GDT for C.R.A.F.T. - Make backing paper

I am so excited to guest design for C.R.A.F.T. Challenge this month, they have some wonderful challenges and this one was no exception - make your own backing paper! 

I decided to die-cut some green paper, ruled lines on it with a clear sparkle pen and going in the other direction I used a silver Smooch. I lightly chalked (in green) where the lines met to hopefully give it a little depth of colour. I then added the rhinestones for a little sparkle, hope you like it. I also made the two top flowers by punching some flowers and layering them.

The sponsors/prizes for this challenge are from LEJ Designs, Stitchy Bear Stamps, Saturated Canary (this girl is from SC) and Scrapper's Delights. Gee that's a lot of great sponsors in one challenge isn't it? Well worth entering their competition and I'd love to see what backing paper you create, I love being inspired! 

FWAB used:

Silver rhinestones and Elise pink flower (the bottom one with bling centre)

For more products or to find a stockist please visit Flourish with a Bling. If your favourite craft store doesn't stock our products feel free to pass on our details.

I am entering this card into the following challenges:

Bearly Mine - Something old/something new (old rosebuds/new papers)

Challenges 4 Everybody - Anything goes

Crafty Creations - Anything goes

Craftymess - Show some sparkle/bling

Desert Islands Crafts - Itinerary - New (papers), glitter, gems

Flutter by Wednesday - In with the new (new papers)

Glitter & Sparkle - Favourite colours (pink)

Hiding in my Craft room - Freestyle

Inky Impressions - Anything goes

Milk Coffee - New beginnings (new papers)

My Mum's craft room - Anything goes

Natalie & Amy - Your favourite things (fave die-cut)

Paper Makeup Stamps - Any digi

Paper Pretties - Bling

Pause Dream Enjoy - Anything goes

Penny's Challenges - Use fave embellies (bling, butterfly, flowers)

Pile it on - Pile on the embellishments

Pin & Tack - Anything goes

Simon says stamp - New something (new papers)

Simon says stamp & show - Anything goes

The Squirrel & the Fox - Party Time! (Party dress)

Sweet Stampin' - Seeing double (2 flower bunches)

The Pink Elephant - Anything goes

Through the craft room door - Anything goes

Whoopsi Daisy - Celebrate

Thanks so much for coming to my blog, I hope I have inspired you in some way,
XOX Lucy

TGF Red, teal and green card

Wow, can't believe it's the last day of 2012, how exciting, I love to start a new year! Let's hope I can stick to some of my new year resolutions this year lol, do you stick to yours??

This card was made with a stamp from The Greeting Farm, she is part of a 3 girl rubber stamp set and they are all adorable. The girl is coloured with copics. The papers are from Bo Bunny, they are one of my favourite paper companies. 

FWAB used:
FWAB Jasmine puffy flourish in orange
For more products or to find a stockist please visit Flourish with a Bling. If your favourite craft store doesn't stock our products feel free to pass on our details.

I made this card with the following challenges in mind:

Challenges 4 Everybody - Anything goes

Cute Card Thursday - Anything goes

Delightful challenges - Anything goes

Divas By Design - Anything goes

Glitter & Sparkle - Favourite colour (teal)

Hiding in my Craft room - Freestyle

Natalie & Amy - Your favourite things (fave colours teal/red & paper brand Bo Bunny)

Party time Tuesday - Anything goes

Pause Dream Enjoy - Anything goes

Pile it on - Pile on the embellishments

Shelly's Images - Out with the old in with the new (new papers)

Simon says stamp - Anything goes

Splendid Stamping with TGF - Red, teal and green 

Stamp n Doodle - Anything goes

Stampin' for the weekend - Anything goes

Tammy's Scrapin' Corner - Bingo - blue, image, flowers

The Pink Elephant - Anything goes

Through the craft room door - Anything goes

Thank you to all my 117 followers, I am so happy you like to check out my cards and I wish you all a very Happy New Year.

XOX Lucy

Guest Designer card for Little Miss Muffet

Hello everyone, I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas filled with fun, laughter, presents, family and food!! 

I have created another card for my December Guest Designer spot with Little Miss Muffet. This time I used three of their gorgeous girls to create my card. This was not my original plan but I overfilled one of my copics so when I opened the lid a huge ink splat hit my almost finished stamp, I was so upset. Then I realised all was not lost as I could use my old Fiskars template circles and cut out the good part. It just meant colouring 2 other cuties to add to the card. There really is no such thing as a mistake in crafting, just rearranging lol.

FWAB used:

Jack vine leaves and mini vine in Olive green

Red and Antique gold pearls

For more products or to find a stockist please visit Flourish with a Bling. If your favourite craft store doesn't stock our products feel free to pass on our details.

I am entering this card into the following challenges:

Bunny Zoe's Crafts - Celebration

Card Makin' Mamas - It's the holidays

Challenges 4 Everybody - Anything goes
CMC Copic - Metallic (vine, leaves and pearls)
Crafting for all seasons - Red, green, glitter/sparkle
The Cutie Pie - Cute Christmas

Deep Ocean - Santa Claus is coming
Delightful challenges - Anything goes
Digistamps 4 Joy - There's something magical about Christmas

Fab n Funky - Add ribbon and/or lace

Glitter & Sparkle - Christmas or New Year
Hooked on Craft - Christmas
Milk Coffee - Christmas or winter
Natalie & Amy - Christmas or winter wishes
Party time Tuesday - Anything goes
Penny's Challenges - Christmas
The Pink Elephant - Anything goes
Pile it on - Pile on the embellishments
Pin & Tack - Anything goes
Quirky Crafts - Last minute Christmas
Ribbon Carousel - The holidays
Shelly's Images - Out with the old and in with the new (new digis and Xmas flower)
Simon says stamp - Anything goes
Stamp n Doodle - Anything goes
Sweet Stampin' - Seeing double (2 tickets)

Tammy's Scrapin' Corner - Bingo - Ribbon, image, pearls
Through the craft room door - Anything goes
Whoopsi Daisy - Anything goes

Thanks so much for dropping by, I hope you have a safe and happy New Year!

XOX Lucy

Winner of my Flourish with a Bling blog candy!!

Hi and thank you to all that commented and added my prize image to their blog, it was such a tough decision to decide who to give the prize to, I would love to give you all one because it was really sweet of you to join in. Anyway, I thought the easiest way was to put all the names in a bowl and then my daughter could pick one out, so here's Chloe with the winner's name:

Congratulations Nannieflash, please contact me (see right hand side bar for email) and send me your mailing address and I'll pop your goodies in the post next week!! 

Wishing everyone a very Merry Christmas and a happy new year!! I look forward to doing more candy giveaways soon,

XOX Lucy

I have a 100 followers candy!!

This is a sticky post so please scroll down if you'd like to see my latest cards.

Yay and welcome to my newest (and 100th) follower, Kat!!! A big Hi to all of my wonderful followers, I am so happy to have each and every one of you!

When I first started my blog a few months ago I never expected to have anyone be interested in my little blog so I'm so thrilled that every week I have more friends join me. I love seeing each and every one of you visit, whether you leave a lovely comment or just view my cards, I love seeing that I've had over 10,000 views in such a short time!!!

So I'd love to give a lucky follower some Flourish with a Bling freebies - you've no doubt seen our gorgeous products on my cards as I love to use FWAB on just about every card I create, it finishes them off beautifully I think. I am going to give this candy to one of my followers that comments on this blog post and adds the image of the prize to their blog sidebar (along with a link to this blog post), simple as that! I will close the competition on Thursday 20th December so someone will know before Christmas that they're getting an FWAB pressie!! New followers are more than welcome to join in, the more the merrier.

This prize includes:

Trent's fence

Taylah's Toadstools

Up in the Sky

Elise flourish & flowers (choice of colours)

Jasmine laser flourish (choice of colours)

Chloe pearl flourish (choice of colours)

Lee's tree

Jasmine puffy flourish (choice of colours)

Jack vine (choice of colours)

We have a range of colours in some of the items above so I can send this prize pack or you can choose your own colours if you like!! To check out our colours visit Flourish with a Bling to view our range.

This competition is open world-wide and as long as you are now a follower (and add the image to your blog) you are eligible but please don't just follow my blog because you want the prize pack as that would be sad, I hope you like my cards and seeing how I use FWAB in different ways.

Please feel free to email me any time, FWAB is an Australian wholesale company but we have a stockist list which includes international stockists. We'd love for you to pass on our details to your favourite craft store if you're not the lucky winner of this goodie pack.

Good luck and enjoy your week, thanks again for following me!!
XOX Lucy

TPS Christmas card and Blog Hop winner announced!

Wow and thank you to all that took part in The Paper Shelter 2nd Birthday Blog Hop, I loved reading every comment (56 of them!!) and I have chosen the winner from my Blog Hop post comments -

Desire Fourie

Thank you all again for your lovely comments on my Blog Hop card, I wish I could give you all a prize!! Congratulations Desire, please stop by The Paper Shelter Blog to claim your prize.

My crafty friends will know this already but any newbies that have found my blog, I am giving away some Flourish with a Bling candy, if you'd like the chance to win it click here. It finishes on at the end of Thursday 20th December and I will announce the winner on Friday! See top left for prize pack photo, it's a beauty!! I will post worldwide.

Now on to today's card using the gorgeous Spring Swing II  from The Paper Shelter online store. The Paper Shelter blog has a challenge this fortnight which is "Anything Goes", everybody's favourite challenge, especially at this time of the year!! This challenge runs until 9th January. As the DT will be taking a lovely well-earned break with their families over Christmas we hope you understand that we are not going to be commenting on the entries this time round but we will definitely all be admiring them all the same.

I thought I'd make another Christmas card seeing as it's so close to being Christmas and I love using non-traditional Christmas digis and turning them into a Christmas theme just by using traditional colours and papers.

FWAB used:

Chloe red pearl flourish

Jack vine leaves - olive green

For more products or to find a stockist please visit Flourish with a Bling. If your favourite craft store doesn't stock our products feel free to pass on our details.

I am entering this card into the following challenges:

Bunny Zoe's Crafts - Celebration

Card Makin' Mamas - It's the holidays

Celebrate the Occasion - Anything Christmas

Challenges 4 Everybody - Anything goes

Chocolate, Coffee & Cards - Recipe - Flowers, DP's, Ribbon

Crafting for all seasons - Red, green, glitter/sparkle
The Crazy Challenge - Christmastime

The Cutie Pie - Cute Christmas

Deep Ocean - Santa is coming to town

Delightful challenges - Very blingy project
Digistamps 4 Joy - There's something magical about Christmas
Divas By Design - Anything goes

Dream Valley - Christmas
Fab n Funky - Use Ribbon and/or lace

Fussy & Fancy - Tags and banners (sentiment)

Glitter & Sparkle - Bingo - Gems, digi, die cuts

Hooked on Craft - Christmas
Inky Impressions - Sparkle

Ladybug Crafts - Anything goes

Mad for Markers - An Aussie Christmas

Make it Monday - Anything goes

Natalie & Amy - Christmas or winter wishes

Paper Pretties - Create a Christmas creation

Party time Tuesday - Colour inspiration
Penny's Challenges - Christmas

Pile it on - Pile on the embellishments

Pin & Tack - Anything goes

Quirky Crafts - Last minute Christmas

Ribbon Carousel - The holidays

Simon says stamp - What's  your fave? Favourite leaves (FWAB), colour (red), time of year!

The Squirrel & the Fox - Christmas

Stamp & Create - Sparkly Christmas or winter

Stamp n Doodle - Something unusual (a non-Christmas digi on a Christmas card)

Stamptacular - Christmastime

Sweet Stamping Pixies - Christmas (fairy or fairy-like image)

Through the craft room door - Anything goes

Wags n whiskers - Anything goes

Whoopsi Daisy - Traditional Christmas cards

Thank you so much for checking out my card at such a busy time, I hope you have a wonderful and safe Christmas,

XOX Lucy

Guest designer for Little Miss Muffet Challenges

I am so thrilled to have been asked to be a guest designer this month for Little Miss Muffet! They have some gorgeous digis and their latest range is soooo cute you'll be seeing a few of them on my cards soon. This card is created using Sonny-Honeycloud For You which is one of their latest releases. I have coloured her with copics. Little Miss Muffet also have a challenge blog and this week's challenge is It's Beginning to feel a lot like Christmas:

FWAB used:

Olive green Chloe pearl flourish & single pearls

Jack vine green leaves

Elise flowers (large pink flowers on card)

For more products or to find a stockist please visit Flourish with a Bling. If your favourite craft store doesn't stock our products feel free to pass on our details.

I made this card with the following challenges in mind:

Bearly Mine - Anything goes

Bunny Zoe's Crafts - Celebration

Challenges 4 Everybody - Anything goes

Chocolate, Coffee & Cards - Recipe - Flowers, DP's, ribbon

Craft Your Passion - Stitching

The Cutie Pie - Cute Christmas

Deep Ocean - So this is Christmas

Delightful challenges - Very blingy project

Divas By Design - Use some red (sentiment & designer papers have red pattern)

Dream Valley - Christmas

Fussy & Fancy - I love Christmas

Hooked on Craft - Christmas

Inky Impressions - Use something old (the chipboard clock I have had for ages!)

Love to Create - Anything goes

Make it Monday - Anything goes

Natalie & Amy - Christmas or winter wishes

Paper Pretties - Red, green and choice (pink)

Party time Tuesday - Kids Christmas

Penny's Challenges - Something new (new digi)

Pile it on - Pile on the embellishments

Pin & Tack - Anything goes

Playdate Cafe - Green, pink & red

Ribbon Carousel - The holidays

The Ribbon Girl - Ho Ho Ho

Simon says stamp - What's your favourite? Favourite flourishes & leaves (FWAB)

Stamp & Create - Sparkly Christmas or winter

Stamp n Doodle - Something unusual (easel card and clock)

The Pink Elephant - Photo inspiration

Through the craft room door - Anything goes

Wags n whiskers - Anything goes

Whoopsi Daisy - Use up your stash (flowers and clock)

I am giving away some Flourish with a Bling candy, if you'd like the chance to win it click here. It finishes on Thursday 20th December and I will announce the winner on Friday!

Thanks so much for dropping by, I hope you like my card and join in the Little Miss Muffet challenge.

XOX Lucy

Hannah Lynn CAS Christmas card

Oh how I love Hannah Lynn's digi stamps from Crafts and Me! This gorgeous digi is obviously a Halloween stamp but I decided to try and give her (and her little spider friend) a Christmas vibe, hope it worked lol. 

I mounted the image on the red background then popped her down on the white card while looking for some papers to match her when I decided I thought she looked best without the fuss of designer papers. This is very unusual for me as most of you know, I love embellies and lots of details on my cards but I also love to try different things out of my comfort zone too. 

I coloured her with copics and then glammed her up with some clear glitter pen. It was really difficult taking photos of this card, it looks so crisp and clean in real life, this was taken on top of my washing machine for the best lighting lol!

I am giving away some Flourish with a Bling candy, if you'd like the chance to win it click here. It finishes on Thursday 20th December and I will announce the winner on Friday!

I made this card with the following challenges in mind:

Copic Marker Norge - Anything goes
C.R.A.F.T. - Christmas
Crafts & Me - Anything goes
Creative Card Crew - Star
Cute Card Thursday - Red and green
Deep Ocean - So this is Christmas
Delightful challenges - All about Christmas
Desert Islands Crafts - Itinerary - Blood red, glitter, one layer card, 
Dream Valley - Christmas
Fussy & Fancy - I love Christmas
Hooked on Craft - Christmas
Mad for Markers - An Aussie Christmas
Mark's Finest Papers - Red and green
Moving along with the times - Clean and simple
Natalie & Amy -  Christmas or winter inspired
Paper Crafting Journey - Christmas projects
Paper Playtime - Christmas colours
Paper Pretties - Christmas inspired
Pattie's Creations - Christmas card
Pin & Tack - Anything goes
The Ribbon Girl - Ho Ho Ho
Shelly's Images - Christmas is in the air
The Pink Elephant - Make it girly
The Squirrel & the Fox - Summer or winter
Tuesday throwdown - White Christmas
Wags n whiskers - Anything goes
Whimsy Stamps - Anything goes Christmas 

Thanks so much for dropping in, I hope I have inspired you in some small way,
XOX Lucy

Tartan Christmas card

Hi there, I am giving away some Flourish with a Bling candy, if you'd like the chance to win it click here. It finishes on Thursday 20th December and I will announce the winner on Friday!

I can't believe how many gorgeous digis I have either bought or won in the last few months but I have hardly used one twice and yet I have posted over 150 times lol!! I love that they are such great prices and so easy to store. This little girl from Wee Stamps is one I have used before but I thought she'd look great in Christmas colours: 

FWAB used:

Chloe olive green pearl flourish

For more products or to find a stockist please visit Flourish with a Bling. If your favourite craft store doesn't stock our products feel free to pass on our details.

I made this card with the following challenges in mind:


Copic Marker Norge - Anything goes
C.R.A.F.T. - Christmas
Cute Card Thursday - Red and green
Deep Ocean - So this is Christmas
Delightful challenges - All about Christmas
Desert Islands Crafts - Itinerary - Blood red, gems, glitter, 
Digi Darla's - Child's Xmas cards 
Fussy & Fancy - I love Christmas
Hooked on Craft - Christmas
Love to Create - Holiday cheer
Make it Monday - Anything goes
Mark's Finest Papers - Red and green
Natalie & Amy - Christmas or winter inspired
Paper Crafting Journey - Christmas projects
Paper Playtime - Christmas colours
Paper Pretties - Christmas inspired
Pile it on - Pile on the embellishments
Pin & Tack - Anything goes
The Ribbon Girl - Ho Ho Ho
Shelly's Images - Christmas is in the air
Stamptacular - Photo inspiration - red & white, stars
Sweet Stampin' - Dies and/or punches
Tammy's Scrapin' Corner - Anything Christmas
The Pink Elephant - Make it girly
Through the craft room door - Anything goes
Wags n whiskers - Anything goes
Whoopsi Daisy - Christmas cards

I hope you are having a wonderful weekend,
XOX Lucy

Tiddly Inks Christmas card

Hi there, I am giving away some Flourish with a Bling candy, if you'd like the chance to win it click here. It finishes on Thursday 20th December and I will announce the winner on Friday!

Who loves Christmastime? I do, it's such a special time of year, I grew up in England (until I was 10) where it was cold at Christmas but have lived in Australia for 31 years where Christmas falls in the middle of summer! It took a long time to adjust and I would love to enjoy a white Christmas again one day.

No wonder I am able to post all these cards today as it's 37 degrees outside!!! So hot I'm not stepping foot out the front door until I absolutely must for my daughter's dancing concert tonight.

My card today is made with a gorgeous little Tiddly Inks digi, she actually comes with a snowman too! I printed the sentiment from my computer. The lovely papers are from Echo Park.

FWAB used:

Jasmine red laser flourish (part of)

Jack green leaves

Olive green pearls

Elise pink flower

For more products or to find a stockist please visit Flourish with a Bling. If your favourite craft store doesn't stock our products feel free to pass on our details.

I made this card with the following challenges in mind:

Chocolate, Coffee & Cards - Recipe - Designer papers, ribbon, flowers
CMC Copic - Metallic gleam 
Copic Marker Norge - Anything goes
C.R.A.F.T. - Christmas
Creative Card Crew - Star
Cute Card Thursday - Red and green
Deep Ocean - So this is Christmas
Delightful challenges - All about Christmas
Desert Islands Crafts - Itinerary - Blood red, ribbon, gems, 
Digi Darla's - Child's Xmas cards 
Fussy & Fancy - I love Christmas
Hooked on Craft - Christmas
Lexi's Creations - Christmas
Make it Monday - Anything goes
Mark's Finest Papers - Red and green
Natalie & Amy -  Christmas or winter inspired
Paper Crafting Journey - Christmas projects
Paper Playtime - Christmas colours
Paper Pretties - Christmas inspired
Pattie's Creations - Christmas card
Penny's Challenges - Anything goes
Pile it on - Pile on the embellishments
Pin & Tack - Anything goes
Ribbon Carousel - The holidays (include ribbon or twine)
The Ribbon Girl - Ho Ho Ho
Shelly's Images - Christmas is in the air
Stamp & Create - Sparkly Christmas or winter
Stamptacular - Photo inspiration - red & white, stars
Sweet Stampin' - Dies and/or punches
Tammy's Scrapin' Corner - Anything Christmas
The Pink Elephant - Make it girly
Tiddly Inks - Make it like Marlena
Wags n whiskers - Anything goes
Whoopsi Daisy - Christmas cards

Ok, time to write up the next card's post lol, see you soon,

XOX Lucy