More about our visit to the home of the Beatles at the end of this post.
A birthday card today for a friend who likes anything elephant related.
A birthday card today for a friend who likes anything elephant related.
I used a Memory Box ' Grand Happy Birthday' die with yellow card and backed the bottom part with grey card before attaching to the white card blank. The elephant is a die from the Sweet Dixie 'Toy Giraffe & Elephant' set. I backed the elephant with yellow card, which shows through the flower pattern and added a tiny clear gem to the centre of the flower. The three flowers were made with punches and I finished off my card with a grey strip near the bottom of the card.
I am joining in the following challenges:
Allsorts Challenge Week 559 ~ Dies and/or Punches
Pixie's Snippets Playground - Challenge #371 ~ All snippets, except for the base card
Crafty Catz Challenge #493 ~ Anything Goes with optional twist of Critters
Little Red Wagon Challenge #536 ~ Wild One
Use Your Stuff Challenge #391 ~ Critters
HLS February Anything Goes with Dies Challenge
Double Trouble Paper Crafting Challenge #49 ~ Again and Again - three punched flowers
My hubby and I spent four days this week in Liverpool, the home of the Beatles. I must be 20 years since we last visited and it still is the friendliest city I've ever visited.Pixie's Snippets Playground - Challenge #371 ~ All snippets, except for the base card
Crafty Catz Challenge #493 ~ Anything Goes with optional twist of Critters
Little Red Wagon Challenge #536 ~ Wild One
Use Your Stuff Challenge #391 ~ Critters
HLS February Anything Goes with Dies Challenge
Double Trouble Paper Crafting Challenge #49 ~ Again and Again - three punched flowers
View from the top of the tower including the Catholic cathedral, known locally as 'Paddy's Wigwam'.
A brilliant exhibition with everything you need to know about the Beatles.
My hubby turning the Fab Four into the Fab Five!
The gates of Strawberry Fields.
A stop at Penny Lane.
On the way home from Liverpool, we took a 'slight' detour to call in Lavinia Stamps shop in Ruthin, North Wales.
What a gem of a place to visit!
I bought a few crafty goodies, including a fan brush. I remember seeing the brush used on a Lavinia video...... I just need to find the video again to remind myself what it was used for. LOL!
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Cute card. I enjoyed viewing the pictures. What great fun to have stopped in the Lavinia store. [Bunny]
ReplyDeleteBorn,bred in Liverpool Liz - and worked there for over 30 years. A special city. Nice pics that brought back some memories! Hope you found time to visit the amazing Anglican Cathedral and of course Albert Dock - the police headquarters was right opposite where the tall ships came in and we had the best view in town!
ReplyDeleteAnd how good to be able to go to Lavinia on your way home - great goodies!!
Beautiful card, Liz. Love the sweet elephant & gorgeous colour combo x
ReplyDeleteLovely card Liz, beautifully designed cute elephant die, the grey and yellow combo is fabulous.
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing your photos although I'm a tad jealous! Not only did you go to Liverpool and enjoy the 'Beatles Experience' you also went to the Lavinia Stamps shop! Lucky lady...enjoy your gorgeous new stamps!
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'''back again! Thanks for playing along at Crafty Catz this week a perfect entry for this week's theme
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Fan brush for splattering those brushos on your gelly plate or card I think Liz. I so envy your visit to Lavinia stamps..I love her stuff. I lke your elephant..he is lovely and the grey and yellow go so well together. Have visited Liverpool but not done the Beatles story...it's a lovely city.
ReplyDeleteWhat a lovely card, Liz! I lllllllove elephants!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteThank you for the great photos of Liverpool. And I am excited to see the Lavinia Stamps shop. I have a llllllot of Lavinia stamps but I am sooooo jealous that I cannot visit the shop! At least, not now. But when I program a trip to UK, I will definitely visit it!! Ha ha!! Enjoy your goodies, my dear friend.
The fan brush is perfect to make your own trees and for splats. Kisses!!!!
That looks like a wonderful trip to make, and how fun that you got to visit the Lavinia shop! Have fun with your new goodies!
ReplyDeleteAlso loving your pretty card with the cute die cut elephant and great choice of colors!
Thanks so much for joining us at Allsorts challenge this week where our theme is dies and/or punches!
Ellibelle's Corner
What a totally adorable card Liz! Wonderful use of dies, and the punch plus such pretty colours together. Loved seeing your photos of your trip to Liverpool - and the 'slight' detour to Lavinia stamps. I feel as if I've been on a little trip with you!
ReplyDeleteHope you're OK in the current storm - it's wild out there!
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Di xx
Love what you've done with that elephant die (which I have - enabled by seeing you use it ages ago). Thanks for sharing the pics of Liverpool and how wonderful to call in on Lavinia Stamps on the way home, will be watching out to see what you do with them.
ReplyDeleteSuch a bright and happy card! The little elephant is so sweet!
ReplyDeleteWhat wonderful photos of your time in Liverpool too! My middle son and I were there a couple of years ago and really enjoyed it. I had though Liverpool was a rough place - but we didn't find that at all! I'm so glad that you and your hubby enjoyed your holiday.
Thanks for joining us at Little Red Wagon this week!
Kate
Small Bits of Paper
Haha, when you find out, I hope you will show us, Liz! Your elephant card is the sweetest!! And I loved your pictorial of your visit to Liverpool. My good friend Ros lives there and she and her hubby were such great hosts touring me and a few other bloggie friends around town. Your post brought back happy memories!! Hugs, Darnell
ReplyDeleteWow, Liz, what a fab trip! I know I would enjoy that very much - I've enjoyed the Beatles music since I was a kid listening to Dad's records. Lavinia store looks amazing too, what a fun time you must have had! Maybe the brush is to remove glitter? or to remove powder from powder tool remaining on cardstock after embossing? Lots of uses, I am sure! Your card is super cute too!
ReplyDeleteAdorable card! Love the colors!
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing the pics of Liverpool! I'd love to visit there! And what a fun detour you got to take too.
Perfect card for your friend. What an interesting time you had in Liverpool, and love your purchases from Lavinia. How lucky are you people who live in UK - so many lovely shops to visit!
ReplyDeletelove that elephant diecut and the yellow /grey colour combo
ReplyDeleteYour card is bound to be a hit. You can use your fan brush to create paint splatters. Hugs Mrs A.
ReplyDeleteAww your elephant is so adorable especially with his ear raised from the card. The colour combo works so well especially for the flower inlay on his/her bottom. Oh my Lavinia Stamps shop looks amazing inside, definitely artistically owned x
ReplyDeleteGlad you had a great time in Liverpool Liz, and The Beatles exhibition looks great. I particularly love the sculpture of them, so realistic, and you obviously searched out other places connected to them and their songs. The Beatles were definitely my favourites and I still have LP's of theirs out in the garage packed away, but I'm not sure what condition they will be in by now. I love your sweet elephant and it stands quite happily on your MB sentiment die cut, and love the punched flowers and also the little gem to finish the flower on the elephant. A gorgeous card. You did well with your purchases from Lavinia Stamps too and look forward to seeing what you make with them. x
ReplyDeleteLove the Stitched elephant; such a great die. And I was originally from back East and we use to do Sunday drives to see the fields of sunflowers, so big and magnificent. Hope you join us at Double Trouble, since we were partnering with Use Your Stuff. You have met our requirement of "Again and Again" to use repeat items on your project, which you have used your sunflowers. Please pop in to see us, would love you to enter your card in our challenge, and come back for future fun challenges with Thing 1, 2 and 3. Our link is: https://doubletroublechallenge.blogspot.com/2020/02/challenge-49-again-and-again-partnering.html
ReplyDeleteThank you, I've linked my card up to the challenge. xx
DeleteThanks for sharing with us Liz and hope you follow us and come back tomorrow to join us for another fun challenge. Like that border birthday die a lot and love how you used it.
DeleteI love the lemon and grey colour combo on that sweet elephant card, your friend is sure to love it. It was lovely to see your photographs of your visit to Liverpool. looks like the detour was well worth it too!! xx
ReplyDeleteGreat post, Liz! I enjoyed reading and seeing all the photos! Firstly, adorable card, love grey and yellow plus whit, such fab combo! The elephant and the flowers look so cute!
ReplyDeleteAnd then, how lovely are the photos of your trip to Liverpool and North Wales, I would love seeing the Beatles exhibition and that amazing Lavinia's shop! :D
Well done!
Such a lovely card, love the elephant and the sunflowers, it's such a happy card Liz. Thanks for sharing the photos of Liverpool, I keep saying we should visit, so many places in the UK interesting to see. WOW! I didn't know Lavinia were in North Wales, I wonder if hubby would detour there from South Wales LOL.
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Your card is amazing.
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That is a lovely card you made. And, thanks for sharing your trip with us. I can see where the Beatles got so much of their inspiration for their songs now. And great stop at Lavinia Stamps too.
ReplyDeleteLoving your card Liz, that elephant die is so cool! Love the stitching on him and the cute flower. He is a great little elephant to add to the stash for sure and he looks so cute on your card. Wow, what a trip!!! That must have been so cool to be in the town where the Beatles came from. Love your husband standing with their statues. They have recently redid inside of the Strawberry Gates didn't they? I can't imagine being there never mind Penny Lane! The Catholic church does indeed look like a Wigwam. lol Glad you and hubby got away for a while! Hugs, Brenda
ReplyDeleteStrawberry Fields used to be a children's home and apparently John Lennon often used to climb over the wall to get into the grounds. The original house has been demolished and the new building is now a exhibition centre. We didn't have time to go in.....we'll just have to go back again one day. Everyone on the bus sang 'Penny Lane' as we drove up Penny Lane. LOL! xx
DeleteSome really lovely dies and a super colour mix. Great photo's too. Thank you for joining our 'Dies or Punches' challenge at Allsorts.
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What a wonderful card. I love that stitched elephant and the colors you used for this card. Thank you for sharing with Double Trouble challenge #49.
ReplyDeleteI loved looking at the pictures from your trip to Liverpool.
A real fun card and great use of your dies, many thanks for joining in with our 'Dies and/or Punches' theme at Allsorts challenge this week.
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Such a cute card Liz, love the elephant die. Great photos of your stay in Liverpool, and what a great diversion on your way home! Looking forward to seeing what you make with your new purchases.
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What a great card Liz. Super pictures of your trip to Liverpool too.
ReplyDeleteAnd WOW - the Lavinia store looks fantastic.
Hugs, Sarn xxx
A pretty card Liz, one of my favourite sentiment dies.
ReplyDeleteIt looks like you had a great time in Liverpool, super photographs.
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I love this little elephant card. How sweet in the yellow and grey! Super photos - looks like a fun trip!
ReplyDeleteLove that little elephant!
ReplyDeleteThank you for sharing with Happy Little Stampers!
Susan
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Calling All Crafters! – My personal Blog!
Adorable card Liz. Love that sweet elephant. Gray and yellow are so perfect together and it makes for a happy card.
ReplyDeleteWhat a fun time you had in Liverpool! Great pics ... I know have Penny Lane song going through my head. :) And that Lavinia shop -- wow! Looks like you'll have lots of fun playing with your new goodies. xx
Adorable elephant card with a great colour combination and design Liz x.
ReplyDeleteThank you for sharing the fabulous photos of your visit to Liverpool and it sounds like you so enjoyed yourselves. Great detour to the Lavina shop and good luck with the fan brush x.
A lovely card with a great colour combination. I've never been to Liverpool but it looks good, so must put that on my list. If I'm honest, I'm a little bit envious of your trip to Lavinia, it looks amazing. I did visit North Wales when the children were young and I remember it being a very beautiful part of the world. It will be even better not with the Lavinia shop lol :) x
ReplyDeleteYour card looks so good! (have to use this die again... And what a great tour! Liverpool is one of the cities I want to visit and the shop looks jummy! Great that you took a tour to that... Looking forward to your cards with that technique! Hugs, Gerrina
ReplyDeleteFab creation, thanks for joining Allsorts challenge, good luck.
ReplyDeleteHappy crafting
Tracy x
That elephant is so adorable Liz! Looks like you had a lovely break - I'd like to go to Liverpool. Shabneez x
ReplyDeleteLovely project, thank you so much for playing along with us at Allsorts this week.
ReplyDeleteOh gosh, that grey and yellow card is fabulous! Congrats on having the spotlight shine on it over at the Playground! I really enjoyed your photos of your trip to Liverpool - sights I'd never see if not for photos! Gosh, I still have the Beatles first album I bought when I was a kid! I can't seem to part with it :)
ReplyDeleteGreat elephant card. And thanks for sharing your travels.
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