La -La Land...

Is a place I often think I live, but there is also a new stamp company starting very soon and they have adopted that name. Cool idea methinks!

La-La Land Crafts looks like it's going to be a super fun new venture so do check them out - they are looking for DT members and they also have some fabulous blog candy on offer.

Ruby Tuesday...

Quite a few people have asked me about the stamp I used for the ATCs and the 'Floral Frenzy' card so I thought I would show the sheet of stamps that the flower came from. The sheet is by Elusive Images and as you can see it has more than one flower on and an assortment of leaves, swirls and a couple of stems.

The flower I used stamps beautifully - it has a lovely textured, dotted effect on the petals, which really makes it special. I haven't used any of the others yet, but I do think they would lend themselves to being decoupaged and even given the bling treatment.

On Graphicus this is what they say about the stamps...

"Design-A-Flower A4 sized themeplate

Following on from our very popular Big Flowers themeplate, Ruby Tuesday includes stalks and leaves (which can also double up as petals) to design your own flowers. They have gemstones and pearls in the decorations - they're a wonderful playground for all those flat backed gems."

Hope that helps anyone who may be watching out for this set or wondering where I got the flower from.

Holly Birthday Card...

Gosh my second post today!

I had to post this one - have you seen the amazing competion at Charmed Cards and Crafts? Oh wow, how much would I love to win that prize? Quite a lot actually! Okay, one heck of a lot!!

Well as they say in the lotto ad 'You have to be in it to win it' so here is my card. I've used one of Charmed Cards fantastic downloads. These Holly and Madison images are so cute and what I really like about them is that you get one set ready coloured for when you're feeling lazy and one set like as a digi stamp that you can colour yourself. Just great. This time I coloured the Holly image with Promarkers to match my spotty paper, which is from a DCWV stack.

Cross your fingers for me and why not enter yourselves (but don't win - lol) - you have until the 4th August.

Floral Frenzy...

The challenge this week over at My Time to Craft is themed 'Floral Frenzy' so it seemed a good opportunity to show this card I made for a forum friend.

Yes, it's that enormous flower from Elusive Images that I used on the ATCs I showed yesterday. This time I stamped the flower twice and decoupaged it to give depth. The leaf is a stamp from the same set.

It doesn't show very much in the photo but the background is actually a swirly leaf design on tinted acetate. It's really unusual and lush to use. I believe it's by Kanban, but I got it at my favourite market stall.

Thanks for looking and also for leaving such fantastic comments. I really appreciate them. Have a great weekend everyone and see you Monday for the new Pink Elephant challenge.

Summer Flowers...

These are two ATCs I made recently for a forum swap I was involved in on the theme of Summer Flowers.

I had a fabulous time both stamping and colouring them. The quote was stamped in the centre of the ATC and then by masking sections off I stamped the huge (Elusive Images) flower around the quote.

I used many 'sunshine' shades of Promarkers to colour the images - one ATC was completely coloured and on the second on I attached a small tinted piece of acetate over the quote.

Charmed Cards and Crafts have a brilliant competion running at the moment so I have entered my ATCs into the 'Anything Goes' section - amazing prizes so fingers crossed! If you haven't entered this yet time is running out so do pop over and have a look - please don't win though!!

Hello Kitty...

Laura wanted a card for her friend's birthday and seeing as her friend is a big Hello Kitty fan it seemed a good time to pull out the fantastic Sizzix die given to me by my good friend Max. Thank you again Max and watch out for the postman today or maybe tomorrow!

I thought it would be really easy using the die but oh my it's quite fiddly getting all the seperate bits cut out in the different colours and putting it all together.

I found a great way of adding the eyes though. When you cut Kitty out the eyes and nose are holes - by adding DST on the back you get a stick surface in the hole into which you can pop the black eye and nose. I found doing it this way gives a super neat finish.

I've added as much bling as possible to the card to match the sparkly personality of her friend - I do hope she likes the card. Laura was thrilled and says her friend will be too.

As the theme at Creative Inspirations is Bling this time my card is perfect for that challenge too.

Yet more Christmas in July...

Another Christmas card - this time one using a Joanna Sheen Victorian lady image from one of her fantastic Christmas CDs. I'm sorry I can't tell you which one as I printed it some time ago and have only just got round to using it on a card.

The embossed diagonal lines on my card were made using my new scor-pal (my birthday present from Shelley). Love this gadget and the mat that fits inside is making my measuring so much more accurate. It's just great.

My card is for the challenge at the Cuttlebug Spot where like many other challenges they are celebrating Christmas in July.

Sorry about the bad photo - mirri card is dreadful to capture on camera - the spooky eye and streak of grey could be me. Don't get too scared!

Pink Elephant Day...

This week we have another amazing sketch by the incredibly talented Robin. Her sketches amaze me, not only by being brilliant, but also by being extra easy to do.

It's also a really exciting week at the Pink Elephant because we are being sponsored by ....

Take a look at my cards...

Can you guess?

Yes it's Joanna Sheen!!!

Each of the DT were given stamps to play with - wowee - it was just like Christmas! I received Doctor Lofty - how cute is he? Check out his prescription and the 'Get Well Soon' tablet too - just so cute and all included in the Lofty and co rubber stamp set. I don't think I've ever seen such a fun 'Get Well' set ever - hate to say this, but I can't wait for someone to be poorly so that I can send a card. No, no I don't really mean that!

I also had Messy Rabbit Party Girl to play with - isn't she gorgeous. Couldn't resist adding gems to her flowers - well she is a party girl.


As you can see there are a couple of flowers included in this set too and a 'party' sentiment so it really is a great buy. However, if you are like me and suffering from a lack of funds pop over to the Pink Elephant - take a look at the sketch and have a play. You never know you may be lucky enough to win some Joanna Sheen goodies. I'll keep my fingers crossed for you.

A new challenge blog...

There's a new Challenge blog starting on the 15th August. It's called 'Bizzy Becs Creatalicious Challenges' and looks like it's going to be great fun. The Challenges will be monthly ones and the team are looking for two more DT members.

Check out the link to find out more about both their opening blog candy and the DT.