USE YOUR DIES

Morning Everyone,

A little bit of exciting news today and that is that I have joined the lovely Brenda and the amazing team at Allsorts!  So this is my post which is for the first of the new fortnightly system.   The theme has been set by Sarah and is "Use Your Dies" and there is always the "Anything Goes" option too.

I have certainly gone to town with my dies for this card.  The arch die is from Spellbinders and the Holiday Bells for which I've used two shades of pink and silver are from Honey Bee stamps.  The holly die is an old one from Creative Expressions and the sentiment, which has been stamped in silver metallic ink and cut out with their respective dies, is from The Greetery.

There are three lovely prizes of dies and co-ordinating stamps from Oakwood.

                                                        

For all the details and to see the inspiration from the rest of the DT you can pop over here.

This will probably be my last post before the big day so I wish you all a Merry Christmas, hope you have a great time and thank you all for your visits over the last year and for taking the time to comment.

Lynne x

CHRISTMAS

Hello Everyone,

I'm a little late with my post for the start of a new challenge over at As You Like It where the theme is anything Christmas.

I have used a Power Poppy image from my card and coloured with copics.  It's such a lovely image and very quick and easy to colour.  Gold card has been used for the mats, the backing paper is from a First Edition pad and the sentiment from a Woodware stamp.

I would like to enter:

Colourful Options - Red/Green/Gold

Passion for Markers - Anything Goes

Christmas Kickstart - Anything Christmas

Crafty Calendar - Anything Goes

Crafty Catz - Anything Goes

C.R.A.F.T. - Christmas - the last stretch

Thank you for your visit today and I will be back soon.

Lynne x

GOLD, SILVER OR GLITTER?

 Morning Everyone,

A new challenge starts at As You Like It today and we are asking whether you prefer to use gold, silver or glitter on your cards. 

I do like all three, but I've chosen glitter for my DT card as it seemed to go more with the image which has kindly been provided by the sponsor -

I have coloured the image with copics and cut out with 2 mini scalloped edgers from MFT.  I have added glitter to the snow, the snowman's pom pom and the little snowball held by one of the squirrels.  The background paper is from a Whimsy Stamps pad.

I hope you can join us, only one more challenge now running up to Christmas.  I have done quite a bit of shopping for the big day now so getting there.  I like to be organised by the last two weeks so I can concentrate on food.

Whatever you're doing today, have a good one.

Lynne x

GUEST DESIGNER

Morning,

Today I am delighted to be a Guest Designer at November Rudolph Days challenge where anything Christmas goes.

For my card I have heat embossed a tree from a Whimsy Stamps set in gold and coloured with zig markers in rainbow colours.  I had to have a search through my stash for a suitable sentiment and heat embossed this in gold too.  I cut out with my Spellbinders arch dies, mounted onto gold sheen card and then made the base card with the largest of the arched dies.  It is quite a small card compared to those I normally make, but I don't think it matters for a Christmas card.

Would like to enter:

Colourful Options - rainbow colours

Thank you Helen for asking me to be a Guest DT, thank you for visiting and I will be back later in the week.

Lynne x

 

XMAS POSTAGE COLLAGE

 Morning Everyone,

A really wet morning here today, but at least the snow has all gone.  I've been having a play with my postage collage set and used the Christmas stamps, mainly in reds and pinks.

I've used Altenew inks for the stencil, together with some Nuvo paste for the gold bits, and a Waffle Flower Royal Mail stamp set.  The outside edge comes with another stencil set from Waffle Flower.

I would like to enter:

Colourful Options - Red

Paper Fun Days - Anything Goes

Crafty Catz - Anything Goes

Penny's Paper Crafty - Anything Goes

Polkadoodles - Anything Goes

Creative Knockouts - Tis the Season

Going out for Sunday lunch later so that will be nice. Have a good day whatever you are doing.  I will be back soon.

Lynne x

FAVOURITE EMBELLISHMENT

Morning Everyone,

It is time for a new challenge over at As You Like It and we are asking you to share a project containing your favourite embellishment.

I do love using pearls and lace, but because of the style of more modern cards, lace seems to have gone out of favour.  I do like to use it with this type of card though.  I have distressed all the edges of the Pion design paper and gone round with my sewing machine.  Lots of Wild Orchid crafts flowers,  lace and pearls used too.

The sponsor for the chalenge is:

with a prize of 3 digital stamp sets for the lucky winner

You can pop over to the challenge here where you can see the inspiration from the rest of the team.

I would like to enter:

PIP challenge 2445 - Anything Goes

See you soon.

Lynne x

GUEST DESIGNER

Morning Everyone,

I am delighted to have been asked to be a Guest Designer at We Love Stamping this month where the theme is Christmas or Anything Goes.

I decided to get this stamp out again.  It is an old wooden stamp from  Stampendous which I have coloured with copics.  It is quite a large stamp so it didn't need much else on the card.  I have used a sheet of  glittery paper from a First Edition pad, gold sheen card for the mats and gold sparkly ribbon to finish it off.  

I would like to enter this into:

Beautiful Blossoms - Anything floral

Simon Says Weds - Anything Goes

Word Art Wednesday - Anything Goes

Allsorts - Magic of the Season

Thank you for visiting and thank you to Brenda and the team at We Love Stamping for having me as a Guest DT.  See you soon,

Lynne x