Monday 29 October 2018

GOLDEN CHRISTMAS

Morning Everyone,

I hope you've had a good weekend.  The temperature has certainly gone down here with Saturday being the coldest day we've had for a long time.





I've made a quick card here by upcycling a card received last year.  I don't save many, but the ones I think I could do something with go into a drawer.

I cut the gold glittered tree and sentiment out with a stitched rectangle die and glued it onto gold mirri card.  Another stitched rectangle was cut and I added four small strips of mirri card to this, glued it onto a hammered white card base and added four gold gems to match.  This was a super quick make, I think the part that took the longest was deciding on the layout!

I would like to enter these challenges:

October Rudolph Days - Anything Christmas
ABC Christmas - V for very quick
Allsorts - Pearls and/or Gems
Crafter's Castle - Winter/Christmas
Pixie's Snippets Playground - All pieces except the card base were snippets
CraftyHazelnut's Christmas - Anything Goes
Cute Card Thursday - Sparkles

Thank you for taking the time to visit and I hope you will be able to leave a comment, they are much appreciated.  Have a good week all.

Lynne x








Thursday 25 October 2018

AUTUMN OR HALLOWEEN COLOURS?

Morning Everyone,

It's time for a new challenge over at As You Like It and we are asking you to showcase a project showing your favourite of either Autumn or Halloween colours (and don't forget to say why please).




I'm not really a bright colours person and black, purple and orange are the colours I associate with halloween.  I much prefer the lovely muted colours of autumn, greens, browns, oranges and reds and although I haven't made an autumnal card, I thought they would be good colours for a man.

This is a 7" card and I've used "Put Your Feet Up" from LOTV. He is coloured in copics apart from the chair which I've paper pieced in green and shaded here and there with a green copic.  The lamp and film strip dies are from Poppystamps at Dies to Die For.  A lot of distressing on this card with a Tim Holtz tool and also some Old Paper distress ink around the edges of the image.

The challenge is sponsored by

with a choice of 3 digi images for the lucky winner

If you pop over to the challenge you'll be able to see the inspiration from the rest of the DT.

I would like to enter these challenges:

Addicted to Stamps - Autumn Colours
Dragonfly Dreams - Autumnal Colours
Sir Stampalot - Shades of Autumn
Colour Crazy - Anything Goes
Crafty Creations - Anything Goes

Thank you for taking the time to visit and I hope you have a good weekend.

Lynne x




Monday 22 October 2018

WRAP UP WARM AT CWTCUTIES

Good Morning All,

I hope you've had a good weekend.  It's time for a new challenge over at Christmas with the Cuties and our theme is "Wrap Up Warm" so if your project fits that theme and is cute and christmassy, we would love you to play along.  After all, not long to go now.






For my card I've used a Mo Manning image called Valerie in Winter.  I've coloured her with copics apart from her coat which I've paper pieced with snippets. The background paper is First Edition and the sentiment, which I've embossed in silver, is from LOTV.  I love the script on this and it stamps so well.

I've been a bit frugal and just used strips of silver sheen card die cut with mini scallops under the image.  Talking about being frugal, I also cut a large square out of the bottom layer of silver to save too!

The sponsor for the challenge is Crafty Ribbons with a voucher for the lucky winner.

I would like to enter the following challenges:

A Gem of a Challenge - Anything Goes
Pixie's Snippets Playground - snippets were the coat pieces, snowflakes and silver scalloped strips
Little Miss Muffet - Anything Goes
Polkadoodles wk 42 - Anything Goes
Lil Patch of Crafty Friends - Anything Goes

Thank you for visiting and I hope you can leave a comment as I do love to read them.  See you later in the week,

Lynne x




Thursday 11 October 2018

CAS OR FUSSY AND FANCY?

Good Morning Everyone,

I hope you are all keeping well.  It is time for a new challenge at As You Like It and for this fortnight we would like to see your CAS or Fussy and Fancy projects, whichever is your favourite (and don't forget to say why please).




I think my usual style is in between, but for special occasions/people I like to pull out the stops and add more embellishments etc.  I think it shows that I've made more of an effort and they do look pretty with all the extras.  For my card I've used a ready to print LOTV watercolour (no longer on sale) and made an easel card with Go Kreate dies in colours to match.  The papers are an old LOTV pad.  Flowers and embellishments are from WOC and the Ribbon Girl.

I hope you like it and if you'd like to pop over to the challenge we have 3 lovely new DT members to inspire you even further.

The sponsor for the challenge is 


with a lovely £10 voucher for the winner


Challenges I would like to enter:

The Ribbon Girls - Anything Goes
Crafty Friends - Use more than one die - Dies used part from main shape were Simon Says Butterfly, Sizzix oval and doily
Creative Moments - Anything Goes

Thank you for taking the time to visit. I hope you can join in the challenge and also leave a comment here as I do appreciate it.

Have a good weekend,

Lynne x




Monday 1 October 2018

CHRISTMAS IS FOR KIDS

Good morning everyone,

It's time for a new challenge over at Sparkles Christmas and the theme for this month is "For a Child",  so any project for a child as long as it's a Christmas one.




For my DT card I've used this cute Santa image from Di's Digistamps and coloured it with copics. The background papers are freebies from a magazine and the sentiments are from a Clearly Besotted stamp set. I've added glossy accents to Rudolph's nose and stickles around the sentiments and the image.  I've used a few snippets on this card too which I've noted below.

I hope you can join us as there are only two more challenges after this one before we hit the big day!

I would like to enter these challenges:

Addicted to Stamps - Christmas comes early
Winter Wonderland - Anything Goes
Crafty Hazelnuts Christmas - Anything Goes
Crafty Creations - Anything Goes
Pixie's Snippets Playground - snippets used are the sentiments, bauble paper and all the kraft card.

Thank you for visiting and I hope you can leave a comment as I do love to read them.

Have a good week.

Lynne x