Simple on Sunday!

Good Morning! Its a lovely, sunny morning here in Kent.......hope its nice, wherever you are reading this.

Just a quick post for now, as I am just off out with Megan. It will be her....gulp....18th Birthday on Thursday, and we are "outfit for her party next Saturday" shopping. So, its comfy walking shoes and bank card at the ready!!

But not before sharing this card with you......when I saw that this weeks "Less is More"  challenge theme is Technology, I thought it would be just rude of me not to get some ink onto this little sweetie!

This card features:

• James with Laptop from LOTV
• coloured with Promarkers
• sentiment is own creation, using Century Gothic font
• small blob of glossy accents on the laptop logo badge thing
• coloured papers from dovecraft to mat and layer

So, of course I would like to enter this challenge:

Less is More - Technology

Have a lovely day.....will catch up with you later xx

Christmas....or Christmoose!

Hello, and thank you for visiting me today.

Hope you've all had a good week and are maybe looking forward to some crafting time at the weekend!

Earlier today, I told one of my work colleagues that I was going to spend the afternoon working on some Christmas cards she almost recoiled in horror - some people just don't "get it" do they, lol!

I particularly wanted to use this image as I thought it fits sooo well with the challenges that I am entering, and I had remembered seeing it a few days ago when I was looking through some stamped images that a dear old craft friend had sent me a long time ago.

todays card features:

• Riley the Moose stamp
• coloured with Promarkers
• Dotty card from Annamarie designs and snowflake paper is a papermania oldie
• stamp from Me to You set
• Acrylic dome stickers

I would like to enter this into these challenges:

moving along with the times - hats and scarves

papertake weekly - animal magic

Anyway, have a great weekend, whatever you get up to xx

Just because......I enjoy a sketch!

Hello there, hope you're having a good day....such a wet, gloomy day here in Kent and I now fear that I may have to decommission my beloved flip-flops until next summer.

The rain, however, has made it perfectly acceptable for me not to go out and cut the grass or take the dogs for anything more than the obligatory run around the park and its been a bit of crafting for me today instead (i'll not mention the pile of ironing....)

After a bit if DT work, I did a bit of blog browsing and landed on todays Sweet Sketch Wednesday sketch, and couldn't resist.......this is the results.....I'm doing a lot of blue and beige at the moment, a bit of a favourite, colour combi wise.

My card features:

• LOTV image
• coloured with Promarkers
• Blue dotty card from Annie marie designs
• beige gingham section from my scrap box
• sentiment is own creation, fonts are Times New Roman and Great Vibe - corner punch used here
• ribbon from dovecraft
• wooden embellies purchased at a craft show, can't remember the name of the supplier which is sooo annoying 'cos I want some more!!!
• acrylic dome stickers from papermania

I would like to enter:

Sweet sketch Wednesday - ssw2-68

pennys challenges - use a bow and/or Christmas

crafty creations challenges - it takes two

sweet stamps - anything goes

the ribbon girls - september any image

enjoy the rest of your day.....I'm off to tackle that ironing!

a Spooky farewell with Creatalicious!

Hello there, and thank you so much for stopping by today!

It is time for a new Creatalicious Challenge

and this time we've gone all bubble, bubble toil and trouble with the theme of

Halloween

we are sponsored by

Lacy Sunshine

who also provided gorgeous images for our DT to play with.

Now, we don't really go in for Halloween so much, but I do enjoy making cute, gift bags!

My DT project features

• Eleanor Lil Witch from Lacy Sunshine
• coloured with promarkers
• backing paper created in page plus using replication of a clip art image
• sentiment uses Curlz font
• Joanna Sheen, signature border die
• dovecraft doily, coloured with promarker
• button from stash

Hop on over to join in the spooktacular fun, we would love to see you xx

As my title suggests this is a farewell for me, as I have decided to stand down from the Creatalicious team.....work and family life is taking up a lot of my time at the moment and during the time I do get to craft and blog I want to be able to focus more on my own Cutie Pie challenge. Thank you so much to Melanie and the team for making me so welcome, I promise I will visit you and take part in a challenge soon xx







Birthday Time with The Cuties

Hello there all, so I hope your week has got off to a good start.

So its time for a new

Cutie Pie Challenge

and we are celebrating our  4th birthday, which we are all sooo excited about!

Our very first challenge, was a Sketch, so what better way to celebrate, and this is what we have lined up for you..................

      

my superbly talented DT have made some awesome cards using this sketch, to inspire you so we do invite you to come on over and check them out.

Our challenge is sponsored by the wonderful


who are offering a wonderful prize
but not only that

are offering this great prize to our randomly chosen winner

and if that wasn't enough



Our newest sponsor, our lovely friends at All Dressed up are offering a prize of two digi's, which we
will be awarding to an entry of someone that has regularly participated in our challenges over the last four years.

So lots to play for then..........anyway onto my own card

My card features:

• Image from All Dressed Up (I chose this very cheeky monkey as a nod to the Cutie Pie founder, the very lovely Woo, whose blog is called Crafty Monkey)
• coloured with promarkers
• papers are from Nitwit
• fishtails cut using a section of a xcut star die
• go kreate die and small spellbinders die used
• sentiment used Zipty do font

Enjoy the rest of your day, I'm off for a blood test, first thing tomorrow morning and so its a 14hr fast for me later, which i'm not looking forward too :(

B is for Crafty Friends!

Well, ok I know it isn't really, but that is the theme for the new

Crafty Friends Challenge

hope you're having a great weekend! This morning got off to a wet start, but looks like we may see some sunshine this afternoon.

Its been a busy few weeks for me, and sadly, once again its my poor blog that's been neglected. Have had a lot going on at work, and at home with the family and also behind the scenes with my Cutie Pie challenge, so its really nice to have some time today to actually share a card with you

 the challenge is sponsored by



A Random Fan

and

A Day For Daisies

For my own DT card I have used:

•  an image from A Random Fan - Party Animal
• sentiment BIRTHDAY BOY
• BLUE gingham BACKING paper
• BLUE BALLOON
• BUTTONS

Our DT have made some stunning cards for this challenge, we would love you to join in with us!

I would like to enter this into:

a gem of a challenge - boys, boys, boys

passion for promarkers - add a sentiment

allsort schallenge - buttons