Just Magnolia ~ Tilda with cat

Good Morning,

It's time for another fab challenge over at Just Magnolia

and this week we want to see . . . 

Die Cuts & Pearls

A nice easy one for me, I just love dies & can't get enough of them LOL

 I have used :

Magnolia ~ Christmas Tilda with Cat

DooHickey ~ Swirl & Poinsettia

Raspberry Road ~ Archives

Nestabilities ~ Decorative Elements, Oval

Pearls & Charm from stash

We have 2 great sponsors this week

Hope you can join us

Thanks For Looking

I'd like to enter the following:
Totally Tilda ~ Bingo ( I have used Distressing, Punches and a Charm)
Midweek Magnolias ~ Distressed
Simon Says Stamp ~ Anything goes

BIG HUGZ

LOTV Sneak Peek - Aimi

Hi, hope the sun is shining for you today.

I have another of the new LOTV Geisha girls to share today,

If you are lucky enough to be going to the coffee morning at the shop tomorrow

you will be able to get hold of these little cuties then,

Otherwise the on-line release will be 1st October!

This little beauty is called Aimi, which translates to "Love & Beauty" I think she's so pretty.

I have kept this card fairly simple to my usual style and not totally happy with it.

The papers are Teresa Collins - Fabrications and I have stamped one of the gorgeous 

Grunge Corners from LOTV which sits perfectly with this oriental style image.

The Willow dragonfly is from Memory box, and I have used a my new Prima Donna Petals, Flower die, which at the minute I'm not 100% sure if it's really me! I'll have to have a bit more of a play with it.

Make sure you pop over to the Inspiration Blog where you'll find more gorgeous samples of the new release

I'd like to enter the following:

MAWTT ~ Seeing Red

Thanks so much for looking

BIG HUGZ

Oh Christmas Tree & a little sneak peek

Happy Monday Everyone,

Hope the weather's not too bad where you are!

It was quite wet & windy here last night and there was a 

puddle of water in the conservatory this morning.

Soooo not impressed !!!

 

Anyhow I have a LOTV Christmas card to share today.

 

 I love this image of Victoria With Pup she looks quite grown up.

I have also used the Christmas Grungy Messages 

and the grungy Christmas postcard making a sneak peek

out of the corner is off a new A5 sheet of Christmas Icon Stamps, available soon.

I have used my new Snow-covered tree die, which I bought from Ally Pally, It's available in two sizes, but I just got the large and reduced the number of layers used.

Thank you for looking and for your lovely comments.

BIG HUGZ 

 

LOTV Sneak Peek ~ Mini Launch

Good morning ladies, I'm so excited today as I have a new LOTV sneak peek to share,

I will confess....

....When I heard that the new images were going to be Geisha Girls I had a bit of a panic, 

but, as soon as I set eyes on the gorgeous images I just fell in love with them.

Isn't this image just the prettiest!!!

She's called 

CHO  

translated means Butterfly

She'll be available on the 1st of October,

alongside a few more images and a companion set

I have also used:

Teresa Collins ~ Fabrications

DooHickey ~ Peony Petals, Rose Leaf & Small Dragonfly

Noor! ~ Fleur De Lys Border & Corner

Nestabilities ~ Decorative Elements Oval

Thanks for looking, 

and check out the other DT blogs for more Sneak Peeks

BIG HUGZ

LOTV blog hop winner

Thank you all so much for your lovely comments on the LOTV mini hop,

I was one of the blogs with a secret prize.

 The lucky winner of a "Milly Hello" stamp is........

DEBS ~ Especially for You

YAY!!!!!

Well done Debs can you email me with your address at

darrenandfleur@aol.com

HUGZ

Girl Sledging

Morning, hope you are all well,

It's a bit windy here today!!!

I have another Christmas card to share today,

I just love all things LOTV and this sweet image is no exception!

 I have used Girls Sledging, and a couple of the new sentiments. 

Let it Snow is from the very versatile Christmas ~ Hand-written Phrases set and

I have also used the extremely popular Christmas Grungy Messages these have sold out AGAIN,

so make sure you keep your eye out for them when they come back in stock.

The Snowflakes behind the Marianne Roses are from DooHickey.

The papers are Raspberry road ~ Victorian Holiday

And I have added Tim Holtz ~ Hardware Findings Bracket

Thank you so much for looking

BIG HUGZ

Love Grows

Hellooooo!

I hope you enjoyed our mini hop..

I have an anniversary card to share, using a gorgeous LOTV image

I have used the adorable "Love Grows"  image from LOTV

also the Vintage Sentiments ~ Occasions, which I have masked off the little scrolls 

to make them fit the Memory box ~ Puffy Clouds, 

I have also added a couple of Memory box ~ Willow Dragonflies.

The gorgeous papers are ~ Raspberry Road ~ Botanical Bliss.

I have used DooHickey ~ Lovely Fence and the 

flower is Die-Namics ~ Rolled Daisy with Joy Crafts ~ Floral Flourish Leaves,

Thank you so much for looking

BIG HUGZ

LOTV mini hop ~ Milly Hello

Good morning, 

as it's already the 15th of September, 

it's time for another mini hop with the LOTV girls.

This month our lovely Pops chose the image that we would all use,

this way you get several takes on one image.

MILLY HELLO

I have used:

LOTV ~ Milly Hello, Vintage Labels

DooHickey ~ Swirly Butterfly, Dragonfly

Marianne ~ English Rose, Open Leaves,

and again those gorgeous dies from Noor! design ~

Fleur De Lys ~ Corner 2
 Fleur De Lys ~ Border

As always we are sponsored by

Remember, to be in with a chance of winning you MUST 
leave a comment on the following blogs
as we don't know who's hiding the prizes!

 Anne
Dawny
Fleur ~ That's me !
Gretha
Lou
Pops

Thank you so much for looking

BIG HUGZ

My first Just Magnolia card

Good morning, as I'm writing this post I have a huge smile on my face,

When I first started card making I never dreamt that 

I would become part of some fantastic design teams,

Including: Sir Stampalot, LOTV & Noor! Designs

and here I am today, so very happy to be posting my first Just Magnolia card, 

I hope the first of many. 

What an absolute honour to have my cards posted along-side such amazing crafters!

This week the theme is . . .

TWINKLE, TWINKLE LITTLE STAR

include stars in your project 

Here's my card, which I made for Mackenzie's birthday earlier in the week.

 I have included a couple of tags

 I have used:

Magnolia ~ Tilda catching stars

DooHickey ~ Star tag, Vintage tag & Tea label tags

 Nestabilities ~ Decorative elements, floral ovals

I have also used a couple of gorgeous Noor! design dies

Fleur De Lys ~ Border

Fleur De Lys ~ Corner 2

Thank you so much for looking,

I hope you can join us this week.

BIG HUGZ

Wishing and Waiting

Good evening,

Running a bit late with this post,

Been busy today wrapping Mac's pressies for tomorrow.

Finishing her card.

Then made a chocolate cake.

Plus all the other day to day bits and pieces.

Then had to take Fletch to the vets, 

he's got an ear infection and it cost £66 for his treatment!!!

Mac will be 10, but if you could hear what she was dancing to earlier,
you'd think she was a lot older,

She was listening to a T.Rex CD

Good Choice Mac!!!

Anyway finally got round to finishing a LOTV Xmas card which has been coloured in for ages.

This darling image is called

WISHING & WAITING

and the tag

I have used:
LOTV ~ Wishing and Waiting and Christmas Circular Sentiments
Raspberry Road ~ Fight Like a Girl
DooHickey ~ Vintage Tag, Poinsettia & Leaves
Nestabilities ~ Eyelet Square
Go Kreate ~ Frilly #4
WOC ~ Metal Corner
SU ~ Seam Binding
Rusty Bells
Penny Black ~ Celebrate the Wonder Sentiment

Thanks for stopping by
BIG HUGZ

Diving Tilda & some exciting news

Hello, It seems ages since my last post.

I have a few images coloured and ready to make into cards,

but I didn't do much crafting in the last week of the hols.

Mac has now gone back to school, although for some reason, with great reluctance.

Today's the first day we've had no tears.

Anyway she's 10 next week, and she's having a swimming party tomorrow 

(hopefully it won't get cancelled this year)

I've made her a card to give her tomorrow & one for on her actual birthday ~ which I'll share later.

Here's her card for tomorrow, quite plain for me.

I've used:

Magnolia ~ Diving Tilda 

LOTV ~ Sentiment Tags

Raspberry road ~ Denim & Diamonds

Marianne ~ Chinese Rose

Tim Holtz ~ Hardware Findings & DIs

Pearls from stash

I also have some awesome news.

The lovely Bev emailed me last weekend and asked me if

 I'd like to join them over at Just Magnolia

Well it took me all of 2.3 seconds to make my decision LOL.

So I start next Friday & I can't wait!

Thanks for looking & your gorgeous comments, they really do mean a lot to me.

BIG HUGZ