My LOTV Stamps.

Having purchased lots of LOTV stamps, I have been trying them out one at a time.  This time 

around it was 'Little Acorn' and a Circular sentiment stamp.   I think this stamp is one of my top 3 if not my favourite.  

Along with several attempts at stamping centrally onto my nesties, I had a few to have a go at!

I went for a baby blue card, colouring the stamp  with £1 shop pencils - these were a bit waxy however the end result was good.  

Distress ink blending for the nesties edges gave a spring's sky effect, which was nice.  

I embossed a plain piece of white paper with 'swiss dots' and carefully rubbed a green chalked based ink over the raised dots.

Tying the ribbon was fun, I ended up tying two double knots before tying the bow itself.

I used two ribbons to give the card a bit of dimension, also the pale green complimented the embossed background paper and was a contrasting colour to the blue.

Finding the appropriate sentiment was going to be a task in itself, as I don't really have many 'baby' celebration stamps.  

Going through the sentiments stamps I had bought from http://liliofthevalley.co.uk, I spotted one that was open to interpretations well as a nice statement in itself - ' Wishing you a World full of Joy'.

So I measured up a nestie, cut it out, distressed the edges and inked up the stamp.  With my fingers crossed I hoped I had stamped as centrally as possible - success!

Another cute little card made by my own fair hands.  Aww!

So, I shall enter this card into the following Challenge Blogs:

1) Aly's Sunday Challenge-Hoppity Bunnies http://alyssundaychallenge.blogspot.com/2011/04/asc39-hippity-hoppity-bunnies.html

2)   LOTV Challenge Blog - Spring http://liliofthevalleythursdaychallenge.blogspot.com/

 

3) Little Claire's Challenge 4 - Spring Celebrations http://littleclairesdesigns.blogspot.com/2011/04/challenge-4-spring-celebrations.html

 

Thinking Ahead to Mother's Day.

Olympia Craft Show was successful, purse was empty but bags were full!  Met Dawn Bibby, celebrating her birthday while exhibiting, Attended Claire & Phil's DoCraft Demo too.

With the launch of LOTV's new stamps I was eagerly waiting to add them to my basket and for them to arrive at my doorstep with much anticipation.  One particular stamp - Bunny cupcakes - caught my eye and the light bulb switched on! Mother's Day.

The card I designed used Claire Curd's sketch (a weekly challenge on the DoCrafts website).  I chose pastel pinks as my colour scheme as I had some lovely papers in my stash.

Trying out most of my Olympia purchases including spellbinders square eyelet die, spun sugar distress ink & Millions more promarkers!

 The flowers were punched using a dovecraft punch finished off with diamante gems in purple and clear.  Pink Mulberry paper, Glittery dotted vellum and spotted spring paper was used for the matting and layering

I am entering this card into the following challenges:

Claire Curd's Weekly Sketch Challenge 22nd - 28th March 2010.

LOTV Challenge Blog #89  'Punch it!'

I <3 Promarkers #58 'Go Dotty!'

Stitch & Craft Show @ Olympia.

Every penny and every pound has been stored away for this weekend.  I am treating my mummy and two younger siblings to a day out @ Olympia, for the Sitich & Craft Show.

Hoping to pick up some new ideas as well as bargins, join in the demos and have a go at a workshop.   All four of us are attending Claire & Phil's Do Crafts Demonstration, theme is cupcakes, then Holly & Kay are booked in for Space Dyeing with Koolaid!!  I still have a big tub of strawberry Koolaid from a trip to NYC.

Camera is already in the bag for some pictures and I will post them in a gallery for sharing.  

A Simple Saturday Card.

Thank you all for the lovely comments in last weeks Promarker Stitching Challenge, it so nice to feel welcome.  This week's challenge is Green & Purple, and all I could think of was dragons?!?!  

 

I have decided that each card made for http://ilovepromarkers.blogspot.com/ I will be donating to the Craft For Life Event. 

 

Craft for life is an event for Cancer Research UK supported by Docrafts, each card is donated and sold for £1 at Cancer Research Shops across the country.  Last year over £70,000 was raised from the Craft for Life event alone.  

This is how I would like to do my bit for charity, as 8 years ago I lost my Nan, Jean, to cancer.

I went back to basics with this card.  Simple matting and layering using my spellbinder die, curved rectangles, doodlebug present stamp, promarkers (obviously!), glitter glue and some fantastic organza ribbon in green & purple.

Easle cards all twisted ?

I admire easle cards for their dimension and presence and now........there's a twist!  This excellent video is clear and easy to follow.