IT'S A GIRL!!

Evening All

I've had a busy few days crafting ... my hubby's birthday is on Valentines Day so I have to make birthday cards and a Valentine's one ... and on top of that I had a challenge card to do for this Sunday and then on Wednesday my Nephew and his girlfriend had a baby girl .. so I'm a Great Auntie .. again ... so I've been busy buying pressies for her and I thought I'd stop by and show you the card I made and the beautiful girl herself :)

This little cutie is from LILI OF THE VALLEY and I've coloured her with Copics, the paper is from an old stack by DCWV, I've finished off with gems and a bow :)
and here is a pic of the beautiful girl herself ...

xxx LEXY xxx

How gorgeous is she???

Right I'm off to cook tea now .. catch up with you all soon

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TRINA

Morning All

Well .. I'm finally getting back to normal after all the Christmas and New Year frivolities lol ... we had a quiet one and didn't do much so it takes a while to get back to reality ... you know... washing, ironing, housework etc.

and I promise I will join you her more often now lol

Anyway ... today is the birthday of one of the ladies on my hubby's team at work ... she also happens to be a crafter too so I waited until today to post her card  just in case she saw it before lol

I think this LOTV image is just so cute and I've coloured with Promarkers for a change :), I've cut her out with a nestie shape and distressed the edges, the "doiley" is made using a Martha Stewart PATP, the DP is from My Minds Eye, the sentiment is one of mine from a set of 6 digi downloads LINE SENTIMENTS - EVERYDAY  and I've finished off with pearls and a wooden flower

Hope you like it :)

I would like to enter :

CUTIE PIE - USE A SENTIMENT

TOTALLY GORJUSS - SOMETHING HAPPY

Catch up with you all soon

A CUTIE PIE CHRISTMAS

Morning All

Well ... what a day I had yesterday ... got up to no internet!!! OMG what did we all do before the internet??? 

Anyway .. it's all fixed now and I'm back online - phew!! I was lost for a while there LOL

But the good part is I managed to get all my housework done so that leaves me free today and the weekend ... YAY!!!!!!

So I thought I'd share with you another one of my Lili of the Valley Christmas cards ...

I think this image is just too cute!!! I've coloured this time with Lyra polycolour pencils for a change, highlighted with stickles glitter and mounted on nesties, the flowers are Marianne poinsettia die cuts from last Christmas :)

I made this card with a challenge in mind ... using a Bingo Board

the idea is to use any line up, down or across and indeed a Full House ... I've used the left hand column

GLITTER, 2 PATTERNED PAPERS AND FLOWERS

THE CUTIE PIE CHALLENGE

I hope you like it and thanks for stopping by :)

Catch up with you all soon

THREE LITTLE CUTIE PIES

Afternoon All!!

Well I've finally recovered from my day at Ally Pally yesterday :) had a fab day with Wendy Woo!!! and it was so good to meet up with Vicky and it was great to see Sarah again :)

Got lots of new bits and bobs as well ...

Lili of the Valley stamps, stencils, new Sizzix dies, tag stamps, some great 12x12 papers yummy oh and some more copic colours too!!!

Anyway ... here is another Lili of the Valley Christmas card .. these little cuties may have made their way home with me yesterday he he he... thank you Wendy!!!

These beauties are called ALL IN A ROW and I've coloured them with copics, the papers are from a free My Minds Eye paper pad that came with this month's Cardmaking and Papercraft and I've embellished with PEARL GEMS, SEAM BINDING and flowers cut with a Nellie Snellen flower punch/emboss SMALL POINSETTIA .  The sentiment is one of mine from a clear stamp set MINI MUST HAVES - CHRISTMAS

I would like to enter these little cuties in

THE CUTIE PIE CHALLENGE - SKETCH

Here's Woo's fab sketch

I've just turned it around to the right :)

Hope you likey and I'll catch up with you all soon

WARM WINTER WISHES

Afternoon All

Had a fab day yesterday again ... took my shop on the road to Jackies Scrapbook Crop - all the ladies are so lovely and it's great to meet up with them regularly

Jackie is a Stampin Up Rep and runs classes as well as the monthly crop ... check her out HERE ... if you fancy a day out email her to check availability ... and you get the chance to shop too :)

Anyway ... I have made Lili of the Valley Christmas Card No. 2!!

I'm so loving these new Christmas stamps - simply gorgeous!!

This little beauty is called SHINE A LIGHT  and I've coloured her with Copics and Lyra Polycolour pencils, the papers are from a Basic Grey 6x6 paper pad ESKIMO KISSES, the sentiment is one of mine from a set of 6 CHRISTMAS LINES, I've embellished with pearls and my new favourite punch ... a Nellie Snellen small floral punch and emboss set POINSETTIA

Well... hubby is watching football all day today so I may have to craft some more hehe ... and I may be back with another card later .....stay tuned!!

Catch up with you soon :)

THREE LITTLE ANGELS

Evening All

Hope you are all well and had a good day :)

I've spent the day making baby cards for my daughter's future sister-in-law who had a baby girl this morning ..... sooooo cute!!!

Anyway ... not a baby card to show you but do you remember a few days ago I showed you how naughty I had been buying all those Lili of the Valley stamps ?? Well I inked a few up and got colouring and here is my very first Christmas card for this year .... Yay!!!! Go Me !!!!!!

These cuties are THREE LITTLE ANGELS and I've coloured them with Copics and lyra polycolour pencils, cut out using nesties and inked, added some gold stars and gems and there you go :)

Oh and the sentiment is one of mine from a set of 6 digi downloads ... CHRISTMAS LINES available at my shop CRAFTS 4 YOU ... I printed it onto Letraset Safmat which is a transparent medium - I then cut it out very close to the sentiment and stuck it straight onto the DP ... it is then practically invisible ... it's fab!! you can get hold of it from EWE 2 CAN CRAFT

Hope you likey :) and thanks for stopping by ... catch up with you soon :)

I'M SO NAUGHTY!!!!

Morning All

I've been just a little bit naughty LOL

Popped on the Lili of the Valley website to look at the new Christmas stamps and ..... oops .... look what arrived for me this morning

Me thinks it's gonna be a Lili of the Valley Christmas hehe

I promise I will be back to making cards and showing you them soon ... mojo is definitely returning :) and I have to ink up these beauties ... it would be rude not to LOL

Catch up with you soon

SPECIAL ANNIVERSARY WISHES

Afternoon All

Just thought I'd drop by and show you a card I made for a friend of mine for her children to give to their Grandparents on their 50th Wedding Anniversary ... and it got me thinking "that's a good idea for a set of sentiments" LOL so I made a set of 6 sentiments of Special Anniversaries

This fab little image is from LOTV and I've coloured with Promarkers, the corners are by Marianne Design and are available at Crafts 4 You

The sentiment is, as said above, from a brand new set of 6 Special Anniversaries at CRAFTS 4 YOU

Hope you like it and I'll catch up with you soon :)

IT'S MY WEDDING ANNIVERSARY!!!

Morning Blogland

Thought I'd come by and show you all the Wedding Anniversary card I made for hubby ... we have been married 23 years today!!! and we are having a BBQ later .... gorgeous weather here in Essex!!

First time have used this LOTV stamp - I stamped onto linen card for a change and coloured with polycolour pencils and blended with odorless white spirit

This bow has a long story LOL - my good friend and DT buddy LORI from JUST DUCKY uses these bows on her cards and I think they are just gorgeous ... but I got in a bit of a pickle doing one so she very kindly showed me step by step (I was having one of my blonde moments LOL) check out her cards on her blog using these bows .. they are awesome!! She also has some candy up for grabs which ends on 8th June :)

The sentiment comes with the image :)

Ingredients for Card

Seam Binding - CRAFTS 4 YOU

Heart Pin - CRAFTS 4 YOU

Sizzix Swirl

Grand Nesties

Fancy Pants DP - Charming - CRAFTS 4 YOU (coming soon)

Grand Nestabilities

Gems and Brad

Have a lovely weekend whatever you are up to and I'll catch up with you tomorrow for a new Totally Tilda Challenge :)

TIME FLIES ... WHEN YOU'RE HAVING FUN!!

Afternoon All

Just thought I'd pop by and share with you a card I made for my classes this week ... this is one of three - but it's pink so it just had to be the first one I show you LOL

We did "cards with jewels" and we made pins and hanging jewels :)

Lots of fun was had and lots of stray beads went everywhere lol

I've used Dandelion Clock from Lili of the Valley and coloured with Promarkers, used glossy accents on her wings and sprinkled with "icicles", matted and layered and embellished with card candy from Craftwork Cards.  Pins were made by simply pushing beads onto a head pin and glueing each stage with glossy accents, I then popped them into a polystyrene block to "dry" which only takes about 10 minutes.  The sentiment is from one of my new clear stamp sets On Your Birthday which you can find at SENTIMENTS 4 YOU - they are also available as digital downloads too :)

Hope you likey :)

I'll be back to show you the others soon ... can't show you them all just yet and I have another lot of ladies tomorrow doing the class and they can't see all the cards before they make them!!!

Catch up with you all soon

SNOWFLAKES!!!!

Hiya All!!!!

It's Saturday and shortly I'm off to do my demo .... ooooh dear!!! But before I go I have to let you know that it's new challenge time again over at DCD CHRISTMAS CLUB.

This week the theme is SNOWFLAKES and .... I'm so proud to say ... that Susie has asked me to sponsor her challenge on a monthly basis and I'm soooooo excited to being doing just that.  This is my first time sponsoring a challenge and feel very honoured that DCD Christmas Club is my first one as this was the first DT I was asked to join so it's very special to me :o).  The winner of the challenge will receive a $10 gift certificate to spend in my digi download shop SENTIMENTS 4 YOU and with that in mind I was asked to set the theme and I provided the DT with sentiments to use - these can be found as a set of 3 in my shop.

Here's my card :o)

This is one of my new LOTV stamps I bought and I've coloured her with promarkers, the DP's are Kelly Pannaci and the mirror snowflake is by Papermania

Please take time to stop around my fellow DT members and check out their cards as they are all fantastic and I love what they have done with my sentiments - thank you girlies!!!!

I would like to enter :

My Partner in Crime - Marker Madness

A Spoonful of Sugar - Snow/Snowflakes

Delightful Sketches - Glitter it Up

Lili of the Valley - Anything Goes

Cute Card Thursday - Anything Goes
Sweet Stampin - Snowflakes

Have a great weekend and catch up with you all soon :o)