A little blogpost

Good morning, I've been reminded how much a blog can bring crafty folks together, an area to show case your work, to get inspiration from others and to encourage other crafters by leaving positive comments etc. it's a wonderful thing to share, inspire and create. I have a little pic of a card I did a few months ago.... I love the colours and of course it's Tattered Lace.

Decadence

Good morning lovely bloggers!  Whoops I'm late I'm late for a very important blog!  Well in my defence I've been so busy in tellyland that sometimes I need about 48 hours in the day.... anyway I couldn't let this lovely Tattered Lace blog challenge go by without adding my interpretation of decadence!  I have used the Lily Lavish Blooms dies, with the skeleton leaf from the Lavish leaves too. I have also used 2 of the new embossing folders, chains and a corner folder too. I have used silver mirror board which for me is the decandence and some lovely papermania card, which is my latest favourite cardstock.


I hope you like it:

 Thank you for visiting my blog, please go and see what other lovely creations have been made by the design team. Lizzy xxx

Elegant Butterfly

There is nothing so elegant than the butterfly....and here I have used the new a Tattered Lace set of 5 butterfly's and butterfly embossing folder, and not forgetting the floral embossing border folder! What a treat that I can use these and show how fabulous they are. This card was made for the Tattered Lace challenge blog, please have a play with us. The theme is elegance.

Watch out for the launch of the new embossing folders on Create & Craft, or visit your local Hobbycraft store to see the folders and some very exclusive dies.

Thank you for visiting my blog, please take time to visit the TL challenge blog, everyone there is so friendly....

It's all about the boys

Hello everyone, today sees the start of a new challenge over at The Tattered Lace blog, you can find it here. The challenge this month is all about the boys, I have used a new interlocking card design, it's a nice little card shape that bends when locked, I think the theory is it should stand, but I have failed so far to make it stand on its own. Anyway I have used the With Love from the mini sentiments set and the centre medallion from the Chatsworth collection. Gorgeous dies indeed!

Thank you for visiting my blog, please go enter your card at the Tattered Lace challenge blog xxx

Romance & Roses

Good morning my crafty friends! This month I have been invited to join in the Tattered Lace dies challenge, what fun. here is the link.

To make this heart I used the Poppy die and leaf from the Lavish blooms collection, the tumbling vine, double hearts pick and the Marguerite small flower, and I have included a pic so you can see the  dies I have used.

I have used a great technique to make the roses and I have included a short video tutorial to show you how they were made.

 If you don't fancy watching and listening to me, then here are the instructions: Cut 3 large flowers, cut into all three to make a rose, these must be cut from mulberry paper, stick all the layers together, spritz with ink, water or mica, whatever takes your fancy, scrunch up the petals while the flower is wet, dry overnight, distress the edges and place on your design.

Well enough chat, here are the pics!

I joined two of the heart picks together to make the butterfly's, the postcard is from the shabby sweet embellishment cd, the postcard was from the embellishment attic collection. The I love you stamp is part of the ditzy stamp collection.

Thank you for stopping by, and don't forget to join in the challenge! xxx

Diamond shaped card

Diamond shaped folded card

Hello crafty friends, as promised a quick video tutorial on how to make the Diamond shaped card I decorated on C&C  yesterday, I hope you like it. xxx

Say it with flowers

Hello my crafty friends, I just had to make another card using the gorgeous Tattered Lace poppy die, plus dies from the new sets Westminster and Kensington. I have a bit of a thing about blue and white, so no surprise that I gravitated towards that colour combo again! I have used a little distress ink, faded jeans, just to add a bit of depth, the flowers were embossed, a nice effect.

Thank you so much for stopping by xxx

                                                       

Flower power

Good morning crafty friends, such a while since I blogged, and I missed it soooo much! Having seen 2 of my favourite blogs, Tattered Lace and That Craft Place I thought I would combine the challenges, using the Lavish blooms with buttons. It's a simple card but I love how the poppy dies are perfect for the aperture! Here is my card, I hope you like it xxxx

Love is in the Air

Good morning crafty friends,  so lovely to have you visit me again. Today is my inspirational post for All Dressed Up,  and for those who don't know these images can be found here they are truly beautiful and so different from anything else on the market.

 Please join in our challenge which can be found on our blog! Go on have a go.... here is my card, using Love is in the Air....

Thanks for stopping by, have a lovely crafty day!

Lizzy xxx

Valentine

Good morning my lovely crafty friends, this is my entry for this fortnights challenge over at a That Craft Place.... you can find it here.

This is one of Lisa's digi stamps, beautiful, all the elements used can be bought from Lisa's online FB page.

The prize this time is  2 of  Lisa's fabulous images..........you can find them here

Thank you for visiting my blog, please go check out all the other lovely creations made by my DT members at That Craft Place

Have a lovely crafty day

Lizzy

xx

Sweetie Pie

Morning crafty friends,  today I have done an inspirational post for All Dressed Up, I am using the beautiful digi image from All Dressed Up called Sweetie Pie, you can find her here, she is quite adorable...

I really love the pink, and to tone it down I also used a dark brown which is so complimentary, I used both colours and the white to frame my little sweetie pie, and finished it off with a flourish of flowers.. talking of flourishes, I used a Tattered Lace die to enhance the top of the frame, which gives rather an elegant touch. Please visit the Etsy store to find lots of lovely images ready to colour.

Thanks for stopping by - Lizzy xxx

Rose

Good morning lovely peeps! Today I am showing a card I made just for fun, and to show off the new digital images from http://www.ditziedigidesign.com/default.aspx, they are fabulous. I also used some Tattered Lace dies, well sometimes you just have to!

Thanks for looking x

Colour pallet challenge - TCP

Good morning all, its time for another challenge at That Craft Place,  

the lovely crafty shop on the sunshine coast. 

Everything used on this card isavailable from Lisa's shop!

This time the theme is Colour Pallet,  

and here is the pic we all worked to:

 The most gorgeous colours ever! My favourite,  the card I made using the wonderful Elspeth which is now available at Lisa's fabulous new digi shop!

Here is my card,  it looks more sky blue than duck egg blue,  

but you know what happens when you try to take a good photo... rubbish pic!

I hope you take part in the challenge this time,

  leave me a comment so I know you have visited. 

Thanks Lizzy xxx

Florentine collection - another sample or two!

Hello peeps.  Yes another couple of pics of some samples I made for the show last Sunday... 

we had such fun doing the shows, 

and I look forward to doing some more for the lovely Stephanie!

Thanks for stopping by, Lizzy xxx

Blog hop....blog hop......blog hop.......climb on "board"

Our first All Dressed Up challenge & release of 2014 is here...and what a fantastic release it is. 

Both our teams have joined together for this Challenge/Release, and we are also having a blog hop ! 

We have four new releases this month, all of which can be found over on the store 

Our theme for the the challenge is "Anything Goes". A nice and easy theme to start the new year with. 

Here is my design team card for this challenge. 

I have used "cool dudes" which you will find here  

The challenge will run until 15th February and the winner will receive 3 images of their choice from the store. 

Please make sure you stop by the blog to check out the rest of the talented Dressy Girls creations. 

Now as I said earlier we are also having a blog hop for this challenge, two lucky winners will receive 2 images of their choice from the store, in order to be in with a chance of winning you have to visit every blog on the hop list and leave a comment by the date shown below. Two winners will be picked at Random by two of the Dressy Girls on Wednesday 22nd January . We know we have quite a few Dressy girls, so we have spread the hop over a week to give you all plenty of time to hop along. 

If you have been following the hop list you have arrived here from Christine L. 

Here is the hopping list so you don't get lost along the way. 

All Dressed Up 

Marilyn

Kat

Lyndsey

Christine L 

Lizzy

Jennifer

Kelly

Carolyn

Peggy 

Bettina

Stacey
Trudie

Maritha 

Anne 

Lis 

Mary

Viv

Nicole 
Lynn

Christine R 

Nancy 

Sharon 
Guest Designer Victoria

Tracy 

Good luck on the hop and make sure you check out the blog for the winners & all the challenge details.

Samples for Create & Craft - Tattered Lace Florentine collection

Hello all

Well it was a very exciting Sunday, 3 shows almost in a row, 8,10 and 1pm!  But I had the lovely Joanne, Debbie and Nigel to keep my company... here are some of the samples I made for the shows, if you need to know how they were made please leave me a comment and I shall post the instructions. 

 It's such fun to do the live shows, 

you never quite know how they will go,

  and as some of my family emailed in it was a bit hilarious,

 or though you would never know, I didn't let on!!!

I've got some more to post, so sorry you have to suffer so many pics!!

Thanks for looking at my blog, please leave a comment, Lizzy xxx

Key to my heart

Hi everyone, I have today another sample card featuring the new Florentine collection from Tattered Lace, fabulous dies and so incredibly delicate and versatile. Here I am using the lock and key, the large corner and the florentine bows. Join me on Sunday 8am on Create & Craft.

Lizzy x x

Tattered Lace - Florentine collection

If anyone was in any doubt about getting any more dies, please wait till after next weekend!!! These new dies from Tattered Lace are totally amazing, stunning, beautiful and so much more... I love them.. the sizes are perfect for the bigger cards, but not so big that they don't fit on a 6x6... here is one of my designs using the princess carriage, OMG I love it so much!

Truly stunning, I have made this die in various ways, embossed, glittered, paper pieced, etc etc, and I shall be demonstrating some of these techniques on Create & Craft next weekend. Yay, thanks for stopping by... Lizzy xxx

Pretty woman...la la la de da

Good morning to everyone in blogland today! Its challenge time over at That Craft Place, and the theme is charming!  Well charming as in charm .... today I have used a SC image, love it, papers from my stash and embellishments from Lisa's wonderful shop. You could win yourself some crafty goodies if you enter your creation anyway here she is, coloured with Copics and with a little key my lovely crafty friend Lyn Cherryman sent me......

Thank you for visiting, have a lovely day ! xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Lizzy

Congratulations Lisa!

Good morning my lovely friends, today is so special, ok it's the first day of 2014 that's pretty epic, but another reason to celebrate is a special challenge over at That Craft Place Facebook page, we are nearly at 2000 members! Awesome, so here is my inspirational card.

I have used an Indigo Blu stamp, Copic's direct to stamp, spraying with blender solution and stamping, quite a neat technique. All the products are available from Lisa's fabulous shop!

Thanks for stopping by, Happy New Year everyone!! Lizzy x x