Digital Tuesday Heart 2 Heart

The new challenge over at Digital Tuesday is "Heart To Heart". Paula is our hostess this week and she would like to see hearts on your card. Our sponsor for this week is Digital stamp Oasis who will give the winner 3 digis of their choice.
My card turned out nothing like what I had planned, in fact it even changed from being a square card to a heart lol




The cute skunk is by Dawn Moore, isn't he so sweet?
I used the heart shape cutting file from The Cutting Cafe for my base. The paper isBasic Grey. I used some organza ribbon that has hearts along the edges which I bought for Rhianna while I was on holiday (I did ask this time lol). I stuck two heart behind my image which are overlapping, but you can only see a little piece of the cream one here as it doesn't show up very well in the pic. I got these in the beautiful wedding set I won from Lisa's Sophisticats Challenge. The flowers around the edge were all different colours but I just coloured them in with a marker.
See how my skunk has a really light patch on his knee? It is lighter IRL but it just looks weird here lol. It doesn't look that obvious in real life.
Right I'm off to see if I can get a pic of my blog candy stuff again while the rain has stopped for a minute. It will probably start raining again as soon as I take the stuff outside and everything will get soaked! Would you mind having soggy stuff if you won? lol
If you haven't already entered, the post is at the top of my blog. I promise I will send you dry goodies :)

Lora x

Cute Daisy May DTcard- Easy As 1-2-3

Time for another Cute Daisy May challenge and the challenge this week is Easy As 1-2-3. We want to see 1 ribbon, 2 buttons and 3 flowers on your cards.
Here's what I came up with.



Isn't this little Dasi cute? I was going to give her a white dress because she is in a sheet with other "grown up" Daisy's in wedding dresses, but me being me I had to be awkward and do her in green lol.
The paper I have used is Basic Grey Daisy is mounted on a scalloped circle cut from my nesties which I just rubbed some ink over, Flowers are Prima, ribbon, well ok I cheated a bit and used lace but in my world it's the same thing lol, and buttons are all from my stash.

Now that's the card done I have some stuff to tell you about.
First of all my BLOG CANDY. I will be updating my pic later today. I am still waiting for stuff to be delievered (I will not be ordering from that company again, that's been nearly 3 weeks and it's just in transit now!!) but I have loads of stamped images to add and some faux suede flowers amongst other things that I will take a pic of today. So get your name down for an entry HERE and if you are a follower, even better for you because I have more candy coming soon just for my followers :)


I know I have told you before but just incase any of you missed it, I'm gonna tell you again.
There's a new Challenge starting on the 1st of October. It's called By The Cute and Girly and I know you are going to love it!! It will not only be for cardmaking or scrapbooking, you can enter with any craft you like! The DT have been busy this last few weeks and we have so much inspiration for you, it's going to knock your socks off. Well maybe not mine but the rest of the girls will lol. You can do cards, scrapbook pages, other papercrafts, knitting, crosstitch, jewelry, even a flower arrangement or a nice home cooked dish, or anything else you want to make.
It will be a monthly challenge and you can enter as many times as you wish with a different craft, ie, a card, jewlery, scrapbook etc. Throughout the month we will also have tutorials and links to freebies that the girls think may be of interest to you. And the best bit is that we have great sponsors like the one and only Simon Says and loads of others, with lots of prizes to be had :)
So go check it out now and mark the 1st of October on your calender! Hope to see you there.

Lora x

The Sugar Bowl and a missed challenge

The kids are off school today and Monday which means I don't have to do the school runs so more time to craft :) So I didn't waste any time getting started. Over at the Sugar Bowl there is a sketch by Gayle and the "please include" option this week is paper piecing.
So here's what I came up with.

I am really enjoying doing the distressed/vintage kind of style just now and these K&co papers work perfectly with it so I just had to use some more of them:)
I used the same papers to piece the girls clothes, teddy's bib and the book used the same but I coloured over her top, the little heart on the teddys bib and the book with a red Copic because you couldn't see the heart on teddy so I coloured it red but it looked out of place so I had to colour some more lol. The rest of the image is coloured with Copics.
All the flowers are Primas and the pearls adn ribbon are from my stash.
I quite like this card. What do you think?

Now about this missed challenge.
I just went to check out the new challenge over at Just Magnolia and realised that I hadn't posted my card for last weeks sketch yet...duh! So I thought I may as well show it anyway.

Sorry another rubbish photo! Anyway I used a Tilda image that I was sent by a friend and a log from Magnolia too. Tilda is coloured with my usual Copics and the papers are Bo bunny.
I used my Fiskars Threading Water border punch (which you can hardly see here because of my rubbish scan).
So that's the card I made on Tuesday and just got round to posting today! Never mind, there is a new challenge today so maybe I will post that one on time lol.

I'm off to do some more crafting for DT work then I will be by to visit you all later this evening.
If you haven't entered my candy giveaway, then what you waiting for?(It's pinned at the top of my blog). I have more stuff on it's way (hopefully very soon!), so get your entry in now. Anyone who is following me or starts to follow will get 2 entries, so if you are one of my lovely followers then you will have double the chance of winning!
And for every 50 entries I will add even more goodies, so go spread the word (pretty please lol)

Lora x

A special Thank You card from Rhianna

No cards from me this time, instead my 6 year old daughter Rhianna wants to show a card that she made.
She got a lovely birthday package in the post from Lorraine (Coldwaters2) today with her own stamps, papers, ribbon, flowers and soem Sakura pens!!So she wanted to make a card as a thank you to Lorraine but she wanted to post it here to show everyone else too before she posted it. So sorry Lorraine, it won't be much of a surprise when it arrives lol.
Nearly everything she used on this card was from Lorraine. The only things from my stash was the smallest flower and the button. She even coloured the image with the pens she got. Do you like the green smile and the red dog? lol I did ask why she had a green smile and her answer was "are you stupid, it's not a real girl Mum it's only a picture. She can be whatever colour I want her to be". that's me told then lol.
The lay out is her own and she cut all the pieces of paper using my cutter on her own (I was sitting right next to her while she was using the cutter though).
I have been told to tell you that the image is ment to be Lorraine when she was a little girl with her doggie pmsl, (Sorry Lorraine, I have to obey the kids orders lol) and she used the sweetheart sentiment because (in her words) Lorraine is a sweetheart. Well she's not wrong there is she?
Well that's it from Rhianna and me for now.
Please scroll down for my Digital Tuesday card post and up the way for my Blog Candy post.

Hugs Lora x

Digital Tuesday -Falling leaves

It's that time of the week again and we have another Digital Tuesday challenge for you. Michelle R is hostess this week and has set the challenge of falling leaves. As you may have guessed by now, Autumn or Fall cards are not my strong point and I really do struggle with them, but I did have fun making this one.
The main image is the new release Emma from Fred She Said, isn't she just gorgeous? and the leaf flourishes image is from Mcmahon 5 designs who are also our sponsor this week. Sue the owner is offering some fab digi's for the winner and has also made a beautiful card to give you some inspiartion. You can check it out on the challenge blog along with the rest of the DT's cards.
I'm not sure who this paper is by because I have had it since last year so I wouldn't even hazard a guess.
The little leaves were just punched with a tiny puch from different scraps of card anf the leaves in the background were silver skeleton leaves that I won in Lorraines blog candy. The silver didn't go with my colours but I really wanted to use them so I sprayed them a few times with gold Cosmic Shimmer and they turned out great. You can't see very well here but irl some of the bits make them look like silk leaves. this is the first time i have used Cosmic Shimmers but I think I will be playing again soon :)
Hope to see some of you over at the challenge this week. You don't need to go overboard with the leaves like I did lol, you can just use some leaf patterned paper or even some leaf brads. As long as we can see leaves somewhere and you have used a digi image then you can enter for the prize :)
Right guess where I have to run to now? That's right I have to run to make it on time for the kids school lol. I really need a car!! Anyone want to buy me one?....Thought not. Oh well will just have to get my running shoes on!

Hugs Lora x

Gone vintage with no stamps!

The new challenge over at Sophisticats this week is a sketch and also you are not allowed to use any stamps aaarrrggghh!
I did manage though and I quite like the outcome too. I used a vintage image and printed it onto hammered card instead of using a stamp or digi stamp.
I wanted to post it tonight but I can't take pics with my camera at night, well to be honest I can't take pics with my camera most of the time because it only works when it wants too!, so I scanned it instead and the scanner has squished my flowers and has made it look a bit blurry :( I am going to try take another pic in the morning before I take the kids to school though.
Anyway here's my card following the sketch.
The papers are K&Co and ........omg I just realised that I used a stamp for the ticket rofl, how stupid am I? I was proud of myself not using any stamps for the main image and forgot abou tthe ticket. Technicaly I didn't use a stamp though because it was left over from some I stamped teh other day for the wallet I made lol. Somehow I don't think the girls at Sophisticats will let me away with that one!! I'm sorry girls I will try better next time lol. I may even change it for a sentiment tomorrow before I take another pic.
Well not much more to say about this card except I messed it up but I can enter it into the Cupcake Craft Challenge because they want you to do some distressing and as you can see I have been let loose with the ink, and also distressed the edges with my really expensive distressing tool......that would be my finger nails lol.
I just made the flowers with a bit of lace some little rose buds and added the little pearly bits that were off another bunch of flowers that are way too big to use on cards and I just cut them down to size.
Well I hope you like it anyway.

Lora x

Textured for Cute Daisy May

This weeks challenge at Cute Daisy May is to add some texture to your cards.
I had absolutely no idea what I was going to do but once I got started I had so many idea's of how to add texture, and I loved making this card.
Can you see how much fun I had with this one? You may not be able to see all the texture I have added here but if you click on the pic you should be able to see everything.
First of all I decided I would do some embossing and was going to use my cuttlebug embossing folders but I never actually got to that part yet because I spotted the embossing powder first :) I used a new Papermania stamp and stamped on some shimmery card then heat embossed in gold, then done the same on some mullberry paper. I have never embossed on Mullberry before and thought it might turn into a disaster but I had to try it lol. It worked just like normal paper but the embossing powder melted so much quicker.
I have no idea what the "stuff" that I put across the middle is called but I got it in a little cardmaking set and thought it would be good on this card, so it got stuck on too. Then for the fun bit, I coloured my CDM faisy with copics, used some Stickles on her wings and some green flocking powder on her dress. I love the way this stuff feels, couldn't stop touching it lol. I bet you didn't see that one coming did ya? Told you that you wouldn't see everything until you clicked on the pic ;)
And to finish it off some flowers. The green ones are punched with the SU! 5 petal punch and the others are faux suede flowers from The Flower Factory.
I think all in all a very touchy card. What do you think?
Now I have given you some ideas so go see the other DT girls cards, they have all done amazing cards again this week, and my blogging buddy and good friend Lorraine (Coldwaters) has also joined our team :D ( I think she is stalking me though now that she is on 2 teams with me lol), so be sure to leave her loads of love because her card is fabby.

I have to run and take the kids to school again. do you get the feeling that I am never on time for anything pmsl.
Please scroll down to see my FSS DT card under this post.
Lora x