Elisabeth Bell - Apple Bake

Happy Sunday everyone! Today it's my turn to post again on the Digi Bells Blog, and this time I chose to make an oval card with the delicious Apple Bake. 

Now I know that the name suggests that she's carrying an apple pie there, but I had some of this fab paper from Maja Design from the Fika Collection, with blackberries on it, and these scrummy blackberry embellies that have been loitering in my stash for a while, so I thought it could be an apple and blackberry pie!

I added some lovely flowers and some fab ribbon and lace from the Ribbon Girl.

To finish I decorated the inside with some more of that lush Maja Design paper.

I do hope you like my make for today, I have some Christmas cards that I've been working on (yeah I know, I should have had these all made months ago), so I will be sharing those with you over the next couple of weeks.

Ribbon Girl Products
Cheesecloth
15 mm Plum Microdot Satin Ribbon
9 mm Plum Velvet Ribbon
Clementine Ivory Tulle Lace
10 mm Square Ivory Pearl FB Trim
Cherry Blossom White 
15 mm Pearl & Diamante Embellishment
Holly Leaves
Minature Rolling Pin

Take care and happy crafting! :) xx

Elisabeth Bell - Cinnamon Sugar

 Hi everyone! I'm here with a little inspiration today for the Digi Bells and we have a new challenge over on the challenge blog. We'd love for you to join in the fun with us.

This week the theme is
'Button it Up'

I used one of Elisabeth's Little Cottage Cuties, rubber stamps from Whimsy.

She's called Cinnamon Sugar, isn't she gorgeous? You can purchase her here.

I coloured her with my distress ink markers and matched her to these Pion papers from the Siri's Kitchen collection, I thought they were perfect for this stamp. I cut the little sentiment at the bottom from one of the border strips. The flower is just covering it in the picture, but it says 'Sugar and spice and all things nice'.

I finished off with lots of Ribbon Girl goodies which I've linked below.

Isn't this rustic ribbon perfect for this card?! For my button I used one of these lovely wooden heart ones.

Cheesecloth
10 mm Denim Blue/Cream Rustic Gingham Ribbon
Dusky Blue Button Twine
Wooden Heart Button
28 mm Gloria Ivory Fine Cotton Lace
Ivory White Magnolia Flower
20 mm Cream Open Rose
Apple Blossom Mixed Pastels
Beaded Stamen Blue/White
Cupcake Charm Large Silver

I do hope you can join in with our challenge, and don't forget to check out the rest of the gorgeous makes from the rest of the girls here!

Take care! :) xx

Elisabeth Bell - Little Friends

Hello everyone. It's my turn to post on the Digi Bells Blog and today I'm using Little Friends, isn't she just a sweetie with her little bird friend?
Apologies that the pics are not too marvelous, but I ended up taking this quite late in the evening and in a bit of a rush!

I had this lovely Vintage Garden paper from Pion Designs that had similar little birds on it and I thought that it would be a perfect match for this image, so I coloured her very delicately with my distress ink markers to co-ordinate with the papers. I used mostly the 6 x 6 papers, but the background she's mounted on is cut from the 12 x 12 paper.

 The green mount is cut from Pion Colour Palette. All my edges are inked with Walnut Stain distress ink.

I decorated the inside very simply with some of the 6 x 6 design to match, it shows the sweet birds ad there's plenty of space to write a message.

Items Used

Pion Design Vintage Garden

Pion Design Colour Palette

La-La Land Birdcage Die

Cheesecloth

9 mm Willem Blue Velvet Ribbon

4 mm FB Ivory Pearl Trim

Ivory White Magnolia

Cherry Blossom Antique Blue 2 Tone

Apple Blossom Mixed Pastels

12 mm Pearl Ivory Flowers Shape FBs

8 mm Pearl Ivory FBs

Well that's all from me for now, but I'll be along with another post to share a bit later on. 

See you soon! :) xx

Elisabeth Bell - Pati's Kisses

Hiya! Oh my, you won't believe the problems I've had posting recently.  I've had some major issues with my PC, and having to do all kinds of downloads and re-installs and so I couldn't edit and upload my pics. The original problem is still there unfortunately, which may mean a new Graphics card or worse, but at least for now I can still post.

For today's card for the Digi Bells I used Pati's Kisses, isn't she just the sweetest? Love those chubby cheeks and I just had to colour them in a way that emphasised that because they were way too cute to lose. I thought I'd do her little bear in blue for a change.

The papers are from Maja design's Summer Crush collection, I used a mix of the 12 x 12 and 6 x 6 papers.

The little Victorian Frame she's mounted on is from Memory Box, and I just shaded though the cut outs while it was still in the die , with a DI marker in Tattered Rose, to highlight the embossing.

I added some beautiful ribbon, flowers and embellishments and she was done.

I kept the inside pretty simple, just some coordinating paper and the same frame.

From the Ribbon Girl

25 mm Pink Satin Ribbon

32 mm Clementine Ivory Lace

Ivory White Magnolia Flower

Ivory 10 mm Open Rose

Apple Blossom Mixed Pastels

Teardrop Pins

6 mm Ivory Pearl Hearts - Self Adhesive

I haven't forgotten about my promised candy, just with all the issues I've been having lately I just haven't been able to get it posted, but I will try and get it up today.

Well that's all from me, have a lovely day. :) xx

Elisabeth Bell - Valentine Angel Blowing Kisses

Well, what a busy week it's been on my blog, I've barely had time to draw a breath. The good new is though that I now have 3 days off work...woohooo!! So some time to relax.

Today is my first posting for the 

Elisabeth Bell's World Challenge Blog

and our theme this month is

Anything but a Card

So you can make anything except a card. Don't forget that you must use an Elisabeth Bell image on your project, but this can be a digi or a rubber stamp, as long as the artist is Elisabeth Bell.

I made a gift bag using 

Valentine Angel Blowing Kisses

from Elisabeth Bell Designs

I absolutely fell in love with this stamp as soon as I saw it and couldn't wait to colour her up.

I coloured her with my distress markers keeping the colours very subtle this time and glittered her wings with Glamour Dust.

I paired her with some beautiful Pion papers, these are from the 

My Precious Daughter collection.

Products Used

Pion Design My Precious Daughter
Pion Design Colour Palette
Die-namics Pierced Oval STAX
La-La Land Crafts Heart Doily
La-La Lands Open Hearts Doily Border
Doodlebug Sprinkles - Bubblegum Dots
Charm - Pigeons
38 mm Pheobe White Guipure Lace
3 mm Satin Ribon - Pink No 2
25 mm Satin Ribbon Pink No 2
20 mm Pale Pink Open Rose
Chrysanth White Kurt & Godt
Pretty Blossom Pink
Hip Rose Bud White
Tulip Baby Pink

I do hope you can join in, you can find the rules here

Enjoy the rest of your Sunday! :) xx

Elisabeth Bell - New Release Blog Hop

Hi everyone, me again. This is my 2nd post for today, so if you're looking for my Dies to Die for post please scroll down.

I'm very excited today to be part of the Digi Bells blog hop bringing you a new release image from Elisabeth Bell Designs.

This is 'Cami in Fall'

isn't she a cutie?

You can buy her here.

I have to say that I had a completely different design in mind when I made this card, I was going to use my little autumn leaves dies to make a really fun card,  but I could not find my leaf dies anywhere and with the busy week I've had, I just ran out of time and I was so very tired.  So I made a much more CAS card, and just added a lovely lush bow in a complementary colour.

I gave her red hair to go with the autumn theme, she's so adorable! I think it came out rather well considering how much CAS scares me lol!

I do hope you can join in our blog hop by clicking on the names below and leave a comment on each and you could win a prize of this adorable digi!

Alethea

Linda L(me!)

Lynda N. 

Linda K. 

Jeanette

Lisa

Digi Bells Blog 

You have until November 1st to finish hopping !

Thank you so much for visiting me today, have a great weekend! :) xx

Elisabeth Bell - Little Rapunzel

Happy Monday everyone! I'm here with my Digi Bells GDT hat on today.  

I decided to use 

Little Rapunzel

This is a digi stamp from Elisabeth Bell Designs isn't she adorable?

I coloured her with my distress ink markers and decided to go a bit bright as the weather has been rather miserable here with the days drawing in and I wanted to cheer myself up a bit!

Once she was coloured up I cut her out with 

Die-namics Designer Labels 1 STAX

The paper is from a Kaisercraft pad I've had in my drawer for over a year now, I really must try and use up more of my papers, my paper drawers are definitely overdue a sort through.

I kept it fairly simple today as I have to say that I've been ultra busy with crafting commitments recently, in fact I'm posting 6 projects this week, eeeeek! When I have to make a card in a rush I tend to use a 'go to' layout and just make variations and this is what I've done today. These large rectangular dies are

By DIEsyne Big Stitched & Pierced Rectangles

but you can use any large rectangular die you have or even just cut and mat the paper, I just like the 'finished' look of the die.

I finished off with some coloured flowers from my stash to match the papers and the following 

embellishments from the Ribbon Girl.

25 mm Aqua Satin Ribbon

19 mm Alice White Guipure Lace 

20 mm Pearl and Diamante Embellishment

Apple Blossom Mixed Pastels

Daisy Flower Charm

12 mm Pearl Ivory Flower Shape Flatbacks

8 mm Ivory Pearl Flatbacks

That's all from me today, but I'll be back again tomorrow with a new challenge over at Deep Ocean.

Have fun! :) xx

Elisabeth Bell - Skippydee

Hi everyone!
 Did you see the shiny new GDT badge on my blog?  Well if you missed it, I've been invited to join the Digi Bells, Elisabeth Bell's talented design team as a guest for the next 3 months, how exciting is that?

So this is my first official post for them and you'll be seeing lots more Elisabeth Bell cuteness from me over the coming weeks.

So, onto my creation today.

I made a card using the delightful Skippydee, one of Elisabeth's older Little Cottage Cuties collection from Whimsy Stamps.
I coloured her with my distress ink markers to match some pretty Pion Design papers. As usual I have links at the end of my post.

Isn't she pretty?  I decided to keep to quite pale colours after yesterdays brights. All my layers are edged with Walnut Stain distress ink.

I just love this gorgeous silk ribbon, it makes such lush bows.

I layered with some dies cuts and finished off with lots of lovely Ribbon Girl embellishments.

I finished the inside with some more paper from the collection.

Whimsy Stamps Skippydee

Pion - Paris Flea Market - Pink Fabric

Pion - Paris Flea Market - Rose du Jardin

Die-namics Oval Decorative Doily Die

Die-namics Pierced Ovals Stax Die

Joy! Crafts Around with Butterflies Die (small butterflies only)

Cheery Lynn Mini Fanciful Flourish

Cheesecloth

32 mm Clementine Ivory Embroidered Tulle Lace

32 mm Pale Pink Pure Silk Ribbon

4 mm Ivory FB Pearl Trim

16 mm Moss Green Grosgrain Ribbon

Ivory White Magnolia Flower

Vintage Pink 30 mm Wild Roses

20 mm Pale Pink Open Roses

10 mm Pale Pink Open Roses

Ivory 20 mm Open Roses

Self Adhesive Ivory Pearl Hearts

That's all from me from me today but I will be back with you all again soon :) xx