J'ai étampé la cigogne (How Sweet it is, Gina K Design) et je l'ai coloriée avec les marqueurs Copic (couleurs Y19, Y21, BG000, B91, B93, E00, C1, C3, C5, 0). Je l'ai découpée et embossée avec les Nestabilities Standard Ovals (Spellbinder). L'ovale festonné a été fait dans un carton texturé Bleu Bayou (Stmapin'Up!). J'ai assemblé le tout sur un fond Doux Ciel et Murmure Blanc(Stampin'Up!), en ayant préalablement embossé le carton blanc avec le classeur Swiss Dots (Cuttlebug, Provocraft). Le souhait (Voeux parfaits, Stampin'Up!) est étampé en noir sur carton murmure blanc. L'arrondi est fait avec un poinçon rond ½ pouce. Le ruban est aussi de Stampin'Up!, couleur Bleu Bayou.

Voilà. SVP dites-moi ce que vous en pensez. Je suis entrain de décider si je la donne ou si j'en fait une autre...

Merci, et à bientôt!
Lauraline

Supplies:

• Green Scrapbook Sally cardstock
• Hero Arts Sparkle Clear "Yoo Hoo Owl" set
• Fluid chalk inks in Moss Green, Dark Moss and Blush Rose
• SU Close to Cocoa Ink Pad
• Palette Noir Ink Pad
• COPIC Markers
• Flower gems from the Hero Arts Sparkle Clear set
• Bronze Perlidoodles

I used my new toy, the Making Memories 12x12 Paper Trimmer, which is so lovely.  Is it me, or is there just an unrelenting search for a decent trimmer when you papercraft?

I've finished the charm as well, and will upload it tomorrow.

J'ai utilisé trois étampes de fruits de Lockhart Stamp Company, des étampes exprès pour faire des Inchies. J'ai colorié les fruits avec les marqueurs Copics (couleurs: V06, V09, R14, R27, R29, R59, Y000, YG00, YG23, YG25, G21, G24, G28), puis je les ai coupé avec les Nestabilities carrés (Spellbinder), et en laissant le carton dans le "die", j'ai fait le fond avec l'airbrush de Copic avec le marqueur BG000. En laissant le carton dans le die, ça laisse le tour blanc. J'ai ensuite coupé trois carrés festonnés toujours avec les Nestabilities. J'ai fait le fond (couleur Doux Ciel de Stampin'Up!) avec le classeur Tiny Bubbles de la Cuttlebug (Provocraft). Puis j'ai monté le tout sur une carte noire, avec un ruban gros grain noir (Stampin'Up!) et le souhait Pour toi (Stampin'Up!, jeu Fêtes Diverses) étampé à l'encre craft blanche (Stampin'Up!).

À bientôt!
Lauraline

Voici une carte que j'ai créé hier soir avec les étampes du jeu "How sweet it is" de Gina K Designs. Si au départ je voulais une carte pour ma belle-soeur, je crois que je vais la garder pour mon père puisque j'ai toujours de la difficulté à créer des cartes masculine. Celle-ci est pas mal unisexe.

J'ai étampé l'image (Gina K Designs) avec l'encre Memento (Tsukineko), puis je l'ai coloriée avec les marqueurs Copic (couleurs: YR31, YR31+0, R46, R59, E71, E77, E79, T1, T3, W0, 0, Spica Clear). Je l'ai ensuite taillée et embossée avec les Nestabilities (Petite Circle). Le fond est fait avec la Cuttlebug et le classeur à embosser Swiss Dots. Le tout est monté sur une carte Presque Cacao (Stampin'Up!) avec un ruban gros grain 5/8'' Pépite de chocolat (Stampin'Up!). J'ai embossé le souhait (Stampin'Up!, Un petit plaisir de fête) pour lui donner un peu plus de volume.

J'espère que vous avez apprécié. À bientôt!
Lauraline

Puis voici ce que ça a l'air quand on tire sur les onglets pour les ouvrir:

C'est vraiment très amusant à faire, et ça se donne bien en cadeau!

À bientôt!
Lauraline

Note: Tout le matériel est de Stampin'Up!, sauf les Dew Drops (Robin's Nest) et les marqueurs (Copic) utilisés sur les porte-photos vert et rouge.

It was the first time I used my Zutter BIA, and I have to admit that probably reading the directions might have been good, but I was so short of time.

My friend Karen had asked me in the afternoon to produce this for her little Molly to add pictures and stories in for her nursery teacher.  Given I had only about half an hour, it's not bad.

Bonjour, me revoici à une nouvelle adresse. Pour l'instant ça ne fait pas une grande différence, mais Wordpress me permettra éventuellement une plus grande flexibilité. Le format risque de changer au cours des prochaines semaines, je travaille là-dessus. Mais pour l'instant, celui-ci va faire.

Je veux aujourd'hui vous parler d'Inchies. C'est difficile à traduire, puisque le nom décrit vraiment bien ce que c'est: une image d'un pouce par un pouce. Ça vient des États-Unis. Ça consiste à faire une miniature d'un pouce par un pouce. Ça peut provenir d'une image plus grande, ou d'une petite image. C'est très amusant à faire. J'ai découvert ça sur le blog d'Ellen Huston. Vous pouvez également aller faire un tour sur le site Inchie Arts, où vous trouverez également beaucoup d'information sur les Inchies.

Voici maintenant mes Inchies à moi. La première carte que je vous présente est non seulement mon premier Inchie, mais aussi mon premier essai de brasage (soldering), dont je reparlerai dans un autre message. J'aime beaucoup le Inchie et le modèle de la carte, j'aurais pu choisir d'autres couleurs de carton... J'étais excitée de faire mon premier projet de brasage alors je me suis dépêchée à le monter sur une carte sans trop réfléchir. J'aime bien quand même.

Ensuite, l'autre image est seulement un Inchie, je ne l'ai pas monté sur une carte. Il est photographié à côté de l'étampe que j'ai utilisée. Ici j'ai coupé une portion de l'image pour ne garder qu'une section d'un pouce carré. J'ai créé cet Inchie pour le concours mensuel d'Ellen Hutson.

Voilà, j'espère que vous avez apprécié!
À bientôt!

Lauraline

Note: les deux projets sont faits à partir d'étampes de Lockhart Stamp Company et sont coloriées avec les marqueurs Copic.

 My Cousin had a baby boy at the end of last week, so this is off to NY.

Like buses, my cards usually come along in 2's or 3's, as I tend to use the stuff that's hanging around in the vicinity of my craft desk. So if it looks a little similar to the last one, that's because I used the same kind of card blank and the darling Sweetwater stars pattern paper.

Other supplies:  Cricuit was George & All Mixed Up Cartridges; Stampendous "Hello Baby Set" for main image, inside the card and the envie; COPIC Markers; Palette Noir Ink.  Also orange Bazzill and blue Scrapbook Sally cardstock, ribbon, silk flowers and orange brad.

made with Sweetwater paper that's been hoarded for a very long time, bright orange and green bazzil cardstock, nesties and the "Cheers to You" SU set - oh, and of course coloured in with COPICs and with a bit of stickles on the foam bit of the beer.

I also made a whole lot of wee shopping bags with my Cricut, which I put some of the soap that was ready to be used in, and gave each of the girls at work one.  Disappointingly, they were supposed to actually use it, but have been hoarding it.  I mentioned on Friday, that they actually did need to use it and give me feedback, so fingers crossed on Monday that will have happened.  I love my soap, but I need to know what other people think of it too.

I've done no crafting this weekend, but not unsurprisingly, have made two further batches of soap.  Playing around with silk in them and also clay.  They smell devine, and are women's shaving soap.  Hopefully, they will turn out well.

It's been really nice to give the crafting a rest, I was beginning to feel that I was churning out just the same card in different colours, and I feel that some inspiration is beginning to form in my again.  I love to say that I needed new stamps, but in reality I have so much virgin rubber, that is not really an excuse I can use.....my mojo's been off round the world!

Toodles and I went on a lovely bike ride this afternoon. We had to drag Guy along, as the bikes don't fit in my car, so he drove down with us to the local Countrypark at Hayesden, and we did several circuits of the lake. It was beautifully sunny, and such a precious time together. We then sat on a bench in the play area and scoffed Mr Whippy with flakes - yum.

This was the first time that we've managed to get out for more than a quick ride, which is quite disgusting considering I got the bike just before Christmas - and just goes to show just how busy we are as a family (it's a modern day sickness having no time for quality family bits and bobs).

Translated: "Booze, bitch - in dubio prosecco". (Prosecco [i.e. special italian sparkling wine] is very, very popular in Germany for women to get drunk as fast as they can).

I am also hoping now that Trevor is out of college for the summer that he will help me load, crop and upload all of my paper crafting item pictures to my eBay store.  I am hoping to get this all up and running by the end of July at the latest, but you know what they say about the best laid plans... I am going to try anyway! :)

Trev is also going to load up some of my cards I have made so far and post them on here, again probably not until after the 4th.

Have a great weekend!

230508
Originally uploaded by me

220508
Originally uploaded by me

170508
Originally uploaded by me

160508

Originally uploaded by me

150508

Originally uploaded by me

ja sowas tolles mach ich bei der arbeit und zwar wenn ich pause mache ~3~

ich mag die haare X3 mal gelungene dauerwelle ^^, eigentlich war es anfänglich gedacht das mädchen von vorne zu zeichnen....naja das war mir irgedwie zu blöd und ich hab mich halt umentschieden XD

I salivate over the lovely things pieces of work that Zindorf produces, and have resolved to definitely get to know my brayer.

I've set myself the target of doing 101 pieces of artwork with it - not every day, but at least once a week is the plan - and then hopefully by the end of that the brayer and I will be best buds.

So, this is number 101 on the countdown.

I'm quite pleased with it, but do still need to work on keeping the middle section a defined colour.

Supplies:

• Whispers White Cardstock (SU)
• Seahorse stamp (Anita's)
• Fern & starfish stamps (Stampington Bolio set)
• SU Dye Inks in Bareley Banana, Certain Celery, Old Olive & Chocolate Chip
• Denim Adirondak Dye Ink
• Palette Noir ink
• Versamark Pen
• Chiaro Flo Clear Embossing Powder
• COPIC Markers in Flesh, Pink & Yellow

 I'd started doing Cute Card Thursday last week, which had a Garden theme, and didn't have time to finish it, so I combined the gems (or in this case Mink Special Edition Zoomz) on to the card to cover both challenges.

Acutally, it works quite well, because The Galaxy put up some Zoomz as prizes on the Challenge this week, so it's quite appropriate to include Zoomz on my card - not hard though, as I use them all the time anyway.

Supplies:

• Petrol Blue, Pink & Brown cardstock (Prism) & Whispers White (SU)
• Small pieces of floral & green pattern paper (from my Anna Griffin box set)
• French Manuscript Stamp (Oasis11E)
• Tree For All Seasons Stamp (SU set)
• Palette Nor Ink
• Chocolate Chip & Olive Ink (SU)
• COPIC Markers (keep an eye on the Galaxy these might just be landing any time)
• Coffee orzanga ribbon & small cream silk ribbon
• Mink Special Edition Zoomz
• Nestabilities circle dies
• Scor-it board
• Concave punch (Creative Imagination)
• Fiskars trimmer (the cutting deck bit is getting a bit knackered at the moment)

Pretty straight forward card really, cut out the innter circle from white cardstock, stamped on the summer tree image from the set and coloured in with COPICS.  Matted on pink, then green, then brown cardstock.

Stamped french manuscript on pink cardstock twice (one below the other), the cut out and inked on Chocolate Chip ink.  Put on a larger than I would normally use matt, and then used then produced ticket corners.  Tied round some brown organza ribbon, and a tiny scrap of cream silk ribbon. ** Zindorf's inspiring me so much at the moment, and the sponged on Chocolate Chip ink was a homage to her, also I saw a fabbie card on Deb's blog, and this gave me the idea for using the script stamp (I think the original card came from Heather).

The floral pattern paper was cut to size, and edged with Old Olive ink, then placed on the lefthand side, added the manuscript section over the top, and the circle image over this positioned slightly to the top right.

Zoomz placed at bottom left, and more coffee organza round spine.

I will place an insert inside with a stamped image, and decorate the envie as usual, and also I stamp an old Handstamped image on the back of the card (it's an old SU set that I bought from Caz).

***

In our house, these pesky Sylvanian's get everywhere (as you can see from the pic).  Lydia's just taken delivery of the Wedding Chapel, thus the bridge and groom are out for a photographic opportunity before getting hitched!

Thank to Guy I got a better picture of the card than my first attempt, apparently (and as he's just proved) it's not the camera, but me.  I think I really do need to invest in a light tent, as I can't phaff around taking things outside to photograph.

Hopefully, when I get a studio outside, then I can have a light tent permanently set up.

Click for larger size, more options on Flickr, etc.

Doodle thingy as well as messing around with my markers because I don't like going for too long without using them. It's actually just to reassure myself that spending $9 on an E00 Various Ink wasn't a waste of money and that it won't evaporate if I don't use it for too long.

This is Hina Kagiyama from Touhou. She's the goddess of curses.