Three of Something

Hello lovely peeps

There's a new challenge today at Crafty Calendar and the theme this month is 'Three of Something' - I've used 3 buttons and 3 patterned papers.

Snowball Fight

Hello lovely peeps

For today's card I've used one of the old LOTV art pad images featuring Jack, Patch and Puss.

Little Flower Fairy for Crafty Calendar

Hello lovely peeps, I hope you are well.
If you weren't aware already, I'm having a little giveaway when I get to 100 Google followers - just one more to go :o)

 There's a new challenge starting today at Crafty Calendar and the theme this time is 'Flowers'.
We have 2 sponsors this month -  All Dressed Up



and Lemon Shortbread



For my inspiration card I have used Little Flower Fairy from All Dressed Up. I coloured her with alcohol markers (named=Promarkers, numbered=Graph'Its)

Skin: Coral, Sunkissed Pink, Blush
Hair: Tan, Cinnamon, Cocoa, Walnut
Red Flowers: 5210, Poppy, 4147, 8290, Pear Green, Lime Zest
Leaves:  8290, Olive Green, Soft Khaki
Yellow flowers and dress: 1280, Mustard, Pastel Yellow, Daffodil Bloom, Ivory
Wings: Blender and 4147
Ground: 9505, 9503, 9501, 9500

then die-cut the image with a large circle die and colored the edges with Antique Linen Distress Ink.

I layered this up on papers from the 'Blank Canvas' 12x12 paper pad from Trimcraft/First Edition, the pink one was edged with my newly acquired 'Cherry Blossom' punch from Martha Stewart.

The card is finished off with ivory organza ribbon, pink twine, a pink rose bud and tags made with Lili of the Valley's Sentiment Tags stamp set

I would like to enter this in the following challenges:-
All Dressed Up #68 Anything Goes
 Southern Girls #159 Use a punch
 Creative Inspirations #274 Blooms and Bows
Creatalicious Challenges #114 Anything Goes with optional Mothers Day/for the girls
Passion For Promarkers Challenge  #393 Make it Bloom
Glitter n Sparkle #237 Flower Power 

Thanks for stopping by,

Katrina x

Vegetable Patch for LOTV

Hello lovely peeps

 Just a quick post from me today to show you a card I made using one of the Simply Print images from Lili of the Valley, this one is Vegetable Patch.

I've matted and layered it with papers I got at the Farnborough show in February - Potting Shed by Craftwork Cards. I roughened the edges with scissors and inked them with Gathered Twigs Distress Ink. I die-cut the stars with X-Cut and Crafters Companion dies and the welly boots were cut from one of the papers. The tags were stamped with Sentiment Tags and Family Sentiment Tags by LOTV.

I would like to enter this in the following challenges:-
 Crafting By Designs For a man
Little Red Wagon #385 Tag It
Creative Inspirations #270 use LOTV
The Male Room #56 Use wood (I've used wood paper)
The Ribbon Girls March any card (used jute ribbon & twine)
The Crazy Challenge #244 Masculine

Thanks for stopping by,

Katrina x

Delightful Daisies for LOTV

Hello lovely peeps, and welcome to my two new followers :o)

Just popping in to remind you that you still have one week left to enter this month's Lili of the Valley challenge, where the theme is Flowers

For today's card I've used the gorgeous 'Delightful Daisies' stamp, and also managed to use a few other goodies that I bought at the Farnborough show.

First I stamped the image onto watercolor card with Black Archival ink, and then coloured it in with Distress Inks splodged onto a tile.

Jug: weathered wood, abandoned coral
Mice: vintage photo
Pot: tea dye
Flowers: scattered straw, shabby shutters, peeled paint

I die-cut the coloured image with an X-cut circle die and cut a slightly larger circle in co-ordinating green card. As I wanted a bit of a shabby-chic look I dabbed around the edge of the green with Titanium White acrylic paint and roughened it with scissors.

I cut down an 8"x8" paper from the Blissful Cotton pad by Anna Marie Designs to fit a 6"x6" card, roughened the edges with my scissors and then coloured them with Gathered Twigs Distress Ink

To balance up the card a little I cut out a couple of the flowers from the scrap

and glued them in the bottom left corner

I only bought 2 metres of this lovely mesh at the show so I'm being very thrifty with it (some might say pathologically so, lol) and only cut off as much as would show on the finished card.

I got this lovely material at the Farnborough show too, it has small white dots and glitter all over it.

 I cut some down to make a strip of ribbon which I then attached over the hessian.

I stamped a couple of Lili of the Valley sentiment tags onto white card and edged them with some Old Paper Distress Ink

I poked holes in the tags and threaded some ivory twine through before glueing them on to my card next to a simple bow (I just tied a knot in a strip of the ribbon material)

I would like to enter this in the following challenges:-

The Ribbon Girls March any card
Art Impressions Stamp Challenge #203 Let's watercolour
In The Pink #114 For a special lady
Noor Spring
The Crazy Challenge #243 We love animals
Double D Challenges Think spring
Eclectic Ellapu - Spring colours and/or Easter
Artistic Stampers  Springtime

Thanks for stopping by,

Katrina x

Squidgy Flowersoft Heart for LOTV

Hello lovely peeps.

Here's my first Lili of the Valley Design Collective card for February.

I've stamped up 'Odd Dog - Squidgy Heart' onto Neenah Solar White card and coloured him in with Promarkers (Almond, Putty and Tawny Owl). I then filled in the heart with PVA glue and sprinkled on 'Raspberry Fizz' ultra fine Flowersoft.

By the way, if you're doing this technique with something that has a finer texture I would suggest using Zig two-way glue or double sided adhesive. I tried PVA glue with embossing powder (I love the look of it unmelted) but because my glue wasn't perfectly even it ended up all bumpy.

I've layered my topper onto papers from the 8x8 Rose Garden pad by First Edition/Trimcraft. The hearts were cut with X-Cut nesting heart dies and I scribbled around the edges with a black fineliner pen.

For the tag I used one of the stamps from the Sentiment Tags set (also Lili of the Valley). I found a bit of ancient pink raffia in the deepest depths of my stash* to thread through the hole I made with my pokey tool.

* I found the burgundy hessian down there too :D

I would like to enter this in the following challenges:-

In The Pink #87 With Love

Crafts Galore Use a digi or stamp for February
 ARTISTIC INSPIRATIONS #149 Anything goes / twist of valentine
The Ribbon Girl - Make a card - Anything goes
THE PENCIL CASE  L = Love/Romance 
Creative Corner Challenges - Happy Valentine's Day/Love
Brown Sugar #184 - Valentine/Love
Simon Says Stamp (Wed) - Have A Heart
Inky Chicks #62 - LOVE (LETTERS) AND/OR HEARTS
Incy Wincy Designs - Love is in the air
Deep Ocean #122: "Hearts"
Creative Moments #86 Always Anything Goes/ optional twist Romance/Love

Thanks for stopping by,

Katrina x

It's raining leaves

Hello peeps. Hope you are all well.

This is my first Design Collective card for October.  

I love this time of year -  there are piles of leaves lying around everywhere and the child in me just cannot resist kicking up a few :D

The stamp is 'April' from the LOTV Fairy Calendar range, which was released in the summer. As you can see from my teamie Karen Oliver's lovely card, she's usually playing in the puddles after some April showers.

To prepare her for a bit of leaf-kicking I have given her sleeves and coloured her in Autumnal colours (mostly with Graph'Its)

Skin: 4115, 4155, 4170 and 4145
Hair: 3255 and 3280
Dress: 3210 and Ivory Promarker
Boots: 2150, 2180, 3130
Wings: 9500, 9501 (and glitter)

I've covered up the puddles with some tiny leaves which I cut from some paper scraps using my CraftRobo. The sentiment was stamped with one of the stamps in the Pretty Grungy - Good Times set, also LOTV.
I've inked the edges of the main panel with Pumice Stone Distress Ink and roughened the edges of my layers with scissors, to give the card a slightly grungy look.

I made a second version of this card to send to my lovely crafty buddy Sue.
This tags on this one were stamped with the Everyday Sentiment Tags stamp set from LOTV.
I can't make up my mind which version I like best. What do you think?

I would like to enter the top card in the following challenges:-
DRS Designs #197 Fall-ing for You!
Suzy Bee's Bloomin' Challenge #103: anything goes with a twist ... use some leaves
Crafty Cardmakers #150 Autumn Colours
Creative Inspirations #332 - Anything Goes + Option of a Sketch!
Mod Squad Challenge  - FLIP FLOP
Addicted to Stamps #112 THINGS WITH WINGS 

Polka Doodles Add Sparkle, Bling or Glitter
Penny Black - Autumn colours
Stamping Sensations - Colours of autumn
Whimsy Stamp Challenge #87 Fall Colours or Christmas 
Crafty Boots - Autumn and Halloween
Crafting From The Heart - #83 Anything Goes
Craft your passion - #285 Anything Goes

Well, that's all from me for now.
Except to say go and kick up some leaves if you can, it's one of life's little pleasures.

Katrina x

Walk the Plank

Avast me hearties. 

I've been making cards with the Lili of the Valley Art Pads this week to speed up my card making a little.  It's not been entirely successful since I've only done four cards in two days :) but I'm having fun, and my mojo is being enticed back gradually.

I have  used

Image from Art Pad 5 - Action Time.

Sentiment Tags stamp set

Country Gent , Father Knows Best and Dress Shoppe papers, all from LOTV

MINI NAUTICAL SET ~ Impression Obsession dies
Buttons and netting from stash

Challenges:-

Fab'n'Funky challenge - Inspired by a Song (Trumpet Hornpipe - theme from Captain Pugwash!)
The Ribbon Girl - Everything goes with an image

Crafting From The Heart - (Always) Anything Goes

Craft your passion - (Always) Anything Goes

Simon Says Stamp - Furry Friends

Loves Rubberstamps - Anything Goes

Papertake Weekly - Anything Goes w/option of Christmas in July
613 Avenue Create - Anything Goes w/optional CYOC

I've got a busy week coming up, but I'll be back in blogland as soon as I can.
Katrina x

Baby Steps

Afternoon Peeps, hope you are well.

Just sharing the inside step card I made at club on Thursday.
It just needed finishing off this morning as I had done everything apart from adding the tags. Then I planned to get on and make lots of cards for an upcoming fete.

Sadly my mojo has gone walkies.
Before deciding on this arrangement I wasted an hour moving around different colour tags/buttons/card candi. Then it took me two hours to make another card that I wasn't happy with. Grrrr.

So I've quit while I'm behind, and I'm now watching the tennis with some Pimms and strawberries :D

Anyway, I used papers from the 'Country Meadow' and the 'Always and Forever - Solids' paper pads.
Sentiment Tags Stamp set from LOTV
X-Cut heart punch

'baby' letters cut using Craft Robo
'NEW' letters cut by hand - I used the 'negative' part of some old chipboard letters to trace them out.
Forever Friends stickers from Docrafts

Challenges:-
 Scrap & Craft Inspiration - Celebrations
Crafty Sentiments Designs - Sweet
The Ribbon Girl - ANYTHING GOES WITH THE OPTION OF ADDING STARS AND/OR STRIPES 
Crafting by designs - Re-use or recycle (I've re-used the scrap from my chipboard letters as a template)

Ooh, almost forgot - there's a fab Summer Clearance Sale over at Lili of the Valley.
It's free worldwide shipping on all orders over £10 and there is a massive 50% off on selected lines and 20-25% off many other items. I've already had one spending spree :D

Ta ra for now,
Katrina x

Winter Wonderland Pop-up Box

Evening Peeps.
Hope you are all well.

I've finally finished my second card showcasing Lili Of The Valley Christmas products.
The weather has been glorious here for the last couple of days so I've been out sun-worshipping a lot (with factor 30 on of course)

Don't miss out on the Crazy Christmas Clearout - it finishes on 25th June.

The base for the pop-up box is made out of burgundy card.
I've added papers from LOTV's  Woodland Wishes Paper Pad.
The tags are stamped using Set 32 - Christmas Sentiment Tags
and the sentiment on the front flap is from Set 26 - Simply Sophisticated.

The presents are from Set 88 - Happy Bears.
The snowflakes were die cut using an All Occasions die and a magazine freebie.

I stamped up Mr Snowman with black Memento ink and coloured him in with Graph'it markers

I cut out the Christmas trees using my Craft Robo and decorated them with white Fluffy stuff

Well it's a bit early for Christmas themed challenges yet :D so I'm entering in the following:-
Crafting From The Heart - Anything Goes
Craft your passion - Anything Goes
Crafty Sentiments Designs - Anything Goes
TTCRD - Anything Goes
Top Tip Tuesday - Cut it out
Stamping Sensations - Dies and Punches
Crafts Galore - Anything Goes

Thanks for stopping by,
Katrina x