Painted Blooms Sunburst

Good evening everyone,

Has been a busy couple of weeks here, mainly crafting up a storm and playing with new +Trimcraft Ltd goodies 😊

Today I want to share this Sunburst card with you made using the beautiful Dovecraft Painted Blooms collection - My word! this collection is simply stunning. Beautiful pearlised and glitter papers, gorgeous embellishments, pearls and ribbons.

I wanted a card that showcased the beautiful papers and this Sunburst design is just perfect to give you a taster of each of the papers.

Topped off with a pretty doiley and rosette, makes for a very feminine and pretty Birthday Card

I have popped a full step by step instructions over on the Tutorial Page

Thanks for popping by my blog today

Lyndsey xx

Floral Thanks

Good afternoon everyone,

I'm sharing another +Trimcraft Ltd Blooming Lovely creation with you today, and for this card its all about showing off the pretty papers!

I created a simple floral panel with layered strips, wraped with a pretty bow and added to a card using foam pads to give a bit of dimenson

A simple stamped greeting in the bottom corner adds balance to the bow and a few scattered gems to give a little sparkle.

I love how bright and cheerful this card turned out, it is quite quick and easy to create so perfect for batch making. And with showcasing the gorgeous papers it really doesn't need anything else other than the simple sentiment.

Thanks for popping by my blog today

Lyndsey xx

Watercolour Sentiment Cards

Good afternoon everyone,

Today I want to share a couple of cards that are a little different for me!

I've used the pretty wooden stamps from the Blooming Lovely collection from +Trimcraft Ltd  and teamed them with new larger Dovecraft sentiment stamps to create simple stamped cards on a watercolour background.

I created the washed backgrounds by taking ink off an acrylic block with a water brush and randomly painting a piece of white card. Then ink was splattered across the panel and left to dry.

Once dry I added the main sentiments to the centre of each panel and then added a selection of images around the edges.

I really enjoyed playing with the stamps and love how quick and easy it was to create the cards 😊

Thanks for popping by my blog today

Lyndsey xx

Twist Fold Card

Good evening everyone,

As I'm sure you know by now I love making fancy fold cards and am always on the look out for new ideas to try out.

I've had this one in my Pinterest boards for quite a while now and finally got round to trying it out 😊

Its a Twist Fold Card that looks like a cute little 4 panelled card, but once you take the band off pulls out to reveal a hidden message and measures about 8" sq

I used the beautiful Simple Creative Country Garden papers and Dovecraft butterfly & sentiment stamps from +Trimcraft Ltd 

If you fancy having a go a making one of these yourself - I have popped instructions over on the Tutorial Page

Thanks for popping by my blog today

Lyndsey xx

Have a Blooming Lovely Happy Birthday

Good afternoon everyone,

How are we all enjoying the weekend? - I'm spending this wet and miserable Sunday by having a crafting session 😊

Today I want to share with you a recent make using the new Blooming Lovely collection from +Trimcraft Ltd. The collection is full of pretty bright floral papers, cute stickers, ribbons, buttons, gems, washi tape all in a lovely spring theme, just perfect for brightening up a dreary day!

The card is a Double Aperture Gatefold which opens out firstly to reveal two apertures and the folding out again to reveal two hidden sentiments 😊

As you open the card you get a little hint of whats to come with the sneaky peek through the apertures - the cute little stickers were just perfect for this!

 

As you open the Gatefold doors they reveal the hidden sentiments below 😊

I really enjoyed making this card and love how it gives you scope to add lots of lovely greetings/sentiments for the recipent

Thanks for popping by my blog today

Lyndsey xx

Hello March!

Good morning everyone,

It's the 1st of March, the sun is shining and I'm sitting at my desk crafting - the day couldn't have got off to a better start 😊

So today I wanted to share with you this pretty butterfly pop out card made using the Dovecraft Berry Blush collection from +Trimcraft Ltd 

I love the fresh feel of the embossed white background with the purple papers and embellishments

As you open the card the centre section pops out to show these pretty butterfiles almost flying off the page

You can find details of how to make this card over on the Tutorial Blog

Thanks for popping by my blog today

Lyndsey xx

Bloggers Day

Good afternoon everyone,

On Saturday I was invited up to +Trimcraft Ltd to a bloggers day to celebrate the launch of the new Craft Blog. I had an absolutely amazing day and got to meet up with the girls from Trimcraft, a few of the Design Team ladies and other crafty bloggers in person 😊

We all had a fun filled crafty day and the girls from Trimcraft set us lots of craft challenges to keep us entertained and kept our stamina up with lots of tea and cake!!

So on entrance to the building we were greeted with this crafty fabulous display and welcome sign.  

All throughout the building there a lots and lots of display shelving full of amazing projects made by the girls. These are just a couple of  display pic's I took as I was too busy chatting and eating cake lol

Big foil balloons on entrance into the showroom where we got our craft on. Once we had all got ourselves comfortable in our seats the lovely Claire gave us an interactive tour of the new Craft Blog with its shiny new look and features and then set us off on our first task.

Our first crafty task of the day was set by the lovely Maxine and was to create these decoupage frames using the First Edition Decomache papers. We were each given a selection of papers and alphabet stickers and left to our own imagination.

The lovely Claire showed us how to make these Origami flowers.  These were so easy to make and would look lovely in a little pot, and would make the perfect gift for Mothers Day. You can find the Video Tutorial HERE.

Kathy then showed us how to make these cute little note books - Video Tutorial HERE

The final project of the day was to make an item using the new First Edition Wild Flower paper pads to decorate the Trimcraft Mannequin which will now proudly be on display in the showroom. I choose to make this cute little rosette.

During the day we got to play with all the new collections - Dovecraft Painted Blooms & Blooming Lovely and the First Edition Wild Flowers paper pad, Simply Creative paper pads, First Edition Dies and lots of ribbon, buttons and gems. We were also given a sneaky peek at the new Dovecraft Kiss & Makeup collection (out very soon!) and we also got a very very early sneak peek at the new Christmas 2017 ranges - Oh My Word you are all in for a treat they are gorgeous!! 😍😍😍

To finish the day off we were all sent home with a fabulous Goodie Bag absolutely jam packed with crafty items. I can tell you that each bag was 4kg of of crafty goodness!

I can honestly say everyone had an amazing day, it went by so fast and I don't think anyone wanted to leave.

If you have enjoyed looking at my photos today and want to know more, please do pop on over to the Craft Blog and have a mooch around, Its free to register and only takes a minute. The site is full of crafty inspiration, tutorials, freebies (papers, templates etc) and competitions (Win it Wednesday, Freebie Friday and the Monthly competition).

And!!!!! speaking of competitions -  if you register on the blog before 25th March you can enter the most amazing competition to win yourself every new craft collection that Trimcraft bring out for the next 12 months - what an absloutely fabulous prize is that!!, what are you waiting for??

Thanks you so much for popping by my blog today

Lyndsey xx

Sweet 60th

Good evening everyone,

Today I want to share with you this beautiful Card in a Box I made for my Sister-In-Laws special birthday earlier this year. As it was a special birthday I wanted to make something a bit different and I love how these Box Cards give that wow factor!

I used the gorgeous First Edition Pretty Posy papers and added the cute Belle & Boo decoupage images in amoung a garden of die cut flowers and butterflies cut using First Edition dies

I even had this card printed in Quick Cards made Easy and recived a beautiful butterfly punch too 😊

Thanks for popping by my blog today

Lyndsey xx

Butterfly Dreams

Good afternoon everyone,

Today I want to share with you this funky paper pieced background card I made using the beautiful +Trimcraft Ltd Simply Creative Sweet Dreams papers.

The background is created by cutting paper strips 1.5cm wide and arranging them on a piece of card in whats known as the Herringbone pattern.

I finished off the card by adding a few stamped butterflies and Happy Birthday Sentiment

I have put full instructions over on the Tutorial Blog, if you wish to take a look 😊

Thanks for popping by my blog today

Lyndsey xx

Card shape of the Month

Afternoon Everyone,

If you're not aware each month over on the +Trimcraft Ltd blog the lovely Maxine does a Card shape of the Month.

This month she has create a simple Side Fold Card and this is my take on it.

I have used the absolutely stunning First Edition Storyteller Papers, I am totally in love with the bright, vibrant colours and patterns in this pad.

If you would like to have a go at this card yourself you can find the full tutorial here 

 http://www.trimcraft.co.uk/articles/card-shape-of-the-month-side-fold-card-tutorial

And we would love to see your project in the Trimcraft Gallery 😊

Thanks for popping by my blog today

Special Wishes

Good morning,

How are we all today, are we all still loved up from yesterday?

Today I want to share this pretty feminine card with you made using the beautiful Couture du Jour collection from +Trimcraft Ltd 

I love how the collection has a vintage look to it, but the pastel colours make it look very girly and pretty.

For this card I wanted to create a clean feeling and so used a white panel to display the decoupage, making it stand out from the background. The white card was embossed using the embossing folder from the collection - with just a hint of patterned paper peeking out from behind.

You can find full step by step details of how I made this card and a full product listing HERE

Thanks for popping by my blog today

Lyndsey xx

Up, up and Away

Good morning everyone,

Sharing one of my favorite older cards with you today - this one features the cute little bunny from the Belle and Boo collection from +Trimcraft Ltd 

The card design itself is called a Free Standing Pop Up Card - with the added bonus that it folds nice and flat for posting 😊 

Pop on over to the Tutorial Blog for instructions on how to make this card

Thanks for popping by today

Lyndsey xx

Mirabelle with Love

Good morning everyone,

Today I thought I'd share a Santoro Mirabelle card with you. I absolutely love the gorgeous images and beautiful papers in this collection.

There is a whole host of goodies in this collection from +Trimcraft Ltd - beautiful papers, decoupage, ribbon, flowers, doilies, pearl gems and frames.

Thank you for popping by my blog today

Lyndsey xx