Crafty Friends, Birds and Animals

Hello there! Hope the weekend has started well for you.

Its time today, for a new Crafty Friends Challenge

and our theme this time is

Animals/Birds

we have two lovely sponsors

and 

who are both offering fantastic prizes to our winners and have also been lovely enough to provide some awesome images for the DT to play with......the image on my own DT card is from Inky Impressions

• Merry Kiss-mas, coloured with promarkers
• Nitwit paper
• sentiment created on serif 
• heart die was a magazine freebie, and have used cuttlebug swiss dots to emboss
• acrylic dots and lace from The Range

You can click here to join in with us, and also check out the other stunning cards from our DT

Simply No:7!

Good Morning to you all and what a wet, windy old day it is too here. We're going to brave the elements later as we are heading into London for the day - my Mum has wanted to see Les Miserables' for a long time so my daughter decided to treat the three of us to tickets to the show for our Christmas present. We were planning to have a mooch along Oxford Street first, but looking out of the window this morning, I have decided we will stop for lunch and shopping at Westfield, nr the Olympic park instead.  

So keeping up with my plan to blog more, today's card is a more simple design.

this card features:

• LOTV, No. 7 bear
• coloured with promarkers
• sentiment made with embossing folder
• dotty card from Limetree crafts
• card candi coloured with promarkers to co-ordinate

I would like to enter this into:

cardz4guyz - spots and/or stripes

passion for Promarkerschallenge - clean and simple

tuesday throwdown - anything goes

Have a lovely day, and thank you for visiting xx

New Years Resolution starts here!

Good Morning to you, my lovely blog friends..........I hope that the weekend has started well for you. Towards the end of last  year, I was feeling like I was neglecting things here and I decided that I really wanted to blog more  so  I set myself a challenge to blog at least one card/project a week. I was excited and motivated and even had the first card ready in anticipation.......then, other stuff happened and the plan got pushed to one side, but.......as its still January, I'm gonna give it a go.

So,  this is today's/this weeks card 

This adorable lil' lady is Jillian from Wee Stamps.....and she is available as a freebie here I downloaded her previously, but this is her first outing on a card - she is a treat to colour so this wont be  the last time you see her here!

this card features

• image coloured with promarkers
• mounted onto Nellie Snellen die cut
• papers from a gorgeous pad purchased at The Range
• ribbon, from The Ribbon Girl
• sentiment created by Kerry (a.k.a Pickle)
• dovecraft acrylic dots

Kraft card used also, and don't forget the current theme at The Cutie Pie challenge is Krafty Cuties!

I would like to enter...............
a gem of a challenge - in the pink

The Ribbon Girl - January, use any image

really reasonable ribbon - challenge 133 show me pink

i love promarkers - use something new - image

Crafty Caz - Girls just wanna have fun

thanks again for popping in, and thank you also for the kind and supportive messages on my last post, you have comforted me at a really sad time and I really do appreciate this.

 enjoy the rest of your weekend - keep warm!

The one with the Krafty Cuties

Hello there, my lovely friends......I hope all is fine and well with you all.

It has been a very quite blog time for me as last year ended, almost as difficultly as it started. Very sadly, my brother lost his fight with cancer on the 30th December. He had been diagnosed with it being in his lungs, liver and brain, and it had just started to attack his stomach too. Just before Christmas he was admitted to St Catherine's Hospice in Crawley, and we spent a lot of Christmas day there with him. He really was in such a lot of pain, so we do take so much comfort in knowing that this pain has now gone. There was never going to be any other outcome and he is now at peace, his funeral will be this Wednesday.

Richard would've been one of the first to say that life must go one, and go on it must. Today we have the inspiration post for the current Cutie Pie challenge. Out theme this time is

Krafty Cuties

and we would like to see your Cute cards with the addition of Kraft card/paper - easy!

Our challenge is sponsored by  the wonderful

and

who are both offering some amazing prizes, so its well worth hopping on over to the challenge for more info and to check out the other wonderful DT cards.

My DT card features:

• adorable LOTV image from artpad coloured with Promarkers
• dp's from a pad purchased at The Range
• Spelbinders grand stately fancy circle die
• Xcut tag die
• lace, ribbon and acrylic dots from stash,

thanks ever so much for your visit today xx

A bit of Bingo with The Cuties

Hello, and welcome to you my dear blog chums.......hope you have had a lovely weekend and as  Christmas day draws closer, I hope you are all set and ready for a happy and peaceful festive time.

It is time for the Cutie Pie Challenge and the theme for this challenge is

Cutie Bingo

we are sponsored this time, by our lovely friends at 

who not only offer two wonderful digi's for our winner, but also very generously provide the most adorable images for our team to play with.

             

So this is our bingo board, and I've gone for the middle line
This adorable Pink Gem image is coloured with Promarkers, the papers are a freebie download, which I found here.  Wooden embellishment from The Works, Memory Box Precious Mittens die, ribbons, and acrylic dome sticker from stash.

If you're super organised and have already made your Christmas cards - don't worry, you can make a card for any theme or occasion, so why not hop on over, join in the fun and also check out the other amazing makes from our lovely team.

Being such a busy time of year, I'll maybe not get another post in beforehand....,...so I would like to wish you all a Happy and Peaceful Christmas xx 

Not a Promarker to be seen!

Good Morning all, hope all is well with you today, am sending a big hug if this is not the case xx

I am enjoying a few days off work this week....well, when I  say enjoying what I actually mean is running around taking my Mum food shopping, completing a card order for 20 individual cards for an order, then continuing  the pile of Christmas cards I plan to make for my friends and family, Christmas pressie shopping, washing, ironing, dog walking and general housework!

I did decided that before I get stuck into anything else today, that I would do a bit of breakfast blogging, so today's card is one of several I've made with a similar design. I created this "Word Tree", if you will, using serif page plus and the font is "Rochester" (have also added it below, if anyone would like to use this). This gorgeous swirly paper has been in my stash forever, and I've no idea where it came from, the die is Memory Box Fremont Crest, added sticky pearls to finish.

I would like to enter this into:

a snowflakes promise - Winter/Christmas

Holly Jolly Christmas - Anything Goes

off to munch my weetabix.......bye for now xx

Merry Christmas from The Crafty Friends

Hello there, hope the weekend has got off to a lovely start. Maybe you're planning on putting up the Christmas decorations this weekend or you're out and about doing some Christmas shopping.......all of a sudden Christmas day doesn't seem that far off now does it!

So what better theme could we have at this weeks Crafty Friends Challenge then,

Christmas

we are very kindly sponsored by 

who are offering a wondeful digi stamp prize to our lucky winner, and have also been so generous in providing such adorable images for our DT to play with

For my own card I couldn't resist Chilly the Snowman with his waiting for Santa sign. I have used used Spellbinders fancy oval to cut out this image and have added it to yummy glitter card which I recycled from one of last year's Christmas cards and also a paper scrap. Button and ribbon from stash.

My teamies have also made some wonderful cards, so we'd love for you to hop on over for a visit and maybe even join in with us xx