A Little Old Sneaky Peekie

Howdy sweet peeps and long time no see lol.
I hope that everyone is OK

It’s been an eventful few weeks to say the least. We have completely gutted my old craft room and I now have a nice shiny new one – I’ll put some pics on here as soon as I get them done. I hurt my arm in the process but I was always going to do something daft – it’s just how it is with me!!  But who would have thought that carrying a load of wooden planks would hurt so much!!

Anyway we are back in the crafty swing of things now and today I have a little sneakie peekie for you which is also my card for this weeks Papertake Weekly and our theme is

2 or 4 Legs

So ..

… this is what I did (I have used 2 lots of 2 legs lol).

Do you like the  image?
It’s one of the brand new Lili of The Valley release and it’s called Secretly Yours. 
Although it isn't technically a Chrimbly image, I think it could double up as one.

I coloured it with the following Copics -

  Skin – E000, E00, E13, R00, R02 
Hair – E31, E35, E39, E50
The rest – B0000, B000, B00, B02, B05, B93, B95, E30, E31, E33, E34, E35, E39, E42, E50, E81

The papers are Winter Wishes and the sentiment is from SET 75 - Christmas Wishes, both of course from Lili of The Valley.

I covered the punched holly leaves with glitter and added some Holly Berry Red Dewdrops from The Ribbon Girl. 
I love how they look.

The bow is made from 38mm white organza and topped off with a Red Small Polka Dot Spotty Button.

I love her twinkly collar – very glam and Christmassy.

So that's my card done and I will be back soon as soon with some more crafty stuff plus my giveaway for my 1000th post – I haven't forgotten peeps, I m just putting it all together.

Right I better be off cos I have work to do then we are off to check out the new Waitrose – I can feel the diet slipping, nay hurling itself at great speed right out of the window!!!

Have the fabbiest of days and sending nice to be back hugs to all xxx

 

PTW Sneakie Peekie Plus Loads of Pics :)

 

Hi there sweet peeps and it’s time for another sneakie peekie of another of the brand new Lili of The Valley fairies which will be on sale on our 10th birthday. Have you picked your faces yet?

I just cannot choose!!

My card is also for this week’s challenge over at Papertake Weekly and it’s time for a new sketch …

 

… this one here.
Or you can use any of the other PTW sketches if you want because it's our monthly

Sketchie Free For All

So what did I do then?

Well I turned the sketch upside down and used it that way.
That’s what they’re there for I think : )

 

 

So the image I used today is called Water Lily, awww she is so sweet I could eat her.

I coloured her with the following Copics -

Skin – E000, E00, E11, E13, R00, R02
Hair – E31, E33, E34, E35, E39
The rest – B0000, B00, C00, C0, C3, C4, C5, C7, C9, C10, G99, RV0000, RV000, RV10, RV34, RV69, YG0000, YG00, YG03, YG95

I added loads of Glamour Dust around the image and I also …

… gave her some pink sparkly shades (the glass parts are covered with Glossy Accents but you can’t see it on these pics).

But they are FABULOUS

 

I had a little bit of a flower fest again – I am so into doing the paper flower thing at the mo.
The papers are from the utterly gorgeous  LOTV  Perfect Pair paper pads.

 

 

I used another sentiment from the LOTV Sentiments to Fit Scroll set and there are a couple of goodies from The Ribbon Girl - 12mm white cotton lace and 16mm Meadow Green/White Berisford No 130 Pencil Stripe Ribbon.

Beautiful.

And here’s a bit of gingham ribbon,  just for a change!!

A double bow made with some 15mm shocking pink and white No 72 Berisford small check gingham ribbon and topped off with one of Mary’s lovely 14mm Acrylic Gems and a bit of twine from  The Ribbon Girl Green Mix Hemp Twine card.

 

There’s also another of me Grand Nesties in here plus some Martha Stewart leaf-age.

So that’s me all done for today.
I hope you like the card peeps. I have to say that it’s one of my faves this year – I love how it turned out.

Have the bestest day and I’ll see you back here with some more bits and bobs very soon.

Huggiest of hugs to all xxx

A Fairy Sweet Sneekie Peekie

Morning sweet peeps and hope you are all OK and that you had a fab weekend.

This week, the  Lili of The Valley DT are going to be sharing some sneak peeks of a brand new release which will be out soon and you are going to LOVE this one because it’s all about fairies.

So keep your eyes peeled.

So what did I do then?

This little cutie is called Cobweb.
Do you like her?

I think she’s absolutely totally and utterly sweet and I coloured her with the following Copics -

Skin – E000, E00, E11, E13, R00, R02

Hair – E31, E33, E34, E35, E39

The rest – B0000, B00, B02, B05, B22, B32, B63, B97, BV04, C00, C0, C3, C4, C5, C7, YG0000, YG00, YG03, YG95 (so just one or two then lol!!).

The papers are from the beautiful  LOTV Petal Fresh paper pads.

 

Now you know I do love a bit of  gingham ribbon lol.

This bow was made using 25mm Black/Cream Rustic Gingham Berisford No 10 ribbon from The Ribbon Girl. I topped it off with one of Mary’s 14mm Acrylic Gems which I coloured with a Copic so that it matched.

Just peeping behind is a Magnolia Leaf & Swirl die swirl – I haven't used this for a while!!

The sentiment is from the brilliant LOTV Sentiments to Fit Scroll set and I finally got around to using my Grand Nesties Scalloped Rectangles dies as well. I’ve had them ages and they don't seem to have paid for their keep yet!!

Oh and there’s some White Liquid Pearl-age as well which I also got from Mary Ribbons.

So that's me done for today but I will be back tomorrow with my card for Papertake and I wouldn't be at all surprised if there wasn't another new fairy on display. Possibly in pink? Tune in then and all will be revealed

Have a great day and huggiest of hugs to all xxx

Chasing Butterflies :)

Morning lovely  peeps and sorry about the unimaginative post title today - the old brain has turned to mush it would seem :(

But onwards and upwards as they say and it’s time to get transatlantic and head over to see what’s happening with the girlies at Simon Says Stamp Challenge. I say girlies but this week out GD is male – he is Alberto and is 15 and he does the most amazing work :)

This week our theme is

Use Dies Or Punches

so self explan really :)

As always there is a …..

 

… which you get to spend in the Simon Says Stamp Store

So, what did I do then???

I got a bit bright that’s what lol!!!

I really like zingy colours with lots of white on show – you may have noticed,  heeheee

I decided to do something a little bit different and I wanted it to look like she was chasing the butterflies so I punched a few out and attached them to strips of acetate which I hope you can just about see. Now if I did this again I would make the strips a little thinner perhaps. I also made a boo-boo I think re the number  of butterflies and would possibly add one more on the left hand side ….. but maybe I am just getting picky in me old age :(

Perhaps I should rename the blog Pink Picky – what do ya think lol!!

The base card was made using Spellbinders Grand Nesties and the image is Capture Each Moment Jolinne – it’s an MFT image (all the DT have used MFT products this week) and I coloured her with these Copics -

E000, E00, E21, R11 (skin), E50 (hair), BG0000, BG01, YG000, YG01, YG03 (the rest).

The shading here and there was done with polychromos pencils.

Isn't the paper pretty?

It’s from a My Mind's Eye 6 x 6 Life Of The Party Paper Pad. I also used it to make the butterflies and the rolled rose in the centre of the bloom as well.  The large bloom is from a Prima Craftable Flowers pack and I just coloured it to match with the Copics.

 

Quite right too :)

And you can just about see the good old  Tilda Lace Die and Hero Arts Gems trying to hide away there.

So there we are all done.

I was so glad to see that I am not the only one who objected to the shenanigans at Dale Farm peeps.  But enough ranting from me for one week I think!!!

Now it isn't often that I make a card and look at it when it’s done and really like it – you see, Miss Picky Knickers again!!! . But that actually  happened yesterday so I’ll leave you with a sneaky peek of it and show you  the the rest in the morning.

I’m off to Hobbycraft now (oh deep joy, not!!) as I am all but out of the lovely white card I use for my card bases. I am so fussy about it as it HAS to be brilliant white and they don't often have it in so I am expecting the worst. But you never know and I will remain cheerfully  optimistic.

But there could be tears if I can’t get any (and then I will go and try and get a life lol!!).

Before I go I must just tell you that we are almost out of spaces for the forthcoming Copicific Retreat on 22nd October. But there are one or two places still available so go on and treat yerselves to a a whole weekend of pure crafty bliss - the programme is awesome and class sizes are deliberately kept small to give the best possible value for money. So you will learn lots about these amazing pens and how to get the best out of the little blighters :).  

You can see all the deets on Wendy's webpage here

Enjoy your day peeps and see you tomoz.

Huggiest of hugs to all xxx

 

3 Lili Lovelies :)

Hi peeps and hope that you are all OK today.

It’s time to catch up with Lili’s little fairies  over at the Lili Of The Valley Thursday challenge and this week our theme is

Red, Green & White.

So it’s rather festive over there  today.  We have a fab voucher up for grabs as well ….

.. and I’m sure that our winner will be spoilt for choice in what to spend it on as there are soooo many lovely things in the shop.

So this is what I did. I did another shaped card made using Spellbinders Grand Nesties

The image is All In A Row and it’s one of the new releases – don’t you just love ‘em :) I coloured it with Copics and these are the colours I used …

E000, E00, E21, R11, R20 (skin), E41, E42, E50 (hair), G99, R17, R27, R59, Y28, YG0000, YG01, YG03 (the rest).

I used the frilly bits of the Magnolia Dream Tag  to surround the image and them stuck another piece of card over the back so you can’t see the joins!! The holly ‘paper’ was made using an old holly punch  which I’ve had for years and a small hole punch.

The Nesties, Copics and tag die are all available from Simon Says Stamp and the sentiment is Pink Petticoat.

I made a nice big bow with some  38mm Grosgrain Stripe ribbon from the fabulous Ribbon Girl and the button is actually a piece of card punched with a 3/4” circle hole punch and a small hole punch.

So that’s the old card done.

I am suffering a bit today because we went out on our bikes last night, me for the first  time in ages, so I am a tad tired. I got me a new bike so I was testing it out …

… and this is the bad boy here and I LOVE it :) It has 27 gears apparently although I haven’t a clue what to do with them, There are only 2 in my world, ie easy and hard, haaahaaaa!!!.

We both ‘treated’ ourselves to some of those padded shorts that you wear under your trackie or whatever you go riding in and it was hysterical. I looked like Serena Williams (love her but she does have one hell of an ass on her, bless) and they made you walk in quite an unattractive way. 

Why I felt the need to add any more butt inches on top of what is already there I cannot imagine and I’m not so sure they are even THAT comfy. Apparently ( according to his Lordship), we are our again later although whether I wear the shorts remains to be seen!!!

My enthusiasm today is underwhelming!!! Best get the Bercooca back out (still no sign of any facial hair or log rolling tendencies peeps!!)

So on that note I’ll go and do some work and I’ll see you tomoz with the last card of the week.

Enjoy your day and huggiest of hugs to all xxx

Going Round In Circles

Hi chicksies and for once I’m not talking about me – although now you come to mention it …….

But anyhoos it’s Friday, the best day of the week, woohooooo :) The weekend is almost here and time to head on over to the Just Magnolia and hAnglar & sTanglar challenge and check out what’s going on there. As its the first one of the month. it’s our special challenge so it’s an

Anything Goes

week with of course an optional extra. And this week our Jacqui is our hostess with the most-est (and she is indeed) and she has set the option as circles so you just need to add something round to your work –  simples!!!

We are sponsored by the marvellous peeps over the water …

…. and of course there is a yummy voucher for one lucky girlie to spend in the shop.

So this is what I did – a round card to fit the optional extra plus some spotty DP as well lurking furtively  in the background plus a round button embellie on the bloom – more in secondo :)

I went for a little hAnglar girl this week and this one is from the Attitude kit which you can see here.

I used the Copics/ polywollydoodah combi and these are the colours -

E000, E00, E21, R11, R20 (skin), E41, E42, E50 (hair), C5, E000, E50, R85, RV0000, RV000. RV00 (the rest)

Once again I used a couple of Nitwits papers (there’s a sale on at the mo so check it out me luvvies xxx) and I even paper pieced her frock!! This was because I am running low on inks and I’m praying that the refills arrive today – note to me to not leave it until the last minute next time!!!

The card base was made using my new best friend, the Grand Calibur and some circle and scalloped circle dies (this machine embosses like nobodies business).

Now I have to tell you that I did something here for the first time.

No, not made a mistake cos that’s never gonna happen is it  - well at least I’m honest lol!! No, I decided that instead of using paper, I’d make the bloom from felt (I am working on some stuff at the mo which sort of inspired me), and I am quite pleased with how it turned out.

I used some Autumn Sunset Wool Felt bits which are from The Ribbon Girl and the die set I used is Marianne Design Creatables - Flower and Leaves which you can get from Tracy at Dies To Die For.

Did you notice that just for a change I added a swirl from the Magnolia leaf and swirl set and got the old Tilda Lace Die out again?

So that’s me card done and I’ll say toodle pip and go and do some work – boooo hisssss.

I’ll be back tomoz . Yes I’m posting over the weekend which isn't like me but I have some sneak peeks of the new LOTV Christmas  images which I just have to share.

Enjoy your day and huggiest of hugs to all xxx

It’s A Holly Holly-Day

Morning peeps and hope all is well with you today :)

It’s that time of the week when we nip over to the US of A and see what’s happening with the good people at the Simon Says Stamp Challenge and this week it’s all about

Christmas In August

and there is a whopping ….

to spend right here ….

Now I know I moaned about My Harrods etc yesterday but like I said it’s different for us poor souls (and poor being the operative word espesh when we can’t say no to new stash!!) who make cards. We need to start early cos heaven forbid that we would have to go and BUY them!! If you send people bought cards they see it a a bit of a slight when you make them yourself don’t they :(

Anyhoos this is what I did.

I used this cute Penny Black stamp – it’s called A Thorny Affair and you can see it here. I coloured it with the old Copics but no list today hunny-pies cos the dope chucked it out trying to have a tidy up!!!

The base card was made using  these Spellbinders Grand Nesties …

      

… and if you click on the pics they will take you to the right place in the Simon Says Stamp Store

I used an old Sissix holly die and a hole punch to make the berries (or cherries as Kyla calls them!!)  but you could easily draw a couple of leaves if you don’t have the die.

I really like this card and it’s so quick and easy which is just the ticket if you have a mountain of Christmas cards to make.

So that’s me done for today – another shortie as work is coming out of me ears!!! Don’t forget to check it all out if you get a sec and also we have our dinks challenge which you can read about here if you missed it.

So I’ll see you tomoz with something fairy-ish!!! No sneakie peekie cos it’s still not quite done.

Enjoy your day and huggiest of hugs to all xxx