On the beach!

Miss Lilly has the right idea, in all this ridiculously hot weather, she is off to the beach! (X-post to the LBBS Blog) This digi is called "Miss Lilly on the beach" and is from Little Blue Button Stamps -  a nice sunny picture for my DT project!

This is just polychromos and white posca pen on kraft card. I even decided against glossy accents :)

Here she is in the shop, so you can see the digistamp before I started to colour it! It's a very pretty stamp and quick and easy to colour too.

The font I have used is LA Headlights BTN. I used Fiskars corner scissors to shape the kraft card. The background paper is a freebie from Making Cards Magazine and the bling is ancient and from the stash. 

Final shot of her, before signing off! If you would like to see more of the DT's inspiration and info on new releases, head over to the Little Blue Button Blog for a nosey!

Bali and New Zealand Bound

A quick commissioned card- a birthday card for a chap currently travelling in Bali and New Zealand. This was a island digi stamp from Make it Crafty that I added free clip art to. I coloured it with polychromo pencils.

Elements from old Docrafts and Hunkydory kits. Papers from Hunkydory and Magazine Freebies. Envelope stickers from an Usbourne Sticker Book.

Anglesey Holiday.

Spent last week on hols in Anglesey. We stayed in a cottage near Moelfre, somewhere we had stayed in 2008, it's gorgeous and had been upgraded since our last stay, now all very plush! Here is a pic from the front of the cottage, looking out towards the coast.

The view from the cottage in 2008.

The View from the cottage in 2016 (Instagram pic)

We spent most of the holiday going to beaches and visiting our favourite spots on the coast.

Aberfraw - only popped out the car to get a photo here, the sun was setting and it looked really pretty.

 Amlwch Port - also has a rather nice Chinese takeaway that we went to on the way home one day. Sunset was fabulous!

 Cemaes Bay, where we were going to fly the kite but it was far too busy in the car park this time and the tide was in, so not much beach to use or walk the dog on. This is Rog (My partner) and our dog Holly (a Chocolate Labrador)  in the foreground.

View from near Llaneilian - we went off piste for a nosey towards Point Lynas Lighthouse and this was one of the views along the way.

Lligwy, our nearest beach and favourite dog walking spot. Holly loves it!  It's about 2 mins from the cottage that we stay in and is one of the nicest quietest beaches we visited. Think we went here almost every day. (This pic was at sunset on our first evening there).

Newborough Beach, also next to a red squirrel reserve.  It costs £4 to park near Newborough beach but there are good facilities there and usually a really epic beach, but once again we got there at high tide! The view was impressive though.

 South Stacks. Fab RSPB shop and café. No puffins this time of year. Also VERY WINDY! Have to pop here to get RSPB pin badges and buy some postcards. Everyone has a gannet postcard this year, it was puffins last time we went!

Trearddur Bay - beautiful bay with a small beach. This is where we stayed on our last Anglesey holiday.

We also saw lots of interesting wildlife, but I shall do a post about that tomorrow, just so nothing is too picture heavy! It was a lovely holiday, lots of beautiful scenery and awesome skies! I also did quite a lot of crafting in the evenings and worked on some new dog related digistamps. We are now home and have almost finished the holiday washing (does everyone hate that bit?) and it was nice to go through all our pics and make this post :).

At the Beach - Stepper Cards

I've really being admiring people's use of stepper cards recently so thought I would have a go at it myself. This is a very simple three step card base, but it does add a lot to the fanciness of the card. I did two versions of this card, one for me to give to my Mum-in-law and the other one was a commissioned card. I'm writing this in February and scheduling this post for the end of May, because I actually finished a commission card 3 months early! Makes me sound organised :)

Both cards were made using elements from a Kanban seaside kit and stamps that were freebies with a magazine I think, alas I don't have any details of which one. Laser cut buttons were all purchased from the NEC. I added an additional child to the black silhouette card for Lisa as she has twins. All colouring done with distress inks used as water colours.