CREATE A SCENE

Morning Everyone,

We have a new challenge today at Allsorts where the theme, alongside Anything Goes, is Create a Scene as chosen by Lynn. 

For my card I have used a Creative Expressions die set called Christmas Village.  I die cut a circle in the middle of my stitched square and then added a piece of green snowy looking paper to the back of the circle.  I tore a piece of white card for the snow, added the sentiment which is from a Spellbinders set and arranged all the little elements to create a scene. A few little pearls were added for embellishment.

There are two prizes of Lavinia, one a collection of mini/small stamps with bottle sticker for scene making and three stamps as second prize.

I hope you can join us in the challenge.  I know it's a busy time for everyone at the moment, but the challenge closes on 31st December so there will be time after the big day to have a play.  I know I always look forward to the week after Christmas as it is relatively quiet and I can have a play in the craft room.  I I try to make my DT cards in advance and I'm so pleased I have this past week as I haven't had chance to do anything in there lately.

This will be my last post before Christmas so I would like to wish you all a Happy Christmas and thank you for visiting and all your lovely comments throughout the year.

Lynne x

MERRY CHRISTMAS STENCIL

Morning Everyone,

I hope you are keeping well. There's a lot of colds and flu about, but fingers crossed we'll escape it.   I bought this Spellbinders stencil in a sale from Oakwood Direct a while ago as I thought it would be nice and flat for posting and decided to have a play.

I used various inks of shades of green and pink, mainly copying the colours from the packet picture, as it was my first attempt, but will try and be more adventurous in future.  The sentiment comes with a die as well but I opted to stencil direct onto the card.  I've added various sparkly centres to the flowers and then matted with gold and deep pink paper.

I would like to enter this into:

Color Hues - Pink and Green

Christmas Kickstart - If It's Christmassy Link It Up

Crafty Calendar - Christmas

Crazy is our fame - Stencils are our game 

Word Power

Inkspirational Challenge - Use Stencils

Christmas present wrapping for me today.  Whatever you're doing I hope you have a good one.

Lynne x

 

CHRISTMAS

 Morning Everyone,

A new challenge is starting over at As You Like It and the theme is anything Christmas.

For my DT card I have chosen to have a play with a new die from Concord & 9th called Ornament Inlay die.  I die cut it first in the off white cardstock and then, after I decided on the colours, added snippets of coloured card to the die and die cut again and again.  The only bits I haven't used snippets on are the holly and leaves as I wanted a soft green so used ink on those.  The circles in the middle are silver mirri card although they look black in the photo.

The sentiment is from a Woodware set and is heat embossed in silver.

We look forward to seeing all your Christmassy projects.  I think I'm about done with mine now.  I've been stamping the insides of my cards this week, which is my least favourite job.  I suppose I should complete the insides as I finish a card then I wouldn't have them all to do at once!

I would like to enter:

Snippets Playground - The blue, peach, corners and berries were all snippets,  although I didn't take a photo, sorry.

Christmas Kickstart - Anything Christmassy

Creative Inspirations - 'Tis the Season

Crafty Calendar - Christmas

Have a good day and thank you for visiting.

Lynne x

"NEW" AT ALLSORTS

 Morning Everyone,

We are starting with a new challenge over at Allsorts and Liz has chosen the theme of "New" such as home, baby, job etc and there's always the Anything Goes option.

My daughter asked me to make a card using the Honey Bee stamps dies "Bundle of Joy" for a friend so that is my DT card.  I have used very similar papers to a previous card, but only 3 outfits for a change.  The Congrats is a Creative Expressions die and the smaller part of the sentiment was made on the pc.  I've added hessian and little pearly hearts.

There are two prizes, A$ and A5 stamp sets from AALL and Create

I would like to enter this into the Snippets Playground as the baby clothes, rack and hangers were all snippets, but I forgot to take a photo.

I hope you can join us with your "New" events.  Have a lovely weekend.

Lynne x

GOLD, SILVER OR GLITTER

 Morning Everyone,

A new challenge is starting over at As You Like It and we would like to know whether you prefer gold, silver or glitter on your cards.

I do like all three, but when green and red are involved I prefer to use gold as it suits them better.  For my card I have used a wreath die from CraftAddiction and cut it out with differing shades of green designer paper.  The poinsettias are from a Spellbinders set, the bow from Alex Syberia and the sentiment is from Simon Says Stamp. I've added some gold glitter paste on some of the leaves and gold enamel dots to finish it off.

The sponsor for the challenge is:

Busy day here today, well every day seems to be busy on the run up to Christmas!  I hope you have a good one whatever you may be doing.

Lynne x

LITTLE CHICKADEE

Morning Everyone,

I hope you've had an enjoyable weekend. I have made  a  Christmas card using this Chickadee image from Power Poppy.

I have coloured the image with copics and added glitter and liquid pearls for a bit of sparkle.  He has been cut out with a Sizzix oval die, the backing paper is from an old craft magazine and the sentiment is heat embossed in silver and from LOTV.

I would like to enter:

ABC Christmas - W for wings

Passion for Markers - Christmas

We Love Stamping - Christmas

Stamping Sensations - Christmas

C.R.A.F.T.  - Christmas

Thank you for visiting and have a good day.  

Lynne x 

FOCAL SENTIMENT

Morning Everyone,

A little late with my post this morning.  Dates just seemed to have run away with me!  Anyway, it's time for a new challenge over at Allsorts and, as well as the usual Anything Goes, Helen has chosen the theme of Sentiment in Focus.

I recently bought this MFT die from Vinted so thought I would use it for the challenge.  It is quite dangerous being on Vinted because you see stamps and dies you don't necessarily need but definitely want.  I have sold quite a few things on there too so it does come in handy as it's so easy to use.

Anyway back to my card.  As you can see I have cut the words in different colours for a bright card for a child.  I have coloured two little mice, also from a MFT set, and fussy cut them and stuck them to the card.  I did stamp the one with the balloon first so I didn't have to fussy cut the string. That would have been going too far.  

Prize for the challenge is a lovely Sweep Poppy A5 stamp set and sentiment stencil plus a second 'surprise' prize.

I would like to enter:

Colourful Options - Rainbow colours

Word Power - Sentiment in focus

Classic Design - Anything Goes

I hope you can join us and you can pop over here to see the inspiration from the rest of the team.

Have a good weekend and I'll be back soon.

Lynne x