Welcome once again, I'm getting back into using my crafty stash and can't believe how long it's been since i created a card like this albeit seems very cluttered after my last 2 cards (let me know what you think), I got out my Go Kreate Dies for my main shape, CC Designs Phlox flower die, handcut circle. The cutesy image is LOTV 'milly, me & my dog'..just the adorable image that brings back memories of being pushed in the park by my siblings. Just a wonderful image, coloured with Promarkers, top sentiment from Paper Pretties pirate set, bottom one from Personal Impressions stamp set, the lovely d/load paper is from Michelle Coleman freebie. Ribbon is lush with white dots from Meiflower, yellow button from Fantastic Ribbons. Bit of Glamout Dust added to the dress and grass and finished with 3 sequins on flowers.

So onto the several challenges I'm entering..followed the sketch from Sunday Sketch & Stamp, Sweet Stampin 'anything but square', Scrappy Frogs 'shaped card', LOTV 'anything goes' as is Papertake Weekly, CC Monthly 'here comes summer' as are MAWTT and OSAAT, Crafty Ribbons 'yellow, pink, orange', Creative card Crew 'ribbon', Trimmies 'buttons' as is Love To Create, Stamptacular Sunday 'spring bling', Stampin for the weekend 'sparkle & shine', Dream Valley 'special lady', Hooked on craft 'flowers' and last but not the least Simon Says 'birthday' and they've just turned 3!!! Wow, I remember when they started and how much wonderful inspiration the company and dt have given with their amazing work. So a very 'Happy Birthday Simon Says Stamp, hope there's lots more to come!' Just to finish off by thanking you for your visit and hoped you liked my little creative offering.

Morning all to a dreary wet day, I've started my cardmaking with a nice simple card, only a mini one with some scraps of Pink Petticoat paper, CC Designs flower dies and a little stamped sentiment from American Crafts, rhinestone to finish. Nice gentle way to get back into cards I thought. The challenges entered are LIM with 2 lovely simple sketches..i chose the square version, Paperplaytime, Crafty Catz, Poodles Parlour and Inky Impressions are 'anything goes'. Hoping to do some more creative crafting this afternoon. Bye for now.

Morning to a very warm sunny start to the week, wow, what a difference to yesterdays weather... rain, rain and rain non-stop. I think you can guess this is not a card in the pic but a full adult size jumper for my daughter (longer in the sleeve as that's how they like them now adays, I've been told). Am I glad this is finished, it was a promise i kept since November last year and she loves it and is safely tucked away in her winter draw for later this year. It's so snug annd warm made from a Wendy pattern 5616 Merino Chunky and is very textured indeed. The rib is a twisted rib and the base pattern is really quick with only a 2 row pattern. Hope you like this as much as I like the finished product! Hoping to return to my fave challenges and get some cards made before I start on my next knitting project for my hubby.

They've flown the nest...not my children but the family of Robins that were residing in my hubbys (not finished shed), this is the continuation after we discovered we had some feathered friends residing with us in an outbuilding (shed). This is a first for me (with animals) as is trying to work the new interface on Blogger, have I really forgotten how it works or have they made it more complicated..well we'll see how this goes. All the pics have been taken only 2-3 days apart and it's amazing how all this has happened..from 5 little eggs to 4 pairs of eyes, it looks like the 5th didn't make it.

This was taken Tuesday...

 ...and this is what greeted me today..I'll leave it to you to work out where the 4 of them were before they flew off.

I was petrified to see those long nails that my hubby didn't get to tidy off but will hopefully do now that they've fled. However, I may just persuade him to leave a small enough vent for them to come back if they choose to. What a tender moment the last few weeks have been..just to see if they would make it out of that carrier bag, I'm so pleased they made it but sad to see them go. Hoping we will have the pleasure of another lot..just maybe? Many thanks for visiting, sorry there's no card but I'd love to know what you think.

Happy beginning of the week! Wow, Monday here again, and i thought I'd show you my card using the Buzzy Bees d/load from Pink Petticoat. Liz is so generous that i bought this when there was an offer on with when you buy the images you get all the Honeycomb colourways for free! Lovely Jubbly!!! Before i get on to my details just like to say the Robin family are doing well, definitely getting bigger by the day, collection of pics will be up soon. Sooo my card has very minimal colouring with a yellow Promarker on the bee, glamour dust added to the wing, spare piece of black thin ribbon, some yellow scrap card hand cut circle, some die cut wording using my Baby Face dies from Cuttlebug. Oh yes a Martha Stewart fence punch.

Challenges are only a few (for a change..;)..Dieing For a challenge 'sketch', Paper Shelter 'wings & things' and Sir Stampalot is celebrating their 2nd birthday..Yippeeee!!!! Bye for now.

Morning all! It seems a longtime since I posted again and I do miss it and want to continue updating every now and then. Hope everyone is doing well, my Robin family in the shed is doing well, eggs have hatched and can definitely see some yellow beaks amongst all the fur balls. Taking pics as i go along their process and will post them together in a post soon. Today my card is ofcourse primarily for the LIM challenge..that's why there's not much to see, looks bare but so simple to make. Image is a stamp from Pink Gem (comes with a no. 7 but I masked it off for a change), w/coloured for a change, faux stitching with a black pen, sentiment from a mag freebie. Challenges entered are LIM 'one layer & doodling', Secret Crafter 'man's card' as is Everybody Art, Papertake 'stitching' and Cards For Men 'spring colours'. Have a fab day and thankyou for taking the time to visit.

Hello to all on a chilly Sunday, lots of sunshine to brighten the day and I've some yellow on my card too! Hope that craftland is still crafting ...me? I'm on a quest to finish some knitting I'd started, that's why my creations have somewhat dwindled lately. I've been on the mini hop at LOTV and it reminded me of the several unused stamps I've got (I'm ashamed as I do love them very much). Here I've got 'little dot' from LOTV, comes complete with that sentiment, stamped 3 times so that I could spend time decoupaging it, used Promarkers, embossed, cut off 2 rough corners with my deco scissors,ribbon and silver pearls from Meiflower, tiny buttons from stash, finished off with Glamour dust on wings.

Many challenges entered...Promarker 'white on white' as is I Love Promarkers, LOTV 'transport' as I understand it 'fairies' can be included, My Mums Craft Shop 'celebrate', Love To Create 'birthday', Sweet Stampin 'girly but no pink', Colour Create 'yellow, blue, white', Crafty Catz 'animals..can a butterfly be included?', Crafty Ribbons 'wings' as are Totally Papercrafts and Paperplay. Crazy 4 'buttons', Stamptacular Sunday 'free week', Simon says 2nd, Cupcake Craft 2nd and Little Darlings 2nd. Thankyou for taking time to visit!

As promised yesterday, this is what we discovered in my hubby's shed this Easter..new beginning for Easter. The nest is in an old paper bag hung on a hook only to one handle with lots of other bags inside it, what a lovely surprise and I've showed the pics to all my family too, they're Robin eggs and it comes through a triangular piece of space that my hubby didn't quite get round to finishing off, delight to see even the Robin sitting on them below and a closer shot too. We're able to wander in and out of the shed as it's behind the door where my hubby used to hang his jacket but not any more, I keep reminding him not to disturb them. I can't wait to see the eggs hatch and the little ones getting strong to fly out. Hope to come back with some pics in a couple of weeks on the update. Thanks for visiting, and I'd love you to leave a comment so I can visit you too! Bye for now.

Hi to everyone, hope Easter has gone well to all who celebrated, come back tomorrow to see what I discovered over the holidays!!! Today onto my little creation which will be given soon to a very clever boy in my family..and I expect this is what he's been doing in his holidays in the intermittent rain showers, and we've had many today. The image is a stamp from Motivet from a couple of years back called 'dexter in puddle', coloured with Promarkers, brown card from my grocers, paper d/load from Nikky's cd, lovely sentiment from Paulette 'thankyou', tiny bit of ribbon from scrap and great pearls from Meiflower, absolutely stunning products there (a must see). So sorry about the bluish background I suspect the setting has been changed on my camera, will have to look into it.

There are alot of challenges on the theme of April Showers namely.. Oldie but a goodie, Papertake Weekly, Paper Playtime, Party time Tuesdays 'water', Little darlings 'outside', Stamp & Create 'spring' as are Cards For Men, Cupcake Craft, Bunny Zoes monthly 'ribbon or twine', Anything 'anything goes', Here Come the boys 'anything but a card' as is Craft Us Crazy, Lady bug Crafts Ink 'shapes', Allsorts 'bingo.. Kraft, stripes, yellow', Totally Papercrafts 'bingo..blue, ribbon, pearls',Simon Says 'use fave tool, my trusted scissors to cut my shapes once I've used my plastic stencil'. Well that's the lot, don't forget to come back tomorrow.

Hi to all and hi to a brand new month! The year is going by so quick and yes it's been a while since i placed something creative on here but rest assured I've got plenty to do ;))) Onto my little creation which is one of those simple dangly sort of bookmarks..used a beautiful freebie digi image from Janet 'thankyou..I've been collecting them and normally make quick cards to send off', cute bunny is coloured with Promarkers, bit of Glamour Dust added to her pretty frilly lace..and yes that is lilac lace from a couple of years ago..
..on the backs used some wonderful free digi d/load from Paulette 'thankyou for your kindness', and yes that meaningful sentiment is from there too!!!


This will be handgiven to a little madam, I can't wait to see her little face, she is simply the cutest and i love her random thoughts.

The challenges are many..I've nearly missed out on 2 weeks but I've gone through and visited most..firstly..Love to create 'bunnies, chicks etc' as is Crafty sentiments, Papertake 'anything' as is Anything, Creative Craft 'anything but a card' as is Craft Us Crazy, Digital Tuesday 'easter' as are Everybody art, Hooked on craft, Incy Wincy, My Mums craft shop, Party time Tuesdays 'flowers', Creative card Crew 'spring' as are Crazy, Stamp and Create, I Love promarkers, crafty Creations, Truly scrumptious 'use lace', Kaboodle Doodle 'anything but rectangle'. Isn't that a lot? T,he gardens are beginning to come to life I'm loving all the daffodils out at the moment, brought some in for my vase and they're looking beautiful, I've also seen some very big 'buzzy' bees, which reminded me of some new Pink Petticoat releases, i couldn't resist today but bought the 'bees with the lovley co-ordinated honeycomb papers for free, how about that for a bargain for only £2.99. So that will probably be next on here for you to see! Have a brilliant evening.

My first christmas card in spring. Hi everyone, Wow, the very nice weather has kept me away from crafting, super super sunshine although too much in abundance makes me ill. Nevertheless my card is to cool down and look forward to christmas before spring has even sprung. I won this cute 'Ollie with gingerbread' stamp from Janet over at Pink Gems, Andy was gorgeous too but I needed something with a mouth and Janet said very kindly I could swap 'many thanks Janet'. Coloured with Promarkers, cut out, added the same stars he comes with on tiny foam pieces, yummy ribbon from Crafty Ribbons, paper is from Nikky's Creative Christmas paper boutique cd..gorgeous papers on there, buttons from Fantastic Ribbons, die cut round label from Baby Face dies and peel off sentiment from QVC long time ago and finished with remnant of red ribbon.

As this image is used for a christmas card the challenges entered are quite festive but I'm, sure Ollie can be used for an ordinary everyday card. Challenges entered are 10...Pink Gem Challenge 'sketch', Craft Your days 'men/boys & buttons', Sweet Stampin 'anything goes' as are Stampin for the weekend, Christmas Stampin. DYSU 'plaid', Crimbo Crackers 'cute', Winter Wonderland is a pic, Sparkles Forum Christmas 'peel-offs' and PaperPlaytime 'for the guys, add a sentiment'. So there you have it, for my christmas card box! Wishing you all some crafty time.

Hi crafters, warm welcome to you all! Today I made a creation using a SN stamp 'heavenly angel', absolutely a joy to colour and so easily would go for a birthday, coloured with Promarkers and a little w/colouring, dotty paper from Polka Doodle cd, fabby buttons from Fantastic Ribbons.

Challenges entered are 10... Sugar Bowl sketch, Bling it on 'shades of lilac & birthday', Love to create 'anything', Incy Wincy 'things with wings', Allsorts '3 in a row..I've 3 strips', Bearly Mine 'dots', Flutterby wednesdays ' open theme', Truly Scrumptious 2nd 'lilac, lemon & cream', Crafts & me 'light spring colours' and Kaboodle Doodle 'cute'. Bye for now.

Hi, what a glorious day it is, wonderful bright sunshine! Hope last nights frost didn't catch too many of the tender plants out there. Onto my card which is from the HM 'cake' sheet, great to colour..used my koh-i-noor pencils and blended, top sentiment from American Crafts, bottom one is from LOTV stamp, paper is from Bearly Mine (Donna) freebie, lovely, lovely buttons from Fantastic Ribbons ( I won some loveliness button bag from their blog for just commenting 'thankyou so much, there's so much to get through). Pink twine and pearls from Meiflower and used the EK success butterfly layering punch!

Challenges entered are 10..House Mouse, Craft Us Crazy 2nd, Crafty Ribbons 2nd, Cute card Thursday 2nd, Papertake 2nd, Stampin For the weekend, Crafts & Me 'circles' as is For Fun, Stamptacular Sunday and last but not least Joanna Sheen 'sping in the air'. Many thanks for your kind comments, wishing you a fab rest of the day.

Hi to the blogging world, well I've not posted since Tuesday but I assure you ...been busy in the gardening section (at home), but I definitely thought this was apt for all the mothers who have a birthday tomorrow as well as being Mothering Sunday here in the UK. I hope as a mother that I have given our children love, hope, honesty, maturity, guidance, to prosper even when all else fails and to forgive those who have wronged. In return I only hope they will carry this through their own children for decades to come. Sorry, I'm feeling very sentimental and motherly today, but shall go onto my card using 'cake glorious cake' from LOTV, lovely to colour used Promarkers for the EK Success layering butterfly diecuts too, paper from Polka Doodles, luscious lilac ribbon and pearls from Meiflower, birthday sentiment stamp from old See d's.

Challenges entered here are several... LOTV 'butterflies & fairies', MAWTT 'special lady', Crafty Ribbons 'birthday', Paperplay 'bingo..stamping, stitching and inkpad', Craft Us Crazy 'something sweet', Poodles Parlour 'anything', Cute Card Thursday..it's their 4th Birthday!!! My Mums craft shop 'mum' as are Love to create, Crafty Pad, Dream Valley 2nd, Truly Scrumtious 'lilac, lemon & cream', I love promarker 'anything goes', Crafty Sentiments 'things with wings', Promarker 'yellow & pearls', Papertake 'for the girls', Cupcake Craft 2nd. Wishing you all a fab Mothering Sunday for tomorrow.

Hi to all! My creation is using an old Popcorn The Bear stamp from Crafters Companion, coloured with Promarkers, tag was empty but filled it with one of the tiny sentiments that come with it, again used my new EK Success butterfly layering punch (used all the 3 settings to achieve tha fab look). Gem and luscious ribbon from Meiflower.

Challenges entered are 10...CC Monthly 'spring' as are Joanna Sheen, Crazy 4, Totally Papercrafts 'faves...new punch', Crafty Catz 'special lady' as are One Stop Crafts 2nd, Craft Your days, Oldie but a Goodie 3rd, Charisma 3rd final, I Love promarkers 2nd. Many thanks for visiting, Happy Crafting.

Happy first day of the week crafters! Wow, what a beautiful summery day yesterday that I didn't have a moment to post this, too good to stay indoors, so hubby was patching up the roof on the shed and me just admiring it from a distance ;))) Well, it's been a while since I entered Nutcrafters # and as I have their Pink Frosting stamp set I just had to use it, coloured with Promarkers as are the Phlox die cut flowers, dotty paper from Anice free d/load, you may notice the fence which is a Martha Stewart punch has 2 different fence pattern, I was experimenting with it by not totally placing it on the pattern grid and shifting to create a different kind of fence, i think I've attached the one I was experimenting with instead of the one which was perfect, alas there's my mistake. The gem and fab luscious ribbon from Meiflower, super card items there, a must see!

Challenges entered are 10...Nutcrafters 'mum' as are Oldie but a goodie (old paper and stamp), One Stop Craft, Craft Your Days, Simon says 'special girl', Promarker 2nd, Cupcake craft 'dotty' as is Scrappy Frogs, Charisma 2nd and Papertake 3rd entry. I've another card to show from the weekend, but it'll wait till tomorrow, happy crafting all!

Hi to a fab Friday! I must say 'hi' to my newest follower..thankyou for following. Today my creation is the remainder of a card where I chopped off some of the front to use for my last card yesterday. Digi image coloured with Promarkers is from Crafty Pad and beautiful it is too, so 'thankyou', used some script printed on some card from Pink Petticoat Think Pink set, cream lace and yellow posh ribbon from stash, my lovely new butterfly punch outs from yesterday (jsut loving this new punch from EK Success) colourised with Promarker and a tiny pearl from Meiflower.

So onto my challenges for 10...Crafty Pad 'share the news' and also their new Monthly challenge, Charisma 'ribbon', Fab n Funky 'mellow yellow', CES 'flower frenzy', Love To Create 'monochromatic', Simon says 2nd, Papertake 2nd, Desmet 2nd and Dream Valley 2nd. Wishing you all a fab weekend, take care!

Afternoon all, it's a sunny March day, lovely delightful sunshine although there is somewhat a slight chill in the air! Hope everyone is well...today I'd firstly like to say a big welcome to my latest follower and then to tell you I've had a little spend at the Glitter Pot by taking advantage of their free p&p and bought some replacement plates for my Cuttlebug..also from QVC bought the EK Success Layering Butterfly punch which was on the TV couple of days ago.Well what can I say, arrived this morning. I only had the basic mini hand butterfly punch (the ones you start out with as a beginner, very inexpensive) so I thought it was about time I treated myself and I'm so glad I went for this one, so much scope there, as you can see I've used 2 layers here on my card, at only £15 I thought a bargain and then p&p added on was still under £20! Can't complain really, and there are some more new goodies on here too, the gorgeous ribbon and those pearls are from Meiflower (won from the Crafty Pad blog along with so much more) 'many thanks!' There's so much on their website, you're simply spoilt for choice and very good value.

I've used an old PB stamp 'letters & flowers', wonderful for a mum, grandma, special lady who cares about you. Used Promarkers to colourise the butterflys punched out from recycled greetings card and also the bow which was orginally white.

So the challenges are a fair few, Pixie Cottage 'sketch & things with wings', Crafts & Me 'things with wings' as is Allsorts, Paperplay 'recycle' as is OSAAT, Crafty Ribbons 'celebrate mum/grandma' as are Oldie but a Goodie, Promarker, Simon Says, Dream Valley. Flutterby Wednesdays 'springtime' as are Crafty Calendar, My Mums craft shop, Penny Black & more. I Love Promarkers 'ribbons & bows', Desmet 'anything goes' as is Papertake weekly, Sweet Stampin 'nature & bugs' as is Alphabet. Thankyou for coming over to see what I've been creating, hugely appreciated!

Happy Monday! Wow, beautiful sunshine coming through my lounge as I type..hope everyone has had a restful weekend with family and loved ones, mine just flew by with a mini spring clean but only one room got done ;( and this card and bookmark was all ready to post on here but just couldn't get a moment free to myself. I've used the Simply Sassy SN image 'bookclub' by Krista, great to colour, this will go for a Post Pals child trying to get back into school after suffering many obstacles, hope she will like it!

I used some kraft-like card from my grocers, great sturdy card..some offcuts of paper, inexpensive doily, stamped sentiment and swirls in walnut stain ink, coloured with Promarkers, finished with CC Designs Phlox die flowers from My Mums Craft Shop.

Several challenges entered.. firstly, Sugar Bowl followed the sketch and I hope the option, Saturated Canary 'doilies', Paper Sundaes 'good luck' as is Inky Impressions, Crafts & Me 'pretty in lace', Cute Card Thursday 'signs of spring', Crafty Catz 'punch/dies', new one to me Clearly I Stamp' anything goes' as are Simon Says 2nd, Pixie Cottage, Craft Your Passion, Party Time Tuesdays 2nd, Bunny Zoes Monthly 'shabby chic'. So, I'm hoping to have a little potter around the garden, see what further damage the slugs have done to my hubbys yellow crocuses and looking forward to the daffodils coming out any day soon! Have a great day all.