Cheery Lynn Designs - Pink Christmas

 

Hi and Good Morning :)

Our new theme this week over at the Cheery Lynn Designs Challenge is  'Non Traditional Christmas Colours'.  As always there is a fab prize on offer and you still have plenty of time to enter HERE:

Now I love to see light and fresh looking christmas cards, they can really stand out amongst the darker, more traditional colours and its quite nice to have a break from all the reds and greens too.

I started off with a 6 x 6 scalloped card base and layered K&Co papers from my scraps box onto American Crafts white textured cardstock.

This stunning Lace Christmas Tree die cuts beautifully and is so ornate and swirly it has a real wow factor!  I layered it on top of the matching Angel Wing for dimension and then added lots of sparkle and bling.  The gorgeous snowflakes were layered snowflowers from set 1 and 2 held together with moonstone brads, and the smaller snowflakes were made using embellishments from the BAF embellishment sets.

The beautiful border is the Anastasia die with 2 staggered layers and topped off with pink dotty satin and organza ribbon.  This was a pretty quick card to make, and would work well with any colour combo and scraps of papers :)

All dies used on this card are:

Lace Christmas Tree + A/W
Anastasia Border
Snowflowers #1
Snowflowers #2
Snowflakes plate (the 3 mini snowflakes, top left)
BAF - Embellishment set  #1
BAF - Embellishment set #2
Square Classic Silver Stackers
Scalloped Square Stackers

I cant wait to see how you interpret this  weeks challenge and dont forget there is always fresh and inspirational projects uploaded daily by the rest of our talented DT over on the Cheery Lynn Designs Inspiration blog.

Thanks so much for visiting my blog today, I have had family staying over the last week, so hope to catch up with everyone soon.

Marvelous Magnolia - Non Traditional Christmas

 

Good Afternoon :) 

 

Today sees the start of a brand new challenge over at Marvelous Magnolia where this week our theme is 'Non Traditional Christmas Colours'.  We are sponsored the fabulous Live and Love Crafts, so a brilliant prize and well worth playing along! :) 

 

 

I hadn't intended to make an easel card, but as I cast aside the scraps of HOTP paper on my desk, they all seemed to fall in place and it seemed a shame to banish them to the scrap box forever! lol.  I have had this HOTP christmas paper pad for years, and there are still has so many gorgeous papers left I doubt I will ever see the end of it!  

 

I am back to hand-stitching as I have no idea how to wind a bobbin on on my cheapo machine. I saw one for sale on Ebay for £3 and was tempted to buy it just for the instructions.  I found it quite a time-saver so it must be worth giving it another go just to try and wind some thread on.

 

I used an MS snowflake punch for the outer edging, and the dies are a mix of Doo-Hickey, Cheery Lynn, Marianne and spellbinders (so almost a full house) and added cheesecloth, pearls, wooden button and ribbon from stash.  The mini-cones on the tree are again nicked from one of my many pot-pourri bowls! :)   The sentiment is Pink Petticoat and there are also a few LOTV grunge sentiment stamps scattered about this too.

 

I am entering this card in the below competitions:

 

Live & Love Crafts - Christmas

Tildas Town - Anything Goes

Bunny Zoe's Crafts - Winter

7 Kids Challenge - Anything Goes

Papertake Weekly - Ribbons & Pearls

Creative Card Crew - Anything Goes

Divas By Design - 2 or more patterned papers

Stamptacular Sunday - Recipe - ribbon, pearls, dies & punches

Dream Valley - Anything Goes

 

 

Thanks so much for visiting my blog today, and I will be catching up later,

 

Tag You're It - Cheery Lynn Designs

 

 

Hi and Good Morning :)

 

We have a new challenge this week over at Cheery Lynn Designs and our theme is  'Tag - you're it', and you still have lots of time to enter here:  As always the winner will receive a brilliant $20 voucher to spend online at the Cheery Lynn Store.

 

This was a really fun project for me, as I dont often think to make tags this size.  I used a blank manilla parcel tag (6.5 x 3.5 inches) and covered it with MME xmas paper.  I then backed it onto some kraft card and inked the edges. 

 

I layered 2 of the Holly Lace Flourish dies and made the border from the Queen Anne's Lace following some of the pattern design on the paper.   I chose to make the centrepiece out of the beautiful and very elegant lacey Bell Die which comes with the fabby bow too, and layered it onto cream cardstock.  I decorated the bells with pearls and fixed it to the oval stackers.  For a fabulous finishing touch I added 3 snowflakes from set 1 and 2 of the snowflowers dies, I absolutely love these and seem to be using them on almost everything at the moment! :)

 

All dies used on this tag are:

 

Bow & Bell

Queens Annes Lace Border

Holly Lace Flourish

Snowflowers - Set One

Snowflowers - Set Two

Scalloped Oval Stackers

Silver Stackers Oval

 

I hope you find time to join in this week, and I look forward to seeing more lovely entries.  Dont forget there is always fresh daily inspiration over on our Cheery Lynn Designs Inspiration blog too.

 

I would like to enter this tag into:

 

Dies to Die for - Dieing for a challenge - Winter

 

Thanks so much for visiting my blog and have a smashing day!

 

 

 

Snow People - Sweet Stampin

 

Good Morning :)  I hope everyone has some fabby plans for the weekend!

 

We have a new challenge today over at Sweet Stampin where this week the theme is 'Snow People'.  We are sponsored by our monthly sponsor - the ever generous Joanna Sheen, and our weekly sponsors of Di's Digis and Bugaboo Stamps.  Brilliant eh? !! :)

 

I used this cute Ava & Deacon digi image and it was great fun to colour!  I try where possible to make my christmas cards flat, and also a  cheaper size for posting (lol) so I used a 7 x 5 inch scalloped card (for a change) and layered HOTP papers onto white bazzil card.  The dies are a mix of Marianne, Memory Box, Cheery Lynn and spellbinders, and the tags are LOTV. 

 

I am entering this card in the below competitions:

 

I ♥ Promarkers - Christmas Trees

My Mums Craft Shop - Winter Wonderland

Crafts & Me - Non Traditional Christmas Colours (I think this means no red & green?)

 

Thanks so much for visiting my blog today, and dont forget we have a mini DT call over on Sweet Stampin and Christmas at Sweet Stampin, so if you are interested in joining a fab, fun team pop over and take a look.

 

Have a smashing weekend

 

Colours of Autumn - Cheery Lynn Designs

 

Hi and Good Morning :)

 

Our new challenge this week over on the Cheery Lynn Designs blog is 'Autumn Colours' and there is a fab prize of a $20 voucher to spend online at the Cheery Lynn Designs store.

 

Now I have been dying to use some more of the gorgeous celtic borders on my cards, and so I chose to start off with an 8 x 5 inch card base, as the borders really work well when used in 8 inch strips.

 

My cardstock for this was 300gsm Kraft and Ivory, so really heavy weights and as you can see they cut the most detailed dies beautifully.   I coloured a fab Crafts & Me digi image as my focal point and used HOTP papers from my scraps box.

 

The gorgeous border dies are the Celtic Chain and the Celtic Heart Border.  I added a cross section of the Tiffany Border die towards the bottom and embellished that with 2 mini doilies taken from the centres of the Polynesian Sails and Nautical Wheeler dies.  These are so useful! 

 

The leaves are a mix of Dimensional Small Leaves,  Olive Branches and Pair of Ferns  I finally added twine, a wooden button and a few more bits and bobs glittered up from my pot pourri bowl - lol! :)

 

All dies used on this card are:

 

B202 -  Celtic Chain

B237 - Celtic heart border (tucked behind the image)

Tiffany Border

Polynesian Sail - mini doily taken from the centre of the main die

Nautical Wheeler Doily - mini doily taken from the centre of the main doily

DL133 Dimensional Small Leaves #1

Olive branches

DL152 - Dragonfly Small w/Angel Wing

B118 - Pair of Ferns

 

I hope you find time to play along with our challenge this week, and I look forward to seeing some fabulous creations.  Dont forget there is also daily inspiration from the other talented members of the DT over on our Cheery Lynn Designs Inspiration Blog.

 

I would like to enter my card in the below competitions:

 

Papertake Weekly - Flower Power

Divas By Design - Anything Goes

Dream Valley - Amything Goes

Natalie & Amy - Colour Me Happy - Green, Brown & Cream

Crafters Companion - Fave colour combo - I am using Green, Brown & Cream quite a lot recently :)

 

 

Thanks so much for visiting my blog today, and I hope everyone has a smashing day!

 

 

Cold & Frosty - Joanna Sheen

 

Morning :) 

 

Well SkyFall was Ace ! - I quite like my Bonds' mean & moody and it was a fabby film! 

 

Now, we have a new challenge starting today over at the Joanna Sheen Challenge Blog, where this fortnights theme is 'Cold & Frosty'.  The winner will receive a brilliant Joanna Sheen voucher to spend online, so well worth playing along.

 

I was sent this adorable House Mouse image - House Mouse Winter and it was so lovely to use.  I coloured with Distress Inks, and then added some Aleenes glitter snow with a paintbrush and sprinkled extra Fairy Dust on top. The papers are Memory box, sentiment is LOTV and the dies are a mix of Cheery Lynn, spellbinders and Memory Box.  The berries are again borrowed from my pot pourri bowl ;)

 

I am now in countdown mode until Dec 13th when the wonderful Richard Armitage is back on my radar (even though he is a beardy dwarf) in The Hobbit - I absolutely cant wait for that :)

 

 

pic courtesy of richardarmitagenet.com

 

Thanks so much for visiting my blog today, and have a smashing day,

Marvelous Magnolia - Pearls and Lace

 

Morning :)

 

So, today sees the start of our 2nd challenge at Marvelous Magnolia where this week our theme is 'Pearls & Lace' (my favourites!).  We have 2 fabby sponsors this week too, and I really, really, really wish I could enter! lol

 

Tildas Town

 

 

 

&

 

Marker Pop

 

 

I actually won this gorgeous, cute stamp called 'Rose Scent Tilda' from Tilda's Town earlier this year, and I couldnt resist buying a few more at the same time as they do FREE WorldWide Shipping (how amazing is that!)  - its actually quite often a deal-breaker for me - lol ;) 

 

I hand-stitched Prima Papers and shabbied them up with a bit of white acrylic paint.  The dies are a mix of  Doo-Hickey and Nellie Snellen and the flowers and lace are WOC.  The metal corner and key are Tim Holtz and the twiggy seed pods were again nicked from my pot pourri.

 

Thanks so much for visiting my blog, and have a smashing day!

 

 This card is available to buy from my Etsy Shop HERE

Cheery Lynn Designs - Give Thanks

Our new challenge this week over at Cheery Lynn Designs is 'Give Thanks' and this can be interpreted in so many ways.   The winner will receive a fab $20 voucher to spend online at the Cheery Lynn store so well worth playing along. 

 

I started off with a 6 x 6 blank card base and layered MME papers on American Crafts white cardstock.  I coloured a sweet Sylvia Zet digi-image called 'Sympathy Bugs' to match my papers and then set about playing with my dies.

 

The borders down the sides are the elegant Lace Light Deco border, which I think goes with just about anything and everything - its fab!.  I then  used for the first time the Nautical Wheeler Doily - this is a fabulously styled and lacey design and you even get a mini doily that pops out in the middle to use later.  I made my own flowers using Sweet Williams and Roses dies and added some Olive branches to the spray.

 

The sentiment was printed on my PC which I cut out using the coved rectangle and scalloped rectangle mini dies.

 

All dies used on the card are:

 

Nautical Wheeler Doily Die

Lace Light Deco Border

Exotic Butterflies Small

Sweet Williams

Medium Roses

Miniature Roses

Olive Branches

Thank

You

Coved Rectangle

Scalloped Coved Rectangle

Circle Silver Stackers

Scalloped Circle Stackers

 

I hope you find time to play along and dont forget there is also daily inspiration from the other talented members of the DT over on our Cheery Lynn Designs Inspiration Blog.

 

Thanks so much for visiting my blog and I hope you have a smashing day! :)

 

 

All That Glitters - Sweet Stampin

 

Good Morning and Happy Weekend - YAY!!

 

We have a new challenge today over at Sweet Stampin where this week the theme is 'All That Glitters'.  We are sponsored by our monthly sponsor Joanna Sheen, and our weekly sponsor is one of my very generous teamies - Natalie, with this fabby prize from her shop Iva Nova Chest:

 

 

 

 

 

I coloured up a gorgeous image from Mo Manning with PM's and layered up white bazzil card and MME xmassy papers.  The dies are Cheery Lynn and the border punch is MS. 

 

I will be entering this card in the below competitions:

 

The Sketchy Challenges - Fab sketch!

Live & Love Crafts - Christmas

Divas By Design - Feeling Festive

I ♥ Promarkers - Cute

 

 

Thanks so much for looking at my blog today and have a smashing weekend,

Vintage - Cheery Lynn Designs

Hi and Good Morning :)

Back again today with my DT card for our new challenge over at Cheery Lynn Designs, where this week our theme is 'Vintage'.  Cheery Lynn have some beautiful and very elegant dies which are perfect for a vintage creation, and I really enjoyed making this style of card.

 

I started off with an 8 x 8 inch blank card base, so this is quite big.  I layered HOTP papers onto Kraft card and pale cream bazzill card, and the same cardstock was used for cutting all the dies. 

 

I used the wonderful Sophia's Heart doily die for the background and the border lace is the stunning Anastasia Border.  I added the Fanciful Flourish die to the side panel and then matted my vintage photograph using Oval scalloped and oval stacker dies.  I tucked  just one from the set of 3 Lace Deco Corners around the edges of the picture and added some pearls.

 

The bottom right hand corner uses Victorian Romance Flourish.  This was the first Cheery Lynn die I ever bought and still remains one of my favourites.  I made some baby's breath flower stems (these were soooo easy!), and the larger white flowers were again nicked out of my pot pourri bowl! :D lol.

 

All dies used on this card are:

Lace Corner Deco H
Sophia's Heart
Anastasia Border
Lace Corner Deco B
Fanciful Flourish
Oval stacker
Scalloped oval stacker
Exotic Butterflies Small #2
Exotic Butterflies - Small
Victorian Romance Flourish
Embellishment #2 - Baby's Breath
Hummingbird
Love
Rose Leaf Strip

I hope you find time to enter our challenge this week, I love looking at all the creative ways everyone interprets the challenges and uses these dies, its such a pleasure.  Dont forget, there is also daily inspiration from the other talented members of the DT over on our Cheery Lynn Designs Inspiration Blog, so check back often :)

I am entering this card in the below competitions:

Live & Love Crafts - Autumnal colours
Allsorts Challenge - Stitching
Sketch Saturday - Fab sketch - I flipped it to the side - hope thats ok :)
 

Have a smashing day, and thanks so much for visiting today.

GDT @ Tuesday Morning Sketches

 

Awww...... well this is my last week as a GDT for Tuesday Morning Sketches, and I have absolutely enjoyed every single sketch!  Thank you so much ladies for having me, it was a real pleasure.

 

This weeks challenge is sponsored by Meljens Designs, who generously gave us some super-cute images to play with.  I adore this wee chappie called  Autumn Flower Mouse and found him real fun to colour.

 

I used MME papers, Kraft Card and green Bazzil card, and the dies are all Cheery Lynn except the wheat die tucked behind some more pot-pourri stash! lol :)

 

Sorry for the quickie post......... it was my birthday yesterday and I had a late night! lol

 

Thanks so much for visiting my blog and have a great day,

 

Cheery Lynn Designs - Texture

Hi and Good Morning :) 

 

Our new challenge over at  Cheery Lynn Designs this week is 'Texture' and as always the winner will get a fabulous $20 voucher to spend online at the Cheery Lynn website, so well worth joining in if you can.

 

I really enjoyed making my card for this weeks theme, and was aiming for something fresh, light and delicate.  I usually have some kind of image as a focal point on my card, but the Celtic Heart die provided a perfect centrepiece.

 

I started off with a 6 x 6 inch blank card base and layered ice white pearl card and blue bazzil cardstock.  I then used the Dotted Swiss embossing plate on the pearl card for texture, and added the Border Carnivale and some dotty ribbon at the bottom.

 

The gorgeous Large Sunflower Doily is perfect for this size of card and creates a beautiful background to the stacked circles and Celtic heart centrepiece.  Finally I added Darling Daisies and the word LOVE from the new release sentiments.

 

All dies used on this card are:

 

Celtic Heart

Dotted Swiss Embossing Plate

Border Carnivale

Large Sunflower Doily

Darling Daisies

Love

Silver stacker circles

Scalloped stacker circles

 

I hope you find time to play along with the challenge this week, and I look forward to seeing more fab entries.  Dont forget, there is also daily inspiration from the other talented members of the DT over on our Cheery Lynn Designs Inspiration Blog.

 

Thanks so much for visiting my blog today, I seem to be playing catchee-up with my commenting, but I will be round to visit everyone in the next couple of days :)

 

GDT @ Tuesday Morning Sketches

Good Morning :)  I hope everyone is having a great week so far.

Today sees the start of a new challenge and a great new sketch over at Tuesday Morning Sketches.  This weeks sponsors are Stampfairy, and I adore these images, so well worth playing along if you have time.

I stitched HOTP papers onto ice white Centura Pearl card, and used the same cardstock for all the dies.  The border and image frame are Spellbinders, the tag is DooHickey and the Holly Lace Flourish, snowflakes and sentiment are Cheery Lynn.  I coloured the image with Flexmarkers (love those icy pale shades) and finished it off with some glitter and much forgotten bling :)

Thanks so much for looking at my blog today, and I will be back later today with some VERY EXCITING NEWS!! :)

Sweet Stampin - Halloween

Good Morning and happy weekend! :)

My card today is for our new challenge over at Sweet Stampin where this week our theme is Halloween.  We are sponsored by the ever-generous Joanna Sheen for the monthly prize and also by Letraset for the weekly winner - brill prizes and a great excuse to enter and share your spooky creations!

 

Now I wanted to keep this card kinda light, clean and simple for me and most of the work was done on my digi-cutter.  I layered First Edition Noir et Chic papers onto black bazzil and used the same card for the die-cutting.  The gorgeous spidey web is Cheery Lynn, and the bat, witch and sentiment were done on my cameo.

I am entering this card in the below competitions:

Charisma Cardz - Clean & Simple - this really is for me!
Papertake Weekly - Boo
I ♥ Promarkers - Anything Goes
Simon Says Stamp - Eeerie Inspiration
Divas By Design - Something Spooky
Crafty Catz - Halloween
Stamptacular Sunday - Boo-tacular
Dream Valley - Halloween

Thanks so much for visiting my blog today, and have a smashing weekend,

Smashing Pumpkins

Good Morning fellow crafters and bloggers :) back again for a 4th day running - woah !

Our new challenge over at Cheery Lynn Designs this week is Corner Adorners, and as always the winner will get a fabulous $20 voucher to spend online at the Cheery Lynn website.  There have been some stunning creations made this week with the new release dies from Cheery Lynn and I thought I would showcase a few more of the new dies today on this cute seasonal birthday card.

 

I started out with a 6 x 6 Kraft card base and layered cream and green bazzil cardstock, MME papers and inked the edges with brushed corduroy DI.  I used a fabulous Mo Manning image called Punkin (which is the first digi I ever bought), and then had a great time playing about with some really fun dies.

I joined each Corner die with one of the brilliant Expandable Tiny Border dies - this is now officially my new favourite border die - I love it! :)  I added acorns in the corners, extra leaves and I used the Quilling Strip die to make the rolled swirls in the top corners too.  The wonderful Fall Pumpkin dies cut beautifully and have great texture, but most of all I love the twiddly bits that come with them - they too are so much fun! 

Finally, the mini 3d pumpkins were - yes, you guessed it -  nicked out of my pot pourri bowl - lol  :) 

 

All dies used on this card are:

 

Lace Corner Deco A

Dimensional Small Leaves # 2 - Acorns

Quilling Strip

Expandable Tiny Borders

Wreath Strip

Fall Pumpkins

Happy

Birthday

 

I hope you find time to play along with our challenge this week and dont forget there is also daily inspiration from the other very talented members of our DT over on the Cheery Lynn Designs Inspiration Blog.

I am entering this card into the below competitions:

I ♥ Promarkers - Anything Goes
Mo's Digital Challenge - B is for Boys & Birthday
Deep Ocean Challenge - Anything Goes
Allsorts Challenge - Too Cute to Spook
Stamptacular Sunday - Boo-tacular
Emerald Faeries - Anything Goes
Papertake Weekly - Boo
Creative Craft Challenges2 - 3 - I have 3 pot pourri pumpkins on my card
Simon Says Stamp & Show - Favourite - Technique - Die Cutting
Simon Says Stamp - Eeerie Inspiration
 

Have a smashing day, and thanks so much for visiting my blog.