A Birthday Wish

Hi all,

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

Die Cuts/Punches

We want to see your die cuts and or punches on your creations this month - simple eh!

For my card I used an adorable CC Designs stamp - Swiss Pixie Party Olivia - love this little sweetie all dressed up and ready to party.

I teamed Olivia with some gorgeous papers from Carta bella - Sew Lovely,  such a beautiful collection of gorgeous patterns. I stamped the sentiment onto velum  CC Designs - Birthday Greetings and finished off with a collection of flowers and embelishments from the £1 Embelishment range. I used a Circle & fancy Rectangle Spellbinders dies & La La Land Banner Die on the card to fit in with the challenge. 

Thanks for popping by my blog today, please do pop by the MMCS Blog and check out my team mates fabulous creations. Why not enter our challenge while your there you could win yourself £20 to spend online in store.

Lyndsey xx

Get well wishes

Hi all

Here to show you my regular Monday inspiration card from over on the My Mums Craft Shop Blog.

This week its a free week, so I went all pretty and natural

Anyway for my card I decided to use a cute Hobby House Topper -April Showers and decided that this image would be just perfect for a get well card.

I teamed the image with some lovely papers from Bazzil Basics - Vintage Lace paper pad and added a few pretty flowers and some lovely polka dot organza ribbon. The sentiment is from the CC Designs - Happy Day stamp set.

       

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

Lyndsey xx

Sassy Birthday wishes

Hi all

Here to show you my card for my regular Monday inspiration posting here over on the My Mums Craft Shop Blog.

This week its all about summer colours - when I think of summer of think of fresh yellow colours and lots of flowers. So thats the look I went for with my card. 

Anyway for my card I decided to use a cute MFT Pure Innocence - Sassitude stamp - I love this little sassy sweetheart, so cute and that stance reminds me just of my 8 year old!!

I teamed the image with some lovely papers from My Minds Eye - Now & Then, Dorothy paper pad and added a few pretty flowers and some lovely pale pink satin ribbon.

    

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

Lyndsey xx

Tea for Two

Hi all

Here to show you my regular Monday inspiration posting from over on the My Mums Craft Shop Blog.

This week us girls have a free week and so can choose whatever we like to show you lol. 

Anyway for my card I decided to use one of the Hobby House Toppers - Strawberry Tea - I love these cute images so perfect for a quick card.

I teamed the topper with some lovely papers from Carta Bella - Baby Mine Girl paper pad and added a few pretty flowers and some gorgeous stitched ribbon . The sentiment is from CC Designs - Happy Day, which I stamped onto velum and attached to the card with small brads.

    

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

Lyndsey xx

Summer Blooms

Hi all,

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

Summer/Bright Colours

We want to see summer themed images or bright and cheerful summer colours

For my card I used an adorable CC Designs stamp - Flower Pots Lucy - love this little cutie proudly showing off her potted blooms.

I teamed Lucy with some bright and funky papers from MME - Here is Happy, such a fab collection of bright and funky patterns. I stamped the sentiment onto velum (again lol!!!) CC Designs - Happy Day and finished off with a collection of flowers and embelishments from the £1 Embelishment range.

Thanks for popping by my blog today, please do pop by the MMCS Blog and check out my team mates fabulous creations. Why not enter our challenge while your there you could win yourself £20 to spend online in store.

Lyndsey xx

BBQ Anyone?

Hi all

Here to show you my card for my regular Monday inspiration posting over on the My Mums Craft Shop Blog.

This week its all about CAS (Clean & Simple), when I think of CAS I always lean towards making a male card. Mainly because I do struggle with embellies on male cards and doing them CAS just makes it a bit easier lol.

Anyway for my card I decided to use BBQ Chester, he is such a cheeky chappy and this image is just perfect for this time of year don't ya think?

I teamed Chester with some funky chevron paper from MME - Here is Happy paper pad and added just a bit of twine and a wooden button to finish. The sentiment is from CC Designs - Happy Day, to add a bit of interest I used a shaped card blank.

     

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

Lyndsey xx

Paint it Happy!

Hi all

Here with my regular Monday inspiration post from over on the My Mums Craft Shop Blog. This week its another free week so I decided to have a play with my new package of goodies from the shop. 

I am a big fan of the Hobby House Toppers and think they make a fabulous card and are just perfect for when I can't be bothered to colour or am short on time - which seems to happen a lot just lately.

So for my card today I used a Topper from one of the designs by Elisabeth Bell - and I just love this little cutie.

I teamed the image with some bright and fresh papers from the MME - Milo Pad (I really do love a blue & yellow combo) and added a few flowers, gems & a button from the £1 Embellishment range. The sentiment is from CC Designs Happy Day - I love the funky font and greetings on this set. I stamped the sentiment onto velum as I have been seeing this look about quite a lot lately and think it looks fab!

          

Now the eagled eyed among you may have noticed that one of my cards was blogged on here last week by one of my lovely ADU teamies Tracy. So firstly I would like to say thank you Tracy for helping me out when I was in a pickle - for those that have followed me for a while will know that my daughter Abbie has Cystic Fibrosis - well things haven't been good for her health wise the last couple of months and 2 weeks ago she was admitted into hospital for IV's. I wont go into too much detail but we had a horrendous time while in there as her veins kept collapsing and she really did go through the mill, but we are home now and hopefully she seems to have picked up quite a lot. Anyway I had no wifi in hospital and the lovely Tracy was kind enough to post my card for me. 

On the plus side I also want to tell you about my fabulous & very brave (or possibly mad) cousin who last weekend threw herself out of an areoplane from 10,000 feet up and raised over £1,400 for the CF Trust - we are soooo proud of her, so thought I would show you a couple of pics lol.

before

 During

after (and still smiling lol)

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

Lyndsey xx

DIY Dad

Hi all

Here to show you my regular Monday inspiration post from over on the My Mums Craft Shop Blog. This week its all about the boys - so us DT girls are going to be showing you our male themed creations.

Now with a certain day fast approaching I decided to get a head start on my Fathers Day creations and used this adorable cheeky DIY Chester image from LMMS.

I teamed Chester with some Echo Park papers (unfortunately this pad is out of stock - but we do have others available) and added a few Die Cut Stars, Buttons & Gems for embellishments.

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

Lyndsey xx

Happy Present Day

Hi all,

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

Ink It Up (stamps only)

We want to see stamped images on your cards - no digi's, decoupage, toppers etc

For my card I used an adorable Tiddly Inks stamp - Happy Day - love this little girl all loaded up with presents, wonder if they are for her or someone else lol !

I made a Pull Up Slider Card (you can see how it works better on the bottom picture). Inside is a tab which when pulled up reveals a hidden sentiment, but folds back down flat for posting - cool huh!!.

I used some older My Minds Eye Papers and added lots of gorgeous flowers and a selection of items from the £1 embellishment range to finish.

Thanks for popping by my blog today, please do pop by the MMCS Blog and check out my team mates fabulous creations. Why not enter our challenge while your there you could win yourself £20 to spend online in store.

Lyndsey xx

Joys of Summer

Hi all,

Well slap my hand!!!! - I have a card to show you today that I made for April's challenge over at My Mums Craft Shop - and I have just realised that I had left it in draft mode and it never got published on my blog lol.

The card is perfect for this time of year so thought I would share it with you today. I love this little cutie looking joyfully at that rather large Ice Cream!

I used a gorgeous Hobby House Topper featuring an adorable Mo Manning image and teamed her with some fabulous Echo Park - Splendid Sunshine papers. I kept the card design very simple just adding a few dots & gems in the corners.

Thanks for popping by my blog today

Lyndsey xx

Sweet little fairies

Hi all

Here with my regular Monday inspiration post from over on the My Mums Craft Shop Blog, now I do apologise as this post is picture heavy - but I wanted to show you how the card opens up.

I was totally inspired to do this card after seeing one done by Angela one of my team mates on the Crafters Companion DT. I loved the design so much I made them with my card classes last week and decided to make another one using some of the fabulous products available in store so I could share it with you today.

The card itself is a Gatefold Card, with a central panel mounted on the front on springs (concertinaed panels of card). It then has 2 overlapping images and finally opening to reveal the sentiment on the inside.

I used 2 of the smaller images from The Hobby House - Wee Stamps Little Friends topper set & teamed them with some pretty papers from the First Edition - New Bloom Pad. The Sentiment is from a fabby CC Designs set - Birthday Greetings and really is my to go to set at the moment as I seem to be using it on everything! I finished off with a few punched flowers and a couple of Striped Candy Dots.

     

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

Lyndsey xx

Time to Party!

Hi all

Here today to show you my regular Monday inspiration post from over on the My Mums Craft Shop Blog. Its all about the Birthday's this week and I had just the perfect image to use for this theme.

For my card I chose to use the very cute CC Designs - Swiss Pixie Party Olivia and teamed her with some fab and funky Carta Bella Papers. Even though they are male themed the pastel colours in the pad still work perfectly for a girly card.

I kept the card quite simple and added just a few embellies from the £1 Embellishment range and finished off with double bow in pale lemon. I coloured the image with my Speccies and completely made a cock-up of her hair and not too happy with her skin tone as I feel its a bit orangey, but hey ho - still learning with them lol !

        

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

Lyndsey xx

You are Fabulous!

Hi all

Here to show you my regular Monday inspiration post from over on the My Mums Craft Shop Blog, this week its a free week for us DT girls so we can choose our favourite things to show you. I have totally fallen in love with some of the new gorgeous CC Designs stamps and have chosen to use the very adorable A Random Fan- Miss Sassy for my card today.

I teamed the image with some very pretty Carta Bella - Baby Mine Girl papers and used another fabulous CC Designs Stamp for my Sentiment. I added a scattering of embellishments - buttons, resin daisy, rinestone hearts , flowers & gems to finish off the card. I totally loved colouring this image up and spent ages on her hair, really quite pleased with how it turned out in the end. I used a mixture of Promarkers & then added some Spectrum Noirs over the top to give it a bit more shading.

            

Thanks for popping by my blog today, please do pop on over to the MMCS Blog throughout the week to check out my team mates fabulous creations. We have a new teamie over there - so do keep a look out for her later on in the week

Lyndsey xx