Little Giveaway winner

Hello all - sorry this is late but here is the winner of the Humphrey's Corner Birthday Girl stamp





It is.......   Leanne!!!
Congratulations.  Email me at ladybugcrafts@btinternet.com with your address and I'll pop it in the post asap.
I'll be back later with another Humphrey stamp to give away.
xxx

last chance for the Humphrey's Corner stamp

This is the last chance to leave a comment for a chance to win the cute Humphrey's corner stamp as I will draw a winner on Sunday evening. 

So leave a comment after this post, or this post and remeber that if you leave a comment on my store blog and facebook page you get an extra entry or two into the draw ;o)
xxx

Craft US Crazy challenge 7 - Father's Day or Masculine colours/theme

Hello everyone - I can't believe where the time goes so here we are with another challenge at Craft US Crazy.  This weeks challenge is FATHER'S DAY and/or MASCULINE COLORS/THEME!!!! Let's not forget our Dad's out there. Father's Day is June 19th here in the UK and I believe it's the sdame in the US too so Father's Day theme is a good one for those of us here and across the pond. However if you don't fancy the Father's Day theme then feel free to make any masculine themed project.
We want all crafters to feel welcome, so if your crafting medium fits our challenge, then we welcome you to join! Whether it be sewing, scrapbooking, altering, cardmaking, candle making, whatever!! We hope you'll be joining us!!

 We have some awesome sponsors for you throughout the month of May!! Our sponsor for the first week of our Father's Day/Masculine challenge is.......

Lauretta's Digital Stamps

Hi am Lauretta, i am also known under the nickname of ladypou.  I am the founder of Craft Your Passion Challenge blog. I love to draw,  and have started my own line of digital stamps in January 2010 called Lauretta's Digital Stamps.  You can find my images here:   http://laurettasdigitalstamps.blogspot.com/.  I am also on other Design teams like MelJens Designs and Pattie's creations (both digital stamp artist)  and on Karmascrap ( a weekly sketch challenge ) and also a store DT here in Canada called ( La cour a Scrap...booking) I love each and every place were i have fun creating and expressing my artistic passions.  Please come and visit me on my personal blog:    http://www.passioncartesetplus.blogspot.com/

and they're offering the following prize to our winner.....

4 IMAGES OF WINNERS CHOICE

And we would like to welcome a new sponsor to Craft Us Crazy that will be sponsoring the second half of our challenge, beginning June 16th...and that would be the ever so cute and adorable.. 
So come on over and have a go!

So onto my card - I find men's cards hard to do but needed to make something for my Dad so I went with a cute Popcorn the Bear stamp from Crafter's Companion.

I've kept it simple which I think works better for men's cards.  It is an 8 x 8 easel card using the yummy Kraft papers printed from A Double Sprinkle of Kraft CD and I've added some distress ink around the edges along with some string and buttons from my stash.  The image is coloured with Distress inks too.  I used a little Spellbinders tag for the sentiment and on the whole I'm quite pleased with this - I just hope my dad likes it too ;o)
Hope you all join in with our challenge this fortnight.
xxx

Little Giveaway

Hello everyone, I have been a bit slack on my blog lately so I have 3 Humphrey's Corner stamp plates to give away and I thought I'd do them one at a time ;o)
So the first one is Birthday Girl;

She is so cute!

Anyway all you have to do is leave a comment either on this blog, on my shop blog or on my Ladybug Facebook page.  Then I'll pick out a winner (from my hat lol) and then post the next set and start again.

If you post on all three places then you have triple the chance ;o)

See you soon

Sam xxx

(Oh this is open to everyone no matter where you are;o))

New Craft US Crazy challenge

Hi everyone - so sorry this post is late - I a hopeless at tring to schedule posts and it never works and when I tried to get onto blogger this morning the site was down so have only just got on here.  Anyway, better late than never!
This weeks challenge is USE YOUR FAVORITE EMBELLISHMENT/s AND/OR SOMETHING NEW!!!! That means any embellishments that you find yourself reaching for over and over, or that you love seeing on projects...or something new (ie, baby, house, car, stamp sets, embellishments...whatever is NEW!) It doesn't have to be both...you can do one or the other, but if you're feeling up to a bigger challenge, see if you can use both!!!
We want all crafters to feel welcome, so if your crafting medium fits our challenge, then we welcome you to join! Whether it be sewing, scrapbooking, altering, cardmaking, candle making, whatever!! We hope you'll be joining us!!

 We have some awesome sponsors for you throughout the month of May!! Our sponsor for the first week of our challenge is the one and only.......

Welcome to Digital Delights, a magical place filled with little digi creations from all walks of life. We have a wide range of digital stamps which are delivered straight to your email 24/7!
In addition we also have a growing range of "Delightful Piecings" which are paper pieced files designed to be used with your cutting machines or for hand cutting.

Fancy a new blog makeover, header or new watermark, then stop by our sister site Delightful Custom blogs.

and they're offering the following prize to our winner.....

I have used some new paint fusion stamps from Sheena Douglass for my project;

I've made a card that has a little box for 5 tealights on the side.  The tealights I had were sunflowers so a little bigger than normal so I could only fit in 4.  I have the new sunflower stamps for paint fusin so I used these to match the tealights and painted them onto a crackled mountboard tag.  I added some ribbon and layered up some coredinations card stock as a base.  I used an embossing folder from Darice to emboss the flowers on the yellow card.
It's a really simple card but quite effective.
xxx

 

Craft US Crazy monthly challenge sponsor

Hello everyone, just a quickie from me this morning as I have so much to do.  I am posting  a card mde using the One Spring Day Printable stamp set from C U C's monthly sponsor, the Cutting Cafe.

I have done a large Easel card in colours that I wouldn't normally choose but I thought they suited this card ;o)

All the images are from the stamp set and are coloured with pro markers.  The papers are from DCWV The Green Stack which is where I took the colours from.  I added some buttons and ribbon from my stash and that was it.  Quite a quick card really but kinda cute ;o)
Hope you like it.
Back soon with the next challenge from C U C and another knitted bag and a painted mirror.
xxx

My first attempt at a hand knitted bag

I've been feeling really rotten lately and not really up to sitting at my desk to craft.  As I am comfiest on my bed it is almost impossible to get lots of papercrafting stuff onto the bed so I can craft there as I never know what I'm going to need and so end up with piles of stuff everywhere that just has to be taken back into my craft room at the end of the day.  So I thought I would give knitting a go as I haven't done any for years.  At the trade show in February I saw a book by Ella Rae for knitted bags that are felyted and I just loved them.  I tried to get the pattern book everywhere in the UK to no avail but finally found a great company in the USA who were willing to ship internationally.  So a big thankyou to Coveted Yarn who are the most helpful firm to deal with.
Anyway i finally got the book and managed to get the wool and after just a few days I had managed to knit all the components for my bag.  I gthen had the nerve wracking task of felting them all in a hot wash in my front loading machine.  Anyway that seemed to work so I stitched all the bits together along with some lovely handles and this is what I ended up with;

I am so chuffed with this as it actually looks like a bag that would cost a fair bit of money in one of those fancy gift stores.
I am now just waiting to get the right coloured thread to stitch together my next bag and I will post piccies as soon as it is done.
xxx