Love or Friendship

We are feeling all warm and fuzzy over at As You Like It.

Our new challenge is Love or Friendship

 so we would love to see a card that falls into one of those categories.

I have gone for a friendship card because what is nicer than receiving a "Thinking of You" card or as in this case a invite for a Coffee Date. It was made using a very old Maja Designs paper pack (Coffee in the Arbour) and an equally old rubber stamp from LOTV Coffee Break (still available as a digi).

The little cuties were coloured with Promarkers and while the pretty die was still in place I inked the aperture with Spun Sugar DI. The little tag was also from the paper pack.

While I am here feeling sorry for myself I will have a little chat!!

Despite my best efforts Coronavirus has finally got me. It started with a tickly throat last Friday and I tested positive yesterday morning so am not allowed back to work until next Monday and that's only if I have two negative tests beforehand. I consider myself very lucky to only have an irritating cough. 

More annoying than that is the fact that I cannot go and cuddle our new Grandson who put in an early appearance last Saturday. Mollie Rose is now a Big Sister to Jackson Martin who arrived two weeks early. She is taking the role very seriously at the grand old age of six!! Can't wait to have a ciddle with them both. 

I hope that you are all keeping well and happy and hope you will join us with our latest challenge.

See you soon xx

Jingle Bells and Snowflakes

 Jingle Bells and Snowflakes sounds like the title of a Christmas film but in this case it's my chosen Christmas Embellishments as per the Challenge that goes live today at

We would love for you to share your projects showing off your favourite Christmas Embellishments.

Those of you that have been long suffering followers will remember that I make small Christmas gifts for my work colleagues each year. This is the 2021 offering!! I have covered MDF baubles with pretty Maja Design papers. Each one has a different sentiment and they all have bells and snowflakes.

Jingly bells take me back to my childhood when the local Fire Brigade used to transport Father Christmas to the local villages. Somehow the front of the Fire Engines were made to look like his sleigh and had reindeer and everything. I have to confess that my Sister and I were terrified!! And the snowflakes...well no self respecting card or home decor would be seen without a snowflake or two. 

There are also more in festive colours too, so you might get to see them another time.

Thank you for calling and I look forward to seeing your projects. See you soon xx

Butterflies

Hello everyone. I hope you had an enjoyable Easter Weekend. I am so pleased the weather was kind to us this year. We managed to get quite a few outside jobs done, which is always pleasing. I managed to grab myself some time to play, again inspired by Allsorts challenge, Blossoms, Butterflies and bugs and did this....

I recently treated myself to a couple of the new Crafters Companion Sentiment dies and worked the design around one of those and, of course, butterflies. The pretty papers are Maja Design that, until now, have been " look only" but come on...what is the point?!!!!! So I cut into them and am really pleased I did. I even love the pretty blue shade.

See you soon xx

Think Pink with The Cutie Pies

I have a little bit of pinkness to share today. It is to inspire you to join us at

for our October challenge which is

Think Pink

I am sharing a card that I made, in all its pink gorgeousness, for a friend.

I used a cute LOTV rubber stamp, coloured with Promarkers, and Maja Design papers. I recently won a spend at Wild Orchid Crafts ( thank you again Sue xx) so made use of some of my newly acquired floral goodies to decorate this pretty card.

Hope to see you and your Cute Pink creations here.

Hope there is a good week in store for you. I will, hopefully, see you later in the week.

Some challenges

Creative Craft Cottage #97 - Pink for breasts cancer awareness
Craft Rocket #42 - Birthday or pretty pinks
Crafting with dragonflies #91 - Pinktober

AYLI DT Favourite Fruit

Hi there crafty buddies, hope you are well and looking forward to the weekend. I am hosting over at

where we would love to see a project inspired by fruit, be it an actual fruit or that you have used the colour of a certain  fruit to base your project on.

Now I am partial to all sorts of fruit but my favourite fruit flavour is lemon...lemon drizzle cake, sherbet lemons, lemon cheesecake, lemon doughnuts, Thorntons lemon chocolates, lemon possett...need I go on!? Anyway, fuelled up by the thought of Lemon drizzle I got out my PB T for transparent set and made this...

I used a Tonic set for the card base and mats and covered them with Maja Designs Coffee in the arbour papers which I thought I should actually use instead of just looking at from time to time!! Coloured with Promarkers and glittered with Stickles and Wink of Stella. The sentiment was from the stamp set also and die cut with a rather lovely shaped set that I found in The Works.

Well that is me, I do hope you will be inspired and join us.

See you soon xx

Some Challenges

Allsorts #419 - Use at least two dies

Crafty Catz  #374 - Anything Goes +/- Dies or punches

Naughty or Nice? #40 - Anything Goes 

Penny Black and More June - Anything Goes
Passion for Promarkers #399 - Add a sentiment

More coffee anyone?

Hello everyone, hope the week has started well for you.
This wasn't intentional but I appear to have a bit of a theme emerging with my beverage related cards of late!!

I was sooo pleased with myself and managed to buy just two stamps from the new LOTV range. I absolutely LOVE Jasmine (along with many other crafters apparently!!) and thought she deserved to be teamed with my "look only" Coffee in the Arbour paper pad.

She was coloured with Promarkers and I added a touch of white pen to highlight some areas. The pretty mat was done using a Sweet Dixie Circular die set, My Cheery Lynn Fishtail banner die set had an outing and I stamped the sentiment on a hand cut banner to sit on top. I cut the frantaged frame using little tags from my Tattered Lace Decorative Stepper set and the little sprigs behind the flowers were from the same set also. The banner does actually tuck in and out of the frame but then I went and covered it with flowers....doh!!

Some challenges

Sweet Stampin' - Paper piecing
The Ribbon Girl April Challenge - Anything Goes
Little Miss Muffet #135 - Anything Goes
In the Pink #91 - Dies and/or punches

Right, best go and get gorgeous!!

Have a good day xx

Savoury or sweet......?

It's challenge time again at AYLI and our theme this week is

Savoury or sweet?

At the moment it's all things sweet for me, particularly if it contains salted caramel, so just imagine that the cupcake below is oozing with salty caramel goodness!! Yum!!

A work colleague is celebrating her Birthday on Saturday and as she is Coeliac, I made her a gluten free cupcake (in the form of a card!!) complete with glittery icing!!

The papers are the most recent addition to the family, the utter fabulous Maja Designs Summer Crush. The banner was made using a free stamp set and the darling little cat stamp was coloured with Promarkers.

Some challenges to play

Crafty Cardmakers #148 - Make it sprakle (cupcake frosting)
Love to scrap ~62 - Anything Goes
In the pink #78 - For a Friend
Creative Inspirations #328 - Something Sweet

See you soon xx

Bright copper kettles

...and warm woollen mittens, brown paper packages tied up with strings, these are a few of my favourite things as my card demonstrates!!

 It's my As You Like It Challenge DT card

and our theme this fortnight is Favourite Film or Song and WHY?

I love films so it wasn't an easy decision but one of my all time favourites has to be  The Sound Of Music and I pride myself on my  performance of Climb Every Mountain (the men and animals are NOT so keen!!).  However, my card was inspired by "My Favourite Things"

hence the "warm woollen mittens" which were a prize from Robyn's Fetish some time ago.
I used Promarkers to colour the mittens to compliment the Maja Design papers. I used Whitewash cardstock for the mat and a SB snowflake doused in peewee glitter. The sentiment was from a Woodware set and the die cut tag from a Clearly Besotted set.

Some challenges to enter

Paper Creator Challenge #33 - All about Christmas
Christmas Card Challenges #53 - Anything Goes
Through the purple haze #70 - All about Christmas
A Crafty Mess #1 - Anything Goes
Digi Choosday #48 - Christmas

Thanks for dropping in, I do enjoy your company xx