Day 7 Reveal & gift for a little lady (Pic heavy)

Hey all, just a reminder that today is day 7 of the mega Teenager image release, and you will love todays release!! I {heart} skateboard Josh!! So what are you waiting for, fancy winning one of todays images? just hop on over to the challenge blog and leave a comment!

Now onto todays pics ... I apologise as this is a very pic heavy post ... Yesterday was Maddisons best friends birthday, you have never seen 2 little girls so gorgeously close and cute together! they love each other to bits. So I went all out lol ... I made a special secret card for Ruby which looks just like a book!  This was made in a class with Tracey Grundy at Papercuts. 

Then knowing that both Ruby and her mum Tania loved the glittered up wooden names I made my children I also made one in pink with glitter for Ruby. She loves it! 

quite hard to get a decent photograph but you get the general idea! LOL. 

New Release ~ Teenager images! ~ Dianes Release!

Hey all, sorry for the lack of posts things have been a lot Topsy turvy here!! Most of you will know that my little one was really poorly last week, well she went back to the docs on Wednesday and the doc said she had an ear infection and although was allowed back to school took a turn for the worse on Saturday morning with a sickness bug! I am also bad again with pain in my back and leg, and for the first time in 29 years I have tonsillitis!! so on strong antibiotics with all the other tablets I am shoving down my neck!! ...the good news is I am nearly 2 weeks smoke free, I stopped smoking 2 weeks ago! whoopee!! 

So anyway I am here to remind you to check the challenge blog daily for a daily chance to win! Today Diane is showcasing her beautiful cards and they are just FAB! 

Now onto my card for today, I had a commission for a card from Paul's Aunt, it was for her son in aw and had to be gardening related, so I wanted to show how the Floral Delight images from ladybug crafts ink can also be male related as well as used for females! 

The papers are Cosmo cricket, and I coloured up the Wellies delight image in copics! 

Hope you like it! 

Day 3 release & LOTV Cute squares!

So its day 3 of our fab Ladybug Crafts Ink release, today it is Catherines turn to showcase, so please hop on over for yet another chance to win!! 

Also as promised 1 person would win one of my images from yesterday

The winner is .... 

Flying Fresian

Well done, please email your choice of either Xbox Josh or Gossip Girl Jess to Kerry at  lcichallengeblog@aol.com 

So I have a card to share with you all today, I made it a couple of weeks ago but havent had a chance to blog it until now.

Papers are MME, image is LOTV cute square and the punch is Martha Stewart. 

Today is a bit of a funny old day for me, I managed to get mixed up with my days so when I thought I had surgery on the 15th March last year I was actually 2 days late, I had surgery on the 13th, and some of you will know that I also had a bad day with pain and had to have the doc called out, maybe it was a reminder? but today is a very sad day, 2 years ago today the world lost a beautiful, kind, caring special lady. My Grannybasher left us all and we miss her and remember her every single day!!

New Release ~ Teenager images! ~ My turn to showcase!

Hey all Just popping in to show you all the fab new images from Ladybug Crafts Ink, now some of you will have seen Kerrys images from yesterday and at Ladybug towers we decided to do things a little differently this time. So each ladybug has a different day to showcase our images, today is my turn! 

My images are just fantastic! 

I have used Xbox Josh and Gossip Girl Jess!

The images are available at Ladybug Crafts Ink now,

My first project  ... Using Xbox Josh

I love this image, and these papers were just a perfect match, he has a very rugged handsome kind of look to him. The papers are from MME and the scrabble tiles are Papermania.

But then on my bid to use up some old stash I also made a second card, which I never shared on the DT blog!

Papers are from Basic Grey and probably too bright for any other image, but I felt it just worked with this one, not 100% happy with my card, not sure why though. I used snaps on the corners and embossed a circle behind him! 

My first Project Using Gossip Girl Jess

And isn't she just FAB!! I was looking forward to this release as you all know I am so not a girly girl so seeing something like this on the market is just perfect and I didnt have to use any pink!! I teamed up Gossip Girl Jess with MME Papers, Ribbon which you can buy here, and the sentiment is from PTI. 

Don't forget to be in with a chance of winning one of these images just leave a comment on this post.

Don't forget you can also win the BIG PRIZE of a £15 voucher to spend at LADYBUG CRAFTS INK

by commenting on every post on the challenge blog until 12pm Monday 26th March .

You can also enter our current challenge HERE 

Good Luck everyone - see you tomorrow when another DT member will reveal their images and projects .

xxx

Totally Ladybug Tuesday ~ New Release!!

Well if you have seen the title you may have come on over expecting a fab card with a brand new release image!! .... but actually I dont have one for you today because we have tweaked the release this time ... 

Starting from today, every single day one of the ladybugs will be sharing their creations, there will be LOTS of prizes along the way so be sure to check out the challenge blog daily to be in with a chance to win!! ... 

Our challenge is anything goes!

So what are you waiting for?? 

Dinky little handbag (Gift card holder!) & Candy Winners!

Morning all, 

I have so many cards all backed up ready to share, but this one should have been posted a while back! I made this cutesy little bag for my little sister in law, she was 21 back in Feb and loves playing on her Xbox so we bought her a 12 month subscription! However I wanted to put it in something so made this .... 

It is dinky (the gift card just fits in!!) but I love how it turned out! 

Can't remember where the papers are from but I think Cosmo Cricket, I added some faux stitching, some snaps on the handles and a small strap to keep it together! 

Well I am a bit later than planned with announcing the candy winners, my little one has been really poorly since Friday and is showing no signs of picking up! (one min she seems fine but then 5 mins later is worse than she was!!) anyway she is off school until further notice so I am grabbing a quick 5 mins to post this and set up some other posts. 

The winners of my 3 year candy are ... 

3 - Ali B

2 - Flourgirl

5 - Sally! 

Well done girls, I will get them out to you by the end of this week, please can you email me your addresses please! (rustyflange@gmail.com) 

Right must dash, got to get big one ready for school run! 

3 years in Blogland!!

This post will remain at the top until the candy ends! 

Hey all, just thought I would pop on as I have a little something for all my readers ... 

Today I have been blogging for 3 years!! Not sure where the time has gone but by golly have my cards improved!! 

So we started off with very basic cards this these ... 

To cards like these 

Such a difference don't you think? 

Anyway enough of me babbling away ... I have some part secret candy for 3 lucky readers, ... all will be slightly different, but all will have this paper pad included!! 

Yes 3 lots of candy for 3 separate winners! 

So do you fancy winning one of these? and some other secret bits and bobs? 

If so then pop my picture on your side bar with a link back to my blog. You don't have to be a follower, although I would prefer it if you were! I will announce 3 separate winners next sunday! 

Good luck :) 

Star Cupcakes in a cute and dinky way!

I keep seeing small little notelet style cards in blogland, normally 3x3" and by pure accident I had managed to chop a card blank up and it was the perfect size for me to experiment using up scraps and making a small card. I then found this really cool cupcake image on the same day, so it all fell into place exactly how it should lol 

Image by Torico at Etsy (Birdie Brown)

Coloured with copics, added some twine and a small heart charm and papers were scraps left over from MME pad! 

I love it and have plans to use this image lots more and make lots of variations on this! 

Wee Stamp & Loving this layout!

Quite a few of you commented on the layout I did for the princess card posted here, well I should have said in that post that was my second card made using that layout and this one was the first. 

My lovely friend Karen has this obsession with Wee Stamps, and just recently she has been making lots of cards using them, so I figured I should make the effort to use some of the ones I have had for a while and have never used! This one is called Silver Fairy. I coloured her in using copics and pencils (quite hard to photo but she does have shading I promise!) 

In the middle picture you can see the glamour dust on the wings a little better, I went over the lines on the wings with a tombow pen and added it just to the lines so it wasn't too full on! 

I love the flat flowers which have sat in my stash for over a year barely used but I am nearly finished with them and went to buy some more and the company is no longer stocking them! I found a few at a different store so wiped their supply out, but if anyone knows where I can get these flowers from please let me know! 

Thats all for now :) 

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges: 

Allsorts challenge blog

Papertake Weekly

Craft Your Passion

Crafty Boots

Always Crafting

Incy Wincy - (old = papers, image & flowers, New = Butterfly die)

Pink Elephant

C.R.A.F.T - I believe I can fly

Cute Pirate!!

Back to share another sample, this time using a cute little pirate from La la Land stamps. 

He is called Pirate Luka and will be available soon to buy from Papercuts in Whitley Bay! 

I knew as soon as I saw him that I would make 2 projects, one a card and the other a door hanger. 

Jo, one of the owners of Papercuts has a gorgeous little boy called Charlie, and Jo loves all things pirate, so I made a little door hanger! which is for Charlie, but Jo is under strict orders that she has to leave it in the shop for a few weeks before she is allowed to take it home lol. 

Apologies for the lack of quality in the photos, I had to use my phone to take them last week before taking them into the shop on Friday! 

Papers - MME Kraft Funday

Image - Pirate Luca (lala land stamps) 

Charm - from stash) 

Pretty in Pink!

Back again, this time with a commission from a friend of mine ... or rather for Maddisons best friend Ruby. Ruby will be 5 next week and her Mam couldn't find a pretty card with special daughter and 5 on it, so she asked me to make one for her, it had to be pink/purple (I went for pink and a purpley shade of pink) and have Special Daughter and the number 5 on it ... 

I think I have managed it, and hope she likes it! If she doesn't then I do and I will put it away for Maddison when she is 5! 

Now normally I would say I kept it simple, but this time I didn't, I layered 3 different sheets of paper from MME, added lots of flowers both flat and rose, added butterflies, pearls and lots of glitter! oh and a special Daughter sentiment and the number 5! The image is from Karens Doodles, which I bought last year for M's birthday. I also slightly decorated the inside, but because of the flowers on the front I couldn't get a photo! 

Haven't had a chance to look for challenges but if anyone has any which scream out please shout! :) 

now I shall sit back and await the onslaught of laughter and pink comments from the ladybugs LOL!

Fizzy moon mothers day?

Just back to share a quick card I made for a sample for Papercuts. 

I used a gorgeous new Fizzy Moon stamp, coloured in with copics, and used some fab First Edition papers! 

The sentiment was nearly something different ... I printed it out and realised that these people up here in the North East don't say Mum or Mom, they say MAM, so I reprinted it correctly! LOL 

All products used are available from Papercuts, Whitley Bay! 

Thats all for today, and for those who missed my candy giveaway yesterday you can find the post here.

Its not pink ... honest! Floral Delight - Ladybug Crafts Ink

So did you see all the pink creations from the ladybugs?? Bet you didnt know but nearly every ladybug had something to say about me not liking pink, I tell you I was traumatised by the end of the day .... so I thought I would share this card ... knowing full well that I will get all the ribbing again today!! .... 

See it is totally not pink!! ... or should that be not totally pink? Hmph! 

I printed out one of the fab Floral Delight images, after having to wait due to technical errors with the printer (It broke in a disastrous way and I needed Paul to find me another that I could use my continuous ink supply with!) Eventually I got up and running ... or rather printing ... 

Everything is printed!! well printed or die cut! 

Papers - Echo Park digi kit

Image - Bouquet Delight - Ladybug Crafts Ink

Button, Twine & Gems - From stash

Butterfly & Flowers - My Favourite Things dies

Thats all for today, got so much to show you, but always forget to blog as I am so busy!! 

I would like to enter this card into: 

Scrapbook Sisters - Spring Flowers

Totally Ladybug Tuesday ~ Pink and Girly ~ Catherine Style!

Time for another Totally Ladybug Tuesday ... 

This time is was our lovely ladybug Catherine's turn to choose the challenge she chose

PINK & GIRLY! 

(I tried to bribe her to change it to male cards but she was having none of it! hmph!)

So what better to do but crack on with something pink, but I also set myself another little challenge ... remember yesterday that Jack had been missing for 7 months? well Nikki has also been missing .... especially this one ... 

Nikki & Friend Window Shopping

First and last time seen here on release date in November 2010!!! but I reckon I did a better job this time round!! LOL 

It was for Pauls little sister, I use the term little lightly as she is about 10 foot tall, but she was 21 last week and I made this for her, with a little pressie (will blog that tomorrow as that is NOT PINK!) 

So do you have lots of pink and girly cards?? if so then hop on over to the challenge blog, grab some inspiration from our beautiful ladybugs and join in our challenge!! 

Remember to check and see if you are a winner of our blog hop last week!! 

Did you know Jack was missing??

Last seen in this post back in June last year!! Which means he has never had proper colour treatment!! Well time to rectify that one!! 

I only just finished this card this morning, I started it on saturday and had 6 cards all on the go, so needed to get some finished!! 

So here is cheeky Jack from Ladybug Crafts Ink! ... and my favourite boy pad in the world!! 

So what do you think? I reckon he looks fabulous!! 

Managed to get all my cards bagged up and sorted into labels, i.e male cards, female cards, baby cards etc ... I have more male cards than anything else, so I am under strict orders that after I have finished this Jack card, I must make more girly cards or Paul might throw away my boy stash! lol ... See I am strange as most people hate cards for males!! give me them over girly floral cards anyday!

MIA!!

Been missing in action for just over a week from blogland ... but I have reasons ... one of them is I have a tidy up lol ... tad extreme I hear you say, but not when it needed doing. We have the kitchen planned, but not the new floor for the kitchen, which we want real wood, which means everything needs taking out, and also in the living room to get it all done at once .... which meant that craft stuff needed putting away ... I should be ashamed of myself for letting it get so bad ... 

So we went from this ..... 

To this .... 

a big improvement, but I need to sort out the boxes under the table and the bag ... not been able to get near it because the children have been taking advantage of the table being clear and demanding moon sand which they love to play with!! 

I made these next 4 cards just over a week ago, but havent blogged them ... I used the same layout, papers, and cute square for all of them, just to fill up my boxes!! 

Some Odd Girl Valentine!!

Back again with another card, this time it was made especially for Paul .... being last minute annie again I managed to make this on monday! (nowt like leaving it til last minute)

I used papers from a MME 12x12 kit which I had way back in december and the image is SOG! I am dead happy with how this card turned out .... 

Wanna see the inside?? 

Tough! you can't so dont be nosey! LOL 

Challenges: 

Crafty Sentiments

CES

One stop challenge

Celebrate the occasion

Allsorts