Let the Cutie Pies Inspire you.........

Hi to you all....hope your weekend was a good one, so here we are at Monday again and its time for a new challenge with

The Cutie Pies

this time its a photo inspiration challenge based on this absolutely amazing photo. We all loved this picture, with the gorgeous colours, and as such we have some fabby DT cards that you've gotta see!

We are lucky enough to be sponsored by the wonderful Crafty Ribbons, so now you've two reasons to click on the link at the top and come and see what we've been up too!

 

For my own DT card, the papers pretty much chose themselves, and are from Papermanie. The Tilda image is coloured with promarkers. The balloon has a couple of layers of lavender stickles and then a coating of glossy accents - I wanted to make it look like one of those fancy helium balloons that they charge a small fortune for at fete's! The sentiment is my own little creation and the ribbon and cupcake charm are from my stash.

I would also like to enter this into the following challenges:
one stop craft challenge - add some glitter
sketch saturday

alphabet challenge - G for Glitter/Gems - more glitter than gems, hope this is acceptable, if not please feel free to disregard.

Thanks for hopping on here to visit me, dont say it enough but I do appreciate your visits and your comments xx

So what to you think of this then?

So....Im in my local Morrisons yesterday, doing the weekly shopping (on a Saturday morning - yes I am bonkers!) and fancied some strawberries so I picked up this box for £2 and popped in into the trolley. It wasnt until I got home and pulled the clingfilm off so that I could do a little ....erm...quality control testing, that I realised what a sturdy little box this is and how much potential its has to be altered. I was going to save this photo for a before and after post, but then I thought I'd better give you a bit of a heads-up on this one in case any of you have a hanking for strawberries and pva glue!!

will be back tomorrow with a new Cutie Pie challenge post, bye for now xx

other styles are available!

Hi to you all and I hope I am finding you well! It may have been a quite week by way of my own posts, but rest assured I have been lurking around and reading your posts and looking at your work, when I get the chance too!

 

So, onto todays card, and this is a belated birthday card that I made for a work colleague who isnt so much into the cute animals/little people style that I usually lean towards, so I put away the digi's and promarkers and got stuck into showing that I do, do other styles!

The papers are from Graphic 45 Secret Garden stack (absolutely love this one, to the point that Im so gonna have to buy another one!!!)
The border punch is from Martha Stewart
The sentiment is my own work, the font is called "great vibes" or something like that.
The flowers are from a dovecraft pack and the ribbon and buttons are from my stash.

I would also like to enter this into these challenges:
crafty sentiments - use a sentiment
ribbon girls - add a button
a gem of a challenge - make it sentimental
one stop craft - flower power
Gotta run off now and do the dishes, so I'll catch you all soon xx

bring on the gardening!

Hi all, well how happy am I that its Friday......goodness me, its felt like a long old week. Am really hoping now that the sunshine will be good to us over the weekend as I am very much hoping to have a potter around the garden - the flymo is in the shed raring to go!

To keep the garden theme going, this is a card that I made yesterday, for an order from a friend of my Mums.

 

I have used:

Hanglar & Stanglar (kindly doanted) stamped image, coloured with promarkers.

The papers are from Graphic 45 Secret Garden stack, and have used Kraft to matt and layer

The ribbon is from my local Haberashery store

and this cute little flower brad, which you can see in more detail below, has been sitting in one of my brad boxes for so long, I cant remember where it came from!

 

I would like to enter this card into these challenges:

a little bit Crafty - use Kraft

aud sentiments - use a birthday sentiment

crafty ribbons - anything goes (with ribbon)

delightful challenges - add ribbon

crafty sentiments - the letter B (for birthday)

lexis creations - happy birthday

 

.....and thats about all from me for now, will catch up with you lovely peeps over the weekend xx 

Anything Goes with Forever Friends!

Hi to you all.........so I hope this week is going well for you, can you believe its May already. Its been a busy week at work, as we have had the dreaded auditor in and various other things going on, so I am a day late with this post....big ooops!

It is time for a new challenge with Forever Friends Monthly challenge, and our theme this time is

ANYTHING GOES

 

For this months challenge....
we are joined by our two wonderful sponsors, Bugaboo and Di's Digi Downloads

 I have two DT cards to share with you

 

First up, and I have used this gorgeous Bugaboo image and gone for a Gateleg shaped card.

The blue dotty paper is from a Me to you stack and the other from Glitz papers "hello friend" stack.

Printed out own sentiment and used Memory Box label die

Flowers from stash

 



This very sweet FF bear, came from a Toppers sheet, which was an absolute bargin that I stumbled upon in The Range a few weeks ago, I paid something like 50p for two A4 sheets of toppers like this one, and are all super images for the sometimes tricky, male cards.

The paper is another bargin which came from Oyster Stamps shop.

The sentiment is again, my own work and have used a woodware corner rounder here.

Buttons from stash.

It would be great to see lots of you joining in with this challenge, so hit the link at the top of the post to join in with us, and to also check out the other gorgeous DT work

LOL's with the Cutie Pies

Hello my blogfriends, my goodness these Mondays do roll around quickly dont they! We have a new challenge with the Cutie Pies and the theme is

LOTS OF LAYERS

 

We have two lovely sponsors this time

 

and

 .......and we are also on the lookout for Guest Cuties too, so come and pay us a visit, and also check out the other gorgeous cards that our Cutie DT have made

 

For my card I have used "Shy Alice" from Cedar Chest Designs, coloured with promarkers and have paper peiced her frock too

Papers are Secret Garden from Graphic 45

dies/punches are Nellie Snellen (large rectangle), small section from Memory Box Savannah border and the wee flowers are a woodware punch.

also used, pearls from Meiflower, white bow from Hobbycraft and Pearl heart is a button I found in my Mum's button tin!

 

I would also like to enter this card into:
milkcoffee challenge - lace and pearls
paper-crafting journey - use a sentiment
crafting by designs - anything goes
nutcrafters - anything goes
sweet stampin - anything but a birthday

 

Before I go, just wanted to share a little picture with you, which some of my older Docraft may have seen at some point, but anyway............this was me and the hubby, 13 years ago today

 

apologies for the quality of the photo, but my albums are all packed away in a cupboard at the moment, but you'll get the idea anyway, lol. The little cutie beside me is Megan, she was two and a half and Cameron was the bump that my bouquet is covering........its not everyone that get there wedding dress from a store called "Blooming Marvellous", but heigh-ho........oh, and as for the hubby, I did tell Alistair that I wouldnt marry him unless he wore a kilt and I think he scrubbed up good for the occasion!

 

Take care and I'll catch up with you all soon xx

a bit of a doily one

Hi all, hope you've had a great week so far. We've enjoyed some lovely sunny weather for most of this week, which has been very welcome and every day my washing line has been full, whilst its nice to be able to get as much washing out the downside is that I have had sooooo much ironing to do!!!!

I do have one little card to share with you all today.......

The image is Dandelion Wishes, from Wee stamps and is a little treat to colour. I have used my promarkers, of course!
The paper is from Papermania, Lucy Cromwell stack
The tag is a sizzix die (the big red original ones!) with own sentiment printed on
Pearls from Meiflower, white bow from Hobbycraft, Doily from The Pretty Little Ribbon shop and pink ribbon from stash

I would like to enter this into these challenges:
i love promarkers - square card with a round feature
pennys challenges - anything goes
simon says stamps - anything goes
lexi screations - lace or ribbon
the pretty little ribbon shop - spring
creative inspirations - ribbon and pearls
Thats all from me for now, if I dont finish here, I will probably start going on about Broadchurch on Monday...ooooh exciting stuff!!! Im soooo glad it wasnt the vicar ('cos he was Rory and I loved Rory) Bye for now xx