Have a Relaxing Birthday (The Paper Shelter image)

Hi Crafty Friends,

The Paper Shelter has such cute images and when you purchase them they come in black & white and colour along with backgrounds too. This image and background are both from The Paper Shelter but the background actually belongs to a different image, I thought I'd make them more unique by doing this.


I'm not sure if anyone has tried this technique of adding an image to a background digitally but you just use the PNG image (not JPEG) so that you can add it in front of the background. I used a pre-coloured image for this card.

I am entering this card into the following challenges:

Crafty Catz -  anything goes with optional twist: heroes and villains

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

Creative Inspirations - anything goes  

Creative Playground (Imagine That) - anything goes

The Paper Shelter - Holiday time 

Simon Says Stamp (Mon) - Life on the ocean waves

Your Next Stamp -  sunshine

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

Red White & Blue Girl card (Hannah Lynn image)

Hi Crafty Friends,

Happy 4th of July to my American friends, I hope you've had a fabulous day!

I thought I'd create a red, white and blue card with stars in respect of the USA holiday. I sliced up 3 papers into strips and adhered them onto scrap paper. I then used red, white and blue gel pens to make some faux stitching.

The beautiful image was created by Hannah Lynn and I'm not sure if you can buy them anymore sadly. I have many of her images and I thought about you Bunny when I printed this up to colour, as I know you love seeing the Hannah Lynn images coloured up on my cards :)

I am entering this card into the following challenges:

Crafty Catz - anything goes with option of pretty

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

Creative Inspirations - anything goes 

Cute Card Thursday - anything goes 
Let's Craft & Create - Patriotic please

Scrap from your heart - anything goes 

Simon Says Stamp (Mon) - Make your own background - I created the striped background with strips of paper and then faux stitched it together with gel pens.

Simon Says Stamp (Wed) -  Stars and/or Stripes

Thank you so much for dropping by, enjoy your weekend,

XOX Lucy

It's Party Time! (Polkadoodles images)

Hi crafty friends,

I loved colouring up these glitzy girls from Polkadoodles. They're individual images and so I added them together to make a party scene. I kept the rest of the card fairly basic as the stars are the girls. I coloured them with Copics. 

I am entering this card into the following challenges:

Creatalicious - anything goes with optional twist: spots and/or stripes 

Creative Inspirations - Glitz and glamour 

A Gem of a Challenge - anything goes wk12

Digi Choosday - anything goes wk26 

Polkadoodles -  anything goes wk 26

Simon Says Stamp (Wed) -  anything goes
Your Next Stamp - Trio of something - 3 girls

Have a great day,

XOX Lucy

Black, Red and Teal Birthday Girl card (Polkadoodles image)

Hi Crafty Friends,

For this card I have used a sweet image from Polkadoodles. I used one of the WRMK 3D weaving embossing folders for the teal paper. I used some of my regular favourite items on here too - Lawn Fawn frame dies, my mini butterfly punch and my Lala Land banner. 

I am entering this card into the following challenges:

Aud Sentiments -  anything goes with a sentiment

Catch the Bug -  anything goes

Colour Crazy Challenge - anything goes w32

The Corrosive Challenge - anything goes

Crafty Friends - anything goes 

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

Cute Card Thursday - Spots and dots

Happy Little Stampers -  anything goes with dies

Lemon Shortbread - anything goes 

Let's Craft & Create - anything goes with option of lots of layers 

Lil Patch of Crafty Friends - anything goes  
Little Miss Muffet - anything goes

The Paper Shelter - Punches and dies

Word Art Wednesday -  anything goes 

Thanks so much for dropping by, enjoy your weekend everyone!

XOX Lucy

Hip Hip Hooray, You're 6!! (Polkadoodles image)

Hi crafty friends,

I haven't been around much in Blogland as I've started an interior decoration course and although I love it, it's not giving me much spare time. I have so many cards to post here still so sometimes there'll be a lot less "talk" content on my posts but I think you're all here to see my card and not my ramblings so I think it's all good hehe.

Here's my card made with a sweet Polkadoodles image. I made the background with a Simon Says Stamp striped background stamp and then splattered similar colours on my image piece. I paper pieced her dress.

I am entering this card into the following challenges:

Aud Sentiments - anything goes with a sentiment 

Creative Craft Cottage - no patterned paper

Cute Card Thursday - Spots and dots 

Simon Says Stamp (Mon) - Sprinkling and Splattering - I used distress oxide inks & water to splatter.

Word Art Wednesday -  anything goes 

Thanks so much for dropping by, enjoy your weekend everyone!

XOX Lucy

Hello Sunshine card (Tiddly Inks image)

Hi crafty friends,

I tried something a little different this time and used a vintage beachy background with a gorgeous Tiddly Inks girl.

I am entering this card into the following challenges:

A Gem of a Challenge - Summertime/holidays
Aud Sentiments - for a girl plus a sentiment

Catch the Bug - photo inspiration - inspired by the beach/summer

Copic Marker Norge - moodboard - inspired by summer

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

Creatalicious -  anything goes with optional under the sea or Fairytale 

Jo's Scrap Shack - anything goes

Lemon Shortbread - anything goes 

Little Miss Muffet - anything goes

Tiddly Inks - anything goes with a Tiddly Inks image

Word Art Wednesday -  anything goes 

Have a great day,

XOX Lucy

Merry Christmas Scene card (Polkadoodles image)

Hi Crafty Friends,

There's a new "anything goes" challenge just started at Polkadoodles, do all my blog friends join in their challenges already? I hope I inspire you with my cards using their gorgeous products. 

I created a lounge room Christmas scene with a few different items using PNG files before I printed them. I used a gorgeous pre-coloured Christmas girl by the fire from Winnie Winterland, I added a Christmas tree behind her from Winnie White Christmas and brick "wallpaper" from Little Dudes and sentiment from Winnie White Christmas . 

Using PNG files to build a scene: I don't know how well a teacher I am lol but this is so easy to do on the computer. Just add all the elements you want to use into a Word document and roughly size them to suit. The main things to remember when using PNG's is to right click on the item, then choose "wrap text", then "square" which then lets you move your images all around the page and over each other. The best thing to do is put your main image in the centre then bring the other items into the scene - to bring items to the back and front of the scene (For example when I put this scene together I added the Christmas tree after the girl but I wanted it behind her so I clicked on the tree then clicked on the "send backward" choice.) To do this click on the "format" tool at the top of the page and you'll then see it gives you the option to move the images in front and behind other images. If it doesn't seem like it's moving backwards just keep clicking until it does. The reason for this is that each item you add to a scene is a different "layer" so it only takes it back or forwards one layer at a time. I hope someone has found this helpful and maybe gives it a try if they have PNG files but haven't known how to use them. They don't all need to be from the same brand so it's really fun to play around with but occasionally you will find a PNG that has a white instead of transparent background. 

I am entering this card into the following challenges:

ABC Christmas - N is for name, O is for On.. - On the chair
Aud Sentiments - Christmas in July plus a sentiment

Crafty Gals Corner - Christmas in July  

Creatalicious -  anything goes with option: no patterned paper

Simon Says Stamp (Mon) - add a little sparkle (star)

Simon Says Stamp (Wed) - use a punch/die cut - die cut star
Word Art Wednesday -  anything goes

Have a great weekend,

XOX Lucy