New Challenge at LCI and News!

My post titles must be the most boring ones in blogland!!  I can never think of anything exciting to call them!

Anyway, HI!  As my post title says I am here today for another challenge over at Ladybug Crafts Ink!  Before I get into the challenge we have some good news.  Our 3 Guest Designers - Diane, Catherine and Sally - are now all permanent Ladybugs so pop over and give them some Ladybug love!

I have more exciting news below so keep reading!  Firstly the challenge for this week has been set by our lovely Julie and the theme is:

"Loves Me, Loves Me Not"

There is a slight change in the rules going forward.  We will be offering two prizes each fortnight.  The first is the usual random winner who wins a prize and the second is a random winner who uses a LCI image.  So onto my card:

I used one of the new Love and Marriage images, called The Kiss, which you can get as a digi image here. I used a new embossing folder that I got just before Christmas which I thought was lovely with all the hearts!  I just added some red felt roses and ribbon.  The sentiment is a freebie from a magazine.


So onto the last bit of exciting news!  Our next challenge on 14 February will incorporate a NEW RELEASE and a BLOG HOP!  Grab the banner below and pop onto your side bar and then wait for the fun to begin on 14 February!  

You may even start seeing some sneak previews of the new images before then just to get you in the mood!  The images are fabulous, you won't be disappointed!!


Lastly, before I go, you only have TODAY to get over to the LCI store and purchase your rubber stamps at half price.  Sale ends midnight tonight! 


I think that's it!!  Pop over to the main challenge blog to see if you were a winner from our Bows challenge, they were some amazing entries!  


Have a great day and I will see you soon!


Love

I would like to enter into the following challenges:

• will do this later;
• will do this later;

Card Ingredients

Stamp/Image - Love and Marriage - The Kiss, LCI; Sentiment - Freebie;

Paper/Card - Bazzill Bling CS; 

Colouring Mediums - Copics - Skin - E21, E00, E000, R20;  Hair - E59, E35, E31; Him - B99, B97, R00, R01;
Her - R29, R27;

Dies/Punches - Heart Embossing Folder; Die-namics Mini Rolled Roses from Dies to Die For; 

Other - Gems, Ribbon from stash, Felt from LCI

Sale Reminder

Hi All, I hope you al had great weekends.

Just a quickie from me this morning.  Just to remind you that the Ladybug Crafts Ink Sale is only running for another 2 days.  All rubber stamps are half price.  So head over there quick to take advantage before they go back up to full price.

I will be back tomorrow with a card for the new challenge over at LCI TLT and some exciting news, see you tomorrow!!

Stay warm!



Blooming Marvellous at MAWTT

 Hi all, I am back today for another challenge over at Moving Along With The Times. 

Firstly thank you to everyone who joined in with my Things With Wings challenge last week, there were so many amazing entries.  

Lisa is our hostess this week and the theme is:

"Blooming Marvellous"

So we want to see lots of flowers on your creations this week.  
We are sponsored this week by Bunny Zoe's Crafts 

and Nikki is very kindly offering a £10 voucher to spend in store. 

Nikki has some fabulous new arrivals in store including Wild Rose Studio, Tickled Pink, back in stock Spectrum Noirs and lots more.  Go and check them out here!


Here is my card:

I have used Whimsy Stamps - Wee Suzi who is so sweet. Nikki has a selection of Whimsy Stamps in store here.  I have used my Die-namics Mini Rolled Rose Die and Fresh Cut Grass Die both from Dies to Die For.  The paper is MME Six by Six Honey Cake.  

The rest of the DT have made some fabulous cards and we also have three GDT joining us this week as well, so please pop along and check out what they have done.  


I want to apologise for being a bad blogger this week, real life has got in the way a bit this week and I haven't had time to do much commenting.   Will catch up very soon!

Have a great day.

Love

I would like to enter into the following challenges:

• Simon Says Stamp - Anything Goes; 
• Pollycraft Monday - Warm it Up (warm colours/summer's day!);
• ABC Challenge - H for Happy Birthday;
• Totally Papercrafts - Make Your Own Flowers;

Card Ingredients

Stamp/Image - Whimsy Stamps - Wee Suzi; Sentiment - SU;

Paper/Card - MME Six by Six Honey Cake; Bazzill Bling CS; Kraft CS;

Colouring Mediums - Copics - Skin - E21, E00, E000, R20; Hair - E53, E51, E50;  

Dress - YR02, YR01; Flowers - YR18, YR16, Promarkers - Moss, Olive Green;

Present/Pot - B97, B95;

Dies/Punches - Die-namics Fresh Cut Grass; Die-namics Mini Rolled Rose; Magnolia - Leaf and Swirl;

Other - Felt from LCI; Gems

Daydreaming

Hi All,

I wanted to share a card today that I made over the weekend for the Lili's Little Fairies challenge this week which is Lavender and Lace.  I wanted to use some of the new images I have been buying recently and this one is called Summer Daydream:

I really like this colour scheme and was quite pleased with how it turned out.  The papers are from Prima Sweet Fairy which I haven't used for a while!  The felt and lace ribbon are from Ladybug Crafts Ink, Kerry's half price sale on all stamps is still going on for a few more days so please go along and check them out as well. 

Well, I had better get going, have a great day and see you soon.

Love

I would like to enter into the following challenges:

• Totally Papercrafts - Make Your Own Flowers;
• Quixotic Paperie - Sketch Challenge 3;
• That's Krafty Thursday - Use Kraft;
• Make it Monday - Inspiration blog;
• Lili's Little Fairies - Lavender and Lace

Card Ingredients

Stamp/Image - Summer Daydream from LOTV;

Paper/Card - Prime Sweet Fairy;  Bazzill Bling CS; Kraft CS;

Colouring Mediums - Copics - Skin - E21, E00, E000, R20; Hair - E57, E55, E31;

Clothes/Flowers - V95, V93, YG67, YG63, YG23, YG03;

Dies/Punches - Nestabilities Petite Scalloped Circles Large; Standard Circles Large;

Die-namics Mini Rolled Rose from Dies to Die For;

Other - Glamour Dust, Felt, Lace Ribbon

DT call at Cupcake Craftroom

Morning All

I am popping in today to mention that we are having a DT call over at Cupcake Craftroom.  Its a great little team and Mandy creates some lovely digi papers to work with.  Here are details:

Here is the link to the main challenge blog.  Good luck!

Have a great day and will see you soon.

Love

Feeling Blue

Good afternoon all

Well I'm not really feeling blue but was in a blue mood when making this card!  I have made this card with another Saturated Canary image from Krista Smith.  She is called Thank You and you can get her here. 

The challenge this week over at Saturated Canary is to use dies/punches so I used my Nestabilities on this card.  The swirly corner is from Make It Crafty (I don't know why I don't use this more often) and the paper is from Authentique called Journey.  I followed the fab sketch at Quixotic Paperie this month.  I hope you like it. 

Well I was very good yesterday and only bought a lip gloss!!  I had a lovely day though!

OK, better get on.  Hope you all have a great afternoon.

Love

I would like to enter into the following challenges:

• Quixotic Paperie - Monthly Sketch Challenge 3;
• Saturated Canary - Dies and/or Punches;
• Joanna Sheen - Celebration;

Card Ingredients

Stamp/Image - Thank you from Saturated Canary;  Sentiment - SU;

Paper/Card - Authentique - Journey;

Colouring Mediums - Copics - Skin - E21, E00, E000, R20; Hair - E53, E51, E50;

Eyes - B99, B97; Dress - B06, B05, B01, B00, C5, C3,C2;

Dies/Punches - Nestabilities Standard Circles Large; Petite Scalloped Circles Large;

Other - Glamour Dust, Lace Ribbon from Ladybug Crafts Ink; Make It Crafty Swirly Corners;

Color Box Chalk Ink Pad

Best Day Ever

Happy Weekend Everyone!

I am just getting ready to meet up with some friends, we will be popping into Harrods for a nose round before the sale ends and might end up with a glass of champagne in my hand during the course of the day!  Although I probably won't be buying anything as my printer has decided to stop working, ARRGGGHHH, so may have to spend money on a new one.  Why does everything happen at once?!  Had to spend out a lot of money on the car last week and it is still making a funny noise! 

Anyway I am not going to think about that now!  Firstly I just wanted to say thank you to the ladies over at Sugar Nellie, I won some candy yesterday after their blog hop!  The blog hop was show casing their new Puppy Love images and I am using one of them today:

Can you see the cute little mouse at the bottom of the image!  Now I experimented with these colours a bit, not usually my colour but I wanted to use the paper which is from Basic Grey Life of the Party which had lots of little parcels on it which I thought went well.  Maybe I shouldn't have used so much yellow!!  The image is called Best Day Ever which you can get from Funky Kits here. 

Right, best start getting ready.  Have a great day everyone!

Love 

I would like to enter into the following challenges:

• The Sugar Bowl - Sketch 75 and Birthday Theme;

Card Ingredients

Stamp/Image - Sugar Nellie - Best Day Ever;  Sentiment - SU;

Paper/Card - Basic Grey - Life of the Party;  Bazzill CS;

Colouring Mediums - Skin - E21, E00, E000, R20; Hair - E53, E51, E50; Dress - Y02, Y06, Y08;

Shoes - YG000, YG03, Presents - B97, B95, R37, R35;  Mouse - E41, E40;

Dies/Punches - Nesties Classic Ovals Large; Big Scalloped Ovals; Die-namics Loopy Bloom;

Other - Felt from LCI; Gems, Glamour Dust

Valentines at Wags 'n Whiskers!

Well I'm back again!  I've had a busy week on here!  Have you got any nice plans for the weekend?  I am meeting friends for some shopping in London tomorrow, maybe some lunch as well!  I have to be good though after spending so much money on the car earlier in the week. 

Anyway, today is a new challenge at Wags 'n Whiskers and we are in a romantic mood this week!  Today's theme is:

"Valentine's/Love

So this is your opportunity to get all your valentine's day cards ready!  Here is my card:

I have used "Steal A Kiss" which you can get here.  I have teamed it up with MME Love Me paper pack.  I have used a couple of new dies on this card.  The first one is Die-namics Fringed Perennial which I have had for a while and not used yet!  The other is my new Memory Box Twirled Heart Border which is very delicate but lovely! 

I hope you get a chance to take part this week, you don't need to use a WnW image but if you do you will be entered into a second draw for a WnW digital stamp! Good luck!

Hopefully I will be back over the weekend.  Have a great day!

Love

Card Ingredients

Stamp/Image - Steal A Kiss from WnW; Sentiment from Pollycraft;

Paper/Card - MME Love Me Paper Pack; Bazzill CS;

Colouring Mediums - Copics - Skin - E21, E00, E000, R20; Hair - E53, E51, E50;

Clothes - B99, B97, B93, R37, R35, R32, R30, E33, E31, E30;  Stool - W3,, W2, W1;

Dies/Punches - Die-namics Fringed Perennial; Memory Box Twirled Heart Border;

Classic Scalloped Rectangle Large; Classic Rectangle Large;

Other - Glamour Dust, Pearls, Felt and Ribbon from Ladybug Craft Ink





Things With Wings at MAWTT

Good Morning!

Well its Thursday again!  The week is flying by!  Hope you are all well.

I am hosting the challenge at Moving Along With The Times this week.  Thank you for all your fabulous entries last week, please pop along to see if you are a winner!

For my theme this week I have chosen:

"Things With Wings"

Easy enough right?!  Here is my card:

I have used one of my new LOTV stamps called Never Too Old for Cupcake!  The image is so sweet and the sentiment comes with it!  I left the card quite plan, I used my Echo Park Dots & Stripes pad again and added some felt flowers, the die is Die-namics Flower & Leaf Trio and the leaf die is from Magnolia.  I've used lots of glamour dust on her wings so she really sparkles in real life!

We are sponsored this week by Crafty Emma's Store and the winner will receive a £10 voucher! 

The rest of the girls have rocked this challenge so pop along to the challenge blog to check out the inspiration.  Can't wait to see your projects!

Take care and have a great day.

I would like to enter into the following challenges:

• Flutter by Wednesday - Open Challenge;
• ABC Challenge - H for Happy Birthday;
• Joanna Sheen - Celebration

Card Ingredients

Stamp/Image - Never Too Old for Cupcake from LOTV;

Paper/Card - Echo Park Candy Shoppe Dots & Stripes; Bazzill CS;

Colouring Mediums - Copics - Skin - E21, E00, E000, R20; Hair - E53, E51, E50;

Clothes & Cupcake - RV29, RV14, RV13, RV10;

Dies/Punches - Magonlia Swirl & Leaf Die; Die-namics Flower & Leave Trio from Dies to Die For;

Other - Glamour Dust; Pearls, Felt from LCI

Guest Designer at Digi My World

Hi Everyone!

I am delighted to be back today as Guest Designer for Digi My World!  Annie has some adorable images over in her store, go and check it out here! 

So onto today's challenge which is:

"Together Forever"

I have used an image from the new Life Me Up Collection.  These images are perfect for all your Valentines' Day cards!

Here is my card:

I used papers from MME Love Me collection and I used my new grand scalloped circles and grand circles dies which I got for Christmas!  The swirls is a Magnolia die and of course my Die-namics Mini Rolled Rose Die.  Not sure if this layout works but was just having a play really. 

I hope you can join in with the challenge this week, it runs for 2 weeks and the winner receives $10 credit in store!  Please pop along to the challenge blog to check out all the inspiration and details.

Have a great day everyone!

 

Card Ingredients

Stamp/Image - Lift Me Up Collection from Digi My World; Sentiment from Pollycraft;

Paper/Card - MME Love Me Pack;  Bazzill Bling CS;

Colouring Mediums - Copics - Skin - E21, E00, E000, R20; Hair - E53, E51, E50;

Dress/Shoes - R37, R35, R31, R30; Flower - R31, R30, R35, E29, E27;

Dies/Punches - Nesties Grand Scalloped Circles; Grand Circles, Magnolia Swirl Die; Die-namics Mini Rolled Rose Die from Dies to Die For;

Other - Gems, Glamour Dust, Felt from Ladybug Crafts Ink

Bows at LCI!

Good Morning!

I hope your week has started well. Its so cold here at the moment!  Can't complain though cos its lovely and sunny at the same time! 

We have a brand new challenge at Ladybug Crafts Ink today, where did the last two weeks go!!  Anyway, our Sue has set our challenge today, she would like to see:

"Bows"

Sue really is the queen of bows so I wanted to make mine big and bold!  Here is my card:



I am very stingy with my ribbon most of the time, so I was breaking out into a cold sweat using this much ribbon on one card!!  I think I might just keep the card for myself!  The ribbon is of course from Stamping Up and took about 2 hours to get the bow right!

I have used a blue and brown colour combination again which I am really loving at the moment!  I have used Original Nikki, the sentiment is from Pollycraft and is perfect for Nikki don't you think!  I have used papers from Echo Park Candy Shoppe, Dots & Stripes, I love this pack, I have just bought some more in different colours.   I just added some glamour dust and pearls to finish off. 

Now don't forget that you can buy all stamps at half price until the end of January (does not include digital images).  So get on over there! 

When you have finished shopping hop on over to the challenge blog to see the inspiration from the rest of the Ladybugs, they are all awesome!

Have a great day.

I would like to enter into the following challenges:

• Make It Monday - Inspiration Blog;
• Simon Says Stamp - Spots and Stripes;
• Alphabet Challenge - Y = You Can Choose;
• Totally Papercrafts - Spots and Stripes;
• One Stop Craft Challenge - Spots and Ribbon;
• Secret Crafter - Anything Goes with Blue;
• The Pink Elephant - Favourite Colours

Card Ingredients

Stamps/Images - Original Nikki from LCI; Sentiment from Pollycraft;

Paper/Card - Echo Park Candy Shoppe Dots & Stripes; Bazzill Bling;

Colouring Mediums - Copics - Skin - E21, E00, E000, R20; Hair - E59, E35, E31;

Dress/Shoes - B02, B01;

Dies/Punches - Nesties - Standard Circles Large; Petite Scalloped Circles Large;

Other - SU RIbbon, Glamour Dust, Gems

Its My Party

Good Evening All. 

Where on earth has the weekend got to, I can't believe its Sunday evening.  I haven't really had a very productive day but hey ho, some days are like that! 

I have made a card today for the Lili's Little Fairies challenge and this week they want us to use our favourite LOTV stamp.  It was a little tricky to pick one as they are all lovely but there is one that I do love to use, here she is:

I love her attitude and style!  She is looks so cool in her dress and boots, and I love her tiara!  She is called Its My Party and you can get her here.  I teamed her with MME Sixy By Six Honey Cake, added some glitter and used my fabby Loopy Bloom die again! 

Well enjoy the rest of your evening.  I am just going to flop in front of the TV!  Last Sherlock tonight which I am looking forward to! 

Love & Hugs

I would like to enter into the following challenges:

• Lili's Little Fairies - Favourite Stamp;
• Sweet Stamping Challenge - All That Glitters (glitter on her dress, tiara and ribbon);
• Secret Crafter - Anything Goes with Blue;
• Alphabet Challenge - Y - You  Can Choose;
• Charisma Cards - Happy Birthday;
• ABC Challenge - Happy Birthday
 

Card Ingredients

Stamp/Image - Its My Party - LOTV;

Paper/Card - MME Six By Six Honey Cake; Bazzil CS; Kraft CS;

Colouring Mediums - Copics - Skin - E21, E00, E000, R20; Hair - E51, E13, E17, E25;

Clothes - BG000, BFG01, BG02, BG05;  Shoes - C5, C3, C2, C0;  Present - E41, E40;

Dies/Punches - Die-namics Loppy Bloom from Dies to Die For;

Other - Glamour Dust, Pearls, Felt from LCI



Fairy Wishes

Hi everyone, I hope your weekend is going well.  Its been a beautiful sunny day here, but very cold! 

I am back this evening with another gorgeous image from Krista Smith.  This little beauty is called Whispy, A Fairy which you can get here.

Here is my card:

I followed the sketch at Sketch Saturday.  I have used paper from MME Six by Six Honey Cake pack, I like the colour combination in this pack.  She is a lot more vibrant in real life and I have used lots of glamour dust for some sparkle! I hope you like the card. I would like to enter into the Saturated Canary DT Call which is currently running. 

Thats it from me for now, have a lovely evening!

Love

Card Ingredients

Stamp/Image - Whispy, a Fairy from Saturated Canary; Sentiment from SU;

Paper/Card - MME Six by Six Honey Cake; Bazzill CS;

Colouring Mediums - Copics - Skin - E21, E00, E000, R20; Hair - E53, E51, E50;

Clothes - YR02, YR01, YR00, YR000, E41, E40;  Shoes - E49, E47;

Dies/Punches - Nesties - Standard Circles Large; Petite Scalloped Circles Large; Die-namics Mini Rolled Rose; Martha Stewart Border Punch;

Other - Glamour Dust, Felt, Ribbon from Ladybug Crafts Ink; Gems