Christmas Candy for my Followers!

This post will stay at the top until Sunday 24th November

Hi everyone,  I didn't forget about all my lovely followers when I went to the NEC so I have a little Christmas candy on offer.  

Sorry for the poor photo the light was not very good when I took this but the stamp is Lili of the Valley 'Fairies in stocking'

To take part in my candy giveaway please

be a follower of my blog

place a picture of my candy with a link back to my blog

Enter via the link below

Good luck everyone!

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

Hi everyone, I hope you have had a good weekend. I've been really busy as I went and did my last few bits of Christmas shopping in Cambridge yesterday.  Cambridge is only 45 minutes on the train from where I live I really should go there more often as there are some lovely shops!  Today I've been busy catching up on housework yuck!  But this afternoon I did get my sewing machine out and made a few Christmas presents which I will show you tomorrow when there is better light for a photo.

Onto today's card this is a quick and simple one made using a Crafter's Companion embossing folder. I did get my embossing powder out for the sentiment which is also from Crafter's Companion.    It won't be long till I need to get giving these cards out so I better get putting some inserts in and writing them all out.  I still need to make a few more special ones too!  At least I do have a nice pile of cards from making my Winter Wonderland DT cards all year.

I will be also be back tomorrow to announce the winner of my candy draw.

Thanks for stopping by.
Hugs Lynsey x

Crafty Ribbons Crafty Advent!

Hi everyone, this is just a short post to tell you about the exciting Crafty Advent event happening over at Crafty Ribbons.  There are prizes to be won everyday from the 1st of December to the 24th December and there is a surprise candy up for grabs as well!

Thanks for stopping by.

Hugs Lynsey x

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

Hi everyone, well aren't the weeks and days to Christmas rolling round quick now!  I've quite a few handmade gifts I want to make this year so I really need to get on with them! Anyway I have my Winter Wonderland card to share with you today and we have a photo inspiration for this week of this jolly Santa!

We do need to see a Santa on your card for you to be in with a change of winning this week's prize which is 4 digis from the lovely 

so I hope you will pop over and join in with the challenge this week.

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

Crafty Ribbons - Stitching Real or Faux

Crafty Sentiments - Christmas

Fab n Funky - Anything Goes

Addicted to Stamps - Make your Mark

The Paper Shelter - Christmas is coming

Thanks for stopping by.

Hugs Lynsey x

Materials: 

Image - Sugar Nellie

Papers - Docrafts Kraft Christmas Papers

Woodware Holly Punch

Red Card Candy - Craftwork Cards

Christmas Owl Ribbon - Crafty Ribbons

A Christmas Jumper .................

Hi everyone, well it's definitely a jumper day today, Norfolk has been freezing and I've had cold hands all day at work. I'm so glad to be home in the warm!

I couldn't believe how many Christmas jumpers I saw when I did my Christmas shopping a few weeks ago and they always make me think of Bridget Jones when she turns up at the Christmas party and Mark has a jumper on quite similar to the one in my card. So when I saw this stamp at the NEC I just had to buy it!  I had great fun creating this little winter scene, I hope it looks like a washing line in Winter.

I also had a nice surprise yesterday when I found out my bike card from my previous post made the top 3 at Sketch and Stash!

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

One Crazy Stamper - Christmas

Christmas Cards All Year Round - Winter Wonderland

  Stamping Sensations - Christmas

Paula Holifield Crafts - Sparkle and Shine

Crafty Cardmakers -Paper Piecing
Addicted to Stamps - Anything Goes

Thanks for stopping by.
Hugs Lynsey x

Materials: 

Image - Woodware

Sentiment - Joanna Sheen

Tree Scene Die - Marianne

Clouds Embossing Folder - Crafter's Companion

Small Snowflake Punch - Woodware

On Your Bike!

Hi everyone, thought I would share a card I made using one of my new stamps that I got from the NEC last week.  This bike stamp is from Dreamees.  I hadn't seen their stamps until the show and they had some lovely designs at a great price as this stamp only cost £3 which I thought was a great bargain!   I had another go with the frantage for this card but I used it a bit more sparingly so at least the bike does not look like it is in a snowstorm! I was quite pleased with how this one turned out.

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

Sketch and Stash - Great Sketch

Crafty Ribbons Challenge - Anything Goes with Ribbon

Crafting Musketeers - Pretty Pastels

Crafting for all reasons - Stitching Real or Faux

Crafty Creations Dies or punches

Thanks for stopping by.

Hugs Lynsey x

Materials: Image - Dreamees

Sentiment - Lili of the Valley

Papers - Melissa Frances

La La Land Hearts Banner

Ribbon from Stash

Flowers - Wild Orchid

Crafty Little Fairies do Top of the Pops!

Hi everyone, I have my DT creation for Crafty Little Fairies to share with you today.  Our theme for you this week is 'Top of the Pops' so we want to see your creations that are inspired by a song title or lyrics.  Well I was itching to use some new stamps that I got for my Birthday so my song was 'Singing in the Rain'.   I really love the vintage look but I have to say that I did take inspiration for this creation from my friend Marianne as she does vintage so well!  There is a wonderful sponsor for this week's winner so I hope you will join in the challenge. 

I had great fun making this tag which I'm going to give to my Dad as a bookmark for Christmas.  I even got out some old bronze embossing powder that I must have had for at least 8 years luckily it still worked fine, good job they don't have a sell by date on!

Thanks for stopping by.

Hugs Lynsey x

Materials:

Stamps - Tim Holtz

Prima Tag

Bronze Embossing Powder

My NEC Goodies ..............

Hmm well from these pictures you will see that I got a bit carried away with my purchases at the NEC last week but I did mostly spend Birthday money and money from the sale of crafty stash so I think that makes it ok!

The first picture is of the stamps I brought

This one includes the paper and embellishments and a lovely new craft room sign!

Lots of lovely new dies to play with!

Some lovely ribbons from Crafty ribbons and a cute Percy Owl to sew

And the last one is where I spend most of my money at the Lily of the Valley stand!  And a few chip board blanks to play with too!

This is a picture of me and my friend Marianne:

And finally a picture of the Prima Doll tag I made at a workshop:

Thanks for stopping by.

Hugs Lynsey x

A Little Bit Oriental ................

Hi everyone, what a busy few days I have had.  I went to the NEC on Thursday and shopped all day.  I got some lovely craft stash which I will show you tomorrow and then on Friday I went to York Xmas shopping for the weekend and only got back tonight. So that's the Xmas shopping nearly finished but I do have a couple of more things to get and I want to make some handmade gifts.

I have had no time to play with my new stash and I really can't wait! I will have to wait till after work tomorrow so lets hope the day goes by quick!

 So anyway onto my card, this was made using the one of Sheena's A little bit oriental stamps and embossing folders.  I think they work really well together.  This is not my normal sort of card but I really enjoyed making this one. This is an 8 x 8 card, for a change as I've not made many of them lately.

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

Papertake Weekly - Anything Goes

Bearly Mine Anything Goes

Lets Craft and Create Challenge- Clean and Simple

Thanks for stopping by.

Hugs Lynsey x

A Snowman in a Blizzard!

Hi everyone, it's Friday so it's time for another challenge at Winter Wonderland and our theme for you this week is to make 'A card for a child'.

 We have a lovely sponsor this week Pink Gem who have a great prize  of 3 digi's for the winner.

My snowman is from Pink Gem, I think he looks like he is in a blizzard, I didn't intend for that to happen but I got a bit carried away with my frantage so it looks like this snowman is in a snow storm!  I think I was a bit heavy handed but it was my first go at using frantage so next time I will lightly sprinkle lol!

I also did some sewing on this card as I had a new little toy arrive in the craft room this week that was a mini sewing machine. I do have a normal sewing machine but I want to use that to sew with material and I don't want to have to keep changing the needle all the time as paper will blunt it so this little mini one was only £12.50 from Hobbycraft which I thought was a great bargain!

I hope you all have a wonderful weekend.

Thanks for stopping by.

Hugs Lynsey x

Materials: 

Image - Pink Gem

Sentiment - Lili of the Valley

Papers - First Edition

Mittens Die - Memory Box

Coloured with Copics

A Fairy with a Cupcake ............

Well I've two of my favourite things on this card, a fairy and a cupcake what more could you want lol!  This is the card I made for my friend Lisa who's Birthday it was a few weeks ago.

I'm getting quite excited as I'm off to the big craft show at the NEC on Thursday with my friend Marianne.  I feel like a child waiting for Xmas!  Does anyone else get that excited about craft shows or is that just me!

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

Simon Says Stamp - Anything Goes
  The Hobby House - Pearls
Card Mania - Anything Goes

Thanks for stopping by.
Hugs Lynsey x

Materials:
Image - Sugar Nellie
Papers - First Edition
Sentiment - Penny Black
Boarder Die - Crafter's Companion
Flowers Prima and Wild Orchid
Pearls and Ribbon from stash
Coloured with Copics

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

Hi all, well we had a lovely Halloween.  I took Grace out Trick and Treating,  she is just like me bless her as some of the houses that were decorated for Halloween were a bit too scary for her!  She was very happy with her bucket of sweeties that she got though   Here is a silly little pic, she was so excited I only got funny faces out of her!

Well onto my card, this is one I made for my friend Emma's Birthday using a beautiful Sugar Nellie Fairy image. I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:

Charmed Cards and Crafts -  Autumn

Divas by Design - Use Orange
Scribble and Scrap - Anything Goes

Thanks for stopping by.
Hugs Lynsey x

Materials:
Image - Sugar Nellie
Papers - Dovecraft
Sentiment - Penny Black
Flowers and Pearls from Stash