Bag It

This is a fun little card that I've enjoyed making & it was so quick to do. Wrapped some lovely shimmer fibre around some purple card and mounted onto a white base card. Used a handbag card topper (from Cardology) which I embellished with some gems & mounted onto the card using 3D foam, attached a love heart onto the fibre & some tiny flower embellishments to finish off.

Off to post the card along with some others as it is part of a sample pack to go to a craft shop in Stirling.

Arty Girlz

The challenge set by Arty Girlz this week was centered around "Nature". What better a challenge could we have. Not much.....

To me this card depicts all things natural and I sure had fun playing with all the different textures.

Tag You're It Challenge

Think I've got a little bit of nature flowing through me today, most things seem to be based on natural materials & quotes.

Well for this weeks challenge from Tag You're It, the theme was "Favourite Quote or Family Image". I decided to go with Favourite Quote as I just love this one & often trying to remember it as I'm going through my hectic life. This is one we should all live our life by.

" Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience " by Ralph Waldo Emerson

What an Award

Wow what a lovely start to my day. I've just received the same award from 2 of my buddies. One from Tracey, mother to the lovely Holly & the other from Kath. A big thanks to both you fabulous ladies.

The rules for this award:

1. The winner can put the logo on their blog.

2. Link the person you received your award from.

3. Nominate at least 7 other blogs.

4. Put links of those blogs on yours.

5. Leave a message on the blogs you've nominated.

Now comes the difficult part which 7 out of all you talented folk out there do I choose..well here goes.

Karen, Georgie, Gayle, Ann, Kerry, Terrie & last but by no means least Bev

Paper take weekly

Here is my take on this weeks challenge from paper take weekly & I really had fun with all the spots on this one & the colours as I seem to have been doing brighter cards with yellows & oranges or soft muted colours.

Fairy Wings

This is such a cute little fairy that she just cries out to be done in fantasy film.... As she appears to be smelling something I decided to put a large flower in the top corner & then some flower gems for a little bling.

ATC Fun

On Friday night we received a lovely talk from Joanna Sheen then we all got to sit together & make ATC's which we could then swap if we wanted. On the evening in question my good friend Amanda was sitting beside me busy crafting away as always making her ATC when my camera happened to pounce upon her. Poor soul thought I was going to ask her a question but oh no, it was my camera doing the talking. Thank goodness she knows I love her.....

Saturday night entertainment

Our entertainment on Saturday night was a whole load of Crafty Fortunes, played in the same manner as Family Fortunes. Once all of the groups had a play off amongst themselves, the winning team then had to play against the experts (even though Stephanie named their team the Oops!!! ). On the celeb team were from left to right Babs, Kath, Noreen, Debbie, Sara & Amanda. So much for being the experts as they were beat hands down by the crafters......

Joanna Sheen

This is a picture I will treasure forever as I am such a Joanna Sheen fan. The pic was taken on the Sunday afternoon during the closing speeches & I was lucky enough to be standing next to Joanna & she agreed to have her pic taken. From left to right we have another two crafty scots Maureen & Linda, Joanna, Me & Sara Davies from Crafters Companion. It's one of the lovely things about the weekend is that you actually have time to have a proper conversation with these people.

2 sketches 4 you

Have been rather short of time this week between one thing & another so my 2sketches4you

had to be a quick make. Very quick card to make approx 5 mins. The gold border was embossed using a Fiskars texture template, the red square was trimmed with deckle edge scissors, I embossed the word love using my Shapeboss & then highlighted the writing with my Sakura Gold Metallic pen, the hearts were then puched using my heart squeeze punch with the red one mounted on foam pads, some gems added for the finishing touch.

Ailsa Craft Group

Well further to my previous post here are the last of my cards made up for Ailsa Craft Groups open day which will hopefully be in October. All members received the same card packs so it will be interesting to see what everyone comes up with. In addition to these we all put in some of our own cards & we also have a little shop where local crafters can stock up on their craft supplies.

Even more goodies

These were some of the freebies we got at the C&C weekend. A nice new cutting mat as we can never have enough of these, storage boxes, card & paper packs & loads of embellishments.

C&C goodies

Well the remainder of my C&C freebies arrived on Wednesday. Due to airline luggage restrictions etc these were kindly forwarded to us via Royal Mail. This is what we received when we arrived at the Hilton & we use them throughout the weekend to go to workshops & great for storing any goodies you buy whilst there.

Daring Card Makers Challenge

This weeks challenge from Daring Card Makers was a quick card in under 30 mins. Again another of my Fiskars samples which took all of 10 mins to make.

http://daringcardmakers.blogspot.com/

Tag You're It Challenge

This weeks challenge was a tag in a pocket. I've been preparing some samples for my Fiskars demos so here is my final result. Not a lot to it but nice summery colours.

http://weekendtaggers.blogspot.com/

I've been tagged.....

My ever so faithful friend Kath has decided to tag me. So now I have to answer 5 questions & pass it on. Here goes.

1. What was happening 10 years ago:
Well that was an awful time in my life (sorry to depress you all), I had just gone through a nasty divorce which lasted for 2 years, was mourning for my Dad who I sadly lost in 1997 but on a brighter note I was building a new loving relationship with my now hubby Rob.

2. Name 5 things to do today:
Housework, washing, ironing, tag some lovely people & make some Fiskars samples for my upcoming demo.

3. Snacks I enjoy:
Cheese & biscuits every time with some nice green grapes on the side.

4. Things I would do if I were a millionaire:
Bank the money to use the interest to pay for things. Open a craft shop where I could have all my favourites under one roof.

5. Places I have lived:
Well that's really easy. I lived in Hamilton for all of 18 months about 8 years ago and apart from that I have always been in Motherwell.

Now that I'm finished sharing, it's time to pass it on to some other lovely crafters. Here goes, Gayle Cass Kerry Ann & Christy . Sorry girls but it's time to share.....

Lorraine xxx

What a yuck Sunday

Hi guys,

What a yuck day it is here. Slight wind & rain with dark overcast sky. Sounds like an excuse to craft to me.

My lovely hubby is taking me out for lunch today then when I get back I'll run around with the vacuum so it looks like I've worked for hours, need to tidy another little bit of my craft den then will get some crafting done.

I've got some samples I need to make for my Fiskars demo which is on July 19th at The Range in Carlisle & also got some to make for a company in Stirling where I can play to my hearts content.

If I get time I'll post tonight, if not then I'll get them on tomorrow.

Happy crafting to you all today. Lorraine xxx

Craft Group

Recently the President of our craft group had decided to buy in some small card making packs that we could use to create quick cards for sale at our open days. They had originally been priced at £12.99 & she managed to get them for £4.99. The packs consisted of 4 pale green & 4 pale blue pearlecent cards, white envelopes, 4 sheets of patterned vellum, 8 flower heads, 8 greetings & some ribbon.

Our next open day is going to be in October & we use this day to obtain additional funds for the group which we use for things such as outings to the SECC. Last week we were all handed packs for us to make up over the summer holidays & by the time this week arrived, you guessed it, they were still in my craft bag. Thus yesterday I decided to make a start on mine. Here are two of the cards I made & the only additions I made were some little gems. Not bad for a card pack but I certainly won't have enough ribbon or flowers to do all 8 cards. Personally I wouldn't pay the price attached to this pack.

Yellow

Whilst at the Create & Craft Experience I had a very interesting talk with a retailer over the colour yellow. She was saying that no matter what she gets into the shop be it card, flowers etc the one colour that she never sells is yellow. Why is that???

Are we too scared to use such a bright colour? Have we gotten into a habit of using more muted colour schemes? After the conversation, I realised that I was one of those people who never uses yellow so I decided it was time to change that & off I went to find goodies that I could use. The card stock is pale yellow, the background paper as you can see is canary yellow, both of which I inked with a relatively mellow blue, attached using yellow brads. Using a big shot die I cut three tags, inked again & then used Woodware rubber stamps for the greeting & design. The flower heads etc coloured in using Sakura Moonlight pens, a small blue gem was added as a flower centre & blue & yellow ribbon added.

I must admit I did enjoy playing with a colour that I'm not used to & you will probably see more of it on my blog now. What colour do you avoid most, think about it & go on have a play with it.

Blog Candy Give Away

Hey everyone just a quick note to tell you all that Karen is giving away some lovely blog candy. All you have to do is post a comment on her blog to be entered into the comp so come on get over there & enter now.