Christmas.... In Pink....

Good Afternoon... I hope you are all well... Ooh it's gone so cold again here today... and now it's raining!! Perfect weather for staying in and crafting though! Here's a Christmas Card that I started a few weeks ago and have only just finished...

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

Papers: Nitwits freebie with magazine

Flowers: Prima

Dies: Marianne Design Creatables - Holly

Spellbinders - Create a Flake 4 

Sentiment: made on computer

Berries: Viva Pearl Pen - Ice White

I've coloured the image with Promarkers and added some flock and Stardust Stickles to the pom pom on his hat.

I would like to enter the following Challenges:-

Totally Papercrafts - 'Monochromatic' 

Christmas Stampin' - 'Celebrating Snow' 

Allsorts - 'A Passion for Flowers' 

Natalie and Amy - 'Monochromatic' 

CHNC Extra Challenge - 'Anything Goes - Christmas'

I hope you are all having a lovely weekend... I have been very lazy this weekend as I have stomach bug...  I'm ok but just feel a bit flu-ish... so I"m resting and keeping warm!  it was lovely and sunny yesterday but back to cold and rain today - Brrr....!!! off to get my snuggle blanket and cup of tea!!

Thanks for all your lovely comments! 

Take Care

Love and hugs

MAWTT - Fairies and Fantasy

Hello... good morning! I hope you are all safe and well in this awful windy weather!! and there was me thinking that Spring had finally arrived! LOL  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 Kelly is our hostess.... she has chosen the wonderful theme of....

'Fairies and Fantasy'

So we would like to see projects with Fairies, Wizards, Unicorns... or anything magical etc.

 I can't wait to see all your fab creations for this theme...

Our sponsor ... Rick St Dennis very kindly gave us a wonderful selection of images to choose from... and I chose this gorgeous image 'Unicorn'. I'm having another go at putting flowers on my cards... I'm not very good at arranging them but then I thought.. if I don't practice then I won't get any better!! :-)

Image: Unicorn - Rick St Dennis

Papers: Prima - 'Fairy Belle'

Flowers: Wild Orchid Crafts and Stash

Die: Memory Box - Pepita Border

Pearls: from Stash

Sentiment: made on computer using Giddy Up Font (LOL)

I have coloured the Unicorn with Copics and Promarkers... 

We are sponsored this week by the wonderful

Rick St Dennis...

who is very kindly donating a prize of 3 digi images from instore for this week's winner! 

I hope you can hop on over to MAWTT for more details of the challenge and you can see my Teamies wonderful creations - Ooh you don't want to miss them this week... they are all so fab!!! 


I would like to enter the following Challenges:-

The Squirrel and The Fox - 'Inspired by a Song or Movie'

(The Unicorn Song by The Irish Rovers)

Dream Valley - 'Happy Birthday' 

Inky Chicks - 'Happy Birthday Girl' 

Fab'n Funky 1,2,3 - '1 Image, 2 DP and 3 Embellies'

(my 3 embellies are Flowers, Pearls and Die Cut)

Oldie but a Goodie - 'Make it Girly'

(my Orange flowers are some I found from old stash +6 months)

I hope I have entered the above challenges correctly... this card was made to be a girly card... but if the challenges require a girl image - then please feel free to delete my entry!

Do any of you remember that song from the 60s called The Unicorn Song!! it was sung by a folk group called The Irish Rovers and the single was out in 1968...  my dad bought the record as he was really into the group... I was aged six at the time... ooh I used to love that song so much!! :-) 

I hope you are all having a good week... I'm really looking forward to the last episode of Broadchurch next week... I have a theory as to whodunnit!! and want to know the answer... but I won't say any more... no spoilers in case anyone is watching it on Catchup!! 

Thank you for all your lovely comments... they are very much appreciated! :-)
I will catch up with you all very soon...
Take Care
Love and hugs

Lookin' Cool...

Here's a very quick card that I made.... I had a play around with digitally layering the sentiment but it didn't come out quite how I planned it... think it needs some tweaking!! LOL ... but thought I would show you the card anyway... as the doggie is very cute!! 

Image: David Parkin freebie with magazine

Patterned Paper: Stitchy Bear Stamps - 'Doodle Boys'

Metal Embellie: Wild Orchid Crafts - 'Antique Gold Square'

A very simple card and as it is for a bloke.... I've just added one metal embellie...

I've coloured this cute little fella with Copics and Promarkers

I would like to enter the following Challenges:-

Cupcake Craft - 'Raining Cats and Dogs' 

Aud Sentiments - 'For a Guy' 

I hope you all had a lovely Saturday... my daughter is home this weekend and so we are enjoying catching up on some of our favourite TV Programmes!  I have also just bought the book Shopping, Seduction & Mr Selfridge which is the real life story of Mr Selfridge ...  I think it's going to be one of those books that you can't put down!  LOL

Thanks for all your lovely comments... I will catch up with you very soon....
Hope you all have a lovely Sunday! :-)
Love and hugs

Vintage Sunshine

Awww... the sunshine has disappeared!! now it's back to cold, dull and rain!! :-( 

I can't believe that it's April and most of the trees are still bare... but there is hope! as some of the trees are finally starting to get a few tiny leaves at long last!!

It was sunny at weekend though and I was on a bit of a roll with my crafting and so made a few cards... my lovely friend Ira gave me some gorgeous crafting goodies for my Birthday... Thank you hun! ... and when I saw this beautiful paper... I just had to create a vintage themed card with it.... 

The lovely vintage image is from Pion Design. Originally it was Sepia but I decided to try adding a touch of colour with my Prisma Pencils... so hopefully it matches the colours in the paper...

Image: Pion Design - Grandma's Attic - Ladies

Flowers: Prima from stash

Butterfly - Prima - Zephyr

Clock Charm - Vintage Charm Collection

Bow - MeiFlower

Pearls: from stash

Sentiment: made on computer

My darling daughter bought me some of the lovely Prima Butterflies for my Birthday... they are SO gorgeous!!

I've added some Stardust Stickles to the paper edges - and there is also some glitter on the butterfly and the flowers... so it is a lovely sparkly card... I was thinking of a lovely Spring or Summer's Day when I made this.... so I hope that shows through in the card... :-)

I would like to enter the following Challenges:-

Crafty Catz - 'Anything Goes'

Allsorts - 'Spring has Sprung' 

Totally Gorjuss - 'Anything Goes with Sparkle' 

Ooh La La Creations - 'Orange and Green' 

Creative Inspirations - 'Anything Goes +Option of Hearts'

Simon Says - 'April Showers and/or Spring Flowers' 

Dream Valley - 'Happy Birthday' 

Live and Love Crafts - 'Let's Play… BINGO! '

(Metal, Flowers, Pearls)

My printer has been playing up this week... in fact all of my technology has been driving me totally nuts lately!! a couple of weeks ago I had 200 emails in 3 days from Facebook... all from the same website!!! I have changed my settings now and it seems to be ok... touch wood... 

My laptop is getting far too clever for it's own good!! it thinks it knows me so well.. always finishing my Search terms in Google... and now it keep asking what I'm looking for... I was searching for some Embossing Ink the other day and a pop up came on the screen and said..."are you searching for a buried voodoo doll??" LOL - how random! like we are all looking for one of those!!

and the new Hotmail is SO ugly but wouldn't be so bad if it actually worked... but it keeps freezing and saying it is unavailable... Grrr...

Ah well, I suppose we love technology really... where would we be without it... it just drives you a bit mad from time to time... 

I hope you are all keeping well... Thank you for all your lovely comments!... I really do appreciate them... I will catch up with you all very soon... :-))

Love and hugs

MAWTT - Kraft

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 Janice is our hostess.... she has chosen the fab theme of

'KRAFT'

So we would like to see projects using Kraft Card... remember you can make anything you like as long as you follow the theme and use Kraft coloured card somewhere on your project....

We are sponsored this week by the fabulous Saturated Canary

and Krista very kindly let us choose an image and I chose the gorgeous 'Ani' - isn't she adorable!! 

The paper is by Celeste Knight

The flower is Embosslits Old Country Bloom... and I've added a button and twine from stash... the gold nailhead hearts are from JosyRose.

I've coloured Ani with Copics and I've kept the colours monochrome to tone with the papers...

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

I would like to enter the following Challenges:-

Totally Papercrafts - 'Metal' (gold hearts)

Sweet Stampin - 'Oh So Girly'

Cupcake Craft - 'Get Your Kraft On'

Bunny Zoe's Crafts - 'Girly'

Papertake Weekly - 'Anything Goes'

Creative Inspirations - 'Let's Get Krafty'

Top Tip Tuesday - 'Boys and Girls Come Out to Play'

ABC Challenge - 'K for Kraft'

Natalie and Amy - 'Monochromatic'

I hope you all had a lovely Easter... we've had lovely sunshine here... but it's still very cold outside!!

Thanks for all your lovely comments! I will catch up with you all soon... :-))

Take Care

Love and Hugs

Easter Baskets!

Hello!! I hope you are all doing ok.... it's actually sunny here in Manchester Uk!! Whoop Whoop!! and no snow!! LOL I really hope that wherever you live ... the sun is with you also! ;-)

I thought I would show these little Easter Baskets that I made for my mum and daughter... They are Origami folded and instructions are here! They are very quick to make!! and the only glue I needed was for handles...

They are made with a Square of Design Paper... and it works better if the paper is not too thick... the red, black and white DP is Papermania 'Oriental Treasures' that my daughter bought for me a couple of years ago ... so gorgeous!! and the other green and pink basket is made with 'Raspberry Road' paper that was freebie with magazine... I put a strip of folded paper for the handles but you can use ribbon as in the video if you wish...

The square of paper that I've used to make these was about 20.5cm and the baskets have ended up about 7.5cm square... I didn't want them to be too small as I wanted to fit quite a lot of mini eggs in them!! as they are my main pressies for Easter!! 

The flowers are Tim Holtz Mini Tattered Florals.. and I've used matching papers.

I would like to enter the following Challenges:-

Creative Inspirations - 'Easter Wishes' 

Fab'n Funky - 'Boxed In' 

Simon Says - 'Anything Goes'

Oldie but a Goodie - 'Easter' 

(using forgotten stash of Papermania Orient Treasures Pack)

Tuesday Throwdown - 'What's in Your Basket' 

Crafty Creations - 'Easter'

Crafty Sentiments Designs - 'Easter' 

Ladybug Crafts Ink - 'Anything Goes' 

I haven't done very much crafting this last week but I have got a couple of cards half-finished!! but now I have come down with a bad cold...I think everybody has got this cold at the moment!!! So Big Hugs to all who need them!!

I'm just having a chillout weekend... I'm going to watch a couple of documentaries and then might read... I think I will have Chicken Curry for tea... see if those spices will help my sinuses!!! LOL then some Choc Mint Viennetta... I still have some left from my Birthday as it was an Extra Long one!!! hee hee!!

Hope you are all having a lovely weekend and enjoy your Easter Eggs tomorrow!! I can't wait!! 

Love and hugs