Lili of the Valley #67

Good morning peeps, hope you are all well. Wow where has this month gone? Can´t believe we are into the last day of September already.
This week at Lili of the Valley we have another fabulous SKETCH for you to play with, designed by our very own Bev and Laila and Lisa have kindly donated a £10 voucher to be spent on the Lili of the Valley website. Remember to be entered for the prize you must use a Lili of the Valley Stamp or Diecut Image on your creation.
Did you know that Lili of the Valley are now stocking fabulous Super Smooth card for stamping and colouring with Copics and Promarkers? You know how hard it is to get a really good quality card that enables you to blend perfectly, well this card really does that and it is such a reasonable price too - 50 A5 sheets for £5 so if you would like to purchase some of this card just click HERE to go direct to the page.

I have inked up New Hat cutting out with my nesties and coloured her with my copics and prismas, added liquid pearls to her dress and smidgings of stickles.

Roses from Wild Orchid Crafts also got the stickles treatment cos I love my glitter.

Papers are BG´s Urban Prairie, thank you Sylvia I love these. Sentiment is Stampin Up, lace and card candy from stash.

Challenges:

Creative Card Crew - Bloomin Marvelous

Creative Craft - Glamour Puss

Fun with Shapes and more - Lace

Just for You

Good morning and welcome to a new challenge at Die Cut Dreams . This weeks challenge is to use

VELLUM

on your creation. If you need a little inspiration just take a look at the stunning creations my DT buddies have made, links are on my sidebar.

I went back to another of my old loves and did a wee spot of pergamano. Can´t believe at long last I found a use for these opaque buttons.

Challenges:

Creative Belli - B themed ... butterflies and buttons

Cute Card Thursday - A Tweet and a Flutter

Daring Cardmakers - Come Fly with Me

Fairy Fun Friday - Embossing

Flutter By Wednesday - use Buttons along with your fairy, butterfly or angel

Saturday Challenge - Anything Goes

Lili of the Valley #65

How times flies when you´re having fun is so true, I can´t believe it´s Thursday already and if I´m not careful Christmas will be upon me before I can blink. Mind you I´m not too worried because I am getting well ahead with my Christmas cards this year thanks to the adorable images available from Lili of the Valley .

This week at Lili of the Valley Challenge Blog our very own Lena Katrine has designed a fabulous

SKETCH

for us and Laila and Lisa have kindly donated a £10 voucher to be spent in the Lili of the Valley website for this weeks Prize. To be entered for the prize you must use a Lili of the Valley Stamp or Diecut Image on your creation.

I have coloured Presents for 2 with copics and prismas, cut out with my nesties and of coarse just had to add a wee bit of glamour dust. Roses and poinsettia are from Wild Orchid Crafts , papers are DCWV and the gorgeous pin from Posh Pins & Charms.

Challenges:

A Pocket Full of Posies - Floral Fantasy

Die Cut Dreams Christmas Club - Childrens Christmas

Moving Along With The Times - Christmas

My Time to Craft - Jewelled

Papertake Weekly - Picture Challenge

Pixie Dust Studio - Fur or Feather? - use an Animal

Christmas Teddy

Good afternoon folks, hope you have all had a wonderful weekend. I decided I needed a day off so had a little play. I love all the stamps from Lili of the Valley and have inked up Christmas Teddy - Big Star from last Christmas release. In my opinion these stamps will never go out of date cos they´re all so adorable. A wee note to my American and Canadian buddies - these beauties can also be purchased from Simon Says Stamp.

I have coloured with my copics and prismas as always and added gold glamour dust to the star. Poinsetties have been glittered with stickles and these and the flat backed pearls are from Wild Orchid Crafts. Papers are BG Eskimo Kisses, image was cut out with my nesties and the ribbon is from my stash. I can´t believe how well I am doing with my Christmas cards this year so there should be no last minute panic for a change!

Challenges:

Simon Says Stamp Challenge and Simon Says Stamp and Show have joined together to bring us their Stamp - Tember Hop - I have chosen Christmas for their theme of Holiday Fun.

Sketch and Stash - this fabulous Sketch

Bah Humbug - Favourite Mediums ... mine are my copics and prismas

Kaboodle Doodles Photo Inspiration ... I have gone with the colours

Down By the Riverside

Good morning peeps, hope you are all well and enjoying yourselves. Time, for me at the moment is very precious and I have had to take a back seat with blogging but do hope to catch up with all my buddies real soon. The de-cluttering process is going great, I should never be allowed so much storage space cos I am a hoarder but whey hey I have reduced a triple double wardrobe to less than one and helped clothe the homeless into the bargain! OMG it was like Hazel giving Viv the same treatment in Emmerdale. Thank goodness only 3 more bedrooms to go and smaller wardrobes so should be much easier!

This week we have a fabulous theme for you at Lili of the Valley

One for the Boys

I now find this challenge so much easier especially with the wonderful range of stamps available at Lili of the Valley and what a snip they are at only £3.75 each. Have you checked out the fabulous new Christmas Range yet, if not, why not - go on take a look and spoil yourself, you know you´re worth it?

I have coloured "By the River" from the Boys/Mens Collection available from Lili of the Valley , with both copics and prismas and added only the lightest touch of glamour dust - cutting out with my nesties. Papers are My Mind´s Eye Bloom & Grow, sentiment from Stampin Up, gems and charm from stash. I did pinch a wee bit of hubby´s twine, which he uses for the rigging on his model ships, to attach the charm.

Challenges:

Crafty Creations - Transportation ... my charm
Crazy 4 Challenges - Anything book related ... Down by the riverside ... Tanah Keeta Song Book
Cupcakes - Books and Stories ... As Above
Fab´n´Funky - What'eva
The Crafty Pad - Lemon, Lime and Mango
Stampin´Sisters in Christ - Water either in word or image
Truly Scrumptious - Sketch with optional extra to use a knot ... I tied 3 on the twine

Lili of the Valley #63

Good morning and welcome to a new challenge at Lili of the Valley , I don´t know where the last week has gone and can´t believe we are into September already!

We have a fabulous SKETCH for you to follow, designed by our very own Bev, this was a dream to work with and one I will definitely use many times again.

This week we are being sponsored by the very kind Paul and Siri from Wild Orchid Crafts so do check out Lili of the Valley Challenge Blog to see the amazing prize you could win and don´t forget that to be entered for the prize you must use a Lili of the Valley Stamp or Diecut Image on your creation.

I have used Baby´s First Christmas, coloured with copics and prisma´s and of course couldn´t resist getting the glamour dust out . Sentiment is also from Lili of the Valley, flowers from Wild Orchid Crafts , papers from Bearly Mine Designs and ribbon and pearls from my stash.

Challenges:

fab´n´funky - Living in a material world

Secret Saturday - Make a start on Christmas

The Crafty Pad - Simply Pearls

The Creative Cottage - Celebrations

Lilac and Lace

Good morning peeps, so what´s you up to today? I have too much to do but the sooner I get it done the easier it will be later on. A hoarder´s life is not an easy one and now I am paying the price rofl.

Anyhoo onto my card, this fortnight at Totally Tilda the theme is

Lilac and Lace

so why not pop over and join us.

I have coloured Tilda with copics and prismas and just had to add a bit glamour dust to her dress. Papers are from Bearly Mine Designs and roses from Wild Orchid Crafts . I have threaded some ribbon through the lace and finished off with a gorgeous pin from Posh Pins & Charms, pearls are from my stash.

Challenges:

Crafts and Me - Petals and Pearls

Creative Belli - Round and Metal - my pin

Delightful Sketches - Cute and Girly with pearls and lace

Fairy Fun Friday´s - Pearls and Lace

One Stitch at a Time - Girlie or colour scheme - I have gone for girlie

Papertake Weekly - Just the One - lace, ribbon, pin and punch

Paper Cutz - Use some Metal

Stampin´Sisters in Christ - Use some Metal

Soft Shades of Vintage

Good morning folks, hope all you lucky peeps in UK are enjoying your Bank Holiday and the weather is being kind to you. We are on Red Alert as the temperatures here are sizzling, much too hot for me but hopefully won´t have to suffer it for much longer ... watch this space!

Today sees the start of a new challenge at Die Cut Dreams and this week we would like to see

Soft shades of Vintage

Now this is something I never do and I was completely lost so decided to go back to decoupage which was my first love in crafting. She is a beauty IRL, 7 layers deep and will be popped in the post tomorrow to my friend who got me started crafting.

Challenges:

Bunny Zoe´s - Vintage
Creatalicious - Vintage

Dutch Dare Card - Vintage Summer

Tamiko´s - 3d

Tilda in Lemon

Good afternoon folks, hope you are all well and not sweltering away like I am, aah to be back in good ole UK - no harm dreaming is there? Finally got caught up with all the shopping and laundry so just need to apply myself and catch up on commenting now.

Anyhoo, the challenge at Die Cut Dreams this week is

Tilda in Lemon

I have coloured Tilda with copics and prismas, adding touches of glamour dust for a bit of sparkle. Paper is from stock, used a couple of punches, corners are by Double Do and the beautiful roses are from Wild Orchid Crafts - these too got the glamour treatment, ooh I luv me sparkle!


All That Scraps - Open Theme

Charisma Cardz - Die Cuts ... corners

fab´n´funky - Flower Power

Let´s Ink It Up - #1 ANYTHING GOES - with a twist - use the colour yellow

Moving Along With The Times - Glitter

Stamp with Fun - Card for a Girl

Totally Stampalicious - Texture-Licious ... the double corners are deeply textured as is the cream card Tilda is sat on.

Totally Tilda #3 - Stitching

Good afternoon peeps, hope you are all well and enjoying a relaxing weekend. We had a fabulous holiday in UK but the time just flew by and we weren´t ready for our return to Spain. It was wonderful to see and play with our grandsons´ but unfortunately we didn´t have time to visit our eldest,Ryan. Let´s hope we can sell up and return to UK permanently.

Anyhoo onto today´s card, Totally Tilda have set the theme for

Stitching
So we want to see lots stitching on your creations be it real or faux.

I decided to get my needle out and enjoy a bit of hand sewing, pattern is by Chris Bosman and I think perfect for this Tilda. I coloured with prismas and chalks and punched all the corners. Paper is from an old pad by Papermania and flowers from where else but the fabulous Wild Orchid Crafts, their service is fantastic and I brought another order home with me.

Challenges:

Everybody Art Challenge - In the Garden

Paper Cutz - Anything goes

Fairy Fun Friday´s - Punch It

Lili of the Valley and a Sneak Peek

I am really enjoying these cooler temperatures in UK, had both plenty rain and sunshine so a perfect combination.

This week at Lili of the Valley our theme is

Four Seasons – we would like to see cards that reflect, Spring, Summer, Autumn or Winter

Lili of the Valley are offering a £10 voucher to be spend on the website this week, what a great chance to get your hands on the new images.

I have inked up James the Bear - Christmas Cracker and coloured him with copics and prismas, adding the necessary glamour dust for that wee bit of sparkle. Mounted him on a nestie added a few gems and the double corner dies are by Double Do.

Sentiment is from See D.

I really enjoyed doing a bit of paper`embroidery which I find so therapeutic.

Challenges:

 Crafty Catz - Animals

 Stampavie and more - Christmas in Summer

 The Pixie Cottage - Sketch and/or A Fancy Fold

Who´s for cutting it up?

Morning peeps, hope you are all well and had a really good weekend. I am on cloud nine cos count down time is here for some lovely cool weather, roll on Wednesday when I can escape this heat - UK here I come! Maybe better get a wee crafty shopping list ready, what thinks you?

Today sees the start of a new challenge at Die Cut Dreams and this week we would like to see some

MATERIAL

on your creations but you must use material other than ribbon or trim to be in with a chance to win this weeks prize.

Bloomin heck hubby wasn´t too pleased when he saw I had cut into his shirt, poor darling does the ironing and said at least I could have let him wear it first, hey come on I didn´t want a sweaty bit o material - trust men!

I decided to cut the circular panel with my nestie and now wish I had mounted it onto white card - this shirt is/WAS so fine and the orange card does show through a bit but whey hey it is all in the aid of completing a challenge ROFL.

I have inked up Sailing Boat from Lili of the Valley and coloured with copics and prismas, these stamps are such a snip at only £3.75 each. I stamped onto the shirt with versafine to create the sails and again onto the orange card for the mast and flag. I also recycled some wire from a wine bottle to create the wee beaded dangly, added a cute wee yacht charm sent by a friend, spacer and brad all from stash. Backing paper is by Papermania and corners are Double Do dies.

Challenges:

Craft Your Days Away - Favourite Things ... mine are Lili of the Valley Stamps

Creative Inspirations - Recycle

One Stop Craft - Summer Fun

Secret Saturday - It´s a Man´s World ... Male related

Simon Says - Sing It Baby ... Little Boy Blue ... Sailing

Stamptacular - Snips and Snails and Puppy Dog Tails ... just for boys

Lili of the Valley - Sketch

Good morning and welcome to a new challenge at Lili of the Valley , from this week we are reverting back to a Weekly Challenge.

Lili of the Valley are again offering 2 stamps of the Winners choice as a Prize and to be eligible you must use a Lili of the Valley Stamp or Diecut Image on your creation.

Our theme this week is this fabulous Sketch designed by our lovely Bev .

I have rotated the sketch and coloured "Skating Along", from the Christmas People Collection, by Lili of the Valley and coloured with my copics and prismas adding glamour dust for that extra sparkle. Papers are from Bearly Mine Designs, ribbon and floral detail from my stash.

Challenges:

Creative Craft - Animal Antics
Cute Card Thursday - Whateva
Moving Along With The Times - Christmas
Rosie-D´s - All Creatures Great and Small

Die Cut Dreams #59

Good morning folks, hope you have all had a fabulous weekend. We have just lazed around cos it is far too hot to do anything else, roll on our holiday to UK where we hope to find some real cool weather.

Monday again and that means a new challenge at the Die Cut Dreams and this week is the first week we have the new and very talented Design Team sharing their stunning creations so be sure to pop over to the blog to view or better still pay them a visit - links can be found on my sidebar. Lyn AKA Spyder and Linda are our Guest Designers this week along with Vikki our monthly sponsor from Posh Pins and Charms

The theme for this week´s challenge is

GINGHAM

use anything you wish , any colour you wish, as long as your creation has Gingham on it.


I have used gingham ribbon from my stash.

I have coloured my image, from Cuddly Buddly, with copics and prismas adding touches of glamour dust, gems to his waistcoat and a pearl to the walking stick. Papers and sentiment are from Stampin Up, corners are Double Do´s.

Challenges:

Allsorts - Dressing Up ... well he does have his Top Hat and best Waitcoat on rofl
Mami Doodles - Anything goes
Simon Says - We are all going dotty

Totally Tilda #2

Good morning folks, hope you are all well. Gosh where have the last 4 weeks gone? From today Totally Tilda are going fortnightly, wow we were overwhelmed with the amount of beautiful entries for Challenge #1 and hope you will all come back and play again with our new challenge.

We are very fortunate to have Bert Pickles AKA Fairy Prairie join our DT, welcome onboard sweetie - and also a warm welcome to Katie who is our Guest Designer this challenge.

We are also very lucky to be sponsored by the lovely Nikki from Bunny-Zoe Crafts and the Prize for one lucky person is;

Our challenge for this fortnight is to

Make a SHAPED CARD

But NO Squares OR Rectangles and NO Easel cards.

Susie gave the DT some of her new die cut cards on stands to play with and they are now available in her shop at Die cut Dreams and what a dream they are to work with.

I challenged myself to make use of my neglected punches and really enjoyed myself. They are just normal punches, not circular, and the best way I can describe their use is to cut a 5 or 7cm circle in centre - depends on pattern spread of the punch, it really is a case of trying for yourself. I then punch at 12, 6, 3 and 9 0´ clock then twice inbetween each of these.

I have coloured Tilda with copics and prismas and cut her out, ooh that stem did test my patience rofl. Roses are from Wild Orchid Crafts and I don´t think you can go overboard with them - they are so addictive, memo to self ... place another order. Sentiment is from Stampin Up, cut with my nesties and layered onto another punched shape and that´s about it lol.

Challenges:

Crafty Ann´s - Lazy, Hazy Days of Summer
Crafty Creations - Summer Lovin´
Creative Inspirations - Anything Goes
Cute Card Thursday - Texting Crazy
One Stop Craft - Patterns

Die Cut Dreams - Tilda in Blue

Good morning folks, welcome to a new challenge at Die Cut Dreams.
This weeks challenge theme is

Tilda in Blue

Your card has to be mainly Blue, you can use skin and hair colours and a dash of black and white with a minimal dash of another colour. This week we are also joined by our very special guest designer Trisha and if you need a little inspiration just take a look at the stunning creations our fab Design Team have created, links are in my sidebar.

I would also like to extend a warm welcome to our new teamies, Liz Marsden, Dawn, Deb‘s R, Tracy, Pamela & Crafty Chris who will be joining us from next week.

My circular card is from the Shaped Cards on Stands from Die Cut Dreams and at only £2.99 for 18pieces, making 6 cards, this is a real bargain. I covered the plain circle with paper from my stash and added a doily.
I have coloured Tilda with copics and prismas with a touch of glamour dust, roses are from Wild Orchid Crafts, sentiment is Stampin Up and cut with my nesties.

Challenges:

Charisma Cardz - Anything but Square

Craftalicious - Birthdays

Lots To Do - Shapes

Ooh La La Creations - Birthday

Stamp Something - Something Flowery

The Stamp Man - Anything Goes

Totally Stampalicious - Birthdays

Carol Singing

Good morning and welcome to a new challenge at Lili of the Valley. This fortnight we have a wonderful

Sketch

for you, designed by our very own Bev. This was a dream to work with and one I will be using over and over again.

I have inked up "Carol Singing" from the new Lili of the Valley Christmas 2010 - Christmas People Collection. Ooh they are all adorable and I count myself so fortunate working with all these fabulous images and you can get yours too at Lili of the Valley.
I have coloured with copics and prisma´s and just had to add touches of glamour dust cos chrissie cards need to glitter, well that is my excuse and I´m sticking to it - just like the glitter does to me rofl. Papers are Stampin Up, the gorgeous roses from Wild Orchid Crafts, punch is a Martha Stewart and the card candy is from my stash.



Challenges:

Christmas Stampin´ All Year Long - Bling It Up
Cupcakes - Cats & Dogs
Ooh La La Creations - Christmas in July
One Stop Craft - Pink, Blue, Green & a hint of Red

Lili of the Valley Ideas to Inspire Candy

Lili of the Valley is giving away some early Christmas candy on their Ideas to Inspire blog, so pop across and enter to be in with a chance. You only have till Wednesday 21st July so be quick!

Go on get yer skates on! -x-

Meet James

Lili of the Valley are helping to satisfy your Christmas stamping desires early with some fantastic festive images!! There will be over 40 designs released in the next couple of months including some gorgeous Kids Nativity stamps which you won’t be able to resist, loads of traditional Christmas characters and scenes which are just so cute, plus Polar Bears, Pups and Penguins and more of their fantastic Bear, now called James! The first set of 15-20 designs are released next Wednesday 14th July so look out for sneak peaks and beautiful cards on all the LOTV Design Team’s Blogs!

I have inked up James the Bear - Pile of Presents and coloured him with my poor neglected Prismas, isn´t he just adorable! He was released on 2nd of July and is available on the new A5 stamps sheets which are currently for sale at only £12!! It's crazy really when you think that there is over £18 worth of stamps on there - but they´re part of Lili of the Valley's Midsummer Madness 10 days which is running from 2nd - 12th July, so not long left before you can grab this bargain.

I cut him out with my nesties then added the necessary sparkle with glamour dust. Papers are DCWV, sentiment by See D, ribbons from stash and roses ofcourse from Wild Orchid Crafts.

Challenges:

Christmas Stampin´All Year Long - Free Challenge

Die Cut Dreams Christmas Club - A Very Beary Merry Christmas

Friday Sketchers - Sketch

Winter Wonderland - Twas the Night Before Christmas

Lili of the Valley and a Sneak Peak

Please scroll down for Die Cut Dreams Blog Hop

Did you know that Lili of the Valley are releasing over 40 Christmas designs in the next couple of months including some gorgeous Kids Nativity stamps which you won’t be able to resist, loads of traditional Christmas characters and scenes which are just so cute, plus Polar Bears, Pups and Penguins and more of their fantastic Bears, now called James!
The first set of 15-20 designs are released next Wednesday 14th July so look out for sneak peaks and beautiful cards on all the LOTV Design Team’s Blogs!

Lili of the Valley are offering two brand new Christmas stamps of your choice to the winner of this Challenge.

We have a fabulous sketch designed by Dawny P for Lili of the Valley Challenge this week.
To be entered for the prize you must use a Lili of the Valley Stamp or Diecut Image on your creation, we will still be pleased to see your entries using other stamps but they will not be entered for the prize.

I have used Christmas Angels with Crib from the Nativity Collection cut out with nesties and coloured with my copics, gold and crystal glamour dust on the stars and wings. Papers are from the Vintage Collection at Bearly Mine Designs, holly leaves are Sissix, ribbon from stash and flowers ofcourse from Wild Orchid Crafts.

Challenges:

Corrosive - Christmas Time
Die Cut Dreams Christmas - Holly Wreaths
Flutter By Wednesday - Open with a Butterfly, Angel or Fairy

The Pink Elephant - 3 Layers, 2 Die Cuts and a Ribbon