Alfie and the hot air balloon

Good morning to you all. It is a bit dull and overcast here in Sheffield this morning no sign of the sun, at least it is dry. When I signed into Blogger this morning everything looks different... does this mean all the updates are finished and we can blogg happily now... mmm I wonder... time will tell I am sure.

No crafty pictures to blog this morning, a few of a hot air balloon that came over our garden last night. A few of our good friends paid for BH and I to go up in a balloon very similar to this one for our wedding present. It is our anniversary on Tuesday so it was fabulous to see and brought back some lovely memories of a beautiful day and some very good friends...

Alfie was hidding in the kitchen peeking out of the back door until the coast was clear....

What was it?....has it gone yet?

Poor Alfie, he really didn't like it, must admit it was very low.

Happy crafting and what ever you are doing today ENJOY!

Love and hugs Lynne xoxo

Craft Bucket Bag Class

Our next patchwork bag class is Saturday July 23rd and this is what we will be making.

A very useful craft bucket, isn't it fabulous?

Happy Crafting Hugs Lynne xoxo

Patchwork bag class at Craft Den!

Good morning to you all on this bright and sunny Sunday morning. Yesterday was the first of our patchwork bag classes at Craft Den. When this went on the timetable it was so popular we decided to run the class twice, which is great as this means we had such an enjoyable day and we get to do it all again next week!

Jo aka Daisy 236 was our guest tutor for the day and has very kindly agreed to run a monthly patchwork sewing class for us! Yippee! I am so pleased about this as I love sewing and have done for many years.

My bag waiting for the button to be added so the top is pinned.

Thank you Jo for a very enjoyable relaxing day. Just what the doctor ordered, can't wait for next week, might have to make another! lol

Happy crafting love and hugs Lynne xoxo

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

Blogger, Blogger, Blogger....

At last I have managed to get back on my blog. Thank you for your emails suggesting different options to try. It has been a bit of a week technology wise. Saturday evening my Blackberry went haywire I was unable to open text and emails the only option was to delete all! Sunday I was unable to get on here and then the Internet went off and has been off more than on ever since. I still can't upload pictures, cloud picker has returned asking me to sign in and sign in and sign in......it is so annoying.

Our challenge over at Anything Goes this fortnight is Masking and we are also having a blog hop to celebrate Craft Dens 3rd birthday and our challenge blog 1st so why not pop over and join in? Fingers crossed I will be able to visit your blogs and leave comments very soon, very very soon I hope. Well thats all for now, I will try again tomorrow to upload pictures of what we have been up to in the studio this week.
Happy crafting Lynne xx

Thursday Nights Scrapbooking Layout...

How long is blogger going to act up, that's what I want to know? I have been trying to blog this post since yesterday afternoon and commenting has become impossible, I will try again tomorrow, fingers crossed.

Here is my page from Thursday nights scrapbooking class at Craft Den studio.

The papers are from Bo Bunny Sophie collection. The die cut trees, hearts and ticket are from T!ms Alterations range - Pine Tree, Heart and Ticket dies. Martha Stewart Border and Crown punch.

We did a crackle paint technique on wooden heart shapes.

Hope you all have a great weekend.

Happy crafting love and hugs Lynne xx

I 'm back with a few techniques tags

Yavy! I'm back, could not loggin on here at all yesterday. I could view but not sign in. Thank you for your messages about all the different options to try, and try I did but to no avail, any way I am on here now...

A few pictures for you this morning of what we have been up to in a couple of classes this week. I will blog last night scrapbooking layout later.

These are a few of my demo tags for resist techniques

 

The stamps are from Paper Artsy Hot Picks sheet 1005 and 1007 stamped in white acrylic paint allowed to dry and then over stamped with Adirondack Terracotta and Espresso the back ground is Wild Honey DI

a close up to try and show you how much depth you can get with this technique

 I have used Shabby Shutters DI and Adirondack EggPlant  for this one

T!ms snowflake stamp the background is Stormy Sky spritzed with water dabbed with kitchen paper and then a few droplets of water added and dabbed off again.

For a softer look use Tumbled Glass DI

Personal Impressions assorted Leaves stamps

A close up of stamping T!ms trees with white acrylic paint. Leave to dry or dry off with a heat gun and then add DI colours with a piece of Cut n' Dry foam

This is Tumbled Glass and Stormy Sky stamped over with Adirondack Denim

Happy Crafting Lynne xox

Messin' about on the river...

Well Blogger really has spat his dummy out this week! lol Sign in....Sign in...Sign in...argh I just signed in!!

ERROR!! your comment can not be published! Please sign in...........

Yes, you all know what I am gibbering on about, as you are all having the same problems too!

Technology is wonderful when it works......pain in the bum otherwise.

I know I should think myself lucky I can write a post as I know a lot of you can't. Any way lets hope normal service will be resumed shortly and we can all blog hop and comment again with out having to sign in 60 million times!! ARRRRRRRGGGHHH

OK rant over...

Today's layout is from my scrapbooking class last week.

The beautiful floral paper is from Prima - Madeline Collection "Bella Donna" and "Ste Marie"

Embellishments: Prima flowers and leaves, Zva crystals and bits and bobs from stash.

Tools: Martha Stewart border punch

Thanks for poppin' by

Happy Crafting Hugs Lynne xox

Where have all the smarties gone?

Good morning all. The sun is shining here in Sheffield this morning, which is a welcome sight after all the rain we had yesterday.

This mornings layout is one I have made for my Mums 12 x 12 album.

The spotty backing paper is from the Bo Bunny Jazmyne collection.

The letters are cut with the Storybook cartridge on the Cricut.

The pictures are from October 2010 When Ava came for a postphoned birthday tea with her Granddad. Ava was poorly when it was BH birthday. Ava came with a large smartie cake which she sat holding on to until  her Grandad arrived home. After tea Ava tucked into the cake and when we were all busy clearing the table, washing pots and having a natter, Ava was busy helping herself to the Smarties off the top of the cake.

When Grandad asked her where all the Smarties had gone, Ava opened her mouth wide. 

We all laughed, it was just so good to see her better again and eating...

Hope you all have a good day and what ever you are doing Enjoy.

Happy crafting hugs Lynne xoxo

What a difference a year makes...

Good morning to all my crafting blogging buddies. I hope you have all had a lovely relaxing weeking and are now ready to face another week, what ever it may throw at us... I've got the sniffles again this morning and another cold sore, so fingers crossed my cold isn't returning. :-( Can't seem to shake this one off.

My scrap layout this morning is created with the gorgeous Jazymne Limited Editon papers from Bo Bunny. They are all glittered and shimmer beautifully in yummy lilacs, pinks, creams and greens.

Ava loves sitting amongst the plants in our rockery on the big rocks. This picture was taken in April 2011 when all the heathers were out. I took pictures of Ava sitting there last year and thought it would be nice to compare. Only thing is the pages are missing from my album, mmm I wonder whos borrowed those...

Have a great Monday and happy crafting.

Hugs Lynne xoxo

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.

Scrapbooking...

A few weeks ago I was asked if I could come up with a wedding layout for our Thursday evening scrapbooking classes. This was the design I came up with. The flowers are cut from a sheet of Basic Grey Curio - Camellia

I inked a sheet of cream 12 x 12 Cardstock Warehouse with Victorian velvet and all of the flower edges. I placed a 6" strip of lace across the middle of the page with the photo on top, decoupaged all the flowers using Pinflair Glue.

 I have cut a cream journal tag with T!ms styled labels die inked with Victorian Velvet and tucked under the flowers at the bottom. Although I haven't done the journalling yet, such a good match you can hardly see it.

 

Hope you all have a lovely weekend and the sun is shinning where you are.

Happy crafting Love and hugs Lynne x