Valentine's card for my darling hubby

Happy Valentine's Day!! I hope you had a lovely, romantic day.

I made this card for my gorgeous husband, he always buys me the most beautiful cards but more importantly writes such special words inside that make me love him even more. We celebrated being together 20 years last month.

The gorgeous vine is from Flourish with a Bling, it's called the Jack vine and comes in green, forest green, olive green (this one) and black. Check out the website here for more unique designs, we have some amazing bling packs at fantastic prices.

I am entering this card into the following challenges, come and join in, just click on the names:


2 Sisters - Hearts (at least 1 heart on project - mine is on the teddy's little envelope)
A gem of a Challenge - Hearts/Valentine's day
All Sorts - Valentines
Challenges 4 Everybody - Anything goes
My Craft Spot - For your sweetheart
Craft Your Passion - My Valentine
Crafty Creations - Love &/or hearts
Creative Craft Challenges 2 - Hugs and kisses
The Cutie Pie - Valentine's Day cards
Digi Darla's - Be my valentine
Di's Digis - Valentine/Love
Divas By Design - Love and romance
Fat Pages with Attitude - Be my Valentine / Anything goes
Inky Chicks - Valentine or Anniversary card
Inky Impressions - Ribbon or twine
Lexi's Creations - Valentine/Love
Love to Create - Feelin the love
Loves Rubber Stamps - All about love
Mark's Finest Papers - Love
Moving along with the times - Love is in the air
My Grafico - Anything goes
One Crazy Stamper - Love
Party time Tuesday - 3 and 3 (3 patterned papers)
Penny's Challenges - Use your fave colour combo
Perfect Sentiments - Furry friendship
Pin & Tack - Anything goes
(Pin)spirational Challenges - Photo inspiration 
Ribbon Carousel - Love is in the air
The Ribbon Reel - Spring roses - Yellow/pink and Ribbon/lace/twine
Send a smile 4 kids - Easter or Spring 4 kids (can be a kids' Spring card)
The Squirrel & the Fox - Love
Stamp & Create - Spring cards
Stamp n Doodle - Bingo - Patterned paper, ribbon, flower
Stamptacular - From the heart (including a sentiment)
Tammy's Scrapin' Corner - Handmade embellishments (sentiment tag)
Through the craft room door - Anything goes
Top Tip Tuesday - Let me call you Sweetheart - Top tip - sometimes when you're busy and want to make a quick card, toppers are a great way to make a special card without colouring the image.

Thanks so much for dropping by,

XOX Lucy

Flourish with a Bling

Flourish with a Bling are now retail!!! Candy included!

Hi everyone, I am so excited to let you all know that Flourish with a Bling now sell to the public!! Woohoo!! We have the most amazing packs for sale at unbelievable prices! Here are some of our packs:

Mega Bling pack - $100 only $65

Rainbow Pearl pack - $40 only $30

How gorgeous are they? When we were making up the packs we were oohing and ahhing over them and we're used to seeing our products all the time lol. To see or purchase any of these fantastic packs please click on Flourish with a Bling and you'll be taken to "Bling Heaven" lol. If you haven't seen our products in real life yet you will be so delighted when you see the shimmers and glosses on our embellishments, I know a lot of you already know how beautiful our products are as we have some very loyal customers who are just going to love buying direct from us!

Our website is so easy to use and you can also purchase individual products too. Add whatever you like to your order, it will only cost you $8 flat rate postage anywhere in Australia (free postage for orders over $200). For our international customers, we will be happy to give you a rough shipping quote, just send us an email.

To contact Flourish with a Bling email flourishwithabling@yahoo.com.au and we'll be happy to assist you with any queries.

As a bonus, our first 50 orders that include any FWAB pack will receive a free Jasmine laser flourish! Only other thing you need to do to qualify is write in your order's comments section that you came from my blog! Easy as that! Now hurry as I'd love for all my friends and followers to get all the freebies lol!

Happy scrapping and shopping,

XOX Lucy

www.flourishwithabling.com.au 

Saturated Canary Valentine's Day card

Hi All, a special hello to all my followers, I love knowing someone wants to see my cards lol.

This gorgeous little digi is from Saturated Canary who are the sponsors for the Paper Crafting Journey's challenge this fortnight. The Paper Crafting Journey challenge is "Love", nice and easy for this time of the year! I hope you'll join in too!

FWAB used:

Elise hot pink flower

Silver rhinestones

Flourish with a Bling is now retail so please check out our website, we have some amazing value packs. We sell worldwide.

I follow a lot of fantastic challenge blogs and many of them are asking for love themed cards so I am entering this card into the following challenges, feel free to join any or all of them (click on their names to be taken to their blog):

613 Avenue Create - Anything goes with optional love theme 
All Sorts - Let's get cute
Bearly Mine - Anything goes
Card Makin' Mamas - Love
Catch the Bug - Anything goes 
Celebrate the Occasion - Valentine's card with ribbon
Copic Marker Norge - Hearts/Valentine
Corrosive Challenge - Hearts & flowers
Crafts & Me - Fave colour combo (pink, white & green)
Creative Craft Challenges 2 - Hugs and kisses
The Cutie Pie - Valentine's cards
Delightful challenges - Think Spring (pastels)
Desert Islands Crafts - Itinerary - 1, 2, 6
Digi Darla's - My style 
Digi Haven - Love/Valentine 
Di's Digis - Valentine/Love
Dream Valley - Valentines
Emerald Faeries - Love
Fab n Funky - Valentines or hearts
Fashionista - Valentines theme
Fat Pages with Attitude - Love
Flutter by Wednesday - Open challenge 
Forever Night - Flowers & pearls
Glitter & Sparkle - Valentine/Love
Great Impressions - Have a heart
Hiding in my Craft room - Reds (includes pinks)
Inky Chicks - Valentine or Anniversary card
Inky Impressions - Love
Lacy Sunshine - Anything goes
Ladybug Crafts - Girly/female
Lexi's Creations -Valentines/Love
Love to Create - Celebrate
Loves Rubber Stamps - Anything goes
Make it Monday - Anything goes
Milk Coffee - Valentines
My Grafico - Anything goes
My Mum's craft room - Love/Valentine
Natalie & Amy - Something new (digi), something old (pearl flower)
One Crazy Stamper - Love
Party time Tuesday - Love and romance
Pin & Tack - Anything goes
(Pin)spirational Challenges - Inspirational photo (love)
Ribbon Carousel - Love is in the air
The Ribbon Girl - Love You or Valentine
Saturated Canary - Color challenge
Simon says stamp - Have a heart
Simon says stamp & show - Ever After (Eternal love)
Simply create too - Valentine's Day or hearts
Southern Girls Challenge - Bling it on
Sparkle & Glitter - Hugs and hearts
Stamp & Create - Spring cards
Stamp n Doodle - Love is in the air
Sweet Stampin' - Love is all around
Tammy's Scrapin' Corner - Valentine's cards
The Pink Elephant - Inspirational photos
Through the craft room door - Anything goes
Top Tip Tuesday - Let me call you Sweetheart (Tip: when punching out butterflies, glue their "bodies" down and curl their wings up so they look more 3D)
Totally Papercrafts - Make your own embellies (butterflies, flowers & sentiment)
Whoopsi Daisy - Ribbon &/or lace (ribbon)

Have a happy Valentine's Day,
XOX Lucy

Jurassic Love step card

Hi and thank you for coming to take a look at my card for The Paper Shelter's blog challenge this week! 

The Paper Shelter want to see you "alter something or make a 3 folded card". I decided to make a 3 or more folded card and used Jurassic Love digi. They come in ink outline form and coloured and include a background designer paper too! I tried something different this week as I usually always colour my images but I thought I'd try printing the dinosaurs in colour and then create the background with my copics so it's still an original design. Grass is easy to do, just use all your different coloured green copics and stroke upwards. I inked the sky.

The Paper Shelter blog is also holding a DT call from the 10th - 20th February and they are the greatest, sweetest people to design for! I've been guest designing for a couple of months now and I would have loved to have stayed on if I didn't have so much on my plate right now. 

FWAB used:

Taylah's Toadstools

Jasmine laser red flourish (part of)

Flourish with a Bling is now retail so please check out our website, we have some amazing value packs. We sell worldwide.

I am entering this card into the following challenges, hope you join in some of them too:

2 Sisters - White, red and pink 
613 Avenue Create - Anything goes with optional love theme 
Artistic Inspirations - Embossing/Anything goes
Bearly Mine - Anything goes
Bunny Zoe's Crafts - Anything goes
Catch the Bug - Anything goes
Copic Marker Norge -  Hearts/Valentine
Corrosive Challenge - Hearts & flowers
Creative Craft Challenges 2 - Hugs and kisses
The Cutie Pie - Valentine's cards
Delightful challenges - Red and white
Desert Islands Crafts - Itinerary - 1, 2, 4, 6, 10
Digi Darla's - My style 
Digi Haven - Love/Valentine 
Di's Digis - Valentine/Love
Dream Valley - Valentines
Emerald Faeries - Love
Fashionista - Valentines theme
Glitter & Sparkle - Valentine/Love
Great Impressions - Have a heart
Hiding in my Craft room - Reds 
Inky Chicks - Valentine or Anniversary card
Lexi's Creations -Valentines/Love
Love to Create - Celebrate
Milk Coffee - Valentines
My Grafico - Anything goes
My Mum's craft room - Love/Valentine
Natalie & Amy - Something new (digi), something old (bling hearts)
No matter which challenge - Ribbons and bows
One Crazy Stamper - Love
Party time Tuesday - Love and romance
Pile it on - Fancy folds
Pin & Tack - Anything goes
(Pin)spirational Challenges - Inspirational photo (love)
Ribbon Carousel - Love is in the air
The Ribbon Girl - Love You or Valentine
Simon says stamp - Anything goes
Simply create too - Valentine's Day or hearts
Sparkle & Glitter - Hugs and hearts
Stampin' for the weekend - Metal (key)
Tammy's Scrapin' Corner - Valentine's Day card
The Pink Elephant - Inspirational photos
Through the craft room door - Anything goes
Top Tip Tuesday - Let me call you Sweetheart (Tip: print out a pre-coloured image but colour the background for an original picture)
Totally Papercrafts - Make your own embellies (bow & sentiments)
Tuesday throwdown - Heartstrings
Whoopsi Daisy - Ribbon &/or lace (ribbon)

Wow, that was a lot of challenges! Talk about love and romance in February!! Thanks so much for visiting and I hope you have a wonderful Valentine's Day.
XOX Lucy

Digi Darla Valentine card

Hi crafty friends, I thought I'd try something a little different this time and make the gorgeous little Digi Darla girl black and white with just the roses red, I can only imagine how beautiful some of you could do this with your colouring skills, but hey I have to start somewhere lol.

FWAB used:

Red pearls

Jasmine laser flourish in red (part of and just under the left hand flowers)

Flourish with a Bling is now retail so please check out our website, we have some amazing value packs. We sell worldwide.

I am entering this card into the following challenges:

2 Sisters - White, red and pink (added black too, hope that's okay)
613 Avenue Create - Anything goes with optional love theme 
Addicted to stamps - Pearls and swirl (swirl is on left near flowers)
All Sorts - Let's get cute
Artistic Inspirations - Embossing/Anything goes
ATC's with Attitude - Ribbons/lace
By the Cute & Girly - Roses are red (I coloured the image inspired by your challenge)
Card Makin' Mamas - Love
Cardz TV - Black, white & red
Catch the Bug - Anything goes
Challenges 4 Everybody - Anything goes
CMC Copic - Color with texture (black and white)
Corrosive Challenge - Hearts & flowers
My Craft Spot - Valentine's for kids
Crafts & Me - Fave embellies - Flowers, pearls
The Crazy Challenge - Birthdays
Cute Card Thursday - A different corner
The Cutie Pie - Valentine's cards
Delightful challenges - Red and white
Desert Islands Crafts - Itinerary - Love, hearts, pearls, pink & red, sentiment
Digi Darla's - My style (digi image used comes from Digi Darlas)
Digi Haven - Love/Valentine 
Di's Digis - Valentine/Love
Dream Valley - Valentines
Emerald Faeries - Love
Fashionista - Valentines theme
Fat Pages with Attitude - Love
Flutter by Wednesday - Anything goes
Forever Night - Flowers & pearls
Fussy & Fancy - Circles
Glitter & Sparkle - Valentine/Love
Great Impressions - Have a heart
Heck of a challenge - Love and flowers
Hiding in my Craft room - Reds 
Inky Impressions - Bingo - Flowers, ribbon, pink or red
Lacy Sunshine - Anything goes
Lexi's Creations -Valentines/Love
Love to Create - Celebrate
Loves Rubber Stamps - Anything goes
Make it Monday - Anything goes
Milk Coffee - Valentines
Moving along with the times - Punch it out
My Grafico - Anything goes
My Mum's craft room - Love/Valentine
Natalie & Amy - Something new (digi), something old (papers & sentiment)
One Crazy Stamper - Love
Paper Makeup Stamps - Red, black and white
Paper Pretties - Square cards
Pause Dream Enjoy - Mainly red
Penny's Challenges - One for the girls
Perfect Sentiments - Anything goes with dies and sentiment 
Pin & Tack - Anything goes
(Pin)spirational Challenges - Photo inspiration (circles, colours)
Platypus Creek Digitals - Pretty Party time
The Ribbon Girl - Love You or Valentine
Scrappy Frogs - Use red or pink
Simon says stamp - Anything goes
Simon says stamp & show - Ever After (Snow White and Red Rose)
Simply create too - Valentine's Day or hearts
Sparkle & Glitter - Hugs and hearts
The Squirrel & the Fox - Something new (colouring the girl black and white)
Stamp n Doodle - Girl Birthday theme
Sweet Stampin' - Love is all around
Tammy's Scrapin' Corner - Valentine cards
The Pink Elephant - Inspirational photos
Totally Stampalicious - Your fave sketch
Tuesday throwdown - Bling it on
Whoopsi Daisy - Ribbon &/or lace (ribbon)

Thank you so much for checking out my card and for any lovely comments you may leave (please don't feel like you have to, only leave one if you want to).

XOX Lucy

GDT for Delightful Challenges

Hi, I was delighted to be a guest designer at Digital Delights recently, their digis are so gorgeous! I chose to use this little monkey, Birthday Maycee Monkey and some ticket sentiments. I have also used Flourish with a Bling's Lee's tree, grass and pearls.

FWAB used:

Lee's tree, grass and pearls

Flourish with a Bling is now retail so please check out our website, we have some amazing value packs. We sell worldwide.

I am entering this card into the following challenges:

613 Avenue Create - Anything goes
All Sorts - Let's get cute
ATC's with Attitude - Ribbons/lace
Can you digi it - Green is here
Celebrate the Occasion - Green with envy
Challenges 4 Everybody - Anything goes
Crafts & Me - Fave embellies - Tree, tickets
Cute Card Thursday - A different corner
Make it Monday - Anything goes
My Grafico - Anything goes
Party time Tuesday - Anything goes
Perfect Sentiments - Anything goes with dies and sentiment
Pile it on - Fancy folds
Pin & Tack - Anything goes
(Pin)spirational Challenges - Photo inspiration (Colours, circles, papers)
Send a smile 4 kids - Easter or Spring for kids
Simon says stamp - Anything goes
Stamptacular - Gents & Gems
Through the craft room door - Anything goes
Tuesday throwdown - Bling it on
Whoopsi Daisy - Ribbon &/or lace (ribbon)

I hope you enjoyed seeing my card, thanks for dropping by, and thanks again to Delightful Challenges for having me as their guest designer.

XOX Lucy

Congratulations bear card

Hi everyone, I am so happy to see you all dropping in to see my creations.

This is my last GDT card for C.R.A.F.T. Challenges and they want to see everyone "using a mask/making a mask". This was a really tricky challenge for me as I normally don't use masks on my cards so I am happy with how my hexagons/honeycomb background came out on this card. I used a glimmer mist and a chipboard honeycomb piece so it was fairly easy to do, hope you like it and try a masked background/embellie on your card. The gorgeous bear is from one of the sponsors this week, Stamp Fairy.

FWAB used:

Trent's fence & Grass

Black rhinestone line from Bella rhinestone set

Flourish with a Bling is now retail so please check out our website, we have some amazing value packs. We sell worldwide.

I am entering this card into the following challenges:

613 Avenue Create - Anything goes with option of blue & cream/white

All Sorts - Masculine (about as masculine as I get lol)

Bunny Zoe's Crafts - Anything goes

Catch the Bug - Photo inspiration/blues

Crafts & Me - Fave embellies (I really love using the fence)

The Crazy Challenge - Party time
Cute Card Thursday - A different corners (flowers in corners)

The Cutie Pie - 3 different textures

Desert Islands Crafts - Itinerary - Fur, fancy text, 4 colours, flowers

Digi Darla's - Winter blues

Divas By Design - Brown, blue & cream

Drunken Stampers - All that glitters (flowers)

Glitter & Sparkle - Boys are slugs & snails

Lexi's Creations - Fancy folds

Love to Create - Anything goes with a sentiment (using a Stamp Fairy digi - your sponsor)
Moving along with the times - Punch it out

My Grafico - Anything goes

My Mum's craft room - Anything goes

Natalie & Amy - Something new (digi) Something old (Rub on sentiment)

One Crazy Stamper - Anything goes

Paper Playtime - Use some brown

Party time Tuesday - Anything goes

Perfect Sentiments - Anything goes with sentiment 

Pin & Tack - Anything goes

Scrappy Frogs - Try something new (masking)

Simon says stamp - Anything goes

Sparkle & Glitter - Anything but square

Through the craft room door - Anything goes

Tuesday throwdown - Bling it on

Whimsy Stamps - Fancy edges

Wow, it's so sad when someone stops following you isn't it lol? I have just had someone do that while typing this post and I feel so rejected or like my cards are not as good as they were lol, I'll get over it haha. I never expected followers in the first place but I get so excited to see every new follower.

XOX Lucy

Please vote for me!!

Hi friends,

I have a favour to ask you, hope you don't mind? I have been nominated as a Top 5 over at Fashionista Challenges and crafters get to vote their favourite card. I would love it if you had a chance to check it out and choose mine (if it's your favourite lol). Just click on their name above and it will take you to their blog, you can win prizes just for voting too.

This is the card that has been nominated:

Thank you so much,

XOX Lucy