April Showers!

Good evening everyone hope you are well? Is the sun still shining for you ?  It's been gorgeous here again in Staffs and I've been making the most of it and been pottering about the garden for yet another day...luvin it! 

Onto the card I managed to sneek in inbetween gardening,lol 

Simon Says  Stamp is the 1st challenge my card  will be entered into.... the challenge is  Spring Colours or Easter,  I chose spring colours as you can see.  I chose to use  an older Tilda  cuz I thought she was perfect and I paper pieced her brolly, coat & boots/wellies.

my card

I followed the fab sketch over at  Bearly -Mine and that's the 2nd challenge I'm entering my card into, I decided not to use any DPs other than the small piece and just show the pretty colours of the textured card....hmmmm good idea/bad idea I'm not sure now but too late anyway,lol

A close up

and a close up of my new 'Happy Birthday'  embossing folder &  X-Cut Die

I am also entering my card into the following challenge .........

Addicted - to - Stamps  ~ Birthdays
Papertake Weekly  ~  Anything  Goes
Whoopsi Daisy  ~  Springtime
Creative card Crew  ~  April Showers

Off to link up so ttfn ... thanks for looking & leaving a comment ...see ya soon

xx Hugz Lizzy xx  :)

1 Card 4 Challenges

Good evening everyone hope you are well?  did you all have a wonderful Mothers Day? ...I do hope so!

I was spoilt rotten by my luvly sons,  Scott ..my eldest, bought me a beautiful Pandora bracelet along with 3 charms...'I Love You', my birthstone & my initial, he also bought me the latest Adele cd and a gorgeous card which he wrote the most beautiful words in .... of course I cried,lol .....My youngest, Keiran, had a beautiful bouquet delivered to me and he also bought me a cd.... the very hansom Michael Buble and a 'I love you Mum'  keyring & matching mug...bless,  I had a beautiful card from him too which he designed off Moonpig, all in all I did tremendously well and had a luvly day with my family.

Right onto tonights card,  I  actually used 2 sizes of the same shaped card for this one,  a  8x8 for the main and a 6x6 for the inner.

The blk/pink spotty paper (from stash)  was a 6x6 size which I cut in half (diagonally) to make it fit the main card then added the flowers ( Wild Orchid Crafts) to hide the bits that didn't meet.
My fab image ( Kenny K) was coloured with Copics.

I am entering my card into the following challenges...............

1) ... Kenny K's Krafty Girlz  ~  Pretty in Pink

2) ... Card Ideas  ~  Spotty Dotty

3) ... One Stop Craft Challenge  ~  Spots and Dots 

4) ... My Partner in Crafting Crime  ~  Layer it Up 

Thats about it ...hope you likey?  off to link up now so ttfn ...see ya again real soon

Thanks for looking and leaving a comment ...always appreciate them

xx Hugz Lizzy xx :)

The Sugar Bowl # 56

Hi all hope you are well?  I'm gonna be real quick cuz I'm late uploading my card for tonight and as I'm so late I aint got time to search for challenges for it to be entered into so its just going in the one and that is .......

The Sugar Bowl  #56  ~  KiKi's  Sketch  +  Theme 'ThinkPink'
I rotated the sketch because my image was a bit big

my card

and a close up

Items Used

Image .. Sugar Nellie ~ Hippie Chick

Colouring Medium .. Copics, Sakura Gelly Roll pens & Chalk

DPs .. Crafts- Too

Flowers .. Wild Orchid Crafts

Craftwork Cards flower border  punched with MS hearts punch

Thanks for popping by and leaving a comment ...see ya soon

xx Hugz Lizzy xx :)

Totally Tilda Challenge #19

Evening fellow bloggers hope you are well?  is it still nice n sunny where you are?  it's been raining here in Staffs today and has been rather nippy these past few days too :(

So!  onto tonight's card then :)   I thought it was time I made another of my  Neapolitan  ice cream cones  for my card for the Totally Tilda challenge #19  ~ 'Sweet Treat for Tilda'  I luv making them ..they remind me of summer and because I luv yummy ice cream of course,lol

I cut a cone shape  from some textured c/s  and ran it through my C/ bug in a diamond patterned  embossing folder  then  punched out 3 circles, again from textured c/s to make the ice cream,  I then  added some real cake sprinkles to the tops for effect. The flake was made using the C/bug  bark embossing folder and colouring it with my Promarkers.

a close up

I coloured my cutie Tilda with Copics, my dp's are from my stash as was the sentiment.


Thanks for popping by and leaving a comment ...always appreciate them


xx Hugz Lizzy xx :)

Sketch N Stash DT card challenge 58

Good morning fellow bloggers hope you had a wonderful weekend ?  did you watch the DOI final?  I'm so glad  Sam  won... he was terrific ...and quite dishy too,lol  although I did like Laura also she was very good too.

Another 2 weeks has flown by and time for another challenge over at Sketch N Stash, our luvly Vicky has designed  the new sketch and fabby it is too, I do hope you will join us again ?

Vicky's Sketch

You can flip/rotate it if needed and dont forget to tell us what you old/new stash is will you?

We have 2 sponsors for our challenge...................

Simon Says Stamp

&

Meljens Designs

here's my little creation

I luv this MS butterfly border punch, it punches one butterfly out and leaves the next one raised ...so pretty

Tutu Sweet  ~ Meljen Designs

a close up

Items Used

Image ... Meljen Designs
Colouring Medium ... Copics & Sakura  Gellyroll pens
DPs ... V&A  ~  Hanovarian Linen
Sentiment ... Anita's Stamp
MS  Butterflies border punch
Glamour Dust
Gems ... Stash

Thank you for popping by and for all your luvly comments

xx Hugz Lizzy xx :)

Kenny K's Krafty Girlz Guest Designer card

Good morning everyone hope you're enjoying the weekend ?  

 WOW I'm  so chuffed to be sharing my card with you today,  I was asked to be this weeks Guest Designer over at Kenny K's Krafty Girlz ...   they are a very talented bunch of girlz too so I was honoured to be showing my card alongside theirs.    Kenny K's have some new releases too, Easter, Pin Up  & Mothers Day and as you can see I used one of them.... Pin Up! ..aint she just stunning?   you can find them here

my card

I coloured this lil beauty with Copics

a close up

Items Used

Image .. Kenny K  ~  Bathing Beauty

Colouring Medium .. Copics

C/S .. Papermania

DP's .. Stash ? 

Ribbon .. Papermania

Swirl & Flower .. Marianne Designs Die 

MS Flourish Border Punch ?

Thanks for popping by ...enjoy your Sunday

xx Hugz Lizzy xx :)

Happy Easter

Good evening everyone, has the weather been kind for you again today?  it has here in Staffs just hope it stays nice now.

I really enjoyed making my card today ...something a  little bit different for me. 

I am entering my card  into the following challenges ..............

1) .. Creative Inspiration  ~ Easel Card

2) .. Colour Create ~ Pastels + Easter (optional)

3) .. Crafts & Me ~ Anything Goes

4) .. Creative Inspirations Wednesdays Challenge  ~  No Square Cards

I used the largest Scalloped Nestie to make my easel 

Other Items Used

Image  ~  Magnolia 

C/S  ~  Papermania Textured 

Colouring Medium  ~  Copics 

Flowers  ~  Wild Orchid

Glamour Dust

Tiny Butterfly Punch ? 

Off to link up now so ttfn ...see ya again soon 

xx Hugs Lizzy xx :)