WOYWW 155

Hi Peeps,
Well I have been busy tweaking my craft room yesterday and today,
I am trying to create more space, for more stuff and it is proving
difficult to say the least. You know how it is when you really should
get rid of some stuff, to make way for new stuff, but you just can't
bring yourself to part with anything.
So there is no pic of my work desk today,but thought I would share
what I made on it recently.
This is a birthday book I made for Emma a lovely friends 21st Birthday.
She is  a Tattooist, who does her own art work and is making a name
 for herself in the tattooing industry.
All the papers are odds and ends from my stash and all the sentiments
were done on the computer.
I really like how it turned out.

It doesn't show up too well in the pic, but this paper is beautifully embossed and glittered.

Bought these lovely flock and rhinestone letters at the NEC.

I love this paper.

Papermania buttons on this page.

On this page I used a butterfly fabric and cut out a few of the butterflies stuck them to card
    and decoupaged them.

I used  the Spellbinders labels 11 die for all the sentiments.
I was having a last look at  my efforts before leaving to give Emma her gift when I noticed I had missed an 'S' off the word  'hopes', ******, I thought.!!!  My husband said it made it unique....... Bless!

This is beautiful flocked wrapping paper.

.  I used the Cuttlebug  Happy Birthday embossing  folder on the front and back covers.

 I used  the Spellbinders labels 11 die for all the sentiments.

Hope you all had a great day WOYWW ing.
Thanks for peeking
Hugs
Lottie x

WOYWW 153

Hello peeps, not much going on on my desk this week, I have
been feeling yucky all week so tidied up my desk ready for action.
I have been You Tubeing, and watching all sorts of tutorials, 
one on crochet flowers,so on my desk there are a few crochet flowers
I made, and also a wooly 'thing' lol. I am just following a tutorial for a
more elaborate crochet flower, but I need to buy some decent
thread really. On Saturday I popped in to Lilli of the Valley's open
weekend,I would have liked to have taken one of Bev Rochesters
workshops but I thought I would be in Scotland on those dates so
I didn't book a place. Silly me !
Any way as you can see I bought two stamps from the new release,
'Yee Haa' and the Vintage labels sentiments.
I also bought a couple of raffle tickets,and 'guess what'................
I didn't win lol.
Happy WOYWW
Hugs
Lottie x

WOWW 152

Hi Peeps, Well it's Wednesday again and I have just got back from
shopping so I thought I would show you what I bought.
These are for a new mini I am going to make. Love those little charms,
I want to crochet some flowers with the wool, and the feathers are
from my parrot Reggie, he's moulting so thought they might come in
for something one day lol.

Thought I would show you the pics of the envelope tag book I was
making on your last visit of  WOWW.

Thanks for looking enjoy your day mooching round WOWW.
Hugs
Lottie x

WOWW

Hi peeps,
A couple of months ago a friend made a post on Face Book saying she
would make something for any one who commented on her post. The
rules were you had to repost and the the gift had to be something hand
made by yourself and be given by the end of 2012. A pay it forward
kind ot thing.Any way as I have commented before my friends don't do
crafting, however I received two comments one from my friend Helen
who thought it was a good idea, but didn't want to take part, and the
other comment was from my son who is in Australia backpacking.

Soooo on my work-desk today is an envelope tag book I am making
for Helen (she did make a comment after all) and it is her birthday
 next week.

I have nearly finished covering the envelopes with papers from MME, and EP

Then I will make all the tags, and add some decoration.
I'm also going to use the Donna Salzer creative tabs dies. The little
purple thing stood up at the back of the pic  is a mini tag book made
from one sheet of 12x12 paper, though it's not finished yet.

I have a reasonable sized amount of work space, but usually end up working

in an ever decreasing space of about about a foot square lol.
Love the colour of that Cerise felt, I'm going to  have a go at die cutting
it into some flowers.
I love the idea of the pay it forward and am looking forward to receiving
my handmade surprise from my FB friend, she makes fab cakes so
fingers crossed. As for my son, I haven't thought of what I could make
and send him yet, any suggestions ladies n gents ?
Happy crafting
Hugs
Lottie x

WOYWW

Hello Peeps,
I can't believe its been so long since I've been on here, I lost my mojo
some-where what with one thing and another, though I have been
getting a fix by visiting lots of other peoples blogs.
Any way as it is Wednesday I thought I would take part in
 WOYWW
So here we are.

Some stamps recently bought but not put away yet. The two Fizzy Moon
stamps were a bargain at £1.50 each, Boofle was free with the Creativity
magazine, Tilda with Koala I bought to make a card for  my son who is
back packing in Australia,and the beautiful butterflies I bought from Paper
Arts who made my on line shopping experience a pleasure as when my
package arrived the goods inside were wrapped in pretty heart paper
tied with pink twine and a sweet gift tag.

This is what my daughter bought me for Mothers Day.
Thank you Katie, Love you x

I love this ribbon it has a thinner ribbon running along the wider one
and has a string of pearls and butterflies attached as well.
It was sold as gift wrapping but I'm sure I can use it on a card.

I have been following Jennings 644 You Tube channel which is fantastic
for tutorials and inspiration, and  wanted to have a go at making the
shabby chic pearl flowers, she demo's. Hence all the beads

This is my first attempt

My Stampin Up order arrived Monday, the Fresh Vintage stamp set
were free in the saleabration event, the stamp wheel is Love blossoms
which goes with the You are Loved stamp set which I used on the
Valentine card you can see below.

The small beads in the pots,  I used on the butterfly card above.
 Inspired by a card I saw  on Mel Stampz Blog.The butterfly is a
Marianne designs die, which is beautiful, I used glitter card and
blinged it up with gems.
Hope you liked your visit
Thank you for looking
Hugs
Lottie x

Halloween Card

So this is the card I made

I have entered this card into

Make It Crafty :- Orange and Black

and also

Pixie Dust Studio :- Circles and/or Polka Dots

I merged my images and printed out onto Make it Colour blending cardstock
from Quixotic Paperie (absolutely love this card) masked the image then
made a stencil and used chipped sapphire DI to make the night sky
(never done this before, was quite pleased) I then coloured the image with a
mix of Spectrum Noir and Pro Markers. The moon I dusted with shimmer
chalks which looks lovely in real life.The border is the Spellbinder Fleur 
De Lis Accents die.  I thought it looked too heavy for the image so snipped
it down a bit, still not too sure if it looks ok?
Stuck a few tiny stars on and voila!!
Well, think I need another cuppa now and maybe just a little look on some
digi sites. I'm sure I spotted a lovely image I neeeeeeeed.
Hugs
Lottie x

Halloween Soon !!

Hello Peeps,I am home from Scotland and back in sunny? Halifax,
and after having a bit of a tidy in my craft room I went surfing..........
no, not the kind that involves balance, and getting wet, the kind where
you sit in your nice warm, (tidy?) craft place with a cup of tea and some
choccy biscuits and surf the web. I was on the hunt for digi's.
Yay! it is so nice to have working internet, I love being in Scotland but I miss
being able to check in on blog land etc even the mobile service is pants, I
couldn't use the phone for a whole week at one stage.
Ah well swings and roundabouts eh!

Any way back to the digi's, I am addicted to these at the mo and have been
collecting them like they are going out of fashion ha ha.
There is always another one I think I 'need' !!
Sooo many digi's Sooo little time hee hee.
I had already bought The Cape from  here and thought I could use her for
an Halloween card. I had an idea in my head of what I wanted to do, so I
found the Eerie scene from here and the cat from here

So now I think I have everything I need for my card, Here  goes !!