Bailey the Reindeer

Back again!

Yep, it's me popping up yet again today, to let you know that we have a new challenge starting over at SPARKLES CHRISTMAS CHALLENGE and the theme is:

REINDEER

This challenge is perfect for me, as you know I mainly enjoy colouring up animal stamps. When I saw the theme, I had just the stamp in mind that I wanted to use. I had a dig around in my digi collection and found this super cute reindeer from Digistamp Boutique. Still sad the shop has closed because it was one of my very favourite digi stamp suppliers :-(

Please meet Bailey:

 Love that sweet expression:

Card Details

Papers - Docraft's - The night before Christmas and Karen Foster scrapbooking paper

Bailey coloured with promarkers, pencils and gel pen

Glossy accents on nose

Die cuts - Memory Box

Gems and Ribbons - Art of Craft

Please click the piccy below to visit the main blog to see the inspiration from the rest of the design team! You have a whole month to join us, we'd love to see what you make! 

Thank you so much for visiting today and for any comments you're kind enough to leave xx

A Cute Nativity

Morning Folks!

Goodness me, how are we starting August already?? This year is going far too quickly for me!

I have started am ambitious project this summer holiday - to de- clutter my house! I'm already thinking I might have bitten off more than I can chew and I haven't even done a whole room yet. Hopefully, the charity shops will be pleased to take my first installment of bags tomorrow!

Anyway, enough waffling from me, I'm here to share a Christmas card 

Yes, it will be Christmas before we know it too ....

Over at Sparkles Christmas Monthly Challenges, Caz has choosen the fantastic theme of

A KRAFTY CHRISTMAS

Here's the card I made using a very old image from Digistamp Boutique called Cute Nativity Boy and Girl. 

This image really reminds me of infant school nativity plays with old sheets and T- Towels as costumes! It was really quick to colour with the trusty promarkers. The papers are a mixture of Craft Creations, Wellington and some scrapbooking offcuts! 

As the image is quite simple, I just finished the card with some twine and a greeting tag from LOTV.

Please visit the main blog

to see the inspiration from the rest of the design team!

Thank you so much for visiting today and for any comments you're kind enough to leave xx

I'd also like to enter the challenges at:

Word Art Wednesdays - Anything goes

Fab n Funky - Christmas in July

Crafting by Designs - Anything goes

ABC Christmas Challenge - P for plain

The Holly and the Ivy - Anything Christmas goes

Dream Valley - Christmas in July

Fussy and Fancy - Christmas in July

CHNXmas - Anything Christmas goes

Colour Crazy Challenges - Anything goes

Louie with cupcake

Morning Folks!

Nat has choosen a fabulous theme for the new challenge over at Passion for Promarkers :   

BEARS R US

Perfect for a big bear fan like me!!

Here's my card using Louie and Cupcake from our kind sponsor DigiStamp Boutique.  How cute is he??!! I'm in love!!

I even broke open a newly purchased Dovecraft Back to Basics - Baby Steps paper pad especially for this card - it bypassed the stroking and admiring stages altogether!

 Louie looks a little sad, perhaps he is worried that bee / wasp is going to land on his cupcake!

Card Details

Papers - Dovecraft Back to Basics - Baby Steps and Berry Blush

Flower - Queen & Co

Ribbon - Poundland

Pearls - Hobbycraft

Sentiment - Craftwork Cards

Don't forget to pop over to

 to see all the cute bears the rest of the design team have used!

Get creating with your Letraset / Winsor & Newton markers and join us!! Remember you can enter any type of creation, it doesn't have to be a card.

As I mentioned, this week we are generously sponsored by:

who are giving a £10 voucher to our lucky winner!

Thanks for visiting today xx

I'd also like to enter the challenges at:
The Cutie Pie challenge - Spots and Dots
CHNPP - Anything goes with patterned paper
I love promarkers - A/G optional for a boy
Stamping Sensations - Anything goes
The Crafty Addicts - Say it with flowers or A/G
Always Happy Birthday - A/Goes or summer birthday

Olivia

Morning Folks!

The new challenge at Passion for Promarkers is just starting, Linda has choosen a nice easy theme:

GEMS and / or PEARLS

so we are hoping to see lots of entries! 

Here's my card using a new digi I treated myself to last weekend in the Bank Holiday sale over at Digi Stamp Boutique, this is the super cute Olivia.

I had a slight panic whilst colouring this as my cool grey 1 promarker was dying but it just about lasted so that I could finish the kitty fur. Had a check and realised that I had had that promarker well over 3 years - which is really good value for money I reckon!

Hope you can see the tiny gem on the collar:

The papers are my latest favourites, First Edition Floral Fancy which has just about migrated from the 'stroking' to the 'in use' paper collection! 

Flowers are by Prima

Gems, pearls and sentiment from deep in my stash collection.

Don't forget to pop over to

 to see what the rest of the design team have made!

Get creating with your Letraset / Winsor & Newton markers and join us!! Remember you can enter any type of creation, it doesn't have to be a card.

This week we are generously sponsored by Ppinkydolls

who are giving 3 digi stamps to our lucky winner!

Thanks for visiting today xx

I'd also like to enter the challenges at:
The Crafter's Cafe - All creatures great and small
Crafty Friends - Animals
Simply Papercrafts - A/Goes
Crafty Catz - A/Goes optional cute image
Colour Crazy Challenge - A/Goes
Alphabet Challenge - D for dots
Craft Rocket - Embellishments
Aud Sentiments - Cute and sentiment
Word Art Wednesday - A/Goes
Crafty Addicts - A/ Goes optional Spring
CHNPP - A/Goes with patterned paper
Crafty Animals - A/Goes with animals
and also The Digistamp Boutique May Competition on Facebook

Alf's Shed

Morning Folks!

Hope you're all OK today?

The new challenge at Passion for Promarkers has been choosen by Karen, who would like to see 

BUTTONS and/or BOWS

on your projects this week. 

I have used Dad's Shed - Alf  from our sponsor DigiStamp Boutique on this card which I made for my Dad's birthday - he has a very large shed at the bottom of his garden.   

Here's a closer look at the lovely Alf:

Card Details

Paper - The Works

Grass Die- Die'sire Icicles 

Fence Die - Ebay

Burlap ribbon and jute string - Amazon

Prima flowers and button from stash

Don't forget to pop over to

 to see what the rest of the design team have made!

Get creating with your Letraset / Winsor & Newton markers and join us!! Remember you can enter any type of creation, it doesn't have to be a card.

As I mentioned, we are generously sponsored by 

who are giving a £10 voucher to our lucky winner!

Thanks for visiting today xx

I'd also like to enter the challenges at:
Word Art Wednesdays - Anything goes
Creative Knockouts - Lots of Layers
Make My Monday - In the garden
Crafty Sentiments - Only for boys
TTCRD - Anything goes
Creatalicious Challenges - A/G with opt dies punches
AYLI Challenges - Favourite colouring medium - Promarkers, as these are the first medium I used that gave me results I was happy with in a short amount of time, I'm too impatient to wait for watercolours etc to dry. 
Digistamp boutique Monthly Facebook Competition

Dolly Daydream

Afternoon Folks!

Well it's been a dull old day here, rain and grey skies - everything I hate about the British winter! I have something to cheer us up though, a Spring inspired card! I made this for my sister who is mad about sheep:

 The digi is Dolly Daydream from Digistamp Boutique, isn't she cute? 

Card Details:

Papers - First Edition Spring Drop and a bit of green from my scraps box

Dies - New fence die from China, cheap as chips and cuts really well and MBox butterfly

Prima Flowers from my stash with stickles in the centres

Thanks for visiting and for any comments you leave!

I'd also like to enter the following challenges:

Digi Stamp Boutique Facebook Challenge

Word Art Wednesday - A/Goes

Cutie Pie Challenge - Spring Cuties

My Time to Craft - Easter or Spring

CraftyCatz - Layer it Up

CHNPP - A/Goes with patterned paper

Cardz 4 Galz - Furry Friends

Craft Rocket Challenges - Something new = fence die

Allsorts - Fairy Tales and nursery rhymes - I'm thinking Little Bo Peep has lost her sheep

As you like it - single or multi layers - Mostly I like to use multiple layers, I can't master the CAS approach and I need an excuse for my patterned paper addiction!!

Quacky

Morning Folks!

Hope your week is going OK so far!

The new challenge over at Passion for Promarkers is just starting, it's nice and easy, we'd like to see

LOTS OF LAYERS 

We are sponsored by Digistamp Boutique, I got to play with the super cute For You Quacky - love this bright and cheerful image which was great to colour on a very dull January day! I raided my yellow / orange scraps folder for my card so I'm not too sure of the make of the papers. The die cut butterfly is from Memory Box. 

Who could resist that little face:

Don't forget to pop over to

 to see what the rest of the design team have made!

Get creating with your Letraset / Winsor & Newton markers and join us!! Remember you can enter any type of creation, it doesn't have to be a card.

As I said, this week we are generously sponsored by

who are offering a £10 voucher to our lucky winner!

Thanks for visiting today xx

I'd also like to enter the challenges at:
Country View Crafts - Anything goes
Word Art Wednesday - Anything goes
CHNPP - Anything goes with patterned paper
Cute Card Thursday - Something fun
Colour Crazy Challenge - Anything goes
Crafty Catz - Anything goes
Allsorts - Butterflies
Digi Stamp Boutique - January customer competition

Jasper and Flower

Morning Folks!

How can it be Monday again so quickly? I'm sure the weekends are getting shorter! We are also midway through January (hooray!!) so it's time for a new challenge over at Sparkles Monthly Challenges. This time we would like to see:

THANK YOU CARDS 

I recently treated myself to some new digis in the sale over at DigiStamp Boutique - this one is Jasper and Flower which I thought would be useful for lots of occasions, including Thank you!  The papers are a mixture of LOTV , Forever Friends and a magazine freebie. The sentiment tag is LOTV too.

He was great fun to colour!

Please visit the main blog

to see the inspiration from the rest of the design team!

Thank you so much for visiting today and for any comments you're kind enough to leave xx

I'd also like to enter the challenges at:

DigiStamp Boutique - January Customer Competition

Crafting from the Heart - Anything goes

MAWTT - Flowers

Cute Card Thursday - Something New (digi stamp)

Word Art Wednesday - Anything Goes

Simon Says stamp - Use patterned paper

I love promarkers - Thank you 

Deep Ocean Challenge - Something New (new stamp)

CHNPP - Anything goes with patterned paper

Birthday Nell

Morning Folks!

Less than a week to go ....

No Christmas card to share with you today but I do want to let you know that the fabulous Mega Christmas Challenge is continuing over at Passion for Promarkers. Our theme is 

ADD A SENTIMENT

so nice and easy and suitable for any occasion - so you don't have to make a Crimbo card if you don't want to!

There are lots of fabulous prizes on offer (wish I could enter myself !!) you can check out all the details over on the main blog post here. The rest of the team 2 girlies have some fabulous cards to show you this week. The challenge is open until 2nd January so you've got plenty of time to grab your promarkers, flex markers, tria markers, metallic or aqua markers and join us!

Here's my card, I needed a break from snowy cards! I've used a super cute digi from Digistamp Boutique (one of our sponsors) called Birthday Nell. Papers are from Crafters Companion and magazine freebies.

Here's a closer look. The all important sentiment is a rub on from an old Letraset pack

Thanks for looking and have a great day, whatever you're doing!

I'd also like to enter the following challenges:

Digistamp Boutique - December Challenge

Simon Says Stamp on Mondays - Party!

CHNPP - Anything goes with patterned paper

Sketchy Snowman

Morning Folks! 

A quick post from me to let you know that the new theme has just been announced over Sparkles Monthly Challenges, it is 

WHITE CHRISTMAS

I recently treated myself to some new images from DigiStamp Boutique, this is the first outing for Sketchy Snow person which you can find here in the shop. I do love a nice traditional snowman on a Crimbo card! I found this sentiment in my odds and ends box and it was the perfect size to go with the image, I think it looks a little bit like a snowglobe! The card is quite sparkly in real life, the background white sparkly paper, which is not showing up too well, has been embossed with a Bebunni Folder. 

I had fun adding a good dusting of glitter and lots of liquid pearl snowflakes.

Please visit the main blog

to see the inspiration from the rest of the design team!

Thank you so much for visiting today and for any comments you're kind enough to leave xx

I'd also like to enter the challenges at:

DigiStamp Boutique - November Customer Competition

CHNCC - Anything Christmas goes

CHNCExtra - Anything Christmas goes

The Merry Christmas Challenge - Anything goes + Christmas 

Crafty Catz - No patterned paper

Cute Card Thursday - Sparkles

ABC Christmas Challenge - W is for white and X marks the spot

Word Art Wednesday - Anything goes

EDITED TO ADD - Lucky winner at

Shades of Autumn

Morning Folks and Happy Hallowe'en!

Don't panic, nothing scary going on in this post!

This week, the new challenge at Passion for Promarkers has been choosen by Elaine who would like to see projects inspired by 

SHADES OF AUTUMN 

 I fell in love with this cute squirrel image called 'Autumn Nutty' when it was released over at DigiStamp Boutique a couple of months ago. He seemed perfect for this challenge so here he is making his first appearance on my blog, coloured up with promarkers and a touch of pencil:

I used another sheet of my current favourite paper, Dovecrafts More or Less Collection. Initially, I wasn't too sure about the colours but now I'm beginning to think I should have bought 2 packs ...  I love the orange, turquoise and browns together (or in this case on their own) and the patterns. Here's what I'm rabbiting on about:

The woodgrain paper is from The Works, banner and sentiment die cuts from The Range, and hessian ribbon from the Art of Craft. The pinwheel flower/ rosette is from American Crafts, it's such an ancient packet - I can't even remember where I got it!  

Don't forget to pop over to

 to see what the rest of the design team have made!

Get creating with your Letraset / Winsor & Newton markers and join us!! Remember you can enter any type of creation, it doesn't have to be a card.

This week we  have two prizes, a packet of 6 promarkers and a 30% discount voucher from Petal Lu 

for our winner. 

Thanks for visiting today xx

I'd also like to enter the challenges at:

DigiStamp Boutique: October Customer Competion
Crafting from the Heart - Anything goes
Stamping Sensations - Autumn Glory
Crafty Friends - Cute
As you like it - people or animals - Animals every time. I prefer colouring animals on craft projects as I find hair and skin tones difficult. I also often prefer animals to people as they don't judge you!
Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Anything goes
Word Art Wednesday - Anything goes
CHNPP - Anything goes with patterned paper