With Love using Adorable Joy

Hello everyone I do hope you have all had a wonderful weekend.Tonight I would like to share this little cutie with you and I thought I would venture out of my compfort zone of pinks and purples and try a more warmer approach.

I was very lucky last week to win over 250 sheets of beautiful papers from the gorgeous Elaine and these were some of my favourites thankyou so much Elaine.

I have used the gorgeous Joy digital image from the Adorables from sugar Nellie and coloured her using promarkers.Other materials used are Tea Dye Distress ink,pearls,Spellbinders Fancy tags and some pretty organza ribbon.

I even had some good feedback from Rob my partner for this one he really loved the colours on this one.

I would like to enter this one into the following challenges:

The Sugar Bowl-Sketch

Crafty creations-Lets heat it up
Crafty purple frog-distressing
Samuel Taylors Challenge-copics/promarkers
Paperplay-Layer it up
Stamptacular Sunday-Whateva
Stampin for the weekend-warmed up
Totally gorjuss-As you like it

Auds Sentiments-Love theme sentiment

I hope you like my card this evening and I will catch you all later

hugs

Lorraine xx

Simply Sassy- Hippie Chick

Hello everyone as you can see I have finally posted a simply Sassy card and gosh did I love colouring this beauty.

I have decided to try for the GDT and if you would like to try for the Simply sassy GDT you will have to be quick as there is very little time left to enter.

I want to thank Fiona for this wonderful stamp I love it so thankyou so much huni it means alot to me.

I have coloured her with promarkers,I think the papers are BoBunny,the greeting was a rub on and the dies I have used for the greeting are Fancy Tags by spellbinders.Other materials used are clear gems,spun sugar distress ink,Making memories flowers.

I do hope you like it I chose to follow the sketch from the sugar bowl.

so the challenges I am entering are:

GDT Simply Sassy-Sassy Stamp

The Sugar Bowl-Sketch

thankyou so much for looking

hugs

Lorraine xx

Simple Card-But Not Sur If I Like It

Hi just a little card to share today it was very simple but now I don't think I like it very much,the image is cupcake Belle and the papers are Bobunny the swirl in the corner of the paper I decorated with glitter but not too sure if I should have now don't be shy give me your honest opinion of what you think it won't offend me.

It seems to look a bit nicer in real life honestly thats not an excuse lol.

Here are a few challenges I would like to enter this one into:

7 kids college fund-challenge yourself(glittered the design swirl on paper)

Cupcake crafts-food for thought
sarah hurley-Birthday girl
stamp something-cute

By the cute and girly-Bling it on

Thanks for looking

hugs

Lorraine xx

FOR SALE-Stamps,Grungeboard,Handmade cards

Hello everyone just a quick post to let you know that I have some things for sale on ebay lots of stamps,cards and a couple of packs of grungeboard if interested please read my listings carefully as some have been used once and many unused if you would like to take a look please pop over here to view them
thanks very much I should have another card to share this evening
hugs
Lorraine xx

Sweet Stampin DT-Clear As Mud

Hi everyone firstly I want to say thankyou to all of you who commented on my last post I appriciate all of your support it means so much to me.

Now onto a more happier topic its Saturday woohoo which means its time for another super challenge at Sweet Stampin Challenge and our very own teamie Abi has chosen a great theme for you

'Clear As Mud' so we would like to see the colour Brown and one other colour please,as you can see I was sneeky and also added a touch of green naughty me I have been on the naughty step for 29 minutes lol.

We have an amazing sponsor too this week we have Bunny Zoe Crafts sponsoring us so thats a great prize for the winner so I hope to see lots of great entries this week.

For my card I have used this great image from Kenny K and teamed it with these lush papers from Bo Bunny's Crazy Love collection I hope you like it.

I am entering this one into the following challenges:

Crafters Companion-Sketch
Sarah Hurley-Birthday girl
Stamp Something- cute
Truely Scrumptious-Pink,brown,green

Thanks for popping over and have a great weekend

hugs

Lorraine xx

New Baby Bathing

Hi everyone sorry i have been MIA I had some terrible news this week my cousin who is only 31 has died but its still unexplained why and she has left 3 beautiful children behind one 9,one 3 and one 18 months its so horrible.

Onto the crafting side of things I realised when making baby cards I always opt for girls maybe its because i love pink so i thought it was about time i made a boys one seeing as they cover half the human population(well some boys are human)lol.

The stamp is from the Popcorn bear kids range and the paper is from the hugs and cuddles forever friends pack.

I hope you like what I have made.

I am entering this one into the following challenges:

Crafters companion-Sketch

CYDA-Anything goes
Creative card world-Cute and cuddly
Elephantastics-New beginnings
Simon says stampand show-polka dots
Paper sundaes-week jan 9th-circles
Simon says-bingo(punch,embossing,ribbon)

Thankyou so much for looking at my blog
hugs
Lorraine xx

Vicky Has Candy

Hi everyone just a quick post to demand you get your little butts (big butt in my case) over to my good friend Vicky's as she has some great candy on offer and while your there i bet you follow her blog because believe me when i say this ladie has serious talent i just love her style of creativity and I just know you will too.

thanks for popping over

hugs

Lorraine xx

Back As Promised With Something ADORABLE

Told you so now how adorable is this little cutie her name is Joy and a joy she was to play with,I kept my card quite clean looking so the image would stand out in all its glory.She is from Sugar Nellie and whats more there is a choice of Digital or rubber this one is a Digital image as I needed her right away.

I have coloured her with promarkers and the sentiment was a freebie not 100% sure but i think i got it from Bizzy Becs.

I would like to enter this cutie into the following challenges:

The Sugar Bowl-Sketch/embossing

Cupcake crafts-something new(new image)
Fab n funky-Anything goes
Make it colorful-Warm or cool colours(warm)
Stamp something- Digi
Paperplay-clean and simple
Pear tree designs-circles
Paper sundaes-circles

Crafty purple frog-new goodies(image)

thankyou so much for visiting me xx

I Just Love Dufex

Matching Tag

Hi just a quick clean and simple card to share with you all today with a matching tag.

Just before christmas I recieved this wonderful pressie from my very good friend Paula a whole kit of Dufex flower fairies decoupage and it also came with lots of sheets of Dufex paper and elements too and of course a very special christmas card thankyou so much Paula I love it so much.

I wish you could see the true effect of the Dufex it is so luxurious it really is.

I teamed the elements with embossed cards that my mum got me for christmas and I think it works quite well and I do love the matching borders that come in the Dufex kit too.

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:

Bah! Humbug-Fairies/Holly

Crafters Companion-Sketch
CYDA-Anything goes
Crafty purple frog-New things(dufex decoupage kit)
Sketch and Stash-Sketch(new decoupage kit,embossed cards)

Thankyou so much for visiting me today I will be back real soon with something Adorable

hugs

Lorraine xx

Sweet Stampin DT And Challenge

Morning everyone well its saturday once more so that means another fabby challenge over at Sweet Stampin of course.This week we have a great theme for you to follow which is'Try Something New' this could be lots of things maybe a new technique,a new style, the choice is yours.My new thing is water colour pencils and as you can see I am in desperate need of some practice lol.It was so hard not to reach for the promarkers.

Our sponsor for this week is Di's Digi Downloads and a prize well worth winning i have a few of their images and they are so beautiful.

I hope you will all have time to join us this week and I look forward to seeing all of your wonderful creations.

I have made a corner bookmark this week and I have used my fave punch(thanks Martha) and these super cute stamps from crafters companion called cute companions designed by the one and only Jayne Nestorenko(spell check)lol.

I have coloured with Derwent water colour pencils and used some pretty papers.

I would like to enter my litle make into the following challenges:

CYDA-punch it out

Cute card Thursday-out with the old(paper)
Fab n funky-Anything goes
paper Sundaes-Something new
Fuzzy Wuzzy-Anything goes

Thankyou for visiting me

much love

Lorraine xx

Happy New Year With Popcorn Bear

Hi I finally have something to share,over the holidays I have found it hard to craft and my mojo left town and has only just returned sort of lol so its just a simple one tonight to celebrate the new year so I hope you will all like it.I won this set just before christmas and wanted to use him as I thought he was perfect for a new year card.

I have used the celebrate set from the kids popcorn collection along with a star embossing folder,promarkers,white gel pen,red pearls,doily punch,white ribbon and card from my stash.

I hope everyone has had a fab holiday with their friends and families as I did.

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:

Crafters Companion-Sketch and something new
Simon says-Party/celebrate
Crafts and me-Anything goes
Prairy fairy-New beginnings
Totally papercrafts-Time to party
Pixie cottage-Party/celebration

7 kids college fund-Anything goes
Passion for promarkers-Anything goes
Sew many challenges-New things
RRR-Something new/ribbon(new stamp set)

By the cute and girly-Bling on

Thankyou so much for visiting me and for being so patient for my return it means alot that none of my followers has dissappeared you are all amazing and I love you heaos

hugs

Lorraine xx

Happy New Year and Sweetpea Candy

Hi Happy New Year everyone I am in the middle of a card so I hope to share it with you very soon.

Well Sweetpea Stampers have a wicked candy on offer so why not pop over and give it a try here.

Hugs

Lorraine xx