Cartolinas from Lou Mac: April 2015

Tuesday, 28 April 2015

Easel, does it!

Posted by Lou Mac at 09:00 Labels: Amy R, Die-cutting, First Edition, Passion for ProMarkers DT, ProMarkers/ FlexMarkers, Simply Betty, Stickles

Yoohoooo! :) It's a pleasure to have you pop by. Welcome to another Tuesday! Next time you spot me posting for Passion for ProMarkers, it's gonna be MAY! How do you feel about that?! Time is running away with us.. Hah!

Time for a new challenge over at

Passion for ProMarkers

The theme this week is set by the amazing Lou!

Nice and easy.. EASEL CARDS!!

Given, I went a little OTT with embellishments, and layers, and papers.. but hey. An easel card is nearly an ornament after all.. kinda! ;)

I used a gorgeous image from Simply Betty Stamps - I cannot get enough of these images lately! They're an absolute dream to colour! I paired this little lily lady with some waaay older papers from First Edition that I fall in love with each time I get them out the paper drawer.

I created a bunch of my own card and vellum flowers for this card, as well as using a bunch of die cuts, buttons, a mini wooden spool aaaaaand some ribbon. Wow!! A lotta, lotta stuff.

Hope you likey. xo

Monday, 20 April 2015

Birthday Wishes

Posted by Lou Mac at 09:00 Labels: Altenew, Die-cutting, Memento, MMCS DT, My Favorite Things, Stamping, WPlus9

Moooorning peoples! :)

Time for some inspiration for My Mum's Craft Shop.

Apologies for the quality of the photo, I took it on my phone and it's a little grainy.

I used a combo of Altenew and WPlus9.

Altenew - Painted Flowers

WPlus9 - Whole Lotta Happy

WPlus9 - Happy Trio Dies

I had a blast stamping these pretty flowers out! I really need to get some new ink colours to try some new combos, but for now, I really love those orange flowers!

I die cut a happy from the cardstock I had stamped with the flowers and layered it up to create a 3D effect. I then stamped birthday wishes from the coordinating stamp set from WPlus9 to finish up the card. I hope you likey! :) xx

Tuesday, 14 April 2015

Purrrfect!

Posted by Lou Mac at 09:00 Labels: Die-cutting, My Favorite Things, My Minds Eye, Passion for ProMarkers DT, ProMarkers/ FlexMarkers, The Ribbon Girl, Tiddly Inks

Good morning guys! :) Thank you for stopping by today.

I have a cute little Tiddly Inks creation to share with you all for the new challenge over at

PASSION FOR PROMARKERS

The wonderful Lisa wants to see us making tags, or using tags on our projects this week! Easy, peasy right?! No excuse not to join in.. ;)

This week, we're being sponsored by Polkadoodles, and one lucky winner will recieve TWO digi images!! Need any more reasons to join? How's about some inspiration..

I used the gorgeous Purfect Birthday Wryn! I adore this little character, and now even more so, what with her being paired with a little cat hat and balloon!! PURFECT indeed!!

I coloured her up using my beloved pens, and paired her with some papers from My Minds Eye. I die cut a MFT tag, along with some cardstock layers and smooshed it all together. For embellishment I tied a tiny little pink organza bow and put together a little vellum flower, before going all out with rhinestones, liquid pearls and stickles. Job done.

Be sure to head over to the blog for more inspiration and to join in with this weeks challenge! xo

Monday, 6 April 2015

Polly's Pals

Posted by Lou Mac at 09:00 Labels: Cameo, Hobby House, Lawn Fawn, MMCS DT, Stamping, The Ribbon Girl

Another Monday rolling in! I can't even believe we're in April!! A quarter of the way through the year already. Madness!!

The good news is, I have the week off work. The bad news is, I'll be spending most of my time at the boat. Some of you who know me will know me and the boy have taken a ridiculously large restoration job on and.. quite frankly.. I just wish I would finish itself.

Onwards.

I'm here to share some inspiration with you all using products available at

My Mum's Craft Shop.

I have used the gorgeous little girlie from The Hobby House toppers set - Polly's Pals.

I created a Christening card with her.

I added the personalised details using a Lawn Fawn alpha stamp set. I went a little OTT with embellishments, adding buttons, crochet flowers, vellum flowers and both half pearls and liquid pearls. Love how it turned out though. The unusual colour combo is taken from the topper itself - I love how it works.

That's all from me for today. Please be sure to stop by the BLOG for daily inspiration. xo