Addicted to Gorjuss

Good morning :-)

Yes it's very late/early, but I can't sleep again. I don't mind as I'm crafting rather than wasting the hours. 

Looking through my topper stash this morning, I came across a load of gorjuss packs. I used one of the larger toppers earlier, so chose a small card blank to use one if the smaller toppers. 

I'm really liking these darker looking cards. In the shops you can get cute, serious, funny and themed cards, however no one is filling the gothic/alternative gap in the card market. 

I am going to try making more darker cards. If they are popular then great, if they aren't I haven't lost a lot have I! 

Once again, thank you for taking the time to visit and leave such heart warming comments. 

I hope you have all kept safe in this awful windy weather?!

Hugs Lisa xxxxxxx

 

Bright and Dark

Hello fellow crafty people :-) Hope you are all well and looking after yourselves in this awful windy weather?! 

Yesterday was a longgggg day and even though I was so tired I looked dead on my feet, I couldn't sleep! 

At 12:30am I found myself making a card :-) 

I had purchased some kanban topper sheets in a shop here for 50p each so thought I would use one of them. 

I diecut the card and the backing shapes and distressed the edges of some of them. I highlighted areas with glossy accents and then mica/ink sprayed the flowers to match the bow. 

I am really pleased with how this card turned out....

Considering I didn't sleep that well, I was up early and making another card lol 

Because I was tired and felt slightly grumpy, I made a card that showed my mood lol 

I used a Gorjuss topper and tag, and some shimmer embossed card that I found in my stash :-) 

I used eyelets and twine and some diecuts. 

I used glossy accents again to highlight some of the areas of the tag. 

This is very different to the first card, however I love it just as much...

Thank you for taking the time to visit my blog and leave lovely comments. 

Hugs Lisa xxxxx

 

 

 

 
 

 

 

 

LEJ Designs Challenge No 49 - Emboss It

This weeks Challenge has just started over the on the LEJ Designs Challenge Blog.

The new theme is 'Emboss It'. This can be any type of embossing i.e. Heat embossing, embossing with folders and masks etc.

 

The 1st Prize is 4 fantastic Digi Images of your choice from the LEJ Designs Website,

the 2nd Prize is:

 

 

 

You are allowed to enter up to 3 times, just follow the link at the bottom of the challenge post.

 

Well, here is my Design Team make for the Challenge:

 

 

 

What I used:

 

A5 Card Blank

Tim Holtz Embossing folder

Tim Holtz Walnut Stain Distress Ink

Bronze/Brown Pearl Card

Beige Card Stock

Gold Embossed Card Stock

Brown Satin Ribbon

Gold Eyelets

Light Brown Raffia Twine

Bronze Clock Charm

One of LEJ Designs Gorgeous Digi Images

Rangers Thick Embossing Powder Clear

Gold Mica Mist

Spellbinders Cutting Die

 

I have great fun with this Male Embossed Card. I got messy with inks and Mica spray and really enjoyed painting the gorgeous image with the distress ink and water brush.

 

I would like to enter the above card into the following challenges:

 

Cards For Men - Anything Goes

Love To Create - For the Guys

Stamp and Create - Use at least one diecut

 

I hope you will pop over to LEJ Designs Challenge Blog and look at the great Design Teams Inspirational makes, and enter the Challenge for a chance to win those great prizes.

 

 

Onto my Second make..... This one is a Paint Box Poppets Card.

 

I printed off one of the Card Companion Sheets from the CD to make this card.

 

 

 



 

What I used:

 

6x6 Card Blank

Paint Box Poppets Card Companion Sheet

Dark Blue Card Stock

Light Blue Card Stock

Tim Holtz Faded Jeans Distress Ink

Basket Weave Embossing Folder

Dark Blue Card Candi

Dark Blue Pearls

Glitter Pen

Dark Blue Raffia Ribbon

 

 

I would like to enter the above card into the following Challenges:

 

Crafty Bloggers Network - Anything Goes

Paper Playtime - More than One Fold

 

 

Thank you so much for taking the time to look at my blog and leave such wonderful comments. I appreciate every single one of them....

 

Hugs Lisa xxxxx

 

 

 



 

 

 

 



Black and White Sketch

Tuesdays daily challenge over on the 'Mad Crafters Giggles' Facebook group was

'Use a sketch'. 

The sketch given for us to use was this one:

 I decided to make mine in Black and White as this is the challenge theme over on 

Kaboodle Doodles Challenge #167 
 

I used some unmounted nature stamps with black Matt card and white pearlised card for layers. I finished off with gems, pearls and card candi. 

I hope you like this card as I was making it in the early hours as I couldn't sleep (might be a few wonky lines lol).

Hugs Lisa xxxx
 

 

Doily Good Fun......

WOW, I would just like to say thank you for all the lovely comments I have been getting lately. The positive comments really make crafting worth while. Thank you.

 

The Daily Challenge yesterday in the 'Mad Crafty Giggles' facebook group was

'Use a doily in or on your project'.

This made my day as I had just received a big pack of different sized Doily's from eBay :D

 

I printed off a couple of SWALK images that were pre-coloured and cut them out.

I picked a paper that was from a booklet that came free with a magazine a while ago. They were mostly all jubilee papers, however this little gem was hidden amongst them.

 

I used some diecuts to make the layers for behind the image and doily and found some lace the suited both images.

I used glossy accents to highlight some of the areas on the images and also some glitter pen on the 'mum' card.

I finished off with card candi and some gems.

 

 

This is the first card..... a Congratulations card for expecting parents.

 

 

The second card is a Mum card... I have decided to take the plunge and enter a few challenges with this card.

 

 

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:

 

Challenges 4 Everybody - #18 Anything Goes

The Stamping Chef - Girly Girl Challenge

My Grafico Crafts - #148 Anything Goes

Memas Crafts - April, Anything Goes

Sugar Bowl Blog - #102 Anything Goes

 

 

Thank you again to everyone who visits my blog and comments.....they all mean a lot to me.

 

Hugs Lisa xxxx

 



Bright, cheerful and Spring Like....

This was the theme of the daily challenge in 'Mad Crafty Giggles' Facebook group on Friday. 

I took the theme very seriously and I met all the elements as I WON wooohooo

My card was made for a great friend of mine, Jane Adams. She has really supported me through my recent troubles on Facebook etc. Jane has spent many nights with me on FaceTime while I cried my eyes out and has even spoken to my dad when I have been too upset to talk to anyone. 

Jane has a heart of gold and was also treated badly. 

Well back to the cheerful stuff....here's my card

Hahahaha

 

Thank you again to everyone who takes time to comment on my blog, your comments mean a lot...

Hugs Lisa xxxxxxxxx

Black Theme

Well, today has been a strange one. My dads got a bad back and my mum has sciatica so I have been working like a house elf lol 

they have looked after me enough, so it's nice to be able to give them something back. At least I got time to craft this evening :-) 

Today's challenge in the 'Mad Crafters Giggles' Facebook group was

"Use a mask on or in your card"

I thought I would have a fun messy crafting session so I decided to use a metal work style mask and polly filler. I then sprayed it with black distress ink, silva mica powder and water then dried it with a heat gun.

The topper and sentiment are both from Kanban.

While I was on a dark theme I thought I would make a black and white card but do white on black for a change. 

The image is an indigoblu one, stamped and heat embossed in white. I did the same for the sentiment. 

Although you can see them in the photo, I have used little black gems on the image. 

 

I have to say, I am really pleased with how both of these cards have turned out. 

Hope you have all had great crafty days and I thank you for visiting my blog. 

Hugs Lisa xxxx

 

 

 

Not a birthday card.....

Well, before I show my cards can I please ask you to pop over to my friends blog and show her some love. 

Her crafting is amazing, but she doesn't get the blog visits she deserves....  

Moira 

Thank you :-) I know how lovely you bloggers are...

Right, now to my makes today. I have noticed that I tend to make a lot of birthday type cards....I wanted to try something different. 

Today I have made a Humphrey's corner 'congratulations, new baby' card.

I love the colour of this card as they are so different to normal baby card colours...

I also made a 'get well soon' card from a kanban topper sheet I found in my stash. 

Again, I love the colours as I love yellow but I think it's an underused colour in crafting (apart from Easter and spring). 

I hope you like these cards, as well as my friends blog. 

I am a bit slow at catching up with comments at the moment, but please be assured I do reply to them all....

Hugs Lisa xxxxx
 
 

Simple Cards

I'm backkkkkk.....

Today I have made two simple cards from the bits I had cut out during my crafting break. 

I have made both of them with 'card companions' from the Humphrey's corner CD. 

I have added card candi, glitter, gems and pearls to finish them off. 

It's nice to be making cards again and I hope you like them...

Hugs Lisa xxxxx

 

 

Woohoooo

I have to say I have loved having my brother home over the Easter period, however I have missed crafting so much! 

I am sad he has gone home as I don't get to see him that much, but now he has gone home I can have my craft room back wooohoooo

I have been cutting bits n bobs out while I haven't been able to craft, so hopefully I can make quite a few quick cards for my stock....

It's good to be back!!! 

Hugs Lisa xxxx

LEJ Designs Challenge 47 - Your Favorite Style

Well today is the day that LEJ Designs Challenge Blog launches their 47th theme

"Your Favourite Style"

LEJ Designs is a Digi Shop run by Lindsay Elise Jolly. Lindsay draws her own digi images, which are gorgeous and very versatile.

Please visit her gorgeous Digi Shop by clicking on the following link:
 

http://www.lejdesigns

Lindsay has her own Challenge Blog called LEJ Designs and is open to anyone, as long as the theme is followed. If you use one of Lindsay's gorgeous images and win, you could win an extra prize. Please see the main blog post for further details.

Please pop along to the Challenge Blog to have a look at the absolutely gorgeous Design Teams makes as they are very inspirational. I hope they will put you in the crafty mood to join in and make an entry.

To enter all you have to do is click on the following link and use the 'link' button to link your blog up to the challenge blog:
 

http://lejdesignschallengeblog.blogspot.co.uk/

There are two Winners. The First winner wins 4 LEJ Digi Stamps of their choice. The second winner wins a prize from our sponsors, please see the main blog post for further details.

Right, now for my make. My Favourite style is 'Pretty and Girly'.

 The image I chose to use was 'Pucker Up'. I printed this on Hunkydory Professional stamp and colour card. I coloured the image in with Spectrum Noir pens. The image comes with a tree stump to sit on, however I didn't use that for this project as I had other idea of what I wanted the image to be sat on.

I picked two papers from a 'Basics' paper stack. I mounted these on a bright pink pearlised card. Both the papers and the card match the colours I used on the image.

I made different sized panels backed in the same card to mount on my card base. One one of these I stuck pink lace which is what the image has been placed on to look like she is sitting on it.

I made some diecuts from the bright pink pearliesd card as well as a pale blue card to fit in with the jeans in the image.

I then cut length of blue, pink and white twine and glued these under a big pink paper rose. The whole card was finished off with a sentiment, matching pearls and gems in the colours on the card.

This is my interpretation of 'Pretty and Girly' and I am pleased with how this has turned out.
 

This is a close up of the 'Pucker Up' Digi Stamp designed by Lindsay.



Thank you for visiting my blog and I hope you like my first Design Team project for LEJ Designs..

Hugs Lisa xxxxx



No crafting for a week

This morning at 6am I was packing away all my craft stuff to clear the room for my brother to sleep in. 

We have a spare room which is Richards when he comes home, however it is ready to be decorated so is used as a store room for the moment. 

I craft in my living room which is separate from mum and dads. Until his room is done, he sleeps in there on a giant double blow up bed so he can watch TV and play his Xbox. 

I have however, kept out some stamped images and digi stamps and my spectrum noirs so I can at least colour during the week.... 

I will still be around on blogger to comment on all your gorgeous blogs! 

Can't wait to start on my first LEJ DT make once I'm all settled back in my craft space....

Miss my crafting already :(

Hugs Lisa xxxxx

Vintage with Red

Today's Daily Challenge on 'mad crafters giggles' was 

"Vintage with something red".

I have had the mother of all headaches today, so decided to make a quick ATC to make sure I joined in. 

I used an image from a vintage CD I purchased from eBay. I coated it lightly with clear embossing ink by Tim Holtz and covered in ultra thick embossing powder. I heated from the top as I wanted the dull old look to it. 

I screwed the image up in my Jane and then distressed it with Victorian velvet to get in the cracks. 

I drew a gold line around the red ATC base and glued the image on. Diecut a feint gold corner and spray glued it on, allowing some glue to seep through to make it look tarnished. 

The rose I coloured with  shabby shutters distress reinker, water and tarnished rose mica powder all mixed in a spray bottle. 

I finished off with a small piece if feather and some red and gold flat backed pearls. 

I'd like to enter my ATC into the 

"LEJ Designs Challenge - Add a flower/s"

Not a great make, however at least I joined in! I used to really enjoy making ATCs, however I haven't made any for a long time.....something I'm going to start making again! 

Thank you for visiting my blog, you make my day reading all your comments. 

Hugs Lisa xxxx
 

Daily Challenge Entries

The 'Mad Crafter's Giggles' group have a daily challenge each day. Please feel free to click on the link to join the group :D Everyone is welcome xxx

Yesterday's (Friday) challenge was 'pink' which is right up my street. I am so proud of myself that I didn't go all cute and girly like I would usually lol

I used a paper from a pad I got. The papers look like gorgeous modern wall papers. I mixed this with pink pearl paper and an aqua green colour.

I used diecuts and a sentiment stamp. Around the stamped circle I have used versatile watermark ink and brushed bronzed red mica powder over it and set with a heat gun.

Today's challenge (Saturday) was set by ME as I WON yesterday's pink challenge yay :-) I chose the theme 'ribbon and glitz'.

I thought I should show willing so made a card to combine with an order I had for a teal coloured card.

I used peacock feather distress ink reinker droplets in a bottle with a little amount of water and some mica powder. Shaked well and sprayed the white card base, sentiment card, flowers and ribbon lace.

The backing paper is a kanban design coloured around the edge with the same coloured ink.

I hope you like my makes as I really did enjoy making them.

Thank you to everyone who visits my blog.

Love Lisa xxxx

My favorite colours!

Thank you for all the lovely comments :-) I read every single one of them and they all make me smile.

Today I have mainly been playing with Winston as he is in a very loving mood.... BUT I did make time to craft...

Today's daily challenge over on the "mad crafter's giggles" group, was 'use feathers of some kind'. Luckily I have plenty of feathers as I love them :-)

I used one of my kanban toppers as well as a sheet of paper from my kanban paper pad. I used pink, black and silver which I love mixed together.

I then added some ribbon, roses in black and pink and the important feathers!

I hope you like it. I know it won't be to everyone's taste but its nice to make something dramatic from time to time...

Thank you for visiting,

Hugs

Lisa xxxxxx

Bounced Back :-)

I have had a few rough days (as you will see from my news in previous post).

Unfortunately, some adults can't just delete someone and forget about them, they have to make nasty comments and send abusive messages on social networking sites. It's a shame really as its just a form of bullying. 

Onwards and upwards and I have come out of it fighting and happy :-) 

I have made a couple of cards from some Kanban kits I purchased in their 50% off closing sale. 

One is from the female kit. It was made with a dress form and roses from the kit. I matched a backing as much as I could to the dress form and distressed the edges. The flowery background is quite vintage looking and match the colour of the button on the tag and the roses. 

I hope you like this card as I think it is quite different to what I normally make....

The second one I made for a challenge on my Facebook group as well as for an F1 mad neighbours birthday.

Again, the backing card and image are from the male kanban kit and the rest I embossed and backed in black. 

I finished off with ribbon and twine and some gorgeous metal stuff similar to card candi! Love them!!! 

I have finally gotten around to adding my beautiful LIEBSTER AWARD to my blog (im proud I could do it as I am useless with blogger lol). I would like to thank the lovely Zoe Russel and Shelagh McCarther for nominating me for this award. I will be giving this award to 5 people who have less that 200 followers. Thank you ladies...I am very touched you thought of me...

I am having problems with blogger on my phone as it won't let me leave comments, however I am going to do a blog commenting session this evening on my laptop.

I hope you don't think I'm rude and been ignoring your blogs, I have been trying. 

Hugs Lisa xxxxx

 

Sad news....

I am no longer the design team co-ordinator on a previous challenge blog. 

I have had a falling out with the owner and was removed from the blog. 

It's a shame as I know I did a good job and I know the team were happy. 

Never mind, onwards and upwards and I'm sure new and exciting things will come my way. 

It's come at a good time, as I start the hard stuff with the psychologist so will need 'me' time. 

Now I can craft what I want when I want and do it with a smile. 

To my old DT members, love you all as you were all amazing and made my job enjoyable xxxxx

Bronzed Autumn

Hellow followers and viewers... Thank you for visiting again.

 

I know it is coming up to spring, however I had a search around my craft stuff today and I found some gorgeous bronzed coloured pearl card that I HAD to use.

 

I started with a 6x6 square card, and sprayed it with bronze shimmer mist. While that was drying I cut out a number of leaves from the pearl card. For this I used a spell binders set.

I stamped leaves around the edge of the card using vintage photo distress ink and then blended the outside of the card.

I spread the leaves around the outside of the card and then diecut a bird out of the same bronze pearl card.

I finished the card off with a black diecut bird cage.

 

I hope you like this card, even though it isnt bright and cheerful.....

 

Thank you again for all your lovely comments and views,

 

Hugs Lisa xxxx

S.W.A.L.K Card

Hello fellow crafters :-) 

It's been a few days since I crafted, but it's been a mad few days. 

As you all know, I was a member of the Craftymess group on Facebook. Unfortunately this group is closing as the owner has a lot of commitments too her business etc...soooooo me and Jane Adams have started our own group :-) Its a very relaxed group called "Mad Crafter's Giggles" and we will offer Daily Challenges, Swaps, Challenges set up and run by members and lots of laughs and giggles...PLUS a 'daily hunky boyfriend' lol you need to join to find out what that is lol 

I hope you would like to join our group, by clicking on the above link.

Well, back to ME :-) 

Today was the last daily challenge in the old group and the theme was '50 shades of grey OR shabby chic'. I decided on shabby chic, however I don't think my make was that shabby chic lol 

I used a S.W.A.L.K image from their CD collection. Highlighted it with time holtz distress ink. Used a coordinating card to back the image and backing paper. Coloured the outer edge of a mini doily, used heart diecuts, mulberry paper flowers, gems and card candi. 

 

Hope you like it, and as usual, thank you for reading my ramblings and leaving lovely comments :-)

Hugs, 

Lisa xxxxx

Thank You Card

This card is a very special one for me. Those who know me know that I have some mental health issues and been seeing a Psychologist since January.
Phil my current psychologist leaves on Thursday and I get a new person.
Phil has helped me so much, those on my Facebook will hopefully have seen the difference in my attitude.

This card is made to say 'thank you' for making such a difference in such a short time!


I have made the card in black and white as the Daily Challenge in the CraftyMess Facebook Group which the theme is set, and then judged each night at 21:00 by the previous days winner.

I hope you like this card, and I really hope Phil likes it.

Thank you for all the lovely messages you leave on my blog. They really show that my efforts are worth while xxx

Craftymonster81 Blog Candy

Lindsay Elise Jolly aka Craftymonster81 is giving away some gorgeous blog candy.

Please click here to take you to Lindsay's gorgeous blog.

Lindsay is a VERY talented crafter and is a design team member for several well known brands as well as a designer of her own digi stamps and owner or her own challenge blog!!

Please pop over, follow her blog and leave her some much deserved love!

Song Bird

I have made a 6" x 6" card. I have chosen a backing paper with bright birds and butterflies to tie in with the card theme. I have used plenty of diecuts on this card in matching colours within the backing paper. The birdcage with lovebirds I have sprayed with mica ink spray.