simon says challenge - punches

Hi Everyone,
Just another quick post or dinner will be burnt lol,ive used another of the lily of the valley stamps and coloured it with distress inks love this stamp it such a cutie,flower paper is a download ive had for ages and cant remember were it from soz,ive also used my retro punches medium and large to make the flwers and ive used pink tulle,ms hearts border punch and ms doily punch on edge of flower petals mint green cardstock and pink cardstock are from my stash along with the flat back gems,thankyou for looking,and oh my candy arrived today so look out for it cuz as soon as i get the chance to take a pic of it i will have it on,this card is for simon says stamp challenge and dt call which this week was PUNH IT!!

love n hugs
liza
xox

lily of the valley

Evening All,
Just a quick post to show you a card ive made for my sons classmate,ive used one of the lily of the valley stamps,isnt he the cutiest!!! ive coloured him with distress inks,MME papers,all other bits n bobs are from my stash......thankyou for looking and let me know youve been

love n hugs
liza
xox

simon says stamps

well heres my entry for the simon says DT team,this is the 1st time ive entered a DT call so im very nervous as there are alot of fabulous card markers out there which are an awful lot better than me,but a friend twisted my arm and made me promise to enter the theme was 'Shabby Chic' so this is what i came up with
stamp -belles and whistles coloured with distress inks
Papers - MME
MS deep edger punch
large and medium retro flower punches,distressed,stickled and layered up to make the flower with a gem button added to the centre,ribbon stitched with sewing machine just to give a little more detail and all the edges have been distressed with metal rular and stitched with sewing machine around the edges,rub-on is from my stash think it as afreebie in a magazine.....well thats it so really hope you like it,so i have my fingers tightley crossed as i would just LOVE to be on their DT

love n hugs
liza
xox

Soz for being AWOL past 2 weeks

Really sorry for being AWOL this past few weeks but i have been busy with the kids and other things going on in my home life but hopefully after next week is over with i will be back and there will be no stopping me lol
Heres a card i made to enter into the last colour create challenge which was 'lemon and lime' stamp is of course magnolia coloured with distress inks and papers are a mix of papermania 'daisy and dandelion' ,MME and co-ordinationsive used MS doily and frond punches,flowers,stickles and flat backed gems are all from my stash...

thankyou all for looking and i know its a little late but HAPPY NEW YEAR to you all

love n hugs
liza
xox

cards made using my new sewing machine

Heres 2 cards made using my new sewing machine that i got for christmas,i love it,ive seen loads of crafters using them on their cards and just HAD to have 1 to try and i LOVE it lol im still not that great at sewing in a straight line as i havnt used a sewing machine since high school so if any of you have any tips i would really love to hear them....





my 1st card tilda is coloured with my usual distress inks (cant wait to get the new colours) lilac paper is K&Co and dont know what the other 1 is as it was in the bottom of my scrap box,all the other bits n pieces are from my stash

my next card is image by high hopes coloured with watercolours,stitched with my sewing machine,papers are MME and basic grey sentiment stamp is penny black,all the other bits are are from my stash
hope you like my attempts using my sewing machine lol and thankyou for looking....

I would also like to wish everyone a Happy New Year!!!

love n hugs
liza
xox

Just Magnolia

Afternoon Everyone,
Hope Everyone had a lovely christmas,christmas was very busy time in our house,presents and toys everywhere lol

This is my entry for Just Magnolia and my last christmas card woo hoo lol
i think the papers are MME and co-ordinations,tilda is coloured with distress inks and flowers,stickles,ribbon,flat back gems etc are all from my stash....

Check back later as i have another card for simon says challenge to post on

Take care and thankyou for looking
love n hugs
liza
xox

Motivet

Afternoon All,
Is everyone ready for santa coming yet? I'm STILL not sorted yet,dont even have a turkey yet lol i will get there tho eventually lol..
Heres another stamp ive had for a while now and havnt inked up yet,awful bad of me aint it!?!
I'm entering this card into this weeks Motivet challenge which is a fab sketch,love their stamps but im not very good at colouring animals but had a go,need more practice tho i think,ive coloured it with distress inks and papers are MME from their oh la la collection,plain cardstock is dovecraft,pearl pin is one of the lovely gifts sent to me by my good friend Mina,(thankyou so much,i love them) ive added a few other beads to it ,everything else from my stash,really missed using my stickles on this card lol

hope you like and thankyou all sooo much for looking,really sorry i havnt had the chance to comment on any of your stunning creations over the past few days but it has been all go here as you can imagine..i hope to get caught up in the new year

love n hugs
liza
xox

papercraft weekly

heres my entry for this weeks papercraft weekly,which is a fab sketch,ive used a sugar nellie stamp that ive had for AGES and it hasnt even been inked (poor thing) its coloured with distress inks,snowflakes are from an old punch i found and i punched it on glitter board,papers are K&Co and MME,brown cardstock is dovecraft,clear dewdrops,lace and ribbon and roses are all from my stash,ms frond branch,sentiment is WOJ,thankyou for looking

love n hugs
liza
xox

Evening All,
So is everyone ready for christmas then? Well i am defo not lol,i am so unorganised this year,but i hve told myself that it will be different next year!
This card was ment to be for friday sketchers but of course me being me,forgot to upload it,im not sure who the paper is by,lace i got from tabbycrafts,buttons from hobbycrafts,pearls from bunny zoes,ms snowflake punch covered with twinklets,image magnolia coloured with distress inks and stickles,plain cardstock is dovecraft (i think)! hope you like and thanks for looking...

love n hugs
liza
xox

Sketch Saturday and Just Magnolia

Evening All,
Well heres my entry for this weeks Sketch Saturday and Just Magnolia,papers are from K&Co,dcwv is the green card,ribbon ,roses and gems are from my stash,pearl spray from orchard crafts! Tilda is coloured with distress inks and ive also used stickles,sentiment circle from stash also..thanks for looking

love n hugs
liza
xox

colour create 33

afternoon everyone,
sorry bout the terrible photo,but its so dark here today...this card is for colour create which is lilac or purple,aqua,black and white,i must say it was a tough one but i gave it a shot lol
paper is k & co,ms snowflake punched on glitter card,ribbon from my stash had a go at pleating it as ive seen mina doing it so thought id give it a go,black brads,papermania sentiment,star gems,stickles and magnoia image coloured with distress inks.gotta go....waiting for doctor to ring as think zara has a throat infection from getting her tonsils out...take care and be back soon with another card...hopefully

love n hugs
liza
xox

Hi Everyone (UPDATED!!!)

Dunno what shes doing with her face in this pic lol

Hi All,
Just a quick post to let you all know that i wont be about for a few days AT LEAST,as my little 3yr old daughter Zara is going into hospital to get her tonsils and adnoids removed and also vents in her ears, so as you can imagine i wont have time to make any cards and i have LOADS to make still for christmas as with 4 kids i can only make them in the evenings and i aint the quickest card maker in the world lol.....I will keep yous updated on how she is..take care and be back soon

JUST A QUICK NOTE TO LET YOU KNOW ZARA IS HOME FROM HOSPITAL AND DOING WELL,SHEZ A LITTLE SORE BUT ALMOST BACK TO HER LITTLE SELF.....
....
love n hugs
liza
xox

Just Magnolia

Evening Everyone,
Well heres my card for this weeks Just Magnolia,and as per usual im getting it in just in the nick of time lol
ive used another one of my new stamps,im so in love with these new christmas magnolias and dont seem to be able to colour anything else at the moment so i do apologise for it being all tidas and edwins lately,ive coloured her with distress inks and added stickles to her wings and halo,ive distress the background with antique linen and tea dye,papers are all MME and ive hand stitched around them all with brown embroidery thread (very time consuming),ive spritzed roses with pearl tattered angels glimmer mist and added stickles,added some beads to pins,lace,ribbon,brass brads are all from my stash,sentiment is magnolia and again i added some distress inks to it and i also have distressed around all the papaers with a metal ruler....hope you like as i really enjoyed making it and im actually quite pleased with how it has turned out even tho it did take me two days to make lol

thankyou all for looking

love n hugs
liza
xox

Friday sketchers

Afternoon Everyone,
WHAT AN AWFUL DAY it is in Northern Ireland today,had to take my little man to the doctors for his MMR injections,he was great bless him not even a tear,well decided afterwards i would go on into town and low and behold i got soaked threw....so im now home and dryed out and warm thank goodness.....well enough about me lol this is my entry into this weeks friday sketchers which is a fab sketch and 1 i will use again,i have used edwin and coloured him with distress inks,papers are MME and used twinklets on the image(love these!),a mix of snowflakes punched out of glitter board and the sentiment is from the MME pak also,hope you like it and thankyou for stopping by

love n hugs
liza
xox

Sketch Saturday

Morning Everyone,Hope you are all having a nice day,todays card is for sketch saturday ,ive used a belles n whistles stamp called 'sisters',this is the 1st time ive used it and loved colouring it,i will have to start using all my un-inked stamps,the poor things need to be inked up lol ive coloured it with distress inks and papers are K&Co,MS frond branch punch,a mixture of different sized cream roses which i have used distress inks on them and stickles,pearl pins,green and cream lace,green ribbon and sentiment stamp i think is HOTP,thanks for looking and hopefully i will have another card on tomoz all going well..

love n hugs
liza
xox

Friday Sketchers and Just Magnolia

morning everyone,
today my card is for two challenges Friday Sketchers (sketch) and Just Magnolia (masking),ive used one of my new xmas tildas and masked her onto a bench which is from cc designs(coloured with distress inks),the background text is using a papermania stamp which i then covered with twinklets.papers are co-ordinations,xmas tree paper is MME and the blue glittery one is K&Co,tulle is from tabbycrafts,charm bunny zoes,snowflake is MS punch and then covered with twinklets and a card candy thingy in the centre lol,thankyou so much for looking and please leave me a comment to let me know you have been,hope you like my card today.

love n hugs
liza
xox

Papercraft Weekly

heres a card i have made for this weeks Papercraft Weekly which is a fabulous sketch by Dawny P,i love this sketch and well defo use it again,i have used my new and 1st stamp that i have purchased from motivet isnt it adorable and so great to colour it is coloured with distress inks and papers are by K&Co,again i have made a ponsettia using the fab tutorial by Dawn (all pink girl) which you can find on the woj tutorial blog,flatback gems are from bunny zoes,pins and brad are from my stash,hope you like and thankyou all for visiting .

love n hugs
liza xox

Just Magnolia - by the skin of my teeth

have to be really really quick so i can meet the entry deadline lol coloured with distress inks papers are MME and everything else from my stash lol soz gotta go get it uploaded on just magnolia challenge blog which this week was a fantastic sketch by MINA

love n hugs
liza
xox

whiff of joy challenge

Evening Ladies,
heres my card for the WOJ challenge which is a lovely sketch,will use this again as really enjoyed it ive coloured my image with distress inks,ive been trying different things with my distress inks ive been trying to use an aqua brush,papers are basic grey - eskimo kisses,tulle is from tabbycrafts,charm and flat backed pearls are from bunny zoes,snowflakes punched and pearls added and checkout the ponsettia which i made with the fabulous tutorial by dawn (all pink girl)i love it and im pleased with my attempt,hope you like my card have to go quick and TRY to get a card made for this weeks just magnolia challenge lol im late as usual hehe

love n hugs
liza
xox

Sketch Saturday

Morning Everyone,

Hope you have all had a fab weekend,well mine was fantastic as my best friend gave birth to a beautiful baby girl on saturday morning at 6.45am and i was her birthing partner and it was amazing seeing her come into the world her name is Anya Emily and she weighed in at 8lb6ozs,so well done Denise and congratulations (will add photos later)...i also went to the craft show at the kings hall which was fab but i was very tired from being up all night at the hospital with denise,while at the craft show i was able to meet up with my good friend Mina which was brill.....


Anyway here is my card i have made for sketch saturday and of course i had to use one of my new tildas coloured her with distress inks and then spritzed her with peal tattered angels sprayflowers are punched using retro punches(also spritzed),papers are MME,frond branch and doil lace punch MS,roses,ribbon and brad are from my stash and nestie dietcuts were sent to me ,hope you like what i have done and thankyou all for visiting and please leave me a comment to let me know youve been here

love n hugs
liza
xox