SHABBY CHIC

Hi Everyone

When the super talented Bev Rochester posted this card I commented that it was ideal inspiration for my mum in law's birthday and this is what I came up with.

I've tried to make it as different as I could, but it's not easy with such a large chipboard frame as this one, which I bought from Live and Love Crafts.  It was too big to go on a 6" square card so I had to make one slightly larger than that (but not a square one).

The paper is LOTV which I distressed and stitched round the edges, a first for me, but it came out well on my machine.  I then tore the two corner pieces and slid a bit of lace under one, but you can't see it very well.  I glittered the frame and stuck on the flowers from Wild Orchid Crafts, as well as the little dragonflies.  I stamped two separate sentiments onto vellum and attached it to the middle.  I did have a go at putting some gesso on but chickened out as I didn't want to mess it up after it had taken me ages to do so you probably can't see it!

Her birthday's on Saturday so I hope she likes it.

The challenges I would like to enter are:

Live and Love Crafts - Sprinkles of Summer
Noor Design - Anything Goes option chipboard - I hope it's ok to enter this one
Simon Says Weds. Challenge - Anything Goes
Bunny Zoe's  -  Summer Florals
Sketchy Challenges - Summertime theme
CCC Digi Creations - Release the glitter
Creatalicious Challenge - Anything Goes/add flowers
Inky Chicks - Use 5 or more flowers

Thank you for visiting, I love reading your comments.

Lynne x

STILL CHRISTMAS IN JULY

Hi Everyone

I have another Christmas card to share.  I'm certainly forging ahead with them, so hopefully will be well organised this year (not!).

I still haven't looked into putting a watermark on my cards yet, but I don't think that matters at the minute.  I stamped the two LOTV penguins and coloured with copics, then layered them onto MFT stitched circles which were coloured round the edges to match.  I glittered the fur of penguin's hats, but this doesn't show very well.There are a few pearls on the Memory box Frostyville die and I also coloured some small oddments of paper to put underneath.  The LOTV sentiment was popped onto some foam tape and a blue ribbon added.

I would like to enter the following challenges:

Winter Wonderland - Use Die cuts/punches
Country View Crafts - Have Fun with Circles
Sir Stampalot - Anything Goes with a stamp and ribbon
Christmas at Sweet Stamping - Anything Goes
Christmas Cards All Year Round - Anything Goes
Fussy and Fancy Friday - Christmas in July
Crafty Hazelnuts Christmas - Use a Sentiment
Ribbon Girl - Use Any Image


That's all for now.  Thank you for visiting, your comments are much appreciated.

Lynne x

ONE LAYER CARD

Hi Everyone

When I saw the challenge at Penny Black Saturday was for a one layer card I thought I'd have a go as I've never made one before.  Below is what I came up with, but in hindsight I think this may be my one and only one layer card!  It was my second attempt and was so nerve wracking not to make a mistake, especially at the end when I stamped the sentiment!

I stamped the Penny Black Softly stamp in Memento London Fog and then coloured it in with a mixture of Prismacolour and Inktense Watercolour pencils.  I scored round the edges and gave it a bit of liquid pearl treatment to make it look a bit more interesting.  I actually only meant to score down one side and along the bottom but I made a silly mistake and scored along the top so it had to be all the way round.  One line top & bottom and two on the sides.  The sentiment is from a Stamping Up Set.  I quite like how it turned out in the end, but I don't think I'll be doing another one in a hurry :)

I would like to enter the following:

Penny Black Saturday - One Layer
Penny Black At Allsorts - Anything goes with a stamp
Bizzy Becs   -  Anything Goes
Ribbon Girl - Anything Goes
Creative Moments - Anything Goes

Thank you for visiting.  I enjoy reading your comments, it is much appreciated.

Lynne x

CHRISTMAS IN JULY

Hi Everyone

I have another Christmas card to show.  I know it's only July, but I do like making Christmas cards, possibly better than any other type.  This is a digi stamp from Di's Digistamps which I've had for a while and never used.

I used Copics to colour and LOTV paper (retired).  Two of the flowers I had to colour myself as I didn't have any suitable red ones and I also used two lovely frosted berries and a tiny fir cone from the Ribbon Girl.  I added glitter to the snow and mouse's hat and also heat embossed the sentiment in silver.

I would like to enter this into the following challenges;

ABC Christmas Challenge - M is for Mice

Winter Wonderland - 3 different embellies (glitter, flowers, ribbon)

Simon Says Stamp Weds. - Anything Goes

CHNC Challenge Extra - July

The Ribbon Girl Blog - Anything Goes

Christmas Cards All Year Round - Anything Goes

Di's Digistamp - Christmas in July

Thank you for visiting and any comments are appreciated. 

Lynne x

CANDY PIP

Hi Everyone,

This is my second card in 3 days, not 3 weeks like before - I must be on a roll!  On the other hand, it could be to do with the rainy weather giving me more of a chance to craft.

This is my first effort with Sugar Nellie Candy Pip.  The stamp was a bit too big for the size of card I wanted so I stamped the image and then scanned it onto my computer and altered it in Word so it was slightly smaller.  Then I coloured her with Copics and fussy cut her out, which wasn't easy with that little flower and spiky hair!

I cut a frame out for her to sit on then decided to emboss the centre with a cloud folder and put it back in.  I've coloured the sky slightly with a Stampin Up marker, but I wish I hadn't when I'd done it as I preferred it white, but I suppose it shows the clouds up more. The papers are Flower Shoppe from Nitwit Collections.

The challenges I would like to enter are:

Sugar Nellie 137 - Anything Goes

The Ribbon Girl - Any Image

Crafting from the Heart - Anything Goes

The Paper Shelter 254 - Birthday Girl

Thank you for visiting.

Lynne x

Very Pink

Hi Everyone

It's been three weeks since my last post, but normal everyday life seems to be getting in the way of crafting!  I don't know how some of you ladies manage to post so often even when you have a full time job.

Anyway, when I saw the lovely picture of decorated cupcakes at In the Pink I thought it would give me an excuse to use my Mama Elephant Carnival Cupcakes set which hasn't been out of the packet yet.

I stamped the cupcake bases with a pearlescent ink and the tops with Memento London Fog so it didn't look so harsh.  All colouring was done with Copics and then the cupcakes were glittered, the cherry had a glossy accents job and the yellow bows given the wink of stella treatment.  I had a problem of where to put the sentiment that goes with the Carnival toppers stamp set as it didn't seem to fit anywhere so I stamped a smaller one onto vellum and placed it at the top.  I normally like a few more embellishments, but with so much pink about I thought I'd leave it as is.  

Hope you like.

I'd like to enter this into the following challenges:

In the Pink - Cupcakes

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Animal Magic

Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge - Use Patterned Papers

Stamping Sensations - Feature a Creature

Crafting from the Heart 117 - Anything Goes

The Ribbon Girl - Anything Goes

Lynne x 

MY FIRST POST

Hello

This is my first post so you must bear with me until I get used to everything.  My blog will seem a bit sparse for a while, but hopefully I will get better in the next few weeks, especially with headers etc as I'm still not sure what I'm doing!

My photos are not the best yet either!  This is an image from Digistamp Boutique (Arctic Fun), coloured with Copics and with paper from LOTV (now retired).  I have glittered the snowflakes and also used liquid pearls and fun flock on the image.

Challenges I would like to enter:

The Craft Barn - at least 2 papers
Digistamp Boutique - May 16
Squirrels World - Wild Things
Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Anything Goes

Have a good day.

Lynne x