February Mini Candy for my Followers

Hi everyone, I hope you are all well.  I have a mini candy giveaway for one of my followers as a way of saying thank you for all your lovely comments that always make my day!

To be in with a chance of winning please be a follower of my blog, post a pic of the candy on your side bar and leave a comment on this post. 

I will draw the winner at the end of Feb, good luck everyone!

Hugs Lynsey x

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

Hi everyone, it's Friday so it's time for another challenge at Winter Wonderland and our theme for you this week is 'Tie a Bow'.    

We have a wonderful sponsor this week who is:

I have used a gorgeous Digi Stamp Boutique image on my card from a set called Spring Honey and Truffle.

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

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

Creative Card Crew - Birthday with Sentiment

The Paper Shelter - Make it Digital

Creative Inspirations - Luscious Lace

Deep Ocean Challenges - Furry Friends

Thanks for stopping by.

Hugs Lynsey x

Materials:

Image - Digi Stamp Boutique

Sentiment - LOTV

Lace - Crafty Ribbons

Papers: Lily Rose

Fiskars Boarder Punch

Flowers - Wild Orchid

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

Hi everyone, I have a fairy card to share with you today which I made for one of Grace's little friend's Birthday.  I love these LOTV fairies and teamed her up with some First Edition papers, gorgeous Crafty Ribbons lace, flowers from Wild Orchid and leaf die which is Joanna Sheen.

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

Penny's Challenges - Lots of Layers

Creative Card Crew - Birthday with Sentiment

Crafting From the Heart - Anything Goes

Crafting Musketeers - Cute

Thanks for stopping by.

Hugs Lynsey x

Love you more!

Hi everyone, I have a scrapbook page to share with you today.  My Dad took this photo so I decided to use this layout to write about a little game me and Grace play when we try to beat each about who loves each other more!  

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

Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge - No Rules

Thanks for stopping by.

Hugs Lynsey x

A Cupcake Card .........

Hi everyone, I hope you are having a good Sunday.  I'm feeling exhausted after running 12 miles this morning so I think I will be taking it easy the rest of the day! I've only got 3 weeks to go until my half marathon now, I can't believe it is coming round so quickly!  

Anyway onto my card, I couldn't resist this gorgeous cupcake themed image from Pink Gem. If you have not shopped there before you get a coloured and an uncoloured image. I love the coloured one so much I thought I would use that on my card. It also give me the opportunity to use of my wooden cupcakes which were a present from my friend Marianne.   

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

Everybody Art Challenge - 312 Great Sketch

My time to craft - Use Lace

Crafting for all Seasons - Dies or Punches

ABC Challenge - D is for Die cut

Art by Miran Challenge

Thanks for stopping by

Hugs Lynsey x

Image - Pink Gem

Papers - LOTV

Lace - Crafty Ribbons

Blue Flower - Wild Orchid

Resin Flowers - Dovecraft

Bunting Die - Memory Box

A Birthday Card for Dad ..........

Hi everyone, I hope your week is going well.  I have a Birthday card to share today that I made for my Dad's Birthday yesterday.  My mojo had left and I was too tired to colour an image so I decided to make a decoupage card from a docrafts kit I have had in my draw for some time.  

It always feel good to finally use something you have had a for a while!  

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

Crafting from the Heart - Anything Goes

Scribble and Scrap - Always Anything Goes

Thanks for stopping by.

Hugs Lynsey x

A Scrapbook Page and Pancakes ...............

Hi everyone, I hope are all well and have had a good pancake day.  This is a scrapbook page that I made at a scrapbook crop that I go to.  We had a lovely kit to use and I thought the sentiment on the jar would be the perfect title for this page.  My Dad took this photo and printed it out for me which was great as I really enjoyed using a black and white photo for a change. 

  Did you have pancakes for tea?  We did, I love them and so does Grace and Will.  I make the batter but Will cooks the pancakes as I end up with a load of mush, not sure what I do wrong!!! Grace and Will always have a go at tossing the pancakes which is always good fun to watch! 

Here is an action shoot which I can't wait to put on a layout!

Thanks for stopping by.

Hugs Lynsey x

Little Claire Stamp Challenge ..................

Hi everyone, and happy Saturday to you.  I have my Little Claire DT card to share with you today and our theme for you this month is 'Love'.   I've used a gorgeous stamp on my card called 'Silhouette Picnic which was a Christmas present from my friend Marianne and I thought it would be perfect for an Anniversary card.  

There is a fantastic prize for the winner so I hope you will come along and join in our challenge this month.

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

Stamping Sensations - Anything Goes

Penny Black and More - Anything Goes except a digi

Deep Ocean Challenge - Love is all around

Natalie and Amy - All About the Love

Thanks for stopping by.

Hugs Lynsey

Materials:

Image - Little Claire

Sentiment - Printed on pc

Bow - Hobby Craft 

Flower - Tim Holtz

Leaf Die - Joanna Sheen

Lace - Crafty Ribbons

Winter Wonderland Challenge

Hi everyone, well that's another week rolled round so it's time for another challenge at Winter Wonderland and our theme for you this week is 'For a Child'. I thought I would make Grace's Christmas card as I'm trying to be more organised this year and have all the sentiments on my cards, inserts in and written out by the beginning of December!  Well that's the plan and so far so good!

Our fantastic sponsor this week is 

Pink Gem

I have used a gorgeous Pink Gem image on my card called - Angelica with Gifts.

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

Incy Wincy Designs - Use a punch or die cut

ABC Christmas Challenge - C is for colourful

Scribble and Scrap - Anything Goes

A Gem of a Challenge - Lots of Layers

Thanks for stopping by.

Hugs Lynsey x

Materials:

Image - Pink Gem

Sentiment - LOTV

Papers - My Minds Eye

Lace - Crafty Ribbons

Flowers - Wild Orchid

Snowflake Die - Memory Box

Love is in the air!

I hope you are all having a good week.  It's time for another challenge at Little Claire Digi Challenge and our challenge is a nice easy one for you 'Love and Romance' is our theme.  Remember you must use a digi to enter this challenge but it does not have to be a Little Claire digi to enter the challenge.

I have used a gorgeous digi image on my card called Two Owls. 

There is a fantastic prize for this month's winner:

which is 5 Digi's from Little Claire so I hope you will come along and join in the challenge.

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

Cards Galore - Use a stamp or digi for February

Natalie and Amy - All About Love

Crafty Card Makers - Love Love Love

Crafty Creations Challenge - Owl Love You

Cute Card Thursday - Crazy in Love

Thanks for stopping by.

Hugs Lynsey x

Materials:

Digi Image - Two Owls - Little Claire

Papers and Sentiment - LOTV

Flowers - Wild Orchid

Lace - Crafty Ribbons

Bye Bye Potato Kart .................

Hi everyone and happy Sunday.  I hope you have had a good day.  I went for an 11 mile run this morning with my running. It was hard getting out of bed at 6.30am this morning but I'm so glad I did as the weather was lovely and we ran by the wash in King's Lynn and we had such lovely views. 

Anyway onto my layout, you may be wondering what an earth this layout is all about!  Well my husband Will used to work on a farm and his car used to get so full of soil I always said there was enough soil in there to set potatoes so it was nicknamed the potato kart!  Will changed his card last year as the potato kart was on it's last legs so I really had to scrap a page all about it!

I used a great sketch to make this layout from over at The Studio Challenges to make my page. 

Thanks for stopping by.

Hugs Lynsey x

Two Boys Birthday Cards ..............

Hi everyone and happy Saturday to you, I have 2 boys cards to share with you today.   Grace recently went to a joint Birthday party for 2 boys in her class so I made 2 very similar cards for her to take. These were quite quick to make as I used some images that I had printed off from a Crafter's Companion Cd a while ago and they sat in the draw.  Don't you always feel good when you use some stash that has sat their for a while!

I added some stitching and and some gorgeous blue striped ribbon from Crafty Ribbons to finish off my cards.

I would like to add my card to the following challenges:

Thanks for stopping by.

Hugs Lynsey x

Time to get Nautical .................

Hi everyone we have a new challenge over at Crafty Ribbons and our theme for you this fortnight is 'Nautical'.   I loved this challenge as it made me think of summer which is just what I need with all this cold weather at the moment!  I decided to make a shopping bag for my DT creation and used some nautical fabric as well as some gorgeous sail boat ribbon which I used across the top of my bag.  I used some lovely red stripe ribbon for the mast of the boat and some blue striped ribbon for the flag at the top and finally finished off with some red and blue striped buttons and a red spotty button at the top of the mast. 

This is a close up of the boat:

I embroided some little birds and waves, this was a bit like a card I didn't know when to stop! I'm really pleased with how it turned out though. 

There is a wonderful prize for the winner of the challenge so I hope you will come and join in. 

Thanks for stopping by.

Hugs Lynsey x

Lets Hear the Music ............

Hi everyone and Happy Sunday! I have a music themed card to share with you today.  This is a scheduled post as I will be doing my long run as I'm in training for my half marathon. I'm hoping it won't have snowed for the 10 miles I will be running this morning!

Anyway back to my card which I made to showcase some of the gorgeous new music themed ribbon from Crafty Ribbons.  The one on my card is called Keyboard Music Ribbon.   

Thanks so much for stopping by.

Hugs Lynsey x

Materials:

Image - Pink Gem

Ribbon - Crafty Ribbons

Sentiment - Little Claire

Papers - From Stash

Star Die - Free with Magazine