MAWTT - Girly but NO Pink!

Hello... I hope you are all well today... 

it's Thursday and the turn of Team B over at 

Moving Along With the Times

and our lovely Sarah has chosen a theme of

'Girly but NO Pink!'

it doesn't have to be a card... as long as your creation follows our theme !! I'm looking forward to seeing all your fab entries! :-)

I've made a vintage card using some very pretty Prima - Fairy Belle paper....  

I made the twirly blue wire embellies and added some beads on the spiral ones.

Image: LLC - 'From Grandma's Attic Ladies'

Paper: Prima - Fairy Belle

Flowers: Wild Orchid Crafts

Star Nailheads: JosyRose

Wire and Beads: From Stash

I hope you can hop on over to our main site at MAWTT and see the rest of the Team's wonderful girly creations this week... lots of inspiration for you!!

Well the nights are certainly drawing in up here in North West England.... in fact some days it doesn't seem to come light at all !! Lol - I think it's time to get some Christmas Lights out to brighten up the place. Just need to tidy up a bit and make some space for my tree.  We have our Advent Calendars up and ready to go for Sunday - once we are in December then it will seem really Christmassy!
I'm looking forward to Strictly on Saturday, as it's Musicals Week! so it should be good !! :-))
Thanks for all your lovely comments... I really do appreciate them!

Love and hugs!

Christmas Heart

 Hello... I hope you are all well. It seems an awful long time since I posted anything other than DT Creations ... so thought I would share this Christmas Decoration that I made. It took me a couple of weeks just adding bits here and there. The wooden heart was a freebie with one of my magazines.

I painted it with White Acrylic Paint and it needed a couple of coats each side before it looked good. Then just added embellishments.... some roses and berries, jingle bells and pearls.... some sparkly silver twine to hang... quite a simple design but it looks very pretty hung up on my door :-))

Well my weekend didn't start off too well... as I had to wear a 48 hour heart monitor and I got nasty allergy to the electrode stickers. Last night was awful... I was itching so much that I had chills with it ... took some antihistamine and it helped a little... but I was counting the time down until I could take the blooming things off at noon today!! I was SO glad to get them off and have a wash! I did ask the nurse for some hypo allergenic patches but she said these were all she had!! :-(  

Anyway, I'm feeling a lot better now. Mum and I had a nice evening meal and enjoyed watching Strictly... although I'm really dreading the dance offs from now on - it's getting such a close contest!! 

Off to have my last cup of tea before bed... and I might just squeeze in another of Mr Kipling's Winter Whirls... have you tried them yet? they are like a cross between a Viennese Whirl and a Mince Pie... Ooh they are very naughty... but exceedingly NICE !!!! Lol

Hope you all have a lovely Sunday!

Love and Hugs

Divas by Design - Make it Pretty

Hello.... I hope you are all well.... it's Team A's turn over at 

Divas by Design

and we have a wonderful theme for you this week of....

'Make it Pretty'

I can't wait to see all your gorgeous creations for this one!

I coloured this very cute Saturated Canary image called 'Christmas Nutcracker' months ago and so thought it was about time I made a card for her to go on. I've used some pretty paper with roses on... it 's not 'Christmas' paper but it seemed to go well with the image. I've used part of a Memory Box Snowflake Sprig Die in top right corner.  It's a good job that I buy huge rolls of ribbons though... I waste so much trying to get a decent bow. I usually end up taking all the ribbon off and binning it! Shhh... don't tell anyone.... ;-)

We are sponsored by the wonderful Iva Nova Chest

I hope you can pop on over to our main blog at Divas by Design and see the rest of the teams very pretty creations!!! :-))

Image: Saturated Canary - 'Christmas Nutcracker'

Paper: Marianne D - 'Victorian Vintage'

Die: Memory Box - 'Snowflake Sprig'

Ribbon: MeiFlower

Gem: Stash

Sentiment: made on computer

Star Dust Stickles

I've coloured 'Christmas Nutcracker' with Copics.

I've been catching up with some Christmas shopping this last week... and I even made a few Christmas Cards!! I think it's finally dawned on me that it's only a month away!
it was a lovely day here today... clear blue skies but very cold... I'm having to wrap up extra warm to keep the old joints and bones warm!!
Looking forward to Strictly again on Saturday... wasn't it fab from Blackpool... absolutely loved Susanna and Kevin!
Thanks for all your lovely comments!
Take Care

Love and hugs

MAWTT - Furry Friends

Hello... I hope you are all well today... big hugs to those who are not feeling too good.

it's Thursday and the turn of Team B over at 

Moving Along With the Times

and the lovely Tammy has chosen a theme of

'Furry Friends'

it doesn't have to be a card... as long as your creation follows our theme and has an animal on it!  I'm looking forward to seeing lots of very cute entries! :-)

Image: Pink Gem Designs - 'Baby Polar Bear' (Coloured)
Paper: Raspberry Road - 'Cosy Christmas Papers' Template Set 1
Ribbon: from stash
Sentiment: made on computer

I saw this 'Cosy Christmas Paper Template Set 1' from Raspberry Road designs was on offer and thought I'd try it out. You get some black and white patterns and you can colour them with your digital software. I really love them as you can make the patterns 'any colour you like' !!!

It's quite a simple card but the polar bear is SO cute that you dont need too many embellies.

I hope you can hop on over to our main site at MAWTT and see the rest of the Team's cute creations this week... lots of gorgeous inspiration for you!!

Can't believe how quickly this last week has gone by. I've had quite a busy week and so huge apologies if I haven't been to visit your blog for a while...  I must try and catch up with you all ! Are you all looking forward to Strictly at Blackpool? it should be good. And did you enjoy Downton? Can't wait now for the Christmas episode! :-)
Thanks for all your lovely comments!
Take care

Love and hugs

Divas by Design - Use a Digi

Hello.... I hope you are all well.... it's Team A's turn over at 

Divas by Design

and we have a wonderful theme for you this week of....

'Use a Digi'

I think this will be a very popular theme and can't wait to see your creations using digis!!

Image: 'Winter Penguin Star' - Bugaboo Stamps
Paper: Freebie with magazine
Embossing Folder: Sizzix 'Powdered Sugar & Snow Globe Set'
Die: Memory Box - 'Precious Stars'
Sentiment: made on computer
Black Crystals: Meiflower
Red Mirri Card: Stash

I coloured the penguin digitally and added a bit of shading with Prisma Pencils.

We are sponsored by the wonderful Bugaboo Stamps

I hope you can pop on over to our main blog at Divas by Design and see the rest of the teams fab digi creations!!! :-))

I can't believe how quickly this last week has flown by. Monday I had hospital appointment -  it went ok but was really tiring and didn't help that the receptionist sent me to the wrong department that was miles away for a test.
Can't wait until weekend again for the last episode of Downton... think it's gonna be exciting!!
Thanks for all your lovely comments.. I will catch up with you all soon!

Love and hugs