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

Little Cuties

Hello everyone, it's Cutie Pie time again and the theme is 

Cards for a child

I absolutely LOVE Hetty Clare images, especially her wonderful ponies so I am delighted that she is our sponsor this time. It was also a pleasure to colour up the gorgeous Pony Plait .

These pony digis are wonderfully detailed with well defined shaded areas so I tend to avoid alcohol markers because they smudge a bit. I dusted off my Spectrum Noir pencils to colour. the papers are from a Marianne Designs block Hello Sweet Baby and all the dies from Tonic's Cherish the moment set. I ran with the pink and brown-ish colourway and finished off with brown and pink pearls.

Thank you for stopping by today and I hope that I have encouraged you to join in.

See you soon xx

Some Challenges

Allsorts Challenge #684 - Allsorts of animals

Cute and Cuddly Christmas

 Good Morning friends. I'm not sure I am liking the pace at which December is galloping along, too much to do and not enough time. Sound familiar!? Still, I did get the marzipan on my christmas cake at the weekend, managed to wrap some presents and the sloe gin has been strained and bottled so not all bad!! I hope that your preparation is going well, although who knows what Christmas is going to look like with the new Omicron variant taking hold. Anyway less of that!!

I have a card to share today to encourage you to join in at

where we are having a Cute and Cuddly Christmas. I am a huge fan of the images from our sponsor Hetty Clare and used Little Donkey 

I coloured him with Promarkers and put him in a snowglobe as I had the perfect backing paper to hand!! As usual, the silver mirror board did not photograph at all well, but you all know what it looks like!! 

Thank you for stopping by and I hope that you will find some time somewhere to join us.

See you in a little while!! xx

Merry Christmouse

 Hello All!! Hetty Clare is the sponsor at the new challenge at

where it is always anything goes just as long as you colour the image yourself.

Here is what I did with the lovely Merry Christmouse image 

As usual, Promarkers and Flexmarkers were used to colour the sweet image to match the delicate papers from, I think, Dovecraft. 

Here they are close up!!

They look like they have been on the Sherry!!

The weather forecast is atrocious for today so apart from the weekly shop I think we will be confined to barracks!! Wishing you a lovely day whatever you are up to!!

See you soon xx

Christmas Cuties

 Hello All. Goodness me, it's been over a week since I have been here, so I apologise if I have not visited you recently. Life has been a bit full on!! Anyway, I am here with some Christmas cheer today by way of a cutie for the latest challenge at

a simple one this time Christmas Cuties and our sponsor is the fantastic Hetty Clare. I LOVE her images as she does brilliant pony digis that remind me of my two!! I have used the coloured version of 

 Pony Christmas.

I chose the spotted digi papers to echo the spotted wrapping paper and simply teamed it with traditional red card. a bit of crystal stickles to finish off. Then I made two more!! The sentiments were die cut twice, using Tonic and Creative Expressions dies, and layered for depth.

The girls that keep their horses here will be getting those come December!!

Hope you are keeping well. See you soon xx

Cutie Pie Bunnies or Blooms

 Spring is in the air for sure. We have catkins on our hedges, daffs aplenty in our paddock, the mornings and nights are noticeably lighter and the theme at The Cutie Pie Challenge is

Bunnies or Blooms (Easter or Spring)

I have gone along the Spring route and used Flower Pot Girl from our fabulous new sponsor Hetty Clare where you can find some gorgeous designs including, wait for it, ponies!!

This is my Mum's Mothers Day Card, I followed a tutorial by Sam Calcott to make this larger stepper card using some (very old) dot embossed card and a lovely ditsy print paper from a Doodlebug Designs pad. The sweet image was coloured with Promarkers, as usual. It is 5x7 inches jn size so I will be making a matching envelope.

Looking forward to seeing your cute cards.

See you soon xx