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Love From Lizi Summer Blog Hop

on June 21, 2017

ENTRIES ARE NOW CLOSED AND THE WINNER HAS BEEN ANNOUNCED

CONGRATULATIONS LYN TURNER!

Please get in touch with the Love From Lizi team to claim your prize!

Hello friends,

I have the honour of taking part in the Summer Blog hop run by the fabulous girls over at Love From Lizi. Thanks for everyone that is joining us for this super mega fun! 🙂

So if you are joining in the hippity-hoppity FUN, then you will have arrived from the lovely LIZI!

What’s more – there is a prize to be won! How amazing is that! All you need to do is comment on all of the blogs in the hop to be included in the prize draw to win a £20 voucher to the Love From Lizi store! All comments must be received by 25th June, and the winner will be announced on 26th June on the Love From Lizi Blog.

Today I am sharing not one but TEN cards! I can’t help myself, the kit is so full of awesomeness I decided to use it in my weekly ‘Come Craft With Me’ show. If you are new here – let me take a moment to explain- every Friday evening at 9pm BST, I open the virtual doors to my craft room and invite everyone to ‘Come Craft With Me’. Simply join me and the gang over at http://youtube.com/hungryheffy – where I get crafty, share tips, and have lots of fun interacting with all our viewers!

The video above is the real time video of me creating these 10 cards – and its fun to watch my creative process and the way i change my mind every now and again! But best grab your slippers and a glass of wine beforehand – its a long one! Best watched in the background when you’re getting craft I think!

Let’s take a closer look at these cards, but don’t forget the link to the next stop is mentioned at the bottom of this post!

First up I used the sequin cord to create this shiny, textured backdrop behind a star aperture. Finished with a heat embossed sentiment from the awesome stamp set in the kit.

For this one I die cut the burlap into a heart shape- i love the texture that it gives this card!

This one nearly killed me! LOL. If you watch the video you will see for yourself. It almost had a brush lettered handwritten message on the top, but something stopped me from committing to it. Finally, I realised what was missing – those super shiny mirror mosaics!

This one was a big hit on the LIVE stream – its hard to see but behind the vellum is some black cardstock with white heat embossed fireworks! To add some colour I used my finger to add some distress oxides ink on top, and then made it into a shaker card using the vellum! I added the die cut HAPPY from my stash.

SO simple, yet so pretty. This mirror foiled vellum is gorgeous. Just a little die cut on top and… bobs your uncle!

Three die cut circles, three pieces of patterned vellum, and some of that fun fireworks paper really made this card come together. For some extra dimension that golden ricrac did the trick!

For this next card I stamped the bunting image and tried to use my chameleon pen! It took a little getting used to, but it sure is a lot of fun! I added a pre-coloured image from my stash to round off this card!

I wanted to think outside the box at this stage, so I used the bunting die to cut out triangles onto some scratch card – which I then used as a stencil. Once again I grabbed a few bits and bobs from my stash to quickly finish this off – but I love that background!

For this one I cracked out the outline stickers -and once again I wanted to show how you can think outside the box with these. I stuck them onto some watercolour cardstock in a haphazard fashion, then watercoloured over the top. I chose to do a loose ombre effect so it created more interest on the card!

And number 10! I found a piece of watercoloured paper in my scraps with this galaxy background, and I thought it would be just perfect for this final card. I couldn’t help but finish this off with a Hooray die cut (from Honey Bee Stamps).

I made it! I hope you didn’t get swept up in all the photos on this stop! 🙂

And for more inspiration, be sure to head over to the next stop, who is the amazing Alicia!!

Don’t forget to leave a comment on every stop before 25th June – and that way you could be the lucky winner of a £20 voucher to the Love From Lizi store!

Thanks for stopping by, and i hope to see you all this Friday for my LIVE YouTube crafting stream!

Happy Crafting!

Lesley

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Introducing Heffy Doodle – A new stamp company in town!

on June 10, 2017

Finally… the wait is over!

Last night in the CCWM YouTube LIVE stream, not only did I show you how to make an interactive card, but I also FINALLY shared a huge announcement! eekk! 🙂

Introducing – Heffy Doodle!

That’s right! A new stamp company in town! Woohoo!

Over the last year I have been doodling, designing, tweaking, sampling, experimenting and creating… and now – all the hard work has all come together!

Heffy Doodle is a new craft company, specialising in stamps and dies. We will be launching our new family run business via Kickstarter, which will launch on July 3rd.

Last night, live on air during my Come Craft With Me LIVE stream – I made the big announcement – you can watch the playback in the video above. I also gave everyone a sneaky peeky – or rather, a cheeky sneaky peeky – as I don’t want to give too much away at the moment.

To kick things off we made the Heffydoodle.com website live last night, along with opening up social channels across twitter, facebook, pinterest and instagram. Over the course of the following weeks, we will be sharing more sneak peeks – and the full reveals will start on 28th June. Then, on July 3rd, the Kickstarter will be live and you will be able to place your orders!

To celebrate this MASSIVE announcement, on last night’s CCWM LIVE show, I made a peekaboo card featuring some Heffy Doodle stamps – let’s take a look!

I used some distress oxides to blend the pink and blue panel on the front of the card, and accented my card with purple cardstock. On the front is this sweet Heffy Doodle elephant, and you can see a message through the aperture, along with a cute cake. Let’s see what happens when we open the card…

PEEKABOO! I love these kinds of interactive cards! I think they are so fun! When you open the front flap of the card, another elephant mysteriously appears in the aperture! BOO!

All the stamps on today’s card are Heffy Doodle stamps.

A huge thank you to everyone on the LIVE stream who shared my excitement and for all the amazing encouragement that I have had already. I am so excited – and just can’t wait for the Kickstarter to launch on the 3rd of July.

Don’t know what Kickstarter is? Well, essentially it is a way for us to collect pre-orders as we need to reach a minimum number of orders before we can start production on everything. The Kickstarter will be running from 3rd – 31st of July, and assuming we reach our target we will be starting production first thing in August and shipping out to you shortly after that. If you would like to be kept in the loop with the latest Heffy Doodle news and announcements – sign up here.

So here’s the deal – we need your help! PLEASSSSSEEE 😀

For any new company, marketing is the big challenge, and for Kickstarter to be a success, we need as many pre-orders as possible. SO here’s how YOU can help Heffy Doodle

If you have a blog – please tell your followers about Heffy Doodle. To use the sneak peek photo above – click here. Link to HeffyDoodle.com and encourage everyone to sign up so they can get Heffy Doodle updates
Follow us on Social Media – see our sneak peeks, share them with your community. Tell your friends, talk about Heffy Doodle in forums and your crafty groups.

Instagram – @heffydoodlestamps

Twitter – @heffydoodle

Facebook – @heffydoodle

Pinterest – @heffydoodle

Thanks again for all your support – with your help, I hope that Heffy Doodle will be a huge success. I can’t wait to see what you make with these designs!

Join me for more sneak peeks over the next few weeks, and on next week’s Come Craft With Me YouTube LIVE video, I will be using another Heffy Doodle stamp set -so you will get another peek at some of our range!

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Huge Announcement! – Coming soon!

on June 8, 2017

Hello my crafty friends!
So you may have noticed that my blog schedule has changed slightly over the last month or so, and in my YouTube LIVE sessions, I have been hinting at the fact that I have been SUPER busy and that I have been working on something behind the scenes.

It’s been such a killer trying to keep this under wraps… but finally the time has come to SHARE THE BIG NEWS!

Join me tomorrow evening, 9pm BST for my usual Come Craft With Me YouTube LIVE video stream – where I will be making a HUGE announcement. I will also be making a card, live on air – hope you can make it!

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