ANYTHING GOES AT AS YOU LIKE IT

Good Morning Everyone,

I hope you are all well into your Christmas preparations. Not long to go now.

There's a new challenge over at As You Like It and to make things easy the theme is Anything Goes.  I know I've been short on crafting time lately as I'm sure most of you have been.  I think some of the glue on my card was still wet when I took this photo!

I've used a cute Penguin Nativity image from Whimsy Stamps and coloured them with copics.
I've added a Memory Box star die in white glitter card, a doily  and some tiny blue gems in the shape of stars. The sentiment and papers are from LOTV.

The sponsor for the challenge is

the prize being the 3 images used by our DT and Guest Designers

Challenges to enter:

Crafty Gals Corner #181 - Anything Goes

Creative Inspirations - Feeling Festive

Cute n Crafty - Christmas

Dream Valley #192 - Christmas

Ally's Angels - Christmas
Cute Card Thursday - Anything Goes

If you pop over to the challenge here we have some fabulous guest designers as well as the lovely DT inspiration.

I would like to thank you all for your lovely comments over the past year and wish you all a Happy Christmas and New Year.

Lynne x

CAROLS AND SONGS AT CWT CUTIES

Good Morning Everyone,

It is time for a new challenge over at Christmas with the Cuties and the theme is Carols and Songs so we would like to see something cute and Christmassy along those lines.

Now I must admit this wasn't my intended card for the challenge, but time has been so short with Christmas preparations, meals out etc., I didn't have time to finish it, but luckily I had this card in my drafts waiting to be used.

When I saw these Gerda Steiner Carol Kittens, I just loved the expressions on their faces so had to buy them from Dies to Die For when they became available.  I've coloured them with copics, fussy cut them out and used a wall embossing folder for the background and a Sizzix street lamp die.  I had a little holly stamp so used that on the wreath and added glossy accents to the bow.  The paper for the pavement is from my scraps folder and the sentiment is embossed onto the wall and comes with the kitten stamp set. I've also added glitter to the kittens' hats.

The sponsor for the challenge this month is:

with a lovely prize for the winner

I would like to enter these challenges:

Pixie's Snippets Playground  #341 - snippets used are the pavement strip, the street lamp, wreath and little kittens.

Gerda Steiner Share Your Designs - December challenge

Crafty Calendar - It's Christmas Time

Cute Card Thursday - Embossing

Card Mania - Christmas

Southern Girls - Glitter

Crafty Catz Challenge - Anything Goes

Simon Says Stamp Weds - Christmas

I hope you will be able to join us for this final challenge of the year. Thank you for visiting and I will be back later in the week,

Lynne x

FAVOURITE XMAS ANIMAL?

Morning Everyone,

It is time for a new challenge at As You Like It and this time we would like to see projects containing your favourite Christmas animal (and don't forget to tell us why please).

I have chosen this cute Stamping Bella reindeer for mine, I mean where would Santa be without them to help him distribute presents?  Also, who can resist such a cute reindeer?

I must say I really struggled with this card.  I'd had him coloured up with copics for a while, but when it came to deciding on a layout I think my mojo had gone awol! In the end I used my new MFT background stamp, which I embossed in white, and also my favourite mini scalloped dies.  The usual additions on a Christmas card for me, i.e. glitter, a little snowflake and glossy accents finished it off.  This will be a nice flat one for posting.

The sponsor for the challenge is

with a lovely prize for the winner

I hope you'll be able to join in on this one and you can pop over here to see the inspiration from the rest of the DT.

I would like to enter:

Crafty Catz - Anything Goes/Too Cute
Creative Inspirations - Feeling Festive
Double D - Run Run Rudolph
Crafty Calendar - It's Christmas Time
Card Mania - Christmas
The Sketchy Challenges - Christmas
Cute Card Thursday - Anything Goes

Thank you for taking the time to visit, have a lovely weekend.

Lynne x

FANCY FOLDS - SPARKLES DT

Good Morning Everyone,

It is time for a new challenge at Sparkles Christmas and the theme is Fancy Folds.

I don't make many fancy fold cards and this Joy fold is probably as fancy as I get.  This was inspired by Mrs. A's lovely card. It was a fold I hadn't seen before so thought I'd have a go.  My image is a freebie from a magazine and the papers are First Edition.  I've added an inlaid snowflake die, gold soft sheen card, gold gems and a gold embossed sentiment from Inkylicious.

I hope you can join us in this last challenge of the year and to see the lovely inspiration from the rest of the DT you can pop over here.

I would like to enter:

Penny's Paper Crafty  - Anything Goes
Card Mania - Christmas
Crafty Hazelnuts Christmas - Anything Goes
Rudolph Days Extra Challenge
Simon Says Weds Challenge - Anything Goes
The Sketchy Challenges - Christmas

Thank you for visiting and I hope you can leave a comment, they are much appreciated. Have a lovely weekend.

Lynne x

ANYTHING BUT A CARD AT CWTCUTIES

Good Morning Everyone,

I hope you've had a good weekend.  We were out at a quiz on Saturday night, very enjoyable but didn't do very well I'm afraid.

Anyway, it's time for the start of another challenge over at Christmas with the Cuties and the theme is Anything But a Card, so as long as it's cute and is a christmas project, we would love you to join in

I decided on a small gift bag that I had and used an image kindly provided by our lovely sponsors at Crafty Sentiments. I've coloured him with copics, distressed the edges of the papers and added faux stitching with a gel pen on the blue paper, which was a freebie from a magazine.  I also glittered up 2 die cut snow flakes and cut them in half and added them as shown.  The little tag was made with a scalloped circle and glittered snowflake.  A small ribbon bow and that's it!

I hope you like and can join us this month, only one more challenge to go.  I can't believe how fast this year has gone.

I would like to enter:

Rudolph Days November Challenge - Anything Christmas

Pixie's Snippets Playground - snippets used were the white glitter card under the image and the tag.

Crafteezee Shop - Anything but a Card

That's Crafty - Winter Wonderland

Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas - Anything Goes

Creative Craft Cottage - Christmas is Coming

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

Lynne x

RUBBER OR DIGI AT AYLI

Good Morning Everyone,

I hope you are all keeping well and warm now it's getting a bit colder.

It's time for a new challenge over at As You Like It and we are asking whether you prefer to use rubber or digi stamps (and don't forget to tell us why please).

I do have quite a few of both, but for this challenge I have chosen digi purely for the reason of being able to re-size them.

I have used a recently purchased Lee Holland digi and coloured him up with copics.  I have also used a rubber sentiment stamp as for Christmas cards I often like to heat emboss them.  The papers are from an old LOTV pad and the sentiment is from a Woodware set.  The snowflakes are two that I've stuck together from my little snowflake drawer.  I bought a bundle of them all ready die cut from Ebay once so not sure what make they are.

Gems, glitter, glossy accents and a sparkle pen have been added, but as usual this can't be seen on the photo.

The sponsor for this challenge is Crafty Ribbons with a £10 voucher for the lucky winner, so if you'd like to see the inspiration from the rest of the DT you can pop over here.

I would like to enter these challenges:

Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas - Anything Goes
Incy Wincy Designs - Square cards only
Addicted to Stamps - Anything Goes
Fab n Funky - Christmas
That's Crafty - Winter Wonderland
Aud Sentiments - Christmas or Winter Sentiment

Before I go, I would like to say hello and thank you to Bunny for being my latest follower. I hope you enjoy looking at my makes.

I will be back on Monday so, in the meantime,  have a good weekend.

Lynne x

SWEET SNOWMAN

Good Morning Everyone,

Hope you are having a good weekend.  I have another just for fun Christmas card today, I seem to be on a roll with these at the moment.

It's a small A6 size as the stamp from the PB Jolly Friends set is quite small so I thought I'd make a quick card with him as he is so cute.  I've coloured him with copics, fussy cut and added him to the card with a silver embossed sentiment, also from Penny Black, from the Christmas Cheer set.
Three Tattered Lace mini snowflakes have been added to the corner with little gems in their centres.

I would like to enter these challenges:

Allsorts - CAS Christmas
Di's Digistamps - Include a sentiment
Penny Black Saturday Challenge - Anything Goes
Stamping Sensations - Get Ready for Christmas
Crafty Friends - Pearls or Gems
Ellibelle's Crafty Weds November - Christmas


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

Lynne x