Handmade Gifts ....................

Hi everyone,  I thought I would share a couple of the handmade Xmas gifts I made this year.  I didn't get chance to make as many things as I had planned but I will be starting earlier next year!

Anyway these are little plaques to peg notes onto and are magnetic so you can attach them to your fridge.  I ordered some 5 x 5 inch mdf coasters from ebay and some small pegs also from ebay.   They are smaller than a normal size peg.  I covered the pegs in washi tape and covered the coasters in paper before attaching the letters which I cut out on my ecraft.  I put a magnetic strip on the back which I also ordered off of ebay. The papers are from Crafter's Companion sweet treats CD.  I really enjoyed making these and I would like to make some more to sell at craft fairs if I get the time this year! 

Thanks for stopping by.

Hugs Lynsey x

My Christmas Scrapbook ..............

Hi everyone,  I love these days between Christmas and New Year before going back to work.  It is so nice to have sometime to catch up with friends but also have time to relax!  I have been busy working on my Christmas Scrapbook, still loads of scrapping to do but I have printed lots of photos out and titles so hopefully the pages will come together quickly now.  I decided to start scrapping out of order as in the last 2 years I get up to about day 18 and never manage to finish!  So I have 3 pages to share today of the 3th, 4th and 28th of December.  I scrapped the 28th last night as we had a lovely afternoon out to see a Panto at Hunstanton.   The cast were lovely and came out after the show for photos so I was very happy to get a picture of Grace with them.  Grace was so funny she loved the show so much she cried when it ended as she didn't want it to finish!   

Thanks for stopping by.

Hugs Lynsey x

My Fave 5 Christmas Cards ................

Hi everyone, well I hope you all had a very Happy Christmas!  We had a lovely time the only problem that I had was that my oven packed up on Xmas Day!  Can you believe 365 days of the year and the one day when you need your oven more than any other and the oven packed up!  It cooked the turkey ok but after the roast potatoes had been in for an hour doing nothing we realised there was a problem! Luckily my mum and mum in law both live in the same village so my Mum went home with parsnips and yorkshire puddings and my Mum in Law went home with the 2 trays of roasties. There were a lot as we were cooking for 11.  So finally around 2.30pm we got our Christmas lunch it just took 3 ovens to cook it lol!

Anyway onto some cards to share for today which are part of a challenge that the lovely

Debby runs each year to share your favourite five Christmas cards. So here are mine!

Thanks for stopping by.

Hugs Lynsey x

Winter Wonderland Challenge ............................

Hi everyone,  well that's me finished work till next year yipee!  What a day I had yesterday as well, everything went wrong, one problem after another and I got another problem to sort out 5 minutes before I planned to finish  and just to top it all when I changed the ink cartridge in my printer something was wrong with the new cartridge and I managed to get black ink all over my hand which won't come off even though I have been scrubbing like mad! It looks really classy with my pink nail polish lol!

Anyway onto today's creation which is my DT work for Winter Wonderland and our theme for this week's challenge is 'numbers'.  Your creation can be Christmas or Non Christmas.  My layout is from my Christmas Journal and I think I am even further behind this year than last year!  Maybe next year I will go digital in the hope that I might keep up with it every day!  

There is a lovely prize for the winner of this challenge of a £10 voucher for My Crafty Heart

Thanks for stopping by.

Hugs Lynsey x

Crafty Little Fairies Challenge ................

Hi all, well not long now till the big day!  Grace is getting very excited now!

Anyway onto today's card which is my DT card for Crafty Little Fairies and we have a super easy theme for this week of 'Anything Goes'.  

We have 2 fantastic sponosors this week which are :

so I hope you will come and join in with our last challenge for the year!

 I was asked to make this card for my friend Marianne by her husband.   This is a large 8 x 8 card and I have not made one this size for ages but I really enjoyed making it.

Thanks for stopping by.

Hugs Lynsey x

Materials:

Image - Saturated Canary

Papers - LOTV

Lamp Die - Joy Crafts

Fence and Tree Dies Crafts Companion

Frantage Chunky White and Shabby White Gold

A Vintage Christmas Card ...............

Hi everyone, well my little Grace is finally much better today! We have had a lovely day at home and I got a few home made gifts made which I'm really pleased with.  I can't share them with you yet but I will after Christmas.  I do have a vintage themed Christmas card to share with you today that I made for my friend Marianne which I can show you as I gave it to her yesterday.  As you can see I went a bit mad with the frantage but it is one of my favourite things to use on cards at the moment.

I would like to enter my card into the following challenges:

Creative Card Crew Holly or Poinsettia
  My Time to Craft Challenge - Christmas Birds
Inky Chicks - Christmas
ABC Christmas Challenge - Make your own embellishments
Cute Card Thursday - Christmas Catch up

Thanks for stopping by.
Hugs Lynsey x

Materials:
Stamp and Paper - Free with Magazine
Poinsettia - Marianne Die
Woodware Holly Punch
Frantage - Shabby Gold

Crafty Little Fairies Challenge ..................

Hi everyone, my blog has been a bit quiet this week as Grace is poorly and has a throat infection. She was upset as it was her school play tonight and tomorrow afternoon but she is not well enough to go.  The doctor has given her antibiotics and said she should take the rest of the week off school as she needs to have plenty of rest.   Why do you always have to get ill when you have so much on!

Anyway onto my creation for today for Crafty Little Fairies challenge and our theme for you this week is 'Let it snow'.  I thought I would make a gift tag for a change and decided to use this sweet little James Bear image from LOTV.

There is a fab prize for the winner so I hope you will come along and join in with the challenge. 

I would like to enter my tag into the following challenges:

Christmas Sweet Stampin Challenge - Let it Snow

Natalie and Amy Cute and Cuddly Christmas

Thanks for stopping by.
Hugs Lynsey x

Winter Wonderland Challenge................

Hi all another week has whizzed pasted making us closer to Christmas! I'm quite pleased though as being part of the Winter Wonderland DT has meant I have a lovely pile of Christmas cards ready. I've been busy putting inserts in them so I hope to get some sent in the post today. I do still have to buy some to send but all my special ones are sorted! Anyway onto this week's card and and our theme for you this week is embossing.  So that can be dry embossing or heat embossing, so I've used both on this card.   I really must make a few more like this next year as they are so quick to do!

We have a fantastic sponsor for you this week which is Crafty Ribbons

who have a fantastic prize for the winner, so I hope you will come along and join in this week's challenge.

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:

Bearly Mine Christmas Sentiments

ABC Challenge - A is for Almost Christmas

Pink Gem Challenge - Winter Wonderland

Thanks for stopping by.
Hugs Lynsey x

Materials: 
Embossing Folder - Crafter's Companion
Sentiment - Crafter's Companion
Ribbon From Stash

Grace's Christmas Card ...............

Hi everyone, I'm back with a very girly Christmas card tonight for my little Grace. I had great fun making this card using one of the new releases from Sugar Nellie. I couldn't resist buying a couple of them.   I don't have many pink Christmas papers in my stash but these ones were in an old Honey and Hugs pack and were the best I could I find!

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:

The Sugar Bowl - Sparkle and Shine

Creative Craft Challenges - Non Traditional Christmas Colours

Wednesday Creative Inspirations Challenge Contemporary Christmas Colours

Crafts 4 Eternity Non-Traditonal Christmas

Thanks for stopping by.

Hugs Lynsey x

Journal Your Christmas - 1st December

Hi everyone, I'm back today to share the first page in my Journal Your Christmas album.  I love the 1st of December as Grace loves it when her advent calendars start.

This year I have brought an American Crafts 8 x 8 Album which I ordered from Sarah Cards and I got the lovely green sparkly American Crafts Thickers sheet as a free gift and they were the perfect colour to use on my album cover.

I would like to enter my scrapbook layout into the following challenges:

Crafting Musketeers - Layer it up

  Heck of a Challenge - Colourful Christmas

Crafty Ribbons Challenge - Anything Goes with Ribbon

Thanks for stopping by.
Hugs Lynsey x

Materials:
Papers from Shimelle - Journal Your Christmas Kit
Ribbon from Crafty Ribbons

Christmas Cupcakes ..................

Hi everyone, well it's the first of December already, this year has just flown by!   I'm excited to be starting my Christmas Journal today.  For the past 2 years I have taken a scrapbooking class by Shimelle called 'Journal Your Christmas'. Both years I have not finished my album, I get to about day 20 and never get it finished but I want this year to be different and I really want to finish my album! I've taken my photos already for today's page, so I hope to have that to share with you tomorrow. 

I have not got an advent calendar calendar of my own to open but how about a crafty advent calendar? Crafty Ribbons are having a Christmas Advent Event and there is the chance to win a prize and see some lovely inspiration everyday.  You can see the first advent event
here

Today I have a card to share with you that I have made for my sister and her husband. My sister loves baking so I thought these cupcakes would be perfect for her.

I would like to enter my card into the following challenges:

Sketch and Stash - Great Sketch

2 Sisters Challenge - Anything Goes

Cards Galore - Christmas

Heck of a Challenge - Colourful Christmas

Creative Card Crew Sweet Treats

Thanks for stopping by.

Hugs Lynsey x

Materials:

Decoupage - Docrafts

Papers - Kars 

Prima Flower

Holly Punch 

White Shabby Frantage Embossing Powder

Sentiment - Pink Gem

Ribbon From Stash

Crafty Little Fairies Challenge ....................

Hi everyone, it's time for another challenge at Crafty Little Fairies and our theme for you this week is 'Classic Christmas' so we want to see reds, greens and gold on your creations.

We have a great sponsor this week which is My Crafty Heart  and they have a £10 voucher for the winner, what a lovely prize!

 I have used a Christmas Tree decoupage for my DT card.  I thought this would be good for my parents as my Mum likes decoupage cards.  If you do take part in the challenge this week please don't use decoupage like me, entries are meant to be stamped or digi's and I completely forgot! I'm going to blame it on this virus I've got as I'm walking around feeling like I'm wearing a lead suit!  I think this challenge should be renamed for me 'Away with the Fairies'!

Hugs Lynsey x

My Christmas Candy Winner ..............

Hi everyone, and thank you to all my followers that took part in my Christmas candy draw.  I have used random.org to pick my winner and it came out with

number 12 so that is Carol from Carol's Crafty Corner.  Well done Carol, please email me your address so I can get this candy in the post to you.  You can find my email address in my blogger profile.

Thanks for stopping by.
Hugs Lynsey x

Christmas Candy for my Followers!

This post will stay at the top until Sunday 24th November

Hi everyone,  I didn't forget about all my lovely followers when I went to the NEC so I have a little Christmas candy on offer.  

Sorry for the poor photo the light was not very good when I took this but the stamp is Lili of the Valley 'Fairies in stocking'

To take part in my candy giveaway please

be a follower of my blog

place a picture of my candy with a link back to my blog

Enter via the link below

Good luck everyone!

A Christmas Card .............

Hi everyone, I hope you have had a good weekend. I've been really busy as I went and did my last few bits of Christmas shopping in Cambridge yesterday.  Cambridge is only 45 minutes on the train from where I live I really should go there more often as there are some lovely shops!  Today I've been busy catching up on housework yuck!  But this afternoon I did get my sewing machine out and made a few Christmas presents which I will show you tomorrow when there is better light for a photo.

Onto today's card this is a quick and simple one made using a Crafter's Companion embossing folder. I did get my embossing powder out for the sentiment which is also from Crafter's Companion.    It won't be long till I need to get giving these cards out so I better get putting some inserts in and writing them all out.  I still need to make a few more special ones too!  At least I do have a nice pile of cards from making my Winter Wonderland DT cards all year.

I will be also be back tomorrow to announce the winner of my candy draw.

Thanks for stopping by.
Hugs Lynsey x

Crafty Ribbons Crafty Advent!

Hi everyone, this is just a short post to tell you about the exciting Crafty Advent event happening over at Crafty Ribbons.  There are prizes to be won everyday from the 1st of December to the 24th December and there is a surprise candy up for grabs as well!

Thanks for stopping by.

Hugs Lynsey x

Winter Wonderland Challenge ..............

Hi everyone, well aren't the weeks and days to Christmas rolling round quick now!  I've quite a few handmade gifts I want to make this year so I really need to get on with them! Anyway I have my Winter Wonderland card to share with you today and we have a photo inspiration for this week of this jolly Santa!

We do need to see a Santa on your card for you to be in with a change of winning this week's prize which is 4 digis from the lovely 

so I hope you will pop over and join in with the challenge this week.

I would like to enter my card into the following challenges:

Crafty Ribbons - Stitching Real or Faux

Crafty Sentiments - Christmas

Fab n Funky - Anything Goes

Addicted to Stamps - Make your Mark

The Paper Shelter - Christmas is coming

Thanks for stopping by.

Hugs Lynsey x

Materials: 

Image - Sugar Nellie

Papers - Docrafts Kraft Christmas Papers

Woodware Holly Punch

Red Card Candy - Craftwork Cards

Christmas Owl Ribbon - Crafty Ribbons

A Christmas Jumper .................

Hi everyone, well it's definitely a jumper day today, Norfolk has been freezing and I've had cold hands all day at work. I'm so glad to be home in the warm!

I couldn't believe how many Christmas jumpers I saw when I did my Christmas shopping a few weeks ago and they always make me think of Bridget Jones when she turns up at the Christmas party and Mark has a jumper on quite similar to the one in my card. So when I saw this stamp at the NEC I just had to buy it!  I had great fun creating this little winter scene, I hope it looks like a washing line in Winter.

I also had a nice surprise yesterday when I found out my bike card from my previous post made the top 3 at Sketch and Stash!

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:

One Crazy Stamper - Christmas

Christmas Cards All Year Round - Winter Wonderland

  Stamping Sensations - Christmas

Paula Holifield Crafts - Sparkle and Shine

Crafty Cardmakers -Paper Piecing
Addicted to Stamps - Anything Goes

Thanks for stopping by.
Hugs Lynsey x

Materials: 

Image - Woodware

Sentiment - Joanna Sheen

Tree Scene Die - Marianne

Clouds Embossing Folder - Crafter's Companion

Small Snowflake Punch - Woodware

On Your Bike!

Hi everyone, thought I would share a card I made using one of my new stamps that I got from the NEC last week.  This bike stamp is from Dreamees.  I hadn't seen their stamps until the show and they had some lovely designs at a great price as this stamp only cost £3 which I thought was a great bargain!   I had another go with the frantage for this card but I used it a bit more sparingly so at least the bike does not look like it is in a snowstorm! I was quite pleased with how this one turned out.

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:

Sketch and Stash - Great Sketch

Crafty Ribbons Challenge - Anything Goes with Ribbon

Crafting Musketeers - Pretty Pastels

Crafting for all reasons - Stitching Real or Faux

Crafty Creations Dies or punches

Thanks for stopping by.

Hugs Lynsey x

Materials: Image - Dreamees

Sentiment - Lili of the Valley

Papers - Melissa Frances

La La Land Hearts Banner

Ribbon from Stash

Flowers - Wild Orchid

Crafty Little Fairies do Top of the Pops!

Hi everyone, I have my DT creation for Crafty Little Fairies to share with you today.  Our theme for you this week is 'Top of the Pops' so we want to see your creations that are inspired by a song title or lyrics.  Well I was itching to use some new stamps that I got for my Birthday so my song was 'Singing in the Rain'.   I really love the vintage look but I have to say that I did take inspiration for this creation from my friend Marianne as she does vintage so well!  There is a wonderful sponsor for this week's winner so I hope you will join in the challenge. 

I had great fun making this tag which I'm going to give to my Dad as a bookmark for Christmas.  I even got out some old bronze embossing powder that I must have had for at least 8 years luckily it still worked fine, good job they don't have a sell by date on!

Thanks for stopping by.

Hugs Lynsey x

Materials:

Stamps - Tim Holtz

Prima Tag

Bronze Embossing Powder

My NEC Goodies ..............

Hmm well from these pictures you will see that I got a bit carried away with my purchases at the NEC last week but I did mostly spend Birthday money and money from the sale of crafty stash so I think that makes it ok!

The first picture is of the stamps I brought

This one includes the paper and embellishments and a lovely new craft room sign!

Lots of lovely new dies to play with!

Some lovely ribbons from Crafty ribbons and a cute Percy Owl to sew

And the last one is where I spend most of my money at the Lily of the Valley stand!  And a few chip board blanks to play with too!

This is a picture of me and my friend Marianne:

And finally a picture of the Prima Doll tag I made at a workshop:

Thanks for stopping by.

Hugs Lynsey x

A Little Bit Oriental ................

Hi everyone, what a busy few days I have had.  I went to the NEC on Thursday and shopped all day.  I got some lovely craft stash which I will show you tomorrow and then on Friday I went to York Xmas shopping for the weekend and only got back tonight. So that's the Xmas shopping nearly finished but I do have a couple of more things to get and I want to make some handmade gifts.

I have had no time to play with my new stash and I really can't wait! I will have to wait till after work tomorrow so lets hope the day goes by quick!

 So anyway onto my card, this was made using the one of Sheena's A little bit oriental stamps and embossing folders.  I think they work really well together.  This is not my normal sort of card but I really enjoyed making this one. This is an 8 x 8 card, for a change as I've not made many of them lately.

I would like to enter my card into the following challenges:

Papertake Weekly - Anything Goes

Bearly Mine Anything Goes

Lets Craft and Create Challenge- Clean and Simple

Thanks for stopping by.

Hugs Lynsey x

A Snowman in a Blizzard!

Hi everyone, it's Friday so it's time for another challenge at Winter Wonderland and our theme for you this week is to make 'A card for a child'.

 We have a lovely sponsor this week Pink Gem who have a great prize  of 3 digi's for the winner.

My snowman is from Pink Gem, I think he looks like he is in a blizzard, I didn't intend for that to happen but I got a bit carried away with my frantage so it looks like this snowman is in a snow storm!  I think I was a bit heavy handed but it was my first go at using frantage so next time I will lightly sprinkle lol!

I also did some sewing on this card as I had a new little toy arrive in the craft room this week that was a mini sewing machine. I do have a normal sewing machine but I want to use that to sew with material and I don't want to have to keep changing the needle all the time as paper will blunt it so this little mini one was only £12.50 from Hobbycraft which I thought was a great bargain!

I hope you all have a wonderful weekend.

Thanks for stopping by.

Hugs Lynsey x

Materials: 

Image - Pink Gem

Sentiment - Lili of the Valley

Papers - First Edition

Mittens Die - Memory Box

Coloured with Copics

A Fairy with a Cupcake ............

Well I've two of my favourite things on this card, a fairy and a cupcake what more could you want lol!  This is the card I made for my friend Lisa who's Birthday it was a few weeks ago.

I'm getting quite excited as I'm off to the big craft show at the NEC on Thursday with my friend Marianne.  I feel like a child waiting for Xmas!  Does anyone else get that excited about craft shows or is that just me!

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:

Simon Says Stamp - Anything Goes
  The Hobby House - Pearls
Card Mania - Anything Goes

Thanks for stopping by.
Hugs Lynsey x

Materials:
Image - Sugar Nellie
Papers - First Edition
Sentiment - Penny Black
Boarder Die - Crafter's Companion
Flowers Prima and Wild Orchid
Pearls and Ribbon from stash
Coloured with Copics

A Fairy Card .............

Hi all, well we had a lovely Halloween.  I took Grace out Trick and Treating,  she is just like me bless her as some of the houses that were decorated for Halloween were a bit too scary for her!  She was very happy with her bucket of sweeties that she got though   Here is a silly little pic, she was so excited I only got funny faces out of her!

Well onto my card, this is one I made for my friend Emma's Birthday using a beautiful Sugar Nellie Fairy image. I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:

Charmed Cards and Crafts -  Autumn

Divas by Design - Use Orange
Scribble and Scrap - Anything Goes

Thanks for stopping by.
Hugs Lynsey x

Materials:
Image - Sugar Nellie
Papers - Dovecraft
Sentiment - Penny Black
Flowers and Pearls from Stash