Blog design

Hi all,

I have had a couple of comments around the size of the photos I post and I have just edited the majority of my posts so that the cards are easily seen now rather than just half of the photo.

Sorry about that!

I hope to make a card later on so will post that up :-)

Hope you all had a great weekend.

Laura xx

Baby boy card

Hi all,

Sorry I haven't been about lately, Uni has been a bit hectic!

I made this card yesterday as a few of our friends and family are expecting soon, we don't know what they are having yet so I best make up a couple of girl cards too!!

Ingredients:
- 6x6 scalloped card
- forever friends backing papers from their Christmas stack
- layered on to blue card by papermania cardstock
- ribbon snippet from stash
- blue dummy embellishment kindly sent to me by Di (thanks hon)
- forever friends image stamped onto tiny piece of white card left over from another stamping session then coloured with promarkers
- nestabilities scalloped circles
- sentiment generated on computer

I would like to enter this card into Di's Snippets Challenge here

Hope you like it :-)

Thanks for stopping by, have a lovely Saturday!

Laura xx

Teddy Flower

Hi all, how are you on this fine sunny day?
I made this card last night as I was feeling summery!

For some reason the photograph makes the flower look uneven but I can assure you it is circular all the way around :-)

I was looking at how people had coloured the teddy and thought I would go for something different and make him look white which I quite liked in the end!

Ingredients:
- LOTV Teddy Flower Stamp coloured with Promarkers

- Backing papers - I have lost the front sheet so can't remember where these are from! I think they are papermania?!

- With love sentiment cut out from an old Birthday card

- Tissue flower made with brown tissue paper

- Ribbon and gems from stash

Thanks for looking :-)

Laura xx

Love Grows card

After slaving away in the library today to prepare for an essay, exam and presentation I have coming up in the next 2 weeks I was desperate to relax and craft!

So here we have my first ever COLOURED stamp card... Please no laughing at the colouring!

Ingredients-
- 6x6 scalloped card
- soft nostalgia backing papers
- lili of the valley 'love grows' stamp
- rolled flowers made by moi
- coloured with promarkers
- heart stickers and ribbon from stash

Thanks for looking :-)

Laura xx

Blog Award

Hi everyone!

I was very lucky to be nominated for the Liebster Blog Award By the fab Wendy at Flowergirl Cards



Thank you so much for thinking of me Wendy, I have always loved your blog so it means a lot to be nominated! Especially my tiny little blog!

I have also just realised (major blonde moment!!) that Bernie at http://berniescraftcloset.blogspot.com/ nominated me for this award a while ago and I have only just noticed :( Sorry Bernie. *slaps back of hand* So thank you so much too, I am also a big fan of Bernie's blog so this is a thank you to her too.

The idea of the Liebster Blog Award is to spread the love from one small blog (under 200 followers) to other small blogs.

This helps to spread knowledge and readership.

To accept the award, you must:

1) Link back to the person who gave it and thank them for thinking of you.

2) Post the award to your blog.

3) Give the award to 5 bloggers (with less than 200 followers) that you appreciate and value.

4) Leave a comment on the blogs of the five people you have chosen to let them know. "Liebster" in German means "dearest", so to carry on the Liebster tradition, I am going to pass the award on to 5 people who's blogs have been an inspiration to me and my crafting.

Since I have been blogging, I have met so many lovely people and I love each and every one of you so it is a bit difficult to choose!! But here goes.. and in no particular order...


http://rosepetalcreations.blogspot.com/

Sandra of Rose Petal Creations.

http://cardsmj.blogspot.com/

M of M's Cards.


http://maggiescardage.blogspot.com/

Mags of Madcap Manor.

http://somewhereunderthesune.blogspot.com/

Tammy of Creating Somewhere Under the Sun

http://www.fondoblucards.blogspot.com/

Lucia of FondoBluDesign

Thanks so much Wendy & Bernie!!

I hope all of those people I nominated will accept their awards :)

Laura xx

Engagement card

I made my first easel card yesterday!
Not as hard as it looks so I might be doing more of these!!

I printed the sentiments on my pc and then die cut them using my nesties.

The paper is a papermania felt which I thought would look nice in black and white.

As I have never made an engagement card before I was pretty pleased with how this one turned out and really like the idea of making wedding stationary too!

Maybe in the future...

What do you think? Hope you are all having a great weekend. It is a lovely day here today!

Laura xx

My first LOTV make

I have just made my first LOTV card with one of the cute squares that Sarn sent me :-) thanks again Sarn!!

It was also my first time hand rolling the flowers and I loved the way they turned out, so easy too!

Hope you like it!

Thanks for looking.

Laura xx

Snippets card

Here is a card I made from the snippets left over from the forever friends card I made for my Nana, which thankfully arrived on time and she loved it :-)

The hearts were printed from the FF CD and die cut using my nesties.

I would like to enter this card into Di's Snippet Challenge :-)

Thanks for looking,
Laura xx

I'm baaaaack!

Hi all!

I am back at my other home again!

I have just made my first card and boy it felt good!!

It is due tomorrow so I need to hurry up and post it but thought I would share it first.

It is a beautiful day so the pictures turned out good for once! I included 2 because on one you can see where I used the stickles :-)

Ingredients-
- 6x6 scalloped card
- Backing papers and bear topper printed from a free docrafts forever friends cd with a magazine (amazing product!! Might be seeing a lot more of him)
- Spellbinders nesties circles and scalloped circles
- Gorgeous twine from my candy that I won from Lucia! Thanks again chick!!
- Ice stickles in crystal ice
- Inked edges in a papermania ink pad (no name, how annoying)
- Flat backed gems from stash

Hope you like it :-)
Thanks for looking!

Laura xx

EEEeeeeeexcited

Hi All!

I am little bit excited!!

It is my last shift tomorrow on the neonatal unit which I am really going to miss :( Can't believe my month at home is over.

Buuuuuuuut....

That means I am going back to my crafty stash! I have a card to make as soon as I get back for my Nana's Birthday so that will be posted as soon as it is made on Monday :)

I also get to see my man who was also left at home for 4 weeks, I'm like an excited little girl (how sad!)

Hope you are all well,

Have a fab weekend, look forward to catching up with you all very soon!

Laura xx