Sewing theme card

Its snowing again here in Sheffield tonight. After a mild dry day, a lot of the snow has melted this afternoon, so I suppose we have room for more. lol I had already planned a crafting day and as a lot of the stuff was still out from yesterday it would have been a shame not too! lol 

 My card this evening has a sewing theme, its great having all my stamp sorted!
The pictures not great as the light was poor, I have gone close up, might try and take a better one tomorrow.

For the background I stuck a piece of dress makers paper pattern to a square of white card. I then randomly stamped all over. I stamped some more sewing images on white card, mounted them inked with antique linen distress ink and add dark brown cardstock.

The recipe for this card is:

Main card: Craft Den white 8" x 8"

Backing paper: White card and stamped paper pattern

Stamps: Stampers Anonymous Tim Holtz, PaperArtsy sentiment.

Ink Pad: Ranger Archival Coffee, Jet Black, Distress Ink pad Antique Linen

Bigz Die: Ateration Sewing theme

Ebellishements: Ribbon slider, ribbon, pins and muslin from statsh

All products used available from the Craft Den

Keep warm and happy crafting hugs Lynne xox

Polka Dots with a Birthday Theme

The challenge this fortnight over on Anything Goes is Polka Dots with a Birthday Theme.

I have made a 8" x 8" card, the backing paper is a sheet from a Spring Feast First Editions paper stack, love these papers they are 200gsm some are double sided and the others have that beautiful glitter effect like this one that doesn't rub off.

As the theme is Polka Dots I have tried to use as many dots and spots as I could find. Bo Bunny Coral Dot from the Double Dot collection, Black and White spot paper from Echo Park Bella Road collection cut with a scalloped circle nestie. Dotted Swizz from Bazzill in white for the tag with Bo Bunny Double Dot ribbon. 

All the edges including my flowers are coloured with Versa magic chalk ink Red Brick.

Happy Crafting love and hugs Lynne xoxo

Fabulous day...

Sorry I didn't get back on yesterday with the pics as promised, I am having problems sitting, the result of a fall I had a few weeks ago.

Here are a few of my photos from Sunday. Rocco took a liking to my sewing tin the lid is a very large shaped wooden button. He played for a while taking the lid on and off and then when it was time to tidy up he was off with it! lol 

We then went out for a lovely meal. Here's Ava counting her money...

Rocco with his eye on something I think it was Ava's ice cream

on the way home we called off at the park for a swing

It was a lovely day and we all had a great time.

The card I am sharing with you today is 8" x 8" the papers are Basic Grey 12 x 12 Origins and Bazzill cardstock. 

EK Success Rock Fern punch, Cheery Lynn Flourish die Craftwork cards sentiments and a few pearls all finished off with some lovely Stickles.

Happy crafting hugs Lynne xox

What to do when you don't want to be 60...

After lots of help from other fellow bloggers I seem to have sorted leaving comments and now that I have changed the background I can receive comments too! So a BIG thank you to everyone who has suggested different things to try.

Now for todays card.  A customer asked if I could make a glittery silver and white card with 59 + 1 for her husband who really didn't want to be 60. This is what I came up with, what do you think?

My customer loved it and more importantly so did her husband. :-)

Happy crafting hugs Lynne xox

Tuesday card class

Good morning to all my crafting buddies. It looks like being a nice day again today here in Sheffield.... fingers crossed. :-)

The card I have to show you this morning is one we made in card class last week.

The flowers are embossed on black and white colour core cardstock using an embossing folder called 'Dandelion Whispers' lightly sanded back to reveal the white core. Crystal stickles to highlight and card candi for the center of the flowers. 

Happy crafting hugs Lynne xox

Anemone card

Good evening  to all my crafting buddies. I hope you have all had a good weekend despite the horrid weather. The sun managed to get out today in Sheffield, fingers crossed it will do again tomorrow.

For todays card I have used IndigoBlu Anemone corner stamp and Bo Bunny papers.

Anemone corner stamp and Bo Bunny papers. The stamped image is coloured with Copics and edged with crystal stickles, the leaves are EK Success rock leaf punch.
The sentiment is from the IndigoBlu Poppy Meadow stamp set and layered on card cut using two Spellbinder scalloped square nesties.

Thank you for your emails letting me know you can not leave me comments. 

I know how annoying that can be! lol

Happy Crafting 

Hugs Lynne xox

Big Birthday Wishes

Well its managed to keep dry here this afternoon in Sheffield. It is still cold although the sun has tried to come out on a few occasions. I have a card to share with this you this afternoon that I made for my Auntie's birthday. 

The papers are Bo Bunny from the Peacock Lane collection and the numbers are cut from Bazzill Dotted Swizz.

Wherever you are I hope it has managed to keep fine and dry and you are enjoying your weekend.

Happy Crafting Lynne xoxo

Black, white and Gold

A quick card using IndigoBlu stamps, FlitterGlu and MegaFlake

The Anemone image was stamped with FlitterGlu on black card and MegaFlake added, matted and layered on a gold embossed card and then on black. I have stamped around the edges of an 8 x 8 card with black archival ink using a small flourish stamp.

 

A close up picture to show the detail, the rich gold colours work so well on the black card.

Happy Crafting Lynne xox

One for the boys

Good morning to you all. Well here I am again two days running, fingers crossed all seems well...

I thought I would show you another card from Saturdays class, this time it was one for the boys. I think we all struggle with mens cards as we can't fill them up with blooms and bling... well I suppose we could, they might not like it, but we could. lol

We used a blue 6 x6 card blank, a strip of Ranger Kraft Resist paper coloured with a mixture of Distress Stains, some blue and red embossed colour core paper sanded back a circle of grunge board highlighted with glossy accents a washer and brad T!ms Old Jalopy die and some Viva Decor Inka Gold in Cobalt blue and Old Gold to finish off. Not a flower or blingy bit in site, not even a hint of Stickles.

All that leaves me to say is Thank Crunchie its Friday! I am hoping to pop round and visit you all this evening as I have a nice quiet evening planned, so I can catch up on what you all have been up too, I have missed you all, it has been very strange not being able to blog hop for so long.

Happy crafting love and hugs Lynne xoxo

This 'n' That...

Good afternoon to all my crafting blogging buddies and thank you for all the emails about how to get back on her posting again. It is nice when you get such lovely emails to offer help of how to get back on here. I must say after the last time I tried I was losing the will to live so had nearly decided to pack in blogging... anyway no ranting today, well not yet.

I have a mixture of pictures to share with you today, and lots more to show over the next few days of what we have been up to in the studio over the last week or so. It has been lovely to see so many new faces at our classes and workshops too. We celebrated the studios 3rd birthday in April our challenge blogs 1st birthday in May and had planned some blog candy so hopefully we can get that underway soon now things seem to be working OK again.

My first picture is of the studio on Saturday morning with the tables laid out ready and waiting for our card making workshop.

This is the first card we made, a nice quick one to get us all in the mood for a craft filled day.

Last year I was bought a lovely rose called 'Birthday Girl' for my 50th and this is what it looks like now a year later, just beautiful, don't you think?

and last but not least a picture of Ike the eldest of my two dogs who has not been too well recently so it is nice to see him out side enjoying this nice weather.

Thanks for popping by and if you have time and blogger will allow you! lol leave a comment and I will pop over and visit you too.

Happy crafting love and hugs Lynne xoxo

Birthday card...

Last week was my Mum's birthday. I made a circular fold up card with pockets and tags for special messages. Here are some pics of different stages of the card but non of the finished one :-(

The main card is cream decorated with cream and lilac filigree patterned paper a few Magnolia stamped images coloured with Copics



This is the card folded up and tied with ribbon with a lovely rosette cut with a the large Sizzlets die from Tims Alterations range.

Happy Crafting Lynne xox

Just a quick card...

Good morning to all you crafty bloggers, hope the weather is better with you this morning than it is here in very wet Sheffield. It forecast sunshine and showers for us today we have had a few short burst of sun and some very very heavy showers it is also very blustery.

On our Wednesday evening class we made some quick cards using Distress Ink pads and Paper Artsy stamps. I have used DI in Spiced Marmalade, Dried Marigold, Antique Linen and stamped with Black Archival Ink matted and layer with black and orangery card stock.

I treated myself to a pack of Paper Artsy Sentiment stamps a couple of weeks ago. I have been using

 them lots on my scrapbook layouts but one caught my eye the other day I had not noticed it before 'Warm Fuzzies' so me being me just had to use it lol Can anyone tell me what warm fuzzies are?

So wishing you all 'Warm Fuzzies'

Enjoy the rest of your weekend and happy crafting

Love and hugs Lynne xox

Oh forgot to say thank you to those of you that took time to email me this week to say blogger is still acting up and you can not leave comments. I too have had a few problems not been able to get on some blogs, fingers crossed it will be sorted soon.

Liittle Helper...

It is a lovely warm sunny morning here in Sheffield fingers crossed it will stay like this for the rest of the Bank holiday weekend. I have a few Easter cards to show you this morning. I don't usually do many Easter cards if any, this year I have sent lots and had fun making them. This afternoon Ava and I are making some baskets and decorating eggs really looking forward to that.

We have had lots of deliveries in the studio this week, Bo Bunny, T!m Holtz restocks on Copic Ciao and we now stock the Sketch, and Various Inks refils, Promarkers. The Aqua Promarkers are due in very soon.

All will be on the website shortly. A lot of deliveries means a lots of boxes so I was really pleased of some help...

 A little rest was needed...

off we go again...



Thank you to those of you who emailed to let me know you can't leave comments, mmm not sure what happened there, hopefully blogger will sort itself all in good time.

Enjoy your long relaxing Bank holiday weekend and have a lovely crafting Happy Easter.

Love and hugs Lynne xoxox

Exciting news!!!

Hi to all my crafting blogging buddies I've got some very exciting news to share with you today. I have 2 cards in the May edition of Making Card magazine, how brilliant is that? The theme is wedding and ive gone with a shabby chic theme. Just can't tell you how chuffed I am, I am grinning from ear to ear!! :-)

For the first card I used papers from Kars Country Rose 6x6 pad, Its Only Words stamp set 4 from Ladybug CraftInk, Wooden heart which I painted with acrylics and distress paint techniques and decorated with a couple of flowers and some bling. I add a piece of blue lace to my punched border and a couple of heart pins to finish off.

For my second card I used GCD 8x8 Ella Blue paper pad. I cut a grunge board heart and wings with T!ms alteration die. Distressed them with mushroom and cloudy blue paint dabbers edged with InkaGold old gold wrapped brown thread around the heart twice added a Prima Say it with studs to finish off.

The article is called Rustic Nuptials on pages 66 and 67

Thanks for popping by and if you like what you see leave me a comment and I will pop over and check out what you have been up to.

Have a great day and thank Crunchie its Friday.

Happy crafting love and hugs Lynne xox

Easter card and Polychromos

Hello my lovely creative crafting buddies, seems ages since I last blogged. Not had much time lately been busy stock taking etc and doing lots of boring stuff with just a little crafting thrown in now and then just to keep me going. 

One of the Easter cards we made in a recent card class. I have used a mix of lemon and white checked, floral and spotty card to make three layers. I have cut  apertures in the top two layers with the lage and then the next size down blossom nesties. The images are Magnolia Easter stamps coloured with Copics and a mix of Martha Stewart, EK Success and Woodware punches to create the flowers and leaves. All finished off with some lovely crystal Stickles.

Tonight we have been having a play with the lovely Faber Castell Polychromos which we had delivered yesterday. We made some beautiful double twisted easel cards which I will show tomorrow.

Just look at all those yummy colours.

We have added some more dates to the timetable for all day card classes and scrapbooking here

Thank you to everyone who has joined in our challenges and a BIG thank you to my wonderful DT who have kept everything going while I have been busy.

I thought I would enter this card in to the Creative Belli - Eggs and Bunnies

See you all tomorrow. Love and hugs Lynne xox

Relaxing day...

Hope you have all had a great weekend. I have been having a very lazy relaxing day today.
I have had a head ache since Monday, which turned into a migraine mid week, so spent a quiet day at home today. Doctors in the morning me thinks.

The wedding stationary has now all been collected so I can show the finished invites.

Happy Crafting Lynne xx

Time to play...

I thought I would show you whats been on our dinning room table today. No, not my Sunday dinner.

We couldn't have that until the after I had finished crafting. lol

130 black and white hearts all prepped up for decorating some wedding stationary I have been working on.

I will show the finished cards after they have been collected.

Now they are all finished and boxed up ready for collection I can have a play.

I have got a wooden display with nine compartments, that I have been itching to decorate for ages. 
I have got the first coat of paint on. It should be dry now ready for the next coat...

Ava is coming over for the day tomorrow and we are going shopping, can't wait. :-)
Hope you have all had a great weekend.
Happy Crafting Lynne x

In the cookies of life...

A cards from one of last week classes. The main background of the card is a mix of Adirondack Sunshine Yellow, Butterscotch and Terracotta inks over stamped with a PaperArtsy swirl using Timber Brown StazOn on a piece of white cardstock. Using more PA stamps Espresso and Terracotta inks on cream cardstock to create the background for the cage. The bird cage is cut from a 12 x 12 sheet of 7 Gypsies the bird is a PA stamp cut out and attached using foam pads my favorite sentiment to finish off. All products used available Craft Den. The card is C5 in size.

In the cookies of life friends are the chocolate chips

Hope you are all having a nice relaxing weekend.

Happy crafting hugs Lynne xx

Favourite 5 from 2010

When I saw this challenge while over on Sarah's blog yesterday I thought I would be fun to join in. If you want to join the challenge, pop over to Debbie's blog.

So here are my favorite 5 from 2010......it is harder than you think!

Happy Crafting Love Lynne x