The Stamp Man Embellish It Challenge Entry!

I am Entering this Card into

"The Stamp Man Embellish It Challenge"

This is the link if you would like to join in

http://thestampmanchallenges.blogspot.com/2012/01/stamp-man-embellish-it-challenge.html

The base of the card and the flourish & heart layers were stamped on Watercolour Paper. I thought it would give it a more aged look as the surface was slightly ruff. I have listed below all materials used;-

Stempelgede Flourish Hearts Stamps Set

La Blanch script background stamp

K&Company Madeline paper for butterfly

Versamark & Cosmic Shimmer Gold embossing powder for Script on butterfly & Embossed Love sentiment

StazOn Timber Brown Ink

Antique Linen Distress Ink

Whispers Chestnut Ink

Whispers Grand Cranberry Ink

Papermainia Button

Organza Pink Ribbon

Stickles Diamond Glue

Liquid Pearls Petal Pink

Liquid Pearls White Opal

Small piece of Vintage book paper for the Love Sentiment

Hot Off The Press Love Sentiment Stamp

Sticky Gems

Hope everyone has a great Sunday!

Lavinia

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Make My Monday Challenge!

This is my entry for the Make My Monday Challenge!

http://mimchallegeblog.blogspot.com/

The theame is Nature Flowers & Leaves

I hope I make it by the skin of my teeth in to it

Here goes.....

I made a Tri Fold Shutter Card base On the Hougie Board

Papers I used are from Craftwork cards

Flowers are Papermainia

As is the sparkly brad

And the sentiment stamp is Paula Pascual

Enjoy your Monday everyone!

Lavinia

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Whats On Your Work Wednesday 138....Ribbons!

Hi Blog hoppers of What's On Your Work Desk Wednesday! Today I will mostly be sorting out Ribbons....lots of Ribbons, not just what you see here....I have bags & bags & bags of them. Just plain old chucked in, not sorted or anything! So today is the day they start to get sorted out.

Have a few ideas of what I am going to do for a storage idea, most of my ribbon is bought in lengths from a local market. They have loads of choice and nearly ever week I visit the stall I end up with at least 3 or 4 different styles of of few meters of each. I only buy reels of ribbons if that's all I can get in what I want, which is not often. The latest ones are those organza rose ribbons that are pretty, however they cost £2.50 a meter, bit pricey but couldn't resist!

The bag of vintage lace was purchased in France last October while I was visiting Carccassone. I got the bag for 10Euro after a bit of a haggle with a very abrupt & slightly drunk Frenchman, it was after all 2pm and the entire population of France, including me at the time had just come back form a 2hour lunch that had been all washed down with the obligatory 1 litre of wine! Hence my gusto to haggle, anyway I got it down from 17 Euro, which I thought was quite good! I need to sort it out and wrap it around some card & store it well, there is some really old pretty pieces in it.

Thanks to everyone who visited me me last week on my first week back after short blog sabbatical. I had some lovely comments that really lifted me :) lovely!

Hope everyone enjoys the rest of their day & thanks for stopping by!

Lavinia

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OOOooo I received a Blog Award!

I would like the thank Joe over at http://scrapbookjoeblog.blogspot.com/ for this lovely award & for picking my blog to award it too! How lovely, you made my day Joe x

This is award is given to Blogs with under 200 followers.

Joe Says...

The Rules are:

1. Show your thanks to the blogger who gave you the award by linking back to them.

2. Reveal your five picks for the award and let them know.

3. Post the award on your blog.

4. Bask in the love from the most supportive people on the blogshare-other bloggers.

5. Finally and the best rule of all..........have fun and spread the love!

My blogs I have chosen are;-

http://bellefrancaiseinteriors.blogspot.com/

http://whisperedwhimsyvintage.blogspot.com/

http://glittergrammy.blogspot.com/

http://kezzyscraftyjourney.blogspot.com/

http://505whimsygirl.blogspot.com/

The five I have chosen are all great blogs to be inspired by and created by wonderfully talented people! They reflect my love of Interiors as well as Crafts & Card Making.

I hope you enjoy looking at them as much as I do!

Lavinia

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What's On Your Work Wednesday 137

What's on my desk this cold & dark day??

My box of wots nots

Some Martha Stewart crystal fine glitter

Vintage photo ink-pad

Versamark ink-pad

Distress Tool

Creation of a card.....erm well I think it is!

And part of the Flower Patch Collection by Dawn Bibby

And a Autumn Leaves scroll stamp

And a card I made a while back for an idea I had for the maybe card I am doing now!

Phew.....did that makes sense :)

Plus my other bits & bobs hanging about on my desk that dont warrant worth mentioning! But I cant be without them. Though I would show you my Craft Storage Unit now that its finally tidy & sorted out!

Hope you all have a great day, whats left of it anyway, I am very late with this entry due to me faffing about most of the day! But in a good way :) Take care everyone and thanks for stopping by & dont forget to say "Hi"

Lavinia

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First Post of 2012

Well here we go first post of the new year. I hope everyone and my followers had a fine festive time & are all looking forward to a an exciting new crafty year full of new stash to buy & styles to try. One of my first crafty wants is to try to make my space here in my shared room a bit more functional! Its hard when you have to fit in a 8ft wide by 4ft deep space. I have been perusing the Ikea catalogue and think I have come up with a solution? Its just the cash to fund proposed revamp I have to get together now ;) maybe a clear out and a bit of e-baying is on the cards!

I would like to say "Hello & Welcome" to my new followers:-

Lulu over at http://bellefrancaiseinteriors.blogspot.com/

As some of you know I am a bit of a Francophile and love all things French especially interiors! Go have a peek at her great creations!

Joe over at http://scrapbookjoeblog.blogspot.com/

This is one amazing craft room & wonderful inspiring crafty creations, a guy with fantastic vintage style and a wonderful flair for all things Craft!

I have made quite a few cards of late however I have light issues of late! The lack of it that is. I think I need to invest in a Light Box of some sorts (any advice would be most welcome on this subject :) I did manage to take this pic earlier today when the sun was out for a miniscule second!

I decided to buy the latest Dawn Bibby Flower Patch Collection. Its a very versatile and pretty selection of papers die cuts and cards. All printed & foiled on very nice heavy card stock & easy to coordinate. I like the nice cheery colours too. I have had quite a run on buying crafty goodies over the past few weeks, maybe time to pull the reigns in a bit! Next shop I have will most likely be at a craft show I want to go to at the Trafford Centre in February, get them penny's saved eh!

Well I have waffled on enough for now. Take care & keep well & warm everyone.

Lavinia

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Whats On Your Work Wednesday 124....its cold!

Hello everyone, its been quite a while since I joined in on WOYWW! For some reason time just runs away with me of late & before I know where I am its Wednesday night & I have no time to join in. So this week I HAVE MADE TIME! I think its something I must consciously do to keep my blogging going. As you can see by the state of my desk, not lots in the way of crafting going on, but more sorting out boxes of Christmas card stuff. I have about 6 boxes of papers & stamps & card kits & made cards from last year to sort out. I promised myself I was NOT going to buy anything festive this year & use what I had, alas Kanban brought out a Blockbuster on C&C last month and I ended up getting that, then some Vellums in The Range & so on & so on!......well there you go I suppose!

Here are a two cards I made recently!

This is a card I made using some of the Paper Cellar's Victorian Classic papers. I like the way it turned out colour wise, very muted but nice to look at! The peel off's are all stuck on to Acetate & cut out to give it some dimension and the Hydrangea rub on's are from La Blanch. I highlighted the paper with some Martha Stewart Glitter for a bit of extra sparkle. The made brad is from Papermainia.

The next one here was using Kanban's Kensington card stock & die cuts. I did use some Tim Holtz Distress ink on the card blanc inside & out and all the die cuts, just for that added aged look. I stamped the Papermainia banner first & embossed it using cosmic shimmer gold then cut out & coloured it & then stamped the sentiment & layered on to black card & cut out again.


Well as you can see my blog has changed a bit! Some of it NOT by choice, I though I would have a "Look" at different blogger templates, just a look!!!! but then discovered I had completely changed it, so until I figure out what's what, it will remain this way for now!

Might post a few pics from France again soon as I have just come back from the beautiful city of Carcassonne. I had a trip around some Cathar Castles & Wine Vineyard in the South and also went to visit Rennes Le Château to find out more about its mystery? Very pretty place, but at the top of a very very steep hill! Anyway till next time, take care everyone & thanks for stopping by for a visit!

Lavinia

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A look around the Ville Vieux!

Thought I would show you a little of the beautiful Ville Vieux in the city of Nice. I make sure I always visit on Monday as they have a fantastic Antique market. This little dog has been a constant for the past few years. I christened him Mutley aka Wacky Races cartoon from the 70's, dont try to touch him though as he nips!

This was a cheeky pic of a glimpse in to an apartment that was being renovated! Couldn't resist when I saw the Chandelier's & I love the look of the shabby shutters, mmm where I have heard that before...? Hope they kept the light-fittings in?

Most of the buildings are painted various colours normally Yellows or Oranges but you do get the odd Pink one here and there. Its nice to walk in the shadows of the tall buildings to escape the heat of summer, it was about 90 that day!

I always look up wherever I am! Street lights are always so ornate in France. These massive hanging lights looked amazing lit up at night.

This last pic is a quintessential French post light, typical of France. There are lots here on the Cours Saleya where they hold the Monday Market. Its a great place to go and visit if your ever near Nice. There are lots and lots Cafe's & Bistros as well as wonderful shops to brows around. Be sure to take plenty of Euro's with you though, believe me you WILL get through them!

Lavinia

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French Fever

Today's post will be nothing crafty! As my inspiration is at an all time low I thought I would share some Pictures I took of my last trip to the South Of France. I love Nice! Its look its smell & its weather! This is the part of the breakfast room in the Hotel we stayed in, loved the French decore!

On the French Riviera you get to see the odd nice car here and there. I was lovely to see this beautiful vintage E Type Jag parked outside a very swanky hotel, I had just popped out for Croissants.

I took these pictures at the Antique market in Antibes its the town before you get round the bay to Juan Le Pins. If I could have got those chairs & the set of drawers home on the plane with me I would, arn't they beautiful! And oh so very me!!!

This was our Hotel room all the walls were covered in Cerise coloured Toil Du Jouy fabric. Everything was beautiful in the room and we looked from our Juliet balcony in to a courtyard garden.

I will show more pictures on here through the week as there are still a few I would like to share & maybe it will inspire me to make something soon! But bare with me for now in my crafty lull! And pop back soon to see some more of my French Fever pics!

Lavinia

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