CBGM - Colour Inspiration Challenge - 4 Aug

Hello and welcome back to my blog.

It's now time for another challenge by Creations By Gill M.   I am part of the Design Team at Creations By Gill M and as a team, we provide the inspiration for the challenges.  You can take part too and enter the challenges.  There are just 3 small things you have to do:

• Be a follower of both mine and Creations By Gill M's blog
• Mention that you are entering the challenge from Creations By Gill M within the entry
• Complete the Mr Linky details on the challenge page which, when filled in, will take people to your blog entry from the challenge

The specification of this challenge is to create a card project which follows the given colour theme.  This weeks theme is to use pink and yellow colours together:


This is the card I made for the challenge:

To make this card, I used the following materials:

6x6 Scallop Card Blank

Pink Card

Yellow Card

Flower Patterned Paper - Fizzy Moon Design Pack

Peel Off Stickers

Sentiment

White Organza Ribbon

Pink Stickles

Pink Pearl Adhesive Gems

Hot Diggety Dog Mouse Decoupage Image

Pinflair Glue

Double Sided Sticky Tape

Corner Punch

Look forward to seeing what you make.  Myself and the other Design Team members love receiving feedback about our projects and we always leave feedback for all the entrants in the challenge!  So please feel free to leave a comment and we'll be sure to leave some too!

Happy crafting!

Lisa xx

CBGM - Use Of Acetate Challenge - 7 July

Hello and welcome back to my blog!

It's time for another challenge from Gill McCall at Creations By Gill M.  I am part of the Design Team at Creations By Gill M and as a team, we provide the inspiration for the challenges.  You can take part too and enter the challenges.  The design team always come back and look at what you've made and we always leave comments about what you've made.

If you want to be in with a chance of winning a challenge, there's just 3 small things you have to do:

1)  Be a follower of Creations By Gill M's blog

2)  Mention that you are entering the challenge within your post

3)  Complete the details required so that we can view your blog and see what you've made!

This weeks challenge is to make a card using acetate.  

I've used another design set from the Hunky Dory Adorable Scoreable pack.  It's a pearl anniversary card I've made for my Mum's friend.  I scored a piece of A4 acetate to make a landscape stepper card and then used the following materials to complete the card:

Pink Ribbon - Wide and Narrow

Hi-Tac Red Double Sided Sticky Tape

3D Foam 

Pinflair Glue

Pink & White Pearl Adhesive Gems

White Pearl Card

Double Sided Sticky Tape

This is the card:

I hope you like my card, I'd love to hear what you think of it so please leave a comment for me.

Good luck!  Can't wait to see what you make!

Lisa

xx

The First Ever Crafting Cafe Blog Hop - 1 July

Hello and welcome to my blog!

It's so exciting, The First Ever Crafting Cafe Blog Hop!  I hope this is the first of many to come!  I can't wait to see what you've all made!  This hop is being hosted by Nikki Smith.  She is so talented!  I love going to her demo's when she's up in the Highlands of Scotland!

You should hopefully have arrived here from Dawn's Blog.  If not, please go to the start of the line up to Nikki's Blog and work your way through the line up.  There are many talented and creative crafters in the line up, so I know their creations are going to be fab!!


The theme of todays hop is friendship.


My project is a birthday card for a very special friend of mine.  She has been such a great influence on me and my crafting expertise/knowledge/growth.  She's very special to me too.  She's kind, funny, strong, creative, brainy, sensible, thoughtful and trustful.  I'm so glad I have her as a friend.

So here's my card.

To make this card, I used the following materials:

8x8 card blank

12x12 GCD Studios Backing Paper (Double Sided)

Pink Card

White Card

Pink Adhesive Gems

Pink Organza Ribbon

Butterfly Stencil

Pink Glitter Paste

Double Sided Sticky Tape

3D Foam

Printed Sentiment

I really hope you like it and would love to hear what you think, so please become a follower of my blog and leave a comment too.

It's now time to hop on over to Sylvia's Blog and see what they've made with a friendship theme.  Something fantastic I bet!

Thank you so much for popping over to see my creation.

Hope to see you again soon.

Lisa xx

2nd For The Love Of Pink Blog Hop - 1 July

Hello and welcome back to my blog.

It's time for the 2nd Annual For The Love of Pink Blog Hop, hosted by Gill McCall.

Anyone who knows me knows that I love pink, like Gill!  So this hop is ideal for me!

You should have arrived at my hope from Kirsty's Blog.  If not, hop over to Gill's Blog and start the line up from there.  I'm sure there's loads of amazing pink creations!  Remember to leave a comment on everyone's blogs telling us what you think of our creations.

So here are my creations and details of what I used to make them.

8x8 card blank

12x12 GCD Studios Backing Paper (Double Sided)

Pink Card

White Card

Pink Adhesive Gems

Pink Organza Ribbon

Butterfly Stencil

Pink Glitter Paste

Double Sided Sticky Tape

3D Foam

Printed Sentiment

By the way, this birthday card is for none other than the hostess of this blog hop, Gill McCall!

Happy Birthday Sweetheart!  Love ya! xx

6 x 6 Elegant Square White Card Blank

Boofle Backing Papers x 2

Pink Card

Button Ribbon

3 Papermania Buttons

Boofle Embellishments

Pink Pearl Adhesive Gems

Lilac Adhesive Gems

White Card Candy

I hope you like what I have made.  I'd love to read your comments.

It's now time to go to Lisa T's Blog, so hop on over there and see what pink pieces she's created!

Thanks for stopping by!

Lisa xx

Another Fairy Day Blog Hop - 24 June

Hello!  

Welcome to Another Fairy Day Blog Hop!

I can't believe it's been a year since the very first Fairy Day Blog Hop!

As you may have guessed by now, this blog hop has a fairy theme!  Each blogger in the line up had to make a crafty project with a fairy theme.

The hop is being hosted by the wonderful Gill McCall.  Her amazing blog is the first place to visit during this hop, so if you've just come across my blog, head on over to Gill's Blog and start the hop from the beginning.

Hopefully however, you should have arrived here from Becky's Blog.  I'm sure she had some beautiful fairy creations!  

Here is what I have made for the Another Fairy Day Blog Hop.

It's 3 A6 cards which I'm going to group together as note cards.

I used the following materials to make the notecards:

A6 card blanks x 3

Black Growgrain Ribbon

Adhesive Gems

Patterened Backing Paper

Fairy Images x 3

Black Card

Green Card

Green Shimmer Card

Butterfly Embellishment

StarDust Stickles

Green Stickles

Purple Stickles

Double Sided Sticky Tape

3D Foam

I hope you like my notecard set.  I'd love to hear what you think, so please leave me a comment.

It's now time to continue with the blog hop.  So head on over to Nancie's Blog and see what everyone else in the Another Fairy Day Blog Hop has to offer!

Thanks for stopping by!

Lisa xx

Ice Skating Card

Here's a card I've made for my friends little girl, Molly.  She's 11 tomorrow and loves ice skating.

As you can see it's a spinner card.  I made it using the following materials:

A4 White card, scored in 1/2 with an apperture cut out.
12x12 Blue Patterned Paper
Printed Image
Blue Mirror Card
Silver Peel Offs
Diamond and Blue Stickles
Adhesive Gems
Blue Ribbon
Double Sided Sticky Tape
3D foam

I really hope she likes it!

Big thank you to Nikki Smith who gave me some help making a spinner card.  Didn't follow the steps exactly, but it definitely helped!

Look forward to hearing what you think of it, so please leave a comment.

Thanks again,

Lisa xx

The Dance Blog Hop - 5 May

Hello and welcome to The Dance Blog Hop.

This hop is being hosted by Gill McCall at Creations By Gill M.  You should have arrived here from Anita's Blog.  If not, please go back to Gill's Blog to start at the beginning.

So, let's start!

I'm not a big fan of dancing but when I saw this image, I knew it was perfect for this challenge.  I picked the image from the Hunky Dory Adorable Scorable pack.  It's beautiful!  So here it is:

I used the following materials to make this card:

A4 Cream Card

Hunky Dory Adorable Scorable Pack

Double Sided Sticky Tape

3D Foam

Adhesive Gems

Satin Ribbon

Organza Ribbon

Gold Peel Offs

Crop-A-Dile

I'm using this card for a wedding I'm going to this year.  Not saying who though as I'm going to more than 1 and they might see this post!!

I'm the last person on this blog hop.  So on behalf of all the other bloggers in the line up, can I just thank you for stopping by and for leaving a comment!

Lisa x