Wednesday, January 6, 2016

♥ A Gift From The Heart ♥

Good Morning everyone! Yes, Diana is here today! If you wonder why ... I swapped my day with Franz. I am now posting on Wednesdays and on Sunday you now always welcomed by Franz.

This week we have the theme "Pimp That Bag". And I love the new paper bags wiche you can buy in the LLC Store (scroll down for the link). I used here the mini size in craft. The beautiful new valentine themed papers are from PionDesign. The image and dies are from Magnolia. Colored with Distress Reinker. All other products you can find in the LLC Store, scoll down for you shopping list! ;0)

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Wish you a nice day!


Monday, January 4, 2016

With Love

Hello Everyone,

Sorry I'm late posting this, my normal routine hasn't returned and although I love Christmas it's always hard getting back into the swing of things.

So my card for you today is made using the oh so gorgeous new Pion Design To My Valentine collection, available from LLC real soon, so keep your eyes peeled for Sandy's newsletter, you won't want to miss them....  I have listed at the bottom of the post all the names of the papers I have used so you can find them easily once Sandy has listed them.


I have used my favourite lace, Princess Grace, it is just sooooo gorgeous, even though I have covered some of it up, oops.

All the butterflies are cut from the Pion Design papers and the image is again an image by Pion Design from Grandma's Attic Tinted Springtime, love these images.

20mm roses on the top left display.  I made tassels again using the papers and tied with hemp cord.


Under the flower I have used sisal, another new product at LLC.


Pion products:
To my Valentine – Love Letters PD6807
To y Valentine 6×6″- Forget Me Not PD6903
To my Valentine – Tags PD6812
To my  Valentine – Love Song PD6808
To my Valentine – Borders PD6810
From Grandma’s Attic ~ tinted – Springtime

Hugs Tracy x



Friday, January 1, 2016

Challenge #43 Something New....

Happy New Crafting Year!!!!
Wow; last year sure went by past. It doesn't feel like a whole year ago that I wrote up 2015's first challenge post, and here we are already in 2016!!! :-) 

Here's a quick recap of  the LLC challenge themes in 2015; 

In total for the 12 challenges we had 953 entries. AMAAAAAAAZING! !!!
 Thank you so very  much everyone who participated throughout the year; hope you had fun playing with us!

We'll do our best to continue to bring you fun challenges, but before we get started with the first one for 2016, here's the randomly drawn winner from the December challenge:
That's Alison, who submitted this gorgeous 3D Mixed Media project;
WOHOOOO! What a a way to kick off the new year; £25 to spend at the LLC Store. :-D :-D :-D
Congrats Alison; please contact me, Sandy to claim your prize. 

Now; let's move on to the challenge and as a brand spanking New Year is upon us, we thought we'd go with Something New...

As always; please feel free to interpret the theme as you wish; you could show off your new crafty goodies that Santa brought you for Christmas, a new technique you haven't tried out before, make a card for someone who's starting a new job, or whatever else "New" comes to mind...

Now for some DT NEW(s);
The lovely Becky, who's stuck with me ever since I started up the LLC store, so more than 3 years now, has stepped down from the team. We in the DT are all going to miss her tremendously, and I'm sure you blog readers will as well. Thanks so much for everything Becky!!! ♥ ♥ ♥

Joining the team, is the talented Franz from Italy, so I'd like to take this opportunity to officially welcome Franz to the team.

FRANZ  - New Baby

TRACY - New Products: Sisal & Pion Design Papers


DIANA - New Stamp & Dies

KAREN - New Type of Box

ALYCE - New background technique

DEBBIE - Happy New Year (with new stamp)

Continuing with the news, with this challenge I'm trying out a new link up tool, hope it'll work as expected. Should you have any difficulties linking up, please leave a comment with a link to your entry instead.

Thanks n Hugz,
Sandy & the Team

Challenge #41 - CHRISTMAS TIC TAC TOE
Only 1 entry per person please
* Combine with max 9 other challenges (10 in total)
* Entry must be new, i.e. not posted prior to this challenge going live
* Please mention the LLC challenge and link back to this blogpost in your post
*Please link your entry directly to your blogpost, not to your blog.
For full Challenge Rules and Details of Prize and Awards, please click HERE
- See more at: http://liveandlovecrafts.blogspot.co.uk/search/label/Challenges#sthash.HCeWR0r7.dpuf
Challenge #43 - SOMETHING NEW
Only 1 entry per personand challenge please
* Combine with max 9 other challenges (10 in total)
* Entry must be new, i.e. not posted prior to this challenge going live
* Please mention the LLC challenge and link back to this blogpost in your post
*Please link your entry directly to your blogpost, not to your blog.
For full Challenge Rules and Details of Prize and Awards, please click HERE

UPDATE January, 24th
Apologies'; the linky list has expired, I'm working on having this rectified ASAP.
In the meantime; please submit your entry in the commentfield below.