Sausage Dog

Isn't he a cutie? Cut on the Cricut from a cartridge I borrowed from a friend (and is on my wish list) I loved this little fella and have been waiting to use him so I set the challenge on Sophisticats this week with him in mind - "It's raining cats & dogs" and you can use cats, dogs and/or rain on your entry.

The rest of my card is all Stampin' Up! as follows:

Sentiment - Fun & Fast Notes

Cardstock - Pixie Pink; Real Red; Only Orange; Ballet Blue

DSPs - Sweet Always (retired)

Ribbon - Chocolate Chip

Word Window punch, slot punch (not available in UK)

Other - Nesties

Hope you can join us this time around, we're running this challenge for two weeks & I'm sponsoring the prize, which is a mixed pack of 6x6 SU! double sided papers.

TFL x

Yummy Hot Chocolate

Or is it a mug of coffee - don't know - but either way it looks rather yummy with the blob & swirl of cream on the top!

I've made this card for my DT card for our challenge at Sweet Stampin, which this week is a sketch and I've used some of the new goodies I bought from the NEC on Thursday!

My cardstock is all Stampin' Up! of course (do I ever use any other - NO!) in Chocolate Chip, Real Red; Close to Cocoa & Whisper White. Ribbon is SU! Chocolate Chip and the sentiment is also SU! but not available in the UK - a lovely friend brought it back from Oz for me - thanks Chris xx

So the rest comes from my new stash of goodies, being the die, the embossing folder and the border punch - more new goodies to follow soon (I did spend far too much!!)

Hope you can join us again this week, our prize for the month is the hostess set Darling Dots, which is not available to buy, so a great prize to win - but you gotta be in it to win it and don't forget if you use SU! on your entry you can two entries.

I'm also entering my card over at Cupcake Crafts as their challenge this week is food & drink.

Take care & TFL xx

Spring has sprung!

Hello, here I am, late again with my Charisma DT card! Not been too bright this week, I've got a frozen shoulder and it's been giving me a lot of pain, I can still craft (phew) but I've just been a bit down with it all. However, had a fab day at the Hobbycrafts show at the NEC yesterday (thanks to Carly who persuaded me to go and took me - thanks hun), spent far too much but I think the retail therapy did me & my flagging mojo good so hopefully now I can get a bit more crafting & blogging done. Apologies to everyone for not visiting you recently, and I will do my best to catch up with everyone over the next week.

Vee has set our challenge for this week and it's "Spring has sprung" and we've been lucky enough to be sponsored by Digistamp Boutique who also gave us some fab images to play with. I love this cute bouncing bunny & chick, which I've coloured with PM's and the sentiment comes from my pal Lisa and was perfect for this card.

Stampin' Up! used on the card:

DSP's - Sweet Always (retired)

Cardstock - Pixie Pink, Pumpkin Pie, Whisper White

Pastels - Pumpkin Pie

I'm entering my card into the following challenges:

Sweet Sketch Wednesday - Sketch

Fab n Funky - Favourite Technique (embossing)

Digital Tuesday - Happy Spring

Hope you can join us this week & TFL xx

Mint & Lilac

This is my DT card for Sophisticats where our challenge this week is a colour combo - mint & lilac plus one other of your choice and we'd like to see some flowers on your creations too.

Our prize this week has been donated by our lovely leader Lisa and is:

2 downloads of the winners choice from

http://allissaspapertown.blogspot.com/

Lisa's currently trying to raise money to put towards a much needed hip operation, please visit her blog above for more details or click on the banner on my right hand column - thanks x

Here's the details on my card:

Image - Pollycrafts digi

Rest all SU!

Sentiment - Oval All, ink Almost Amethyst

DSPs - Tea Party

Cardstock - Almost Amethyst; Gable Green; Whisper White

Flowers - stamp One of a Kind; Boho Blossoms punch

Ribbon - Almost Amethyst

I'm entering my card into the following challenges:

Bee Crafty - Spring

Fab n Funky - use something new - the sentiment is from a new stamp set, first time I've used it

Sweet Sketch Wednesday - sketch

Hope you can join us at Sophisticats this week

For Ewe

"Spring is in the Air" over at Sweet Stampin this week, and this is my DT card for the challenge. You can interpret this any way you wish, use Spring colours/images, Easter, daffodil's whatever you like. It's lovely seeing the spring flowers starting to peek through and although it's raining this morning, it's been a gorgeous week with lots of sunshine and it really does feel like Spring is on it's way - hooray for that. So I'm really looking forward to seeing all the "Spring" entries this week.

Here's the deets on my card

Image & Sentiment - Wild Rose Studio

DSP - SU! Rainbow Sherbert (retired)

Cardstock - SU! Green Galore; Whisper White

punch for flowers & buttons from stash

There are lots of lovely Spring themed challenges around this week & I'm entering my card into the following:

Crafty Catz - Spring

A Spoonful of Sugar - Easter

Creative Card Crew - Going Dotty

Allsorts - Spring is in the Air

TFL x

Easter Basket

This is my DT entry for Charisma as our challenge this week is "Something for the Kids" and so I made this little basket for my niece Sophie as we're seeing my B-in-law & his family this weekend. I will have to buy some more eggs though as the ones in the photo have all been eaten -oops!

Apart from the ribbon, which is from my stash, all SU! has been used, as follows:

Cardstock - Barely Banana, Whisper White

DSPs - Tea & Crumpets

Bunny made using the following punches - Oval, 1¼" circle, Word Window & Boho Blossoms (tail), plus a bit of pink chalk for the inside of his ears

I'm also entering my basket into the following challenges:

Tuesday Morning Sketches - Anything But a Card

Die Cut Dreams - use at least 2 punches

I should have posted this yesterday, but forgot to schedule it and spent the day in Coventry at a Stampin' Up! Training Day. Had a brilliant time, was great to meet some of the other demo's, especially the ones I knew from the ILWS Forum, but had never met, got loads of inspiration & took photos of some amazing projects and came away buzzing, full of ideas oh and with a new stamp set too! So a good day all in all

Hope you can join us at Charisma this week & I look forward to seeing all your kids projects

TFL x

Gardening Hedgie

This is my card for Penny Black's challenge this week, every week I intend to enter the PB challenge, and every week it's comes around to Saturday and I haven't done it, so last night I sat down and did it - and it's only Tuesday that has to be a record for me. I've had this image for a while, it belongs to by Charisma DT buddy Carly, I stamped it out when I went around to hers for a crafty get-together a while ago, and as this week's theme is "Spring Colours" I thought this would work perfectly. The papers, ribbon & roses are from my stash and the cardstock is SU! Really Rust and Whisper White. If you can see the tag that says "4 You" that comes from the brand new (released in April) SU! stamp set "Tiny Tags" and matching punch, they're absolutely adorable and you'll be seeing lots of tiny tags on my cards from now on!

It's a gorgeous day here today, the sun is shining and the temperature is meant to be 12 degrees, tropical compared to what we've had, so a walk with the dog is definitely on the cards!

TFL x