Digital Tuesday Flowers

The challenge this week at Digital Tuesday this week is "Say It With Flowers" and our sponsor is Fred She Said who is giving away a $20 gift certificate to one lucky winner.

Of course Tracey at FSS is the master of floral images, so she was the perfect sponsor for this week and the design team have used some of her images.

I don't often make floral cards, so this is a bit different for me!

The beautiful rose from Fred She Said is coloured with a mix of Copics and Promarkers and  also added some diamond stickles for a bit of sparkle.

The die cut which the images is on is a Nellie Snellen die.

The papers are Prima, large flowers are from Hobbycraft and the smaller pink ones and the tiny white ones are by Wild Orchid Crafts and I also added stickles to them :)

The pretty embroidered leaf is from Little Snippets, and some ribbon from my stash.

 A close up of the rose which you can just about see the glitter on.

I don't know when I will be back with a post because my router broke last night and I have to wait for a new one to come which they said would be 2 to 3 days, so today I am writing this post at my MIL's house (it's Monday while I'm writing it) and  hopefully it will post on time!

I will be back for the new challenge at By The Cute and Girly on October 1st at  the latest though.

And just a heads up that we have something special planned for October as it's our 3rd birthday!! :) Lots of fun and prizes, so you won't want to miss it!

Thanks for stopping by today

Finally some blog candy!!

 This post is pinned to the top, please scroll down for more recent posts.

I finally have some candy to share!! Sorry I have taken forever to put this up but because my camera was broken, I couldn't get a pic of the goodies!
It was my 2nd blogaversary at the end of last month, so this is just so sweet stuff to celebrate 2 years of blogging :)
Some of the companies that I design for have been very generous and have gave me some goodies to give away, so a huge thank you to my dt "bosses" lol, you are all fab!! :)

Like most giveaways, there are a few rules, but I don't expect you to work your bum off just to get a chance to win lol :)


If you would like to become a follower (if you are not already of course), that would be fantastic, but only if you want to, it is not necessary to be entered into the draw.

The only "rule" is please copy my candy pic below (the first one) and put it in your sidebar with a link to let everyone know about my giveaway and then leave me a comment. 
I was going to use a Linky thing again this time, but I much prefer to read comments and the link gadgets are not very reliable!

ETA: If you don't have a blog, you can still enter, just let a friend know about my candy instead :)

Remember to check back to see if you have won as unless you leave an email address, I will have no way of contacting you.

 Oh and anyone can enter, and I will ship worldwide :)

Right so now that's all out of the way, here's what's up for grabs!!

There will be 2 prizes, 1 is "material" items and the other is digital.

So the first prize is from Janlynn.com, and I was told that there would be approx $50 worth of stuff, but I counted it up and there is about $80 (maybe more) worth of goodies here!!

So what's it the pic?? I know it's a really pants pic because I had to use a friends camera so here's a  list of what's all there. I have also added pics of the stamps and embelishments seperately below so you can see them a little better.

Wood Mounted Stamps Happen Red Throated Hummingbird Stamp (huge stamp!)
Wood Mounted Stamps Happen There's a Season Stamp (another big one)
Wood Mounted Stamps Happen Season's Greetings Stamp (never seen a greeting/sentiment stamp so big!!)
Wood Mounted Stamps Happen Bring Coffee Stamp (another big one)
Wood Mounted Stamps Happen Thank You Sentiment Stamp
Pack of Metal flower embelishments
Pack of purple flowers
Box of pink roses
Box of yellow roses
Box of red roses
Box of white roses
Green metallic 6 strand floss
Copper metallic 6 stand floss
Black metallic 6 strand floss
And I forgot to get a pic of this, but there is also a tote bag featuring one of the stamps happen designs which says "Put your big girl panties on and deal with it!" lol. You can see this bag and most of the other products above excluding the flowers and metal embelishments if you click on the links :)

So it really is a craft goodie bag full of craftyness :)

Now the other prize is a mix of digital "stuff".

 A $10 CAD Gift Certificate to spend at the Fred She Said Store!!

A £10 digi voucher to spend on digital images at Dewdrop Craftz!!

And 3 Digital Images of your choice from Digital Stamp Oasis!!

I will leave this open until 10pm (GMT) on 14th of December and will announce the winners on  the 15th. Please remember to check back to see if you have won! :)

Good luck and thanks for stopping by!

A lot of DT stuff!

As the title says, I have a lot of DT stuff to show today. The new challenge is up today over at By The Cute and Girly and the theme this month is Indian Summer.
You can interpret that however you like and the dt girls have some great samples to show you over at the challenge blog for inspiration.
For my first make I chose to just use the colours and made a card.

 The image is one I got in a rak so I am not actualy sure who makes the stamp. It is embossed with black ep and I coloured it with Promarkers.
The papers are Craftwork Cards and were freebies in a magazine!
The ribbon is from my stash and the sunflower is from Janlynn.com. Unfortunately thir embelishments are all discontinued but they a still have all the great stamps and loads of goodies for those who love needlework along with lots more for your crafting addiction!

My next project is a little pillow box, well actualy it's not quite so little, it is actually quite big.

I went with the colours again for this and used a piece of paper that I got from one of my dt's girls at BTC&G (thanks hun xx).
The image I have used is from Whimsy Stamps who are one of our sponsors this month and very kindly gave the design team some of their images to play with. This one is called Maya blowing bubbles and I think she is so cute. I coloured her with Promarkers and this is the first time I have ever attempted to colour darker skin so I'm not sure how well I did but I think it looks ok?
Then I finished it off with another sunflower from Janlynn and some gems from my stash.

My next DT project is for  the Digital Tuesday challenge where the challenge is to make a gift set.
I should of posted this yesterday, but I thought that the colours I have used tied in with the theme at By The Cute and Girly so thought I would post it all together today.

I managed to combine 3 DT projects in one here! The image is from Dewdrop Craftz and I coloured again with Promarkers. There are quite a few of these bees over at Dewrop Craftz and they are all as cute as each other but I had this one printed and already coloured so thought I would make use of it.
The papers are Heidi Grace, I used my Fiskars border punch on the strip in the middle which is the paper that is on the reverse of the sheet I used for the rest of the card.
The flowers I made using the Paper Roses and Leaves Template set from Fred She Said.
I reduced the size of the flower to 3 different sizes, then printed them out onto normal white copy paper then coloured them with a Promarker, scrunched them up then opened them and cut down each petal then layered them and added a sticky back gem to the middle.
Have I told you before that I l;ove this flower set?? Ok yes I know I say that every time I use it lol, but it really is my favourite flower set from FSS because there is so much you can do with it.

A close up of the top of the box just so you can see the pwretty flowers :)
I used the same paper on the box and the leaves are from the same FSS set, again printed on white copy paper and coloured with a Promarker.

Right that's me done for now, 4 DT's in one post, I really am doing well at multi tasking!! lol
I hope you will join in with the BTC&G challenge this month. As always we have some fab prizes up for grabs and 2 guest dt spots too.
And if you have time this week I would love to see your entries at Digital Tuesday too. Why not combine the two and have a chance to win in both challenges? :)

Thanks for stopping by

Digital Tuesday Butterflies and Lace.

The challenge over at Digital Tuesday this week is to use butterflies and/or lace, so of course I just had to use both :)

 The Butterfly images is from Fred She Said from the Flutterbies For Yout Flowers digi set and I coloured it with Promarkers, papers are Papermania from the Summer Bloom pack, pearls and the lace (which I just noticed is squint in this pic!) are from my stash and the flower was made using one of the flowers from Fred She Said from the Paper Roses and Leaves Template set and leaves are from the same set.
This just shows how versatile the rose template set is, you can make so much different flowers with it, not just roses.
I printed out the single flower and resized it to 50% then printed it out and drew round it on some handmade paper. I cut out 3 of them then scrunched the paper up and played with it a bit until I could seperate the layers and ended up with 2 layers then put them together and scrunched them up a bit to make it look it does now, then inked the edges a little.
I wasn't sure how these would turn out as I was just playing about with them not knowing what I was going to make, but I am quite pleased with the result :)

Before I go, I have a little bit of news to share. The other day I was asked to be on the Dewdrop Craftz design team!! :)
I love the images Nikki has in her store, so I am so happy that I am able to play with them all :)

I still have stamps for sale (you can see them in the 2 posts below), there are no prices on the posts but you can see most of the original prices on the stamps and I am selling most of them for under half price, so if you see anything you like, just shoot me an email or leave a comment and I will get back to you :)
Oh and forgot to mention that I will post anywhere :)

Thanks for stopping by

Fred She Said Blog Hop

If you have came for the Fred She Said blog hop and have just came from Michelle's blog, then you are on the right track, if not you need to start at Michelle's blog.

It's time for another Fred She Said blog hop and of course there is a great prize to be won! As usual the dt girls have made some fantastic cards to show off the new FSS designs so lots of eye candy for you to see along the way. Please leave them some love on their blogs :)

At each stop on your way, there will be a special word......collect them all up and there will be instructions at the end of your journey on how to enter.

The winning entry will receive $20 GC for the Fred She Said Store AND.... (AND!) ... a $20 USD Gift Certificate for CropStop so you can get that punch, or dies, inks, or embellishments you have been having you eye on :)

We will receive entries until Thursday August 5th Midnight EDT.

Here is the order of Blog Hop participants in case you lose your way.

Michelle

Lora (That's me! :))

Carol H

Maria

Darsie

Sonya

Shelly

Tracey ( end of your journey and blog hop entry instructions)

Here's my card made with the new Gerbera Daisy in a Jar digi. There is also a a peony in a jar and they both come uncoloured and coloured.

I know this is sooo not my style of card, but I wanted to keep it simple to show off the image.

I coloured the image with Promarkers the other day when I coloured a pile of other images so I didn't have any paper in mind ot use with it, but I found this one in my stash and thought it went perfectly with the colours I had done the image in......I was quite surprised because the flowers even look quite similar, that really was a stroke of luck! :)

I wanted to use some organza ribbon as the other purple ribbons I have just didn't look right, so I took some white organza and coloured it with a promarker so it matched my image perfectly, then finished off with a few purple gems.

It was really hard for me not to add more embelishments to this but I think the paper is busy enough on it's own without adding to it so I just left it as it is:)

Now my special word is......oh no I can't remember what it is!! ....................only joking, that would be a bit of a disaster wouldn't it?!

My word is TIME

Your next stop is Carol H and I know she will have something stunning to show you!

Thanks for stopping by and happy hopping!

Pastel Vintage Tilda?

After I made the vintage Tilda card the other day, I was speaking to Lisa Jane who is on the DT for Moving Along With The Times and she told me the challenge over there this week is pastel vintage, so I thought I would give it a go. They also have a sketch to follow so I used that, except I didn't want to put a sentiment where they had a small rectangle as I don't know what I will use this card for so I am hoping that my pearl swirl in it's place with be ok.
I normaly go for darker colours when I attempt vintage so this really was a challenge for me!
I used some peachy/pinky coloured papers and I already had a Tilda coloured in that I done a while ago so I used her, but I had used brown on her so as it's supposed ot be pastels, I'm not sure if I will get away with that? The papers are all a light pastel colour though :)

I think the papers I used are papermania, but I'm not 100% sure. They are from a pad that I have had for a while but it was split in half and I can't find the other half that has the front cover on to find out who makes it lol.
I distressed all the edges and lightly inked them with antique linen distress ink.
I can't remember what I coloured Tilda with as it was a while ago that I coloured her, but I think it might of been a mic of Copics and Promarkers as I had only just started using Promarkers then and didn't have much colors.

The flowers are made from the Paper Roses and Leaves Template Set from Fred She Said.
These are great  if you are like me and don't have a flower or leaf dies or punches as you just print and cut. You also get a different flower and a different leaf shape with stalks too so you can mix and match.
I do have a couple of flower punches but they are no good for making roses and I have no leaf ones so this set is just perfect for me.


I used some of the same paper I used for the middle strip on my card and just printed some flowers on the back of it then cut them out and layered them up.
I didn't really go for a rose type flower because it fitted my card better this way, instead I just curled the petals a little and added a small pearl in the middle. I also added some frosted lace stickles all over the petals (I just rubbed some over them with my finger, no fancy tools here lol).
For the leaves I just printed them straight onto normal card and coloured them with promarkers.

The lace is from a local shop, small roses from Wild Orchid Crafts, pearls from Ebay and I found the little metal fan in my stash.

I don't know if this is very vintage but it's about the closest I am going to get using light colours lol.
I could of printed out a vintage image but my printer ink is running really low and I really wanted to use this Tilda because she is one of my favourites :)

Thanks for stopping by! I will be back later with my card for Digital Tuesday which I am late with!
I was supposed to make it yesterday but I ended up out all day with the kids and didn't get back till late after dropping them off in Stonehaven with their Nana so didn't have time to get it done.....sorry Ellie!

I love to read your comments so please leave one to let me know you have came by and I will return the visit :)

Digital Tuesday and Fred She Said DT card

It's time for another Digital Tuesday challenge and this week it's Anne-Marije's turn to host the challenge and she has chose "Christmas In June"!!!
I don't know about you but I was glad to see the back of Christmas, but it was quite fun to get out my Christmas papers and glitter and make a mess ;)
Our sponsor this week is Dustin Pike who will give the winner 3 of his digis.

I used an image from Fred She Said and coloured it with Promarkers, but this one also comes pre coloured .

The papers I used are all Bo Bunny and the snoflake is a sizzix original die which I cut out of mountboard and covered with SU! Dazzling Diamonds. The lace and pearls (which are actually clear but show up red here! lol) are from my stash.

Well I think I might make another one for the Christmas stash because I don't want to leave it last minute like I did last year and ended up not making cards for half of the people I was supposed to!

Thanks for stoppin by.

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

Fred She Said DT

Well it's back to school for the kids tomorrow and I am dreading it. I know most parents can't wait for their kids to go back to school but the girls school is quiet a distance away when you don't have a car (so is Liam's but he goes there himself so it doesn't make any odds to me lol) and I have to take them there in this blooming snow. I wish they didn't have to go to school when it's cold lol.
So today I am making the most of my last lazy day, well as lazy as it gets when you have to run around after 3 kids lol, and having a cardmaking day. Mainly so I can get all my DT stuff done but also so I can do some challenges because I haven't really been doing much challenges this last few months.
So my card this morning is a Fred She Said DT card and I also followed the sketch over at Sketch Saturday so I'm entering it there.


I haven't used any designer paper on this one, shock horror lol. Instead I used a piece of dark purple shimmery cardstock and stamped all over with an Anna Griffin background stamp then heat embossed with Antique Sparkle embossing powder. This was so hard to get a pic of as the light kept bouncing off the embossing.
The lovely images is of course a Fred She Said. This is Emma with her frills on, isn't she just the sweetest?
You get 2 versions of Emma, with our without the posie of flowers and Tracey has also done some tiny flowers on their own too so you can have Emma holding a different posie.
The flowers I have used as embelishments are also FSS from the Pointy Petals Pack and I printed them on lilac cardstock then stamped and embossed them with the same stamp. There is just so much you can do with these digi flowers and they are much more cost effective than Primas or other store bought ones because you can print as much or as little as you want and in any colour you want.
I finsihed off with a few pearls from my stash and punched some corners with a Mcgill decorative corner punch then cut it out to give me 2 corners I could stick on.

Tracey has been working hard on new stuff and there is going to be some changes over at FSS, which I will tell you about as soon as I know all the details but for now, why don't you hop on over to the store and get yourself some Fred?

I may be back later with another card but if not, I will be back tomorrow with my DT card for Cute Daisy May.

Thanks for stopping by
Lora x