Anything Goes (as long as it's CUTE) with the Cuties

Good morning to you my lovely blog chums, I hope all is well with you, so far this week. Is it just me, or is really getting chilly out?

Have you joined us yet, at the Cutie Pie challenge????

 Our current theme is

ANYTHING GOES

(AS LONG AS IT'S CUTE)

Our sponsors are our good friends at

who also were kind enough to give the team, some yummy images to play with, and showcase!

I decided to treat myself to a few precoloured digi's, to have a few cuties readily available, if I am pushed for time.....

My DT card features

• Lucky Present, too cute from POLKADOODLES
• The papers are from an older Forever Friends Christmas stack
• Ribbon and button from stash

I would like to enter these challenges:
polka doodle..week 42 A.G

Digi Chooseday A.G 43
sweet sketch wednesday 2

thank you for stopping by today xx

Crafty Friends Embossing Challenge

Good morning to you my lovely blog chums, hope that you are fine and well! We just got home yesterday from a short break to the Isle of Wight. For pretty much most of my childhood, we had family holidays there, so the island holds very special memories for me and it has been a wonderful opportunity for me to go back, revisit and feel very nostalgic.

Now, back to today, and it's time for a new challenge......

CRAFTY FRIENDS CHALLENGE

Our theme is

EMBOSSING

(wet or dry)

our lovely sponsors for this challenge are our friends at

My DT card features:

• Carol singing Mouse digi stamp from LOTV (doesn't it look, like he is really giving it some welly.....and it reminds me of one of the quotes from my 2nd favourite Christmas movie "Elf"...." the best to spread Christmas Cheer, is singing loud, for all to hear" ......anyway, I digress
• Image coloured with ProMarkers
• Dotty paper from Limetree crafts
• Dotty embossing folder
• Dies used are faux stitched square from The Works, Scalloped edge square from X cut, snowflake from Marianne cutables
• Sentiment is my own creation using "Lavandenta" font....I have tested singing the fa la la bit with my head flung back...and it is perfectly plausible!
• Sticky pearls and dotty ribbon to complete

I would like to enter, please,

As You Like It favourite stitching style - although I do dabble in hand stitching when using felt, as far as my cards are concerned it must be faux, and preferably die cut.....sooo much neater than anything I could attempt

Cute Card Thursday spots and dots

I ❤ ProMarkers add a sentiment

Holly and Ivy  #57 anything goes

Winter Wonerland challenge Merry and Bright

Thank you for stopping off here today, hope you will join in with us over at Crafty Friends and also check out the other gorgeous DT cards xx

Wedding Invitation Samples

Good morning to you my lovely blog chums!

I wanted to share something slightly different with you today....at the beginning of this year my step daughter and her fiance announced their wedding plans and asked me to make the invitations. I hadn't done anything on this scale for ages but, caught up in the romance and excitement, how could I refuse!! Obviously we are down in Kent, and Kim and John are in Fife, Scotland, so the easiest way was to make a batch of samples that could be "interchangeable" to suit their tastes .....

And these are the samples.....

And this was what they went for!

60 Invitations, plus further 20 tailored for the evening reception, so quite a task, and I must admit, it was a relief to finish!

Christmas with Crafty Friends

Good morning to you my lovely blog chums!

So, how are you getting along with your Christmas cards this year? If you're needing a nudge in that direction, then come on over and join us at The CRAFTY FRIENDS CHALLENGE

Our theme is

CHRISTMAS

for me, using this Penny Black "snowy" is as much of part of my Christmas preparations, as peeling and chopping veggies on Christmas eve with a glass of port and lemon beside me! Looking for a new and eye catching way to use Snowy, I was inspired by a similar layout on Pinterest. I have used the ProMarkers to colour. The snowflake paper is from a Forever Friends pad, I teamed it up with another paper from my scraps tin. The sentiment is another creation of my own, and I have added it to my "sentimental freebies" page ( see the tab at the top).....you are more than welcome to grab it if you'd like to make use of it. Added lace and sticky pearls as a finishing touch.

I would like to enter these challenges:
crafty catz weekly challenge A.G with option of ribbon, bows, flowers
the holly and ivy christmas challenge #57 A.G
crafty hazelnuts christmas challenge A.G with option of sentiment in focal point
penny black saturday challenge. A.G with option of black, white and one other colour
Brown Sugar October A.G

Thank you for your company,
Have a great weekend!

Alex the dinosaur!

Good morning my lovely blog chums, hope you've had a great week. 

Earlier in the year, I made a birthday card for my step-grandaughter, Erin, which featured a Pink Gem digi of a little girl in a Unicorn costume......it will be her little brother's second birthday in February, and I had been intending to do something similar,  but then a particular challenge caught my eye so I decided to get ahead of myself, and had good trawl through my digi stamp files to find something suitable.

 I thought the image on today's card would suit Alex, perfectly!

The digi stamp is from A Random Fan (sadly no longer trading), and is coloured with ProMarkers. The gingham paper was a free download, and I added the sentiment on using Baby Lexi font. The balloon dies was an old magazine freebie, which i use a lot, added two enamel dots from YNS to finish.

I would like to enter these challenges:
passion for promarkers mythical creatures
A Gem of a Challenge A.G
Send A Smile for Kids Celebration/A.G for kids
colour crazy challenge week 39


thank you for your visit, I will be back later with a DT card

Christmas in September!

Hello my lovely blog chums, I hope your weekend has got off to a good start.

We have the opportunity to do a Craft Fair in November, and whilst my Mum has been laid up she has been keeping herself occupied with some crochet items to sell, so I thought I'd better "do my bit", and get some more Christmas cards in the box.....

This adorable LOTV digi, is one of my favourites for Christmas. I have used ProMarkers to colour. The papers are from Papermania Capsule Collection, the sentiment is my own creation using "Humble" and "Champagne and Limousines" font, and was printed into a scrap piece and then cut out using a faux stitched label die from, The Works. The corner tabs were created using a smaller die from the same set. I love combining a swirly type of font  with something more simple and crisp looking....I have saved this sentiment as a png file as I think I will be using it a fair bit over the next few months - I am adding it here - please feel free to grab and save it, if you'd like to use it too!

I am planning on doing this more frequently with my sentiments, so watch this space - if there is anything you'd like to see, by all means, let me know!

I would like to enter these challenges:

passion for promarkers Christmas in September

christmas at sweet stampin challenge anything Christmas - september

aud sentiments challenge anything goes, and a sentiment

C.R.A.F.T challenges animals (mouse!)

cute card thursday. Sentimental

Thank you so much for your visit today

Ribbons and Bows at Christmas with the Cuties!

Good morning and Hello to you, my lovely blog chums! I do hope that this post finds you well. It's a over a month since I was last here.....and what a month it's been! Mid August, Alistair and I returned from a wonderful short holiday to Eastbourne with his sister and her husband....the weather had been lovely, the hotel was nice, the air show had been going on there, we'd just had a really good time but a day or so after getting back my Mum took  a tumble whilst out walking her dog, and subsequently broke her hip! After that our days have flown by in a rush of running around looking after her, seeing to Tilly (her dog), keeping on top of things in both her home and mine, looking after our own lively puppy.........oh and still having to go into work too! Our kids, and her neighbours have pitched in to help too which has been fantastic, she is recovering well and slowly now, things are getting closer to "normal"

 So much so, that I even managed to make a card......Yay!!!!

Today see's the start of a brand new challenge at

Christmas with the Cuties

and our theme is

RIBBONS AND BOWS

very easy to accomplish on a Christmas card, methinks! 

this completely adorable image is a fairly recent release from

Lili of the Valley

I think it was released as a Christmas digi, but I would day it is versatile enough for other occasions. I have coloured with ProMarkers. The backing paper is from a pad from The Range. I thought the snowflake border die, would make it look a bit more festive. The ribbon and pearl are from my stash. I felt it needed something a little extra, and I dug out a box of wooden Christmas tags, that I had picked up from Sainsbury's in the January sales, with the intention of making my Christmas wrapping look really fancy this year, anyway, I thought this was snowflake was a perfect finishing touch!

Our lovely sponsors for this challenge are our good friends at

Who have a fabby prize for our lucky winner.

So.....have you started making your Christmas cards yet this year, if you have why not hop on over and join us......if you haven't.....now's your chance!!!!

I would like to enter these challenges:

Chrimbo Crackers #193 Anything Goes

merry little christmas challenge #14 September anything goes

colour crazy challenge. #37 anything goes

Winter Wonderland Challenge use your favourite embellishments.....RIBBONS!!!!

as you like it challenge Santa or No Santa....I would say "No" , because the images are less versatile and can't really lend themselves to occasions other than Christmas, whereas the digi used on my card could also be for a birthday, or a Thank You are

christmas at sweet stampin anything Christmas

the holly and ivy christmas challenge. #56 anything Christmas goes

I couldn't possibly close this post without adding one little photo, in the midst of the chaos of the last month we had the most wonderful family celebration, Megan's Graduation 🎓 Day. 

It was such a joyous day, I was absolutely bursting with pride! She completed her degree in Mathematics with a 2:1 and has just started teacher training at a boys Grammar school. It's quite a significant point actually, as I decided to launch Christmas with the Cuties three years ago, when Megan first went away to Uni, as a bit of a distraction and challenge for myself....and here we are now, with BOTH going from strength to strength!