Lili of the Valley May Release Sneak Peek 4

 Bit late this morning been watching the Marathon with Lucy, I do admire all of the runners very inspiring, but not enough to inspire me to get out there and run 26 miles.  Well today its time for Sneak Peek No 4 showcasing "Down the Pub" one of the 6 new releases from Lili of the Valley.

I have used papers from Nitwits Collection "Country Meadows", and tucked a couple of Doo Hickey Tag Dies & The Joy Crafts Butterfly Doily Die behind the image and added a Lili of the Valley Sentiment.  All details below.

This is a versatile image as it can be used for both Male & female cards, Retirement, Good Luck, even an Invitation to a leaving do.

Recipe:

Images

Lili of the Valley -  Down The Pub (to be released early May)

Lili of the Valley Sentiment  - Set 99 - Swirly String Sentiments 

Papers: 

Nitwit Collections - Country Meadows Collection

Dies:

Noor Designs UK - Joy Craft Cutting & Embossing Butterfly Circle Die

Doo Hickey Tag Die - From Stash.

Ribbon & Flowers

Ribbon Girl 

35mm Pale Pink Wild Rose

Pink Tulip SeamBinding

Wild Orchid Crafts 

Pink Hip Rosebuds

Pale Pink Apple Blossom

Sorry forgot to make a note of the copic colours

Enjoy the rest of this lovely Sunday

Hugs Jacqui xx

A Fairy in my tea

A girlie card today, back in my comfort zone, although I must admit I enjoyed the challenge of creating male cards, they say you should stretch your mind as you get older.

This is another image from Paper Shelter, isn't she just adorable.  She has been coloured with Copics, I am hoping to have a go at colouring with Distress Inks this afternoon, haven't had them out for ages and just had the urge to do something different.

Went a bit overboard with the Dies and Flowers, I ordered a FEW!!! new roses and Lilys from  Wild Orchid Crafts and they arrived yesterday so being me I just had to use them.

Recipe: 

Image 

Paper Shelter - There a Fairy In My Tea

Sentiment - Lili of the Valley - Sentiment Sheet 103 - Sweet & Simple

Ribbon Girl 

18 mm Lucy Lace

Pale Pink Tulip Seam Binding

Fabric White Ballerina Blossom

Wild Orchid Crafts

Large 2 tone Pink Wild Rosebuds

Light Pink Apple Blossom

Pink Lily Flowers

Pink Hip Rose

 Pink Rosebuds

Flat Back Glitter Balls

Noor Designs UK

Joy Crafts Cutting & Embossing 2 Butterflies Die

Craft & You Willow Twig Die

Dies to Die For

Cherry Lynn - English  Tea Party Doily Die

Copics used:

Hair: RV66, RV63, RV000

Wings: RV91

Flesh: E11, E21, E00, E000

Greens: YG17, G21, G20

Eyes: BG07

Have a good weekend and thanks for visiting

Hugs

Jacqui xxxx

Study In Blue

Just swinging by to say hello, couldn't resist that sorry, love this darling little Wee Stamp from Whimsy, I really am into these cuties, I have had this stamp for quite some time but I popped over to Dies to Die For as I know they stock Whimsy and they have her in stock I will give you the link at the bottom of this post, she is called Emily.

Emily has been coloured with Copics I used to have an aversion to Blues but since I have been back blogging I am using it a lot.  I am going to enter Emily for this weeks Sketch Saturday Challenge, it has always been one of my favourite challenge blogs, and I love this weeks sketch.  Now Lili of the Valley have stopped stocking Paper Pads I have started to use papers from my many Nitwit Downloads, these are from a collection called Enchanting

Recipe:

Backing Papers from Nitwit collections - Enchanting Collection

Stamp:

Dies to Die For - Emily Wee Stamp by Whimsy

Flowers: Wild Orchid Crafts 

2 Tone Blue 30cm Trellis Rose

Blue 2 tone Cherry Blossom 

Blue 2 tone Aster

Sentiment:

Lili of the Valley =- Set 99 Swirly String Sentiment

Copics:

Skin: E11, E21, E00, E000, R20

Hair: E18, E53, E51, E50 -+ Medium Browm Polychromos Pencil

Dress: B23 B32 B41 R85, R81, RV0000

Flowers: V20 V12 V000 V0000

Leaves: YG63 G21 G20

Swing E17 E18

I am entering this card for Sketch Saturday Challenge

Well Peeps thanks for visiting, have a lovely day

Hugs

Jacqui xxxx

To a Treasured Friend

Morning my lovelies, a change from me today, it is still a Lili of the Valley Stamp and Sentiment, but not a sneak peek, New Hat is one of Returning Friends Release, I am so pleased to see these old favourites back as they have made me dig out my older stamps and use them again, the sentiment is from Vintage Sentiment- Just to Say Sheet.

I have used mostly older stash on this card, the flowers are a mixture from The Ribbon Girl and Wild Orchid Crafts, Seam Binding is also from the Ribbon Girl, The string of pearls I found on E-Bay last year.  Tags are a Doo Hickey Die absolutely ages old, I do have a link for the Vintage Flourishes Leaf Die, they come from a fantastic range by Joy Design sold by Noor Designs UK, I added a touch of Frantage to the image just because I could lol!!!

I  bought a copy of Corel Paintshop Pro last night and hope to download it today,  maybe it will help with the quality of the photos, Of course the image has been coloured with Copics - what else- the colours are below:

Skin E11, E21, E00, DE0000

Hat C3, C1, B32, B41, Y11

Dress B32, B41 & Colourless Blender

Hair Y11.

Thanks peeps for visiting, hope you enjoyed looking, have a brilliant day

Hugs Jacs xxxxx

Jasmine Laptop - LOTV Sneak Peek

Good Morning all, I would like to start with a thank you to all those who left comments and for your lovely thoughts, Ohhhh!!!!! its great to be back blogging.

Todays Lili of the Valley Sneak Peek is Jasmine Laptop,  don't forget you can pre-order her now, I know lots of you have already been on the website and ordered these little beauts I wouldn't be surprised if they were a sell-out as they meet a much needed hole in the market.

I hope you will bear with me for the next few months as far as giving you names and suppliers of my embellies & Die Cuts, all my crafting stash has been in the loft for 2 years and I have forgotten the make of most of  them, like a doughnut none of my dies are left in their packaging doh!!!!!!!!

I can tell you that Flowers, Lace and Ribbon are from either Ribbon Girl or Wild Orchid Crafts, I have edged the flowers with Star Dust Stickles.  The fab sentiment is from one of the new releases from Lili of the Valley this one is from the Sketchy Wishes Stamp Sheet, there are 6 new Stamp sheets and all are really different.  The image was coloured with Copics the numbers are below.

Hair: E55, E57, E59

Jumper: B21, B23, B24, B41

Jeans: E71, DE43, E41, E40

Laptop: C3,C1, C0

I am off to do some housework urgh!! then to get down to more colouring, thanks for visiting today, and in case I do not have time to post over the Weekend I hope you have a good one, at least the weather forecast is cheerful.

Hugs 

Jacs xxxxx

Just Magnolia and Wags ‘n Whiskers DT Cards

 

The challenge on Just Magnolia this week is Hot and Spicy – now you can interpret this as you wish, either Hot as in summer, weather, colours or Spicy as food, colours, or both together.  Don’t forget that you can combine our challenge with any other challenges of your choice as long as the main image on your creation is a Magnolia stamp you will qualify to be in the draw for the fab prize. And remember NO back linking, new projects/cards only please.

I have gone for hot as in Summer but have used red as a Hot colour too.  Sweet little Tilda is sitting on her sugar sack keeping cool eating her lolly and waiting for Edwin, how could he resist her looking as pretty as this.  I NEVER use copics to colour Tilda  but after seeing some of the beautiful cards made by my fellow DT members I thought I would give it a go and I am quite pleased with the result, may have to do this again.  The sentiment and Sugar sack are both Magnolia Stamps the Paper is also from Magnolia.  The White medium Curly Rose, Red Cherry Blossom and small white tea roses and rose buds are all from Wild Orchid Crafts.

Now for my other DT Card 

This week's challenge is hosted by ubber talented Melanie and her challenge is: Handcrafted Embellishment!!
Get creative and get crafty this week!!
Just remember that you must use a Wags 'n Whiskers stamps to be entered into the drawing for ONE FREE WAGS 'N WHISKERS STAMP OF YOUR CHOICE!!

Back to Distress Inks for this card, I love this sweet Sister Image from Wags-n-Whiskers these little girls are based on Nikki’s 2 girls Zoe and Hannah and it makes me smile every time I look at it.   The papers are from DCWV Linen Closet and they are just Yummy!!!!!, the Handmade element on the card are the flowers.  The little Adage ticket is by Tim Holtzs.

Thanks for looking

Hugs Jacqui xx

Lili of the Valley Challenge

I cannot tell you how much I have been looking forward to today just to share with you the awesome new images from Lili of the Valley, I don’t know how they do it but each release just gets better and this one really is a stunner, It consists of 4 Girls, 4 boys, 2 babys and 2 Get Well images so everyone is covered here, I must say the Boys images really fill a gap in the market they are perfect.  They will be released at Midnight on 1st June and I don’t expect them to stay on the shelves for long,  all overseas shipping has been reduced to £3.50 and its free shipping for orders over £25.  The Lovely Kind Laila and Lisa from LOTV have also been really generous and given Lili of the Valley Challenge a complete set of stamps to offer as blog candy the candy is only open until Midnight on Saturday 29th May so hurry over to the Lili of the Valley Challenge to enter and be the first to have the complete set.

For this weeks Challenge  we also have another of  Bev’s awesome sketches  and everyone of the DT’s cards features a different Sneak Peek of the new Images.

I think this little baby is my favourite it is so easy to colour but so effective.  I have used my copics again and the gorgeous Bearly Mine digital download papers that are my new favourite buy.  I have also used the medium Cream Curly Wild Rose, Blue and White Cherry Blossom and blue tea roses from Wild Orchid Crafts.  The sentiment which I think is just perfect for this image is by Whiff of Joy .

I am sure you would not mind me showing you another sneak peek, this one is A Get Well Image

I don’t like the look of the Carrot medicine the poorly bunny has to take, bless him.  More papers from Bearly Mine Designs  and Roses from Wild Orchid Crafts and the image is again coloured with copics.    I will be posting lots more sneak peek during the next week.  Don’t forget to pop over to the challenge blog and join in the Candy and hopefully join us in this fortnights challenge.

Hugs Jacqui xx

Celebration

By now I should be confident when I have to do a scheduled post but I still worry, so I hope this works.  This week on A Spoonfull of Sugar Challenge we are celebrating our 2nd Birthday so the theme is CELEBRATE, we have lots of cards for you to see on the blog including cards from Zoe and Hannah the very talented daughters of Debbie and Nikki who started this great challenge and also from lots of our previous GDT, lots of candy too so don’t wait pop over and join in with our celebration, this week our challenge runs for 14 days so you have plenty of time to create something special.

You all know how daft I can be sometimes and I read the challenge as celebration not celebrate so I thought I would be different and make a Wedding Celebration card doh!!!!Anyway Debbie was kind enough to include it .  I have used the beautiful Whiff of Joy Wedding Carriage image and have used Distress Inks to colour.  The Papers are by Basic Grey and I have stamped and glittered Stemplglede Grunge Hearts on to the paper then added Glamour Dust to them, the word stamp is LOVE by Penny Black, the blue flower is from Magnolia and the Cherry Blossom and Rose Buds are by Wild Orchid Crafts .

See you tomorrow

Hugs Jacqui xx

Sundays Child x 2

I thought I would have a little me time again today and use some of my stamps that have never seen ink, I think I may have to go and have therapy  for this stamp addiction I have, along with my backing paper addiction and my many other craft related addictions :).

I did manage to get a bit of blogging done today but then the Sun came out and the gardening called,  it was nice though because I managed to get Mum out in the garden with me and I am sure it did her good, hopefully I should get a whole nights sleep as she even asked to go to bed.  Tomorrow I am off to a little Craft Fair in Biggin Hill with my good friend Lin, but I am hoping not to spend much maybe a couple of Nesties!!!!!!!

Anyway down to todays cards, as you can see I am still in love with these fabulous papers from Bearly Mine Designs, Donna was a naughty girl and e-mailed me that she had two more downloads on there well need not tell you what happened.  I have used Distress Inks to colour this gorgeous Belles ‘n Whistles Cupcake image here are the colours used.

Flesh – Tattered Rose, Antique Linen, Trousers a mix of Shabby Shutters and Bundled sage, Hat and Apron – Antique Linen  Blouse Flowers and Cupcake – Victorian Velvet, Hat Antique Linen.  Re-inkers from Crafters Companion.

Martha Stewart Punches were used for the Butterflies and Border, and the swirls are a stamp from Stempleglede which  are now available in the UK  from Quixotic Paperie  Yippeee!!  of course the flowers are from Wild Orchid Crafts.

I am entering this card for the Sketch Saturday Challenge this week, thanks for the lovely sketch.

And here is my second Sundays Child

I am entering this card for the Cute Card Thursday challenge which is another fabulous sketch by my lovely teamie on LOTV Caz thanks hun it was great to work with.

And yet even more Bearly Mine papers (expect to see a lot of these in the next few weeks).  The image is from Stampavie I am pleased to say that Crafters Companion will soon have the latest collection for sale on the website.  I have again coloured with Distress Inks

Flesh – Tattered Rose and Antique Linen, Ribbon, Blouse and Flowers – Milled Lavender, Trousers – Antique Linen, Dog and Hat – Frayed Burlap

Lots of Glamour Dust added on this one, don’t you just love the colour of that large rose from Wild Orchid Crafts it matches the paper perfectly.

A long post again, hope to get more blog hopping done when I get back from Biggin Hill I really miss you all and your creations.  Have a fabulous Sunday

Hugs

Jacqui xx

Pretty in Purple

 

The forecast said it was going to be very warm this weekend, well here it is quite cold and misty so I am hoping the mist will soon disappear and sun come out. 

This weeks challenge on Penny Black Saturday Challenge is LOTS OF DOTS:

as always it is up to you what you create....a card...altered art..scrapbook layout etc...the only RULE being that you use at least ONE PENNY BLACK IMAGE... LARGE SENTIMENT OR STICKEROO and at pains of sounding like a long playing record...please do not enter cards with another manufacturer's image and just a small Penny Black sentiment....it isn't fair to all the lovely folks who do abide by the rules.

I have used one of the Older PB images for this card, I love here chubby little knees.  She has been coloured with Copics and the spots on her dress have been glittered with Glamour Dust.  The gorgeous papers are from Donnas fabulous new Download paper releases from Bearly Mine Designs, there are 3 sets Gingham, Dots and Flowers and every single paper is scrummy.  Don’t the Wild Orchid Crafts roses go well with this image.

Hope you all have a wonderful weekend

Hugs Jacqui xxxx 

Frantic Friday

JUST MAGNOLIA CHALLENGE

This week we are sponsored by the lovely Tracy of Dies to die for.

Our challenge this week is a sketch provided by Jane. You can rotate and or flip the sketch, as long as we can still see the basic sketch on your creation. Don’t forget that you can combine our challenge with any other challenges of your choice as long as the main image on your creation is a Magnolia stamp you will qualify to be in the draw for the fab prize. And remember NO back linking, new projects/cards only please.

The winner will be chosen by Random Generator next week so to be in the running all you need to do is ensure you have at least one Magnolia image on your card and link your card (not your blog) in Mr Linky and have your card posted by 8pm UK time next Thursday 27th May.

This is one of those cards that I am really really unhappy with, but I just have not got time to do another one, I don’t know what it is about this card UI dislike so much!! but it certainly doesn't do justice to Janes lovely sketch.

I have used magnolia papers and distress inks, I think it must be the colours I don’t like, you know me a real pastel girl, and I also creased the waterproof paper when I was try to shape Tilda. Wild Orchid Crafts flowers have been used as usual, and I cannot get enough of the Martha Stewart Star Punch, I lurve it.

WAGS N WHISKERS CHALLENGE

It is my turn to host the challenge this week so I have chosen the theme "Just Good Friends". You can either make a card using one our images with two characters, or you can just make a card for a friend. I am leaving the challenge open to interpretation. Just remember that you must use a Wags 'n Whiskers stamps.

Distress Inks have been used again for this one and also the obligatory Wild Orchid Crafts roses. The papers are from my scarp drawer and the Martha Stewart half daisy punch has been used for the borders. I think this is my favourite of the new Wags N Whiskers release and that Ice cream looks so scrummy and just what I need up here in the eves where I am absolutely melting.

Hugs

Jacqui xx

A Spoonfull of Sugar Challenge

 

This week our challenge was picked by our very own Marley and she has asked for Cute & Girly
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This week sponsoring our challenge is the Lovely Jennifer from

I am away on business for the next couple of days, but have managed to get my DT cards done for today and tomorrow so have scheduled them to post.  This gorgeous Fairy Dust Tilda was a Pressie from my dear friend Bev, thanks hunny.  I have coloured her with Distress Inks as usual.  The paper is by Magnolia, I am so pleased they decided to do matching papers they are fabulous, Talkung about papers have you been over to Bearly Mine designs Donna has some awesome digi downloadable papers, 3 great sets I had to have them all.  The flowers and Ribbon are from Wild Orchid Crafts.

I thought I would let you know the colours I used for Tildas Dress it was a mixture of Chipped Sapphire and Shabby Shutters and was almost a prfect match for the papers.

Hugs Jacqui x