Ladybug Crafts Ink Grand Finale

Hello

This is one post I never wanted to write, and I'm welling up as I type this ;-(

After much soul searching, Head Ladybug has decided the time is right to close the doors on Ladybug Towers :(  As of today there is a massive sale on over at the online store - get your bargains while you can, as once they have gone they've gone... click here to go directly to the store.

I'm delighted that so many of my fellow DT members have returned for our last hurrah... which is

Your Favourite Image

As ever, we'd love for you to use a LCI image, but it's not compulsory...

Anyway, before I go all teary eyed, here is my card, using Dancing Nikki...

I coloured Nikki with my copics, and added a touch of bling here and there...

And I just had to decorate the inside too...

I'd like to take the opportunity to say a huge thank you to Kerry for having the courage to set up LCI in the first place, it was her images that got me into stamping and colouring in the first place, and for asking me to join the original DT, and for being a fabulous friend over the last few years;  to all the DT members past and present for making this a complete blast, I will miss working with you all

Hugs

Sue xxxx

Special Ladies at LCI

Hello!

It's time for another challenge at Ladybug Crafts Ink - and this time it is the turn of the super-talented Julie to choose, and she has picked 

For a Special Lady

You can interpret this however you like - Mothers Day, a special birthday, or just a fabulous card for a friend or relative.

All the DT have used images from the Nikki range - this is probably where I should confess just how much I love this range of images, as they were what got me into colouring and cardmaking in a big way - and I have loved returning to use Original Nikki - available as a digi here or a stamp here, or

check out the entire Nikki range in either digi here or stamps here

I couldn't resist going all out on this card - I think I have done enough plain and simple cards of late, and I was just crying out to get everything on here!!  So there's ribbon, flowers, lace, die cuts, pearls, cheesecloth, stitching, charms, brads, glitter, gorgeous papers, and some frantage embossing power too (super impressed with myself at finally using this stuff!!)  I really love this card - and I think Nikki has a hint of 50's glam to her :-)  Either way, how stylish is she with her shades up on her head, and her cute pooch at her feet:-)

 

I've coloured her with my copics, sticking to pale lilac tones

Hope you like it!

Thanks for stopping by :)

Please can I enter these challenges
Papertake Weekly - For Mum or Girlie 
Sweet Stamps - Anything Goes
Through The Craft Room Door - Anything Goes
Creative Card Crew - Charms
Fan-Tastic Tuesday - It's Hip to Be Square
Craft-Dee BowZ - Anything Goes with a Handmade Bow
Tuesday Throwdown - Tic, Tac, Toe (Die Cuts, Flowers, Ribbon)
Shabby Tea Room - Anything Goes
Sparkle and Sprinkle - Anything Goes with Glitter, Embossing Powder or Flock

Hugs, Sue xx

All things metallic at Top Tip Tuesday

Hello!!

Can you believe two weeks have gone by already and it's time for a new challenge over at Top Tip Tuesday?  No, me neither!

This fortnights theme is 

Metal or Faux Metal

I went down the metal route, and made a funky card for a teenage boy (always find boys cards really tough!  Teenage boys especially so!!), and tucked this fabulous image from Ladybug Crafts Ink - he's called Skateboarder Josh and is from the Teenager range

Isn't he cool!  I've teamed him with MME papers, and a zip and metal button

I really loved how this image coloured up

Thanks for stopping by

Please may I enter these Challenges
Digi Choosday Challenge - Boys Stuff
Through The Craft Room Door - Anything Goes
One Stitch At A Time - Use a Digi
Pile It On - For a Guy

Hugs

Sue

Flowers Galore at Ladybug Crafts Ink

Hello!!  Two posts from me in one day - whatever next!!

Today at Ladybug Crafts Ink there is a new release, the third in the ever popular Floral Delights range - check them out in the store here.  As ever these really versatile images are great for a whole range of uses - all of them are my go to images for Birthdays, Get Well, Sympathy, Thank You, or just to say Hi!  I think it's brilliant to have an image that you can use again and again for different people, for different uses... not that it has stopped me getting the whole lot :-)

Anyway, enough of my waffle... here's my card...

I went one layer CAS - I'm really getting into the CAS thing now (don't panic, I'm still chucking the kitchen sink at my cards most of the time!), as it's great for when you need a card quickly, don't have loads of time, or even when the recipient isn't a more is more kinda gal :-)

Anyway, there are loadsa chances to win over at the challenge blog, so why not drop on by and check out what the rest of the team have been up to?

Love, Sue xx

Keep It Clean (and Simple) @ LCI

Hello!

It's just stuck me how similar both my posts are today - it's really not intentional!

I made this card a couple of weeks ago for a demo evening at my friends, Karen, Bev and Stacey's Craft Club.  Kerry (aka Head Ladybug) very kindly let me use this rather fab image, and it was a bonus as it fitted perfectly with Susan's challenge at Ladybug Crafts Ink which is

Clean and Simple

I really like this image, it's cool and stylish and works so well with a CAS style - if you want your own, it's called Shoe Tree Delight, and there is also Handbag Delight for the handbag lover in your life!!  It was also lots of fun seeing the ladies who came to the demo night play create their own versions of the card.  I'm certainly no Copic star, but I'm happy to help others try things and pass on tips and hints that I've picked up through trial and error (mostly error, if I'm honest!)

Why is my picture fuzzy!!!  I blame the photographer (me!!)  I'll try and change it to a non-blury one ASAP.  Honestly, you'd think I'd taken it after my work Christmas Party (hic!)

This will be the last LCI challenge this year... boooo.... but we will be back on 4th February.... hurrah!... with lots more inspiration and images galore - double hurrah!!  Can you tell it's Panto season?  LOL

Before then I hope to be posting lots of lovely cards, but in the meantime, I hope you have fun playing along with this fortnights challenge

Thanks for stopping by

Sue xx

Please can I enter these challenges

MilkCoffee Challenges - Christmas in Non-Traditional Colours

As You Like It Challenge - Favourite Digi (this one is my new fave - why... if you could see my shoe cupboard all would become clear!)

Sister Act Challenge - Christmas

We've got the Blues (and White) at LCI

Hi!

This week's Ladybug Crafts Ink Challenge is a brilliant one, just in time for Christmas (or any other time, thinking about it!), as we'd love to see your 

Blue and White

creations - anything from a rich royal blue, to a frosty ice blue, or how about a regal navy blue?

Actually, I didn't realise it at the time, but I redecorated my bathroom in some lovely blue shades at the weekend... and re-painted the ceiling white too.  I didn't take any pictures of this particular ladybug taking the challenge a bit too seriously and painting herself white and blue as well... :-D  Still it looks a million times better and fresher now than it did on Friday!  I've just a few bits and bobs to finish, and some accessories to make, things that I had before to upcycle, and maybe treat myself to a new towel set, and it'll be back to bathroom heaven :-D

Enough of the rambling, back to the challenge... I went for a teal/turquoise blue, although I will say it's a lot more blue in real life than the piccies show!  That ribbon looks a bit green from here, but I promise you it's not!

 I've used some MME papers, not Christmas ones, but the colours work, and who'd know!

As I wanted some cards to send this year that were a bit more traditional, but still glam and in my normal style, and this one - Christmas Wreath Delight - is simply perfect.  I've coloured it with a selection of blue pens, adding a touch of green to the foliage, then adding a dash of glitter to the ribbon and some of the baubles.

 

 I decorated the inside to match - this sentiment was a freebie from a magazine

Hope you have fun joining in with this challenge

Thanks for stopping by

Sue xx

Getting Krafty @ LCI

Hello!

This fortnights LCI challenge has been set by the rather fun and fabulous Sally (have you checked out her blog??? No, what are you waiting for??? Her cards are gorgeous!!!), who has asked us to

Get Krafty

Don't mind if I do!!!  Lol :-D

I do love a bit of Kraft CS, it really sets an image off - sometimes I use a colour or white, but Kraft is my go-to for a base card, and often for an accent too :-D

Sorry, there's me chatting, not showing piccies, again....

There's all sorts of stuff going on with this card, just love this LCI image - Tom and Snowman - I'm not too sure what the reindeer thinks about being used as a stepladder, but needs must ;-).  I took the colour cues from the lovely papers I got from Live and Love Crafts, and then just went nuts with Lace, Jute, Pins and a fabby brass mittens embellishment also from Live and Love Crafts, some flowers, button, ribbon and velvet ric-rac from my stash, and there are dew drop gems, embossing, glitter, and die cuts too.  The banner sentiment is from Stampin' Up, and although quite a few friends seem to have started selling their lovely products, I got these from Caroline a few weeks ago.  Naughty me, I didn't buy the die (is there a die for this one????) I just used my scissors... even if I had the die (if it exists!) I reckon when you are only cutting 3 out, scissors are far easier :-D  I've also gone a-la DT buddy and friend Julie and played loop-da-loop with the bakers twine.  I know it's a bit busy, but it's a Christmas card, and we are all busy at Christmas, so it kinda fits... LOL!!

Here's a close up of this cutie of an image :-D, and a different shot

Hope you like this one as much as I do

Hugs,

Sue xx

Introducing Cassie, one of the new Girls at LCI!

Hello!!

Did you like the first 6 of the new Skinny Malinky's  released last week?  Today sees the release of the second set of ladies, and I have been given the glamourous Cassie to play with.

I just love monochrome cards, and couldn't resist using some of my black and cream papers for this one!

I couldn't resist using a pop of red though :-D  And she looked like a blingy sort of a girl to me, so I went a bit nuts with the crystals and pearls all round her, and glitter on the boxes and on her red shoes!  I just wish I could get the camera to calm down and take a decent picture when there is quite a bit of sparkle on a card... it can't be operator error :-D

Have a great week - I'm hoping to post something soon, but it might not happen - I'll see how I go!!

Thanks for looking, Sue xx

Please can I enter these challenges

Make It Monday - Anything Goes

Stampin for the Weekend - Anything Goes
Sweet Pea Stampers - Sparkle and Shine
Top Tip Tuesday - Black and White and a Splash of Colour (my top tip is to try not to be too ordered when you are placing as many gems as this - make it random!)

Magnum and Lily's Winter Wonderland

Hello!

Ladybug Crafts Ink are Sponsoring this weeks Winter Wonderland Challenge, and Julie and I agreed to do a card as a Guest Design spot.

As the theme is Carol Singers we just had to use Carolling Magnum and Lily... just love the antics of these two - and not just the Christmas ones, have you seen the day-to-day stamps, and a few that are only available as digi's here and here.

Anyway, enough waffle from me, here's my card

I was umming and ahhing about if there was enough decoration on here - you know me, more-is-most-definately-more, and I'm in recovery after my very CAS card earlier in the week!!

I couldn't help but go for a tabby look for Magnum again, and got busy fussy cutting the image

I really like how fussy cutting the image has made the door really look like it's coming towards you!

Papers and Cheesecloth are from Live and Love Crafts, Magnolia Doo-Hickey tag, Memory Box snowflake wreath, Pins, Ribbon, Lace Charm, Gems and Button from my stash

Thanks for stopping by

Sue xx

Please can I enter these challenges
Brown Sugar Challenge - Blue, Grey and White
Polkadoodles - Christmas is Coming
Fairy Tale Challenge - Bingo (I've got a full house here!)
Delightful Challenges - Frame It
Moving Along With the Times - Christmas Cuties
Crafting By Designs - Anything Goes

Meet Hillary and the Skinny Malikies at LCI

Hello!

I've been a bit tardy posting on here recently... apologies!

Today is a special day at LCI, as we are celebrating the release of a new range of digi images - have a look at the store to see the first 6 in the release!

I've used the rather fabulous and stylish Hillary

Now anyone that knows me will be a bit shocked by the simplicity of this card, but I thought this image would be great to send to a friend as a simple hello, plus I've been itching to try colouring on Kraft for ages, but never been brave enough!

Anyway, I quite like it, and it certainly took me less time to do than the more-is-more style that I usually go for!

 

I don't have any prisma pencils, so just used my copics... hmmm I can see an addition to my Christmas list coming soon!!

Anyway... you need a letter from me...

Cos I'm Nice, I'm Not goiNg to make you huNt for it too much :-D

Thanks for stopping by

Sue

P.S.  Please can I enter these challenges

Digi Makeover Challenge - Clean and Simple

Make It  Monday - Anything Goes

Make It Monday with Kraft Outlet - Use Kraft and Discover Something New (mine is colouring on Kraft)

That Craft Place Challenge - Think Pink

Anything Goes - Out with the Girls

Late, but not square at LCI

Hello!

I was supposed to post this card this morning... naughty me!  I was meant to be putting the finishing touches to it last night, but was a bit shaken up after a very near miss with a 4x4 in the lanes, after he went off the road, through the hedge and fence into a field, to miss the van in front of me, only to come back onto the road right by me.  He missed me by millimetres, and I was pretty freaked out when I got home and realised just how lucky I'd been.  What an idiot driving that fast on country lanes, hope it costs him a fortune to repair the damage!

Anyway, I finished my card off tonight instead, and Kerry (head ladybug!) has promised not to sack me :-D

The lovely Lyndsey has chosen this fortnights challenge at Ladybug Crafts Ink and she would like to see

No Squares

After I stopped hyperventilating at not being able to use squares... I always use squares!!... I thought, OK, I'll go with circles and got busy with my circle cutter (I don't have a set of the big nesties, or even a big die cutting machine!).  The simple compass like cutter doesn't cut circles anywhere as neatly as a cie, but it does the job :-D

I used some MME papers from my stash (they are halloween ones, not that there is a lot of the paper left to see!) and black and dark orange cardstock.  Despite it meant to be a spooky card, I couldn't resist adding a TH die cut, lace, ribbons, pins, bows and pearls and a bit more lace!  I also inked up one of the stamps I got from Stampin Up, then coloured in the white bits with some distress ink

I just love colouring up Magnum, please don't ask me how I do the stripes, I just keep adding more colour and, and blend it out with lighter tones from the same colour family until it looks kinda right, there's no science to it :-D  I printed the Pumpkin in a larger than life size, and popped Lily on Magnum's hand.  If you like Magnum, check out all the add-on's that you can get to make him a cat for all seasons here!

It's not a super scary Halloween card, but I hope you like it!

Please may I enter these challenges

Crafty Sentiments - Fall / Autumn Colours

Creative Craft Challenge - Use Ribbon

Our Daily Bread Designs - Fall Colours

Through the Craft Room Door - Anything Goes

Top Tip Tuesday - Get In Shape (my TT is you don't always need expensive dies to make shaped cards, look around you, raid the kid's geomatry kit if need be!)

Make It Monday - Anything Goes

Thanks for stopping by

Love, Sue xx

Snow New Release @ LCI

Hello!

Can you believe it's September already?  Where is the year going to?  It only seems like yesterday I was going to work in boots and a heavy coat, and now the shops are full of them again... sigh... the British summer is far too short for my liking!

And you know Christmas is just around the corner, so the ever so helpful Kerry is releasing a new range of Christmas digi images over at the Ladybug Crafts Ink store which just perfect to get you a great headstart.  Don't forget the LCI summer sale is still on (at least it is when I wrote this!), so grab the opportunity to get your hands on the fabulous range of cling stamps with a whopping 70% off!

The challenge over at the LCI challenge blog is Winter Wonderland.  As ever at LCI, we're a flexible kind of a bunch, and love to see your designs, so any kind of Winter Card is welcome :-D

Of course it wouldn't be a LCI new release without the chance to win an additional prize on top of what is already offered for entering the challenge - one lucky person who comments on the main challenge post will win all 10 images!

I think that's quite enough housekeeping for the time being :-D  Onto my card

I kept this one a bit more simple than of late... And check me out, using my old MME Lost and Found 6 x 6 stash!  Makes me feel slightly less guilty about all my recent aquisitions :-D.  I also used my La La Land Fancy Bracket Die on the right hand vertical panel

 I used the Tree image, and coloured him up, added glitter, then cut him out with a circle die using the Out of the Box technique as I couldn't resist popping his hat off the circle - the tutorial here explains it far better than I can!  I then used a Memory Box "Frostyville Wreath" Die, and tucked it behind his hat, and added gems... well I said I was keeping it simple, but I just couldn't resist!

 

A ribbon tied into a bow, a sentiment, and ta-da!  One card... and I reckon this might be a good design for batch making cards... says she, who despite all good intentions will probably be found mid-December onwards, trying to get out of the house to see friends while still sticking the card together, getting covered in glitter, and handing it over without envelope because there will be wet glue on there somewhere :-D  Maybe this year will be different though!

That's it from me for today, more tomorrow :-D

Sue xx

Colourific at LCI

Hello!!!!

Where has the month gone... I'm not doing very well at blogging again, work is busy, kids are being ferried around here there and everywhere - I need a Taxi sign for the roof of the car!  The garden is growing faster than I can mow it, and somewhere in amongst all the other stuff I need to sleep and eat, so apologies for not being about so much :-) Having said that we were away last week, I did take some crafty stuff with the idea that I might get a bit of colouring done, not a chance, what with day trips, the beach and the glorious weather we had in the UK, still the kids loved it :-D

Anywhoo, this months challenge at LCI is a colour challenge, inspired by the pic below...

 

I don't know why, as my image isn't especially summery like the image, but I've gone for the colours... maybe I'll have another go next week and see what happens!!

 I just wish my ironing pile was as complete as this!

I used an ages old Basic Grey paper pad, I'm trying to use up some of my older stash... makes me feel less guilty when I buy new stuff!

That's it from me today, before I go, please may I enter these challenges

Challenges 4 Everybody - Anything Goes

Make It Monday - Anything Goes

Sue xx

Happy Birthday... to me!!

Hello!

It's my Birthday today, shhh, don't tell anyone but it's the big four-zero for me!  Yikes, how did that happen, in my head I'm still about 23/24, but my body is telling me differently... dear me, I put my neck out at the weekend and spent most of Saturday looking like a Thunderbird puppet :-D

Anyhoo.... it was my turn to choose the challenge at Ladybug Crafts Ink this time and I just had to pick 

Birthdays!

It doesn'thave to be a special one, but any birthday you like!

I was lucky enough to use Billie is 8 - Tutu Billie for this challenge

Isn't she great?  I've no idea why but my printer decided to throw a MEGA strop and it bled out the minute I started colouring.  No idea why!  Maybe because I grabbed the sheet straight from the printer, rather than doing my usual and having a dither for a day or two!  LOL, I got round this by using all four of the images and layering them up decoupage style.  Which worked for me!

Anyway, that's enough from me, I've birthday pressies to open!  Not going to have a good night tonight though as it is the open evening for the school which my eldest is going to in September, just what I need on my birthday, sitting in a school hall, listening to my old head of sixth-form (who's now the head at my son's new school), still HB has got me (read us!) for the Goodwood Festival of Speed next weekend, it's somewhere I've never been, but always wanted to go... oooh and tickets for the Revival Festival too... I just need to find my outfit for that one!

Have a great day!

Sue xx

Flowers and ribbon at LCI

Hello!

Quick post from me today with the latest card for this fortnights LCI challenge, which is Flowers and Ribbon.  I've used some of my stash up for this card... I know, some of my Bo Bunny papers have been cut up... well I had to as I bought a new pad the other week, so I had to actually use something up!

 

Anyway, I used the 30 image from the Through the Ages Collection and coloured it with copics and added glamour dust to the shoes and the printed again on more of the papers.

 

The flowers, ribbon and flower pin are all from my stash - how good am I to be getting throught the look not use stage!  Mind you the border at the bottom is new - it's a Memory Box one that is a set of six.  Once I found a pair of wire cutters in the garage and snipped it apart it works much better :-D Well! Honestly, where does it tell you to do that on the packaging?  It was a dumb mistake that anyone could have made!

That's it from me today, looking forward to seeing your interpretation of the challenge

Please may I also enter these challenges

Clear It Out Challenge - Paper Piecing and Scraps (I used off cuts for the accent panels)

Creative Card Crew - Metal (hope the metal pin is OK)

Creative Stamp Friends - Birthday

Love to Create - Paper Piecing

Make It Monday - Anything Goes

 

That's it from me today, looking forward to seeing your interpretation of the challenge

Please may I also

Sue xx

Ladybug Crafts Ink - Colour Wheel Challenge

Hello!

What an idiot I am, this challenge went live last week, but I got all confused with the last challenge and missed the first week!

Anyway, rather than post late, I'm doing this as a mid-week reminder!  The challenge this week is a colour wheel challenge - where you pick a colour then pick the colour on the opposite side of the wheel as your complimentary colour - check out the challenge blog.   I used orange - not an easy choice for me as it is not my go-to colour!  But on the flip side that gave me blue to work with... whoo hoo!

It seems my camera doesn't like orange very much as this was about the twentieth picture I have taken, and it is the best of a very ropey bunch!  How very odd :-D

Anyway, I used Mobile Phone Josh and a whole host of MME papers, and my new Memory Box die and Cuttlebug Chicken Wire embossing folder.  I have to say it is very theraputic (if not messy!) distressing all those edges!  I also used a bunting banner die from MFT for my sentiment

The camera liked the close up of the image a bit better, not much though!

Please may I enter these challenges

Cards for Men - Boys will be Boys
Craft Your Passion - Masculine
Creative Creations - For Dad/Masculine
Get Inky - For Boys/Men
Make It Monday - Anything Goes
The Crazy Challenge - Teen Cards
Simply Create Too - Father's Day/Male
Totally Papercrafts - Punches Dies

Thanks for looking

Sue xx

Oh Baby... take three @ LCI

Hello!

I could really get into the swing of using one set of images for an entire month, I don't know about you but the more I colour a certain image the happier I am :-D

Anyway this is week three of the current LCI challenge which is Oh Baby! in honour of head ladybug Kerry about to be a Nanny!  I say about as at the time of writing her daughter is too-ing and fro-ing from the hospital, so by the time you read this there may be a mini-ladybug in the world!

I'm not sure if I mentioned it last week, but commenter's were eligible to win my image (you can get it here)... sneaky huh?   My kids (seemed appropriate, given the theme!) argued between themselves then picked my winners this week... cost to me, two kinder eggs, cost to them three bruises (although one might have been from a playground incident!)

Anyway, they loved the comments from 

Hazel and Carmen O

Congratulations ladies :-)  Please leave me a comment with how to mail you your image and I'll get it to you as soon as I can... I hope you enjoy playing with it as much as I have

Now the cat is out of the bag, if you want to win a prize too, why not comment on this post and keep looking to see if you are a winner next week!

Which brings me on nicely to this weeks card!

After using this image for a one-of-each twins card, and a girl-twin card, it seems appropriate to make a boy-twin card, well you've got to cover all eventualities don't you!

I used some MME papers, and some of the new dies I've got recently, today's card uses the new to me cloud die from Memory Box (yes I know every crafter and his/her dog has been popping clouds on their cards like forever, but it's new to me!).  I'm still not happy with my twine and how it hangs, so decided to take a leaf out of fellow LCI teamie Julie's look and leave it a bit long and drape it artfully... hmmm, need more practise at this methinks!  It seems a tad angular :-(

Here's a close up of the image, I added a touch of glamour dust to their hearts, bless...

Another couple of Memory Box dies, some luscious Berrisford's ribbon and some pearls finished this card off.  As and when someone I know has twin boys (lord help them, it's bad enough having two boys, let alone two the same age!!) I'll print a personalised sentiment and add it, but the inside is done and ready to go

Hope you like this weeks card - I do, not too much (boy's - even baby ones don't appreciate that!) but still cute never-the-less

More soon

Sue xx

Please may I enter my card into these challenges

LEJ Designs - Die Cuts / Punches
Created with Love - Ribbon and Lace
Make It Monday - Anything Goes
Make It Monday with Kraft Outlet - Celebrations (not too sure I'd count having twins as a celebration though!)
The Crazy Challenge - Baby
Crafty Bloggers Network - Tic-Tac-Toe (Ribbon-Stamps-Gems)

New Arrivals @ LCI... take 2

Hello!

Lightening quick post from me today... two posts in one week, can you believe it!

This months challenge at LCI is to share Baby cards and projects, as head ladybug Kerry is going to be a grandma soon, and there is a brand new range of digi's over at the LCI store.  

There are lots of prizes to be won during the month, so why not join us?

I've used the adorable Twins! image again, but this time made it girly... can you guess what next week's card might be :-D

Please may I enter my card into these challenges

Mojo Monday - Sketch

Craft-Dee Bow Z - Anything goes with handmade bows

Crafty Boots - Celebrations

Cupcake Craft Challenge - Lots of Layers

Crazy Challenge  - Baby Card
Make It Monday - Anything Goes

Thanks for looking

Sue xx

(A bit late) New Arrival @ LCI

Hello!

Gosh it's been a little while!  Work nightmare continue, but I have been making the time to craft, not least because I have been going to my friend Karen's crafty evenings :-D  I've really been enjoying seeing old friends again, although as always there's often more coffee drunk, cake eaten and catching up than crafting!

The result is that I've actually got stuff to share - well I did until my internet died a death last week, just as I was about to post this card.  Anyway, shiny new router (or whatever it is called, although it would have been far more helpful if the delivery guy hadn't just left it round the back of the garage, but, I dunno, actually tried to see if we were home (we were!).  Just as well it was wrapped in plastic and the rain hadn't got through... Tusk... well at least I'm back on now, even if it's taken an extra day :-D

There I go again with the blah blah blah...

So on Tuesday the new release of Baby Billie images from LCI are released, and as always they are fabby and perfect, and the image I've used is spot on for when there's more than one new arrival, but more on that in a minute!

You can check out all the DT's cards by visiting their links on the main LCI Challenge Blog, and there are oodles of prizes on offer, so why not have a peek!

OK, so I'm going to fess up and admit to loving my fellow DT Lauries white and kraft card (here) that she posted a while back, so I took inspiration from her colour scheme, and took away and added bits and bobs here and there (Laurie... are we still friends, or do I need to grovel and/or send cash?). 

I was going to heat emboss the back bit of kraft, but for the life of me I can't find my heat gun, I'm going to search the garage next as I suspect HB has nicked it to put heat shrink wrap round some cables on the mini!

So here's my card

And a close up of the sweet Twins! image... the greeting on the front reads Congratulations!, but only because I didn't have a "Commiserations" stamp... LOL!  I did this one as a boy/girl twins card, but the image would look equally as cute coloured up for twin girls or boys

 

I used some of my new dies for this card - I've been hankering after this fence die for ages and this card seemed perfect for it's first outing, and when I saw this image the baby clothes die just happened to fall in my basket too... no idea how that happened!

Hope you like it

Please may I enter these challenges

Sister Act Card Challenge - Anything Goes

Aud Sentiments Challenge - Baby/Mother/Child

As You Like It Challenge - Favourite Die/Punch (I love this card, it's quite fussy, but not too cluttered, and love the neutral colours too)

Paper Crafting Journey - Anything Goes

Crafting For All Seasons - Monchomatic

Sue xx

Colour combo at Ladybug Crafts Ink

Hello!

Hmmm, another week and I've been lacking in posts again... apologies.  I've no excuse, just had my lazy head on :-D  Actually I've been spring cleaning the house and washing all those things that you just can't get dry until the weather warms up.  Anyone know how curtains get quite so grubby when they are just haning there... nope me neither!  Anyway, enough waffle

Today's LCI challenge is a colour combo, as it is St George's Day in England today, the colours are red and white.  Not that St. George's Day is particularly celebrated by many people, and certainly not to the scale or enthusiasm of St. Patrick's Day!  But hey, we all like colour challenges and red and white is a great colour scheme, so any excuse!

Here's my card

I used some more of my new Memory Box dies, the heart dies work really well with this cutie of an image - the adorable Sleeping Baby Baby.  I kept the rest of the card fairly simple, well apart from a blooming big bow!

I'm hoping to put my card to good use soon, as my SIL is expecting a baby in early May, so anytime in the next 4 weeks I guess!  Maybe though if she has a boy I'll be making another as perhaps this one is a bit girly!

Anyway, hope you like it

Please may I enter these challenges
Party Time Tuesdays - Tic-Tac-Toe (Ribbon, Rhinestones, Glitter)
Love to Scrap - Cut It Out
Make It Monday - Anything Goes
One Stitch at a Time - Use a Digi

Sue xx