It Started With a Kiss.......

Morning Crafters,

How was your weekend? Mine flew by as usual, boring housework, blah blah blah.  We did drive to the national trust area to walk Ollie but as soon as we started our walk the heavens opened.  We took cover under the trees several times but eventually returned to the car and as soon as we did, it stopped, blooming weather!  I did manage to fit in a  little crafting.  I actually think my mojo has returned, yayyyyyy.

The DT over at Live and Love Crafts this week are following the theme of Romance.  I have used the Kort and Godt Vintage wedding sheet for the main image and also cut out the head and shoulders of the two people in the Melissa Frances clay frame from the same sheet.  My thinking was..... It was a couple looking back in time and hence my title of..... "It Started with a kiss", oh bless me aren't I a romantic......

Did you notice the new Melissa Frances hanger, OMG I have been waiting ages for these and each time Sandy tried to order they were out of stock, so if you want one, grab one now whilst stock lasts.  Link at the bottom of the post.

The papers, oh my the papers, aren't they just sooooo gorgeous, I know you must be bored of me saying that but I just soooo love them.  Anyway I have used two, MayaDesign Vintage Summer Basics 1905 and Vintage Spring Basics 6th March.

Look at the new beautiful, beautiful lace and the pearl beaded trim as well, two of my new favourites.  I do love the wider lace.

The butterflies are also cut from the Kort and Godt Vintage Wedding sheet and the Kort and Godt Vintage Men, aren't they just gorgeous. The frame around the main image is by Marianne Design.

Yes, I have used some frantage again, and my goodness my video has had well over a 1,000 views and I'm still receiving emails, so thank you all for your support, I am staggered, I really am.

Here's a close up of the beautiful double Mellissa Frances frame, it comes as part of a set.  I rubbed my finger in some tumbled glass distress ink over the contours of the framework and then sprinkled a little frantage.

 Here's a close up of one of the Kort and Godt butterflies cut from the sheet and I added a pen nib with the word "thoughts" on it.

Thank you for any comments you may leave today.  As usual all links are below and remember to check back tomorrow to see what our Tina has in store for us.

Hugs Tracy x

 

Lace and Pearls and Marianne's Divas

Morning Crafters,

I have something different for you today..... Well It's challenge time at Marianne's Divas and as you know my mojo went walkabouts so I thought I'd have a play at something different to see if I could trigger it and I really enjoyed making this tag.    Kjersti did a tutorial on making a tag using copic markers the Copic Marker Europe blog, so I thought I'd give it a go. Oh, by the way the challenge at Marianne's Divas is Lace and Pearls, nearly forgot that bit, lol.

I used my airbrush and copic markers E44, E47, E49 and B95 to create the background.  I then used my 6x6 brick template and again fired up the airbrush using the E79 and added a few bricks to the top left and the bottom right.  I then spritzed it with the copic activator and then stamped the Marianne Design "With Love" Stamp using Memento ink.  I added a few Paris postage stamps here and there and the wavy lines from the new Marianne Designs Stamps around the world set, love this set.

I added some lace, ribbon, beads,  a Pion Design butterfly and a white Prima Arcadian Flower to finish it off.

I also have a second card to share with you, again using Marianne Design products.  The paper is from Marianne Design Fabulous Fifties.

The ladies, Cotton City (middle of the apron), and the Dames dress table were all stamped from the Marianne Designs Fabulous Fifties Fashion CS0871 Stamp Set.

Ingredients:-

Marianne Design Clear Stamps Mail Around the World (CS0879)

Marianne Design Clear Stamp "With Love" (CS0866)

Marianne Design Fabulous Fifities Paper Bloc

Marianne Designs Craftables Apron (CR1246)

Prima Arcadian White Flower

Marianne Designs Fabulous Fifties Fashion CS0871 Stamp Set

Marianne Design Cream Lace, Handmade with Love Ribbon and Linen Rope

We are being sponsored by BunnyZoe for this challenge so would love you to join us and speaking of BunnyZoe, Nikki is having a sale this weekend, so if you want to save some pennies, and let's face it we all do, then click on the picture below.

Hugs Tracy x

Don't Miss This..............

Evening Everyone,

Just thought I'd pop on and tell you that on June 25th LLC will be One! To celebrate the team will be having a special birthday blog hop with tons of inspiration and lots of prizes.  Sandy has put together some awesome one year old candy, click on the picture below to get all the deets, but the prize is awesome and totals over £60 worth of goodies.

The Birthday Candy contains the following:

4 x sheets Maja Design

4 x sheets Pion Design

1 Pot "Shabby White" Embossing Enamel

1 Bottle "Clear Rock Candy" Distress Stickles

Melissa Frances "Bird Collection" Resin Embellishment Set

Melissa Frances Vellum Envelopes & Tags, Pink

Prima Velvet Trinkets "Zephyr"

Prima Wood Clocks & Tickets "Tea Thyme"

Maya Road Sew Cute Mini Chipboard Designs

Maya Road Primrose Organza Trim, 1 yard, white

Pearl Lace, 1 meter

Lace "Florence", 1 yard

Satin Ribbon, 1 meter, baby blue

Melissa Frances Pom Pom Trim, white, 1 yard

Magnolia Shabby Chic Dahlia Tinsels, pink

Lilac Poppies, 1 set (12 flowers)

Shabby Bark Hearts (1 set, 6 hearts)

Clay Hearts (1 set, 4 hearts)

Apples (1 set, 4 apples)

1x Pearl Stamen, white

Didn't I tell  you, you wouldn't want to miss it.......

Hugs Tracy x

Christmas in June

Morning,

Well guys after driving half way across the country I finally got a replacement car last night.  I've gone for the lowest insurance car, a little Citroen C2 2006 but I do actually like it and I'm sure will serve the purpose.  I am also dead nervous and feel like crying as My Son is going to drive it to school today for his exam.  As you can imagine I am sooooo nervous.  I went out with him last night so he has a feel for the car but he has promised to drive carefully, but none the less I am frantic with worry.  With all the car searching I am still very behind on blogging, so I do apologise, but I do love to read your comments, so thank you soooooooo very much for still being with me. :)

It's a new week and thus a new theme over at Live and Love Crafts.  I don't know about you but I like to get ahead with Christmas Cards so am grateful that the theme this week is "Christmas in June".

I have used Inkido's Christmas Music and decided to make a monochromatic card, just love all the browns/creams together..

It's the perfect opportunity to use one of those cute little angels Sandy has in store and I added some Kort and Godt berries and a pine cone and of course some snow tex and if you saw my post last Monday you would have noticed that I did a summer card using Snow Tex, so it's not just for Christmas, lol.

Here's a picture of the Brown Crispy ribbon with a little tulle and finished with a beautiful Teardrop Pearl Centre.

I have used 3 types of lace, aren't they gorgeous, all links below.

And here's a close up of the beautiful Angels, like butter wouldn't melt, lol.

Have a good week and Tina will be back to inspire you tomorrow.

Hugs Tracy x

Wings

Morning Everyone,

Did you all have a good weekend? Well the insurance has paid out less the £1000 excess of course, so I am now on a mission to find a new low cost insurance car, wish me luck.

It's challenge time at BunnyZoe and the theme is "Wings".  I have a few on my card namely the image, the charm and the Kaisercraft wooden embellishment which I have added distress crackle paint to and added some walnut stain distress ink.

The base was created using a Martha Stewart Punch around the Page Punches.  A little frantage has been added here and there, namely Aged Rose and Shabby White.

The butterfly is from the Magnolia Butterfly Kit, stamped in versamark and some cosmic shimmer added.

Here's a close up of the image coloured with distress inks.

And here's the wooden butterfly distressed with picket fence crackle paint and walnut stain distress ink and an prima Arcadian white flower added to the centre.

Lastly I used one of the new Marianne Designs Collectables Scallop and Sentiment Sets, links below.  I also added a little frantage here and there.

Magnolia Tilda with Butterfly and Butterfly Kit

Carta Bella Giddy Up 6x6 Paper Pad

Marianne Designs Scallop and Die Sentiments

Kaisercraft Wooden Butterfly Embellishment

Prima Arcadian White Flower

Prima Swirls Hello Pastel

Magnolia Doohickey Wrapped So Lovely Tag

Hugs Tracy x

Just Me

Hi Everyone,

Oops I just found this in my draft and it should of gone live a couple of days ago.

Hope your all having a good weekend.  Today I have one of the new release Bildmalarna images to show you, this one is called "Just Me Nr.8".  The gorgeous papers are by Carta Bella, called Giddy Up. You can just see the butterfly charm peeking out of the little bag, all links as usual are at the bottom of the post.

The beautiful Emily Lace is from the Ribbon Girl.  You can also see a little fastener to the left of the image.  This is from the CC Designs Grunge Accessories Set, links at the bottom of the post.  The gorgeous pink tulle is from Live and Love Crafts.

The large white Arcadian Flower is by Prima and is linked below to BunnyZoe.  The remaining flowers and stamen are available from The Ribbon Girl.

Hugs Tracy x

Bildmalarna Just Me Nr.8	Carta Bella Giddy Up 6x6 Pad	Marianne Designs Creatables Anjas 3 Vintage Ornaments	Marianne Designs Anja's Vintage Swirl LR0271	CCDesigns Grunge Accessories Die
Prima Arcadia White

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