update.

Hi bloggers, just a quick post to let you know im off on holiday this week. I am goin to be away until 8th August so will not be posting for the week.
I hope you all have a lovely week.

x laura x

Dancing Tilda

Hi all, I have been looking through the challenges this week and picked a few i wanted to join in with. I took a look at the just magnolia challenge and wasnt sure whether to join in. I am not normally very good at vintage theme, but after scouting through some of the amazing blogs i follow i thought i would have ago. I started this card yesterday and ended up very fustated, every time i tried to stamp Tilda it was going wrong. I hate wasting things, and ended up going through 2 pages of expensive water colouring paper, which annoyed me very much. I finally finished making my card today and thankfully today was a better day than yesterday. I stamped tilda with the latern first time(yipee). So i have a few photos for you. Im very pleased with this card.

Stamp-magnolia, mid summer Tilda and love lantern
DP-papermania, regency
Flowers-selection from wild orchid crafts
Ribbon and pearls from stash

The strip of brown coloured writing i made my self. I used stampin up En Francis stamp with memento cocoa ink stamped onto normal white card stock. I then distressed it using Tim Holtz distress ink in brushed corduroy. I also used Tim Holtz distress tool to add a bit of a rough edge. I added gloss accents to the glass on the lantern to give it a bit of shine, you can just see it in one of the pictures.

Challenges
just magnolia-week 65 vintage
friday sketchers-sketch 112
stamp challenge-something flowery
create4fun-flowers
raise the bar-distressed, torn, ripped, broken

Wishing you all a lovely weekend.

x laura x

Whiff of joy DT entry.

Evening all. This post is being entered into the whiff of joy DT(design team) call. My very first stamp was a whiff of joy one, I adore them, I have quite a collection growing. So when i saw there was a DT call HERE i jumped at the chance to enter. Am i good enough? Im not sure but i thought hey if i dont enter i will never know. Now to enter i had to make a card using at least one whiff of joy stamp.
This is what i came up with:

I wanted to keep the card simple as i wanted all the attention drawn to the image and the background.

stamp-whiff of joy, queen charlotte, charlottes horse, magnolia, floral backgound
DP-papermania, henbury lane
ribbon-stash
coloured with distress inks

Challenges
magnolia down under-season themed card

Wish me luck and fingers crossed.

x laura x

whimsy blog hop

Just wanted to do a quick post about the new whimsy collection. It is beautiful and there are some fab cards along the blog hop to view. If you fancy being in with a chance to win these:

Go over and start the blog hop HERE.

Remember to follow the blog hop carefully and make sure you leave a comment on each page to be in with the chance.

x laura x

just hanging around

Hello bloggers, hows the weather where you are? Its lovely in Essex, UK not too hot not too cold, so just right for me. I received the magnolia summer kit this morning, I bought it off someone who didnt want it. So i just had to ink this one up as it made me chuckle when i saw it.

Stamp-magnolia, dangling sea Edwin
DP-magnolia, lazy summer days
Rest-from my stash

Challenges
daring cardmakers-we are sailing
allsorts-summer days
the secret crafter-summer holidays

Look at Edwin, doesn't he look soo cute, just hanging around. I have coloured him with distress inks(im addicted). If you have any questions at any time, about anything, just leave me a comment.

x laura x

anything but a card.

Evening bloggers, Sorry my post is so late today i am still recovering from yesterday. I have had such a bad headache all day, so have been going in and out my craft room. I wanted to get this done today though as had some challenges it fits in with. You might of seen my post about the easel card i made HERE.  I decided that i would give it to my boyfriends mother for her birthday. As i had added lots of flowers to it i was uncertain how to send it, so decided to make a box for it to go in.

Stamps-magnolia, longing tilda, tilda with gifts, mid summer tilda
Box-white 12x12 bazzill card stock
DP-magnolia, pink starlit

Challenges:
create4fun-anything but a card
the secret crafter-apertures
creative card crew-to die for
craftalicious-cute
2 sisters challenge-anything goes

I have coloured the tildas with distress inks and im pleased to say im getting better(at last) I am very happy with how this has turned out. I didnt want to decorate the front of the box to much as the card inside is decorated, so left it simple. I also didnt want to put a whole image on the front as that would be too much like the card. So came up with just using the top halfs. 3 fitted perfectly and im glad with how it has turned out.

Please leave any comments you have good or bad, love to know what you think.

x laura x

Belles n whistles card

I have had a very busy morning so far. I wont go into to many details but a little over a year ago i was a witness to a incident that happened, so today i had to got to court as a prosecution witness. I was so worried about it, so worried that my M.E started to act up. Thankfully it didnt take to long so i was able to get home and have a nap. I wanted to get this post done today as i have another project lined up that i want to do tomorrow and show you.
 So on to the card, unfortunately i have only 1 belles n whistles stamp(which you have already seen) and so wanted to join in with the sketch they have. I am very picky with sketches, as i dont like to put too many different things on my cards. The sketch is lovely just want i like, i have followed the sketch but have rotated it 90 degrees anti-clockwise to suit my stamp better.

Stamp-belles n whistles, beary big hugs
Flowers-a selection from wild orchid crafts
Spellbinders nestabilities large deckled rectangles
Dollies-a selection from bizzy becs
DP-both prima, shabby chic collection "sweets"(blue), watercolour rainbow collection "whimsy"(pink)

Challenges
belles n whistles-sketch
wild orchid challenge-say it with flowers

Hope everyone is having a good week.


x laura x