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

Hi everyone, well that's another week flown by at lightening speed! I hope your week has gone well.   I have my Winter Wonderland DT card to share you with you today. Our theme for you this week is 'Twinkle Twinkle' so we need to see sparkle and glitter on your cards!  

We have a fantastic new sponsor this week that is:

M R Designs

I have used some gorgeous papers by our sponsor on my card and I'm really pleased with how it turned it out.  I have also used a Penny Black stamp, star dies by memory box and some beautiful lace by Crafty Ribbons.

Thanks for stopping by.

Hugs Lynsey x

Crafty Little Fairies Challenge .............

Hi everyone, just a quick post from me today to share my card for the Crafty Little Fairies Challenge.  Our challenge for you this month is 'Cute and Cuddly'.  I have used a cute Penny Black image on my card and this was the card I made for Will's Birthday last week. 

We have some great sponsors this month for the challenge so I hope you come along and join in.

Thanks so much for stopping by.

Hugs Lynsey x

A Christmas Mouse!

Hi everyone,  I have set the challenge this week at Winter Wonderland as a Christmas Mouse.  So this week we want to see all your mouse themed Christmas card.  I love the Penny Black image on my Christmas card which I have had for a few years now. 

I would like to enter this card into this week's sketch challenge at:  Sketch and Stash.

Thanks for stopping by.
Hugs Lynsey x

Materials:
Image - Penny Black
Papers - Papermania
Fiskars Boarder Punch
Fern Die - Marianne's
Ribbon Sentiment - Pink Petticoat

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

Hi everyone, the challenge at Winter Wonderland this week is a 'One Layer Card'. Now for me this was a real challenge as I don't do the less is more thing very well on my cards! So for my DT card I have stamped a cute Penny Black image and added distress ink all round the edges of my card. I stamped and embossed the swirls and used an embossing powder called Wow. It is holographic and really sparkly. In the end I was really pleased with my card and I used my distress ink pad which has been sat in my draw gathering dust!

I am entering this card into the following challenges:

Sarah Hurley - Snowflakes
Charisma Cardz - Try something new (I used distress inks as my background)
A Spoon Full of Sugar - Animal Crackers
Sweet Stampin Challenge - Winter Wonderland

Thanks for stopping by.
Hugs Lynsey x

An Anniversary Card .................

Hi everyone, I have an Anniversary card to share with you today. I love this Pennyblack stamp and thought it was time to ink it up again. I must let you know that I got the inspiration for the paper flowers from Debby who always make the most the wonderful cards!

I am entering this card into the following challenges:

Crafters Companion who have a great sketch to follow
Crafy Calendar Challenge - Blue and Flowers
Penny Black at Allsorts - Punch Away
Crafts and me Gems and Sparkle
2 Sisters Challenge - Monochromatic

Thanks for stopping by
Hugs Lynsey x

Materials:

Image - Penny Black

Papers - Henbury Lane

MS Boarder Punch

Various Daisy Punches

Craftwork Cards Card Candy

Sizzix Swirl Die

Computer Printed Sentiment

A Thank You Card ..........

Hi everyone, my second post for today is a thank you card which I made for my friend Marianne as I won her last candy giveaway which was so lovely! I used a really cute Penny Black Sticker for this card. I have had them for ages and not used them but I think this looks really pretty on my card. I also used my new favourite Henbury Lane papers.

I'm off on my hols tomorrow for 2 weeks, we are going for 1 week in Cornwall then 1 week in Dorset. I am just so excited! My blog will be a quiet for the next few weeks but there will be a scheduled post on Monday for Pollycraft Challenge.

I am entering my card into the following challenges:
Penny Black Challenge who have a wonderful sketch to follow.
Creative Card Crew whose theme is 'Thank You'

Thanks for stopping by.
Hugs Lynsey x

Friday Sketchers .............

I was asked to make an anniversary card for an order but I was seriously lacking my mojo for this card! I could not decide on what papers to use even though I have enough to most probably cover the whole village where I live! Maybe thats the problem, I just have too many to choose from! In the end I choose these papers that I got free with a magazine ages ago and I was really pleased with how this card turned out.

I used a sketch from Friday Sketchers which I love! I really like the flowers being round the bottom of the card and I use this sketch again.

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

Hugs Lynsey:)

Materials:

Image - Penny Black

Papers - Free with Magazine

Flowers from stash

Mcgill Pine Leaf Punch

Coloured with Promarkers

Secret Craft Saturday Challenge ..........

This week's challenge over at Secret Crafter Saturday Challenge is ' New Beginnings' and fits in perfectly with this card I made for an order for new Grandparents. I was asked to make the card in beige and cream and I am quite pleased with how it turned out.

I have had lots of orders for baby cards lately, I have another one which I will post tomorrow. I might have to rename my blog Lynsey's Place for baby cards soon!

This is the box I made to match the card:

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

Hugs Lynsey:)

Materials:

Image - Penny Black

Papers - Pink Petticoat

Various Flower Punches

Pearls and Ribbon from Stash

Leaf Punch

Coloured with Promarkers

A card for twins .........

Hi everyone, this is another card for an order that I thought I would share with you and it also gives me the opportunity to wish everyone a lovely bank holiday weekend. I hope you all have lots of nice things planned. I am not sure what I am going to do as me and hubby both feel a bit under the weather! Never mind hopefully we will feel better tomorrow.

This is the box that I made for the card to go in. I also wrap my card in tissue paper before I put in the box which I think just makes it all look a bit more special.

Hugs Lynsey:)

Materials:

Image - Penny Black

Paper - Cuddly Buddly

Gingham Ribbon from stash

Cuttlebug Swiss Dots Folder

Matha Stewart Boarder Punch

Sketch Saturday ..................

There is another fabby sketch this week over at Sketch Saturday. This card is for my sister whoose birthday it is tomorrow so I hope she likes this. I love this great image which was kindly sent to me by one of my blogging buddies.

And this is the inside of my card. My sister loves baking cakes so I thought this image would finish the card off nicely and it is the nearest she will get to a cake off me as I don't do cakes, the last batch I attempted came out like rock cakes!



Have a great weekend, thanks for stopping by!
Hugs Lynsey:)

Materials:
Girls Image - Penny Black
Cupcake Image - Digi Stamp Boutique
Papers - Designer Digital
Flowers, Ribbon from Stash
Matha Stewart Boarder Punch

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

Colour Create Challenge Blue and Brown ......

I was very lucky to be drawn as this week's guest designer for the Colour Creat Challenge and this week's theme was 'Blue and Brown' which is one of my fav colour combos so I really enjoyed taking part. Be sure to check out the rest of the DT work as they have made some stunning cards which you can see here !

I hope you are all well and enjoying the weekend.

Thanks for stopping by, please leave a comment if you have time as they always appreciated.

Hugs Lynsey:)

Materials

Image - Penny Black

Papers - Papermania

Flowers, lace, pearls from stash

Pine Leaf Punch

Image coloured with promarkers

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

Hi everyone, well the Christmas tree is up and I have wrapped a few pressies but I'm still busy making cards as I'm sure you are too. This card is for my parents from my little girl Grace. I've been after this stamp for ages and when I saw it in a craft shop last week it just jumped into my basket so I had to have it lol!

The first challenge this card is for the Basic Grey Challenge and their theme is 'Oh so charming' where you have to add a charm to your project. This is the first time I've entered a Basic Grey challenge, I'm not sure why its taken me so long as I love their papers! The second challenge this card is for is the Secret Crafter Saturday Challenge and their theme this week is 'Embossing Dry or Heat'.

Thanks for popping in, please leave me a comment if you have time.

Hugs Lynsey :)

Materials:

Image stamp - Penny Black

Scroll Stamp - HOTP

Paper - Basic Grey

Ribbon - Dovecraft

Charm - Ebay Shop

Coloured with promarkers & glitter paints

Cuttlebug - Snowflake embossing folder

Cuttlebug - Snowflakes dies

Penny Black Saturday Challenge .........

This week's challenge over at Penny Black Saturday Challenge is a sketch. I have included a close up of my image as I used some glitter flocking powder from Papermania which my friend brought me for my birthday. Can you see how fluffy it looks on the Christmas Stocking! You just want to touch it! It was really easy to apply you first put wet glue where you want the flocking powder to be. I call it a powder but its actually more like cotton wool, then you just press it down into the glue its that easy! I got six christmas colours in my set, which were white, black, green, red, purple and blue. I think you may see this alot in the future on my cards as I love it!

Please leave me a comment if you have time.
Hugs Lynsey :)

Materials:
Stamp - Penny Black
Papers - HOTP
Snowflakes - Cuttlebug Dies
Charm - Ebay Shop
Ribbon, gems, brads from stash

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

Hi everyone, another new week and more cards and scrapbook pages to be made! With all the challenge blogs now around there are just not enough hours in the day!
This card is for two challenges, the first is for a new challenge blog Secret Crafter Saturday Challenge. This new challenge blog has a great DT and this week the challenge is to follow a sketch. This card is also for this week's challenge over at Cute Card Thursday and the theme is to create a card with christmas animals.

Thanks for stopping by, please leave me a comment if you have time they are always appreciated.
Have a great week.
Hugs Lynsey :)

Materials:

Image & Sentiment Stamps: Penny Black
Papers - Last Years Stash
Circle Nestabilities
Daisy Punch
Ribbon and Gems from Stash

Double Challenge Card

Another double challenge card, this one is for this week's sketch over at Friday Sketchers and the other challenge this card is for is the Penny Black Saturday Challenge as the theme this week is 'one for the girls'. I just love this Penny Black image it is one of my favourites.

Thanks for stopping by, please a comment if you have time I always love to see your comments.

Thanks Lynsey x

Materials:

Stamp - Penny Black

Paper - Free with Magazine

Flowers, Prima and Crafts U Love

Butterfly - Mad about Cards

Penny Black Saturday Challenge ........

This week's challenge over at Penny Black Saturday Challenge is stars and strips. I thought this theme would work well for a man so this is what I have come up with. I made the star embellishments myself so I hope they look ok.

I realise looking at my last card that I have had a bit of green and blue theme going on this weekend, I'm not sure why, but I do like these colours together!

Lynsey x

Materials:

Stamp - Penny Black

Papers - All My Memories

Button, Brads and Ribbon from stash

Sketches By Tamara - Card Sketch 57

This card is for this week's sketch challenge at Sketches By Tamara. It was also an opportunity to get another Christmas card finished, I can't believe I have some made in August, this is a first!

Lynsey x

Materials:

Paper - Papermania

Stamp - Penny Black

Flower Emblishments - Craft Bitz

Ribbon - From Stash

Penny Black & Cute Card Thursday Double Challenge Card

This card is for the Penny Black Challenge Sketch 2 which I loved! I will definitively be using this sketch again! It is also for this weeks challenge at Cute Card Thursday which is 'The two of us'. As I needed to make a card for my husband's sister and her husband for their anniversay next week this was a great theme!

Me and my sister took my little girl Grace swimming for the first time today, I had a little float for her to sit in which was really good. It was so funny to see her little face but she seemed to really like it! My sister took a picture of Grace in her swimming suit so I hope that I will be able to use that for a scrapbook page.

Lynsey x

Materials

Stamp - Penny Black

Papers - K & Co

Flowers - Prima

Triple Challenge Card

This card is for 3 challenges. The first is for the PENNY BLACK SATURDAY CHALLENGE which this week is to include snow, which is great as it has got me started on my Christmas cards in July which is a first for me! Normally I don't start till December and then just end up making a few for close family and friends but this year as I am on maternity leave I plan to have them all done by the end of November. Well thats the plan whether it happens or not remains to be seen!

The next challenge this card is for is for CUTE CARD THURSDAY and you have to design a card with animals only, no people.

The third challenge which this card has been designed for is for Michelle's Sketch at THE CARD GROTTO
Thanks for stopping by.
Lynsey x

Materials
Stamp - Penny Black Christmas Critters
Paper - Paper Mania Contemporary Christmas