Cute Daisy May DT

It's the start on another week, (how did the weekend go so fast?) and there's a new challenge for you over at Cute Daisy May. This week the theme is "Bright and Cheerful" and I think it's just what we need to brighten our day with all the dreadful weather we are having!




I have used 2 of the images from sheet 186. I coloured the bird with Polychromos Pencils and Sansodor and a little glitter for it's perch and done the whole cage in gold glitter with the
exception of the bows which were coloured with my pencils.
Although I love all the Cute Daisy May girls, it makes a nice change to use something different now and again and I thought this cage was so pretty :) I just cut the little birdie out and stuck him on top of the cage.

I'm not sure who makes the main paper I used but it is double sided and the bits I used for the matting is the other side of the sheet.
The middle strip is from a K&Co mat stack and the piece the image is on is another K&Co paper.
Flowers are Prima and some orange ones I found in my stash, ribbon is some that Barry bought me and it's glittery:) How well does he know me?? lol, and the gold metal spray thing is from a local florist warehouse. I just unwraped some of the wire which was twisted around each other and made some little swirls.
I really like these sprays because I haven't seen anyone else using them (I like to be different lol) and they are so easy to twist and shape and of course because they are pretty :) They are actually much nicer in real life than they look in the pic and the beads realy sparkle :)

Well that my offering for this week. I hope you will join in and go look out all those bright papers that you have had forever and if you are scared of colour like I am!, you have probably been too scared to use lol.

If you are here for the Fred She Said blog hop which start today! please see post below.

Thanks for stopping by

Lora x

Cute Daisy May DT

The challenge over at Cute Daisy May this week is Lavender and Lace.
Well they didn't have to tell me twice for this challenge! I love using lace on my cards as my regular visitors have probably noticed lol and purple/lavender is one of my fave colours :)
Here's what I came up with.


I followed the sketch at Create For Fun although my image is oval and not a circle and my image was a bit too big so I had to overlap it on my borders slightly, but apart from that, I followed the sketch as it is, then of course added flowers, I just can't help myself lol.
The papers are Papermania and Bassil Bling. I used my Fiskars scalloped punch to create the borders. The image is of course a Cuet Daisy May, I think this one is from sheet 166, and I coloured her with a mix of Polychromos pencils and oms and Copics.
The flowers are a mix of Primas, little roses from my stash and the bigger roses are from a local florist warehouse as is the pearl sprays. The little star spacer which you can hardly see in this pic because it is so dark (in fact you can't really see the flowers very well at all and they look so much darker here than in real life) are from my local craft shop Holburn Crafts in Aberdeen. Lace is from local haberdashery, I promise I am not sponsored by my local shops lol.
Pearl brads are by papermania and the charm is from The Works. Oh and I used a little Snag Em Stamps clear stamp for stamping around my image.

I hope you will have a rummage in your stash for some pretty lace and join in with this weeks challenge.
Thanks for stopping by.

Hugs Lora xx

Cute Daisy May DT - Valentines

Good morning, hope you are all having better weather than I am here in Aberdeen! It's snowing again and doesn't look like it's in any hurry to stop so think I will just have to stay indoors and craft all day :)

This weeks challenge over at Cute Daisy May is Valentines with Pink and a neutral colour.

My ribbon looks peach here but it is actually the same colour as the pink on the bottom paper. Why does that happen?? I mean, I know it's because of my pants photography lol, but why does the colour change on just one thing sometimes and not the whole card? Oh well at least it matches IRL lol.
The base paper I have used on this one is by Anna Griffin and the mat Daisy is on is a lovely glittery paper by We R Memory Keepers, but of course I went and covered up the glitter and pretty pattern! Did you expect anything less from me? lol
Daisy is coloured with Polychromos pencils and Sansodor. I think I am getting a litte better with the pencils:)
The ribbon is one Barry got me the other day from the haberdashery in town and the flowers and pearl sprays are from a local florist warehouse.

Well that's it for the card, but I will be back soon with my DT stuff for By The Cute and Girly.

Thanks for stopping by
Lora x

Fred She Said first challenge! and Cute Daisy May vintage style

Good morning everyone, hope you all had a great weekend. It goes too fast doesn't it?!
Anyway today is the 25th and that means time for the first Fred She Said challenge!
And the challenge for this month is .......to use the header and background of the challenge blog as the inspiration for your card.
You must use a FSS image to enter but don't worry if you don't have any yet there are loads of freebies in the store that you can use. Check then out here
And the best bit is the prize of course, which is a $20 (CAD) gift certificate to spend at the FSS store!!! How cool is that!?

Right onto my card then. The blog is green and purple with some of Fred's flowers, so I used the colours (once I eventually found some papers of that colours in my stash that is!).


I used the shrugger girl and one of the sentiments from the same set. There is loads of fun sentiments in this set but I just used the Happy Birthday and will write something inside to match the image as I have something in mind for the person I will give this too.
I coloured her with my Polychromos pencils which I am really loving now (thanks for the tips Tracey!) and the flowers are also coloured with my pencils and oms. The flowers I used are the new point daisies. I cut down in between the petals and used my embossing toll to give them some shape.
The purple paper is Bassil bling and the dp is by K&Co. I hand stitched the papers for a change just because I found some green embroidery thread while I was looking for something else lol. Ribbon is from my local craft shop (Holburn Crafts in Aberdeen) and everything else is from my stash.
Oh the stamp I used on the scalloped circle mat is a little clear Stag 'em stamp which I won months ago in a blog candy and this is the first time I have used it. I think it will get another outing now though because I quite like it :)
I hope you will join in with the first challenge. You have a whole month to enter so plenty of time to get a card done. But you have to go check out the other DT girls cards on the challenge blog now because I just went and had a look and wow there is so much eye candy!

Right my other card is another DT one, this time for Cute Daisy May. The challenge this week is vintage.
I love the vintage style and love trying to create vintage cards (trying being the key word here!!) but my cards never turn out looking vintage lol.
I had loads of fun making this one though and I think it kind of turned out vintage. I will let you decide though.

I have used this sweet little Daisy from sheet 134 which you cam find at the CDM store here and coloured her with Polychromos pencils and oms then inked all around the edges of the image with distress ink.
The papers are K&Co again. Sorry I know I have been using K&C o on almost every card lately but I can't help it, they just call out "use me, use me" very time I go to make a card lol.
I have distressed and inked all the edges of the papers (maybe a bit much lol).
The flowers which have also been lightly inked and sprayed with iridescent gold glimmer mist are a mix again, the large rose is from Hobbycraft, the little white ones (well were white before I got my hands on them!) are from the Works and the tiny pink ones are from Joanna Sheen's website. Hat pin and key charm are both from my stash and the ticket thing is from a sheet of French postmarks that I downloaded ages ago but can't remember where from. I don't normally download stuff like that but for some reason I thought I would use it. I can't remember what my original plan for them was but they came in handy for this :)
I just cropped the bit of the sheet I wanted to use, printed out, inked it a bit, then scrumpled it up a lot and inked some more so the ink would go into the creases.
I must admit that I was about crying with the thought of distressing the K&Co papers because they are so pretty in real life lol, but I have a few spares so I managed to bring myself to do it lol.

The other DT girls have done a fab job as always so why not pop over to the challenge blog to see all their cards too?

Now I'd better get busy with other DT stuff. I still have a few bits to do for next months By The Cute and Girly challenge, so got to get cracking with that. By the way you still have this week to get your entries in for that too. The theme for January is "New" so loads of options there, new baby, new home, new job, wedding, well you get the picture lol. Remember you can enter using any craft and as much times as you like as long as you have done a different craft each time (for exampled a card, a lay out, an altered item, knitting, jewelry etc) and there are some great prizes to be won too!

Thanks for stopping by today. Please do leave me a comment and let me know what you think of my cards, especially the Cute Daisy May one, I would love to know what you think of my vintage efforts lol Your comments mean a lot to me and although I don't always have time to come visit you, I love to sit and read your comments. It really makes it all worthwhile when people take the time to comment, even if it's just to say hi :)

Hugs Lora x

Cute Daisy May- Love

It's challenge time over at Cute Daisy May and the theme to start off the year is LOVE.
Linnie has some really sweet Valentines sheets and it took me ages to choose which image to use for this challenge but in the end I went with sweet little birdies.
I followed the sketch over at Cute Card Thursday and I have to confess that I did something really silly yesterday lol. The FSS card that I made yesterday was made with the sketch from Sketch Saturday and I said in my post that it was Cute Card Thursday and I even linked my card there lol, I feel sooo stupid to say the least. (I have now changed my post to include the right challenge). So
Anyway moving swiftly on, here's the card I made.


Aren't these little birdies just the sweetest? I coloured them with the usual copics and inked the edges with some blue ink.
The papers are K&Co and lace and pearls are from my stash.
Right I'm off to go link this card to the challenge blog now lol.

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.

Cute Daisy May - Halloween

The start of another week and another challenge at Cute Daisy May. The theme this week is Halloween. I don't give out Halloween cards but I really have enjoyed making them this year.

I am entering this card into A Spoon Full Of Sugar as I have followed their sketch. I think I will use this sketch again and again, because it works with any image.
I love these fun papers by Bo Bunny, aren't they cute? I bought a few 12x12" s from this Bo Bunny set the last time I went to the craft shop and I still have lots of it left so I think there might just be a few more Halloween projects to come. Actually I know there will be because I have already made another card lol, just can't show it right now.
Of course the cute image is Cute Daisy May digi and is coloured with Copics, the ribbon was also from my local craft shop but not sure who makes it, it could possibly be Bo Bunny as well but I'm not 100% on that.
The bat in the corner is from a Summer Driggs kit as is the sentiment. I printed the bat out and embossed it with clear embossing powder, then inked all over it with versamark and put more clear embossing powder on because it was a bit patchy in places where the ink had dried too quick. I used a different paper than what I normally use and it didn't work so well because the ink dried much quicker. I've stuck his body and the ends of his wings down and put some foam pads in the middle of his wings to hold them up and give him a bit of dimension. And I think that's it for this one

I have some more goodies to add to my candy giveaway as I have passed 100 entries (and will soon have to add some more because I am fast approaching 150) but I need to get a photo of them first. My camera just doesn't take pics inside (can you tell by my candy pic at the top of my blog?!) and I have loads of stuff to take pics of but the blooming rain won't stop long enough for me to get outside and get some photos! I made a card for Just Magnolia but can't scan it because I have big flowers on it and I also have loads of DT stuff that I really need to get photos of but can't until the rain goes away! I must get a new camera!!
I will get the pics up of my candy goodies asap though.

Hope you are all having a great day :) I love to read the comments you leave me so don't be shy, if you stop by please do leave me a comment, even if it's just to say hi, so I know you have been and I can come visit you :)

Lora x