Mother's day cross stitched cards

Good afternoon friends, followers and visitors, today I am sharing 2 more Mother's day cards with you. The beautiful cross stitch by my friend Claire really does add a certain charm to them.

This design really lent itself to being placed on an easel card with a de cut pot..

I made a version of this card at my local craft workshop and adapted it to suit the image. The front flap lifts up........

To reveal the whole rose

Inside stamped and watercoloured. 

Thank you for visiting and I hope you like these designs.

Chocolate bouquet

Good morning friends, followers and visitors to my blog, I hope you are well. So the Christmas decorations have all been taken down now, the house looks empty but so much lighter but we still have reminders of the season lurking around in the form of uneaten chocolates. So what better way to use them up apart from eating them than to turn them into a chocolate bouquet as a gift for someone else? Actually it was my cross stitching friend that suggested we made these to sell on our website and as neither of us had ever made one, I searched good old youtube for a tutorial and found this one: http://dawnsinspirations.com/?s=Chocolate+bouquet and this is how mine turned out

So having made one, I shall now have to purchase more chocolates to make more bouquets and my friend is going to do some cross stitching for me to turn into little gift cards to go with them.
Thank you for visiting and feel free to ask any questions also you may like to visit my Facebook page https://m.facebook.com/lainairecreations/?ref=bookmarks.
By for now
Lainie xx

Poppystamps challenge card #16 Sparkly Snow

Hi, I just wanted to share with you a card I have made for the Poppystamps challenge

http://poppystamps.typepad.com/poppystamps/challenge/

Materials used were

A4 white hammered card folded

Pure white card

Poppystamps paw print dies

Cottage Cutz Pine Tree Scape die

Clear Wink of Stella

Computer generated sentiment

Orange card

Thank you for visiting.Lainie xx

First drawing of 2016

Good afternoon to you all.  As it's been a miserable and murky day today weather wise I thought I would spend some time being arty. So I had a go at drawing a Goldfinch with coloured pencils.  I used a mix of Prismacolours and Spectrum Noir pencils as I have limited colours in both sets. The image is taken from the Artist Reference Photos page on Facebook, here's the link:
https://scontent-lhr3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xlp1/t31.0-8/fr/cp0/e15/q65/12362890_1030480016972358_5421637632136017321_o.jpg?efg=eyJpIjoibCJ9.

I have decided to turn each piece of artwork into  greetings cards, I hope the recipients will like them.

Thank you for visiting my blog today and I hope you have been inspired to get creative.
Hugs for now Lainie xx

Trying out new watercolour paints and a couple of pastel paintings

Good morning friends,  followers and visitors,  I hope you have all had a wonderful Christmas. I was very lucky to receive a set of 24 tubes of watercolour paints from my husband so just had to try them out. I have always used pans but found that I got a stronger depth of colour with the tubes. So here is my quick little painting which I have turned into a greetings card:

I also painted a couple of pastel pictures which I turned into greetings cards too

This fairy was inspired by one of Linda Ravenscroft's paintings 

The ballerina was inspired by The Frugal Crafter's painting 

https://www.youtube.com/user/thefrugalcrafter

Thank you for visiting my blog and may I wish you all a very happy new year.

Hugs Lainie xx

Latest makes

Hello friends and fellow crafters. As it's been a little while since my last post, I thought I would share with you some more of my latest makes using the wonderful cross stitching by my friend.

The book mark was a special order and the 3 cards I hope to sell at our next craft fair on the 11th December.
Thank you for visiting today and I hope you are all keeping well.
Hugs til next time
Lainie xx

Craft Fair

Good morning friends, followers and visitors, I hope you are all well.  Today I thought I woukd show you a couple of photos of Lainaire Creation's stall at our local craft fair on Friday evening. Unfortunately,  we didn't sell much but neither did the other stalls really. However, we did manage to hand out quite a few of our marketing leaflets, so hopefully people will visit our website and order from there. If you would like to have a browse it's www.lainairecreations.co.uk. We would welcome any comments on the site too.

Thank you for visiting today and until next time.

Hugs Laine xx