A card and fab news :-)

I made this card using the lovely sketch on Our Creative Corner Challenge
I used the colours Navy, Lime and Turquoise for the Colour Create Challenge It also qualifies for the Daring Cardmakers Challenge
whose theme is 'girls' . Well this is girly :-)
This image is one of my fave Penny Black stamps, I have had my money's worth from this one :-) I re stamped the bikini top in pigment ink, embossed then added liquid 3d gloss which I sprinkled with glitter too. The sentiment is a new SU one and the circle things, which I think look like slices of lime, well, that's the intention anyway, were cut out on my cricut.The paper is from Stamping Up and the ribbon from my messy drawer :-)


Ok onto my news, I have been chosen by Ellie at Live Laugh Love blog to be on her DT :-)So this card is for you Ellie :-) I am absolutely thrilled to have been asked and can't wait to start making a few cards using her fabulous downloads. I have put a link on my sidebar to her store so please take a look. This is a new venture for her, she only started in February so it would be nice if you could pop over there and take a look :-)

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

Yummy !! :-)

The theme this week on the House Mouse Monday Challenge is to make a shaped card and the theme on the One Stop Craft Challenge is 'Tag it' So I combined the 2 and made a small gift tag card :-)
I cut the card shape out of oval nesties, used brown cordinations, sanded a little. The white card and white layer was inked with peachy pigment ink and embossed with sparkle. The small eggs were cut out with the smallest oval nestie and a little peach card wrapped around and I made shrink plastic bows to finish.The image was coloured with prisma pencils and blended, am loving those !! :-) Then sent Ray to buy me loads of cadbury's cream eggs,for the photo shoot !! they're not in the bag anymore, me n Amy're sitting here enjoying them ha ha :-)
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Lorraine x

I have just received this award from Joey, Sue and Pascale :-) Am giving it right back to them and passing it on to Hazel, Josianne, Joanne,Poppet, Gisela, Michele, Debby and all my followers :-) I really appreciate all the comments you leave for me, in fact I check em regularly and am gutted if I don't have a new one to read ha ha , does anyone else do that !!! :-)
OK I know I'm supposed to link all these but you all check my blog so am guessin that you'll see this :-) Linkin just takes up valuable bloggin time n I want to pop round to see what you ve all been up to :-)
Lorraine x x x

Claudia's Blog Candy

Claudia at Pretty Pressings has some lovely magnolia stamps to give away.Am sure most of you have visited Claudia's fantastic blog but if anyone hasn't you really should go and see it, she has some fab copics tutorials too :-)
Lorraine
Good Luck girls x

Funky Fairy's Scrapbook page :-)

The theme this week on the Funky Fairy Challenge 'was' a scrapbook page or altered item but now it's changed so you can make a card too :-) Come on peeps join in :-) This has given me the push I needed to get on and finish this scrapbook of our trip to Venice last September, I started this ages ago then just left it so now I am determined to finish this album THIS week !! :-)
I used a paper download from Funky Fairy's 'It's just so distressing' I love this paper and use it alot. I kept the page simple, I am not really into alot of decorating on scrapbook pages, I prefer simple !! I also like to add information about the picturs and often just print information from wikipaedia and stick it in as you can see from the previous page.
The 'Venezia Bella' was cut out on my cricut
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Lorraine

'Feelin blue' :-)

I loved the sketch on the Sketch Saturday Challenge I am entering this card into a few challenges, well, I like to enter as many as poss and it's impossible to do a card for every one !! So, the Penny Black Saturday Challenge is 'doodles' so I doodled :-)The Stamp Something Challenge is 'Spring'well, this looks like a spring card to me , blue skies and flowers :-) The theme on the Secret Crafter Saturday Challenge is 'favourite colour' well my favourite colour is blue and I used my favourite SU paper, I almost cried when I cut into it !! :-) I'll have to get some more ,,,,. I thought about entering this is in the daring cardmakers challenge too, the theme is 'girls' but I have a fab stamp and want to use that one instead ,,, tomorrow ;-)
OK thats it, off blog hopping now and seeing whats happening on the Pink Elephant weekend :-)
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Lorraine

Pickles and Onion.

I used my new Pickles and Onion stamps today :-) I followed the sketch for the Friday Sketch Challenge and the theme on the Daisy and Dandelion Challenge is 'Thank You'. All the papers are by papermania, I also used some coredinations for layering and to make the flowers.Poppet made a fabulous tutorial on how to make these flowers, you can see it here
. The sentiment was cut out on my cricut.
I coloured the image with my new prisma pencils, need more practise with these !!

I also made these for Binky Crafts to use as demo cards in the shop.



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Lorraine

Tulips from Amsterdam :-)

I made this card following the sketch on the Sketch and Stash Challenge I also followed the colour scheme on the Cupcake Craft Challenge , there is a selection so I chose pink/brown. It qualifies for the ABC Challenge which is 'F' for flower and also the Spoonful of Sugar Challenge which is 'gems' I am also entering this card into the last Arty Girlz Challenge which is 'stamping'. I am sorry this is the last week :-(
I used old and neglected and new stuff in this card. The tulip stamp is old and neglected and the papers are new basic grey. I used my new SU border punch for the scallped edge, the ribbon is from papermania I think. I made the flower from punches after getting the idea from Poppet, thanks for the tutorial :-)The gems are by hotfix.
I was thinking of sending this card to my niece who'll be 17 soon, she lives in Holland, hence the tulip ! but do you think it's a bit 'old lady'??? Amy thinks she'll like it but I'm not convinced, I appreciate your HONEST opinion, I can always send a different 'trendy' one !

It's a public holiday here in Malta and we're having a tidying up day, well, Ray is :-) He's cleaning the yard ready for BBQ season :-) summer's almost here !!! yay
Gypsy is recovering from her op (to prevent more kittens !!) on my knee, I can't move otherwise she growls and bites me so thats why I'm not helping Ray !!!! :-)

bye for now ,,,,
Lorraine x

? Christmas Birthday !!

I made this card following the sketch on the Truly Scrumptious Challenge I also used the colours red/green so it qualifies for the Colour Create Challlenge and I used 'buttons' so it qualifies for the Pink Elephant Challenge .I have had this stamp for a long time ( a couple of years!) and I've never used it so when I saw the 'buttons' challenge I just thought I'd dust it and give it an airing :-) I used another bit of the same SU paper I used a few days ago, I love this green ! I also used red cordinations, one piece just sanded and the other swiss dotted. The buttons are papermania and the ribbon in from my tangled messy ribbon drawer !!
I tried not to make this look 'Christmassy' but as soon as I stuck those buttons on it transformed into a christmassy card !! so this will be saved for a December b'day :-)
Ooh I forgot to say I coloured this with my new prisma pencils and blended with odourless spirit ( bartoline, same but cheaper than sansador the guy in the shop said !!! )
Thanks for looking, I appreciate your comments so please leave one :-)
Lorraine x

House Mouse Monday and Papertake weekly Challenges

I made this card following the sketch on the House Mouse Monday Challenge,the theme on the Papertake Weekly Challenge is 'edible'. The background paper and lacy border paper is from basic grey, I also used some black/yellow coredinations and a little gemstones card from cordinations too, I just bought that and I must say it is gorgeous :-). The HM stamp is 'Monica's Gift' I bought some extra large brads ages ago and never used them so I thought I would use one on this. I sanded it a bit to distress then stamped it with stazon using a SU stamp. It didn't photograph very well, a bit shiny but it looks good in real life :-)
Have to take Jessie walkies now, she's going berzerk !! woofin n bitin !! :-)
Will pop round later to see what you've all been up to :-)
Lorraine x

Bloomin Birthdays !!! :-)

Well, It is my birthday today, not tellin ya how old tho !!! ha ha it got off to a brilliant start with me going onto the kitchen to find one of the cat's had sprayed pee all over the bread bin ,,,, nice !!!! ughughugh Then after cleaning the whole area with bleach n what not I went to living room with me cuppa t to catch up with Sky news, only to find the dog had peed on the rug !!!!
Then I had emails saying my credit card payments for stuff i'd bought had been declined !!! So after contacting the bank it seems there was a batch of cards that had been compromised and mine was in them and they had sent me a new one 2 weeks ago ,,,,, never got that or the pin !!! wierd !! AND this is after I had to stop my other credit card cos it was hacked into on Friday evening !! The bank were quick off the mark on that one tho , they phoned me immediately , at least ,,,,
But on a nicer note , Amy baked me a choccy cake with cadbury's flake all over it ,, yummm and Ray got me a lovely bunch of tulips :-) ( and a cheque for me to buy crafty bits :-))

nothing to post yet, am just putting the finishing touches to my blog candy items, so if anyone on my list hasn't put it on their blog and emailed me their address can you do it PLEASE otherwise will have to re route the candy !!!! :-)

happy b day to me , happy b day to me happy b day to mee eee happy b day to me :-)

Spring has sprung :-)

I made this card, and a matching easter basket which I've left in Binky Crafts so don't have a pic ! as a demo set for a card making class I have on Wednesday. The theme on the 2 Red Banana's Challenge is 'Spring' so I thought I would enter this ;-)
The new range of Daisy and dandelion stamps have arrived in Gozo ( yesterday) so off I went and bought this Candyfloss and marshmallo set ( and the 3 others too !! )and as soon as I got home I made this. I wish I had a photo of the basket, will get one and add it to this post tomorrow.
Everything on the card is by Papermania.
Thanks for looking, I appreciate your comments :-)
Lorraine

Penny Black Saturday Challenge

I made this card for the Penny Black challenge, a lovely 'easy' sketch to follow :-) I used my PB hedgehog bouquet stamp which I coloured with a mix of marvy's pens and inktense pencils. The paper is by papermania, I also used a little bit of coredinations that I swiss dotted and sanded.
Thanks for looking, I appreciate your comments :-)
Lorraine

Easter Card

I followed the Friday Sketch Challenge for this card. I also used the colours on the Colour Create Challenge which are orange/yellow/green. It also qualifies for the ABC Challenge which is'E' for 'Easter'.
I used Penny Black stamps 'Butterflies and Ewe'and Butterfly edge. The dot butterfly stamp is by Hero Arts. the yellow and orange papers are a download from Funky Fairy's, the other papers are SU.
Thanks for looking, I appreciate your comments so please leave me one :-)
Lorraine x

Cute Card Thursday Challenge

The Cute Card Thursday Challenge is celebrating its 1st birthday and we are asked to make a celebration card following Katharina's fab sketch.
I used a Whiff of Joy cake stamp,the sentiment stamp is by Hero Arts. I also used my new SU paper and scallop punch. The tagss were cut out on my cricut. The flowers are papermania. The white card layers and tag were all softened with pink chalk but that doesn't show on the photo, but in reality they're nice soft pink. I also used shimmer paints, really cheap ones from 'The Works' but they're lovely !! :-)
Think thats all :-)
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Lorraine x

Happy Retirement !

I used the sketch by Michelle on the Spoonfull Of Sugar Challenge, lovely sketch :-)I am also entering this for the House Mouse Monday Challenge and the Charisma Cardz Challenge which are both asking for 'men's cards. I am also entering this for the Arty Girlz Challenge which is 'Smile', well he is smiling and looking pretty happy with himself :-), and hopefully it'll make you smile too :-)
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Lorraine x

spring is here ;-)

It really is a beautiful day the sun is shining, clear blue skies, it really is showing up my dirty windows :-/ ha ha I have made this card to fit in with several challenges, well 5 actually :-)
I followed the lovely skech on the Truly Scrumptious Challenge, we are also asked to make our own buttons, I made the 3 in the centre of the flowers using shrink plastic which I coloured with pearlescent chalk. This also qualifies for the Secret Crafter Saturday challenge which is masking, and the Daring Cardmakers Challenge which is 'Patchwork'. I used the colour sceme on The Pink Elephant Challenge which is pink/green/brown. The theme on the Cupcake Challenge is 'Spring', well I think this is a 'spring' looking card :-)
Thanks for looking, I really appreciate your comments so please leave me one :-)
Lorraine x

Who's this ?? :-)

ok, last one ha ha , she only did 2 !! You all got the last one right, she was worried it looked like Hitler !!!!! Amy was very happy you all recognised him :-)

I think this one is easier :-)
Isn't this fun :-)

I didn't make anything yesterday was helping out at my local craft shop, Binky Crafts,they re expecting the new Clare Curd range amongst other things but unfortunately there's no paper !!! :-( I am a bit disappointed as it looked fabby on the cards I saw on the treasure hunt ,,,

Who's this ?? :-)

I just thought I'd post this on my blog, my daughter Amy did this last night for her art GCSE portfolio which had to be handed in this morning !! Talk about last minute scramble !!

One Stop Craft Challenge

The theme on the One Stop Craft Challenge this week is 'Sorry', we have to use the word somewhere on our craft work.
I used a 'Thinking of You' stamp by Hero Arts which I inked with antique linen distress ink, I also used this for sponging around the edges and I brayered the matting card with it too. The butterfly is slightly coloured with yellow copics and made to fly with stickles :-)
I printed the sentiment inside on the computer and used the label nesties.
Thanks for looking, I appreciate your comments so please leave me one :-)
Lorraine