Spring flowers

Hello friends, hope you are all well and if not then I hope there are better days ahead. 

This week has gone in the blink of an eye so as things are quiet here I thought I would take some time to sit and have a little mooch to see what I have missed.

This is the card I made for my Auntie San's Birthday. I was inspired by a lovely card that Jools shared here and set about doing something similar using colourful springtime papers.

I have a feeling that the papers were, in fact, by LOTV and free with a crafting magazine. I made good use of my circle dies for this card together with some pretty die cut flowers and foliage too. 

I am entering these challenges

Noor UK #18 - Spring flowers

Craft Your Passion #311 - Anything Goes

A Gem Of A Challenge #169 - Flowers

Creative Inspirations #251 - Shape it up

Penny's paper-crafty Challenge #277 - Anything Goes

Before I go I just want to share a bit of Dorset with you. Last weekend we had a trip to Weymouth for a bit of sea air and, of course, Fish and Chips!! We took a detour on the way back so that Martin could show me the woods that he drives past in his tractor every day  to show me this...

...wow!!

We have little copses locally that I ride by regularly that are gorgeous but this really was breathtaking and the smell was glorious and probably so untouched as it isn't visible by car. 

While the going is good I'm going to have a play with some new goodies that dropped through the letterbox this week.

 Enjoy the rest of the weekend xx

The Cutie Pies escape to the country

Hello everyone. I have my DT card for

where we are going a little bit rustic/horticultural and inviting you to share your cards based around the theme

Escape To The Country

  Full details can be found at the challenge blog here.

I used the opportunity to showcase another fabulous Sasayaki Glitter digistamp
 called Meg and Big Red

I coloured Meg and her chicken with Promarkers. The papers are Nitwits Sunny Side Up and I used my Go Kreate Frilly dies together with a "whoops how did that happen?" MFT purchase. 

You can see where I added Sakura sparkle and white gel pen to little Meg and her chook.

The ribbon came wrapped around my Birthday Cake...knew I would find a use for it somewhere along the line and this was the perfect occasion!!

I am playing here...

Polkadoodles -Things with wings

Crafty calendar - Things with wings

I love Promarkers #308 - Lace and/or Ribbon (I went with ribbon)

Crafting by designs - May Anything Goes

Toodles for now!! xx

Walking in a WOW Winter Wonderland!!

Hello peeps...me again, two posts in one day...get me!!

(My AYLI DT piece is here)

I have looked in awe at the fabulous WOW cards that have made an appearance in blogland this week in support of the latest Winter Wonderland Challenge and decided I MUST have a go. It was also a good excuse to play with a Tonic die set that was given to me for my Birthday and hadn't been used.

Normally I struggle with this kind of work but I really enjoyed making this one and am SO pleased with the result, I only wish I'd cut more pieces at the same time and made more!! I used Centura Pearl card for all the elements which is why I think this was successful. When I've done these before I have used up scraps of white cardstock and as we all know these vary so much in colour.

Hope you are bathed in sunshine like we are here...it's a miracle really, I never thought spring would ever arrive!! On that note, I'd better go and drag the lawnmower out!!

Thank you for sharing your day xx

Oliver

I have chap type card today to share with you, it's my DT card for

where the new fortnightly challenge starts today.

Here is your quest

Embossed or Patterned Paper

A no brainer for me as I am Sarah and I am a patterned paper addict and I DO NOT want to be cured!!

This is Oliver - Kicking About, the second of my recent LOTV purchases and he was coloured to match the MME Lost and Found Oliver papers...spooky!!

Some Challenges

Creative Inspirations #250 - For the boys or something sporty
Craft Your Passion #310 - Anything Goes
Penny's Papercrafty Challenge #276 - Anything Goes
Crafting From The Heart #110 - Anything Goes
Inspiration Destination #84 - Anything Goes
Penny Black and More - Anything Goes with stamping

Whatever type of paper you are addicted to it will be most welcome...hope you will come along!!

Until next time xx

Testing...Testing!!

Hello friends, hope you are well today. 

I've been having a test run with my new pencils. I decided that I had been drooling long enough over Jane's fabulous pencil work so bit the bullet and ordered some Lyra Rembrandt Polycolour Coloured Pencils. I got them from HERE.

Anyway this was my first attempt (there are three more in the pipeline, they were that good!!)

I didn't use blending solution on this occasion although I did give it a rub with the splender pencil!!

The sweet image is a digi from the now closed Pollycraft. She was coloured to match more very old MME papers which, I think, were called "Happier". Check out the colourful snail, done in scraps of the same paper together with the tag.

I'm off to play here

Allsorts Challenge #361 - A cherry on top (fruit or berries)

Sunny Day Crafting #6 - A colourful project or a project with fruit

Lil Patch of Crafty Friends #33 - Anything Goes

Pile it on #107 - Garden Creatures (die cut snail and various insects on the paper)

The Crafty Addicts #7 - Anything Goes +/- ribbon

Better go and get Surprise in before she starts shouting at the window...it's drizzling and the poor old soul doesn't like getting wet!! It's not that she owns me or anything...much!!!

Enjoy the rest of the weekend xx