Monday, April 16, 2012

Wow Big News: All change at the Cutie Pies

I have been given a fantastic opportunity this fortnight.  My wonderful DT leader Woo at the Cutie Pies, has decided to step down, and I have been given the amazing honour of becoming DT Leader.

Thank you Woo for everything you do for the girlies over at the Cutie Pie Challenge Blog.  We will miss you, but know that you will be there in the background.

I am soooo excited and very scared.  It's a big challenge and one that I hope I live up to.

So without further ado this is my first challenge as DT lead for the Cutie Pies




Hi to all the Cutie Pies this morning, you know who you are!  
 Big Congratulations to our winners of challenge 15 click here to find out who they are!
This fortnights challenge is CIRCLES.  No straight lines at all cuties.  So what do you think you can come up with.  We have two fantastic sponsors for this challenge!
Our first sponsor is Emma from CRAFTY EMMA'S STORE, she has a fantastic selection of crafting goodies to add to your stash and an excellent clearance corner where there are lots of bargains to be had, so why not pop on over now if you can't wait to see if you're the lucky winner!!!  Our winner will receive a Gift Voucher to spend in Emma's Store (p&p NOT included).
Our Second Sponsor is the wonderful Tiddly Inks  where you will find lots of fantastic digital images to play with and the gorgeous Wryn & Friends!  Why not pop over now!
Tiddly Inks turned 2 last week, so a belated Happy Birthday to them.  They have a gorgeous range of digital stamps, with new ones being released every Tuesday.  Also don't forget to try your luck in their blog challenges at Tiddlyinks.blogspot.co.uk
The Cutie Pie DT have a new member, Becky from Shabby Treasures 
joins the team from this challenge and we're so pleased to have her on board!  
Why not pay a visit to her lovely blog and follow and leave her a lovely welcome message! 
Well all that's left for me to say is GOOD LUCKwith your entries, can't wait to see 
what you come up with for this challenge and leave you to take a little inspiration 
from what I think is a wonderful selection of DT Cards!

All the DT are wonderful and have been so supportive so I would really appreciate it if you could pop over to the Cutie Pie Challenge Blog and show them some love by leaving fabbie comments on their blogs.  

Anyway this is my card for this challenge.  Our second sponsor is Tiddly Inks and they turned 2 this week.  I have used the fantastic "I love you most" image on my card. 
I used my nesties to create this gorgeous little easel card, and have used versamark inks to cover the whole of the base of the card before dusting with Cosmic Dust
The image was coloured with promarkers and then cut out and mounted.
The sentiment was stamped from the same digital set and then again dusted with Cosmic Dust



Thanks for all your love and support.
I am entering this card into the following challenges:


Hugs





Tuesday, April 03, 2012

HI Girls, Anything Goes at Anything Goes this fortnight.....

I've had a great day today, the kids and I went to a forest afternoon, organised locally.  We made dream catchers, made rabbits and cats from clay, built dens, made name tags and generally had a great time.  Having only recently moved to a new village it was great to meet other Mums from the same village and be able to chat and mingle whilst the kids did their thing.  So, thats new friends, tired kids and a stress free environment.  Absolutely fantastic.


Wow, what a lot of you entered into the spirit of Easter last fortnight at Anything Goes.  The rest of the fab dt team and I have been having a great fortnight looking at all your brilliant work.

This fornights challenge is anything goes.


Our challenge for this fortnight is a nice easy one
"ANYTHING GOES AT ANYTHING GOES"  let your creativity run wild!!
This challenge will run from today Tuesday 3rd April 2012 to Monday 16th April 2012.  

Here's my memory book for this challenge. 







I made this for a friend of my sister in law to give to her Sister.  She loves gardening and birds.  The Book is made from Craftcard, envelopes and cards.  The edges have all been inked with TH walnut distress ink.  The gorgeous edging is a Woodware punch.  The papers are Kanban Oxford.  I have used  Papermania Urban Stamps and PaperArtsy Stamps together with a few others I have in my stash.  

The book was bound and finished off with a TH birdhouse, tied with ribbons from stash and a few embelishments from an old necklace.

Hugs  






Monday, April 02, 2012

It's Cutie Pie time again and Tim loves his cupcakes

Hi everyone, today's a great day, the sun is shining and I had a fantastic afternoon with my gorgeous son. We went shopping and finally managed to get him some "Skylander" characters.  Not to mention that at thirteen he already knows exactly how to order his coffee in Costa.  (A man after my own heart - lol)

Today's challenge over at the Cutie Pies has caused all of the DT a real headache.......... I mean .......... how can a girl possibly choose a single ................. yes a single favourite cute stamp.  JUST ONE ......... and only one..............  you have no idea how hard it was, but I am hoping that you soon will.........

Go on pop on over to the Cutie Pie Challenge and join in.   It's been great fun making this card for this challenge.  Anyway here's some detail about the challenge ...

We are sponsored by the lovely Gayle from Teddy Bo & Co, There are so many fantastic Digi Images, a growing collection of Die Cut Dies and lots more, so why not pay a visit to Teddy Bo Towers today!  Well one lucky Winner will bag 
a lovely Digi Prize from Teddy Bo & Co, 
so you need to get making asap!
CLICK HERE TO VISIT
Our Second sponsor is the wonderful Digital Delights and our luck Random Winner will win this prize!  Digital Delights has a huge collection of Digi images for every occassion, why not pop over and have a look through all the catagories and see if there's
something you fall in love with!
CLICK HERE TO VISIT


Anyway for my card I chose to use the fabulous Timmy Tiger with his cupcake for my friend's birthday card.  So here's timmy in all his splendour.....






Tim has of course been coloured with promarkers.  I then layered his onto squares nesties.  The card has been folded back on itself and I have added a home-made stick pin tied with a chiffon ribbon.  The badge was from a scrapbook kit I had for christmas.  The beads for the stick pin were from my stash.  The sentiment is from Kanban and the papers are First Edition.

I must confess that I had to have a cupcake after colouring this one in............ so go on pop on over to either Teddy Bo Towers or to Digital Delights and find yourself a new favourite, or you could recyle an old one.  All the DT are waiting to see what you come up with ........ who knows we may even discover some new fantastic stamp which could become our favourite.

Hugs for now.