Seeing Stars

It's time for the first Lavinia challenge of the 2017,

the theme this time is 

"Starry Night Sky"

For my card this time I stamped my stars 1 and 2 using versamark and embossed using clear embossing powder.

I completely forgot to mask my moon so ended up having to stamp and die cut another to place over my mishap. I masked and inked my background then stamped Meadow Grass in Eggplant  and Witches cat in Onyx black Versafine.

If  you fancy being in with the chance of winning a £40 voucher to spend at Lavinia, all you need to do is ink up your Lavinia stamps and follow the theme.

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

ABMTTC35, Anything goes,

PCC55, Anything goes,

POS 52, Anything goes,

PLCB29, Anything goes.

Thanks for stopping by,

Julie.x

Get The Glitter Out!

It's time for a new Facebook Challenge with Lavinia Stamps and the theme this time is

"Glitter It"

Not the easiest of subjects to photograph but the oh so easy to participate in, who doesn't like a bit of glitter!

I'm just going to share one of my DT projects today but will share others later in the month.

I used the oh so gorgeous "Background Script" to stamp my card base, then used "Creeping Vine" around the top of my focal area, masked an area to form a path using "Stone Texture" stamped my "Witches cat" and gave him some "Lavender" to sit amongst .

You have almost a month to participate in the challenge and there's an amazing voucher prize of £40 for the lucky winner!

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

Mod Squad, Background,

CCC110, Die cut,

SUYP 5, Cat,

TT288, Furry Friends.

 Thanks for stopping by,

Julie.x

Razzle Dazzle Em!

It's time for the new challenge theme at Lavinia today,

"Glitter and Gems"

For my first card I rubbed over my white card base with glycerin before sponging over red, yellow and pink inks, I don't know if you've ever tried it but it gets the inks moving a treat, the colours blend together beautifully. I used  the background script, ivy border was stamped onto the inked card that backs the sentiment and I finished the card off with the stunning Zen butterfly. I added stickles to the edges of my card and the butterfly wings and tiny crystals to the centres of my punched flowers.

For my second card I used the gorgeous Celtic Dreams butterfly die, cutting it 3 times to create the inlays of the wings which I stamped with the background script, the glittered green background and the white outlines, I added some gems to the body of the butterfly.

I'm using these cards for the following challenges:-
CFAS 111, Autumnal Hues,
CM78, Autumnal colours,
MSCB, Wings,
SAM246,Birthday,
CIO, Glitter,
DCD235, Die cuts.

If you fancy joining in with the challenge you could end up with a £40 voucher to spend on more Lavinia stamps to add to your collection. All you need to do is get creative using Lavinia stamps or dies, you don't even have to have a blog to enter as we accept email entries.

Thanks for stopping by,
Julie.x

Southern Girls Go Cute, Fun And Whimsical

It's just a shame that I didn't quite follow instruction.

My image is rather cute though, it's by Zuri, one of the challenge sponsors this time, they also have a sale on at the moment if you fancy treating yourself to Chise or any of the other cute digi images available.

Please check out the Challenge blog for full details of all of the sponsors this time.

This is the first time in a while that I've got out my Copics, I really enjoyed colouring her, I even did a little fussy cutting of the legs, allowing me to do a bit of Out of the box die cutting, not done this in a while either.

I also did a bit of patchwork with my punched flower adding some inky blanket stitching to tie in with the lovely design paper.

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

FBD, 3 or more papers,

GCC24, Fantasy,

House Of Cards, Stitch it up.

Thanks for stopping by,

Julie.x

Krafty Odds And Ends.

A bit of a throw it all together card here today using a few odds and ends up. can you see the perforations on the felt leaves? I used a "Lawn Fawn" die for this, gently pulling the edges of the leaf to open them slightly more.  

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

 CFAS 109, Tic, tac,toe, top line,

Lawnscaping, Texture.,

MMM, "F" flower/Felt,

TCP30, Mixed media.

Thanks for stopping by,

Julie.x

Flowery Fifty!

Just a quick post to share a card I made using my

 MFT Die-namics Floral Fusions die. I placed the diecut between my aperture layers adding a scalloped frame created using nestabilities. 

Placing the numbers was slightly tricky as I didn't want the foam dots to show on the inside of the card. 50 was cut using the ScanNcut and glittered using Wink of  Stella.

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

HIMCR 201, Freestyle,

KBD, Stitching,

TCCB, Numbers.

Thanks for stopping by,

Julie.x

Lemon And Lime

It's time for April's Challenge at Lavinia and the theme for this month is

"Lemon and Lime"

I made two items using the theme this time using a selection of Lavinia stamps on my card.

I trimmed into my "Alura" die cut to create my tag adding some stamping to the background, in my head I envisaged that the gorgeous fairy is collecting dew drops falling from the branches above her, I do love this die!

I would like to enter the following challenges:-

CFAS99, Animals,

LRW283, Animals,

Simon Says, Happy Birthday,

TSOC, Fly with me,

Cards and more, Tag,

TIOT, wings.

If you fancy joining in with the challenge this month, all you need to do is follow the theme and break out those Lavinia Stamps or Dies, you could find yourself winning a

£40 voucher!

There's no need to have a blog to enter as 

email entries are accepted!

Thanks for stopping by,

Julie.x

Happy Mother's Day

Morning, here's the other Mother's Day card made using the same technique as yesterday's card.

The colours look slightly off,  that's the trouble with taking photos in the daytime this time of year.

MTTC 283, Special Lady,

Sketch Saturday, 352,

C4E217, Mums,

CK80, Stitches,

Scrap and Craft 4, Mothers Day,

Mod Squad, Flowers.

Thanks for stopping by,

Julie.x

Add Flowers For Lavinia.

It's time for a new challenge theme at Lavinia and the theme for December is

"Add Flowers"



I used one of the gorgeous new dies for my first card, adding a little sponging and stamping to my background and a few punched flowers to the silhouette.

I thought I'd show you a real side on view so that you can see how I treated the wings. I cut the image three times, trimming around the wings on two and sandwiching a trimming of sheer lilac ribbon between them. I then shaped the wings and glued the rest of the silhouettes together. If I was going to be sending this card through the post, I might add a squeeze of silicone glue up close to the body just to help them stay fluttery. 

The next card is just a masked and inked background  and the poppy stamp inked in two colours.

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

DDC11, Girlie/diecut,
AGOAC 133, Kraft and a colour,
Allsorts287, Milestone birthday,
Little Claires, Shaped card.

Thanks for stopping by,
Julie.x

Celebrate With The Southern Girls!!!

Can you believe that the Southern Girls are starting our

 100th Challenge!

So Team Trace and Team Lou have joined together to

celebrate the occasion!

Both teams are using the digi images of Lacy Sunshine, one of this challenges sponsors.

I am using Tilly Dinosaur.

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

CCC277, Embossing,

Double Click, Happy Birthday,

FabNfunky 239, Die Cuts,

CSD, Diecuts.

Thanks for stopping by,

Julie.x

Bling It Up With Glitter And Lavinia!

It's time for the new challenge theme at Lavinia today and this time it's

"Add Some Glitter!"

I thought I would feature the gorgeous 

"Zen Butterfly" 

on both of my DT cards.

Unusually for me I used heat embossing on both cards, clear on black Versafine ink for the first, I then coloured it simply using pink and blue Copics, flicking the colours over each other to add a purplish shade in places. I sponged on a little distress ink to the background and sprinkled Glamour dust onto dots of liquid pearls. I set the image behind a raised aperture with inky stitching giving additional interest. 

The second butterfly was stamped onto vellum and embossed with white foam embossing powder over clear Versamark ink. I sponged pink ink onto the reverse after fussy cutting it out. Glossy Accents was added to the body. I used up some die cut remnants for the rest of the card, adding Glamour Dust to the raised, part circular frame.

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

CK48, Happy Birthday,

MCC, 2 or more die cuts,

TOC11, Celebrate, butterflies,

SOC, Diecuts and punches.

Thanks for stopping by,

Julie.x

Patchwork Tilda

 Here's one that I'd forgotten about, a card made for my lovely Sister-in-law a few weeks ago. I bought these papers with her in mind as she's a real whiz on the sewing machine, would love to have her skill!

She made a beautiful patchwork throw a while back  and that's what inspired my card.

The Tilda 12x12 pad has a couple of pages of die cuts so I decoupaged using two of the sewing machines. I even threaded the bobbin and added a snippet of cotton fabric and some ricrac to give the impression of it being mid sew and made a tape end to add to my tape measure ribbon where I tucked in the sentiment.

  Then you know me, sometimes bunting is the only way to go lol!

4CGC, Anything goes,

CRC99, Anything goes,

DC, Ribbon,

STB, Twine,

TSOC, Die cuts and punches,

DOCB82, Lots of layers,

TTT, Material Girl,

PDE15, 3 or more papers,

OLL161, Vintage,

SFC29, Round.

Thanks for stopping by,

Julie B.x

I Love This Image!

Not a chatty post from me tonight

I just wanted to share my card using the fabulous new image from Ladybug Crafts Ink!

Bucket O Blooms

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

PCC 13, Anything goes,

TG242, Pink and green,

CFTC5, Summery flowers,

CCC, Flowers.

Thanks for stopping by,

Julie.x

Blooms N Berries.

It's time for another fabulous digi release today!

Bloomin Fabulous!

It's an 

"anything goes challenge!"

 it would be lovely if you joined us this time! 

The image that I have used is Blooms 'n Berries, there are 12 

new images altogether at £1.75 each be sure to check out the

 challenge blog for full details of the amazing prizes that are

 on offer this time!

I thought you might like to see a little close up of the berries,  

I actually coloured them two tone after noticing the 

variations in colour of the berries in my mums garden.

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

GnS90, include yellow,

CBC, Thank you,
SnC, Thank you,

Thanks for stopping by,

Julie.x

One For A Girl

I'm still getting the requests for 18th birthdays.

I had to make two of them yesterday but have saved the other for tomorrow.

 The trouble I have with taking photos in the daytime is that the colours don't show up so well, what looks blue here is in fact more of a lilac or lavender shade. 

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

CATW2, Anything goes,

CC June, Petals and pearls,

MAWTT, Keep it simple,

Scrapbooker phd11, Diecuts,.

Thanks for stopping by,

Julie.x

A New Theme For The Ladybugs!

Morning!!!!!!

It's Tams turn to host the new challenge today and the theme that she's chosen is 

"Father's day Card or card for a man"

The Ladybugs are all using 

"Beer Belly Man"

I thought I'd use him in a different way, just use his arms.

That's the great thing about Digi's, I just sized my images really large, reversing one of them. Using word it's easy to manipulate the image, hanging it over the edge of the page so that only the arms are shown on the card to print out.

I created a gatefold card, using a square nestability to remove  a section from each side.

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

CC, Manly men,

OSAAT, Digi,

PIO23, Use patterned paper,

TCP, Men,

TCCB201, Crop it.

Before you go, take a look at what's coming up in two weeks time! More ladybug excitement! 

Thanks for stopping by,

Julie.x

Topped Off With A Butterfly.

Me again, Just realised that I left this off my previous post!

Another project for my Lavina Stamps DT

The New challenge theme being,

Add Beads Or Gems.

I made the box myself with the help from my Nestability scalloped circle and circle die and a scalloped border punch. I know you cant see any scallops created by the border punch but by scoring close to the dip in the scallop I was able to fold each scallop and glue a straight length of card around the circle to create my tubes.

The card is in fact grey pearlescent which has been inked with various colours before being stamped with a selection of Lavinia images.

I'm using this gift box for the following challenges:-

ACC June/July, Non Card, Anything goes,

CFTH21, Anything goes,

MTTC250.

Thanks for stopping by,

Julie.x