A die cut card today ...

Good morning everyone, the weather's not so good today in Leeds today - but haven't we been lucky this last week?

 Everyone seems so much brighter when it's sunny - and anything in my house that didn't move has been washed and pegged on the line!!

I hope you've enjoyed all our 'Mum' and 'pink' cards and projects throughout March as well as the sneak peeks of our latest release.

I'm going to finish the month with a card I made for our new showroom using one of the die cut sheets. The image is Rosie Posy, she was one of the very first designs from Lili of the Valley and is still popular. She's on this die cut sheet and also available as a stamp here

Our die cut sheets are great for a quick card, I love stamping and colouring but don't always have the time. They are on A4 sheets which have 6 coloured images that are die cut and ready to pop out and just use as a topper.

Supplies;

Spellbinders circles, stickles, DoCrafts sentiment, K & Co patterned papers, Core'dinations card, Magnolia Doohickey border die, card candi.

The lace and flowers are from The Ribbon Girl who kindly sent me a box of goodies to use on our showroom cards. Mary and Andrea are the nicest girls and they have a fabulous selection of lace, ribbon, flowers and embellishments so do take a look at their website (and say that I sent you!)

That's it from me for today, I have a new blog and my list of followers is slightly lacking compared to that of the rest of our fabulous DT (only by a few thousand lol) so I'd love it if you'd pop by and pay me a visit here 

Have a lovely Saturday everyone and make sure you come back tomorrow when we'll have something completely different to show you.

Anne xx

Happy Birthday

Hi again!

Now I'll show you the 4th sneak peek I made for Lili of the Valley's March Launch :)

For this creation I've made a Square Box - using two images: "Patchwork Present" & "Filigree Heart":

Colouring: Promarkers & Prismacolor Pencils.

You'll find these images at Lili of the Valley's web store here and here :)

Thank you so much for popping in again - have fun creating!

Hugs, Lena Katrine

Patchwork

Morning Peeps!

A new day, a new Lili of the Valley creation!
I hope you've got your orders in for the new release, cause these are going out fast I think :)

Today I'll show you a Regular Standing Card I made - using the cute image "Patchwork Daisy" from the new release:

Colouring: Promarkers & Prismacolor Pencils.

You can get this image at the LOTV store here :)

Thanks for stopping - enjoy your day!
Hugs, Lena Katrine

Party Girl

Hello sweet friends,

it´s Moni here and it´s my turn to show you a little something today ... I´ve made a very very pink card and therefore I used the sweet image Party Girl of the Girlie Stamp Collection. 

I also selected a heart of the Clear Stamp Set Cute as a Button and another little Sentiment of the Circular Sentiment Set Dreamy Days, which you also can get at the shop of Lili of the Valley.

Enjoy your day and thanks for stopping by.

Sending happy smiles and lots of hugs

Nixe-Moni

Card Recipe: 

Stamps: Party Girl & Cute as a Button from Lili of the Valley

Papers: Cardstock from Stash, Patterned Paper: Magnolia

Tools: Sor Pal, Cuttlebug, Doo Hickey Butterfly Die, Doo Hickey Doily Flower Die, & Doo Hickey Heart Swirl Die, Tag Die/Whiff of Joy, Gadget Gears & Fence Die/Tim Holtz, Cuttlebug Folder Dots, Circle Punch/Stampin`Up!, Sewing Machine 

Embellishments: Half Pearls, Pearl Brad, Glitter/Stampin`Up!, Lace & Ribbon from stash

Sentiment: Dreamy Days Circular Sentiments from Lili of the Valley
Medium: Prismacolor Pencil & White Spirit 

Commenters candy!!

Good afternoon everyone

As promised we've done another little random draw from the comments we've had left for us, and the winner is  ....

** Rhonda Miller **

Well done Rhonda, email us your details and we'll get a stamp sent off to you

Thanks to everyone who takes the time to leave us a comment, it's always lovely to hear that you're enjoying our blog and the work that our DT share with you.

We don't always have the time to reply back but we do try to read all the comments that are left

and it's very much appreciated

Good Enough To Eat :)

  

Happy sunny morning peeps.

Dawny P here and it’s another lovely day. It almost feels like Summer and what better thing to have when it’s sunny than …

Strawberries :)

And that’s just what we have for you today as my card features Strawberries which is one of the brand new release, now on sale.

 

The image was coloured with Copics and these are the shades I used -

Leaves – G99, YG0000, YG01, YG03
Berries – R05, R17, R27, R59
Container – E50, E81

I know from the Copics workshops I’ve done that some people are a bit scared of using reds, but honestly, it’s so easy and this image is about the best I have ever used for reds - you can get a really good result as there are no teeny tiny small areas.

So this is how I coloured the berries on this beautiful  image -

• Go over all the berries with a layer of R17
• Add shading detail with R59 – just small amounts here and there and mainly where the berries meet the leaves
• Blend together using R27 but don’t go right to the edge of the berries
• Go over everything with R05

A few tips to bear in mind when using reds are -

• Make sure that you use only good quality card stock – the one that most of us use can be found here
• Don’t over-wet the card. It may be better to allow a little time for the inks to dry before adding the next layer of colour.
• If you do get bleeds, don’t try and fix them with the blender pen whatever you do as this will make it worse. It’s better to go around the edge of the image with a contrasting pen as this will cover up any small imperfections and also make your image ‘pop’.

I hope that you’ve found this useful and thank you for stopping by today.

Happy crafting and hugs to all xxx

Lili of the Valley New Release

Just a quick heads up to let you know that the new release from Lili of the Valley goes on sale at midnight UK time.  Get ready to go and fill ya boots girlies!!

Our latest stamps ....on sale from midnight!!

Thanks to our Pops for those 2 lovely sneaky peeks, here’s what the other design team members have been busy doing over the past few weeks.

These cards are all made using the gorgeous new designs which will be launched tonight, I think you’ll agree that these cards are just beautiful.

They’ll be available to buy on the website from midnight,  the last launch was so popular that we sold out of some of them straight away so make sure you don’t miss out!

   

  

      

         

          

              

   

        

      

                  

                

      

       

         

           

   

Thanks for looking, I hope you like the stamps as much as we do

 xx