Easter hunt

Hi guys, well spring has sprung and I've got Tilda too show you how lol,

for our challenge over at

Paper Take Weekly this time it's 

use sketch 99 or free for all, 

colour - any pastels

Technique - Make a holder for an Easter treat,

product - Oval

Our fabby sponsor is Simon says Stamp

My basket holds a medium sized Egg, hmm for Tegan !!!!!! well it may have a piece missing lol,

Some Bunny loves you Tilda is coloured with my re-inkers and i couldn't resist using a cotton ball for her tail,

the papers are from scrap and craft as is the chipboard egg too, 

the grass die is by Noor, feathers stash,

I finished off the handle with a border die using a Fiskars border punch and the sides I just added a swirl flourish too, as Tegan is getting this it needs to be  safe!!

Hope you'll join us in the fun!!!

Tilda's Town - use your stash
Deep Ocean - Easter/ spring

Happy Crafting!!!

Hugs Liz xx

Spring Time

Hi, I thought I'd pop by with a project I've been on with, it started off with a plastic egg you can split in half to store sweets in,

It also had a hanging hoop on the bottom so i cut that off, then applied strips of tissue paper with mod podge, when dry I added some acrylic paint to the outside and inside of both pieces,

When dry I adhered one of the halves on the base of the other, 

I coloured Tilda with lamb with my distress pens and finished off with a little re-inker too,

the base has some cheesecloth and  gorgeous flowers from my stash I think they were Prima ones, the glittered eggs are from Scrap and craft,I used the Noor grass die again, the stamen bunch is by Magnolia, rolled paper rose is from The Ribbon Girl,

I added some gorgeous white church window lace from the Ribbon Girl to the outer edges of the egg too,

Challenges

Time for Magnolia - Spring is in the air

Totally Tilda - Easter

Marvelous Magnolia - Floral frenzy

Tilda's Town - Anything goes

Fussy and Fancy - Girly

Happy Crafting!!!

Hugs Liz xx

A cut Above

Hi guys, 

Over at Paper Take Weekly we have a fab challenge for you
A Cut Above,
this can be die cutting, fussy cutting, or using punches or any interpretation of your own!!

We have some friends who's christening their daughter soon so I thought this would fit in brill for the challenge theme too,
The adorable baby digi is by Mo Manning and is coloured with my copics the fussy cut out, I love my rubber stamps but digi's are so handy for when something comes up and you need a beautiful image that just fits the bill,
 I added hints of glitter to her dress, though typically it's not showing on here so well, I then layered her on top of some flowers and a die cut doily,
the fabric flower is from scrap and craft and the rest from Sweet lilac,
The beautiful lace is from The Ribbon Girl as is the top stitch thread too,
The papers are again from scrap and craft from the Heart painted paper pack, so looove this pack of papers, the chipboard corner detail and Christening day also was from there too,

I also made them an exploding cake box,
Using the gorgeous papers again, Sweet Lilac flowers on the lid and gorgeous edged ribbon from TRG,

The inside has more of the papers from the pack,

I again used the same digi image to keep the theme flowing and cut her out using a spellbinders circle and scalloped circle die, the flowers are from stash I've had years!!!!!
the rest have the date of the christening, and sentiments done on my computer, the pearl hearts are again from my stash,

I made the cakes using a similar way to the way I make my boxes for cards only added another layer for underneath to give them some support, then they got the same lovely papers used on the sides and tops,
I used some lace to give a pretty effect too, the button letters are again from my stash, I used one of those adorable teddies again, and yes still not found any more!!! then I stamped a small stamp in my stash with a couple of candles and a bible on it and fussy cut it out to sit on top of the cake to fit the occasion,

So I thought well that's a cut above too, lol

Recipe

15mm White church window guipure lace - TRG

Top stitch thread - TRG

Ruffle edge sheer Ribbon - TRG

Heart painted papers pack - scrap and craft

Chipboard pieces - scrap and craft

Fabric flower- scrap and craft

Flowers - sweet Lilac

Challenges

Mo Manning - Anything goes - optional green

In the pink - lots of layers

Scrap and craft - flowers

As you like it - favourite type of stamp -  digi or rubber

Come and join us in the fun!!!

Happy Crafting!!

Hugs Liz xx

Check this out!!!!

March Giveaway at The ribbon Girls

gorgeous or what!!!!

Hugs Liz xx

Happy ............

Hi guys, over at Paper Take Weekly we have a fab theme for you

Happy .........
some of you may have seen a hint of this as my stupid computer started playing up and I finished up posting it!!!!! nothing to do with me of course!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

well I've used Happy Birthday as it was Kay's 30th Birthday last week, eeek my baby is 30!!!!!

anyway!!! breath deep Liz, one two one two, lol

 So here's a few things I made for her,
lots of pictures so maybe grab a brew first!!!!!!!!!!
The card!

I was in a mood for something different from the norm again and Kay isn't into overly fussy or fancy and has Owls in her lounge, well not literally but on her cushions and ornaments etc, lol so to keep in with the theme I based my stuff on that!!!

the papers are a mixture of Maja design and Magnolia, the  beautiful flowers came from Sweet Lilac, the stamens are a mixture of Magnolia and other, the natural fibers are from hobby Craft,

The Noor musical note came from Icon,(wow are they good prices!!!!!!, no postage and quick), I must admit I trimmed it down a little as it was too big for the space I had,

The 30 numbers are a large sissix die I've had donkeys years and I cut them out and laid them onto a piece of vellum so the background colours still showed through,

The chipboard owl is by Tando Creative and i coloured it with copics,

The beautiful ribbon is from the ribbon girl,
The Happy Birthday chippie is by Scrap and craft which i painted with acrylics,

The Gift envelope!!

Kay wanted money for her Birthday so I made a gift envelope to put it in, I used some more of the gorgeous flowers and stamens and a leaf die from my stash, I cut the edge with my trimmer,

Exploding cake box

This was hard to take a picture of, the lid is on the back right and again I used some of the gorgeous ribbon from The Ribbon Girl, papers , flowers etc for the lid,

I left the top cake flowers flat for the lid to fit on, the flowers on the side of the cake are from TRG all listed below,

Closer view of all the top of the box,

The last one!!

I bought the bare MDF 30 and base from Anna Marie designs and painted, distressed, sanded and added a crackle effect on the pieces to start, when dry i added a little stenciling here and there to bring in the green colour,
The flowers are again from Sweet Lilac, the stamens Magnolia and other,
the chipboard  music notes are again by Tando Creative and I kept them to their original colour,
Again i used one of the owls and coloured it with my copics the adhered it with 3D glue,

kay loved it so that was good, lol

recipe
Crafters workshop - Mini quaterfoil stencil
30 MDF = Anna Marie Designs
Paper Artsy - chalk acylic - opaque
cosmic shimmer matt chalk paint- blueberry crush
 Imagination crafts - Chalkies stamping paint - Moss
Sweet Lilac - flowers and magnolia stamens
The Ribbon Girl - Helitrope No 7 Berisford satin ribbon
Tando Creative - Mini Owls
Copics - Y21, YG03, 100, vo4,
Tim Holtz - crackle paint clear
Gesso white
Dusty concord distress ink

Challenges
Live and love crafts - photo inspiration
The ABC Challenge F for Festive - (Birthdays, Easter etc)
Country View - anything goes
Dies R us - Shades of green
Tando Creative - anything goes
Avenue Create - Anything goes
Card and scrap - use layers
That's crafty - Wings n' things

if your still here thanks for looking!!
Happy Crafting!!!
Hugs Liz xx

A gift for you

Hi guys, I hope this posts ok as my computer is really doing some strange things today, I had wrote this post, put it on schedule then went to write another post and that went on live too soon and this one disappeared altogether!!!! I mean what!!!!

so here goes again!!!

Over at Magnolia- Forever we have add a charm challenge

and at Sweet lilac it's spring time,

This little bag was in my stash and thought it needed a little TLC,

the papers are by Maja Design and are machine sewn and some distressed as well,

Tilda loves me, not is coloured with my copics and layered onto a spellbinders oval and scalloped oval die,

The gorgeous flowers are of course by Sweet lilac as are the leaves too,

the border trim is a Martha Stewart punch I've had for years and thought that needed some TLC too,

The fab corrugated heart was a gift from the lovely Emilia at scrap and craft, thank you hun,

I've tied my charm onto some lovely twine from the Ribbon Girl, the lace is also from Sweet Lilac but from their bricks and mortar shop in St Helens,

Challenges

Magnolia-licious - spring blog hop and circles, dots, splats and dots

Tilda's Town - Use Dies or punches

7 Kids - Anything goes optional Green
Fussy and  fancy challenge - Ribbons and lace
Simply Magnolia - flowers

Happy Crafting!!

Hugs Liz xx

For mum

Hi guys, over at Paper take Weekly we have a lovely challenge for you

Mum's the Word,
we are being sponsored by the lovely Christine of Paper Nest Dolls,

my mum is nearly 85 so i have made her a card a little different from usual, well you know me i do like a change!!! lol

I have made a 5" x &7" for a start lol and used some of the beautiful Heart painted papers by Lemoncraft from Scrap and craft, I love this pack so much I've ordered some more!!!!

the loopy die cut is by Memory Box which i got last week from a craft fair, love this too,

on top i added a chipboard piece again from Scrap and Craft because for those who know me know I also love chipboard!!!!!

The large organza pink flower was from Emilia at Scrap and craft too which went with the papers, the white one is from my stash, the  other flowers are from Sweet Lilac,

I added a small tag and added some wooden letters I had again in my stash, and to finish off the center display I added hints of cheesecloth here and there,

the Butterfly was also in the paper pack,

Recipe

Lemoncraft - Heart painted papers - Scrap and craft

Chipboard shape - Scrap and craft

Pink fabric flower - Scrap and craft

Roses - Sweet lilac

Memory box die - La Rue Flourish

Tulle

Stamens - Magnolia

Nellie's multi frame tag

Challenges

Scrap and Craft - mothers Day

Cardabilities sketch - 118
The shabby Tea room - hint of pink
Lemoncraft blog - fan friday

Hope you will join us in the fun!!

Happy Crafting!!

Hugs Liz xx

Welcome to the Winter Ball

I'm here today with a daft project I had running round my head which just had to be done lol, actually I made it for Tegan's room and she loved it, so i'm glad I did, lol

I made her a Winter Ball held in a castle!!! and tried to make it a little Frozen like!!

anyway Tegan looked at it and said Frozen straight away so it must have worked in a quirky sort of way!!!

The gorgeous images I used are of course from the super talented Christine at  The Paper Nest Dolls and it will be shown here, pop over and have a look to see other gorgeous works too,

All the images are coloured with my copics then fussy cut out, a strip of acetate placed behind and glued in place, 

I used a piece of xmas Maja Design paper for the floor to look wintery and added a chipboard Park Avenue fountain from Scrap and Craft, I added a little stickles to the base and cut a flourish of acetate for the frozen water jet, see I have watched Frozen a few times lol,

flowers are from Sweet Lilac,

PND used

Princess Rose, Masquerade Ellie, Ballgown Ellie, Ballgown Avery, Snow princess,

copics used:

 Princess Rose
  skin E000, 00, 11, 13, R11 ( used for all)
Hair - E35, 33, 31, 30
Purple - V15, 17, 09
Rose - V91, 93, 95
Greens - YG 63, G94
Black - C7, 5, 3, 1
............................

Snow princess
Skin - as above
Hair - E44, 43, C1, C3, E70, 71, W1, 3
Cape - BV21, 00,/ B02, 00 000
Dress - B12, 00, 0000
Bodice - C7, 5, 3, 1,
........................

Masquerade Ellie
Hair - E44, 43, 41, 40
Dress - B97, 95, 93, 91, C7, 5, 3
...........................

Ballgown Avery
Hair - C5, 3, 1, 0
Dress - Rv95, 93, 91

Ballgown Ellie
Hair - E44, 43, 41, 40
Dress - C5, 3, 1 B97, 95, 93, 91

Challenges
World wide open day - show us your digi work
Crafting for all season's - Girly Girls
Simon Says Wednesday - Special lady/ feminine
Thanks for looking!!

Happy Crafting!!!

Hugs Liz xx

Ladies Day

Hi guys, back again with our Paper Take Weekly challenge which this time is

Anything Goes -optional home made flowers,

were being sponsored by the Lovely The Ribbon Girls, yeah thank you Mary and Andrea,

It was my Birthday last month and with some of my money I saw this dress form in a local shop and it just had to fall into my basket!!!!!
As you know i love to do something different for a change,

there are a few pictures, so grab a brew first lol,

It started out brown as it's made of paper mache, so i painted the whole thing with white gesso first,

the bodice had quite a wide bottom, lol so i was stuck to what would look right, so after much humming and haring I came up with this,

If you look closely you will see I started off with some tissue paper strips onto which I had stamped a script stamp, I tore the strips up the applied to the bodice using mod podge, this was to give her a bodice effect as the dress form has quite a good shape on her top half and so she needed her modesty!!!!  when this was dry I made the over bodice by using the wet paper technique to fold, mould and shape the paper to fit, before gluing I added a strip of lace on the top,

I will go back to the hat later,

Again using the same technique i then made an under the bust part of the dress/ costume by roughly following the design of the dress form and down to just past her waist,

The inner dress is made up using two different designer papers shaped and layered with a little tulle in between too, over this I shaped and made  soft pleat effects for the skirt to go over the top, I added the smaller lace before gluing to the dress form and the larger lace  after it was attached to the rest of the dress form,

To finish the dress off I used a few different flower dies from my stash, made them up using some maja design papers then applied them where i thought they looked right, the flourish is by Cheery Lynn,

To  finish off the top of the dress form which looked a little bare I made a hat out of the same papers, using some circle dies and a strip of paper, I sort of made it up as I went along!!!! but I like the finished look,

again I used some more of the hand made flowers and cut a little bit off another of the flourishes to tie it all in,

I finished off the base with a rub on, which says yesterday, today, tomorrow,

I really enjoyed doing this and would love to do more!!!!!

Dress form - Indigo blue

Tissue paper

Bo Bunny - it is written text stamp

Papers - Till the end of Midnight from - scrap and craft

 45mm  Jessica white Guipure Lace - TRG

White droplet Venise Lace - TRG

Cheery Lynn flourish die

Kraft card stock

Maja design papers

Tulle - stash

Kaiser craft - rub ones - Miss Empire

Challenges
Country View - anything goes
Dies R Us - Monochromatic
As you like it - Favourite project and why
Crafts galore - anything goes
Crafting from the heart - Anything goes
World wide ope challenge

Well I hope you've enjoyed your visit, and will join us in the challenge too,

Happy Crafting!!!

Hugs Liz xx

Aw so cute

Hi guys, back today with a card for 

 The Ribbon Girl  card challenge which is to use flowers,

the prize is a £10.00 gift voucher from The Ribbon Girl and a £10,00 Gift Voucher from Lili of the Valley too, yeah!!!!

and magnolia Forever which is so cute - pets,

I remembered I had this adorable free Magnolia stamp off one of the magazines they used to do and thought that's cute so it fit the challenge lovely, I also used one of the tiny hearts from magnolia too, kiss stamped,

Tilda with puppy is coloured with my copics, yes I'm in copic colouring mood, my DI'S are feeling neglected lol,

oops!!! best show you the piccie hadn't I!!!!

The beautiful flowers of course from The Ribbon Girl are 

Kort and Godt rolled paper roses- pink,  Large Rose bud Pink and Hip Rose bud Pale pink,

so love these,

I also used  white droplet Venise lace from The Ribbon Girl Too and some of the white opal  liquid pearl,

copics:

Skin - E000, 00, 11, 13, R11

Hair - E44, 43, 41, 40

Dress and shoes  - RV95, 93, 91

Gillet - W3, 1, 0

Tights - E43, 41, 40

Puppy - C5, 3, 1, 0

Basket - E35, 33, 31

Shadows W5, 3, 1, 0

Challenges
Bunny Zoe's - one for the girls
Magnolia-licious - Bingo Board - Lace/ die cuts/ flowers
Deep Ocean - Our Furry Friends
Stamp and create with Magnolia - Frame it out
Lovely haenglar or sweet magnolia - favourite embellishment - lace/ flowers

Hope you'll join us in the fun!!!

Happy Crafting!!!

Hugs Liz xx