Janlynn Blog Candy!!

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As I have been saying for a week or so now, I have some candy that Janlynn gave me to give away to one lucky person. I have tried all this week to get a pic of the stuff but I have either been ill (again!!) or it's been raining and I couldn't get outside to take a pic. So today while the weather looked ok thought I would get out and take a pic, but just as I got everything ready, it started to pour of rain, just typical!! So I took some pics indoors. They are not very good but hopefully you can see everything. My photo's really do not do any of this goodies justice though, they are all really good quality items and I honestly wanted to keep them for myself lol.

So here's what's up for grabs.

The top pic is everything the winner will receive, the other 2 pics are just giving you a closer look:) Janlynn have a huge sale on just now, but if you were to buy this lot for the full price, you would pay just under $70!!
Here's a list of everything, you can click on the links and it will take you straight to the item on Janlynn's site if you want a better look :)
Holiday Theme Scrappers Pack
Diva Scrappers Pack. Both these sets have over 75 pieces each! They contain handmade papers, diecuts, flowers, ribbon, buttons, bows etc and are very good quality.

Red Roses
Blue Roses
Yellow Roses
Pink Roses
White Roses
Purple Carnations
Large Poinsettias
Large Metal Flower embelishments

Right here's what you got to do to be in with a chance of winning.
1. This candy is for ACTIVE FOLLOWERS only, so if you are a follower already all you have to do is leave me some lovely comments to let me know you have visited :) If you are a new follower, you can still enter but you must have left me at least 3 comments from now until the candy closes, so I know you are not only visiting for candy. Sorry, I know this may seem a bit harsh, but after my last candy, 12 people stopped following as soon as I announced the winner, so to make it fair to my followers who are actually interested in what I do, you must be an active follower to enter. I do love to get new followers though and meet new people so don't be shy, it is open to all as long as you actually want to come visit once in a while :)
2. You MUST put a pic of this candy with a link to my blog and also add the Janlynn banner to your sidebar. You will find it in my sidebar. (the one with the tiger).
3. Leave me a comment on this post to let me know you have put the Janlynn banner and my candy pic on your blog.
Then just come visit when you feel like it:)
You can still enter if you don't have a blog. I know I have some followers who visit regularly who don't have their own blog yet, and they are more than welcome to enter. If you can't leave a comment, you can enter by emailing me at lorascards@aol.com
Oh and I will post worldwide so anyone can enter :)
This candy win run until the 29th of November which would of been my Mum's birthday if she was still with us. I will post the winner on the 30th.


Lora x

Digital Tuesday DT card

It's my turn to host this weeks over at Digital Tuesday and the theme this week is "Thank You".
Penny from Penny's Creations is sponsoring us this week and offering the winner her 5 digi images.
She was also kind enough to give the design team 2 of her images to use for the challenge.



I used her Bear With Sign image and just printed him straight onto some Kraft cardstock and printed him out again on white card then cut out just his sign, inked over it with some distress ink and added a SU! sentiment. I also inked around the edge of the bear and coloured his nails with a brown copic.
The lovely paper is from Stampin Up. The brown piece is the reverse of the stripey one.
The swirls were punched with an All Night Media swirl punch. It is just a single swirl punch but I used 2 together to make a little flourish kind of thing. Flower is a Prima and the button is from a bag that the lovely Stef sent me. (thanks hun, they have came in sooo handy, mmwahh)
This is a lot simpler than most of my cards and I didn't really colour anything but it's nice to have a change and I need to start doing simple quick cards for Christmas so I can get a lot more made, so this was good practice. Not sure if I like it but I love those SU! papers. They are from one of the speciality packs (I think) and are much thicker than their normal ones and they also have a textured feel to them. I got these last month and this is the first time I have used them because the colours haven't went with any of the cards I have been making lately, but now I have opened the pack I think you will be seeing a lot more of them :)

Well I hope you are all having a great day. It's pouring of rain here again so looks like it's going to be a crafty day in for me...yay :) but tonight Liam is doing a break dancing performance at Aberdeen's Lemon Tree so I have to go pick him up when that's finished. I really want to go to see him performing but all the tickets are sold out :( We only found out this morning that he was getting to perform as he was off lessons for 2 weeks when he had tonsillitis so his tutor didn't think he would be able to do the performance because he had missed learning some of the routines, but he went to his last lesson and managed to learn everything he had missed and done it so well that his tutor said he could go after all. But I phoned this morning for tickets and they are all sold out. The woman at the box office has been trying for over an hour to see if she could get me tickets (which was really nice of her. she even worked over her normal shift so she could keep phoning to try get me tickets), but she couldn't get through on the phone to the place that the performance is being held, so she has gave me the number so I can try myself later.
Keep your fingers crossed for me! Hope someone who has tickets is ill and can't go lol, then I will be able to get their seat :)
If I do manage somehow to get tickets, I will take lots of picks so you can see my little break dancer in action lol. I haven't even seen him do it myself and this is his first performance, so I will be really gutted if I can't go.

Until then though, I'm off to make some Christmas cards while I only have one kid at home and she's sitting watching Mr Maker (a kiddies arts and crafts thing on the telly).

Lora x

Cute Daisy May DT and a challenge

I'm really late posting my DT card today, been at the kids school all day getting some decorations made for the school fayre.and forgot to post it when I got home. I found some nice snowflake decorations that were easy to make on the internet the other day so I made some of those. Will show pics of them another time though.
I still need to make loads of stuff and do lots more cards but at least I have started now.

The challenge over at Cute Daisy May this week is "Red Christmas", so that's one more made for the Christmas box :)
I entering this card to Stampin For The Weekend as I followed their sketch.



I made this card at the last minute last night and took the pic before the twinklets had dried properly, so the flower doesn't look so white anymore, you can see the red a bit more through the twinklets.
The papers are Stampin Up and the scallopedoval is a digi element by Summer Driggs.
The sweet image is of course a Cute Daisy May and I paper pieced her clothes. AfterI had cut her clothes out, I stamped over them with an Anna Griffin backgrouns stamp with Versamark and heat embossed with vlear embossing powder. I also stamped some tiny snowflakes on her jacket with some distress ink, but you can't realyy see any of that in the pic. It looks nice irl though. Gives it a bit of texture and make her clothes look like they have a subtle pattern. The rest of the image is coloured with Copics.
The sentiment is a chipboard embelishment that I bought last year but can't remember where and the ribbon, spacer, brad and pearls are all from my stash.
Well I'm off now in search of some large snowflake shapes for the Christmas Fayre.

Lora x

Just for fun

I forgot I made this card last week just for fun. I had some of the Stampin Up papers I had been using on another card on my desk and a WOJ image that I coloured ages ago so thought I would stick them onto a card, and this is how it turned out.
I just love these SU! papers just now, they are so pretty and just happened to go well with my coloured image. The lace looks squint here but it was just because I scanned the card and the scanner had moved it. It does look straight IRL. The lace was from a local haberdashery and the velvet ribbon I threaded through it is by Craft House. Flowers are a mix of Prima and some from Tabby Crafts. spacer and pearls from Ebay and branches are punched with a Mcgill punch.
I made this card to send to someone who hopefully still reads my blog :) so one of you will be getting it through your mailbox soon :)

Now the card is over and done with, I have an apology to make. I have a lot of mail that needs posted but I have been busy at the kids school all week and haven't been back in time to catch the post office, so if any of you are waiting for packages from me, I am really sorry. They will be posted first thing in the morning. I have also had trouble getting card to stamp my images on and for my card bases as the papermill shop was out of the normal card I use when I went last week, and I haven't been able to get there this week, so hopefully they will have tomorrow or else I won't be able to make any more cards until they get some in!

Right I'm off to look for some more ideas for this Santa's grotto thing! Thank you to everyone who left me some ideas :) If anyone else has any ideas/advice on what else I could do to decorate a room to make it into a Santa's Grotto, they would be gratefully received. Just incase anyone didn't see my post below, I need to make a fireplace and decorate the rest of the room too. I have a few idea but the more ideas I have the better. I should of maybe mentioned in my previous post that as it's for the school, we are on a budget, so it has to be cheap but look good :)

Thanks for stopping by

Lora x

Any Stamp Will Do and I need some crafty advice!

Just a quick post tonight to show the card I made for Stef's colour challenge at Any Stamp Will Do.
Stef's colour choices were red, green, blue and yellow (or gold).
The papers are all Stampin Up, I used my Fiskars border punch for the scalloped edge, flower is from Tabby Crafts, ribbon is Dovecraft and of course I have used a Sugar Nellie Gorjuss Girl which I coloured with Copics and used a bit of glitter on her star.
Just a simple card but that's just the kind of cards I need to be making just now so I can get lots churned out for Christmas. Especially as I have the school Christmas Fayre to make cards to sell at and I need to make othr gifts to see too, which I haven't even started and it's on the 10th and 11th of December. Think I'd better get my bum in gear!

Speaking of the Christmas Fayre. I was asked today if I could decorate the Santa's Grotto. They really want it to be WOW, so no pressure there lol. I need to make a paper fireplace and some decorations to hang up and anything else I can think of, so I was wandering if any of you imaginative people have any ideas for me? In other words....help!!! I have no idea how I'm gonna do this so any ideas would be gratefully received :)

Thanks for stopping by

Lora xx

Just Magnolia

I just remembered that I had a card to post for this weeks Just Magnolia challenge that I made on Friday after the challenge was posted! Oh well at least I am still on time :)
It's another fab sketch this week so of course me loving sketches, I just had to play along.




I had to scan this one and you can hardly see the acetate snowflakes but just look for the brads and you can imagine what it looks like irl lol.
I have no idea who makes this paper but I got a 12x12 sheet of it at my local craft store for 49p!! Think they must of made a mistake with the price because I have never bought a 12x12 from there that has cost me under £1. It's a thick quality paper too so if I go back to get more, they will probably be doubled in price.
I've had this image coloured for ages but have never used it because the ink has run a bit as it was stamped in stazon and I used Copics to colour but it doesn't look as bad as it does in this pic, think the scanner has just made it blurry. Anyway I used it and it's stopping right where it is.
I used one of the Nestie shapes Heather cut for me (I so need to get more nesties of my own!) but I only had the one size so , I traced around it onto a piece of card with a quickie glue pen and covered it in sparkly embossing powder and heated, then cut the label shape out using the embossing as a guide, and there you go, a home made embossed label shaped mat :)
The big snowflakes are just some old stickers I had and I stuck them onto card abnd cut them out so I didn't need to stick down the edges. There is acetate snowflakes on top of them and also some on their own and I covered them with Twinklets (Bev my addiction to Twinklets is all your fault!!!) and added a snowflake charm. I used a strip of holographic kind of paper and put some sparkly lace from my stash on top. I think the sentiment is a Dovecraft stamp. It was one I got last year in the £1 bin at my local craft shop.
I wish the twinklets showed up better because they really are pretty, although I found them a nightmare to stick on. Well not stick on but getting them to stay on. Any suggestions?
That's it from my tonight. I think I will be off to bed in a bit because Chiara fell asleep ages ago. At last a normal sleeping routine for both me and her :)

Thanks for stopping by. Remember my candy from Janlynn if you haven't entered already:)

Lora x

Cute Daisy May does Digital Tuesday

I'm feelin good today because I eventually got a sleep last night yay!! Well Chiara went to sleep about 1am and I had to be up at 7.30 am but at least I didn't go to my bed when I was ment to be waking up like I have been doing this last week!
For those of you that have no idea what I am talking about, my 4 year old Daughter has tunrned her nights into days since she was sick and hasn't been going to sleep till sometimes 6 or 7 am!, but I have sorted that now (I think). She's not ill anymore and is back at nursery which will tire her out so she should be back into a normal sleeping pattern and I will get back to my normal cardmaking and blogging routine :)

Enough about that though, because it's time for another Digital Tuesday Challenge.
This week our sponsor is Cute Daisy May and Linnie is offering the winner 5 of her sheets!
The challenge this week is hosted by Ellie and she has chose a colour challenge of white, purple and gold or silver (or grey or yellow in place of the metalics).
I use Purple, Gold and White.

The papers are digi ones but I'm not sure where I got this ones from. Cute image is of course from Cute Daisy May, isn't she a cutie?, I coloured her with Copics and used some flower soft for her furry bits.
Flowers are Primas and a little ribbon rose I got off Ebay, ribbon is Dovecraft and pearls from my stash.
The other girls on the DT have made some beautiful cards, you have to go take a look at them, and why not join in with this weeks challenge while you are there :)
Remember you can use any digi image you like and you can combine challenges too, as long as it is a new card/project (not shown on your blog before) then you are in with a chance of winning 5 of Linnie's cute sheets.
And if you love the Cute Daisy May sheets, why not join in with the CDM challenge too. You can use any images you like to make your card rubber or digi and the challenge this week is "Texture".
Thanks for stopping by today. If you haven't seen my Janlynn blog candy yet, go have a look! It's the top post. Loads of lush flowers and 2 scrappers packs full of goodies, which of course are perfect for cardmaking too.