Baby Boy

Supplies:  Sweet Pea Levi Baby Digi - By Lori Boyd, 

Lime Twist pp and sentiment sticker - My Mind's Eye,  

buttons - Basic Grey, copics, tombow roller adhesive and copics.

Not very happy with how this photographed - hard to believe that I took this photo in daylight!!!  It's only September and already the quality of light on this side of the world isn't wonderful.  The background paper is a dark blue but looks grey in this photo.

Used "Sweet Pea Levi" fun baby image By Lori Designs - I cut it using my guillotine to resemble an old polaroid.  I coloured and added a sticker from the Lime Twist collection by My Minds Eye.

Added the buttons with glossy accents so they are "cemented" to the card.

Challenges

Kaboodle Doodles - Babies &/or Children

The Paper Girls - Baby

Thanks so much for peeking.

La-La Land Crafts Inspiration Friday - Wish Upon a Star

Copics

Skin - YR000, YR00, E21

Hair - E31, E33, E25, E57

Gown and cap - C1, C2, C3, C5, C7

Shoes - BV25, C7, BV29

Shirt and tie - B12, R27

Pants - B18, B99

My second week guesting with La-La Land Crafts and I had lots of fun with "stars" this week.

My card features Graduation Luka - he is available right here.  The "Dream" sentiment is from the Rose Faerie Marci which I used last week - you can find it here.

Don't forget, you can enter your card into the Customer Gallery to be in with a chance of winning a monthly prize. Did you know that La-La Land Crafts are on Facebook and Twitter? Check out their FAN PAGE/@lllc where you will be first to hear of special offers and new releases!!

Other supplies 

X-Cut Large corner punch

Spellbinders star dies

Basic Grey & PTI buttons

Pop dots

6x6 Card Blank

My Minds Eye 6x6 patterned paper - "Bright Side"

Check out the DT creations here and thanks so much for stopping by.

Fancy Folds

Supplies:  OA Buddies Stamp - Greeting Farm, grey and red 

cardstock - Canson, birthday sentiment - Waltzingmouse Stamps, 

glittered alphas - American Thickers, button - Basic Grey, 

machine stitching, Tombow roller adhesive, glossy accents, 

Notebook punch - Fiskars, notepage die - PTI, copics, 

black tuexedo ink - Memento, pop dots and Scor-pal.

This week's Challenge on Paperplay is "Fancy Folds".   We are very kindly sponsored by Whiff of Joy this week.  Check out the other DT creations right here.

This was a difficult one to make because I made the front before I decided to turn it into an easel card!!!  I know, completely backwards!

I then did lots of measuring and playing with grey cardstock until I was happy with how it stood.  I used a Basic Grey button (which I threaded) and adhered to the cardstock with glossy accents.

I matted the coloured image to grey cardstock and layered it using pop dots for added dimension.

side by side view

Challenges
Crafting for all Seasons - School Days/For A Child
 Divas by Design - For A Child
Creative Craft Challenges2 - All About the boys
Sweet Stamps - For the Guys
House of Gilli - More than one fold

 Thanks for peeking - hope you have a wonderful day.

La-La Land Crafts Inspiration Friday - Flowers

Happy Happy Friday!  So excited today has arrived and I can share with you all!

A number of month's ago the amazingly talented Sandie Dunne contacted me - (she is one of the DT Leaders for La-La Land Crafts) and asked would I like to Guest Design for the month's of September/October.  Would I what!!!!  Work with amazing stamps by the ultra talented Irina! ABSOLUTELY!

 This week's Inspiration Friday over on La-la Land Crafts is "Flowers". 

Copics & (white gel pen)

Skin - E21, E50, E53
Lips - E93
Hair - Y00, Y11
Wings - YG03 YG91, YG95
Dress and head dress - G000, YR07, YR15, YR23, YR68, YG41, YG23

My card features Rose Faerie Marci and she can be found here.  In fact you can get her in rubber stamp or digi format.

Check out all the DT creations here.

 I created dimension on Rose Faerie Marci's dress by colouring a second image and layering it using pop dots and also added tiny pearls to the skirt.  I decided to use Autumnal colours on my card (My Minds Eye "Ginger" patterned paper and cork run through my Big Shot complete the colour palette).

Don't forget, you can enter your card into the Customer Gallery to be in with a chance of winning a monthly prize. Did you know that La-La Land Crafts are on Facebook? Check out their FAN PAGE where you will be first to hear of special offers and new releases!!

Thanks so much for stopping by today - I really appreciate it.

Appreciate your loved one!

Supplies:  pp - Webster Pages, green textured cardstock - 

Papermania, kraft cardstock - Papermania, Stampin Up Butterfly die, 

Quickutz Scalloped square die, rust cardstock (flowers) - Canson, 

pearls, heart gems, button from stash, machine stitching, 

tea dye distress ink and blending tool, pop dots, embroidery floss

and sentiment - trying to find where it came from!

This week's challenge on Paperplay is "Appreciation/Thank you".  I decided to think a little outside the box on this one and make a card to give a loved one in appreciation of all that they do!

I used Webster Pages patterned paper and lots of dies, stitching and some inking.  The sentiment was on my pc - I get a lot of my sentiments from Create with TLC but don't think this was one of them.  If you recognise it please let me know as I always credit the owner and give a link back.

Thanks for stopping by - hope you get a chance to play along with us this week. 

Honey ... I'm home!

Hi everyone... it's been a while - I have been busy with lots of other things i.e. entertaining boys on their school holidays!

We spent a lot of our time on the water and visited some fun locations!

Fastnet Rock - the most southerly point of Ireland

The Fastnet Rock is 13 kilometres from the main land of Ireland and as you can see was flat calm the day we visited.  The rock rises to 98 ft above low water and is separated from Little Fastnet (on the right) by a 10 metre channel.

98 ft from low water to the top!

You can get an idea of the height from this photo (above).

A less popular view of the Rock.

Lots and lots of steps!

 The lighthouse was built in 1897 and first lit in 1904!  Isn't that just amazing?

I took over a thousand photos in the last few weeks - so please bear with me while I process them and see if there are a few worth sharing!

Thanks for peeking - I promise to try to get back and visit all your blogs over the coming weeks but as many of you know - it's a busy, busy time with school starting back up!

Packaging! Upcycle/recycle

Supplies:  Follow your heart stamp set - My Mind's Eye,

 Aquamarine Archival ink - Ranger, Mini white luggage tag, 

Rich Cocoa ink - Memento, aqua washi tape - The Greeting Farm, 

red washi tape - Queen & Co, heart punch - X-Cut, Ribbon - craftfairy.co.uk, 

Manilla tag - Ranger Industries, flower - stash, pearls - Icon Craft.

The Challenge this week on Paperplay is "Upcycle/Recycle".

I needed to package up some items for my niece and decided to recycle some card packaging (cellophane bag). I used tissue paper and punched red/teal circles and hearts from some textured pp to create the confetti to add to the package. I added one tiny heart to the tag.

I love using bright colours on my projects. I used stamped images in rich cocoa as my base layer and then added the colours with flower, washi tape and ribbon. 

 Thanks for peeking- hope you have a wonderful day.