Advent Calendar Window #5

Hello everyone, are you all enjoying our Advent Calender? Becky here today with Window number 5.

Today's prize is Gnome Couple from Vilda Stamps, aren't these just the cutest? They can be used separately, or together, I've masked them on this card just to get them right next to each other.

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I've coloured them with my distress markers, and added glamour dust to the heart on her dress for sparkle, and there's gold stickles on the flowers for more sparkle. The papers are from the It's Christmas Time 6 x 6 Paper Pad from Maja Design, the edges have been distressed with Walnut Stain.

I've used some of the gorgeous golden Magnolia Vintage Berries that Sandy has just got in. There's also cream rolled roses, cream chrysanthemums, a  brown Magnolia Shabby Chic Tulle Rose and also a rose with glass pearls.

I've used Camille lace across the middle and cream roses organza trim along the bottom.

Come back tomorrow and see what Elin has to show you from behind window number 6.

Hugs,

Becky x

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WINNER WINDOW #3
I've drawn a random winner from the comments on GDTs Kirsty-Anne's wonderful project:

"Kirsty Anne, your project is adorable, fabulous use of the lace it is so pretty.
hugs
Jane xx "

Congratulations Jane Songhurst of Doodles & Scraps of Me,  
you've just won the two Maya Road Vintage Scallop Lace Trims!

Please contact me, Sandy, with your address.

Gnomes Couple

Hi everyone, Becky here today with my inspirational card for using Vilda Stamps.

I've coloured Gnomes Couple in with my distress markers, aren't the just sooooo cute?? I've added Crystal Glamour Dust to her heart and Gold Glamour Dust to her bell. For the first time ever I've made a gatefold card, I thought they'd just look so cute on either side. I didn't have big enough sheets of card, so I used two sheets, cut half off each one and then glued the biggest sides together. The papers are Guardian Angels 6x6 from Pion Design, the edges have all been distressed with Walnut Stain.

For the inside I used the top left design off the sheet, it has the perfect space for inside. I wanted the front of the card to look like a full sheet, so I fastened some Storm Clouds Shabby Seam Binding with White Vintage Pearl Brads and used it to tie a bow and bring both sides together.

I've used Wood Alphabet Tiles to spell 'JOY', and I've added Snow Tex to them, and other places haphazardly around the card. The pearls are White Melissa Frances Pearls. For my floral display I've used a gorgeous pin which will be available here, a Columbia Blue Hortensia, a White Magnolia Shabby Chic Dahlia Tinsel, some White Poppies, White Chrysanthemums and White Rolled Roses.

Hope you're all having a lovely weekend, I'm going to get my markers out, I've hardly coloured for about two weeks as I had so many cards to assemble and schedule for while I was away. I took colouring things for the kids, but not me, I watched Grace so enviously, lol.

Hugs,

Becky x

Textures...

Hi Everyone,
Sandy here with yet another Christmas card. :-)

I used Vilda Stamp's Gingerbread House and went kind of wild with the textures. :-D

 The large puzzle piece I painted with Walnut Stain Distress Crackle Paint. Then I used Snow-Tex for the roof and around the windows and some Flowersoft in front of the house, and behind it I tucked some Jute Fabric.
I also used a round Doily and some white Melissa Frances Pom Pom Trim.

The papers are Forever Santa 6x6 No. 4 and Forever Santa 6x6 No.1 from Inkido.
Also the beautiful sentiment stamp, Frohe Weihnachten (Merry Christmas) is from Vilda.
With this one, I think I'm going to make my German relatives happy this Christmas :-)
I stamped it on to a Magnolia Fairytale Tag and attached it to an Idea-ology Memo Pin.

The rose and red berries are from stash, and the leaf is from the Leaf & Swirl Doohickey Set. The flowers on the right hand side are Red Poppies and a cream coloured Hortensia. Finally the brown Vintage Pearl Pins are from Maya Road.

Thanks for stopping by - enjoy the rest of your evening/day!
Please stop by tomorrow to see Becky's lovely card.
More gnomes to the people!!! :-D

Hugz,
Sandy

Bearded Gnome

Hello Live & Love Crafts Friends, 

Karita here with you and today I´m going to share some Christmas spirit with you ;) 

The stamp that I´ve used is Bearded Gnome from Vilda Stamps. The paper I used is Winter 12x12 from Pion Design's Silent Night collection. The Tags are from the same Silent Night collection.

Isn´t this image just adorable?!?!? :) I´ve coloured him with Distress Ink refills.

As you can see I´ve used one of my favourite products, White Jute Ribbon :) I also used some Natural Jute Twine and these cute Silver Jingle Bells. And I played with White Gesso again :)

There`s also some Jute Fabric - 

I think it fits so perfectly on these "old fashioned" Christmas cards :) And the fence is made with the Magnolia DooHickey Die - Lovely Fence.

Thank you for stopping by - I'm wishing you all an inspiring weekend :)

Hugs, Karita

Carpe Diem with a Cuppa

Hello lovely readers, Elin here :)

I'm currently going trough a phase where I'm constanly on the lookout for new craft ideas, and I came across this cute little tea bag! I love cheering up my friends in their everyday life and this bag is made for that purpose:

I used Pion Design's lovely Daisy paper from the Grandma's School Book Collection.

I found a template/tutorial here and folded away. 

Instead of giving away cookies as suggested in the tutorial, I enclosed some homemade sugar cubes in a cellophane bag on the inside. 

The gorgeous sentiment "Carpe Diem" is from Vilda Stamps: Seize the day with a cup of tea :)

The Vintage Pearl Brads are from Creative Charms.

I made a bow tie with my absolute favourite in the Live and Love Crafts Store: Shabby Seam Binding!

This time I used Sky Blue and combined it with some "Shine Gold" Twine Cording from Maya Road.

As always there is a hint of Cheese Cloth in my project, I believe that is one of my trademarks!

 Well that's it for now...don't forget that there's still plenty of time left to join the September challenge!

With Love,

Vilda Stamps- Gnomes Kissing

Hi, Elizabeth here! Hope you are having a nice Wednesday. I'm going to show you a card I made with this super cute Vilda Stamp called Gnomes Kissing:

 This time I decided to go for some Fall colours and embellishments:

 I used the lovely Cloudberries sheet from Landstoken,
 another gorgeous newbie in the LLC store. I used Jute fabric to create layers and a Paper Lace Heart Doily to fit the love theme:) The sentiment is a Tim Holtz Idea-ology Ticket.

 

 The big flower is a Prima Parchment Petals "Vintage", the white ones are Mulberry Paper Poppies (they also come in red and pink), and I used some red Jute Twine around the Prima flower.

I coloured the stamp with Copics, If you want the colours you can find them on my blog.

Hope you like it! You can find all the things mentioned and more wonderful new stuff in The Live & Love Craft Store!

Thanks for stopping by,

 please check back tomorrow for Elin's beautiful Vilda- project.

Hugs, 

Elizabeth 

We're going wild this week!

...not in the sense that we'll present cards and other projects made with leopard or zebra patterned paper, nor are you actually going to see any wild animals here... 

What you'll see are projects featuring stamps from Vilda Stamps of Sweden:

...and as you probably already guessed "Vilda" is the Swedish word for "wild". :-)

Vilda Stamps was recently added to the Live & Love Crafts's product portfolio, and what I like about this brand is its versatility. Vilda Stamps produces vintage-steampunk accessory stamps, beautiful sentiment stamps, background and collage stamps, as well as charming character stamps.
This week the DT will show you examples of a little bit of everything. 

For today Tina has got two projects to share with us. Usually Tina combines her weekly inspiration project for LLC with her DT card for the EAC (Everybody Art Challenge), but today we're lucky enough to have Tina sharing two projects with us.

Here's an ATC (Artist Trading Card):

Tina used the stamp "Gear Corner with Clocks" and stamped directly onto the image and papers.

The second project is a regular sized card:

Also here Tina used the same stamp to stamp onto the image and papers.

The sentiment stamp "Alles liebe" is also from Vilda Stamps (thought it was about time I'd get some sentiment stamps for my German speaking customers).

Other materials used:
Images: "Little Sweeties" /Grandma's Attic, Pion Design

Papers: Pion Design
Embellishments: Vintage Pearl Brad, Creative Charms
Tea Garden Trim, Maya Road
Tea Party Doily, Dovecraft
Gardenia Flower, Papercraft Scandinavia
Mini Round Metallic Brads, Reprint

Thanks for visiting today. 

Please stop by tomorrow to check out Elizabeth's project with Vilda Stamps.

Hugs from
Tina & Sandy