Hello Friend!

Hello my lovely blog chums, I hope you're having a great week so far, when I got home from work, my intention was to take the dog out for a walk beside the river, however, the rain was belting down, and the wind was blowing so much, that I decided to park that idea, and there was no objection from the little chap......obviously there are countless other housewifey tasks that could have occupied my time, but instead I decided to do a little colouring, which then led to making today's card......

This little sweetie comes from a Lili of the Valley pad, she has been coloured with ProMarkers. The papers are from a Raspberry Road pad. The sentiment is my own creation using Baby Lexi font. When we were in Scotland several weeks ago I went into a little haberdashery store to buy ribbon to use on the  wedding invitation samples that I am working on for my step daughter (I will tell you more about this in a future post) I spotted a jar with the gorgeous little buttons with a red gingham bow attached, and I couldn't resist popping a few into my basket..... aren't they cute! Added a couple of acrylic gumdrops from YNS, as a finishing touch.

I would like to enter these challenges:
Passion for ProMarkers - Spots and/or Stripes
Shopping our Stash - Celebrating Friendship
Cute and Crafty - A.G
simon says stamp monday challenge - make it girly/feminine
Crafty Catz - A.G with optional, Best Friends
cute card thursday - A.G

Thank you for visiting today....come back soon xx

Ladies, Girls and Crafty Friends

Hello, my lovely blog chums......hope you are having a lovely weekend....the weather definitely feels  chillier than it did a couple of weeks ago, but maybe that thats makes for staying in and crafting weather! 

So it's time for a new challenge over at

CRAFTY FRIENDS

Our theme this time is, the always popular, 

Ladies/Girls

How perfect, as we have just marked International Women's Day

Our lovely sponsors are

My DT card features this sweet little girl with flowers, it is a stamp that I stumbled upon in a Dr Barnado shop, what a find!, I have used ProMarkers to colour. The image was stamped into cardstock that I had already run through with an embossing folder. This pretty paper is from a pad from The Works, the lace is from a local haberdashery, and have used a Dienamics small scallop die with this. The flowers were made with a woodware punch , with the addition of sugar rush gumdrops acrylic stickers from YNS
and finally the sentiment features Baby Lexi font.

I would like to enter these challenges
Passion for ProMarkers.......Happy Birthday
Allsorts.......for a child
Crafty calendar.......for a child
Di's,.........Tic Tac Toe sentiment, flowers, hand coloured image

Beginning with B at Christmas with the Cuties

Hello my lovely blog chums, thank you so much for visiting me today....hope we find you well!

After a wee break the team at

Christmas with the Cuties

are back, and we have a fab and fun challenge to start our 2019 season with.......

BEGINNING WITH B

So, quite simply, we challenge you to see how many items that begin with B, you can use on your card which should, of course, be both Cute and Christmassy too!

Our lovely sponsors for this challenge are

All the info about the challenge, and some absolutely yummy inspiration from our wonderful team can be found with a click on the link above.

My own card features Baking Bears from Di's, they are coloured with ProMarkers, and I have chosen Blues, Brown and Beige tones to fit the theme. Backing paper from The Range, as with the ribbon and Bow. Doily and wooden hearts from stash. The sentiment verse is something I saved on my pc years ago.....and completely forgot about but I thought it suited this image perfectly.

I would like to enter these challenges:

dis digi designs challenge - include an animal

aud sentiments challenge - Bingo (patterned paper, 3D item & ribbon)

Christmas at Sweet Stampin - AG

cute n crafty christmas - christmas or winter

Winter Wonderland - fuzzy wuzzy march challenge

crafty sentiments AG

the holly and ivy christmas challenge AG

Before I go, I wanted to share a couple of pics with you......my hubby had recently purchased something from Gumtree  which we had to go down to Devon to collect, and we decided to take advantage of the unusually pleasant weather and so we stopped off for two days in Dorset.....I have wanted to visit this area for many years.....and I wasn't disappointed. I am hoping we will return soon and stay for longer!

As a fan of Broadchurch I was very excited to visit West Bay

Any trip, to any sandy beach Must involve "name in sand writing"

The beautiful view from Portland overlooking Chesil Beach......and me.

Portland Bill lighthouse

The Olympic rings......made from Portland stone

Weymouth

One For The Boys, with the Cuties

Good morning to you my lovely blog chums, hope you had a great weekend.....it was so lovely to be walking the dog in the sunshine yesterday.

Anyway, it's A Little Extra Cutie -ness day, which means it's my day to share my DT card for the 

Cutie Pie challenge

Our theme is

ONE FOR THE BOYS

Our lovely sponsors for this challenge are

For all you need to know about the challenge, and to see the other amazing DT cards, click the link above.

We have a shiny new sponsor this time, so it's a big thanks to

They also, very kindly, provided the team with some very cute  images to play with....I love dungarees on children so  this image choose itself! 

Definitely One For the Boys

Hello my lovely blog chums, hope you're having a good week so far, I just wanted to tell you about our latest challenge with the
CUTIE PIES
Our theme is
One For  The Boys

I will be back with my own DT card next Monday.

In the meantime, and whilst I am on the subject of Cuteness and Boys.......this is what we got up to this afternoon

Alistair and I  spent the afternoon with our gorgeous grandsons.....we even went out for a walk and stopped off for a Costa to give their Mummy a very welcomed rest.

This is Will

and this is Alex

The boys are nearly 7 weeks old now, and are doing very well indeed.

Anyway, enjoy the rest of the week and if you do celebrate Valentine's day, I hope you are thoroughly spoiled!

Anything Goes, with the Crafty Friends Challenge

Good morning to you my lovely blog chums, and I wish you a Happy Saturday! I hope you have had a good week.

You may know that I am a bit of a West End theatre enthusiast, and one of my absolute favourites is Les Miserables....well, we have been fortunate enough to get tickets, this week,  for a concert performance of this wonderful show, that will feature the likes of Michael Ball and Alfie Boe.....now, I just have to wait patiently until November!

So today sees the start  of our latest challenge with

Crafty Friends

and our theme this time is

ANYTHING GOES

Our lovely sponsors are

More into about the challenge and our sponsor, can be foundfound, with a click Here, as well as some beautiful cards from the DT.

My DT card features:

• Laptop James stamp from LOTV
• Coloured with ProMarkers
• Papers from The Range
• Sentiment created using Serif 10

I have seen a number of cards, recently, using a design much like this, and I love the way it showcases the image, so I thought I'd give it a go!

I would like to enter these challenges, please:

moving along with the times- add a sentiment

Penny's Paper Craft challenges - anything goes

cute card thursday - anything goes

Thank you so much for taking the time to visit, whatever you're up to today, have a good day xx

A day to Relax!!!

Good morning to you my lovely blog chums, I hope that wherever you are, you are keeping warm and safe this weekend. After a couple of light dustings, during the week, I thought we had got away with not having any significant snow in my part of Kent.....however, from late afternoon yesterday and throughout the evening it came down. Fortunately it doesn't appear to be to any great depth, but enough to cause disruption and difficulties getting out and about.......so, I think it might be a weekend of hibernation for me. I have some wedding invitation samples to work on, and also a clay face mask, that I treated myself to in the Boots sale, that needs trying out!!

I have set myself a challenge this year, to reacquaint myself with some of the amazing digi stamps that I have acquired over the years, you forget how many you have stashed away in folders on the laptop.....already my trawls through have been met with squeals of delight. This week I have been looking through my "Pink Petticoat" folder,  as a particular image had come to mind when I was thinking about another blog challenge. The current theme at Passion for ProMarkers is, Inspired by the movies, and I recently watched "Pretty Woman"  for the first time in years, and this digi in particular, put me in mind of the scene when Julia Roberts is in the bath, negotiating her "fee" with Richard Gere.....So that's how this card came about, lol

• Pink Petticoat Lola Rose image
• Coloured with ProMarkers
• Dotty card from Limetree
• Dienamics mini scallop border die
• ribbon and card candi from stash

I would like to enter these challenges:

Passion for ProMarkers - inspired by the movies - Pretty Woman

as you like it - favourite shape/fold - I favour a 6x6 square card, I like the  symmetry and even-ness of a square card

aud sentiments challenge - A.G with sentiment

Moving along with the times - add a sentiment

Have a great day, whatever you get up to!