Thank You

This is the card I made to go with yesterday's present.  I know Kate likes Card-io stamps so I made a wreath card and used an old wooden sentiment stamp.

Really nothing else I can say about this card.  No doubt more different wreath cards will be appearing from time to time on here.

 

Thanks, Thank you

I made this card for a friend using a Memory Box thank you background stamp. I do love making a distress layered card and used chessecloth behind the sentiment. The hearts were punched with a Hobbycraft punch and then glittered with a clear Spectrum Noir sparkle pen. I used a Martha Stewart fern punch, flowers from Wild Orchids and sparkly butterflies from Poundland.

As I schedule this I am sorting an Excel spreadsheet for all my LOTV stamps and simply prints. There is one on the LOTV website which I am using but it has lots of text such as Lili of the Valley in front of the name of the stamp which needs deleting. As I have lots of rubber and lots of digi stamps it will be so helpful to see exactly what I have and will help me decide which others I need.

Thank You

I have been very busy making gifts for my first hospital shop next month and also working on a couple of magazine commissions.  I also want to make some more cards, particularly other occasions and was sorting through my Hobby House toppers and thought this cute Wee image would make a lovely thank you card.

I teamed her with Lily Bee Double Dutch papers. The dies are Joy leaves which I chopped into smaller pieces and MFT stitched scalloped basic edge.   I found the sentiment in my stash and added some Viva pearl drops and rose from Wild Orchid.

Challenges

Simon Says add a sentiment 

Noor! Design UK anything goes

Off for a facial and back massage this afternoon and than a Costa coffee and shopping at Tesco.

Say it with flowers

I am very excited to be at a Copic colouring class all day today and I shall be there again tomorrow morning. We are doing Copic one this morning and then this afternoon three classes, skin, hair and folds. Tomorrow morning is Copic two.

This is one of two thank you teacher cards I made for Papercraft Inspirations. I was asked to make them suitable to be adapted for any occasion so nothing too school based. I went for a shabby chic style using some Maja designs coffee in the arbour papers and flowers from Hobbycraft. I also used one of my favourite leaf dies from Britannia and Memory Box butterfly dies.  The sentiment was computer generated.

Challenges

Simon Says showers and/or flowers 

Noor! Design UK flowers 

The Paper Shelter sentimental

Thank You

Another magazine card today, this one was in last month's Papercraft Inspirations magazine. I used a Hobby House precoloured topper along with American Crafts papers. The dies are Crafts Too butterflies and MFT stitched scalloped edger and the sentiment is LOTV.

This magazine asks for the cards to be A6 portrait with dimension. The challenge is creating an interesting challenge with such a small space to work in. I normally prefer making square cards but I rather like these small cards too.

Thank you very much

Today's card was published in Papercraft Inspirations. I used a LOTV sentiment stamp, lovely dotted ribbon from Crafty Ribbons and Chambray and Lace papers from Craftwork Cards. The pierced banners are MFT dies.

We are no longer having Crafty Ribbons challenges but if you are on Facebook please join the Crafty Ribbons page. We will have lots of inspiration on there from the DT and we will also be having challenges. Of course there is also the Inspirations blog where you will find many of the Facebook posts as well.

This is also my second inspiration card for the LOTV Facebook challenge, anything goes. I hope you will come and join in the challenge.

Simply Thank You

I have been bust making Christmas cards for magazines over the last few days so have made a lovely Summery thank you card for a little break from them.  I have used some of my lovely new paper Up, Up and Away from LOTV, isn't the colour scrummy. The image is from one of the art pads, I love purple and aqau together. I used one of my new toys, Wink of Stella brush on the heart, think you can just see the sparkle. I am loving this brush for Christmas cards especially. The ribbon is from The Ribbon Girl and buttons, sentiment from LOTV, enamel dot, bow and twine from stash.

Challenges

Papertake Buttons, bow and bling (any or all) 

Crafting for all seasons Tic Tac Toe (buttons, purple, flowers) 

Sister Act Anything goes 

The Ribbon Girl Lovely Lili - Thank You 

Let's Craft and Create Shaped cards

  Lili of the Valley Take two (at least 2 LOTV products (I used 3))

Have you entered my little Inkylicious candy? Enter via my candy page.

Hedgies say thank you

I love colouring these sweet Penny Black hedgies and this is the thank you card I made for my special Fairy leader at Crafty Little Fairies, Squirrel, to say thank you for the James Bear stamps I won on her blog. Now most of you will know Squirrel likes CAS cards so I restrained myself with the embellies for this one. The image has been coloured with Copics and I added some ribbon, MB die cut kites and a Papermania bow.

Challenges

The Ribbon Girl Red 

Crafty Creations Keep it simple 

Through the Craftroom Door Anything Goes 

Penny Black For Someone Special

GDT at In The Pink

I received a lovely email in early January inviting me to be a guest designer at In The Pink. As I was going away on holiday I had to postpone my GDT spot until today. The challenge is pink plus one and as I wanted to use lovely James I chose pink and brown. 

Image - LOTV James Daisy

Medium - Copics

Papers - Wild Rose Always and Forever

Sentiment - LOTV

Punch - MS border

Rose - Michaels

Other - Tag, doily and baker's twine

Challenges

Lili of the Valley Name that tune(Thank you very much by The Scaffold)
A Creative Romance Let's get sentimental
Stampin' for the Weekend Flower power

Have you entered my candy yet, see above?

Thank You

I haven't made a thank you card for a while but that's the challenge this week at Totally Gorjuss where you could win a prize from The Hobby House. I have used one of the sweet LOTV girlies, coloured wit Promarkers and Flexmarkers and edged with DI Faded Jeans. The backing paper is Echo Park Victorian Garden and the striped piece a remnant from my use up pile. I've used the MS doiley punch, MB butterfly, dragonfly and fence dies. Sentiment was made with a wooden stamp.

I was up very early today to get to the Big Stamp and Scrapbooking Show at Ally Pally with my friend Lynsey. Hubby is driving us there, isn't he a star. Have made my list and looking forward to meeting up with a few fellow bloggers. Will catch you tomorrow.

Butterflies and lace

Well it seems that some people have been having a few problems with blogger refusing to upload photos but touch wood he seems to be playing nicely for me so I am giving you the heads up on this week's challenge at Totally Gorjuss which is Lace and we are sponsored by Heathers Hobbie Haven. I've used a lovely butterfly stamp from Little Claire which has been coloured with Promarkers and Flexmarkers with Sakura pens for highlights. The papers are some old Forever Friends from my must use up pile which doesn't seem to be getting any more smaller. The pink strip across the middle is Henbury Lane punched with an MS border punch. I've used a MS rose leaf punch, flowers from Wild Orchid, MS punched butterflies and Kars wooden butterfly which I heat embossed. I used WOW glitter embossing powder but it hasn't come out as shiny and sparkly as I would like. I couldn't heat it any more or the wood starts to brown. I added some Sakura glaze highlights. Oh and not forgetting the all important lace of course!

Challenges:

Going Buggy Butterflies and lace

FlutterBy Wednesday Anything with wings

I love Promarkers Nature

Cute Card Thursday Flower power

Housework and washing done, let's ignore the ironing pile, time for lunch and then a crafting afternoon.

A flower for you

A friend asked me to make 4 Thank You cards, one of them was the SN Rosie card which was blue and pink. I wanted to make them all different colour combos and I do love the peach and terracotta Promarkers and the gorgeous First Edition Desert Bloom papers so that's where this colour combo came from. The cutie is a Lili of the Valley image and I added flowers from Wild Orchid, rose leaves from Crafty Emma's, Sizzix die cut corner and MS punched butterflies. I used Jacque's great sketch at Lili's Little Fairies.

I'm off to visit my friend in hospital this afternoon but will be back later with something else to share with you.

Thank You and Candy Winner

At Winter Wonderland we have started out non Christmas challenges for a few weeks and Suzi is hosting the first one, which is a thank you card with a recipe, 3DPs, 3flowers, 1ribbon, 1 image. I have used some lovely new papers I bought in the Range the other day as my friend Lisa reminded me that I needed them.To be honest though I love purple there are very few purple paper pads about so thanks Lisa, I love this pad, which is First Edition Dreamcatcher. I've used some ribbon, X cut punched butterflies and roses from Michaels.The sweet girly is a Sugar Nellie Pip and it is the first time I have used her. I'll have more time to use some other images now that my Christmas cards are all made. Mind you I intend to start making them for next year very soon and if you would like to join me then we have a DT call going at the moment at Winter Wonderland.  Our sponsor this week is Simon Says.

Challenges:

The Sugar Bowl Great sketch

Crafty Creations Thanks

Crafts and Me Anything Goes

Creative Inspirations Anything Goes

I love Promarkers Anything Goes

Scrapbook Sisters Anything Goes

My Mum's Craft Shop Anything Goes

CANDY WINNER

Thanks to all those of you who entered my candy. Unfortunately there can only be one winner and that is......

CHRISSY

Congratulations, please e-mail me with your address and I will post it to New Zealand after Christmas. I will have some more candy coming up soon so keep checking back.

I'll be back tomorrow to play along with Debby's 5 favourite Christmas cards. Mmm, now that's not easy.

Thank you bear and butterflies

Good evening everyone and welocme to my lovely new followers. I really wasn't expecting any more followers so you joining me is a lovely surprise. For this card I used just one paper from Basic Grey Capella pack with this gorgeous LOTV bear. I loved him for ages and when I finally bought him couldn't quite work out why it took me so long. I love his glasses which have been coated with glossy accents. He has been coloured with Promarkers. The swirls were made with a Sizzix die and the flowers are Prima.

Challenges:

Cupcake Great sketch

Ladybug Crafts Ink Favourite stamp

Creative Inspirations Favourite stamp

DYSU Thank You

Lili of the Valley Thank You

Stamp Something Thank You

Make it Colourful Ground your Image

I'm going to very busy for the new few weeks as I have 3 events booked to sell my cards between now and the end of September.

Thank You Teddy

Here I am back with my second post for today. I bought this month's Paper Inspirations mag as there are 20 stamped LOTV images free with it and this is one of them. I used Promarkers and my Sakura Rosestar pen for some glitz on the flower. The papers are Papermania Summer Blooms. Still trying to use up bits of old paper packs.

Challenges:
Lili of the Valley Pink and blue
Die Cut Dreams Animal antics
Stamptacular Animal antics
I love Promarkers 1 ribbon, 2 DPs, 2 gems, buttons or brads
Scrapbook Sisters Thank you
Allsorts Free and easy

Floral Thank You

This is my second post for today. Scroll down for today's Popcorn Pals card.

I was delighted to be asked to be a guest designer for July at Cute Card Thursday and this week the challenge is lace. I have used one of the Lili of the Valley die cuts as this teddy isn't yet available as a stamp. I have teamed him with some Basic Grey Wisteria papers, white lace and pearls, a K&Co daisy and a Sizzix corner swirl which I cut in half.

I would like to enter this into the challenges at:
Charisma All about flowers
Creative Craft Pretty Blossoms
Papertake Anything Goes
Try it on Tuesday Flower power

I bought a set of the new star X cut nesting dies to try today. I thought they were a good deal as there was a £1 voucher in the Do Crafts mag making them only £8.95. They also had the Tulip range half price so I picked up a few bargains including a stamp set with lots of different images for only £3.48.

Great to see so many entries for my candy. If you haven't entered yet see the post above.

Thank You Bouquet

Well I've finished the Crafter's Companion cards and they've been posted so expect some sneak peeks very soon. I've made one of my DT cards for this week and decided it was time to have a play with something else before I make another card for an order. I haven't used this LOTV bear for much too long and these colours are way out of my comfort zone but I'm really pleased with the result. I used a mix of papers as I don't have many citrus coloured papers. The backing paper is from a Country Diary freebie pack, the yellow is K&Co Daisy and the others are First Edition Desert Bloom.

I used 2 MS border punches and an old X cut daisy punch. The peachy coloured paper is double sided so the striped flowers were made from the other side.

Challenges:
Lili of the Valley Punch it out
Sketch Saturday Love this sketch
DYSU Orange
Paperplay Summer citrus splash
The Corrosive Challenge Summer colours
Divas by Design Floral

Thank You

Happy Christmas Eve everyone. Our last challenge for 2010 at Winter Wonderland is Thank You and the DT would like to thank all those of you who have joined in our challenges this year. We have had such fun bringing you weekly challenges and helping you to get more organised for Christmas. Our last challenge which will run for two weeks is therefore Thank You. I have used one of the lovely squares from LOTV and some gorgeous Prima papers and flowers with die cut swirls.

Although there won't be a challenge at WW next Friday please check out the challenge blog as there will be an exciting post at 9am on 31 December.

I would like to wish you all a very Merry Christmas and a healthy, happy and peaceful New Year . Hope Santa brings you some crafting goodies.

Two for Tuesday

I had time this afternoon to make a couple of cards for no particular reason. That makes a change form making Christmas cads and cards for upcoming Birthdays. The first card was made using the papers from Papermania aqua capsule collection and Miss Evie Heartwarmer from Squiggle Stamps. I went for a really big flower and petals for a change with a gorgeous spacer and brad. Sentiment is from LOTV mounted on a Nestie cute circle. I am entering this into the challenge at Squiggle and Paper Sundaes Cut it out

The second card is very different. The sweet fairy is LOTV. The background paper is from a new pad of Prima papers Fairy Flora mixed with lovely sparkly Papermania Henbury Lane. I used the MS fab punch on the bottom paper. Lots of sparkle on this one from the glitter on the image to the organza ribbon. Flowers are from Wild Orchid.

Challenges:

Quixotic Thank you
Cupcake Thank you
Creative Craft Anything Goes
Die Cut Dreams Girly

Hot, hot, hot

Thankfully the sun has come back a bit today and it is warmer. This lovely Anya looks hot in her Summer outfit. I embossed the nellie cut die, papres are Papermania Hampstead and MME Wild Asparagus. Flowers are punched from the same papers with punched leaves and a little handbag sentiment from Craftwork Cards with an added bow and pearls.
Challenges
Anyone for Anya Hot, hot, hot
Pixie Cottage Sketch
The Corrosive Challenge Die cuts
The Pink Elephant Red, scallops and a bow
Creative Card Crew Thank you
Fan 'n' funky Summer colours (photo inspiration of hot colours)
Crafty Catz Embossing