Snowballing Doggie....

Hello... hope you are all having a lovely weekend! Simon Says Stamp have a 'Choose a Sketch' Challenge this week... I really liked one of the sketches and so I thought I'd make a Christmas Card using some of my new Crafting stash...

You can choose from two sketches..... here... and I've chosen Sketch 1 .....

Simon Says Stamp 'Choose a Sketch' Challenge  

Image: by David Parkin from Simply Cards and Papercraft Magazine available for free here!!!

Papers: Sherry K Designs - 'Merry Christmas to You' and 'Floral Christmas'

Embossing Folder: - Sizzix 'Powdered Sugar and Snow Globe Set'

Die: Memory Box - 'Corner Bow'

Die: Spellbinders - 'Create a Flake'

Sentiment: Lili of the Valley - 'Christmas Grungy Messages'

Nailheads: JosyRose

The image is free at the above link... and the gorgeous Sherry K Design papers and the Embossing Folder are on offer at the moment... so if you fancy grabbing some bargains! ;-) 

I changed the Floral Christmas paper slightly... it has a cream background and so I alpha'd it to make the background clear and print out white. 

Aww isn't this wee doggie adorable!! I've coloured him with Copics... and used some Snow Crystal glitter on the snowballs and some Flock on his hat bobble... but it isn't showing at all on photo!! looks nice in real life though! LOL

I would like to enter the following challenges:-

Ooh La La Creations - 'Our Four Legged Friends' 

Simon Says - 'Choose a Sketch'

C.R.A.F.T. - 'Christmas in March' 

Cute Card Thursday - 'Anything Goes' 

Christmas Stampin' - 'Sparkle and Shine' 

52 Christmas Card Throwdown - 'Animals' 

Crafty Hazelnuts Christmas - 'Merry and Bright'
Crafty Hazelnuts Christmas Challenge Extra - March - 'Anything Goes'

I have had a lazy Saturday... spent most of the day Crafting and enjoyed it .... then stumbled across some Who Do You Think You Are USA... new episodes on BBC iPlayer... so watched the first one with Martin Sheen... very, very interesting... so if you like WDYTYA then it's definitely worth taking a look! ;-)

Thank you for all your lovely comments... I will be catching up with you all very soon! 

Love and hugs!

MAWTT - Spring is in the Air

Hello... just a quick post to say that our lovely Lisa over at  MAWTT has a new Challenge today....

'Spring is in the Air'

This week it's the turn of Team B and so I haven't made a card... but hope you can pop on over to  MAWTT  for more details of this fab challenge and you will love all my Teamies Spring themed cards ... they are gorgeous!!  I do hope you will join us for this week's challenge! 

I think the birds have given up on Spring coming and are just getting on with things.... as our Blackbird has been singing the Dawn Chorus at 5.30am in the snow!!! LOL

 the snow didn't stay long here in Manchester thank goodness... and we have had lots of sunshine this week... but still very cold...

I seem to have had a very busy week and not much to show for it? do you ever have week's like that? 

I have made a couple of cards this week but they took me SO long to make... I honestly think I am getting slower!!! 

Not long until weekend and I haven't even looked at what is on TV yet!! now that is a first!! LOL Hope there is something good on... :-)

Hopefully I will be back very soon with a card... 

Take Care

Love and hugs

Happy Mother's Day!! .... in Blue....

My daughter asked me to make a card for her to give her gran for Mother's Day... she wanted it kept fairly CAS, in shades of Baby Blue and Flowers in the centre...

So I used papers and sentiment from Pink Petticoat.... and printed the dotted paper with sentiment and also added some Star Dust Stickles to the edge of circle..... then layered onto scalloped round nestie...

The Flower is Tim Holtz Mini Tattered Floral... I was originally going to put two flowers in the centre but it was too much and spoilt the line of the circle...

to finish I've added some heart nailheads from JosyRose and also a Silver heart charm... my daughter was really pleased with it and my mum loves it !! so everyone happy :-)

I would like to enter the following challenges:-

Papertake Weekly - 'Anything Goes'

Creative Inspirations - 'Happy Mother's Day' 

Totally Gorjuss -  'For Mum' 

Creative Craft Challenges2 - 'Mother's Day' 

Dream Valley - 'Mother's Day' 

Hope you are all having a lovely Sunday... it's sunshine today but there is a bitter wind so I'm staying in warm and snug... 

I am having a very lazy day... eating some of my mother's day choccies!! might do a little bit of crafting and looking forward to Call the Midwife later... but it's the last one... what a shame... and I have only just got into it... and it's the last Mr Selfridge too!!  I hope they have got some new period dramas lined up for us... ;-))

Enjoy your Sunday!
Love and hugs

In the Frame ...

Hello... hope you are all well...... no card today... I'm just popping by to show you the painting from the Michael Powell Stamp that I did now that it is all framed... I found a frame a few weeks ago in Super Saver Shop and thought it might suit my watercolour... it's way too big I know... but I liked the dark wood effect... so I've made a couple of mounts and used a lacey nestie and hopefully it looks ok? I'm going to give it my mum tomorrow for Mother's Day as one of her pressies... :-)

It's raining today... so I'm staying in warm and snug! but I did go for a little walk yesterday...  I can't walk very far but managed to get down the Meadow Lane which is just on the next road... it was lovely to see the Evergreen pines and hear the birds... but I was shocked how bare most of the trees still are!! usually at this time of year they are all springing green.... but I guess everything is a little late this year with the cold weather... there are lots of daffodils and bluebells coming up and so I'm hoping in a few weeks they will all be blooming!! let's hope in time for Easter! ;-)

I'm having a lazy day today and going to watch some of Mayday later with my daughter... I watched the second episode of Lightfields yesterday.... have you been watching it? it's not as good as Crickley Hall !! hasn't made me jump yet!! but the 'time travelling' is quite fun... especially love the 70s scenes... I had a cardi just like Vivien and we also had some folding Garden Chairs that were spookily similar!! Can't believe how that family keep on going back to Lightfields though!!!  it's definitely cursed - you just wouldn't go back there would you!!! LOL 

Hope you have a lovely weekend

Love and hugs

MAWTT - The Birds and The Bees....

Hello... good morning! I hope you are all doing ok... it's time for a brand new challenge over at

Moving Along With the Times

This week it's the turn of Team A... and the lovely Judith is our hostess.... she has chosen the fab theme of

'The Birds and The Bees...'

So we would like to see creations with a 'Nature' theme such as Birds, Bees, Animals, Insects, Flowers.... or else a 'New Baby' theme....

I have used 'Wild Rose' by A Passion for Stamps and decided to make a 'Thinking of You' Card. I've kept things quite simple because of the type of card.... and concentrated on the colouring of the image... I studied some photos of the actual flower and tried to match the colours to real life... 

The gorgeous paper is Raspberry Road Designs and was a freebie with magazine. I haven't used too many embellies... this paper is SO gorgeous that it doesn't deserve to be covered up!! so I just added some nailheads to the image... sentiment was made on computer... 

I've coloured the image with Promarkers

So that is it... quite a simple card but I'm happy with it.... and it's nice to keep in some of these cards! 

We are sponsored this week by the fabulous A Passion For Stamps

For more details of the challenge and prize... I hope you can hop on over to MAWTT and you can also see my Teamies gorgeous creations!

I would like to enter the following challenges:-

Totally Gorjuss -  'Anything Goes with Pink' 

Crafty Sentiments Designs - 'Pretty in Pink'

Papertake Weekly - 'Anything Goes' 

Not long until weekend now... I'm taping all the episodes of Mayday and so hoping to watch a couple of them on Saturday with my daughter. I have caught up with all the episodes of Call the Midwife too... I wasn't sure whether I would like it .... but I'm hooked now!  I don't want Mr Selfridge to finish...  it's just got better and better... I do love period dramas... ;-))

The tidying is on hold... Two days and I was shattered just delegating and deciding what to keep and what to throw out!! LOL 

Hope you are all well

Will catch up with you soon

Love and Hugs

Happy Mother's Day!

I won a Challenge with Fab 'n' Funky a few weeks ago with my Frieda the Flapper Card.  It was a lovely surprise and my prize was 5 stamps from the lovely Kathryne at Whimsy Stamps. Straight away I chose Katie as I thought she would be lovely for a Mother's Day Card... isn't she a cutie! The gorgeous paper is Lilly Bimble and was freebie with magazine a few weeks ago.

Quite a simple layout... I originally had ribbon across but really didn't like it and so took it off!! and put the heart instead... which is Sizzix Embosslits Lace Heart. I'm still wondering whether to add some crystals to the heart? I don't want to go over the top though as the paper is quite busy...

The gorgeous flower is made with Tim Holtz Mini Tattered Floral Die... Oh I love this die SO much! I think it's because it's a Movers and Shapers Die and I find them so easy to use. I've used some leftover paper and added a pearl to the centre. Sentiment was made on computer...

I'm not zooming in too close for this... as my colouring is rubbish! I dusted off my Copics and I have honestly forgotten how to colour with them!... they are so different to blend... hence her very rosy cheeks and legs!! poor girl looks like she has got chillblains!! Hopefully when I get more time... I will be able to have another go at getting back into my Copics...

I think my mum will like this anyway... she loves bright colours especially pinks... and she also loves flowers!

I would like to enter the following Challenges:-

Allsorts - 'For a Lady'

Oldie but a Goodie - 'Feeling Floral' 
(leftover paper used on Flower Die is my 6 months+ product)

Papertake Weekly - 'Anything Goes' 

Creative Craft Challenges - 'Mother's Day' 

Sorry my blogging is so hit and miss at the moment... I'm feeling much better now... Thanks for all your good wishes. This week I am having big sort out in my room...  and it all takes time... sorting through what to keep and what to throw out... what to send to charity shops etc...

It's been a lovely day here today... sunny and fresh... just how Spring should be... although I think rain is coming tomorrow! Boo hiss!! LOL

Hope you are all having a good week
Will catch up with you very soon
Love and hugs