Cats chorus

Hi all,

We have a new stamp release over at Little Claire - Christmas Tags - has 12 little tags featuring fabby christmas sentiments and at just £7.50 for the set. 

For my showcase of this card I have teamed my little tags with an older Little Claire image - we three cats - don't you just love these cute little moggies.

The bright and funky papers are from the new Special Delivery range from Trimcraft, along with the buttons & wooden snowflake. Dotty Organza Ribbon is available from Little Claire along with the Scalloped Card Blank.

Now if you would like to get your hands on a set of these stamps for free, pop on over to the Little Claire Blog and tell us which of the 5 cards designs on the blog is your fave, you must do this before 12pm on Monday 3rd Sept.

Thanks for popping by my blog today, will be back tomorrow with my DT card for Totally Gorjuss & a LATE!!!! DT card for Wags N Whiskers.

Lyndsey xx

* Editied - I just found out that I have made Top 3 in the following challenges for my Playful Fairy Card

And I won a prize here with my Red Riding Hood Card

Thanks girls & Mr Random lol!!! for choosing me an so chuffed xx

Hop, skip & a jump

Hi all,

I am back today with a card for our new challenge over at Milkcoffee, this week our theme is

Back to School

Now my 2 angels!!! go back next Wed and I know it sounds horrible but I can't wait. Don't get me wrong I love having them around but I can't seem to keep in a routine whilst they are around me on hols and I don't seem to get anything done. Plus they squabble so much more when they are around each other for longer periods lol!!. Anyway I tell you, I took them uniform shopping yesterday and well nearly fell over at the till in Clarks £75 for 2 pairs of school shoes, although I have to admit they are good quailty and do last them ages. However whilst they were choosing them Oli went I'll have these (bit trainerish type), they will be alright for when I am playing footie at lunchtime as well!!!! at that price I don't bloomin think so he will sooooo be taking a pair of trainers with him lol.

Anyway - best show you my card, I have chosen to use this fabby image called Rope Skipping Girl. I just loved skipping when I was young, such a fun thing to do although if I tried it now I would probably get black eyes lol!!. Abbie takes a skipping rope with her to school most days, so thought this card would be perfect for her to wish her luck on her first day back.

I coloured my girl in with Pro-Markers and I teamed her with some fab Cosmo Cricket paper called The Boyfriend, as the prints on them were just perfect for this challenge. Added a bit of twine wrapped round the card and a few WOC flowers to pretty it up a bit.

Promarkers used

Skin - Burnt Orange, Coral, Dusky Pink, Blush

Hair - Raw Sienna, Gold, Mustard

Top - Burnt Orange, Spice, Peach

Skirt/Shoes - Cool Grey 5, 4, 3 & 1

Socks - Gold, Mustard, Buttercup

* Bargin for you, my local Hobbycraft are doing their Promarkers at £1.56 each at the moment and when you get to the till there is another 25% off them. So if you need to stock up it may well be worth looking in your local store - I went the weekend and ended up coming out with fair few - well for that price it was rude not too!!.

Thanks for popping by my blog today, I love reading your comments on my cards and truely appreciate you stopping by even if you don't leave a comment.

Lyndsey xx

More Special Delivery

Hi all,

Here are a few more samples using the Helz Cuppleditch Special Delivery range of products from Trimcraft.

For these cards I have used all the items as per yesterdays cards, but my images are from the 8x8 Decoupage Pad. I really love the colours and patterns in the papers so bright and funky and the image designs are just so cute. Also fabulous for making quick cards when you don't have time to spend on colouring, although you can get all the images as stamps if you so prefer.

Items used to make the samples :-

S'Del 8x8 Paper Pack HCXDP06

S'Del Glitter Stickers HCXST06

S'Del 3D Stickers HCXST09

S'Del Washi Tape HCXWT01

S'Del Mini Buttons HCXBN01

S'Del Mini Pegs HCXPG01

S'Del Gems HCXGE01

S'Del Twine HCXTW02

S'Del Wooden Shapes HCXWC02

S'Del 8x8 Decoupage Pad HCXDG10

Thanks for popping by my blog today, please pop back tomorrow to see my DT card for Milkcoffee.

Lyndsey xx

Special Delivery

Hi all,

As promised here are some samples I have made for Trimcraft using the new Helz Cuppleditch Special Delivery Collection.

The items I am showing today have been made using 1 pack of 3D Glitter Stickers, so fabulous for a quick and easy card.

Triple Tier Easel

Double Slider Card

Diaper Fold Gift Bag

Items used to make the above Samples

S'Del 8x8 Paper Pack HCXDP06

S'Del Glitter Stickers HCXST06

S'Del 3D Stickers HCXST09

S'Del Washi Tape HCXWT01

S'Del Mini Buttons HCXBN01

S'Del Mini Pegs HCXPG01

S'Del Gems HCXGE01

S'Del Twine HCXTW02

S'Del Wooden Shapes HCXWC02

Thanks for popping by my blog today, have a few more samples to show you tomorrow using the Decopage Pad

Lyndsey xx

Floral Anniversary

Hi all,

I have something of a completely different style for me to show you today, over the last few weeks I have been spending a lot of time on/completely addicted to lol!! yes you guessed it ------ Pintrest. I have been really inspired by the cards there that don't have images on them and use lots of embossing folders and very sort of stampin up style types.

So Sat night when hubby decided to tell me he needed an anniversary card for Sunday morning, which meant it needed to be something quick & simple. I had seen a lovely card on Pintrest and I decided to use it for my inspiration/ well totally cased it really!!. You can find the original card HERE, and here is the one I made.

Now I have to admit mine doesn't look half as good as the original, obviously my supplies were a bit different but when I realised I had the same papers I couldn't help but copy that bit exactly. I also don't know if the original was bigger than mine as I couldn't fit the flowers along the ribbon as there wasn't enough space. So I popped a couple in the corner, which I think look a bit c**p now - never mind.

I definately enjoyed doing it and it was a lot quicker than having to colour an image in and perfect for someone who is not into cute (my normal style) so I think I will be trying some more out. Although probably be doing a lot of casing until I sort of find my own style within that style lol!!

Thanks for popping by my blog today, hope to be back tomorrow with some new samples. I have had a parcel delivered full of gorgeous Trimcraft Christmas goodies to play with.

Lyndsey xx

Promarker Colour Chart

Hi all,

Not a card from me today, but something I hope some of you will find helpful. My ladies in my card classes have been bugging/nagging lol!!! me to do them a list of Promarker colours I that use when colouring my images. So I have spent the last few weeks writing down a few colour combinations that I tend to use a lot and having a play at creating new ones with some of my pens that don't get used too often.

What I have done is created a little chart, where I have listed the colours used (from dark to light) and then added a space above so that I can do a little blend of the colours. I can then see at a glance which combination of colours I want to use, I have also tried to keep each colour group together too.

I thought it would be helpful to pop the uncoloured chart on here, so that if you wanted you can print off a copy on whatever card you personally use and do your own little 'at a glance chart'.

Now I don't have loads and loads of colours, so you will see some colours repeated a few times but I have used them in combination with different colours to give a different overall look to the blended finish.

I would also just like to point out that these colours are just ones that I like to use and that I have found work together for me (and has been done with what pens I have in my collection), some you may like and some you may not agree on. Also if you have any colour combos that work for you that I haven't got I would love you to let me know so that I can try them out.

Anyway here is the chart, it takes 3 sheets of A4 paper to print, and there are a few spaces for new tryouts lol!! They are JPeg files so you should be able to just save and print them.

I would love to know what you think and if its been helpful to you, also as I said if you have any different colour combinations to the ones I have listed I would love to add them to my list.

Thanks for popping by my blog today

Lyndsey xx

Playful Fairy - DT for Totally Gorjuss

Hi all,

We have a new challenge over at Totally Gorjuss today and this week our theme is

Baby Baby

So we want to see your baby or toddler related cards.

For my card I went with a toddler theme and used a fabby Die Cut Mo Manning image from Hobby House, these are so quick and easy to use and look just gorgeous.

I teamed the topper with some Dovecraft papers from the Princess Fairytale range, added a few WOC flowers and some gorgeous organza ribbon. The border was punched using a MS punch, with a few pearls to finish.

Here is the sketch layout I used for my card.

Thanks for popping by my blog today, please pop on over to the challenge blog and check out my team mates gorjuss creations.

Lyndsey xx

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges

Crafty Catz - Ribbons & Bows

The Poodles Parlour - Winged Things

QKR Stampede - Anything Goes

C.R.A.F.T Challenge - Fairies

Delightful Challenge - Fancy & Frilly

Christmas kisses

Hi all,

Well better late than never, but here I am with my samples of one of the new Christmas release stamps from Little Claire. I have used the fabulously cute Merry Kissmas (kissing doggies), don't they look so adorable having a sneeky kiss under the mistletoe.

I don't know whats happened to me just lately but I cant seem to get organized at all, I have had these images coloured up ready for ages (way before the release date) and just couldn't seem to get them made into a card. I think it could be something to do with that thing called "6 weeks holidays", Roll on a week on Wed lol!!!

Anyway at last here are my cards.

I teamed the image with some fab papers from last years Papermania Collection, a few WOC flowers and some white satin ribbon (I coloured the ribbon on my top card with my Promarker to match). a few snowflakes & pearls to finish.

I did try to make the fur on the dogs look a bit more real by dotting the colour on instead on just colouring, not sure it worked out how I wanted it but it does look like they have a bit of texture.

Thanks for popping by my blog today, please pop back tomorrow to see my DT card for Totally Gorjuss.

Lyndsey xx

Basket of Love - DT for Milkcoffee

Hi all,

Today over on the Milkcoffee Blog the team are showcasing some fantastic images with a fairytale theme. For my card I have chosen to use the gorgeous Tiffany Red Riding Hood, I just loved this image when I first saw it and really loved colouring her in especially her red cape.

I coloured Tiffany my Promarkers and teamed her with some fabby papers called Happy Days from Papermania added a few WOC flowers, some gorgeous spotty ribbon and brass heart button (which broke off Abbie's jeans the other day lol!!).

Promarkers used

Cape - Crimson, Ruby & Poppy

Hair/Skirt/Boots - Black, Cool Grey 5,4,3,2

Skin - Burnt Orange, Coral, Dusky Pink, Blush

Basket - Cocoa, Caramel, Sandstone, Vanilla

Please do pop on over to the Blog and check out my team mates fabulous creations, remember you still have time to join in with our Halloween Challenge and our Colour Challenge.

Thanks for popping by my blog today

Lyndsey xx

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges

Do you stack up - Fantasy

Divas by Design - Anything Goes

Papershelter - Anything Goes

Crafty Sentiments - Flowers

Just Inspirational - Photo inspiration (colours, flowers, gems)

A girls best friend

Hi all,

Its time for a new monthly challenge over at Little Claire and this month our theme is

Best Friends

Now this can be your BF or cats & dogs etc

So for my card I went with a fab cute little image called Flossie & Pootle which is avaliable as a Digi Image for only £1.60, or you can get the stamp for just £2.99

I have teamed my little cutie with some gorgeous papers from the Garden Party Range, WOC flowers, some lovely Pink Satin Ribbon and gems. The cream mesh behind the ribbon was given to me by a lovely friend (thanks Diane).

The layout I have followed is from a sketch I designed ages ago, here it is if you want it.

Please pop on over to the Little Claire blog and check out my teammates fabulous creations.

Thanks for popping by my blog today.

Lyndsey xx

Vintage Butterflies - DT for Totally Gorjuss

Hi all,

Time for a new challenge over at Totally Gorjuss and this week our theme is

Strings the Thing

We are sponsered by the fabulous

So with this weeks theme I just new I wanted to make a tag and after getting lots of lovely inspiration from Pinterest I came up with this.

I started with a piece of A4 white card 250gsm and cut a tag shape 12cm x 8cm. I then stamped all over with a script stamp and distressed using Antique Linen & Tea Dye. I punched a hole in the top, created an enforcing circle using 2 punches & Kraft cardstock and tied with string.  Next I took a small circular doilie again distressed with Tea Dye chopped in half and stuck to the LH side. A strip of lace was stapled to the bottom and a die cut MD swirl added to the RH side. The butterflies were stamped, coloured using distress inks and cut out and added to the tag with silicone. The flower was created by die cutting 3 different size flowers from the Blossom Nestie from normal copier paper, distressed with Tea Dye, spritzed with water and scunched up before being put togther with a brad. Finally 3 pearl gems were added to the bottom RH corner and I spritzed the whole thing with Glimmer Mist.

I hope you like my creation, I really enjoyed making it and trying something different. Please do pop on over to the Challenge Blog and check out my team mates creations.

Thanks for popping by my blog today.

Lyndsey xx

My little Frog Prince - DT for Wags N Whiskers

Hi all,

Its time for a new challenge over at Wags n Whiskers, boy did we have a lot of entries for the last challenge the birthday theme was obviously very popular. We have a another nice and easy theme for you this fortnight

Favorite Colour Combo

So anything goes as long as you show us your favorite colours.

For my card I have chosen to use the very cute and adorable image Millies Little Prince which is available in either Digi or Rubber form.

My fave colour combo is Pink & Blue especially the pastel shades of those 2 colours so thats what I went with, although my pink is more of a peachy pink.

I have teamed Millie with some fabby papers from the Princess Fairytale collection from Dovecraft, a few WOC flowers, MS butterfly punch, pearls and blue satin ribbon.

Please do pop on over to the challenge blog and check out my teams mates fabulous creations, if you join in with the challenge you could win yourself a fab W&W Rubber Stamp.

Thanks for popping by my blog today, be sure to check back tomorrow to see my DT for Totally Gorjuss & Little Claire.

Lyndsey xx

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges

Just Some Lines - Layer it Up

I love Promarkers - In the Garden

Papercrafting Journey - Anything Goes

Whimsy Stamps - Lots of Layers

Digital Tuesday - Childs Play

Feline Purrrrrfect - DT for Milkcoffee

Hi all,

Its time for a new challenge over at Milkcoffee and as we have some fabby newly released Halloween images this fornight our theme is 

Halloween

For my card I have used the fabulous Sexy Cat Girl Tiffany and used a gorgeous Pink & Black colour combo. As I don't do Halloween cards I turned Tiffany into a bit of a glamour puss and gave her some fabulous pink sparkly boots - I would soooo love a pair of these!!!. I also used one of my fave colour combos Black & Pink.

I teamed Tiffany with some BeUnique papers from ages ago, a few WOC flowers and some lovely pink Tulle and spotty organza ribbon.

Please pop on over to the Challenge Blog and check out my team mates creations, join in the fun with us and you could win your choice of 3 digis.

Thanks for popping by my blog today, please pop back tomorrow to see my DT card for Wags N Whiskers.

Lyndsey xx

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges

Crop Stop - Flowers, Dots & Bling

A&T Emerald Faeries - Bling

Papertake Weekly - Spots & Stripes

Sassy Cheryl's - Fave Colour Combo (black & pink)

Kids Card Class

Hi all,

Well I am looking after my niece and younger brother today as both moms are at work, and whilst I was working on some DT cards they asked if they could craft too.

They made some lovely cards and coloured all the images and cut papers to size and everything all by themselves, so I thought I would show you their creations.

Abigail (6)

Katie (11)

Charlie (13)

And here they are enjoying themselves

I think they made a smashing job so would like to enter their cards into the following challenges

Simon Says Stamp Kids Challenge -Anything Goes

Little Hands Challenge - Anything Goes

Weekly Blog Project

Hi all,

Its my turn to do the blog project over at Little Claire this week and I have chosen to show how to make a fabby little Triple Tier Easel Card using a fab new release called Rufus Owl.

For all details and full instructions on how to make this card please pop on over to the Little Claire Blog.

Thanks for popping by my blog today, sorry I haven't been around commenting much have been all over the place since I got back from my hols hopefully will catch up with you all soon.

Lyndsey xx

Unto us a child is born

Hi all,

Day 4 of the new Christmas stamps release from Little Claire and today we have another double release for you.

First up is Away in a Manager, very similar to the Polar Hugs stamp, so not a lot of colouring needed so perfect for making those large qty's of cards. 

This card I have used a Die Cut Easel Card available from little Claire and have kept my design quite simple. the papers are Dovecraft Christmas collection, finished off with another of those fabby white flowers and satin ribbon. 

Again another simple card using the Dovecraft Christmas papers, the star behind the image has been made using a folding technique which I found HERE. 

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The second release for today is called Robin Redbreast, this is another one of my faves from the release and although looks quite detailed was lovely to colour and work with.

The papers on both of the cards are from papermania and are a couple of years old, but such lovely muted colours. A few punched snowflakes, ribbon and white christmas flowers finish them off perfectly.

Thanks for popping by my blog today, please pop by the Little Claire Blog and see what my team mates have created using these stamps. Tomorrow I have the last of the release for you and trust me its a cutie.

Lyndsey xx

Double Whammy

Hi all,

I have a rather long picture heavy post for you today, its the second day of the release of the new Little Claire Christmas stamps and we have decided to show you not one but two stamps today!!.

So first up is Christmas Silhouette, a very traditional image and as its a silhouette it means no colouring at all!!!. Now I have to admit I was a bit stumped when I first saw this stamp, but once I got going I couldn't stop.

 So for the first sample, I took a wooden frame I picked up from the £1 shop covered it with white acrylic paint, sanded it down and added some gorgeous dotty organza ribbon and Kraft flower. The image was also stamped on Kraft card to give it a more vintage feel, the Poinsettia Die is a Marianne Design. The little sentiment comes with the image.

For the second sample, I stamped the image onto tissue paper which I then burnished onto a candle and added punched borders and ribbon for decoration.

Finally I made a little faux tealight holder, again make a Kraft Poinsettia flower and added a punched border and dotty organza ribbon for decoration

All three items together, they make a fabby little gift set don't you think?.

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The second release for today is called Christmas Joy, this stamp has a bit of a folksy feel to it. Now I have to admit I love this stamp and really enjoyed colouring it and making samples with this.

The papers on this card are last years papermania Noel range and I think they just looked fab teamed with the red cardstock. The flower is from a large bag of mixed white flowers from QVC shop (thanks Jan) and some gorgeous dotty organza ribbon (thanks Hazel) to finish.

The papers on this card are from the Papermana Mistletoe Kisses range and again I teamed them with some fab red cardstock. The Die Cut is a Marianne Design and the ribbon was a gift as above.

Well I hope you made it to the end of the post, please pop back tomorrow to see another release, and dont forget to pop over to the Little Claire Blog and see what my team mates have been up to using these stamps.

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Christmas Silhouette & Christmas Joy  are available on the Little Claire website now, but here is a special offer for you:

Call us: 0151 342 5715 TODAY & up to 11am tomorrow (Wed. 08.08.12) and you can buy either or both stamps for just £3.50 each (no further discount) these stamps will cost £5.50 after tomorrow.

That's a great bargain, this offer is only available if you call us, the stamps are £5.50 online, so ring and speak to either Carol, Steve or Gill!

Lyndsey xx

On top of the world

* I am demoing at Hobbycraft, Bentley Bridge, Wednesfield this Sat 11/8 from 11am - 3pm I would love to see anyone who lives in the area and follows my blog *

Hi all,

Today sees the start of the release of some new Christmas images from Little Claire, us girls have been working very hard on the samples throughout July and I tell you it did feel a bit weird making Christmas cards before I went on my hols. I don't normally start mine until late October lol!!

So to start us off we have Polar Hugs, such a cute little stamp and very easy to colour - in fact hardly needs any colouring at all, would be great for batch making.

I teamed the stamp with some papers from last years Dovecraft Christmas collection, a bit of satin ribbon and a few pearls. The Die Cut on the first card is a Marianne Design and flower on the bottom card is made from a large bag of mixed white flowers from the QVC shop (thanks Jan) and a Dovecraft 3" Holly punch. Both card blanks are available from the Little Claire Store.

Thanks for popping by my blog today, please pop back tomorrow to see another new release and if you like pop on over to the Little Claire Blog to see what my team mates have done with this stamp.

Lyndsey xx

Fairy birthday wishes

Hi all,

Well I have some exciting news to share with you today, I am now part of the Wags N Whiskers design team oh boy do they have some gorgeous images to work with. Today I am joining in with my first challenge have my first DT card to show you.

The theme for the challenge has been set by the lovely Tanya and she has chosen

Birthdays

So a nice and easy one for you.

I have chosen to use a gorgeous fairy on my card called Laila and she is available in Rubber or as a Digi. I 

have made my card really bright and cheery and tried something a bit different with the hair - I have to admit I really enjoyed colouring this little beauty in and had a fab time doing the pink hair lol!!!

The papers I have used were free with a craft mag a while ago, some gorgeous WOC flowers and some fabby printed ribbon from Dovecraft.

Thanks for popping by my blog today, please do pop back soon as from Monday the Little Claire team will be showcasing the new Christmas images for you.

Lyndsey xx

Summer Flowers

*Edited - This will be my last card for Cardmadfairys Challenge as Jenni has decided to take a break, hope to be back with them in about 6 months *

Hi all,

Its time for a new challenge over at Cardmadfairy's and this fortnight we would like to see a

Floral Image

Now it can be any kind of floral image as long as its a Digi Image.

So for my card I decided to make a Double Centre Step Card, which was what I had been teaching my class last week. I love stepper cards and think they look so effective.

I teamed my image with some pretty papers from the Dovecraft London Line collection, added a few WOC flowers and a bit of gingham ribbon and punched butterflies to finish.

Please do pop on over to the challenge blog and check out my team mates fabulous creations, also if you pop back tomorrow I have some exciting news to share.

Lyndsey xx

Window Watching

Hi all,

Today sees a new challenge over at Milkcoffee and this week our theme is

Tic, Tac, Toe otherwise known as Bingo!!!

So here is the grid that you need to follow either Horizontally, Vertically or Digaonally

So for my card I have used the gorgeous Coco in the Window, I'm not sure if you can see it too clearly in the picture but I have cut out the windows and placed acetate behind the frames to look like real windows. I have followed the line 2 Papers - Flowers - Die Cut.

Please pop on over to the challenge blog and check out my team mates creations, join in the fun for your chance to win 3 Digi's of your choice.

Thanks for popping by my blog today.

Lyndsey xx