The Cutest Snowmen in town!

Hi and Merry Christmas to you all!

 

As much of Britain is currently being battered by heavy winds and rain,  maybe we're not dreaming of white Christmas now, but for the next two weeks you can come snowman building with The Cutie Pies as the theme for our new challenge is....

Only Snowmen Allowed!

 

for my own DT card, what else could I use but the timeless classic, Snowy from Penny Black

he is coloured with promarkers, and has a frosted ice stickles added too. The paper is from Bo Bunny, the rik rak came from my local haberdashery store, the buttons were salvaged from an old pair of Megan's jim-jams and were attached onto a memory box label die.

 

The challenge is kindly sponsored by

and one lucky winner will win some adorable digi stamps from their online store.
You can join in with this challenge by clicking the link at the top, you can also check out the other amazing DT cards too. We would love to see your cards for this challenge, especially if you've maybe got a bit of time to hand in between Christmas and the New year.

Thank you for your visit and I wish you and yours and very Happy and Peaceful Christmas xx

'Cos you're special to the Cutie Pies!!!

Hi all and thanks for visiting hope you are fine and well.

Soooo, as its Monday its time for a new challenge with

The Cutie Pies

and this time we would like you to make a card for A Special Someone/Friend.

we are lucky enough to be sponsored by

who are offering a smashing prize.

 

For my own DT card, I have used the scrummy James the Bear from LOTV and coloured him with promarkers, with just a liberal dollop of frosted lace stickles. The snowflakes are all Marianne dies, and I have also used my favourite go-to embossing folder, swiss dots. We would love to see your cards and hear about your special people, so hop on over to join in, and also check out the rest of our DT's amazing cards.

 

I would like to enter this into these challenges:

glitter n sparkle challenge - show us some blue

the squirrel and the fox - summer or winter

crafty hazelnuts christmas challenge - for someone special

crafty catz weekly challenge - use 2 or more dies

winter wonderland christmas challenge - embossing

a little bit crafty - christmas cheer

natalie and amy - cute and cuddly at Christmas

ready teddy go - contemporary Christmas - hope this ticks the box!

thanks again for your visit, hope to catch up with you all in the coming days xx

The Birdhouse Bear

Hello, and thank you so much for your visit! Hope you've had a lovely weekend.

Before I go on and tell you about todays card, I wanted to make mention about my brother Richard who, some of you will have read here, has been undergoing treatment for Cancer in his Oesophagus. Anyway, his chemo and radiotherapy both appear to have gone really well and he will be going back into hospital on the 11th for surgery to remove this organ completely and replace it with a "spare" section of his intestine. Although they anticipate he will be in ICU straight after the op, his consultant is confident that he should be home for Christmas. So once again, if I can call upon my lovely friends here for your prayers and positive thoughts, it will mean an awful lot....thank you xx

 

Right then, back to my little card for today, and way back in the summer I was lucky enough to win a challenge and my prize was digi stamps from Hobby Book, well one of my choices was the adorable Birdhouse Bear.... 

I have coloured this with promarkers and just a little dollop of frosted lace stickles. The paper is a magazine freebie download that I tweaked the colour tone to suit. The dies are Memory Box Fremont Crest, and the wee holly die too. I coloured the white pearls with a promarker to match. Button and ribbon from stash.

I would like to enter this into these challenges:
my time to craft - cute and cuddly Christmas
stampin for the weekend - use some red
natalie and amy - cute and cuddly Christmas

off to bed soon, so that's all for me for tonight, I will be back tomorrow with a new Cutie Pie challenge card!


 

Hello from me!

Hello, there my lovely blog friends, I hope some of you are still there despite my lack of blog-ness for the last two weeks......I hope you are all fine and well too, and have not been badly affected by the recent weather conditions.

I'm just at the end of a lovely week off from work, have been out Christmas shopping several times so that's all going well, and have spent today making Christmas cards (Yay!) I managed to get one photo of said cards, before the battery in the Camera gave up on me, and is now on charge, so watch this space for a few more of my Chrimbly cards...

 

For this card I used a donated Hanglar & Stanglar image which was coloured with Promarkers, the snowflake paper is a freebie download from Birds cards, and I cant remember where the sentiment came from. The button, twine and pearls all came from Hobbycraft.

 

I would like to enter this into these challenges, please...

bearly mine - Christmas Sentiment

lexis creations - Christmas

abc-challenge - A for, almost Christmas!

here come the boys - anything goes for the boys!

 

 Before I go, just wanted to give you all an update on our wee house guest.....he opened his little eyes this week!!!!

He is also trying more and more to drag himself around, I'm sure as soon as he gets full strength in his legs there will be no stopping him.....bye for now, thanks and hugs for your visit xx

The Cutie Pies have never been ones to Create a Scene

Well, actually we are 'cos that is the theme this time for todays new Cutie Pie challenge, but more about that in a mo, first of all - how are you and did you have a good weekend? We are a big Dr Who house, so really enjoyed the 50th Anniversary episode on Saturday - soooo good to see David Tennant back!

 

So anyway, back to the challenge, and like I say, the theme this time is to create a scene/background.

For my own DT card I combined two digi stamps from Bugaboo, and then added the cloudy day background using a template with a blue versamark ink. The images are coloured with Promarkers, and I added Hobbyhouse pearls and a Marianne butterfly die. 

 We are very lucky to be sponsored on this challenge by:

 The Cutie Pie DT have come up with some amazing creations for this challenge, we'd love you to hop on over to our challenge and have a look.

 

I really don't want to be a bore with too many puppy photo's, but I just wanted to share this one that I took this morning. The little chap is plumping up well, and Daisy is being the dotting mother too.

Thanks and hugs for popping in today, hope to catch up with you soon! 

 

Introducing our new little bundle of cuteness!

Hello there, this is going to be a quick post from me, as I am stupidly tired.......so we'd worked out that our Daisy was due to have her litter around about Friday, well, by teatime yesterday it became very clear that she was in the early stages on labour. The hubby was going to sleep downstairs beside her, and I went off to bed at about 11ish, only to be woken up just over an hour later, by Alistair (very excitedly) telling me that the first puppy had just arrived, so that was me up again! We waited and watched and waited some more expecting to see more arrivals but time went on and nothing was happening - as far as Daisy was concerned she was relaxed and calm and nursing her new pup, but we were getting anxious so eventually phoned an "out of hours" vet service. We were told to take her away from the puppy and walk her around for a bit, as that would get things moving (if there were any more pups to come) or otherwise monitor her closely for distress and other such signs. So, at this point both Daisy and the puppy have got through the day seemingly fine - she has nursed the puppy really well and she seems fine in herself, so we will just have to wait and see. The vet did say that it is feasible for a dog to have one single pup, especially as she is only a little lady herself, they only mated the once and it was right at the end of her season. I will keep you all posted anyway. But for now, I couldn't go off to bed without sharing a picture of Daisy and "Jack" (as in the rhyming slang , on my Jack, 'cos he was on his own!)

 

A little bit Pickled!

Hello there and thanks for popping in, hope you're having a good weekend, albeit probably a cold and damp one!

Not had an awful lot of time to hang out at my craft desk this weekend, and the "puppy prep" continues, and also though it was about time to get "Pickling" too. My Mother had an Uncle who always did the most amazing Pickled Onions, and its been something that I've wanted to do, in the run up to Christmas, for a few years now but always leave it too late - Well, I'm happy to report that three jars are now safely stored in my shed.....couldn't resist taking a photo of one of them first though!

 

 I did do a bit of colouring one evening, earlier in the week and I did managed to get as far as making one card at least, with one of the images.

                     

Have used the very lovely Milton from Wild Rose Studio, and have coloured him with the old promarkers, and layered the image using Go Kreate Scalloped Circle die. For the embossed sections I have used a Cuttlebug folder, which seems to be a popular one this time of year, the paper is from Bo Bunny. The sentiment is stamped onto a MB label die to which I added the top section of a Sizzix Key die (I would like to say I did this to add creative flair, but in truth it was added to cover up a hole where I had added a brad, but changed my mind, hehehe). The green ribbon and the candi are from my stash, the red gingham ribbon was a bit of a find in Asda - £1 for three metres.

I would like to enter this into these challenges:
crafty calendar - all things Christmas
little claires - Christmas
creatalicious challenges - Christmas time
ready-teddy-go - embossing
sparkles christmas challenge - have a beary Christmas
crafty ribbons - anything goes, with ribbon
moving along with the times - furry friends
i love promarkers - red & green

Thanks again for your visit, and especially for your lovely comments too....sending big hugs xx