Card for a Boy!

Evening all!

This is a card that I have made for a boy - well having two I have to make quite a few cards for boys, and am getting quite used to it - as you can imagine.

The image is from LOTV and I have paper-pieced the hat dungarees and bits of his shoes. The paper is by K & Co 'Hopscotch' and I have coloured the rest of the image with Promarkers.

Isn't he sweet - sometimes boys are better sleeping I think :o).

I thought this wee sentiment from Papermania suited the card to a T.

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

Sweet Stamping Challenge Blog - Slugs, Snails and Puppy Dog Tails.

Cards For Men - Challenge Number 6 - A sketch and a DT Call

Sarah Hurley - Challenge 35 - Go Green

One Stitch at a Time - Something for the Boys

Stamping B's Challenge # 103 - Masculine Card

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

L :o)

A Card for Twins!

Morning

It's a gorgeous day here on the West Coast of Bonnie Scotland, just about to put a washing on and get it outside for a good airing. Then I'm off to a school coffee morning at my nephew and niece's school.

A girl that my OH works with had twins a few weeks ago and he asked if I could rattle up a couple of hand knitted things for her, and well - I just had to make a card to go along with them. This is the card I came up with:

I've never made a card for twins before, and am quite chuffed with the results. The stamps are by LCI (the sentiment is from the same set) I used a sheer ribbon and the buttons are laced through with embroidery floss. I used one of my new Spellbinders that I pur-chased at the SECC a few weeks ago for the die cutting and Promarkers to colour. Papers are from Forever Friends 'For You'.

I stamped the baby onto a piece of scrap card and cut out a wee mask. Stamped the baby on the left onto my base card, masked it with the cut-out and stamped it again. Haven't used masking much with my stamps, so am dead chuffed with the results, looks like the baby on the left is reassuring the one on the right with her wee hand :o). I used a little bit of glamour dust on the little zippers (can't really tell from the picture).

This is the wee sentiment. Ain't it cute! Used another nestie for the die cutting, but the rectangles kinda get on my nerves, coz when you try to layer with them the are a bit bigger on one side, so I hand cut round the pink matting card to make it even.

This is one of the two wee cardigans I made. Love knitting baby cardi's as you can rattle them up in no time. I also made hats but forgot to take pictures of them - doh!

Hope the parents like them and the babies are nice and cosy in their cardi's and hats.

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

Totally Ladybug Tuesday - Challenge 20 - Monochrome

Cupcake Craft Challenge 134 - Monochromatic

Let's Ink It Up - Challenge 11 - Die Cuts/Punches

Catch The Bug Challenge Blog - Baby Steps

Creative Cowgirls Challenge Blog - Going Monochromatic with Delicious Doodles! Challenge #9

C.R.A.F.T. Challenge 95 - New Baby



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

Lxx

Crafty Day at the SECC!

It was a Friday, weather wasn't that great, so what better place to spend the day that at the SECC with some good friends and loads of crafty goodies!

I did my duty volunteering at the Prince and Princess of Wales Hospice stand, selling some raffle tickets for a great cause, after already spending some pennies on craft goodies, and then continued to shop. Here are some of the goodies I purchased:

I have wanted the Lavinia 'Fairy Door' for a while now - and now I have it :o) . The Pepper and Friends stamps were just a wee £1 each and the teddy stamps were two for £9.99 (other stands had them for £9.99 each - so got a true bargain there). Also got some new Sugar Nellie stamps and Lily of the Valley ones too! I also picked up a Rhinestone setter and some Rhinestones to have a wee play with. Can't wait to start using them all. Ross is out with his dad at the moment, but keeps popping his head in the door (scared in case he misses something that one :oD

Got other bits n bobs too, but tidied up my craft stash last night (I know - why bother ey) and dunno where it all is now hahaha - can feel the hysteria setting in....

Thanks for sharing in my stash!

Lxx

I'm Back!

Afternoon bloggers.

Had put my back out - all that carrying of a 3 year old has finally taken its toll. So sitting typing at PC wasn't my first thought.

Feeling much better now after a course of anti-inflammatories from a v kind doctor.

There is some fantastic blog candy on offer over at Crafty Mess, a lovely new blog, that will be starting some challenges soon.

Here's a sneak peak of it!

Isn't it fabby! Pop over to Crafty Mess here to have a look for yourself and join in with the fun!

Will be back shortly with some goodies that I bought from the SECC on Friday (what a lovely day of shopping with Alison and June and a wee visit to my friend Pat's stand too). Will also be back with a couple of cards I made recently.

See ya real soon!

Lxx

My Funny Valentine

Evening Bloggers!

Just a quick post from me tonight. Ross fell asleep a couple of hours ago, therefore had a few hours of crafting bliss!

Made a wee Valentine's Day card while I was free for a while. Bought a few wee Digistamps from Bugaboo when they had their sale on in January, and I thought this one was perfect for a Valentine's Day card:

Isn't she fun? I coloured the image with Promarkers and added gem stones for her earrings and glossy accented the icing on the cake.

The glossy accent looks a bit odd as it is still wet (had to take picture quickly so that it didn't run!

I used a Tim Holtz die and bright pink pearlescent CS for the hearts (it doesn't look as pink in the main picture, but is really bright), and also added some gems to the hearts. The sentiment is from a set by Papermania which I mounted onto the pearlescent CS. The backing paper is from stash (red with pink polka dots.

So that's my wee Valentine's card. I'd like to enter the above card in the following challenges:

Totally Stampalicious - Colour Combo Pink and Red

A Spoon Full of Sugar - Challenge 136 Valentine

Charisma Cardz - Challenge #4 Valentines/Love

Craft Your Days Away - Challenge #12 - Love

Thanks for looking and any comments you may leave

Lynnexx

It's Hip to be Square - but not this week!

Hello bloggers!

Over at Ladybug Crafts Ink TLT this week the theme is 'Anything But Square'.

I have had a card half made for a while now, which was anything but square, and decided that this was the perfect opportunity to finish it. Here it is:

Definitely not a square :o). I made the card using the LCI Cupcake Stamp, and it took a while!

1. Stamp the image onto some scrap card and cut around cupcake, cutting right round to make a cupcake template.

2.Using the template and a fresh piece of white card, draw round the template to make the background. Draw the front images first and then add the cupcakes in the background.

3. Decorate the cupcakes and adhere to an A5 piece of card folded lengthways.

4. stamp the cherry from the Cupcake Stamp several times onto some card and cut out. Colour and add glossy accents. Put aside to dry.

5. Stamp the main image of Cupcake Cutie and colour. I added some GA to her shoes to make the patent and also to the cherry on the main image, also added some glitter to her top.

6. Adhere the cherries to the bottom of the card and the main image positioned in front of the other cupcakes.

7. Add sentiment. Mine was from a set I got free with Docrafts magazine yonks ago.

Looks like Cupcake Cutie is going to be busy with all those cherries still to add!

The cherries are much glossier IRL.

I'd like to enter this card in: Ladybug Crafts Ink TLT - Anything But Square.

Thanks for looking and any comments you may leave

Lxx

Little Bit o Burns the Scottish Bard

Burn's Night is nearly upon us - 25th January (my eldest was born on 30th January and is called Robert, just missed the appropriate date to be born by 5 days LOL).

I made some little ATCs that mark the occasion, here they are below in all their glory:

 

If you click on the picture you should be able to read the excerpts of wee poems by the man himself.

I used a tartan pp that I have had in my stash for ever, added some lace left over from my wedding dress - that'll be antique lace then, since I've had it for 15+ years:o) and some flowers that I won from Sue on a Ladybug Crafts Ink TLT blog hop! Thanks Sue.

I found a scroll shape on the web and did a bit o jiggery-pokery (as my dad would say) to add the wee bits o poetry, printed onto cream CS and crumpled then a little distressing ink added to age them a little. I also distressed the edges of the ATCs with a nail-file (do we crafters never use anything as it was intended - probably not), attached the scrolls to the ATCs with some 3-D squares and voila!

Some of these have people's names already attached, as I owe a few for swaps on the Docrafts Forum. Might have to keep a wee one for myself :o)

Thanks for looking and any comments you might leave.

I'd like to enter the above ATCs to the following Challenge:

Tuesday Taggers: Robbie Burns

Lxx