DigiStamp Boutique...Birthday Candles

Happy sunny Saturday me lovelies, although I don't know if the sun will stay all day, as the weather forecast is for heavy showers! Typical when we're supposed to be going to a BBQ this evening!

Anyhoo here's a card I've made for Sophie's friend Olivia, its her 14th birthday today and I used this fab Birthday Candles image from the DigiStamp Boutique. So easy to colour and I've kept the design fairly clean and simple.

Click on this link to check out all the recent new releases from the DigiStamp Boutique

Digital Image: DigiStamp Boutique (Birthday Candles)

Digital Design Papers: Shery K Designs (Tea Party)

Colouring Medium: Promarkers & Smooth White Card

Card Stock: SU! (Crumb Cake)

Embellishments: Twine and Button from my craft stash

Passion for Promarkers #243...All Creatures Great & Small

Good morning lovely peeps, hope you've had a good start to the week...the weather has been lovely here so far! I feel a bit like a spare part as Sophie has gone off to Birmingham Uni for four days with the school...its a residential trip and it's so quiet without her. Roll-on Thursday evening when she'll be back home again!

Anyhoo, I'm here to tell you about this weeks new challenge at Passion for Promarkers and it's all about the animals...big or little. We want to see ALL CREATURES GREAT & SMALL on your projects and don't forget you must use your promarkers for colouring!

We are sponsored by one of our regular sponsors...DigiStamp Boutique and Sally-Ann and the winner (chosen at random) will receive a £10 gift voucher to spend in the DSB shop!

Digital Image: DigiStamp Boutique (Arthur & Flower)

Digital Design Papers: Shery K Designs (Mini flowers)

Colouring Medium: Promarkers & Smooth White Card

Card Stock: SU! (Nearly Navy)

Embellishments: Ribbon from my Craft Stash

Sentiments: DigiStamp Boutique (Simply Teddy Birthdays 2)

Little Miss Muffet Stamps...New Releases

Good morning,

It looks like its going to be another lovely sunny day here today and if the weather man is correct its also going to be a pretty warm and sunny weekend too!

There are some gorgeous new images being released today over at Little Miss Muffet Stamps and the Little Misses have made some beautiful and inspiring creations to showcase the new images...you can check all the details out here on the LMMS blog!

I've used Polka Dot Pals Amy on my card...there are 2 images for her...one with polka dots on her dress and one without...she's such a little sweetie and although I've used her for a birthday card she could be used for lots of other occasions too!

Digital Image: Little Miss Muffet Stamps (Polka Dot Pals Amy...Plain)

Digital Design Papers: Shery K Designs (Pretty in Pink)

Colouring Medium: Promarkers & Smooth White Card

Card Stock: SU! (Certainly Celery)

Embellishments: Ribbon, Button and Pearl from my craft stash

Tools: Die-namics Die (Photo Corners

Sentiment: Rub-On

DigiStamp Boutique...Valentine Bobbi

Good afternoon everyone,

Just a quickie post today to share a card I've made for the DigiStamp Boutique using one of the recent new releases...Valentine Bobbi!

This little guy is so cute and although he's perfect for Valentine's Day, I've chosen to use him on a thank you card with this sweet little sentiment I found knocking around on my computer.

You'll find him here in the boutique

Digital Image: DigiStamp Boutique (Valentine Bobbi)

Digital Design Papers: Shery K Designs (XOXO)

Colouring Medium: Promarkers & Smooth White Card

Card Stock: SU! (Crumb Cake)

Embellishments: Ribbon, Button and Pearl from my craft stash

Tools: Spellbinders Nestabilities

Sentiment: SGT Stamper

DigiStamp Boutique...Spring Truffle Bear

Good evening everyone, hope you're all OK and enjoying your weekend so far! I popped out this morning to get my hair cut and then had a little bit of girly, retail therapy with Sophie and I've been crafting this afternoon. I do love weekends!

I'm here to share a new release from the DigiStamp Boutique...well there are quite a few actually and Sally-Ann has been busy creating with a spring theme in mind. There's some cute new characters called Truffle and Honey plus a really cute all time fav...Bobbi!

If you want to pop over and see all the new releases then click here to view them. I've used Spring Truffle Bear on my card and this particular image comes as part of a set that is on offer this month.

Oops, I forgot to say that I followed the sketch (#293) over at Sketch Saturday

Digital Image: DigiStamp Boutique (Spring Truffle Bear)

Digital Design Papers: Shery K Designs (Mini Flowers)

Colouring Medium: Promarkers & Smooth White Card

Card Stock: SU! (Certainly Celery)

Embellishments: Buttons

Tools: Joy Crafts Die (Labels and Tags)

Sentiment: Daisy and Dandelion Message Tags

Little Miss Muffet New Valentine's Releases

Good morning you lovely lot...hope you've all had a good week so far...I really have to stop wishing my life away and waiting for the weekends to come around...so not a good approach to the working week!

We've got some gorgeous new releases for you at Little Miss Muffet Stamps this week and they've all got a luuuuurve theme so pop on over and check them all out here!

I couldn't resist having a play with this sweet little Skelekinz image, he's waaaay too cute and a dream to colour in. If you want to see more inspiration from the Little Misses using some of the other new releases you can find them here on the the LMM blog!

Rubber Stamp: Little Miss Muffet Stamps (Skelekinz For You)

Digital Design Papers: Shery K Designs (Free Paper Pack 2)

Colouring Medium: Promarkers & Smooth White Card

Card Stock: SU! (Chocolate Chip)

Embellishments: Buttons and Jute Ribbon from my craft stash

Tools: Joy Crafts Die (Labels & Tags)

Sentiment: TLC

Passion for Promarkers # 231...Ribbon, Lace or Twine

Morning everyone, hope you've had a good start to the week...it's feeling pretty cold here a the moment so its on with the thermal socks for me!

We've a lovely new challenge for you over at Passion for Promarkers today...we want to see Ribbon, Lace or Twine on your creations, however if you're feeling really adventurous you could use all three!

We've two lovely sponsors this week...

The DigiStamp Boutique are offering one lucky winner a prize of a £10.00 voucher to spend in the boutique

...and

Michele R Designs is offering one lucky winner a prize of $10.00 worth of digi papers (available from Whimsy stamps).

Digital Image: Digi Stamp Boutique (Bedtime Sophia)

Digital Design Papers: Shery K Designs (My True Love)

Colouring Medium: Promarkers & Smooth White Card

Card Stock: SU! (Rose Red)

Embellishments: Ribbon and Pearls from my craft stash

Tools: Spellbinders Nestabilities

Sentiment: TLC (freebie)

Little Miss Muffet Stamps New Releases

Good morning you lovely lot,

I hope you've all had a fab week so far and that it hasn't been too cold for you. It's been pretty cold here and I still can't get used to these cold, damp murky mornings!

Anyhoo, enough about the weather, I'm here to share news for some fab new releases today courtesy of Little Miss Muffet Stamps. There are some gorgeous releases from the Swings n Slides collection and also a couple of new Chester images. Pop on over to the LMMS blog to check out the details and as always there's plenty of inspiration from the Little Misses.

Digital Image: Little Miss Muffet Stamps (Casper Silvermist - Too Cool for School)

Design Papers: Dovecraft (Jolly Happy Christmas) and Shery K Designs (Christmas 6)

Colouring Medium: Promarkers & Smooth White Card

Card Stock: SU! (Crumb Cake)

Embellishments: Gems and Stickles from my Craft Stash

Tools: Nestabilities, PoppyStamps die (Pary Lanterns), Cheery Lyn Designs Die (C146 Snowflakes Die)

Sentiments: Circular sentiment created on the Computer, DigiStamp Boutique (Season's Greetings)

Little Miss Muffet - New Sunbonnet Rubber Releases

Morning all,

Thank you all so much for the get well wishes after my visit to the dentist, I'm feeling much better now although I think it might take a bit longer for my sinuses to settle down.

I was determined to post my Little Miss Muffet card on time today which features one of the fab new Bugaboo rubber stamp releases. I've used the new thanks giving release and my teamies have created some gorgeous inspirational makes using the new halloween images too! You can find all the details of the new releases here and don't forget this is a rubber release not digi.

Rubber Stamp: Little Miss Muffet Stamps (Fancy Sunbonnet- Thanks Giving)

Digital Design Papers: Shery K Designs (Free Paper Pack 2)

Colouring Medium: Promarkers & Smooth White Card

Card Stock: SU! (Chocolate Chip)

Embellishments: Ribbon, Crystal Effects and Pearl from my craft stash

Tools: Impression Obsession Bow Die

Sentiment: The Range (can't remember the make)

Passion for Promarkers #218...Lots of Legs

Good afternoon me lovelies,

I hope you're all having a good week so far, mine hasn't been great so far as I went to the dentist yesterday to have a tooth removed but they were only able to remove two thirds of it. The tooth was right under my sinus and now I‘ve got to back and see a specialist to remove the rest. The pain was incredible and I couldn't face work today so I'm at home feeling sorry for myself.

I'm a bit late posting my card for this weeks Passion for Promarkers challenge so big apologies to my teamies and to Denise and Gina for being late. This weeks challenge is LOTS OF LEGS which means we would like to see at least 4 legs on your projects. i.e...one animal, two people etc.

We are sponsored by Letraset and they are offering a 6 pack of Flexmarkers as the prize.

Digital Image: Jelly Park (Cat in Garden)

Digital Design Papers: Shery K Designs (Mini Flowers)

Colouring Medium: Promarkers & Smooth White Card

Card Stock: SU! (Rose Red)

Embellishments: Ribbon and Card Candy from my craft stash

Tools: MS Cosmos Flower Punch and MS Frond Punch

Little Miss Muffet...Super Saturday

Hooray for weekends and Saturday's in particular as it's SUPER SATURDAY over at Little Miss Muffet! This means that not only are we are spotlighting this fab image...Clover Toadstool Dreams but you can also snag a freebie digi and you can find out which one here

As always, there's plenty of inspiration from the Little Misses and don't forget our current challenge is running until 25th September, details can be found here

Digital Image: Little Miss Muffet (Clover Toadstool Dreams)

Digital Design Papers: Shery K Designs (Tea Party)

Colouring Medium: Promarkers & Smooth White Card

Card Stock: SU! (Pretty in Pink)

Embellishments: Flowers, Pearls and Glamour Dust from my craft stash

Sentiment: TLC

Little Miss Muffet #69...Pink & Grey

Good afternoon everyone,

Hope you've all had a fab week so far and managed to fit some crafting in. If you have it's more than I've managed as my new printer didn't arrive until Tuesday and I've not had a chance to install it yet or print anything digital! I hope to rectify that tomorrow though!

It's time for another new challenge over at Little Miss Muffet and it's a rather cool colour challenge of PINK & GREY! I absolutely love these colours together and don't use them often enough...something else I need to rectify...I'll end up with a list as long as my arm at this rate!

You can find some fab inspiration from the Little Misses over on the challenge blog. Have fun!

Digital Image: Little Miss Muffet Stamps (Daisy Kate Hatter)

Digital Design Papers: Shery K Designs (My True Love)

Colouring Medium: Promarkers & Smooth White Card

Card Stock: Papermill

Embellishments: Ribbon & Pearls from my craft stash

Tools: MS Border Punch, Flower Punch

Sentiment: Scrap-a-licious Times

Littlle Miss Muffet #61...Sketch

Morning everyone...boy has it turned chilly this week, typical that its over the half-term holiday and it makes me even more appreciative that I managed to spend some time in the garden over the BH weekend...I hope it warms up again and soon!

I can't believe two weeks have gone by already, since the last challenge over at Little Miss Muffet. We're back today with a new challenge which is a sketch and I am eternally grateful for this sketch as I don't seem to be feeling the love with crafting at the moment so any help with my missing mojo is very much appreciated. I've flipped and rotated the sketch for anyone that's wondering.

This card also comes with a warning...please DO NOT look too closely at my doodled borders...they're pants! I tried to copy the fab borders that both Shelly and Faye add to their gorgeous creations and I think its safe to say that mine are an unmitigated disaster!

Note to oneself...do not try anything new when you're not really feeling too creative!

Digital Image: Little Miss Muffets Stamps (Poorly Chester)

Digital Design Papers: Shery K Designs (Mini Flowers)

Colouring Medium: Promarkers and Smooth White Card

Card Stock: SU! (Crumb Cake)

Embellishments: Ribbon from craft stash

Sentiment: TLC

Blog Hopping with Little Miss Muffet & Bugaboo Stamps

Good morning lovely bloggers,

I've got a busy post today so I shall just crack on and give you the exciting news that Jodie from Bugaboo Stamps has designed some exclusive Sunbonnet Rubber Stamps for Little Miss Muffet Stamps and if you want to check out the new releases you can find them here in the 'What's New' section over at LMMS.

To celebrate these new releases the Little Miss Muffet DT have joined forces with the Bugaboo DT and we're running a fun blog hop. There are some fab prizes to be won and also some scrummy special offers to be snapped up and you can find all the details here

If you get lost at any point on the blog hop just nip over to the LMM challenge blog and you'll be able to find out where you came from and where you should be going to!

Sooooo...you should have hopped on to my blog from Cheryl's blog

and the next blog you should be hopping to is Faye

Oops, I nearly forgot to tell you one last thing...LMMS are releasing a rather gorgeous 'Birds on a Wire Die' today and I'm sure anyone who loves using dies will want this little cutie in their craft stash...details can be found here

Phew...I think that's about it other than to say that the blog hop ends on Sunday 26th May at 8pm (central time)...have fun and enjoy!

Digital Image: Bugaboo/Little Miss Muffet Stamps (Fancy Sunbonnet Flowers)

Digital Design Papers: Shery K Designs (Mini Flowers)

Colouring Medium: Promarkers & Smooth White Card

Card Stock: SU! (Crumb Cake)

Embellishments: Lace, Ribbon and Gems from my craft stash

Tools: Die-namics Fishtail Flags Stax

Sentiment: Created on the computer

Little Miss Muffet Stamps #58...Anything Goes

Good morning me lovelies, hope you're all OK and that those of you with kiddywinks aren't being run ragged over the school hols. Just keep thinking, only one more week and they'll be back in school!

Well I'm going to crack on because I have lots to tell you today.

We have a new challenge for you over at Little Miss Muffet Stamps this week which is ANYTHING GOES plus the DT are showcasing some newly released images called 'tea party' and I have to tell you they are scrummy.

The new images are a combined release with Simply Betty Stamps and there are lots of celebrations going on this weekend so make sure you pop over to the LMMS blog where you will find lots of new images, inspiration, games, and a whole bunch of prizes too!

The fun kicks off today with a blog hop starting over on the Simply Betty blog and here are brief details of what's coming up over the next 3 days:

Today, 4th April - Release Blog Hop (click HERE to start)

Friday 5th April - Inspiration and Tutorials (SBS and LMMS)

Saturday 6th April - Guess Who at SBS and Scavenger Hunt at LMMS

So come and join in the fun and you may even win a few prizes along the way. Oh and one last thing...entries for the Anything Goes challenge at LMMS close on 16th April so there's plenty of time to enter.

PS: On my card I have combined 3 different digital images from both LMMS & SBS...details below:

Digital Images: (3 Merged Together): Little Miss Muffet (Tea Party Table Long, Cafe Setting 3) Simply Betty Stamps (Betty Dorm Mouse)

Digital Design Papers: Shery K Designs (Tea Party)

Colouring Medium: Promarkers & Smooth White Card

Card Stock: SU! (Taken with Teal)

Embellishments: Ribbons & Stickles

Sentiment: TLC (Birthday Wishes Coming Your Way)

Peppa Pig

Afternoon me lovelies...are you all christmassed out yet? I've eaten far too much of everything and feel ready to get back to some kind of normality now although that doesn't include going back to work...I'm not that keen lol!

A friend of mine asked me recently to make a peppa pig card for a one year old...all I can say is thank goodness for google which is where I found this image although it was really hard to colour it in without making it look like a two year old had done it!

Digital Image: Sourced on Google

Digital Design Papers: Shery K Designs (Pretty in Pink)

Colouring Medium: Smooth White Card and Promarkers

Card Stock: SU! (Certainly Celery)

Embellishments: Gingham Ruffle Ribbon and Pink Satin Ribbon from my craft stash

Sentiment: Created on the computer

Keep Calm...Gems of Inspiration

Morning you lovely lot...it's a quick visit today as it's my turn to post on the Gems of Inspiration blog and it's all about keeping calm ahead of the big day on the 25th!

I have a batch of 30 quick Christmas cards to share with you. I've long given up attempting to make 30 different cards all in different designs...this is much less stressful and everyone gets the same...simples!

Pink Gem Designs - Keep Calm Santa is Coming

Pink Gem Designs - Keep Calm Tis The Season

Pink Gem Designs - Keep Calm & Be Jolly

Digital Image: Pink Gem Designs (Keep Calm)

Digital Papers: Shery K Designs (Christmas 6 Mega Digital Paper Pack)

Card Stock: SU! (Real Red, Bravo Burgundy, Hunter Green)

Embellishments: Ribbon, Stickles & Gems from my Craft Stash!

Thank you for taking the time to visit me today, I don't say thank you often enough for the lovely comments you leave me, but please know I appreciate each and every one of them!

Good morning everyone, I hope you're all OK?  It feels like this week is flying by and I can't believe it's Wednesday already.  A couple more sleeps and I'll be saying "thank Crunchie it's Friday!"

It's my turn to post on the Gems of Inspiration blog and today I'm sharing a Christmas card I've made using one of Pink Gems sentiment digital images called 'A Jolly Holly Christmas' If like me, you always leave your Christmas cards to the last minute then this Jolly Holly sentiment is perfect and will help make many a quick card if needed.  It's a digital download and you'll get 3 images in total, White, Black and Brown.

Design Papers: Shery K Designs (Christmas 6)

Digital Image: Pink Gem Designs (Jolly Holly Christmas)

Card Stock: SU! (Real Red)

Embellishments: Ribbon and Gems from my Craft Stash

PS: Please ignore my pants photo...I took about 30 pictures of this card and believe it or not this was the best of an extremely bad bunch..the ripples on the image is the reflection off the glass top table!

Cupcake Craft Challenge 212...Think Pink

Good morning lovely crafters, I hope you've all had a wonderful weekend and managed to fit it in a spot of crafting...I had a few hours to myself on Saturday afternoon and it was absolute bliss!

We've a new challenge over at Cupcake today and my gorgeous teamie Sari has chosen the challenge which is THINK PINK. October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month and I think it's fab that we're running a challenge to promote this campaign as most of us probably know someone who has been affected by this awful disease. My sister had breast cancer a few years ago and I'm pleased to say she is now in remission but she couldn't have done it without all the help and support from the doctors and nurses, so please join in our challenge this week and make something PINK!

We have two fab sponsors for this week...

Heather Ellis is offering 3 of her gorgeous digital images...winners choice and

Simon Says Stamp are offering a fab $20 Gift Certificate to spend in their on-line store.

Design Papers: Shery K Designs (Pretty in Pink)

Digital Image: Saturated Canary (Boobie Love)

Colouring Medium: Promarkers

Card Stock: SU! (Not quite Navy)

Embellishments: Lace, Ribbon & Pearls from my Craft Stash

Tools: MS Border Punch, Simple Banner Die

Sentiment: TLC (Been in My Thoughts)