Spots and Stripes ........

and not a gold medal in sight ..............

Hello to all of you out there in blogland.  Are you watching the Olympics?  If so, I hope you are enjoying them.

Well, firstly sorry I have not posted for a while, I have been to Centre Parcs with my family.  We had a great time, and ate far too much in their amazing restaurants ..........  oh well, back to the diet again.

I have been crafting and have had the pleasure of working with some amazing images this week, courtesy of Bugaboo.  They are sposoring the Cutie Pie Challenge this week, and we had the opportunity to pick our favourite image to work with.  Given the challenge theme this week, I just couldn't resist ladybirds .............. I love to see them flitting about in the summer sun ........ so as you can imagine that's quite a rarity these days.

As always we have some amazing sponsors over on the Cutie Pie Challenge this week.  So go on hop on over and have a look at what the rest of the fabbie DT team have come up with for your inspiration and see what you can do with spots and stripes ...............

The moment I saw these cute ladybirds, I knew I wanted them to really pop off the card,  they have been coloured with Promarkers and then finished off with Glossy Accents.  I deliberately kept the rest of the colour scheme to black and white.  I dug out my Papermania liquorice capsule collection papers, some spotty buttons from stash, as well as ribbons and bows.  Finally I added card candi.  

I love the colour scheme on this one, I hope you do to and that I have inspired you.

Hugs for now.

A little bit of red white 'n' blue

Don't you just love how the whole country is getting excited about the Jubilee ..........  whether you're a royalist or just looking forward to the extra holiday ........... the whole country is getting swept along and there is red, white and blue everywhere ...........  so why shouldn't it be on my cards.

Over on the Anything Goes Challenge Blog today the theme is Anniversary and Jubilee - so I thought I would combine the two and use lots of my fav Timmy things to make it that bit extra special.

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I used the fab Papermania Portebello papers range and combined these with Distress inks - Barn Door and Faded Jeans.  The silhouttes were cut on the Cricut, as were the tag shapes and the sentiment inside.  The bunting was cut using Spellbinder Nestabilities.  The stamps used are of course good old Timmy from his Stampers Annonymous range.  The bows, buttons and ribbons are also by Papermania

I hope you like this one. 

Crafty Hugs

CUTIE PIE BLOG CHALLENGE NO 1 - SKETCH  gtd


I am soooooo excited - as you know I was asked to be a Guest Team Designer for the Fantastic new Cutie Pie Blog.  Well today's the day we go live and it would be wonderful if you could pop on over and join in with our fantastic challenges at:


http://cutiepiechallenge.blogspot.com


We have wonderful sponsors and there are great prizes.  The design team are truly talented and have come up with some fantastic ideas.


Anyway I was asked to guest design for this first one and here's my card

The papers are from the fantastic new Christmas range by Kars.  The gorgeous little cuties are of course Penny Black.  These are coloured with promarkers and the snow created with Ranger Stickles glitter glue. The sentiment is a Hunky Dory one and the leaves are cut from Stampin Up papers.  To finish some papermania flowers and some card candi.  The bow is a double bow in Papermania Christmas Ribbon.

• I wish to enter this card into the following challenges:
• Bugaboo Stamps Catch The Bug Blog - Scene It
• Crafty Hazelnuts Christmas Challenge - Glitter
• Christmas Stampin Blog- Challenge
• Penny Black at Allsorts Blog - September
• Penny Black Blog