Dottie's World Challenge -- Oh La La

It's my turn again to set the DW challenge this week and I decided to join in the French celebration of Bastille day by having a French themed challenge. It's quite loosely French based though, if you want you can just have the french flag colours as your theme. I've gone down the red, white and blue route but I've also used one of the Charmed downloads that I think has a French feel to it. I've used Rosebud from the Pixie Chicks, I think her jaunty hat has a definite french look to it, what do you think?.....

Isn't she a sweetie? I've paper pieced the dress with some nice BG paper. The image is coloured with my Copics.
If you would like to check out the Pixie Chick downloads just click Here.

Have lovely day,

Louise xx

I'm Such a Proud Mum!

Hi folks, I don't have anything crafty to show you today but I would like to show you a recording of my daughter Holly singing in her school concert last night. Her dream is to one day be in a west end musical and her whole life seems to revolve around achieving it! The song she is singing here is The Wizard and I from Wicked. It's not he easiest song to sing and the other solo was probably the best of the two (she sang Hallelujah) but with this one I was really impressed with how she acted the part.
Before you watch it, let me explain that the person who starts the song off is her friend Steph. My Holly is the one in the skirt who sings the main part of the song.

Please take a look ♥♥♥♥ Thank You

Amazing Competition!

Phwar!!! How many of you would like a brand spanking new set of 72 Copics?

I've just bought my second set but I still want to tell all my blogging buddies about it. If you want to know exactly how to get you hands on them please pop over to My dear friend Karen's blog Crafty Goings On. It's so easy to enter!

Dottie's World Challenge

It's a fab challenge at Dottie's World this week; we have to make a card/project inspired by a garden. Well it just so happens that I was doing some gardening this morning before I made this card (I'm writing this the day before - I ain't an early riser!LOL) and I was cleaning out my fish pond. This card is therefore inspired by my fish pond.

I've used Water Lilly from the Pixie Chick # 2 download set and placed her onto a section of the riverside background which is in the same set. The great thing about the digital backgrounds is that you don't have to use the whole thing, you can enlarge the section that you want to use like I have here. The lilies around the edge are also copied and pasted from the background to create a foreground embellishment.

I've used clusters of seed beads and some glitter in the centre of each flower and I've also added some acrylic dewdrops for the droplet effect.

Thanks for looking.

Louise xx

Dottie' World Challenge

Grrr why the heck isn't blogger scheduling working today!!!!! Sorry I'm late, this should have appeared early this morning along with a post on Dottie's World, neither worked!

Anyhow, it's my turn to set the Dottie's World challenge this week so, as summer is finally upon us I've asked people to include some sunshine on their cards.

Here's what I came up with

It's one of those card that took absolutely ages and in the end I wasn't really all the happy with it, ah well, c'est la vie!

The image is of course Dreamer, he seems to be the favourite of the Pixie Chicks download collections.

Have lovely day,

Louise xx

Colour Create

Don't you find it liberating breaking through the boundaries? Today's card was made for the Colour Create challenge and I've broken the unspoken rules of cardmaking! I know, once a rebel always a rebel right? LOL.
This card is very impractical, it will need a box making for it but it's fun! Take a look....

I think it will look really pretty sitting upon the recipient's mantle piece so who cares about practicality! I don't sell my cards anymore so I don't need to worry about being sensible!

The Pixie is of course one of my latest creations, She can be purchased here at Charmed Cards and Crafts.

Pixie Chicks

Well I've finally finished the Pixie Chicks! Woo Hoo! This time I've worked with Karen to produce the sets. Karen has made some fantastic backgrounds and LOADS of sentiments to go into the bundles. If you haven't seen them yet you should pop over for a look.

Today I've put a tutorial on Dottie's World to show you how to use the card kits which are another extra in the kits. Here's what the cards look like....

Everything used to make the cards above, including the template for the card base is in Pixie Chicks set 2.

The elements in the card below are in Set 1 along with much much more!

The great thing about the kits is that if you're in a rush you can just print them out ready coloured, cut them out and stick them together but if you're feeling creative you can print them out in black and white and choose your own colour scheme, adding glitter and other embellishments.

The Pixie Chicks downloads are available to purchase at Charmed Cards & Crafts.

I'm so proud of these little ladies, they are well and truly from the heart.