Getting Sentimental

 We are getting Sentimental at Allsorts this week. The optional theme was of Brenda's choosing and I had a great time thumbing through my stamps and dies looking for inspiration.

In the end it came from my die drawer and I cut the Live, Love, Laugh die from patterned paper. It was a charity shop find so I'm afraid I'm not sure of the brand I think the paper pad is from First Edition  but the cover has long gone!!

I used one of the lovely Jules' rectangle sketches #10 this time.

The prize for this challenge is a 

Selection of Woodware sentiment stamps from Craft Stash.

See you there!!

Elves, Gnomes and Fairies

 The months are ticking by but there's still plenty of time to add to your Christmas cards and this time at

we are showcasing 

 Festive Elves, Gnomes and Fairies.

I just had to use my MFT Elves, I love them and they come out every year. A simple bauble design this time using a Lawn Fawn Die. The little elf was coloured with Promarkers. I used a real LOTV Christmas tag stamp and added a jingle bell too.

Delightful Animals

Happy weekend crafty friends. Thank you for stopping by today. We've a new challenge at Allsorts and Lolo has chosen DELIGHTFUL ANIMALS as her optional theme (Anything Goes is also welcome).

I don't need to tell my long suffering followers that I am an animal lover, especially if they bark or neigh. Dogs have featured lots of late so I have a chestnut horse to share today. 

 I made this card using a Hetty Clare image (pony flowers) coloured with Promarkers to match Symba (whose owner Jane was the recipient of this card for her 60th). The papers are from a First Edition pad that was suitably chestnut coloured!! I used a Technique Tuesday stamp and added a little tag to suggest a shape of a rosette.

Here he is is in real life!!

Prizes (2) from AALL and Create

I hope you have something nice planned for the weekend. It's a Bank Holiday here in the UK which means I get an extra day off and the weather actually looks quite promising.

See you on Monday with a bit of festive cuteness xx

AYLI - Colouring Medium

 We are sharing our favourite colouring mediums at

and it will come as no surprise that my own favourite is Promarkers.

I love the way they blend and they are so long lasting. In fifteen plus years I have only ever had to replace one or two of my most used colours Tea Green and Sandstone.

Here's what I did with them

I used some spotty scraps and coloured this adorable LOTV bear with my Promarkers.

Thank you for visiting me. Work has been full on so I am afraid time to return the compliment has been in short supply. 

We are looking forward to seeing your favourite colouring medium.

See you soon xx

Four Legged Friends

 A new week and a new challenge at

where the theme is

Four Legged Friends

Here's mine....

The embossing folder and stamps were free with a magazine a very long time ago so I had great fun putting this cute scene together. The curtains are on the embossing folder so I cut out the window and then embossed again using patterned paper. Then I inked over the embossed detail with Shabby Shutters DI to show up the detail. The cute little dog was coloured with Promarkers.

This is the reverse of the card front, the cutie from the back!!

We hope you will share your cute four legged friends with us.

See you soon xx

Summer Days

 Hello one and all. I am the host at Allsorts this time and I chose

Summer Days as the optional theme.

I've gone back to my childhood with my card today. Summer fetes in the village with stalls, tug of war and an ice cream van selling the soft whippy ice cream with a flake!! 

It's been a long time since I used a crafting CD so I had a lot of fun looking through Crafters Companion Halcyon Days that was full of inspiration. I did this prit cut and stick frame card. The bunting was made using a Magnolia die and the With Love is a leftover from the "real" Halcyon Days papercrafting kit. 

I hope that I have inspired you to revisit your childhood summer days or more recent trips to the beach or other favourite summer places.

See you soon xx

Bugs, Feathers or Fur at AYLI

 

The new challenge lands today at AYLI and we would love to know which of these is your favourite.

Bugs, Feathers or fur? and a little explanation is required too.

I am not a fan of bugs and the flapping of the feathery friends freak me out so I am sharing a horse today.  Wills isn't really furry at this time of year, more silky really but he does get softer fur in the winter and at any time of year there is nothing quite like the sniff of a velvet muzzle!! 

My lovely team mate Brenda recently mentioned tackling her UFOs (unfinished objects) and I have been making a concerted effort this year to do the same. I have reduced the pile a fair bit but along the way have rekindled my love of cross stitch which, in turn, meant the purchase of one or two kits, this horse being one of them from Zindagi Designs. I used all the called for colours and simply mounted in a hoop. I have a Christmas bird on the go at the moment that I'm finishing as well as quick stitch coasters for my work mates' Christmas gifts so no new starts on the horizon.

This is the closest I could get to that elegant horses paces and the face of a old middle aged lady concentrating!! It's taken two years to start rebuilding my confidence and it's still fragile at times. I bear a permanent reminder of my tumble and given that this lovely boy is  a little tinker I really ought to stop, but the need (like buying paper pads) just cannot be curtailed!!

See you at the weekend xx