FEMININE or MASCULINE?

Morning Everyone,

It's the start of a new challenge at As You Like It and we are asking whether you prefer to make feminine or masculine projects and don't forget to say why please.

For me it's definitely feminine. I'm fine with cards for young boys but when it comes to adult I always struggle for inspiration and, if I do make a male card, I'm normally not very happy with it.  Also, I have so many flower dies/stamps and embellishments to use.

For my card  I have used a Stampin Up woodgrain embossing folder for the background, a Craft Consortium circle die, an Altenew die cut sentiment and Spellbinders Be Bold Blooms for the flowers, which were cut from snippets.  A proper variety of brands for this one!

Some of the snippets used:

The sponsor for the challenge is:

with a voucher for the lucky winner

I would like to enter:

PIP Challenge #2507  - Anything Goes

Beautiful Blossoms - Anything Floral

Crafts Galore - Anything Goes

Snippets Playground - Celebration using snippets (all flowers)

I look forward to see your entries and thank you for your visit.

Lynne x

SHADES OF BLUE

 Morning Everyone,

Today is the start of a new challenge at Allsorts where the optional theme, as chosen by Liz, is 'Shades of Blue' and there is always 'Anything Goes'.

For my card I have used a Spellbinders dancing dragon die in turquoise and blue.  I've used snippets of various shades of blue, but have forgotten to take a photo of them. The background paper is from a pad from the Works and I have used a sentiment from a MFT stamp set.

There are two prizes of Lavinia Stamps and stencil for the lucky winners.

You probably know this is a fortnightly challenge now so plenty of time to join in.

I would like to enter:

PIP challenge 2506 - Anything Goes

A Place to Start - Things in the Sky

Crafts Galore - Anything Goes

Crafty Catz - Anything Goes/Use a die

Penny's Paper Crafty - Anything Goes

Snippets Playground - Dragon cut from snippets, but no photo, sorry.

Have a good weekend although it looks as though it's going to be a wet one here.

Lynne x

STAMPED OR DIGI?

Morning Everyone,

It is time for a new challenge over at As You Like It where we are asking whether you prefer to use stamped or digi images.

I do use both, but when I'm making a larger card like this one which is 7" square I love the fact that you can re-size digis.   Sometimes stamps can look a little lost on a larger card.

This card is for my niece and I have used Milkshake Rebel from Polkadoodles and coloured her with copics, although her milkshake looks more like a Slush Puppy, but never mind. The sentiments, which are from MFT,  are straight although they don't look it in the photo!  The papers are from a LOTV pad and I've finished it off with little pearl hearts, a button flower and the age in white glitter.

The prize for the lucky winner is a voucher from:

I would like to enter:

Crafts Galore - Anything Goes

Digi Choosday - Anything Goes

Lil Patch of Crafty Friends - Anything Goes

Polkadoodles - Anything Goes

Woke up today and I think it's probably one of the hardest frosts we've had so far this year.  Not going out till lunchtime though so hopefully be gone by then.  Have a good one whatever you may be doing.

Lynne x

ROMANCE/MUSIC

Morning Everyone, 

A new challenge starts today over at Allsorts where the theme, as chosen by Gail, is Romance with the option of Musical notes/instruments and there is of course always the Anything Goes route too. 

I have just gone with the Romance theme and used a LOTV digi for an Annniversary card.  I have coloured with copics and cut it out with my arched die, which seems to be a favourite at the moment.  The papers are from an old LOTV pad and I have heat embossed the sentiment, which is from Kaisercraft, in gold.  Little pearl hearts finish it off.

There are prizes on offer from AALL and Create

                                   

    

I would like to enter:

Simon Says Stamp Weds  - Anything Goes                                                                                                            

Polkadoodles - Anything Goes

I hope you can join us this fortnight and I look forward to seeing your entries.    Have a good weekend.

Lynne x  

BIRTHDAY BOUQUET

 Morning Everyone,

I have been having a play with die cut flowers again.  These are from three different Hero Arts

sets, Envelope and Bouquet Accessories and Bees and Flowers fancy dies.  I have cut some with coloured papers and some with white card and coloured with copics.  I have coloured with colours for the colour challenge at Seven Hill Crafts and these include red, orange, purple, green and some browns.

The embossing folder is from Spellbinders and the sentiment is from an MFT set and has been heat embossed in white.

I would like to enter this into:

SevenHillCrafts colour challenge

Beautiful Blossoms  - Anything Floral

Crafts Galore - Anything Goes

Thank you for your visit and have a good week.

Lynne x

PEARLS OR GEMS?

 Morning Everyone,

Today is the start of a new challenge at As You Like It and we are asking whether you prefer pearls or gems on your projects.

I do like both, but tend to use pearls a lot more.  They are elegant and always seem to suit my cards more than gems.  For my DT card I have used dies from Honey Bee stamps call Sweetheart Roses.  They were one of my impulse buys a while ago from Dies to Die For and I've had them made up but not put them on a card until now.  I am a terrible impulse buyer and am going to try and stop this year and use a few of the items in my NBUS basket.

I've coloured the roses with various shades of yellow/orange from Altenew's mini ink cubes.  The instructions on the leaflet only shows four roses, but I thought it looked a bit bare so I've added two more.

The sentiment is from a Penny Black set.  It is quite dark, but I tried it in white it didn't show up very well with it being on the patterned paper, which is from Anna Marie Designs. I've stitched round the edges and finished off with a few pearls and a little pearlised dragonfly.

The roses were made from white snippets and other snippets were the green foliage and the planter.

The sponsor for the challenge is:

I would like to enter:

Beautiful Blossoms - Anything floral

Crafter's Cafe - Birthdays

Creative Knockouts - Something to say

Polkadoodles - Anything Goes

Snippets Playground - Use snippets (roses, planter and foliage)

I hope you can join us for the challenge, thank you for reading this and I will see you again soon.

Lynne x

CLOSE TO NATURE

Morning Everyone,

It's the start of a new challenge over at Allsorts this morning with a theme of "Back to Nature", which involves so much such as trees, flowers, animals, birds and scenery to name but a few.  There is also the Anything Goes option.  

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For my card I have finished something that has been on my desk for a while.  It is an embossing folder from the Altenew Craft Your Life Fragrant Florals set.  A stencil comes with the set which I have used for the colouring together with a variety of Altenew inks.  I have also used a LOTV sentiment, heat embossed in gold, and gold mirri and green card for the layers.

There are three prizes of A5 stamp sets from AALL and Create 

                              

I would like to enter:

Digi Choosday - Anything Goes

Beautiful Blossoms - Anything Floral

Classic Design - Anything Goes

Crafts Galore - Anything Goes

Creative Knockouts - Something to Say

Crazy is our fame, stencils are our game - Use a stencil.

There are two weeks to enter so I hope you will be able to join us.

Have a good weekend.

Lynne x