A card and some exciting news!

Hi everyone I hope you are all enjoying the bank holiday weekend. I have had a fantastic day at Newmarket Races and I managed to pick 3 winning horses! I only came home about £3.00 better off so I won't be giving up the day job just yet!

Onto my exciting news, one of my cards has been featured in the readers gallery of this month issue of Simply Cards and Papercrafts!

Now onto my card, I had planned to put this into the Truly Scrumptious Challenge but I realized that you had to have something eat on the card and unless I pretend the number 1 is made out of icing I don't really think it fits the challenge! Never mind I enjoyed using the sketch!

Thanks for stopping by, please leave a comment if you have time.

Hugs Lynsey:)

Materials:

Image and Papers from Cuddly Buddly

Cuttlebug Swiss Dots Embossing Folder

Crafts 4 Eternity - Sketch Challenge ........

Hi everyone, this card is for a new challenge blog which I have come across called Crafts 4 Eternity. They have a fantastic sketch to work with this week which was perfect for a bigger card. This card is for my sister in law whoose birthday it is tomorrow so I hope she likes it.

I thought I should really start decorating the insides of my cards so this is the matching inside.

Thanks for stopping by, please leave a comment if you have time.

Hugs Lynsey:)

Materials

Image - Forever Friends

Papers - Designer Digitals

Cuttlebug Embossing Boarder

Retro Flower Punch

Pearls from Ebay

Coloured with Promarkers

Pollycraft Monday Challenge *14* Callums Challenge

This week's challenge over at Pollycraft Monday Challenge has been set by Paula's son Callum whoose 10th Birthday it is! Happy Birthday Callum! Callum has set a great challenge of making a 'Card for a Child'. I really enjoyed making this card with these new Lil Chapz downloads from Pollycraft Designs these are such great downloads. This little chap is from the 'Space Mission' set, you get four Lil Chapz and a space scene as well as a accesories all for £1.59! There is also a pirate set called 'Ahoy Matey' who are also adorable!

The rest of DT have made some fantastic cards so please check out their designs here . To join in with the challenge you must use one Pollycraft item on your card. The lucky winner of this challenge will get to win both of the new Lil Chapz downloads so I hope you can come along and join in the fun!

Please leave a comment if you have time.


Hugs Lynsey:)



Materials:
Image - Lil Chapz download from Pollycraft Designs
Sentiment Stamp - Papermania Clare Curd Signature Range

Papers - Designer Digitals
Various Star Punches
Coloured with Promarkers

Whiff of Joy Summer Stamp Set Blog Candy Giveaway ...

Katharina is giving away 2 yes 2 sets of the Whiff of Joy Summer Stamp Set! For further details of how to win this amazing blog candy, visit Katharina's blog here. Good luck everyone!
Hugs Lynsey:)

Stampin Chic Sketch Challenge 3

This card is for Stampin Chic who have another fab sketch this week. I'm getting quite into making men's cards lately and I do have loads of birthdays in April so that also has something to do with it!

I hope you have all had a great weekend. Thanks for stopping by.
Hugs Lynsey:)

Materials
Image Stamps - Clare Curd Signature Range
Papers - Clare Curd Signature Range/DCWV
Sentiment Stamp - Clare Curd Signature Range

An Award ...................

I have been really rubbish at posting awards that have been kindly passed onto me lately so if you have passed one on to me and I have not posted it I do apologise. So onto this award, this has been passed onto me by two lovely blogging buddies Donna and Chrissie.

I pass this award onto the following 5 people who always inspire me Debbie, Lyndsey, Deifen,Emma and Michele

Hugs Lynsey:)

Double Challenge Card ..........

This card is for 2 challenges, the first is for Papertake Weekly Challenge whoose theme this week is 'Perfect Pastels' and the second card this challenge is for A Spoon Full of Sugar whoose theme is 'To Die For' and you have to use either die cuts or punches on your cards, you will see if you look closely that I have used my corner rounder punch on my sentiment!

This card is for one of Grace's friend's Rose, I thought this image and the paper was just perfect for her! All the materials are from the Crafters Companion Flower Fairy CD.

Thanks for stopping by.

Hugs Lynsey:)

Pollycraft Monday Challenge 13 - Orange!

This week's challenge at Pollycraft Monday Challenge has been set by Pops and is a colour theme of orange. This sent me into a panic as orange is not really a colour I ever use on cards so I had to have a hunt through my stash for some orange paper and embellishments but I am quite pleased with the results and I think I now will use this colour again. I quite like challenges that take me out of my comfort zone so thanks Pops! Please check out the other DT cards for some fantastic inspiration. There another gorgeous stamp set up for grabs for the winner so please come along and join us in the challenge. To take part in the challenge you must use one Pollycraft item in your creation.

Thanks to everyone that wished my little girl Grace a Happy Birthday for yesterday. We had a lovely family party for her and she was thoroughly spoilt by everyone! This is a picture of her I took yesterday on her birthday, she looks so grown up!

And this is Grace's Princess birthday cake, I would like to tell you I made it but I am a hopeless cook! My sister made this cake for Grace and it tasted fantastic!

I hope you have all had a great Easter Weekend.
Thanks for stopping by.
Hugs Lynsey:)


Materials:
Image - Pollycraft Designs
Papers - DCVW
Oval Nesties
Retro Flower Punch
Coloured with Promarkers

2 Cards 3 Challenges!

Hi everyone, I hope you are all having a great Easter weekend. I have 2 cards today which I think must be a first for me! The first card is for my little girl Grace who will be 1 tomorrow! I had great fun making this card with my new Princess Anya stamp. This card is for 2 challenges the first is a new challenge blog called Stamp with Fun and they had a great sketch for their first challenge which was perfect to fit the Princess and her castle onto my card. The second challenge this card is for is Spoon Full of Sugar and their theme this week is to feature a persons age on a card.

My second card is for Friday Sketchers and they have another fantastic sketch this week. The images on this card are to be released from Pollycraft Designs, along with this little chap you also get 3 other boy images and some other space images. I think they are perfect for boys cards which are always so much harder than the girls!

Thanks for stopping by, please leave a comment if you have time.

Hugs Lynsey:)

A Couple of Childrens Cards

Hi everyone I hope you are all well and looking forward to the Easter Weekend. I am looking forward to Easter Sunday as it is my little girl Grace's first birthday. I can't believe she will be a year old!

Anyway onto my cards, they are not for any challenges they are for an order but I thought I would show them to you as I am quite pleased with them. All the images and papers are from the Crafters Companion CD.

Thanks for stopping by.

Hugs Lynsey:)

Friday Sketchers and Internet Problems

Hi everyone, a late post as my internet has been down for the last 3 evenings but it is back up again now. Is anyone else having these problems with Tiscali? Its driving me mad! I'm so sorry for not returning your comments I hope to catch up with you all over the next few days if I have a connection.

Anyway onto my card, this is for Friday Sketcher's who have a great sketch this week and it was perfect for a male 30th birthday card for my sister's boyfriend. I quite enjoyed making this male card.

Thanks for stopping by, please leave a comment if you have time.

Hugs Lynsey:)

Materials:

Image - Grab-a-doodle

Paper - DCWV

Cuttlebug Circles Embossing Folder

White Sakura Gel Pen

Coloured with Promarkers

Charisma Card Challenge 13 Sketch ..........

This week Chrisma Cardz Challenge have a great sketch by my blogging buddy Lyndsey, its also Lyndsey's birthday today, so happy birthday Lyndsey!

This card is an engagement card for my husband's cousin. I thought the little sentiment was perfect for this occasion. I made the flowers out of vellum after getting some inspiration from another of my blogging buddies Debbie, thanks Debbie! The largest flower has been punched then I used a white sukara gel pen for the dots. The other flowers have been made using my Clare Curd flower stamps and I embossed them with white embossing powder onto the vellum. I coloured the back of the vellum flowers with Promarkers to make them pink to match my card.

The stamped flower on my card has stamped twice and mounted on foam pads for a bit of dimension. I have coloured the flower with pink glitter pain and added glitter to the centre of the flower. For a change I am quite happy with card!

I hope you all have a great weekend, thanks for stopping by.

Hugs Lynsey:)

Material:

Image - Penny Black

Papers - Pink Petticoat

Flowers - Punch and Clare Curd Signature Range

Sentiment - Stampin Up

Pearls from Stash