Use Vellum @ MAWTT

Good morning good people. Hope the weather is kinder to you than it has been here! Wind and rain non stop again, I wanted to be going out for a walk everyday but not in this weather, I'll end up back in hospital with pneumonia!

I'm back today with a new challenge over at

MOVING ALONG WITH THE TIMES

and this week Wendy L our Spanish crafter has chosen

Vellum or Parchment

Now this theme was a challenge for me but trying to photograph my card proved to be an even bigger challenge!! All I can say is I'm sorry, no way would it focus at all, I tried everything I know but all to no avail. I don't know if it was the vellum, or the fact the stamping direct onto it is very soft.

It's actually very pretty in real life but you will just have to take my word on that lol!!

I stamped my yummy new LOTV pushchair stamp direct onto the blue vellum with blue ink and just coloured in a little shading with a polychromo pencil. The Special Delivery is a rub on and I fixed the vellum onto a blue card with 2 eyelets just along one side. A bit of ribbon and twine with a cute teddy charm and Bob's your uncle that's it!

(Actually Bob is not my uncle - he's the builder that is finally starting work on my renovations any day now, it's only been 2 years since work was meant to start!!)

Head over to the main challenge blog for lots of gorgeous inspiration from my multi talented teammies and you can check if you were in the top 3 last week while you are there.

I'll be back tomorrow with a brand new little project for me that I will explain then.

Thanks for stopping by and for your lovely comments, a big hello to my new followers too (if you read this far down)

Love 'n Hugs Laurie xx

I'd like to enter this into the following challenges....

A Purrfect Challenge @ MAWTT

Hello folks, I'm slowly but surely getting back to normal health, I'm surprised how long that takes after an operation and my crafting is coming on very slowly!! Thank you to everyone for the good wishes and fabulous Get Well Cards I've received, I've been feeling very special and very spoilt I can tell you. Just another few days before I'm allowed to drive, thank goodness, I'm going a little stir crazy stuck at home 24-7. I will never moan about having to go out to get the grocery shopping again - well I might not LOL

It's time for a new challenge over at

MOVING ALONG WITH THE TIMES

and my little Scottish friend Janice is hosting with the theme of

CATS

I'm not sure I should admit this as everyone at MAWTT is cat crazy but I'm not a cat fan, they always scratch me. Maybe the cat and I fight for top spot in a household!!

I didn't feel 100% when I made this but I've missed so much over at MAWTT lately I felt was in danger of being sacked if I didn't snap to it!!

(Not really everyone has been so kind and my lovely boss Hazel has been covering my commenting)

 

I did however, decide to go down the Clean and Simple route to speed things up, not that it does as I spend so long deciding if I should add more things to this style of card!! My cat is a rub on, so I haven't even coloured anything here!

Head over to the main challenge blog for lots of much more creative cards and news of a super prize up for grabs this week. We also have 3 new teammies joining our happy band that you can find out about there.

That's it from me, I'm off for a lie down LOL

Love 'n' Hugs Laurie xx

I'd like to enter this into the following challenges....

Use Red @ Diva's

Good Morning everyone, time for a new challenge at

DIVA'S BY DESIGN

and this week Rebekah wants you to 

Use Red

That shouldn't be a problem with all the Christmas cards we are all (if you are anything like me) rushing to make!

Kept this one nice and simple, recoloured the image in Photoshop to print in red not black, a bit of double matting, a lovely crisp gingham ribbon and bow and a rub on sentiment - Bob's your uncle - done in a flash! Might even whizz a few more of these out! It does look a bit pink but I can assure you the cardstock is bright white! so difficult to photograph.

The super image is from this weeks sponsor

 http://deliciousdoodles.blogspot.co.uk/

Head over to the main challenge blog for all the details and some gorgeous inspiration from my teammies.

That's it from me today, thank you for stopping by

Love 'n' Hugs Laurie xx

I'd like to enter this into the following challenges

CAS @ Diva's

Good Morning everyone, I back again (busy week) with my 2nd of 3 DT cards this week, tomorrow sees the return of MAWTT which we are all excited about but first up today is a new challenge at

DIVA'S BY DESIGN

and we have my hardest challenge

Clean and Simple

I know it should be the easiest of them all but I have to sit on my hands to stop 

myself from sticking things on!

I just printed out my image and sentiment on cream cardstock added a scrap of furry velvet zebra paper with a die cut border and shaded in my zebra stripes with pencil.

Very simple in the end but hours of agonising went into this!!

My image is a freebie from this weeks sponsor

http://www.2cuteink.com/

Please head over to the main challenge blog for all the details and some beautiful inspiration from the Diva's this week.

That's it from me today, hopefully I'm sunbathing in glorious sunshine!
 Thank you for stopping by on your blog travels

Love 'n' Hugs Laurie xx

I'd like to enter this into the following challenges

Oh IDo Like To Be Beside The Seaside!

Well I actually do live beside the seaside beside the sea!! And I really don't appreciate it enough I can assure you. It's like a ghost town in the winter and over flowing with holiday makers in the summer and I'm not sure which is best!!

Anyway enough of that, can you believe it's the 1st of July already? I can't and I would like the first half of my year back please, I'm sure there was stuff I had to do in it!!

But the 1st of July it is and that means a new challenge at

HECK OF A CHALLENGE

and this month we have a theme of

The Sea

(hence my post title)

I've gone down a whole different route for me and made a CAS card. Christine made one the other week that I just loved so here is my CASED version

 I just love this Tiddly Inks image. I got it last year with a voucher Sarah got me for my birthday and I can't believe it's taken me so long to colour up!

Nothing else needs explaining on this card LOL except I used peel offs! I never thought I would!!!

Head over to the main challenge blog for some gorgeous inspiration and all the details and the prize that the lovely Mandy's are giving away this month from their fabulous online store

http://www.everycraftsapound.co.uk/

or if you're in the area call in to the bricks and mortar shop

The Craft and Hobby Store, Heckmondwike

Catch you all later - gotta fly!

Love 'n Hugs Laurie xx

I'd like to enter this into these challenges (if I have time!!)

CAS @ MAWTT

Morning lovely people this is a scheduled post as I'm super efficient and it's still March when I'm writing this!! I do hope that by now it has warmed up a bit lol if not I might have to emigrate!

I'm back today with a brand new challenge for the B team at

MOVING ALONG WITH THE TIMES

and this week my lovely little friend Sarah is hosting her first challenge here of

Clean and Simple

Is it just me that finds these cards such a challenge?

I almost need to chop my hands off to stop me adding stuff! 

I got there in the end, see what you think

 Of course what's even harder with these CAS cards is trying to photograph them! This is just a plain white 4x4 little card with a die cut moustache (which I love) stamped directly onto the card (which was nerve wracking) a black punched border with a black and white stripe raised on top with foam pads. Kinda cute me thinks in the end.

Head over to the main challenge blog for all the details of this challenge and lots of lovely inspiration from my teammies.

Thank you so much for all your support and lovely comments, I've been having quite a difficult time and now more than ever they mean a lot

Love 'n' Hugs Laurie xx

I'd like to enter this into the following challenges (if I get time!)
SFTW - Punches or Die Cuts
Crafty Sentiments - Use a Sentiment
Papertake Weekly - Anything Goes

Floral Delights @ LCI

Good morning my lovelies hopefully this post has arrived on the scene as I should be at this momemt in time, laid on a beach soaking up some much appreciated sunshine!!

It's time for a new challenge today at

LADYBUGS CRAFT INK

and my gorgeous friend Julie would like to see 

Flowers and Embossing

Well flowers is ok with me but embossing is something I don't really do much of, so I went with a nice and simple CAS style card

As you all know these white cards are almost impossible to photograph  -in the end I just had to step away from the camera!
I've used one of the original Floral Delight images available HERE but check out the rest of the DT, along with some lovely GDT's as they all have new additions to the Floral Delight family.
I was scared of this image when Kerry first sent it to me - but now I love it and I know I will use it lots and lots!

oh hang on a minute there's no ice in my Mojito - you just can't get the staff!!
Gotta get back to my sunbathing!!!

Love 'n' Sunshine Laurie xx

Moving Along Clean & Simply

Good morning all, goodness knows what the weather will bring today but as I'm writing this we have a red sky here in 

'Sunny Hunny'

I'd like to say 'hello' and thank you to my new followers, you certainly know how to make someones day!

It's Thursday already which means DT time for me over at

Moving Along With The Times

Before I show you my card today I just want to thank everyone who played along last week with our

Inspired By A Song Challenge

I had the best time checking out all the blogs and songs. It was the most fun I'd had since I started blogging!

Today our Head 'Teamie' The one and only Hazel has chosen the theme and she chose

CLEAN AND SIMPLE

Oh my goodness these are sooooooo NOT simple!!

This was the hardest card I have ever made, and this is about the 7th attempt!

I cannot stamp directly onto a card, I know that now and have I finally come to terms with that fact! It's not that I didn't try

............I think I tried too hard!!

My little 'Janpanse Girl' (I'm still playing last weeks challenge) is a sticker! Is that cheating? It felt like cheating, especially when I tell you my sentiment is a rub on! With that knowledge you would think this card took all of 5 minutes to make, well think again because it took me days!!!!!

And trying to photograph it was another nightmare, I don't think the camera likes red!

We are sponsored this week by

The winner will receive a £10 Gift Voucher

So pop over to MAWTT for all the details and to check what the fabby Design Team have been busy making for your inspiration.

Thank you for stopping by to have a look,  and for the lovely comments I receive

Love 'n' Hugs Laurie xx

I'd like to enter this into the following challenges

Ladybugs Craft Ink  - Use Red

One Stop Craft - Stick It!
Creative Card Crew  - Asian Flair
Gingerloft  - Asian

Dutch Dare - Clean & Simple
Scrappy Frogs  - Simply Red