Leigh's Birthday Celebrations Week, April 18

LeighSBDesigns Art Stamps officially turned 3 on April 14 and this is

🥳BIRTHDAY CELEBRATIONS WEEK🥳

Look out for a 
DIGI GIVEAWAY & SURPRISE DAILY COUPONS🥳
in LeighSBDesigns Fan Group on Facebook.

MeWe,

Instagram and

Crafting with Hue

I am continuing to take part in the month long Blog Hop 

The hop has 3 themes you can create with!  You can make Birthday and Party themed projects and Spring themed projects and Easter themed ones too or merge them all together! 

For more details hop over to Leigh's page

Thinking about the digi giveaway - you have to suggest a favourite amongst Leigh's digis - I love the Alice in Wonderland selection and today am reminding you of this past make:

 My postcard has Leigh's Queen of Hearts Grunge Collage

and Leigh's Distressed Splatter Heart

Today's make is a bIrthday card made using my Cricut.

I have used the Splitcoaststampers tutorial to make a pop up flower pot card.

Watch out for some more makes in the current month...it may not be every day but we will see!

Hope to see you on Leigh's Birthday hop

As this card has flowers on it I will also link it to

The Crafter's Cafe Challenge

Happy Crafting!

Leigh's Birthday Celebrations Week, April 17

LeighSBDesigns Art Stamps officially turned 3 on April 14 and this is

🥳BIRTHDAY CELEBRATIONS WEEK🥳

Look out for a 
DIGI GIVEAWAY & SURPRISE DAILY COUPONS🥳
in LeighSBDesigns Fan Group on Facebook.

MeWe,

Instagram and

Crafting with Hue

I am continuing to take part in the month long Blog Hop 

The hop has 3 themes you can create with!  You can make Birthday and Party themed projects and Spring themed projects and Easter themed ones too or merge them all together! 

For more details hop over to Leigh's page

Thinking about the digi giveaway - you have to suggest a favourite amongst Leigh's digis - I love the Alice in Wonderland selection and today I used Leigh's
 White Rabbit Grunge Collage.

As you see above the hop includes Spring projects - and I was reminded somewhere online yesterday of Spring cards - not made one for years!!
When you take this card from the envelope, it springs up!

I have used the Splitcoaststampers tutorial and my Cricut to cut and score the base in red card.

I layered the square and base piece with a paper from Kaisercraft's Pen & Ink 6.5" Paper Pack, distressed with brushed corduroy.
I printed the image and cut out the rabbit, adding colour with Copics.
I was thinking of adding a sentiment on the base - maybe 'I'm late...' 
but rather liked it as it is... Do you have any suggestions?

Watch out for some more makes in the current month...it may not be every day but we will see!

Hope to see you on Leigh's Birthday hop

As this card has a square on it I will also link it to
Double Trouble Paper Crafting Challenge #54
It's hip to be square!!

Happy Crafting!

Leigh's Birthday Celebrations Week, April 15

LeighSBDesigns Art Stamps officially turned 3 on April 14 and this is

🥳BIRTHDAY CELEBRATIONS WEEK🥳

Look out for a 
DIGI GIVEAWAY & SURPRISE DAILY COUPONS🥳
in LeighSBDesigns Fan Group on Facebook.

MeWe,

Instagram and

Crafting with Hue

I am continuing to take part in the month long Blog Hop 

The hop has 3 themes you can create with!  You can make Birthday and Party themed projects and Spring themed projects and Easter themed ones too or merge them all together! 

For more details hop over to Leigh's page

The other day I saw a mini pop up box card made by Monica at Oddball Stamps. I thought it was stunning - and thought I would have a go...

To give you an idea of the size, the card folds down to a square just over 4 inches across...

The paper I used was a lovely one from Webster's pages - orange stripes on one side, 'bunting' on the other.

I cut the basic shape using my Cricut,stuck it together and then started embellishing it.

I cut pieces of the paper to make bunting across the fold down sides.

I used Leigh's Birthday Cupcake digi. 
I printed it very small (2 inches tall) three times, coloured the images with Copics and cut them out. I used strips of acetate to place these at different levels from the central card strip.

I drew and cut the tag on the Cricut (another lesson!).

Happy Birthday LeighSB Designs!

Watch out for some more makes in the current month...it may not be every day but we will see!

Hope to see you on Leigh's Birthday hop

Happy Crafting!

Wouldn't it be nice to go on an Easter picnic...?

Today I had a couple of projects in mind...

•  I wanted to find out how to use pens with my Cricut
•  I needed to make an inspirational make for the Oddball Design Team

A black pen was supplied with the machine and I used this in the sample card that came with it. But my daughter gave me a set of 5 pens as part of my Birthday present - so I wanted to find out how to use them...

Having done a bit of research on the internet these were my first examples:

I wanted to use Oddball Art Co's  IMG 36.

First I had to change this into an svg file and then import it into the Cricut Design Space.

Playing around with the colours, I eventually ended up with this:

As you can see the Cricut only gives outlines so I then added extra colour using Copics...

Recipe:

1. Card base and layering sheets cut with Cricut.
2. Floral paper from a Francheville Summer Life paper stack.
3. Image #36 drawn in colour using Cricut, extra colour using Copics,
4. Die cut beetles using Big Shot and a die from Spotlight, in black and yellow card.

If you would like to buy any of Lizzy's Oddball images use my DT code: DTSUSAN10

This coupon code is for 10% OFF the entire Oddball Art Website

I am also going to add this to Leigh's Birthday Hop

For more details hop over to Leigh's page

Today is Day 13... April 13th - Easter Monday - but what a strange Easter Monday? 

I would also like to mention you could share your April makes
 with the Clever Dexter Challenge



Happy Crafting!

LeighSB Designs Birthday Month April 12th

Are you ready for a month of fun?
 April is LeighSBDesigns Art Stamps Birthday month and Leigh is throwing a big party to celebrate🥳  There's a Blog Hop, a FREEBIE, a SALE-bration and then during the Birthday Week there will be a Digi Giveaway and daily surprise coupons on LeighSBDesigns Facebook Fan Group, the Crafting of Hue group plus Leigh is also launching the LeighSBDesigns brand new MeWe Fan Group!  The daily surprise coupons will also be shared on Instagram as well!

The 3rd Birthday Celebrations include a month long Blog Hop and there's a FREEBIE and PRIZES up for grabs plus LeighSBDesigns SALE-bration.

The hop has 3 themes you can create with!  You can make Birthday and Party themed projects and Spring themed projects and Easter themed ones too or merge them all together! 

For more details hop over to Leigh's page

Today is Day 12... April 12th...Happy Easter! 

Ike is sponsoring Leigh's Birthday hop so to start today, I thought I would share another past make using one of Ike's images.

I have used   Easter Catbunny

Hope you will pop over to Ike's World Challenges and have a look at the current challenge....

Today I have another card to share with you:

Again it is a card with a cross on it.

I used the Cricut to cut the card base and the 6 layers of this mandala cross.

The svg files came from Maggie Rose

The other thing I made today was a mini Easter basket. Again using the Cricut, I used svg files from Miss Mandee.

Watch out for some more makes in the current month...it may not be every day but we will see!

Hope to see you on Leigh's Birthday hop

I would also like to mention you could share your Easter makes
 with the Clever Dexter Challenge



Happy Crafting and Happy Birthday LeighSB Designs!

LeighSB Designs Birthday Month April 11th

Are you ready for a month of fun?
 April is LeighSBDesigns Art Stamps Birthday month and Leigh is throwing a big party to celebrate🥳  There's a Blog Hop, a FREEBIE, a SALE-bration and then during the Birthday Week there will be a Digi Giveaway and daily surprise coupons on LeighSBDesigns Facebook Fan Group, the Crafting of Hue group plus Leigh is also launching the LeighSBDesigns brand new MeWe Fan Group!  The daily surprise coupons will also be shared on Instagram as well!

The 3rd Birthday Celebrations include a month long Blog Hop and there's a FREEBIE and PRIZES up for grabs plus LeighSBDesigns SALE-bration.

The hop has 3 themes you can create with!  You can make Birthday and Party themed projects and Spring themed projects and Easter themed ones too or merge them all together! 

For more details hop over to Leigh's page

Today is Day 11... April 11th 

Ike is sponsoring Leigh's Birthday hop so to start today, I thought I would share a past make using one of Ike's images.

I used Flower Square to make a gatefold card

I coloured this with markers to use as a paper....

The flowers on the closing band are cut from another page.

I added a tag inside to be used as a to/from label.

Hope you will pop over to Ike's World Challenges and have a look at the current challenge....

Today I have another card to share with you:

As it is Easter I wanted to make a card with a cross on it.

This cross is a Celtic cross once drawn by Teri Sherman of Delicious Doodles.

I used the Cricut to Print and Cut it.

I added this to a layer of pink textured cardstock and distressed the edges with 

 brushed corduroy. I added this to a white card blank.

Watch out for some more makes in the current month...it may not be every day but we will see!

Hope to see you on Leigh's Birthday hop

I would also like to mention you could share your Easter makes
 with the Clever Dexter Challenge



Happy Crafting and Happy Birthday LeighSB Designs!

W for Waterfall Card

The theme for Mrs A's Butterfly Challenge #140 is W for Waterfall card.

 and she gives instructions on how to make one here. 

The wheel is as follows:

Once again I cut and scored all the pieces with my Cricut. Now that I have all the pieces set out it will make it easy to make another!

I chose a Wheat coloured card for one of the layers - and a Bokeh paper from

 Décosse's Dynamite Doodles for the main paper. I didn't have a lot of choice for the ribbon!
I stamped the butterflies with a brown archival ink - unmarked stamp set.

Anyway I will link this to the Butterfly Challenge #140

Happy Crafting!