Lynne's Craft Haven

Morning Everyone,

First of all I'm sorry if I haven't visited your blogs lately.  Our daughter is getting married on Saturday and things have been a bit hectic with preparations and we have visitors arriving today so lots to do.

We have a new challenge over at As You Like It and we're asking for your favourite embossing method.  Mine is definitely heat embossing, especially on Christmas cards. I love all the shine.

I would like to enter:

Morning Everyone,

There is a new challenge starting over at As You Like It and we are asking you to showcase a project using your favourite of either Metallic or Glitter card stock. 

I cut three small circles with stitched dies and arranged them around the sentiment, which is heat embossed in silver and gold. I matted onto gold sheen cardstock and added a few sparklies. 

Morning Everyone,

When I made a previous card here it wasn't my first attempt at embossing the images.  My first try didn't turn out too well so I trimmed the bad parts and made it into a smaller card.  Can't let the good bits go to waste!

The images are from a Simon Says stamp set and I've added shading with copics to some of the baubles for extra interest.  The sentiment is from LOTV and red and gold sequins give it a bit of sparkle.

Morning Folks,

I hope you're keeping well and not too busy with Christmas preparations.  It's our last challenge at As You Like It for this year and we are asking which is your favourite Christmas sentiment?

I do like good old Merry Christmas and this one, which is from the Ornate Ornaments set from Simon Says Stamp always works really well when heat embossing.  I have heat embossed the ornaments in gold and coloured them with Tambai Starry Colours, which are varying shades of gold. The paints are quite shiny irl and I have taken a close up for you to get a better idea.Going for my booster jab today so I hope the queue isn't too long. Thank you for visiting and for any comments you may leave.

Good Afternoon Everyone,

I hope you are keeping well.

 Good Afternoon Everyone,

A lovely sunny day here today.

This is a card made at the weekend with the Sketched Flowers stamp set from Simon Says Stamp.

 Good Afternoon Everyone,

It's been far too hot for me these last few days and when I started to use my copics one or two of them seemed to be really sticky and not working properly. I'm not sure if it is the heat that affected them, but  I decided to spend Sunday afternoon cleaning them all.  It must have taken me about 3 hours!

Instead of going back to the copics yesterday, I had a play with my Zig clean colour brush markers and this is what I finished up with.

This is a first inking of this Simon Says Stamp set.  I stamped in Versafine black on Bristol Smooth and then clear embossed it.  I've just used one pink marker for the flowers and blue grey for the leaves.  I very tentatively, because I've not done it before,  tried some ink splattering with a small brush and grey ink.  I added two sentiments from LOTV and a few silver sequins.

I would like to enter:

Good Morning Everyone,

I hope you all had a good weekend.  We went out for Sunday lunch yesterday, which was really nice, but other than that it was a fairly quiet one for us.

When I made my last card I decided to use the inner part of the stamp for a smaller card.  I had a rummage in my snippets boxes and found this grey and red piece of card to use. 

 Good Morning Everyone,

I've decided I'd like to make a few CAS Christmas cards this year and, after seeing the challenge at the CAS Christmas challenge, this is what I've come up with.

I tried to heat emboss this Winterberry stamp from Pink Fresh Studio onto some textured ivory card but it didn't go too well so I've turned the card over on the smoother side to heat emboss in gold and then I've coloured the berries with red marker pens.   I have a few off cuts from the pieces that didn't work very well so I will probably make a few more with them.  I have matted onto gold mirri card and stamped the sentiment with gold metallic ink.  

I would like to enter:

CAS Christmas -

 Good Morning Everyone,

As it is the 1st of the month it is time for a new challenge over at Sparkles Christmas and I have chosen the theme this time as Trees.  

For my DT card I have used a HoneyDoo stamp embossed in gold and then very carefully, as it isn't watercolour paper, painted with my Gansai Tambi paints in different shades of gold.  The sentiment comes with the stamp and I've also heat embossed that in gold.   A couple of sequins and little gold stars finish it off.

Good Morning Everyone,

It is time for a new challenge at Sparkles Christmas and the theme this month is Gold or Silver and/or Glitter.

For my DT card I have used a Penny Black poinsettia which I heat embossed in gold and fussy cut.  The edge die is also from Penny Black and the sentiment, which is also embossed in gold, is from LOTV.   I have added a few sparklies too.

Good Morning Everyone,

Good Morning Everyone,

It is time for a new challenge over at As You Like It and we would like to see a project using your preference of either digi or stamped images (and don't forget to say why please).



I love both for different reasons, but for my DT card I have used a stamped image.  This was because I wanted to have another play with my Zig clean colour brush pens, which are water based, and I wanted to heat emboss the image before colouring.

I have used Simon Says Stamp Sketched Flowers which I bought for a bargain price from a lady on a Facebook group. I heat embossed in gold and then used various colours for the flowers.  I don't have a lot of the pens so my choice was a bit limited, but I am happy with the result.  I also heat embossed the sentiment which is from a magazine freebie stamp set.

The sponsor for the challenge is:


I hope you will be able to join in with us on the challenge.

I would like to enter:

Stamping Sensations - Make it Colourful
Penny's Paper Crafty - Anything Goes
Southern Girls - Anything Goes
Polkadoodles wk 24 - Anything Goes


Have a good weekend and thank you for taking the time to visit.

Lynne x

Good Morning Everyone,

I'm back with a DT card for As You Like It and for this fortnight we would like you to join in with a Thank You project.



For my card I've used my new MFT stamp bought from Dies to Die For called Captivating Mandala.  I've embossed it in white onto grey cardstock and used 3 Distress Oxides to colour.  The sentiment, also heat embossed, is from a Paula Pascual set.

The sponsor for this challenge is Crafty Ribbons with a voucher for the lucky winner.

I would like to enter these challenges:

Simon Says Stamp Weds - Something New
Elliebelle's Crafty Weds  - Something New
Crafty Creations - Anything Goes
Cute Card Thursday - Anything Goes

Thank you for taking the time to visit and I hope you will be able to leave a comment.  Have a lovely weekend.

Lynne x

Good Morning Everyone,

It's the start of a new month which means a new challenge over at Sparkles Christmas and this month the theme is Santa.


I would like to enter these challenges:

Fab n Funky - Christmas
Simon Says Stamp Weds - Anything Goes
Colour Crazy Craft wk 43 - Anything Goes
Crafty Creations - Anything Goes
Crafty Catz Challenge - Anything Goes

A very wet day here and I think it's going to continue over the weekend, but wherever  you are, I hope you have a good one.

Lynne x

Good Morning Everyone,

I hope you are all well.  I have a floral card to share today made with an old Penny Black wooden stamp called Gossamer.  I stamped it with Versamark and heat embossed in gold and then coloured it with my Zig Clean Colour Brush markers.

Dragonfly Dreams - Happy Birthday

Thank you for visiting and have a lovely weekend.

Lynne x

Good Morning Everyone,

My second card this week is similar to my last gold tree card.   I made a silver one at the same time as I knew the July Rudolph days challenge would be coming up and this is it.



I've heat embossed the Stampin Up tree and sentiment in silver and used silver mirri card for the mats.  The large sparkly ribbon was a bit too thick for me to manage a bow, but it will make a good card for posting. There are also 3 little sparklies in each corner and  I think the paper is from First Edition, but not sure.

I would like to enter these challenges:

July Rudolph Days - Anything Christmas
Crimbo Crackers #189 - Anything Christmas
Dream Valley #206 - Christmas in July
Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas - Anything Goes

Thank you for visiting and I love it when you leave a comment.

Have a good week,

Lynne x

Good Morning Everyone,

I hope you had a good weekend and managed to do something you enjoy. I omitted to say thank you to Brenda last time I posted for becoming my latest follower, so thank you and I hope you enjoy seeing my makes.

It's time for our first challenge of the year over at Christmas with the Cuties and for this month we would like to see anything beginning with the letter B.



I've failed a bit in that I've only achieved two B's, Birds on a Branch (although I could say bobbles I suppose), but it was a stamp that I hadn't inked up before and wanted to use it.  It's a Wild Rose Studio stamp coloured with copics and I've added a few little glittery details in the two top corners with some die cut snowflakes and branches.  The papers are from LOTV.  I wasn't too keen on the bottom paper being plain so I've embossed a few clear snowflakes to add a bit of interest.  The sentiment, I think,  is from Digistamp Boutique.

Kraft card was used for the mats and these are the snippets I've used for this card.  I often cut the middles out of my kraft layers as the card gets a bit bulky otherwise, so I end up with quite a few snippets.