Paper Doll Marci - Spring Showers

Hello, I'm back again with my second make that went to CHA. This time I used Paper Doll Marci - Spring Showers to make a little gift bag.

I must say I'm really loving these Paper Dolls, and tbh I wasn't too sure about them at first.

For some reason this one spoke to me and cried out to not only be paper pieced but decoupaged.

The colouring is done in Copics.  I must admit that I was in such a rush to get ready for Christmas and to send this off to Irina , that I only took a couple of views on my camera doh!

La-La Land Craft Items Used:

Paper Doll Marci - Spring Showers

Open Heart Doily Border Die

Small Lacy Border Die

Stitched Sun and Clouds Die

I thought she'd look awesome in bright colours

Copics used:

Skin: E04, E11, E00, E000, R20, RV32, RV34

Hair: V000, V12, V15, V17

Clothing: YR21, YR23, YR24, YR61, YR68, RV63, RV17, RV66V12, V15, V17

The beautiful bright papers are Bo Bunny Ambrosia, the vibrant orange ribbon is from The Ribbon Girl and the flowers are from Wild Orchid Crafts.

If you're in the UK or Europe, you'll be able to order all the new stamps and dies at Dies to Die for

That's all from me today, you can find all of the new release here and don't forget to check the blog for the rest of my teamies AMAZING makes! Don't forget that you can keep up with all the news and share your work in our Facebook Group and we even have a Pinterest page for your pleasure. Have fun and I'll see you on Friday with my regular Dies to Die for post.

Happily Ever After - The Remix

Good morning! It's a quick share from me today.  A while ago I was approached via my blog contact form and asked to make a card for a 10 year anniversary. The person was quite specific in wanting a card very similar to another card I made last year.  Now I don't normally repeat a card, but they wanted something very similar, so this is probably the closest I'll ever come to making the same card twice.  The layout stamp and colour scheme are pretty much the same, but I made some subtle changes, to give the same effect without being a direct copy. So basic layout is the same, as is the stamp and clock die, and the small fob watch charm.

What did I change?  Well the original card had pearl strings, I substituted sparkly faceted ones. I used different papers, though in the same neutral colour scheme (the papers behind the clock face is the same as the original though).  On this card I used wide stacked fishtail banners, instead of long thin banners in a row. and I added the numerals. The lace, ribbons, ruffle and embellishments are all (apart from the charm) different.  The stamp is the same and is paper pieced like the orginal, but colours are slightly different as are the papers used.  The stamp was coloured to match the skin tones and hair colours of the couple who were celebrating their anniversary

The inside too is a little different from the original card and contains a sentiment.

If you're interested in seeing the original card you can find it in this post

I do have to say that I think this is the stamp I own that I have used the most, I think this makes 5 times and 3 of those have been weeding cards, it is my most favourite stamp.

Well that's all from me today, but i'll be back on Friday with my regular scheduled post, and I do have to say I fell in love with the card when I was making it, so I'm really looking forward to sharing it with you.

Bye for now! :) xx

Christmas Tilda in Red at Totally Tilda

Happy Sunday! This is one of 2 posts from me today, so if you're looking for my post for The Ribbon Girl, please scroll down.

Today at Totally Tilda we have a new challenge for you, and it's Christmas Tilda in Red.  So we want to see a Christmas themed card where Tilda is wearing red. I know that some of us have a bit of a love hate relationship with Red, it can be a very difficult colour to work with as it's one of the colours most prone to bleeding.  Well I cheated a bit on her trousers and used some red patterned paper, but I did use red Copics for most of the rest of her.

Colours used:

Skin: E000, E00, E21, E11, R20
Hair E42, E43, E44, E47, E49
Top, shading on trousers, socks and presents: R24, R27, R29, R35, R37, R59, E40, E42, E44

As usual I inked all the edges with Walnut Stain and hand stitched them with red top stitch thread.

i mounted her on a Snowflake Doily and I thought this ribbon went very well.

I used some beautiful flowers, berries and cones, and dabbed them with a little white acrylic paint for a snowy look.

Papers used are from an older Maja collection.

Products used

MFT Snowflake Doily Die

25 mm Red Candy Check Ribbon

Wooden Star Buttons

Natural Button Twine

Jingle Bells Silver

Red Top Stitch Thread

Cheesecloth Fabric

45 mm Bethany Ivory Guipure Lace

Rose Bud Semi Open White

8 mm Flat back Ivory Pearls

6 mm Flat Back, Ivory pearls

Paint Dabber White Snow Cap

Our lovely sponsor for this challenge is Nikki from

Do pop over to see the rest of the team's fantastic makes in red and we hope to see you join us in this challenge and tick off another of your Christmas makes.

This card is for sale in my Etsy shop

That's all from me for today, but I'll be back on Tuesday, enjoy the rest of your weekend! :) xx

Get the La-La London Look

Good morning all, it's the start of another week and I'm here with my GDT inspiration post for La-La Land Crafts.

This week the theme is Be Inspired and we had a photo to follow as our inspiration.  Now I'm going to come right out and say it, my heart sank when I saw this photo, because I really don't like the red, white and blue colour combination and have very few papers etc to fit the theme.

I'm not American so I don't celebrate the 4th of July either, I was really struggling with this one.

So I started thinking around it, red white and blue are also the colours of the British flag, so if I took the patriotic route, what did that say to me.  Well even though I now live in Leeds and did a stint in France too, I've lived the great majority of my life in London and I always consider myself a London girl at heart, I'm a proper cockney too, born within the sound of Bow Bells and all.  So I decided to try and match the red, white and blue with something typically 'London', and what I came up with was the London Underground symbol....pow, inspiration hit me.

La-La Land Crafts Items Used:

Marci with Umbrella

Wrought Iron Fence Die

I've listed items available in the UK at the end of my post. 

 I had some London themed charms in my stash,  good old Umbrella Marci makes a perfect London girl since we get so much rain, and this brick paper from Pion's Playtime collection seemed almost made for my theme, a nice typically London wrought iron fence on the top and we're home!

Love this spotty ribbon and the London themed charms!

I mostly paper pieced Marci and shaded and coloured the rest of her up with my Copics.

Copic colours used.

Skin: E11, E21, E01, E00, E000, R11, R20

Clothing and shading: R32, R35. R56, B23, B24, B27, W0, W01, W03

Items used:

Marci with Umbrella

Wrought Iron Fence Die

Pion Playtime Collection Design Paper

Memory Box Parker Lower Alphabet Die

Gutterman Top Stitch Thread

Red Spot Organza Ribbon

White Flat Back Pearls

That's all from me today, do drop by the blog and check out the rest of Team Monday's projects, there are some jaw dropping creations there that put mine to shame. I'll be back tomorrow with my regular Dies to Die for inspiration post.

Happy crafting! : ) x x

Tilda in Lace Pants for Totally Tilda

Good Morning and happy Sunday!  If you're in the UK I hope you're enjoying your bank holiday weekend too, though I hope you're having better weather than me, torrential rain and freezing cold yesterday, I had to resort to putting the heat on and there's only one week till June! Still, at least I did manage to get some crafting done.

I'm here today with my DT post for the new challenge over at Totally Tilda, and this time we want to see Black. White and one other Colour.  You can of course use normal skin tones as well, so really a pretty easy one this week.

I've had this gorgeous paper in my stash for a while just waiting for this challenge as I thought it was perfect. One of the pages from the pack has a lovely lace pattern, so I thought I'd colour up Tilda in Lace Pants from the newest Magnolia collection and paper piece her 'Pants', it always makes me giggle a little when I see trousers called pants, cos here in the UK pants are underwear, so lace pants to me would be something pretty from Aubade lol.

The paper pad I used  is Elegant from Authentique and I used quite an ornate die Palace Oval Frame from Memory Box to mount her on. All layers have been distress with Black Soot DI and hand stitched with top stitch thread.

I coloured her up with my copics, I'm sorry I don't have the exact colours noted, but they would have been the Ws and the BGs and my go to skin colours which you can find on any of my posts with Copic colouring.

Flowers are from Wild Orchid Crafts and The Ribbon Girl.  The bow is made from satin ribbon also from The Ribbon Girl and the beautiful cameo is from The Handcrafted Card Company. The gems were clear, I coloured them to match the paper/image with my Copics, I love that you can do this.

Isn't this butterfly gorgeous?  They're handmade by a lady called Kay Fatula and come all the way from the US.  You can find them in her Etsy shop here, she's lovely, do drop by her Facebook page too and give that a like if you're on FB.

Finally I decorated the inside to complement the front (or and for those people who told me I spelled complement incorrectly and it should be compliment,  compliment is when you express admiration or praise, complement is when something enhances or improves the overall effect. If you're interested in grammar....and yes I can be a grammar nazi lol.....you can check it out in the Oxford Dictionaries blog here. I love language it can be so interesting....but also so confusing he he)
I'm entering the following challenges:

Magnolia Mania - #91 Paper Piecing
Addicted to Stamps #83 Bingo (lace, metal (the cameo setting), flowers

This card is for sale in my Etsy shop .

I hope you enjoy the rest of your Sunday (and bank holiday weekend if you're in the UK) I'll be back on Monday with my post for La-La Land Crafts and in the meantime go check out the rest of the team's creations, here they're flippin' gorgeous!

Bye for now! : ) x x 

Tilda with Spring Heart for Totally Tilda

Happy Sunday everyone, I hope you're enjoying your weekend.  I'm here with my DT post for Totally Tilda, we have a new challenge for you today, and it's super easy and so suitable for the time of year.

Our challenge this week is Pink & Red Valentines.  So we want to see your Valentine themed cards using pink and red.  Not difficult heh?

My card this week is using one of the new stamps from the Lost & Found collection, she's called Tilda with Spring Heart. Isn't she gorgeous?  I've teamed her with some Pion Designs papers, a mix of From the Heart II and Flower Frames, Pion do such lush papers, I don't think there's a single one I don't like.  Links to most products used can be found at the end of my post except the ribbons and lace which are from The Ribbon Girl but for some reason it never shows the pics when I try to link.

The little banner she's sitting on is cut from the sheet of elements.  I love that Pion do this with their collections, it's so nice to add little bits that go perfectly with the theme you've chosen.

I decided to paper piece her dress and shoes and her little hair bows and then added a little shading with my Copics, doesn't she look cute?  The heart is coated with a little Tim Holtz crackle paint in Rock Candy.

So that's my card, I can't wait to see yours, our sponsor this week is

 The Ribbon Girl 

so link up for the chance at winning a fab prize from them! and don't forget to pop over and check out the the inspiration from the rest of the DT, they're truly fabulous.

I'm entering this card to the following challenges:
The Ribbon Girls - Hearts
Tilda's Town - Be Mine
The Paper Sweeties - Be Mine
Live & Love Crafts - Love and Lace
Time for Magnolia - Be My Valentine
Stamp  & Create with Magnolia - Add Some Red
Magnolia Mania - Hearts

That's it from me, but I'll be back later with another card to share, for now I'm off for a trip around blogland with a cuppa.
 Enjoy your Sunday :) xx

Tilda With Spring Heart	Pion Design - From My Heart II - Bottom of my Heart 6 x 6	Pion Design - From My Heart II - Homing Pigeons 6 x 6	Pion Design - Flower Frames - Papaver	Pion Design - From My Heart II - Tags
Memento Ink Pad - Tuxedo Black	*NEW* Prima Wood Embellishments - Jubilee	XXL Square Frame Frilly #10	Neenah Cardstock	Dovecraft Hi-Bond Double Sided 6mm Tape
Collall All Purpose Glue - 50ml	Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad - Vintage Photo

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DT Crafty Catz, Paper Piecing

Good morning folks and a big welcome to my latest followers and a huge thank you to all the lovelies who have been leaving me such wonderful comments.  It really brings a warm smile to my face when I read them, I can't tell you how much I appreciate them.

Well it's Friday and that can only mean another challenge at Crafty Catz.  This week it's the awesome Nina's turn to choose and she chose.......Paper Piecing.  Well, I can tell you I was not very happy when I saw this challenge.  'Why?' I hear you ask......well. I have a confession to make, I've never paper pieced before!  I was pretty nervous about it I can tell you and to make matters more tricky we had some digital images to use from our sponsor DigiDarla Designs.  Now I'm used to using digital stamps, but it just seems to me that paper piecing would be easier if you were stamping by hand (I still think it would be an easier way to use your scraps up), so I didn't think I'd be very happy with the result.  But actually not only was it easier than I thought, I ended up getting really into this make and the card seemed to have a life of it's own.

Anyhoo....this is what I made.

Those gorgeous papers are Maja Design of course, the Fika collection.   I stitched them with some green top stitch thread for a little contrast.  I used a Joy Crafts Butterfly border die, from Dies to Die For.

The image is from our sponsor Digi Darla, you can get her here. What bits of her aren't paper pieced are coloured with Copics,  I just accented her with some Liquid Pearls in Platinum.

The flowers and brad are from Wild Orchid Crafts, ribbon and lace from The Ribbon Girl, pins are from Live & Love Crafts and everything else is from stash.

I decorated the inside to complement the front.

Do pop over to the blog and check out the rest of the DT's creations, they really are fab and have a go at paper piecing yourself, it really is a lot of fun and much easier than you might think   :) 

I'll add this to some challenges later, as this post is scheduled because I'll be hard at work when this goes live, but I'll be back at the weekend to share another card with you.  

Have fun!!  :) xx

I'm entering this card for the following challenges:

Crafty Sentiments - Anything Goes

BunnyZoe Crafts - Ribbon