Guest Appearance at Crafting By Designs

Hello peeps and I hope you are well today. I am thrilled to bits to be Guest Designer for 

Crafting By Designs

where the Challenge is Shaped cards...here's mine

I just "had" to use one of the latest arrivals at Cuddly Buddly, Fairy Dance, and coloured her with Promarkers to match the freebie LOTV papers. I created a scene and the card blank using various Marianne dies ( Fence, tree, and the card base) and the sun played nicely for me to photograph it outside too!!

Playing at these challenges

Crafting When We Can #92 - Sing me a song - Happy
 (pharrell Williams)
Di's Digis - Include an animal
Sweet Stampin' Challenge - Children's Cards
Polkadoodles #15 - Pink and pretty

See you soon xx

Tulips from....Cuddly Buddly

Hello everyone. I have another gorgeous Cuddly Buddly image to share with you today.

Now isn't that just a bunch of spring?!! I got out the SN pencils to colour it up and spent a happy hour doing so. The border at the top was done with a MFT die.

A Gem Of A Challenge #142 - Spring is in the air
Little Claire Digi Challenge #4 - Flowers
Penny's Paper Crafty Challenge #222 - Anything Goes
Digi Choosday Week #14 -  Use a Die

Have a super duper week xx

You are amazing!!

Hello crafters thanks for stopping by to see what I've been up to. 

On this occasion I am sharing another fabulous Cuddly Buddly image  as my piece for the new challenge at

where the theme is Rubber or Digi (and Why)

I didn't have to think for very long as I really enjoy using digi stamps primarily for the ease of resizing to suit your project or card size. I still can't believe that you can, pretty much, find a digital stamp to suit any person, event, occasion or style (the list goes on and on) and within minutes have it sat in front of you waiting to be coloured!! That said there is still a massive pile of clean rubber, that needs to be inked, on my work desk, but that's for another day!!

Anyhow let me introduce you to Super Girl, just look at those sweet floral "smalls" (for those of you outside of the UK, smalls is an affectionate term used  for small items of clothing i.e underwear!!). She was coloured with Promarkers and I used a Paper Smooches set for the wording. I made her for a friend who has had a rather dreadful time lately so it's to remind her that she copes admirably with everything that is thrown at her.

We are off to these challenges

Crafty Cardmakers #134 - For a special woman
Through the purple haze #81 - Anything Goes
Craft Your Passion #252 - Anything Goes
Make the day special - March Colour Challenge
Crafting From The Heart #50 - Anything Goes
Passion for promarkers #287 - For a special lady
Papertake Weekly - Mum's the Word
Fab 'n' Funky #250 - Focus on the image

Hope you will head our way and join in, you'd be made most welcome! xx

Baa,ram,ewe...

Hello and welcome back. I'm hear to bleat (get it!!) about how lucky I am to be on the Cuddly Buddly DT as I have another gorgeous image and some smashing papers to share.

Told you it was gorgeous didn't I?!! It's Spring Lamb ( DO NOT think mint sauce...as I did!!) and was coloured with Promarkers. The paper is from a digital set also from Cuddly Buddly called Cottage Florals which are perfect for this time of year. The card shape and border was cut using the Couture Spring Orchard set. The little sentiment is from an LOTV set.

I'd like to enter these challenges

Digi Choosday Week 8 - Anything Goes
Animal Friends March challenge - Easter
ABC Challenge - E = Exceptionally Cute
Lil Patch of Crafty Friends #5 - Anything Goes

Thank you for your lovely comments, I so enjoy reading them xx

Garden Friends

Hello everyone, hope you all had a good weekend.

I thought it was about time I shared more gorgeousness from Cuddly Buddly and this time I went for a male flavoured card.

This little chap is called Garden Friends and I really enjoyed getting to work with the Promarkers. The shed was actually made using Kim's "free" Bird house template which I altered to suit. I used a SB embossing folder for the wood effect and a little scrap of gingham for the shed trim. 

I really am such a lucky girl to be on this Design Team and share such wonderful images!!

With the garden in mind I want to share another visitor to my garden. Connor had the grill pan rather high and caused a bit of "heat" in the kitchen shall we say, so I put the grill pan outside to cool down. A little later Suzy was growling so I went to have a look and found a fox up on the seat licking the grill pan!! It jumped off, sat down, looked at me and kindly posed while I took this snap!!

Some challenges to enter before I head off to work

Crafty Calendar FEbruary - Anything Goes
Creative Craft Cottage #33 - In the garden
Penny's paper crafty challenge #214 - Embossing
Crafty Gals #6 - Anything Goes
Sparkles Monthly Challenges #65 - One for the boys
Addicted to Stamps #98 - Embossing


Thanks for visiting xx

A little bit of love

Hello everyone. Hope you are well this weekend and have some craftiness planned. 

I have a little bit of love to share today using another fabulous Cuddly Buddly digi, and she is called Made with Love. I had every intention of using a knitted effect digi paper from the Silent Night pack but once coloured up decided that she should be centre stage so just used a scrap of spotty pink paper from my scraps box. 

There are one or two "love" inspired challenges that I would like to play along with

Little Miss Muffettt challenges #103 - All you need is love

C.R.A.F.T #296 - Valentines Day/Love

Aud Sentiments #124 - Valentine or love sentiment

Enjoy your weekend

Thank You!!

Happy Weekend crafty peeps.

Just popping by today to share another Cuddly Buddly digi stamp
  Lilyboo's Thank U.

I am so fond of this little lady probably because she reminds me of me when I was little!!

I was inspired by some scraps from my bit box and went with the purple palette which I was rather pleased with. My colouring was done with SN pencils and spirit to match the pretty papers (Nitwits).

Some challenges

Chocolate, Coffee & Cards #82 - No circles
Crafting From The Heart #42 - Anything Goes
Creative Inspirations #296 - Anything Goes
Pennys Paper Crafty Challenge #210 - Anything Goes

Hope you have something crafty planned!! See you soon xx

Get Well Wishes

Hello my crafty friends. I really hope that you are all OK but for those of you feeling under par here is a card to cheer your day.

It's my first 2015 piece for Kim's Cuddly Buddly Digi Stamp Team and what a cutie it is too!! I really enjoyed colouring this snuggly bunny with my Promarkers to compliment the papers that were in my bits box. I also happened upon a scrap of vellum that I die cut and embossed using
Marianne's Lace Edging, on reflection perhaps I should have added some yellow trim to "anchor" it a little. The sentiment is from the Greetings postmarks set by LOTV.



I'm not quite sure what happened but my mojo did a disappearing act over the festive period, I think it's because it's been so dull and dreary that I just couldn't muster any enthusiasm for anything, even Surprise has had a holiday. Anyway, hopefully that will be rectified by the delivery of several purchases (accidental you understand!!) enabled by the generosity of Father Christmas!!

Some Challenges

ABC Challenge - A for Anything Goes
Buckwell's Crafty Challenge - Anything Goes
Ladybug challenge - Say it with flowers
Love to Create #148 - Anything Goes
Pixie's Snippets Playground ~158

Righty ho, better go get spruced up for work!!

Have a good day whatever you are up to xx

Together...the best gift for all

Festive Greetings my dear crafty friends and I hope you are well today. If not I wish you a speedy recovery.

Before I get off to work I thought I would share my final pre-Christmas card with you. It's another Cuddly Buddly DT card and this time I used "Sleepy Birds".

They were coloured with Promarkers (no change there then!!). The spotty paper was in my bits and pieces drawer so my little card will be suitable to take along to the Playground where I haven't played for a while as I seem to have been using whole pieces of paper lately. The ribbon is by Crafty Ribbons from their Christmas Owl Collection and suited the kraft card perfectly. The sentiment came from a really fabulous (and much used) Personal Impressions set and was stamped onto a die cut tag.

Playing at these fab challenges

Pixies Crafty Workshop - Snippets Playground 156 &157
Creative Inspirations #294 - Christmas/New Year
Love to Scrap #44 - When Nature Calls
I Love Promarkers #250 - Anything Goes (2nd Entry)
Chocolate , Coffee and Cards Challenge #80 - Christmas

Well, that's me for now and if I don't get chance to stop by and see you before the "Big Day"

 thank you to those who sent me beautiful handmade cards and gifts and

 I wish you all A Happy and Peaceful Christmas with your loved ones  

See you soon xx

Noel

Hello my crafty friends and I hope this Wednesday finds you well. If not I hope you soon will be. 

The Wills family now have a Christmas tree and associated festive adornments scattered about the house so I am pleased about that!! Not sure why I felt the need to impart that information but hey ho!! I have another Christmas card to share today using one of Cuddly Buddly Kim's images.

If you've not visited the shop lately go take a look. She now has "real" stamps as well as digis, Marianne Designs stuff by the bucket load and everything you could possibly wish for!!

I coloured the happy little family with Pro/Flexmarkers to match the "not Christmas" papers (scraps from my mountain!!) and used a bit or silver mirri for a contrast. I impressed myself by not reflecting a selfie in the die cut stars!!

I have found a "few" Christmas challenges to play along with

Crafty Your Passion #243 - Non Traditional Colours

Crafty Boots - Christmas

Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas Challenge #206 - Bright Colours

Love to Create #145 - Non Traditional Colours

Through the Purple Haze #71 - Use a sentiment

Have a good day whatever you are up to xx

CAS Christmas

Hello my crafty friends. Here comes another Christmas card!! I am enjoying Christmas card making enormously this year as I am making a concerted effort to try all sorts of different styles and designs. See what you think of today's offering it's my second DT make for Cuddly Buddly it's called Christmas House

At first I was tempted to go down the gingham/kraft homespun cottagey look but got sidetracked somewhat when I found red and purple cardstock together while looking for kraft and an idea was born!! I coloured with Promarkers and then went to town with stardust stickles, glamour dust and some flakey stuff from Creative Expressions that I used for the tinsel on the tree. Sadly the rubbish light does not show it in all it's glory, but trust me it sparkles!! The sentiment is from Clearly Besotted. A nice flat CAS card for the post and perfect for these challenges.

Polkadoodles Week 46 - Clean and Simple
Digi Choosday #47 - Christmas Celebrations
Through the purple haze #69 - Anything Goes
Crafty Boots - Stars
(Feel free to exclude me if one star is not enough!!)
Pennys Papercrafty challenge #205 - Anything Goes

Thanks for visiting today xx