Pretty little mermaid

Hi all,

Its my turn for another of my wee creations to be shown on the Wee Stamps Blog today.  For todays creation I just had to use the adorable image Shelly available in Digi here & Rubber here and coloured her in using my Promarkers. I knew right from the start I wanted to give her red hair - can you guess why?  (too many Disney films I think lol!!)

I did a little distressing to all the papers and card to give the card a little bit of a worn feel and then distressed the edges of the papers & around the image with come Dusty Concord Distress Ink. I then added lots of gorgeous WOC flowers with a selection of shells that me and madam picked up on the beach whilst on our hols and tucked in a couple of pretty crystal hearts on wires behind. I added doilley, cheesecloth and a gorgeous soft feather behind the image and some pretty lace across the bottom.

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Flowers

Flowers & Feather

Sentiment

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Promarker Colours

Skin - Blush, Oatmeal, Soft Peach, Coral - Sunkissed Pink on cheeks

Hair - Oatmeal, Ginger, Spice, Terrecotta, Chestnut

Tail - Cool Aqua, Duck Egg, Marine, Petrol Blue

Fins - Orchid, Purple, Ameythst, Plum

Turtle - Lime, Pear Green, Marsh Green, Olive
Rock - Warm Grey 1, 3, 5

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Thanks for popping by my blog today

Lyndsey xx

Amore

Hi all,

I have a card to show you today using a fabulous image from a new designer to the Digi/Craft market - Wendy Burns - she has a little selection of gorgeous images in her Etsy shop at the moment, with lots more coming soon. She also has a DT call on at the moment (see here for details) and this is one of the cards that I will have submitted into the running (fingers crossed!!!).

This image is called Amore and for £3 you get 3 variations of the image, full image, girl on her own, balloons on their own. In the full image the word 'Amore' is written across the balloons, but I didn't want that on my card so I used the 2 separate images of the girl & plain balloons and merged them together.

 

I teamed the image with some gorgeous papers from a Gorjuss paper pad and added lots of beautiful flowers to give the card a nice feminine feel. The little sentiment is popped up out of the flowers using a Tim Holtz Memo Pin.

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Promarker Colours

Skin - Blush, Oatmeal, Soft Peach, Coral

Hair - Vanilla, Sanstone, Caramel, Cocoa

Top - Agean, True Blue, French Navy, Indigo

Skirt - Lipstick, Berry Red, Cardinal, Crimson

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Thanks for popping by my blog today

Lyndsey xx

Balloon Love

Hi all,

Exciting day today as I show you my first card that I have made for my GDT over at Wee Stamps this month. This gorgeous image is called Amy and she is available to purchase as a Digi here or in Rubber here.

I teamed Amy with some gorgeous papers from Carta Bella and added a selection of WOC flowers & Marianne Design Flourish. I tucked in behind some little crystal hearts on wires and added a couple of metal flowers too. The lovely ribbon was wrapped around some PJ's that I picked up for Oli and I backed the bow with some pretty spider web ribbon.

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Flowers

Bow Detail

Sentiment

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Promarker Colours

Skin - Blush, Oatmeal, Soft Peach, Coral

Hair - Vanilla, Sandstone, Caramel, Cocoa, Burnt Sienne

Top/Balloon - Baby Pink, Cocktail Pink, Salmon Red, Lipstick Red

Jeans - Colbalt, French Navy, Indigo

Boots/Waistcoat - Tan, Cinnamon, Cocoa

Trim/Tights - Vanilla, Oatmeal, Sandstone, Blender Pen

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Thanks for popping by my blog today

Lyndsey xx

I'm skiing in the snow

Hi all,

Don't know about you but my title today has got singing one of my dads fave Northen Soul records lol!!!

Today we have a new challenge over at the Ladybug Craft Ink Challenge Blog and we also have a fabby new release.

Silly Snowmen is fabulouso collection of adorable snowmen having fun in their own little Winter Wonderland, and with each image at just £1.75 there is no excuse.

Now Winter Wonderland is exactlly the theme for this weeks challenge - we would like to see your Christmas creations please.

For my card I have used the fabby little image called Skiing

I teamed the image with some funky Dovecraft Christmas Papers (these are last years collection) and added a rather gorgeous glittery snowflake in the corner (christmas tree decoration from Asda). A bit of gingham ribbon and fabby little charm and buttons. The Sentiment is from the Christmas Sentiments Collection by Little Claire.

Now then - how would you like to win all 10 of the new release images, all you need to do is leave us a comment over on the Challenge Blog to be entered into the draw.

While your there why not join in the fun too - its only 113 days till Christmas so lets get cracking on those cards!!!!

Thanks for popping by my blog today

Lyndsey xx

How does you garden grow

Hi all,

I have a sweet little card to show you today using a very adorable Lilli of the Valley image. I have actually had this image coloured up for ages and have finally got round to making it into a card. The image is called Watering the Flowers and it just sooo cute.

I wanted this card to have a bit of a shabby feel to it and so distressed all the papers and card mats with some white acrylic paint, then wiping if off so you could still see the pattern underneath. I added lots of gorgeous WOC flowers, apart from the big one which is actually made using mini cake cases scrunched up and then the tips painted with a bit of pale blue paint. All the flowers and die cut flourishes got the paint white treatment too and I added lots of other pretty things such as the cheesecloth, lace, metal flowers etc.

I really love how this card turned out and will definately be trying this distressing technique out again.

Thanks for popping by my blog today

Lyndsey xx

Getting Creative

Hi all,

I have something a little different from me today, recently I spent a crafty morning around one of my friends - who has a totally different style of crafting to me which I totally love - and we had a blast playing with mount board making bookmarks & hanging plaques. I loved getting messy with the inks and playing with her stash of fabulous none cute stamps, so much so think I have since spent a fortune on those kind of stamps!!!.

My lovely and very generous friend sent me home with a fabulous large pile of mount board to play with and since then I have made a few more bookmarks trying out my new stamps and different colourways.

I made the little plaque for my crafting space in the living room (hence the green & brown colour combo) nad it currently hangs off my daylight lamp looking pretty lol.

Thanks for popping by my blog today

Lyndsey xx

Spotlight on me!!!!

Hi all,

So remember I said I had some super exciting news with you, well a couple of weeks ago I received an email from the lovely Mariska the DT Co-ordinator of Wee Stamps Blog. She had seen one of my Wee Stamps cards and asked if she could do a spotlight on me during the month of August. Well if you hop on over to the Wee Stamps Blog, you will see that today is my spotlight. Mariska has picked a couple of her fave cards to show over on the blog, so I thought I show you a few of my faves over here, then you can pop over there and see which ones Mariska has chosen.

Mariska also asked if I would like to guest design for them for the month of Sept and of course after about a second of thinking I said yes!!!. So I have been very busy working on some gorgeous creations to show you during Sept and I also got to play with the new releases that will be released next month too - I tell you they are adorable!!!!! 

Thanks for popping by my blog today

Lyndsey xx

Birthday Bears

Hi all,

I have some class cards to show you today using some gorgeous LOTV stamps & papers and following a fab sketch from Sweet Sketch Sunday. We do a sketch in class every 6-8 weeks and the ladies love the freedom of choosing the papers and stamps, although I do have to work out all the measurements for them beforehand as they all like to use the same lol

The cards are kept quite clean and simple as with class only being 1.5 hours you cant really go over the top with embellies and stuff.

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Also before I go - keep your eyes peeled as we are having a new release soon over at Ladybug Crafts Ink

Thanks for popping by my blog today

Lyndsey xx

Just saying Hello

Hi all,

I have a nice clean card to show you today, after I followed the sketch for the layout I felt that it didn't need covering up with lots of flowers and stuff so kept it nice and simple.

The image is from Some Odd Girl - Sweet Thinkin Mae and I used my new MME paper pad Oxford Lane - love the colours and patterns in this.

Not been doing much crafting lately, don't seem to find the time with the kids being off school - always something else going on around the house. I did managed to have a couple of hours colouring last night, so hopefully will get them made into cards soon - I also have a little bit of exciting news but you will have to wait a couple of weeks for that.

Thanks for popping by my blog today 

Lyndsey xx 

Time for a Tea Party

* Apologies to my teamies - I have been away on my hols and for some reason my post went into draft mode and didn't post as scheduled on Tue 6th Aug as I had planned * - better late than never I suppose lol!!!

Hi all,

Its time for a new challenge over at Lady Bug Crafts Ink, as its the summer we have another month long challenge and this month we have colour inspiration picture for you.

You can create anything you like as long as we can see the above the colours.

Here is my creation

I used the adorable image Billies Tea Party and teamed it with some lovely papers from MME. I added some pretty WOC flowers and a bit of organza ribbon topped with a metal brad.

I'm sure the other ladybugs would love it if you popped on over to the challenge blog and checked out their creations, while your there why not join in the fun too.

Thanks for popping by my blog today

Lyndsey xx