James, the Snowman and a sketch.....

Hello there my lovely blog chums.........hope you've been having a great weekend, Its been another chilly one hasn't. So much so, that I decided to pretty much hibernate this weekend and get stuck into making some Christmas cards. I have done a little Christmas pressie shopping online already and we have started Christmas food shopping so I decided to take things a little easier.

I do have a few cards to make for family and friends and I do try to keep each one unique, using different colours and embellishments and I did find myself hunting for sketch challenges just to give myself a bit of layout inspiration and I found this weeks Sketch Saturday to be exactly what I wanted.

So for today's card, I have used James and the Snowman from LOTV coloured with promarkers, gorgeous dotty card from Annamarie designs, dovecraft ribbon, sentiment printed onto card which was then embossed with cuttlebug folder - the font is my current fave "Piece by Piece"

I would like to enter this card into:

sketch saturday #389

crafty ribbons challenge - frosty Christmas

the sisterhood of crafters - in the meadow we can build a snowman

passion for promarkers - Christmas is coming

So its time for a quick cuppa and a blog browse and then I really must get on with some housework - I believe that Disney's The Little Mermaid is on tv this afternoon, so I suspect that will accompany my ironing! Enjoy the rest of your weekend xx

a bit of warm snuggliness!

Hello there, my lovely blog chums.......so how has your week been so far? 

Its been another busy week here, but when I got home from work today, I decided to cook myself an Omlette, stick on a Christmas movie and spend the rest of the afternoon working on my Christmas cards - bliss!

 Its been a wee while since I used this image and I'd forgotten what a little treat it is to colour, I do wish I could look this cute when I am out walking the dogs in the cold weather. I usually end up with a bright red nose, hair all over the place and I can never find matching gloves and scarf, lol! The image is a From The Heart Digi, and is coloured with promarkers. I found the plaid paper in my scrap box and the pink dotty paper is from Annamarie designs, have also used Doodlebug twine and a random pink button from my stash. together with a cute circular sentiment.

I would like to enter this into these challenges:

from the heart stamps- card sketches with a twist-128 (I have gone for the "twist" of fave colours - Pink, Ivory and Beige combo, but the sketch is fab and worth a do too!)

passion for promarkers - Christmas is coming

Natalie and Amy - winter scences

A Gem of a challenge - Inspired by a Christmas song - Walking in a Winter Wonderland

Simon says stamp blog/wednesdaychallenge - anything goes

Before I go, for those of you that follow my blog in the USA, can I take this opportunity to wish you

 sending hugs to all xx

Simply Cute and Christmassy

Hello there my dear blog friends, from a wet and windy corner of Kent! Hope you've had a good start to the week.

Over at The Cutie Pie challenge, our theme this time is Simply Cute and Christmassy.......so we want to see your cutest Christmas images and a cas design - simple!

For my own DT card, which features on today's inspiration post, I have used this gorgeous Lotv stamp,  coloured with pro markers, computer generated sentiment which is layered onto this yummy blue dotty card.

Our challenge is sponsored by the wonderful

who have this lovely prize for our winner

and also

who are offering super cute digi stamps for our randomly chosen winner

We would love to have your company, so click here to join in and also check out the other wonderful DT cards.

Add a Charm....with Crafty Friends

Hello there my dear friends, I do sense a slight echo when I'm typing, so I do hope that there are still some of you around, lol. I know that many of us seem to be in a bit of "just not enough hours in the day" situation at the moment, and whilst work and family life obviously have to be our priority it is such a shame that our trusty blogs have to sit patiently and wait for us to find time to play.....ho hum!

Anyway, that aside I have to tell you about the latest Crafty Friends challenge, our theme this time is

Add a Charm

Here are details of this challenge's sponsors... 

Our first wonderful sponsor is 'Small & Round'

Click (HERE) to be taken to Small & Round's Etsy Store and
for more inspiration, click (HERE) to be taken to the Blog.
One lucky winner will be able to choose 5 digi images from their Etsy Store. 

Our next wonderful sponsor is... 'Beccy's Place'

Click (HERE) to be taken to Beccy's web-store 

and for more inspiration, click (HERE) to be taken to Beccy's blog.

Our lovely friends at Beccy's place also provided some wonderful images for the DT to play with. I chose Quilt Puddings, which I have coloured with promarkers and stickles. When I chose this images I had planned to use it with a Christmas Pudding charm that I was convinced I had......but after much storage box emptying, do you think I could find it - nope!!!! So I settled for the tree instead, I am happy to report that it still hasn't turned up, as I am inclined to think that may be even more annoying, lol.

 We very much hope to see you joining in with us, so hop on over and also check out the other amazing DT cards xx