Mini Card for Wee Memories Challenge

Hi there

Today I have a another card to share with you for the Wee Memories Challenge.  The challenge is to create a mini card.  This one is my favourite size of 3 x 3.  I needed to make a Congrats card so paired the little ‘Flower Fusion’ set from Papertrey Ink with my postage stamp Nesties die.

I often need to make Congrats cards so I’m always on the look out for new ideas, they need to be small stamps as I tend to like sending mini cards, they just seem a nicer way of sending my message somehow.

Hope you’re all having a lovely weekend, thanks for popping by!

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Happy Christmas!!!

Happy (a bit belated) Christmas everyone!

Here's a few final Christmas cards that I made in the run up to Christmas. These snowmen just make me giggle, they're so funny!  The inspiration picture led me to stripes, I seem to really like them right now!

 I CASED myself for this card, remember this one using Lawn Fawn stamps??  You can see the detail here

I'd intended to get these cards blogged earlier, but it didn't quite come together.  Thursday in particular was not a good day.  I had placed a food order for delivery of all of my foods for Christmas, missed the delivery time because we were helping my Mum move in and lost track of time and my order got cancelled!  That would have been fine, we could go food shopping, there was still time, but Natasha and I broke down on the motorway on our way to meet our friends for a coffee/shopping/lunch trip, so we were stuck on the roadside for a couple of hours in the freeeeeeezing cold.

This is when you find out who your friends our, my friend drove over to us (about 20+ miles), got out of the car with her daughter and we sat by the roadside on a dog bed with her snuggling us up in some blankets!!!  Now that's true friendship, sitting out in the cold with you while you wait for the man with the van to come along and tow your car away!  We had a good old sing song and a giggle while we were there though.  My poor little car is not happy at all, the head gasket has gone and I can only drive her short distances before having to top her up with water (yes, she's a 'her' - her name is Zazza!)  Do any of you name your cars?  Apparently a lot of women do!

Anyway, you will be pleased to know Christmas has been lovely :o)  Lots of good company, lovely food and presents and some time to unwind.

I created four cards using the latest Paper Smooches Sparks Challenge with an inspiration picture shown further below and Wee Memories Anything Goes challenge.  I hope I'm linking up right to these challenges, if not please do tell me.  I wasn't sure if I needed separate posts for each entry or not??

 I couldn't stop once I'd started!


The next one was Christmas..

This one was also for the CAS-ual Fridays Challenge to do an envelope as well but I missed the challenge deadline unfortunately...

Another Christmas one..

and finally a more traditional nativity card using Hero Arts stamps.

It was fun getting out my Copics to colour in some of the images on these cards.  There's still time to join in some Copic fun over at Color Me Creative, in our latest challenge.  Why not make the most of the extra time off and get those pens dusted off and used, you know you want to!

Hope you're all having a wonderful time!

ps - Thank you to all of you that have left me lovely Christmas messages, I hope to pop by and visit your blogs as soon as I've caught up on my design work.

Girls Just Wanna Have Fun

Today was a special day in England, it was the Royal Wedding of William and Kate and what a fairytale wedding it was, absolutely beautiful.  I hope you manage/managed to watch some/all of it.  Truly a moment in history, Cinderella like!  My poor little girl on my card is more Cinders than Cinderella!

She was created for the latest WEE Memories challenge, ‘Girls Just Wanna Have Fun’



When I saw this challenge I couldn’t get the song by Cyndi Lauper out of my head!  I had been looking to colour one of my new Greeting Farm stamps (Laundry) and thought this would be perfect for the title of the challenge.  This poor little sweetie looks worn out from doing her washing and I thought it would be a bit of fun to add a little thought bubble as if she was wishing she could go out and have a bit of fun instead of doing the chores!

I used Stella & Rose papers for the entire card, a Prima flower, Fancy Square and Square Nesties and the sentiment/thought bubble were printed on my computer using MS Word.

Copics: Y11, Y13, Y15, B24, B26, B29, YR21, YR24, R21, R22, R24, R27, R29, V20, V25E00, E11, E23

Hope you likey!

Back tomorrow with a card for the latest Color Me Creative and Etsy Inspired Challenges.

Hello Foxy!

Hey there everyone.

Today I have a quick card to share with you using a fun little fox stamp from Hero Arts.

I got this over at the Stamp Attic, it is just SO cute!!!  I’ve had him for a few weeks now but I needed to practice colouring him, he’s quite tricky actually.  He could still do with some more work but after about colouring 30 foxes I’m going to let him pass through lol


I made this card for the latest WEE Memories challenge, ‘all things adorable’.



Well, this fox definitely works for adorable, I think he’s FAB!  I used a sketch from Go-To-Sketches by Papercrafts Magazine, I’m just LOVIN’ these sketches!  SO much inspiration all in one place!  I used Stella & Rose papers, the sentiment is from Lawn Fawn’s new ‘Critters in the Forest’ set, a corner puncher and that’s it!  A quick card (if you don’t count how many foxes you had to colour lol)

That’s it from me today.  I’m off to bed now, I’m going girly shopping with Tinks and my friend tomorrow. It won’t be shop until you drop because my poor little back doesn’t hold out for that anymore, but it will be more my usual coffee, two shops, lunch, two shops, coffee…  you get the drift!   Ian always says he wonders how people can breathe when we go out shopping, because we talk so much we use up all of the oxygen, cheek of it lol

Back with another Etsy Inspired Challenge post tomorrow morning, night night!