As easy as 1,2,3

Morning you lovely people!! Here I am to shout about the new challenge at

Oldie But A Goodie 
and this time I'm afraid the theme is my fault and it's

1,2,3

1 (image),  2 (papers),  3 (embellishments, that could be three types or three of a kind).

I used a cute stamp (old but unused!!) from Sugar Nellie, Posy Pip and coloured her with Promarkers to compliment the beautiful Bazzill papers, Vintage Lace. I used (old) tonic punches to make the three little flowers and a Craftwork cards sentiment to finish off. Oh and the border die I used on the floral panel is from Lawn Fawn.

I am playing here

My Mum's Craft Shop #21 - Dies or punches (I've used both)
Di's digi designs challenge - Girly
The Sugar Bowl#117

That's all from me for now. Have a good day xx

The Cuties are 3!!

Happy Monday everyone and it's a rather special one today as The Cutie Pie Challenge is 3 years old.

We would love you to celebrate with us and share a CUTE card using multiples of 3.

Here's mine...

...and I used 3 colours, papers, panels, buttons, sentiments and three glittered chocolate chips on the cookies too!! Our sponsor Just some lines gave us the fabulous images to play with.

I'm entering these challenges...

Brown Sugar #113
Creative Fingers #50 - Anything Goes
Crafty Catz - Birthday celebration/Anything Goes

Hope you will come and play, you'd be most welcome!!

Digi time

Hello everyone, hope you are well as we fly towards another weekend. Mine is going to be particularly comfortable as we are having  new lounge furniture delivered tomorrow...yay!!
Suzy still gets to keep her sofa (not that we encourage her mind you, heaven forbid!!)

Before that though I have a bag to share which is my DT piece for

As You Like It Challenge where the theme this fortnight is "Your favourite digi and WHY?"

I use a lot of digi stamps but my absolute favourite has to be Barry from (the soon to be closing down) Stampfairy. He is such a character and has led such a busy and varied life that his antics lend themselves to any situation you can imagine!!

Here he is coloured with Promarkers to match the gorgeous spotty papers that jumped out of my bits box. The sentiment on the tag is from a Paper Smooches set and I used a bow template for the paper bow.

I'm taking the bag to play here...

Suzy Bee's Bloomin' Challenge #47 - AG + spots & dots
Crafting from the heart #37 - Anything Goes
Papertake Weekly - Oh how cute
Delightful Challenges - Cute and Cuddly

Hope you will join us with YOUR favourite digi!!

Toodles for now xx

A bunch of Autumn

Hello my crafty buddies.

As promised, more card and less waffle today, although I must thank you for taking the time to read my blurb and then coment too!!

Here is another autumnal creation to celebrate the colours that will soon be around us.

 The lovely digi image is by From the Heart and was coloured with Pro/Flexmarkers to match the papers which came from a book of papers that was a magazine freebie a couple of years ago. The IO butterflies were cut out of sections of the same paper and I added marcasite style gems to their middles. I used a Martha Stewart punch for the border and just added some twine for a bit of texture.

Here's where I'm going to play

Delightful challenges - All Fall Down
Crafting 4 All Seasons #86 - Colours of autumn
4 Crafty Chicks #212 - Fall


Thanks for stopping by xx

I've been "tagged"

Happy Monday everyone. Have you noticed The Creative Blog Hop that happens on a Monday? Well I am honoured to  have been tagged by the lovely Jenny at Cardsarus who amazes me, every time, with her magnificent cards and boxes. She does things with dies that are beyond my comprehension!! So I urge you to  go and spend a while with her if you want some serious die-lightful inspiration!!

So, here we go...question time...

1)   What am I working on now.

Being a  fairly organised kind of girl I like to have my DT work done well in advance so there are two cards in the pipeline at present. I am also still practicing my crochet so there is currently another "work in progress"  on my hook. Added to that a knitted rabbit that needs stuffing and dressing and the pieces of a skirt that need sewing together. That much?! oh dear it looks bad written down!!

2)   How does your work differ from others in your genre?

 I don't tend to follow a particular genre but my own, I like to think. I dabble in most styles from time to time but do favour cute images, usually with very few frills .

3)   Why do I do what you do.

Because I love making things. My Mum has always knitted and made mine and my Sister's clothes when we were girls. So, I was taught to knit as a girl and dabbled in sewing, making cushions and curtains when I married but the cardmaking really took off when I was invited to a cross stitch party in the early 90's where I bought a kit, which led to cross stitch magazines, then card making magazines and I am now completely addicted!! It is also a nice balance to my outdoor and work life and gives me a little respite from the sport that so often dominates the house!!

4)How does my creative process work.

When cardmaking I choose a stamp first then the papers and generally have  "plan" in mind. I always make the card base first after deciding whether I am going to use a sketch or "wing it". Then I colour the image to match the papers. 

So, my friends, that is me!!  I would not be here but for Bev Rochester whose blog was the first I ever read having seen one of her cards in a magazine. Then came The Ribbon Girl and Wild Orchid Crafts as a result and the associated DT members at that time. Funny how things evolve isn't it? I finally took the plunge and blundered my way through setting up my own blog a couple of years ago ( you can see my first post here ) and the rest, as they say, is history!!

 If I take nothing else from my time spent in blogland it's the kindness and generosity of those I have met and am proud to call my friends  that make every minute spent here worthwhile (and sometimes expensive...you know who you are!!). 

Which leads me nicely on to my nominees 

Mojca - Soul Sanctuary
whose papercrafting skills are exemplary.

Lisa - One Happy Little Crafter,
 is a fabulous and brilliant DT "Boss lady" She also makes the cutest cards in blogland!!

Michelle - Laughing Ducks,
whose blog I have followed from the start and watched her evolve into a truly inspirational cardmaker.

Thank you for sticking with it!!

See you tomorrow with more card and less waffle xx