Clean and Simple with the Cuties

Hello my lovely blog chums.....hope you had a great week. We were away last weekend, so I'm playing catch up now.

If you haven't joined us, at The Cutie Pie Challenge, there is still time to play along......

our theme is

CUTE, CLEAN AND SIMPLE

our lovely sponsors for this challenge are our good friends at

why not hop over and visit: My Besties Shop

I couldn't resist this absolute sweetie, saying her prayers. I have used ProMarkers to colour, and teamed up with a do from a older Graphic 45 stack, then added YNS gumdrops to complete.

As I said, we were away last weekend......having a wonderful weekend in Scotland celebrating my step-daughter's wedding, which was a beautiful day......and just enjoying the family getting together, I haven't laughed as much in ages. I have a couple of my own photos to share, until we get our prints from the official chappy.

The gorgeous bride and groom

I don't think we scrubbed up to badly!

Hubby in all his finery

That's all from me today.....enjoy your Sunday xx

Anything Goes with Crafty Friends!

Hello my lovely blog chums, I hope you're having a great weekend.

So it's time for a new challenge with

Crafty Friends

Our theme is

ANYTHING GOES

Our lovely sponsors are

For my own DT card I am using a stamp from the, My Favourite Things - Lucky Dog, set. This set was a gift from a lovely friend of mine, and is a little treat to use from time to time. I used a woodware paw print punch and a freebie download paper to keep the doggy theme going.

We do hope that you will come over and join us for this challenge.......

First post of 2020!

Hello my lovely blog chums.....yikes, we are nearly a third of the way into January, and I realised I hadn't blogged this year, yet!

I do hope you all had a lovely Christmas and New Year time,  Ours was quiet, but enjoyable nonetheless.

One of the high points was the first birthday of our gorgeous twin grandsons, Will and Alex. Their first year has flown by, and they are an absolute joy, neither are walking independently.........yet, but both pull themselves up on the chairs and cruise along like that, so I'm sure it won't be long, lots of babbling too, so I think we will have two little chatterboxes, lol

when they were born, they were delivered a couple of weeks earlier, and I never got to making New Baby cards for them so I was determined to make special birthday cards. Obviously I made two cards, I am saving the other one as I think the image will be perfect for an up and coming DT card, but this is Will's card. I had been commenting on a challenge card just before Christmas and I loved the U-fold style that had been used, so decided it would be fun to try........

The super cute image is from Gerda  Steiner (how sweet!!!!), coloured with ProMarkers. I used a combination of papers from Limetree Crafts. I added a variety of die cuts to set it off.

I have a couple of challenges that I am entering, but before all that I thought I would share a little photo of the boys.....enjoying breakfast on their birthday (Alex is eating and Will has the red cup)

So, onto the challenges......

Gerda Steiner Share Your Designs January challenge

Alphabet challenge T is for Try something different 

I Love ProMarkers #402 Anything Goes

Mod Squad challenge Birthday Balloons

dis digi designs challenge Celebrations

Thank you so much for your visit today xx

Christmas with the Cuties!

Hello my lovely blog chums, I hope you're having a great week......I hadn't used much of my annual leave from work during the summer months this year, so I have been fortunate enough to have a week off here and there over the last two months, and I am off again this week....I was very happy not to be getting up at 5am on Monday morning after our works Christmas do on Sunday night!!!! I have had plenty to do at home though, with preparations for Christmas, and at the moment, I'm feeling quite organised!

So it's time for our last challenge of the year at

Christmas with the Cuties

and to keep things very simple, our theme is

CHRISTMAS CUTIES

My  DT card was made especially for our granddaughter, Erin!

My DT card features

• Bobbi, with gift....a gorgeous oldie from DigiStamp boutique
• Coloured with ProMarkers
• Sentiment features Champagne and Limousine fontfont
• Plaid paper is from a oldie pad from The Range
• Glittery enamel gumdrops from YNS
• Bow from stash

I would like to enter these challenges,

Passion for ProMarkers mega Christmas Challenge

Di's digi challenge winter holidays

Alphabet challenge S is for snow

Before I sign off now, I want to take this opportunity to wish you all a very

I hope that this festive season will be a happy, peaceful and blessed time for you all and your loved ones xx

A Winter Palette with Crafty Friends

Hello my lovely blog chums, hope you had a good week. It's been another busy one here! 

So it's the last challenge of the year for CRAFTY FRIENDS

and we have a colour theme

You can make a card for any occasion but you should use colours from this colour palette

As you can see I've focused on the grey and purple, which I've never really put together, but actually quite like. I've used the Carol singing Dog from LOTV, which is becoming something of a favourite of mine, and have used ProMarkers to colour. The sentiment is my own creation, the dotty card is from Limetree crafts, card completed with holly die cut and sticky pearls.

I would like to enter these challenges:

Allsorts challenge Inspired by a song
 The sentiment used on my card is one I use a lot, and every time I type it I find myself singing along....it always takes me back to one of my favourite childhood Christmas memories was the Perry Como, and the Andy Williams albums being dusted off. I hope this is what my dog is singing along to
Christmas at Sweet Stampin Christmas Critters
Passion for ProMarkers mega Christmas Challenge
Merry Little Christmas Challenge

MLCCB #17 - December Anything Christmas Goes

Enjoy the rest of your weekend xx

Christmas Cuties!

Hello my lovely blog chums, hope your week has got itself off to a good start! 

Can't believe that it's just two weeks now, until Christmas.....most of the gift shopping is done, as usual I am struggling with ideas for my hubby!! The decorations came down from the attic this afternoon, but everything this year has to be "high up" So that our crazy dog can't get his paws on them!!!

So it's time for the last Cutie Pie challenge of the year, and our theme could only be......

⛄ CHRISTMAS CUTIES 🎄

Our lovely sponsors for this challenge are our good friends at

We're all friends here, so I'll let you into a secret.....I made my DT card, using a Crafty sentiments image, it was pink and pretty and I was really pleased with it....I had uploaded it and was in the process of adding my watermark, when I had the D'oh moment.....it was a flipping birthday card NOT a Christmas one!!!! Ooops.....back to the drawing board!

My Second Attempt at a DT card features:

• Carol singing Dog from LOTV, one of my Black Friday treats
• Coloured with ProMarkers
• Cut with faux stitched square dies, The Works
• Enamel dots from YNS
• Snowflake paper is a magazine freebie, tweaked the colour tone using Serif
• Sentiment is Firenze font

I would like to enter these challenges:

Di's digi designs challenge. Animals acting like humans

Winter Wonderland Challenge Anything Christmas Goes

52 Christmas Card Throwdown Pick a previous 2019 Theme.....I'm going back to June, and the CHORAL theme

 Thank you so much for your visit xx

Decorating The Tree

Good Morning my lovely blog chums.......I hope you're having a good week so far! I did partake in a little bit of Black Friday shopping this year, a few Christmas pressies and a new frock for our work Christmas do.....but my favourite Black Friday sale was half price digi stamps from Lili of the Valley! I did splurge on a couple, and I am using one on today's card.......

This little bit of yumminess is called Decorating The Tree, there is just something so adorable about the wee faces that the LOTV characters have. I used ProMarkers to colour, with the addition of Gold Stickles glitter glue. The stocking die is the smallest one of a set of Christmas stockings nesting dies from First Edition. I got the set a few weeks ago with an idea in my mind of using the largest die to make an advent calendar, which will be an on-going project for next year. I have a Gold themed challenge in mind when I planned this card, so I dug out a sheet of gold glitter card.....which, I then discovered to be the hardest thing in the world to take a decent photo of.......I just couldn't get the light, "right"!!!

Anyway, I would like to enter these challenges:

Cute Card Thursday  Good

Christmas at Sweet Stampin November challenge - Trees

Sisterhood of Crafters Trees

Keep warm, and enjoy your day xx