• Be Happy….

    Well this Bank Holiday has been a long coming….and the promise of lovely T-shirt weather at the beginning of the week, has been shattered again. oh well, onto all things crafty then, and today ARTISTIC INSPIRATIONS this week we are…

  • Nought’s & Crosses …

      CRAFTY BLOGGERS NETWORK     We are sponsored by Milk Coffee Digi Images, and we have been lucky enough to have a couple of gorgeous images to use with our theme this week.   This month we want to…

  • New Lookbook volume…

    Morning, some exciting news to share with you, the new volume of Sarah Hurley’s online magazine, The Lookbook, is now available and can be viewed here I played a very small part in this volume and have a couple of…

  • Challenge #154 – Sunday Sketch & Stamp

    Good Morning, just a quick post from me this morning as I’m preparing sunday roast and rhubarb crumble ……yummmmmm!     I wanted to share with you my card made for the   SUNDAY SKETCH & STAMP   challenge blog…

  • Monday Inspiration for CBN …

      My second post of the day is for the   CRAFTY BLOGGERS NETWORK CHALLENGE     There is still time to enter our ANYTHING GOES challenge, and as expected we have had a overwhelming response already. I caught up…

  • A Ladies card for Monday Morning …

        I would like to saya thank you for my new followers, I have had a little flurry of new visitors and I am so pleased that you have popped over to take a look at what I do…

  • OH WOW……..Some FAB News…

      Morning All Just a super quick post from me today, until I get round to visiting your blogs later this afternoon….. but I have some news that is just so exciting for me that I had to share.  …

  • Monday Inspiration….Floral Steampunk…

      CRAFTY BLOGGERS NETWORK   Monday Inspiration   Well. Monday morning again, did you all have a lovely weekend? I had a very lazy weekend for a change, and we didn’t leave the house. Saturday rained all day, so the ‘boys’…

  • A basket of Flowers from Humphrey… & DT CALL

    SUNDAY SKETCH & STAMP   sketch #152   Its Marie’s sketch this week, and its a superb little sketch to use and I was able to make this card quite quickly as I didn’t have much time this week. Also…

  • Decoupage with Acetate…

      Good morning, its Monday again, and first day back at school for the boys after the Easter break.   Unfortunately we couldn’t make the most of the reasonable (well dry) weather we had during the break because the illness bugs…

  • 1906 Elegant Lady..

      Good Morning, Easter Monday, and I’m hoping we get a reprieve from the wind and rain that we had from all day non stop yesterday.   Being the beginning of the month again it is the start of a…

  • Humphrey in the Garden…

      Good Morning and HAPPY EASTER to you all   Today I have a lovely little sketch to share with you from one of our newer DT members, Joni at     SUNDAY SKETCH & STAMP   its challenge #150  …

  • Inspiration Monday…

        CRAFTY BLOGGERS NETWORK   Another card for you using a cute image from our Sponsor ‘Just Some Lines’   I used the image this week as a really good opportunity to practice colouring hair with alcohol pens. I…

  • Gilded Butterlies…

    Its Challenge 34 at   ARTISTIC INSPIRATIONS   and the perfect theme to compliment the images from our sponsor Bugaboo         is FANTASY.   This is the great thing about being part of a  DT, as I…

  • More butterflies…

    Good Morning, being Monday its time for me to introduce another set of stunning inspirational cards from the Design Team at   CRAFTY BLOGGERS NETWORK CHALLENGE   We have two sponsors this month and for my card today I had…

  • Live Everyday…

        SUNDAY SKETCH AND STAMP   #148 Catherines Sketch     Catherine has given us a lovely little sketch today that is so versatile, because each of us on the DT has done something completely different – I love…

  • A Wall of Buttons…

      Back with my second card for the day for   WHOOPSI DAISY   Buttons &/or Bows or Anything Goes with a Whoopsi Daisy Image   I really enjoyed making this card, and hopefully managed  to create and interpret something…

  • Flowers in March …

    As I write this in preparation for the new challenge, it is blowing a gale outside and the windows are being lashed with rain, I’m just hoping it has subsided by the morning – I really don’t fancy stepping outside…

  • Beautiful Hummingbird….

      CRAFTY BLOGGERS NETWORK CHALLENGE     Morning Morning – I’m a bit late today with this post, but having spent the whole weekend away (from Friday afternoon collecting the boys from school, until 9pm last night) I am playing…

  • Whats the time Mr Owl….

    SUNDAY SKETCH & STAMP   sketch #146 from Berit.       Can you believe its Sunday again, I’ve had a busy week, but also managed to have time to really play when making my cards too. The only design…

  • Friendship….

      Can you believe we have reached the last monday of the month, next week we’ll be intriducing you to a new challenge here at the   CRAFTY BLOGGERS NETWORK CHALLENGE   But first here is the Monday Inspiration with…

  • In the Garden…

    our challenge for you this week at   WHOOPSI DAISY challenges you to ADD A SENTIMENT   there is also a Blog Hop being hosted byWHOOPSI DAISY this week, running separatly from the usual weekly challenge….so if you are a…

  • All of a Twitter…..

        Hello, we are back to monday morning again – hope you all had a good weekend. I have three posts today – I’ve been a busy bee, here is my first.     ARTISTIC INSPIRATIONS   challenge #30…

  • Monday Inspiration…

      Here is another card using an Elisabeth Bell image, for our   Monday Inspiration over at Crafty Bloggers Network Challange         Card Recipe 8×8 Craftwork cards blank Daisytrail background paper Core-dinations whitewash peach card Martha Stewart Border…

  • Sunday Sketch….

      Good Morning, today sees challenge #144 at   SUNDAY SKETCH & STAMP   where Uma has provided us with a lovely sketch.         I have revisited one of the Toread characters to practise my colouring, particularly…

  • Birthday Wishes with Ava…..

          Hello I’m back again with my DT offering for ARTISTIC INSPIRATIONS challenge blog.     This week I had the pleasure of using Ava, from our sponser CDee Designs,      and as our theme is ‘Anything…

  • May all your wishes come true……

      Good Morning, as it is the beginning of another month, we see the start of another challenge at     CRAFTY BLOGGERS NETWORK CHALLENGE The theme for this month is Anything Goes and the prize is 2 stamps from our…

  • One for Mum…..little Elephant cutie

        Good Morning Sunday again, and I have an 11 year old drooling at the thought of roast chicken and stuffing……..it does smell delicious I must say.   This is week sees challenge #142 at     SUNDAY SKETCH…

  • Monday Inspiration

        My 3rd and final post for today is the final installment of Inspiration for our   FLOWERS challenge   at   CRAFTY BLOGGERS NETWORK CHALLENGE   can you beleive it is the start of the final week of…

  • For a Child

    With my brain slowly ticking into action, here is post #2 today, and I was tasked with making something   For A Child   our new challenge over at   Whoopsi Daisy   If you would like to come and…