Anything Goes With The Ladybugs.

Oh my Goodness can you believe that in one week's time, Santa will have delivered the pressie's and will be sitting with his feet soaking in a bowl of water and relaxing whilst Mother Clause cooks his Christmas dinner!

So why then am I still struggling to get the Christmas cards made? So when Queen Ladybug Kerry decided that the last  TLT challenge of 2012 would be "Anything Goes"

there was only one way that I could go!

I coloured up my rather gorgeous "Tracey and Reindeer" for the first time and made an oh so simple design of a card.

Now I know it's a bit late for this year but if you fancy treating yourself to this stamp it's still available at 70% off which would make it an absolute bargain at £1.95!!!

Check out the 70% off cling stamp sale

HERE

 

 

 

 

I'm using this card for the following challenges:-

CAGIC, Christmas,

DVC47, Christmas,

PPUK49, Christmas,

QC26, Christmas,

SS194, Christmas.

 

I'm off to knock up a few more cards,

Thanks for stopping by,

Julie.x

 



Easy As 1,2,3.

  

My new set of stamps came yesterday so a perfect excuse to make a quick CAS card. I forgot to check who they're by so if anyone's interested let me know and I'll tell you tomorrow when I go back in the cabin.

 

I'm using this card for the following challenges:-

LIM 82, 3 gems,2 butterflies,1 word,
Addicted To Stamps 2, CAS,
Paper and Such, Wings n things.

Thanks for stopping by,
Julie.x



With A Flourish!

Just a quick post with my entry for this week's challenge at Less Is More. I stamped and masked the butterfly then stamped the flourish in pink. I then masked the outside and gently sponged colour onto the butterflies.  The sentiment is stamped in pale lilac then shadow stamped in a darker shade, I'm wishing I'd only stamped it with dark as it makes my eyes go funny looking at it  but it's a pretty cool effect. I added some stickles to the flourish for some sparkle.

 

Less Is More 71, One layer with flourish.

Thanks for stopping by,

Julie.x

It's A Doodle

I love a bit of a doodle so wanted to make an entry for this week's LIM challenge. Unfortunately my camera is trying to spoil things for me and my photo looks less than clear (or is it my eyes???)  This little cutie and the sentiment is from Ladybug Crafts Ink, I bought the set a while back and this is the first time I've inked it up. I stamped the image over the edge of the 3x3 card and doodled around the edge of the card using a copic fineliner.

 By the way, Kerry had a few technical problems so has decided to extend the half price cling stamp sale to allow for the early troubles, what a result for the rest of us ;)

I'm using this card for the following challenge:-
LIM63, One layer doodling.
Thanks for stopping by,
Julie.x

I'll Be Brief

Just a quick post tonight with a tiny 3x3" card. Apart from the pearlescent card blank, the card was made using only scraps and leftovers from previous makes. The tulips were made using a punch that's probably 8+ years old. I just punched 5 tulips in green and 5 in the other colours,slightly shaping the bloom,trimming it from it's stem and adding it to the green flower using pinflair gel.

I'm using this card for the following challenge,

Less is More 54, Don't scrap it.

Thanks for stopping by,

Julie.x 

Hello Monday!

Where ever did the weekend go! Already back at work and only just found time to do a bit of crafting.

My entry for this week's LIM challenge, and this week the theme is "Punches or Die cuts"

A really simple card using a couple of off cuts, my revolution flourish die and the Xcut Dielicious flower dies.

 I love the fact that there are so many flower sizes to choose from in the set along with both scalloped circles and circles. I think there's around 17 pieces in the set altogether. A piece of ribbon, some twine and a button complete my card. 

 I'm using my card for the following challenges:-
LIM 55, Theme,
Creative Mondays 2,Anything goes,
MIM77, Anything goes,
CCH107, Punches or die cuts,
Scrappy Frogs, Die cuts.
Thanks for stopping by,
Have a good week,
Julie.x

My First "Lavinia"

I did warn you yesterday that I'd made a second entry for the LIM challenge this week. I used the same technique to achieve my stripes as here as I did for my striped candle's yesterday. I'm afraid that there will be no crafty scrumminess going in the post as no one guessed correctly.

This is what I used to get my stripes, my new Memory Box wrought iron fence die.

I just placed it onto my card using post it notes to mask the other areas then used a brush to stipple on the colour, easy as that! for this card I then inked up my Lavinia stamp and stamped it twice,creating a paler image with the second placing.

Don't forget that the Ladybugs have a big day planned tomorrow, I hope you all come and join in the fun. We'd love it if you could add our poster to your side bar so that as many crafters as possible join in!

I'm using my card for

Week 54LIM,One layer and stripes.
Thanks for stopping by,
Julie.x

A Light Bulb Moment.

What a dreary day it's been today, started with a flurry of snow but it's now become grey and drizzly,still, if the white stuff gets washed away it won't be a bad thing! I don't know how but I never got round to making a LIM entry last week, I'm going to make up for it this week as I've made a couple to enter but for the moment I'm going to give you just the one. As soon as I saw the theme for this week,this is the card that came to mind though I had no idea how I was going to achieve the stripes. Then I had a sudden "Light bulb moment" if any of my followers can guess how I achieved my candles by the end of today, I'll send you a little parcel of scruminess!

LIM 54,One layer stripes.

I can't wait to see your guesses lol!

Thank's for stopping by,

Julie.x

If you want to find out, I have now posted the answer here 

After playing around with the Nestability die it made me look differently at some of my other dies.I've got a couple of sizzix frame dies and thought I'd have a go at using one of them to cut a small card.I folded the card and layed it as close to the edge of the the die as I possibly could so that when I ran it through my cuttlebug it cut along 3 sides and removed an aperture from the front and back of the card.

I then placed a piece of paper over the back of the card,filling in the space.The flowers around the frames were punched using 2 sizes of funky flower punches. I only cut parts of the flowers from the edges of the paper then placed them randomly around the frame using some holographic peel off dots for their centres. I stamped the girl,coloured her with my Copics and cut her out positioning her to the edge of the aperture on 3d pads. The greeting I stamped and layered onto toning card then positioned it attaching it on the inside of the aperture

I arranged the flowers around the frame at the back of the card leaving room to write my greeting in the centre. The card was an experiment but at least I know it works now. I will have a root around to see if I can use any other of my dies this way.

It's been a long first day back at work after the half term break,can't wait till Thursday when I'm off and will have time to play again! Have scrapbooking class Wednesday evening too so will have to sort out some photos,I wonder what papers we'll be using this week,can't wait to see.

Thanks for stopping by,

catch up soon,

Julie x