Lil Lolita's Ivy plays in a few challenges!

Argh!!!... There are just not enough hours in the day or week even! 

Its been ages since I've been able to sit down and make a card. Even this one is a simple one which didn't take too long to do. More faffing with the hand held sewing machine than anything else caused me major time delays. 

Anyways... I had to call in sick today at work. I hate doing it, but I couldn't breathe overnight, my throat felt constricted, I could hardly swallow and I kept getting hot flushes even though I was freezing cold. Been to the Drs who said I have a viral infection and have to ride it out!

 I still feel like death warmed up, but Poppy went to bed early and I sat down at the PC put New Moon on, and switched off completely.

This is the first time I've inked this cutie up. I've had her in my stash since she was released by Kellie over at Tickled Pink Stamps. Her name is Ivy and she is from the first collection of Lil Lolita stamps and can be found here.

A close up of Ivy

I'm entering this card into a few challenges and they are

Friday Sketchers - Brilliant sketch by Jeanette this week

Lil Lolita Boutique Challenge - Stitching

A Spoonful of Sugar - Anything Goes

Copic Creations 35- Shading ON or AROUND your image

ABC Challenge - D is for Distressing

I've used card and paper from stash - sorry I have no idea where or who it is by, they were all in a box of scraps.

Image I've coloured with Copics

Flowers by Wild Orchid Crafts which have been glamour misted and then dusted

Lace is from Quixotic Paperie 

Stitched using a hand held machine (which is a pain in the bottom to use!)

Kraftin' Kimmie meets Tickled Pink Stamps

I've had a play this evening and I picked up some Kraftin Kimmie stamps from the pile of stamps I had on my desk. It was a coin toss on Posy or Francesca, and as you can see, I've gone with Posy.

I'm entering this card into two Challenges 

Kraftin Kimmie - Neopolitan Ice Cream

Tickled Pink Stamps - A sketch by Kellie (first ever challenge)

I've used Basic Grey papers from the Nook and Pantry set

Coloured card stock from Papermania

Flowers from Wild Orchid Crafts - some have been altered by being spritzed with Distress Inks

Sentiment stamp from the new Hampstead Stamps by Papermania

Posy

Thanks for popping by!

Candy to be won - Tickled Pink Stamps!

Hi all. 

The lovely Kellie Winnell announced a little while ago that she was changing the name of her shop from Magnolia Down Under to Tickled Pink Stamps - The reason behind this is because Kellie will be selling other ranges of stamps including the fabulous Sweet November Stamps, Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps and many others! Great news! Plus - Soon Kellie will be shipping internationally again - but only Stamps!

Kellie is celebrating the new shop by giving away some generous candy !! So wanna know how you could be with a chance of winning? : Well ...

Here are the details:

There are 3 ways in which to win and if you do all 3 well then your chances are even higher.

1st - The 1st prize will go to one lucky person that becomes a follower

2nd - The 2nd will go to one lucky person that makes a blog post on their blog advertising the candy with a link back to the post HERE and popping their blog post link in Mr.Linky on the post too

3rd - The third will go to one lucky person that leaves a comment on the blog post.

For all these she will be using random.org to find the lucky winners of each prize.

What are the prizes....?

1st - Is 6 stamps of the winners choice from any stamps in stock in store

2nd - Is 3 stamps of the winners choice from any stamps in stock in store

3rd - Is 1 stamp of the winners choice from any stamps in stock in store.

So why don't you pop on over to the blog post for your chance to win some candy.