Happy Birthday to Ewe! card (DigiStamp Boutique image)

Hi Crafty Friends,

I have been wanting to use this gorgeous image from DSB for ages and I just hadn't got around to it, it's a great one for practicing wood colouring lol. To keep the wooden theme going I added it to a sheet of wood/flower paper but I think it may have gone better with a nice simple bright card instead, there's always next time huh hehe? 

I am entering this card into the following challenges:

Artistic Inspirations - anything goes with optional twist: make it funny

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

Creative Inspirations - our furry/feathered friends

Digistamp Boutique - anything goes with a DSB image 

Ribbon Girl - any image 

Simon Says Stamp (Wed) - use patterned paper

Stempelsonne (Stamp Sun) - anything goes 

Have a great day, thanks so much for dropping by,

XOX Lucy

Congrats Panda card (Kitty Bee Designs image)

Hi Crafty Friends,

This is the first time I've used a Kitty Bee Designs image, isn't this panda a sweetie? I created some background paper with my oxide inks and water, I used my stitched square die as an embosser (by using the embosser plates instead of cutting plates) just for a little extra in the background. I made the scene with some chipboard fence inked black. 

I am entering this card into the following challenges:

A Gem of a Challenge - summer colours

Aloha Fridays - for the guys (unisex card using a KBD image)
Artistic Inspirations - anything goes with optional twist: make it funny

Colouring in Scrapland - celebrations

Crafty Catz -  anything goes with optional twist: baby

Crafty Creations -  anything goes 
Creatalicious - anything goes with optional twist: dies/punches 

Creative Fingers - anything goes 

Creative Inspirations - our furry/feathered friends
Creative Moments - anything goes with optional twist: flag day 

Cutie Pie - all creatures great and small

Digi Choosday - anything goes wk 24

Lil Patch of Crafty Friends - anything goes 

Ribbon Girl - any image 

Through the Craftroom Door - anything goes 

Word Art Wednesday - anything goes  

Have a great day, thanks so much for dropping by,

XOX Lucy

Candy Stripes Summer Birthday card (Crafts & Me/Hannah Lynn image)

Hi Crafty Friends,

I've been MIA for more than a week which is very unlike me, I do love my blogging. I have been creating, some cards for magazines so I can't post them but here's a few I've created just for fun, hope you like them.

This first one is a very summery card using scraps of yellow, pink and blue cardstock. I used double sided tape all over a square of white cardstock then added strips of the colour cardstocks to it and then turned it over to trim off all the overhang. I used to think crafters worked out the sizes etc that they needed for strips like this but it's so much easier to use a really long strip, tape/glue it down and then cut the extra bits off. I also created a rectangle and did the same.  The strip at the bottom was left overs - I just mounted it onto yellow cardstock too for another element. I inked around everything in pink ink. This card looks so much lovelier in real life. You can find the image at Crafts and Me (artist Hannah Lynn).

I am entering this card into the following challenges:

A Gem of a Challenge - summer colours

Crafty Catz - anything goes with optional twist: baby 

Creatalicious - anything goes with optional twist: dies/punches

Creative Moments -  anything goes with optional twist: flag day

Cute Card Thursday - seaside/beach (mermaid)

Digi Choosday - anything goes wk24

Lemon Shortbread - anything goes  

Let's Craft & Create - girls, girls, girls

Lil Patch of Crafty Friends - anything goes 
Ribbon Girl - any image 

Simon Says Stamp (Mon) - Lets take a vacay (mermaid, sunshine, summer colours)

Star Stampz - bright sunshine

Word Art Wednesday -  anything goes 

Have a great day,

XOX Lucy

Pirate Bear birthday card (Bugaboo image)

Hi Crafty Friends,

Oh My Gosh, I just love this little pirate bear and how he coloured up, he's so cute! You can find him at Bugaboo. I have used these background papers before and was surprised at how easily the card came together - well it happened again! I was muddling around with all sorts of papers and then I remembered I had this paper somewhere in my box of boys papers so off I went hunting and I'm so glad I did. I cut out 3 pictures from the paper too and mounted them onto black cardstock as embellishments.

I am entering this card into the following challenges:

Brown Sugar - anything goes 

Catch the Bug - the fast and the furious (Bugaboo image)

Colour Crazy Challenge -  anything goes 
C.R.A.F.T. - inspired by a film - Pirates of the Caribbean 

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

Creatalicious - anything goes with optional twist: use your fave colour - red 

Cute Card Thursday - boys/men 

Digi Choosday - anything goes wk 23 

Little Miss Muffet - anything goes (Bugaboo image used) 
Love to Scrap - boyz rule

Not Just Cards - summer challenge anything goes 

Ribbon Girl - June card challenge

Star Stampz - make it for a man

Word Art Wednesday - anything goes  

Thanks so much for dropping by,

XOX Lucy

The Wallpaper and Painter Guy Birthday card (Dr Digi image)

Hi Crafty Friends,

I was totally inspired by this image from Dr Digi's to create a scene where's he's scruffily putting up wallpaper. I had seen a similar type card ages ago on Pinterest and it's always been on my mind to have a go myself. 

Once I'd finished my card I showed my husband and mentioned how I'd cut wood designer paper into strips, inked them to make them look like floorboards - he asked me did I cut them in different widths so that the "closest" floorboard was much bigger than the "back" floorboard - Well how clever is he!?! Now that he's said it I just keep thinking how I needed to do that to give it a more realistic look, next time lol. I used some liquid pearls for the "paint".

I am entering this card into the following challenges:

Brown Sugar - anything goes

Catch the Bug - the fast and the furious 

C.R.A.F.T. - inspired by a film - The Money Pit

Crafty Catz -  anything goes with optional twist dies/punches (paintbrush die)

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

Creatalicious - anything goes with optional twist: use your fave colour - red 

Creative Inspirations - your favourite things - scene cards, red, patterned papers

Cute Card Thursday - boys/men 

Di's Digis - Birthdays
Not Just Cards - summer challenge anything goes 

Polkadoodles - anything goes wk 22

Ribbon Girl - June card challenge 

Simon Says Stamp (Mon) - masculine

Simon Says Stamp (Wed) - make it masculine 
Star Stampz - make it for a man

Word Art Wednesday - anything goes  

Have a great day,

XOX Lucy

Lollipop Birthday Girl card (Little Miss Muffet image)

Hi Crafty Friends,

I made these 2 background papers with my new oxide inks. I sponged the outside one with pink ink and sprayed with water. The middle one I used my circle die negatives to sponge on yellow, orange and pink inks. If you have a multi-circle template that would be easier but I have made my own with a piece of card and die cut holes/circles out of it. The sweet little image is from Little Miss Muffet. 

I am entering this card into the following challenges:

AllSorts - use at least 2 dies - square frame and sentiment dies

Aud Sentiments - summer plus a sentiment

Colour Crazy Challenge - anything goes  

Crafty Friends - make it pink

Creatalicious - anything goes with optional twist: use your fave colour - pink 

Creative Inspirations - your favourite things - girly cards, pink, LMM images, flowers 

Digi Choosday -  anything goes wk 23

Little Miss Muffet - anything goes (Little Miss Muffet image used) 
Not Just Cards - summer challenge anything goes 

Ribbon Girl - June card challenge 

Tuesday Throwdown -  sugar high

Word Art Wednesday - anything goes  

Have a great day,

XOX Lucy