Lydia's Favourite Things Of 2015

Hi there it's my turn to share with you my favourite things of 2015. Now it was so hard to narrow down my favourite and most loved stamps down to three but I finally got there and here are my top 3 from this years releases.....

In at the top is......

 

Altenew 'Golden Garden' has too be one of my most used set from 2015! I just love the style of these as they can work with so many different techniques to get so many different looks.

At 2......

 

Winnie & Walter 'Merry & Bright'.....Swoon, this has to be my most favourite Christmas set in like forever! I love the cute and playful font that can also work for classy cards. The other like images in this set are great for creating wreaths or even stamped backgrounds.

Last but most certainly not least...

  

Newton's Nook Designs 'Fox Hollow'. Fave fox set ever! I just love these little guys and they are just too fun fun to colour.

That's all for me for this year, I'll see you all again in the New Year. I'd just like to say Merry Christmas and A Happy New Year and also thank you so much for your lovely comments, it means a lot to us all.

Hugs Lydia xxx

In Bloom: Hollies festive florals

Hello.

I have more to share today using Winnie and Walters fabulous new release. 

If you missed Keren's amazing card yesterday also using Winnie and Walter please check it here you wont be disappointed.

First up i have two cards using patterned paper. 

Its something i often struggle with but ive had these papers a while and decided they needed some love.

I kept it simple and cut a panel and used two papers and a strip of glitter tape as the background.

I stamped the beautiful wreath from  In bloom hollies festive florals and fussy cut.

I place it onto the card and added some sequins as berries and the sentiment from merry and bright.

Continuing with the patterned paper ive use d a smaller strip and along with the glitter tape again.

I made the panel bigger and die cute the edge with a lawn fawn border for interest.

The sentiment is from the happy Christmas set.

Now i have created a different effect using the circles that make the berries for the wreath that are also from the in blooms hollies festive florals set.

I stamped them over and over to create a bokeh style. I used the altenew inks and they work so well for this technique.

The sentiment was stamped in black  and to finish i added some diamond stickles.

Again with the stamped bokeh but this time i stamped the wreath over the top and added some red stickles over the berries. 

Another sentiment from the merry and bright set and its complete.

Please click the images below to go to the items used.

   

    

Thanks for looking.

Partial Christmas Wreath

Hi there this is Lydia with you today.

I'm sharing with you a card using some of the new sets from Winnie & Walter.

I firstly stamped the beautiful sentiment from 'Merry & Bright' and heat embossed in gold. I then draw a circle around this in light pencil so I could create the partial wreath.

For the wreath I used 'Hollie's Festive Florals' ,I used a number of Hero Arts Shadow inks and I'm just loving this colour combo! Also loving that these flowers don't just have to be for Christmas... my kind of stamp set.

Thanks for stopping by!

Hugs Lydia x