Penny Black Bunting

Hi everyone,

How are you all? Hope you've had a good week. 

Sorry I haven't posted recently, I worked Monday Tuesday and then helped out at uni as a student ambassador for the last couple of days. Earned myself a few pennies to fund a holiday we will be booking for August! Are you going away this year anywhere nice?

Ingredients:

- 6x6 card from craftwork cards

- Penny Black Cat with Flowers Image

- Papers bought for me by a friend in America from Macy's

- Papermania Rub On Transfer Sentiment, candy from the lovely Rebecca!

- Dovecraft Ribbon

- Bunting made using snippets of left over papers

- Pearls and Flower Sequins from stash

I would like to enter this card in to the following challenges:

Penny Black Saturday Challenge - Bunting

Pixies Crafty Workshop Snippets Challenge 26

Love to Create Challenge Blog - Anything Goes

St Lukes Charity Cards - Our Little Furry Friends

All Sorts Challenge Blog - Any Die Will Do

Charisma Cardz - Anything Goes

Anything Goes Challenge - Polka Dot with a Birthday theme

Craft Your Passion Challenges - Things with Wings

Crafty Creations Challenges - Embellish It

Moving Along With the Times - Happy Birthday

Thanks for looking, have a great weekend!

Laura xx

LOTV Cute Square

Hello you gorgeous peeps!

Hope you are having a lovely Saturday.

I have made this card using a Lili of the Valley Cute Square, I have about 20 of these to use up in various designs but don't know where to start as they are so pretty, I feel like I cannot 'prettify' the cards enough. 

I have a confession to make... my cards are usually imagined in my head and then something COMPLETELY different comes out on paper.. and that's what happened with this little number. In fact... I have a few card blanks with papers already stuck on in various different sketches but can never find the right image or the right embellishments to add :-( I think my mojo does a wander after about 30 minutes. Does anyone else have this problem? Or a solution? Tehe.

Ingredients:

- 6x6 scalloped card by craftwork cards (i really must get some SQUARE cards)

- teahouse papers by dovecraft

- pink paper a freebie download

- docrafts pink card stock

- LOTV Cute Square

- Ice Stickles on flowers, image and cardstock

- flowers by WHSmith

- Buttons and pearls from stash

- ribbon by Dovecraft

I would like to enter this card in to the following challenges:

Ribbon Girl Colour Challenge 20

The Cutie Pie Challenge - Real or Faux Stitching

Thanks for looking,

Laura xx

Forever Friends

Hi everyone,

I was supposed to upload this properly yesterday but my laptop got a bug mid-post and closed down my laptop. Argh! Safe to say it's ok now though.

I had to make this card for my friend yesterday as she had some bad news about our course and may have to be backgrouped 6 months which means she may not qualify with us :-( It is really sad as she has been one of my closest friends throughout the 3 years and it wouldn't be right if she wasn't at our graduation in October. She has an appeal on Tuesday so I am keeping all things crossed for her.

Ingredients:

- 6x6 scalloped edge cards by craftwork cards

- FF image printed from docrafts CD

- sentiment also from CD

- pink scalloped oval from snippets

- backing papers from Computer Scrapbook

I would like to enter this in to the following challenges:

Pixies Crafty Workshop - Snippets Challenge

St Lukes Charity Cards Challenge - Our Little Furry Friends

Thanks for looking, 

Laura xx

Tattered Florals

Hello again :)

Second post today!

It is my Aunty's Birthday in the next few days so I have made her this card. I am unhappy with how the photo came out though as the glittered edges look very messy - in true life they are not at all and really compliment the papers. The joys of cameras hey! 

The only thing I think this card is missing is a nice dinky heart charm to hang off the cord but I don't have any at the moment! Nevermind.

Ingredients

- 6x6 scalloped edge card

- Cart-us dies

- Tim holtz tattered florals die

- Musical papers downloaded from Vintage Digistamps

- My minds eye pink papers snippets

- Pearls and cord from stash

- Green and pink papers downloaded from Correen Silke at Silke Scraps

- Sentiment generated on the computer with 'Edwardian script' font

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:

Papertake Weekly - Bingo (Ribbon, Free - Glitter, Blooms)

Lollipop Crafts - Flowers in Bloom

The Paper Shelter - Anything Goes

Freshly Brewed Designs - Anything Goes

Pixies Crafty Snippet Challenge

Thanks for looking,

Laura xx

Something to share with you...

Hi all!

Just wanted to share something with you all... No more boring 'I have so much work to do' posts...

As this is a photo of my LAST piece of work!!

Handing it in tomorrow with some friends then we are having lunch.

It certainly feels like there is a weight off my shoulders now.

I will be posting more cards in the future :-)

I would also like to say a huge thank you to Rebecca for sending me some gorgeous blog candy today that I won on her blog recently! I cannot believe how generous people are, please take a look at her blog as her work is beautiful.

Thanks for looking,

Laura xxx

New Addition To The Family

Good morning all!

Happy Saturday! Hope you have a lovely weekend and that the weather stays nice for you. We are off to a concert tonight so hopefully the weather will stay nice as it's outside. Got my retro wellies just in case!!

I really enjoyed making this card as it is for a new addition to our family, I can't wait to meet him!

I am probably going to attempt to make a box to put it in too. I say attempt as I have never made one before and it will probably look like something from Blue Peter! I've got an idea of how to make one but does anyone know of any good tutorials? Thanks!

Onto the ingredients:

- 6x6 craftwork card scalloped edge

- image downloaded from google images and recoloured

- blue ice stickles on the feet

- papers were a free download from Computer Scrapbook (this website has lots of free downloads!)

- Sentiment computer generated

- pearls and ribbons from stash

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:

The Ribbon Girls - Use Ribbon or Lace
Papertake Weekly 321 (3 papers, 2 sentiments, 1 ribbon)

Charisma Cardz - Male card

Thanks for looking,

Have a great weekend!

Laura xx

Fathers Day Card

Hello Everyone!

How are you all?

Sorry I haven't been around recently, I have been a busy girl the past couple of weeks. I'm at my final hurdle now with only 500 words to go of my last assignment then my days off will really be DAYS OFF!!

I have decided to post this card early, I was going to come back when my final assignment was finished but I would like to enter this card into Di's Snippets Challenge as the brown card used was made from snippets of leftover card.

After my recent post I finally decided on the image I wanted to use for this card and that was Mo's Digital Pencil! I just love Mo's images and will definitely be investing in some more of those in the future, it was so fun to colour too.

Aside from this being the first card I have made using a digi-stamp, I have done my first ever piece of paper piecing too! I was really pleased with the results and will doing this again soon.

Ingredients:

- 6x6 craftwork cards scalloped edge card blank

- Papers were a free download from online (unknown author unfortunately)

- HOTP soft nostalgia backing papers (snippets)

- Mo's digital pencil stamp Big Guy Grilling coloured with Promarkers

- Sentiment created on word

I would like to enter this card in to the following challenges:

Mo's Digital Challenge Blog - Anything Goes

Panpastel Challenge - Father's Day

Creative Inspirations - Card for a Male

The Crafty Pad - Let's Hear It For The Boys

Pro-marker Challenge - Lots of Layers

Thanks for looking,

It's great to be back blogging again 

:-)

Laura xx

Slight hiatus...

Hi everyone!

Sorry I haven't been posting much recently, I have had a lot of work on.

They said our third year would be tough but... BLIMEY!

I have about 4 weeks left until the mayhem is over and then I will be finally have time to relax and enjoy my spare time.

I just wanted to let you all know that I may not be posting very much over the coming weeks, I may not be commenting as much but I still take a peek at all of your blogs when I have the time.

Hope you are all well, I will see you in a few weeks when my life returns back to normal!

Laura xx



BBQ

Hi All,

Happy Sunday!! 

I am posting for some advice and possibly a couple of links! 

I am going to make a Birthday card for my Dad (not until the end of August yet) but wanted to look early as I want to find an image (digi or stamp) of a man bbq-ing.

I remember seeing one around somewhere a while ago but silly me didn't write the name down!

If anyone comes across anything like this or knows of any good websites, I would greatly appreciate a link.

Thanks a bunch :)

Laura xx

Edit: Thank you all for your FAB suggestions!! I didn't realise there were so many out there, I have gone for the Mo's digital pencil image so THANKS!

Mmmm Icecream!

Hi Everyone,

How are you doing? Hope you are having a good week.

Sorry I haven't been around much! Deadlines are closing in so I'm either working or at home doing coursework at the moment. However, this evening I managed to squeeze in some 'me time' and made a card.

I used a stamp set I have been wanting to use for some time now and I am quite pleased with the outcome!

I have always admired the 'distressed' look too, so thought I would try my hand at it with the scissors... what do you think? I could do with having more materials, especially Mr Holtz goodies but that will have to wait until I am qualified!

Ingredients:

- 6x6 craftwork card blank
- polkadoodles image and sentiment stamped onto scraps of white card

- do crafts tea house papers

- card stock from stash

- buttons from hobby craft

- ribbon from stash

- heart stickers from macy's

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:
The Paper Shelter - Anything Goes

Just Tracys Crafts Challenge - Anything Goes

Crafters Companion Monthly Challenge - Here Comes Summer

Papertake Weekly - Cute Cute Cute

Delightful Challenges - Distressing

Pixies Crafty Snippets Challenge

Thanks for looking :)

Laura xx