Our Homemade Advent Calendar!

Hi there!

I hope you are well?

I'm here to show you the Advent Calendar I finished a couple of weeks ago, but only just realised I haven't blogged it!

This was quite a mission I have to say, but I did enjoy making it, even if it did take almost a week!

I got the instructions from Cardmaking and Papercraft magazine. I love it, as does my son, especially now that it is filled with 'Squinkies' (don't ask lol!)

I used freebie papers (Snowed In by My Mind's Eye), also from CM&P, and lots of white card, and some brads from my stash....that's about it really! Oh and some glitter and gems. 

Challenges

Charisma Cardz - Christmas

Craft Us Crazy - Christmas

Crafty Boots - Christmas

Cupcake Crafts - Christmas

Dream Valley - Christmas

Creative Stamp Friends - Christmas Packaging

Shopping Our Stash - Winter Holiday
Stamptacular Sunday - Anything But A Card

The Crafty Bloggers Network - Anything Goes

The Crazy Challenge - Christmas Time

Unstamapabelles - Christmas, no stamps

Oh, a funny little story about this 'magic box'...when I was assembling it, Keiran kept putting things into the drawers and I kept turning it to add new drawers, when he wasn't looking. Then he would look in the drawers and his things had disappeared! Then I would turn it back and they would return! He was convinced it was actually magic and it didn't occur to him that the box had turned! He even commented that not only had his things disappeared, but the handles had changed lol! Bless him! I haven't told him...he still thinks it's magic!

Glad I've got this blogged...gonna email CM&P now see if they want it for their magazine! :)

Me and My Pony

Good evening!

Hey, look at me! A card on a non DT day lol! I have made this card for my friend's little girl's 5th birthday....I will add a sentiment tomorrow when I go for a much needed crafting evening with Jen!

So here is my card...

I have used 'Me & My Pony' from Lili Of The Valley and coloured it with Promarkers, including some of the new Autumn set, now available! The papers are My Mind's Eye and the ribbon and flower are from my stash.

Challenges

Sweet Sketch Wednesday - #164

Divas By Design - Happy Birthday

My Mum's Craft Shop - Birthday Girls

Shopping Our Stash - Something New (ltd edition promarkers)

Simon Says Stamp - Anything Goes

Totally Gorgeous - Leaf It In

Thanks for looking....back to the Olympic opening ceremony....it's just awesome so far!! :))

Lizy x

Rosie With Cake

Good evening!

I am back after a fab couple of days with my family...my brother, SiL and nephew are visiting from London and myself and Keiran have spent the last 2 days visiting Windmill Farm in Burscough and Tropical World and Roundhay Park in Leeds. We've had stunning weather and 2 really lovely days! I have, however, been ever so slightly freaked out by lots of mice, bats and a spider the size of my hand!!

Anyway, back to what I love...my cards! Here is one I made in a hurry for a last minute order.

This is adorable Rosie With Cake from Lili of The Valley and I've coloured her with Promarkers. The paper is MME I think, and the flourish is Dienamics. 

Challenges

Sketch n Stash - Free Sketch!

Divas By Design - To Die For

The Crafty Pad - Food

Thanks for popping by...see you soon! :)

Lizy x

Sketch Saturday with Tiddly Inks #202 - Paula's Sketch!

Hey everyone!

Well I'm here with this week's card for Sketch Saturday, and this week's it's Paula's sketch.

And we are sponsored by 

Here is my card...

I have used a Tiddly Inks image Going Swimming (Girl) and coloured her with Promarkers. The paper is My Mind's Eye and the rest is from my stash :)

Challenges

April Showers at Crafting For All Seasons

Good afternoon!

I have scheduled this post as when it goes live I shall be helping out at a kid's craft day at our local church...I bet it'll be fun! :)

So it's time for another challenge at Crafting For All Seasons and this time the theme is

APRIL SHOWERS!

And we've already had some of those today! Not to mention the wind!!

We are sponsored by

Prize - 7 digis

and our very own Jani!

Jani has just started designing and selling digi images so do pop on over and take a look!

Anyway, here's my card...

I have used Deacon Rain from Bugaboo, and coloured him with Promarkers. The papers are Pixel Scrapper and My Mind's Eye, and it's finished with a couple of dewdrops and some glossy accents on the raindrops and puddle. I distressed the edges of the papers as I didn't want to matt and layer...I wanted a clean-ish look!

I shall pop back later to enter it into some challenges...

Bye for now! :)

Lizy x

Ok back! What an incredibly busy day we've had! And a successful one! All the kids had a great time, and 4 solid hours of crafting was done! There were some very talented young people there!

Anyway, challenges...

Willow Sketchie - 29th March

Crafty Emma's - No Girls Allowed

Colour Throwdown - #186

Craft Your Passion - Dots and/or Stripes

Crafty Purple Frog - Anything Goes

I Love Promarkers - Whatever The Weather

Right I'm now going to do some of my crafting!

Night!

Lizy x

Marissa and her Guitar

Hello!!!

Well what a busy day I had yesterday! Keiran and I planted absolutely tonnes of seeds! Potatoes, broccoli, carrots, lettuce, courgettes, runner beans, french beans, broad beans, squash, cabbage, onions, spring onions, leeks, sprouts, Marigolds, Busy Lizzies, Hollyhock, Delphinium...I think that's everything lol! So if they all come through, (which I doubt but hey hum!), we'll be quite self sufficient this year! Provided we're allowed to water them lol!

And then I even made chicken and mushroom pie for tea, with homemade pastry!! And it was yum! Not perfect, but yum! :)

Anyway, after all that hard work, I decided I needed an hour or so of crafting time so after doing some colouring in yesterday morning (I know...how busy was I??!), I had some images to play with, so here is a card I made with one of them...

This gorgeous little girly is Marissa with her Guitar from Saturated Canary, and she is brightly colour with Promarkers. The papers and sentiment are MME Quite Contrary paperstack, and the twine is from The Ribbon Girl. I distressed the edges of each panel using my craft knife, while I wait for my Tim Holtz distressing tool to arrive, so the edges don't look as distressed as they could. The background and 'aura' is chalked using Dovecraft chalks.

Challenges

Sketch 'n Stash - #83

Saturated Canary - Twine

Diva's By Design - Distressing

I Love Promarkers - 3 Different Papers (2 DP one plain)

My Mum's Craft Shop - Let's Get Digital

Shopping Our Stash - Buttons and/or Bows

The Crafty Purple Frog - Anything Goes

The Crazy Challenge - Go Green

Well thanks for looking and hope to be back tomorrow! :)

Lizy x

Lil Pinkette Tom Boys - Faith

Good afternoon all!

Another fortnight has gone and it's time for a new challenge at Crafting For All Seasons! We had some stunning entries into our Shaped Cards challenge...pop on over the our challenge blog to see if you were a winner or a Top 3!

So it's time for a new challenge and this time it's

GREEN & YELLOW

We have 2 fab sponsors...

Prize - 7 Digi Stamps

Prize - 2 Digi Stamps

So here is my card...

I have used Lil Pinkette Tom Boys Faith.

Coloured with Promarkers, Prima flowers, My Mind's Eye, Shabby Princess and Back to Basics papers and some stashed buttons & ribbons.

Challenges

The Sweet Stop - #148

Crafty Emma's - Flower Frenzy

Craft Your Passion - Anything Goes

The Crafty Purple Frog - Green & Yellow

My Mum's Craft Shop - Spring Is Springing!

One Stop Crafts - Button It

Thanks for popping by and we can't wait to see your entries! :)

Lizy x

Good morning!

I seem to be having a very productive crafting week this week...I have made at least 2 cards a day since Saturday! Though can't post some of them yet as they are DT cards!

However, here is one I can post...

This is from me to Keiran's Granddad who turns 90 tomorrow! And he still loves gardening, though he can't do as much now bless him.

The image is LoTV, coloured with Promarkers. I was going to cut him out with my oval Nestie but there were some smudges in the background so I decided to cut round the image, and mount it onto an oval instead. The papers are My Mind's Eye, the rest is from my stash.

CHALLENGES

Sketch 'n Stash - Free Sketch (#3)

Birthday Sundaes - Birthday card with sentiment

My Time To Craft - A is for Adorable

Papertake Weekly - Anything Goes

Hope everyone's week is going well...see you soon! :)

Lizy x

Iris Folded Christmas Heart

Good evening LIMettes!

I have spent this afternoon trying a new technique that I was reminded about in a magazine today......Iris Folding!  So after work and my driving lesson, while Kerian was at nursery, I decided to give it a go. Here is the result......

I am very pleased with the effect and I think it classes as one layer for the Less is More - One Layer, Hearts challenge. At least I hope so! :) The papers I used are My Minds Eye and the snowflake punch stamp was free with this month's Craft Beautiful mag, where I got the idea from.

Oh and by the way, the template and instructions can be found here.

Hope you like it :)

Lizy x

Fall Flowers

Hey! :)

How are you all?

Here is my DT card for our challenge at Crafting For All Seasons this fortnight which is

Fall Flowers

We are very lucky to be sponsored by Fred She Said Designs and had some lovely images to work with. Here's mine......

This is Emma The Skipper and she is a pre-coloured digi. SHe comes in four colouways, with or without background. Now I didn't actually mean to pick the pre-coloured ones......I clicked the wrong button, but I am actually rather pleased with it! And it made the card ten times easier to make lol! The papers are MME Bloom and Grow and the flowers are from my stash. That's it!

Show us your Fall Flowers and be in with the chance to win a $20 gift certificate for Fred She Said Designs! Yup...... $20!!

I am entering my card into these challenges.....

Sketch N Stash - Sketch #71

Rainbow Ladies Challenges - Autumn/Fall Flowers 

Oh Sit Down...

Good afternoon all!

I am at Jen's having a fab crafting day after moving her craftroom last night! We've just had a lunch break and watched the launch of the Ooh La La Festive Funnies CD-ROM on Create & Craft and seen my samples on there! I had my cards on TV! lol! All the DT at OLLCB had their cards showcased and they're all just fab! :)

Anyway, back to the point of my blogging......cards! Here is one I have made this morning. It's my first ever Gorjuss card. I love how my colouring turned out, just not too sure about the actual card. Oh well......it's done now and here it is......

 This is Gorjuss Sitting from Sugar Nellie Stamps and is coloured with Promarkers (Crimson, Berry, Poppy, Sunkissed Pink, Almond, Marsh Green, Olive Green, Khaki, Umber, Warm Grey 5, 4, 3). The patterned papers are MME Bloom & Grow and the rest are from Jen's scrap draw. The flowers are also Jen's from Prima.

Challenges

The Sugar Bowl - Sketch with optional Autumn theme

Digstamps 4 Joy - Anything Goes

Just Some Lines - Fall Colours

My Mum's Craft Shop - Boys and Girls

My Time To Craft - L is for......(leaves)

Scrapbook Sisters - Autumn Colours

I'd love to hear any comments on this card and how it could've been better.......I'm just not 100%  happy with it!

Lizy x

If friends were apples......

Hey all!

It's time for challenge #10 at Crafting For All Seasons. Our theme this week is 

SUNSET/FALL COLOURS

Our sponsor this week is Whimsy Stamps and the prize is......

Here is my card......

The image is Rhubarb Picking Apples and he's coloured with Promarkers. The papers are My Mind's Eye. I added Glossy Accents to Rhubarb's nose and the apples to finish them.

Challenges......

My Time To Craft - L is for... (leaves)

Tuesday Throwdown - Fall

My Craft Spot - Fall leaves
Scrapbook Sisters - Autumn Colours

Thanks for stopping by......hope to see you again soon! :) In fact, hope to see your creations on CFAS soon! 

Lizy x