Pretty Mermaid

Hi all,

A very quick post from me today. Thought I'd pop on today with another of my Trimcraft samples made using the gorgeous Mirabelle Collection.

For this card I used the 3D stickers, papers, lace, accordian flowers, metal key charms & buttons. The pretty scalloped border across the bottom is actually cut from some of the packaging.

Thanks for popping by my blog today

Lyndsey xx

Hoot Hoot

Hi all,

Thought I'd pop on today and show you a couple of cute little Owl gift bags we made in class last week.

I found the template on line Here and printed it straight onto white card and covered with paper. I did end up printing off 2 copies so that I could use the other one to cut out the wings and tummy to decoupage them. The eye's I made using plain & scalloped circle nesties.

The little bags were so easy to make, I did them with Abbie and my niece last week and they loved doing them - so deff something you can do with the kids.

Thanks for popping by my blog today

Lyndsey xx

Oh go on then ............... just a small piece!

Hi all

Here today to show you my regular Monday contribution over on the MMCS Blog.

Our theme this week is Buttons & Ribbon, which suits me down to the ground. As you know I love nothing more than adding a gorgeous bow to finish off my cards.

Anyway for me card today I have used a fabulous Stamping Bella image - Bianca loves her big cake - OMG!!! can you imagine having a cake that big you'd never eat it would ya lol!!.

I teamed the image with some fabby Echo Park - Sweet Girl papers and added a double bow using some gorgeous stripey ribbon (hmpf - am nearly out of it now!!). The bow was topped off with a cute Heart Button tied with twine and then I finished off with a selection of £1 Embelishments - Mini Flower Buttons, Clear Gem Dots and Mini Striped Candy Dots. The little fishtale banner in the top corner was cut using one of the dies in the Dienamics Blueprints 12.

Thanks for popping by my blog today, please do pop on over to the MMCS Blog throughout the week to see what creations my team mates have come up with.

Lyndsey xx

Its your day

Hi all,

Quick post with another set of Curiosity Corner samples from me again today.

Really enjoyed working with this range and it made a nice change to make cards without having to spend an age colouring images lol.

Thanks for popping by my blog today

Lyndsey xx

Delight in the simple things

Hi all,

So we have had a little change around over at All Dressed Up Stamps this month and instead of showing new images with the challenges, they are going to be released separately.

The teams creations showcasing these image have also been split and are going to go live on different days throughout the month. 

So today is my turn to showcase one of the gorgeous images, but before I show you my card here are the new images :-

Happiness

Love to Dance

Purrfect Together

Rock my world

How fab are they? to purchase any of the images head on over to the shop - or click each pic for a direct link.

So for my showcase today I have used the very demure image - Love to Dance and coloured her up in nice pastel shades using my PM's

I teamed the image with some gorgeous papers I picked up in Hobbycraft - Recollections Valentine, all matted onto black card to tie in with her hair. I added a double bow make using some beautiful stripey ribbon, topped off with a large pearl bead and finished off with a blingy gem swirl.

Please do pop on over to the blog and check out my team mates fabulous creations using these image an while your their why not join in with our current Challenge. You could win 3 images of your choice!!

Also don't forget to drop by our Facebook Group to share your ADU creations and chat to fellow crafters.

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My niece has just started up her own blog to share her creations, if you don't mind popping over and giving her a bit of encouragement that would be fab thank you.

You will find Katie's blog HERE 
also Abbie has posted a new creation on her blog today too HERE xx

Thank you for popping by my blog today

Lyndsey xx

Curiosity Corner

Hi all

I have a few Trimcraft samples for you today this time using the new Curiosity Corner range.

There are loads of gorgeous items in this range from papers, flowers, doily's, twine, sentiment stamps, felt & wooden shapes, buttons, washi tape etc - all with a lovely vintage feel.

I used some gorgeous burgundy card to make my bases as I thought it went really well with collection.

Thanks for popping by my blog today

Lyndsey xx

Dream Girl

Hi all,

I have another Trimcraft Mirabelle sample to show you today.

I have used my last bargin £1 picture frame to create a sweet picture and used lots and lots of the beautiful embellishments available in the range to decorate the frame.

The image in the frame is actually cut from the inside packing from the pearls (I love that the packaging is so gorgeous it can be used too - more value for money lol). To decorate the frame I cut up a doily from the Curiosity Corner range and added it to the top LH and bottom RH side of the frame and edged with thin lace ribbon. I then went to town using the paper roses, accordian flowers, metal butterfly, key & button, wooden button, mini butterfly & heart stickers, resin flowers, pearls and a wooden heart lock which I covered in Aged Ivory Frantage.

I am really please how this turned out and cant see me giving it away at all lol!!

Thanks for popping by my blog today

Lyndsey xx

Celebrate in style

Hi all

Well we have a new challenge over at Ladybug Crafts Ink today and we also have a new release too

Floral Delight 3 is a collection of 12 floral themed images at just £1.75 each

Now I could tell you that you need to get them cause they are gorgeous, but I can't!!!. Not because they aren't gorgeous they most likely are as always, but boss lady has not let any of the Bugs see any images other than the one we were given to work with. So its a surprise for us too lol.

Anyway our challenge theme this fortnight is Flowers Galore so we would like to see your floral creations please.

For my card I was given the fabby image Martini to use and decided to create a nice bright cheery card.

I teamed my image with some gorgeous papers from MME and added a fabby bow made with lush green stripey ribbon. I kept the card design quite simple as not to take away from the image.

Now on the challenge blog you will only find sneek peaks all of the images. If you would like to get your hands on 4 of the new images of your choice, you just need to pop on over to the bugs blogs, check out their creations and leave a comment on the challenge blog telling us your favourite image.

Thanks for popping by my blog today, please do come and join in the fun over on the LCI Blog.

Lyndsey xx 

Sweet Wishes

 Hi all,

Well I hope you all had a fabulous weekend, the weather her yesterday was lovely. A bit nippy outside but the sun was shining and it was nice to be able to go out for a lovely walk and take the kids over the park.

Anyway I am here to show you a bit of inspiration using some of the gorgeous items available in store at My Mums Craft Shop - and trust me when I say there are lots and lots of fabulous things on their way pretty soon. I think Kitty well and truly spent out on her visit to Stitches over the weekend, but oh my!!! wait to you see whats coming in - us girls had sneek peeks last night and I'll tell you I am going to be skint lol.

Its another do what you like week this week, and being as I had just had a massive delivery of DT items from Trimcraft that I needed to do something with, and the fact that Kitty is stocking the items too I thought I would kill two birds with one stone and use some of the beautiful new Mirabelle goodies on my card today -I totally love this vintage inspired collection soooo many pretty things to choose from.

I kept the card pretty simple and guess what? for the image I used a piece of the packaging. Yes! can you believe its that gorgeous, when you look inside the boxes there is a fabulous image printed on the packaging just the perfect size to use. So for the card I used the lush A4 premium paper pad & Fabric Brads (for the image) and to finish added a few embellishments also from the collection - Button, Flower, Lace, Gems and a Resin Flower. 

Well thanks for popping by my blog today, I do hope you pop over to the MMCS Blog during the week to check out my team mates fabulous creations.

Heres a couple of sneek peeks of some more Mirabelle items that I will show you later on in the week.

Lyndsey xx

Love You xx

Hi all,

Here today to show you my inspiration post over on the MMCS Blog. Now due to that due to that special date, this week we are showing you are Love/Valentines creations. 

For my creation this week I have used a gorgeous stamp from MFT - Doodle Garden, Sweet Friend. Such a lovely image and also comes with a range of sentiments too - just in case your wondering she does come with legs!! - I just chopped them off to suit my sketch lol.

I teamed the image with some pretty My Minds Eye - Lucky in Love papers and added a cute polka dot bow and a few flowers. I finished off with some gorgeous embellishments from our £1 Embellishment range - Wooden Heart Button, Resin Daisy Flowers & a couple of Rhinestone Hearts.

Thanks for popping by my blog today, please do pop on over to the MMCS Blog throughout the week to check out the fabulous creations from my lovely team mates.

Lyndsey xx

Bored, bored, bored, bored, bored .....................

................Is exactly how I am feeling right now lol.

For those of you that don't know Abbie was admitted into hospital last week for a 2 week course of IV Antibiotics due to her lung function hitting rock bottom, loosing weight and generally being unwell since before Christmas.

We are on day 9 now so only 5 more days to go, and tbh she is doing extremely well. There has been a massive improvement in her since last week and although we have had a couple of problems with the line collapsing things are generally going in the right direction.

Only one problem, no TV unless you want to pay an extortionate amount for it, no WIFI for my laptop and not enough room to do some crafting - so I am feeling a little bored right now lol!. 

Luckily for me for some reason I was super organised at the end on Jan and got most of my DT work for Feb done and out the way which was all scheduled up and left ready to go when we went in.

I think I there is one to come, then I need to get cracking when we get. I haven't been able to pop round and check out your blogs as I only have internet access through my phone which is pants and very intermittent so hopefully will manage to have a massive catch up when I get out.

Hope you all have a fabulous weekend whatever your doing

Lyndsey xx 

3 Hearts for you

Hi all

We are finally back we a new challenge over at Ladybug Crafts Ink yay!!!!!

For our first challenge of the year - the lovely Tams has chosen our theme and she has chosen

For the One I Love

Pretty obvious challenge for this month don't ya think - most of us need to make at least one V'day card don't we or maybe even an Anniversary Card!

Anyway for my creation I decided to use the adorable Valentine Billie - available in store - and talking about the store have you seen our new look?. Kerry has given (or is still giving) the store a bit of a makeover, including adding some lovely card samples on there and adding all our current range of images into digi format - yes you read right!! - all our older previously stamp only designs have been/are being converted into digi - instant gratification on your favorite images.

I teamed the image with some gorgeous My Minds Eye - Lucky in Love papers and added just a few Rhinestone Hearts for decoration.

Thanks for popping by my blog today, please do pop on over to the Challenge Blog - check out my team mates fabulous creations and join in with our challenge. 

We have gone back to our normal fortnightly challenges now so you have until 17th Feb to enter.

Lyndsey xx

Flower Box

Hi all,

Here with my regular Monday posting for my inspiration post over on the My Mums Craft Shop Blog. This week us DT girls have been left to run riot with a free week - so we can do what we like lol !!

For my creation this week I have used an adorable stamp from Wild Rose Studio - Elise with Daisies - from the new WRS release available in store.

I teamed the image with some pretty Echo Park papers and finished off with a cute stripey bow and a few flowers.

Thanks for popping by my blog today, please do pop on over to the MMCS Blog throughout the week to check out the fabulous creations from my lovely team mates.

Lyndsey xx

Balloon Love

Hi all

It's time for a new challenge over at All Dressed Up and this our theme for this challenge is

 Love

Here is my love inspired creation I made for this challenge

I have used the very chic image - Amore and teamed her with some gorgeous love themed papers I picked up at my local Hobbycraft. I added a lovely double bow made with stitched ribbon and finished off with a couple of gorgeous Memory Box Die Cut hearts.

This challenge will run until 15th Feb, and you could win yourself 3 images of your choice from in store.

Head on over to All Dressed up blog to check out the rest of the teams creations, and why not enter the challenge whilst you are there.

 **Please note** 
To enter our challenges you MUST use an All Dressed Up Image or paper.

Don't forget to stop by our Facebook Group to keep up to date with all the latest All Dressed Up news, and chat to fellow crafters. 

Thanks so much for popping by my blog today

Lyndsey xx

How many Candles!!!!

Hi all,

Its time for a new challenge over at My Mums Craft Shop and this month our theme is

Spots & Stripes

Now what can be easier than that!!! - we would like to see spots & Stripes somewhere on your cards - in your images, papers, embellishments etc.

For my creation this month I have gone all fun and funky with my papers and used an adorable Tiddly Inks image - Birthday Wishes.

I teamed the image with papers from MME - My Girl and added just a stripey bow and a few gems to finish. The bow was topped off with a cute Resin Daisy.

Thanks for popping by my blog today, please do pop on over to the Blog check out my team mate creations and join in with our challenge.

Lyndsey xx