Pink and grey fairy card (Faery Ink Designs image)

Hi Crafty Friends,

Can you believe Faery Ink Designs gave this beautiful image as a freebie? Thank you so much to them as I adore her! I cropped the image, it seems to be my thing at the moment hehe. 

I love these papers from Bo Bunny too, they have so much lovely detail to them you only need to add a few embellishments to finish the card.

Flourish with a Bling is selling all their products for $2 each this month, that's more than half off most products!! I hope you'll check out our website as we have our own unique products and we post worldwide. 

I am entering this card into the following challenges:

A Gem of a Challenge - Female Birthday

AllSorts - Ribbon and/or Lace - Lace  

Brown Sugar - Anything goes 

Bunny Zoe - Sparkle (wings)

C.R.A.F.T. -  Recipe challenge

Crafty Catz - Flowers

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

Crafty Sentiments - Anything goes

Creatalicious - Something old - paper, something new - new image  

Creative Fingers - Anything goes  

Creative Inspirations - Florals

Cute Card Thursday - Hey, what's new - new image   

Deep Ocean - Anything goes 
Fairy Ink Design - Height

Fairytale Challenges - Everything goes 

Inspiration Destination - Anything goes  

Jade's Sparkling Butterflies - Anything goes/All things bright & beautiful

Jo's Scrap Shack - Anything goes   

Sassy Studio Designs - Anything goes   

Scrapper's Delight - Anything goes  

Simon Says Stamp (Mon) - Something new - new image  

Simon Says Stamp (Wed) - Something new - new image   

Winter Wonderland - Spring is in the air

Word Art Wednesday -  Anything goes   

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

Mother's Day squares card (Di's Digis image)

Hi Crafty Friends,

Di's Digis has a new challenge this fortnight and it's "Load on the flowers". I have created 2 cards for this challenge as Di's Digis are so cute for Mother's Day. I have made this card for my MIL and have another to show you for my Step-mum. Di has a voucher up for grabs (as always) and you can purchase gorgeous little images like this one below so I hope you'll join in. If you'd like to go check out all the cute digis Di has click HERE.

I am entering this card into the following challenges:

Craftin' Desert Divas - Mother's Day

Deep Ocean - Recipe - 1 image, 1 sentiment, 3 papers, 3 embells - Flowers, pearls, squares

Fan-Tastic Tuesday - Use pastels

Incy Wincy Designs - Mom's the word

Loves Rubberstamps - Anything goes

Pile it on -  Mother's Day/for a lady

Sister Act - Anything goes 

Southern Girls - Animals

Stempelsonne (Stamp Sun) - Anything goes

The East Wind - Mother's Day add flowers  

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

Ribbons and Bows challenge at Di's Digis (Di's Digis image)

Hi everyone,

Ready for a new challenge at Di's Digis? This fortnight's theme is Ribbons and Bows. 

This sweet little cat in a plant pot is of course from Di's Digis shop.

Flourish with a Bling have a massive Stocktale sale for June - Every product is just $2 !! All throughout June, everything is $2, no exceptions!! 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) or all the postage for Aussie orders. 

I am entering this card into the following challenges:

613 Avenue Create - Anything goes with optional make yourself something

Bunny Zoe - Flowers and charm
Crafting by Designs (monthly challenge) - Anything goes

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

Crafty Ribbons - Butterflies and ribbon

Digi Haven - Flowers in pots

Fan-Tastic Tuesday - Summer
Glitter & Sparkle - Cute

Let's Craft & Create - Spots or stripes

Loves Rubberstamps - Anything goes 
Natalie & Amy - 4 legged friends

The Paper Shelter - Flower power
Scrappy Mom's Stamps - Amusing animals

Suzy Bee's Bloomin' Challenge - Anything goes 

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

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

Happy Mother's Day Black and Purple card

Hi everyone,

I hope you've all had a fantastic weekend. My company, Flourish with a Bling, had a stall at the Pakenham Picture to Page Craft show this weekend and it was so much fun, I met so many wonderful crafters and hello to any of you that I gave my blog address to if you've come by.

This is a very sparkly card in real life but always difficult to see in photos. I have kept it fairly clean and simple. The sentiment and floral image are a freebie from a magazine's CD-rom and so I'm not sure of the brand anymore, sorry I always like to give you a link to the company's website.

Flourish with a Bling have a 50% off sale all throughout May, 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:

AllSorts - Purple passion

Clear it out - Mother's Day/Female card with stash: flowers

Crafting by Designs (monthly challenge) - Anything goes

Crafting from the Heart - Anything goes 

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

Crafty Sentiments - Flowers

Creative Fingers - Girly

Fairies Challenges - Ladies

Fan-Tastic Tuesday -  Clean and Simple
Hanna & Friends - Stitches 
Hobbybook Designer - For Mom or Special Lady 

Just Inspirational - Anything goes
Just Keep on Creating - Anything goes    
Loves Rubberstamps - Girly, Glittery and Glam

Milk Coffee - Mother's Day/Special lady

One Sweet Challenge - Flowers

Simon Says Stamp (Mon) - M items - Mother's Day card/mauve

Sister Act - Anything goes

Suzy Bee's Bloomin' Challenge - Clean and simple
Tuesday Throwdown - Spring Blossoms
Word Art Wednesday -  Anything goes   

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

I'm a Guest Designer at A Gem of a Challenge (Pink Gem image/Bugaboo swing image)

Hi everyone,

I am excited to be a Guest Designer for A Gem of a Challenge again, this time their challenge is "Your favourite colour combo". I love pink, brown and white together although I have soooo many favourite colour combos, do you too? Isn't this sweet girl so adorable? You can find her at Pink Gem Designs and the floral swing is by Bugaboo stamps.

I have used pearls and glossy leaves from my company, Flourish with a Bling, who have 50% off everything this month, please click HERE to check out our store. We only charge actual shipping costs (no handling, packaging etc) so if you only want a couple of items that will fit in a letter envelope it's less than $3 to post worldwide.

Have you seen I have 3 x vouchers up for grabs this week? I would love you to enter as there's only about 48 hours left and not many people have entered boohoo!! Click HERE to check it out.

Flourish with a Bling have a 50% off sale all throughout May, 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:

A Little Bit Crafty - Flower Power

Artistic Inspirations - All for Mom
Catch the Bug - Anything goes (using a Bugaboo swing)

Craft Hoarders Anonymous - Ribbon, lace, twine oh my! 

Crafter's Cafe - Mother's Day or special lady

Craftin' Desert Divas - Mother's Day
Crafting by Designs (monthly challenge) - Anything goes

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

Creative Fingers -  Anything goes

Creative Moments -  Bingo - Flower, die cut/punches, Ribbon/lace 
Divas by Design - In the pink

Fab N Funky - Pretty hair
Fairies Challenges - Mother's Day
Hanna & Friends - Stitches

Just Keep on Creating - Anything goes  
Loves Rubberstamps - Anything goes

Milk Coffee - Mother's Day or special lady
One Sweet Challenge - Flowers

Pile it on - Child's play

Really Reasonable Ribbon - Bright summer colors plus ribbon/lace 

Scrappy Mom's Stamps - April showers bring May flowers (use flowers) 

Sentimental Sundays - Shabby chic or use a doily/lace plus sentiment (lace) 
Simon Says Stamp (Mon) - Relating to 5 - 5 handmade flowers
Simon Says Stamp (Wed) - Spring flowers
Sister Act - Anything goes 

The Squirrel & the Fox - Mother's Day
Stamp & Create - Spring colors
The Stamping Chef -  Anything goes
Suzy Bee's Bloomin' Challenge - Flowers
Word Art Wednesday -  Anything goes 

Thanks again to A Gem of a Challenge for having me as a Guest Designer. Have a great weekend everyone, thanks for dropping by,

XOX Lucy

Sunflower card (Hannah Lynn/Crafts & Me image)

Hi everyone,

This is one of my new images from the amazing Hannah Lynn and you can find her and so many other beautiful images at Crafts and Me (click on name to be taken to the store).

I have tried to shabby this card with distressing all the edges and using lots of layers. I used a clear glitter pen over her wings (which I'd copic coloured lemon) which look really pretty in real life.

I have used my favourite colour Flourish with a Bling pearls - Antique gold, some brands are too orange or too bright gold, these really are an antique gold and we have a beautiful flourish set to match. This month we're sending out orders POSTAGE FREE worldwide, please see below for more details.

Flourish with a Bling have free shipping on all orders over $20AUD for the month of April! This includes Australia and worldwide! No matter how large the order, there's no postage cost. I hope you'll check out our website as we have our own unique products that we've designed ourselves. Click HERE to be taken to our easy-to-use website.

I am entering this card into the following challenges:

A Creative Romance - Egg-cellent Spring 

AllSorts - Spring blossoms
Catch the Bug - Spring Time
Challenges 4 Everybody - Anything goes

CMC Copic - Anything goes

Craftin' Desert Divas -  Anything goes

Crafting by Designs (monthly challenge) - Anything goes

Crafts and Me - Sketch (GDT)

Crafty Creations - Blue and yellow colour combo

Craftyhands -  Anything goes

Crafty Hazelnut's Patterned Paper - Anything goes with patterned paper
Creative Card Crew - Spring

Creative Fingers -  Anything goes

Fairies Challenges - Shabby Chic/Vintage gold

Just B Creative Crazy - Just because

Just Inspirational - Embossing (heat embossed the chipboard clock to gold)
Just Keep on Creating - Anything goes  
Natalie & Amy - Embossing (heat embossed the chipboard clock to gold) 

One Sweet Challenge - Ringing in Spring
Open-Minded Crafting Fun - Easter or pastel colors
Paper Crafting Journey -  For that special lady
Paper Makeup Stamps - Anything goes
Pile it on - Feminine
Rhedd & Rosies -  Anything goes

Savvy Homemade Cards - Make believe or mythical creature (fairy)

Scrapper's Delight - Bloomin' Lovely
Stampin for the Weekend - Your favourite stamp

Sunflowerfield Designs - Spring or Easter
Suzy Bee's Bloomin' Challenge - Anything goes
The Stamping Chef - Anything goes  
Treasured Times - Mix it up
Tuesday Throwdown - Weather report (sunflowers)
Whoopsi Daisy - Things with wings

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

I'm a Guest Designer at Tuesday Throwdown (Robyn's Fetish image)

Hi everyone,

I'm thrilled to be a guest designer at Tuesday Throwdown this month, they have weekly challenges and some fantastic prizes to win. 

This week their challenge is tent topper cards - I had never heard of this type of card before, so in case you haven't either, it's a card where the top part goes over the edge of the card (hope that makes sense and is the correct information hehe).

Their sponsor this challenge is Robyn's Fetish and they kindly gave me this gorgeous sunflower image to work with. 

I am entering this card into the following challenges:

Card Mania - Use a sentiment

Challenges 4 Everybody - Anything goes
Crafting from the Heart -  Anything goes/use dies and/or punches

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

Cute Card Thursday - Springtime

Deep Ocean - Just for a girl
The Doodle Garden - Anything goes
Dream Valley - Vintage
Fairies Challenges - Spring
Just For Fun -  Anything goes

Just Keep on Creating - Anything goes
Off the Rails - Create an embellishment (made the mounted sentiment tag)

Paper Makeup Stamps -  Anything goes
Pile it on - Sweet and soft or Bold and bright
Sister Act - Anything goes

Through the Craftroom Door -  Anything goes

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

Happy Valentine's Day card (ADFD image)

Hi crafty friends,

Me again hehe. I love using A Day for Daisies images and this is one I have had for a little while and just got around to using. I have a few ADFD images coloured ready to create with so watch this space.

I have used a white flourish (Jasmine puffy white flourish) from my store, Flourish with a Bling and we are having 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:

613 Avenue Create - Anything goes

A Day for Daisies - Use pink and red
A Gem of a Challenge - All you need is love
Artistic Inspirations - Anything goes/hearts
Card and Scrap - Use stamps
Catch the Bug - Anything goes

Challenges 4 Everybody - Anything goes (any) 
Craft Mojo -  Love, love, love 

Craft your Passion - Love is in the air (using a sponsor's image)
Crafting by Designs (monthly challenge) - Anything goes
Crafting from the Heart - Anything goes/use red
Crafty Hazelnut's Patterned Paper - Anything goes with patterned paper

Cute Card Thursday - Lots of love

Cuttin & Stampin -  Sweethearts
Digi Darla -  Your personal style - cute & girly
Digi Haven - Happy Valentine's Day (using an image from your sponsor)
Fairies Challenges -  Love is in the air
Fan-Tastic Tuesday - Anything goes 
Graph 'It Markers - Lovey Dovey

Great Impressions - Floral images
Hanna & Friends - Hearts
Hobby Cutz - For a lady
Just Inspirational - St Valentine's Day/Love 
Loves Rubberstamps - Anything goes  

My Mum's Craft Shop - Spots and/or Stripes (stripes on ribbon)

One Stitch at a Time -  Anything goes
Paper Makeup Stamps - Anything goes 
Penny's Paper-Crafty Challenges - Something old (ribbon) something new (die cuts)
Pile it on - Ribbon
Ribbon Girl - Hearts

Ribbon Reel - Love/Valentine's Day plus ribbon
The Rubber Buggy - Anything goes 
Sassy Studio Designs - Stop and smell the flowers

Scrappy Mom's Stamps - Love is in the air  
Simon Says Stamp - Have a heart
The Stamping Chef - Anything goes

Suzy Bee's Bloomin' Challenge - Flowers
Sweet Stamps - Pink, red and white
V's Sweet ideas - Red, white and pink

I hope you have a lovely weekend and enjoy some great weather (someone must be having lovely weather somewhere haha),
XOX Lucy