Cup of Tea

I am sharing a guest designer card for My Mum’s Craft Shop today using several items from Kitty's shop. The papers and teacups are Pebbles Tealightful which go perfectly with the Stamping Bella image Edna's cup of tea which I coloured with Copics and added clear Wink of Stella to her wings as every fairy has to have sparkly wings.. The frame was made with a MFT scalloped circle frame die.

Challenges

Simon Says a bit of sparkle (Wink of Stella wings) 

In the pink razzle dazzle (Wink of Stella wings)
The Ribbon Girl any image

Two Milk Shakes

Another of the new LOTV precoloured simply print images today. This one is called Milk Shake. I made two cards, the one below using the simply print as it is and this one enhancing the shading with Copics. I used Lilybee Sweet Shoppe papers, MFT jumbo stitched banner and border dies and an old Sizzix corner die. The sentiment is from LOTV teenage girls.  I made the bunting using the bunting patterned paper, simply cutting out each individual triangle.

Challenges

Allsorts Happy Birthday 

Creative Inspirations anything goes
The Ribbon Girl any image

This is the one with just the simply print image as it prints. I teamed it with a LOTV teenage girl sentiment, MFT free spirit papers, enamel dots and ribbon. I hope you got your order in for these lovely new images.

We will be busy in the garden this morning, tidying and planting as we bought several new plants on Saturday as the garden centre had 20% off everything. The weather should be good this week so enjoy the sunshine.

Oh deer

Yes another Christmas card and I have used some of my Card-io stamps again. I used  stamps from the Christmas greenery, min tall trees and festive scene sets. I used a Tonic trellis circle die instead of stamping straight onto the white card and teamed it with Papermania Jolly Santa paper. I aded some red liquid pearl berries and used Crystal Stickles for snow.

Challenges

Simon Says a bit of sparkle

Hold my hand

Today is launch day of 20 new images from LOTV, as if you didn't know already 😊. This is one of the simply print images, Hand to Hold. I love the sepia tones. I went for a distressed look using DI spiced marmalade and a distressing tool. The papers are American Crafts dots and stripes. The sentiment is from LOTV and fitted this image so well I thought. The precious hearts die is from Memory Box and I added some enamel dots.

Challenges

Creative Inspirations anything goes 

The Ribbon Girl a card

Bedtime stories

Only one more day to wait until you can buy the new images from LOTV. These will be available as rubber stamps, digis and precoloured simply prints. I feel so lucky to receive some of these to use as inspiration. This sweetie is called Bedtime Stories and she has been coloured with Copics. The papers are Lilybee Double Dutch. I kept the design simple using some raffia lace and double mounting the image using pierced rectangle dies and foam pads. The sentiment is also from LOTV.

Challenges

Creative Inspirations anything goes 

The Ribbon Girl a card

We were planning a trip to a garden centre today but the forecast is rain all day so if that is the case will put that off until tomorrow. The gardens have really benefited from this week's rain, they were looking so dry. We have been busy tidying and clearing out the heaps of forget me nots ready for some new plants.

Bunny Moon

I almost bought the stamp of this design a few times but when it came out as a precoloured simply print digi I decided to buy that instead. I printed out the 2 large images and made a 7x7 card. The papers are LOTV Nitwits Up, Up and Away. I was pleased to use some older products on this card, the ribbon I bought in America a few years ago and the sentiment balloon must be at least 5 years old. I added some twine and some pearl stars which I had no idea were in my stash. I wanted to add just a little something else so out came the pearl pen for a few pearl dots.

Challenges

Not just cards one for the boys 

The Ribbon Girl a card

Hubby is out volunteering again this afternoon and evening on the rescue boats at the powerboat club so that means an afternoon and evening of crafting for me. He goes about 1.30 to set out the course and get the rescue boats stocked and in the water. Racing starts about 6 and he usually drives the tow boat. That means he is called on when a boat breaks down and also has to ensure safety on the course. It takes place on one of the broads and sometimes holidaymakers don't seem to be aware that they are steering towards racing boats and as for swans on the course 😏. Thankfully an accident with one of the drivers is rare but there is always an ambulance on hand and trained first aiders just in case.

Believe in your dreams

I love making this style of card and they are very good sellers fortunately. I bought the wooden Hampton Art sentiment stamp in Florida. The paper is Anne Marie blissful pink. I distressed all the edges with DI Victorian Velvet and added the burlap and lace which I bought on Ebay. The roses are from Wild Orchid. I wanted to add a butterfly and found a white Prima one but I thought it was a bit too white so tried some DI on it and it gives a really nice effect. I found the heart pins in my stash and added some pearl hearts from Meiflower.

Challenges

In the Pink razzle dazzle 

Stamping Sensations butterflies, fairies, fantasy 

Allsorts ring of roses 

Crafty Purple Frog fabulously floral 

The Ribbon Girl a card 

Noor! Design UK add some lace

Looking forward to visiting a friend for coffee this afternoon and then going to see her new house her husband and his firm are building for them.

Regency Christmas

The Christmas cards are coming along nicely now and I have been practicing hard with my colouring after the colouring classes I did a few weeks ago. It isn't easy, especially folds but I am quite pleased with the way this one came out. I don't use green for clothes very much so I am also trying to use more of my pens as I have some favourite colour combos and some pens that are hardly used.

Image - LOTV Regency Christmas

Papers - MFT dots and stripes confection

Dies - MFT basic borders, MFT streetlights, Lawn Fawn sentiment

Lace - Crafty Ribbons

Other - pearl pen

Challenges

Simon Says going dotty 

The Ribbon Girl a card

CCAYR Precipitation

Looking forward to a facial and massage this afternoon.

Jump for joy

I kept seeing the MFT Jingle all the Way stamps and dies last Christmas and as I don't have many Santa images I decided I needed to buy them. I teamed them with LOTV Nitwits  Festive Trimmings papers and used MFT pierced banner dies to create a simple layout. I added some fun flock to Santa's hat and used a Sakura gold star pen on the reindeer's bells.

Challenges

ABC Christmas J is for Jingles 

Paper Creator's Crafts bold and bright
Christmas with the cuties add some holly
The Ribbon Girl card

Studying hard

A sneak peek of another of the new LOTV stamps launching on 20th. This is Jasmine studying and is sure to be a popular stamp. She has been coloured with Copics, sentiment is also from LOTV.  I added some little banners made with a Fiskars punch with tiny buttons added.

Challenges

Simon Says going dotty
The Ribbon Girl card 

The weather forecast is for some rain today but although the garden needs it I am hoping it will stay dry so we can go to a street and plant market today. Enjoy your Sunday.

Blog candy winner

Thanks to everyone who entered my blog candy. I used random org to pick the winner but I can't post a photo on my iPad. The lucky winner is number 6. If that is you please email me your address and I will get the stamp in the post to you.

My blogaversary is coming up soon so keep checking as I have some lovely goodies to give away then.

Spring has sprung

Our new challenge at A Gem of a Challenge is Spring Fever. So much choice here but for me Spring means flowers so I chose to use Hedgy with wheelbarrow which I coloured with Copics. The pretty papers are Lilybee Sweet Shoppe. I bought a few of these pads from Dies to Die for pop up shop when I did my colouring course. They are all so pretty.  I used Marianne and Crafts Too butterfly dies, MFT stitched die and added some ribbon and paper flowers from America. The sentiment is from the LOTV teenage girl set.

Challenges

Crafty Purple Frog fabulously floral 

The Ribbon Girl a card

New candy

I have another fun stamp to give away to one lucky follower. 

Comments on here whilst appreciated do not count as entries. 

You must enter via my blog candy page.

I believe in fairies

I believe in fairies is the title of this sweet new stamp launching on 20th May along with 19 others. I coloured it with Copics, papers are Maja Coffee in the Arbour which I distressed with DI Tattered Rose. I added some cheesecloth, clear Wink of Stella on the stars, pearl dots, punched stars and LOTV teenage girl sentiment stamp.

Challenges

The Ribbon Girl card 

Stamping Sensations butterflies, fairies, fantasy

In the pink razzle dazzle (sparkly stars and pearl drops)

In the woods

Have you checked out the free downloadable papers and toppers at Making Cards magazine on Facebook? There are some really cute woodland animals and I couldn't wait to use this little fox. I added some chalk around the image. The ribbon is from Crafty Ribbons, faerie mushroom dies from Cheery Lynn, butterfly die from Crafts Too.

Looking forward to another music show tonight with friends, this time in Norwich, That'll be The day. That is after a lovely meal at Ask Italian,

Happy Birthday LOTV

Lili of the Valley is 13 years old today and in honour of the occasion I made a card using my favourite ever LOTV stamp, Fairy on Tiptoe. I love so many of their stamps, especially the fairies, vintage boys and of course, James Bear. As soon as this stamp was released I fell in love with it and she remains my favourite. 

Image - LOTV Fairy on Tiptoe

Medium - Copics, chalk for the sky

Dies - Go Kreate frilly squares 10, MFT scalloped edge circle frame

Lace - Crafty Ribbons

Flowers - Wild Orchid

Other - bow, charm, twine, Wink of Stella clear pen on her wings

Challenges

Dies R Us flowers 

Noor! Design UK add lace 

Creative Inspirations blooms and bows

Simon Says hint of pink

Stamping Sensations butterflies, fairies, fantasy

Squirrel's not so random challenge fantasy
The Ribbon Girl card 

Still time to enter my candy.

Up in the air

Kitty has very kindly asked me to stay on as a guest designer for a third month at My Mum’s Craft Shop. I recently bought this MFT Up in the Air stamp and die set from the shop and couldn't wait to have a play with it. There are so many stamps and dies so expect to see a few more of these being used soon. Coloured with Copics and teamed with MDT dots and stripes bold papers and Lawn Fawn little town border. All products except Copics available from My Mum’s Craft Shop. Remember if any item is out of stock just email Kitty who will order it for you.

Challenges

Paper Creator's Crafts bold and bright
The Ribbon Girl card 

We had such a fun time, the concert was brilliant, lovely sleep at The Premier Inn, then breakfast at the coast and a very long bracing walk along the beach and clifftops. It was cold and windy but we had some great laughs with our friends and soon warmed up. Still time to enter my candy.

Walking the dog

A second Birthday card to inspire you to join in with the LOTV Facebook challenge of Birthdays. I had a look through my stamped images and came across this one which I haven't used before. Coloured with Copics and I used a cloud template with chalk for the sky. The papers are Lily Bee Autumn Spice, LOTV sentiment, Marianne birds on a wire die and Whimsy fence die I used vintage photo DI on the diecuts.

Although the concert last night was in Lowestoft which is only about 50 minutes drive away we and our friends stayed at a Premier Inn last night so that we could go to Gorleston just up the coast for breakfast and a beach walk. A night away just makes a nice change too.  I am hoping the weather will be a bit warmer than it has been but I have plenty of warm clothing in the car in case. We will be home later today.

Snowy scene

Here's another snowy Card-io card. I love the way you can create so many different scenes by combining the stamp sets. Not too much else to say about this card really except it is the first time I have used the cable car just adding a wire with a fineliner pen.

Challenges

ABC Christmas K for Keep it Simple 

CCAYR precipitation

Thanks to those who commented on my scrapbook layout yesterday. I did smile at the comments on my 80's perm. Looking forward to another show tonight, This time it is Talon, the best Eagle tribute band around. We have seen them once before and they are fabulous. Looking forward to a meal and the show with friends.

Lake District

Yes that is us 27 years ago in the Lake District. At the time I worked with several people who went there a lot and they all warned me that every time they go they have some rain during their holiday. First time we go, 1990, gorgeous weather every day until the day we left when it rained! We were so lucky.

The reason I managed to make another layout is that Crafty Ribbons are sponsoring  a challenge which goes live at 10am, UK Scrap Addicts. There is a cut file you can use or you can be inspired by one of the phrases. I was inspired by The Great British Summer. I used some old HOTP papers and my MS cherish border punch, Tim Holtz ephemera and a BO Bunny tag. Both ribbons are of course from Crafty Ribbons.

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Little Violet

Another very early start for us today. As this publishes we shall be setting up my cards and gifts at the hospital shop. Regular readers will know I love Gorjuss Girls and I bought several of these new smaller stamps. I do struggle with the hair colouring on them for some reason though. 

Image - Santoro Gorjuss Little Violet

Medium - Copics

Papers - Lily Bee Head over Heels

Dies - Lawn Fawn stitched circle, MDT basic borders, MFT basic stitch lines, Nellie Snellen flowers

Sentiment - LOTV teenage girl 

Other - Sakura red gelly roll pen, ribbon and pearls

Challenges

Dies R Us flowers

Paper Creator's Crafts bold and bright

The Paper Shelter flowers

Believe in the Magic

Our challenge at A Gem of a Challenge is embossing and this is a second DT card I made. I have been doing a lot of colouring lately but for this one I did use a precoloured digi. I used an old Cuttlebug snowflake embossing folder, Dovecraft North Pole paper, Marianne snowflake die, You to Me stitched sentiment, pearls, fun flock and Stickles.

Challenges

Allsorts embossing 

CCAYR precipitation

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Rock chick

This is my first card to inspire you to join in this month's LOTV Facebook challenge, Birthday. Nice and easy, so many images to choose from. I always find purples the hardest colours to blend with, whatever pens I have used over the years. I am  pleased with the hat but the skirt could do with improvement. If I am not happy with my colouring I tend to fiddle with it until all the contrast is lost so I made myself step away from it this time.

She is a gorgeous image isn't she, one of the new retro images, Romantic Rock from the 80's. Coloured with Copics and teamed with new MFT papers Dots and Stripes Brights from My Mum's Craft Shop,, lace from Crafty Ribbons, LOTV teenage girl sentiment and roses from Wild Orchid.  I also used a MFT wonky stitched rectangle die and a Woodware leaf punch.

Challenges

Noor! Design UK add lace

Don't forget to enter my candy. see above.

Ellie again

I went for a completely different colour combo for my Ellie card for Stamposaurus this time, and also a distressed look. I do love using Autumnal shades and seem to have rather a lot of paper pads in these tones.  It is also my inspiration piece for Crafty Ribbons and the gorgeous ladybird ribbon goes so well with this colour combo. I added a cute wooden ladybird which I think came from Hobbycraft.  I used an older Spellbinder labels set of dies and one of my most used die sets, Memory Box puffy clouds.

Challenges

Simon Says anything goes

Dies R Us flowers

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New mouse home

Isn't this the cutest image for a new home card. I used one of the precoloured simply print images from LOTV. The papers are Craftwork Cards Bohemian Dreams, sentiment is LOTV, MS flower punch and enamel dots.

Challenges

Simon Says anything goes

So today is a bank holiday in the UK which means hubby is driving a rescue boat at the powerboat racing. He will go about 8am to get all the boats ready and set out the course etc. That means I get most of the day in the craft room, yippee.

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Heart tree

Another play with some of my new stamps from Card-io and Inkylicious. I add a little background colour with a dry baby wipe and small ink pads then build up the pattern with the small stamps. There are endless possibilities with these sets and the Inkylicioud sentiments go so well with them.

Challenges

Simon Says anything goes

We are popping out this morning for coffee and some retail therapy then this afternoon we plan to set up hubby's new laptop, not my favourite job I must say.

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Hippo Birthday

Time for a new challenge at A Gem of a Challenge and this time we want to see wet or dry embossing on your card. I have used one of Janet's newest images, Henrietta with flowers. I did enjoy colouring her with Copics of course. I went for a distressed look today using Santoro Willow papers and an old sentiment embossing folder which I embossed onto Core'dinations and then sanded.  I used a new Memory Box die, frangia bouquet. It's quite a large die but I just used the flowers and cut of the stems. I really like the uneven petals.

Challenges

Simon Says anything goes 

In the Pink Birthday 

The Paper Shelter Birthday card

I hope the weather stays dry today. What a funny week it has been, sun, rain and even a little snow and hail. We are going to a 70's concert in Cromer tonight so thought we would have a day at the coast going to Sheringham and then on to Cromer. Think we will be wrapping up warm.

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Prosecco time

This is one of the images we started colouring in the folds class on Saturday.  We only coloured the skirt which I was fairly happy with. I decided to go over it again partly to remind myself of the technique and partly to try to achieve a smoother blend. I also wanted to colour the rest of the image which is  a rubber stamp from Little Darlings, Prosecco Time by All Dressed Up. I felt like making the card clean and simple so used another of the MFT basic border dies and added some doodling. The sentiment is LOTV teenage girls and I used a Copic sparkle pen on the flower.  The papers are Lilybee Sweet Shoppe. I used a Wimsy die for the banners.

Challenges

Creative Inspirations one for the girls 

Stamping Sensations anything goes 

Simon Says anything goes 

The Ribbon Girl any image
All Dressed Up anything ADU goes

Have you entered my new candy yet?

Magnets

Today I am sharing a few of my recent fridge magnets, some made with my new Inkylicious sentiments.  I have been amazed at how many magnets I have sold since I started making them.

Fairy wings

I absolutely loved the colouring classes at the weekend. If you love Copics and get the chance to do them I can't recommend them highly enough. Faye is a wonderful teacher and I learnt so much, This is one of the first images I coloured since the course and although it isn't perfect I can certainly see an improvement especially in the hair. I always struggled to get enough light in the hair but I am pretty pleased with how this turned out. 

So onto my image and it is a new LOTV image called Fairy Wings launching on 10 May to coincide with their 13th Birthday. I love her and can see these being very popular. I used one of the new dies I bought at the DTDF pop up shop on Sunday, MFT stitched basic borders. There are 4 in the set and I think they will used a lot as I can see so many different ways to use them. The papers are Maja coffee in the arbour. I kept the design simple to focus on the image so just added a charm, a pearl string and used my Viva pearl pen. I also used a clear Wink of Stella pen on her wings so they have a lovely subtle sparkle.

Challenges

In the Pink pearls 

Creative Inspirations one for the girls 

The Ribbon Girl any image 

Crafty Purple Frog Time to celebrate the little people

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