Santa Claus

Good Morning Peeps,

 

I do hope you have all had a good weekend.  

 

We have a new challenge starting today over on Christmas with the Cuties where our challenge this month is:

 

Cute and Christmas with the option of Santa Claus

 

For my card I used this cute Santa image which I found in my box already printed and I don't know where it is from, I coloured him with Copics and added some glitter.  I used some dotty red card cut snowflakes with an MFT die and Merry Christmas die by Sue Wilson.

 

Christmas is only 3 months away now so time to get started on those Christmas cards if you haven't already done so and maybe join in with this month's challenge at Christmas with the Cuties, love to see you there.

 

Have a good day!

 

 

Snowflake Kisses

 Good Morning Peeps,

Well that was a short summer, back now to the winds, showers and not very warm temperatures and to make it even colder I have a Christmas card for you today.  This is for the new challenge st Christmas with the Cuties where this month our challenge is:

Have Yourself a Merry LITTLE Christmas 

(let’s see your cards for children)

I used an image from Whimsy coloured with Copics, sentiment is by Catherine Pooler and I attached them to some snowflake embossed card.

Hope to see you joining in with us this month.

Have a good day!

Candy Canes

 Good Morning Peeps,

Hope everyone is keeping well and had a good weekend.  We have just returned from a week’s holiday in Devon, we had a good time though the weather was very changeable, sun, showers and very windy at times.

Now it’s back to our challenge for this month at Christmas with the Cuties where our theme is:

“Take a Trip Down Candy Cane Lane”

(So let’s see your Cute and Christmas projects featuring Candy Canes or Red and White)

For my card I used a Bugaboo digi, coloured with Copics, the background paper is a very old one from my stash, I added a tree cut with an MFT die and added a sentiment and some glitter.

We would love to see you joining in with us this month and please take a look at the great inspiration on the blog provided by the Design Team.

Enjoy your day!

Snowman Hearts

 Good Morning Peeps,

I hope you have all had a nice sunny weekend.

We have a new challenge starting today over on Christmas with the Cuties where this month our optional challenge is:

Last Christmas I Gave you my Heart

(Let’s see some hearts on your project but don’t forget it must be cute and Christmas)

My image is from Polkadoodles, coloured with Copics, paper is from my stash, and I added some glitter and a sentiment.

We would love to see you joining in with our challenged this month.

Have a good day!

Sleigh Bells Ring

 Good Morning Peeps,

I hope you have all had a good weekend, we have had everything weather wise this weekend, Friday the wind, Saturday snow and Sunday torrential rain and wind.  We have had so much wet weather this week I think we all need web feet, let’s hope this week gets better.  Also I think I have hopefully avoided the virus as it’s 11 days since my contact with my DIL and I have no symptoms. 

Talking of snow we have a new challenge starting today on “Christmas With the Cuties”, it’s our first challenge of the year after the Christmas break and our monthly challenges are now “Just for Fun” challenges.  Our theme for this challenge is:

“SLEIGH BELLS RING”

(We want to see a sleigh on your image)

 For my card I used an image by Sunny Studio, coloured with Copics and I paper pieced the sleigh,  paper is by Catherine Pooler and I added a sentiment stamp by Whimsy and some glitter.

Hope to see you joining in with us this month.

Have a good day!

Meet Me Under the Mistletoe

 Good Morning Peeps,

Hope this Monday finds you all well after having a good weekend, it was quite cold here but we had some lovely sunshine too.  Today is quite frosty but beautiful blue skies and sunshine and I am going out for lunch today with a friend.

We have a new challenge starting today over on Christmas with the Cuties where for this month our challenge is:

Meet Me Under the Mistletoe

(make a card for someone special)

Our sponsor for this month is the lovely:

POLKADOODLES

For my card I used this lovely Holly Hedgehog image kindly supplied by Polkadoodles, coloured here with Copics, the papers are by Lawn Fawn and MFT, I used a Creative Expressions edging die and the image was cut out with a Sentimentally Yours die, the snowflake die is by Hunkydory to which I added a sentiment from LOTV. Merry Everthing is by MFT and I added some glitter.

We hope you will be able to join in with us this month with your lovely Christmas creations.

Have a good day.

Little Reindeer

 Good Morning Peeps,

Hope you have all been enjoying the lovely hot weather but I am glad that it has now cooled down a bit.  We did have a nice day out last week in Southport, we took our eldest granddaughter Zoe out for the day to celebate her getting a 2:1 degree in Maths from Nottingham University.

Back to today where we have a new challenge starting at Christmas with the Cuties and for this month our challenge is:

Clean and Simple

We have a new sponsor this month:

JUST ME DIGI STAMPS

With a great prize for the winner

I seem to be doing quite a few of these clean and simple cards recently for this one I used a My Favourite Things stamp reindeer and snowflake, coloured with Copics and the sentiment is by Totally Besotted.

We would love to see you joining in with our challenge this month.

Have a lovely day!

Dancing Penguin

 Good Morning Peeps,

 

Monday morning and we have our new monthly challenge over on Christmas with the Cuties starting, our challenge for this month is:

Spots and Snowflakes

(but don't forget it must be cute and Christmas!)

 

We have a fabulous new sponsor this month:

 

The Design Team were so lucky to have images provided by our new sponsor and I chose to use Dancing Penguin available here

Colouring Medium - Copics

Papers - Catherine Pooler and stash

Ric Rac Die - MFT

Snowflakes die - MFT

Sentiment - Whimsy

Glamour Dust

Hope to see you joining in with our challenge this month.

Have a good day!

Candle Gnome

 Good Morning Peeps,

 

Hope you have all had a good weekend and are keeping safe and well.

 

We are back after our Christmas Break at Christmas with the Cuties with a new challenge for you today:

 

Optional - Gnomes, Elves, Fairies

 

We have a great new sponsor this month:

 

Star Jam Lines

 

 Image - Star Jam Lines

Colouring Medium - Copics

Papers - My Favourite Things

Gold Netting, Sentiment 

Hope you can join in with us and get started on those Christmas cards early.

Have a good day!

 

Christmas in the Snow

 Good Morning Peeps,

I hope you have all had a good weekend, it's been very quiet here not being able to see any of the family at the moment, but at least yesterday in the lovely sunshine I had a nice walk.

We have a new challenge for you over on Christmas with the Cuties where our theme for the next month is:

Christmas in the Snow

Our sponsor for this month is the great

Bugaboo

with a lovely prize for the winner

The Design Team were lucky to have images to play with from our sponsor and there is some great inspiration from them on the Challenge Blog.

Image and Sentiment - Bugaboo

Papers - My Favourite Things

Snowflake die - Hunkydory

Cosmic Shimmer Diamond Frost

Enjoy your day!

Merry Christmas

Good Morning Peeps,

Hope everyone has had a good weekend.

Today sees our first challenge of this year at Christmas with the Cuties where our challenge for the next month is:

Anything Goes
(with the option of Clean and Simple)

Our sponsor for this month is the fabulous Bugaboo with a great prize for the winner.

Image - Bugaboo
Colouring medium - Copics
Papers - Bo-Bunny
Sentiment, Glamour Dust

Enjoy your day!

Challenges Entered:

CraftyhazelnutsChristmasChallenge - Anything Christmas Goes
WinterWonderland - Anything Christmas Goes (5-03)
CrimboCrackers - Cute Christmas (7-03)

Christmas Cuties

Good Morning Peeps,

Monday morning and I hope you have all had a good weekend and are ready for Christmas, I am not doing too bad just a couple of things to buy and a few presents to wrap but hoping to finish by the end of this week and then have a relax before the big day.

We have a new challenge for you at Christmas with the Cuties, our last one for this year and our theme is:

Christmas Cuties

We have no sponsor for this month it is Just for Fun.

My card is one I have made for one of my granddaughter.

Image - Polkadoodles

Colouring Medium - Copics

Papers - Crafters Companion and Stash

Glamour Dust, Sentiment

Hope to see you joining in with our last challenge this year.

Blue Snowman

Good Morning Peeps,

 What a beautiful weekend we have had, I have been lazing in the garden listening to the cricket and reading and an hoping today will be the same.  Hope you have all had a good one too.

Now to something more on the cool side, it’s the start of our new challenge at Christmas with the Cuties where for this month our theme is:

Let’s Build a Snowman

The design team were lucky to have images from our fabulous sponsor to play with:

Bugaboo
With a great prize for the winner

Image - Lil Snowman
Colouring Medium - Copics
Papers - LOTV
Tree Die - Memory Box
Glamour Dust, Sentiment

We would love to see you joining in with our challenge this month.

Enjoy the Bank Holiday whatever you have planned.

Going Green

Good Morning Peeps,

Hope everyone is well and having a good weekend.   We had a lovely time at the RHS Show at Tatton Park on Thursday and then on Friday I had to go into hospital for another eye operation to reduce the presssure of my Glaucoma so won't be able to do any crafting this week and then have to have the other eye done in two or three weeks.

Luckily I had my card ready for the new challenge over on Christmas with the Cuties where for this month our challenge is:

Going Green

We have a fabulous sponsor this month:

Polkadoodles

 

The team were lucky to have a choice of images from our sponsor to use.

Image - Watch Your Step available here

Colouring Medium - Copics
Papers - Anna Marie Cristmas Jingle
Sentiment - Courtesy "Desert Diva"
Ribbon, Nuvo Drops, Glamour Dust, Star Gem

Please take a look at the inspiration on the challenge blog by the Design Team and we are also having a Design Team call, information about this is also available on the Challenge Blog.

Tag It

Good Morning Peeps,

Hope you have all had a good weekend and that you have a great Bank Holiday.  We should be on our way home when this publishes after having a lovely holiday for the past week in Sidmouth Devon.

We have a new challenge for you today over on Christmas with the Cuties, our host is our lovely Sarah with her challenge for this month:

Tag It

(don't forget it must be Cute and Christmas)

Image - Aurora Wings

Colouring Medium - Copics

Papers - First Edition and stash

Sentiment - LOTV

Ribbon, Glamour Dust

Please take a look at the great inspiration from the Design Team over on the challenge blog.

Have a lovely day whatever you have planned.

A Cuddle for Christmas

Good Morning Peeps,

Well what a change this weekend we had beautiful sunshine for most of the time, warm and bright, I  changed into a t-shirt it was so warm let's hope it continues.  Even the garden got a lot of attention, hubby cut the lawns and sorted out new plants. 

Anyway we have a new challenge starting today over on Christmas with the Cuties

White on White

Our sponsor for this month is the fabulous

Crafty Sentiments

Image - Crafty Sentiments (Benson & Betty)

Colouring Medium - Copics

Creative Expressions, Tonic and Hunkydory dies

Hope to see you joining in our challenge this month and getting a head start on your Christmas cards.

Beginning with B......

Good Morning Peeps,

What a beautiful weekend we have had, so warm just like summer and today is so warm already, think we may take advantage of this and have a trip to the coast.

We have a new challenge starting today over on Christmas with the Cuties, this is our first challenge of 2019 after our Christmas break.

Beginning with B......

Bear, Blue and Buttons

Image - James Bear by LOTV

Colouring Medium - Copics

Sentiments - LOTV

Papers - Crafters Companion

Glamour Dust, Nuvo drops

Challenges entered:

Jingle Belles - All that Glitters
Winter Wonderland - Anything Goes Tribute
Crimbo Crackers - Anything Goes (28-02-19)
Christmas at Sweet Stampin - Anything Goes (12-03-19)
Cute'n'Crafty Christmas - Anything Christmas (6-3-19)

Away in a Manger

Good Morning Peeps,

Today sees our last challenge of the year over on Christmas with the Cuties and for this challenge our theme is:

Carols and Songs

Our sponsor for the challenge is the delightful:

 

I chose to use this image as it reminds me of the beautiful Christmas carol

“Away in a Manger”

 

Image - Lacy Sunshine

Colouring Medium - Copics

Papers - Crafters Companion

Poinsettia die - Marianne designs

Glamour Dust, Sentiment, Nuvo Drops, Snowflake

Challenges Entered:

A Gem of a Challenge - Anything Goes

 Sweet Stampin - Anything Christmas

Patties Creations - Winter/Christmas (5-1-19)

Winter Wonderland - Anything Christmas (6-1-19)

Moving Along with the Times - Anything Christmas

Crafty Gals Corner - Anything Christmas

Cute'n'Crafty - Anything Christmas

Shopping Our Stash - Tis the Season

Crackers!!!!

Good Morning Peeps,

Hope everyone has had a good weekend and not been too cold, seems to be warming up a little again here as it was bitterly cold on Friday and Saturday.

Today sees the start of a new challenge over on Christmas with the Cuties where for this month our challenge is:

Anything but a Card

Our sponsor for this month is the fabulous:

 

with a great prize for the winner.

I chose to make a couple of Christmas crackers:

Images - Snowman Frame available here

Herbie the Bear  available here

Colouring Medium - Copics 

Cracker Die - Tonic

Papers - Graphic 45

Ribbon

There are some lovely projects made by the Design Team over on the challenge blog so please do take a look and we would love to see you joining in our challenge this month.

Sooooo Sleepy

Good Morning Peeps,

Hope you have all had a good weekend, it was a nice sunny day yesterday so we managed to get out for a walk after such a rainy week.

Today we have the start of our monthly challenge at Christmas with the Cuties and this month our challenge is:

For a Child

(nice and easy, but don't forget it must be cute and Christmas)

This month our challenge is "Just for Fun" but we will have a Top 3.

Image - Pink Gem Designs

Colouring Medium - Copics

Sentiments - LOTV

Embossed Card

Doily, Ribbon, Glamour Dust, Nuvo Drops

Spectrum Noir clear sparkle pen

Well we are almost at the end of September and Christmas is looming so why not join in with us and make a start on your Christmas cards if you haven't already done so.  Look forward to seeing your creations.  Have a good week.