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)

Excited!!

I'm like a kid at Christmas!! My very dear husband decided to surprise me this weekend by taking me to Ally Pally today! He knew I was upset about having to miss the NEC shows for the first time in 5 years so thought this would be a good way to cheer me up!

All I have to do now is wait for him to get up!

xx :0)

Just Cute Bears #11 - Yellow & Green

Happy Easter to you all! Make sure you don't eat too much chocolate otherwise you'll make yourself sick.

Being a Sunday means that it's time for another Just Cute Bears challenge. Thank you to everyone that entered last week, I know it was a bit of a difficult challenge. I did enjoy visiting all the blogs and seeing your wonderful creations.

Before I tell you the challenge for the week, I would like to tell you that, for April, we have been joined by the wonderful Helen! This week's challenge is a colour combo for you. We'd like you see Green & Yellow on your creations. This isn't a usual combo for me so wasn't all that easy. I knew straight away that I wanted to use this cute Lili of the Valley stamp though. The layout is fairly simple. The CS is two different shades of Bazzil Basics and the yellow is Core'dinations. The embossed panel has been made using the Paisley cuttlebug folder, the ribbon is from my stash and the flowers are from Prima.
I was quite shocked at how similar my card was to the fabulous Jenny's creation! Please check out the rest of amazing DT girlies cards. We are sponsored by Cuddly Buddly.

Hope you all have a lovely day. Thank you for stopping by and for any comments you may leave, they are greatly appreciated.

xx :0)

You're a Big Sister!

I've been enjoying the long break as work has been really hectic still. It's been so hectic that I forgot to photograph the little Easter treats that I made for some of my lovely work colleagues. I made them some lovely little milk carton boxes and filled them with a mixture of different eggs.

The last card I posted was the baby boy card. When my sister requested it, I decided that I would also make a card for the soon to be big sister so that she wouldn't feel left out. She's just turned 4 so I knew it had to be a cute Magonlia image that I used.

As with all little girls, it had to be pink and I used my favourite Bazzill pale pink. I really need to get some more of this! The white background has been embossed with little hearts using the Love Language CB folder and the patterned paper is from a Forever Friends paper pack. The image has been coloured with copics. The ribbon is from my stash, the sentiment is PC generated and cut out using label nestie tags. I have finished off with some dew drops round the image.

I am fairly pleased with this image, although I am aware of some shading inaccuracies. The lovely Liza has been very kind in giving me some tips and advice on how to improve. I would also like to thank the lovely Dawny too who has also been very helpful

I have decided to enter this card into this weeks Papertake Weekly Challenge as this is an Open Theme and Cute Card Thursday which is So Egg-citing (or an Oval Shape

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

xx :0)

Lil Baby Boy!

Completely unheard of, 3 posts in one day! Please scroll further down to see my Just Cute Bears DT card for this week..

My sister asked me if I could make a baby boy card for a friend who is due to give birth very soon (yes, they know it's a boy!). This gave me the perfect excuse to use my new Lili of the Valley stamp. These stamps are so cute and very reasonable.

I had such fun colouring this image in and I'm really pleased with it. The papers are downloads from Nitwits and I have the fab Dawny P to thank for pointing me in their direction! My MS doily lace punch received another outing on this card and some organza ribbon. The sentiment is a Francoise Reed Woodware stamp and I finished off with some pale blue dew drops.

A close-up of this lil cutie pie! You could just squeeze his lil chubby cheeks!

I am going to enter this card into this weeks Creative Card Crew challenge which is Dots!

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

I can't believe it's Sunday evening already! At least it's only a 4 day week followed by a 4 day weekend!

xx :0)

Blog counter gone!

THIS IS MY SECOND POST OF THE DAY,

PLEASE SCROLL DOWN TO SEE MY JUST CUTE BEARS CHALLENGE CARD

I was just checking out my blog to make sure that my Just Cute Bears post had posted okay and I've spotted that my blog counter has disappeared! This had been counting visitors for 2 years! Anyone have any ideas as to how I can get it back, or should I wait and see if it will magically reappear??

Any tips would be greatly appreciated!

xx :0)

Just Cute Bears #10 - Easter

Good morning, I hope you've remembered to put your clocks forward an hour! That's always the harder one to adjust to isn't it, realising it's actually an hour later than you thought!

Anyway, it's time for another Just Cute Bears Challenge and our theme for this week is Easter. Before I show my card, I just wanted to say a BIG thank you again to everyone that took part last week, I really do enjoy looking at every one's creations.

For my card this week, I decided to use this cute Forever Friends decoupage kit that I picked up at the NEC last year. I'm starting to like decoupage, especially when it's die cute for me! I use silicone glue now when decoupaging as it's a lot more flexible and forgiving than 3d foam pads. All the papers and elements are part of the kit, the only extra that I used was the pale blue card for the base and scalloped oval. This card is from SU! So that it wasn't too plain at the bottom, I cut out some additional little eggs and have used silicone glue to help them stand out a bit too.

A close up of the cute bear!

And now for a bit of an "arty" shot from me so you can see the dimension in the card.

We are sponsored by the fabulous Cuddly Buddly Crafts, so please check out the blog for the rest of the amazing DT girls cards and I hope you'll join us!

I'd better crack on as I have a few cards on order that I need to finish as well as some little Easter treats for friends at work.

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

xx :0)