Clear out Sale

Hi all,

I am having a little clear out sale of my craft items and some new stuff left from the shop If you are interested I have added them all onto a new page

HERE

Thanks for looking

Lyndsey xx

Happy Halloween

Hi all,

Just popping by to wish you a fun filled Happy Halloween, unfortunately for us it will be a quiet one as the kids are going to sleep at their Nan & Grandads for a couple of nights. So I think a trip to the cinema and a nice meal might well be on the cards lol!!!

Anyway thought I'd show you a couple of pics of our pumkin for this year (which will now go to my moms with the kids) and the treat bags I made for them as I dont take them trick or treating anymore as most people dont answer the door.

This is supposed to be a scary cat under a tree, I had a bit of a hiccup and accidentally sliced the cat off the pumpkin so its held back in place with some pins lol!!

Abbie's bag was made using the free digi image from Pink Gem Designs and Oli's was using an image I got off clip art. All the papers are various freebie digi Halloween papers.

Thanks for popping by my blog today 

Lyndsey xx

I would like to enter these into the following challenges

Gem of a Challenge - Polka Dots/Spots

Cupcake Craft Challenge - Witch or Pumpkin

Daisy Doodles - Halloween

Sisterhood of crafters - Halloween

Glamorize your Christmas

Hi all,

We have a new stamp launch over at Little Claire today - Gill has designed a new set of embellishments for the Changing Tree stamp and this time we have gone all glamorous with a set of Girly Embellishments - 7 gorgeous little stamps for just £3.99.

The set comprises of Hairdryer, Handbag, Shoes, Flower Basket, Perfume Bottle, Lipstick & Wine Bottle & Glass and they are just perfect for those girly cards that need to be a bit more grown up.

Now I have done a little twist with my card and have made a Christmas Card - What girl doesn,t like to look a bit glam over Christmas (especially New Years Eve) and who wouldn't like a tree like this for Christmas!!

The papers are a freebie from a mag and I have used some gorgeous organza & grossgrain ribbon. The poinsettia was originally white and I coloured it with my promarkers. The blingy brad is from Dovecraft and the sentiment was made on the computer and cut out using a spellbinders die.

Thanks for popping by my blog today xx

Lyndsey xx

Vintage Christmas

Hi all,

Have something a bit different to show you today, every so often in class my ladies like to do a sketch challenge. As I think this is a bit easy for them I often do the sketch with a technique of some sort. For these cards I got them doing a bit of distressing both with tools and inks - lets just say a few of them were a bit distressed with me at the end and a couple said they didn't like the effect and thought the cards looked like they were some old ones that had been found in the loft or something lol!!!. But at least its a technique that they now know how to do.

So as you can see all the edges have been distressed (using nail files) and then inked with Tea Dye Distress Ink (using shaving foam brushes - 60p Wilkinsons!!!). The images were stamped putting the coloured inks direct onto the stamps and a bit of stickles added to the tree. The papers were some old ones that came free with magazines.

Here is the sketch we used

Thanks for popping by my blog today

Lyndsey xx

Pumkin Patch

Hi all,

Another Halloween creation from me today, we have a new challenge starting over at Milkcoffee today and our theme is 

Halloween

Now I don't make Halloween cards, there is no point as I have no-one to send them too like most people in the UK. Halloween isn't really a card giving occasion, just an excuse for the kids to get dressed up and eat lots of sweets. So I made another little wall hanging thought I could perhaps put them on the door just in case we got any treat or treaters, although we don't get that many. I used to take my two trick or treating but its got to the point now where most people don't bother answering their doors and Ab's was begining to get a bit disapointed so now we just have a bit of fun in the house and I make them some treat bags ups.

Anyway onto my creation, I have used the adorable image Lisbeth & Pumpkins - she looks so cute sitting there with her little friend. As I said I made it into a wall hanging by using a 6x6 chipboard shape as my base. I covered it with purple paper, then made up my topper as I would normally do for a card and stuck it on at a bit of an angle.

I don't possess any Halloween papers but thought these ones from Basic Grey - Go Green fitted the bill just perfectly and my little creatures & purple webbing were from a bag of mixed Hallowen things from the £1 shop.

Please do pop by the challenge blog and check out my team mates creations, join in the fun for your chance to win 3 digis of your choice from the store - trust me you will be spoilt for choice.

Thanks for popping by my blog today

Lyndsey xx

I would like to enter this hanging into the following challenges

MAWTT - Too cute to spook

The Paper Shelter - Halloween

My Mums Craft Shop - Spooky

Crafty Creations - Halloween Spooks

Divas by Design - Add some Orange

Fresh Brewed - Sweet not Spooky

Boo!!! - To cute to spook

Hi all

Thought I'd share a little wall hanging I made with you today. I used a few of the Halloween Images - Edwards Monster Costume 2, Emilys Pumkpin Costume & Ursulas Witch Costume available from The Digi Garden and some BG papers - which are not halloween themed but match just right - infact I think the blk/wht one looks a bit like eyes!!. The letters I hand cut out and then distressed the edges to hide my dreadful cutting lol!!! and drew a couple of spiderwebs in the corners. The little creatures I got in a mixed bag of Halloween shapes from the £1 shop.

Thanks for popping by my blog today

Lyndsey xx

I would like to enter this hanging into the following challenges

Tuesday Throwdown - Halloween

Twisted Tuesday Challenge - Anything but a card + Orange

Lexis creations - Halloween

The Cutie Pie Challenge - Halloween

Digital Tuesday - Halloween (must have digi element - images)

Brother rosette

Hi all,

Another quick card to show you today, and without a cute stamped image in site.

Needing to make a card for Oliver from his sister that wasn't too cutesy I decided to use the fabulous Georgina's Rosettes from Little Claire.

I have used a couple of the rosette stamps, stamped onto different papers and layered up onto a folded rosette. The papers are from a MME pad and the happy birthday stamp is from Dovecraft.

Thanks for popping by my blog today

Lyndsey xx

Christmas samples

Hi all,

Thought I'd pop on today and show a couple of samples I made for Trimcraft.

Fancy Fold Christmas Star - made using Fizzy Moon For Him Decoupage & Paper Pad 

Twisted Card/Gift Card  - made using Special Delivery Decoupage & 8x8 Papers. Tag Sentiment is from the Christmas Tags set from Little Claire

Inside view (pocket on RH side - perfect for holding gift cards or money)

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Yay!!! I also won another award - for my In the Pink Card

And I won here - for my Adore card

Thanks for popping by my blog today

Lyndsey xx

Protect me from the showers

Hi all,

Its time for a new showcase over on the Milkcoffee Blog and this fortnight our theme was

Rain, Rain Go Away

Milkcoffee have some gorgeous little digi's that are suitable for this theme in store.

Here is my creation

I have used the lovely image - Lisbeth walks in the rain - and have coloured her with my promarkers. The papers are Happy Days from Papermania and I have followed a sketch from Sketch Saturday from a couple of weeks back.

Please do pop on over to the blog and check out my team mates creations, also don't forget you still have time to enter our Sweet Treats Challenge on the Challenge Blog too.

Thanks for popping by my blog today

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Also was very chuffed to see that I have made the Top 3 as the following challenges this week

Lyndsey xx

Adore

Hi all,

I have a card to show you today that I have really enjoyed making. I actually found myself with some time on my hands to actually just make something just for fun and not for any DT or Challenge. I have had this gorgeous Saturated Canary image printed off for a while and just went to town on colouring her up.

I teamed the image with some gorgeous papers from Echo Park - Victoria Gardens and added lots and lots of WOC flowers with a couple of Cheery Lynn swirls behind them. A bit of dotty organza ribbon and TH ticket sentiment and a fabulous sparkly butterfly. You cant quite see it but there is some gorgeous lace hiding behind the flowers too.

Thanks for popping by my blog today

Lyndsey xx

I would like to enter this card into the following challengs

Crafts & Me - Anything Goes

Divas By Design - Anything Goes

A Gem of a Challenge - Flowers

Craftymess - Anything Goes