Christmas cards? I'll make them tomorrow...

...because I have new little Nellies to play with :)



This was almost finished when I spotted the ArtyGirlz favourite medium challenge for this week ~ let's see, ProMarkers, yummy paper & the all important bit of string ;)



Happy Tuesday!

Freezy Fridays...

The Arty Girlz had me kinda stumped with their challenge this week ~ what are my favourite colours?
The stumpedness only lasted as long as it took me to have a quick peeky through my stash mountain ~ there's a definite orangey/browny/greeny glow to it all... ;)
So here's Matthieu & Arthur, the latest offering from Toodles & Binks, all decked out in my favourite colours...




This little fella reminds me so much of the Little Horror ~ same long old fringe, sprinkling of freckles & cheeky li'l grin. I even have a photo of him somewhere teasing our dog with his bowl, in almost exactly the same pose! Must dig it out :)

Happy Freezy Friday!

Sneaky...

Here are a few cards I made last night for some forum challenges ~ I must 'fess up to being a bit sneaky though & using paint on all of them so that I could enter them into this weeks ArtyGirlz challenge...Oh come on, do you expect any less of me?!

Blog hopping...

I was having a li'l blog hop yesterday {all I can do at the mo, I'm still not able to leave comments...} & saw this lovely sketch of Claudia's ~ I just had to have a little play!
I had to search my garden for a tiny bit of sunshine this evening in between work shifts, so please ignore the fact that the card is on a step in my garden!
Hope everyone has a lovely Bank Holiday weekend ~ spare a thought for those of us who'll be at work, won't you? ;)






Now that I can actually leave comments, I'm gonna sneek this into the Arty Girlz open theme challenge ;) Cheeky? Who me?!

Going digidol*...

Just had to have a play with these yummy Prima Hybrid downloads & the end result fits perfectly with the latest challenges over at Papertake Weekly & Arty Girlz. Oooooh & the little birdie means it fits in with the My Time to Craft challenge too!

Picture's rather shabby, not sure why ~ it couldn't possibly be my {lack of} photography skills, could it?

*Digidol is Digital in welsh, but funnier...well it makes me giggle anyway ;)

I'm not hiding anything under the flower ~ok?!

I was working on this weeks Papertake Weekly Challenge, when I thought I'd go & see if the Arty Girlz had posted their latest challenge yet. Whoo-hoo ~ it was so perfect!!!
So here's a bloom {for PTW} in a frame {for the Arty Girlz} :)

Everything I've used came from out of a {messy} drawer, so I have no idea where they're from, apart from the pp which is by Making Memories.

I'm off to see if I can create something for Marlou's blog candy now ~ hopefully I'm not too late!

sugar buttons...

sweet li'l Nellie came out to help me with this weeks Arty Girlz challenge - buttons {i lurves buttons! - i also lurves these gorgeous crochet flowers, mine came from The Scrummy Stash Cafe}

soooo... 1 Sugar Nellie, 1 flower {with a BUTTON in the middle - just in case you missed it!}, some yummy BG mellow pp & a little bit of ribbon & i have a card all ready to go in my "I need a card for so&so, Leann & I need it NOW" stash!!! {anybody else have this problem? friends who think you just magic up cards in seconds? this is why i very rarely put a sentiment on anything!!}

sketched, doodly ribbons...

when i saw Di's latest sketch i just had to have a go ~ so beautifully simple surely even i couldn't get too lost with it! the Arty Girlz want ribbons & fibres this week & the Scrummy Stash girls want some doodles...done!!!!

ooooooh & i won the Scrummy Stash pockets challenge!!! so chuffed, & after making a complete nuisance of myself with my lack of pc skills {sorry Maria!}i've ordered some gorgeous new stamps from their shop =-)


pp basic grey, everything else i found in my scraps drawer

in stitches...

when i saw this weeks stitches challenge over at Arty Girlz i got really excited & had all sorts of big ideas about my new role as a seamstress. "so where ARE the stitches?" i hear you ask ~ look very, very closely, i just about managed to sew the buttons on...


cardstock, pp & buttons are all scraps, sentiment & star template from pink petticoat