Digital Tuesday DT card

It's Ellie's turn to host the challenge this week over at Digital Tuesday and she has chose "It's All About The Animals" for her challenge.
Digital Stamp Oasis (which is owned by Ellie) is our sponsor this week and the winner will get 3 images of their choice from the DSO store. If you haven't checked out DSO before, then this is the perfect time, Ellie's husband draws the images and there are some really cute animals to choose from.
I was going to use a DSO image on my card today but I was looking online for some colouring pages for my kids to keep them occupied while I made some cards and I came across some really cute images and they were all for free! Can't get better than that! So I saved some and decided I would use one for this weeks challenge.I didn't take a note of the site but as soon as I find it again, I will update this post with a link.
So here's my DT card.

I don't know what happened when I took this pic but the bottom part of the paperlook a different colour to the top! In real life it is all the same colour as the top bit.
I coloured the cute bunnies with polychromos pencils and sansodor. I still need to practise loads but I am getting there, slowly but surely!The papers are K&Co and I used my Fiskars border punch on the green strip. And added some lace from my stash.
I have loads of flowers which have been abandoned because I have been using roses for most of my cards and I really haven't used much Primas for ages (except yesterdays card lol), so I decided the other day that I would try to use up some of the flowers in my stash before buying any more because my flower box (which is huge by the way) is full, so much so that I can't get the lid on properly lol, so I went digging and found these light pink flowers which I had got off Ebay months ago when I bought a huge lot of flowers that someone was selling because they gave up crafting! I don't know what kind they are? and I never thought I would ever use them on a card because of their shape but I thought I would try use them anyway and I kinda like how they look now they are on a card :) I also used some little asters which I got in the same lot and an old Prima, then just when I thought I was being good, I spotted a large rose and just had to use it lol and of course my pearl sprays which I have sooo much of had to come out to play too lol.
I sprayed all the flowers with iridescent gold glimmer mist to add some shimmer and added a pin from Tabby Crafts which I really do want more of because I only have 1 or 2 of this ones left :(
I haven't been using spacers and charms much lately either so my charm box came out and I found an old spacer which I got from John Lewis months ago and a cute little teddy bear charm and finished off with a Papermania brad.
Here's a close up of the cute bunnies :) sorry it's a bit blurry (I must figure out how to use all the different settings on my camera!)

I don't have a craft room so my stuff has to be out away in boxes and there's not much room, so I don't have a big stash but I was actually really surprised at how much bits and bobs I have that have never been used or I have bought and forgot about! But I am going to try use up all the little bits I have before buying more :)
Thanks so much for stopping by today. I hope you will join in with this weeks challenge.
I'm off to try get some Valentines cards made for orders I got from the school this morning. I am so sick of Valentines cards already and have at least 10 more to make!! Never mind, it's money :)
As always your comments are much appreciated :) Your comments are what motivates me to keep blogging so please do leave one to let me know you have dropped by :)

Hugs Lora xx

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

I'm in love with new digi's!!

Yes it's official I am in love with Di's digi stamps! Di was so kind to give me one of her digi's to try and now I think she has gave me a new addiction!
She only opened her shop in December but I know she will be hugely popular because her images are just the sweetest.
Enough of my blabbering though, I will let you see for yourself!

What do you think of this little cutie? I can't believe I hadn't discovered this little beauties before now!! And there is so much more images like this in her store. You have just got to check them all out.
I followed the sketch over at Sketch and Stash for this one and of course the image is my new stash :)
The paper I have used is by We R Memory Keepers (double sided and I used both sides).
I coloured the image which is called "Little Bunches Maisy With Kaboodle" with Polychromos pencils and Sansodor. The mat she is on is cut by hand. I don't have any label nesties but I had small label die cut that a friend had sent me, so I thought I could trace around that onto patterned paper and cut it out, but.....it was too small (just my luck lol), so I traced round the shape anyway then just followed the lines and cut it a tad bigger. I wish I had cut it bigger because it is still too small but I knew I would never be able to cut a bigger one without it looking all wonky lol, so I just used it as it was. Sorry that was a bit of a novel just to say I cut it out with scissors lol.
Ribbon is from my local craft shop (Holburn Crafts in Aberdeen), lace is from my local haberdashery, small roses are from my stash, large rose from Hobbycraft. pin from Tabby Crafts and the pearl spray and gold spray are both from a local florist warehouse.

Hugs Lora x

Tilda, Hearts and Flowers.

I got a chance to make a card last night when the kids went to bed so I decided to do a card for a challenge. I already had a Tilda coloured which I done the other night so I went to check out the Just Magnolia challenge which is hearts and flowers and it just so happens that Tilda has a heart on her dress...perfect! Then I saw the fab sketch at A Spoonfull Of Sugar which also has hearts in it so I combined them both :)

The papers I have used on this one are by We R Memory Keepers. The base one is all glittery but I covered most of it up and I used the other strip because it's a paper from the same collection and it has some blue in the pattern so though I would use that to tie in with the blue I coloured Tilda but I covered most of the blue up and the parts you can see looks a totally different colour here! pmsl, why do I even bother? I should just use plain paper lol. Oh well I know it's there even if nobody else does lol.
Moving swifty on, I coloured Tilda with Polychromos pencils and Sansodor. I thought I was getting a bit better with the pencils but now I'm not so sure lol. The sentiment is from Stampin Up and I punched it out with SU! punches. The large heart is a really old stamp (1995 in fact!!) I bought it when I first started stamping from my local craft shop who used to have a second hand stamp box and I spotted this one in amongst a few House Mouse stamps (which obviously I had to buy too lol) and I thought it would come in handy for valentines day. It says on the side Darcie's Country Folk (whoever they are). I think it's quite pretty and it just goes to show that you don't need the newest stamps to make a card, she says as she pairs it with a Tilda lol, but she is not a new Tilda ;)
The other heart is just cut freehand from some paper scraps I had left over, the little roses are from my stash and the other ones and the tulle are both from Tabby crafts.

It's still snowing here so I'm not going anywhere! In fact I am going to sit stamp and then colour some of my new stamps that I got from Funky kits yesterday :) Think you will be seeing a lot of Sugar Nellie cards on my blog over the next few days lol.

Thanks for stopping by today. Please do leave me a comment if you have a min to let me know you have popped by. Then I can come visit you ;)
I must apologise for my lack of commenting this last few weeks, I been having trouble leaving comments and also uploading pictures on blogger over the last few weeks so I haven't been able to comment much, but I have been visiting and looking at all your fab creations :)
I think it's sorted itself out so I will have to do a mega blog hopping session to get around everyone today me thinks :)

Hugs Lora x

Digital Tuesday DT

The challenge over at Digital Tuesday was picked by Anjou who want's to see different folded cards (tri fold, joy fold, gatefold etc). Our sponsor this week is Bee Crafty who also let the DT pick an image each to use.

I took the easy option and made an easel card.
I have never used this colour combo before, in fact if you said pink, brown and orange to me, I would of thought ewww that does go but I saw these Bo BUnny papers in my local craft shop last week and thought they were quite nice. I think I actually like them because they are not the usual kind of colours you see together.
I coloured the cute Bee Crafty image with poly pencils and OMS . ribbon is from my local craft shop (Holburn Crafts in Aberdeen) and some from my stash. The gorgeous rose is from Hobbycraft and the pin is one from Tabby Crafts.

It's snowing here again so I'm not going anywhere. Instead I think I will do a little blog hopping and see what you have all been up to.
Thanks for stopping by.

Lora x

By The Cute and GIrly - Love

I'm a bit later than planned (ok a lot later) but I had to get the Cute and Girly winners post done so had to do that first, but better late than never.I have to warn you though, this is gonna be quite a long post!
The challenge over at By The Cute and Girly this month is LOVE, so a nice easy one and I'm sure there will be loads of other challenge blogs doing the love theme over the next few weeks so you will be able to combine your entries with some of those as well :)
This month I only made a card and altered a candle tin but the other girls have loads more eye candy for you as always, so pop on over and see what they have been up to.


So here's the card I made.

Isn't this image just the sweetest? I love it! I don't know who makes this stamp as I got the image in a blog candy win ages ago, so if you know who makes the stamp, please do let me know. I coloured the image with Copics, but the paper it was stamped on is rough like watercolour paper so it was really difficult to blend. I also got some gorgeous Hanglars and some Magnolias, WOJ and some other images when I got this one but I can't really user them as the paper they are stamped on is rougher than this one and I have started to use my pencils most of the time and just doesn't blend :( even with the copics, it is really hard to colour them, hence why I haven't used them yet.
The paper I have used is Papermania from the Exquisite stack. I didn't do loads of layers on this card because it's quite a big image, instead I just added strip across the middle with some lace from my stash on top.
The flowers are a mix of Prima, one from my stash and the little roses are ones I made myself with some ribbon because I couldn't find little flowers to match my papers and I wanted roses. I did find some little roses like this in a similar colour afterwards though so I could of saved myself the trouble of making them if I just looked a bit harder lol. I made a few extra as well so I can use them another day.
The pearl spray is from a local florist warehouse and I sprayed all the flowers with some glimmer mist to give them some sparkle.


I took a few pics of the candle tin and didn't know which one to show, so I am showing you a few instead lol.

The lid.


The next one is the back of the tin.And I promise this is the last one lol. This one is the front side.

I was going to take a pic of the tin before I covered it but I forgot lol. It's just a little tin that has a scented candle inside and the lid was see through which I was going to leave but I decided to use the sweet Tilda instead.

The paper is Stampin Up, image of course is a Magnolia. I got this stamps from a very sweet blogging friend (thanks hunni xx) as she knew I didn't have any Magnolias of my own.
I coloured Tilda with Polychromos Pencils and Sansodor then cut her out with my nesties. I did want to use the whole image but she didn't fit :(
The lace, ribbon and heart are from my stash, and the flowers are from Tabby Crafts and The Works.
I finished it off with some pearl beading which I also found in my stash. I have no idea where it came from but it came in handy for this and the FSS heart box I made last week :)

Right I think I might have put you to sleep by now, that's if you even made it to the bottom! lol, so will sign off now and will be back tomorrow for Digital Tuesday.

Lora x

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