More than one fold with Creatalicious!

Hello there, hope the week has got off to a good start for you!

So today its time for a new Creatalicous Challenge
and our theme is

More than one Fold



our lovely sponsors are

Crafty Sentiments Designs

Prize - 3 digis of winners choice

Crafty Sentiments Designs is an online base family company own and run by Suzette, the images are cute fun and make any cards and projects look amazing.

Suzette and Justyna are the main artist, all images are exclusive to Crafty Sentiments Designs and there is lots of digital stamps available, sentiments, rubber stamps, crafting CD's, exclusive Crafty Sentiments Designs dies and much more. www.craftysentimentsdesigns.co.uk you can also find us on facebook, printerest and twitter.

& 

Simon Says Stamps

who are offering a $15 gift cert
.

My DT card features

• "Friendship" my very favourite CS digi
• coloured with promarkers
• Gingham paper from Nitwit Stack
• Flowery paper from The Works
• Zipty Do font for sentiment
• Sizzix tag die and Memory Box Savannah border die
• flowers, lace and peg from stash

inside view of my criss-cross card

My fellow teamies have made some amazing cards, so please stop by for a visit!

 

As Cutie as a Button!

Hello, Blog Chums....so that's another weekend done and its Monday once again, today its time for the next

Cutie Pie Challenge

and our theme this time is

Cute as a Button

so we want to see your cards feature a whole lotta cuteness and some gorgeous buttons too....easy, right!

 Our challenge is sponsored by the wonderful

Who are offering an amazing prize of £10 worth of goodies to one lucky winner

but not only that

are offering this great prize to our randomly drawn winners

Huge thanks and hugs to our wonderful sponsors!

our lovely friends at Bugaboo also very kindly provided some adorable images for our DT to play with, and the results are some super cute cards, so do hope on over to check 'em out!



Is it too early for something Festive???

Hello there, hope you are having a great weekend.....and hopefully enjoying some sunshine. I ploughed through a huge pile of ironing this afternoon....but it didn't feel quite such a traumatic experience as I took the ironing board out onto the patio!  

 

My poor wee blog has been feeling a bit neglected as the last few weeks have been super busy - nothing massively exciting, garden renovations, fence painting, shed demolishing, new shed building, trawling around various local dealerships looking for a new car, work, work and work to sum it all up really.

 

A few weeks ago I celebrated my cough..cough....43rd birthday, my lovely kids ordered me a few stamps and some Nitwit papers from LOTV, one of the stamps is featured below, and my hubby had given me some money to get a new handbag and whilst out looking for said handbag, I had popped into The Works for a quick browse and I found these adorable little paper bags....I got three packs and have been itching to decorate one since! 

 

I thought these bags would be a lovely addition to my table when I do a couple of Christmas fairs later in the year.

This project features

• James, hanging up the stocking, from LOTV
• cut with Spellbinders fancy edge oval die
• coloured with promarkers
• dotty ribbon, twine and button from The Ribbon Girl
• green ribbon from local fabric store
• card candi from The Glitter pot
• DP was a magazine freebie download, changed colour tone in serif page plus

I would like to enter this into:
Winter Wonderland Challenges: Have a Beary Christmas
simply create too : Get ahead for Christmas
cute as a button challenge: Christmas in July

thank you so much for visiting today xx

Look who's Back!!!!!

I am absolutely delighted to be able to share with you, that after closing for a wee while the wonderful

is back!!!!

I was completely surprised by the out of the blue email from our  DT boss lady, Diane, with an invitation to re-join this lovely team - didn't even have to this twice about clicking to reply!

So, for the last few weeks we have been busy little Crafty Friends getting ourselves organised for some amazing challenges ahead, and we very much hope that you will all get behind us and join in with us again.

we are kicking things off  with a nice and easy

Anything Goes 

theme

and as its the first one, the whole team are taking part before we split into two teams, so there really are some amazing DT cards to have a peep at!

our wonderful sponsors are

Prize -  ADFD will provide a $12 gift card to the shop at www.adayfordaisies.com 
(that's equal to 3 images of choice) to the winner. 

and

 Prize - The winner can choose 3 individual images OR 1 digital set

For my own DT card I was lucky enough to work with Winter Stanley from Beccy's Place

my DT card features:

• Winter Stanley from Beccy's Place
• Coloured with Promakers
• Sentiment is my own effort
• Dotty paper from stash
• Snowflake is from Marianne Creatables (it was cut out onto card and then triple embossed*, but will come back to that)
• enamel dots from stash

Having seen so many great challenges close recently, we are super excited to be restarting, so do come and join in the fun.

* I was recently lucky enough to be given 15 pots of One Upon a Stamp extra thick embossing crystals, in various different colours (used Pearl Blue here) apart from triple embossing I am not entirely sure how else to use these, so any hints, tips and suggestions will be appreciated

I would like to enter this card into:

Ribbons & Pearls with Creatalicious

Hello there, and thank you so much for visiting me today, hope you had a great weekend. When we moved into our house we were lucky enough to inherit a shed/workshop that a previous owner had built, it is 8ft by 10ft so really roomy but it is really close to the house so not only does it obscure the light into my kitchen, but it is also slap-bang in the middle of what could be a superb patio area. So we have decided to dismantle it and move it to a more suitable spot and that is pretty much what we've all been up too....its a slow, steady process as we don't want my hubby to overdo it, but we'll get there!

its time for a new Creatalicious Challenge, and this time its all about the Ribbons and Pearls..............

 our lovely sponsors are:

Di's digi stamps

who's offering a $12 voucher to the winner

&

Dr. Digi

is offering 2 images of winner's choice

our lovely friends at Dr Digi, also provided some amazing images for our DT to play with, I chose "Blunderwoman" (which does bring back childhood memories of Bella Emberg in a very similar costume, lol) now I have to say that as an image this was a bit of a departure from the cute-ness that I would normally go far, but it was a fab image to colour nonetheless (even her ample bosom!)

this card also features:

• image coloured with promarkers
• paper was an old download, with colour changed to co-ordinate
• sentiment created on serif
• Xcut star die
• ribbon and pearls from stash (pearls coloured with promarkers to co-ordinate)



My fellow Creatalicious teamies have also made some stunning cards for this challenge, so we hope you will hop on over and join in!

I would like to enter this card into:

chocolate coffee and cards - use pearls

simon says stamp Wednesda challenge - friends or superhero's

One happy little step-granny!

In my last post, a few days ago, I mentioned that I was just back from a trip to Scotland to meet a new member of our family.......and this little lady is our beautiful Grand-daughter Erin, who arrived on 5th May

 

obviously, I couldn't wait to get my hand on her!

 and my hubby considered it his Grandad-ly duty to buy the biggest bear in Toys r us

 

 you do forget how tiny these little ones are!

 

changing the subject slightly, but I have never seen bluebells this shade before!

 

spotted this in my step-daughters garden, not to sure what it is - but I want one!

Any suggestions?

 

 have a lovely weekend all!

 

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