Charity Crafter Has Sakura Candy

Hello everyone just a quick post to let you all know that over at Charity Crafters blog she has 4 prizes to give away of sakura pens and we all know how great they are so please pop over there and show your support.She has some beautiful cards and projects on her blog and some really great money saving tips.The work she does for charity is unbelieveable too she deserves a medal.Well thats me for know hopefully i'll be back soon with a card to share with you all.The link to her blog ishttp://www.charitycrafter.blogspot.com
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Lorraine xx

A Simple Card For A Few Challenges

Hello everyone sorry that I haven't posted much lately been so busy decorating the flat as we fancied a change this year its going to take ages.

This is a simple card that I decided to make for a few challenges and all the links will be avaliable at the bottom of this post for anyone who is interested in joining in.

The stamped image is from crafters companions rose flower fairies stamp sheet Which i coloured using promarkers lilac,amythyst, the butterflies are from the almond blossom one (i think),I wanted to keep it simple so I only used one paper which was just some lightly textured paper plain white which has a scallopped edge from papermania.I added some ribbon to the left hand side along with 3 buttons,inked the edges of my topper with some brilliance purple ink,glittered the dress and butterflies and for the wings I used some angelina fibres.I would like to thank you all for looking and appriciate any comments that you wish to leave.The links will follow.

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Lorraine xx

http://www.itsacrafterscompanion.blogspot.com/ inspirational photo,buttons,glitter

http://corrosivechallengesbyjanet.blogspot.com/ wings

http://totallygorjuss.blogspot.com/2010/02/flower-power-challenge-18.html flower power

http://abcdesignblog.blogspot.com/2010/02/challenge-2-birthdays-join-fun.html Birthday

http://abc-challenge.blogspot.com/2010/02/o-is-for.html O is for one paper

http://promarkerchallenge.blogspot.com/2010/02/week-39-theme.html Buttons and Bows

http://thepinkelephantchallenge.blogspot.com/2010/02/pink-elephant-challenge-54.html ribbon

http://pileitonchallenge.blogspot.com/2010/02/challenge-6-let-us-see-flowers.html flowers

Pink Gem Challenge 1

For Pink Gems first challenge there is a lovely sketch to follow and the option to use pink and gems.As this is the only pink gem stamp i own at the moment thanks to mandy for kindly sending me the little darling stamp I have made a very early christmas card with her. For my card i have used dcwv papers,s/a gems,clear glitter,nesties,promarkers,cuttlebug snowflake die,cuttlebug embossing folder(sorry little difficult to see stupid camera).I hope you like it and if you would like to join in on this challenge the link will be at the end of this post.Thankyou very much for looking at my card and all comments are very much appriciated.

http://pinkgemchallengeblog.blogspot.com/2010/02/welcome-to-our-first-challenge.html

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Lorraine xx

The Sugar Bowl Challenge 29

Hello everyone hope you have all had a lovely day.what no PINK or PURPLE I hear you say.Well I thought I would leave my compfort zone and try a new colour range to brighten up this terrible weather we all seem to be having so what do you think?

The challenge this week was to follow Tiets sketch(a great sketch I must add) and add 3 flowers,2brads and 1 button.I used my new funky vintage papers by Dovecraft for this one as I thought the colours went well as I coloured her with my promarkers before choosing my papers and then followed the sketch as best I could.The stamp I used was the very first sugar nellie I bought from Funkykits called Sweet and Sassy I love this stamp and I never seem to get bored of this one shes too adorable.Well thats me for this evening will post again real soon thankyou for popping over and thankyou for all of you that leave comments they are very much appriciated.

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Lorraine xx

The sugarbowl link-http://sugarbowlblog.blogspot.com/2010/02/challenge-29-tiets-sketch.html

A Card For a few Challenges

A little time ago I told you I won the trimcrafts competition and my gorgeous prize came just before the weekend and it consisted of the whole new range from dovecrafts called funky vintage I got 6x6 papers,8x8 papers,decorative brads,2 packs of glittered s/a ribbons and a pack of 12 printed cards and envelopes.well here on my card is one of the gorgeous papers from the set they are all beautiful though.

For my card i used the papers as the backing,some bronze cardstock,ribbon,flowers and the image was a freebie from the greeting farm I finished with a greeting and some red pearls I hope you like it.

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Lorraine xx

The challeges I am entering are :

CLUB ANYA-sketch/vintage http://clubanya.blogspot.com/2010/02/sassy-and-sweet-saturday-sketch.html

ANYONE 4 ANYA-flowers http://anyoneforanya.blogspot.com/

THE PINK ELEPHANT-ribbonhttp://thepinkelephantchallenge.blogspot.com/2010/02/pink-elephant-challenge-54.html

SIMON SAYS STAMP-lovehttp://simonsaysstampschallenge.blogspot.com/2010/02/simon-says-all-you-need-is-love.html

TOTALLY GORJUSS-lovehttp://totallygorjuss.blogspot.com/2010/02/feel-lurve-17.html

Hello everyone hope you all had a lovely day and Happy Valentines Day to you all.Just a quick post sorry no card to upload at the minute but I just wanted to let you all know about Jacqui's blog its fantastic and she has the most unbelieveable talent I love her style of work its beautiful but enough of my ramblings why not pop over there now yourself to her blog which is called Cats Whiskershttp://jacqui47.blogspot.com/2010/02/sweet-thank-you.html and see what i mean you will not be dissappointed.Its her birthday coming up too on the 23rd February (also my hubbys birthday) and she is offering the most gorgeous candy as pictured above.well thats me done for tonight take care and I will post again soon.

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Lorraine xx

Motivet Challenge 6# and Polka Doodles Challenge and stamp something challenge

Here is my entry for the motivet challengehttp://motivet.com/blog/?p=1789 I had such fun with this one.There is a sketch to follow and it was a lovely one too.The beautiful cat and flower image is also from the Motivet blog and its free thats right I said FREE so why not join in on the fun and you too can have this gorgeous digi and he is such fun to colour.I am also entering it into the Polka dooodles challengehttp://polkadoodle.blogspot.com/2010/02/week-6-challenge-hearts-flowers.html which the theme is Hearts and Flowers.Lastly I am entering this one into the stamp something challengehttp://stampchallenges.blogspot.com/ which has the theme 'something cute'

For my take on the challenge i used:

Papermania paper

sizzix build a flower dies

promarkers

Fiskars border punch

cuttlebug embossing folders

Brilliance purple ink pad

Penny Black heart stamp

Shrink plastic

Papermania brad/gems

Nestabilities

Iused the shrink plastic and heart stamp to make my own charm embellishments as I didnt have any suitable for this card but I still think it works just as well.

well im off to bed now so I will post again real soon.

Thanks for checking out my blog and card.

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Lorraine xx