Magnolia with Ladybird

How cute is this Magnolia? I think she's lovely and she was a bargain so that makes her even lovelier to me!!! I love these First Edition Love Letters papers; I don't usually go for pinks and browns but they're great together! The flowers and ribbon are WOC - I've now run out of pink ribbon and have ordered the wrong colour so I'm just gonna have to order some more. Thing is you have to order more than just ribbon to make it worth the p&p - right? The heart die is the Cheery Lynn heart doily die - I'm getting my moneys worth out of that one. LOL! I've coloured (not very well either but cut me some slack I'm poorly!) with copics.


This bug is not clearing up and the doc said that it's making people poorly for WEEKS! My poor head is throbbing and the twentysomething NEETs from across the road are belting a football about. I have no words.

I sure hope this bug clears soon as I have two new sets of spellbinders to play with! I bought the foliage set and labels 23 from Maddylisa Crafts. I couldn't find the foliage set anywhere so I e-mailed Anne at Maddylisa and she mailed back within hours to say she had them back in stock. Great service and free p&p - I'm super impressed.

Have a great weekend! TGI Friday - NCIS tonight. Woohoo. Hugs, Jayne xx

Lili's Little Fairies Challenge - Spring Colours

It's that Jane Shasky CD again! I love these DPs - such beautiful colours.I am feeling so horrendous that it's going to be a very short and sweet post! This is the first time I've inked this stamp - it's a real cutie. Stamp and sentiment from LOTV. Flowers and ribbon, go on, have a guess! Yep, WOC again. The corner is also from WOC; it was silver until I attacked it with picket fence crackle paint!

Please join us over at Lili's Little Fairies this week. We are very sorry that last weeks winners weren't posted - hopefully they'll be posted this week. Hope Mummy Fairy is returning soon!!

I hope that by the time you read this I will have seen the Quack and know what this earache and sore throat is about. I'm not one for crying but this has got me floored. On top of this, my little one is home poorly sick too! Fingers crossed we'll feel better in the morning. Hugs, Jayne xx

Super fast post!

This is a super fast post as I have a poorly sick little girl to look after at the moment! 

I bought this Magnolia a few weeks ago as it was in a sale at my local craft shop and I couldn't resist!  I've used the Me to You Spring Chic DPs again! I really ought to get another pack. The sentiment is LOTV - where would we be without them? The flowers are Wild Orchid Crafts as is the ribbon. I've just received another box of yummy flowers from WOC - I think my husband thinks I have some kind of compulsive flower buying disorder!! I coloured it with copics but struggled with the hair. If I get some peace tonight I might try to get on with some colouring.

Hope that you all have a lovely evening and a great week - fingers crossed that we have a snow free week!! Hugs, Jayne x

Lili's Little Fairies Challenge - A Card for a Boy!

 

Any excuse to get that Whimsy Stamp banner die out again! How blooming cute is that die? The stamp is the Astronaut from Lili of the Valley - don't you just love the little rabbit peeping out of the rocket? I've coloured the image with copics. The gorgeous papers are from the Polkadoodles Paper Boutique Volume 3 - there are lots of scrummy backing papers on this CD. The sentiment is also LOTV.

We are sponsored this week by the lovely people over at NitWit Collections (now this is a prize I really wouldn't mind winning!!).

So hop on over to Lili's Little Fairies and have a look at all the scrumptious cards made by the DT this week and get entering! Good luck!

Big fairy hugs, have a great day, Jayne xx

My first Saturated Canary!!!!

Is it just me, or, is Saturated Canary quite an odd name? I like it, but I can't think where it might come from. Am I missing something vital? I suppose the only thing that counts is that every digi stamp on the website is absolutely scrummy! I allowed myself to buy only 2 - how long was I trying to make up my mind! LOL!! I'll be visiting the shop again as soon as I have more pennies. Hehehe.

This is my very first attempt at colouring Gothica (gotta love the name), so stand back a bit, squint and it looks ok! I won't say how long it took me to colour it but I'm going to practise some more.

The DPs are the Apothecary Emporium from Echo Park Paper. I wish they did them in red and purple too. I swished a bit of black soot distress ink at them for good measure.The flowers are from Wild Orchid Crafts and I think the ribbon is from The Range (I love a bargain!). The clock die is the Sizzix Tim Holtz Weathered Clock die and I'm using it all the time. It makes a nice change from a doily!!

I'm going to enter the card into the Saturated Canary Challenge Blog if I can muster up enough courage lol.

Finally, this next masterpiece was created by my daughter - a family portrait. I cut the people pieces out but she decorated and stuck everything herself. I think it's a great job for a girl of 4.

Hope that you're all having a great week. Thank you for stopping by and leaving your lovely comments; it makes my week. Hugs, Jayne xx

The Stampman 'Red' Challenge link here.

Saturated Canary Challenge Blog link here.

LLF Challenge - Lavender and Lace

The DT have made some beautiful cards this week. Mine, however, just isn't working for me! If I'd not felt so yucky I would have done another, but, hey, don't sweat the small stuff as they say!!

So, I'm going to concentrate on the bits I do like. The backing paper is from the wonderful Polkadoodles sweet stuff CD. I've distressed the edges with picket fence crackle paint. The lace is lovely and is from my local Samuel Taylor's craft shop. The crown hat pins are scrumptious and are from Wild Orchid Crafts as are the flowers. The beautiful image is the girl with boa from LOTV.

I hope that you can play along with us at Lili's Little Fairies. It's a lovely challenge this week so I hope you get to join in - you can't do a worse job than me this week!!!

Thank you all for joining us last week - what a great turn out; all the entries were beautiful. Big crafty hugs, Jayne xx

Something bright and cheery!

 

How beautiful is this image? Doesn't it just put some joy into your soul? I decided I needed to work with something bright and cheery this morning and this image from the Jane Shasky 'From the heart of the Garden' (Joanna Sheen) really fitted the bill!

The ribbon is part of the Joanna Sheen blog hop prize I won a while back - it certainly fits the bill for bright and cheery!!! The flowers are Wild Orchid Crafts and the sentiment is LOTV. The border punch is my much used X Cut flower doily punch. 

I know it's a super quick card but I need an 'all occasion' batch to sell so I'm back to CD crafting to speed up the process.

Hope that all is good with you, big crafty hugs, Jayne xx