Cute and Cuddly Animals with the Cutie Pies

Hello,

I'm writing this post on my lunch break at work today as I wasn't organised enough to get it scheduled ahead of time!  Actually, I'm quite glad not to have to go outside as we are having lots of snow flurries off and on.

Anyway, today I'm sharing my DT card for the latest Cutie Pie Challenge.  Our theme this month is 'Cute and Cuddly Animals' and we are sponsored by our friends at Bugaboo who have a fantastic prize for our winner.

I've used one of their fab images and coloured it with Promarkers.  The papers are very old Me To You ones from Docrafts and I've used some recycled ribbon!

Materials used:

Digital stamp - Bugaboo 

Promarkers 

Sentiment stamp - from a Bobunny set

Papers - Docrafts Me To You With Love 

Label die - X-cut

Border punch - X-cut

Cardstock, ribbon and twine from stash 

Thanks for stopping by today, I'd better get back to work now!

Hugs,

Shona xx

I'd like to enter my card into the following challenges:
CHN Patterned Paper Challenge - February x
Unicorn Challenge - #51 Anything Goes x
Creative Craft Cottage -#126 Add a Heart x

Holly & Ivy Christmas Challenge #63

Good morning,

Another scheduled post from me today because when this goes live I will be en route to Edinburgh for a meeting with work.  Hopefully the weather will be fine, my boss is driving us down.  I hope you're impressed with how organised I am so far this year, I do hope I can keep it up as I have a lot of crafty plates to keep spinning and some exciting new things coming up soon.

Anyway, today I'm sharing my DT card for this fortnight's Holly & Ivy Christmas Challenge, as always our theme is Anything Christmas Goes!  This is my first Christmas card of the year but with 2 Christmas Design Teams and 3 cards to make a month it most definitely won't be my last lol!

So for this challenge I decided to use some of my Stampin' Up goodies I bought from the Christmas 2019 collection.  I bought the papers from the collection a few months ago when the new catalogue came out and I loved them so much I bought the stamp set and tree punch to match.  SU might be a little more expensive but you always get fantastic quality and lots of the products mix and match with each other so you get great mileage out of them.  I can't wait for a peek at the new collection!

Materials used:

Papers - Stampin' Up - Wrapped in Plaid

Stamp set - Stampin' Up - Perfectly Plaid

Tree punch - Stampin'up

Star punch - unknown kids punch (Tesco?)

Gold cardstock - Crafters Companion Centura Pearl

Remaining cardstock, cord and jingle bell from stash

That's all from me for the moment.  Thanks so much for stopping by.

Hugs,

Shona xx

I'd like to enter my card into the following challenges:

Cute, Clean & Simple with the Cutie Pies

Good morning,

And a happy new year too!

It's a scheduled post from me this morning as I'll be at work.  I'm impressed that I survived working a whole week last week after the short Christmas and New Year weeks.  It's another full week this week and for the next few weeks until mid February, although I'm off to Edinburgh with work on Tuesday so that'll break up this week a bit!

Anyhow, on to my card... today I'm sharing my design team make for the Cutie Pie Challenge this month our theme is Cute, Clean and Simple (CAS) and we are sponsored by My Besties from Sherri Baldy.

I have to say I struggle a bit with CAS cards, it's not like I over embellish my usual cards but I'm never sure when I've done enough if that makes sense.  Anyway, this card did not go to plan!  I spent a lot of time colouring the beautiful image as it's quite detailed and I was really quite happy with the result, it was getting late and I was getting tired and I then had a look for some coffee related sentiment stamps I have in my stash and was working out which to use and where to stamp them when I suddenly discovered I'd smudged Memento Tuxedo Black ink all over one side of my coloured image aaaargh!!!!  I stepped away from it for a while to calm myself down then went back to rescue it as best I could.  I ended up cropping the image further to get rid of the smudges and added some spotty paper which I hadn't planned using but is a great match all the same.  I was too frightened to go back to the sentiment stamps just in case of further disaster so I printed out my own sentiment on the pc.  I added a button to complete my simple yet near disaster of a card lol.  It may not look as I originally planned but I'm quite happy with how it's turned out now!

Materials Used:

Digi stamp - Sherri Baldy, My Besties, I Love Coffee

Promarkers

Papers - Recollections Valentine

Vardstock, button & twine from stash

That's all from me today but I will be back with you very soon.

Hugs,

Shona xx

I'd like to enter my card into the following challenges:

Chai Cottage with JMC Designs

Good afternoon,

Yay, that's me up to date with my blogging!  Just Instagram and Facebook to bring up to date now!
I'm back to share a super colourful card I made to celebrate the latest release over at JMC designs.  Julia has just launched the new Teatime Terrace collection today in her Etsy shop here and it's a cracker!  I've used one of the new designs 'Chai Lodge' for my card and the rest of the collection is equally cute and quirky!

Materials used:

Digi stamp - JMC Designs Chai Lodge

Promarkers

Papers - Hobbycraft Springtime

'Live' die - Sizzix

Flowers - Hobbycraft

Cardstock, button & twine from stash

That's definitely all from me today (I think!) and just in case I'm not posting again before New Year I'll take this opportunity to wish you all a very happy and healthy 2020!  Thank you for all your support and kind comments over the last 12 months, it's always appreciated.

Hugs,

Shona

I'd like to enter my card into the following challenges:

CHN Patterned Paper Challenge - December

A Bit More Time To Craft Challenge - #106 AG

Lil Patch of Crafty Friends - #120 AG

Not Just Cards - December AG

Crafty Sentiments - AG

Christmas Cuties

Hello again, I'm back with another catch up post to share my DT card for the latest Christmas with the Cuties challenge our theme is Christmas Cuties and our challenge is still running for another couple of weeks so there's plenty time to join in!

For my card I've used a gorgeous Sylvia Zet topper from the Hobby House.  These are fantastic for making quick cards.

Materials used:

Topper - Sylvia Zet/Wee Stamps from The Hobby House

Paper - Me to You? 

Wooden Stars - Hobbycraft

Cardstock and ribbon from stash

Thanks for taking a look at my work, I've one more post to compose then that's me.

Hugs,

Shona

I'd like to enter my card into the following challenges:
CHN Patterned Paper Challenge - December
CHN Christmas Challenge - #469 ACG/Word Christmas
A Bit More Time To Craft Challenge - #106
Lil Patch of Crafty Friends - #120
Not Just Cards - December AG

Holly & Ivy Christmas Challenge #62

Good afternoon,

Hope everyone had a great Christmas, I've had a busy few weeks and I'm finally getting caught up with some blogging!

Today I'm sharing my latest DT card for the Holly & Ivy Christmas Challenge where anything Christmas goes.  We are having an extended challenge over Christmas and New Year so you still have plenty time to take part!

For my card I've gone for a very Clean & Simple (CAS) design using a new Woodware stamp set I bought recently.  It is an ideal stamp for paper piecing and using up odds and ends of paper as I've done here.

Materials used:

Stamp Set - Woodware

Cardstock, paper, button and twine from stash

Thanks for stopping by, I'll be back again very soon with another post.

Hugs,

Shona xx

I'd like to enter my card into the following challenges:
Crafty Hazelnuts Patterned Paper Challenge - December
CHN Christmas Challenge - #469 ACG/Word Christmas
A Bit More Time To Craft - #106 AG
Lil Patch of Crafty Friends - #120
Not Just Cards - December

Christmas Cuties with the Cutie Pies

Good morning,

My goodness the time is just flying I can't believe it's Christmas Day in just over a fortnight and I'm not nearly as organised as I should be! Today I'm sharing my latest DT card for the Cutie Pie Challenge it's our last challenge of the year and our theme is Christmas Cuties.  We are sponsored by Crafty Sentiments who have given the team so fab digi's to work with and also have a generous prize for our lucky winner!

Materials used:

Digital Stamp - Crafty Sentiments 

Promarkers

Sentiment - Woodware

Papers - Trimcraft 

Cardstock, button & twine from stash 

That's all from me right now, I'll be back later to share another card.

Have a great day,

Shona xx

I'd like to enter my card into the following challenges:
CHN Patterned Paper Challenge - December
Crafty Sentiments - AG