Nap Time

Evening lovelies, apologies that I am so late posting this, I meant to be earlier but I think my mojo was trying to escape me as this card has taken me hours to get finished. I completely buggered up the colouring and very nearly binned it (which some of you will know is not something that I do) but I think I managed to fix it so I am wondering if you will be able to spot where it all went so very very wrong lol.

Todays card is made using a House Mouse stamp, Graph'it Markers to colour, papers from DCWV and Melody Ross. The Card blank is made with Spellbinders Grand dies and I have also used a spellbinders frame and a tag and flourishes from Marianne Design dies. I have then decorated with flowers, ribbon and lace.

I would like to enter this card in to the following challenges,

Marianne Design Diva's  - Get Your Dies Out
Dream Valley Challenges - Challenge 57 - Animals
House Mouse & Friends - HMFMC145 - Flower Power Or Flour Power
Rhedd & Rosies Challenge Blog  - 7th Challenge - Blooming Lovely
Delightful Challenges - Weekly Challenge - Celebrate Friendship
Aud Sentiments Challenge Blog - Challenge 81 -  Friend
Crafts 4 Eternity Recipe Challenges - R#125 - Get In To Shape

Just before I go, a big thank you to  Rachel for the lovely card and gift I received today, I love them and they really did brighten up my day, thanks hun.

Thank you for reading this post, as always I love to read  your comments

Lindsay xx

Flutter By

Hello lovelies I hope you are all well and having a good day. The weather here is still miserable and I am a bit fed up lol.

Today's card is one that I have made using Imagination Crafts mediums and stencils,masks as they are currently having a dt call over on their blog. I have made the background using white cotton, glitter medium and mica powders mixed with magiblend solution and the butterflies were made in the same way but on card and then cut out. I also made some flowers from the left over fabric. I have then used a die cut frame from Spellbinders and a die cut tag from Marianne Design and some ribbons which I heated for added shape and some lace cheery lynn corner dies to decorate.

I would like to enter this card in to the following challenges,

Stamping Sensations  - May Challenge - Embossing & Texture (I hope this is ok as I have used glitter medium instead of embossing powder if not please feel free to delete it)
Marianne Design Divas - Get Your Dies Out
Eclectic Ellapu - Anything Goes
Anything Goes Challenge Blog - Challenge #93 - Handmade Backgrounds
Shopping Our Stash - SOS  #102 - Whats In Your Tool Shed (masks & dies)
Creative Inspirations Challenge Blog - Challenge 215 - Bingo (ribbon,flowers,glitter)
Cute Card Thursday - Challenge 270 - Tie It Up
Fab 'n' Funky Challenges - Challenge #172 - Ribbon &/Or Lace

Thank you for reading this post,  as always I love to read your comments

Lindsay xx

Rainy Days

Afternoon lovelies, I hope you are all well and getting a bit more sunshine than we are here we did have a couple of days of patchy sunshine but it's back to being grey again now and it's quite cold when the sun isn't out (in the time it took to write this it started chucking it down too lol), it certainly doesn't seem like we are headed towards the end of may lol.

Today's card is made using Spellbinders grand dies for the card base, a Magnolia Edwin stamp coloured with Graph'it Markers. I have used a paper from Kaiserkraft and one made using Distress Inks & water (one of my favorite techniques at the moment) and the fabulous water droplets stamp from Designs By Ryn. I have then used dies from Cheery Lynn, a Spellbinders frame, black muslin and buttons to decorate and written out my sentiment with a fine liner pen. I am not sure what I think of this card lol can't make up my mind about it.

I would like to enter this card in to the following challenges,

Visible Image Challenge Blog - May Challenge - Brighten Your Day
Stampin For The Weekend  -  Button It Up
Stamp & Create With Magnolia - Challenge #9 -  Spring Showers
Paper Playtime - Challenge #10 - Use Buttons Or Brads
Magnolia-Licious & Wee Stamps Challenge Blog  - Tuesday Challenge - Ways 2 Weather It
Totally Gorjuss - Challenge 184 - Water
Pile It On - PIO #20 - Add Fabric/Felt
Simon Says Stamp & Show  - Challenge:Favorite Ink
Simply Magnolia   - Edwin Only & Blog Hop
Here Come The Boys - Challenge #52 - Must Have Buttons
Anything Goes Challenge Blog - Challenge #93 - Handmade Background
Crafty Sentiments Challenge Blog  - Buttons

Thank you for reading this post, as always I love to read your comments

Lindsay xx

LEJ Designs - Challenge #54 - Die Cuts &/Or Punches

Morning lovelies, I hope that you are all  well and having a good week so far.  It's time for a new challenge to begin over at LEJ Designs Challenge Blog and this week our theme is Die Cuts &/Or Punches so any type of die cut or punch will do will do as long as there is one somewhere  on your project.

This week I have used one of the brand new digi's from LEJ Designs called Elise and I have coloured her with Polychromos pencils, the papers are from Papermania and Kaiserkraft and the die cuts are from Spellbinders and Cheery Lynn. I have then decorated with flowers and lace.

I would like to enter this card in to the following challenges,

Crafts & Me Challenges - Challenge 133 - Use A Digi
Simon Says Stamp Challenge Blog - Simon Says Flower Power
Crafting For All Seasons Challenge Blog - Challenge #52 - Think Pink
Moving Along With The Times - Colour Challenge
Crafty Catz - Challenge 183 - 321 (3 white die cuts, 2 pieces of lace, 1 image)
Totally Papercrafts Friday Challenges - Challenge #167 - Diva Image- Young Or Old
Eclectic Ellapu - Anything Goes



Thank you  for reading this post, as always I  love to read your comments.  I hope that you  will all come and join in with  us at the LEJ Designs Challenge Blog.

Lindsay  xx

Little Cutie

Hiya lovelies, I hope you are all well and having a good start to the week, I intended to be earlier with this but I don't quite know where the day went to.

Today's card is made using a stamped image from Penny Black, drawn by Mo Manning, I have coloured her with polychromos pencils and layered her on to two Marianne Design frame die cuts, the butterfly die cut is also from Marianne Design  and the flourish is from Cheery Lynn. The papers are from Melody Ross and K& Co and I have decorated with lace,  flowers, butterflies, ribbon and gems and drawn in some faux stitching with a fine liner pen.

I would like to enter this card in to the following challenges,

Penny Black & More @  Allsorts - May Challenge - Sew Special
A&T Challenge Blog - Challenge 24 - Bling
Sparkles Monthly Challenge Blog - Challenge #44 - Monochromatic
Marianne's Design Divas   - Get Your Dies Out
Simon Says Stamp Challenge Blog - Simon Says Flower Power
Delightful Challenges - Weekly Challenge - Bingo (stitching, ribbon/lace, patterned papers)
Totally Papercrafts Friday Challenges - Challenge #167  - Diva Image   young or old
Delicious Doodles Challenge Blog - Challenge #36 - Lace
Sweet Stampin  - Oodles Of Doodles (I hope my faux stitching is ok for this)
Allsorts Challenge Blog - Week 207 - True Blue
Joanna Sheen Challenge Blog - Girls, Girls Girls
Forever Friends Challenge Blog - Fortnightly Challenge 62 - For A Child
Eclectic Ellapu  - Anything Goes
Love To  Create Challenge Blog  - Challenge #66  - Something For Kids

Thank you for reading this post, as always I love to read your comments

Lindsay xx

PanPastel Challenge Blog - Challenge #20 - New Beginnings

Hi  lovelies, I hope that you are all well and having  a nice Sunday morning, I will keep this fairly short as I spent most of last night at A&E with Luke after he sliced open his thumb on a pie tin  so I am a bit worn out. It's time for a new challenge to begin over at the PanPastel Challenge Blog and this week our theme is New Beginnings. As usual the prize will  be a  fab PanPastel starter kit provided by our regular sponsor Your Creativity Store.

Over at the PanPastel Challenge Blog we are quite happy to see all sorts of projects like altered art, journaling and upcycling as well as cards & tags and you don't even need to use PanPastels on your entry so everyone can join in even if you don't have any yet.

For this week I decided to try my hand at my first ever journal page and I am not convinced that I like it, I  began by doing my basic scene for the background with PanPastels I then used Premium Art Brands Stencils  and the pans to add some interest and then stamped over the top and sprayed a little cosmic shimmer mist around the edges. Finally I wrote out my sentiment and stuck it in to place and decorated with some butterflies and a  couple of flowers.

I would like to enter my page in to the following challenges,

Craft-room Challenges - Stamp Your Own Background/ Background Paper
Charisma Cardz Challenges -  Challenge 19 - No Digi's Allowed
Polkadoodles Challenge Blog - Week 20 Challenge - Spring Colours/ Pastels


Thank you for reading  this post, as always I  love to read your comments and I hope you will come and join in with us at the PanPastel challenge blog.

Lindsay xx

Oh To Be A Bumble Bee

Hello lovelies,I hope that you are all well and enjoying your weekend, the weather is ill horrid here, I hope it's better where you are, as it's so miserable I thought that today I would make a spring  card to remind me what sunshine looks like lol.

To make this card I have used Spellbinders grand dies for the card base, papers from Melody Ross, Graphics 45 and an old magazine freebie (sorry can't remember which one it was from). The image is a stamp from Penny Black that I just fell in love with and I have coloured it with polychromos pencils. The die cut frame is from Spellbinders and the butterfly and flourish are from Marianne Design. I have then used flowers from Wild Orchid Crafts, gems, lace, ribbon and a little tag embellishment to decorate, finally I doodled in stitching detail with a fine liner pen.

I would like to enter my card in to the following challenges,

Penny Black Saturday Challenge - May Challenge - Anything Goes
Kraftyhands Challenge Blog - May Challenge - Flower Frenzy
Great Impressions Challenge  - May Challenge - Celebrations
Penny Black @ Allsorts Challenge  - May Challenge - Sew Special
Forever Friends Challenge Blog - Fortnightly Challenge no.61 - Pastel Colours
Clear It Out Challenges - Theme: Anything Goes ~ Stash: Use Two Or More Patterned Papers
Anything Goes Challenge Blog - Challenge 92 - Shaped But Not Square
Lacy Sunshine Challenge Blog  - Challenge #8 - Anything But A Square
Pause Dream Enjoy Challenges - Challenge #10 - Happy ...... Fill In The Blanks
A & T Challenges - Challenge #24 - Bling
Marianne Design Divas - Your Dies Out
Creative Craft Challenges 2  Challenge 10 - Just Checking
Simon Says Stamp Challenge Blog - Simon Says Flower Power
Delightful Challenges - Weekly Challenges - Bingo (stitching, ribbon/lace, patterned paper)
Fab 'n' Funky Challenges  - Challenge #171 - Your Favorite Embellishment (I couldn't decide if my favorite is flowers or lace so I used both)
Sweet Stampin - Oodles Of Doodles

Thank you for reading this post, as always I love to read your comments

Lindsay xx

Rainy Day Blues

Hiya lovelies, I hope you are all well and looking forward to the weekend. I had a great day yesterday in Eastbourne but to say I am knackered now is an understatement lol, I have only had 6 hours sleep in the last two days and my sciatica did not like being in the car for so long. The weather was absolutely gorgeous there yesterday and it really felt like spring, unlike the weather here today which is gray, cold and miserable lol.

A big thank you to everyone who joined in with my little competition yesterday it was very  interesting to read your answers and I think some of you know me very well lol, so without futrher ado the winner was the lovely Andre  please contact me with your address hun and I will get your crafty  prize in the post to you. I have also decided to send Rachel  a small prize as well as Rachel came in third place but she was the only person not to get a single incorrect item which I thought was pretty impressive.

I did manage to make one card in the car yesterday using a House Mouse stamp and Graph'it markers to colour, it's not my best colouring though as this was a difficult image to colour in the card, thank heavens for being able to blend the colours back lol. The papers I have used are an old magazine freebie by hot off the press, one from Crafters Companion Fairyopolis paper pack and one from Docrafts Wellington paper pack. The die cuts I have used are all from Marianne Design, I have put together two frames and two small flourishes behind the image and then used two bigger flourishes in the corners of  the card. I have then used lace, ribbon, flowers and gems to decorate.

I would like to enter my card in to the following challenges,

Clear It Out Challenge Blog - Theme: Anything Goes ~ Stash : Use Two Or More Patterned Papers
Totally Gojuss - Challenge 183 - Bingo (lace,ribbon,flowers)
House Mouse & Friends Monday Challenge  - HMFMC 144 - How Do You Interpret Feeling Blue
Marianne Design Divas  - Get Your Dies Out
Oldie But A Goodie  - Inspired By A Song (singing in the rain was my song choice and the papers are all over 6 months old)
Inky Chicks  - Challenge#4 - Blue & Brown
Southern Girls Challenge - Going Spotty Dot
Simon Says Stamp Challenge Blog   - Simon Says Flower Power
Delightful Challenges - Weekly Challenges - Bingo (patterned paper, die cuts, flowers)
Charisma Cardz Challenges - Challenge 19 - No Digi's Allowed

And just before I go here are some pictures I took yesterday, the first one is one I took at the place where we stop for coffee on the way to Eastbourne and the others were taken at Eastbourne harbor.

Thanks for reading this post, as always I love to read you comments

Lindsay xx

It's Competition Time

Hiya lovelies, I hope you are all well, hopefully this will post when I am well on my way to Eastbourne.

As I wont be around today I decided to run a little competition, those of you who have been following me for a while will know that on long journeys I always take a bag of crafty bits and make cards in the car so I thought it would be appropriate to put a little crafty twist on the old car game I Packed My Bag & In It I Put..... the old game is a memory game but that wouldn't work in this situation so I am going to make it in to a guessing game. 

What I want you to do is leave a comment on this post before 9am Friday  17th May and tell me what crafty goodies you think I have put in my bag. For each correct item that you guess you will be awarded a point and for each incorrect item that you guess a point will be removed. The person with the most  points will win a crafty prize, there's a couple of good craft shops near my brother so I will find something nice for the winner.

You might want to bear in mind that when it comes to craft I don't travel light and being specific could help you as for example if you guess something broad like embellishments you would most likely get a point but if you guess the type of embellishments you may be able to get yourself more points (obviously I don't mean specific as in brand names etc just the type).

The competition is open to everyone.

Competition is now closed.

Ok I do have a card to show you, it's made using a grand Spellbinders die for the card base, all the stamps are Visible Image stamps and Distress Inks with water and then I have just decorated with some ribbon that I curled, a charm and some gems. Please do hop over to Visible Images Challenge Blog as they do fabby challenges and their stamps are awesome plus you don't need to have their stamps to enter you just need to use a rubber stamp (any make).

I would  like to enter my card in to the following challenges, (I will link up when I get home)

Cards Galore Challenge Blog - May Challenge - A Tim Holtz Homage
Crafty Bloggers Network - May Challenge - O's & X's (ribbon,, stamps, gems)
Sweet Stampin  - Clean & Simple (I hope this is ok, I know there isn't much white showing through but I tried to keep it fairly simple)
A & T Challenge Blog - Challenge #24 - Bling
Craft-Room Challenge - Stamp Your Own Background/Background Paper
Crafty Sentiments Challenge Blog - Add A Charm
Visible Image Challenge Blog  - May Challenge - Brighten Your Day

Thank you for reading this post, as always I love to read your comments and I hope you will all join in with my little competition.

Lindsay xx