The Ribbon Girl "Anything Goes" ...

Hey Ya's!  Hope you're all having a beautiful weekend!

Well it's the first Ribbon Girls Challenge for 2014  .. "Anything Goes"!  Yayyyy!  So easy peasy and FUN to join in!

Here is my card using lots of yummy goodies from the Ribbon Girl Store such as Deborah Lace, Edwina Lace, Teresa Lace, Diamante & Pearl Trim, Seam Binding, Cheesecloth and Stickles.  That beautiful Diamante & Pearl trim is no longer carried in her shop, BUT .. she has loads of other gorgeous trims to choose from!!!

I've also used LOTV's darling "James Big Heart" .. and I can only imagine he has chocolates to go along with that great big heart of his!!!  :)  On the tag, I've used "Set 50 Tags Madame".

Also, I've used new leafy dies from a very dear & special friend.  And then that little cute heart pearl thingy on the tag is from another dear & special friend.  Thank you SO much ladies .. I LOVE them!!!

I do hope you'll come in and join the fun at the Ribbon Girls!  :)  The prizes are GORGEOUS!  Here they are:

  

Prima Park Bench & Bridge Set; White Mixed Dahlias to colour yourself, a metre of 10mm flat back ivory pearl square trim and a packet of ten aurora borealis hearts.

 Thank you so very much for visiting me .. I love it when you do!  I'll see you again soon!

Hugs,

Elise

Christmas Cones ...

Hey Ya's!  Hope you all are having a beautiful week!

Well, it seems that I have forgotten to post these .. which I made allllllll the way back in November!  Wowwwww .. time flies right?!  So I'll show it to you now!  :)  I had so much fun making these cones .. I made about 4 of them .. different flowers and laces.  Then I placed little things inside to fill it up.  :)

I used some lovely goodies from the Ribbon Girl such as Matilda Lace, Cheesecloth, Seam Binding and Ivory Pleated Satin Ribbon.

Have you ever shopped there at the Ribbon Girl before?  I know loads of you have!  But if you haven't .. then you really must visit and and treat yourselves to some beautiful shopping!  She has loads of gorgeous goodies in there!!!

Thank you so very much for visiting me .. I truly love it when you do!  See you again soon!

Hugs,

Elise

LOTV Sale!!!

Good Morning!  I wanted to let you all know that LOTV is having a SALE until noon Jan. 22nd!

Go ahead and treat yourselves .. I know you want to!  Happy Shopping for lots of cuties!!!  :)

Hope you all have a wonderful day!

Hugs,

Elise

Ribbon Girl Giveaway!!!

Hey Ya's!  Wanted to share something with you and thought you'd love to enter for your chance to win some GORGEOUS yummies!

The Ribbon Girl Challenge Blog is having a Vintage Style Frames and Pearl Trim Giveaway!  Click here for more details as I know you'd love to have some of these in your mail!  You have until January 25th to enter!!!!!!!!

Good Luck to you and hope you're having a beautiful weekend!

Hugs,

Elise

You and Me ...

Hey Ya's!  Hope you're all having a wonderful weekend!

I have another card to show you using one of LOTV's images from the newest release.  These sweeties are called "You and Me".  Awwww right?!  hehe!  And the die that I used is a gift from a very dear & lovely friend!!  Thank you SO much sweetheart!!!

I hope you've been treating yourselves to those GORGEOUS stamps and treats from LOTV .. a girl (or guy) can never have enough right?!  :)  hehe!  

And please don't forget to visit my Beautiful DT Sisters personal blogs as well as LOTV's Inspirational Blog to see their GORGEOUS creations!!!

Thank you so very much for visiting me .. I love it when you do!  I'll see you again soon!!

Hugs,

Elise

LOTV's New Release Out Today!!!

Hey Ya's!  Hope you all had a wonderful weekend!

I wanted to let you know that Lili of the Valley's newest release will be out today online at midday!!!!!  Your wait is over and you can now spoil yourselves silly with those DARLING furries!  :)

I've stepped outside my boundaries for a short bit and did a CAS card inspired by my lovely teammies Jen and Mary J.  GASP!  Yes, I think I spent 2 days trying to put just THIS together (whhhaaaaaat???!!!) as I kept wanting to stick more things on there .. but finally slapped my hands and said, "ENOUGH!"  ahahaha!!!  I swear, I don't think I knew what I was doing!  You'd think CAS cards are as it implies .. "simple" .. but indeed it is NOT!!!!!! 

So this is my "James Peeping" coloured with Distress Reinkers and I just wrote the "hello" at the bottom and couldn't resist drawing little black lines around the edge.  lol!

Have you also been checking out my Beautiful DT sisters creations as well?  sigh .. they are GORGEOUS aren't they?  Check out their works on their personal blogs as well as on the LOTV Inspirational Blog!!

Don't forget that LOTV is having their monthly challenge of "Anything Goes" for an awesome prize!!!

Alright, thank you so much for visiting me .. I love it when you do!  I'll see you again soon!

Hugs,

Elise

LOTV Blog Hop!!!

Good morning everyone and thanks for stopping by!

Time for another Lili of the Valley design team blog hop and today we’re celebrating our first launch of 2014!  Wahooo!  There are 10 adorable new stamps in the set featuring the hugely popular James the Bear and some more of our newest cute characters; Jack, Patch and Puss.

The stamps will be available to buy on the website from midday (UK time) on Monday 13^th January.  The shop in Leeds is open this Saturday 10 – 4 and you will also be able to buy them there if you are going along.  :)

Just ‘hop’ from one blog to another following the links and leave a comment on each card, hopefully we can give you lots of ideas and inspiration for using these cute new images.

As always we have some hidden prizes along the way, we don’t know where they are so do be sure to visit and comment on every blog.

We will let you know on Monday morning which were the ‘lucky’ blogs and the winners will be drawn at random from all the comments that were left on those blogs.

We have 2 full sets of the new stamps to give away, 2 lucky winners will each get all 10 new designs!!!  Wow!!!

  

Here's a list of all the blogs taking part, and remember that you will need to visit them all and leave a comment on each one to have the best chance of winning;

  

Ideas to Inspire 

Anne 

Becky

Dawny

Debbie 
Dena 
Elise ... you are here  :)

Fleur

Gretha

Jen 

Kathy

Kim

Lou

Mary J

Mindy

  

Here’s my card using this ever so ADORABLE "Celebrate" .. which makes me think of a song that goes "Celebrate Good Times C'mon!!!"  haha!!

I've also used LOTV's "Always and Forever" and "Beach Bliss" paper.  My tag has LOTV's "Set 58 Good Times", "Set 61 Celebrate" and also Grungy Dots from Set 67.

And also some yummies from the beautiful Ribbon Girl store .. Butterfly Lace, Old Rose Crushed Organza and Carnations.

Next stop is GORGEOUS Fleur and if you get lost you can start again at the beginning and pick the links up from there.

  

Finally, don’t forget to stop by the Ideas to Inspire blog on Monday morning when you can find out who the lucky winners were of the prizes before the stamps go on sale

Enjoy the hop everyone, good luck!

Hugs,

Elise

Ribbon Girl Giveaway!!!

The Ribbon Girl has new bronze/brass colour charms in stock and one lucky reader can win the selection shown ... CLICK HERE to enter!!!

This giveaway will close on Saturday 11th January and the winner will be picked at random sent to ANYWHERE in the world!

Hugs,

Elise

LOTV Sneak Peek!

Hey Ya's!  Hope you're all having a beautiful week so far!

My little Bodhi has started school again on Monday .. and boy oh boy .. he cried the last 2 nights at bedtime because he didn't want to go back to school.  :(  But as soon as we got to school .. he was happy to see his friends again and jumped right in!  :)  Yayyyy! 

Well, as you've already seen .. LOTV is coming out with another DARLING release starring our furry friends!  Awwwww .. soooo sweet!  They will be released on January 13th!!!  :)

And this one for today is called "James Laptop" .. kinda reminds us of US right?!  hahaha!!!!!!!  And looks like James is looking at your blogs and saying, "ooOoh!  How BEAUTIFUL!  I love it!"  ;)

Papers:  LOTV Winter Wishes Paper

My Beautiful DT Sisters will be showing your their GORGEOUS creations on their personal blogs as well as in LOTV's Inspirational Blog .. so keep a lookout!

Annnnnd!  A new LOTV Monthly Challenge has started!!!!!!!!  Easy peasy .. it's "Anything Goes"!

Thank you so much for visiting me .. I love it when you do!  I'll see you again soon!

Hugs,

Elise

Happy New Year and a Ribbon Girl Giveaway!!!

Happy New Year to You!  Wishing you all a FABULOUS 2014!

I've finally completed a card that I can show you .. whew!  lol!  My little Bodhi is still on vacation .. so not a lot of time for me to play in here .. but more time to enjoy with him!  :)

This little darling is LOTV's "Pretty Bouquet" .. it's been a long time since I've coloured her and couldn't resist making something with her once again.

I've also used some yummies from The Ribbon Girl store such as the beautiful charm "Daisy May", Kort & Godt rolled flowers, Ivory Pleated Ribbon, cheesecloth, and stickles.

Here's a little closeup of the "Daisy May" charm .. I love these little charms

Also, I'd like to tell you that The Ribbon Girls is having a gorgeous collection of pink goodies to give away!!!  OooH my .. you don't want to miss out on that!  Click here to enter!  You have until Sunday January 5th to enter!!!!!!!!

And one more thing ... look at who I got to meet over this Christmas holidays????????  Wheeeee!!!  My SWEET beautiful friend Dena!  Truly wanted to keep her all to myself .. BUT .. she was on a family vacation .. so .. guess I needed to share her.  LOL!  ;)  I Miss you Dena!

Alright .. thank you for reading all my tidbits!  :)  hehehe!  Thank you soooo much for visiting me .. I love it when you do!  I'll see you again soon!

Hugs,

Elise