The UIltimate Crafty Chill Out?

Well hello there my lovelies.

It’s been a while since I popped over here but I thought that I’d share a couplke of images with you.
I haven’t turned them into a card YET but I will : )

I’ve been having a play with these beauties   ….

They come in 2 sets and they are LUSH.

So this is what I did -

I coloured this Magnolia image using the following pencils -

Skin - Barely Bisque (H&ST)
Caramel Popcorn (H&ST)
Roast Chestnut (H&ST Toffee Apple (BV)

Hair - Pale Blonde (H&ST)
Iced Tea (H&ST)
Roast Chestnut (H&ST)
Cocoa Bean (BV)

The rest -

Dress, flip flops and headband - Scuba Blue (BV)
Bucket - Heather Dusk (H&ST)
Shells – Soft Apricot (H&ST)
Sand - Caramel Popcorn (H&ST)
Grounding - Heather Dusk (H&ST)

And for this Lili of the Valley I used -

Skin - Barely Bisque (H&ST)
Caramel Popcorn (H&ST)
Roast Chestnut (H&ST)

Hair - Pale Blonde (H&ST)
Iced Tea (H&ST)
Roast Chestnut (H&ST)
Cocoa Bean (BV)

Teddy - Caramel Popcorn (H&ST)
Pale Blonde (H&ST)
Roast Chestnut (H&ST)
Iced Tea (H&ST)

Clothes -  Toffee Apple (BV)
Lemon Grass (BV)
Imperial Jade (BV)
Roast Chestnut (H&ST)
Heather Dusk (H&ST)
Wild Mushroom (H&ST)
Raven Black (BV)
Grounding - Heather Dusk (H&ST)
Wild Mushroom (H&ST)

I hope you like them and I have a couple more to share so I’ll be back before too long.
Hope you are all OK and crafty hugs to all xx

Game, Set & Match :)

Good morning sweet peeps and a very Happy Sunday to everyone.

Its time for our monthly card challenge over at The Ribbon Girl blog and our theme is

Summer

 

As usual our card Challenge is sponsored by our lovely friends at Lili Of The Valley and The Ribbon Girl and we have 2 fab prizes up for grabs -

 

 

So what did I do then?

Well, I thought, what could be more summery than tennis?
Very topical, and I will be glued to the telly for the final later.

So …

… here’s my card.

I used Tennis Tilda and I coloured her with these Copics -

Skin – E000, E00, E11, E13, R00, R02
Hair – E31, E35, E39, E50
The rest – B0000, B000, B00, B05, G99, YG00, YG03, YG95

I’ve outlined the image with glitter and added some to the lacy bits of her dress and the racquet strings.

The gorgeous papers are Shabby Shack from Lili of The Valley – I love the clean crisp look of these papers.

A beautiful bow made with 32mm Celery Green Pure Silk Ribbon – this stuff is pure gorge.
You can also see the 38mm 'Phoebe' White Guipure Lace, Apple Green Tiny Ric Rac,  5mm Mixed Greens Self Adhesive Pearls,  and I chopped up some White Rose/Pearl Organza Ribbon to top the bow.

I also added some of it to these …

… flowers here.
I quite like the way they look on their own  : )

I made some little tails for the flowers using the ric rac.

Here, I gathered up some 32mm 'Anne' Antique White Lace and glued it to the back of this panel.
All these beautiful goodies are of course from Mary over at The Ribbon Girl

The sentiment is from the Lili of The Valley Sentiments to Fit Scroll set which I adore – you probably noticed lol!!!

I can almost smell the grass with those pretty green colours.

So that’s the old card done for today.

I’m so looking forward to the tennis later even though we won’t be having our usual food fest (I usually do us a yummy picnic style late lunch to go with our Pimms and strawbs and cream). We will be having the strawbs but it will be low fat cream this year. Not that I mind cos I am sticking to the diet this time. I tell you peeps, I have found some lovely recipes on the SW website and we have actually been eating really well AND losing weight.
It's win win fo sho!!!

I don’t mind who wins today although I do have a soft spot for old Rog the Dogdge.
But it’s the kind of match I enjoy best when you are non – partisan

Right on the note I’m off.
It’s our monthly card club tomorrow and I’m in the middle of doing the prep.
Enjoy your day whatever you are doing and love and hugs to all xxx

Little Limey Tilda

Morning me darlins and hope that you are all OK today xx

It’s my turn to post over at the DTDF Cutey Craft blog and today I’ve gone a bit Magnolia!!

And here’s …

 

... my card – nice and bright and sunny and more like my usual style : )

The image I’ve used is Special Moments - Tilda with Spitz Pocket – she is sooo sweet – and I coloured her with Copics in the following colours -

Skin – E000, E00, E11, E13, R00, R02
Hair – E31, E35, E39, E50
The rest – G99, E50, R05, R17, R59, YG00, YG03, YG95

I’ve added just a tiny bit of glitter today – just on the lacy bits of her dress and her socks.

 

 

These lovely sunny papers are Bo Bunny Alora 6x6 Pad – I really like the zingy colours here.

The borders were cut using a Magnolia Doohickey Die - Scalloped Stitch Lace die – sooo lovely : )

The button is from The Ribbon Girl and it’s a Medium Black Polka Dot Button which I topped with some twine from a Green Mix Hemp Twine card and a 5mm Red Crystal Self Adhesive Gem

The button matches perfectly with this bow made from 16mm Black/White Spot Grosgrain ribbon.
I put a bit of White Tulle behind it and added a sweet little Lili of The Valley tag made from SET 24 - Sentiment Tags

 

 

 

I made the flowers from a six petalled flower punch and chopped in between 2 of the petals then overlapped the petals either side of the cut to form a 5 petalled flower with dimension.  Then I just added some gems and some leaves made with a Martha Stewart Punch – Frond Branch

 

 

 

So that’s my card today.

Just before I go, I thought I’d share a pic of these two little treasures ……

…. who were as good as gold while we had them.

Bless their little hearts, how could I have even thought for one minute that they could be anything other than little angels!!!!!

Enjoy the rest of your day and see you soon as soon..

Huggiest of hugs to all, especially these two : ) xxx

Teally-tastic Tilda

Good morning sweet peeps and I hope that you are all having a lovely weekend.

The card I’m sharing with you today is for this month’s Magnolia Only Challenge over at the Ribbon Girl's Challenge Blog and this month we want you to

Add A Die Cut

so it’s very straightforward.

There’s also 2 fabulous prizes - a Magnolia stamp all the way from the home of Edwin and Tilda kindly donated by Magnolia of Sweden and a £10 voucher towards a spending spree at The Ribbon Girl

 

So ……

… this is what I did.

The image is called Swedish Tilda and I coloured her with the following Copics -

Skin – E000, E00, E11, E13, R00, R02
Hair – E31, E35, E39, E50
The rest – BG0000, BG10, BG15, BG49, BV0000, BV01, BV08, BV13, C00, C0, E50

The papers are Timeless Victorian from Lili of The Valley.

Here’s some pics and I’ll list the lovely Ribbon Girl goodies that I used in a tick …

I stamped the LOTV sentiment from the Sentiments to Fit Scroll set onto one of the dies from a Doo Hickey Events Flags set.

I didn't get it quite right now I look at the pic, and why is it that I don’t see these things till they are on here?

Somebody needs to go to Specsavers!!!

The bits and bobs that I used from The Ribbon Girl are  -

38mm Teal Silky Crush,  ribbon
Wooden Heart Buttons
Cheesecloth
Teal Cottage Garden Blooms
Mini Dahlia Vintage Teal Blooms
Darjeeling White Mini Blossom Flowers
Jade Tiny Ric Rac Trim
3mm White Self Adhesive Pearls

So that’s me done for today.

I'm off to get everything ready for the two little visitors that are staying tonight and tomorrow night.
Emma's partner’s aunty has sadly died so they are going to the funeral on Monday which is in Wiltshire and the little darling are staying here. I will probably be shattered by the time they go back and I will have a taste of what Emma has trying to get them organised for school / nursery before  starting work myself. I do not know how you working Mums do it – I take my hat off to to you all.

The diet is going well and I am close to 7lbs.
His Lordship has joined me so it’s quite easy with him being on board. I can already see a slight difference and that is spurring me on. I think you know in your heart / head when it’s the right time and this time was the time for me.

Right I’m off.

I will be back in the week with some Papertakey stuff.

Here’s a sneakie peekie ….

…. it’s not at all my usual style – I don't know what’s going on in my creative head at the mo lol!!

Anyhoos, all will be revealed on Tuesday.

Till then, enjoy the rest of the weekend and don't forget to nip over and see the other DT cardage and projects when you get a sec – they are as fab as fabby could be.

Hugs to all xxx

Nauti(cal) but Nice :)

Hello possums and hope you are all OK today - phew it's another scorcher!!!

It's that time of the week when we catch up with our friends in the US of A over at the Simon Says Stamp challenge  but vefore moving onto the new theme we have an announcement to make ,,,,

We've Moved ...

and here is our fab new logo ...

Please update your bookmarks with our new address
 http://www.simonsaysstampblog.com/wednesdaychallenge/
and change the logo and link on your sidebar, if you have it on there :)

So our theme for this week's challenge  is

By The Sea

and this week the DT are showcasing Fancy Pants Products
You don't have to use them of course, but if you have them we would love to see them  :-)

And as always, our lovely Heidi is giving away a fabulous …

… for one lucky winner to spend …

… right here :)

THANK YOU Heidi & Simon Says Stamp xxx

So what did I do then?

I used Fancy Pants Down by The Shore 6" paper pad - perfect for this challenge.

And I just HAD to use one of my new Magnolia stamps  ...

... and I coloured her with these Copics -

Skin – E000, E00, E11, E13, R00, R02
Hair – E31, E35, E39, E50
The rest – B0000, B000, B00, B12, B93, B95, B97, C00, C1, C3, C4, R02, R05, R17, R27. R59

I stuck it down onto a pretty circle  which was die cut using a Spellbinders BEADED CIRCLES Nestabilities and then did a bit of stitching around the image which quite  frankly scared me as it took me a while to colour he in and I was a tad nervous that I would go a bit wonky!!!

What a scaredy cat!!!!

BTW, if you get a sec do nip over and check out the DTY cardage because they are STUNNING. Not that they aren't always but this week I thought they were amazing :)

I used 2 border dies here -  a Spellbinders A2 CURVED BORDERS 1 One Borderabilities Card Creator Die and a Spellbinders CLASSIC SCALLOP Edgeabilities Die.

You can probably tell but I LOVE these dies :)

I decided that I'd layer up 4 sets of Simon Says Stamp STAMPtember™ RIBBON BANNER Craft Die S118. I stuck the navy, red and white ones together with glue, just offsetting them slightly ....

... , and then added the pale blue one using foam pads.

 

So that's me all done for today.

I will be back tomorrow with my Papertake card and apols for being late but time just ran away with me yesterday.

Have the best day and huggiest of hugs to all xxx

 

Sunny Wishes :)

Hi there me darlins and hope you are all OK today and not melting too much in this heat :)

It's that time of the week when we head on over to the Papertake Weekly challenge and this week our theme is

Old, New, Borrowed or Blue

so you just need to use one or more of those things to qualify :)

So what did I do then?

Well I went for an old flower punch, a new stamp and there are blue spots on the DP

I used my new Tilda Binding Flowers stamp and coloured her with these Copics -

Skin – E000, E00, E11, E13, R00, R02
Hair – E31, E35, E39, E50
The rest – G99, Y08, Y17, Y38, YG0000, YG00, YG03, YG95

I had another go at doing the grass thing - still not perfect but it's getting there

The papers are Authentique Delightful (they are ) I used  the following dies ...

Borderabilities - Curved Borders One die
La La Land Heart Banner Die
Spellbinders Floral Ovals Die
Nellie Snellen Stamen Punch

I made a double bow using 15mm gold yellow no 37 Berisfords satin ribbon from The Ribbon Girl

A bit of close up detail for ya - LOVE that curved border :)

So that's me done for today and I'll be going to swelter in my office in a tick.

Enjoy your day, stay cool and I'll see you back here soon as soon.
Huggiest of hugs to all xxx.

Guess What I Forgot To Do???

 

Morning possums and hope you are all OK today.

And we have yet more glorious weather  :)

Wasn't the tennis just FABULOUS yesterday!!! Talk about glued to the chair, and that last 10 minutes was nail biting. But he did it and it's fair to say that it looks like the whole country was chuffed as chuffed.

He wasn't my favourite tennis player - quite the reverse if  I'm being honest - but I watched the documentary about him last week and I really warmed to him. So well done Andy Murray. I cannot imagine the pressure he must have been under, but he did so well and it looke pretty tough out there with the heat etc. A tennis court must be a very lonely place to be at times like that.

Anyway with all the excitement, I clean forgot to do me post yesterday so hugest of apols to Mary and Andrea.

So lets' head on over today and catch up with this month's  Ribbon Girl July Card Challenge  where this month we want you to

Add A Bow :)

As usual we are sponsored by our lovely friends Lili Of The Valley who will give our lucky winner a stamp of their choice from the LOTV catalogue and of course the Ribbon Girl who will give our winner a £10 voucher towards a spending spree in their online store

2 fab reasons for joining us I think :)

So ...

 

... this is what I did. I used another Tilda With Spitz Pockets from Special Moments Collection 2013  and I coloured her with these Copics -

Skin – E000, E00, E11, E13, R00, R02
Hair – E31, E35, E39, E50
Clothes –  R05, R14, R17, R27, R59, Y08, Y17, Y38,

The papers are Echo Park Sweet Day and I used  the following dies -

Cheery Lynn Francesca Border die
Tim Holtz Tattered Florals and Distressed Doily dies
Spellbinders Labels 22

 

LOVE this orange colour. 

It's 16mm orange and white saddlestitch ribbon, and I topped it with a bow made out of twine from a card of brown earth mix hemp twine and a red small polka dot spotty button.

 

I made the flower out of a Tattered Florals die cut then topped it with a flower out of a Mixed Dahlia Eastern Spice Flower pack, another punched flower and a punched stamen :)

And I mustn't  forget the 5mm red crystal self adhesive gems 

I quite like all the layering!!

 

 

So there we are, all done for today and I'll see you tomorrow with a bit more cardage :)

Enjoy the rest of your day and huggiest of hugs to all xxx