A rushed post from me today, my hubby is going to paint my craft room whilst I sit and watch the wedding (some of us really live the high life lol). It’s Just Magnolia and hAnglar & sTanglar challenge time and this week the challenge is Buttons, Bows and Bling.
We have two sponsors this week – The Ribbon Girl and The Cutting Cafe' so double the chance to win a prize.
I have used one of the stamps from the hAnglar & sTanglar Sailor Kids kit. Not very sailorish colours but this was the first paper I grabbed off the pile that I still have not put away (best go get that done now before it’s all covered it paint).
The Copic colours I used are:
Skin: E21, E00, E000, R20, R30
Hair: E29, E25, E23, E50
Clothes: E43, E41, E40, R24, R22, R20, R30 and black prismacolor pencil
Card Recipe:
Stamps: hAnglar & sTanglar Sailor Kids kit, sentiment from The Cutting Cafe' One Spring Day
Paper: Magnolia
Tools: Stampin Up Slot Punch, Crealies Border 14 die
Embellishments: Silk Ribbon from The Ribbon Girl, Flowers and pearl stamens from Wild Orchid Crafts – Trellis Rose, 20mm roses, 15mm roses, 10mm roses, cherry blossoms
Enjoy your weekend
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It’s Lili of the Valley Challenge day today and this week the challenge is “Love is in the Air” which works so perfect with the new Wild Orchid Crafts' Classic Colour Range of Mulberry Paper Roses. It's an all new colour range and is a mixture of Vintage and soft faded colours, my very favourites!
I went with vintagey colours to show off these gorgeous gorgeous new colours. A light spritz of Old Lace Glimmer Mist was all they needed.
There are prizes of the new roses dotted along the way of the hop and a grand prize at the end of the hop on the Wild Orchid Crafts Blog so be sure to stop in at all the DT’s blogs to be in with a chance of winning one of 5 prizes!! The hop will run from midday UK time Thursday 28th April till midday Saturday 30th April and we will draw a winner on Saturday night. The next stop on the hop is Dawny P.
Have fun!
Recipe:
Stamps: Lili of the Valley Together Forever
Papers: MME Lost & Found
Embellishments: Trellis Roses, 20mm roses, 15mm roses, 10mm roses, pearls.
Tools: Crealies Border Die No 12, Magnolia Doo Hickey Swirl
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Our Wild Orchid Crafts blog hop has been put back until tomorrow so I thought I would share another card made with those stunning new flowers and colours. The only problem with these new colours is that it now takes me even longer to make a card because I can’t decide which colours to use lol … I want to use them ALL!
Nitwit Collections also have new stuff out – Promises Collection. Love the soft aqua and lilac with a touch of blue in there, so pretty!
I have used one of my new hAnglar & sTanglar stamps from the Sailor Kids kit. Being able to buy the stamps from their website is just brilliant, and the service is fantastic too. Three days from date of order till I have these little cuties in my little mitts, love it. I am going to enter this card in the Lovely hAnglar Only challenge which is your favourite stamp – I love them all so this wasn’t difficult lol
She has been coloured with the usual Copics and Prismacolor pencils
Skin: E21, E00, E000, R20, R30
Hair: E53, E51, E50, dark umber and light umber pencil
Pinks: R85, R83, R81 and black pencil
Aquas: BG13, BG11, BG10 and black pencil
And now the total deliciousness of the new flowers. OMW the pink is just sublime!
Instead of using another layer of paper I thought I would die-cut one of the Marianne D butterfly dies, I inked the edges with Broken China distress ink then added some Starlight Stickles.
Card Recipe:
Stamps: hAnglar & sTanglar Sailor Kids kit, MFT Die-Namics Polka Dot Die and Greeting set (sentiment)
Papers: Nitwit Collections Promises Collection
Embellies: Marianne D Butterfly Style 1 from Dies to Die For, new Trellis Rose, 20mm roses, 15mm roses, 10mm roses, sweetheart blossoms, pearl stamens, lace and seam binding from Wild Orchid Crafts.
I just want to say thank you so much to all the lovely ladies that have sent cards, emailed and phoned to wish me a speedy recover, you really are the most amazing people xxx.
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Oh I just can’t help myself when it comes to Wee Stamps, I had bought some a couple of weeks ago and had to go and buy the rest. And I will be hounding the website daily for new releases lol.
This little poppet is called Spring Bringer, loving the outfit!
She has been coloured with the usual Copics and Prismacolor pencils.
Hair: E53, E551, E53 and light umber pencil
Skin: E21, E00, E000, R20, R30
Blues: B00, B000, B0000 and cool grey 70 pencil
Greens: G21, G40, G20 and cool grey 70 pencil
Card Recipe:
Stamp: Wee Stamps Spring Bringer, Autumn Leaves Ticketed sentiment
Paper: First Edition Up Up and Away pad
Embellies: Wild Orchid Crafts seam binding, classic sweet rose, Sweetheart Blossoms, cherry blossoms, gypsophila
Cluny Lace from The Ribbon Girl
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Sorry this is so late, I went for a lie down earlier and just woke up now, guess that’s not much sleep for me tonight then lol.
The winner of the Simon Says Stamp Saturday Surprise candy - Tilda with Rose is
Sigal P
The winner of the new Roses from Wild Orchid Crafts is
Congratulations ladies, please email me to claim your prizes (put the name of the candy in the subject line please)
This week's Wild Orchid Challenge is White + 2 with a twist, roses must feature on your project. Now that wasn’t difficult at all, I love my roses as you all know.
I dug out some Tilda papers – Frosted Bluegreen and went with the White/Aqua/Taupe colour combo. I think I got a bit carried away when distressing the seam binding, a bit too grungy for me lol.
The flowers used are all from Wild Orchid Crafts - Trellis rose, 25mm tea rose, 20mm roses, 10mm roses. They are all the new colours that will be released on Wednesday so don’t forget to check back for the hop. The lace, filigree corner and pearls are also from Wild Orchid Crafts
A close up of Pom-Pom from Lili of the Valley (still think she’s the most cutest lil fairy ever!!)
I coloured her with Copics and Prismacolor pencils:
Hair: E53, E51, E50 and light umber pencil
Skin: E21, E00, E000, R20, R30
Jumper: E42, E41, E40 and warm grey 70% pencil
Skirt: BG11, BG10, BG70, 0 and Jade Green/ black pencil
Grass: YG63, YG61, G20 and olive pencil
Shadow around her: BG000, BG0000
I am scheduling the post and it’s really late so will post the winner of the Simon Says Stamp candy later today.
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This week the lovely people from Simon Says Stamp have provided Tilda with Rose for me to give away.
It’s the usual drill, please leave your name in the Inlinkz below, please do not enter by leaving a comment as I do the draw from the Inlinkz entries. You should now be able to enter without a URL if you don’t have a blog . The candy closes on Sunday evening.
Whoops I very nearly didn’t get this card done, I spent quite a bit of time in bed yesterday and as per had left it till the last minute. Thank goodness for these Scallop Concertina cards from Which Crafts (link at the bottom of the post). They are just fab and make quick cards a total doddle!
Sorry the pics are so bright, I had to take these late last night using the light box (hate that wretched thing). Not much to say on this card except I used my favourite image from the last Lili of the Valley release – Spring Swing. I just totally love this little bunny. I coloured the little daisies on the ssentiment and popped a little rhinestone in the centres.
An angle shot so you can hopefully see how brilliant these pre-scored cards are.
Card Recipe:
Pre-Cut and scored Scallop Concertina card from Which Craft
Stamps: Spring Swing and Clear Additions Happy Circular Sentiments sheet
Paper from my box of scraps.
Embellies: Daffodils, Sweetheart Blossoms and rhinestones from Wild Orchid Crafts
That’s it from me today. Ooh I’ve just noticed that my lil old blog has passed 3600 lovely followers!! Hmm some candy is needed methinks. I will pop some on later tonight or tomorrow :) Fancy any of those delish new Trellis Roses from Wild Orchid Crafts??? I will have a root round later as my order arrived yesterday and I always order more than I need – can’t help myself, it’s that trigger finger on the mouse rofl.
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Another late posting, and another doctors appointment – I am so fed up of doctors and hospital visits as I’m normally as healthy as an ox so this is driving me nuts. At last they have got all the results back and whilst they are not good and have left me a bit shaken up this morning at least now I know where I am going from here . Enough feeling sorry for yourself Bev, get on with today’s posting.
I did another Teddy Bo card for today, using browns and blues and a bit of inking and distressing.
The glitter on the wings and star is not showing up too good, the light was not very good this morning
Loads of gorgeous Wild Orchid Crafts flowers and seam binding and a hand made button for the bow. The “leaves” in the flower spray are actually a chopped up snowflake (Magnolia Doo Hickey) as I wanted something quite feathery with the leaves being die cut in brown card.
Card Recipe
Stamps: Teddy Bo digi stamp When you wish upon a star and Hero Arts ticket sentiment
Papers: Prima Jack and Jill
Embellies: Wild Orchid Crafts seam binding, 40mm tea rose, 20mm roses, 10mm roses, poppies
Tools: Spellbinders Shapeabilities Fleur de Lis die border, rectangle nesties and sewing machine
Colouring medium: Copics – Bear E33, E31, E30; Blues B95, B93, B91; Browns E79, E77, E74, E70; Shadows C1, C0, C00, W7, W5, W3, W1; Black and Burnt Ochre Prismacolor pencils
This card will be on eBay later tonight.
Just to let you know Charmed Cards and Crafts has the new Fancy Pants Beach Babe and Beach Bum ranges in
and also all the new Spellbinders Dies including the ribbon banner die that I have been struggling for ages to get.
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A late post from me today, but better late than never :)
I dug out one of the older Sarah Kay images – Precious Moments – for my card today. I’m doing good with using older stamps for a change, it’s lovely to resurrect stuff you forgot you had.
The image has been coloured with Copics and a black Prisma Pencil
Hat: E43, E42, E41, E40
Hair: R29, R23 (new colour but you could use E51)
Skin: E21, E00, E000, R20
Dungarees: BG75, BG72, Bg70 (new colour but you could use BG10)
Jumper: RV32, RV000, RV0000
Chicks: Y32, Y00
A close up of the gorge flowers
And a peek of the inside
Card recipe
Stamp: Precious Moments from Stampavie
Papers K&Co Charlotte
Embellies: All from Wild Orchid Crafts – classic sweet rose, 25mm wild rose, 20mm roses, 15mm roses, 10mm roses, doilies, pearls, seam binding
Tools: Quickutz Hinge die, Nestibilities Labels 18, sewing machine
This card will be on eBay later this evening
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