Twinkle Twinkle Little Star

I make no excuse for showing another Sneak Peek from Lili of the Valley Christmas release that will be available for you to buy from the website tomorrow, I know how many of you are looking forward to owning these darling images.
I have used copics to colour this sweet image, the papers are from my stash, so again I am not sure who makes them.  I cannot wait to see this years Christmas Papers there was such brilliant ranges last year hope they will be as good once again.
The snowflake is a Nestablities Die and has been glittered to the limit.  I also bought the round sentiment stamp last year and cannot remember who from, (loss of memory is one of the results of getting old I am afraid lol!!!) .

Don’t forget to get over to the Lili of the Valley  website early tomorrow as I am sure these are going to fly off of the shelf. 

UPDATE, the lovely Anne has just told me that the papers are Bo Bunny thanks sweetie xxx
Hugs
Jacqui xxx

Another Little LOTV Candy

As promised I am back today with a little Lili of the Valley Candy for you, nothing to do just leave a comment, and Mum will again choose a winner of these 2 cute stamps, the candy will close at Midnight on the 13th July to co-inside with the launch of the new Lili of the Valley 1st Christmas release on the 14th July.

 

 

Best Of luck

Hugs Jacqui xx

LOTV New Release

I should have had a Penny Black DT Card to show you today, but what with the amount of DT work I have on at the moment and also the heat in my craft room, I just have not managed it.  So I am showing you a couple more sneaks of the new Lili of the Valley Christmas release.

Another stunning simple but cute image this one, it is another that will be released on 14th July.  I have used Prisma Pencils for a change to colour this one it is ages since I even looked at my Prismas.  The papers are Magnolia, it doesn’t show on the piccie but I actually went mad with the Stardust Stickles and added some to each dot on the background paper.  Of course the flowers are from Wild Orchid Crafts.

Now another image featuring Amy and Madison

This one is from the Christmas People Collection also released at the same time as the Nativity collection, I love the fact that the characters in this collection are named after Bev and My Grandchildren it just makes them feel so personal.

This is called Dropping the Presents, look at little Madison picking them up, Copics and H20’s have been used as colouring medium, the Papers are from last year so cannot remember where they came from.  I have used Martha Stewart Star Border Punch to give a christmassy feel.  The Wild Orchid Flowers have been glittered to within an inch of their lives,  The Holly Leaves are also available now from Wild Orchid Crafts.

Thanks for looking and have a great weekend, don’t forget to check the post below to find out the winner of my LOTV Candy, will have another candy for you tomorrow.
Hugs Jacqui xxx

Winner of LOTV Candy

Sorry this is a bit late Mr Linky kept disappearing.

The Winner of the Candy is 

Link 166 that is Jo from Jos Crafty Creations

can you e-mail me your address dear so I can get them off to you.

Be back a bit later with a card for you.

Hugs

Jacqui xx

Just Magnolia Challenge

This weeks Theme  on Just Magnolia Challenge is a Recipe: 3 flowers, 2 papers and 1 ribbon.  Easy hey?

We are being sponsored by Tracy of Creative Treasures - a family run business with a love of all things craft related. They stock a great range of Mulberry Flowers, ribbons, lace, crystal drops, card candy, charms and lots of pretty embellishments. They are always adding new stock. Our aim is to provide a fantastic customer service and great value for money. 

 

I had a tidy up of my craft desk and found enough space to get out my Distress Inks after a long break from using them, it was heaven didn’t realise how much I had missed using them.  I have coloured Ballerina Tilda, with the following colours:

Face,Hands & Legs – Tea Dye and Tattered Rose, Dress & Shoes Weathered Wood, Hair & soles of shoes Antique Linen.

I stamped around the edge of the image with a Stempleglede Swirl Stamp which I then glittered with Glamour Dust, The Sentiment is also a Magnolia Stamp and I have also glittered the first letter of each word.

The lush papers are Magnolia available at Crafts U Love, OMG you must check out the new Wedding Collection papers they are stunning.  The Blue Cherry Blossom which has been glittered around the edge with StarDust Stickles are from Wild Orchid Crafts.

I understand it is going to be very hot today it could even reach 31 degrees so please take care if you are going out.

Big Hugs

Jacqui xxxx 

Lili of the Valley Challenge and another Sneak Peek

 

Did you know that Lili of the Valley are releasing over 40 Christmas designs in the next couple of months including some gorgeous Kids Nativity stamps which you won’t be able to resist, loads of traditional Christmas characters and scenes which are just so cute, plus Polar Bears, Pups and Penguins and more of their fantastic Bear, now called James! 

The first set of 15-20 designs are released next Wednesday 14th July so look out for sneak peaks and beautiful cards on all the LOTV Design Team’s Blogs!

LOTV are offering two brand new Christmas stamps of your choice to the winner of this Challenge.

We have a fab sketch designed by Dawny P for Lili of the Valley Challenge this week, loved working with it. 

 

I have used another of the cute Nativity Stamps for my card, it has been coloured with Copics and Gold Glamour Dust has been added to the stars.  The Ribbon and Flowers are all from Wild Orchid Crafts, the lush paper is from the New Magnolia Wedding Paper collection available from Crafts U Love.

I thought you might like another sneak peek

Its the turn of Little Girls today, as usual with Lili of the Valley these girls are just adorable, I thought I would go for my favourite colour combination for this one, but I am sure she will look fantastic in Red and Green.

The papers are last year Magnolia Christmas, cannot wait to see what they come up with this year, the border is a Spellbinder Borderablity, I distressed the cut out flowers with Victorian Velvet Distress Ink then using glue gel I added them back into place on the border,the poinsettias were originally white, I sprayed them with Snow Angel Glimmer Mist, the larger flower is a Prima one from last years Prima Collection, brads from The Hobby House.

Hope you have enjoyed your sneak peeks, not long to go before you can have these little dears to play with yourselves, Don’t forget to scroll down to my last  post to join in my little LOTV Blog Candy, and Bev also has 2 LOTV stamps as candy on her blog.

Hugs Jacqui xxx

Lili of the Valley Sneak peeks and a Little Candy

Hold on to your chair, you are about to see a couple of the cutest, awesome good value Christmas stamps ever!!!!!!!!!!! I had such trouble deciding which stamps to show you first, so I thought I would show you just show you two at random because every image is my favourite ;).  I cannot believe my luck that I am on the Lili of the Valley design Team each release just gets better and better!!!.  The first set of Christmas Stamps will be released on 14th July and will be available on the Website from that date, they include Nativity and People.  More information about the stamps and launch tomorrow on the Lili of the Valley Challenge Blog.

My First Card is using Owen decorating the Tree I am so pleased to say he is named after one of my Grandsons.  I have used Copics to colour the image and thanks to a tip from Bev I have added Twinkling H20’s to give a bit of depth.  The papers are Basic Grey left over from last year, the fantastic lush vine as a gift from my dear friend Jacque thank you dear xxxxx.  The flowers have been punched with a tiny retro flower punch which I think I got from The Hobby House.

My next card is from the Nativity set
 

Here is Amy as the Angel Gabriel and Owen as a Shepherd this stamp is called Angel Gabriel.  What I love so much about these stamps is that they will appeal to anyone from 8 months to 80 who could not smile when they opened up a card with this image.
 
The Backing Paper used on here is from the last years Magnolia Christmas Collection, I then stamped A Magnolia Stamp – Silent Night onto white paper and distressed with a Timmy H distressing Tool, and Weathered Wood Distress Ink.  The Prima Pearls are from The Hobby House, Doyley from Joanna Sheen, and of course the Cherry Blossom from Wild Orchid Crafts.

Now for a small candy just to thank everyone who has stayed with me in the last few months and left such uplifting comments especially when I have been such a bad blogger.  All you need to do to be in with a chance of this candy is to leave your name on Mr Linky below, I will pick (or Mum will pick) a number on Friday Midnight.  No need to link on your blog as I would like this candy to be for my regular visitors.
So to win these two Lili of the Valley Stamps just leave your name on Mr Linky, and best of Luck.


If you would like a chance to win more LOTV lushessness pop over to Bevs blog where she is also offering 2 stamps and showing her own sneak peek, and don’t forget if you would like more sneak peeks don’t forget to check out the DT cards on tomorrows new Lili of the Valley Challenge
Hugs Jacqui x

Baby is Hot Outside

Wow there is a stunning sketch on Quixotic Paperie Challenge and by coincidence I have just received my lovely new Belles & Whistles  Stamps from Elaine, I was just waiting for the chance to use them.

I am going to use this card for Lucys First Birthday next month, she has grown into the prettiest little girl ever, well I know I am a bit prejudiced but after 4 sons and 6 grandsons   I think I am entitled to be!!!!!
What a stunning image this is from Elizabeth Bell, the papers used are from my Scrap Drawers which I am trying to raid a bit more as soon my scrap paper will take over my room and I will have to find somewhere else to craft.  The scrolls are a Sizzix Die from Crafters Companion, flat back pearls from The Hobby House, The large Curly Wild Rose, Pink Cherry Blossom , 15mm Pink Roses and 1/2” pink Ribbon are all from Wild Orchid Crafts.

 POST UPDATE  WELL I AM IN MY NUMPTY FAZE AGAIN AND BY THE TIME I HAD ENTERED THIS THE CHALLENGE WAS CLOSED, LUCKY THE NEW CHALLENGE WAS PEARLS SO I HAVE ENTERED HER FOR THAT ONE, Thanks Elaine Mwah xxxx
Thanks for looking
Hugs Jacqui xxx   

A Spoonfull of Sugar card Drive for Michelle

 

We would like to share some sad news today, some of you may already know from her blog, our design team member Michelle had an accident about two weeks ago, which has left her with the loss of her right eye and a long road of recovery ahead. In an effort to cheer her up and raise awareness for what happened to Michelle we are holding a card drive in her honour. We have many generous companies and individuals helping us with this special card drive and we hope you will help too!

We are asking that everyone please create a card in dedication to Michelle and mail it off to her. We would love nothing more than to flood her mailbox with well wishes from around the world. Michelle has shared so much of herself on her blog and in her design team work and this is a just a small way for us to give back to her.

As Michelle is also a member of Just Magnolia Challenge  her friends on the JM DT have also Joined us at A Spoonfull of Sugar in this Card Drive.  To find out more about the Card Drive please visit the A Spoonfull of Sugar Challenge blog.  Two of Whimsy Stamps lovely Artists Melissa Jenkins and Ann Vento have teamed up together to bring us this very special donkey image and matching sentiments, these are all available to download for free from the Whimsy Stamps store page.

I have used the fabulous Donkey Digi download and one of the sentiments that the lovely Denise commissioned, I have used Copics to colour him in the papers are Basic Grey Copella and the gorgeous scrumptious ribbon and flowers are from Wild Orchid Crafts.

  

Once again I do hope you will join in this wonderful Card Drive that I know has taken dear Debbie ages to set up, and find sponsors for, the generosity of the wonderful blogging community never ceases to amaze me, thank you all!!!!

Hugs Jacqui xx

Lili of the Valley Stamp Sheet Offers

It was a bit hot for decorating today so we gave up earlier this afternoon and went to the beach, thats the great thing living so close to the sea.  Anyway I forgot to show you these two cards I made for Lili of the Valley last week, my head is like a sieve.

We've got 4 sets of all our favourite LOTV Stamps - Oh so Girlie, Boy Oh Boy, Occasions and Merry Christmas. All the sheets have 4 full size LOTV stamps on there plus 8 greetings.

They are currently for sale at only £12!! It's crazy really when you think that there is over £18 worth of stamps on there - but we've made them part of our Midsummer Madness 10 days which is running from 2nd - 12th July. For the whole 10 days, all our die cuts are only 50p a sheet and, like I said, these brand new stamp sheets are only £12.
We've picked our very best sellers for the sheets - except for the Christmas one which has 4 BRAND NEW designs on there. We thought we'd whet your appetite for our Christmas range of 40 stamps (yes 40 - we must be mad!) which we're launching at the end of this month and in August.
We've only got a limited supply of these sheets at the moment as we're just wanted to see how they go - so if you want them I'd be quick as we took them to the Doncaster exhibition at the weekend and they were really popular.
CLICK HERE TO BUY THE SHEETS OR TO SEE MORE ABOUT THEM

 

I thought I would show you a couple of the new stamps on the Christmas Sheet, this one is Maddison and Amy, named after Bevs Dog and her gorgeous Grandaughter.   I must admit she is my Favourite, I have used Copics and lots of Twinklets on here, looks so sparkly in real life.  The papers are from Magnolia, and the fantastic Poinsettias are from Wild Orchid Crafts, the best Poinsettias I have seen or used.

I bet you will fall in love with this little darling Pup, there are lots more images like this one and Maddison and Amy coming out soon.

Again I have used Magnolia Papers and Wild Orchid Crafts Red Cherry Blossom, The snowflakes were punched with Martha Stewart Snowflake punch released last year, and the Icicle Border is also a Martha Stewart Border Punch I have added Glamour Dust to the edges of the Iciles and Twinklets for the snow and snowflakes.

Hope you have all had a good day

Hugs Jacqui xx

Popcorn Sneak Peek

 

This Monday (5th July)  Crafters Companion  are launching a fantastic addition to the ever-popular Popcorn the Bear range - and this time, we're going Platinum! Alongside the brown bear that you know and love, there is also a range where the bear with the 'aah' factor is coloured in monochromatic tones - Popcorn Platinum.

Launching exclusively on Ideal World at 9pm Monday, we will be bringing you a fabulous triple-disc CD-ROM, and six delicious rubber stamps as part of our ever-popular Popcorn range.

So today I thought I would show you a couple of Sneak Peeks, As you will notice Popcorn is again been reduced to a brilliant size for fitting onto Nesties and for 6 x 6 cards, and there are designs for all occassions and people in this release,

From Boys to

Babys to

Celebrations and

General.  At the same time as the Platinum Popcorn release there will also be a CD and 2 sets of stamps feature Popcorns friend Souffle the Duck these are just such sweet images and perfect for smaller cards and Babys.

Isn’t he just the cutest.

Hope you have enjoyed this sneak peek now I am off to finish the decorating, we got a lot done yesterday, mostly the horrible prep work so today the best bit comes the wallpapering.

I would like to wish all our friends over the pond a wonderful 4th July

Hugs

Jacqui xxx