SKETCHBOOK BOUQUET

 Morning Everyone,

I have a card to share today made with Taylored Expressions Sketchbook Bouquet stamp.

Initially I stamped the flowers directly onto the card, coloured with copics and then masked it off to make a background, but big mistake and the background was terrible so I had to cut the flowers out as I couldn't waste them.  I splattered a new background first with gold watercolour paint and then stuck the bouquet on top.

I thought it was going to be a bin job but didn't come out too badly in the end.  The sentiment is from LOTV and is stamped in gold metallic.

I would like to enter:

Colourful Options - Yellow and Green

Stamping Sensations - Summer in the Garden

Gem of a Challenge - Anything Goes

Cupcake Inspirations - Happy Birthday

Thank you for reading and I hope to be back soon.

Lynne x

FAVOURITE COLOURING MEDIUM

Morning Everyone,

It's the start of a new challenge over at As You Like It and we are asking you to share a project using your favourite colouring medium, i.e. pencils, markers, inks etc.

I have used copic markers from the beginning of my card making journey so I am more used to them than anything, but I do have a go at using Zig marker sometimes, but normally with flowers. I've also had a go with pencils but find they take much longer.

For my card I have coloured these two images from the MFT Picture Perfect Party Animals stamp set which I bought second hand but not as yet used.  I cut them out with stitched squares, matted with black card and used papers to match the colours of the ballooons.  

The sponsor for the challenge is:

with a voucher for the lucky winner.

I would like to enter:

Lil Patch of Crafty Friends - Anything Goes

Crafts Galore - Anything Goes

We love Stamping - Anything Goes/Focal Sentiment

Critter Crazy - Anything goes with a critter

NBUS - Stamps not used

I hope you can join us and you can pop over to the challenge here to see the inspiration from the rest of the team.

Have a good day.

Lynne x

BUGS, FEATHERS OR FUR

 Morning Everyone,

It's time for a new challenge over at As You Like It as we are asking you to share a project using your favourite of either Bugs, Feathers or Fur.

My favourite has to be fur.  I think animals are cuter and there are plenty of diffent ones to choose from.

For my card I have used a Colorado Craft Co. stamp and coloured with copics.  I had another play on my sewing machine and tried the wavy pattern you see on some cards.  I quite like it.  It makes a change from using stiched dies all the time.  I've also added glitter to the snow, a die cut snowflake from my snowfalke box and a pearly one on top of that.

I hope you will be able to join us and the sponsor this time is:

with a voucher for the lucky winner

I would like to enter:

Christmas Kickstart - Animal Antics

Crafty Calendar - Anything Goes

Critter Crazy - Feature a Critter

Penny's Paper Crafty - Anything Goes

Stamping Sensations - Anything Goes

Disdigidesigns - Add a sentiment

Thank you for your visit and I hope you will be able to join us in the challenge.  

Lynne x

RUDOLPH

Morning Everyone,

This is a card that has been on my unfinished pile for a while so I thought I'd get it finally completed.

It's a Stamping Bella stamp called Rudolph & Christmas Lights which I have had for ages and never used.  I have coloured with copics to match the background paper colours and added glossy accents to each light (although you can't see that in the photo!).  The sentiment came with the stamp and a strip of red ribbon finishes it off.  I quite enjoyed colouring this little fella, he's so cute.

I would like to enter:

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

Creative Knockouts - Christmas in July

Di's Digidesigns - Christmas in July

Passion for markers - Christmas in July

Rudolph Days July - Anything Christmas

Stamping Sensations - Christmas in July

NBUS - July challenge

Thank you for visiting and have a good weekend.

Lynne x

CATS OR DOGS?

Good Morning Everyone,

It is time for the start of a new challenge over at As You Like It and we are asking whether you prefer cats or dogs. 

It's definitely dogs for me.  I've never owned a cat but have had dogs.  I just love how loving and loyal they are and how they come and cuddle up on the sofa at night.   It's heartbreaking when they go though.  We lost one of ours earlier this year and I still miss him a lot.

For my card I have used this old Bugaboo image called Party Pups.  I have coloureed them with copics and used a streamers die from The Greetery and sentiment die from Lawn Fawn. The streamers, sentiment and the orange striped paper were all from snippets to match the colours on the pups.

I hope you can join us and all the fab inspiration from the rest of the DT can be seen here.

I would like to enter:

PIP challenge #2429 - Anything Goes

Allsorts - Anything Goes

Crafts Galore - Anything Goes

Snippets Playground - Snippets used were the streamers, sentiment and organe striped paper.

Thank you for taking the time to visit and have a good weekend when it gets here.  We're going to a barbeque on Sunday so hoping it doesn't rain.

See you soon,

Lynne x

FAVOURITE NON CARD PROJECT

Morning Everyone,

It is time for a new challenge at As You Like It  and this time we would like to see your favourite non-card projects.

I have made some fun Christmas  pom pom tags for the younger members of the family.  I always seem to run out of tags and end up making some in a hurry, so I thought I would get ahead of the game this year.  I got the pom pom idea from Pinterest and after searching through my scraps of Christmas papers I found some with suitably small patterns.  

They are made by die cutting an oval in white card then cutting it down the middle and fastening the two halves together at the top with a small strip.  Patterned paper was cut with the same oval and glued on.    Turn up cuffs were made by stamping the same sentiment, either in red or by heat embossing in white, and cutting them into small rectangles and adding to the bottom of the hat.  I made small pom poms in colours to match each tag and glued them on together with twine.  The insides of the tags have been left blank for my own message.

The sponsor for the challenge is:

I would like to enter:

Pixie's Snippets Playground - all patterned papers were snippets

Simon Says Weds - Lets Get Into Shape

PIP Challenge 2427 - Anything Goes

Thank you for visiting and have a good weekend when it arrives.

Lynne x

MONSTER PARTY

 Morning Everyone,

When I was searching through my digi images for something last week I came across this Bugaboo image and thought it would be a fun image to colour.

I had a look through my mountains of papers and found some brightly coloured pieces and so coloured my monsters with copics to match.  They were cut out with a notched square die and matted with black and then I had this mad idea to get my sewing machine out and use that around the edges.  Normally when I want stitches I sew by hand, but I fancied having a go at zig zag stitch across the joins of the papers.  I hadn't even used my machine for zig zag before so had to have a practice on some scrap.  They worked really well so I was quite pleased for a first attempt.  My straight stitching went a bit wonky though, especially when I reached the corners, but they don't look too bad.

I finished it off with a few enamel dots, a stitched banner die for the sentiment and a Sending die from SSStamp.

Typing this on Sunday night after watching Emma Raducanu get beat in the tennis, which was a bit disappointing as she had played so well up to now.

I would like to enter:

Passion for Markers - Use a die

Crafts Galore - Anything Goes

Lil Patch of Crafty Friends - Anything Goes

Crafty Calendar - Add a Sentiment

Thank you for visiting and I will be back later in the week.

Lynne x