Pink Gem Challenge - Anything Goes for Christmas

Hi I've been on a bit of a blogging break as I've been busy doing a college course. Thank goodness it has now finished and I passed!  Now I can get back to my crafting and blogging!

I've my DT card for the current challenge Pink Gem Designs to share with you today. Our theme is nice easy one and is 'Anything Goes for Christmas'  I have used a super cute Cosy Penguin Card Topper to make my card.  

Thanks so much for stopping by.  I hope to catch up on all your blogs soon.

Lynsey x

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

Hi all, well I finally got ready in time for Christmas and it all went well phew lol! I hope you all had a wonderful time.  My final card of 2015 is the card I made for my good friend Marianne.  I did wonder if I would ever get them finished this year but I did finally!  I don't want to leave it too long now before I make a start on 2016!  I do like to get the most from my Christmas stash! 

This is a photo of me, Will and Grace this Christmas:

Thanks for stopping by.

Hugs Lynsey x

Materials:

Image and Sentiment - Lawn Fawn

Papers - Lawn Fawn

Clouds Die - Lawn Fawn

Snowflake Dies - Memory Box

Tree Background Die - Marianne Designs

Litttle Claire Challenge ...............

Hi everyone and happy Saturday to you.  I have my Little Claire Challenge card to share with you today and our theme for you this month is 'A Christmas card for someone special'  so I have made my card for some special friends.  I have used a gorgeous Snowman Bunting Stamp from Little Claire on my card. 

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

Thanks for stopping by 

Hugs Lynsey x

Materials:

Image and Sentiment - Little Claire

Papers - My Minds Eye

Bunting Die - Memory Box

Chunky White Embossing Powder for Snow

Christmas Tree Dies - Joy

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

Hi all, just a quick post from me today to share my card for the Craft Ribbons Challenge as me and Grace are both poorly.  I think we have got a virus that has been going round Grace's school.   Poor Grace has missed going to a Panto with the school today so she was very upset this morning.  

Anyway onto my card which is my card for the theme of Cultural Christmas with a Ribbon.  There is a wonderful prize for the winner so I hope you will come along and join in with the challenge. 

Thanks for stopping by.

Hugs Lynsey x

Materials:

Image - Pink Gem

Papers - LOTV and Trimcraft

Ribbon - Crafty Ribbons Swiss Dot Grosgrain - Sky White

Sentiment - Little Claire

Star Die - Memory Box

Another Snowman Card and an Offer at Little Claire .........

Hi all, can you believe it is the first of December already!  Thank goodness I only have a couple of Christmas cards left to make! I still have quite a bit of shopping to do though and all the wrapping! Anyway this is another of my cards that was in Simply Homemade in a recent issue. The image is another gorgeous snowman from Little Claire.  

There is also a great offer I wanted to let you know about the Little Claire Bumper Bag:

 They have put together a bumper bag of LC goodies (retail value over £16.00) for a bargain price of just £5.00
Each pack contains:

• LC stamp worth £4.00
• £2 Dinkies stamps x 2, worth £4.00
• £1 Dinkies stamps x 2, worth £2.00
• Mini cards/envs pack of 20, worth £1.99
• 6 x 6 papers x 8 worth £1.00
• die-cut images x 8 worth £1.00
• outline stickers x 3 worth £2.10

Total value £16.09 but yours for just £5.00

Thanks for stopping by.

Hugs Lynsey x

A Snowman Aperture Card .......

Hi everyone and happy Saturday to you. I'm sharing a card today that is one of the one's I made for Simply Homemade magazine.   I love this cute snowman from Three Sparkly Snowmen from Little Claire. So what are your plans for today?  I will be busy working on another commission for Simply Homemade magazine and then me and Grace will be going to town this afternoon to buy a Christmas jumper each.  I've never brought a Christmas jumper before but I have seen a lovely one in Tesco's with penguins on so I think that will be my purchase. 

I hope you have a wonderful weekend.

Hugs Lynsey x

Materials:

Image and Sentiment - Little Claire

Papers - My Minds Eye

Memory Box Snowflake Dies

Pearls from Stash. 

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

Hi all and happy Saturday to you! It's time for another challenge over at Little Claire and our theme for you this time is 'Christmas in White'.  You might have noticed I have a thing for making circle cards, this is my third this week lol!   It makes a nice change using a different shape to a square!   I have used a gorgeous stamp which is part of a Christmas Snowmen Stamp Set.  

There is this wonderful prize for the winner:

so I hope you will come along and join in the challenge this month. 

Thanks for stopping by.

Hugs Lynsey x

Materials:

Image and Sentiment - Little Claire

Crafter's Companion Embossing Folder

Tonic Circle Dies

Lace - Crafty Ribbons

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

Hi all, I hope your week is going well.  Mine is flying by as usual!  I have my Crafty Ribbons card to share with you today and our challenge for you this time is 'Oh Christmas Tree' so we want to see a Christmas tree some where on your creations. I have used some beautiful Morlaix Lace.

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

Thanks for stopping by.

Hugs Lynsey x

Materials 

Lace - Morlaix Cotton Lace

Image - Pink Gem

Papers - My Minds Eye

Christmas Tree Die - Joy Crafts

Snowflake Dies - Memory Box

Sentiment - Little Claire

Tonic Circle Trellis and Circle Dies

Christmas Critters .............

Hi all and happy Saturday to you.  It's time for another challenge over at A Gem of a Challenge and our theme for you this time is 'Christmas Critters' so a nice easy one!  I have used this super cute Christmas Freddy image on my card by Pink Gem Designs.  You get the black and white and coloured digi and I have used the coloured digi on my card. 

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

Thanks for stopping by.

Hugs Lynsey x

Materials:

Image - Pink Gem

Sentiment - Little Claire Dinkie Christmas Text

Ribbon - Crafty Ribbons

Papers - LOTV

Button from stash

Snowmen at Crafty Ribbons ...............

Hi everyone, I hope your week is going well.  I've got a few days off this week as it is half term to spend with Grace so we have some busy days ahead.  We are off to an animal farm tomorrow, a dinsosaur park on Friday and a Halloween Fairy Fair on Saturday.  I think I may need a rest by Sunday lol! 

Anyway onto my card, our challenge over at Crafty Ribbons this week is 'Snowmen'  so I nice easy challenge if you are as keen on snowmen as I am!  I decided to give one of my cd's an airing and use this sweet image from the Christmas Moonbeam Meadow by Crafter's Companion. I've added some LOTV papers, memory box snowflakes and some gorgeous Snowmen Combo Festive Ribbon from Crafty Ribbons.

I hope you will come along and join in with the Challenge.

Thanks for stopping by.

Hugs Lynsey x

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

Hi everyone, Friday at last! I have my Winter Wonderland Challenge card to share with you today.  Our theme for you this week 'Jingle Bells'. We are sponsored this week by 

  

The image on my card is from the Jingle Bells set from Digi Stamp Boutique. 

Thanks for stopping by.

Hugs Lynsey x

Materials: 

Image - Digi Stamp Boutique

Papers - Docrafts

Stitched Holly Die - Memory Box

Bauble Border Die - Memory Box

Gingham Ribbon - Crafty Ribbons

Little Claire Friday Blog Project ................

Hi all, I hope you have had a good week, that is another one whizzed by!  It's my turn to host a blog project on the Little Claire Blog today.  I used a gorgeous stamp that comes free with the first edition of the Little Claire Magazine on my card.  To see how I made it please take a look at the blog.

Thanks for stopping by.

Hugs Lynsey x

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

Hi all, it's time for another challenge at Crafty Ribbons and our challenge for you this time is 'Christmas with no red or green'.  I've used some beautiful ribbon from Coming Home for Christmas range from Crafty Ribbons. I've used a topper from the Moonbeam Meadow Christmas CD from Crafters Companion, some LOTV paper and a wooden snowflake and some pearls from my stash.

We have a wonderful prize for the winner so I hope you will come along and join in our challenge.

Thanks for stopping by.

Hugs Lynsey 

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

Hi all, I hope you are all well and have had a good week.  I have my Winter Wonderland DT card to share with you today. Our theme for you this time is 'Traditional Christmas'. We have a fab sponsor this week who is:

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

 I saw a card in Making Cards this month with a Poppy and I used that for the inspiration for this card. I decided to have a go at a bit of a watercolour background, I think I need a it more practise but I enjoyed experimenting a bit and just having a play!

Thanks for stopping by. 

Hugs Lynsey x

Oh Christmas Tree ....................

Hi everyone, I hope you are having a nice weekend.  I have another Christmas card to share with you today made with another of the Christmas Ribbon and Button Combos from Crafty Ribbons.

The weather was lovely yesterday, I hope today is the same as it's so nice to enjoy a few more days of summer before autumn fully arrives.

Enjoy your day whatever you are doing!

Thanks for stopping by.

Hugs Lynsey x

One Cute Penguin ............

Hi everyone, I hope you are all well.  I have a very cute penguin card to share with you tonight.  This cute penguin and the gorgeous ribbons is part of a new button and ribbon combo from Crafty Ribbons new Christmas range. 

This is just a quick post as I need to get to bed as I need to get up early to get a 12 mile run in the morning.  

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

Crafty Sentiments - Anything Goes

Inky Chicks - White Christmas

Bizzy Becs Store - Anything Goes

Thanks for stopping by.

Hugs Lynsey x

Materials:

Penguin Button and Ribboon - Crafty Ribbons

Papers - Free with Simply Homemade

Embossed Background - Sheena Douglass Embossing Folder

Snowflake - Memory Box

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

Hi everyone, I hope you have had a good week. I'm back to share my Winter Wonderland DT card to share with you today and our theme for you this week is 'Anything but square'.  I decided to create my own card base using some large scalloped circle dies.   

We have a wonderful sponsor this week who is Wild Rose Studio are offering 3 stamps to the lucky winner!

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

Thanks for stopping by.

Hugs Lynsey x

Materials:

Image - Pink Gem

Paper - Craftwork Cards

Embossing Folder - Sheena Douglass

Christmas die cut sentiment - Joanna Sheen

Snowflake Die - Memory Box

Flower - Wild Rose Studio

Time to create a scene!

Hi everyone and happy Friday to you.  I'm back today with my DT card for Winter Wonderland and our challenge for you this week is 'Create a Scene'.  I decided to get another of my special cards made, this one is for my MIL and FIL so that is another crossed off the list!   

There is a wonderful sponsor this week which is:

I thought I would share a few photos I snapped on my run last night too:

Thanks for stopping by.

Hugs Lynsey x

Materials:

Reindeer Die and Snowflake Die - Memory Box

Tree Die - Marianne Designs

Merry Christmas Sentiment - Little Claire

Snow Embossing Folder - Sheena Douglas

Reindeer Embossing Folder - Crafte'rs Companion

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

Hi everyone, and happy Saturday to you!  I have my Little Claire stamp DT Challenge card to share with you today featuring another gorgeous snowman and this stamp is called Snowman Friends.  Our the month is 'Christmas in August' so a nice easy one as I'm sure you have all started making your Christmas cards by now?

If not I encourage you start and why not take the opportunity to join in with our challenge and the chance to win a prize at the same time as there will be some lovely Little Claire goodies for the winner!

I'm off to Cambridge for the day today for one of my friend's hen do.  We are going for afternoon tea, punting and then a meal at Jamie Oliver's.

Thanks for stopping by. 

Hugs Lynsey x

We 6 Cats

Hi everyone I'm back today with a card that I made for the Little Claire Stamp Blog Project.  You can find all the instructions on how I made the card over on the blog here. 

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

Christmas Cards All Year Round - Snowflakes

Sir Stamp Alot Challenge - Use a Stamp and Die

Creative Card Crew - Sparkle

I hope you have a great weekend.

Thanks for stopping by.

Hugs Lynsey x

Materials:

Little Claire We 6 Cats Stamp

Little Claire - Christmas Dinkie Text Stamp

Marianne Winter Trees Die

Copic Marker Pens 

Frantage Embossing Powder

Gold Embossing Powder 

Versamark Ink Pad

Sheena Douglass Snowfall Embossing Folder

Wooden Snowflake

Glitter

Heat Gun