Flying High...

Good afternoon...

Just squeezing in a little card to support the June Challenge at lovely Handmade Bliss.  If you have n't had a look there already, you really should visit...

The first thing to say though is thank you to Fi and the DT there because I would never in a month of Sunday's made a card in these colours were it not for the challenge being a colour theme!  I was fairly happy with it in the end, and i was able to add three little gems in the corner which means I can also enter this week's Challenge at 

Papertake Weekly - trio-tastic!

I used the gorgeous Stamping Bella Tiny Townie '- Blossom Loves Balloons.

I coloured her with Copics and added a dubious looking cloud formation! along with Glossy Accents to a balloon and some sparkle to her frock with a Clear Gelly Roll Pen.

I used Core d'inations Cardstock embossed with clouds and sanded and some papers from the Lili of the Valley Winter Wishes collection to create layers.

I added some twine and some adhesive gems as a simple embellishment.

...and here we are Tiny Blossom ... loving balloons... perhaps a little too much! 

I would like to enter this card for the following challenge -

Handmade Bliss - June Colour Challenge

Papertake Weekly - Trio-Tastic (a trio of adhesive pearls)

Ingredients

Stamping Bella Tiny Townie - Blossom Loves Balloons

Make it Colour Blending Cardstock From Elaine Hughes Quixotic Paperie

Memento Ink Pad

Copic Markers

Ranger Glossy Accents

Sakura Gelly Roll Pen

Tim Holtz Core d'inations Cardstock

Die'sire Embossalicious Folder - Clouds

Paper from Lili of the Valley's Winter Wishes Collection

Twine from The Ribbon Girl

Adhesive Pearls by Papermania

Collall All Purpose Glue

Inks Used

Memento Black Ink pad

Copics - 

Skin E000, E00, E11, E21, R22

Hair E57, E43, E43

Clothes E40, E41, E42, E43, BG53, BG49, BG57, YR21, YR23, YR24, YR27

Balloons - BG0000, BG000, BG01, BG02

Background - B0000, B000, B00

Sakura Gelly Roll Pen - Clear Star

Thank you for visiting...

Happy Crafting...

from Sue...xxx

Please leave a comment if you pop by, I really appreciate them and do enjoy reading them all...xxx

A Sneak Peak from Lili of the Valley ...

Good Morning...

Today's post is soooo exciting, I have hardly been able to contain myself!

Lili of the Valley 
have an absolutely gorgeous selection of new stamps being launched on 4th July...
make sure you make a note of the date now because you really wont want to miss it!

My Design Collective card today is to showcase one of these beautiful new stamps

'cool and girly'

I coloured this super cute image with Copics and used papers from 

Lili of the Valley's 

new paper collection 

Sunny Side Up 

to create mats and layers.

I used die cuts, embossing and paper punches to create a garden wall and trellis type effect with flowers peeping through.  I lightly distressed the edges of the brickwork and the image with Tea Dye Distress Ink

I used some twine and added sentiments from LOTV's 

Sentiment Tag Set 24 

Finally, I used some Glossy Accents for that sweet little dog's spectacles and that cute little Miss's lips...

Here we are a 'cool and girly' card with a totally gorgeous new Lili of the Valley Stamp

Ingredients

Lili of the Valley 4th July release stamp - Cool and Girly

Memento Ink Pad

Make it Colour Blending Cardstock from Elaine Hughes

Copic Markers

Papers from Lili of the Valley Sunny Side Up Collection

Lili of the Valley Sentiment Tag Set 24 

Archival Ink pad

Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad

Darice Brickwork Embossing Folder

Spellbinders Shapeabilities Fancy Lattice Die

Woodware Small Flower Punch

Xcut Teeny Tiny Flower Punch

Twine from The Ribbon Girl

Doodlebug Sprinkles from Handmade Bliss

Collall All Purpose Glue

Inks Used

Memento Ink pad in Black

Tim Holtz Distress Ink pad in Tea Dye

Archival Ink Pad in Watering Can (Sentiment)

Copics - 

Skin E000, E00, E11, E21, R22

Hair E57, E53, E43

Clothes B60, B63, B66, R24, R46, R59

Little Dog YR21, YR23, YR24, YR27

Background BV20, BV23, BV25, B0000, B000, B00

Ranger Glossy Accents

Thank you for visiting...

Happy Crafting...

Sue...xxx

Remember to pop and have a look at all the loveliness at 

Lili of the Valley.

You can also follow of the Valley on Facebook and Pinterest and instagram

....and please don't forget to visit on 4th July to get a look at (and get your hands on)! all the beautiful new releases

Please leave a comment if you pop by, I really appreciate them and do enjoy reading them all...xxx

Fashionista...

Good Afternoon...

The new challenge at 

The Sugar Bowl

is Anything Goes (with a Sugar Nellie Image). 

The prize for the lucky winner is four Sugar Nellie Digital Images, and there is a second prize winner of two Sugar Nellie Digital Images from 

Funky Kits

My DT card to showcase this fun challenge is made with the gorgeous 

Sugar Nellie Simply Sassy Digi - Fashionista.

I coloured her with Copics and used sandy and blue Papermania card along with papers from Pink Paislee's 'Pen Pals' Collection (big gooey sigh 'cos these are gorgeous papers), to create mats and layers.

I embossed a piece of sandy coloured card with a Darice Bricks embossing folder.  I cut some bricks out and distressed the card with Walnut Stain Distress Ink Pad. (I used a bit of the same distress ink around the edge of the image as well).  I want to say thank you to Lizzy Smith at Color Kitty for inspiring me to use an embossing folder in such a clever way.

I then cut out some teeny tiny flowers to embellishment the wall and added some navy blue and white Baker's Twine.

...and here we are, an adorable Fashionista...

Ingredients

Sugar Nellie Simply Sassy Digi - Fashionista

Make it Colour Blending Cardstock from Quixotic Paperie

Copic Markers

Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad

Sand and Blue Coloured Card by Papermania

Papers from Pink Paislee - 'Pen Pals' Collection

Navy Blue Baker's Twine

Xcut Tiny Flower Punch

Collall All Purpose Glue

Inks Used

Copics - Skin E000, E11, E21, E01, R20

Hair E33, E35, E37

Clothes  B91, B93, B95, B97, R20, R22, R24, E40, E41

Background BG0000, BG000, W0, W1, W5

Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad - Walnut Stain

Thank you for visiting...

Happy Crafting...
and remember to pop straight to  
The Sugar Bowl 
to look at the lovely DT Creations there and  join in with all the fun!

from Sue...xxx

Please leave a comment if you pop by, I really appreciate them and do enjoy reading them all...xxx

Shabby Eeeek!

Good Morning...

Gosh, don't the weeks whizz round!  

Here we are back at In The Pink for another super fun challenge.

The challenge this time is Vintage or Shabby Chic and

the prize for the lucky winner is gift voucher for

Dies to Die For

Today's card is my Shabby Chic DT card made with a gorgeous 

Lili of the Valley stamp - Dandelion Clock
I say Shabby Eeeek because I am a bit out of my comfort zone!

I coloured this lovely fairy with Copics and used Neenah Desert Storm Card and papers from the new Lili of the Valley Dress Shoppe Collection to create mats and layers.

I distressed the edges of the card and used a touch of Distress Ink and Frantage around the edge of the image.  

I decorated the card with some cheesecloth, lace, flowers, Stamens, twine, jute mesh ribbon and a button from The Ribbon Girl.  Finally I added some adhesive gems and a pearl and gem pin from my trinket box.

Here we are my Shabby Chic card, made all the more chic mainly thanks to that adorable image!

Ingredients

Lili of the Valley Rubber Stamp - Dandelion Clock

Memento Ink pad in Black

Make it Colour Blending Card from Quixotic Paperie

Copic Markers

Neenah Desert Storm Card

Papers from Lili of the Valley Dress Shoppe Collection

Flowers, Stamens, Twine, Cheesecloth, Lace, Jute Mesh Ribbon. Wooden Heart Button from

The Ribbon Girl

Adhesive Gems and Pearl and Gem Pin from my trinket box

Pinflair Ice Diamond (for Dandelion Head)

Collall All Purpose Glue

Tim Holtz Paper Distressing Tool

Inks Used

Memento Ink Pad in Black

Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad in Tea Dye

Frantage Embossing Enamel in Shabby White

Copics - Skin E000, E11, E21, E01

Hair E31, E33, E35

Clothes RV11, RV32, RV34, E41, E42, E43

Dandelion Head YG93 and Pinflair Ice Diamond

Background B0000, B000, B00, W0, W1, W3

Wings Embellished with Wink of Stella Clear Pen

Thank you for visiting...

Happy Crafting...
and remember to pop straight to 
In the Pink 
to look at the lovely DT Creations there and  join in with the pink fun!

from Sue...xxx

Please leave a comment if you pop by, I really appreciate them and do enjoy reading them all...xxx

Mr and Mrs...

Good Morning

This week's challenge at 
Creative Inspirations
is 
Your Favourite!

All you need to do is include / use one of your favourite crafting items and state what it is.

This week's prize is from HEY LITTLE MAGPIE and is a 

£20 VOUCHER!

Today's DT card is made using my favourite 

Stamping Bella Uptown Girls Stamp - Brett and Brenda Get Married

Those more eagle-eyed amongst you will remember that I used this stamp recently - however, I simply can not resist it.  I love this beautiful image and to be honest I am also very fond of the occasional wedding!

I coloured with copics and used Frantage (another favourite)! around the edge of the image and on the corners of the Maja Design papers which I used as layers.

I added flowers, cheesecloth and a charm from The Ribbon Girl 

and sentiment tags from 

Lili of the Valley.

The silver button and beadstring are from my trinket box.

...and here we are Mr & Mrs... Brett and Brenda...

I just love them...

I would like to enter this card for the following challenges - 

The Ribbon Girl - June Lilac Colour Challenge

As You Like It - Book Inspiration (I went a bit broad here and chose romantic fiction because I just love a fairy tale ending where 'they all lived happily ever after...and what is more romantic than a beautiful wedding)!

Ingredients

Stamping Bella Uptown Girls Rubber Stamp - Brett and Brenda Get Married

Make it Colour Blending Cardstock from Elaine Hughes

Copic Markers

Frantage Chunky White Embossing Enamel

Flowers, Cheesecloth and a charm from The Ribbon Girl

Lili of the Valley Sentiment Tags Set 24

Silver Button and Beadstring from my trinket box

Xcut Die Set - Large Parenthesis

Church Die by Marianne Creatables - LR0172

Papers from Maja Design Vintage Spring Basics Collection

 Lilac Cardstock by Papermania

Creative Expressions Finishing Touches Stick Pin and Gems

Collall All Purpose Glue

Inks Used

Memento Ink Pad in Black

Copics - Skin E000, E01, E21, R20 

Hair Brenda - E13, E15, Y21 Brett - E33, E35, E37

Clothes Brenda - BV0000, BV000, Brett - C1, C3, C5, C6

Flowers G24, BV02, BV04, BV08

Background B0000, B000, B00

Thank you for visiting...

Happy Crafting...

and remember to pop straight to Creative Inspirations to look at the lovely DT Creations there and join in the fun!

from Sue...xxx

The Great Outdoors

Good Morning

This week's Challenge at 
Creative Inspirations

Is
Male Creations...

The prize for the lucky winner is a 
£10 gift voucher from
Cult Pens

For todays DT card, I decided to use a digi I have used several times in the past for card commissions.  

It is absolutely perfect for those men in our lives who love the great outdoors and enjoy wandering here and there!

It is a lovely digi stamp from Little Claire called

Great Outdoors

I coloured the image with Copic markers and used Kraft card and papers from 
Kaisiercraft 'Outdoor Trail' collection to create mats and layers.  
The map is a piece I printed using the computer, and the sentiment is also printed 
using the font 'Apple Chancery'.  The sentiment could of course be varied to Father's Day for this week!

Finally I added some hessian ribbon, twine and a binoculars charm along with some punched dragonflies as embellishments.

Here we are, a gent's card for a true gent!

I would like to enter this card for the following challenges - 
The Ribbon Girl - Anything Goes With An Image
Little Claire's Designs - Father's Day Theme

Ingredients
Little Claire Designs Digi Stamp- The Great Outdoors
Make it Colour Blending Cardstock from Quixotic Paperie
Copic Markers
Spellbinders Circles Nestabilities
Kraft Card by Papermania
Papers from Kaisercraft 'Outdoor Trail' Collection
Hessian Ribbon and Twine from The Ribbon Girl
Binocular Charm from The Hobby House
Woodware 1" Dragonfly Punch
Map and Sentiment Printed from Computer
Tim Holtz Paper Distressing Tool
Collall All Purpose Glue

Inks Used
Copics - Skin E51, E33, E21
Clothes E04, R56, R59, YG91, YG93, YG95, E31, E33, E35
Bench E43, E44, E47, C1, C3, C5
Ground E70, E71, E74
Background B0000, B000, B00

Thank you for visiting...

Happy Crafting...

and remember to pop straight to Creative Inspirations to look at the lovely DT Creations there and join in the fun!

from Sue...xxx

Man's Best Friend...

Good Afternoon...

Today's card is for the lovely Lili of the Valley Design Collective.

My love for all things Lili is no secret and at the moment, well I have to say  

there is an awful lot to love!

There is a special offer on some of the newly launched papers, sentiments and art pads;

Look here for all the details!

...and as if that was n't enough to have us Lili fans swooning there is another fabulous offer - a whopping 25% off all Lili Christmas goodies until 25th June!

All the details of that offer can be found here

Today's card is made with the adorable stamp 'Man's Best Friend'

This is just a perfect subject for me given my love of my adorable girls Ruby Roo and Phoebe Mouse.

I coloured this super image with Prismacolor pencils.  To be honest, I had pretty much given up on my pencils.  They were gathering dust on the corner of my table and I had virtually decided to sell them.  I thought though that I should give them one last chance and after a bit of practice, this card is what I came up with.  You can of course all speak freely,   I respond well to feedback, but perhaps I should hang on to them for a while?

I used some papers from the new Lili of the Valley Collections, 

Romance and Roses and Dress Shoppe to create layers and the strip of paper across the card is from the Bonnets and Bowties collection.

The background is a piece of Core d'inations card stock embossed with clouds and sanded.

Finally I added a Father's day sentiment from Lili of the Valley's 

Greetings Postmarks - Set 18 and some twine and a little star button.

Here we are then 'Man's Best Friend' (and from where I am sitting, 'woman's' as well)!

I would like to enter this card for the following challenges

Papertake Weekly - Something For The Boys

The Ribbon Girl - Anything Goes With An Image

Little Claire Designs - Father's Day Challenge

Bunny Zoe's Crafts - Furry Friends

Ingredients

Lili of the Valley Rubber Stamp - 'Man's Best Friend'

Make it Colour Blending Cardstock from Quixotic Paperie

Memento Ink Pad

Archival Ink Pad

Prismacolor Pencils

Lili of the Valley Sentiment Stamps Set 18 - 'Greetings Postmarks'

Papers from Lili of the Valley 'Romance and Roses', 'Dress Shoppe' 

and 'Bonnets and Bowties' Collections

Tim Holtz Distress Core d'inations Cardstock

Die'sire Embossalicious Embossing Folder - 'Clouds'
Die-namics MFT Stitched Rounded Rectangle Dies

Twine from The Ribbon Girl

Tiny Star Button from my trinket box

Tim Holtz Paper Distressing Tool

Tim Holtz Paper Sanding Tool

Collall All Purpose Glue

Inks Used

Memento Ink Pad in Black

Archival Ink Pad in Watering Can

Signo Uni-Ball White Gel Pen

Prismacolors - 

Skin - 929 Light Peach, 1092 Nectar

Hair - 941 Light Umber

Clothes - 1091 Green Ochre, 1078 Black Cherry, 941 Light Umber, 1052 Warm Grey

Little Dog - 1052 Warm Grey, 935 Noir, 1084 Ginger Root, 1082 Chocolate

Bench - 1094 Sandbar Brown, 914 Cream

Grass - 1096 Kelly Green, 1090 Kelp Green, 1004 Yellow Chartreuse

Background - 1024 Blue Slate, 1087 Powder Blue, 938 White

Thank you for visiting...

Happy Crafting...

Sue...xxx

.... and remember to pop and have a look at all the loveliness at 

Lili of the Valley

Beauty and the Beach

Good Morning...

The new challenge at 

In The Pink is

Summer Fun

The prize for the lucky winner is a £10 gift voucher from our lovely sponsors 

Mary and Andrea at 

The Ribbon Girl

Today's card came about almost by accident.  I have just joined in, for the first time, with a card swap event and I was very lucky enough to be partnered with Paola Jofre, 

the very talented artist behind the gorgeous digi's at 

My Whimsical Little World

This adorable beach babe is one of Paola's designs - 'Pheobe'; 

she is gorgeous and is just perfect for this challenge.

I coloured her with Copics and went for a more CAS design, 

 I think she deserves to be the centre of attention!

I used Lawn Fawn and an MFT Die to cut the papers and added a few (only a few ...honest!) embellishments.

I had a fight with the Glossy Accents to make the lenses on her lovely shades',

 (oh yes! and this time I reckon I won!)...

Here we have her, glamorous Pheobe, who I, unfortunately do not resemble in any way, shape or form, except that I do sometimes have the odd glass of something pink!

Ingredients

Digi Stamp Pheobe by Paola Jofre at

My Whimsical Little World

Copic Markers

Papers by Lili of the Valley from the Heartfelt Collection

Die-namics MFT Wavy Edge Die

Lawn Fawn Stitched Hillside Borders Die

Twine, Shell and Sparkles by The Ribbon Girl

Sequins by SIL from The Range

Teeny Tiny Flower Punch by Xcut

Liquid Pearls

Wink of Stella Pen

Ranger Glossy Accents

Collall All Purpose Glue

Inks Used

Copics - Skin E51, E33, E21, R37

Hair, Y11, Y21, YR23, YR24

Beach Wear RV11, RV32, RV34, Y11

Background BG0000, BG000, BG00, E70, E71, E74

Liquid Pearls in Buttercup

Zig Wink Of Stella Clear Glitter Pen - Shell, Drink, 

Thank you for visiting...

Happy Crafting...
and remember to pop straight to 
In the Pink 
to look at the lovely DT Creations there and  join in with the pink fun!

from Sue...xxx

Please leave a comment if you pop by, I really appreciate them and do enjoy reading them all...xxx