Ribbon Girl challenge …

 

 

Good evening all, it’s the weekend …hurray!

Hopefully I’ll get some time to do some crafting over the next few days – the Lili of the Valley DT are going to be working with some new designs soon, they are sooo cute so watch this space for news of when to look out for sneak peeks!

 

I don’t usually enter challenges but The Ribbon Girl have a guest DT spot up for grabs this month so I couldn’t resist making a card for their colour challenge and having a go. How lovely would it be to be a ‘ribbon girl’ …it’s one of my favourite websites and I LOVE using their gorgeous products

 

 

This is the inspiration picture …

 

 

 

and this is the card I made…

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

The inspiration photo is a circle so I thought a circle card was best, also I just got some new Spellbinders grand decorative circle dies and wanted to try them so that worked out really well

I know I said I hadn’t used a Lili of the Valley stamp  …but I did sneak in the sentiment, it’s from the very useful Set 10 Verses sheet

I’ve used lace and twine from The Ribbon Girl and also those fab rolled paper flowers which are really handy

The backing papers are K & Co, card is Core’dinations and the leaf is a Marianne die

The little doily behind the sentiment in from Hunky Dory, it’s the first thing of theirs I’ve bought, they are parchment and look really pretty but to be honest the pattern just disappears when you put them on your card. I inked it over with a distress ink and it was as different again, that’s the way to use them

 

Hope you like it, as always all your comments are very much appreciated.

 

Have a lovely weekend

 

 

 

Snow is falling …

 

 

Morning all, another week gone and I can’t quite believe it’s November already. If you came to the open day on Saturday I hope you enjoyed it  …we were very busy and had some lovely comments about the new stamps

 

Thanks to everyone who’s left comments on my posts, I will get around to visiting all your blogs and looking at your lovely cards eventually!

 

Time for another challenge over at Lili’s Little Fairies and I really enjoyed making this week’s card, the theme is

 

** snow is falling **

 

 

 

 

 

I love this stamp, it’s called My Little Tree and I made him into a little scene using again the Papermania Mistletoe Kisses papers which I’ve used a lot lately

The little guy is coloured in with Promarkers, I cut him out and then stuck him on with PinFlair to give a bit of dimension

The sentiment is from the very useful Lili of the Valley Simply Sophisticated set

I stamped the trees (Magnolia) and embossed them in silver. I cut around the bottom so I could tuck the hill ‘underneath’ and them I put some flower soft on them to make ‘snow’ The white card is embossed to look like snow falling and I added a bit if glitter which you can’t really see in the picture

The ribbon is from our showroom but I’m sure you can get similar from the fabulous Ribbon Girl   …finally I finished it off with a few gems

 

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Hope you like it, I’m thrilled that my card is going to be the card that is used on the website to showcase this stamp!! 

 

Have a lovely day, and do stop by tomorrow when I’ll have a card to share that doesn’t use a Lili of the Valley image – yes I know, that’s a bit of a shocker!

 

 

A Girlie Christmas …

 

 

It’s the turn of team B over at Lili’s Little Fairies this week but I couldn’t resist joining in when I saw the theme…

 

…it’s ‘Girlie Christmas’ so a nice easy one if you fancy joining in

 

 

 

 

 

 

I made this using one of our new Mini Masterpiece sheets. The image is also available as a stamp, she’s called Christmas Candle and you can find her here on the website

The papers are from my new favourite Papermania pad ‘mistletoe kisses’, the poinsettias are done with a Marianne die and the ribbon is from our showroom

I love the new Marvellous Squares from Spellbinders and I’ve been using them quite a lot on my cards. Finally the greetings are from the very versatile Christmas Sentiment Tags

 

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I hope you’re going to join in with the challenge, as usual we’ll pick our favourite top 3 and there will also be a prize winner drawn at random

 

Have a lovely weekend, and if you’re able to visit us at the Lili of the Valley open day make sure you say hello!

 

 

Mini blog hop winner …

OOOPS  ...I just realised that I had one of the hidden prizes on last weeks blog hop (where does the time go?) - so better late than never here’s my winner(s) …

Heather and Bronwyn http://purplecat64.blogspot.co.uk

Well done girls, email me with your details and I’ll get your prize sent off to you

I’ll be back tomorrow with the Lili’s Little Fairies challenge for this week – enjoy the rest of your evening

Anything goes …

 

 

 

 

Good morning everyone, I hope you’re going to join in with the challenge over at Lili’s Little Fairies

 

 

It’s an easy one this week …

 

‘ANYTHING GOES’ 

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I’ve been playing around making tags, this is one I did using Mr Snowman which is one of our older stamps but still very popular

 

I stamped him and then cut his top half using a circular nestie as I didn’t want the full image. He’s coloured with distress inks, I’ve only had a couple of goes at this and wish I had more time to practice because I like the painted effect rather than the markers

 

The background was done using Stampers Anonymous snowflakes stamped randomly in distress ink, then I embossed over the whole area with a clear powder to make it shiny. I did the same for the backing circles but this time stamping the snowflakes in silver on dark card although you can’t really see them on the picture

 

The greeting is from the Christmas Circular Sentiments set, I tied the seam binding through the circles but didn’t stick them together so you can see the snowflakes on the one underneath

 

The lace and seam binding are from The Ribbon Girl and then it’s finished with a few dots of stickles (can’t resist!)

 

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Make sure you pop back later to see if my blog had a prize from the blog hop   …meanwhile have a lovely day x

 

New Mini Masterpiece sheets out now ….

 

 

 

 

 

 

Good morning everyone, hope you enjoyed our little blog hop yesterday. Thanks for all your lovely comments and don’t forget to pop back later in the week to see if my blog had one of the hidden prizes.

 

Note for Marjorie  …the little snowflakes on my card yesterday are from a Martha Stewart punch around the page set!

 

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The new Mini Masterpiece sheets were launched last night on the Lili of the valley website, there are 40 designs in total now and it’s a lovely mix of Christmas, boys, girls and occasions

 

Here’s another card I’ve made using them, I’ve been doing a few for the showroom and I’ve really enjoyed using them

My favourite part of the whole procedure is putting the card together, I love choosing the papers, the layout, dies and embellishments. I do like to colour but sometimes after spending 2 hours colouring an image I’ve lost interest in the whole thing

These are fabulous because you just pop out the images and you’re ready to go!

 

If you visit my blog regularly you might recognise this card, I posted it a while ago and wasn’t entirely happy with it

I’ve taken it to bits and remade it using this little wedding couple and I’m pleased with it now  …although I think it could do without that piece of lace in the middle. I hate throwing cards away and couldn’t bear to waste those lovely papers!

 

 

 

 

The papers are from a Tilda pad, they’re not cheap  but they are lovely. I think I’ve got a bit of a problem with patterned papers to be honest – I LOVE them and keep buying them despite having more than I could ever use  ….and now I’ve discovered digital papers too which is a whole new world of loveliness. If you haven’t been to Raspberry Road then take a look – amazing!

The flowers were made with a Crealies die which again I love at the moment  …and the lace is from The Ribbon Girl

The little swirls are a Memory Box die and I made the frame around the image using Spellbinders Labels 1

 

The little ‘today’s the day’ tag is from the Sentiment Tags sheet which I use all the time. I don’t always have room for words when I’ve done a card and I think sometimes you see sentiments that look like they’ve been stuck on as a bit of an afterthought. I can usually find a little space to tuck one of these in  …and they look lovely peeking out from under your flowers

 

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That’s it from me for today, I’m going to get ready and it’s chucking it down outside and very dark and miserable. I don’t want to leave the house when it’s like this …but I’m a lucky girl in that I always look forward to going to work!

 

 

Have a good day

 

 

It’s mini blog hop day …

 

 

Good morning everyone, it’s the 15th of the month again which means it’s time for another of our Lili of the Valley designer mini hops

This time the stamp that we are going to showcase is  Delivering The Presents

 

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The following amazing DT members are all taking part so make sure you hop along from one blog to another and see what card the girls have made using this cute little stamp;

 

Anne (that’s me)

Dena

Elise

Fleur

Mindy

 

 

The aim is to to show you some different ways to use the same image  …and hopefully give you lots of ideas!

 

We have some prizes up for grabs again this month from our generous sponsors, most of the team have used some of the fabulous shaped cards that you can get from Which Craft? so do go and have a look at their website to see the full range;

 

 

 

 

 

 

All you need to do to be in the prize draw is to leave a comment, don’t forget that you’ll need to visit and comment on all the cards to have the best chance of winning as the prizes are hidden along the way and we don’t know where they are!

 

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Here’s the card that I made using the image …

 

 

 

 

I’ve used some gorgeous papers from the 12x12 Papermania ‘Mistletoe Kisses’ pad which I love, I do tend to usually use traditional colours for my Christmas cards but I liked these for a change, something a bit more contempory. There is a full page of the letter tiles so I just popped them out, distressed and inked the edges and then stuck them on with foam pads

 

The seam binding and snowflake charm are from The Ribbon Girl

 

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Don’t forget to pop back in a few days to see if you were a prize winner, the winners will be drawn at random from the comments that were left on the lucky blogs

 

 

Have a lovely day

 

 

 

 

PS> I’m not sure why the date is showing as Sunday?? I was trying to schedule the post last night to go live this morning and it was just putting it straight on as though it was already the 15th. I’ve just done it this morning and the posting date is showing as Sunday the 14th