Fur & Feathers

Good Morning All

Saturday means it is challenge time at Allsorts and the theme has been chosen by Tracy Mouse this week and it is Fur & Feathers.
I decided to use a Forever Friends decoupage image, I do still love these cute bears.

Mounted the image onto pale blue, then yellow card and put all on embossed brown card.  Decorated up with feathers and buttons.  I used a negative from a diecut and stamped the sentiment on plain card inside it.

Crimson Cloud is the sponsor this week and they will give the winner 3 packs of die cuts.
Have fun.
xxxxx
Wendy L

LOTV stamp

Good Morning All
Afew weeks ago I was lucky enough to be picked from the comments left on the LOTV blog and I won this gorgeous stamp.

I have used all sorts of homemade embellishments on this ---
a ring of beads instead of a pin, bitty blossom flowers and Cherry Lynn Rose die flowers, crochet flowers.  The gorgeous swirly feather was given to me, well a pot of them actually.  The pink and black paper on the base is some I bought with money my MIL gave me last Christmas, (2012)   it has been in my stash all this time.
Coloured the image with Promarkers.  Inked the edges in pink.

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I have been making bits of jewellry too for the stall on Monday.  I made these ear - rings using some gorgeous butterfly charms I bought locally.


xxxxxx
Wendy L


CHALLENGES -------
LOTV - Pretty in Pink
The Paper Shelter # 120 - Swirly Girly
Cuttlebug Mania - Make your own Flowers

No Designer Paper

Good Morning All
Charisma Cardz Challenge day today and the theme has been chosen by Alison and it is 'No Designer Paper' so I used Coredinations card and embossed it with my Cuttlebug.  I coloured an image from the sponsor with Promarkers and decorated up with a bead pin, feather, gems  and crochet flower, hope you like it.

Pink Cat Studios       Will give the winner 5 images.

xxxxxx
Wendy L

CHALLENGES ------
Crafts & Me # 138 -  Anything Goes
Digi makeover Challenge - Anything Goes
Simon Says - Pin It

   

Quilled Flowers

Good Morning All

This is a pretty, simple card using quilled flowers and an embossing folder.  I have to admit the two roses are not made by me but by my good friend Chris Lee over on Docrafts forum.  I am still busy making cards for my stall on 15th July for the village.  My friend and neighbour will not be back from UK to help and she has the gift of the gab so I,m going to miss her, I will have to enlist someone else to help me, my sister was going to come over but now she can't.
Have a lovely day.
xxxxx
Wendy L
CHALLENGES ----
Craft-Dee-Bowz - CDB03 - Anything Goes with a Bow
Melonheads Friends - Emboss it
The Crafters Cafe # 9 -  Anything Goes

Pretty

Good Afternoon All
Oh so hot here now and it is given to get hotter, 35 plus today.  Easier to stay in my craft room with a fan blowing than venture outside.

A pretty card from me today using my fave embossing folder and Bitty Blossoms from Spellbinder.  Oh how I would be lost without my Cuttlebug.  This card is simple but elegant I think.
xxxxxx
Wendy L

CHALLENGES ------
Cuttlebug Mania - Make your own Flowers
Bunny Zoes Craft Challenge - Pink and White
Crazy 4 Challenge C4 C 193- Sentiment focal point Lets Get Wordy

Sunday Mojo 17

Good Sunday Morning All
I think John Next Door was paying me back for giving him a load of pink stuff last week, here's what he gave me for todays Mojo.

He knows I dont do grungy or whatever it is called, so this really was a challenge for me, but here's what I came up with.

I inked all the diecuts and cut the larger piece of grey card to fit a 5 x 7 orange card blank.  Pulled some odd bits of paper from my scraps box and used some of my new sentiment tags.

CHALLENGES ----Paula Hollifields
ALBC -Die in for it

This one I did in blues and the papers are from a Forever Friends kit.




The final one I inked in black and again used odds of paper and card from scrappy box.

Have a good Sunday.

xxxxx
Wendy L

Dies & Punches at Penny Black

Good Morning All
Being a member of the DT at Allsorts, we get the pleasure of doing a guest spot at Penny Black & More  Here is my card for the July challenge and the theme is Dies and Punches,

This one was very easy to colour with my Promarkers, and I kept it all in shades of pink and lilac for the rest of the card.
xxxxxx
Wendy L
CHALLENGES ------
The Ribbon Girl - Add a bow
 

Favourite Things

Good Morning All

Allsorts Challenge  time again and it is a lovely easy peasy one for you 'Favourite Things'.
I have used an image and a sentiment digi by our sponsor 'Digi Stamp'

I used 'My Paper World' Stamp for the flourishes and then added my fave things - gems, feathers and ribbon.  If I added all my fave things there wouldn't be much room for anything else LOL.

xxxxx
Wendy  L

CHALLENGES -----
Bloggers Challenge - Make your own background
My Heart Pieces - Use fave thing
  

Picnic

Good Morning All
Another Gruffies card from me, I think they are so cute.  Today they are having a picnic.  I used a 36 x 12cm cream card folded as shown in next pic.  Added 2 pieces of doilies, gems, homemade flower and a feather.

Sorry pics are not brilliant

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I have been making some tiny tags for my cards aswell today, and I have decided to bag some up and try to sell them on the stall in 2 weeks.  I used X cut dies to cut some shapes from a trainer box lid.

 I used my LOTV stamps with black ink mostly and afew with brown ink.

I cut the shapes in half and inked them on the edges with the small Versa Color ink.


So, no doubt, in the next few days, there will be afew cards featuring these.




xxxxxx
Wendy L

CHALLENGES -----
Creative Card Crew #39 - No Designer Paper
Songbird Challenge # 23 - Strawberry Fields Forever (water melon)
 

Pinky

Good Evening All

Just passing a wee while until it is time to go to airport to pick MIL up, she is coming to stay for  about 10 days.
I have been raiding John Nest Doors Die stash, he has sooooo many.

All cut from shades of pink lightweight card.  Sentiment is a freebie from Jak Heath and a homemade bead thingy (I made a loop instead of a circle) and a crochet flower.

xxxxx
Wendy L

CHALLENGES ----------
Ladybug Ink - Birthdays greetings from LCI
A Little Bit Crafty Paullifields - Die-ing for it
Craft-Dee-Bowz - CDB03 July- Anything Goes with hand made bow
Dream Valley # 60 - Make your own embellishments flowers
Crafty Ribbon - Anything Goes + ribbon
Ladybug - July - Fave embellishment (Homemade flowers, bead decoration and ribbon)
C ----is for Challenge - Flowers

Mono - Blue

Good Morning All
1st of the month and challenge time at Lady Annes Monthly and a great theme this month of 'Monochromatic' so that can be anything as long as you stick to shades of one colour, or as near as.

I used  one of the sponsors images and it came on a sheet of varied colours which is great.

Shades of blue card, ribbon and gems

Sponsor is Fred She Said and a lovely prize of a $10 gift certificate

Join in the fun
xxxx
Wendy L

CHALLENGES ----
Challenges 4 Everybody # 23 - Anything Goes
Stamping Sensations - June Challenge
Creative Moments # 20 - Flowers

Sunday Mojo 16

Good Sunday Morning All
It was my turn to provide the goodies for the Sunday Mojo.  This is what I presented John Next Door with -

 I went for quantity  as I have this craft fair coming up on the 15th July, I was checking through my boxes of cards upstairs and found that I did not have too many 'Get Well Cards' so I thought this would be a good opportunity to make a load, all ladies though as the goodies  were pink.  I have had to use peel-offs for the sentiment as I dont have any stamps that are suitable (note to put on shopping list).  Be prepared for lots of pics-------------

1.  A cross over card.  Mostly used Spellbinders Labels 6.  I cut quite afew die cuts from the papers and put them on my desk then decided what to do with them.

Bitty Blossom flowers
The paper lace edge I have had in my stash for mmm, probably more than 5 years.

CHALLENGES ----
Dream Valley # 60 - Make your own flowers or embellishments

That craft Place - Flowers
 

2.  A flower made into a butterfly and the negative from the die cuts.

3.  Marianne die cut flowers and some bought ones.

4.   Another Marianne die cut  LS0236
 and a Marianne butterfly  LR 0158

5.   This is a diecut I bought from E***y.

6.  This features my new Marianne flower die.

 




7.  I varied between A6,  A5,  5" square and 5" x 7" sized cards

                           8.  This was the most unusual textured paper.

9.  A picture from a postcard that someone gave me cut with Spellbinders Scalloped circle.

10.   Another die cut bought from E***y and one of my new stamps for the verse.

11.  More of that lovely textured paper and Marianne flowers with gem centres.




12.  More Marianne large flowers.




Have a lovely Sunday and thanks for bearing with me on this extra long post.

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Now I need to make a load of 'man' Get Well cards to go in the box.
I think Ita from Ireland  HERE  has decided to join us in our Mojo challenge so John will be sending some goodies to her soon.

xxxxxx
Wendy L

Lavender & Lace

Good Morning All

What a lovely theme this week at Allsorts Challenge, Lavender & Lace chosen by our lovely team leader, Brenda.

I chose a lovely digi by Anne Stillwell, this one is precoloured with a lavender coloured evening gown on.  I embellished with one of my crochet flowers with twissly bits, a button with a gem attached.  I hope you like it.

The sponsors for this challenge are Pin & Tack  giving $10 online spends.

xxxxx

Wendy L

Butterfly

Good Morning All
A quick post this morning as I,m off to my fat club, but I dont expect to have lost much this week but enjoy going for the chat.

 I bought some A4 double sided sticky sheets a while ago and thought this was a good way of using them.  I stuck  a piece onto a plain white piece of card and put through my Cuttlebug with the Spellbinders butterfly circle, then peeled off to reveal the sticky and covered with micro beads.  Cut a large Marianne butterfly CR 1205 from purple card.  Added some scrap pieces of paper and card and afew more butterflies.

This one shows the tiny beads.



xxxxx
Wendy L

3-2-1

Good Morning All

The challenge theme this week at Charisma Cardz   has been chosen by Jill and  is     3 - 2 - 1   that means 3 of something, 2 of something else and 1 of something else,  OK?

I used a decoupage image of an old fashioned tractor, 2 different papers ( 1 plain green and 1 patterned ) and 3 buttons from my Mums old button tin.  The gorgeous sentiment is a freebie from Netty here.
The sponsor this week is  The Digi Stamp Boutique who will give the winner 6 digis of choice.

Have fun.
xxxxx
Wendy L

CHALLENGES ----
-Craftin Desert Divas Linky party
Dream Valley - Male theme

For Maddy

Good Afternoon All
I saw this post on Simon Says and decided to send a card to a brave little girl.

A gorgeous Paintbox Poppets decoupage, so sweet.

xxxxx
Wendy L

CHALLENGE--------------
Simon Says - Send a smile to Maddy
Creative Card Crew # 39 - No designer paper
Kaboodle Doodle # 176 - Pastel colours
That Craft Place - Flowers
 

New Stuff

Good Morning All
John Next Door and I went to our local craft shop last Friday and I have been playing with my new goodies, nothing too exciting but here's a couple.

 I bought a set of sentiment stamps  ( Hobby Art Clear stamps CS04D - Friends), an ink pad for embossing, a ruler with holes in to do edge piercing and a Cheery Lynn Stacker  flower ( SF 2 ) die - the green flower on this one.  I love it and will be making loads more me thinks.

You can just about see the pierced holes on the edge of the dark blue card on this one.


I do need to practice my stamping abit more though.

I just thought I would show you the finished frame from yesterday, it is now hanging in my room upstairs.

xxxxxx
Wendy L

Sunday Mojo 15

Good Sunday Morning All
 Well John Next Door set me a challenge and a half this week.

The picture frame is about 15" X 9".









I really did not know what to do with this other than paint it and then embellish it with flowers etc.  Then, on Thursday night /Friday morning when I was lying in bed, unable to sleep, it hit me.

I kept the material I cut from the bottom of curtains when I had to shorten them when we decorated my craft room.

I decided to cut strips of the material (as in the post from yesterday, the Allsorts one) and fray the edges.  I stuck them on with silicone glue.  Then picked out some crochet flowers from my box and glued those on and voila.  I chose purple because this will be going in my reading room upstairs with a photo of Hollie and her Dad, I know just the one I want to use. ------

This background makes it stand out abit more.  And this is before I put the glass back in.

This is against a white background , shows the purple up more.

This is with the glass back in and now I will have to print the photos.  I have had my new printer for afew months now and still need to suss out how to print a 4 x 6 picture.!!!!!

CHALLENGES -----
The Hobby House - Anything Goes
 






Here are the two pics I would like to put in the frame.

I love this pic, it just screams at me 'Daddys Little Girl'.








In fact I may put two pics in the frame because it is quite oblong in shape.

I love the expression on her gorgeous little face in this one.

These were taken afew weeks ago when the weather was good in the UK and Mum and Dad put a blanket out on the back lawn.



Now for the bit of news I was telling you about -
John has been emailed about our Mojos on Sundays and we talked about it and he asked me how I felt about sending the goodies we used to anyone that may want to join in with us, of course, I agreed.  We will have to pull the goods together afew weeks in advance to give us time for posting and we will sink the cost of this between us, but we think it would be fun.  I did this on my Allsorts challenge afew months ago, Brenda sent us all the same goods and it was really interesting to see what we all came up with.  If you would like to join us, either email or comment on here or on Johns blog.

Hope you are all having a great weekend. and look forward to hearing from you.
xxxxxx
Wendy L
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