My attempt at colouring light in a monotone image

Evening all, I hope that you are all well and your week has gotten off to a good start. As usual I had planned to post this earlier but unfortunately my camera decided to have a fit and I had  to uninstall and reinstall of the software for it, so that was fun lol!

As I am once again running late I wont ramble on but I would really like to know your opinions of the colouring on this one, I have tried to capture the light from the candle in a monotone image using only browns, I am not really sure if I  like how it turned out or not.

To make this card I have used an 8"x8" card base, brown card stock and the paper with the writing on was actually salvaged from the packaging that came on  a book Luke bought the other day. The image is a stamp from Magnolia and is coloured in using promarkers. I have then used a Memory Box die to cut out the flourishes and then added some flowers, a vintage button and two types of ribbon and a layered bow made from those ribbons to decorate.

I would like to enter this card in to the following challenges,
Simon Says Stamp Challenge Blog - Simon Says Anything Goes
Midweek Magnolias - Week #8 - Open Theme (anything goes)
Polka Doodles Challenge Blog - Week 17 - Shabby Chic / Vintage
Just Magnolia & Hanglar & Stanglar Challenge Blog - Week 154 - Buttons  & Bows
The Cutie Pie Challenge Blog  - Challenge 17 - Monochromatic

Thanks for reading this post, as  always I love to read your comments, they brighten up my day. Apologies for being a bit rubbish at keeping up with comments lately, things are so  busy and I am feeling a bit tired from  it all at the moment but I am trying to catch up with commenting as much as I can and  I  will get round to you  all  eventually.

Make sure you  pop back tomorrow to see my first ever DT post for the LEJ Designs Challenge Blog and don't forget to enter the candies if you haven't already.

Lindsay xx

Exciting News

Hi everyone,  I hope that you are all having a great weekend, just a quick post to let you all know that I have been asked to join my good friend Christine's new design team. Christine recently decided to take up drawing again and she has  wonderful natural talent, I was so pleased to be asked to be part of her team  to work with her beautiful digi's.

I hope you will join me in wishing Christine the best of luck.

Thank you for reading this post, as always I love to read your comments

Lindsay xx

PanPastel Challenge Blog - Challenge 16 - Springtime

Morning everyone, I hope that you are all having a lovely Sunday, it's time for a new challenge to begin over at the PanPastel Challenge Blog and this weeks theme is Springtime. As  usual  the challenge is sponsored by our regular sponsor Your Creativity Store and you could win a fab PanPastel starter kit (colours may very).

So here is what I came up with

To make this card I used an 8"x8" card base, 2 papers from The Diary Of An Edwardian Country Lady which I have ripped in  to pieces and then pieced back together again. The images are one of my own digi's which can be bought from my website and I have coloured them in using PanPastels. I have then used punched butterflies and lace to decorate.

Thank you for reading this post, as always I love to read your comments, they brighten up my day and I hope that you will all come along to the PanPastel Challenge Blog and join in as we love to see your gorgeous creations.

I would like to enter this card in to the following challenges,
Moving Along With The Times Challenge Blog -  MAWTT  Garden Or Flowers
Joanna Sheen Challenge Blog - Flower Power
Little Darlings Challenge Blog - Challenge 22 - Flowers
Delightful Challenges - Delightful's Paper Piecing Challenge

Lindsay xx

P.S. Don't forget to enter my blog candy

I also posted another card late last  night so I hope you will scroll down to see that too xx

Time For Tilda

Hi everyone, I hope that you are all well and having a good weekend, apologies for the late post again, time just seems to get away from me now, I think those darn pixies have taken up permanent residence in my house now.

See lol! Evidence! This is one of the digi's that I put on  my website a few days ago but didn't get time to blog it.

Anyway enough ramble since it's already very late, here is my card for today.

 To make my card I have used,  an 8"x8" scalloped card blank, 2 cheap 12"x12" papers from The Works and 2 handmade papers from The Works (for the die cuts), the die cuts were cut out using Tim Holtz dies. I have drawn in faux stitching on my papers, the image is a stamp from Magnolia coloured in using promarkers  and I have then added paper flowers and beady stamens from my stash.

I would like to enter this card in to the following challenges,
Magnolia-licious Challenge Blog - Inspiration Challenge #17
The Official Magnolia Inspiration Challenge - TOMIC #47 -Photo Inspiration & Best Wishes
Midweek Magnolias - Week #8 - Open Theme (Anything Goes)
Crafty Ann's Challenge Blog -Challenge #64 - Stitching Real Or Faux
Glitter Geeks Challenge Blog  - Week 17 - Stitches

Thank  you for reading this post, as always I love to read your comments, they brighten up my day.

Lindsay xx

P.S. Don't forget to enter my blog candy xx

Dear Santa .....

Hi everyone, I hope that you are all well and looking forward to the weekend.

Apologies for posting another Christmas card in April but I was so rushed to make them all last year, I quite  like the idea of getting a few done early this year, plus I hadn't used this stamp since I bought it which just seems wrong to me lol.

To make this card, I have used an 8"x8" card blank, some Christmas material that I have had in my stash for ages, 2 papers from the Papermania Deck the Halls paper pack,  the die cut frame and flourishes are cut out using Marianne Design dies. The image is a House Mouse stamp from Joanna  Sheen and is coloured in using Promarkers. I have then added roses from stash and  some little copper bells on wire to decorate.

I would like to enter this card in to the following challenges,
House Mouse & Friends Monday  Challenge - Challenge 118 - HMFMC118 - Grab Some Tea For An Anything Goes Challenge
Simon Says Stamp Challenge Blog - Simon Says Anything Goes
Cute Card Thursday Challenge Blog - Challenge 214 - Animal  Magic
C.R.A.F.T. Challenge Blog - C.R.A.F.T. challenge 152 - Animals
Emergency Crafters Challenge Blog -  Bold & Bright
Crafty Catz Weekly Challenge - Challenge 130 - Anything Goes
Craft Us Crazy Challenge Blog - Challenge 26 - Inspire Us - Favorite Stamp Company
Creative Inspirations Wednesday Challenge Blog - Challenge 160 - Anything Goes
Aud Sentiments Challenge Blog - Anything Goes Challenge & DT Call
ABC Christmas Card Challenge - H Is For Hardware (Use Metal) & DT Call

Thank you for reading this post, as always I love to read your comments, they brighten up my day.

Lindsay xx

P.S. Don't forget to enter my blog candy xx

Tilda On A Treasure Hunt

Evening all, sorry for the lateness of my post, I have been chasing my tail all day again today. I hope you are all well. I have had a bit of a funny  day, I was feeling a bit low and didn't feel very  confident in myself today (couldn't say why just one of those days I guess) but without even knowing that, some of my bloggy buddies made me feel so much better just by being their lovely selves so I just wanted to say that you lot are all  fab and I  am so glad to have met you all, much love to you all.

To make this card I have used an 8"x8" card  blank, 1 paper from the Up  Up &  Away First Edition paper pack and some black cardstock. I have drawn in faux stitching around the edge of the blue paper and distressed the edges of both the blue paper and the black cardstock framing my image. I have then added some lace to decorate (this is actually thin lace but I have layered several pieces on top of one another). The image is made up  of two Magnolia stamps (Tilda and the barrel and anchor) and I have then drawn in the background behind them and coloured in with promarkers. I have then added leaves, seaweed, a little map that came from a dolls house furniture shop and also made a bow from more of the lace  to decorate.

I would like to enter my card in to the following challenges,

Magnolia-licious Highlites Challenge Blog - Lots Of Lucious Lace
Totally Tilda Challenges - Challenge #45 - Stitching (Real Or Faux)
Simply Magnolia Challenge Blog Use At Least 2 Magnolia Stamps
Magnolia Stamp Lovers Challenge Blog  - Stitching Challenge (Real or Faux)
Magnolia Mania Challenge - Challenge #45 - Bingo (I have gone with Distressing, Lace & Tilda)
Simon Says Stamp Challenge Blog - Simon Says Anything Goes
Willow Sketchie Challenge Blog  - Theme - Things Outside

Just before I go I would like to show you the 3 new SuzeJo digi's that I put on my website today, all feedback is gratefully received,

 
You can find these digi's on my website here.

Thank you for reading my post, as always I love to read your comments, they brighten up  my day.

Lindsay xx

Christmas Already?

Hi again everyone, this is my second post for today please scroll down to see the first one

To make this card I have used a 6" x 6" scalloped card base, papers from the Christmas First Edition paper pack. The image and sentiment are both from a Joanna Sheen House Mouse Stamp set and has been coloured in using Promarkers, I have then added flocking to the santa hats (I tried to take a very close up picture to show it but it's not the best ever). I have then used buttons and ribbon and a bell charm to decorate.

I would like to enter this card in to the following challenges,
Moving Along With The Times Challenge - Merry Christmas From MAWTT
Winter Wonderland Challenge Blog - Buttons & Bows
Allsorts Challenge Blog - Week 151 - Sketch (Ihave turned the sketch on it's side hope that ok)
House Mouse & Friends Monday Challenge - Challenge 118 - HMFMC118 - Grab Some Tea For An Anything Goes Challenge
Creative Crafts Challenges  - Lets See Some Animal Antics
Simon Says Stamp Challenge Blog - Simon Says Anything Goes
Diva's By Design Challenge Blog - Buttons And/Or Bows

Thank you for reading this post, as always I love to read your comments

Lindsay xx

P.S. Don't forget to enter my blog candy xx

A Little Bit Dotty

Hi everyone, I hope that you are all well and having a good day and hope you have better weather than we are here as well.

Just a quick post for now, I hope to be back later with another one

To make this card I used a 6" x 6" scalloped card blank, some plain red paper which I stamped the ladybug border on using  a stamp from All Night Media, I have then used  a piece  of white card which I embossed  using a cuttlebug embossing folder. The image is stamped out using a Penny Black stamp and coloured in using Promarkers, I have then added some 3d  glaze  to the  ladybird. Finally  I added some  buttons and ribbons to decorate.

I would like to enter this card in  to the following challenges,
Polka Doodles Challenge Blog - Week 16 - Red & White  & Stashbox Stamp
Glitter Geeks Challenge  Blog - Week 16 - Red & White
Penny Black Saturday Challenge - Week 198 - No  Patterned  Papers
Sweet Stampin Challenge Blog - Use More Than 1 Ribbon
Shopping Our Stash - Challenge 49 - Starts With A B (I have buttons, bugs  and bows and all of the ribbons buttons  and papers  are from my stash)
Simon Says Stamp Challenge Blog - Simon Says Anything Goes
Sweet Stamps Challenge Blog - Challenge #62 - Stamped Frame
Diva's By Design Challenge Blog - Buttons And/Or Bows

Thank you for reading  this  post, as always I love to read your comments, they brighten up my day.

Lindsay xx

P.S. Don't forget to enter my blog candy xx

A Flight Over Paris

Hi everyone, I hope that you are all well and having better weather than we are here, it's been grey, drizzly and miserable for days now.I have caught up on my comments  today hoorah! I always try to make the effort to visit people in return if they have left me comment but lately I have felt a bit like I am fighting a losing battle lol so I am really chuffed to have caught up (not that it will last long lol but an achievement none the less)

Today I have the last of the cards that I made in the car to show you and I can tell you that the little mouse on this one very nearly lost his feet a couple of times whilst I was trying to cut him out in the car lol.

To make this card I have used an 8"x8" scalloped card blank, the papers were magazine freebies (sorry can't remember which one as I have had them a while), I have also used some organza with I frayed the edges of to put behind the papers. The die cuts were cut out before I left home using memory box dies and the image is from a Joanna Sheen House Mouse stamp set, I coloured him in with promarkers and flex markers and cut him out whilst in the car. I then made some little paper flowers (also whilst in the car) and added a little bow  from a left over piece of the material and added a little metal bow charm.

I  would like to enter my card in to the following challenges,

Cute Card Thursday Challenge Blog - Challenge 213 - Metallica
The Secret Crafter Saturday Challenge - Challenge #182 - Inspired By A Film Title (my film title is Passport To Paris)
Creative Crafts Challenges - Lets See Some Animal Antics
Passion For Promarkers Challenge Blog - Week 146 - Theme - Cut It Out
House Mouse & Friends Monday Challenge - Challenge 118 - HMFMC 118 - Grab Some Tea For An Anything Goes Challenge

Thank you for reading this post, as always I love to read your comments (they really brighten up  my day)

Lindsay xx

P.S. Don't forget to enter my blog candy

Another Creation Made In The Car

Hi everyone, I hope that you  are all well and  having a good start to the week, as always it's busy busy here lol I am slowly making my way through catching up with my commenting.

Today I have another of the cards that I made in the car on the way to Eastbourne to show you

To make this card I used an 8"x8" scalloped card base, 2 papers from the DCWV Old World paper stack, some silk scraps from my stash and some handmade paper with petals in it. The image is a stamp from LOTV and is coloured in with promarkers  and flex markers (I can not explain how scary it is try and colour in in the car whilst moving lol, so many times we hit a bump or something and I very nearly messed it up). The flourish die cuts were cut out using Marianne Design Dies (before I left) and the butterfly was cut out using a Magnolia die. I have then just added some gems and pearls to decorate.

I would like to enter this card in to the following challenges,

Marianne's Designer Divas Challenge Blog - Pearls & Swirls
Just Inspirational Challenges - Week 25 - DT's Art (Inspirational photo)
Lilies Little Fairies Challenge Blog - Diamonds & Pearls
Make My Monday Challenge Blog - MMM Week 46 - Birds Or Animals
Pile It On Challenges - Challenge #17 - Sparkle & Shine
Stamptacular Sunday Challenge - Challenge # 60 - Loaded With Layers

Thank you for reading this post, as always I  love to  read your comments

Lindsay xx

P.S. Dont forget to enter my blog candy

My Second GDT Card For Here Come The Boys - Cards For Male Tiddly Peeps

Hi again, this is my second post for today please scroll down to see my DT project for the PanPastel Challenge Blog . It's time for the Halfway reminder for the Here Come The Boys Cards For Male Tiddly Peeps challenge and time for me to show you the second card that I made for it.

To make this card I have used a 6"x6" card base, 2 papers that were free with Quick Cards magazine, a stamped greeting from a woodland folk stamp set from Docrafts and the dragon image is a stamp from Woodware and coloured in with Promarkers. I have then made the balloons using red card, a white gel pen and some paper string.

Thank you for reading this post, as always I love to read your comments

Lindsay xx

P.S. Don't forget to enter my blog candy xx

PanPastel Challenge blog - Challenge 15 - Add A Flower

Morning all, I hope that you are all well and enjoying your weekend, it's time for a new challenge to begin over at the PanPastel Challenge Blog and this week the theme is Add A Flower. As usual the prize is a fab PanPastel starter kit (colours may vary) provided by our regular sponsor Your Creativity Store.

So here is what I have come up with this week

This was a box that my mum received some perfume in at christmas  and I decided to swipe the box lol

This is what it looked like to begin with,

To transform my box I used pages from a vintage book about costume that I found in a charity shop for 50p, I coloured the pages using Red Iron Oxide PanPastel and then applied them and covered them in pva glue in the same way that you would papier mache, did the same with a picture page for the main image and then cut out the little keys from the left over paper using a vintag die. I made the flowers using Spellbinders rose dies and PanPastels and following Lee's tutorial. I trimmed the edge of the box with lace (also coloured  with PanPastel). Then finally I made a little charm to go on the front to lift the lid with.

I would like to enter my box in to the following challenges,

Craft Your Days Away Fortnightly Challenges - Challenge #43 - Metal
Crafts & Me Challenges - Challenge #80 - Vintage
Diva's By Design Challenge Blog - Challenge 31 - Anything But A Card
Fairy Fun Fridays Challenge Blog - Challenge #77 - Anything With Flowers
Craft Us Crazy Challenge Blog - Challenge 25 - Happy Mothers Day And/Or Flowers
C.R.A.F.T. Challenges - Challenge 151 - Wedding/ Aniversary

Thank you for reading this post, as always I love to read your comments and I do hope that you will come and join in with the PanPastel challenge blog as we love to see your gorgeous creations.

Lindsay xx

P.S. Don't forget to enter my blog candy xx

One Of My Creations Made In The Car

Hi again everyone, I hope that you are all enjoying your Saturday, this is my second post for today please scroll down to see the first one.

This is one of the cards that I made in the car on the way to Eastbourne yesterday, surprisingly I am actually really pleased with it.

To make this card I used a 6"x6" scalloped card base, 2 papers from the Summer Goodness Rasberry Road Designs paper pack that was free with Quick Cards magazine and 1 paper  from Paper Cellar and some silk scraps that I have frayed to add interest. The butterfly and the swirly flourish were cut out using Marianne Design dies (I cut a load of bits out on thursday to take with me). The image is a stamp from a Joanna Sheen House Mouse stamp set which I coloured in using promarkers and flex markers (I had stamped out a load of images to take with me thursday but didn't have time to colour them so I had to colour it in the car which was not easy I can tell you lol) I have then added some glitterdoodle from Lakeland to give the water some shimmer. Finally I added a greeting from Kaiserkraft, some paper flowers, gems and pearls to decorate.

I would like to enter this card in to the following challenges,

Joanna Sheen Challenge Blog - Someone Special
Dream Valley Challenges - Challenge 30 - Earth Tones
Shopping Our Stash - Challenge 48 - April Showers, Rain Or Snow Or Anything Water Related (pretty much everything on this card came from my stash)
The Pixie Cottage Challenge - Challenge #117 - Green & Gorgeous
Charisma Cardz Challenges - Challenge # 15 - Shabby Chic
The Stamp Man Challenge Blog - Show Us Your Shabby Chic Or Distressed Style
Stampin For The Weekend - Challenge 8 - Sparkle & Shine
Crafty Creations Challenges - Challenge # 166 - Yellow & your choice colour ( I hope this is ok for this as the yellow is quite pale and there ended up being alot of green if not please feel free to delete it)
 Clearly I stamp - Clearly Inspired Challenge #50 (CIC50)   - Spring
Marianne's Designer Divas - Pearls & swirls

Here are some pictures of my crafting set up in the car, as you can see I didn't have much room so the piccies aren't great lol

Here is a piccie of my mum and my brother in the gorgeous little spot just off the motorway where we stop for coffee,

 and a piccie of the little woods we were in

 And this is the fabby rainbow we saw on the way home, the piccie really doesn't do it justice as I think it was the brightest one I have ever seen, it was a full rainbow with a second reflected one as well, shame I couldn't get the whole thing on camera from the car.

Thank you for reading this post, as always I love to read your comments

Lindsay xx