One For The Boys midweek reminder

Another week another midweek reminder...it will be Christmas before you know it ...oops...sorry for saying the C word rofl. 

I have a confession...I haven't crafted in a couple of weeks...been so busy looking after Coen and then recovering lol. I must say I LOVE being a grandma and LOVE looking after him but boy it's tiring...I need the next day to recover. I've been struggling with that part of it cuz in my head I'm still 18 but my body is reminding me I'm 50 ! Boy...you'd think I was 80 or something lol. With that in mind...I hadn't crafted not I was 80...I wanted to make a QUICK card for today's reminder. The only way I could achieve that was not to colour the image. So that took me to black and white and since I didn't have any black and white pp I had a looky on Etsy and found some fab digital papers, downloaded them and before you know it my card was made!!!

Here it is...let me know what you think....

Ryan passed his driving test in LA last week and I thought First Car Josh was perfect for a card for him. I printed Josh...mounted him on black cs, printed the diagonal check pp and mounted it on black cs. I made a little 'quilt' of other pp from the collection and punched flags using my fabby banner punch from Stampin' Up! I curled the flags, glued the corners together attaching string at the ends (a tip from QOB aka Ladybug Julie) and finally added gunmetal nailheads between the flags then added it to the card. I still haven't decided if I'm going to add a sentiment or not as I've already congratulated him on the inside...we'll see.

Here's a closer look at the pp ... the flag on the end is the same as the large pp behind the image but on a smaller scale. 

Tuesday wouldn't be Tuesday with a picture of my little monkey. Coen went to his first birthday party at the weekend....twin girls he used to go to Rhythm Time class with. In fact he was the only boy there!!! The twins mom had the girl from RT come to entertain the kids...we beat drums, shook maracas and tambourine's and sung and swayed ... well I did anyway lol. It was good fun and all the kids loved it. 

I didn't manage to get a picture from the party but here's one I took the day before....I think he might be fed up of Grandma taking his picture and was trying to grab my phone lol. 

Another little video with Grandpa being a terrible tease!

That's it from me for today...I think Coen and I might go for a nice walk as the weather is supposed to be dry and sunny!

Thanks for stopping by,

Catch ya later x

June Sponsor for Sketch Saturday Challenge

Hey!!! Have you missed me??? Well I've missed you...feels like I've been away for-evah! I've still got a house full but after they're all gone (or tomorrow lol) I'll tell you all about the wedding...it was AMAZING!!!

Way back at the beginning of February Jen from The Tiny Blue Butterfly (if you haven't already, go and check out Jen's blog...it's fabulicious!) asked me if I would like to be the June sponsor for Sketch Saturday Challenge and I jumped at the chance. It's very rare that I follow a sketch but I had great fun following them. 

Here's today's sketch

And here's my card...

I've used Coat of Paint Jess from The Teenagers for the first time...

I hope you'll join in Sketch Saturday :-D

Thanks for stopping by

Catch ya later x

Just popping in...

Hello Peeps...another  scheduled post :-D I hope we've been having a great time and haven't got burnt! The plan was to go to the gym every day so I hope I've kept to the plan and haven't put on any of the weight I lost...that wouldn't be good hmph!

Here's a card I did for a magazine that was out last month...

Short and sweet!!

Catch later x

TLT - Sally's Challenge - Shapes and a new Jess!!

I hope you've all had a lovely Easter weekend and you didn't eat too much chocolate lol! I've got a little stock pile of chocolate waiting until AFTER the wedding. I can't take the chance of not fitting into my MOB outfit...that just wouldn't do! Speaking of wedding...have you seen how many days are left...45 days....eeek!!! I can't believe how the time is flying by...it will be here before we know it and I just hope we'll have everything done!!

Thank you for all your entries to our Spots and Stripes Challenge...you guys were outstanding! I think we got the most entries using an LCI image which we were all very excited about :-D You can hop on over to the Challenge Blog to see if you were a winner of a £10 spend in the LCI store. You'll get extra value for money this because all cling stamps are 1/2 price until Saturday ;-D

Today's Shapes Challenge has been brought to you by our lovely Sally. We want to see what shapes you've got ... something a bit more exciting than a square or rectangle though lol.

I don't know about you but I'm not a fan of odd numbers unless it has a 5 in it. When we released The Teenager's last month there were 13 images so not only was it an odd number that wasn't a 5 it was 13..unlucky for some!!! I got straight on the email and gave Ross my idea for another Jess to even up the numbers and here she is...

This is Shopping Jess...what teenager doesn't love to shop?! I think Jess is looking particularly gorgeous...must be the glow of having all those shopping bags lol. I used an Xcut die...Rectangle Parenthesis...I bought recently after seeing Susan's card...I just loved the shape. They come with a magnetic storage sheet which is brilliant.

After printing Shopping Jess I coloured some of the image with my Copics and paper pieced the rest. I used my new Basic Grey Hopscotch paper pad and Die namics Flower Trio AND new felt colours Baby Pink (top of the 3 flowers) and blush pink (right and top of image). Are they lush or what??!!!

I paper pieced 3 of the shopping bags, Jess's dress and her friend's top.

I used Lasting Impressions pearl brads to hold the flowers together

So there you have Shopping Jess. What do you think? Ok you could argue that there are 7 Jess's and 7 Josh's which is obviously an odd number but I'm working on it lol.

I'd love to enter my card in the following challenges:

Catch The Bug - Anything Goes

Catered Crop - Brads

One Stitch At A Time - Digi

Robyn's Fetish - Anything Goes

Scrappy Frog Challenge - Shape It Up!

The Crafty Pad - Just Die-delicious

Craft Your Passion - Shaped Card

Make It Monday - Anything Goes

I'll be adding her to The Whole Shebang so you will now receive all 14 images for £19 saving £5.50. You can also purchase her individually for £1.75 or add her to your Multi-buy (just click on Teenager Multi-buy below Jess and enter your choice in the comment box) purchase of 3 digis for £4.50 saving 75p.

Ok I think that's me for today. I'm looking forward to seeing your Shape entries so skedaddle and start creating!!

Catch ya later x 

Snow Alert!

Looks like the weatherman got it spot on for a change...it's snowing!!! I got this picture from Suzy Q early doors this morning. She was out walking her pups at stupid o'clock...'fraid my bed was more important at that moment in time lol.

Brrrr...can't believe this time last week I was outside ironing in my shorts!! Made me glad I stayed in my bed :-D

I found some time on Sunday to do a bit of crafting and it felt great:-D I managed to make 3 cards...yup you read right 3!!! Here's the first one....

I just love The Teenager images ... this one is Gossip Girl Jess. I coloured her in with my Copics and added some text to her magazines. The pp is from one of my new paper pads Basic Grey's Hopscotch which I've stitched to coordinating cs. After cutting Jess out with my Nesties and adding the ribbon and fabulicious Loopy Bloom I had a bit of a brainwave. I loved Lisa and Gaynor's cards when they incorporated two Teenagers on one card and knew exactly what I wanted to do with this one. I re-sized Mobile Phone Josh really small, added the text and cut it out with MFT Die-namics Speech Bubble die. I think it worked out pretty well but Ryan and Nicole rolled their eyes when they saw it lol. Ryan can't understand why anyone would send a card that says 'Hey Josh' on it. Unless it says 'Happy Birthday or Get Well Soon' it's rendered useless lol. It took a bit of explaining it was just an idea to share with you guys and I wasn't selling the card....phew!

Oh Josh... (tee hee)

I think Jess and Josh would make a cute couple no?

I know a couple of Ladybugs who might get excited about this card...more for the Loopy Bloom than anything else lol. It's one of 3 new colours that arrived last week and they are so scrumptious! This one is called Baby Pink, there's also Powder Pink and Sunshine which you'll be seeing more of here soon.

 

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

Fashionista Challenge - Anything Goes For Girls

Make It Monday - Anything Goes

Tammy's Scrapin' Corner - Anything Goes

One Stitch At A Time - New (new colour of felt)

Steven went back to Milan 4 weeks ago but is coming home today. It's not really working out for him there as he's too tall, not skinny enough and not weird looking enough lol. He's run out of money too and I'm afraid Bank of Mom & Dad is all tapped out!! He's got something up his sleeve so hopefully that will work for him.

Ryan's recovery from his cruciate operation is still going to plan. He was supposed to play in a reserve game today but it was cancelled. He's come a long way and worked really hard to get back to full fitness which won't come until he has a few games under his belt. Being gym fit is totally different to being match fit. Fingers crossed he'll get to play in the first team in the last few games of the season which will be great for his confidence :-D

Right...I'm going to go and see if I need to get my shovel out and clear the drive. I thought I'd retired it to later on in the year hmph!

Have a great Tuesday!

Catch ya later x

TLT - Diane's Challenge - Spots & Stripes

Good morning everyone and welcome to TLT! But before I launch into today's challenge  I want to thank everyone who participated in our marathon Reveal. I hope we didn't bore you with the length of time it took to show you the new release and the DT's makes. The Ladybugs wanted to try something different from the usual Blog Hop and I know we really enjoyed it. :-DIt was also lovely to have Mary J as our GD. We had an enormous amount of entries this fortnight...I think Anything Goes is most people's favourite challenge...so thank you so much for taking the time to enter. I didn't get a chance to comment too much as the weekend was a bit hectic so please accept my apologies.

The winners were announced in a post last night on the Challenge Blog so if you haven't already checked to see if you're a winner of the Anything Goes Challenge, using an LCI image, Top 3 or the big daddy... leaving a daily comment pop on over and email me at lcichallengeblog@aol.com if you are :-D

Spots & Stripes is the lovely Diane's challenge and I don't know anyone who doesn't like either! I recently bought a few new paper pads and after flicking through them settled on MME's Miss Caroline to team up with Tomboy Jess to make a card for my friends daughter's 18th birthday. See what you think...

Is it bad to say that I love it and think it's one of my best cards evah lol???!!! I love the neutral colours but thought it needed some colour so isolated it to Jess's dress and socks using Copics.

Teenage girls love their nail polish and unusual colours at that so I gave Jess blue nails and added tiny nail heads for buttons on her jacket.  

I used Die-namics Perfect Petal Trio to make the flower adding a button and twine and Whimsy ticket die and sentiment stamp

Aida and cs Die-namics rolled flower with a Lasting Impressions button added to the centre

So there you have it...one of my bestest cards evah lol!!!

I'd like to enter the following challenges:

Lollipop Crafts - Anything Goes

Squigglefly - Anything Goes

Make It Monday - Anything Goes

CMC Copic Challenge - Must Use Copics/Anything Goes

Di's Digi Challenge - Emboss It!

Totally Gorjuss - Spots & Stripes

Gingerloft Challenge -Happy Birthday

One Stitch At A Time - Anything Goes

I've just about recovered from Nicole's Hen party and will tell you all about it tomorrow with some pictures...there are definitely some that cannot be published lol!!!

Thanks for stopping by....

Catch ya later x

Day 7 Reveal

 I think Diane rocked her reveal yesterday. I love Diane's 4 sided cards as I call them....I find it hard enough to do TWO sides let alone 4!

Today was Michele's turn but unfortunately she's still unwell and I've ordered her to her bed and told her to stay there until she's feeling 100%! Get well soon MP...we miss you.

Luckily I had already made cards using Michele's images weeks ago.

First up is Hair Straightening Jess

I'm sure this will be a familiar scene to a lot of you. Actually I think that looks a bit like me in the mornings minus the ipod, less wrinkles oh and less grey hairs lol.

Next is Skateboarder Josh

Years ago Steven was into skateboarding and as there wasn't a local skate park near us I used to drive for miles so he and a friend could skate. I would pack a 'crafty bag' and while they were doing their thing I would be cutting, colouring and glittering to my hearts content. The dashboad would have more sparkle than my cards and I would find glitter for weeks afterwards lol. Ahhhh the things we do for our kids.

I'd like to enter the following challenges:

Craft Your Days Away - Just For Men/Boys + Button
One Stop Craft Challenge - Handmade Flower
Crafty Ribbons - Birthday
Cute Card Thursday - Birthday
Lia Stampz Challenge - Anything Goes + Sentiment
Catered Crop - Stitching
Kenny K - One For The Boys
PanPastel - Add A Flower

I hope you like the new additions to The Teenager's collection. Remember if you would like to win one of these images leave a comment on the CHALLENGE BLOG AND if you leave a comment on each day of the reveal you could win a £15 voucher to spend in the LCI store!

I had a lovely Mother's Day yesterday. After my morning with Sadie I came home and vacuumed, hung out a wash and ironed...ok so that wasn't so lovely but I met Nicole after her work at Yo Sushi for dinner and then we went to see 21 Jump Street at the cinema.

Against the odds Kilmarnock beat Celtic to win the League Cup 1 - 0. Joy quickly turned to sadness as one of Ryan's teammates dad had a heart attack in the stand just after the final whistle and later passed away in hospital. Ryan was distraught and our thoughts and prayers are with Liam and his family. Puts a lot of things into perspective doesn't it.

Thanks for visiting me today

Catch ya later x

New Release Winner

Wow...I'm still so excited about The Teenager's...I'm loving the slow release, it's like Christmas every day lol. Your comments are fab and I'm so glad you like the new images. I can't wait for you to see what the fabulicious Tams has to show you.... I haven't seen her cards and can't wait!!

As promised the winner of either Jess or Josh from my release is ....

Ger

Congratulations Ger...email me at lcichallengeblog@aol.com with your choice :-D

TLT with a twist - New Digi Release - The Teenagers

So you're probably thinking...what's going on here...Kerry's not mentioned anything about a new release??? Well I am now and it's a release with a difference to the norm here at LCI Central. The Ladybugs got together in cyber space and thought it would be a good idea to change things up a bit, that we didn't want to have a blog hop this time we wanted something bigger and better!! Well I don't know if this is bigger or better but it IS something different for us lol.

All the Ladybugs were given 2 images to play and what's going to happen is every day one member of the DT will "reveal" their images and projects on the challenge blog as well as their own blog...today is my day woo hoo!!!

There is a prize on offer every day of ONE of the images showcased that day.

All you have to do is leave a comment on the Challenge Blog (but I'd love it if you left one here too lol) to win the prize

At the end of the fortnight we will also have a BIG PRIZE of a £15 voucher to spend at LADYBUG CRAFTS INK!

As always we have a challenge this week - and the prize for the Challenge and also one for using an LCI image is a £10 voucher to spend at LADYBUG CRAFTS INK

The theme this week is ANYTHING GOES which I'm sure is everyone's favourite challenge :-D

Don't forget to pop back to the Challenge Blog tomorrow for the next "Reveal" and to see if you're the winner of an image of your choice from my reveal.

Enough waffling let's get on with the release!! I have been sitting on these images for ages and am so excited to finally be able to share them with you.

I discovered a fantastic illustrator, Ross Thomas, the talent behind The Teenagers. I found there just weren't enough images for teens without being too cutesy but I'll let you be the judge.

I'd like you to meet Jess... and what do all teenagers do these days? They text, in fact their mobile phones have become a permanent body part lol. 

How many of you recognise this pose lol???

I asked Steven and Ryan's girlfriends what text language they use when they text their friends and I was reliably informed this is how they 'spell'. All those years in education wasted lol.

I hope you likey Texting Jess :-D

Now what do you think of Josh?

Another familiar sight lol??

Apparently 'Bro' doesn't necessarily mean he's your actual brother lol

I'd like to enter the following challenges:

Creative Monday - Anything Goes

Cupcake Craft - Going Dotty

Kaboodle Doodles - Show Us Green

Make It Monday - Anything Goes

My Craft Spot - Manly Man Cards

Simon Say - Anything Goes

Birthday Sundaes - Use Green

Sentimental Sundays - Recycle or Go Green (I went Green!)



So there you have it The Teenager's aka Jess and Josh. I would LOVE to know what you think of them and if you would like to win one of them don't forget to leave a comment on the CHALLENGE BLOG.

There are going to be different ways of purchasing The Teenager's so stay tuned :-D

Check back tomorrow to see what the ever so talented Tams has to offer you!

Thanks for stopping by

Catch ya later x

PS Keep your eyes peeled for a special GD appearance!!