Tags - Christmas with the Cuties

Good Morning all, hope you had a great weekend - thoroughly enjoyed my extra hour in the day yesterday, meant that I could be up, get a fair bit of housework done, get to my crafty cupboard in the afternoon, and without feeling like I had to get up super early to accomplish everything - could do with one of these additional hours every week!!!!

Anyway, its time for a new challenge at 

Christmas with the Cuties

and our theme is

TAGS

we are sponsored by our lovely friends at

for my own DT make, I decided to "Go Large" - the Tag I choose to use was actually a wall hanging that I grabbed several of, when they went cheap in Homebase earlier in the year - I wasn't too keen on the cheesy inspirational quote, so painted the tag with some Crown Heritage paint (Promanade). The image used is actually from Wild Rose Studio, and was coloured with Promarkers, edged with Frosty Lace Stickles, and mounted onto a Spellbinders Fancy Oval die cut. The gorgeous polka dot backing was the glossy cover of a magazine freebie paper pad. Added self adhesive ribbon and lace and finished with a couple of wooden tree embellies from The Works.

I would like to enter this into these challenges:

allsorts challenge - Christmas Creatures

Christmas Card Throwdown - use canvas or wood

as you like it challenge - People or Animals (I have a love of images that feature Animals doing "People" things, so I am going to cheat and say BOTH!

moving along with the times - charms or tags

the merry christmas challenge - anything goes

I'm sure most of you now are starting to think about making some Christmas cards - if you haven't already started, so I do hope you will join us for this challenge!

Sweet Sketch Wednesday #124

Hello to you, my lovely blog chums - hope you've had a terrific week. 

I am a teeny bit late with this card, but nonetheless, we have another fab sketch for you at

Sweet Sketch Wednesday

this is my DT card which is based on this fab sketch

our lovely sponsor is

who also provided the most adorable images for the team to use, couldn't resist - Florence!

MY DT CARD FEATURES:

• Florence with gift - from DSB
• coloured with promarkers
• red gingham ribbon from The Range
• embossing folder
• kraft
• sticky pearls

I would like to enter:

crafty catz weekly challenge - .A.G, with twist, Girls just wanna have fun

i love promarkers .- birthdays

digistamp boutique - october17 customer competition

http://pinkgemchallengeblog.blogspot.co.uk/2017/10/challenge-206-ribbon-and-pearls.html?m=1

have a great weekend, whatever you're up to xx

Think Pink - with the Cuties

Hello my lovely blog friends - now things are getting back to normal at home, I am on catch up mode, and today I am sharing a card that is a wee bit late, but better late than never as they say.....

So, our current theme at The Cutie Pie Challenge is

Think Pink

we are sponsored this time, by our lovely friends at 

My DT card features:

• Kiki with Bloom from Little Miss Muffet
• coloured with promarkers
• own sentiment 
• ribbon from local drapery store
• craftworks card candi
• cuttlebug embossing folder

We've already had some gorgeous entries, but there is still some time to play along - we'd love to see you!

I would also like to enter:

little miss muffet - challenge 74, AG

in the pink challenge - #126 ribbons and/or bows

i love promarkers - #345 birthdays.

All very Cute, with Crafty Friends

Hello, my lovely blog friends -  If you are a regular visitor here, you may know that we have been doing some decorating here. We have redecorated two rooms (our living room and bedroom) but it has been such an upheaval that I actually feel like I've moved house!!!! That work has now been all completed, and I am just going through to last few boxes of "bits and bobs" that have been stashed in Megan's bedroom for the last couple of weeks. We have a lovely built in cupboard in our bedroom that I even decided to overhaul and this has now been transformed into my new craft corner - it's looking fab and I will add some piccies later, when I have a little more time - for now it's just lovely to have the opportunity to blog again!!!

Anyway, for today's post I want to tell you all about our latest Crafty Friends Challenge

our theme this time is

CUTE (a popular choice with me, lol)

our sponsors this time are

who also provided the team with some amazing images to play with.

I was delighted to be able to use A Star is Born

with such an adorable image, I kept the rest of the card fairly simple - using Nitwit papers, string and kraft and brown card stock for matting.

I do hope you will join us for this challenge - just click HERE

 I would like to enter:

all dressed up challenges - anything goes

thank you so much for your visit today xx

SSW2 - Challenge 122

Hi Blog Chums.....hope you've had a great weekend - we started decorating our living room last week, and this has led to days of chaos! How can it be that decorating one room can leave the whole house upside down, lol....I have to admit that having power tools, buckets of wallpaper paste, boxes of screws and the like all over the place, is starting to test my patience, but we are getting there - and I get to "escape" back to work this morning. 

Anyway, I am a few days late with this post.....but we have a great new sketch for you to play with at

Sweet Sketch Wednesday

my DT card is based on this sketch

our lovely sponsors for this challenge are

who also provided some adorable images for the team - I am using "Rabbit"

I do hope you will join us for this challenge, we'd love to see you.

Apologies for the short post this time, normal service will be resumed soon xx

Christmas with the Cuties - Animals!

Hello lovely blog chums, hope you've had a great weekend. It's been all go here, we took Megan back to Uni yesterday......that really is a tough journey home and, even though this is her 2nd year, I still felt very teary. For the second year running "moving in day" also fell on her birthday, we had all gone out for a meal on Friday night to celebrate, but I don't think that made leaving her any easier. Not much chance of sitting round, feeling sad though, as our friend is coming to our house to start decorating the lounge today, and I will be escaping the mayhem and chaos as it is our annual stocktake at work, so its and extra long shift for me - joy!!! 

Anyway, enough of my waffle and onto challenge news - yep, its time for a new challenge at

Christmas with the Cuties 

and our theme this time is

Christmas Animals

our lovely friends at

are our sponsors this time and have a great prize up for grabs!

Thank you also to Pink Gem for providing the team with some awesome images to play with - I couldn't resist "Mistletoe Jingles" and have used the pre coloured image here - I love his snowflake sweater, I would actually wear that one!

We really hope you will join us for our challenge - maybe you've only just started to think about this years Christmas cards, well why not hop on over, we'd love to see you!

I would also like to enter:

Christmas card Throwdown - colours: Pink, Red and Green (hoping that his pink rosy cheeks will suffice) 

Christmas at Sweet Stampin - anything goes

the holly and ivy christmas challenge = anything Christmas goes

Just to add, I had also been given the task of organsing a week of bake sales at work, for the Macmillan Worlds Biggest Coffee Morning - I have a batch of Malteser Cupcakes ready to take into work today, Alistair is going to make some of his yummy cheese scones for tomorrow, and I am planning to knock up some Choccy brownies for later in the week......if you are involved in these events this week, then I wish you every success and happy fundraising!

Ribbon, Lace and Crafty Friends......

Hello my lovely Blog Chums, Happy Saturday! Hope you've had a good week.

So, it's time for a new Crafty Friends Challenge and our theme this time is

Ribbon/Lace

we are sponsored by the lovely

who also provided some adorable images for the team to play with

My DT card features:

• Avery, with Birdhouse banner from PND
• coloured with promarkers
• ribbon from local haberdashery store
• lace from The Range
• doily from Joanna Sheen online store
• papers from Papermania Capsule collection
• Birdhouse die cut was a magazine freebie
• pearls from stash

You've only got to browse a few blogs to see that both Ribbon and Lace are still very popular embellishments, so we do hope that lots of you will join us for this challenge - you'll be very welcome xx

I would like to enter these challenges:

The Paper Nest Dolls challenge - challenge-9
i love promarkers - anything goes