Digital Tuesday "Text Me"

This week at Digital Tuesday the challenge is "Text Me"- add some text on your creation.

Our sponsor this week is Crafty Sentiments  who are giving away 3 digital images of the winners choice.

The design team also got a choice of images to play with, and I was going to use a cute Halloween one like some of the other dt did, but I don't give Halloween cards, so although I love making them, there's really no point because it would just end up in the bin! So I used a cute little snowman instead and made my first Christmas card of the year!

 I printed the image onto iridescent cryogen white card and coloured with Copics, and also added some star dust stickles to  the tree and on his hat.

I first used Cryogen a few months back and loved the shimmer it gave to images, so I ordered some last week, but the lady sent me the iridescent one instead of the one I ordered and I really don't like it!

It does have a nice shimmer, but it's not so good to colour on. You have to work real quick because the ink dries fast and then it's so hard to blend.

So I won't even be buying that card again! lol

The bottom paper I used is by Raspberry Road and the other two are Websters Pages.

You ca't really see here, but the green paper has text all over it.

The bigger snowflakes are cut with Marianne Dies and the small ones were done with a punch (I think it's by Dovecraft but I will have to double check).

I also added some stickles to the snowflakes and added some dewdrops from Inky Impressions and some die cut christmas trees which I found in my stash, which I also added some stickles too.

And a close up of the cute but horribly coloured image. Oh, I also added stickles on the snow :)

So that's my card for Digital Tuesday and I hope you will join in with this weeks challenge.

If you haven't already checked out the By The Cute and Girly challenge, you have got to pop over and see the new challenge! We are celebrating our 3rd birthday with a birthday challenge and blog hop and we have 15 prizes up for grabs this month!!

You can enter the challenge and the hop for a chance to win ay of the prizes, or you can just enter one of them for a chance to win some of the prizes (we have 7 or 8 prizes for the challenge and the same for the hop), but if I were you, I would enter the challenge and do the hop because we have some really great prizes!

We have prizes from Simon Says Stamp, Joanna Sheen, Lili Of The Valley, Whiff Of Joy, Saturated Canary, Janlynn/Stamps Happen and so much more!!

If you missed my blog hop post, you can see it at the top of my blog (it is pinned there until the end of the month).

Thanks for stopping by and hope to see you joining in with one or both of the challenges :)

Lora x

My girls are back to school today, so I can finally get back into a routine and post on my blog a lot more often :) Liam goes back tomorrow, but hes no trouble. Hes a typical teenage boy and lays in his bed all day!! lol (sorry my apostrophe button on my keyboard is broken, so just pretend there is apostrophes where there should be! lol)

So today I am sharing a card that I made for this weeks challenge at Digital Tuesday where we have a sketch made my Maya to follow.

Our sponsor this week is Stitch Stamps who is giving away a $10 gift voucher to spend on anything from  3 of their designers, Stitchy Stamps,. Floppy Latte Designs and Barbara Jensen, who the design team also got use images from.

Sorry about the dull pics!

 The image I used is called "Yo" and is by Barbara Jensen for Stitchy Stamps. You can find it here.

She has been coloured with a mix of Copics and Promarkers.

Not sure what make the striped paper is, but the other one is by Websters Pages (love their papers :))

In keeping with the sketch, I used a Tim Holz ticket, but I only had one left which said "dream" on it and it didnt really go with the card, so I cut out a sentiment from a sheet I found in my stash (sorry no idea where it came from) and stuck that on top.

Also used some lace, ribbon, ribbon slider, a Prima flower (havent used these in ages!!) which I added a charm thing on top of. It is not a spacer even though it looks like one. It has a little hoop at the top but I just snippet it off :)

You can just about see here that I added some stardust stickles around the edges of the leaves, also on the flower, ticket and around the edges of the image. Oh and I also used some glittery cardstock to mat with.

And some gorgeous sheer applique leaves from Little Snippets. I love these leaves! They are so pretty and make a nice change to paper/card die cut or punched leaves. I think these were my last ones, so will need to go stock up. Ger has loads of lovely "snippets" in her Etsy store, including the prettiest embroidered butterflies and flowers (she also does some crotchet ones) and one of my personal favourites from her store is the  Venice lace style scrapbook/card corners (you got to check them out, because they are so pretty) loads of different embroidered embellies, ribbon, pins and I just noticed while browsing the store that she has added a Christmas fabric selection pack which also includes a bonus embellishment kit (I love the snowflakes!), which I want....no need!! lol

If you have never been over to the Little Snippets Etsy store, you really have to pop over and have a peek :)

Hope some of you will join in with the challenge this week.

I am still struggling with my numb hands (both are numb now, except my thumb and first finger on my right hand which means I can still hold a marker and colour......just lol :) So sorry if I havent left you a comment lately. I have been vising blogs, but it takes forever for me to type so I havent left much comments these past few weeks (this post has taken me ages to write!! lol), but as soon as my hands are back to normal (hopefully sometime soon!), I will be back commenting as much as I can :)

Thanks so much for stopping by

2 DT cards in one day.

I have 2 cards to show today, both for different design teams.

The first is for By The Cute and Girly where the challenge theme this month is "Spring Is All Around".

I didn't choose a very springy image for my card (the image was kind of an after thought lol), but I used pretty papers that have a lot of flowers and my usual mountain of flower embellies piled on, so that's Spring enough for me lol.

 Excuse the mark on the image! I got some photo glue on it somehow and didn't notice it until after I took the pics! It is gone now though. Just as well it was photo glue and it just rubs off or else I would of had to colour another image.

The photo is blurry too! Not sure what's going on with my camera, but I just couldn't get any decent pics.

Anyway, the pretty papers are Websters Pages, the image is of course a Hanglar & Stanglar coloured with Copics and Promarkers on kraft card. The flowers are mostly Wild Orchid Crafts except the peach rose which I got in Hobby Craft. Both die cuts were made with Nellie Snellen dies and the lace and paper ribbon is from my stash.

See the offending glue mark?!! lol

My other card was a bit of a rush job (actually it was coloured and made in about 20 minutes because I thought I had an image coloued for the challenge, but couldn't find it!). It's for Digital Tuesday where the challenge this week is "Clearly Beautiful"- use a clear element on your card/project.

 Our sponsor this week is Stamp Fairy who gave the design team some images to work with, and this is one of them. I have ran out of colouring paper though and had to use some normal card which isn't smooth and just doesn't blend lol. You can see all the patches where it didn't blend, especially on the bears face.

I have ordered some proper paper and will print out and colour a new image and swap it for this one as soon as it arrives! I did order it on Thursday, but it hasn't arrived yet :(

The paper is one I found in my stash, so no idea who makes it.

I did want to use acetate as my clear element but didn't have any, so I had to go looking for other clear bits.

 I have a clear button, tied with some American Crafts bakers twine, and the clear bead spray thing.

and also some Inky Dinky Drops from Inky Impressions. Oh and some organza ribbon....well it's kinda see through lol.

Thanks for stopping by today. Hope you are having better weather than I am! We have lots of rain and then hailstones yesterday and today it has been dry but sooo cold!

Once Upon A Time.......

You may want to get comfortable before reasing this post, as I have a feeling that it may get a bit long as I have a few pics to share today.
The new challenge is up over at By The Cute and Girly and what a fun challenge it is too! Aideen chose this months challenge theme and I was so happy when I saw what theme she chose because there is just so much you can do with this theme and of course what appealed to me was that you can go super girlie with this one :)
So the theme is Once Upon A Time..... This can be a fairytale, other story, nursery rhyme or even just take an actual book itself as inspiration like some of the dt have done and alter a book.
I didn't go quite as far as altering books (that seems like too much hard work for me! lol), so I made 2 cards instead using our new sponsor Milk N Coffee's images.
If you haven't checked out Milk N Coffee's Etsy store, you must go and have a look! I had never heard of them before, but their images are fab!

Ok, this is the first card I made using "Charlotte Is Going To  A Date" digi.

This sweet image reminded me of Cinderella. I know she doesn't look anything like Cinderella, but the clock made me think of the bit when the clock strikes midnight and she has to run home (can you tell I  have watched that film more times than I care to remember?!! That's what happens when you have 2 little girls lol).
I coloured her with Promarkers and added some stickles on the clock, then cut her out and mounted the image on cream linen card.
The pretty papers I have used are Websters Pages and they are actualy from their Christmas and Winter pack but I thought they went perfect with this challenge. This one has "my little fairy tale" written on the bottom which is why I chose these papers.

I edged all the papers and image with stickles for a bit of bling, added some Wild Orchid Crafts flowers which were also stickled and some lace from my stash.

My second card also uses a Milk N Coffee image. This one is called "Glamourous Tiffany In Her Night Dress".
Now I am not sure where I was going with this image. I'm not sure that it remindes me of any story, but I thought it looked quite wedding like and lots of girls dream of a fairytale wedding don't they?
Ok, I had absolutely no idea why I chose this image lol, I just liked it.

I used more Websters Pages papers and this time chose one that actual has Once Upon A Time written on it (just incase I didn't get away with just using the image lol). These papers are so pretty and it would be a sin to have to wait until Winter comes again to use them! Some are really Christmassy but I think ones like this you can get away with using any time of the year. This one does have an angel and bell on it (which I should of probably covered up!) but I suppose bells go with weddings....don't they??
I coloured this one with Copics, then stamped around the image (and all the other papers actually but you can't really see it in this pic) using a Dovecraft stamp and Antique Linen Distress ink.
The flowers are all Wild Orchid Crafts and the gorgeous lace was given to me by my teamie Ger (thank you hunnie is beautiful!).

If you read to the end of this post, you really do deserve a medal!! lol
I hope some of you will join in with this months challenge at By The Cute and Girly. I can't wait to see what you all come up with for this theme. As always we have prizes from Simon Says Stamp, Joanna Sheen and also 5 digi images up for grabs from Milk N Coffee, so you have the chance to get your hands on these fab digis! (or any others in the store of course).
Oh and just a reminder that I will be picking a random comenter from everyone who comments over the next 2 weeks, to win a yummy crafty prize :)

Thanks so much for stopping by



Happy Birthday Liam!!! :)

It's my Son Liam's 14th birthday today! Happy Birthday Liam!! :))
I can't believe my baby is 14!! Where did the time go? I feel sooo old!! lol
Of course I made him a card from me and his dad and also one from his little sisters so thought I would post them today.
I'm useless at male cards as it is, but since these were for my son (and he is not very good at lying to me, so I would know if he didn't like them), these were much harder for me to make, so I decided I would keep them really simple and just focus on the images instead of embellishing.

I have no idea who makes any of the papers I used on these 2 cards as they were all from blogging buddies and have no writing on them, but if anyone knows, let me know and I will edit my post.
The image is an old one from Dewdrop Craftz that I got when I was on the dt there but I don't think any of their digis are available now.
I coloured it with Promarkers and used some Antique Linen Distress Ink around the edges of the image and also the papers. Added a piece of raffia and a button which was a cream colour but I coloured it with a Promarker to match the image, and some letter stickers by Websters Pages (Little Storytellers Color Garden).

 A close up of the image. I wasn't sure if Liam would like this image, but thankfully he did. it's not childish and it's not really "grown up" either, so I think it worked well. It's so difficult to get images for teenage boys though! I searched all over the net for images to use on these cards and only really found one (which I used on my other card) and ended up resorting to this old one that I already had.
There must be some good teenage boy images out there, isn't there??

Anyway, my second card I kept really simple and didn't use any embellies at all (except some alpha stickers) which is sooo not like me and I think it looks too plain, but Liam liked it and that's the main thing.

I used a Mo's Digital Pencil image, which I just had to buy because this is just exactly like my son!! I mean he doesn't look like the boy in the image, but he is always playing his xbox 360 and he room is always a mess!! lol he even laughed when he saw this card and said it was just like him.
Again not sure of the papers. I coloured the image with a mix of Promarkers and Copics (I was very lucky and got a few Copics the other day!! I mean not enough to colour a whole image with, just a few, but it was great to use them again, I have missed my Copics so much!! lol).
The stickers are the same Websters Pages from before. I never ever use stickers on my cards, or any of the chipboard alphabets etc but I kinda like these and they are in nice boy colours :)

A close up of the image as usual. The res was done with Copics (I only have 2 reds, so was a bit hard to do any shading) and I also did the hair with Copics ,but everything else is Promarkers.

Ok I'd better get going as I have a birthday boy to see too and I have to go take him shopping, although I have been ill the last couple of days and still don't feel too good, so I really can't be bothered doing anything, but it's his birthday and he wants to go into town so guess I better get moving.