Christmas in September!

Hello my lovely blog chums, I hope your weekend has got off to a good start.

We have the opportunity to do a Craft Fair in November, and whilst my Mum has been laid up she has been keeping herself occupied with some crochet items to sell, so I thought I'd better "do my bit", and get some more Christmas cards in the box.....

This adorable LOTV digi, is one of my favourites for Christmas. I have used ProMarkers to colour. The papers are from Papermania Capsule Collection, the sentiment is my own creation using "Humble" and "Champagne and Limousines" font, and was printed into a scrap piece and then cut out using a faux stitched label die from, The Works. The corner tabs were created using a smaller die from the same set. I love combining a swirly type of font  with something more simple and crisp looking....I have saved this sentiment as a png file as I think I will be using it a fair bit over the next few months - I am adding it here - please feel free to grab and save it, if you'd like to use it too!

I am planning on doing this more frequently with my sentiments, so watch this space - if there is anything you'd like to see, by all means, let me know!

I would like to enter these challenges:

passion for promarkers Christmas in September

christmas at sweet stampin challenge anything Christmas - september

aud sentiments challenge anything goes, and a sentiment

C.R.A.F.T challenges animals (mouse!)

cute card thursday. Sentimental

Thank you so much for your visit today

Ribbons and Bows at Christmas with the Cuties!

Good morning and Hello to you, my lovely blog chums! I do hope that this post finds you well. It's a over a month since I was last here.....and what a month it's been! Mid August, Alistair and I returned from a wonderful short holiday to Eastbourne with his sister and her husband....the weather had been lovely, the hotel was nice, the air show had been going on there, we'd just had a really good time but a day or so after getting back my Mum took  a tumble whilst out walking her dog, and subsequently broke her hip! After that our days have flown by in a rush of running around looking after her, seeing to Tilly (her dog), keeping on top of things in both her home and mine, looking after our own lively puppy.........oh and still having to go into work too! Our kids, and her neighbours have pitched in to help too which has been fantastic, she is recovering well and slowly now, things are getting closer to "normal"

 So much so, that I even managed to make a card......Yay!!!!

Today see's the start of a brand new challenge at

Christmas with the Cuties

and our theme is

RIBBONS AND BOWS

very easy to accomplish on a Christmas card, methinks! 

this completely adorable image is a fairly recent release from

Lili of the Valley

I think it was released as a Christmas digi, but I would day it is versatile enough for other occasions. I have coloured with ProMarkers. The backing paper is from a pad from The Range. I thought the snowflake border die, would make it look a bit more festive. The ribbon and pearl are from my stash. I felt it needed something a little extra, and I dug out a box of wooden Christmas tags, that I had picked up from Sainsbury's in the January sales, with the intention of making my Christmas wrapping look really fancy this year, anyway, I thought this was snowflake was a perfect finishing touch!

Our lovely sponsors for this challenge are our good friends at

Who have a fabby prize for our lucky winner.

So.....have you started making your Christmas cards yet this year, if you have why not hop on over and join us......if you haven't.....now's your chance!!!!

I would like to enter these challenges:

Chrimbo Crackers #193 Anything Goes

merry little christmas challenge #14 September anything goes

colour crazy challenge. #37 anything goes

Winter Wonderland Challenge use your favourite embellishments.....RIBBONS!!!!

as you like it challenge Santa or No Santa....I would say "No" , because the images are less versatile and can't really lend themselves to occasions other than Christmas, whereas the digi used on my card could also be for a birthday, or a Thank You are

christmas at sweet stampin anything Christmas

the holly and ivy christmas challenge. #56 anything Christmas goes

I couldn't possibly close this post without adding one little photo, in the midst of the chaos of the last month we had the most wonderful family celebration, Megan's Graduation 🎓 Day. 

It was such a joyous day, I was absolutely bursting with pride! She completed her degree in Mathematics with a 2:1 and has just started teacher training at a boys Grammar school. It's quite a significant point actually, as I decided to launch Christmas with the Cuties three years ago, when Megan first went away to Uni, as a bit of a distraction and challenge for myself....and here we are now, with BOTH going from strength to strength!

Going Green for Christmas with the Cuties

Good morning my lovely blog chums....hope this post finds you fine and well! Once again my problem with "not having enough hours in the day", has caught up with me and I am super late with this DT card. We have recently had family down from Scotland, my step daughter and her two children.....I had forgotten how hard work a 4 year old and a 15 month year old can be, lol! We had some wonderful days out together...I will try to share some photos here....but one of the most fun things we did was a visit to an indoor trampoline centre....to the yells of, "come on Nanny Lisa, come on and play', I very gingerly stepped in to a trampoline - found myself to be still alive after a couple of gentle bounces and about half an hour later I was galloping around the place like a mad woman!!!! I absolutely loved it, and judging by the aches I felt for the next few days, it was great exercise too, so when the schools go back in September, I will be making enquiries about sessions there for overweight and old enough to know better types like me.

Anyway, more importantly, I do have to tell you about our current challenge at

Christmas with the Cuties

Our theme is 

GOING GREEN

a nice, easy theme, this time.......we want to see your Cute, Cute, Cute  Christmas images......featuring the very traditional Christmas colour of GREEN

We have lovely New sponsors, who are joining us for the very first time, so we say a huge 
welcome and thank you to



who you can visit here

or via Facebook

they will be offering 3 yummy digi stamps as a prize to our lucky winner

They also very kindly provided some gorgeous images for the team to play with, and I couldn't resist this gorgeous reindeer. He is coloured with ProMarkers, the sentiment was my own creation, the enamel dots are from YNS, and the yummy paper is from Digi Rainbow on Etsy.

you still have a week to play along....I hope you will do so, ALSO, we have a DT call running, so if you are a fan of cuteness and want to make more Christmas cards, come and have a look.

I would like to enter:

abc christmas challenge  P for Penguin/R for Reindeer

polkadoodle week 31

christmas at sweet stampin challenge july challenge anything goes

Girls Just Wanna Have Fun!

Good morning to you my lovely blog chums! 

It's been a couple of weeks now, since my last post here - and what a couple of weeks we've had!!! So long story, short....we have a new member of family: a West Highland Terrier puppy, that we have named Harvey. If you've ever had puppy you will now how chaotic that can be, but we found ourselves with a poorly little boy.....he wasn't eating at all and several trips to the vet, and something unmentionable being vomitted up confirmed that the poor wee  chap had been suffering with round worms....he is now on medication, is recovering well and has definitely found his appetite!!! Our older Westie, is still not entirely happy about  the new arrival, but it's very early days yet. Will add a photo at the end this post, but for now I must get back to why I am actually here, lol

So we have a fabby challenge over with the Cutie Pies and our theme is

GIRLS JUST WANNA HAVE FUN

our lovely sponsors for this challenge are

who you can visit here

or via Facebook

They also very kindly provided some gorgeous images for the team to play with.......I have used a Little Miss  Sugarpops digi that you can find here. I have used ProMarkers to colour, and image was cut out on a Spellbinders fancy oval die. The birthday gift die is from X cut. The paper is from a Trimcraft stack, enamel dots from YNS, and finally the pearl heart ribbon slider was an eBay purchase....I have been using these on Wedding Invitations, and had some spares.

I would like to enter:
Polka Doodles week 28 A.G
I love promarkers A.G WITH ONE FOR THE GIRLS
aaa birthday MUST BE A BIRTHDAY CARD, FOR A GIRL

And finally, before I finish today......Harvey

With Nippy

Crafty Friends are Beginning with B

Hello my lovely blog chums, hope you've had a good week....it feels like it's been a busy one here so I am hoping for a more restful weekend. 

So we have a fabby new challenge to play along with at

Crafty Friends 

 and our theme this time is

BEGINNING WITH B

(Your card should include elements that begin with B)..

I have included a Bear, Balloons, Banner,Button, Bow, Border die, Beige and Blooms.

This adorable image is from Lili of the Valley, which I must admit, I haven't used too often.....but is a great to colour so I must use it more often. 

I would like to enter these challenges:Challenge

moving along with the times C.A.S

colour crazy challenge week 25 A.G

digi choosday A.G

i love ProMarkers 3 OF A KIND (balloons)

A gem of a challenge week 12 A.G

Thank you for visiting me today, enjoy your day....whatever you're getting up to

Spots and Dots at Christmas with the Cuties

Good Morning my lovely blog chums, hope this post finds you well - you find me a year older now! Had a lovely birthday, despite having to work, and in all the celebrations I completely forgot to post my DT card for our brand new challenge at 

Christrmas with the Cuties

and our theme this time is

Spots and Dots

So very simply, a super cute Christmas image and plenty of spots and dots

My DT card features:

• Digi from Lili of the Valley 
• coloured with promarkers
• misc papers from stash
• Snowflake die from Joanna Sheen
• sentiment features Penelope Anne font and label die from The Works

I would like to enter these challenges:

jingle belles  snow

crimbo crackers  anything goes

christmas at sweet stampin challenge anything goes with optional - Non Tradtional colours

passion for promarkers  four legged friends

the holly and ivy christmas challenge anything goes

Before I go, I just wanted to share a few pics with you all, from the weekend - Megan and I went to an event in London called West End Live, which is held in Trafalgar Square, and gives you the opportunity to see performances from many of the top west end shows, like Wicked, Les Mis, Mama Mia, Alladin  as well as many new and up and coming ones. This was our forth year of going, and  I absolutely loved it.......

Come From Away

Phantom of the Opera

Only Fools and Horses

 

Six

Thats all from me for today......thanks again for your visit

Feeling Sketchy!

Hello my lovely blog chums....hope you've had a good week!

I used to be on the Design Team at Sweet Sketch Wednesday 2, and when I noticed that they are celebrating their 10th....yep 10th Birthday, I absolutely had to join in with their celebratory challenge. Over the last few years, we've all seen challenges that we love, come and go, so its great to see that SSW2 is still going strong!

my card here:

is based on this wonderful sketch, which was used on their very first challenge

My card features: 

• Hoppy Poppy, and accompanying sentiment stamp from Stamping Bella (this was a Mother's Day gift from my kids) from Seven Hills Crafts
• coloured with promarkers
• this pretty flowery paper was a magazine freebie
• Die cuts used are, Spellbinders fancy labels, Cheery Lynn doily border die, Nellie Snellan circle dies
• Button from The Works

I would like to enter:

Sweet sketch wednesday 2. anniersary challenge

crafty sentiments a.g

passion for promarkers beautiful borders

pennys papercraft challenges a.g

Cheerio for now, lovelies xx