Thursday 13 December 2012

Lili of the Valley- Plum Pudding and a crafting mishap!

Hello. My sis is visiting my Mum today so I can quickly post a card I meant to post for LOTV's challenge last week but luckily it fits this week's challenge as well as which is "something new". For me, this is new stash! I bought 3 LOTV Christmas stamps when they had a deal going but hadn't had a chance to use them as I'd already made all my cards for this year but then my Mum asked me to make a last minute card so here we are....(!)


I used LOTV Plum Pudding- love love her outfit!!!! I coloured with copics. The papers are Maja Designs Vintage Winter. I used Memory Box holly die and my new Stampin Up border punch. Sentiment (stamp and die) are PTI.

I'd like to enter this into:
LOTV Challenge- something new (new stash!)
ABC Christmas- favourite punch/die (my Papertrey Ink sentiment "wonderful words" dies)
Stampavie- Christmas
Simon Says- your favourite (my favs at the mo are my Papertrey Ink "wonderful word" dies and my new Stampin Up punch!)
Whimsy Inspires- anything festive
Celebrate the Occasion- Christmas with a punch
Die Cutting Divas- holiday spirit
Crafty Boots- Christmas


So I didn't know whether to show you this close up or not but I like my colouring so I thought "what the hell"! Eagle eyes will spot the horrid smudging over the spoon and sleeve!!! I had finished my card and was just smoothing everything down when I realised I had brown ink on my finger from stamping the sentiment which ended up over my little chappie on the image!!!!!! Disaster! So i basically did a bit of sponging ink around the image to take the focus from the smudginess! Humph!

Crafty stash used: Stamps (LOTV, PTI); Copics; Papers (Maja Design); Assorted cardstock; Punch (Stampin Up); Gold Stickles; Nesties; Sentiment die (PTI); Holly die (Memory Box)

15 comments:

Exclusively by Mel said...

What a very gorgeous card! Your colouring is wonderful!!
thanks so much for joining us at Deep Ocean, Love, mel. xxx

Adrian said...

So cute, thanks for playing @ CTO!

Dee's Craft Room said...

Gorgeous card and I love the image. Thank you for sharing your work with all of us at Crafty Boots Challenges.

Merry Christmas.

Dionne

Sarah J Moerman said...

Beautiful card! Such a sweet image! Fabulous coloring! Thanks for joining us for the Simon Says Stamp Challenge!

Paula Bee said...

I absolutely love your card! It is just so pretty! Thanks for joining us at The Perfect Sentiment!!

snappy scrappy said...

So cute...thanks for playing along with us at DCD! Lee-Ann :)

Unknown said...

Adorable image and wonderful details. Thank you for joining us at the Celebrate the Occasion challenge and hope to see you back again. Hugs
Anna xxx

Iulia said...

This is simply wonderful Steph! Your coloring is fantastic! Love the design and the papers!
Thank you so much for joining us at Lili's Little Fairies this week!
HUgs, Iulia

Esther said...

Darling card!!! Fabulous job coloring that adorable image!
Thanks for joining us at CTO this week!

Tonya said...

Adorable! Thanks so much for joining us at CTO this week!

Squirrel x said...

Oh this is just gorgeous hun, thanks for sharing your new stash with us at Lili's Little Fairies for our Something New challenge. Hugs, Fairy Squirrel xx

mixamatoasties said...

Love that, it's fabulous.

Thanks for joining with us at Christmas at Sweet Stampin' this time.

Merry Christmas.

Susan x

Unknown said...

This is beautiful, love the stamp. Thank you for joining us at Christmas at Sweet Stampin this month and good luck xx

RoseC said...

Steph, your beautifully colored Plum Pudding image looks fabulous on this wonderful card. So glad to see your entry at the Crafts and Me Stamps digi team's "Why So Blue? = No Blues Allowed!" challenge. Hugz, ~ Rose

Loz said...

isn't that a cute image! love the diecut 'merry' thanks for playing along with Whimsy Stamps Challenge :)