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Hello lovely peeps

I'm thrilled to announce that I am a Guest Designer this month on the Copic UK Facebook page, where you have a chance to win 2 Copic pens in their Anything Goes Challenge (just post something you have coloured with Copic markers).

Thoroughly Modern Misses from LOTV

Hello lovely peeps

Just popping in to show you one of the twelve fabulous new 'Thoroughly Modern Misses' being released at Lili of the Valley on Monday - this is January.

Robins Bird Box for LOTV

Hello lovely peeps

  There were some lovely Christmas Simply Prints added to the Lili of the Valley website at the weekend, this one is Robins Bird Box.

Furry Choir sneak peek

Hello lovely peeps and a warm welcome to my new follower :o)

 There are some more adorable Christmas stamps being launched at Lili of the Valley early in September - this one is called Furry Choir.

I've had the digi version to play with and I printed it onto Simply the Best 250gsm card from Limetree Craft with a large margin on all sides. I coloured it with Promarkers, Flexmarkers and Graph'Its and stamped on the sentiment at the top using the letters from the Retro Alphabet by My Sentiments Exactly.



I layered the image onto a 6x6 card blank with a Grand Merry Christmas die-cut (Memory Box) and drew in musical notes with a black Sakura fineliner to match the ones around the choir.

The snowflakes were made with a mix of Robert Adams/Chinese dies from Ebay, with pale blue gems in the centres.

I would like to enter this in the following challenges:-
Die Cuttin' Divas #332 Sequins, gems or pearls
A Gem of a Challenge #201 Snow Fun
Moving along with the Times #52 Things beginning with B (Bunnies)
ABC Christmas Challenge P, Q and R People Quick and/or Red
Christmas at Sweet Stampin' - Anything Goes
The 12 Months of Christmas Link Up  #32 Optional theme: traditional christmas colours
Dream Valley Challenges # 162 Use a stamp or digi
Passion For Promarkers Challenge  #410 Make it digital

Thanks for stopping by,

Katrina x

Bunnies Post Box for LOTV on New Release Day

Hello lovely peeps

Hooray! It's release day - the lovely new Lili of the Valley Christmas stamps are available now on the website, with some special prices for 48 hours.

For my final inspiration card I have used Bunnies Post Box.
Aren't they sweet with their armfuls of cards?

After printing the digi version off onto Super Smooth 250gsm card, I die-cut the card using a large Sizzix tag die, then coloured the image in with Promarkers (named) and Graph'Its (numbers)
fur: ivory, sandstone, caramel
snow: ice grey 1-3
post box: poppy, crimson
tree: forest green, bright green, 8250
blue scarf: cool aqua, duck egg
tree:  caramel, 3250
robin: sandstone, caramel, poppy 

The tree looked a bit odd ending  an inch from the top of my tag, so I extended it a bit by adding a pencil line

then colouring it in with my markers and finishing off with a black fineliner pen

The bottom half of my 6x6 card is covered with white card embossed with a snow texture embossing folder and the top half is a paper from the retired Twas the Night 8x8 pad (now available in digi format at Nitwit Collections)

To make the card for my stars I dabbed some Faded Jeans and Tumbled Glass Distress Inks onto my craft mat and spritzed with water before dragging some Sheena Stamping Card through it. I dried with a heat tool and repeated a few times to get some texture.

I edged the stars with Pumice Stone Distress Ink, added little white pearls and then arranged them with some die-cut snowflakes around the tag. The sentiment was stamped with words from the Christmas Wishes clear set (now available as digis)

I would like to enter this in the following challenges:-
Simon Says Stamp (Wed) We're seeing stars
The Ribbon Girls July any image 
C.R.A.F.T. #425 Christmas
Cut it Up #126 Christmas in July
Craft-Dee BowZ  CDB51 Anything Goes with a Handmade Bow
Christmas at Sweet Stampin' - Anything Goes
As You Like It Challenge pearls or gems and why - pearls - I'm not really a bling person so I prefer the matt finish of pearls, they are more subtle

Thanks for stopping by, I hope you will join me again tomorrow for Throwback Tuesday :o)

Katrina x

Lili of the Valley Christmas Offer

Evenin' all :D

There's a HUGE 25% off all Christmas goodies on the Lili of the Valley website at the moment.

I've made a little card to show some of the lovely items on offer.

Start by sprinkling some Shabby White frantage powder around the edges of some kraft card and heat from underneath to melt. Scrape the card edges with your scissors to roughen them up and attach to a 7" x 7" white base card.

Cut some panels from the Krafty Christmas Paper Pad and roughen the edges of those too. Layer them up on your card with snowflakes cut from white card. I used an All Occasions triple snowflake die for the smaller ones. The large one was a magazine freebie.

Stamp James -Snow Angel onto white card with black Memento ink and colour in with alcohol pens.
I used Graph'Its 3150 & 0000 for his fur, 9400 & 9401 for his hat/coat/boots. Also Promarkers Ice Grey 1 and Ice Grey 3 for the scarf and snow.

Stamp a couple of tags from the Christmas Sentiment Tags set onto white card and cut out.
 Colour the edges of the topper with Frayed Burlap distress ink then attach the two tags with brads.
Layer it up on the base card with mesh and buttons.

Challenges:-
Crafting by Designs - June Anything Goes
The Ribbon Girl - Animals
Loves Rubberstamps - Spots and Dots


I'm off to a craft show tomorrow and will be meeting one of my LOTV Teamies. Super excited!

Hope you enjoy your weekend,
Katrina x