PINK CHRISTMAS

Hello All,

I decided to have a play with my Simply Wonderful die and stamp set from The Greetery that I've had for ages and never used.   

I heat embossed all sentiments in silver and cut the 'wonderful' with the co-ordinating die.  I then cut flowers and foliage from Spellbinders Christmas blooms set, flowers in pink and foliage in silver cardstock.  It took me ages, on and off, to decide on the layout but got there in the end and added bling to the centres of the flowers and attached it all to more silver sheen card.

I would like to enter:

ABC Christmas - E for embossing and F for focal sentiment

Christmas Kickstart - Positively Poinsettias

Creative knockouts - Embossing Delight

NBUS  - never before used stuff

Word Power April challenge  - Sentiment as focus

Have a good weekend and lets hope the weather stays as nice as it has been today here in the UK.

Lynne x

FLORAL OR CUTE?

 Morning Everyone,

There's a new challenge starting over at As You Like It and we're asking whether you prefer to make Floral or Cute projects and don't forget to say why please.

I make a lot more floral than cute cards so for me it must be floral, although it does depend on who the card is for.  For this card I have used a Taylored Expresssions stamp heat embossed in gold onto watercolour paper and coloured with Zig clean colour brush markers.  The Hello is an old Spellbinders one cut in mirri card.

The sponsor for the challenge is:

I would like to enter:

Gem of a Craft - Anything Goes

Passion for Markers - Anything but Birthday

Thank you for your visit and I look forward to seeing your makes.

Lynne x

STITCHED BLOOMS

Afternoon Enveryone,

 I hope you've had a good weekend.  It has been a gorgeous day here for Mothering Sunday.  I would normally like to get out and do some tidying in the garden, but haven't had time today with visits from the family.

My card made over the weekend in between everything else has been made to join in with the Seven Hills Crafts challenge where the theme is to use a stencil, die and sentiment, but not from the same sets.

I haven't used my Stitched Blooms dies from MFT for ages so decided to use them, together with a Punched Pattern stencil from MFT and sentiment from The Greetery.

I inked up the stencil first in Distress Oxides, tattered rose and shaded lilac and Sunray from Altenew then die cut the flowers in papers as near as I could get to the colours.  The sentiment was stamped and die cut with the matching die from the Birthday Blooms set and a few sparkly enamel dots added to finish.

I would like to enter:

Seven Hills Crafts - Use a stencil, die and sentiment.

Beautiful Blossoms - Anything Floral

Digi Choosday - Anything Goes

Simon Says Weds - Anything Goes

Thank you for visiting and have a good week.

Lynne x

SPRING FLOWERS

Morning Everyone,

It's the start of a new challenge today over at Allsorts  where Ellie has chosen the theme of "Spring Flowers" alongside the "Anything Goes" that you can also use.

For my card I have used a Power Poppy image Tulips in Pitcher and coloured it with copics.  I have cut it out with a Spellbinders die and after a rummage through my pile of papers have chosen colours to match the flowers from an old LOTV pad.  The sentiment is from a Honey Bee stamps set.

There is a randam selection of stamps and stencils from AALL and Create for the winners

I would like to enter:

Beautiful Blossoms - Anything floral

Last Minute Manda challenge - Anything Goes coloured

Disdigidesign - 2 or more Patterned Papers

Creative Knockouts - Spring is in the air

We Love Stamping - Hello Spring

Simon Says Weds - Anything Goes

I look forward to seeing your lovely creations. Have a good weekend.

Lynne x

FUN FOLDS AT AYLI

 Morning Everyone,

There is a new challenge starting over at As You Like It and we would like you to share your favourite fun fold.

I don't make many fun folds so when I do it is usually an easier one like this z-fold. I don't think I'd have the patience for more complicated ones.

For my card I have used an image from an old art pad from LOTV and stamped with a sentiment from a Penny Black set.  I have then cut it out with a Spellbinders arch die and layered up with beige coloured card.  The flowered paper is also from an old LOTV paper pad.

The sponsor for the challenge is:

with a voucher for the lucky winner

I would like to enter:

PIP Challenge 2511 - Anything Goes

Beautiful Blossoms Anything Floral Goes

Crafts Galore - Anything Goes

Crafty Calendar - Anything Goes

DigiChoosday - Anything Goes

We look forward to seeing your fun folds. Have a good day.

Lynne x

FEMININE AT ALLSORTS

 Morning Everyone,

A new challenge starts at Allsorts this morning and the optional theme is "Feminine", alongside "Anything Goes".

This card was for my sister-in-law's birthday and I've used a 12" sheet of paper from a pad from the Works and Spellbinders dies for the edgers and fancy floral.  I have an abundance of paper flowers from Wild Orchid Crafts so dug some out to match the peachy tones of the paper and arranged them around the oval.

The 70 has been cut from gold mirri card and the sentiment, which is from an old Dreamees set,  heat embossed in gold.  A few pearls here and there finish it off.

There are two prizes on offer from Stamp Addicts, stamps and stencils

I would like to enter:

Crafty Catz - Anything Goes

Simon Says Weds - A Bit o' Green

Creative Moments - For a Special Lady

Crafts Galore - Anything Goes

Beautiful Blossoms - Anything Floral

I hope you can join us and I look forward to seeing your entries.

Have a good weekend.

Lynne x

MONOCHROME OR COLOUR?

Morning Everyone,

A new challenge starts over at As You Like It this morning and we are asking whether you prefer to make monochrome or colour projects and don't forget to say why please.

I seem to have a mental blockage with monochrome and much prefer colour on my cards, especially when they are for children.  I bought this Avery Elle stamp set and dies in a Flashback Friday sale at Seven Hills Crafts.  They don't have them every week but everything is really reasonable and I paid £5 for the stamp set and dies together.  I thought they would be good for the childrens cards I make for charity.

I coloured three of the monsters with copics and cut them out. I used a scalloped die for the three circles and added the monsters behind different coloured backgrounds.  It looked a bit plain so I added a thin circle of colour around each one by die cutting two circles together, then added their feet.  

The sponsor for the challenge is:

with a voucher for the winner

Have a good day and I look forward to seeing your entries.

Lynne x

MAKE IT CAS AT ALLSORTS

 Morning Everyone,

A new challenge starts today at Allsorts and Helen has chosen the theme 'CAS' and there is always Anything Goes too.

 I am often stumped with CAS cards, especially birthdays, so I opted for a Christmas card.  I have used a cute digi stamp from Gerda Steiner and coloured him with copics.  The sentiment is from a Woodware stamp set and I have just cut him out with a stiched rectangle and glued him to the front of a red card.  This is a small card, A6 I think.

There are three prizes from Oakwood Direct, A5 stamp set, coordinating stamp and die and stencils

I would like to enter:

ABC Christmas -  C is for cute

Word Art Wednesday - Anything Goes

Simon Says Stamp Weds - Anything Goes

CRAFT - Christmas

Gem of a Craft - Anything Goes

I look forward to seeing your entries, thank you for visiting and have a good weekend.

Lynne x

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

                                           

  

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