ALLSORTS ~ In Bloom

Good Morning. Hope every one is well and not too wet from all the rain.

We've been fairly lucky here in Spalding, it's not been too bad this week.

It seems ages since I've sat down and done a post.

The last 6 or 7 were all scheduled as we were away in Cornwall until last Saturday

and I haven't really felt like crafting this week as I had a bit of a health worry.

But thankfully after an X ray everything is ok.

Anyway I'm back to normal (as normal as I get, LOL)

This week at ALLSORTS it's Helene who has set the fab theme of

IN BLOOM

I have used:

Magnolia ~ Ballerina Tilda

LOTV ~ Vintage Labels - Just to Say

Raspberry road ~ Forever in our hearts (they have a half price sale on)

Tim Holtz ~ Butterflight

Cheery Lynn ~ Kiwi Spirit Doily & Elegant Butterfly

Memory Box ~ Butterfly Border

Marianne ~ English Rose

Pearls from stash

 Hope you can join this week.

I'd like to enter the following:
Bunny Zoe ~ Girls Girls Girls
Charisma Cards ~ Anything goes

BIGGEST of  HUGZ

One Day to Go!!!

Hello!

Not long now !!!

Just thought I'd do a post showing all of my LOTV Sneak Peeks, 

Who knows it may help you decide which ones you really can't do without LOL

Posy Trio

Fun Birthday

Blooming Lovely

Bobbing on By

A Little Message

Sunny Days & Smiles

Thanks for looking

BIG HUGZ 

ALLSORTS & another LOTV Sneak Peek

Good Morning,

This week at ALLSORTS Jo has set a great challenge,

ANY DIE WILL DO

Well you can imagine I was in my element LOL!

I have used another of the gorgeous "soon to be released" LOTV summer bears
and this one is called

SUNNY DAYS & SMILES

This stamp comes with a sentiment,

I have used :

LOTV ~ Vintage Sentiments ~ Just To Say & Simply Sophisticated

Nitwit  ~ Crab Apple

Marianne ~ English Rose & Leaf

Cheery Lynn ~ Kiwi Doily

DooHickey ~ Peony Petal, Lovely Fence & Rose-Leaf

Memory Box ~ Clouds & Butterflies

Nestabilities ~ Labels 16

For a chance to win the FULL SET of 
stamps head over to our  
Facebook page for more information

Hope you can join us.

Thanks for looking

Big HUGZ

LOTV SNEAK PEEK ~ A LITTLE MESSAGE

Good Morning, hope you are all well..

I'm here again with another gorgeous  LOTV Sneak Peek,
These latest images are suitable for male and females.

They will be available on-line from the 25th June, 

make sure you keep checking the Inspirational Blog 

and the DT individual blogs daily for more Sneak Peeks!

Today I'd like to share this cute image

A LITTLE MESSAGE

 I have used:
LOTV ~ Grunge Postcard &  Vintage Sentiments - Just to Say
Nitwits ~ Tour of London
Marianne ~ English Rose
Memory Box ~ Clouds
DooHickey~ Leaf

Thanks for looking,
Back again tomorrow with my ALLSORTS post & another sneak peek
BIG HUGZ

 

LOTV SNEAK PEEK ~ BOBBING ON BY

Good Morning bloggers.
Hope you are all enjoying our sneak peeks, do you have a favourite yet?
I love them all!

I'm here again with another gorgeous  LOTV Sneak Peek,
These latest images are suitable for male and females.
I have done a card for a man today.

They will be available on-line from the 25th June, 

make sure you keep checking the Inspirational Blog 

and the DT individual blogs daily for more Sneak Peeks!

Today I'd like to share this relaxing image

BOBBING ON BY 

 I have used:
LOTV ~ Simply Sophisticated & Sentiment that comes with the stamp
Raspberry Road ~ Moments in Time
Memory Box ~ Dragonflies & Clouds

DooHickey ~ Cloud

SU ~ Corner Punch

Nestabilities ~ Scallop & Classic Circles

Thanks for looking,
Hope I have inspired you
BIG HUGZ

 

LOTV SNEAK PEEK ~ BLOOMING LOVELY

Good Morning,

Only Me! Back again with another gorgeous  LOTV Sneak Peek

I love these sweetest of images.

They will be available on-line from the 25th June, 

make sure you keep checking the Inspirational Blog 

and the DT individual blogs daily for more Sneak Peeks!

Today I'd like to share this fantastic image

BLOOMING LOVELY 

A close up of the sweet bookmark,
using one of the gorgeous images from the companion set.

 I have used:
LOTV ~ Vintage Sentiments ~ Just to Say
Nitwit ~ Tattered Frannies
 Nellie ~ Doily Circle
Die-Namics ~ Butterflies & Daisy Die
DooHickey ~ Swirl
Tim Holtz ~ DIs & Hardware Findings
SU ~ Tabs Punch

Thanks for looking,
Hope I have inspired you
BIG HUGZ

 

LOTV SNEAK PEEK ~ FUN BIRTHDAY

Good Morning,

I just LURVE being part of the fab LOTV design team.

I get to play with the gorgeous new images,

These will be available on-line from the 25th June, 

make sure you keep checking the Inspirational Blog 

and the DT individual blogs daily for more Sneak Peeks!

First up for me is this little beauty

FUN BIRTHDAY

The sentiment comes with the stamp :-)

I have used:
Nitwit ~ Thimbles
DooHickey ~ Peony Petals, Leaf, Swirly Butterfly & Hellebores
Nestabilities ~ Eyelet Square & Labels 16
Scrim, Brads & Button
Tim Holtz ~ DIs

Thanks for looking & pop back tomorrow for another sneak peek
BIG HUGZ

Edwin with plane

Happy Father's day, and Happy Birthday to my lovely Hubby xxx

 The card I made for Darren's dad is in the post below, Mac bought a funny one for her Daddy.

My dad died 10 years ago, aged  75 . 

Five years earlier he had told me he was "ready to go" 

but said he wanted to wait until he saw me with a baby, 

then when Mackenzie was born he died the week after, 

I'm sure he did wait and I only have 1 photo of them together.

I have made this card for Darren's birthday, not sure if it's really suitable for a 47 year old LOL

But he loves plane & I thought this would remind him of his childhood.

I have used:

Magnolia ~ Edwin with Airplane

Raspberry Road ~ Glory Days

DooHickey ~ Star & Flag

Whimsey ~ Sentiment Stamps

Memory Box ~ Willow Dragonfly

Remember to pop back tomorrow, when I will start sharing my LOTV sneak peeks.

Thanks for looking

BIG HUGZ

Sailing Boat

Good morning.

This week at ALLSORTS it's my lovely friend Nicola who has set the theme.

She like to see . . . 

PAPER PIECING

I made this for Darren's dad for Father's Day.

I have used:

LOTV ~ Sailing Boat & Simply Sophisticated

Nitwit ~ Bear Boys Too

DooHickey ~ Cloud

Die-Namics ~ Clouds

Tim Holtz ~ DIs

Scrim from stash

Thanks for looking

BIG HUGZ

LOTV Blog Hop & An "Early" Sneak Peek

Welcome to the Lili of the Valley Designers Mini Hop!! 

We are all using the same stamp so you'll get different ideas on using the same image.  

Today we are showcasing . . . 

"Posy Trio" 

from Lili of the Valley's next release that goes on sale later this month.  

We have given you an extra sneaky peek 

(the DT starts with sneak peeks on the 18th on the

 Ideas to Inspire blog as well as their own blogs!)

This month we are sponsored by  
Wild Orchid Crafts 

 and
 Lili of the Valley 

and we have four prizes up for grabs dotted along the hop.

Here's my take on this gorgeous stamp set

I have also used:

LOTV ~ Girlie Banners

Raspberry Road ~ Antebellum Digi papers

WOC ~ Flowers

DooHickey ~ Leaf

Marianne ~ Chinese Rose Leaf

Nestabilities ~ Butterflies

Tim Holtz ~ DIs to colour

Pearls, Scrim from Stash

To be in with a chance of one of the fab prizes please comments on the following DT

Anne

 Bev 

June

Pops

&
Fleur (ME )

Thank you so much for looking,

pop back tomorrow for my LOTV and ALLSORTS post

BIG HUGZ

 

Summer Flower Tilda

Good afternoon,

A super-quick post today,

Had a  bit of time today to make a card,

I'd like to enter it over at TOMIC, who are celebrating their first anniversay, 

and have a fab theme of anything goes.
Also followed the sketch at Sketch Saturday ~ I did shift the flowers along so I hope it's acceptable.

 Sorry for the poor picture ~ was in such a rush to get it posted.

I have used:

Magnolia ~ Summer Flower Tilda

Raspberry road ~ Moments in time

Marianne ~ English Roses

DooHickey ~ Swirl & Leaf

Die-Namics ~ Butterflies

Tim Holtz ~ DIs

Pearls & Scrim from stash

Thanks for looking,

Will be back tomorrow with for the LOTV mini hop

and a surprise sneak peek 

Gotta go 

Bye for now

HUGZ 

ALLSORTS ~ Photo Inspiration

Good Morning, Hope you are all keeping well

and hope you are staying safe in this wet & windy weather ~ isn't it horrid!!!

This week at ALLSORTS it's our lovely Emma's turn to set the theme and

  she'd like you to take inspiration from a photo...

Here's my take

 and here is the photo 

I have used:

Sarah Kay ~ Bathtime

Raspberry Road ~ Antebellum

LOTV ~ Vintage Sentiments ~ Occassions

Die-Namics ~ Butterflies

Marianne ~ English Rose

Nestabilities ~ Classic & Scallop Ovals

Coloured with Tim Holtz DIs

Pearls from stash

I'd like to enter the following:
Deep Ocean Challenge ~ Sewing
My Mum's Craft Shop ~ Bingo (flowers, Pearls & Die cuts)
Stampavie & More ~ For a Girl

Thanks for looking & for your lovely comments, 

I do read each & every one & I'm sorry if I don't always get round to 

commenting, but I do try and get round for a nosey.

BIG HUGZ

Time for a Cuppa

Good morning!

Hope you all enjoyed the Jubilee festivities, despite the British weather, 

I have an girly card to share today,

 I have used:
LOTV ~
Time for a cuppa

Simply Sophisticated Sentiments

and a close-up of the tag, using

Recipe Sentiments

I have masked off the border to fit my tag better.

I have also used:

Nitwits ~ Affection Too

Nestabilities ~ Labels 16, Classic & Scallop Ovals

DooHickey ~ Swirl, Leaf, Tag

Go Kreate ~ Frilly #5

Tim Holtz ~ DIs, Chip Block & Tiny Tabs

Marianne ~ English Rose,

Cheery Lynn ~ Exotic Butterflies

SU ~ Tiny Tags

 Pearls & Charm from stash

Thanks for looking

BIG

HUGZ

By the seaside.

Good morning bloggers,
A bit of a long post today, So please stay with me !

Hope you are all enjoying the Jubilee celebrations that are going on,

Yesterday they had a church service at Mackenzie's school, followed by a tea party.

Then later a display from each of the 6 decades of the Queen's reign.

Crikey the 70's & 80's brought back some fun memories.

At the end of the day each child in the school was presented with a souvenir poster,

It said 2012 in big letters, and it had the Olympics & Jubilee logos in the corners

But when you looked closely it was made up of small thumbprint photos 

of each child in the school over 360 in total ~ what an awesome keepsake!

I can't believe its June already, Better blow the cobwebs off my Christmas stamps LOL! 

Anyway it's my turn to host the challenge over at ALLSORTS this week,

so on a more summery note I'd like you all to join us...

BY THE SEASIDE

First of all here's my winner

True Random Number Generator 

  Min:1

  Max:104

  Result: 40  

Powered by RANDOM.ORG

  

 Congratulations Sylvia-Anne

Please contact darrenandfleur@aol.com to arrange your prize.

  Here's my card

 I have used:

Magnolia ~ Ocean scene background, Rescue tower & 

Tilda offshore, all available here

DooHickey ~ Lovely fence, Cloud, Bunting, 

Swirl and Leaf, available here

Marianne ~ Chinese roses

Tim Holtz ~ DIs

Scrim, Pom Poms & Brads from stash

I'd like to enter the following:
Magnolia-licious ~ Water

Thanks for looking & I hope you can join us.

Before I go make sure you pop over to the LOTV online store

They are having a Jubilee Weekend celebration!

 There are some great offers on the website

 Go on..... You know you want to!!!

HUGZ 

Fab Jubilee offers @ LOTV

Good evening,

This weekend, make sure you get yourselves over to LOTV

They are having a Jubilee Weekend celebration!

 There are some great offers on the website

 Go on..... You know you want to!!!

HUGZ