Little Daisy

 Happy Friday everyone. Hope you have had a good week whatever the world has thrown at you!! 

I am here to share a sweet little lady from our sponsor over at

Colour Crazy Craft Challenge 

where the theme is always Anything Goes, just as long as your image is hand coloured.

I really enjoyed colouring this little cutie with my Promarkers and am relatively pleased with her Farrah Fawcett hair!! ( I seem to be revisiting my youth a lot lately, wonder why that is?!) I bought the Pretty Posies paper pad aaaaages ago and broke the seal for this card and used a layout that featured greatly when I was new to papercrafting, two patterned papers with a pretty ribbon to cover the seam. Simple but it still works.

Anyway I have blathered on long enough so will take my leave and wish you all a lovely weekend.

See you very soon xx

A bit of pink

 Hello friends, it's all about  pink at As You Like It Challenge today. We are looking forward to seeing your projects showcasing pink and one other colour. Full details here!!

When I use pink on a project I always reach for some shade of green. Somehow it just seems the right choice as Mother Nature shows me in my garden!!

Here is my pink and green card.

I used a rubber stamp from Lili Of The Valley (who happen to be our sponsor this time) .This was coloured with Promarkers . The beautiful papers are Paper Boutique's Farmyard Friends and just to balance the card I used a foliage die and the lovely Moonstone Fabulous flowers die set. 

Perhaps when it is too hot to sleep tonight (if you are in the UK) you can do a bit of crafting!! Honestly, hasn't it been dreadful?! On Tuesday night I even considered sleeping on Bowie and Bumble's cool mat but thought better of it when I remembered that it has a small tear held together with silage pit tape and I didn't want to be the one responsible for squidging out the gel!! 

Anyway I have rambled on for long enough. Hope you all remain well.

See you soon xx

Hip to be square

You babes that were around in the 80's will now be trying to bash that Huey Lewis and the News earworm that is repeating itself!! Sorry!!

 It's quiet here at the moment, I have been making a book of promises for Connor to give his Girlfriend for her Birthday. My word, I did not anticipate just how long it was going to take so cardmaking has taken a back seat at the moment. Anyway, I have a cutie to share with you today as it is the start of a new challenge at

 where our theme is...you've guessed it...Hip To Be Square!!

I have made a little 4" square card using a super cute MFT doggy set. She was coloured to match the lovely paper and fussy cut too. I have been on the look out for zig zag dies but then remembered that I have a dozen different edged scissors from my early crafting days so used those instead!! (I knew they would come in handy one day!!)

I hope life is treating you well. See you soon xx

Cats or Dogs?

So, that's nearly another week of this unusual year over and what a mixed bag it's been. I was quite pleased to see the rain on Monday as the grass was looking extremely sorry for itself and now we are heading into a heatwave again so extremely early walkies for us tomorrow. That leads me nicely to the introduction of our next challenge at 

this time it's all about Cats or Dogs!!

It's dogs for me (although we were honoured to have been adopted by two squatters loving cats in the past!!) there is nothing like being greeted at the door by smiley happy faces and waggy tails and a dog loves you more than anything in the whole, wide, world. Maybe not in Bumbles case actually as his devotion to his ball is unrivalled!!

I am still on a mission to use my older stamps and hunted out this sweet Kanban stamp that fits the theme perfectly. I really challenged myself with the amount of hair on this one but it's not too bad!! I did the base card first with MFT papers and coloured the image, with Promarkers to match.

It would be great to see your cats or dogs and the reason for your choice.

Here are my "boys" last week, Bowie looking very important at the back and bumble guarding his precious ball!!

See you when I do!! xx

Christmas animals

Hello lovely people. Hope this week will be a good one whatever it has in store. I am kicking mine off with a cute card for

where the new challenge starts today and we would love to see your Christmas cards featuring a cute animal this time.

I have made a real effort, during these home times, to use stamps that I already have and this cute rabbit is one of them.

This cute fella is from The Cats Pajamas Bunny Snowglobe set. I teamed him with a digi paper from Nitwits Collection, Patchwork Christmas. I covered the globe element in a glittery film which, I believe, came from Little Claire Designs when they were still trading. Because there is space for a sentiment at the base of the globe I simpy added a wooden button and twine as a finishing touch. It is a tiny little 4 x 4 card and yes, I wish I had made multiples!!

See you later in the week xx

Some challenges

Sweet Stampin ' - Christmas in July
Winter Wonderland - Hip to be Square