Red Squirrel

Hello lovely peeps

One last card with the fabulous new watercolour images from Lili of the Valley - this is Red Squirrel.

James Bear on Mothering Sunday

Hello lovely peeps

Just popping to show you the Mother's Day card that I made for my Mum using James Daisy from Lili of the Valley. He's not available any more in rubber but you can get him as a digi here.

Floral Sympathy Card

Hello lovely peeps, and welcome to my two new followers.

This was a hard card to make because I wanted it to be perfect (which of course it isn't). One of my work colleagues lost her 14 year old daughter and everyone at work is heartbroken for her family.  This is the card I made for us all to sign.

Emma Shoes on Throwback Tuesday

Hello lovely peeps

I'm back with another one of the first Lili of the Valley stamps that I bought, to tie in with the Retro challenge on the LOTV Facebook page . 

Patchwork Balloons for LOTV

Hello lovely peeps, and a very warm welcome to my 2 new followers.

The theme for this month's challenge at Lili of the Valley is 'Summer'. To enter you just need to make something with a LOTV image and add it to their Facebook page here.

For my inspiration card I've used a retired stamp called Patchwork Bunch of Balloons.

To make life easier for a change I picked my papers out before colouring my image. They are from the Butterfly Kisses paper pad (still available as digi papers at Nitwit)

I went around the edges with my stab and stitch tool

then drew in stitches with a pencil (Lyra Rembrandt)

For the trees at the bottom of the card I die-cut some stitched circles and then with the leftover scraps I cut little tree trunks and coloured them with a brown pen.

Next I stamped the Patchwork Balloons image onto watercolour card with Black Archival ink and coloured it in with Distress Markers before cutting it out
pumice stone
picked raspberry
worn lipstick

I stamped just the balloon part of the image onto more watercolour card

then coloured them in and cut them out (I used mowed lawn for the green highlights)
For the '50' balloon I stamped numbers from the Stitched Alphabet set (also retired) and added little strings with a black fineliner pen.

For the background behind the bear I cut a circle of white card and embossed it with the 8x8 Die'sire Embossalicious folder 'Clouds'

The card is finished off with a double bow of organza ribbon and some sweetheart blossom flowers from Wild Orchid Crafts (the sentiment is from Handwritten Phrases by LOTV)

I would like to enter this in the following challenges:-
In The Pink #120 Embossing
Crafty Catz #372 Anything Goes option summertime
Crafty Friends Challenge #59 make it pink
Tuesday Throwdown #345 stitching
Deep Ocean Challenge #156 Bingo (flowers, stripes, stitching)
Cardz 4 Galz # 48 Inspired by a song (Up, up and away)
Craft-Dee BowZ  CDB50 Anything Goes with a Handmade Bow (always)
Incy Wincy Designs - Anything Goes
The Ribbon Girls June any card

Before I go, have you entered my 300th post giveaway yet? The prize includes the fabulous Jasmine Shopping stamp from Lili of the Valley. 
Click on the picture below to find out how to enter :o)



Thanks for stopping by,

Katrina x

Love Petals for LOTV

Hello lovely peeps

Today's card is using 'Love Petals' from Lili of the Valley, made for my sister's anniversary.

I stamped the image onto watercolour card with Black Archival ink and then coloured it in with Tim Holtz Distress Markers:-
Bundled Sage, Vintage Photo, Fired Brick,
Hickory Smoke, Pumice Stone

For the base I layered up a 6x6 scalloped card with papers from 'The Promise' and 'Rose Garden' 8x8 pads by First Edition/Trimcraft, some red satin-edged organza ribbon and some cheesecloth.

The flowers are from Wild Orchid Crafts/The Ribbon Girl and the enamel dots are by Ranger.

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

Creative Inspirations #276 Your favourite things

Cutie Pie Challenge #111 Ribbon and Rubber

The Ribbon Girls May any image

Noor Summer 

Addicted to Stamps 149 Animals

Crafty Cardmakers #189 Floral Profusion

Double D Challenges Flowers galore

Pile It On  #130 Animals

Crafty Purple Frog Fabulously Floral

As You Like It Challenge favourite reason to make cards (& why) - anniversary cards because I have loads of gorgeous Lili of the Valley stamps featuring couples, plus they are easy to embellish with hearts, ribbons, flowers etc. 

Thanks for stopping by,

Katrina x

7 Today for Leonie

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

I'm continuing through my trawl of samples for Leonie that I never got around to blogging. This hanging was made with the Zentangle stamps from her first collection last year.

For the background I stamped some flowers from Tangled Tails onto circles of white card using 3 different inks:-
 Encore Ultimate Metallic 'Honeydew'
Fabriko 'Burgundy'
Brilliance 'Pearlescent Orchid'

The '7' and 'today' were cut on my CraftRobo from thin white card and I stamped all over the shapes with one of the flowers using Black Memento ink. I coloured around the flowers with Rose Pink Promarker before gluing them to their backgrounds.

I backed each circle onto a slightly larger pink scalloped circle and glued them back to back with pink organza ribbon sandwiched in between

I added a frame front and back using some 'Catalina Wreath' die-cuts (Memory Box) which I coloured with the Honeydew ink. The little flowers are pink sweetheart blossoms from Wild Orchid Crafts - I twirled their wire stems around my pokey tool.



   The piece is finished off with adhesive pink/green/clear gems

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

Country View Crafts' Challenge Flower power

Classic Design Team Challenge #14 Anything Goes

Thanks for stopping by,

Katrina x