The Crazy Challenge

Hello Crafters!

I've been off-the-grid for a week or so as I was away on holiday and would have to have fought a teenager for the laptop, and he's getting sooo big these days that I think he would have easily won!

Over at The Crazy Challenge this week we are being sponsored by Digi Doodles and you can win $10 to spend in their store.

The challenge is to use Embossing on your project, and this is what I made:

I made the card for my mum to send to Canada, as her cousin's daughter is getting married (I think the wedding was last week to be honest). She was going to pay me for it,but as she childminds for me free-of-charge I could hardly be taking money for a card now could I.

The image is from Digi Doodles 'Jr. Bride and Groom'. Aren't they so sweet. I used my Nestie to Emboss round the cut-out.

I also used my 'Dots' Cuttlebug folder to emboss some maroon CS and sanded the dots to make them stand out, before adding the foiled sentiments to the card.

So - come on over to The Crazy Challenge and have a go!! You can also add GDT after your name for a chance to be a guest designer!

Ingredients:

Image: Digi Doodles 'Jr.Bride and Groom'

Medium: Promarkers

Papers: Wild Rose Studio 'Butterfly Garden' and CS from Stash

Embellishments: Foil It and flowers, charm and brads from stash

I'd like to enter the above card in the following challenges:

Papertake Weekly - Anything Goes (optional extra 'metal' - metal charm)

Craft Us Crazy - Anything Goes In August

Stamp Something -August Digi Day Challenge

Bunny Zoe's Challenge 15 - Easel Cards

Thanks for looking folks!

Lxx 

Sunny Monday!

Well- it is trying to be sunny, wish those clouds would just move outta the way and let the sun get on with it!

My wee bit o news - wellll I have been chosen to be on The Crazy Challenge's DT! How fab is that, my first DT!! The more observant of you may have notice my wee badge on my sidebar. Am so chuffed that I was chosen :o)

The theme this week is Summertime and the below card I have made fits the theme perfectly.

This nice summery card was made using Make it Crafty digi images (7 images in all). This is the first time I have combined digistamps and it was quite fun and easy to do:

It is a huge 8 x 8 Craftwork Cards card. Might not be the last 8 x 8 I do as I seem to need more and more room to decorate on my cards these days.

This is a wee close up of all the digi images. Aren't they all so cute!

Why don't you pop on over to The Crazy Challenge and enter this weeks challenge, you can also put GDT after you name if you would like to guest design for us.

Ingredients:
Images: Make it Craft digistamps
Medium: Promarkers
Papers & CS: Dovecraft 'Sugar & Spice' and CS from stash
Embellishments: Craftworks Card Candy, Wild Orchid Flowers & ribbon from local craft shop
Sentiment: Computer generated and Foiled

I'd also like to enter the above card in the following challenges:

Make it Colourful - Special Monthly Celebrations Catagories 1 & 2
Passion for Promarkers Week 107 - Tie a Yellow Ribbon
Creative Inspirations Challenge 119 - To the Seaside
Dream Valley Challenge 11 - Summer Theme
Bunny Zoe's Craft Challenge 14 - Fun in the Sun

That's all folks - going to enjoy a wee bit of the sun that has managed to sneek through the clouds.

Lxx

Make It Crafty is 1 !!

Over on Make It Crafty they are celebrating their 1st birthday. The have candy to give away to some lucky random people and have 5 different catagories to enter cards into on Make It Colourful. I have made a card for catagory 5, and have one for Catagory 1 underway (watch this space LOL).

Here is my card for Catagory 5:

The rules were to make a card with Make It Crafty logo colours and a MiC image. This image was a freebie to celebrate their birthday, isn't she great, so I used her and the logo colours. I'm quite chuffed with her reddish hair :o).

Ingredients:
Image: Celebrate freebie from MiC
Medium: Promarkers
Papers & CS: from stash
Embellishments: Wild Orchid flowers, ribbon, brads and pearls from stash.
Sentiment: Computer generate, foiled and cut with nestie labels

I'd also like to enter the above card in the following challenges:
Ladybug Crafts Ink - Summer Birthdays
Papertake Weekly Challenge - Anything Goes
Charisma Cardz Challenge 27 - All About Flowers
One Stitch At A Time Challenge 69 - Use a Digi
Craft Your Passions Challenge 65 - Anything Goes


I also have a wee bit of news that I can tell you about at the beginning of next week ;o)
Thanks once again for looking and comments you may leave.
Lxx

Autumn Already??

Actually feels more like winter outside - where did summer go. Surely those couple of days of sun wasn't it - please don't let that be true!!!

There's a challenge over at Craftymess this month for a card in autum colours and this is the card I made:

I think this stamp is turning into one of my favourites.

See what I mean - how cute is she...

Wild Orchid Flowers with Frosted Lace Stickles on them.

Sentiment foiled and cut with my nestie.

Ribbon (slightly wired at the edges, so is great for manipulating into a bow shape)

Ingredients:

Image: Elisabeth Bell - Penpal

Sentiment: Computer generated & foiled in orange with Foil It

Medium: Promarkers

Papers & CS: from stash

Embellishments: Wild Orchid flowers, Mei flower metal butterfly, nestie used to cut out image & ribbon from stash.

I'd like to enter the above card in the following challenge:

Simon Says Stamp - Let's Play Bingo (shape, ribbon, sentiment) 

Cute Card Thursday Challenge 169 - Birthstones (Orange Topaz) 

Thanks for looking and any comments you are kind enough to leave.

Lxx

Summery card for my Cousin

Thought I'd bring a wee bit of summer to my page, since the weather is not bothering to sun-up!

This is a card I have made for my cousin, she is a nanny in Switzerland, so I will have to be extra careful when posting it so it gets there in one piece.

I must say this is one of my favourite cards and it will kill me posting it LOL. Might have to make one to keep myself, kinda cheers me up looking at it.

Coloured with my Promarkers.

Sentiment foiled with pink with my Foil It machine to match the card, it's murder trying to take a photo of this stuff as it is soooo reflective, looks great tho :oD.

My flowers, some Wild Orchid ones, some from my local craft shop. They have Frosted Lace stickles on them, but it hasn't come up to great on the photo.

Ingredients:

Image: Sarah Kay

Sentiment: Computer generated foiled with Foil It machine

Medium: Promarkers

Papers: Wild Rose Studio (Butterfly Garden)

Embellishments: Wild Orchid Flowers and Stick Pins, Heather from local craft shop, Lace & Ribbon from stash

I'd like to enter this card in the following challenges:

Oldie, But a Goodie Challenge 20 - Lots of Layers

By the Cute and Girly - In the Garden

Thanks again for looking blog friends :o)

Lxx

Happy 21st Rachel!

Afternoon from a miserable Scotland - although the sun is trying it bestest to come out and play.

I've been AWOL for a couple of weeks as I have been frantically finishing a scrapbook for my niece Rachel's     21st birthday. Her birthday was on 1st May, but her party wasn't until last night so had a bit of extra time to finish her album off and make her a card. Here is the card I made for her:

She is a fan of purple and the card is much more purple IRL and she is also a fan of those really high heels that give me vertigo just looking at them! The CS and bling along the bottom are from stash.

I coloured the image with my PMs and added GD to the bows, ribbon and the insides of the shoes. The flowers are from Wild Orchid and the key charm from Meiflower.

Of course I had to use my Foil It machine again for the sentiment and numbers, and added a couple more roses to finish it off.

Rachel loved her album, but will probably still be in her bed at the moment, but I'm sure she'll like her card too.

I'd like to enter this wee card in the following challenges:

Catch the Bug Challenge Blog - May Anything Goes
Craft Your Passions - Challenge 56 Anything Goes
DYSU Challenge Blog - #18 Purple
Stamp Something - May Digi Day Challenge (Bugaboo Digi Image)
One Stitch At A Time - Challenge 61 Fancy Folds (Side Step Card)
A Spoonful of Sugar - Challenge 150 White and One Colour (White and Purple)
Papertake Weekly Challenge - Anything Goes

That's all folks

Thanks for looking and any comments you are kind enough to leave

LXX

Christening Day!

Morning

Not so nice here this morning. Looks like the sky is about to open up and pour with rain for the day. Off to my mum's today to swap computers with her for Robert's - loonngg story. Have to save all her stuff to disc first and transfer it all....

Before I jet off I have a card to show you that I made for a commission. It was for a wee girl Daisy's christening day, and I personalised it using my Foil It machine.

Here it is:

The image is from Mo Manning and coloured gently with my PMs. The PP is from Dovecraft 'Back to Basics' and have used my Nesties for cutting.

Wee close up with the Wild Orchid flowers (these are taking over my house now - never used to be a flowery person me - how things change ey).

And the little charm from Meiflower - love those ickle feet.

This photo is pretty awful, but just couldn't get the camera to do what I wanted so had to live with it. Used my Foil It to do the verse and for the personalised sentiment.



That's it. Off to haul a teenager out of bed now and make him dress in something half-decent to go to his Gran's...

I'd like to enter the above card into the following challenges:

Papertake Weekly Challenge - Truly Dimensional
TLT Challenge - Celebration!

Thanks for looking and any comments you may leave.

Lxx



A 40th Anniversary and a Fabby NEW TOY!

Evening all!

Apparently it was a really warm day today??? Not that I noticed while I was converting my car 'James Bond style' into a boat this morning to get to work!

Thought I was going to crash at one point when a truck driving in the other direction drove through a swimming pool on the road and drowned my car - couldn't see a thing in front of me! Lucky I am still here and praying for the sun to please make an appearance next week when I'm off on holiday!

One of my friends was having a wee wander through Facebook a wee while ago and came across my craft album, she then decided that I'm just the person she was looking for and I have so far made 6 cards for her. I love all my crafting and making cards, but making them to order for other people makes me sweat buckets! I suppose if they don't like them you can always use them in the future for someone else though ey?!

Fortunately, she has loved everything I have made her so far. It's her Mum and Dad's 40th wedding anniversary on 17th of this month and I made this wee card for her:

I didn't use any PP as I wanted the red for the ruby wedding to stand out quite a bit, and I also couldn't really find a lot of red PP to play with :o(. If anyone knows where I can get some nice red papers PLEASE let me know...

The stamp is from LOTV, coloured with my PMs, the little bell charm is from Mei Flower and the flowers are from Wild Orchid Crafts. CS cut with Nesties Labels - like this one as it is quite similar in shape to the card I have used.

Now - let me introduce you to my new toy. It's a FOILING MACHINE. Yes - no more peel off greetings for me! Billy (lovely hubby person) got me a Laser Printer for my chrimbo (as you need to print the greeting on one for the foil to stick to it). You print your greeting, make sure your Foil It machine is hot enough (has a wee ready light - so really 'dummy proof'), stick your greeting through the machine with the foil colour of your choice wrapped in a wee bitty of paper (so the foil sticks to card and not machine) - and it come out all supercalafragilistic at the other end!!! Doesn't it look fabby-do! I love it. Want to foil everything now! Foil comes in loads of different colours too. Wait til you see the Christening card I made with the pink foil for the greetings - see - it's even made me like PINK!!! Love it, love it! If you'd like to be the lucky owner of this fabglorious machine you can buy one from Patsy May HERE, and postage is just a wee £1 at the moment for a limited time! All the foil is there too - go on - you know you wanna :oD

Also foiled this wee sentiment! Told you - no stopping me now - you can even print digi images or any image really and then use one of the colours (or more than one if you like) to make it all shiney, shiney!!

Do you think I really like my new machine then??

I'd like to enter the above wee card into the following challenges:

Oldie but a Goodie - Wedding or Anniversary
Craft Your Passions - Challenge #52 Anything Goes
Charisma Cardz Challenge - 14 Weddings/ Anniversaries
Papertake Weekly Challenge - Anything Goes (optional extra - my new flowers from Wild Orchid)
The Crazy Challenge - #61 Just Add Flowers

Thanks once again for looking and any comments you are kind enough to leave.

I'm away to have a HUGE M & S Cookie (mmmmm) and that lovely hubby person I was talking about earlier is making me a nice cuppa to go with it - might even give him one ;o)

Lxx