One For The Boys, with the Cuties

Good morning to you my lovely blog chums, hope you had a great weekend.....it was so lovely to be walking the dog in the sunshine yesterday.

Anyway, it's A Little Extra Cutie -ness day, which means it's my day to share my DT card for the 

Cutie Pie challenge

Our theme is

ONE FOR THE BOYS

Our lovely sponsors for this challenge are

For all you need to know about the challenge, and to see the other amazing DT cards, click the link above.

We have a shiny new sponsor this time, so it's a big thanks to

They also, very kindly, provided the team with some very cute  images to play with....I love dungarees on children so  this image choose itself! 

Definitely One For the Boys

Hello my lovely blog chums, hope you're having a good week so far, I just wanted to tell you about our latest challenge with the
CUTIE PIES
Our theme is
One For  The Boys

I will be back with my own DT card next Monday.

In the meantime, and whilst I am on the subject of Cuteness and Boys.......this is what we got up to this afternoon

Alistair and I  spent the afternoon with our gorgeous grandsons.....we even went out for a walk and stopped off for a Costa to give their Mummy a very welcomed rest.

This is Will

and this is Alex

The boys are nearly 7 weeks old now, and are doing very well indeed.

Anyway, enjoy the rest of the week and if you do celebrate Valentine's day, I hope you are thoroughly spoiled!

Anything Goes, with the Crafty Friends Challenge

Good morning to you my lovely blog chums, and I wish you a Happy Saturday! I hope you have had a good week.

You may know that I am a bit of a West End theatre enthusiast, and one of my absolute favourites is Les Miserables....well, we have been fortunate enough to get tickets, this week,  for a concert performance of this wonderful show, that will feature the likes of Michael Ball and Alfie Boe.....now, I just have to wait patiently until November!

So today sees the start  of our latest challenge with

Crafty Friends

and our theme this time is

ANYTHING GOES

Our lovely sponsors are

More into about the challenge and our sponsor, can be foundfound, with a click Here, as well as some beautiful cards from the DT.

My DT card features:

• Laptop James stamp from LOTV
• Coloured with ProMarkers
• Papers from The Range
• Sentiment created using Serif 10

I have seen a number of cards, recently, using a design much like this, and I love the way it showcases the image, so I thought I'd give it a go!

I would like to enter these challenges, please:

moving along with the times- add a sentiment

Penny's Paper Craft challenges - anything goes

cute card thursday - anything goes

Thank you so much for taking the time to visit, whatever you're up to today, have a good day xx

A day to Relax!!!

Good morning to you my lovely blog chums, I hope that wherever you are, you are keeping warm and safe this weekend. After a couple of light dustings, during the week, I thought we had got away with not having any significant snow in my part of Kent.....however, from late afternoon yesterday and throughout the evening it came down. Fortunately it doesn't appear to be to any great depth, but enough to cause disruption and difficulties getting out and about.......so, I think it might be a weekend of hibernation for me. I have some wedding invitation samples to work on, and also a clay face mask, that I treated myself to in the Boots sale, that needs trying out!!

I have set myself a challenge this year, to reacquaint myself with some of the amazing digi stamps that I have acquired over the years, you forget how many you have stashed away in folders on the laptop.....already my trawls through have been met with squeals of delight. This week I have been looking through my "Pink Petticoat" folder,  as a particular image had come to mind when I was thinking about another blog challenge. The current theme at Passion for ProMarkers is, Inspired by the movies, and I recently watched "Pretty Woman"  for the first time in years, and this digi in particular, put me in mind of the scene when Julia Roberts is in the bath, negotiating her "fee" with Richard Gere.....So that's how this card came about, lol

• Pink Petticoat Lola Rose image
• Coloured with ProMarkers
• Dotty card from Limetree
• Dienamics mini scallop border die
• ribbon and card candi from stash

I would like to enter these challenges:

Passion for ProMarkers - inspired by the movies - Pretty Woman

as you like it - favourite shape/fold - I favour a 6x6 square card, I like the  symmetry and even-ness of a square card

aud sentiments challenge - A.G with sentiment

Moving along with the times - add a sentiment

Have a great day, whatever you get up to!

CUTE, CLEAN & SIMPLE!

Good morning to you, my lovely blog chums.....I do hope you've had a great weekend.

It's time for a Little Extra Cutie ness today, at

The Cutie Pie challenge

and here is my little DT card

Our theme is

CUTE, CLEAN & SIMPLE!

If you haven't joined in yet.....where have you been! Don't worry, there is still plenty of time to play along

My DT card features

• Stamp from LOTV
• Coloured with ProMarkers
• Martha Stewart border punch
• Card candi
• Polka dot card from Limetree crafts

I would also like to join in with

Simon says stamp, Wednesday challenge - CAS

crafting by designs - corners, borders and frames

city crafter - CAS
A gemof a challenge - anything goes

New Beginning with Crafty Friends

Hello there my lovely blog chums, I do hope you've had a good week.

So today is the start of a New challenge with
CRAFTY FRIENDS
and what could be more apt, at this time of year, than the theme of
NEW BEGINNINGS
So basically, we would like your card to highlight something new: a baby, a job, a house or maybe new craft goodies.

Our lovely sponsors for this challenge are

Who, as well as offering an awesome prize, also provided the rest of the team with some amazing images to play with......if you hop on over, we have some great inspiration to share with you.

I went completely for dies and punches on my card, for the house i used a faux stitch square, the fence is a magnolia die,  the clouds are Go kreate, heart die and woodware daisy punch. The enamel dots are YNS gum drops.

I would like to enter these challenges:
Cute card Thursday - what's new
alphabet challenge - U is for Use stitching real/faux
crafting with friends - JFF
QKR - AG
Simply Create Too - AG
Crafty Creations- AG

Wonderfully Cute!

Hello, my lovely blog chums.....hope the new year has got off to a great start, we have had an exciting time, but more about that later.

I was lucky enough to have a few days off from work after Christmas, so I managed to get on top of my DT work as well as make a few cards,  do some colouring just for the fun of it and also play with my new pom-pom maker that a friend introduced me to.

Today's card features:

• Ballerina Bunny from Wild Rose Studio
• Coloured with Promarkers 
• Sentiment from LOTV
• Scalloped edge border punch
• Papers and pearls from stash

I would like to enter these challenges:
Passion for ProMarkers - add a sentiment
as you like it challenge - anything goes
aud sentiments challenge - add a sentiment

So our year starred with the arrival of two very special little boys

My lovely step daughter gave birth on 28th December to Alex (just over 5lbs) and  Will (6.9). The new family are settling into family life and, of course, Nanny and Grandad are completely smitten.