New Home Stampin' Framed

Good afternoon all!

I am sat in my craft room today whilst Keiran and his friend Emily are playing in his bedroom. We have already made 32 rice krispie cakes and had a walk out :)

So I thought I would take this time to blog a little gift I popped in the post all the way to America today, for a friend I met playing Dice With Buddies on my phone lol! Linda has recently moved house so this is a little housewarming gift for her...

I have made her a little frame and matching card, using Butterfly Basics and Painted Petals stamp sets.

Purple is her favourite colour so I'm sure she will love this delicious Blackberry Bliss colour! I used some of the paper from Painted Blooms DSP and some gorgeous Blackberry Bliss Stitched Satin Ribbon. The sentiment is from the retired Holiday Home set.

The framed sentiment is from Feel Goods and to clear emboss it I dabbed the stamp with Versamark before my coloured ink. Then when I stamped it I could add Clear Stampin' Emboss and heat it to give a little shine. I finished with the butterfly stuck on the front of the glass.

I used the sketch at Atlantic Hearts to create the card...

I'm off to get tea on the go now...maybe I will craft later...

Have a lovely evening!

New catalogue....new home!

Good morning!

Wow where have the last few weeks gone?? I feel like I have done no real crafting, and that the summer holidays have totally flown by!

Well it is Thursday again, which means that it is time for our new challenge at CAS-Colours and Sketches, and this week it is a sketch...

Now I can tell that I haven't crafted for a while...my mojo seems to have legged it! But here is what I made anyway...

I do love this Holiday Home bundle in the brand new Autumn/Winter catalogue! Yes...bundle! There are matching Framelits to go with these lovely stamps! The set has pleanty in it to make some gorgeous Christmas cards, but I decided to go with the New Home theme today. I created the background using my Watercolour Painter pen and Mossy Meadow and Lost Lagoon inks. The path was stippled on using a finger dauber and Early Espresso ink.

As you may have noticed from my much earlier post today, the brand new Autumn/Winter mini catalogue is now available to order from! If your hard copy hasn't arrived from me yet, you can use the link on my sidebar to view all the new goodies, but there are lots of catalogues winging their way to my lovely customers as we speak, so watch out for the postie! ;)

I am working today, then the gym, then I hope to get some quality time back in my craftroom! See you tomorrow with another lovely Christmassy project!

New Home anyone?

Hello!

Do you have any fun plans for the weekend? I'm working for most of it, just when the weather looks to be picking up and I could spend some time in the garden! 

My brother and sister-in-law are moving today...yup the ones who just had a baby 9 days ago! Crazy isn't the word! Anyway, I made them a card to welcome them to their new home, so I am going to show it you today. I wanted to show you the new baby card I made for them but I wanted to make sure they got it first!

For this one I have used a Bermuda Bay card blank and then basically cut out a square from Retro Fresh DSP and punched out a little heart, then layered it onto Bermuda Bay using Dimensionals for a little height.

I used Baked Brown Sugar Core'Dinations for the roof and drew the white lines using the Stampin' Chalk Marker pen, just for a little interest! The sentiment is from the Pomp and Circumstance stamp set, and is stamped in BBS. (and is the only stamping on the card!)

Stampin' Up! supplies I used

Please click on the pictures to find them in my online shop.

Don't forget about this week's weekly deals...you can find them here if you have missed them, or more information about them here. Or you can click on the picture in my sidebar, any time, to go direct to my page of deals!

Right...it's football shirt Friday today so I'm off to pop my Huddersfield shirt on...it's nice to have the opportunity to where my colours at work!

Less Is More - One Layer - Houses

Good morning LIMettes!

How is everyone? I have a chocolate hangover today! I got a craving last night that wouldn't go away so I ate a whole box of Thornton's Choccies! Ooops! It wasn't a huge box, thankfully! So I shall have to work super hard at the gym today!

Anyway, today at Less Is More, I'm thrilled that my best buddy Jen has been chosen to help Chrissie out while Mandi is getting her wedding business up and running...congrats hun! 

There is a one layer challenge this week, with an unusual theme...

HOUSES

Now, as it happens, I have just the card as I made it for my friend's brother and sis-in-law for their new house, and couldn't figure out where to blog it! 

The stamp is one of Jen's which I stamped twice. The castle was hand drawn by me! I didn't want it to look perfect as the other houses weren't. I only coloured the castle and not the houses as I wanted it to have the stand out effect. I chalked the background as it looked too 'white'...now I'm not sure if there is enough 'white'...

The sentiment inside says 'An Englishman's home is his castle...welcome home'

Time for work now...then the gym...then a bit of crafting with Jen! 

Byeeeee!

Lizy x

A Bright New Home!

Good morning all!

Well I haven't had much craft-time this week due to fun things happening! Mum and Dad visiting twice, going for a play date with my son at his friend's house tomorrow morning. Oh and PASSING MY DRIVING THEORY TEST! :D Yes I know I'm shouting but I feel like shouting it lol! Imagine what I'll be like when I pass my practical test!!

Anyway, here is a little card I have made for my friend who's house warming party I am going to this weekend....in Holland! :D I just hope she doesn't peek on here before I go....... :-S

This very cute little house is a Pollycraft image, coloured with (my new) Promarkers.....yes I have almost the full set now! I just need Maroon as somehow I missed it off my list when I got them all discounted at Letraset this weekend! The papers are Paper Cellar - Easter/Spring and it's the first time I've used them! I do love all the colours though and I thought they are perfect for a fresh start in a new house! :) 

Inspirations...........

Willow Sketchie Challenge 

Passion For Promarkers - Anything Goes

I Love Promarkers - Anything Goes

Ta for looking! Hope to be back later......

Lizy x

Oh Pants!

Goood morning!

Well I feel much more refreshed this morning than yesterday morning, I can tell you! We took Keiran for a procedure to have a lump removed off his eyebrow on Thursday, which should have been a routine procedure, but it swelled up too much so he had to go down for a second time to have it drained, all of this under general anaesthetic :(  So I had to stay in hospital overnight with him, on a bed that was somewhat too short for me lol! And I'm not that tall! Anyway, he is doing fine now and is back to bouncing around as usual!

ANd now onto this morning's challenge and the reason I get out of bed at 7.45am on a Saturday!! 'Something that moves' from Lady & Diva LIM over at Less Is More.

I made this for the special man in my life as he has just moved into his new flat, after living with his parents for a while after he split from his previous girlfriend. Why pants? One thing he said to me was that he couldn't wait to move so he could wander round in his underpants again! So I figured pants on a washing line would be perfect and humorous for him! And I think they would class as 'something that moves', if it was breezy lol! Quite simply, they are hand drawn onto some scraps of paper and cut out, with a doodled washing line.

Hope you like and hope to enter again later this week with something interesting! And I really do hope I get chance to comment this week....things are just so crazy at the moment!

TFL!

Lizy x