Spring IS here!!!

Hello my lovely blog chums, I hope the week has got off to a good start for you. Ok, so it might still be blummin' cold still here in the UK, but the Cutie Pies have decided to take hold of the situation and bring you some Spring time!!!

Yep, the theme for our current challenge is

Spring Cuties

and it was lovely to make a card that brought a little sunshine to my craft desk, if nothing else, lol!

Our lovely sponsors for this challenge are

and I am lucky enough to be using one of their adorable images on my DT card.

My DT card features:

• Spring Duck 1 from Bugaboo
• Coloured with ProMarkers
• dp 's from Trimcraft
• Marianne creatables die
• Own sentiment featuring Zipty do font
• Ribbon and buttons from The Range
• Wooden ladybird from Home Bargains!

click Here to join in with the Cuties!

Mother's Day hugs

Hello my lovely blog chums......Hope  you've been having a great weekend. If you are a Mum, hope you have been enjoying the day. The contents of the Amazon parcel turned out to be a fab set of headphones from my lovely Megan, as  she knows I enjoy a bit of box set binging on my tablet. Hubby has given me some money to get myself some new jeans and also instructed me this morning to "treat yourself to a couple of your colouring in pictures" after further probing it turned out he meant Digi stamps, lol. Well he certainly didn't have to tell me  twice, as I had recently stumbled upon some completely yummy Lee Holland images, now available on Etsy.....before long, a click turned into a bit of printing, then out came the ProMarkers, and well, ta-daaa

She really is a little treat to colour! I have used limetree crafts card with this, also a cheery Lynn border die. Little Claire's mini sentiment and a bit of card candi.

I would like to enter:

simon says stamp - wednesday challenge girl power

crafty sentiments anything goes

passion for promarker challenge only girls allowed

Crafty Calendar challenge add a tag

That's all for  tonight, got very emotional watching the last episode of Call the Midwife, and am ready for bed now.

I will be back with another DT card later in the week, but will say Cheerio for now.

Crafty Friends and Special Ladies.....

Hello my lovely blog chums, hope you have had a great week. It is a very special weekend, as we will be celebrating Mothers Day, here in the UK. Sending big hugs to those that no longer have their Mother's with them. My Mum will be coming to us for dinner, Megan will be home from Uni for Easter, at the end of the month so I fully intend to get an extra hug then......there is also an Amazon box that arrived in the post this week, that I am not allowed to touch!!!

Anyway, it's time for a new challenge with

Crafty Friends

and our theme this time is very aptly

For a Special Lady

Our lovely sponsors for this challenge are

We would love to see you joining with us, click our link, and come on over.......

SSW2 #131

Hello my lovely blog chums, hope you're having a great week so far......can you believe we're nearly in March already. Although here in Kent, winter is still very much with us!!! 

Anyway, it's time for a new challenge with SSW2

My DT card is based on this lovely sketch, I thoroughly enjoyed using it and I really hope, you will be inspired to join in with us this time.

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My DT card features:

• Daisy from Sugar Nellie (an oldie maybe, but still a favourite of mine!)
• Coloured with ProMarker pens
• Sentiment stamp from LOTV
• Flower die from Your Next Dies
• Butterfly and Cloud die
• Flowery paper, I think, was a Papermania oldie
• Gingham paper from my snippets box
• Ribbon and pearls from stash

This stamp makes me think of warm, spring sunshine......do hope we start to see this soon, at moment I just want to tuck her t-shirt into her jeans, and get some warm socks and a big coat on, lol
As I was saying, winter is still very much with us in Kent, we have had, by our standards, heavy snow for the past couple of days and this was my back garden at 7am this morning

I ventured out and measured 18cms on our picnic table. I drove to work yesterday morning, as the roads were not too bad when I left home but after about 2hrs of more heavy snow, I bailed out and had a really scary drive home......got to go in today, so planning to wrap up and go on foot. 
One of our family REALLY likes the snoww

I would like to enter these challenges:

allsorts challenge something beginning with B (blue, butterfly and bow)
di's digi designs - die cuts challenge
sweet stampin challenge - spring has sprung

Cheerio for now xx

Christmas with the Cuties are back!!!

Hello there my lovely blog chums, hope you had a great weekend. Before I go any further, I must say a huge  thank you for your lovely comments on my last post.

So, it's exciting news today.....after a wee rest Christmas with the Cuties are back......yay!!! We have some really good fun challenges ahead, but are kicking off with a nice, easy theme of

ANYTHING GOES

Our lovely sponsors for this challenge are

Why not get a really early jump on your Christmas cards this year, and hop on over and join us!

I would like to enter these challenges:
Allsorts Challenge something beginning with B (bear)
Winter Wonderland challenge  A.G
christmasatsweetstampinchallenge A.G
asnowflakespromise A.G
thehollyandivychristmaschallenge A.G

I will be back with another DT card later in the week, cheerio for now xx

Hello....and Happy Wednesday!

Hello my lovely blog chums, hope that post finds you well!

This is pretty much me playing catch up today. So you will know that hubby and I went on a little jaunt, to visit his daughter and her family in  Scotland and to meet our new baby grandson. Well, we had a smashing time and fell completely in love this little fellow.
So now, I am very excited and proud to introduce you all to

Alex Ewan Alistair
born 6th February and weighed in at 8lb 3oz

The day after returning home we had to take our Daisy (our Jack Russell X Shih Tzu) to the vet for, what turned out to be quite a big operation. She had to have a unilateral mastectomy. For a little dog, she has quite some stitching there and did need a little extra care and attention over the weekend. She is recovering well though. So before I knew it, Monday had rolled around again, I was back to work and unfortunately not a bit of blogging had happened!!!!

So, I have two DT cards to share today..........

First up, is sweet sketch wednesday

and here is my DT card

Our lovely sponsors for this challenge are

I thought, For you Ducky, would be an adorable image to play with and it actually adapted to the sketch really well. Even though I am late with this, there is still time to play along, so I do hope you will join us.

Ok, next up - hope you're still with me - it's also cutie pie challenge
and our theme this time is
VALENTINE'S OR MUM'S
we are sponsered by our lovely friends at

and here is my DT card

I was lucky enough to be given a couple of packs House Mouse pre-printed  images....and I thought this one would fit the theme perfectly.

I would also like to enter this card into:

house mouse and friends - A.G with optional spring colours

Just before I sign off for now, I thought I might just add a couple more photos

Alex with Nanny, Grandad and his big sister, Erin.

Cheerio for now xx

Love is in the air, with Crafty Friends

Hello there my lovely blog chums, so how was your week? 

Have scheduled this post as we are currently away in Scotland, visiting family.

It's time for a new challenge with Crafty Friends, and most appropriately our theme is

LOVE IS IN THE AIR

Our lovely sponsors for this challenge are

I have used the very lovely - Love Ewe digi, together with yummy papers from Limetree, doily, sticky pears and a heart die cut. Own sentiment featuring Baby Lexi font.I

I would like to enter:
A gem of a challenge....have a heart

I will be back with you when I get home, I'm sure I may have one of two super cute photos to share too. Bye for now xx