New Challenge - For the One I Love

Finally a new challenge yayyyyy!!!! That was an epic challenge...the point of it was to take a bit of time off and recoup but as you know the best laid plans never work. 

Thank you to everyone who posted their AMAZING CAS cards over the last 6 weeks or so...There was a real mix and it was nice to see the latter ones that weren't Christmas!! Make sure you check the Challenge blog to see if you were one of the winners.

Our first challenge of 2014 (that  number still scares me!), For The One I Love has been chosen by our lovely Tams....just in time for Valentine's Day or not. It doesn't have to be Valentine's...it could be a birthday, anniversary, wedding day or just because.

I decided to use First Kiss from the Love & Marriage collection

When I knew Ryan was coming home I ordered a few dies from PTI and MFT as their postage is so expensive to the UK. The heart border is one of the dies I bought...I think it's from PTI. Using repositionable tape I stuck the pp to the white cs, taped the die to the cs then ran it through my eBosser. That way I was sure to get the same cut from both the pp and cs as the pp is glued to the main card bland and the image and cut off at the bottom is raised with foam pads. After I cut out the heart border I printed the image and coloured it with my Copics and paper pieced her dress to match the border. 

I had a bit of bother with his shirt...I went over the lines slightly and it took ages for me to move the colour back into the shirt. You can still see a bit if you look close but it's better than it was!!

I cut two more borders for the inside of the card...one for the top and bottom

Here you can see how the image is raised from the border. I added a little tag from SU! and some twine. 

Ok are you ready for a short video? I took this of Coen on Sunday night....

Yayyyyy lol!!!! He still can't roll over but he CAN pull himself up ;-D Although you can't see his face he was thrilled with himself and so we were.

Ryan's passport finally arrived on Saturday and I took him to the airport at stupid o'clock this morning. It's really sad to see him go but he was going stir crazy here and the football season in the States starts back on the 15th so he's going back just in time. He'll also get stuck into to his acting classes so he won't have time to miss us. You never know...you might see him on the big screen one day lol. To cheer myself up I'll probably eat chocolate and drink coffee all day lol.

I hope you'll join our challenge this fortnight and don't forget about our new release on the 18th!!!

Catch ya later x

Three guesses...

...as to what I was doing yesterday and I bet you'll NEVER guess. Nope, uh uh, not even close! Give up? I was ironing OUTSIDE!!! Yes...summer finally arrived in Scotland yesterday...albeit briefly as today is overcast and much colder :-( I dropped Sharon to the airport in the morning and after a coffee and good-byes (we had a fab 2 weeks)  headed home, took the dogs to CB where it was roasting...poor Rocky and Ruby were panting like mad. The plan then was to 

go home and craft but knowing that we might not get another day as nice (point proven today) decided to kill two birds with one stone and do my ironing and get a tan at the same time!!! I'm pleased to say that after 3 1/2 hours my ironing was finished and I had a nice glow lol.

Friends of ours daughter got married a few weeks ago and this is the card I made...

Normally I personalize wedding and baby cards and I can't for the life of me think why I didn't with this one...I like it but it's definitely missing the personal sentiment. I used Just Married from the Love & Marriage digi collection, coloring it with my Copics

After the wedding invitations and place cards I said I didn't want to see another pearl forever lol but thought they were perfect for the felt flowers

I'd like to enter the following challenges...

Make it Monday - Anything Goes

Anything Goes Challenge - Let's Not Be Square

Jackson's Digital Expressions - Anything Goes

Top Tip Tuesday - It's All About Circles 

Crafts and Me Challenges - Anything Goes

Penny's Paper-Crafty Challenge - Wedding/Anniversary

I didn't quite head straight home after I dropped Sharon off at the airport. Craft World is only minutes away and I thought it would be extremely rude of me not to pop in lol.  I hadn't been in since before the wedding and haven't bought anything crafty for even longer so after a quick catch up with June, Gail and Florence I picked up a few things....

I'm a sucker for paper pads and saw this one from Dovecraft...chocolate, mint and pink ... gorgeous {sigh}. CW had some new Die-namics dies and when I saw the corners I grabbed them. I've been looking for a good leaf die for ages...a lot of them are quite detailed and when using felt are quite frail but these ones will be perfect...I hope. A couple of sheets of Nitwits pp and 2 rolls of removable tape completed my shop :-D The trick is trying to find the time to play with it now. I have a few birthday cards (read that as late birthday cards lol) to do so might just use my new stash for them.

Ok, I'd better get this posted. I started this at 10 am this morning and it's now 14:52!!! No I'm not a slow typist lol...just too many interruptions!

Catch ya later x

It's official....

...winter has arrived!! Take a look...

The first picture is from my bedroom window early this morning and the rest when I took the pups to Cathkin Braes late afternoon. They love the snow and it's so comical to watch them chase a snowball only for it to explode when it lands lol. After we got home I cleared the driveway..why I don't know as it looks like it's going to snow again. Also had to dig Nicole's car out...she popped in for dinner last night and to watch the X Factor...fell asleep as she always does...Ben arrived on the train and when they tried to leave their car couldn't get up the hill so they had to stay the night. We dug, salted and I pushed her on her way :-D

Here's a wedding card I made a few weeks ago. You might be shocked because it isn't WOW lol and I'll admit that I found it difficult to use coloured cs and pp but I got there in the end. See what you think...

 

 

Can I please enter the following challenges:

Craft Your Passions - Anything Goes + Glitter
Karen's Doodles Challenge - 3 embellishments (ribbon, crystals & glitter {hope glitter counts!}), 2 papers, 1 image

 Make It Monday - Anything Goes
OLLCB - Lots of Sparkle
Paper Creations Ink - Bling it Up!
The Ribbon Reel - Anything Goes
Victorine Stamps - Ribbon

I was super busy over the weekend ... rolled up my sleeves and got stuck into my Christmas cards. I thought I chose pretty easy images to colour which they are ...when you're colouring one!! I finished cutting out most of the first 18 cards, coloured the images and now I just have to put them together and add all the sparkle.

Today is the last day to get November's SOTM (I know it's December but the SOTM starts the first Tuesday of the month ;-D ) as tomorrow is a brand spankin' new one and our Guest Designers are making their LCI debut!!!!!!

Ok..must get going...I've a few cards to make for tomorrow and the clock's a ticking!

Thanks for stopping by...enjoy the snow if it comes your way.

Catch ya later x

TLT - Pam's Challenge - WOW

Happy TLT!!! Another week another challenge and another day closer to my birfday. I think I confused a few people in my post on Friday. The wording made it look like my birfday was at the weekend but it wasn't lol. But I want to thank those of you who did emailed and left comments to wish me a happy birfday anyway...I really appreciated it and will read them again on the 9th lol.

Before I carry on with today's TLT I'd like to thank everyone who entered Laurie's Winter Blues challenge...magnifilicous cards/projects!!! Along with the normal entries we had a great number with GD's beside their names!!!! I want to thank you all for entering...it was so hard to choose and very close and a few late entries kept the Ladybugs busy this morning lol. If you want to see if you are the Challenge winner, a Top 3 winner or {drum roll} December Guest Designer head over toot sweet to the Challenge Blog!!! If you don't see your name please don't be disheartened, we loved all of you but could only choose 3. With your permission though we would love to keep you on file for any future GD spots :-D Congratulations to the new GD's...I'm really looking forward to working with you :-D

Ok, on to today's challenge. Gorgeous Pam could not have picked a better challenge for me...I LOVE WOW (white on white) cards so really for me it's more of a treat than a challenge lol. I made a card for the challenge ages ago but decided I wanted to make another...see how I spoil you lol.

This is the first card...

This card was for my friend's son's wedding...I was only 2 months late lol. Nadia has 4 grownup kids and she's had 4 weddings, 2 grandchildren and one on the way in 4 years!!!

I've used The Cake from the latest Love & Marriage release and coloured it with my Copics. I also used one of my favourite embossing folders and Martha Stewart punches and of course a little bit  lot of stitching ;-D Of course I had to use my SU Tiny Tags sentiments and punch too.

I love the border

My second card is my favourite of the two...I've used the SOTM on a Nestie die that I've had for AGES but NEVER  have used {blush}. I just love how it turned out...

Ta da! If I have time I'm going to try and make these for my Christmas cards cuz I just love it :-D Apart from the SOTM (coloured with my Copics) I've used some embossed Lasting Impressions cs and stitched it to a piece of Bazzil. The flowers....I bought these flowers in Michael's about 5 years ago when I was home for a visit and have been sitting on a shelf ever since!! They come in a cute little clear pail from the bridal section and they are just so fabuliciously shimmery. The great thing about them is you can colour them with your Copics or Promarkers to match what you're creating. I added a Swarovski flat back pearl to the centre

I love this image because there's very little colouring involved

Aren't they stunnalicious! The picture has a pink tinge but they are definitely white (I've got a pail of cream too!!!)

Poor Nikki has hat head lol

I'd love to enter the following challenges:

Addicted To Stamps - Christmas

Spectacular Sunday - Anything Christmas

Totally Gorjuss - Sparkle

Whoopsi Daisy Challenge - WOW

Stamps R Us Challenge - Emboss

Totally Papercrafts - Christmas

Sweet Stampin' Challenge - Punches/Dies

Simply Create Too - Christmas

 

There you have it...you have one more week to purchase the SOTM (although Friday is December, SOTM is the first Tuesday of every month) for 1/2 price

Hope you have a great Tuesday...thanks for stopping by

Catch ya later x

TLT - New Release & A Blog Hop - Anything Goes

Boy oh boy oh boy oh boy!!! Are you ready to have some fun? The Ladybugs have been super busy getting ready for today's hop and I KNOW you're gonna love the inspiration they have for you. But before I tell you all about it thank you to everyone who entered last weeks Challenge. You'll find the winners at the bottom of the post on the Challenge Blog

Ok, here we go!

The new DIGI release is called Love & Marriage...there are 6 megamazing images to choose from. They'll be on sale immediately for £1.75 each or £9 for the WHOLE SHEBANG...a total bargain!!!

The rules are as follows:

1) We'd like you to display the above badge somewhere on your blog

2) Leave a comment on each blog along the hop telling us what you think

3) Leave a comment on the Challenge Blog telling us which is your favourite image and why

4) Not really a rule but you don't HAVE to do the blog hop to enter the main challenge of Love & Marriage.

The prizes are as follows:

The overall winner of the hop will receive THE WHOLE SHEBANG (6 digi's) and 5 runners up will receive 1 DIGI image of their choice :-D

There's also the normal Challenge prize so that's three (3) chances to win a prize 

But that's not all!!! Because it's LCI's Challenge Blog's First Blogaversary some of the Ladybugs have offered candy.  One lucky commenter from that Ladybugs blog will win that candy!!! This is the candy I'm offering...

Scor-Buddy, CD tin, Calendar, Notepad and pen (I'll be posting something tomorrow that you can make with these) and if you're good I might just add a little surprise lol.

You should have arrived from the newest and mega talented Ladybug Laurie and if you haven't head back to the start at Challenge Blog

I've used two images....the first is 'Just Married'....

I made this card for a friend's son who got married in the summer...I was extremely late with their card lol. You should know by now I love wedding and baby cards to be WOW...this one is no different.

I printed the image onto PTI cs and coloured it in with my Copics adding glitter to the bouquet, her dress and the shoe trailing at the back of the car. I also added Glossy Accents to the windscreen and tail lights.

I love this image and how the card turned out :-D

This is the second card I made. Since we've got weddings on the brain in our house I thought I'd make an invitation. I haven't really thought much about the invites for Nic and Ben but this might just be a contender. See what you think....

 I saw a great tutorial for a criss cross card by Monica Gale on YouTube here. After making the main card I embossed some white cs with one of my all time favourite Cuttlebug embossing folders and stitched it to the front. One side is embossed and the other debossed.

I made the flower with white felt and used a brad to keep the 3 flowers together finally sticking it to the front of the invitation with Glossy Accents.

If you're wondering where the image is....ta da! I didn't want to add any colour but I've added a touch of glitter to the flowers on the cake.

So there you have it...I hope you like the new release. From here hop on over to the ever so talented Julie...I got a sneak peek the other day and it's fabulicious!!

Unfortunately Lisa is not involved with the hop but she has generously gathered some candy to give away so please make sure you stop by her blog and leave a  comment.

And finally it's with a heavy heart that I have to tell you that three of the Ladybugs are stepping down from the DT and hanging up their wings. I would like to thank Hayley, Mary J and Amanda for their amazing work, support and friendship over the last year and I wish them nothing but great things for the future.

Catch ya later x

I would like to enter my cards in the following challenges:

One Stop Craft Challenge - 3 Is A Magic Number (3 pearls)

Paper Sundaes - Rectangle

Allsorts Challenge - Anything but Square

One Stitch At A Time - Use a Digi

Bows and Berries Challenge - CAS

DDCC - Anything Goes with a Digi

Sentimental Sundays - Wedding/Anniversary

Dream Valley - Anything Goes

Make It Monday - Anything Goes

Crazy Amigo Challenge - Swirls

Creative Craft Challenges - Minamalistic

Digital Tuesday - Anything Goes (must use digi)

Heartsong Inspirations - Anything Goes

Incy Wincy Designs - Stitching

Squigglefly - No Patterned Paper

There's Magic In The Air - WOW

Happy Anniversary To Me!

Yup...can you believe it? Twenty-eight years...you get less for murder lololol. I had to be super organised and make this before I left for the weekend. Poor hubby is spending our anniversary with Ryan as I don't get back until 10 pm tonight ... I hope they have a lovely time lol.

I received a surprise parcel last week from the lovely Lyndsey with a selection of these gorgeous flower charms. I've added a small pearl crystal to the centre...thank you so much Lyndsey :-D

See you tomorrow for TLT!!!

Catch ya later xx