Vintage Lady

 Good Morning Peeps,

It’s been quite nippy outside this week but we have had some lovely sunshine and luckily no snow though it is forecast for Thursday, I do hope the forecast is wrong as I have an appointment with my eye consultant and I have been waiting 18 months so I hope I can get there ok.

It's Wednesday so it's time for a new challenge at Fab'n'Funky where for the next two weeks our host is our lovely Buffy with her challenge of Vintage/Retro.

For my card I have used a Lacy Sunshine image that I have had for years, I coloured her with Copics, the papers are by Do Crafts and Prima Marketing, die cut flower and leaves MFT and I added some cotton lace and a sentiment.

Hope you can find time to join in with our challenge this week.

Have a good day!

Santa's on His Way

 Good Morning Peeps,

I do hope you have all had a good weekend.  Lorna and I went to the Sincerely Yours Craft Show in Leigh yesterday, first show I have been to since covid began, it was nice for a change but there were not as many stands as there used to be.

Well here is the first Christmas card for this year posted for the start of challenges at Christmas with the Cuties where as always your project must be Cute and Christmassy but with the option of Something with a Sentiment.

For my card I used a Whimsy stamp coloured with Copics and paper pieced the sleigh, I fussy cut the image out and put it onto some embossed card, I used some kraft card to cut out the sentiment with a Sue Wilson die and also cut some snowflakes with a Crafter's Companion die and added some white Nuvo drops and some Diamond Frost glitter.

I do hope you are in the mood to start making some Christmas cards and look forward to you joining in our challenge.  There is some great inspiration on the challenge blog from the Design Team so do take a look.

Enjoy your day!

Birthday Bear

 Good Morning Peeps,

Hope you are all well and enjoying some of the sunny weather we have been having still a little cold but it makes such a change from the rain.  

We have a new challenge starting today over on Fab'n'Funky where I am hosting with my challenge of  "FOR A CHILD".  I made my card for my friend's granddaughter who was three a couple of weeks ago.

The image is from Lili of the Valley and I coloured with Copics, the paper is from Honey Bee Stasmps and I added a ribbon.

We would love to see you joining in our challenge this week and you will find lots of inspiration from the design team over on the challenge blog.

Enjoy your day!

Birthday Flowers

 Good Afternoon All,

I have been busy all week trying to tidy up my craft room, as yet not looking much tidier even though I have tried to be ruthless and got rid of quite a lot of papers and things I have had for years and never use now.  I also threw out a pile of magazines that I had kept for ages meaning to read again but never got round to as the pile got higher.  Hopefully while I am in the mood will carry on next week while I seem to have some spare time.

I thought I would share this card with you today, I made it for my friend whose birthday is on Valentine's Day.

I found this image in my box already die cut and I have no idea where it is from, but I coloured with Copics, the papers are from My Favourite Things and I added a sentiment and some Nuvo Drops.

Hope you have a good weekend, whatever you have planned.

Valentine

 Good Morning Peeps,

 

It’s another dry and hopefully sunny day today and after some frosty starts the days seem to be warming up a little so we have managed to get out for a couple of short walks this week which certainly makes me feel much better after all the rain of the past month or so.

Well we have a new challenge starting today at Fab'n'Funky where our lovely teamie Pat K is hosting with her choice of:

 

Valentine or Hearts

I decided to dust off one of my Hanglar stamps none of which have been used for ages, I coloured her with Copics then paper pieced her dress,  I fussy cut her and placed her on the doily on foam pads. I cut  heart from the same paper pad by MFT added the heart doily and sentiment.

Hope you can find time to take a look at the great inspiration from the Design Team over on the challenge blog and maybe join in with your Valentine's cards.

Enjoy your day!

New Home

 Good Morning Peeps,

Hope everyone is well and having a good week.  Been quite a busy week here for us with one thing and another, one granddaughter had a birthday and eldest granddaughter Zoe set off on her travels for 4 months, Singapore first stop then Kuala Lumpur, Thailand and everywhere else in Asia, we have had some photos and she seems to be having a good time.  This week is  bit quieter and thankfully a lot warmer after the snow and ice of last week.

Well back to today and our new challenge at Fab’n’Funky which is brought to us by our lovely Neva with her theme choice of  New Beginnings

For my card I used a Joffe image, coloured with Copics, background paper is by Polkadoodles and I added some die cuts and a sentiment,

Hope you can find time to join in with us and take a look at the lovely inspiration from the Design Team on the challenge blog.

Enjoy your day!

Shaped Cards

 Good Morning Peeps

Well here we are my first post of 2023.  I do hope you all had a wonderful Christmas and New Year.

It’s time to start our challenges over on Fab’n’Funky and our first one is brought to you by our lovely Chris and she has challenged us to make a shaped card (no squares or rectangles).

I made this shaped card (no idea what shape it is called), but I scored my A4 card and folded into this shape,  my image is from Polkadoodles and I coloured her with Copics, added some flowers cut with  Lisa Horton die and added a sentiment.  Sorry about the quality of the picture but it hasn’t stopped raining here for days and it has been so dark it had to be taken with the light on, I don’t know why the background looks blue it is white!

Hope to  see you joining in with our challenge.

Have a good day!