Vicky's Christening Card

Hi All

We had our Daughter Vicky (Aged 5) Christened on the 19th December and she ordered a ballerina christening card off me so this is what I came up with.

The base card is a silver glitter card as it had to be a sparkly card as Vicky loves all thinks sparkly.

The little ballerinas are from stamposaurus and is one stamp.  It has been coloured in with my promarkers and the wings have been glittered with a sakura glitter pen.

Computer generated Greeting that was added to the card.

Flat back heart gems from my stash to finish off the card.

Thank you for visiting and for any comments you may like to leave.

Happy Crafting

Lizzie

Birthday Card for my Mom

My Mom was 65 on the 14th of December and this is the card I made.

Lots of Yellows and greens in this one.  Most of the card is made from the packs that you get from Lidl (25 different colour sheets for £1.99 and 270gsm at that)

Image is a Penny black slapstick stamp which has been coloured in with my promarkers.

Numbers have been cut using my Cricut (worth every penny if you want to invest in one)

Sparkly gems from my stash.

Thank  you for visiting and for any comments you may like to leave.

Happy Crafting.

Lizzie

More family and friends christmas cards

Just a few more to show as I am sure that we are all getting fed up of Christmas cards by now.

Commissioned card for my cousins daughter from my mom

My Daughters christmas card from me and her dad (She is mad on these at the moment.

Christmas card for my mom

Christmas card for our best friends

And finally a christmas card for the inlaws.

I think that is it for all the christmas cards this year hope you have liked seeing them all.

Thank you for visiting my blog and for any comments you may like to leave.

Hope you have a great new year.

Lizzie

Few more Christmas Cards

Hi all

Just a quick post to show some of the christmas cards I have made over the past few weeks.

I call the next 3 cards (3's a crowd)

One for the Husband

One for my Brother

And Another one in Red for my other Brother

I love this little snowman from LOTV he is so cute and very easy to colour and glitter.

Thank you for taking the time to visit my blog and for any comments you may like to leave.

Lizzie

Tilda Birthday Card

Evening all,

Here is a birthday card that I made for one of my daughter's friends.

The image is Tilda Ballerina which has been stamped with memento and coloured in with my promarkers.  I have also embossed the whole image with WOW glitter embossing powder to give it that little sparkle.

The number 5 has been cut using my Cricut and the ribbon is from my stash.

It is such a shame that the embossing powder does not show up very well as it is just stunning.

The greeting is computer generated and cut out using some of my nestabilities.

Thank you for looking and for any comments you may like to leave.

Happy crafting

Lizzie

A Couple of Quick Christmas cards

Well it seems that I have neglected my blog since I have started back to work and my card making so here are a couple of cards I made last night.  I hope you like them.

My first card has been made using Kanban black glitter card, Kanban snowman stamped image from the Winter Wonderland collection and the snowflake border has been punched using the EK for success snowflake deep border punch.

A word of warning if purchasing one of these punches make sure that the snowflake that sticks out cuts out properly as the first stamp I purchased had a chunk of metal missing so it wasn't cutting properly.  When I took it back to the shop and we went through the rest of the punches there was another like it so there must be a batch that are faulty.

This second card has been made using the same stamp set as above and using the same border punch.  This time I cut the snowflakes out of the side of the card so I have a fancy border and then sponged through to the back of the card with a blue distress ink.

Thank you for taking the time to visit my blog and for any comments you may like to leave.

Happy crafting

Lizzie

Class cards - Wednesday 20th October

Evening all

Just a quick post to show the 2 cards I made at card class on Wednesday.  They were designed by the very talented Shirley who takes the classes at Craft Inspirations at the Mitchell Centre.

Card one - a brayered Christmas card.

Card two - A quick and easy card.

Thank you for taking the time to visit my blog and for any comments you may like to leave.

Happy Crafting

Lizzie

Creative Inspirations - Challenge 82 - Sketch

Evening all

Just a quick post from me as I want to get this challenge in before it finishes tonight.

I loved the sketch for this challenge and thought it suited this stamp rather well.  The background papers are from craftwork cards and are the foiled ones.  Also I have used my Martha Stewart snowflake border behind the snowman image.

The stamp I have used is a cling rubber stamp and is called "Snow Couple", it is also made by Stampendous.

The snowflakes have been cut using my Marianne snowflake dies out of glitter card.  I have used more than one snowflake and layered them up to give a lovely effect.

Thank you for looking and for any comments you may like to leave.

Happy Crafting

Lizzie

PBSC - Week 123 - Sketch by Debby

Afternoon all,

I did not think I would ever finish this card as it has been on the go for about 3 days on and off, well here is my attempt at this weeks challenge: -

I think I must have been in a green mood when I was designing the card, especially because of the amount of green I have used.

Thank you Debby for a fabulous sketch to follow, I decided that I wanted to use my PB stamp with the cat and tulips and I have had this image coloured in for a while.

Unfortunately I cannot remember what colour promarkers I used as I think I coloured this image in when we were on the Isle of Man last year.

The flowers I have used are ones that I have made with a few swirly bits added to the background for extra effect.  If you would like to know how to make the flowers please see the tutorial on the right hand side of my blog.

Additional decoration using card candy from craftwork cards.

The greeting I have used is from my stash but I cannot remember where it is from or who makes it as I have had it for years.

Thank you for taking the time to visit my blog and for any comments you may like to leave.

Happy crafting

Lizzie

Another Pet Sympathy card

Evening All

Well another day and I have had to make another pet sympathy card.  Don't get me wrong I don't mind making them but in all my years of crafting yesterday was the first time I have made one and then my husband Lee phoned to ask me to make another as the Lad that works for him lost his lovely little pooch over the weekend.

Thank you for taking the time to visit my blog and for any comments you may like to leave.

Lizzie

Sympathy Card for a beloved pet

Evening all

Just a quick post to show you a card that I am sending to a friend on do-crafts who has lost her beloved cat.  I hope it is suitable and does not upset her to much.

Thank you for visiting my blog and for any comments you may like to leave.

Lizzie

Truly Scrumptious - Challenge 43 - Sketch & Easel Card

Evening All

After a very busy day here is my entry for this weeks challenge and it is the first time I have done this challenge so please be gentle (lol)

The challenge was to create a card using a sketch with the option of turning the card into an easel card and since these are my favourite type of cards at the moment I did not need much arm twisting to take part in the challenge.

A close up of the top part of my card so that you can see all elements of the sketch.  The backing papers are some free papers I have out of one of the magazines I buy, but I forgot to keep a record so I cannot tell you whether they are from this year of last.

I have chosen to use one of the new Tilda stamps called "Tilda wants a hug" which can be found here and I have coloured her in with my promarkers but being a bit dizzy today and forgot to write down the colours I have used, oh well at least she looks lovely in red.

The snowflakes have been die cut using the Marianne snowflake dies using glittered white card.  I have then layered 3 snowflakes on top of each other to give this lovely effect.

These lovely little poinsettia's have been die cut using the mini poinsettia dies from Marianne which I must say I am loving at the moment.  These are definitely my crafting essentials for christmas.

Publish Post

The greeting on the bottom of the easel card is from my stash and for the life of me I cannot remember where they are from as I have had them for a few years.

Thank you for taking the time to visit my blog and for any comments you may like to leave.

Happy crafting

Lizzie

LOTV - Challenge 69 - Sketch by Bev

Afternoon everyone.

I thought I would have a go at doing the LOTV challenge today as I had one of the new christmas stamps that I had not inked up yet.

Unfortunately I cannot tell you where my background papers came from as they have been in one of my draws for at least a couple of years and the main red paper is actually velvet paper which I could sit and stroke for hours as it is just lovely.

The image I have used is called "Party Pup - Cracking Christmas" and can be found here if you would like one.  It has also been coloured in with my promarkers using Poppy, Caramel, Sandstone, Gold and Pastel Blue.

The poinsettia's have been cut using the mini poinsettia dies from the Marianne collection of dies and have been cut out using glitter card.

I have used one of my craftwork card greetings for this card as I thought it worked well with this card.

Thank you for taking the time to visit my blog and for any comments you may like to leave.

Happy crafting.

Lizzie

Challenge 45 - Tiets Sketch

Well another day and another challenge card.  I seem to have neglected my blog over the past week this is mainly due to getting everything ready for Amy's funeral for Thursday, but just to keep me sane I have managed to make this challenge card as I loved the Sketch and the Autumn theme.

I definitely think I have achieved the autumn theme as I have manage to find some papers in the depths of my craft room called Abstract Prints which are from Dovecraft full of lovely browns, rich reads, warm oranges and yellows.

The card is an easel card with a difference, as I was over on the Score-pal website and found a little tutorial that was for an easel card with draws and I have been meaning to have a go at one of these for a while.  I think it is great for putting little chocolates in or small items of jewellery.  The draws were made out of the same paper that I have decorated the top of the easel in and the draw pulls are card candy.

I have chosen to use a pre-made sentiment from Craftwork cards which was originally white and because I wanted it to blend in with my card I have coloured it in with my mustard promarker which I thought worked quite well.

A closer look at the top of the easel card so that you can see the layout used.

The image I chose to use is called "Elise" and can be found here at funky kits.  I have coloured her in with my promarkers using Blush, Honeycomb, Oatmeal, Mustard and Poppy.

My final greeting that has been put on the outside of the easel card once again was not the right colour for this theme so I have coloured it in with my Mustard promarker again.  I cannot tell you where this greeting is from as I have had them for years and have only just started to use them.

Thank you for taking the time to visit my blog and for any comments you may like to leave.

Happy crafting.

Lizzie.