Peace and Love (New Stamp Set)

I was out shopping for a new and exciting Christmas stamp to make our Christmas Cards for this year. To be honest, SU! did not offer many inspiring Christmas Sets this time around and so I felt I needed to look somewhere else.

I found a set made by Serendipity Stamps. I had never heard of that company before. Wow...am I impressed. I bought the 2 stamp set and fell in love with how well they stamped! It was amazing!! Just like buttah! So I made a set of 4 cards and packaged them up in these nifty clear boxes I found at a local art store. I am going to have to save up to purchase some more Serendipity Stamp Sets...they are gorgeous! The houses are all coloured with Copics and I used Tuxedo Black Memento Ink. The roof tops are covered with Diamond Stickles...the colours of paper I used are Chocolate, Kraft and Ivory.

Thanks for stopping by!

Smiles,

Lesley :)

Christmas Card

This is a card I made tonight with my new supplies from Crafty Capers.

From Crafty Capers:

Cuttlebug Ornament Die

Swiss Dots Embossing CB Folder

Victoria Embossing CB Folder

Penny Black Snowflake

A Muse Sentiment-Christmas Wishes

SU! Supplies were:

White Craft Ink

White Embossing Powder

Heat Gun

Scallop Oval and Oval Punch

Tomorrow I want to try making it with new colours. This is a simple card and easy to reproduce! I just love that CB ornament die! The only thing I wish I had was some silver string to tie the ornament to, but I guess the black ribbon is ok!?Thanks for stopping by!! Happy Stamping!
Smiles,

Lesley :)

Back Update!

Thank you to all you ladies for your sweet comments regarding my back! I am back at work now, teaching at an elementary school. I have been feeling much better than I did in the summer and have recently begun to make cards again, although not nearly as much as I would like to! So I am slowly getting back into it. My leg gets numb when I sit and stamp for too long, so I am just going with whatever time my back and leg decide to give me! LOL!!!

Hope all of you are well...happy stamping!
Lesley :)

My Back

I have not been able to make cards lately, I have two bulging discs in my lower back and the pain has been awful. I have decided to take a break from card making and had to leave my design teams so that my body would have the best chance for recovery. This has been a difficult decision to make!

I still check out all the other blogs out there and hope to be crafting again soon. All of the beautiful cards I see out there make me want to craft!!

Happy stamping!

Smiles,
Lesley :)

Double Dutch Challenge (Choose your favourite DD challenge!)

This week's challenge over at Double Dutch is to use one of our past challenges. I looked through all the challenges and was drawn to this sketch #10!
I decided to make a Christmas Card with this Sketch. Out came the Penguins! The paper is new from Imaginisce and it has some glitter already built into the stripes! The Penguins are from Impression Obsession (I just LOVE their Penguins!) I used the stars from SU! Wonderous Gift to create the background on the back square and the little green square is stamped with a mini tree stamp that came with the Impression Obsession Penguin Set. The sentiment is from A Muse stamps. I added some bling in the form of green rhinestones on the top right corner and used my SU! White grosgrain ribbon for the belly band of the card. This card measures 5"x10" on paper and folds to be 5"x5".

Thanks for stopping by! Hope you play along with the Double Dutch Challenges this week!

Smiles,

Lesley :)

Pile it On Challenge #12-Good Things Come in Threes!

This card was created for the Pile it O Challenge to use three "extras" on your card. I used three little brads at the bottom of the card and there are also three fishes swimming around the bear. Isn't this the most adorable image!

I coloured in the image with my copics and highlighted the images in B00 Frost Blue. I wanted to make this card very colourful!

The Challenges I used are:

Spoonful of Sugar-Travel Theme (This cute bear is really enjoying his vacation!)
Card Patterns Sketch #28
Gingersnap Creations-Colour Challenge #20-The Rainbow

Thanks for stopping by! Please check out the Challenge at Pile it On!

Smiles,
Lesley :)

I Won!!!

I forgot to mention that I won the Pink Cat Stamp Giveaway last week!!! Let me tell you, it really brightened my day to have found out that I had won because I was at home, recovering from 2 bulging discs in my back!!

Thank you to Melissa from Pink Cat Studios for the chance to win!!!

Lesley :)

Kaboodle Challenge Blog (Use a Digital Image)

This card was made for the Kaboodle Blog which was to use a Digital Image. This is an image from one of our sponsors over at Pile it On!! I saw this adorable image and immediately fell in love this these turtles and I knew they had to be pink!!

Thanks for stopping by!
Smiles,
Lesley :)