Lili Of The Valley Blog Candy

I can't seem to put the Ideas to Inspire sidebar banner on my website so I hope that this will be ok.

Lili Of The Valley are holding a Blog candy for a £10 voucher for their site. It's open until Wednesday! Check it out here: http://ideastoinspire.blogspot.com/.

xx Mia xx

Country Companions Card

Just a quick card. This card is for the following challenges

• Animal Magic - Fab'n' Funky
• Smiling / Laughter - Scrapbookaholic
• Anything Goes - Pear Tree Design
• Any Sentiment - Top Tip Tuesday

I used the new Country Companions Collection for this card and the sentiment.

xx Mia xx

Bugaboo Baby Card

I wanted a cute baby image for the next card and I couldn't find anything suitable so I went to my trusty digi stamps site Bugaboo and found this little darling. I made this card for the following challenges;

• Sketch - Sketch Saturday
• Buttons - Pixie Dust & Craft Your Passion
• Blue - I Did It Creations
• Something New - Crafty Pad & One Stitch at a Time

• New Beginnings - Crafty Calendar
• Rubber and Digi stamp combination - Die Cut Dreams
• Buttons, Glitter and Flowers (the background paper does not look glittery in the photo but it is) - Simon Says Stamp
• Metal - Tuesday Morning Sketches

I used a Heidi Grace Kit I purchased last year from QVC for the papers and flowers. The image was coloured with Promarkers and I added buttons from the Papermania Capsule collection to the center of the flowers. The ribbon and bow is from the new Spring time Forever Friends collection. The die cut is a Marianne's die.

xx Mia xx 

Clean and Simple!

This card is for the following challenges;

• Clean and simple cards - Challenge Up Your Life & Little Red Wagon
• White - Sketchy Colours & Double Dutch
• Not a square - Stamptacular Sunday
• White plus 1 other colour - Shabby Tea Room
• Challenge Yourself (making a clean and simple card is definitely a challenge) -7 Kids

I made this card using the Penny Black stamp "Cupful of Love" and coloured it using Promarkers. For the small added embellishment at the top of the card I used some Craft Work cards embossed card and ribbon and a bow from the Papermania Capsule Collection.

xx Mia xx

Hanglar & Stanglar Valentine

This card is for the following challenges:

• Pink, red and white - Woodware USA
• Pink and red - Meljens Designs
• Love - Paper Playtime, Fresh Brewed Blog, Pixie Cottage and Aud Sentiments
• Sketch - CPS
• Anything Goes - Pile It On
• Hearts - Totally Papercrafts

This card was made using papers, embellishments and greetings from the Country Companions collection and a Hanglar and Stanglar image which I coloured using Promarkers. I also added glitter glue to the flowers on the background paper and the heart.

xx Mia xx

Forever Friends Birthday Card

This card is made for the following challenges:

• Male Card - Totally Stampalicious
• Cut It Out (#49) - Any previous challenge - Paper Sundaes
• Let's Party - Cards For Men
• For Men - Creative Card Crew
• Blue & Green Colours - A Spoonfullof Sugar
• Anything Goes - My Grafico, Penny's Paper-Crafty Challenge Blog
• Celebration - Delightful Challenges
• Sketch - Dutch Dare
• Recipe of 1, 2, 3 (1 image, 2 design papers and three embellishments) - Cute Card Thursday

I used papers, sentiment and decoupage from the Forever Friends collection and cut the footballs out of the design papers.

xx Mia xx

My first Hanglar Stanglar Card

Before listing which challenge this card is for I just wanted to say thank you to Katt Buick who stamped a few sets of Hanglar Stanglar images for me to use on my cards please check out her items here.

This card is for the following challenges;

• Sketch - Waltzing Mouse
• Keys - Alphabet Challenge
• Red & Die Cuts - Crafty Cardmakers
• Love - Passion for Promarkers
• Valentine - Tuesday Throwdown
• Colour scheme - Colour Q
• Patchwork - Creative Inspirations
• Paper Piecing (I thought the background would count) - Paper Pretties

All the papers are from the Papermania collosal paper stack (sorry I can't remember the exact name). I used one of the images I received from Katt and coloured it using the colours from the Colour Q challenge using Promarkers and a gold pen. The heart die cuts are made using a Spellbinders die and the greeting is from one of the Country Companions Lovers Lane Collection. The plain card is from the DCWV Jewel cardstock stack.

xx Mia xx

Technology, Aaah!!

There was supposed to be photos with this post but my camera is playing up so I will upload them asap!!

Edit: Yay - photos!

This card is for the following challenges:

• Sketch and Dreaming of Summer - Truly Scruptious
• Warm & Toasty - Fab 'n' Funky
• Tropical Warmth - Digital Tuesday
• Big Card (8x8) - Flourishes
• Recipe - Daring Cardmakers

I used a Magnolia stamp which I coloured with Promarkers. The papers are from a DCWV Summer Kit that I bought from QVC last year. Its a really good kit and came in a very cute drawer box which I keep everything in. The embellishments are also from this kit.

xx Mia xx

Quote card

This card is for the following challenges:

• Sketch - Sketch & Stash
• Quote - Die Cut Dreams
• Cold & Frosty - Papertake Weekly
• Inspired by a Song - The Cuttlebug Spot
• Colour Scheme - Creative Inspirations
• Snow - Hanna & Friends
• Winter - Sentimental Sundays
• Stitching - Dutch Dare
• Metal - 4 Crafty Chicks
• Anything Goes - Ai Factory

I used papers and stamps from the Forever Friends Christmas collection and a charm I purchased from eBay and some ribbon from my crafty stash.

xx Mia xx

Edwin Tag Card

I made this card for the following challenges:

• Sketch - Cards for Men
• Card for a male - One Stop Craft
• Tag and male card - Tuesday Taggers
• Tag - Pixie Dust Studio & paper Cutz
• Square Card - Meljens Designs
• Anything Goes - stamp Something
• Masking - Double Dutch
• Background Stamping - Tuesday Throwdown

 
I made this card using a Magnolia image which I coloured using Promarkers, the greeting is from a Penelope and Percy clear stamp set and the stars are from the Forever Friends Cosy & Warm clear stamp set. The red stamping is done with a sparkly dew drop ink pad. The papers are from Magnolia and Forever Friends Christmas collection.

xx Mia xx

Baby Card

This card is for the following challenges:

• Blue & Baby - Stampin' For The Weekend
• With Love Greeting - Saturday Challenge
• Digital Stamp - Kaboodle Doodle
• Colour Scheme - Play Date Cafe
• Celebrate - Creative Inspirations
• Sketch - Tuesday Morning Sketches
• Fancy Folds (easel cards) - Creative Card Crew, Delightful Challenges & Paper Pretties
• Baby - Passion for Promarkers
• New Beginnings - Crafty Creations

I used a Tiddylinks image for the focus of the card and is coloured with Promarkers and a little added glitter glue sparkle. The brown striped paper is from the Hawthorn & Bramble DoCrafts paper collection and the blue is from the Papermania Capsule Collection. The buttons and bow are also from the Capsule collection. The greeting is from Lili of the Valley.

xx Mia xx

Fairy Thank You

This card is for the following challenges:

• Sketch - Shabby Tea Room
• Thank You - Crazy 4 Challenges, A Spoonful of Sugar, Crafty Catz
• Sparkle - Stampavie & More
• Cute (what's cuter than LOTV) - PaperPlay
• Things with wings - Lili Of The Valley
• Anything Goes- Top Tip Tuesday
• Bling - Ooh La La Creations

This card is made using one of my favourite Lili of the Valley stamps and coloured using Promarkers, the greeting is also from LOTV. The Glitter card (Lavender) is from American Crafts and the papers are from the Hawthorn & Bramble DoCrafts collection. The gems are from Hunkydory and I added some extra sparkle using glitter glue.

xx Mia xx

Snowy Tilda Hugs

This card is for the following challenges:

• Snow - Stamp with Fun
• Vellum - I Did It Creations
• New Stash - Cupcake Craft
• Cute Children (what's cuter than Magnolia) - Pile It On
• Anything Goes - Stamp, Scrap & Doodle
• Dotty something - Incy Wincy Spider Designs
• Colour scheme - Crafts 4 Eternity
• Sketch - Stamptacular Sunday
• New Things - Pollycraft
• Winter - Creative Stamp Friends
• Ribbon - Craft Your Passion Challenges

I used papers from the Forever Friends Christmas collection and the sparkly dotty vellum is from my local craft shop Sew Simple. I used a Marianne's designs to cut the silver circle design and a Cuttlebug embossing folder to make the dotty blue circle behind the main design. I used Promarkers to colour the Tilda image and added glitter glue. The silver ribbon is also from Sew Simple and the greeting is from the Forever Friends Cosy Christmas collection.

xx Mia xx

New Colour Scheme

I made this card for the following challenges:

• Birthday - The Crafty Pad
• Sketch - Sketchy Colors
• Anything with Wings (ladybug) - Sentimental Sundays
• Cuddly Something (I know this turtle is not traditionally cuddly e.g. furry but I think it's soo cute I would love to be able to cuddle it!!) - Totally Gorjuss
• Flowers - 2 Sisters
• Stamps from two different sets (Bugaboo and LOTV) - Totally Stampilicious
• Circles - Paper Sundaes & Pear Tree
• Colour challenge - The Pink Elephant
• Buttons and layers-Stamp Fairy

I have never put these three colours together before put once I found these papers, buttons and bow from the Papermania Capsule Collection and put them together I really started to like it. The orange flowers are also from this collection and the turquoise ones are from a QVC kit. The main image of the turtle is from Bugaboo and the Happy Birthday greeting is from Lili Of The Valley. Of course I then had to add some sparkle in the form of glitter glue.

xx Mia xx

Tinkerbell Card

I made this card using Decoupage and backing papers from the Studio Light faeries set.

I also added a little bit of glitter glue to the card and embossed the green portion using a Cuttlebug spotty embossing folder.

This card is for the challenge at The Cuttlebug Spot which asked for something inspired by a book so I went for a Peter Pan.

xx Mia xx

Winter Wonderland

This card has been made using all Bo Bunny papers and embellishments from the Winter Joy Collection. I also used some jewels from Papermania.

The circles are cut using Spellbinders dies. This card is for the Mojo Monday sketch.

xx Mia xx

Green, Gold & Silver

I made this card for the following challenges:

• Sketch - Sweet Sketch Wednesday
• Green, gold and silver - Play Date Cafe

I picked up the patterned papers from my local craft store and they are from craft creations. I recycled the gold and silver ribbon from a Birthday cake and the greeting is cut from the backing paper. On the small piece of backing paper I added some silver swirls which is a Magnolia stamp and the parcels are a Forever Friends stamp. I added silver Kanban jewels and I coloured the Tilda image in Promarkers and gold and silver pens.

xx Mia xx

Cupcake Card

This card is for the following challenges:

• Anything Goes with Lace - Papertake Weekly
• Cupcakes - Totally Stampalicious
• Birthdays - Stampin' Royalty

• Food and Drink - Crafty Catz

I used a Papermania Cupcake card blank, some Nitwits Papers and Papermania jewels. I also used a piece of lace I bought from my local craft shop, Sew Simple. The Tilda image I coloured with Promarkers.

xx Mia xx

Notecards and Card

This card and gift box are for the following challenges:

Note cards

•  3D Gift and Matching Card (Gift box and note cards) - Fussy & Fancy

Gift Box

• Anything Goes - Craft Your Days Away, Lets Ink It Up
• Anything Christmas - ABC Christmas Challenge
• Try Something Different (box making) - Sweet Stampin'
• Ribbon - Sundays with Crissy
• Snow - Creative Belli Blog
• Cold - 7 Kids Challenge blog

Card

I used the Winter Joy Collection from Bo Bunny for all the papers and embellishments. The jewels are from Papermania and the glittery purple ribbon was from my local craft store. I coloured the Tilda image with Promarkers and used some more of the Bo Bunny paper for her dress.

xx Mia xx

Snowy Magnolia

This card is for the following challenges:

• Sketch and colours of blue, white and silver - Sketchy Colors

• Old Stash - Cute Card Thursday (blue and silver card, card blank and Spellbinders dies)

I made this card using a Spellbinders die for the snowflakes. The sparkly silvery paper and silver ribbon are from my local craft store. The Magnolia image I purchased from Crafts U Love (see the sidebar). I used Promarkers and a piece of the sparkly paper to fill in the Tilda image. I also used some buttons from the Papermania Capsule Collection.

xx Mia xx

Wedding Cake

This card is for the following challenges:

• Sketch - CPS Card Sketches
• Ribbons and Bows - If The Shoe Fits...
• Photo Inspiration (I choose to go with cream and gold wedding) - Stamptacular Sunday Challenge
• Old and New Stash (the gold card and card blanks are old stash, everything else is new stash) - Moving Along With The Times

• Recipe (4 papers, 3 flowers, 2 ribbons and 1 button) - Creative Inspirations
• 2 Ribbons - Pixie Dust Studio
• Ribbons and Peals - Inky Impressions
• Buttons - Delightful Challenges

I used a new set of stamps from Papermania to make the cake and added pearls, ribbons and flowers from my local craft shop Sew Simple. I also used some gold patterned card from my craft stash (I can't remember where I got it from) and some gold angel hair from Papermania. The patterned papers are also from Papermania and the lemon sorbet collection.

xx Mia xx

Baby Card

This card is for the following challenges:

• The layout is for the sketch at Waltzing Mouse.
• New Beginnings or New Baby were the challenges at I Did It Creations, Simon Says Stamp, Prairie Fairy, One Stop Craft, Dutch Dare, Alphabet Challenge, Creative Card Crew and Tuesday Taggers
• The Colour challenge at Colour Create asked for Pink, Red and White.

The papers are from the Nitwits Holiday Magic collection and the image is a Digi Stamp from Tiddlylinks. I coloured the image with Promarkers and added a little glitter glue and jewels from Kanban. The border punch is from Martha Stewart and the flowers are from a QVC kit I purchased last year.

xx Mia xx

House Mouse

This card is for the following challenges:

• The layout is for the sketch challenge at Easy Craft Projects.

• The challenge at Sentimental Sunday was to Celebrate Friendship.

• The challenges at House Mouse Challenge and The Crazy Challenge was to make something for something new, I choose to make it for a new friend.

I used a decoupage image and background paper for the House Mouse range as does the greeting. I kept it simple and just added the banner.

xx Mia xx