New Ribbon Inspiration ..............

Hi all, I can't believe it's Wednesday already, this week is flying by! Anyway I'm here to share some ribbon inspiration today using some gorgeous new Stitches - Sewing Machine Ribbon from Crafty Ribbons.  I thought it would be perfect to put on a little sewing room plaque.   

Thanks so much for stopping by.

Have a lovely evening. 

Lynsey x

A Christmas Tag ..............

Hi all, I'm back today sharing some more gorgeous new Christmas ribbon from Crafty Ribbons.  This lovely ribbon is called Santa's Grotto - Stag Ribbon.  I think it goes so well with the die cut on my tag.   

Have a wonderful Friday.

Thanks for stopping by.

Hugs Lynsey x

Anything Goes with Ribbon or Lace at Crafty Ribbons .............

Hi all and happy Thursday to you.  So onto my card which is  for our challenge over at Crafty Ribbons and we have a nice easy theme of use Ribbon or Lace on your card.   I have used some of my favourite Chantilly Cotton Lace on my card.  There is a wonderful prize for the winner so I hope you will come along and join in with challenge.

Thanks for stopping by.

Hugs Lynsey x

Materials:

Embossing Folder - Crafters Companion

Leaf Die - Joy

Butterfly Die - Cheery Lynn

Flowers Ribbon Girl & Wild Orchid

Ribbon - Crafty Ribbons

Crafty Ribbons Challenge and the Handmade Fair ............

Hi all, this post is a bit late for my Crafty Ribbons Challenge as I've had one of those weeks when I felt I was on a roller coaster and couldn't get off!  My little Grace was really poorly in hospital all last weekend as she couldn't stop being sick. Thankfully she is better now and back to normal.  On top of that I have just started an evening college course for work and I have had tons of homework so I've been having to do that every evening till gone 10pm so there has been no time for blogging, crafting or anything else! Finally I have a day at home today so I'm going to spend a bit of time in the craft room this afternoon!  

So back to the challenge, our theme for you this time is Birthday so I nice easy one for you this week. I do hope you will come along and join in our challenge. There is a wonderful prize for the winner. 

I did manage to fit one lovely thing in last week though and that was a trip The Handmade Fair in London that is organised by Kirstie Allsop.  I loved my day there.  There was a little paper crafting but not too much and all sorts of other crafts.  I'm a crafter who likes to dabble in all sorts of crafts so this was a perfect day out for me!  There were also lots of makers there as well that sold beautifully crafted items.   I took a needle felting workshop and made some bees which was great fun so of course I had to buy a kit to have a go at home. I also brought a kit to do some stamping on fabric and a folk art kit.  I'm not sure when I think I'm going to get time to do all these crafts but hopefully sometime soon lol! I also hope to catch up with all my blogging buddies very soon too! 

Here are a few photos from my day:

Thanks for stopping by.

Hugs Lynsey x

Materials:

Image and Paper - Lili of The Valley 

Lace - Crafty Ribbons

Swirl Die - JOY

Flowers from The Ribbon Girl & Wild Orchid

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

Hi all and happy Thursday to you.  It's time for another challenge at Crafty Ribbons and we have a nice easy challenge for you this time of 'Anything Goes with Ribbon'.  As always there is a wonderful prize for the winner!  I have used some fab brown gingham ribbon on my card which I think is always so great to add to a man's card. I do hope you will come along and join in the challenge this week!

This is the birthday card I made for Will for his birthday last month.  He was really poorly on this birthday as he had food poisioning so it was not the best of days!  

Thanks for stopping by!

Hugs Lynsey x

Materials:

Image - Richard Gray

Papers and Leaf Dies - Crafters Companion

Computer printed sentiment

Twine from stash

Brown Gingham Ribbon - Crafty Ribbons

A Gem of a Challenge ............

Hi all and happy Saturday to you!  It's time for another challenge at A Gem of a Challenge and our theme for you this week is 'Animals'. As always there is a wonderful prize of 3 digis for the winner so I hope you will come along and and join in the challenge.

I have use a super cute coloured image from Pink Gem Designs called Ella on my gift tags along with some papers from my stash and some lovely spotty ribbon Crafty Ribbons.

Thanks for stopping by.

Hugs Lynsey x

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

Hi all and happy Thursday to you. It's time for another challenge over at Crafty Ribbons challenge an our theme for you this time is 'Things with Wings'.    I decided to go WOW for this card an used some gorgeous Chantilly cotton lace - Jane on my card.   I think this lace is just my favourite from Crafty Ribbons!  

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

Thanks for stopping by.

Hugs Lynsey x

Materials:

Lace - Crafty Ribbons

Embossing Folder - Crafter's Companion

Butterfly Dies - Cheery Lynn

Gnome Sweet Gnome!

Hi all and happy Wednesday to you.  I have a card today featuring some of the fantastic new Gnomes and More  ribbon range to share with you from Crafty Ribbons.   These Gnomes are really making me want one for the garden!

The topper is also from Crafty Ribbons, I think these would be just perfect to send to a friend who love their garden or just anything cute!  

Thanks so much for stopping by.

Hugs Lynsey x

Materials:

Image - Gnome Topper - Crafty Ribbons

Ribbon - Gnome Ribbon - Crafty Ribbons

Paper from stash

Woodware Daisy Punch

Card Candy - Craftwork cards

Summer at Crafty Ribbons ................

Hi everyone and happy Thursday to you!  It's time for a new challenge over at Crafty Ribbons and our theme for you this week is 'Summer'.  Nothing makes me thing of summer more than icecream so I decided to make that the theme for my DT make.  

I have used Summer Festival Ice Cream Ribbon on my tags and teamed them up with some icecream printables, papers by Craft Asylum and Happy Birthday sentiment from Little Claire.

Thanks for stopping by.

Hugs Lynsey x

Wedding/Anniversary Challenge at Crafty Ribbons ............

Hi everyone and happy Thursday to you.  It's time for a new challenge at Crafty Ribbons and our challenge for you this time is  Wedding/Anniversary.  This is the wonderful prize for the winner:

So I hope you will come along and join in with the challenge this week!

  I made this card for an order for a new customer and she was very happy with it so I was pleased!  

Of course the perfect finishing to this card was the beautiful Chantilly Cotton Lace from Crafty Ribbons.  

Thanks for stopping by.

Hugs Lynsey x

Materials:

Papers: LOTV

Lattice and Flower Embossing Folder by Crafters Companion

Heart Dies - Marianne Designs

Leaf Die - Joy

Lattice Border and Butterfly Dies - Memory Box

Lace - Crafty Ribbons

Crafty Ribbons Inspiration ............

Hi all and happy Tuesday to you!  I have some home decor inspiration to share with you today.  I made this mdf heart for my sister's Birthday.   I used a mix of papers and flowers from my stash, Marianne design alpha dies and some beautiful cream chantilly cotton lace from Crafty Ribbons as the perfect finishing touch!

I'm off work today and tomorrow which is lovely.  Grace has got a Pizza making Birthday party to go today at Pizza Express so we will be going off to that shortly!

I hope you have a lovely day whatever your plans!

Thanks for stopping by.

Hugs Lynsey x

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

Hi all and happy Thursday to you!   It's a new challenge over at Crafty Ribbons and our challenge for you this time is Flowers and you must use either ribbon or lace or on your card so I nice easy one for you! I hope you will come along and join in the challenge this week. 

 I have used some beautiful Chantilly Cotton Morliax Lace on my card, the papers are first edition and the stamp and matching die set is by Clearly Besotted.  This was the first time I had used Clearly Besotted stamps and dies and I have to say they were really lovely quality.  

Thanks so much for stopping by.

Hugs Lynsey x

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

Hi everyone and happy Thursday to you.  It's time for another challenge over Crafty Ribbons and our challenge for you this time is 'It's a man's world'.  As always there is a wonderful prize for the winner so I hope you will come along and join in.

I have used some gorgeous Father's Day Ribbon on my card from Crafty Ribbons and a fab digi image from Pink Gem Designs and some papers from my stash. 

Thanks for stopping by.

Hugs Lynsey x

Button It Up .......................

Hi all and happy Thursday to you.  Thank goodness I only have today to work and then 4 days off.  Hopefully that will give me chance to get rid of this horrid cold!  Anyway enough of my moaning and onto my card!  Our theme for you at the Crafty Ribbons Challenge this time is 'Button it up' so we want to see a button on your creation! I do hope you will come along and join in with our challenge. 

I have used a gorgeous pink spotty button and some beautiful black volcan viscose lace on my card.  The image and sentiment is from LOTV, papers are Dear Lizzy.

Thanks for stopping by.

Hugs Lynsey x

Dream, Wish, Believe ............

Hi all, I've a card today sharing some ribbon inspiration for Crafty Ribbons. I thought these beautiful Dream, Wish, Believe  ribbons would work well on a love themed card so I've teamed them up a Crafter's Companion embossing folder.  I add a bit of distress ink to some of the flowers and birds and I was quite pleased with how it turned out.  

I hope you have a wonderful day whatever your plans.  I'm off work again this week so I'm taking Grace to a Jewellery making workshop and roller skating later at our local leisure centre so she is looking very forward to that.

Thanks for stopping by.

Hugs Lynsey x

Tag it at Craft Ribbons ......................

Hi all and happy Thursday to you!  I'm having such a lovely week being off work.  On Monday we had a lovely lunch out with my friend Marianne and her husband Graham. Tuesday we went to Banham Zoo and yesterday we went to Thursford.  

Anyway onto my tags which are my DT make for our new challenge over at Crafty Ribbons

 and our theme this time is 'Tag It'.  I love making tags so I really enjoyed taking part in this challenge.  I've used some beautiful Grosgrain Ribbon Swiss Dot in Candyfloss on my tags, some paper from my stash and some new stamps and dies from Mama Elephant.  I do hope you will come along and join in with our challenge this time. 

If you love ribbon you may also be interested in the Design Call at Crafty Ribbons. You can find out all the details here.

Thanks for stopping by.

Hugs Lynsey x

Easter Parade at Crafty Ribbons ............

Hi all and happy Saturday to you!  Today I hope you will come and  take part in our EASTER PARADE at Crafty Ribbons! 

You will need to visit our DT members' blogs and leave a comment on the DT creations which they have made for the parade  

There is also an egg sitting on a few of the girls blogs which you will need to take note of and then link up on that days post. and tell us on whose blog you found the egg.

if you take part every day and linkup  with the correct name  on each day you have extra chances of winning in the random draw from all three days.

if you only want to join in one day thats fine too!!

SATURDAY's links

KATE 

LA VIKINGA 

KELLY

now back to CRAFTY RIBBONS  to add your link 

Thanks for stopping by.

Hugs Lynsey xx

Materials:

Image - Tatty Ted Decoupage

Papers - Free with Magazine

Ribbon -  and Lace Morlaix Cotton Lace in Blush  and Swiss Dot Grosgrain Ribbon in Candyfloss from Crafty Ribbons 

Monochrome at Crafty Ribbons .................

Hi all, I'm back today to share my DT card for the Crafty Ribbons Challenge and our theme for you this time is monochrome.  I thought I would make a Mother's day card for this theme and used some of the gorgeous Black Volcan Visose Lace on my card.  I have also used a free die that came with this month's issue of Quick cards and some buttterfly dies from Cheery Lynn.  The papers are some old papermania ones I have had for ages so it was good to use some more of them up! 

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

Thanks for stopping by.

Hugs Lynsey x

Ladybird Ribbon Inspiration ................

Hi all and happy Monday to you.   I have some inspiration to share with you today using some more of the gorgeous new ribbons form Crafty Ribbons.  This fab ladybird ribbon is from the Animal Cuties Range and I thought it went just perfectly with this bright coloured topper. 

Thanks so much for stopping by.

Hugs Lynsey x

New Travel Themed Ribbons at Crafty Ribbons

Hi all and happy Monday to you.  I've only got to work today and tomorrow and then I have got the rest of the week off with Grace. I can't wait!  Anyway onto today's make which is a card that I made using some gorgeous new Travel Ribbon from Crafty Ribbons.  There are other lovely ribbons in this range and you can see them all here. 

As this is lovely wide ribbon I thought it should take centre stage on this card.  I've also used a Marianne boarder die, some flowers from Wild Orchid and a Joanna Sheen leaf die.  

Thanks for for stopping by.

Hugs Lynsey x