FAVOURITE SAFARI ANIMAL

Morning Everyone,

We have a new challenge starting over at As You Like It and the subject is "Your Favourite Safari Animal".  This is my DT card.

Have you ever had a disaster right at the end of making a card?  Well that's what happened to this one.  Somehow orange ink appeared just below a die cut sentiment and no matter how I tried to get rid, it wouldn't work so the layout has turned out completely different to what I had intended.  I had to tear the sentiment off and cut the image down, which is an old one from Wild Rose Studio, and extend it with some mini scalloped edgers.  I only had one small bit of the striped paper left and it wouldn't fit top and bottom without the edgers.  Then to top it all the sentiment, which is from LOTV, didn't stamp properly onto the image so I had to cut a small stitched rectangle and add that on top.

With that little rant over I have to say I do love Elephants as my safari choice, especially young ones.  I love seeing them run about when they are small and they look so cute.

The sponsor for this challenge is:

I would like to enter:

Simon Says Stamp Weds - Anything Goes

I hope you can join us, thank you for your visit and have a good day.

Lynne x

DIVINE PEONY

Morning Everyone,

I've had a play over the weekend with this Divine Peony die from Simon Says Stamp.

I cut it out with white cardstock and coloured the flower with Distress Oxides Tattered Rose, Saltwater Taffy and Worn Lipstick.  The greenery was coloured with two Altenew mini ink cubes.  I had a search through my patterned papers and found this sheet with a touch of pink at the top so went with that. The sentiment is heat embossed in gold and is from a SSS set called Celebrating You.

I would like to enter:

Word Art Wednesday - Anything Goes

Lil Patch of Crafty Friends - Anything Goes

Beautiful Blossoms - Anything Floral Goes

Thank you for your visit, see you soon,  and I hope you have a good week.

Lynne x

SEASIDE

Morning Everyone,

We have a new challenge starting over at Allsorts where the theme is "Seaside" as well as Anything Goes. 

I have used a Stampin Up set for my card called Oceanfront.  Everything is from that set except the birds which are from the SU Sail Away stamp and the sentiment which has been heat embossed in white.  Matted onto kraft card it is a fairly straightforward and will probably go to my brother who lives in Cornwall.

The prize is a collection of stamps for one winner from Stamp Addicts.

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

Thank you for your visit and have a lovely weekend.

Lynne x

FAVOURITE PET?

Morning All,

We have a new challenge today over at AYLI and we are sking you to shire a project containing your favourite pet. 

Apart from a few fish over the years dogs are the only pet I've had.  We have a little ruby Cavalier at the moment who is nearly 14 and the house would seem really empty without him.

I have made a tag for my DT project with a little pup from the MFT Happy Pawlidays stamp set.  I have coloured him with copics.  The sentiment is from the same set and the tag die, together with the topper which has been cut from a snippet of paper, is from Marianne Design.

The sponsor for the challenge is:

I would like to enter:

Tag-Along - Anything Goes

PIP Challenge 2628 - Anything Goes

Classic Design - Any Holiday

Crafts Galore - Anything Goes

Snippets Playground - Snippets used were the white card, patterned topper and ribbon

I hope you can join us and thank you for your visit.  I will be back soon.

Lynne x

CAS WITH DIES

 Morning All,

I hope you are managing to keep cool in the heat we are having at the moment.

I won a previous CAS on Friday challenge with my Christmas Birds card and am pleased to have been invited to be a Guest DT for their new challenge which is 'CAS with Dies'.

I don't normally make CAS type cards as I struggle a bit with all the white space.  For this one I used Cute Open Rose from Altenew in a peachy colour card and darkened them in the centre with some ink.  The leaves were cut in white cardstock and inked with two shades of green from Altenew.  A Tessatina die from Memory Box has been added to a stitched rectangle of linen card amd the two flowers added.  The sentiment is heat embossed onto gold card and is from LOTV.

I would like to enter: 

Beautiful Blossoms - Anything Floral

Crafts Galore - Anything Goes

Lil Patch of Crafty Friends - Anything Goes

Thank you for visiting and have a lovely weekend.

Lynne x

USE STENCILS

Morning Everyone,

We have a new challenge starting over at Allsorts and the optional theme to go with Anything Goes is Use Stencils.

I have used a Gina K stencil called Modern Hyrdrangeas and coloured them with Oxides, Saltwater Taffy and Worn Lipstick.  The leaves are two shades of green from Gina K mini ink cubes.  I have added a Creative Expressions sentiment in gold mirri card and a few gold and pink sequins for a bit of sparkle.

Two winners will each receive three random stencils/sets from those below.

Have a good weekend.  A quiet day for me today. I might watch a bit of tennis and then out for a Sunday lunch tomorrow.

See you soon,

Lynne x

NON CARD PROJECT AT AYLI

Good Morning Everyone,

I hope you are all well.  I had a dental appointment yesterday for root canal treatment.  I can honestly say I was dreading it, but thankfully it was a lot better than I thought.  One more appointment in a fortnight, but at least I know what to expect now.

Anyway, enough of that.  It's time for a new challenge over at As You Like It and we are asking you to share your favourite non-card projects.  It can be anything from tags and boxes to knitting etc.

Over the last few months, when the mood takes me and in between cards,  I have been decorating this little house shaped shelving unit.  I used to belong to a monthly subscribed club called Crafteezee and this little unit came with that along with lots of embellishments that I wouldn't use on a card so I decided to get on with it and use some up.  I painted it in white emulsion and decorated the rooms with snippets of paper.  I rummaged through my stash for anything suitable and arranged them into their little rooms. 

The sponsor for the challenge is:

with a prize for the lucky winner.

I hope you can join us and you  can see more inspiration from the DT here.

Have a good day and I will be back soon.

Lynne x