House Move

Good morning everyone.

Apologies for not being around much lately....we're moving house tomorrow so I've had to do much more mundane stuff like packing and cleaning, rather than crafting!!  Just a bit more cleaning to go.....and a big truck.....and a VERY short journey!

Not sure when I'll be back to Blogland - hopefully it won't be too long, but dependent upon unpacking and internet connection and what we get up to in our Easter hols, which start on Monday.

Hope you're all doing ok, folks.  Take care!

A Spring Themed Card

I adore Spring: the air is different, the sun starts to shine a bit more, there's warmth in the sun, new shoots start to show through and bulbs burst into colour!  And these papers really remind me of those things.  And I can imagine this girl sitting in the sunshine with a wee cup of coffee hiding behind the tree stump!

I've used Sugar Nellie's Peek-a-Bunny, coloured with Promarkers and with a paper-pieced pinny.  I think I might use this for my mam's Mother's Day card as she would love these cheery papers and image too.

I'd like to enter the following challenges:

Sugar Bowl - Sketch

My Time to Craft - Ladies Day

Papertake Weekly - It's a Mom Thing

Wags 'n' Whiskers -Spring

The Creative Cottage - Spring Has Sprung

Passion for Promarkers - In the Garden

Crafts and Me - Anything Goes

Simon Says Stamp - Mother's Day / Girlie

Wow, it's been ages since I've entered so many challenges......fingers crossed....!

Dream Valley Challenge 3 - Mother's Day

I can't believe that it's time for our 3rd Dream Valley challenge already!  Where does the time go?  This fortnight, our challenge is Mother's Day and we are sponsored by the fantastic Digi's With Attitude.  The lucky winner will receive $10 Canadian Dollars to spend at the online shop - fab!! 

As you can see, I decided to make a necklace and bracelet set and card.  Hopefully my MIL will like it.  Still need to decide what I'll create for my mam, but I still have until 3rd April - aaah, not quite as long as I'd thought....best get moving then!!

Wishing you all lots of fun and I hope you can come and join us at Dream Valley Challenges.

Some sweet LOTV

You know how I LOVE Lili of the Valley......well, when I was ordering some of the cute new animal stamps for Melly's birthday, some "fell" into my online basket for me!!  Now I KNOW I shouldn't have, but I'm sooooo glad I did!

The top is Birthday Bumps, I and love colouring bears - Cocoa, Caramel and Sandstone Promarkers blend so perfectly for bears, so I'm always happy with the results.  I followed the sketch at LOTV challenge and used my new Basic Grey Marjolaine papers (which ahem, also fell in my basket when birthday shopping).  I took the photos last night so the photo colours aren't 100% right, but you get the idea. 

My second, ever so cute stamp is Spring Swing.  And I'm always happy at the result of colouring greys so rabbits are a fave of mine too.  Lately, I've been setting myself challenges like "use up some of my OLD paper", "use up scraps" and "use some of the mountain of 7 x 5 cards I have"!  So this is one of the results of my last challenge.  Some of the leaves are 3D and extended beyond the original image.  I've also used a flower punch that had been neglected for AGES!  See, I'm trying REALLY hard to be good......

Anyway, the sun is still shining, Euan is still sleeping and I have approx 20 mins before I need to leave to collect Lou from school, so I think that I must go and colour another new image quickly.........Have a lovely day, peeps.

Dream Valley Challenge 2 - New Beginnings

Wow, what a tremendous number of entries we had for our first Dream Valley Challenge.   I don't think any of us expected so many, so we've been smiling widely throughout the week - thank you!

Our second challenge is New Beginnings, so we're looking for any projects that reflect this theme: wedding, baby, new home....

As I had downloaded the beautiful Bambino from FunkyKits this week, I absolutely HAD to make another card using this beautiful image.  I've kept the layout simple again to show off the image (although that's normally my style anyway!).  The papers are Papermania Summer Bloom and I got to use my new circle and scalloped circle nesties.  I only coloured the hat this time and added some stickles to the pom pom - not sure if this was a step too far or ok...

Remember that for Dream Valley Challenges, you can make anything you like as long as it follows the theme.  The team have come up with some beautiful projects to inspire you. 



And we have 2 fantastic prizes on offer this week, which are:

 

and 

 the new Bev bag selection from 

This challenge will run for 2 weeks, so you have until midnight Saturday 19th March to enter.   Happy crafting, peeps!

Bambino in Mint Green

Oh at last, Bambino is available to download from Funkykits!!  I loved this as soon as I saw it on the Sugar Nellie blog and then on Judy's blog, but it's JUST as gorgeous in real life. 

Originally, I was going to leave it black and white, as it's such a perfectly drawn picture, but I'd printed out a couple of pages on paper (trying to grapple with the printer!) and decided there was no harm in having a little play.  The hats were coloured in a range of baby colours, then I tried the skin.  Amazingly, I actually liked my colouring attempts so kept most of them!

I've used the gorgeous sketch at Sugar Bowl and their theme of Clean and Simple.  I also used the Facebook SugarNellie theme of Mint Choc Chip (although my "choc chip is actually black as I couldn't for the life of me find my brown card - shhhh!!). 

I would also like to enter:
Papertake Weekly - Anything Goes
My Time to Craft - Infants

Just a wee reminder that our first challenge at Dream Valley is "Anything Goes" and will run until Saturday night.  Hope to see you there!