A quick card by Chiara

I don't have any cards to show tonight but Chiara made a card earlier and I promised her I would put it on my blog.
I had put some paper on a card base the other day but ended up not using it so when Chiara spotted it today, she asked if she could use it, then she had a look through my coloured images and picked a teddy then raided my stash for ribbon, buttons and flowers and made the card herself. I didn't do anything except make a hole in the flowers for her so she could put a brad in and of course the paper was already on and the image coloured and cut out. So here's Chiara's own baby card :)
So what do you think, is she catching up with her Mummy? I think this card is better than most of mine lol. I can't actually remember ever colouring this teddy but it must of been me because I don't let the kids use my pens. I got this image in a rak ages ago and I'm not sure who makes this stamp, but I thought it was quite cute. Does anyone know who the stamp is by?
The paper is Stampin Up!, ribbon is some Rhianna bought in our local craft shop last week and I pinched some from her lol, the small flowers are faux suede ones and the punched one she punched with my SU! 5 petal punch from a scrap of K&Co paper. And the cute buttons are ones that Stef sent me. I really didn't want to let her use those but I think she has made a good job of it.
I have to make a baby girl card for a mum from Chiara's nursery so maybe I should just give her this one instead lol. Do you think she would know that a 4 year old made it?

Thanks for stopping by. I should be back tomorrow with a card from me but Rhianna made one today too so I might get pestered into showing her one tomorrow!

Lora x

Candy Winner

First of all I would just like to say a huge thank you to everyone who joined in with my blog candy.
I haven't been able to get around all your blogs yet but I promise I will do over the next few days.
I have more goodies on the way for another giveaway for my active followers. So please do keep visiting me and you will be included in my next draw. I won't say right now what the prize will be but I know you will like it, you will just have to wait and see. I will be posting it on here as soon as I have the goodies to take a pic of the prize.

Right I will get onto the bit you have all came for. I wish I could give you all something because it means so much to me that you all come visit and leave me lovely commets, but unfortunately there can only be one winner.

So the winner of everything in the candy pic (post below) choosen by random is...................................... Daisychain

Congratulations!!! please email me at lorascards@aol.com with your snail mail addy and I will get your prize out to you asap.

If the winner does not contact me by Tuesday afternoon, I will choose another winner.

Lora xx

Anyone fancy some candy??

This candy is now closed. I will be back soon with the winner!

Edited to add: Pic has been updated to add extra goodies. If anyone has the old pic and could update it with this one, that would be great :)
I thought it was about time I offered up some candy as a thank you for all you fabby bloggers.
Not for any special occasion, but just as a thank you to all you lovely bloggers who come by and put up with my moaning lol.
So here is what the winner will get. Sorry about the pic but it was taken indoors and my camera only takes decent pics outside.



So in this lot there is
7 reels of ribbon
3 wood mounted stamps (christmas bauble by Papermania and 2 Glasgow Motifs 1 tiny and 1 medium.
pack of paper wire (orange and blue)
pack of assorted gold brads (hearts, stars, flowers and plain)
pack of stringy stuff in little bundles (no idea what that is about lol)
pack of quilling strips (thick ones)
25 clear plastic bags for small tall cards
pack of 5 assorted tissue paper (this is handmade paper not normal thin tissue paper)
assortment of aperture and shaped cards (apertures are bells)
assortment of papers, including handmade, mulberry, patterned etc. Doesn't look a lot in the pic but there is about 40 or more A4 sheets.
45 handmade paper c6 envelopes. Assorted colours,textures and patterns.
A pile of stamped images
Pack of Dufex number stickers
Pack of Glitter Alphabets stickers
Selection of flowers including a few huge Primas, faux suede flowers and two tone little roses.
Inkadinkado clear mini stamp set (Bad or Fattening)

Right here's what you have to do to be in with a chance of winning.
1. Show the top pic on your blog with a link back to me (In your sidebar is fine) I will check lol
2. If you are not already a follower please follow me (I am planning on having some more candy for my active followers soon)
3. If you do not have a blog, just spread the word :)

Anyone can enter and I will post anywhere. If you leave a comment as anonymous please leave an email address so I can contact you if you win. If you don't have a blog you can still enter, just email me at lorascards@aol.com and I will add an entry for you.
This candy will run until 31st October 6pm (my time) and I will choose a random winner shortly after.

Finally my card for Just Magnolia

I made my card for this weeks Just Magnolia challenge on Friday just after the new challenge was announced, but have been waiting the whole week to get a pic of it because it has been pouring of rain here. I couldn't just scan it because I used some big flowers and they would of just got squashed. So yesterday the sun was out and I got the card and went outside to take a pic only to discover that my camera didn't want to work! All I could see through it was a real blurry image of my card and a big black dot in the middle of the screen! So I gave up and thought I will just have to borrow a camera from a friend to take my DT pics and would never get this card on in time for the challenge, but this morning I turned on the camera expecting it to be the same but it was working perfectly, and it wasn't raining so I managed to take a pic after all :)
The challenge ends at 10pm tonight so I've just made it :)


I got thsi image from my blogging buddy Lorraine and coloured her with my usual Copics. The sentiment is from a Joanna Sheen Messy Rabbit set . The label mats that I stamped the sentiment and stuck Tilda on were given to me by Heather. I don't have these nesties but I want this ones soooo much. I used some distress ink around the edge of the large one and all over my sentiment. I also scrunched up the sentiment label to give it a more distressed look but it doesn't show too well here.
All the paper I used are from Stampin Up! as is the ribbon. I used a fiskars border punch for the scallops. Flowers are all from Tabby crafts except the little pink roses which I bought at the Works and the branches are from a Mcgill punch. Oh and teh gorgeous pin is from Tabby Crfats too. I am in love with these pins and large roses, aren't they pretty?


Here's a close up of that lovely flowers and Tilda.

Right i'd better get off and post this on the challenge blog before I am too late lol.
Thanks for stopping by

Lora x
p.s If you haven't entered my candy draw yet, you still have time. It ends on Saturday and I have more goodies to add to the ones in the pic. Didn't want to push my luck with the camera today since it was playing ok for a change lol.

Digital Tuesday DT card

This week at Digital Tuesday it's a colour challenge set by Michelle P. This is Michelle's first time to host and she has chosen the colour ORANGE, KRAFT and another colour of your choice (doesn't have to be a Fall/Autumn card). You can make whatever you like as long as it's a new creation (not posted on your blog before today) ,you use these colours and use a digital image. Our sponsor this week is our own Ellie who is giving 3 digi's from Digital Stamp Oasis.
I told you yesterday I had another Halloween card to show you so here it is.



As you can see, I really cheated with this card. My other colour was purple because I wanted to use these Halloween papers up, but I got carried away and didn't notice until after I put it up on the DT blog that I had used black as well....oops, sorry Michelle.
I didn't have any Kraft paper so I had to improvise. The other girls on the DT gave me some suggestions, use a brown paper bag or the inside of a box, but I couldn't find a brown paper bag (we just don't get them in many shops here) but I did find a brown envelope which I thought would be easier to use than a box so I punched some flowers from the envelope.
I know there is only a tiny bit of Kraft colour there but it is there so I didn't really cheat on that part.
I then also realised that my image is white so that's 5 colours instead of 3 lol. But I don't think black and white counts as colours anyway do they? So I didn't cheat after all :) Ok I know I totally cheated but I promise I didn't do it on purpose. I just seem to do stupid things like this then realise after I have posted them that something is wrong.

Recipe:
Papers: Bo Bunny Halloween collection. They are double sided and the spotty purple is the back of the other purple one), and a piece of an old brown envelope. I think I should get brownie points for recycling :) lol
Image: Dustin Pike freebie digi. I cut off the string and added some paper wire.
Embelies: Halloween ribbon (still not sure who makes it) which I just noticed there is black on that too lol. Buttons from Stef
Tools: Stampin Up! 5 petal flower punch

That's it from me just now but I hope to be back later with another card and I also have some news about my candy giveaway which I will share with you later :)

Lora

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

Whiff Of Joy Challenge

I'm going away out shopping in a min but I wanted to share a card I made last night for the Whiff Of Joy challenge first. There is a fab sketch to follow so how could I resist?



The pretty papers I think are Magenta at least that's what the woman who works in the craft shop told me. They were selling them in single sheets and they don't have a name on but she said she was sure they were Magenta so that's what I'm going with. They have a lovely texture and have little foil bits in places too and double sided so I just had to buy them. Ok I admit it, the reason I bought them is because they were 75p for a 12x12" sheet and the others are all £1 or more lol.
I just used the same piece of paper for my whole card, the die cut circle that I cut with my nesties are the reverse of the sheet.
My flowers are a mix of Cardology, Prima and one from Tabby Crafts. Sentiment and the punches I used to punch it and the mat out are all SU! Everything else is from my stash. Oh and of course the image is WOJ and I got it as a rak from Heather along with some other gorgeous images a few months back but I have been holding onto them because I didn't want to use them up lol. I have coloured her with Copics.
Right that's the card done, now I'm off to the craft shop..... I mean out shopping for things that everyone else in the house needs. In my head that means the craft shop because if I didn't have my crafty stuff then everyone else in the house would be miserable. Am I convincing you yet? Didn't think so lol. I'm gonna take Rhianna with me so I can blame her for leading me to the craft shop and spending too much money there lol.

Lora x