Lili´s Little Fairies

Lili´s Little Fairies will continue where Lili of the Valley Challenge finished, we will have the same blog address and the same rules will apply being a Lili of the Valley Only Challenge and we will still post a challenge every week.

I hope you will join us, our First Weekly Challenge begins on Thursday 5th January but to keep you going until then there is some awesome candy on offer so do pop over to Lili´s Little Fairies to enter.

Where have all my flowers gone

Hiya folks, hope you are all well and not feeling the cold too much. Weather is a right mixed batch here and I´m trying to muster up the courage to go out shopping.

What do you think to this wee cutie pie, she is called Cyber Mummy Susie by artist Heather Valentin for Addicted To Stamps and only available from Scrapbook Stamp Society

I have coloured her with my copics, cutting out with nesties and layered her onto BG papers. Ribbon is from Stampin Up, Martha Stewart Lace Doily punch for borders and a rub on greeting which I´ve had forever.

Challenges:

2 Sisters - Punches and/or Dies

Crafty Catz - Anything Goes

Crafty Creations - Card with a Sentiment

Cute Card Thursday - Anything Goes

Craft Your Days Away - Buttons or Bows

One Stitch at a Time - Be Square

Sketch and Stash - Sketch #76

The Crazy Challenge - Anything Goes

Totally PaperCrafts - Anything BUT Christmas

Anything but a Christmas Card

Afternoon peeps, hope you are all well and ready for a new challenge at Lili of the Valley. This week we would like to see

Anything but a Christmas Card.

I have inked up April Showers, one of the latest releases from Lili of the Valley, coloured with copics and cut out with my nesties. don´t know how I would manage without them. BG papers, Wild Orchid Crafts flowers and pearls,sentiment comes free with this stamp and gems from stash.

Challenges:

Cooking it up with Katie - Anything Goes

PanPastel - Animals

Saturday Challenge - Borders and Flowers

Stampin´Sisters in Christ - Feature a Bird

Meet Krystal

Evening folks, hope you are all well and busy with your Christmas crafting and shopping. Ooh you could have knocked me down with a feather when I received an email from Heather Valentin inviting me to be on the Dream Team for Scrapbook Stamp Society - have you seen their digis??? OMG they are gorgeous and it took me but a split second to say yes. Well you cannot blame a gal for wanting to play acan you!

Isn´t she just a wee beauty! "Krystal" is a Limited Edition holiday digi created by artist Heather Valentin and she is available only from Scrapbook Stamp Society. They are a new company less than a year old which was created by Sherri Baldy and started out selling artists work on Fabric Blocks, from there they went into Rubber & Digi Stamps ... when they did, they fell in love with the scrapbooking world and now create even more products which are offered at Scrapbook Stamp Society..... do check out all the fabulous images which are perfect for both scrapbooking and carding alike cos they´re all gorgeous! Also check out their sister site Addicted To Stamps for new releases and freebies too, what ya waiting for!

I have used copics, glamour dust and flowersoft on this wee cutie and cut her out with my nesties. Papers are from the Christmas Stack by DCWV, poinsettias and pearls from Wild Orchid Crafts, glitter flowers and metal snowflake from stash.

Challenges:

Crafty Sentiments - Metal ... snowflake

Creatalicious - for Christmas and make sure it Sparkles

Creative Craft - Free for All

Digital Tuesday - Sparkle and Shine

Everybody Art Challenge - Christmas Card

Kaboodle Doodles - Baby it´s cold outside

Lothian Crafts - Christmas

Magical Monday - Use Those Scraps

One Stitch at a Time - Anything Goes

Papertake Weekly - Christmas Crackers

Sketch Saturday - Sketch 182

Winter Wonderland - Awwwww what a Cutie

Lili of the Valley - Icy Angel

Good morning folks, hope you are all well and not feeling the cold too much. It is a beautiful sunny morning here and to be honest it has been very mild which has been a blessing after almost 18 years in Spain, bet we will feel it soon though!

A fabulous new challenge has started today at Lili of the Valley so I do hope you will join us with

A Christmas Card For Someone Special

Remember you must use a Lili of the Valley image to be in the Prize Draw.

I have inked up Icy Angel, one of the latest images released at Lili of the Valley, and coloured her with copics then cut her out with my nesties. Any excuse to play with my beloved glamour dust, I just love this stuff for that added sparkle. Flowers are made up with Xcut and Woodware punches and topped with pearls from Wild Orchid Crafts. Papers are DCWV, Winter Wishes sentiment comes free with this stamp and ribbon from stash.

Challenges:

Bunny Zoe´s - Anything Christmas with Pearls

CCEE Stampers - 2 Diecuts or 2 Punches

Craft Your Days Away - Embellishment Bingo - Pearls, Flowers and Ribbon

Delightful - Bingo - Pattern Paper, Punches/Diecuts and Flowers

Flutter By Wednesday - Open

My Time to Craft - Take Two - Flowers

Paper Pretties - Colour Challenge - Non Traditional colours to create a Christmas Card

Southern Girls - Embellishment Bingo - Glitter, Ribbon and Embossing

Sweet Sketch Wednesday - Sketch 128

The Crazy Challenge - 1 Image, 2 Papers, 3 Embellishments - Flowers, Pearls and Ribbon

Totally Stampalicious - Anything 3D

Truly Scrumptious - Christmas with Pearls or Vintage

All Our Dreams

Here is another of the fabulous stamps which was released yesterday and is available online at Lili of the Valley, this wee cutie is called "All our Dreams" and the sentiment is included free.

A side view, funny how colours change with angle of light or perhaps my lack of photography skills.

A wee close up of the free sentiment, image and flowers.

I love this sentiment, sooo true!

I have coloured this adorable image with copics, highlighted the spots with liquid pearls and cut out with my nesties.

Flowers are available from Wild Orchid Crafts and have been glittered with stickles, lace from my stash.

All OUR dreams came true on 2/11/11 with the birth of Jessica, our very 1st granddaughter born at 23.36 and weighing 6lbs 12.5oz. She is so beautiful and looks like her brother Daniel, we can´t wait to see her in the flesh and get loads of cuddle time which unfortunately is on hold until both hubby and I are on the mend.

Isn´t she a wee darling!

Challenges

CES - Song or Film ... what else but Rock a Bye Baby

Crafty Ann´s- Floral Frenzy

Crafty Sentiments - All about Babies

Fun with Shapes and more - Make 3 ... Pearls and Rosebuds

Southern Girls - Can you hear the Music? ... Rock a Bye Baby and Lullabies

Totally Stampalicious - Anything Goes

Truly Scrumptious - Bingo Time ... diagonally Lace, Flowers and Ribbon

Lili of the Valley - Bright and Sparkly

Good morning peeps,sorry I'm a day late sharing my card but hubby has been pretty poorly.I have nothing but praise for the NHS and still can't believe a rapid response doctor was here within 3 minutes. Help sure is at hand when most needed.

Anyhoo onto this week's challenge at Lili of the Valley which is Bright and Sparkly, just up my street cos I simply love glitter.

This is a sneak peek for Lili of the Valley and this wee beauty is called Summer - Garden Angel and the sentiment comes with her too. She will be available online from 10th November along with another 27 gorgeous images but you can get your inky mitts on them if you are lucky enough to be visiting the NEC. Be sure to visit LOTV´S Ideas to Inspire blog to view the new releases created by my teamies.

I have coloured with copics and used lashings of glamour dust, ooh I just love the stuff! Papers are MME Bloom & Grow, flowers from WOC and Prima, couldn´t make a card without my nesties and just love my MS punches.

Challenges

Great sketch from Sunday Sketch & Stamp

Papertake Weekly - Anything Goes

It´s eyes down at Lili of the Valley

Good morning folks, hope you are well and not feeling the cold too much. It´s great to be back after such a long absence but boy time has never stood still for us. The move from Spain went smoothly but we haven´t stopped since our return and hopefully come next month we will be finished and back to normal living.

We have a fabulous challenge at Lili of the Valley so come along and let your creative juices flow with our game of BINGO.

I have gone with a diagonal line of gems, flowers and ribbon/lace and inked up Baby Christening from Lili of the Valley, coloured with copics and cut out with nesties. Flowers and pearls from Wild Orchid Crafts, gems are Hero Arts, papers are a mixture and ribbon and lace from stash.

I wish to combine my card with Sketch Saturday, great sketch thankyou and also Stamptacular who have a theme of Anything Goes.

LOTV 10% Discount from Midnight tonight plus Summer Girl ... New Release

Good evening LOTV lovers, from midnight tonight until Wednesday ... there will be 10% discount on all purchases from the Lili of the Valley website - what a great time to get those stamps you have been drooling over and wanting.

Some more news I have for you is the release on 14th June of the new Summer Girl Images, as from tomorrow you will be seeing sneak peaks on the Design Teams Blogs, please do check out their blogs, links on my side bar, as well as the Ideas to Inspire blog over the coming week as they are all going to be showing sneak peeks of the new stamps.

I am in the process of relocating from Spain back to good ole blighty so please bare with me during this removal and I will be back visiting you when time allows or when I get settled. -x-

The Crafty Pad GDT - Lace and Bows

Hope you are all having a fabulous weekend with plenty of sunshine. It is roasting hot here today so a stay in the shade day for me.

This week at The Crafty Pad we have a fabulous theme for you to follow so time to play again with some of your favourite embellishments

LACE & BOWS
I have printed off the sentiment and Fairy Chloe on Daisies, available from The Crafty Pad Designs, and cut out with my nesties, coloured with copics and prisma pencils, glamour dusted her wings and added a wee bit of stickles to the flower centres. Papers are SU, lace ribbons and gems from my stash.

I have used the sketch, rotated, designed by Carly for Flutter By Wednesday. Carly's wee sister shares my birthday on May 31st along with my grandson Ryan who will be celebrating his 18th. Carly is celebrating her sister´s birthday with some blog candy so do check out her blog for full deets.

Challenges:

A Spoonfull of Sugar - Anything Goes
Crafty Catz - Anything Goes
Flutter By Wednesday - Sketch
Kaboodle Doodles - Tic Tac Toe ... digi, lace, flowers
PaperPlay - Sparkle Galore
Papertake Weekly - Bloom & Grow
Simon Says - Sparkle & Shine
Truly Scrumptious - Anything Goes

Lili of the Valley #97

Good morning folks, not a very nice morning here I´m afraid. We´ve had torrential rain, thunderstorms and lightening all through the night and it looks pretty bleak at the mo but never mind we do have a fabulous theme at Lili of the Valley to brighten our day!
This week we would like to see your projects using the theme of
Here Comes Summer
and the lovely Laila and Lisa have kindly donated a £10 voucher to spend in the Store but remember the main image on your creation must be a Lili of the Valley stamp for you to qualify to be in the draw for this fab prize.

I have selected Cricket from the latest release It´s a Boy Thing , coloured with my copics and prismas then cut out with my nesties. Papermania papers which I have had forever, Martha Stewart zig zag punch which has lain neglected for yonks and my all time favourite clear sentiments also from Lili of the Valley.

Challenges:

Crafts and Me - Anything Goes

Crafty Cardmakers - Embossing

Dream Valley - Old and New ... old papers and punch, new stamp

One Stitch at a Time - Anything Goes

Sketch Saturday - this fabulous sketch

Stamp, Scrap and Doodle - Old Supplies ... papers , punch and nesties

Stampavie and more - Summer

The Corrosive - Birthdays

Lili of the Valley #96

Good morning peeps, hope you are all well and enjoying some sunshine. We are still recovering from our grandchildrens visit, they were wee darlings but I now realise I´m getting on a bit rofl!

We have a new challenge for you at Lili of the Valley . This week we would like to see

"Ribbons & Bows"

a nice easy theme for everyone and the perfect time to raid your ribbon box.


I have inked up Gwenn and coloured her with copics and prismas. Paper is BG Urban Prairie, Martha Stewart's punch around page, flowers from Wild Orchid Crafts and ribbon from stash.

Challenges:

Crafts and Me - Punches

Crafty Creations - Anything Goes

Dutch Dare - Winged Things

Papertake Weekly - Fancy a Punch

Stampavie and more - Ribbons

The Crazy Challenge - Anything Goes

The Boys are Back in Town now Released

The lovely ladies at The Ribbon Girl have got some delicious candy running to coincide with the Lili of the Valley Boys release that went on sale today.



Up for grabs are two prizes – 1st is a goody bag which is crammed full of ribbons, charms and a £10 voucher from Lili of the Valley and a second prize of a £10 voucher from Lili of the Valley, so pop across to The Ribbon Girl Blog to enter.

Lili of the Valley and a Sneak Peek

Good morning peeps, ooh it is a bit chilly here in good ole UK, even our grandsons commented whilst leaving for school this morning. We had a good flight over last night and arrived on time.


We have a fabulous theme for you this week at Lili of the Valley - ANIMAL ANTICS and would love to see your interpretation of this.


I have used "dad´s the word" which will be released on the 11th May and this is one release you will not want to miss. I have coloured with copics, cut out with my nesties, papers are from Papermania and ribbon from stash.

Challenges:

Papertake Weekly - Anything Goes
The Pixie Cottage - Sketch plus One for the Boys
The Crazy Challenge - Cards for Men

My grandson Josh loves to spend time in my craftroom colouring along with me and I think he has done pretty well considering he is only 9 years old. He has made this card for his parents anniversary bless him, mind you that is not until September!

Josh has inked up Lucky Cats and coloured with prisma pencils and chalks. Both his sentiment stamp and mine are from the Clear Stamps range from LOTV. Papers are K&Co, ribbon is SU and flowers from WOC.


Challenges:

Crafty Creations - Anniversary
Papertake Weekly - Anything Goes
Sunday Sketch & Stamp - Sketch




Back to the sunshine tomorrow, another flying visit!

Lili of the Valley #93 - Easter

A thousand apologies for my very late posting, I do have a million excuses mainly for my flying visit to UK (Wednesday night and return on Friday night - last night) to bring our grandsons over for the Easter break. I still can´t get over how fabulous the weather and temperatures were there despite the heavy rainfalls in Spain but so pleased to report that the weather here is now glorious.

Anyhoo onto the challenge this week at Lili of the Valley which is EASTER - the perfect time to send your friends and family a special wee card to let them know you are thinking of them so come on in and share your creations with us.

I inked up Easter Bunny from the Spring Collection and coloured with my copics adding a wee bit of chalk, glaze to the eggs and cutting out with my nesties. Papers are Basic Gray and ribbon from stash.

Sorry this is so short and hopefully sweet but with a 4, 6 and 9 year old to care for I am sure you will understand if you too are a Grandma!
Challenges:

Craft Your Days Away - Easter
Cupcakes - Lots of Layers
Dream Valley - Easter
Kaboodle Doodles - Thoughts of Spring/Easter
Little Claire´s - Animals
My Time to Craft - Eater Wishes
Sketchy Colors - Sketch

GDT for The Crafty Pad

Good afternoon peeps, sorry I am so late posting my GDT card for The Crafty Pad but I reckon like me you have all been busy making Sunday Lunch? Ooh a good old roast pork with all the trimmings today .... yum, yum, so pleased poor hubby is now in the kitchen washing up bet hey ho he could have used the dishwasher - what do they say about the Yorkies rofl??? Anyhoo onto the challenge this week at The Crafty Pad. The theme for this week is EASTER (well, what else would it be eh?) and our sponsor is again, that lovely lady of craft JOANNA SHEEN. All the design team have used "Easter Bunnies" available from THE CRAFTY PAD DESIGNS. I have coloured with my Copics added a wee bit chalk to the background and cut out with my nesties. Papers are BG Urban Prairie, roses are from Wild Orchid Crafts and gems from stash. Challenges: Basic Grey - Easter/Spring Creatalicious - Easter and include the colours pink,green,yellow and blue. Crafty Catz - Furry Friends Craft Your Days Away - Easter Dream Valley- Easter Kaboodle Doodles - Cute and Cuddly Animals Little Claire´s - Animals Stamp with Fun - Sketch

Lili of the Valley Challenge #91 - Peach & Green

Good morning folks, hope you are all well and enjoying warmer climates now that April is here. Thursday always brings us a fabulous new challenge from Lili of the Valley and this week we would love to see

Peach & Green

I have inked up one of Mollie Harrison´s fairies and she is called "Free", such a pity this is the first chance I have had to ink her up but rest assured you will be seeing her much more on my blog, can´t get over my obsession with fairies lol. I have coloured her with my copics and cut out with my nesties. She just cried out for the glamour dust treatment to her wings and being a lover of glitter how could I deny her this small pleasure! I adore the Clear Additions also from Lili of the Valley and this sentiment is one of my favourites.

Papers are a mixture of MME and PM, roses and pearls from Wild Orchid Crafts .

Challenges:

Crafts and Me - Glitter

Flutter By Wednesday - Open but use a fairy, butterfly or angel

Papertake Weekly - Anything Goes with an optional extra of Something New ... my stamp

The Corrosive - Pastel Colours

The Crazy Challenge - Just Add Flowers

The Pixie Cottage - Sketch

Lili of the Valley Challenge #90 - Spring

Good evening peeps, so sorry this post is so late in the day but I am having mega problems with Spantel, my ISP server, but whey hey better late than never! Thursday always bring a brand new challenge from Lili of the Valley and this week we have a theme of

Spring

When I think of Spring I always think of Weddings, mainly because I think I too was a Spring bride many moons ago!

I have inked up I Do, coloured with my copics and cut out with my nesties. Papers are Stampin Up, pearls and flowers from Wild Orchid Crafts.

Flowers have the stickle treatment and veil has wee touches of glamour dust.

Challenges:

CCEE Stampers 113 - BUTTONS, BUCKLES, BOWS, BRADS.....NOT!!!!!

Charisma Cardz - Bling & Sparkles Cooking it up with Katie - Sparkle, Shine & Shimmer Colour Create - Pastels Cute Card Thursday - Couples Paper Pretties- Bring on the Bling Papertake Weekly - Dawny´s Sketch

Lili of the Valley - A Sketch

Good afternoon peeps, hope you are all well. Do you ever have one of those days when you don´t have enough hours? I am already late for the St. Patrick´s celebrations round a the Peña but hope to get there within the hour unless something else crops up.

Anyhoo onto the new challenge at Lili of the Valley which is a SKETCH by our lovely Bev.


My friend asked me to make a card for her grandaughter because she has just passed her first ballet exam, bless her, I remember only too well running our girls around to their ballet, tap and modern lessons. I knew straight away which stamp to use because "Little Ballerina" fits the bill to perfection as does the circular sentiment also available from Lili of the Valley.

I coloured with my copics and used glamour dust to the skirt of her tu-tu, papers are BG bittersweet, lace, flowers and gems from my stash.

Challenges:

Cute Card Thursday - Music & Dance

Creative Craft - Lace

One Stitch at a Time - Glitter and Gems

Papertake Weekly - 3 of something ... flowers and gems

Lili of the Valley #87 - Say it with Flowers

Good morning peeps, hope you are all well. It is another bitter cold day here on the Costa del Sol, wish the sun would come back instead of this horrible rain and wind!

We have a fabulous theme for you this week at Lili of the Valley - SAY IT WITH FLOWERS - so let´s see all your gorgeous creations ladies.

I have inked up Spring Swing, one of the new Animal Releases which became available yesterday at Lili of the Valley. These little beauties are so quick and easy to colour, I used my copics, added a bit of flowersoft and glamour dust to his cute wee tail and cut out with my nesties. Papers and lace are from my stash and roses and pearls from Wild Orchid Crafts.

Challenges:

Little Claire´s - Flowers

Sarah Hurley - Four Legged Friends

Simon Says - Anything Goes

Southern Girls - Use Flowers

The ABC - P is for Pearls

The Pixie Cottage - Sketch and/or Easter

Lili of the Valley ... New Releases Available NOW!

Good morning crafters, what an exciting day this is with the release of the brand new Animals Stamps at Lili of the Valley . They are all adorable and so versatile so I advise you to place your order quickly to save disappointment cos they are gonna fly off the shelves for sure.

Be back tomorrow with another of these fabulous images.

Lili of the Valley #86 and another Sneak Peek

Good morning folks, can´t believe it is Thursday once again - where does the time go? We have another wonderful challenge for you at Lili of the Valley and this week it is a Sketch by our very own Bev.

I have inked up Toadstool for Two which will be available next week. The new Animals Release are gorgeous so don´t forget to check out the Lili of the Valley website on the 9th March to avoid disappointment cos these wee beauties are gonna fly off the shelves for sure. You will also find lots of beautiful creations from the DT using the new releases on the Ideas to Inspire Blog.

I adore this image as it´s so versatile, perfect for anniversaries, engagement, Easter etc. I have coloured with my copics and prismas adding touches of flowersoft and glamour dust. I would be lost without my nesties but decided to use up some old craft stash that has laid about for years. At one point in my crafting I couldn´t live without my peel offs, bet I wasn´t the only one lol, rub on´s were another thing I used a lot before I started stamping and I even pulled out an old punch which hasn´t seen the light of day for I don´t know how long. Papers are BG Urban Prairie, roses from Wild Orchid Crafts and ribbon from stash.

Challenges:

CES - Flowers and Flutterbies

Charisma Cardz - Four Legged Friends

Crafter´s Companion - Easter

Creative Belli- Animals

Flutter By Wednesday - Open, butterflies on my dp.

Lothian Crafts - Bright Colours

Moving Along With The Times - Anniversary Theme

Papertake Weekly - Anything Goes

Sneak Peeks at Lili of the Valley

Good morning folks, hope you are all well and ready for a new challenge with Lili of the Valley

This week we would like to see CIRCLES on your cards and the lovely Laila and Lisa from Lili of the Valley have kindly sponsored us again with a £10 voucher for one lucky winner but remember you must use a Lili of the Valley stamp to be in the draw.

Ooh just wait until you see the Sneak Peeks on the DT´s Blogs and also on the Ideas to Inspire Blog using the gorgeous new stamps which will be released on the 9th March, they are all so cute and will fly off the shelves for sure.

I have inked up Birthday Bumps - coloured with copics and prismas, paper pieced the blanket and cut out with my nesties. Sentiment is also Lili of the Valley , papers are Daisy and Dandelion, roses from Wild Orchid Crafts and pearls from stash.

Challenges:

A Spoonfull of Sugar - Birthday Wishes

Everybody Art Challenge - Sketch

Sir Stampalot - All Creatures Great and Small

Lili of the Valley - My Favourite Colours

We have a wonderful theme for you this week at Lili of the Valley - My Favourite Colours.
Ooh there are so many gorgeous colour combos and Pink and Mint have always been one of my favourites so have gone along with it for this week.

I have coloured Pom Pom with copics and prismas, isn´t she adorable? Papers are K&Co, ribbons from Stampin Up and sentiment is a See D.

Challenges:

Crafts and Me - Things with Wings

Paper Pretties - Card for a Child

Sketch and Stash - Fabulous sketch from Jackie - just perfect for my new stamp

How wonderful to be back into crafting and blogging after 3 long months of ill health, glad to say I am more or less back to my old self at long last and hope to catch up real soon.