LOTV Bears with Ribbon and Lace

Hullo there everyone, just very quick post with cards made a while ago before eye surgery. 

I had these LOTV images on my desk (dont you love them?? I do!).

These are two of the results; the others were made into baby cards not shown yet.  The images were on their sheet of six, no longer available as such sadly but images still are in other ways.

Used my spellbinder hexagons for both cards, recipes below.

Thanks so much for popping over for a peek and chat, I will comment as able but I really thank you for taking time to chat!
May God bless your day wherever you may be,
Shaz in Oz.x
I would like to enter Card 1 in:
1. LOTV Thursday Challenge @ Lili's fairies Lace - MS punch lace edge.

2.Word Art Wednesday challenge ~ Anything goes.  
3. Penny Black Saturday May Challenge Anything Goes 

Card 1:
Both Cards ~ Spellbinder Hexagons, plain and scalloped edge. 
Forever friends "Petal Pattern" embossing folder.
Cuttlebug greeting "Thanks" from Olivia alphabet
Marth Stewart Shell  Punch edge with pearls, and ribbon in ribbon binding (oh, I love that sort of ribbon).
Card 2:
Cuttlebug Love set (disc.) embossing folder
Taylor  Eyelet Border die
Ribbon from "Joyce, across the Pond" love it too! thank you, dear friend!
Snail embellishment from Afflleck's in Manchester.

Lili Of the Valley Challenge 100 Anything Goes

I have looked at this bride and groom image from Lili of the Valley many times and longed to have it and when I finally decided to do an order it was sold out!! so had to wait for it to come on sale again and used the wedding greeting from Lili of the Valley greeting set too love this set as well.

I used the Budding Vine embossing folder from Crafts Concepts and extended it using my method. Olivia Cuttlebug alphabet for initials of bride and groom - this was for my friend and I coloured the images in with my Promarkers and also using the Dovecraft Pearl chalks. I really love this soft colour combination. Used couple of scored lines on lien cardstock, my Taylor die for the edge, some braid and some pearls for simple adornments, my friend Steph was very happy with this.
I am entering this card in the Challenge 100 Anything Goes of Lili of the Valley - this is the first challenge I have entered for months, and if did not have to do this card anyway would not be entering! Really love this stamp!
Thanks for looking and may God bless your day wherever you may be,
Shaz in Oz. x

The Fragility of Life - A challenge!

Challenge #79 Stampin' Sisters in Christ.

Scripture: Isaiah 40:8 "The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: but the word of our God shall stand forever."

  This is a beautiful thought - life can become overwhelming at times, and "What is our life,  it is a vapour that appears for little time then vanishes away", as James said in his New testament letter.

James the Apostle was a wise man.. life will soon be past!

May we leave behind a pleasant and beautiful fragrance with all who may come across our path this day that the LORD has given us. Our God's word living in our lives will never fade or pass away!

Challenge: Use a stamped flower image on your card/project (note that patterned paper, embossing or paper flowers do not count as a stamped flower).

Recipe for these two cards:

1. Entry for the Challenge is the first card. . The two images on both cards are stamped with Stamp of Lily - Printblocks I-2022 (Brisbane, Qld firm, from 1990’s).

White cardstock mounted with Big W red cardstock, then, flower patterned from Ripe Razzle berry set by Stampin’ Up. It was edged with the Nellie Snellen Lace edge die.

Using Large labels I cut the Lily out, mounted on same red then on patterned paper from Stampin up Ripe Razzleberry. As stated on my last WOYWW post (see pictured here too) I used Primsa-watercolour pencils, and I enjoyed using them. Then sprayed it with Diamond dust Glimmer mist. I then stamped the ODB greeting at the base I like this as it covers many things. Birthday, encouragement, get well and even sympathy if you wished

I added the few pearl adornments.

2. Card with red embossed background, mounted on white cardstock. Background is Big W. red cardstock was cuttled with Moroccan screen, and the surface embossed with white chalk pad. The Taylor Eyelet Die was used to border it, along with the soft white cotton lace. Both background and edge were done with my extender method – see enlarging Cuttlebug folders here is one of them, check sidebar for more! and I do the same with border dies. I used Labels two for the stamp cut out this time and then the stamp treated the same as above, all the way down to pearls except lightly different.

For those of you who comment on my stones, this is stone mat at my courtyard door , a birthday present last year from my youngest sister. I started taking the shots there because mainly it has great natural light and thought the stones look okay. So it is something you could make yourself! If you want to know how just ask me by email click on my profile and email address is there...she is kind clever sister!

May Our God be with you through your day wherever you may be till next time,

love Shaz in Oz.x

What's On Your Workdesk? Wednesday 92

Well, here we are it is another WOYWW on the way!

Another Wednesday, the middle of our week.. the highlight of our week, to see what fun we get up to each week don’t forget to pop over to our royal hostess, Queen Julia and to join in the fun of WOYWW, at Julia's Stamping Ground!

My desk is looking amazingly tidy.. the reason for this is you always see it the day after cleaning day. NOT the day before cleaning day!! Believe you me, there was barely a clear space on it.

I have not been the best, but think it is progress being made there thankfully. I want to say a very big thank you for all the greetings of cheer from blogland. They do help!

I was rather late with my promised calligraphy post, but if you want to check it out please look here!

As you can see I have two little craft muses who sometimes appear on my work desk. Mainly because this is where they live, they are Avon breast cancer bears, you see and I rather like them. They are in front of my bag which has all my bibs and bobs in it, scissors, pens, glues, tapes, glimmer mists all those essentials you need and I love being able to pick it up in one hand from the cupboard behind, and put it all out there on the desk. It has a little rotator goes underneath which is great too. And my favourite green bug is here, plus two new arrivals in front of the muses. One is the Aspire flower stamp and Ink pad in Sepia which arrived yesterday from Simon Says (see Shazsilverwolf ! my stamp has come – see one of her many amazing creations with this stamp here. I can’t wait to play).

The Christmas (blue) card was done for Challenges (brayering on a cuttlebug folder – really fun!) and described in full here.

I did finish the two lily cards and will do them in detail on another post, hopefully. There is a rather sad tale about the lilies I did on my last week’s post as these are not them!!

I did last weeks in Promarkers and after had them all assembled I had the bright idea of adding a bit of perfect pearls to the stamens. A great idea, except I then immediately forgot I had done it (of course and working when I should have been resting) and promptly put things on both of them and squashed the wet pearls all over the lilies, NOW they did have a pearly sheen!!

I was able to rescue the cards. I re-stamped the lilies, and I decided to colour them this time with the pencils pictured here. Water colour Prismacolour pencils, borrowed from my sister to try them out. I was not happy with the first ones which is why I had used the pearls. If you are curious? YES! I did love the pencils they are great to use blend beautifully and so now to look around for some, and also try out the baby oil method (see my sidebar there is tutorial on it) and want to try that one!

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Anyway that is enough rambling from me.. I am going off to peek...

 May God bless you wherever you might be..

Shaz in Oz.x

PS here managed to take a close up later today.. I will give recipe tomorrow God willing. Want to enter one in a challenge.

Red Black and white

Well, orders can be very specific at times, and so here is another quick post.

The request was a birthday card in black and white with a large splash of red for her granddaughter!! So I made this one here, with the red background, mounted on white cardstock.

The floral stamps are from "Wildflower Sprigs" by Stampendous (clear stamps). Lovely aren't they and quite versatile, too.

The butterfly stamp is part of a set from Victorine Originals (US).

The swirls stamped image is from "Wild Daisy Rd" set Heidi Grace Clear Stamps by Fiskars, it is bordered by the Taylor Eyelet Border die to make the edges to the bottom panel. A black and white spot ribbon with my Bow-easy making the bow. I have yet to master that Bow-easy!! A few diamantes in red and pearls to finish it off! (Note to self: to get some black bling.)

Have to get onto another order, a 60^th again!! God bless and happy crafting!

Lili of Valley - All Wrapped Up!

Well, I have not long discovered Lili of the Valley site and they are such gorgeous stamps. I have the grand total of two of them and now have used them both, much to my delight!
Their site is full of tips and helps which I also love (especially love the colouring tips) and so I thought I would try to enter their Thursday Challenge for my very first card in a challenge and here she is!

I just fell in love with this stamp when I first saw it on their blog as it reminded me of a birthday card I received from a favourite aunt when I was eight years old.So special!

The paper is from Stampin' up and love the combination of Razzle Raspberry and Old Olive that the set came in.

I tried to match the colouring with the paper but I am a tad limited in my colours! And in my ability to colour - I have a VERY long way to go, it is one big exciting learning curve.

Other ingredients include:

• Lili of Valley *Stamp* - All Wrapped Up
• Taylored Expressions Eyelet die
• Marianne Flower Die
• Stampin’ Up paper Raspberry, Old Olive & Ribbon
• Promarkers, Distress ink water coloured for green.
• Oval Nestabilities

I may enter this card in the candy available at present on Cat’s Whiskers Blog Spot too, I am licking my lips like a cat at the thought of it - as there were Lili of the Valley stamps on offer there too! Mm!