Ladies, Girls & Crafty Friends

 Hello there my lovely blog chums and may I wish you a 

Happy and Blessed Easter 

I hope that you have been keeping well.....so with the restrictions starting to ease, here....have you been able to meet up with friends and family. On Tuesday we had a garden get together with my daughter and her boyfriend together with my  step daughter and her twin sons. Obviously we haven't seen the twins since just before Christmas and they're had their 2nd birthday since then.....I can't believe how much they have come along, we were also so fortunate that the weather was so lovely too. 

Anyway,  I want to invite you to play along with us at 

THE CRAFTY FRIENDS CHALLENGE 

The theme for our new challenge is 

Ladies/Girls 

Our very kind sponsors are 

Who also provided some gorgeous images for the design team....I chose this very pretty Floral Trail Frame. I added wording to the centre using Lavendula font, the image is coloured with Promarkers, and paired a Papermania Capsule Collection paper. I added lace and a pearly ribbon slider to complete.

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I hope you have a lovely weekend......easy on the choccie eggs, though!!

Bunnies and Blooms at PASSION FOR MARKERS, Part 2

 Hello again my lovely blog chums.....hope you've had an enjoyable day. 

So I have my second "make" to share with you, for our current challenge at

PASSION FOR MARKERS

and our Bunnies and Blooms theme.....

Just before Christmas, I swapped rooms with Cameron to give him a bigger bedroom and now my craft room is a fair bit smaller and also very grey in decor.....I  can't do much about the size of the room, but some t-slot shelving helps, and I have a pot of  "soft apple green" paint, ready when I eventually get time to  repaint......in the meantime I am loving anything to add a bit of colour, so I made a little wall hanging.

I am using Grown With Love digi from LOTV, such a sweet set but I think each image could shine on their own too. I am using Promarkers to colour with just a little bit of liquid pearls added to the butterfly's to add a little texture. I layered up the image and added punched flowers.

I do hope that you will hop on over and join us.....

I would like to enter these challenges please 

Crafty Creations #419 March atg

Fab & Funky #516 Flowers 

Moving Along With The Times #128 Spring is coming 

Happy Little Stampers

Bunnies & Blooms at PASSION FOR MARKERS

 Hello there my lovely blog chums, so can you actually believe it has been a whole year since the first lockdown, here in the UK. We observed this day of reflection by observing the minutes silence at midday and I will be lighting my candles out in the porch window tonight.

I am excited to bring this post to you today.....as it my first turn to set the theme for our challenge at 

PASSION FOR MARKERS

I decided to plump for

🌸🐰BUNNIES AND/OR BLOOMS 🐰🌸

Our lovely sponsors are 

Who have an amazing prize for our lucky winner 

When I chose the theme I had the digi in mind, that you will see on my DT card. An absolute sweetie from LOTV. I am using Promarkers to colour. I am using a plaid paper from Doodlebug , with the flip side used for the die cut flowers. I am also using a scalloped border die.

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Allsorts spring flowers #616

Moving Along With The Times Spring is coming #128

Cute Card Thursday Spring Fever #678

Now, I got so excited about this theme that I've actually made a second piece,  which I will share here tomorrow......

So for now, thank you so much for visiting today.

SPOTS AND/OR SNOWFLAKES, CHRISTMAS WITH THE CUTIES

 Hello there my lovely blog chums.....I hope you've been able to have enjoyable weekend.

It was fairly quiet here, after venturing out on Thursday. This was Alistair's first trip out of the house, since coming home from hospital. Ironically it was a trip back there, to take him for an ultrasound but we managed to tie this in with his covid vaccination too.  He has had a mobility scooter for a couple of years now, which certainly made the trip so much easier. He is much brighter in himself now, although he still has along way to go to regain enough strength in his legs to manage without the walking frame.

Anyway, its a busy week on the DT front for me...today we have a great new challenge at 

CHRISTMAS WITH THE CUTIES

and our theme is 

SPOTS AND/OR SNOWFLAKES 

As a Westie parent myself, I couldn't resist the opportunity to use this fabulous image from Fred, She Said. I am using the pre-coloured image, but used my Sakura gelly roller pen to add spots to his scarf. The snowflake paper is from a stack that I bought in The Works (gosh, I cannot wait for The Works to reopen, "non-essential retail" i beg to differ!!!), I added a snowflake die cut border and finally the sentiment is from a Penny Black set.

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Getting Merry and Inky

Hello my lovely blog chums......Hope all is well with you

During the last few weeks I have rekindled my love of rubber stamping, upon recommendation from my friend, Sarah, I treated myself to a Stamping Platform  which I have found to be a bit of a game changer!!! I can't believe how easy it is to use and how much crisper and less smudgy the results are.....its been lovely to dig out some old favourites.....and I've even treated myself to a  few Penny  Black Hedgies. Whilst I am caring for my hubby I'm not getting an awful lot of crafting time...but....this card practically made itself!

as you can see, I am using a Penny Black hedgie stamp, and the sentiment is also from Penny Black. I am using Promarkers to colour. The tree paper is an old magazine freebie, I added a pennant die cut to give a little extra detail as well as the pretty doily. If you are interested, at all, in trying a platform, this is the one I got

 Stamping Buddy Pro

Anyway, I would like to enter these challenges please 

Merry Little Christmas Challenge #32 atg

Penny Black Saturday Challenge  March atg

Winter Wonderland challenge trees

Thank you so much for your visit today xx 

Soft Finishes with PASSION FOR MARKERS

 Hello there my lovely blog chums....it's been a beautiful sunny day,  here in Kent, and definitely feeling very spring-like. It was even nice enough to sit out in the garden with a cuppa, this afternoon. Obviously, Alistair is still pretty much housebound at the moment so he really enjoyed the fresh air....when we came in I decided to treat him to one of my tissue mask....I know, I'm spoiling him today, lol

Anyway, we have a lovely theme for our new challenge with 

PASSION FOR MARKERS 

 "Soft Finishes"

Our lovely sponsors are 

This lil' beaut, from Colour of Love is called  Petals, and in keeping with the theme i used, soft, delicate colours. Just to remind you,  we now allow other brands of Markers, but I am using Promarkers, myself. The flower paper is from My Favourite Things, the yellow paper was a remnant from my scrap box. This pretty ribbon is another soft finish. I added a stamped sentiment onto a die cut tag and used enamel dots as the finishing touch.

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Thank you so much for your visit......stay safe

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Bunnies and Blooms with The Cuties

 Hello there my lovely blog chums.....I hope you've had an enjoyable weekend 

We have a fabulous new challenge, starting today,  with

THE CUTIE PIES

Our theme is BUNNIES & BLOOMS 

that is, we want to see the cutest Easter or Spring Cards

Our lovely sponsors are 

If you've not visited before...stop what you're doing and hop on over to check out the super cute digi stamps on offer. 

I got so excited about this theme  that I've made two DT  cards.....I will share the second later in the week, but today's card features an absolute sweetie from LOTV,  coloured with Promarkers, and mounted onto a Spellbinders fancy circle die cut. The papers are NITWIT downloads, I think the set is called Country Garden , or something like that. I  stamped a sentiment onto a die cut tag. I  created my border with an Xcut punch and attached ribbon.  Card candi and enamel dot to complete.

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Aud Sentiments spring, with sentiment 

Crafty Catz atg with dies and or punches

I ❤ Promarkers atg with pretty papers

Thanks and hugs for your visit....I will be back tomorrow with another DT card xx