ATS Preview...

Today I have an adorable little witch to share...

This is Hilda & Vlad from the Sweet November line with a sentiment from an Amy R set called Ghostly Greetings.

Be sure to link up on the ATS blog for your chance to win!

A sweet surprise...

Here's a very quick card I whipped up for Papertake's Anything Goes challenge...

The August CC Designs releases can be found here

Cosmo Cricket Odds & Ends paper pad available from Dies to Die For

...and yay me - I even managed to include the optional extra with these little metal buttons :)

Thanks for visiting!

ATS Pixie Preview...

I have a little trio of tags to share today - made to introduce this gorgeous new trio of Pixies...

This is Abigail, Brigitta & Lula - I know I say it all the time, but I really do love swiss Pixies!

There's also {as always!} a fantastic AmyR sentiment in the release which is just perfect to use with them.

I even stitched them up a little vellum envelope - cos I love 'em so... ;)

Don't forget to head on over to the ATS blog for your chance to win the August releases.

Thanks for visiting!

Vroom...

I couldn't resist whipping up this quick little card when I saw the theme over at Lili of the Valley this week - my kids have always loved playing with boxes, so this stamp has a special place in my heart!

Challenges: Lili of the Valley Fun & Games

Papers can be found here at Dies to Die For, Promarkers here.

Thanks for visiting!

A gift for you...

I have a couple of little gift cards to share today - they're made up of yet more Cosmo Cricket and CC Designs Sugarplums I'm afraid!

Love little Reindeer Trevor - he was my fave stamp from last Christmas :)

Tracy has a whole stack of adorable CC Designs stamps in stock over at Dies to Die For

A few challenges for this one:

Allsorts "Anything Goes"

Totally Gorjuss "For Someone Special"

&

Creative Cowgirls "Winter/Christmas"

That's a LOT of challenges for me! Thanks to the DT's on all for the inspiration :)

Gorgeous silky ribbons, sweet little bells, bakers twine, glassine bags and a whole heap of other scrumminess can be found over at The Ribbon Girl - it's my new favourite place to hang out :)

Once finished, the little gift cards have been popped in a glassine bag and tied up with ribbon. Couldn't resist tucking in a candy cane too - I love making things Christmas-pretty!

Enjoy your day,

Jingle all the way...

I have a quick little card to share today using the super-cute Dearest Deer from Stampavie.

I managed to squeeze in two challenges for this one too - A Spoon Full of Sugars' "Christmas Card" and  I Love ProMarkers' "Christmas Carol/Song" - see the little bell tied on to the bow? Every time I see those bells on my desk I start humming Jingle Bells :)

Speaking of Jingle Bells, the big Horror is leading the brass section of the school band in their Chrimbo concert next week. I've listened to endless renditions of Jingle Bells over the past few weeks. I am of course, very proud, but I swear, if I see him emptying the spit valve all over the carpet again I will be wrapping that freakin' trumpet round the nearest wrappable thing I can find...

Have a good 'un ;)

Snowflakes...

I kinda doubt that anyone who's been visitin' my blog for a while will be surprised to see another card with a CC Designs image on it - I do after all, have a habit of getting a little massively obsessed with them...

This little one's for the latest ATS Wednesday Challenge and their snowflake theme.

Catch y'all tomorrow - possibly with yet another CC Designs card... ;)

Taggin' along...

I've had most of the little bits for these sat on my desk waiting for sticky tape for the past week - seeing that this weeks ATS challenge is Tags finally spurred me into a bit of sticky tape action...

These are destined for the Princesses IzzyBelles and EllaBella {aka my nieces}

 

I've stitched a little pocket onto the back of each tag - perfect for tucking a gift card in to.

Or your AA card for photographic purposes if you've yet to actually do any Christmas shopping...

 

A big thank you to the ATS girls for the tag-tastic inspiration :)

I'm off now to make a boy version - my 16 year old nephew totally needs a glittery, be-ribboned tag in his life...

Laters - thanks for visiting!

Sparkly hugs...

Couldn't resist colouring this little lovely in when I saw the latest Simon Says... Sparkle challenge - I dug out possibly the longest neglected bottle of Stickles ever for her wings!

You can check out all the sparkly yumminess over here - thanks for the challenge girls!

Gone Spookin'...

There are a lot of Halloween themed challenges about this week - the perfect excuse for me to play with one of the adorable new Tina Wenke Halloween images from Stampavie :)

This collection is a very limited edition - if there are any you'd like I suggest you get shopping for them now!

Image: Cat in Pumpkin Costume

Papers: Cosmo Cricket "Matilda"

Button & green twine from stash

Ok - the challenges are:

Cutie Sunday

Stamp Insanity

Lets Ink it Up

Aly's Sunday Challenge

& Paper Romance - 'cept that's a button challenge not a Halloween one!

Phew - for me, that's a lot of challenges just for one card!

Thanks for visitin'

Hugs,

Christmas? I'm so over it already...

...which is why I'm sharing yet another Christmas card...

Yeah right, I'm so besotted with the Christmas Stampavie images I just can't stop myself - so you may have to put up with even more yet...
I made this li'l sweetie for the latest Spoon Full of Sugar challenge:

"A Pile of Penguins" available from Dies to Die For

Memento ink & ProMarkers

Cosmo Cricket "Mitten Weather" papers

Twill, twine & button from stash

A big, big thank you for visiting and comment-leaving - it really does mean a lot :)

My own lack of proper blog hoppin' lately has left me feeling very, very guilty...I'm sorry! I really do hope to remedy that soon.

Have a great weekend!

Hugs,

Let it snow...

Just zooming in to let y'all know that Tracy now has the gorgeous Stampavie Christmas release in stock over at Dies to Die For.

The Laurence Design collection can be found here, Penny Johnsons' cutie-tootie's are here

Enjoy your day!
Hugs,

Material Girl...

The theme over at CCT this week is "Material Girl" - show us a bit of material/fabric on your creations.

Being the highly original and creative creature that I am {ahem}, I've cut some snowflakes outta felt.
Yeah, I can see how impressed you are...

Stop by the CCT blog to check out all the fabby examples over there - and stop by Bev and Michelle's blogs too and share some love, they're my Guests for this month ~ thanks girls! :D


Hugs,

Oooooops...

Sooooo, this was supposed my card for this weeks CCT challenge.

'Cept I didn't actually read the deets of the challenge properly...

Yup, the challenge is "Dieing for a Punch" - we're after a card with NO nesties or punches.
See what I did?
Nesties and a punch.
Duh...

Head on over and join in - we're sponsored this week by the fabby Stamp Shoppe - lets be honest, you can't possibly fail the challenge as spectacularly as I did...

Hugs,

This very cute Snowman is by Pink Cat Studio and is available over at Dies to Die For - I'll add a link just as soon as the website's back up and running properly :D

Enough already...

...yep, it's another Christmas card peeps...

Not sure what's happened actually - I've always been seriously slack when it comes to making these babies, but guess what? I even have another Chrimbo card ready to show you tomorrow! {try and curb that excitement, please...;D}

This one is called "A pile of penguins" and it's another from the new Laurence Design range over at Stampavie.

The Totally Gorjuss challenge this week is to use stars - so I think I'll add this li'l sweetie!

Enjoy your day!
Hugs,

Yesterday we went on an impromptu visit to Chester Zoo.
"Look how big the elephants are" I said to the li'l Horror.
"Yeah, they are quite big," he replied "but not as big as that lady there"
There really is only one thing it's possible to do when your child has just very obviously pointed at someone and declared them bigger than an elephant - I walked away from him as quickly as I could...

*snort* I only just realised what his shirt says...

Christmas in August...

...is the theme over at A Spoon Full of Sugar and I couldn't resist inking up Penny Johnson's new "Dearest Deer" image again {hmmmmmm, if I'm not careful the other stamps'll be accusing me of favouritism}.

Enjoy your weekend!
Hugs,

Deer Friend...

Just a quick post to share a card I whipped up using the Farm Fresh Friday sketch over at The Greeting Farm blog:

Aaaaaaw, love this stamp set and don't use them anywhere near often enough!

Still hugely busy, so that's it from me {I am starting to visit you all again though!} - happy day all :D

Hugs,

My favourite CCT challenge ever?

Yeah, possibly... ;D

Not a lot I can add about my card - it's a super speedy make for our "Boyz to Men"** challenge {love it!} and it fits in rather nicely with this weeks Anyone for Anya? "Lotsa Layers" theme...other than adding that My Guy Ian can be found here, that's about it!

I'll see ya tomorrow peeps - I have something pretty cool and new to share...you might wanna stop by at about 3pm UK time...y'know - just sayin'...

Hugs,

**Anyone else singing the Boyz II Men *ahem* classic End of the Road? Really? You're not?
Ha! You will be...

Feel better kiddo...

Heya peeps, long time no see... ;D
I have a little card today for the Spoonfulls' "Furry Friends" challenge - aren't they a sweet little pair?!

This is "Sick Billy" from Pink Cat Studio - Tracy has a fab selection of PCS stamps on offer, check 'em out!

Have a groove-tastic kinda day,
Hugs,

Hey Ian...

A really quick fancied-making-a-card-kinda-card, that doesn't have even the merest hint of girly pinkness!

papers & embellies are from Cosmo Crickets Li'l Man collection
My Guy Ian can be found over here

That's pretty much it from me - thanks for visiting, I'll see you all tomorrow!
Hugs,