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

The Chef and the Birthday Cake card (Dr Digi image)

Hi Crafty Friends,

I love this image from Dr Digi's and made this card much quicker than I normally do with a clean and simple feel, I normally feel like it's missing something but I like how crisp and fresh this has turned out, the cake being the focus (yum!)

I am entering this card into the following challenges:

AllSorts - use at least 2 dies - circles and rectangle dies 

Catch the Bug - the fast and the furious 

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

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

Creative Inspirations - your favourite things - cake, my stitched circle dies, embossing

Cute Card Thursday - boys/men
Not Just Cards - summer challenge anything goes 

Ribbon Girl - June card challenge

Simon Says Stamp (Mon) - masculine 

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

Tuesday Throwdown - sugar high 

Word Art Wednesday - anything goes  

Have a great day,

XOX Lucy

Big Hugs Birthday Girl Bear card (Di's Digis image)

Hi Crafty Friends,

It's winter here so it's a great time for creating more often but no good for taking photos of them. Where's my sunshine lol?

Anyway, onto my card and this gorgeous little bear comes from Di's Digis. I die cut scraps of papers to match and mounted them onto white card to give a fresh feel. I heat embossed the chipboard corners with white embossing powder and the sentiment is a Lawn Fawn stamps and dies set.

I am entering this card into the following challenges:

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

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

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

Creative Inspirations - your favourite things - girly cards, pink, cake, hugs 
Cutie Pie - all creatures great and small

Di's Digis - Birthdays

In the Pink - cake plus pink
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