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

Summer Fun!

Morning Folks!

It's Tuesday and Lorraine has chosen a lovely theme for us over at Passion for Promarkers this week:

SUMMER FUN 

Here's my card, I would love a snooze in a hammock in the sunshine somewhere!

Drinkies Anyone?

Card Details

Stamp - Penny Black - Kickin'

Sentiment - Humphrey's Corner

Papers - Forever Friends, magazine freebies and some scraps from my green folder

Flowers - Prima

Dies - Nestie Ovals and Marianne leaf die

Pearls from stash, glossy accents and white liquid pearls.

Don't forget to pop over to

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

Get creating with your Winsor & Newton markers (formally promarkers) 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 Some Odd Girl

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

Thanks for visiting today xx

I'd also like to enter the challenges at:
Penny Black and More - In the Garden
Cute Card Thursday - Hello Summer!
I love promarkers - Anything goes opt circles
Crafting from the Heart - Anything goes
CRAFT - Come play outside
Fussy and Fancy - Summer Fling
Crafty Girls Creations - Anything goes
Craftaholics R Us - Gingham
Simon Says Stamp Wednesday - Anything goes
Word Art Wednesday - Anything goes
Colour Crazy - Anything Goes
CHNPP -  Anything Goes with patterned paper
Stamping Sensations - Anything Goes

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Flower bear

Morning Folks!

Are you going to be watching the BIG Royal Wedding later? I might watch for a bit, I'm looking forward to seeing the actual event, but I'm already bored by all the media chatter!

In the meantime, here's my mid way reminder post for the challenge over at Penny Black Saturday Challenge.

As usual ANYTHING PENNY BLACK GOES

The optional 'Extra' challenge this month is  
USE YOUR FAVOURITE PENNY BLACK STAMP

As usual, I found it almost impossible to choose just one favourite PB stamp - I love them all! Eventually I settled on using this cute bear stamp, called unsurprisingly 'Flower Bear', because it is useful for many different occasions - birthdays, thanks, get well soon etc.  I also used one of my favourite layouts:

I love the way this cute bear is trying to hide the flowers behind his back, even though they are taller than him!

Card Details

Papers - Stix2 and dovecraft

Die cut - Memory Box

Ribbon and Pearls from my stash

We're looking forward to seeing your entries over at PBSC, just click the hedgehog below and he should take you straight there!

We are generously sponsored by 

The prize is a $20 voucher.

Thanks for visiting today and for any comments you'd like to leave!

I'd also like to join the following challenges:

Penny Black and More - Anything goes
Crafty Sentiments - Pastel colours
Addicted to stamps - Make your Mark
I love Promarkers - Anything goes
Crafty Addicts - Anything goes / Spring is in the air
Word art Wednesday - Anything goes
CHNPP - Anything goes with patterned paper
Colour Crazy - Anything goes
Crafty Catz - Anything goes & optional sketch
As you like it - Pink or Blue - although my favourite colour is purple I do seem to make an awful lot of pink cards - way more than blue!
Crafty Friends - B is for ....bear,bow, blooms and banner!

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Karate Spencer

Morning Folks!

This week, the new challenge at Passion for Promarkers is  

SPORTING OCCASIONS

I'm not a big sports fan but I do love watching tennis in the summer, I'm looking forward to the start of Wimbledon next week when not much crafting will be done! 

This time we are generously sponsored by

who are offering a $6 voucher to our lucky winner! They also kindly supplied the DT with some fab digi images to play with. Here's my card using the very handsome Spencer in Karate , as soon as I saw this image I had an idea of the card I wanted to make - monochrome and CAS with this cute bear as the focal point:

He was great fun to colour

I watched a couple of videos to try to figure out how to tie the ribbon to resemble the karate belt. It's hard to see but it does look quite similar in real life. All the paper is from my scraps folder, the stripey one is a magazine freebie and the dotty one is from Papermania capsule collection, it actually had a die cut circle missing from the centre but fortunately there was enough border left for this card. 

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.

Thanks for visiting today xx

I'd also like to enter the challenges at:
Little Miss Muffet Challenges - Anything goes

Word Art Wednesday - Anything goes

Crafty Catz - Anything goes optional baby

Crafty Calendar Challenges - Boys will be boys

Crafty Purple Frog - Make It Manly

CHNPP - Anything goes

The Cutie Pie Challenge - All creatures great and small

Simon says stamp on Wednesdays - Patterned paper

Creative Knockouts - For the boys

The Ribbon Girls - June any image

Creatalicious Challenges - Anything goes

Crafty Sentiments - Anything goes

Pammies Inky pinkies - Anything goes

Doodles

Happy Weekend Folks!

Hope you have something fun planned!!

Now I have to be honest and confess that I didn't really find the new challenge at Sweet Stampin which starts today that much fun, the theme is 

DOODLES 

Not my cup of tea,  so don't look too closely at my card - this one is my best effort, the previous 2 are in the bottom of the bin!! Still I guess that's why it is called a challenge - LOL!! The cute bear is another 'Archie' from Craftwork cards, coloured with promarkers and the sentiment is from Stampin Up. Streamers around the edge 'doodled' by stressed out Jacky through gritted teeth!!!!

 I hope you can find the time to pop over to the main Sweet Stampin blog and see the great inspiration from Team Fi. We did have a giggle behind the scenes with this one; I think doodles on cards is like Marmite - some of the team loved it, others like me hated it!!

  Mind you, I should mention that we have a great prize on offer so it's definitely worth having a go and joining us!!

Thanks for visiting!! I'm going to be brave and enter the following challenges:

The Craft Garden - Pastel colours

Aud Sentiments - Anything goes with a sentiment

Crafting for all seasons - No designer papers

Stampin for the Weekend- Anything goes

4 Crafty chicks - No patterned paper

The Crafter's Cafe - Square cards

Crafts 4 Eternity - Anything goes

Sister Act - Anything goes

Pattie's Creations - Anything goes

Box of Hearts

Evening Folks!

This is going to be a short and sweet post from me tonight - the power here in Hampshire keeps dipping and I'm not sure how long it is going to last...!!

I meant to blog this card earlier this afternoon but ran out of time, which seems to be the story of my life lately!! Introducing the rather lovely Alfie Bear from Craftwork cards which I bought ages ago and then he got left in a drawer until his big moment on Valentines day!!

Love that cute face- a proper shaped teddy!!

He is coloured with promarkers and flexmarkers.

Papers - Forever Friends - Forever love and scraps from my box

Embossing folder - Cuttlebug Swiss dots

Dies - Stampin Up border, Nesties hearts and Simon Says Heart banner

Sentiment - Stampin Up

Pearls - Mei Flower

Thanks for visiting!! 

I'd also like to enter the following challenges - 

Inky Impressions - Sketch

Passion for Promarkers - Have a heart

Papertake Weekly - with a heart

Deep Ocean Challenge - love is all around 

The Squirrel and The Fox - Love

Addicted to Stamps - Hearts

Bunny Zoe's Challenge - Hearts / Love

Feeling Crafty - Dies and punches

Divas by Design - With Love

A Creative Romance - Include a sentiment

Sister Act - Anything goes

Totally Papercrafts - Valentine's / Love

Alphabet Challenge - Always and forever

Crafty Little Fairies - Teddies

Paper crafting Journey - Love is in the Air

Cute card Thursday - Clever cutting

4 Crafty Chicks - Use Pearls

The Crafter's Cafe - Must have hearts

Fab n Funky - Love

Crafting by Designs - Anything for love