Colour Create Challenge

I made this card for Sue's wedding anniversary :-) so don't look Sue ha ha ha :-))
The theme on the colour create challenge is lilac and blue
I have this fab image from the Digital Stamp Oasis I coloured the image with a mix of copics and prisma pencils. The patterned paper is from my stash, can't remember who's it is :-) The optional extras for the challenge is ribbon and swirls, well I added the swirly corners and a strip of ribbon from anita's. The sentiment is from SU.
Think thats all :-)
Thanks for looking, I appreciate your comments so please leave me one :-)
Lorraine x x

Simon Says Candy Challenge :-)

Hi peeps don't forget to join in the blog candy on the Simon Says Challenge :-) You only have a couple of days and you have to be in it to win it !!!

Hi girls a friend of mine started cardmaking a couple of months ago and has just started a blog,her name is Valerie, would you mind just popping over and leave her a comment so that she can start visiting other blogs and get an idea what it's all about, thanks peeps x x x

White Rabbit :-)

On April 1st the 1st words you're supposed to say are 'white rabbit' this is supposed to bring good luck :-) I'll have to find out where that saying came from :-) Does anyone know ?
When I saw that the Daring Cardmakers challenge this week was 'bunnies and chicks' I knew I had to use this fab Rebecca rabbit with cart image from the Digital Stamp Oasis I used the Stamp Something Challenge fab sketch designed by Emily Weems :-) It also qualifies for the Secret Crafter Challenge which is 'stitching'. Having never done any sewing on a card this was a challenge for me ! don't look too closely ha ha. Maybe I should get one of those small machines that Anne ( fellow fairy :-)) has just bought cos getting my big one out was a bit of a palaver !! I coloured the image with copics, the papers and flower are by SU, the sentiment was printed on the computer. The big orange blobs are chipboard circles coloured orange and embossed with sparkle. The eggs in the cart were coloured then 3D glossed and glittered, Rebecca was glittered too and the dots on the paper ! The brads are papermania.
I think thats all !! :-)
Thanks for looking, I appreciate your comments so please leave me one :-)
Lorraine

BLOG CANDY ALERT

Chrissie has this fabulous candy to celebrate 10,000 hits :-)
Hop over to her blog to enter, you have until 13th April :-)
Good luck to all
lorraine

Fabby News :-)

YAY I've been asked by Ria to be on the Funky Fairy's DT !! How cool is that !! Yay.
Thanks so much Ria for asking me am grinning from ear to ear :-))))))

Lorraine x x

Digital Stamp Oasis Blog Candy

Ellie the owner of the Digital Stamp Oasis is offering some blog candy to launch her fabulous images which are available from the Digital Stamp Oasis:-) to be in with a chance of winning you have to make a card using this sketch. Hop over to Ellie's blog for more details.
I used the Susie Dancing Squirrel image for my card, isn't she cute :-)
I coloured her using a mix of prisma pencils and copic pens, need more brown copics ,,, !! I added a little shimmer to her skirt with art quest interference watercolour paint.
The papers are HOTP Sarapapers, I also used a few papermania buttons and a little organza ribbon. The stardream grey frame was cut out on the cricut.
Thanks for looking, I appreciate your comments so please leave me one :-)
Lorraine x x

have a monster Easter !! hmmm

The theme this week on the Cupcake Crafts Challenge
is monsters :-) I saw a lovely card on Joanne's blog she had used a free download from Dustin Pike and I thought this was just perfect for the cupcake challenge. This card also qualifies for the Spoonfull of Sugar Challenge and the Lily of the Valley Challenge which are both 'Easter'.
I used a papermania scalloped card, I thought it looked good with the dragon spines :-)The papers are from Funky Fairy's downloads. The distressed chicken going to rescue the chick is from Penny Black, the sentiment is from a Digital Stamps Oasis download which I layered on some nestie cut circles.
The image was coloured with a mix of prisma pencils and copic markers.
Thanks for looking, I appreciate your comments so please leave me one :-)
Lorraine x

Simon Says Challenge Candy :-)

Would you like to win this candy :-) We are happy to announce the start of a brand new challenge blog 'Simon Says Challenge'
Heidi, the owner of simonsaysstamp.com asked ME to start a challenge blog for her. As you can imagine I was absolutely thrilled to be asked. I can do that no prob !! I didn't tell her I'd never done it before ha ha but I have learned as I've gone along and the blog is now ready for your inspection :-) If anyone has any tips I would love to hear them, if there are any changes you think I could make to improve it I would like to hear those too :-)
Ok so please hop over to the challenge blog and have a peek :-)
Good luck with the candy :-)
Lorraine x x

Blog candy with a twist

Hi I received 2 parcels in the post yesterday from 2 blogging buddies involved in the blog candy with a twist. This parcel is from Hazel at Dido's Designs
She has some fabby news too :-) Hop over to her blog to see what it is :-)
I've eaten the choccy's already and I am sure the images will be used !! :-)


This one is from Jacelynn at Enjoy the Process, Keep Balance I love the die cut images and the stamped images too. I wish I could make the crochet flowers ,,,,, !


Thankyou so much to you both :-) I hope you like what I sent you too !! :-)
Love to you both x x
Lorraine

Strawberries and Cream !

I woke up at about 1:30 this morning and couldn't get back to sleep, so I came upstairs, made a cuppa, blog hopped then made this card :-) As a few of you know I have been asked by Ellie, who co owns the Digital Stamp Oasis to be on her design team. This image has been designed by her husband, he is so talented !! pop over to the store to see the other images he has designed too :-)
The image I chose to use 1st is called 'Sammy Squirrel eats strawberries', the sentiments on the front of the card are also a download from there. I coloured him with copics, I am still a novice on these pens but think they're lovely and colour so easily. The pinky splodge on his tummy is supposed to be his pink tummy but could also be mistaken for dripped strawberry juice ha ha !!
I am entering this card for the Papertake Weekly Challenge, I followed the fabulous sketch by Dawny P. It also qualifies for the Funky Fairy's Challenge whose theme is 'Feelin Fruity' It hasn't been posted yet but am psychic and know what the theme's going to be ha ha , ( tho it could have something to do with a DT member inadvertantly posting it early then deleting, but not before I had seen it ha ha ) I used my favourite Funky Fairys download papers the Dots are Distressing and the 'It's so Distressing kits. It also qualifies for the ABC Challenge which is 'G' for glitter, that was a fluke ha ha , I had used some doodlebug glittery paper and had added black stickles for strawberry seeds.
The strawberries were made using a craft stamper magazine stamp from last years mag, stamped onto transluscent shrink plastic and coloured with pencils.
I tried to take a photo to show the 3d dimension but think I need a proper photographer like Sue to take the photo properly :-)


I don't often bother to decorate the insides, I usually just stick a plain insert with a sentiment stamped on it but I thought I'd make a little bit of effort for me 1st card as a DT member :-)


Thanks for looking, your comments are always much appreciated so please leave me one :-)
Lorraine,
Think I'll go back t bed now !!

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



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