IN THE GARDEN

Morning Everyone,

We have a new challenge starting over at Allsorts and the theme alongside Anything Goes is "In the Garden".

This gave me the chance to use two sets of unused dies,  The Greetery hollyhocks die and Honey Bee stamps wagon wheel.  I die cut the leaves and stems from white snippets and inked in green, but the flowers were all cut from snippets of coloured card and shaded in their centres.  The wagon wheel was die cut and when they were all assembled I added them to an embossed brick wall, which is a Stampin Up folder.

The sky was stencilled with Bashful Blue SU ink and a MFT stencil.

There are two prizes of Lavinia stamps:

I would like to enter:

Snippets Playground - All flowers were snippets

I might go in the garden later to do a bit of tidying.  Hubby will be at football so I will be having what we jokingly call a "luxury day".   Whatever you're doing this weekend I hope it's a good one and the weather is kind.

Lynne x

"NEW" AT ALLSORTS

 Morning Everyone,

We are starting with a new challenge over at Allsorts and Liz has chosen the theme of "New" such as home, baby, job etc and there's always the Anything Goes option.

My daughter asked me to make a card using the Honey Bee stamps dies "Bundle of Joy" for a friend so that is my DT card.  I have used very similar papers to a previous card, but only 3 outfits for a change.  The Congrats is a Creative Expressions die and the smaller part of the sentiment was made on the pc.  I've added hessian and little pearly hearts.

There are two prizes, A$ and A5 stamp sets from AALL and Create

I would like to enter this into the Snippets Playground as the baby clothes, rack and hangers were all snippets, but I forgot to take a photo.

I hope you can join us with your "New" events.  Have a lovely weekend.

Lynne x

CHRISTMAS AT ALLSORTS

Good Morning Everyone,

It's the start of a new challenge over at Allsorts and the alongside Anything Goes is Christmas cards. 

For my DT card I have used the lovely Vintage Reindeer from Honey Bee Stamps.  She has been shaded in place with various inks, layered up and popped onto an oval which I stamped with a Penny Black stamp called Christmas Story.  The holly and bells are included in the set and the background papers are from an old Authentique pad.  I have quite a few vintage style papers in my stash so will probably have another play with this set again soon.  I decided to emboss the sentiment in gold onto a snippet of the striped paper, which worked ok by getting it central in between the lines.

There are 2 prizes of stamps, stencils and dies:

:

I would like to enter:

C.R.A.F.T. - Christmas

Penny's Paper Crafty - Anything Goes

Creative Knockouts - Time to be Merry

Christmas Kickstart - Just Add Antlers

PIP Challenge - Anything Goes

Critter Crazy - AG with a feature Critter

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

Lynne x

SENTIMENT OR NOT AT AYLI

Good Morning Everyone,

I hope everyone is well. We have a new challenge starting over at As You Like It and we are asking whether you prefer to have a sentiment on your cards or not (and don't forget to say why please). 

I always put a sentiment on my cards.  I think it finishes them off and it's also the first thing the recipient reads.

I have used these cute dies from Honey Bee stamps again called Bundle of Joy, but this time for a boy. I've just had a look at my last one and can't believe it's 2 years since I made it! Where does the time go to.  I've used the same layout as before, but with snippets of more boyish papers.  The Congrats die is from Creative Expressions and the strip underneath made on the pc.

                                                          The sponsor for the challenge is:

I would like to enter:

Crafty Calendar - Add a Sentiment

Crafty Catz - Anything Goes

Penny's Paper Crafty - Anything Goes

Snippets Playground - Baby clothes and hangers are snippets, but no photo, sorry

Paper Funday Challenge - Anything Goes

I look forward to seeing your entries, have a good day.  I am cat sitting this week while the daughter is away and go twice a day to feed him so that's what I will be doing next.

See you soon,

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

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

NON-TRADITIONAL CHRISTMAS COLOURS

 Morning Everyone,

This is my reminder post for Christmas Craft Creations where the theme is "Non-Traditional Christmas Colours".

I've gone with a die set from Honey Bee Stamps called Winter Village and have cut the buildings in unusual colours for a Christmas card and used some teal snowy paper for the background which is from  a Whimsy Stamps pad. I must say these dies were really fiddly to use and I had to make it in stages as it was taking so long, but it was good for using up small scraps.

Hammered card was torn across for the snow and I heat embossed the sentiment in silver.

I hope you can join us, there are two prizes on offer and the challenge doesn't close until 7th May so still plenty of time to enter.

I would like to enter:

Snippets playground - All the buildings, trees and lamp post were snippets.

Classic Design - Anything Goes

Crafty Gals - Anything Goes

Dragonfly Dreams - Use a Die

Sparkles Christmas - non traditional colours

Crafts Galore - Anything Goes

Word Art Wednesday - Anything Goes

Thank you for your visit and have a good day.

Lynne x

CUTE OR FLORAL?

Morning Everyone,

A new challenge starts over at As You like It this morning and we are asking whether you prefer to make cute or floral projects and why. 

 I have made more floral recently. I give quite a few cards to an aunt to give to her friends so floral are much more suitable than cute cards, but I still make cute ones for children.  

This card is made with a layering set from Honey Bee stamps called Vintage roses.  I cut all the flowers from snippets of white card and inked them up with a set of Altenew mini cubes in shades of yellow. The background was cut from green card and shaded a bit with green ink.  The middles were cut from dark brown card so I inked the sentiment in brown to match.

The sponsor for the challenge is:

with a voucher for the lucky winner

I would like to enter:

Simon Says Stamp (Weds) - Happy Birthday

Snippets Playground - snippets used were all the flowers and butterfly.

A Place to Start - Add one or more flowers

Beautiful Blossoms - Anything Goes

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

Lynne x

LOVELY LAYERS PEONY

Morning Everyone,

This is my second card that was half made on my desk and I've finally managed to finish it today.  Everything was coloured. I just needed to find a sentiment and decide on the layout. 

The dies are by Honey Bee stamps from Dies to Die For called Lovely Layers Peony.  I have coloured the flowers with copics and the leaves with zigs for a more water colour effect.  The sentiment die is from Whimsy stamps and it doesn't get used very often as it is quite large.

I would like to enter:

Allsorts - Use die cuts

Flower challenge - Use dies or stencil

PIP challenge 2336 - Anything Goes

A wet day here today, but looks like it's going to clear up later.  Have a good one whatever you may be doing.

Lynne x

BABY GIRL

 Morning Everyone,

This the card I made for my younger daughter's first baby. She had her by caesarian as baby had turned the wrong way, both doing well.  The interrupted sleep at night is a bit of a shock to her and her boyfriend, but everyone has to go through it and it will only get better eventually (hopefully)  :) .

When I saw the Bundle of Joy dies from Honey Bee Stamps on the Dies to Die For website I knew I wanted to have a play.  I had a big search through my snippets to find patterns small enough for baby clothes and this is what I came up with.  I think they are all from LOTV pads apart from the pink set of trousers on the left.  The coat hangers and hooks were cut 3 times and glued together for strength. I coloured the bindings on the two pieces on the right with copics and the white frills on the green piece with a white paint pen.

The Congrats die is from Creative Expressions and the smaller piece underneath was created on the computer.

Photo of snippets, some before cutting and some after.  The lilac one was an afterthought so not in the photo.

I would like to enter:

Allsorts - Anything but square

Snippets Playground - all the dies were from snippets

Crafty Calendar - Anything Goes 

Word Art Wednesday - Anything Goes

Lets Craft and Create - Add dots or Stripes

Thank you for visiting and I hope you have a good week.

Lynne x

 

CONEFLOWERS

 Hi Everyone

I bought a die set last week and decided to have a play with it straight away, which isn't like me as I normally buy something and then take ages before I use it!

The set is the Coneflower Layered dies from Honey Bee and purchased from Dies to Die For.  I used pale lilac card for the petals and then coloured with 4 shades of violet copics.  The cones and leaves were cut in white card and then also coloured with copics.  The circular die is from Spellbinders, but I can't remember who the happy sentiment is made by. The little black 'birthday' is from LOTV. This was all added onto some pretty gingham paper with a purple mat.

I'll probably spend the rest of the day crafting, it is far too warm for me to do anything else I'm afraid.  I don't like to be out in the hot sun and especially not working in the garden!

I would like to enter:

Passion for Markers - Use dies and/or punches

Double D challenge - Summer Gingham

Allsorts - Feminine/For a Lady

Colour Crazy Craft - Anything  Goes Colouring

Thank you for visiting and I do appreciate any comments you may leave.  Have a good weekend,

Lynne x