Hi guys

I'm busy packing as were off on hols on Friday for a week, son's still at home so the house will be a tip when I get back but at least it's a break,

were going to Centre Parcs in Elveden, anyone else going let me know lol 

I've heard the weather is still gorgeous down south so I hope it stays that way!!!

right on to the challenges,

Colour create this time have a colour challenge chosen by our lovely Sylvia and it's

white, cream and brown,

optional extra one more colour plus buttons and flowers,
here is the inspirational picture

as you can see my extra colour is blue, to be honest a little darker than I intended as my palest copic ran out so I had to use the next one up, or should that be down? lol

the base is cut using a go kreate die and of course the gorgeous image is a hAnglar stamp,

My flowers are from WOC and the pearl buds are Kars, the large pearls are really buttons which I have glued on side ways to hide the shank, these were another raid of my mums button box he he,

papers are sewn as you can see and I have made a border for the white using a MS punch

challenges

Sparkle dreams ~ sketch

Timbroscrapmania ~ buttons and stitches
A spoonful of sugar ~ Anything goes

paper play challenge

our challenge this time is set by my lovely friend Mandy so of course it's called

Sparkle Galore

and yes you've guessed it show us your glitters, and glitz the more the merrier lol,

this is really sparkly which I hope you will see on the next pictures lol,

Mandy gets lovely sparkly pictures but I've to get them yet! lots more practise needed he he,

I've stamped out two images then made my own path with doing dots of three colours with my copic pens and the sky using copics too, my first attempt at the sky, and of course when my pen also ran out so it's not as good as I would have liked,

Can you see the Glitter?

I've distressed the edges of both my card and paper and added Tim Holtz crackle paint then just before it dried added some glamour dust so there is hints of sparkle at the edges too,

the gorgeous magnolia tree had to have some treatment too lol,

the flowers at the bottom I sprayed with perfect pearls then added glamour dust to them for extra sparkle

sorry the pictures a little fuzzy on this!

I wish you could see the sparkle !!

challenges
Simon says stamp ~ sparkle and shine

pear tree designs ~ stamped images

creative stempelfreunde ~ favourite colours ~ pinks, brown, blue

Cupcake craft ~ in the garden

creative inspirations ~ glitzy and bling

cutie sunday ~ butterflies

Bunny Zoe Crafts ~ lace
paper take weekly ~ bloom and grow

I'll be back with my Totally Tilda creation on Sunday as long as scheduled post behaves and Mr Blogger doesn't strop again,
Remember I have candy!
Love and hugs Liz xx

Easter wishes!

Hi guys,

We are having gorgeous weather, beautifully warm, well hot actually and I hear so are you lol,

It's Thursday and time for colour create and paper play challenges,

I've used the same card for both as life has been a bit hectic lately lol,

Paperplay's challenge
Is for Easter so anything to do with Easter is fine,

Colour create's challenge
Is mine! and it's for the colours pink, blue and brown

with the optional extra of acetate or cracked glass effects,

Here is the image

I must have been mad to choose this as I've never done cracked glass effects before and with my son's upheaval I had run out of acetate and didn't get chance to buy some more lol,

so here's my attempt!

I've used this gorgeous Magnolia stamp with her little lamb, it's been coloured with copics, but do beware that when you add embossing powder it does change the colours slightly as her hair was more dark on the left to go with the right lol,

as I said it was my first attempt at the cracked glass look but I only had fine embossing powder so needed to use 4 layers instead of one thick one, oh well I'll know for next time,

Recipe:

Papers ~ Tim Holtz and Basic Grey Hopscotch

Flowers~ Prima and other

pearls and feather ~  stash

pearl accent ~ prima

Seam binding ~ gift

Challenges

Craft your days away ~ Easter

Magnolia Down Under ~ Easter

Stempeltraume ~ Easter

Die cut dreams ~ Easter 

Pear tree designs ~ Easter

Paper Sundaes ~ Texture

Sunday sketch and stamp ~ fabulous Sketch

Stamptacular Sunday~ Magnolia-licious

Everybody Art challenge ~ Pearls

Simon Says Stamp ~ Emboss it
Dutch Dare ~ cracked glass

Wishing you all a lovely Easter weekend,
Jim's got the decorating bug, so guess who will have to help!!!!
I will be back on Sunday with  my Totally Tilda  creation,
see you soon
love and hugs Liz xx

Celebrate spring!

Hi guys,

Isn't it gorgeous! had a walk this morning, positively summerish lol the birds are singing, and a gorgeous Butterfly was in the Garden, luckily I saw it as Tilly had her nose on top of it sniffing, but when I told her to leave, she did bless her and it flew away quite happily, the butterfly that is not Tilly lol,

Our challenge this time at Colour create is by our lovely Janiel and is for pastel colours and the optional extra is 

Easter,

our sponsor is Crafts and me

well I just had to stamp up my new stamps from Magnolia didn't I!

they are so gorgeous!!

I've masked the barrow of tulips with this gorgeous Tilda and coloured them with Distress Inks,the flowers are WOC and I've given them the glitter treatment lol, 

all my paper edges are machine sewn,

Challenges
All that scraps Magnolia ~ Spring is in the air

CLP ~ Sketch

Stempeltraume ~ Spring colour,

Whoopsi Daisy ~ Easter,

Creative stamp friends ~ Spring

Stamp with fun ~ Spring

Stamping scrapping challenge ~ Pastel

Claudia and co ~ colours, butter, rose, pale green, lavender,

Scrap creations ~ spring has sprung

Crafty creations ~ In stitches

Over at Paper Play the challenge is distressing and is set by me!

I hope you like the challenge and don't just want to throw things at me lol,

I've used a Fuzzy Moon image, isn't it cute,  again it's been done with Distress Inks, the background is pale pink but you can hardly make that out lol,

The sentiment is one of Lynne's from here, these are great as you can make them to your own size,

I've used a Doo Hickey die cut to make the half frame for my image and to add interest on the main card, my paper edges and my image edge are all distressed with my distress tool some of my papers are sewn too,

Challenges

The fuzzy wuzzy challenge ~ Sketch

Crafts and me ~ Anything goes

hope you having lovely weather too,

see you soon, love and hugs Liz xx

MMM Strawberries, cream and chocolate, with hearts and flowers too,

Hi peeps,

Wow don't these weeks fly lol,

As I said yesterday it's time for my DT cards and the theme this time for colour create is very yummy it's chosen by our lovely talented Mina and it's

Chocolate, Strawberry and cream, optional extra is ribbon

I keep drooling over this! yum yum
we are being sponsored by the lovely Michelles scrapbooking again too and this is the prize, thankyou

For my card I chose this sweet hAnglar image which I've coloured with Distress inks, only I must admit her dress isn't as dark as I'd like as it just wouldn't go any darker for some reason lol, I cut her out and used Pin flair glue to attach her on, I embossed the circle with a cuttle bug embossing folder then highlighted one or two spots with glitter,

Papers are Basic Grey, roses are papermania, ribbon and lace from stash
Challenges.
 Totally Gorjuss ~ Sketch
Cupcake craft ~ seeing red
Sarah Hurley ~ Die cuts
Crafts and me ~ Red
Fab n funky ~ Tempting texture

Our Paper play challenge this week is
Hearts and flowers but not valentine
and our sponsor is waltzing mouse and they are giving a stamp set, thank you

As you can see I've used another gorgeous hAnglar for this card too lol,
I had a change and coloured this time with copics, wow you've not seen that in a while have you he he, my image was sent from a lovely blogging friend, so thank you hunny, much appreciated,
The papers are of course Tim Holtz vintage Shabby, which I've sewn and distressed, the border punch is Martha Stewart, the tags are spellbinders,
Hearts dies are sissix, butterflies are of course Martha Stewart too, the rest from stash,
Challenges
My time to craft ~ Hearts and flowers
Papertake weekly ~ Have a Heart
Penny's Papercraft ~ hearts a flutter
Stamptacular Sunday ~ Hearts gone wild
Ellephantastic ~ Distressing with a love theme
Fun with shapes ~ at heart with heart

Hope too see you soon,
Have fun!


Hugs Liz xx