Just Cute Bears #12 - Flowers

Wow! What a day I had at Ally Pally yesterday! I had an amazing day and got lots of lovely craft goodies. I hope to take a photo of my new stash later on to post.

Being Sunday, it means it's time for another Just Cute Bears Challenge. Thank you to everyone who took part in last weeks challenge, I enjoy visiting all of your blogs to see your fabulous creations. Make sure you check the blog to see if your our lucky winner.

This week we would like to see Flowers on your projects.

I have used the cute Milton with Flowers from Wild Rose Studios which my fab DT buddie Jenny kindly sent me! I now have this stamp after my shopping trip. He has been coloured with copics before being cut out with my rectangle nestabilites and mounted onto some Core'dinations CS cut with the scalloped rectangle nesites. The DP is MME that was free with one of my craft mags. I didn't realise how lovely it was until I decided that I really should use some DP for a change. I added a punched strip from my MS Lace Doily punch and some ribbon from my stash. The flowers didn't quite turn out the way I wanted. They are some cream Hero Arts flowers and I coloured them with copics but I think I picked the wrong colour! To finish off I have stamped a sentiment from Woodware and added some little gems.

A close up of the coloured image. I apologise for the quality of the photos. I took these at 6am yesterday morning!

As always, we are sponsored by the lovely Kim at Cuddly Buddly. Please check out the rest of the DT's amazing cards.

Thank you for stopping by and for any comments you may leave, they are greatly appreciated.

xx :0)

Just Cute Bears #8 - All White

I hope this post works as I'm currently in Bath on a hen weekend so won't be able to fix it if it doesn't! One of my good friends is getting married next month so we're off making chocolate truffles and enjoying a nice Italian.

Well, it's Sunday so that means it time for another Just Cute Bears challenge! Thank you to everyone who entered last weeks Mother's Day challenge, I had a great time looking at all the entries. Don't forget to check out the blog to so who last weeks lucky winner is.

This week's challenge is All White. With the exception of your bear image, the rest of your card or project should be white.

I actually enjoyed this challenge as I think cards that are just white are very elegant. I took this opportunity to use a stamp that had never seen an ink pad. I can't believe that I've had this cute Louis by Wild Rose Studios for nearly a year and not inked him up! I coloured him with copics before cutting him out with nestabilities. The base is made of shimmer card that has been embossed with my swiss dots folder and then punched with my MS Valentine Lace punch. I finished it off with some ribbon and Hero Art flowers

This card has already found a home! I gave it to a very good friend for their birthday. I will definitely be using this stamp again. Here's a close-up of how cute Louis is!

We are once again sponsored by the fabulous Cuddly Buddly so please join us this week and see if you can win!

Thank you for any comments you may leave, they are greatly appreciated.

xx :0)

Forever Friends Challenge - General Birthday

The challenge this week over at Forever Friends is to make a general birthday card. As it's my 2nd cousin Abbie's birthday today, what better excuse to use one of my lovely FF Stamps! The image has been coloured using my copics and mounted onto cs. The base has been partly embossed using the swiss dots folder and the bottom punched with my MS Doily punch before being layered onto another piece of cs and finished off with some ribbon from my stash and 3 gem stones. The sentiment is from Hero Arts and has been cut out and mounted using nestabilities.

I hope you like it!

I'm at home today as I've got a bit of an upset stomach. I'm hoping to finish my sister's card as it's her birthday tomorrow and I've got a couple more card requests for people at work that I need to work on this week but I'm feeling really washed out at the moment.

Hope everyone is having a good day and thank you for any comments you leave, they are greatly appreciated.

xx :0)

Friday Sketch #4

I have finally been brave enough to take part in the Friday Sketchers challenge! It's week number 4 and this weeks sketch has been provided by Heidi.

Edited to say that I have just realised that this card also qualifies for this weeks Cute Card Thursday Challenge as the task was to use patterned paper.

I have used one of my favourite Penny Black stamps, Lazy Days. The backing paper is from Papermania and is the Amethyst Fusion Creative Tones set. The flowers are from Prima and the sentiment is from Hero Arts.

I'm looking forward to my "Lazy Days" soon. Jon and I will be off to Skiathos is just under 4 weeks and I can't wait!! It's our 4th year going there and we just love it. The people are fantastic and the food is out of this world.

Anyway, thanks for stopping by and I hope you are having an enjoyable weekend.

xx :0)

Jo's Blog Candy

Jo has some amazing blog candy on offer on her blog. To be in with a chance of winning all you have to do is make a birthday card that's pretty and pink!!

I thought I would take this opportunity to ink up my new Lola's Tea Party stamp which is part of the Sugar Nellie collection. The paper is from Pink Petticoat. Not sure if you can see the white dots on the paper due to the poor lighting! The flowers are from Prima and the sentiment is from Hero Arts.

Hope you like it Jo!

xx :0)

Men, Men, Men!!!

I won't say that I'm moaning about Men in general, just about making cards for them!!

I thought I'd better make a few more men's cards for the fair, but really didn't know where to start so I paid Michelle's gallery a visit as I always find that inspirational.

The two I've made are fairly simple. I've made duplicates of birthday and Father's Day and then realised that I didn't have any FD messages so a trip to the shops will be in order!

I have the bowls stamp as my dad is an avid bowler and I used this for a card a couple of years ago and haven't used it since. I also love the PB stamp I used. The sentiments are Hero Arts.

I'm now off to listen to the Reading FC match and see if we can hopefully avoid relegation from the Premiership! I'm not too confident as it's out of our hands. Whilst I'm doing that, Jon will be watching the Chelsea match and hoping that they win and that Wigan can stop Man Utd from winning so they can clinch the Premiership title!! Talk about nerves today!!

xx :0)