidi have very kindly said that I can offer this set as blog candy ( not mine !! a brand new one !! ) :-) AND she will add an extra surprise in the parcel !! How fabby is that !! :-) To win my candy you have to become a follower, if you're not already and leave a comment on this post and on every other blog hop blog !! :-)

I decided to make an exploding box :-) I have never made one before but I found this fabulous template in the May edition of the Craft Stamper Magazine :-)Alix Waterhouse made a fabulous tutorial and it was so easy to follow :-)

The box is pentagon shaped like THE Pentagon !! I thought it was quite fitting with Simon says Stamp being a US based company !! :-) ( corny I know lol ) :-)




















Now the inside :-)









The images were all coloured using copics. I used almost a whole ink pad of antique linen distress ink, loads of brown/green coredinations. The patterned paper is from a Bearly mine CD that is available in Simon Says Stamp store :-) I love using printable papers especially for projects that you need a few sheets of as you never run out !! :-)


OK now down to the nitty gritty The letter you are looking for here is 'R'

Now pop over to RACH'S blog to see the wonderful creation she made :-)


Thanks for taking the time to join in Heidi's Birthday Blog Hop :-)

Good luck with the candy :-)

Lorraine x x

Sneak Peek of new Doodle Palace Digi Image :-)

I made this card using a soon to be released digital image from the Doodle Palace this one is called 'Wild Mermaid'





I coloured her with copics and 3D'd her onto the oval nestie that I had coloured with pearlescent chalks. The scalloped nestie was made using whitewash coredinations,cuttlebugged and sanded.
The paper is from magenta and that was layered onto brown/blue coredinations. I LOVE coredinations !! fabby :-)
The flowers were white and I sprayed them with glimmer mist. and secured with doodlebug brads.
The sea shells and star shape were RAKS from Nikki and Dorothy :-) Thanks girls x x
I used a heart shaped charm with 'love' instead of a sentiment, this was after spending ages trying to find something to 'fit' in with the card ! The chain is sterling silver so it fits in with 'Davy Crockets treasure ' !!

The sketch I used is from the Polka Doodles challenge the DT have made some truly fabulous creations you should go and see them !! Fantastic !! Most of them made very cute gift bags :-) I decided to make a card ! just to be different !!! lol

I also made this card to fit in with the Digital Tuesday Challenge whose theme is Brown, Blue, Bling :-) Well I did use those colours and a few extra and I put loads of bling in there !! :-) The challenge this week is also being sponsored by the Doodle Palace so you could win one of their fabulous digital images ! :-)

I am also entering this for the Our Creative Corner Challenge whose theme is stars and the Charisma Cardz Challenge which is 'Diamonds are a girls best friend' :-)


thanks for looking, I appreciate your comments so please leave me one :-)
Lorraine x x x

Doodle Palace Blog Candy

Doodle Palace are celebrating their 100th sale on Etsy by giving away BLOG CANDY!

This is what dee and Robin said :-)

We appreciate all of our followers and image purchasers SO much that we want to give you a gift! Our Blog Candy consists of: 4 Doodle Palace Digital Stamps of YOUR choice, one 8" x 8" pad of Glittered My Mind's Eye papers "Enlightened", 1 package of MME Enlightened Ribbons, 1 box of yellow Prima Sprites 1, 1 package of MM Crystal Brads, 1 package of MM Springtime Button Brads, 1 package of Heidi Swapp Writers Blocks - medium squares in Capri, a 50 pk of 4" x 5.5" Ivory card bases with envelopes, an assortment of Prima Flowers and other flowers, an assortment of Card Candy embellishments and not shown Spellbinders scalloped heart Nestibilites die set! This is an AWESOME set! Great for any paper crafter!">Doodle Palace are celebrating our 100th sale on Etsy by giving away BLOG CANDY! We appreciate all of our followers and image purchasers SO much that we want to give you a gift!

Our Blog Candy consists of: 4 Doodle Palace Digital Stamps of YOUR choice, one 8" x 8" pad of Glittered My Mind's Eye papers "Enlightened", 1 package of MME Enlightened Ribbons, 1 box of yellow Prima Sprites 1, 1 package of MM Crystal Brads, 1 package of MM Springtime Button Brads, 1 package of Heidi Swapp Writers Blocks - medium squares in Capri, a 50 pk of 4" x 5.5" Ivory card bases with envelopes, an assortment of Prima Flowers and other flowers, an assortment of Card Candy embellishments and not shown Spellbinders scalloped heart Nestibilites die set! This is an AWESOME set! Great for any paper crafter!

So pop over to the blog to see how you can enter. While you're there go and see their fabulous designs in their Etsy Store, I would love their sales to 'jump' to 200 !!! go on try one today !! :-)

Good luck to all :-)

Lorraine x x x

First Monthly Magnolia Challenge sponsored by Simon Says Stamp :-)

BEFORE




AFTER






I have had this container for ages waiting to be pimped !! :-)So thank you Just Magnolia Challenge for making me get on and do it !! :-) The papers and flowers are papermania and whitewash coredinations. I coloured the butterflies in a little and added blue stickles. The flowers were coloured with blue brilliance ink and the centers were dolloped with pink distress stickles :-)

The tilda image was coloured with copics, 3D'd and layered onto nestie circles. ( This is me thinking about which pen to choose next) Well it might have been a few decades ago !! lol :-)

Simon Says Stamp Store are sponsoring this challenge and I hope I am lucky in the draw !!! :-) Heidi is offerring a $50 shopping spree WOOO HOOO !!! :-) So please don't enter cos then there'd be less chance of me winning it !!! lol

Thanks for looking, I appreciate your comments so please leave me one :-)

Lorraine x x

Happy Birthday Penny Black Saturday :-)

I made this card for the Penny Black Challenge who are celebrating their 1st Birthday following the fabby sketch by Michelle O on the Spoonfull Of Sugar Challenge :-)
I just realised that I missed being able to enter the DT blog candies as we had to have them linked by 8am ! I actually made this yesterday and didn't upload it ,,,, :-(



I made this card using tyher gorgeous PB Bubble of Joy stamp. I coloured it with copics and 3D'd him :-)



All the patterned papers are from Basic Grey Porcelain book and I also used brown/pink coredinations, I love this stuff !!

The sentiment was stamped onto a strip of the card I used for the base using a stamp from a Simon Says Clear Stamps SIMPLY THE BEST SENTIMENTS Exclusive Set

All the edges of all the card and papers were inked with antique linen distress ink. The flowers are prima ones and the velvet brad is Laura Ashley. I also used a few Robins Nest Dew Drops

Thanks for looking. I really appreciate your comments so please leave me one :-)

Lorraine x x

The Next level and Cute Card Thursday Challenges :-)

I made this card following the fabulous sketch on The Next Level Challenge :-)



The base card is papermania double sided card that I distressed using a stitch cutter ( unpicker) and inked with shabby shutters and old linen distress inks. The Tilda image was coloured with copics and 3D'd onto the panel of card that I had also coloured with shabby shutters ink and stamped with a PB fantasy tree in brilliance ink.This was layered onto some brown/green coredinations. The flowers are Prima ones and the velvet brads are papermania that I also inked with shabby shutters. The gorgeous ribbon was in Steph's give away that I won :-) Thanks Steph :-)



I cut 2 tags out on my cricut, one in the coredinations and the other in the papermania card. I also inked the tag with shabby shutters and stamped the sentiment and the bird with stamps in the Simon Says Clear Stamps SENDING SUNSHINE Exclusive Set, this is a fabulous sentiment set. I use it all the time !!

I am also entering this into the Cute Card Thursday Challenge whose theme is 'Tag you're it '

Thanks for looking. I appreciate your comments so please leave me one :-)

Lorraine x x x

Fabulous Father's Stamptacular Challenge :-)

I made this card for the Stamptacular Sunday Challenge whose theme this week is 'Fabulous Father's'




Heidi at Simon Says Stamp
very kindly sent me this fabulous set of Simon Says Clear Stamps OWLS AND BRANCHES Exclusive Set



Doesn't the 'Dad' look concerned about his little fledgling :-)
I coloured the images with Prisma pencils and blended with odourless spirit. The background was made using distress inks and stamped with the branch from this set. The flowers are Prima ones, also from Simon Says Stamp.

The 'Dad' is stamped onto an inked grungeboard die cut shape. I also used a skeleton leaf and a swirl cut out on my cricut.
I used Basic Grey and brown coredinations papers.

Thanks for looking, I appreciate your comments so please leave me one :-)

Lorraine x x

Funky Fairy's Challenge 21 # Christmas !! :-)

I am sitting here writing this with my A/C on ! It's red hot here and not exactly 'Christmas' weather ;-) I made a promise to myself at Christmas to make at least one Christmas card a week starting in February ! Well that didn't happen ! But at least I have one ready now !! yay !!
The theme on the Funky Fairy's Challenge is to make a card or creation with Christmas in mind. You have to use at least one Funky Fairy's Papercrafts download to enter. They have some wonderful papers to buy in the store or you can go to the Blog of Inspiration and find some lovely freebies too :-)




I treated myself and bought the Lets Get Traditional set, it was a difficult choice tho because they have some lovely Christmas paper downloads. I am sure I will be using these alot though, many of them I can use throughout the year too,,, bargain !! :-)



The image is a Penny Black Jolly Xmas Kitty. I bought this to use last Christmas and never inked it so I just had to use this one :-) Isn't it CUTE !! :-) As you can see I glittered almost everything ! I didn't have any white glitter card so I made me own :-)




As you can see I decorated the inside too :-) The sentiment comes with the download pack along with loads of other images. I can't recommend this set enough it is FABBY !!
The DT have done some wonderful creations for your inspiration so please go and see them :-) We love coming to see what you have made so please join in The Funky Fairy's Challenge!

Thanks for looking, I appreciate your comments so please leave me one :-)

Lorraine x x x

Simon Says Let's Celebrate :-)

This week we have a very special celebration on the Simon Says Challenge
. We are helping Heidi celebrate the first birthday of the Simon Says Stamp Blog

We would like you to make a card or creation with a first birthday celebration in mind. My celebrations always start with a Gin and Tonic !!! :-)

On Sunday we will be having our first blog hop YAY !!! :-) Heidi has very generously given us all candy to give away AND she will be adding surprise bling too so make a note on your calendar to join us :-) It will start at 4pm CET on the Simon Says Challenge blog but I'll be back with more details later in the week :-)

The design team have made some wonderful cards to inspire you and as an added bonus we also have KENDRA joining us in our Designer Spotlight :-) Kendra is a fabulous designer on the Simon Says Stamp Brand Design Team. She has a fabulous blog too which you must go and see. Please leave her a comment when you visit too :-)



As you can see I chose to use a fabulous House Mouse stamp, this one is called 'Splish Splash,,,, a citrus bath :-) I coloured the image with copics and 3D'd it




I also decorated the inside using Mudpie Mouse' he is just soo cute eh !



The papers are Stamping Up, I added st,ickles to the centers of the fruits, I also used a little coredinations for layering :-)The flowers were plain white Prima ones which I sprayed with orange glimmer mist.

The sentiment is from Simon Says Clear Stamps SIMPLY THE BEST SENTIMENTS Exclusive Set which are only available in the Simon Says Stamp store

I followed the fabulous sketch on the Friday Sketchers Challenge
they have some fabulous DT cards for our inspiration too !! :-)

Thanks for looking, I appreciate your comments so please leave me one :-)

Lorraine x x x

New Doodle Palace 'Emy' image is being released today

I love this image which is just being released at the Doodle Palace Etsy store
later today :-) Isn't she cute !! :-)




I colored her with prisma pencils very simply then layered her on tatty papers. The background is from Funky Fairy's Papercrafts It's so Distressing papers and the design poaper is from DCWV Pets Stack.
I followed the fab sketch on the Mojo Monday Challenge.The sentiment stamp is 'Bon Mot' from Penny Black, the velvet ribbon is from Meiflower :-)

Thanks for looking, I appreciate your comments so please leave me one :-)

Lorraine x x

I'm nuts for chocolate !

I made this 'popcorn' bag for the Digital Tuesday Challenge whose theme this week is to make a bag or box and include a digi image :-)




I used a Digi image from the Digital Stamp Oasis
This one is called 'A nut for you'



I coloured the image with copics, 3D'd him and popped him onto nestie circles. The box was cut out on my cricut with papermania double sided card.
The brown scalloped border was made using my SU punch. The ribbon was from my messy drawer :-)
Rather than using popcorn to fill the box I used chocolate peanuts :-)

Thanks for looking, I appreciate your comments so please leave me one :-)

Lorraine x x

A lovely blog award ;-)

I have just received this lovely award from Glenna ( Fabricbutterfly)
Thank you so much Glenna.
I am supposed to pass this on to 7 people but I am passing this to everyone :-) You all deserve this so please take it and post it on your blog with love from me :-)

Lorraine x x x

Get Well Soon :-)

I made this card following the lovely sketch on the Truly Scrumptious Challenge, they also asked for flowers which had been made or altered in some way. My flower was white which I sprayed with green and orange glimmer mist. The button was a clear SU one which i coloured with pink alcohol ink.

The Tilda image was the first one I bought and she is still one of my faves :-) I coloured her with copics and paper pieced her dungaree's with a bit of leftover paper in my bits box.The design on the dungarees was sparkled with copics glitter pens ( love them !)

The inner nestie shape was coloured with pearlescent chalks then cuttlebugged in a swirl folder, then inked around the edges with turquoise pigment ink, then embossed with sparkle and layered onto orange and black circles.

The papers are a mix of basic grey and doodlebug.
The sentiment is from Simon Says Clear Stamps SENDING SUNSHINE Exclusive Set.
The corners were made with papermania sticky shapes and sprinkled with orange glitter. I think thats all,,,, :-)

I am also entering this into the Just Magnolia Challenge whose theme this week is paper piecing. The One Stop Craft Challenge whose theme is sparkle, well I have used sparkle emboss and glitter and the Cupcake Craft Challenge who have a colour challenge of pink / turquoise / orange and have asked for a card for a child. I made this for a friend's little girl.

Thanks for looking, I appreciate your comments so please leave me one :-)
Lorraine x x

New Doodle Palace download image

Tis fabulous bear image is a new digi download release from the Doodle Palace
, perfect for 'Father's Day ' :-)



I coloured the image with Prisma pencils and blended with odourless spirit. I dabbed the brush to try to make it look more furry :-)The small bear and Dad's tie are 3D'd but this doesn't show up very well in the photo !



The papers are Stamping Up and plain brown/orange cardstock. I also used a little bit of orange coredinations. The 'Dad' was stamped using a hero arts mixed alphabet set. The paw print is a magenta stamp and the star brads are from somewhere or other ,,,, !!

I am entering this in the following challenges :-

The Sketch Saturday Challenge

The Dare U 2 Digi Stamp Challenge whose theme is Chocolate Orange

Thanks for looking, I appreciate your comments so please leave me one :-)

Lorraine x x