Girl and Bird Autumn Birthday card (Milk Coffee image)

Hi crafty friends,

Just a quick couple of posts from me today as I need to get organised for a craft show this weekend. Flourish with a Bling is holding a stall at the Picture to Page, Sandown Racecourse show all weekend and everything will be only $2, if you live in Victoria and were thinking of going please drop by and say hi. Speaking of Flourish with a Bling I have used a cloud from the "Up in the Sky" set and some mango pearls. The sweet little girl is from Milk Coffee.

We have brand new flowers in a rainbow of colours at Flourish with a Bling and to celebrate we are selling them at only $2 a pack (rrp $3) for this month only. Click on our name to go to our online store and check out all of our gorgeous products.

I am entering this card into the following challenges:

Bunny Zoe - Animals

Crafting by Designs (monthly challenge) - Anything goes
Crafty Hazelnut's Patterned Paper -  Anything goes with patterned paper 

Creatalicious - Flower power

Let's Craft & Create - Autumn

Not Just Cards - Anything goes 
One Stitch at a Time - Orange

The Paper Shelter - Pearls
Sister Act - Anything goes 

Sweet Stampin' - Autumn

Thank you so much for dropping by and extra special thanks to my lovely followers and visitors that leave some beautiful comments for me, they warm my heart.

XOX Lucy

Beach Girl Birthday card (Milk Coffee image)

Hi everyone,

My last card to show for today and this one is using a Milk Coffee image. I have also used my new wave die cut and cloud embossing folder. The sun is from Flourish with a Bling.

I am entering this card into the following challenges:

Artistic Inspirations - Anything goes 

Crafter's Cafe - Birthdays

Craftin' Desert Divas - Summer 
Crafting by Designs (monthly challenge) - Anything goes 

Crafty Hazelnut's Patterned Paper - Anything goes  with patterned paper 

Creative Card Crew - Seaside/beach

Cupcake Inspirations - Sports

Cute Card Thursday - Fun in the sun
Deep Ocean - Lots of layers
Die Cuttin' Divas - Just beachy (dies - waves, circle & scalloped circle)
Fan-Tastic Tuesday - Anything goes  
Just Keep on Creating -  Anything goes  

Milk Coffee - Birthdays

The Paper Shelter - Holiday time

Simon Says Stamp (Mon) -  About a face

Simon Says Stamp (Wed) - Spots and dots
The Stamping Chef -  Anything goes  

Suzy Bee's Bloomin' Challenge - Anything goes 
The East Wind - Its getting hot
Tuesday Throwdown - Take us on vacation

Hope you enjoy the rest of your week, I'll be back on Saturday with a new card for Di's Digis latest challenge, see you then,

XOX Lucy

Green & pink Birthday card (Milk Coffee image)

Hi everyone,

Today I've created a card using a Milk Coffee image, I have had her coloured up for ages but silly me didn't have the papers chosen first so it made it difficult to match up but here we are with some papers that match perfectly now!

I have used pearls from Flourish with a Bling.

Flourish with a Bling are a retail and wholesale online store. We have some fantastic themed packs (eg. Bling, vintage, fairy garden, boys, princess etc) at amazing prices, you can check them all out by clicking here. If you mention my blog (Lucy) when ordering we will send you a bonus Jasmine laser flourish!

I am entering this card into the following challenges:

A Gem of a Challenge - Mothers Day or female Birthday

Card and Scrap - Lace and/or Ribbon
Catch the Bug - Bingo - Scallop, use green, pearls

CMC Copic - Show some skin

The Corrosive Challenge - Photo inspiration
Craft Mojo - Spring flowers

Crafter's Cafe - Make a square card

Crafting by Designs (monthly challenge) - Anything goes

Crafting from the Heart -  Anything goes/inspired by a movie - Maid in Manhatten (J.Lo at the Gala)

Crafty Hazelnut's Patterned Paper - Anything goes with patterned paper

Crafty Ribbons - Anything goes with ribbon

Crafty Sentiments - It's all about Spring

Deep Ocean - Lace and pearls

Fan-Tastic Tuesday - Anything goes  
Glitter & Sparkle - Include some green

Just Keep on Creating - Anything goes  
Lacy Sunshine - Anything goes   

Love to Create - CAS or Classy & Elegant (the latter) 
Milk Coffee - Flowers (using a MC image)

My Mum's Craft Shop - Spring/Easter

Oddball Stamps - Use a digi
The Paper Shelter - More than 5 flowers
(Pin)spirational Challenges - Photo inspiration - inspired by the colours

Ribbon Girl - Colour challenge - green
The Rubber Buggy - Spring flowers  
Sassy Studio Designs - Fave colours - I love Pink and green cards

Scrappy Mom's Stamps - All that glitters/bling 
Sister Act - Anything goes
The Stamping Chef - Anything goes    

Through the Craftroom Door - Anything goes  
Word Art Wednesday -  Anything goes   

Have a wonderful weekend,

XOX Lucy

Just For You card (Milk Coffee image)

Hi everyone,

I have made some gorgeously girly cards this week if I do say so myself hehe. Here's one of them using an oh-so-sweet image by Milk Coffee. I have used pearls and a beautiful flower from Flourish with a Bling. 

I am entering this card into the following challenges:

2 Sisters - Black, white and one other colour 

A Creative Romance - Bingo - Pink, flower, pearls

A Gem of a Challenge - Anniversary
As you like it - Fave 3D texture: Flowers because they always make a card more girly.
Aud Sentiments - Any sentiment for a girl
Bunny Zoe - Hearts/love
Clear it out - Birthday theme plus stash Bling

C.R.A.F.T. - Inspired by a film - Breakfast at Tiffany's

Crafts and Me - Photo inspiration - inspired by the bling
Crafty Hazelnut's Patterned Paper - Anything goes with patterned paper

Crafty Sentiments - Love

Creative Embellishments - Inspirational picture plus word - Colours and word "Just"

Creative Fingers - Anything goes
Cute Card Thursday -  Springtime

Deep Ocean - Just for a girl
Delightful Challenges - Make it simple
Die Cuttin' Divas - Mardi Gras inspired
Divas by Design - Make it sparkle
Fan-Tastic Tuesday -  Anything goes
Hobby Cutz - Photo inspiration - pinks, flower
Just Keep on Creating -  Anything goes

Milk Coffee - Emboss it (using a MC image)
Natalie & Amy - Flowers

One Stitch at a Time - Girly 

Penny's Paper-Crafty Challenges - Guys and girls
Pile it on - Thinking of you
(Pin)spirational Challenges - Photo inspiration - inspired by she looks like a movie star

Scrapper's Delight - Bling it up

Simon Says Stamp - Anything goes with pearls 
Sister Act - Anything goes 

Stamp & Create - Love is in the air
The Stamping Chef -  Anything goes 
Stampin for the Weekend - Sparkle and shine
Sweet Stampin' - Cute
Sweet Stamps -  Fave colours - I love pink, black and white together on cards
Top Tip Tuesday - Stitching
Totally Gorjuss - Happy Birthday 
Tuesday Throwdown - Anything goes
Word Art Wednesday - Anything goes  

I hope you have a lovely weekend, thanks for popping by,
XOX Lucy

Violinist My Valentine card (Milk Coffee image)

Hi everyone,

Today I've created a card using my new window and shutter die cuts, I love them! This has been the hardest card to take a photo of as it's so pretty and light but just keeps coming out dark and awful. The really silly part is I managed to take the best photo and then realised the shutters were upside down doh lol! I had to re-do them completely! The beautiful image is from Milk Coffee.

Flourish with a Bling have a 50% off sale all throughout February, the only items not discounted are the already amazingingly priced value packs, everything else is half off!! I hope you'll check out our website as we have our own unique products and we post worldwide. Please email if you would like rough estimates of shipping, if we can send it as a large letter we will or perhaps get your friends to all buy too and share the postage! If you're order is over $200AUD we will pay half the shipping (international orders). 

I am entering this card into the following challenges:

2 Sisters - Embossing

613 Avenue Create - Anything goes

A Creative Romance - Let's get sentimental
Artistic Inspirations - Anything goes/Valentine's Day
Bunny Zoe - Hearts/love
Butterfly Challenge - Butterflies and flowers
Card Makin' Mamas - Make it sparkle
Card Mania -  Love is all around 

Clear it out - Love is in the air plus use old flower stash 
CMC Copic - Anything goes

The Corrosive Challenge - Feel the love   

Craft Mojo -  Love love love
Craft-room Challenge - Ribbons and lace
Crafter's Cafe - Must have hearts
Crafting by Designs -  Anything for love 
Crafting by Designs (monthly challenge) - Anything goes
Crafting for all seasons - Show us some romance
Crafts and Me - Photo inspiration - inspired by the bling
Craftyhands - Heat/dry embossed backgrounds

Crafty Ribbons - Ribbon and bow

Crafty Sentiments - Buttons or bows

Creative Corner - From the heart 

Creative Fingers - Anything goes
Creative Shopping - Spring flowers
Cupcake Inspirations - Photo inspiration - Love

Cute Card Thursday - Clever cutting
Deep Ocean - Love is all around
Die Cuttin' Divas - Non-traditional Valentine's Day
Divas by Design - With love
Fab N Funky - Love/Valentine's Day
Fan-Tastic Tuesday - Romance
Graph 'It Markers - Florals/Love

Hobby Cutz - Love/Valentine's Day
Jo's Scrap Shack - Valentine's Day
Just Inspirational - Ladies
Little Blue Button Stamps - Anything goes

Milk Coffee - Girly (using a Milk Coffee image)

Paper Crafting Journey - Love is in the air

Ribbon Reel - Love/Valentine's Day plus ribbon

Savvy Homemade Cards - It's love (love my new window & shutter die cuts)

Scrapper's Delight -  All you need is love
Sister Act - Anything goes 

The Squirrel & the Fox - Love
Totally Papercrafts - Valentine/Love
Whimsy Stamps -  Love is in the air

Whoopsi Daisy - Use a sentiment

Word Art Wednesday -  Anything goes

Thank you so much for dropping by my blog, I hope you enjoyed it, would love to see you here again. Have a lovely crafting weekend,
XOX Lucy

Cheers CAS card (Milk Coffee image)

Hi Crafty friends,

It is absolutely boiling hot here in Melbourne, Australia today! I know some of you might be thinking you'd give anything to swap to warmth as it's so cold in other countries right now but seriously, this is urghhhh hot hehe!! We have school starting back this week so it's not even like we can avoid going outside as there's so much to organise.

Anyway, enough whinging haha, I used a beautiful new image from Milk Coffee to create this card. She is so adorable I didn't want to flounce the card up too much so I went with a more clean and simple look. After I coloured her with copics I went crazy with my white ink pen to give her polka dots on her dress, I think it looks sweet, hope you do too.

I am entering this card into the following challenges:

613 Avenue Create - Anything goes

As you like it - Fave clean and simple & why - I like the stripes down the side without designer papers as it gives all the attention to the image.
Bunny Zoe - Stitching
Challenges and Candies - Monochromatic

CMC Copic - Texturise it
Copic Marker Norge - Bingo - Pink, text, metal charm
Craft your Passion - Spots and stripes
Crafting with Dragonflies - Anything goes

Crafts and Me - Use a heart
Created with Love - Anything goes

Creative Fingers - Anything goes

Di's Digis - Spots and dots

Dream Valley - No designer papers
Fairies Challenges - New beginnings - Birthday
Glitter & Sparkle - Bling it up

Lacy Sunshine - Bingo - Flowers, charm, candi

Milk Coffee - Monochromatic (used a Milk Coffee image)

One Stitch at a Time - White plus one colour

Ribbon Carousel - Love, Birthdays and chicken soup  

Ribbon Girl - Anything goes 
The Rubber Buggy - Anything goes 
Sister Act -  Anything goes

The Squirrel & the Fox - Use embellishments
The Stamping Chef - Anything goes
Sweet Stampin' - In stitches

I hope you've enjoyed seeing this card as much as I did creating it,
XOX Lucy

Flamenco Dancer Birthday card (Milk Coffee image)

OMGosh, it's so great to be back blogging, I really hope you all love the cards I've been creating lately, I'm about to bombard you with a few over the coming weekend hehe. 

I have been on a road trip from Melbourne to Sydney for a week and we had a lovely time but I really missed my crafting/blogging to my crafting friends. We are having the opposite weather to those of you suffering in the cold, we have had a heatwave and just about to get another next week, I hope you're all getting a little warmer weather now.

Anyway, onto my latest card, this one was made using a gorgeous image from Milk Coffee. I coloured her with copic markers.

Flourish with a Bling are sponsoring challenges in 2014, woohoo! Click here to find out where we are sponsoring this month. If you belong to a challenge blog and would like us to sponsor your challenges please email us at flourishwithabling(at)yahoo(dot)com.au. 

I am entering this card into the following challenges:

4 Krafty Girlz - Anything goes

AllSorts - Buttons and bows
Card Mania -  Anything goes

Challenges and Candies - Monochromatic

CMC Copic - Texturise it
Craft Mojo -  All things new (new digi)

Crafting by Designs - Get your girl on
Crafting by Designs (monthly challenge) - Anything goes
Crafting for all seasons - For the girls
Crafts and Me - Use a heart (amongst the flowers)
Crafty Creations - Seasonal (Summer)
Crafty Little Fairies - Sport (dancing)

The Crazy Challenge - Fairytale
Created with Love - Things with wings
Cute Card Thursday - So sweet

Deep Ocean - Birthdays
Divas by Design -  Anything goes
A&T Emerald Faeries - Things with wings
Fairytale Challenges - Bows
Fan-Tastic Tuesday - Make it feminine 
Graph 'It Markers -  Anything goes

Inky Impressions - Ribbon 
Jellypark - Buttons and/or bows
Little Blue Button Stamps -  Anything goes

Milk Coffee - Monochromatic (using a Milk Coffee image)

The Paper Shelter - Digi plus sentiment

Party Time Tuesday - Ribbon
Quirky Crafts - 3 B's - Birds, bugs and butterflies

Ribbon Carousel - Love, Birthdays and chicken soup 
The Rubber Buggy - Anything goes  
Sister Act - Anything goes 

Stampin for the Weekend - Happy Birthday 
The Stamping Chef -  Anything goes 
Sweet Stampin' - Fave style - cute and girly
Sweet Stamps - Anything goes 
Through the Craftroom Door -  Anything goes
Totally Gorjuss - Lace and/or pearls 
V's Sweet ideas -  Anything goes 

Whimsy Stamps - Something new - New image
Word Art Wednesday - Anything goes  

It's so great to be back in blogland, hoping you missed me a little hehe, have a wonderfully crafty day,
XOX Lucy

Milk Coffee Celebration card

I love this cute image so much, she is from Milk Coffee, click on the name to be taken to the store. This girl is celebrating doing Saturday Night Fever hehe. I doodled some stitching on the card (I really must learn how to use my sewing machine I begged for Xmas 2012 lol!!) Do you ever do that, desperately want something but then not get around to figuring out how to work it??

The gorgeous main flower and leaves are from my company Flourish with a Bling and we're having a 30% off flowers sale throughout January.

Flourish with a Bling are a retail and wholesale online store. We have some fantastic themed packs (eg. Bling, vintage, fairy garden, boys, princess etc) at amazing prices, you can check them all out by clicking here. If you mention my blog (Lucy) when ordering we will send you a bonus Jasmine laser flourish!

I am entering this card into the following challenges:

613 Avenue Create - Anything goes

A Creative Romance - Something new (new digi and papers)
A Gem of a Challenge - Something new (new digi and papers)
AllSorts - Free and easy
Artistic Inspirations - Anything goes
As you like it - Fave single colour and why - Pink for crafting because it goes with so many other colours.
Card and Scrap - Use flowers
Card Makin' Mamas - Anything goes
Challenges 4 Everybody - Anything goes 

CMC Copic -  Anything goes

The Corrosive Challenge -  New beginnings - Spring colours

Craft Mojo -  All things new - New digi
Craft your Passion - Fancy borders/edges
Crafting by Designs - Anything goes 
Crafty Calendar - Let's celebrate
Creative Craft Challenges 2 -  Anything goes

Cute Card Thursday - Banish the blues

Digitally Sweet -  Anything goes
Doodle Pantry - Any digi goes
Fan-Tastic Tuesday - Happy New Year
Great Impressions - Use something new - new digi image

Lacy Sunshine -  Anything goes

Milk Coffee - Celebrations (using a Milk Coffee image)

One Crazy Stamper - Anything goes 

Open-Minded Crafting Fun - New toys or technique - New digi and faux stitching
Paper Makeup Stamps - Use something new - New digi
Simon Says Stamp - Something new - New digi image and papers

Sister Act -  Anything goes

Sweet Stampin' - Sports and fitness - She's dancing

Thank you so much for dropping by my blog, I hope you enjoyed it, would love to see you here again,
XOX Lucy