Good Luck in Peru!

Good evening!

We have had a wonderful day at Knowsley Safari park! Apart from Keiran falling and having to go to hospital, bless him! He banged his head really hard falling up some steps and had to go to the hospital to get checked out. Luckily, he's absolutely fine, and the staff at Knowsley were fantastic, as were the paramedics and hospital staff! We got given free tickets to go back again, too, and they've even said that Keiran can meet one of the sealions next time, as he missed out on seeing the show! How fab is that?!

Anyway, time for a card. I got a text late Saturday night for an emergency commission for 4 good luck cards for 4 ladies who are heading off to Peru to do the Inca Trail for a local children's charity. So here's what I came up with in a hurry yesterday...

I remembered that Paddington Bear is from Peru so I thought he would be the perfect good luck charm for the intrepid ladies! So I 'Googled' Paddington colouring pages and found this adorable image of our beloved bear on a hike...how perfect! I coloured him with Promarkers and cut him out. I created a cloud and grass background, added a tiny Peruvian flag to half a cocktail stick, a sentiment and some gems and voila!

Challenges

Retro Sketches - #6

Pixie Dust Studio - Up In The Sky
Simon Says Stamp - Use Your Favourite Tool (my Tim Holz Distressing Tool!)

Right...another rush order to make now, then bed I think! :)

Lizy x

Mojo Monday 70th Birthday

Good evening all!

I had a wonderful day at my market yesterday! I sold lots of cards and met a fab lady, another single Mum, who I will be in contact with lots I think!

Anyway, I had a commission for a 70th Birthday card for a Mum to make today, and here it is...

The dp is Kate Knight mag freebie, the butterflies are Stampin' Up!  Sizzix Embosslits, and the rest is from my stash!

Challenges

Mojo Monday - #235

Creative Card Crew - Spring

Flutterby Wednesday - Open

The Crafty Pad - Just Die-licious!

Thanks for popping by and I hope you're having a fab Easter weekend! I'm taking Keiran to Knowsely Safari Park tomorrow! :)

Night!

Lizy x

3 shades of green

Good morning LIMettes!

Yes I'm back bright and early lol!

This week at Less Is More, the challenge is

3 SHADES OF GREEN

My first thought was 'oh!' as I didn't think I had a lot of green....turns out I have!

I used a scrap piece of green card and stamped a Stampin Up! Paisley Petals stamp in Old Olive Stampin Write Marker to create a background. I also inked the edges a little for definition. I then added this tiny piece of green ribbon (the only bit of it I have!) and added a large green pearl. The sentiment is from Happiest Birthday Wishes and is stamped in River Rock.

I'm off to set up my market stall now, then some crafting with Jen this afternoon! :)

Happy Easter!!

Lizy x

Yee Ha! Happy Birthday!!

Howdy y'all! 

I'm here with another commission card tonight...

This is for another of my regular customers, for her Mum's birthday. The image is the new Dottie 2 Step from Bugaboo, and for the first time ever, I have paper pieced her! Now I've seen Jen do it loads and never plucked up the courage to do it before, but now I'm really glad I did! It's so easy, and it makes it easier to match your backing papers too as you just use the same ones you've used to paper piece it! I shall definitely be using this technique again! :)

The papers, by the way, are all from Pixel Scrapper. I only used my Promarkers for her hair and skin.

I am entering this into Tuesday Morning Sketches #140 and that's all because I'm too tired to root around looking for more challenges tonight!Hope you all have a fab Easter with lots of crafting! I shall mostly be working!

Lizy x

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

Distressed Beethoven!

Good morning!

I had another commission birthday card to make today, this time for a Brother's 70th Birthday. The request was for classical music or golf!

So I went with the classical music, especially as the lady in question kindly gave me this Inkadinkado 'Illuminata' wooden stamp, saying she doesn't really make cards so doesn't need the stamp!

Isn't it a fab stamp?!

I stamped the image using Vintage photo Distress Ink, and all the distressing is using the same ink. The 'dp' is just a Google image (I Googled 'Beethoven Music Script'). The sentiment and age were done on my pc, and distressed, and I finished with baker's twine. I also distressed the inside of the card and added the bit of music script I didn't use on the front.

Challenges

Kathy's Waffle Sketch File - Tumbling

Anything Goes - Anything Goes!

Crafty Emma's - No Girls Allowed!

Crafty Purple Frog - Anything Goes

Divas By Design - Stamp Something

My Mum's Craft Shop - Stamp It!

Simon Says Stamp - Anything Goes

Ta for looking...see you soon! :)

Lizy x

Less Is More - Photo Inspiration #2

Evening all!

Yay I got to make another card for the Less Is More Photo Inspiration challenge! Here is a reminder of the inspiration...

And here is what it inspired me to make...

Now I learnt how to make these gorgeous flowers at the Sincerely Yours show in Leigh in March, and I fell in love with them! They are made entirely of Card Candi from Craftwork Cards. Aren't they stunning?! And a great way to use up all your Candi! 

I didn't actually have the pink I wanted so I coloured white Candi in using Regal Rose Stampin Up! Marker. The leaves are Martha Stewart snowflakes cut in half and coloured with Pear Pizazz.

Now you're going to be super impressed...I have actually filmed a video tutorial on how to make the flowers! However, I seem to be having trouble uploading it...any advice anyone? I can't get it on here at all, and I have tried to get it on You Tube and Facebook but I'm only getting to about 10% uploaded, then it freezes! I don't know what else to do!

Anyway, if I can manage to do it, I will get it posted :)

Goodnight for now

Lizy x