Apologies for AWOL-ness

1,000 apologies for going AWOL (again). I have been really busy making quite a few charity cards for an event a friend is organising for the Parents Consortium, a local charity that helps kids with disabilities and special needs.

Here are a few offerings I made that will hopefully raise a bit of cash!?

Thanks for stopping by, Lorry :o) xxx

Ingredients:

Stamps: Mixed Bunch, Broadsheet Alphabet, Curly Cute, Bliss, Teeny Tiny Wishes, Everything Eleanor and Happiest Birthday Wishes all from Stampin' Up!

Punches: Blossom, Fancy Flower, Word Window, Elegant Butterfly and Circle punches all from Stampin' Up!

BG paper: Verious random collection from my stash.

Dies: Classic Ovals and Deckled Ovals from Nestabilities. Little Leaves from Stampin' Up! 

Embossing Folders: Swiss Dots from Cuttlebug. Sugar from Sizzix.

Embellishments: Ribbon from Darford Market, flat backed gems and pearls from my stash.

Mixed Bunch

I love this stamp set from Stampin' Up! and the fact that it has a matching punch is fab, no fiddly cutting out.

I made these cards for the following challenges: Colour Throwdown #214 and Freshly Made Sketches #57.

Thanks for stopping by. Lorry :o) xx

Here is the colour combo from Colour Thowdown 

and the Freshly Made Sketches layout.

And here are my efforts.

Ingredients:

Stamps: Mixed Bunch and Create a CupCake both from Stampin' Up!

Punches: Blossom, Modern Label, 1" Circle from Stampin' Up!

BG paper: Daffodil Delight, Old Olive and Melon Mambo plain card from Stampin' Up!

Embossing Folder and Dies: Classic Circles from Nestabilities and Spots from Crafts-Too.

Embellishments: Spotted Jet Black ribbon from Anita's/DoCrafts, Yellow ribbon from Darford Market, flat backed gems from my stash.

The start of this years Christmas Cards

I have finally made a start on this years Christmas Cards thanks to one of Pat's card classes. I took her ideas and made another version of each of them using the supplies I had at home.

Thanks for looking. Lorry :o) xx

Made at Pat's

Made at Home

Made at Pat's

Made at Home

Made at Pat's 

Made at Home 

Ingredients:

Stamps: Evergreen, Joyous Celebrations, Teeny Tiny Wishes, Snow Swirled and Tiny Tags all from Stampin' Up!  Home for Christmas by Urban Stamps.

BG Papers: Candlelight Christmas Designer Series Paper from Stampin' Up! and Vintage Back to Basics Christmas from DoveCraft.

Punches: Word Window, Modern Label, Oval, Scallop Oval and Jewelry Tag from Stampin' Up!

Embellishments: Old Olive Ribbon and glitter from Stampin' Up!, Cream ribbon from Darford Market, flat backed gems from my stash.

Reasons to Smile

I made these cards a few weeks ago at Pat's Card Class. I like the layouts, I think they will be making another appearance some day!

Thanks for looking, Lorry :o) xx

Ingredients:

Stamps: Reason to Smile, Teeny Tiny Wishes and Itty Bitty Banners all from Stampin' Up!  

Punches: 2 x Flower punches from Hobby Craft and Dotted Scallop Ribbon Border from Stampin' Up!

Embellishments: A couple of brads for the flower centres from my stash.

Trying New Colour Combos

I was a bit stuck for a colour scheme so I headed over to ColourQ and as usual they delivered. I am trying to do new colour combos as I don't normally do more than 3 colours, this 4 colour combo was a bit of a push but I think I may have managed it?!

I am entering this card into the following challenges: ColourQ Challenge #156 and Freshly Made Sketches #54.

Thanks for stopping by, Lorry :o) xx

Here's the sketch and the colours.

 

And here is my effort.

I like the way this card turned out so I have done another ColourQ combo from the past #15.

Ingredients:

Stamps: Mixed Bunch and Swirls and sentiment from Make a Cup Cake from Stampin' Up!.  

Punch and Dies: Blossom from Stampin' Up! and Classic Circles from Nestabilities

Colours Used: Rich Razzleberry, Pumpkin Pie, Cajan Craze, Soft Suede, Basic Grey, Very Vanilla, Certainly Celery all from Stampin' Up!

Thanks So Much

I made this card a few weeks ago at one of Pat's card classes. It is not my usual stylee, but that is part of the fun of going to Pat's, she makes me do stuff I wouldn't normally do!

I am entering it into Daring Cardmakers Make a Thank You challenge.

Thanks for stopping by, Lorry :o) xx

Ingredients:

Stamps: Mixed Bunch and Swirls and Curls Verses (Hostess) from Stampin' Up!.  

Punch: Blossom from Stampin' Up!

Embellishment: Ribbons and Brad from Stampin' Up!

A Flowery Thank You

I woke up this morning with a vision of this card in my head, second time in as many weeks that has happened. Not sure if this makes me a saddo or not?!

I originally had the idea to enter this card into CAS-ual Fridays CFC70 Black & White plus One as well as  Less Is More Week 85 include and Oval, then I realised it fitted into Dynamic Duos #20 Black Tie week with Luck Limeade challenge too.

I thought it may look good in another colour so I did a pink version as well.

Thanks for stopping by. Lorry :o) xx

Ingredients:

Stamps: Everything Eleanor and Petite Pairs from Stampin' Up!.  

Dies: Classic Ovals from Nestabilities.

Promarkers: Meadow Green, Lime Green (mixed to make it closer to Lucky Limeade) and Fuchsia Pink.

A card made in a mood!

I have had a bit of a bad afternoon and so I went to my 'therapy' room to try and get rid of my bad mood. I came up with this offering and cheered myself up a bit.

I am entering it into the following challenges:  Retro Sketches Challenge #28 and Pin and Tuck Challenge #1, Anything Goes.

Thanks for stopping by. Lorry :o) xx

Here is my effort

Here is the sketch

Ingredients:

Stamps: Up, Up and Away and Teeny Tiny Wishes from Stampin' Up!.  

BG Papers: Pattern paper from Shery K Designs – Blue and Green, plain coloured card from my stash.

Embellishment: Ribbon from Stampin' Up!.

2 Challenges Combined

For this card I combined a layout challenge and a colour challenge, made my life quite easy really, I will definitely be doing it again.

The challenges I am entering this card into are: Try Stampin' On Tuesday: Challenge #82 and colourQ #153.

Here is the sketch and the colour combo.

Here is my effort

Ingredients:

Stamps: Happiest Birthday Wishes (Hostess) from Stampin Up!

BG Papers: Made up on my computer and printed out at home.

Embellishment: Ribbon from Dartford Market.

Black and White Sympathy Card

Well I have really pulled my finger out this week on the card front, another challenge entry. I seem to be into making little A7 cards (or perhaps I didn't have enough background paper  for a bigger card?!).

I am entering this card into the following challenges:
That Craft Place Challenge: Black and White and Clear It Our Challenge, Sympathy and Dark Papers.

Thanks for looking and Happy crafting, Lorry :o) xx

Ingredients:

Stamps: Reason to Smile and Teeny Tiny Wishes from Stampin' Up!

BG Paper: ?? random piece found in my stash box.

Another Challenge Entry

Well I'm going great guns today, this is my second post and second challenge entry. I am entering this card into Nacho Average Challenge 10 and Skipping Stones Designs Sketch Challenge 144.

Thanks for looking and happy crafting, Lorry :o) xx

Here is the sketch

And here is my effort.

Ingredients:

Stamps: Every Little Bit from Stampin' Up! and Simply Said by Paper Smooches.

Ink and Paper: Rose Red, Early Espresso and Wild Wasabi from Stampin' Up!

Quickest Card I have Ever Made!!

This is the quickest card I have ever made, no faffing about background papers and colour matching, it just came to me this morning just before I got out of bed. I know sad cookie thinking/dreaming of card making but hay-ho that's me! It took a grand total of 8 minutes to make, most of my cards take at least half an hour. I am well chuffed, perhaps I can carry on with the non-faffing mojo, here's hoping!

I am entering this little quickie into Less is More: Week 83, Brown and Pink.

Thanks for looking and happy crafting. Lorry :o) xx

Ingredients:

Stamps: Everything Eleanor and Teeny Tiny Wishes from Stampin' Up!

Ink: Chocolate Chip from Stampin' Up!

Punches: Butterfly punch from Hobby Craft.

Embellishment: Flat back pearls from Hobby Craft. 

Baby, Baby!

I am entering these 2 new baby cards into the Simply Stampin' Challenge: Baby, Baby! and Retro Sketches 27.

Thanks for looking and happy crafting Lorry :o) xx

Ingredients:

Stamps: Fox & Friends and Teeny Tiny Wishes from Stampin Up!

BG Papers: ?? from my stash.

Punches: Scalloped border and word window from Stampin Up!

Embellishment: Flat back pearls from Hobby Craft. 

Daring Cardmakers: Focus on Flowers entry

Here is my entry for the Daring Cardmakers: Focus on Flowers challenge. I made this card a couple of weeks ago, I wasn't sure if I liked it once it was done but it has grown on me.

Thanks for stopping by and happy crafting :o) xx

Ingredients:

Stamp: Petite Pairs from Stampin Up!

BG Papers: Freebie from the web, plain paper from my stash.

Punches: Scalloped border from Stampin Up! Flower and circles from Hobby Craft.

Embossing: Not sure what it is called, it came with my Cuttle Bug.  

Some cards for my big Sis.

My sisters asked me to make some blokie cards that are not football or golf. I love the ship image from The Open Sea from Stampin Up!, I know some of the recipients are going to be older gentlemen so I think this set works quite well.

Thanks for stopping by and happy crafting :o) xx

Ingredients:

Stamps: The Open Sea, Curly Cute and Itty Bitty Bits all from Stampin Up!

BG Papers: Dotty and striped papers made up on my computer and printed at home, plain paper from my stash.

Punch: 1 1/4", 3/4"  Circles from Stampin Up! Classic circle Nesties and Stars from X-cut.

Embellishment: Ribbon and embroidery thread from Dartford Market.  

A couple of little Thank You's

Here are a couple of thank you cards, they are diddy A7 size (105mm x 74mm). I quite like doing thank you's this size and think they are rather sweet.

Thanks for stopping by and happy crafting :o) xx

Ingredients:

Stamps: Flower from Funky Four from Stampin Up! and sentiment Everyday Sayings from Hero Art.

BG Papers: Dotty paper made up on my computer and printed at home, plain paper from my stash.

Punch: Word Window from Stampin Up!

Embellishment: Flat Back Gems from Hobby Craft

50th Card for a Friends Sister

A friend asked to me to make her sister a card for her 50th birthday, the brief was pink and girlie. I had recently been to one of Pat's card classes and had just the stylee in mind.

Thanks for stopping by and happy crafting :o) xx

And here is the one I made at Pat's class:

Ingredients:

Stamps: Create a Cupcake, Petite Petals both from Stampin' Up and Peacock from Kanban. 50 made up on my computer and I inked the edges.

BG Papers: Plain card from my stash.

Dies: Classic Ovals from Nestabilities.

Embossing Folder: Designer Frames from Stampin' Up.

Embellishments: Paper flower and button from Stampin' Up, other flower made from punches from Hobby craft and a flat backed pearl.

Support our Heroes Abroad

While blog-hopping, checking out what all you creative types have been up to, I stumbled across a challenge called Heroes Card Drive, it is a card drive for American troops, so they can send home messages etc to their loved ones. After a little searching I found Support Our Soldiers Appeal, same sort of thing but for UK Armed Forces. Here are a few cards I made to package up and send on to this worth while appeal. I kept to the same layout but made several colour variations. I am definitively gonna make more card for them.

Thanks for Stopping by, and happy crafting, Lorry :o) xx

Ingredients

Stamp: Teeny Tiny Wishes and Button Buddies from Stampin' Up.

BG Papers: Patterned paper stamped from main flower, plain paper from my stash.

Punches: 2" circle punch from Hobby Craft, Scalloped edge punch from Stampin' Up.

Embellishment: Flat backed gems from Hobby Craft.