HAVE A BLOOMING GREAT DAY

 Morning Everyone,

I hope you've had a good weekend.  Too cold for me to be doing much but I think it's going to warm up a bit this week. I am sharing a card made over the weekend with a digi stamp from LOTV.

I have coloured the cute image with copics and cut the image out with a stitched rectangle.  After a search through my papers I settled for a yellow and green plaid, which I think is from MFT, and a blue ribbon.

A very simple layout, but I do like how it has turned out.  I have used the rubber stamp of this image before, but I wanted it to be a bit larger this time so used the digi instead.

I would like to enter:

Crafty Catz #685 - Anything Goes

Digi Choosday - Anything Goes

Dis Digi Design challenge - Hand coloured image

Passion for Markers - Include and insect (bee and butterfly)

We Love Stamping - Anything But Square

Thank you for your visit and I will see you again soon.

Lynne x

FAVOURITE PAPER BRAND

Morning Everyone,

We have our first challenge starting over at As You Like It and we're asking you to share a project using your favourite paper brand.

I still love my old LOTV 8" paper pads.  They all co-ordinate well and are much easier to use than 6" papers.  I do have a lot of their snippets though hence my patchwork card.  I've used a Textures die by Lou Collins for the white outlines and stuck that onto a piece of copy paper and then used snippets of three patterned papers to cut as many hexagons as I could.  Then comes the placing of all the pieces to try and make sure I don't put the same patterns next to each other.  Once they're all in place and I'm happy they all have to be glued in so it's not a quick process.

I've used my Clearly Besotted frame dies to surround the patchwork and an old Spellbinders sentiment die.

The challenge is just for fun this time so no sponsor.

I would like to enter:

Snippets Playground - all the patchwork shapes were cut from snippets.

PIP challenge 2501 - Anything Goes

Love Those pretty Papers- Anything Goes

Pennys Paper Crafty - Anything Goes

Polkadoodles Wk 1 - Anything Goes

Thank you for visiting, have a good weekend and stay warm.

Lynne x

MATCHING PAIRS

 Good Morning Everyone,

Happy New Year.  

We have a new challenge starting over at Allsorts and the theme is "Matching Pairs" or there is always the option of Anything Goes.

For my pair I have covered a plain white bag with paper from Craft Creations and made a matching tag.

The circle on the bag is a Tattered Lace die, as is the tag, and I have stamped the Merry Christmas, which is from LOTV with silver metallic ink.

My sister in law gave me a lot of the white flowers so I thought as they are glittery I would add a bit of decoration to both bag and tag.  I've changed the handles of the bag to white ribbon.

There are three prizes on offer from Lavinia stamps.

                                   

You have two weeks to enter and I hope you can pop over and see the inspiration from the rest of the Design Team.

Thank you for visiting and I will be back later in the week.

Lynne x

WINTER VILLAGE

Morning Everyone,

I hope you've all had a good Christmas.  We had a quiet day yesterday so I was pleased to get back in the craft room and finish off this card which I have been making on and off for at least a week.  With Christmas preparations and such small die cuts it seems to have taken ages.

It is a Honey Bee stamp set called Winter Village and some of the pieces are so tiny it puts me off making it again in a hurry, but we'll see.  I've torn some oddments of white hammered cardstock to look like snowy hillocks and added the houses and church.  The church looks a bit on a slope in the photo but it doesn't seem that bad in real life.  The sky was a scrap from my 'blue' box and all the buildings are made from snippets.

This is a pic of just some of the snippets used after die cutting.  There is a lot but, because they are so small, I'm afraid it doesn't use up much of my snippets mountain just some of my patience glueing them all together!  I've added snow by way of watering down and splattering white pigment ink with a paint brush.  This was a bit risky for me as you never know how it's going to come out so I had to be extra careful.  The sentiment is stamped in silver metallic ink and is from a Simon Says stamp set.

I would like to enter:

Snippets Playground - use snippets

SevenHills Crafts challenge - Winter theme

Simon Says Weds - Use craft dies

Rudolph Days December - Anything Christmas

Creative Inspirations - Let it Snow

Polkadoodles Wk50 - Anything Goes

Thank you for stopping by and have a good weekend.

Lynne x

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.

I would like to enter:

Simon Says Stamp Weds - Use Craft Dies

Polkadoodles - Anything Goes

Gem of a Craft - Anything Goes

Crafty Calendar - Anything Goes

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