Busy Weekend!

I've had quite a busy weekend. firstly on Friday night I had a lovely night with Linz, Carol, Cath, Yvonne, Joanne, Leah and Lynn at a workshop at my house. It was lovely to see everyone. I've been totally inspired and have started a mini album in citrus colours hopefullt to be finished later this week. I'm not sure what I'm going to do with it yet. Will definately be selling it but not sure where yet. (thinking aloud here)! I've been listing some more old non SU! Stamps and craft bits on Ebay today, check it out and grab yourself a bargain!!!

Anyway, we have been thinking about getting a dog for a while now. So, on Saturday we decided to visit a couple of kennels. It was so upsetting to see so many dogs needing homes. We visited the Dogs Trust in Leeds and we all fell in love with 15 month old Spencer, a Patterdale terrier. We took him out for a walk and he is just so lovely that we decided to adopt him!!! We should be able to bring him home with us on Friday. We've walked him again today and he is just full of character and really obedient.

Here he is-

I've just ordered the Tailgating standard wheel to make dog announcement cards to send out!!!

Here's a card I did really quickly last week in my favourite colours of the week - Taken with Teal (Yum), Close to Cocoa (Yum Yum) and Creamy Caramel (Yum Yum Yum).It's the Seeing Spots set randomly stamped across the centre of a 5x5 card front. The corners were softened with a corner rounder. The sentiment is from the Cheers and Wishes set. I used a Creamy Caramel Water Colour crayon and wet it with a paint brush for the smallest stamp that's just visible, then flicked it on to the cardstock for a speckled effect. We were shown this technique at the Leeds SU! Expereince tour.We did something similar to this for the Make and take on Friday night.

This is another quick one from this week. I used the Time for a tree roller and coloured using pencils and Odourles thinners. I matted this on not Quite Navy C/S and ran the Whisper White card base through the Cuttlebug Snowflake embossing folder. My first Christmas card fof the year! Beter get a move on and do more!

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Take care

Lou x

FREEBIES!!!!!!!!!

To celebrate my blog getting to 1000 hits, Woohoo! I am going to giveaway some Blog Candy Yay! I have made a Stampin Up! Soft Subtles bundle. There is an A5 sheet of cardstock in each of the 12 colours in the Soft Subtles colour Family plus Very Vanilla and Whisper White. Brads, buttons and ribbons. I have also stamped up a sheet of images from the Simply Said set in , you've guessed it .....Soft Subtles!

All you have to do to be in with a chance of winning the candy, is leave a comment to this post and I will randomly pick a winner next Friday at 4pm.

Staying with the SoftSubtles colour family , here's a card I made for the inspiration challenge on In love with Stamping froum ITC1. The bird is from the little Spring Fling set.

I did this card yesterday for a friend who wanted a 5oth Anniversary card. I've raised the people on the stamped image on dimensionals. I don't usually do mettalic but i quite like the waxy stuuf i rubbed on the cuttlebug embossed background. I got it free with a magazine years ago and have no idea what it is! The set is summer by the sea and Cheers and Wishes.

I've got a workshop at mine tonight with some of my crafting buddies and I'm looking forward to that. Also going to have a look around some rescue kennels for a little dog at the weeekend. So hopefully going to have a lovely weekend.

Hope you have agood one too.

Lou x

Baby Cards

I'm still trying to upload more of the cards I've been making over the last few months, so here are a few Baby cards I've made using the Bundle of Joy Stamp set. The elephant on the last card is from a different set - Year after Year.

I'm not going to add the supplies for them. Most supllies are from Stampin' Up! If you would like to know more please let me know and I'll be only to happy to help!

Thanks for looking.

Lou x

Big Bold Sunday!

Just a quick post to upload some photos I did last week. Using the Big bold birthday set, which is my favourite set at the moment. I love this colour combo - Real Red, More Mustard and those lovely greens - Old Olive, Sage Shadow and Garden Green. Yum!

(The ribbon has slipped down on this red card. Just noticed!)

I made this card a few weeks ago using a Magnolia stamp and Prima flowers.

My workshop theme for May is Baby, so I'm starting today on some samples and ideas for demos and make and takes for my May workshops. i'll post these sometime next weekend.

Bye for now

Louise x

Wild about You!!!

I borrowed Linz' Wild About You set on Saturday. It's lush and I've been none stop with it ever since! I did want to do some pastel shades for baby cards with it but you know when it's just not happening.....



I'm loving using my sanded background stamp at the moment. You might be able to tell, it's on a lot of my stuff at the moment!

I've used Close to cocoa, Very Vanilla, Bordering Blue, Creamy caramel. So Saffron, Tempting Turquoise, Mellow moss, Green Galore. More Mustard and Old Olive Card stock.

Inks: Certainly Celery, Chocolate Chip, Bashful Blue and Versamark and Pastels.

The ribbon used is all Whisper White but coloured with a marker pen in choc Chip.

Also used : Nestabilities, Sizzix circle die, Stampin@ Up! Round Tab Punch.



I've done a pop up sliding card, but it just didn't photo well so I'll show that another time.



Had a lovely time Saturday afternoon crafting. Can't wait til next time. Have been listening to a load of old CD's while ironing this afternoon on Faye's Walkman. Just listening to Squeeze's Greatest Hits now and doing a bit of chair dancing while I'm typing this!!



Hope your weekend has been good.



Take Care.



Lou x

Christmas Cards

I've been making loads of Christmas cards with this lovely Santa collage stamp from Rubber Stampede. I'm really happy with how they look and am going to use the deep red and gold ones as one of the designs for our cards this year. The smaller cards (the ones in the top photo) are made from the off cuts of the larger cards. I am Mrs Thrify knickers! Large card dimensions are 12cm square and smaller are 9cm square. I originally used the Spiltcoast stampers sketch challenge SC146 and went from there. Supplies Card Stock: Papermill, Bazzill, DCWV

Stamp: Rubber Stampede - Santa collage

Ribbon: American crafts, other

Other: Cuttlebug embossing folders, stickles, sandpaper

Carol, I thought you might like this stamp.

The next 2 are using the same stamp and supplies just in black and white and I did them for the MOJO6 sketch challenge.

Cards for today!

I had a right lazy day yesterday. I didn't do much at all. I did make a book following a tutorial from Beate's blog that I'll upload later as Ive just a few bits to add on. I've got a few cards to show you that I finished Sunday night.

The new home card is for my friend Sue who has moved house and I must go and see because it's ages since I saw her and we've got a lot to catch up on. I did it for the SCS colour challenge CC132 last week.
Stamps - SU (They have a tiny bit of gold EP sprinkled)
Cuttlebug Alphabet -Your not the boss of me and embossing folder.

You might recognise the second card from an advert in one of the Papercrafts magazines. It is 95% cased.
Stamps- SU Delight in life
Card Stock- Bazzill
Cuttlebug -Embossing folder and Red Tag alphabet

I made the age 4 card for my friends litttle girl .

Card stock -bazzill and Paper Cellar
Ribbon - Unknown
Patterned Paper - MM
Buttons - Hero Arts
Die cuts - Red Tag
Stamp - Whipper Snapper- Girl with teddy.

I really must go for a run today. I've sat around a lot the last few days and have eaten loads of crisps!! (she says with her hand in a large bag of chilli heatwave doritos). I've got some new cream from Avon that is supposed to firm up floppy bits! and boy have Igot some! 65% of users said there floppies were frimed up in just a few weeks. So I'm going to measure mine today and let you know when I am a svelte like size 10. I'm also going to tidy Fayes bedroom because the mess drives me mad whenever I walk past it.
Have a good day everyone!