Paws for a Purr-fect challenge with the Cuties



Hello there, hope you are all fine and well......its been a wee bit of time since my last post, I have been busy with some "behind the scenes" blog challenge stuff, work has been busy and we also had a short break away in Scotland recently to meet a very special new member of the family (but more about that in my next post)

What I want to tell you all about is this month's

Cutie Pie challenge

and our theme this time is

Cute Cats and Darling Dogs

our lovely friends at

are our sponsors and are offering a wonderful digi prize to our lucky winner

This was an inspired theme for me as I love cats and dogs......you will know that we have...

the very handsome Nippy

our gorgeous girl Daisy

and this is our newest recruit

 this is Charlie, who we recently adopted from a Cats Protection shelter

but when it came to choosing a favourite cat/dog image for my DT card, there really was only one choice for me

my DT card features:

• Mac from Digistamp boutique
• cut out on spellbinders die
• coloured with promarkers
• sentiment was a freebie from the super talented Netty
• flowery paper from a stack from The Works, the green stripey one from a papermania Christmas stack, not to sure about the pink dotty one
• ribbon from stash

my Cutie pie teamies have made some amazingly cute cards for this one, so please pay us a visit and take a look!

I would like to enter my card into these challenges:
the ribbon girls - animals
crafty creations challenges - all creatures great and small

Simply Huggable!

Hello there and thank you so much for stopping  by today.....

 

After another busy week at work I am sooo glad its Saturday, ok there is still lots to do at home but at least there are more cups of tea involved! Off to do the food shopping in a bit, and then an afternoon of battling with the stinging nettles at the bottom of my back garden, lies ahead!

 

Todays card is a bit special to me as I made it for a lovely friend from work who has been promoted and subsequently moved to another store, its always nice to let your friends know you are thinking of them even if you don't see them every day.

this card features:

• Albie, the Little Cotton Rabbit from Sugar Nellie (ok, so I have re-gendered Albie for the purpose of my colour scheme!)
• image stamped with memento tuxedo black, coloured with promarkers and added a slight brush of pink chalk to give a rosy cheek
• papers are oldies from stash
• buttons and twine added for detail
• Xcut scalloped edge border punch
• sentiment created on page plus

I would like to enter this into:
the sugar bowl blog challenge - 124
fresh brewed designs - ribbon or twine

Do you have any nice plans for today, or is it just a quiet one at home.....whatever you're up too - enjoy xx

Catching Butterflys with Creatalicious

Hello there, my lovely blog friends......thank you so much for visiting me today. Hope you are having a good week so far.

 

Well now, its the 15th of the month and that means its time for a new

Creatalicious Challenge

the theme this time is

Butterflys

 

 

we are sponsored this time by

 

and

 

                                                     

Thank you to you both!

 

Once again our DT have made some amazing cards to inspire, so hop on over to check it all out!

 

my card features:

• super cute LOTV image (an oldie, and for the life of me I can't recall the name)
• coloured with promarkers
• dies used, Cheery Lynn border die and Poppy Stamps Ivy
• fiskars small daisy punch from The Range
• Butterfly embellishment was actually attached to a picture frame which was broken...so waste not, want not.
• ribbon and pearls from stash

Thank you again for taking the time to visit, your comments always leave the biggest smile on my face, so thank you xx

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a bit of "Antique" dusting!

Hello there, and thank you for popping in today......hope this finds you well! What a grim and wet day it has been today......yesterday was gloriously warm and sunny, I cut my front grass, did a bit of weeding and then planted some bedding (Snapdragon and Dianthus)

 

 So it tickled me recently when I noticed that the lovely Squirrel is running a challenge which required dusting off older craft stash, under the name of the Antiques Road show Challenge! I couldn't resist it, so I've been trawling through old files (many of which have had me groaning in shock and horror at my efforts of yesteryear, lol)  until I stumbled upon this once much loved digi set from Cuddly Buddly

I had originally downloaded it in March of 2007, and it seemed only fitting to use some of my earlier dies too.

  

this card features

• Mother Bear set from Cuddly Buddly (image and papers)
• Go Kreate fancy square die
• Original Sizzix scalloped edge tag
• Nellie Snellen "doily" circular die
• flowers and self adhesive ribbon from Hobbycraft

If you would also like to come for a mooch down memory lane, you can find the everything here

 



Lots of Lovely Layers and Complete Cutie-ness

Hello there, and thank you so much for paying me a visit today. Hope you've had a lovely weekend.

So, its time again for a new Cutie Pie challenge, and our theme this time is

Lots of Layers

our lovely sponsors for this challenge are

and

                                      

         who are both offering wonderful prizes, so with that and some amazing inspiration from my hugely talented DT, why not hop on over and pay us a visit!

Thank you also to the very lovely Janet from Pink Gem, for providing such gorgeous images for us to play with.

My own DT card features:

• Teacup Maisy, from Pink Gem, coloured with promarkers
• layered onto Spelldinders lacy circle die cut
• Papers from Nitwit
• lace and pearls from The Works
• bow from local haberdashery
• sentiment made using serif page plus

thanks again, for taking the time to stop by today xx

31 Day Blog challenge - day 22

So, for some reason this post had been sitting as a draft and didn't "post" on day 22, but in actual fact it was one of my favourite ones to do, so I am a little bit happy to save it till last.

When I started this challenge, it was intended to be a bit of light entertainment for me, and I didn't foresee how emotionally difficult I would find some of the days. That said, I have roared with laughter at some of the responses and I've learned some fantastic things about my lovely blog friends too,  so, thank you for joining me!

anyway back to day 22............

"10 favourite songs"

Sooo many faves, so this is a tough day for me. However, and in my particular order:

• Crowded House.....Don't dream its over
• either Journey or Glee cast.....Don't stop believing
• James......Sit down
• Train.....Drops of Jupiter
• Vance Joy.....Riptide
• Mumford & sons.....I will wait
• Temper trap....sweet disposition
• U2.....All I want is you
• The Killers......Mr Brightside
• The Pogues and Kirsty McColl.....Fairytale of New York
• Take That.......Rule the World
• Let it Go.....from the Disney movie Frozen
• Geronimo.....Sheppard

Ok, I know its not 10....but I just couldn't bring myself to offload anymore songs!

31 day blog challenge - day 31

"weird quirk of mine"

What just the one???

Ok, well I can barely get through the day without saying "Oh my Giddy Aunt" at least a dozen times. I also have my own words for things, like lids are "liddy-tops", remote controls are "telly box buttons" and I am currently talking to you all via the "wibbly, wobbly web"

I am also particular about the way I eat certain foods, I call it quirky, my hubby calls it fussy!!!