Square Block Monster Birthday card (Lawn Fawn stamps)

Hi Crafty Friends,

This card was a bit of fun to make and the small squares are a lot easier than it looks. I made the square background by gluing 1cm strips of bright cardstock onto white card. Once the whole white square card had lines of colours I cut off any overhanging strips. Then I cut the horizontal stripes vertically in 1cm strips so I had lots of lines of squares. Then I added them to another piece of card randomly trying to make sure no two square colours were next to each other. I wonder if any of you followed that lol? I know I didn't get it when I saw it in a magazine, I had to see a couple of photos along the way to figure it out. If you do want to try it and didn't follow the instructions, let me know and I'll do it again with a photo tutorial along with it :)

I am entering this card into the following challenges:

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

Aud Sentiments - for a child plus a sentiment

Cute Card Thursday - anything goes

Cutie Pie - all creatures great and small
Love to Scrap - boyz rule

Ribbon Girl - any image

Send a smile 4 kids - for the boys

Simon Says Stamp (Wed) - anything goes

Stempelsonne (Stamp Sun) - anything goes

SugarPea Designs - mix it up - photo - inspired by the colour red

Have a great day,

XOX Lucy

Denim butterfly flower card

Hi Crafty Friends,

I love this old Prima patterned paper, I have had it forever! Does anyone remember it? I scruffed up the edges, added some butterflies and heat embossed a gold sentiment onto it. There's so much going on on the paper itself that I didn't need to add too much.

I am entering this card into the following challenges:

AllSorts - flower power

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

Creatalicious - anything goes with optional twist: red, white and blue

SugarPea Designs - mix it up - inspired by the photo - the flowers

Word Art Wednesday - anything goes

I hope you have a lovely weekend, thanks for dropping by,

XOX Lucy

Girly Thank you card (Tiddly Inks image)

Hi Crafty Friends,

This is my last card for the day and perhaps my favourite. I love this gorgeous image and Christy from Tiddly Inks was giving it away free the other day, I hope you got your free digi too. I coloured her up with copics and used some glossy accents on the flower centres. I inked up the background with oxide inks, lightly sprayed water and then embossed it with my WRMK next level wave embossing folder. To tie the sentiment in with the framed image I added some black cardstock to the centre of a white scrap of card then doodled a similar frame. I used my Lawn Fawn sentiment stamps and dies to finish it off.

I am entering this card into the following challenges:

A Gem of a Challenge - summer colours

AllSorts - flower power

Crafting when we can - use an image

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 

Jo's Scrap Shack - red, orange and aqua

Lemon Shortbread - anything goes  
Let's Craft & Create -  girls, girls, girls

Lil Patch of Crafty Friends - anything goes 
Pammie's Inky Pinkies - anything goes  

Polkadoodles - anything goes 

Ribbon Girl - any image

Star Stampz - bright sunshine

SugarPea Designs - mix it up - inspired by the bunch of flowers in the picture

Through the Craftroom Door - anything goes 
Tiddly Inks - make it rectangle

Word Art Wednesday - anything goes  

Thanks so much for dropping by my blog, I hope you have a lovely day/evening,

XOX Lucy

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