My Favourite 5 Christmas Cards of 2014 ......

Hi everyone and happy Monday to you!  How nice today I'm off work, it's so lovely to not have to get up early on Monday.   Anyway, the lovely Debby is hosting her annual Favourite 5 Christmas Cards and these are my fav 5!

This was the card I made for Grace:

I made this one for my nephew:

I think I must have liked making red and blue cards this year!  I made this one for my niece:

I love this card and made it for my good friend Marianne. 

And finally a clean and simple one for me that I made for Will for Xmas: 

Thanks for stopping by.

Hugs Lynsey x

Gift Tags ...........................

Hi everyone, I hope your Christmases all went well and you had a lovely time.    Mine went very well.  This year it only took 1 oven to cook the Christmas dinner unlike last Christmas day when my oven packed up and it took 3 to get it cooked so in my book that's a success! 

Anyway this is just a quick post tonight to share a couple of gift tags that I made recently for some presents.  I made them using some left over bits I had printed off from the Bebunni Floral CD. 

Thanks for stopping by.

Hugs Lynsey x

Happy Christmas!

Hi everyone, and Happy Christmas to you all!   One last Christmas card to share with you which is the card that I made for Will.   I know it does not say husband on it but I didn't have a stamp to fit so I saved the husband bit for inside the card!  

I really enjoyed making this card using just dies, it is a bit different for me.  I must make more cards like this as they are so effective and don't take hours to make!  

Anyway, I hope you are all having a lovely Christmas, I hope to catch up with you all soon/

Hugs Lynsey x

Materials:

Deer Die - Memory Box

Tree Die - Marianne

Sheena Douglas Snow Embossing Folder

Woodware Sentiment Stamp

The 12th Day of Christmas .................

Hi everyone I'm back with another crafty make today for the Crafty Ribbons 12 Days of Christmas event.  We have loads of fab sponsors today so if you have time join the link up please pop over and take a look.  This is a stocking I have made to put my Mum's presents in I think I need a bit more practise at sewing curves!  Let me know if you have any tips!  

The gorgeous ribbon that I have used on my stocking is Vintage Christmas Past which is a lovely thick ribbon and just perfect for sewing projects. 

My cough is starting to get a little better at least I don't feel like I want to cough all the time now so thanks to everyone that wished me well.

I do have one more post for tomorrow but it will be a scheduled one as I don't think I will get time to get near the computer on Christmas day!

So have a fab time everyone and thanks to all who stop by.

Hugs Lynsey x

A Snowman Card .............

Hi everyone,  I hope you are all well I have a snowman card to share with you today that I made for my friend Marianne who came over yesterday.    

Are you all ready for Christmas?  I am just about there but I'm now full of a cold and have a really bad cough, just what I need with family coming to mine for Christmas day!  I really hope that I feel better than this by Thursday!   

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

Papertake Weekly - Christmas Card

Creative Inspirations - Christmas/New Year

Little Miss Muffet Challenge - Anything Goes

Art by Miran - Anything Goes 

Thanks so much for stopping by.

Hugs Lynsey x

Materials

Image - LOTV

Sentiment - Woodware

Papers - LOTV

Stocking Bunting Die - Joanna Sheen

Snowflake Die - Woodware

Flower - Wild Orchid.

A Birthday Card ...........

Hi everyone, and happy Sunday to you.  I thought I would have a break from the Christmas cards to make a Birthday card today.  I have used a super cute stamp from Little Claire on my card which I got last time I went to the NEC.  

Thanks for stopping by.

Hugs Lynsey 

Materials

Image and Sentiment - Little Claire

Papers - LOTV

Flowers Wild Orchid

Bunting Die - Memory Box

Scalloped Circle Die - Marianne

Leaf Die - Joanna Sheen

Pink Frantage

The 8th Day of Christmas .............

Hi everyone,  not long now till the great man in red visit's us, I hope your plans are going well!  I am back with another make for the Crafty Ribbons 12 Days of Christmas event.  This is another page from my Christmas scrapbook and this time it's me dressed as Santa as part of a sponsored 5K Santa Dash that I did with my running club.  We all had lots of fun dressing and up and it was all for a good cause as well which made it even better! 

I have used Santa's Wash Day Ribbon on my layout which I thought was just perfect to go with these photos.  

Thanks for stopping by.

Hugs Lynsey x

Winter Wonderland Challenge .....

Hi everyone, and happy Friday to you.   It's time for another challenge over at Winter Wonderland and our theme for you this week is 'Fussy and Fancy'.  As it's Christmas our challenge will run for 2 weeks so you have plenty of time to join in with this one.  It's also the start of our few months of the year when you don't have to make a Christmas project although you can if you want to! I hope you will come along and join in our challenge as there are some great prizes for the winners!

Thanks for stopping by.

Hugs Lynsey x

Materials:

Image and Seniment - LOTV

Papers - First Edition

Flowers - Wild Orchid

MS Border Punch

Crafty Ribbons 4th Day of Christmas ..........

Hi everyone, I'm back today to share another crafty make for Crafty Ribbons 4th Day of Christmas and I have a page from my Christmas Scrapbook to share with you today.  There are some lovely prizes so please pop over to the Crafty Ribbons Inspiration Blog to join in the fun!  I have used my favourite Christmas ribbon from Crafty Ribbons on my scrapbook page which is Music Holly Ribbon from the Vintage Past range, this is the last bit of this ribbon so I'm glad I got it on my scrapbook page as I get to keep a bit then!

 I'm doing Journal Your Christmas which is an online class from Shimelle.  I signed up for this online class about 4 or 5 years ago and after paying the first time the class is free every year after that.  You get a pdf and video each day with lovely inspiration.   I so enjoy it and even though I always end up not finishing my albums they do help me focus on all the fun that Christmas should be and not the stress! 

Thanks so much for stopping by.

Hugs Lynsey x

Crafty Ribbons 2nd Day of Christmas .................

Hi everyone and happy Sunday to you.   I have another crafty make to share with you today for the 2nd day of Christmas over at the Crafty Ribbons Inspiration Blog.  I love embroidery hoops and decided to make one to hang up at Christmas.    The gorgeous Xmas ribbon across my hoop is from the New England Christmas Ribbon collection.  I have also used some fab heart buttons and a red spotty button to finish off my holly. 

Well we are in full Christmas mode in our house, school plays, meals out, trips to Winter Wonderland, parties and more meals out!  I'm sure I will be ready for Christmas one of these years lol!  Are you nearly ready for the big man in red to visit?

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

Cards Galore - Anything Goes

Crafts and Me - Anything Goes

The Stamping Boutique - Anything But a Card

Not Just Cards Challenge - Anything Goes

Thanks for stopping by.

Hugs Lynsey x

Crafty Ribbons 12 Days of Christmas!

Hi everyone it's day one of  our 12 days of Christmas event over at the Crafty Ribbons Inspiration Blog today 

and we have 12 days of Christmas til Christmas Eve

with Fab sponsors and inspiration from the  DT.

My card for the first day of Christmas features some gorgeous 

Grosgrain Polka Dot Ribbon from the Crafty Ribbons Shop

Thanks for stopping by.

Hugs Lynsey x

Materials:

Image - LOTV

Sentiment - Computer Generated

Papers - Dovecraft

Flowers - Wild Orchid

Woodware Holly Punch

MS Border Punch

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

Hi everyone and happy Friday, at least the weekend is here!    It's time for another challenge over at Winter Wonderland  and our challenge for you this week is 'North or South Pole' so we would like to see a polar bear or penguin or both on your cards.    I have used a super card from the Digi Stamp Boutique on my card.  Well I'm out for a meal tonight, then running a 5K Santa Dash tomorrow and then another meal on Saturday night and then going to take Grace to see Father Christmas on Sunday so we have a very packed weekend!  I think I will be going back to work for a rest on Monday!

Have lots of fun whatever your plans are this weekend!

Thanks for stopping by!

Hugs Lynsey x

Mono Christmas ............

Hi everyone, it's time for another challenge at Crafty Ribbons and our challenge for you this week is 'Mono Christmas'.  There is a wonderful prize for the winner so please do join in with our challenge this week!  

I have used a Marianne ice skates die, lili of the valley paper, a pollycraft sentiment and a some gorgeous Christmas Mice Dotty Ribbon from Crafty Ribbons to finish off the card.  

Thanks for stopping by.

Hugs Lynsey x

The Little Red Robin ......................

Hi everyone, please scroll down to my previous post for my details of my candy winner.

I hope you are well and have had a good weekend.  I have had a lovely day out today at the Christmas Market at Bury St Edmunds with Grace, my sister and my little niece Anya.  I got a few Christmas presents which was good, not too many left to get now!  

On to my card, I brought this super cute little robin a few weeks ago and decided to paper piece him.   I have not added too much embellishment to this card as I need a few flatter ones for posting.  

Fussy and Fancy - Happy Holidays

Paper Creator Crafts - All About Christmas

We Do Doobadoo - Get Festive

Natalie and Amy - Cute and Cuddly Christmas

Hugs Lynsey x

Materials:

Image and Sentiment  - Woodware

Papers - Dovecraft

Pinecone Die - Joanna Sheen

Candy Winner .......................

Hi everyone, sorry it's taken me a while to get round to round to letting you know the winner of my candy, I have been super busy and December is not even here yet!

Anyway onto the winner as decided by random.org is number 7:

So that's Lorraine from Mrs B's Blog.  Congratulations Lorraine, please email me your address so I can send your prize out. 

Hugs Lynsey x

A Mini Candy for My Followers ..............

Hi everyone, tonigh'ts post is about a candy giveaway for my followers.  With working and having a family I don't always get the time to leave as many comments as I would like to so I have a little thank you candy for one of my followers.  

If you would like to enter into my candy giveaway please be a follower of my blog and leave me a comment on this post, that's it!

The draw will close at 5pm next Thursday 27th November.

Good luck and thanks for stopping by.

Lynsey x

I Wanna Build a Snowman!

Hi everyone, I hope your week is going well. It's about this time of year that I always start to feel a bit over whelmed with all I still need to do to be ready for Christmas.  Do you feel like that or is it just me?   I always end being ready in the end but at the moment it feels like a daunting task ahead with cards still to make, presents still to buy, and a  Christmas dinner to organise along with loads of busy nights and weekends out.   I wish a fairy could just come along and wave her wand and it would all be done!  Failing that I will just have to take one day at a time and do what I can!

Anyway onto this jolly snowman that I brought when I went to the NEC recently.  I have decoupaged his scarf but I'm not sure you can see that from the photo. I used some frantage on my lamp post and snowflake for a little snowy sparkle and my favourite Xmas papers from Dovecraft oh and the Snowman stamp is a Woodware one. 

Thanks for stopping by. 

Lynsey x

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

 

Hi everyone, it's Friday so it's time for another challenge at Winter Wonderland and our challenge for you this week is 'Let's get Sentimental'.   I made a card using this image a few weeks but I have made it into an easel card this time and printed a sentiment with it.   The image is Poinsettia Corner from Delicious Doodles who are one of our 3 sponsors 

so I hope you will come and join in with our challenge this week.

Thanks for stopping by. 

Hugs Lynsey x

Materials:

Image - Delicious Doodles

Papers - Craftwork Cards

Ribbon - Crafty Ribbons

Woodware Holly Punch

Candy - Crafty Cards

Shabby Gold Frantage

A Card for a Runner ..............

Hi everyone and happy Monday to you.  I made this card for my Brother-In-Law a few weeks for his 40th Birthday.  He is a keen and very good marathon runner so I went on the hunt for a running image and found this great one at the Digi Stamp Boutique.   I have not made a man's card for ages so I enjoyed making this one. 

Thanks for stopping by.

Hugs Lynsey x

A Trio of Christmas Tags ......

Hi everyone, I hope your weekend is going well.  I've had a busy day taking my Mum and Dad out for a few hours today and doing some baking with Grace this afternoon.

Firstly onto my tags, did I tell you I have a bit of thing for making tags at the moment!  I made these using some scraps of paper, the images are from the Moonbeam Meadow CD from Crafter's Companion and were just the right size to be made into tags!

Back to the baking, me and Grace had a practise at making some Christmas biscuits this afternoon. I didn't expect the recipe to make quite so many but we ended up with 3 plate fulls! I think we will need to deliver some to the Grandparents tomorrow!    Me and Grace did have lots of fun making these though!

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

Cards Galore Challenges - Anything Goes

Crafting Musketeers - Anything but a card

Cutie Pie Challenge - Festive Furry Friends

Crafty Sentiments - Anything Goes

Papertake Weekly 2 or 4 Legs

Thanks for stopping by and enjoy the rest of your weekend.

Hugs Lynsey x

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

Hi everyone, time for another challenge at Winter Wonderland and our challenge for you this week is 'Frosty the Snowman'.  There are so many lovely snowmen images about at the moment, I'm sure you will find this a nice easy challenge! 

There are some fantastic prizes for the winners so I hope you will come along and join in with this week's challenge.

Thanks for stopping by.

Hugs Lynsey xx

Materials: 

Image - LOTV

Sentiment - Free with Magazine

Papers - My Minds Eye

Star Dies - Memory Box, 

Holly Leaf Die - Sizzix

Flowers - Wild Orchid

Lace from stash

Crafty Ribbons Challenge .....................

Hi everyone and happy Thursday to you.   This is a scheduled post as I will be at the craft show at the NEC today.  I am super excited about going, I will show you my crafty stash when I get home! Anyway onto today's makes which are for the new challenge over at Crafty Ribbons and our theme for you this fortnight is 'A Christmas Creation with Ribbon'.  

I have used Penguin pals ribbon - bubbles the reindeer on my tags. I think he is such a sweet penguin!

Thanks for stopping by.

Hugs Lynsey x

A Frozen Bag ..............

Hi everyone, sorry for my lack of blogging and returning your comments.  We were away for part of last week during the school holidays and when I came back my Dad was in hospital having a knee operation and my Nan also got admitted to hospital so last week was spent back and forth to the hospital the whole time! Dad is now home but Nan is still in hospital.   Stressful times for my family at the moment.  

Anyway enough of my troubles, I thought I would share a Frozen themed bag that I made for my Niece a while ago for her Birthday.  The bag is lined with star patterned fabric the same as the on the dress and the handle of the bag. 

Thanks for stopping by.

Hugs Lynsey x

Time to dress up! ..............

Hi everyone, I hope you are all having a good Tuesday!   I made this card for my Mum in Law whose Birthday it was a couple of weeks ago.  I have used a decoupage image from a Papermania kit that I had.  These are great for making a quick card as I was running out of time the week I made this which is nothing out of the norm for me!  I would get so much more done if there were just a few more hours in each day! 

Thanks for stopping by.

Hugs Lynsey x

Materials:

Decoupage and Papers - Papermania

Martha Stewart Border Punch

Sentiment - Digi Stamp Boutique

Ribbon - Crafty Ribbons

Flower - Wild Orchid

Tom Boy for a Day ..................

Hi everyone, I hope you are all having a good weekend.  I have a layout to share with you today.  This layout is about Grace wearing a baseball cap to the side is the closest she comes to being  a Tom boy as given the chance Grace will choose to wear a dress or skirt any day as she loves all things girly!  I took these pictures last year and I have been wanting to scrap them for ages so I'm really pleased to have this page in my album.  

Enjoy the rest of your weekend.

Hugs Lynsey x

Gold .........................

Hi everyone, gold is our theme for this week's Challenge over at Winter Wonderland this week so we want to see gold embellishments, gold pen, gold glitter etc!  I have used gold card, gold glitter and there is gold in the frantage that I used on the holly leaves.  It looks much more sparkly in real life but it's always difficult to get that to show in a photo!

We have 2 wonderful sponsors this week who are:

and 

The gorgeous image on my card is from Delicious Doodles and is called poinsettia corner. 

 I printed the image out twice so I could decoupage the poinsettia but I'm not sure you can see that from the photo.  I was very pleased with how this one turned out though.

Thanks so much for stopping by.

Have a great weekend.

Hugs Lynsey x

Materials:

Image - Delicious Doodles

Papers - Craftwork Cards

Vintage Music Holly Leaves Ribbon - Crafty Ribbons

Holly Punch - Woodware

A Wedding Card ........

Hi everyone I hope your week is going well.  I have a wedding card to share with you today which I made for an order recently.  It's been ages since I coloured in this sweet little couple so it was nice to stamp this up again. 

Thanks for stopping by.

Hugs Lynsey x 

Materials:

Image - LOTV

Papers - Papermania 

Flowers - Wild Orchid

Leaf Punch - MS

A Birthday Layout .................

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Hi everyone and happy Sunday to you.  I hope your weekend is going well and you have managed to fit in some crafty time.  I'm hoping to fit some in this afternoon after I've done some housework this morning.  

 I have a double layout to share with you today of Grace's 6th Birthday party. I am really enjoying making double layouts as it's so nice to scrap so many pictures all at once!  The only downside is that they are hard to photograph!  Grace loves looking at my scrapbooks now so I hope that will continue as she grows older and lots of happy memories to look back on. 

Thanks for stopping by.

Hugs Lynsey x

A Card with a Matching Bag ..........

Hi everyone, well that is another week gone by at lightening speed! I hope yours has been a good one. 

 It was my friend Marianne's Birthday recently and this is the card I made for her using a gorgeous digi from All Dressed Up.  I also made a matching bag for the present I had brought Marianne to go in.  

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

Papertake Weekly - Superfly

Through the Craft Room Door - Anything Goes

Thanks for stopping by.

Have a great weekend.

Hugs Lynsey x

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Meeting Fairies ............

Hi everyone, I seem to start a lot of my posts with fairies in the title, but I'm sure you know by now I'm away with the fairies half the time!  Today's layout is all about me and Grace meeting real live giant fairies at the Fairy Fair!  The Fairy Fair takes place in Holt in Norfolk twice a year and it's a lovely magical day for Grace oh and me as well! 

I used a great layout to scraplift this page which is the October challenge over at Scrapology which I would like to enter with this layout. 

 I started this layout on Friday when I had a lovely scrapbooking day at my friend Marianne's.  Marianne also used this layout, you can see Marianne's page here, it's funny that they are so different!

Thanks for stopping by and leaving a comment they are very much appreciated.

Hugs Lynsey x

A New Home Card .............

Hi everyone, happy Monday to you!  I have a new home card to share with you today.  I've not made a new home card for ages but a friend of mine recently moved so this is the card I made her. I used a sweet bird house stamp from Dreamees on my card.  The new home banner flags were cut from some craft work cards paper.   I used one of my favourite ribbons on this card which is the 15mm satin micro dot ribbon in hot pink and then I finished off the card with a pretty pastel heart button both from the Craft Ribbons Store.

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

Papertake Weekly - Anything Goes

Crafting from the Heart - Anything Goes

Fab n Funky Challenges - Anything with Ribbon

Natalie and Amy - Colouring on Kraft

Thanks for stopping by.

Hugs Lynsey x

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

Hi everyone, that is another week past in lighting speed!  I'm back with my Winter Wonderland card to share with you today and our challenge for you this week is 'Lace and Pearls'.  I'm pleased with how this card turned out so I think this will be the one for Grace. 

We two wonderful sponsors this week for the challenge who are:

and 

so I hope you will come along and join in our challenge and get another Christmas card crossed off your list!

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

Whimsy - Anything Goes

Great Sketch at Sketch Saturday

Crafty Sentiments - Anything Goes

Art by Miran - Anything Goes

Christmas Cards All Year Round - Embellish It

Thanks for stopping by.

Hugs Lynsey x

Materials: 

 Image - Pink Gem

Papers - LOTV

Flowers - Wild Orchid

Lace and Pearls from stash

Crafty Ribbons Challenge and a Freebie ...............

Hi everyone, I hope your week is going well.  I have my Crafty Ribbons DT card to share with you today.  Our challenge this week is 'Christmas Past with Ribbon'. I have used some gorgeous Vintage Christmas Past - Christmas Cards ribbon from Crafty Ribbons on my card. which I teamed up with this gorgeous snowman image I found on pinterest.  There was no link to where he was pinned from so I thought I would pop him on my blog for you:

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

Bizzy Becs October Challenge - Anything Goes

Scribble and Scrap - Anything Goes

Crafting with Dragonflies - Anything Goes

Thanks for stopping by.

Hugs Lynsey xx

Being Tinkerbell .............

Hi everyone, I hope your week has got off to a good start.    I have a layout to share with you tonight of Grace dressed up as Tinkerbell at the Fairy Fair we went to back in May.   I've started going to a weekly scrapbooking class/crop which I'm really enjoying as you get a lovely kit to work with and sometime to just sit and scrapbook which I hardly ever have time to do at home.  It's good to be getting some more photos and memories scrapped!  I've also got a lovely day of scrapbooking to look forward to on Friday as I'm going over to my friend Marianne's for the day. 

I would like to enter my layout into the following challenge: 

Charisma Cardz - Anything But a Card

Dream Valley Challenges - Anything But a Card

Thanks for stopping by.

Hugs Lynsey x

Pancake Day Layout

Hi everyone, I thought it was time I got around to scrapbooking this fun picture of Will and Grace from pancake day this year.  I found a great sketch over at The Studio Challenges and this layout came together quite quickly apart from the stitching which took a little while but was quite pleasant while I sat watching Strictly on Saturday night!

I would like to enter my layout into the September Sketch Challenge at The Studio Challenges..

Thanks for stopping by.

Hugs Lynsey 

It's in the Bag!

Hi everyone, I have a sewing project to share with you today which is also on the Crafty Ribbons Inspiration Blog. I made this bag for my Mum's 60th Birthday.  I finished the bag off with flower and added a Large stripped black button to the centre from the crafty ribbons online store.

Thanks for stopping by.

Hugs Lynsey x

Happy Anniversary .......

Hi everyone, I hope you have all had a good weekend.  I'm sure you feel like me and wish they didn't go quite so quick!  I have an anniversary card to share with you tonight which I made for my Mum and Dad's anniversary a few weeks ago.  This is just a quick post tonight as I have an early start in the morning so I must get to bed!

I would like to enter this card into this month's challenge at the Sugar Bowl.

Thanks for stopping by.

Hugs Lynsey 

Materials:

Image - Sugar Nellie

Papers - Docrafts

Happy Anniversary Ribbon from Crafty Ribbons

Flowers - Wild Orchid

Heart Die - Memory Box

Leaf Die - Marianne