I Am Back With A Nautical Fathers Day

Hello Everyone I hope you are all doing ok I know I should appreciate the hot weather as we in the UK don't see a lot of sun but its too hot for me I love Autumn and the heat has made my poor little Blade sick he is lying on the sofa bless him I just wish there was something I could do but we just have to starve him not that he wants to eat anything anyway but the good thing is that he is drinking lots of cold icy water.

Today I have made my Dads Fathers day card using a great stamp set from Kanban I stamped the main image using Indigo blue dye based ink and then I stamped the bird to make it look like he is part of the image I stamped the bird twice to layer him up.I dragged the ink out using water and a paint brush for the shading detail.The anchor and compass also came from the same stamp set.For the bottom of the  card I have torn some Kraft paper to make it look like sand and distressed the edges with Antique Linen Distress ink.I cut out some shells from an old paper pack I had to add to the sand and for added detail I mixed three different green flowersoft colours together for the look of moss from the see also for the grass around the lighthouse.I stamped the anchor ,attached some rope to make it look like it has been anchored into the sand.For the background I used Frost watermark ink and stamped the anchor all over the blue papers randomly to create my own paper.
I hope you like it.
I have not been able to use the laptop much this week so please bare with me I am trying my best to catch up on your blogs I hate missing anything.

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:

Decorate to celebrate-All about DAD
Bearly mine-Anything goes
Crafters Companion-Here comes summer
Creative Craft world-May 20th mini
Creative Inspirations-Anything goes
Little Claires-Male theme
Lollipop crafts-Make a splash
One Stop crafts-For the boys
Paperplay-summer lovin'
Simon Says Stamp-Fathers day
Simon says stamp n show-A summer holiday
Sweet stamps-Anything goes
Wild orchid-Anything goes

Thanks for visiting me and have a great weekend
hugs
Lorraine xx

For You

Evening everyone,
                            Well finally I have something to share I am sorry for being away this week but i have tried to comment.
Well I got the Portabello Road papers for my birthday from the gorgeous Debs thankyou so much huni I so love them.I have used a Whiff Of Joy Stamp and paper pieced the shopping bags with the same papers and coloured the rest of her with promarkers,the sentiment was free stamp from creativity magazine,gems and ribbon are from my stash too.I hope you like it.
I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:

Whiff of Joy-Paper Piecing
Crafty Creations-Frame it
Pan Pastels-Anything goes
Stamp and create-For the ladies

Thankyou so very much for popping by
hugs
Lorraine xx

New Challenge Launch Day

Hello everyone today is the launch of the new Mishelflo's Monthly Challenge and whats great about this Challenge blog is that you get to choose your prize out of 7 different prizes if you are the lucky winner and there are so many amazing prizes to choose from too.There is also a prize for the under 16's so we would love to see creations from the little ones.
For our first Challenge we have decided to go for 'Celebrations' so I think its a nice easy one to stary with.
I have decided to make a gift bag for a new baby boy.

For my bag I have used this adorable stamp from Motivet and coloured with Promarkers,I used a button embossing folder for the background,oval nestabilities,a Whimsy sentiment and embellished with card candy and a bow I hope you like it.
Here are a few pics of the prizes you can choose from

there are more too just pop over and take a peek.I hope you will be able to join us.

I would like to enter my bag into the following challenges:

LEJ Designs-Anything goes(new challenge blog please pop over for a peek and show your support)
CYDA-Just for children
Crafts and me-Embossing
Crafty cardmakers-for the boys
Creative inspirations-Anything goes
Fab n funky-no dps
Papertake weekly-Anything goes

Thankyou for visiting me
hugs
Lorraine xx

A Little Hello

Hello everyone I hope you are having a great weekend and that you all are well,today I have a cute card to share which I made last night.
The stamp is called 'Bee Happy' by Whiff of Joy which I coloured with Promarkers and added glitter to the bee's wings,the papers are DCWV spring stack.I punched some flowers and leaves for the flowers and added card candi to the centres,added a stamped greeting and finished with some fake stitching.
I hope you like it what eith the bad weather were having I hope this one brightens your day.
I would like to enter this one into the following challenges:

Crafters Companion-Four legged friends
Creative craft challenge-April mini challenge
Creative Inspirations-Anything goes
One stop crafts-Recipe

Thankyou for visiting me everyone
hugs
Lorraine xx

A Cutie Patootie

 

Hi only me again, Wanted to show you another I made using the cd Laugh out Loud by Peerless Designs this is the actual image we were given in the comp and the caption above them says 'Hey mum...Look what I've found,can I keep him?' which is the caption I said so I won a copy of the cd and for my caption to appear on the cd so here it is.For this one I used a topper and matching backing paper from the cd and above the topper I have used a Martha stewart punch and layed leaf ribbon along it and decorated with punched flowers and gems.
Well I think Im kind of getting the hang of the new blogger least its posting my stuff lol.
I would like to enter this one into the following challenges:

Crafters Companion-Four legged friend

Thats all for me tonight so have a great weekend
hugs
Lorraine xx

Cool Cat Steampunked

Evening peep recently there was a competition on peerless Designs facebook page you were given a piccy and you had to come up with a caption for it,well I won and the caption was put on Sarahs new cd rom Laugh out Loud Im so chuffed about that.Here I have made a quick card for a male using the elements from the cd rom I love this Cool Cat ,the paper also comes with the cd,the border of lions down the side of the card was the edge of one of the papers and I think it works really well with gold mirror card.
Check me out you can actually see the mirror card in the piccy I will master this camera some day haha.
I would like to enter this one into the following challenges:


Crafters Companion-4 legged friend

Thanks for visiting me and I hope to be back soon
hugs
Lorraine xx

New Style For Me-Shabby Chic Birthday Wishes

Evening peeps well I did it again popped out for a while right out of my comfort zone of cute characters and straight lines to try Shabby Chic Stylie would so love to know what you think.

The frame for my greeting is actually a Fancy Pants Rub on which I have had for ages and thought it looked great surrounding the stamped greeting,the gorgeous dress form stamp is from a great set called Paper Girl from the Girls Paperie,paper is from papermania which has been inked with Antique linen DI and distressed with TH paper distresser and also torn in places.

To embellish I have used pearls from Wild orchid and the flowers are from Hobbycraft.I have also used a Martha Stewart for the butterflies,added gems to their bodies and attached a small bow to the middle of the dress form to finish.

I hope you like it.

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:

Crafts and me-3d Embellies

Crafty creations-Flower power

Cute card Thursday-Flowers

Lexis creations-Focus on the sentiment

MAWTT-Shabby chic/vintage

OLLCB-Vintage

Rainbow Ladys Challenge -vintage/Shabby

Simon says stamp and show-A Tim Technique(distress ink,paper distresser)

Sweet stamps-Vintage/Shabby chic

Thanks so much for visiting me

hugs to you all

Lorraine xx