Friday 15 March 2024

Another Fly By

When I was playing with cloud backgrounds a couple of weeks ago, I also did this background using distress oxide in Mermaid Lagoon, I used a light touch and spaced the clouds a reasonable distance apart compared to my usual clouds which gave me lots of lovely white puffy space.



 The image is called Sky's the Limit from Kraftin Kimmie, it is now retired but I did find a link HERE where you may be able to still purchase it.
I coloured up my image with Copic markers and Promarkers

Thanks loads for popping by my blog :)
Lou

Entering in the following challenges....
Creative Fingers - Anything Goes
Creative Inspiration - Anything Goes
Moving Along With The Times - Planes, Trains & Automobiles 
Crafty Gals Challenge - Anything Goes

Tuesday 12 March 2024

Box Card from The Whole Herd

 A couple of posts ago, I shared a card for the Mix It Up Challenge fancy folds challenge, I mentioned that I had made another fancy folds card.
I hadn't made a box card in ages so I decided to get my hand back in and give one a go.

I used Hay There stamp set by lawn fawn along with an alpha dieset from them and added sentiments from You Goat This



I coloured the images with my copic markers.

I know there are tutorials for box cards but I just made mine on my score board with no measurements, playing around with the score lines and eyeballing it.
I really enjoyed putting this one together and it has definitely got me in the mood for adding some interactive elements on some cards.
So I am off to have a play and will post the results in some upcoming posts.

As always, thanks for popping by,
Lou

I am entering my card in the following challenges....
Aud Sentiments - Use Glitter/Bling and/or Green/St Patrick's + a Sentiment
Simon says Stamp - a bit o green
Lil Patch of crafty Friends - Anything Goes
Gem of a challenge - Anything Goes
Crafty Calendar - More Than one fold
Crafting Happiness - More than one fold
Polkadoodles - Anything Goes

Tuesday 5 March 2024

Birthday Flyby....

 I wanted to do some cloud backgrounds with distress oxides which meant I had a couple of cool backgrounds to use so I am sharing the first card today using the coloured background....



I used distress oxides in Saltwater Taffy, Dried Marigold and Victorian Velvet.
The stampset is My Favorite Things Magical Dragons
and the white clouds are die cuts

This card inspired my 12 year son to make me a card....


I was a little surprised at the american spelling of Mum, but totally thrilled anyway :)

Thanks for dropping by 
Lou

I am entering my card in the following challenges....
Simon says stamp Monday challenge - Bright and cheerful
Crafts Galore - Anything Goes
A Perfect Time to craft - Anything Goes
AAA Colourful - Colour board

Friday 1 March 2024

Fancy Folds at Mix it up challenge...

 This month at Mix It Up Challenge our theme is Fancy Folds.
I made 2 cards but only submitted one as my DT card.
I will share the other one at a later date.





I am not sure what the fold is called but I worked out the measurements through trial and error and uses my score board to make the score lines.
The cloud background was inked with SU ink in soft sky and MFT cloud stencil.
The grass was inked with SU ink in green galore and cucumber crush.
The stencil is a longline Lawn Fawn one.
The images are all from Lawn Fawn Hay There, Hayrides and coloured with copic markers.

Looking forward to seeing you play along with us at the challenge this month :)
Lou

Sunday 18 February 2024

A Little bit Elegant....

Today's card is one I put together with things I had on my desk that needed to be put away.
I diecut flowers from Sizzix #665285 by Lisa Jones and added dimension with prisma pencils.

The background was run through my bigshot on a folder that I have no clue what it is called, but to be honest doesn't do a great job.
I then painted in with Kuretake Gansai Tambi opal colors in Opal Gold

 The sentiment was cut using my silhouette cutter and cut on plain white cardstock with a vellum shadow piece.

Thanks for visiting today

Lou 

I would like to enter my card in the following challenges....
Polkadoodles - Anything Goes
Creative Fingers Challenge - Anything Goes
Simply Clean & Simple - Anything Goes
Craft Rocket Challenge - Birthday

Saturday 10 February 2024

Wibbly Wobbly Fun In The Sun....

 Some summery fun today.
This card was quite the lengthy card make, the background including the beach house had been sitting on my desk attached to my make art stay-tion for about a month.
Finally, as I was falling asleep a few nights ago I remembered my cute Hello Bluebird "Come On In" stamp set and knew that was the set for this back ground.

I stamped my images and coloured them up with copic markers and die cut them.
The bear has an action wobble attached so she looks like she is bobbing about in the water.

I am pleased with the end result for this card, I honestly was so nonplussed about the background before hand.

Thanks for visiting
Lou

Another Fly By

When I was playing with cloud backgrounds a couple of weeks ago, I also did this background using distress oxide in Mermaid Lagoon, I used a...