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