Shaker Cupcake

Afternoon all

A bit of a better day today..stopped raining although we have had rumblings of thunder

My card i have made today is a shaker House Mouse card

Hope you like him

Challenges i have entered into are

Crafty Emma's - Candy & Cupcakes

Allsorts - Shaker Card

Craft Your Days Away - Just for Children

Secret Crafter SC - Cute N Fluffy

Di's Digi Designs - Lets meet your animal friends

Poodles Parlour - Anything Goes

Cute card Thursday - Animal Magic

Simon Says Stamp - Anything Goes

Papertake Weekly - Sketch

House Mouse & Friends - Anything Goes

Brown & Pink

Morning all

Still raining here so time to stay indoors i think :(

Today's card is for the new challenge set over at

Ruby's Rainbow

Our fortnights theme has been set by my lovely team mate Silvi who wants us to use Brown & Pink

for my card i used a Wild Rose Studio Bella stamp and used my new ribbon threader punch, the sentiment on the balloons is a Penny Black.

hope you like it and will pop over and join in the fun with us.

Challenge entered into

Simon Says Stamp - Anything Goes

Digi Designs - Lets meet your animal friends

Poinsettia

Afternoon all

My card for today is one i have made for a challenge i am in on facebook

hope you like him

Bella's Balloons & Buttons

Afternoon all

Well it's puring with rain aagain here so guess where i have been lol

I'm pleased to say Lucy is a lot better now, thank you for your well wishes.

My card for today is a Happy Birthday card made with a new stamp i had for Mothers day it's a Wild Rose Studio stamp Bella

Challenges entered into

Crafty Emmas Challenges - Button it

Allsorts - Sketch 

Craft Your Days Away - Metal (charm)

Secret Crafter Saturday C - Inspired by film title (Dumbo)

Digi Designs Challenges - Lets meet your animal friends

Totally Papercrafts - All buttoned up

Cute Card Thursday - Metallica (charm)

Papertake Weekly - A stitch in time

F - Feathered Friends

Morning all

Still wet here i won't say miserable as we badly need the rain lol

My card for today is another Joanna Sheen House Mouse decoupage

I have had a really poorly doggie to look after for the last couple of weeks so i have been sitting on the sofa with Lucy keeping a check on her so i made up a few images.

This card is for our new challenge set over at

Alphabet Challenges

The new theme for this fortnight is F - for Feathered Friends 

I hope you like it and will pop along and join us.

challenges entered into are

Joanna Sheen - Someone special

Crafty Ribbons Challenge - Things with wings

Paper Play Challenges - Animal Antics

* Men Only *

Good morning my lovelies

A beautiful morning here a tad chilly but the sun is shining

Today see's a new challenge set over at

Sparkles Monthly Challenges

And this months theme is

* MEN ONLY *

I hate doing mens cards but i managed to find this image and sentiment from Birds which i have coloured with promarkers and made an easel card

Our sponsor for this month is the lovely Emma from

Crafty Emmas store with a prize of £10 exc P&P  

Sadly Emma has decided to close her online store so there are plenty of bargains to be had at the moment so why not pop over and have a look.

Hope you will pop over and join us and see what my team mates have created

Challenges entered

Secret Crafter Saturday Challenge = A Mans Card 

Our Creative Corner = Our boys and their toys

Crafty Ann's = It's a man thing

  

* So Sweet *

Afternoon all

Glorious day so far here and i have managed to get in the garden and put in the sweet peas, it's lovely to see all the flowers starting to bloom and the new veggies are growing well.

For my card today i have joined in with the * House Mouse * challenge which is * So Sweet *

I have decoupaged a Joanna Sheen House Mouse and added a couple of butterflies and ribbon.

I was really longing for chocolate after i had finished making this little card looking at those meecies eating truffles nom nom.

Hope you all have a lovely day

Exciting News

I have some exciting news to share with you

I have decided to start a new challenge blog (oh no not again i hear you say) lol yes i have decided to start a Scrapbooking challenge blog, i'm fed up of having photo's lying around doing nothing when they could be scrapped nicely so to get me going i started a new blog

Its called

THE HAPPY SCRAPPERS

My lovely mate Lesley has joined me and we are on the lookout for 3 other peeps to join us on the team to start with

So if you fancy making a scrap page every month and can commit to leaving comments then please pop over and join us it should be fun.

For more info pop over to the blog

* April Showers *

Afternoon 

My second post of the day i love this new Digi kindly given by Bird aswell as the umberella and sentiment which i have coloured with promarkers hope you like it.

Challenges entered into.

Cute card Thursday - Spring Flowers 

Simon Says Stamp -  April showers bring spring flowers

Papertake weekly - April Showers

*Birthday Cake*

Morning all

I can't believe my little challenge blog RUBY'S RAINBOW has reached it's first Birthday already how cool is that :)

And for our new challenge team mate Amanda has chosen * Birthday Cake * as this fortnights theme

For my card i coloured this little cake image with promarkers sorry i don't know who's it is.

Hope you like it and will join in the celebrations with us.

E for Embroidery

Morning all

Brrr it's been a cold and wet week but im not complaining the garden needs the rain.

Today see's a new letter over at Alphabet challenges and for this fortnight it's E for Embroidery

For my DT project i have made another scrap page this time of Olivia's Christening with my Daughter and Son-in-law her Godparents for my embroidery i cross stitched Olivias name.

I hope you like it and will pop over to the challenge blog to join in the fun and also see what beautiful creations my team mates have created.

Challenges entered

Poodles Parlour - Going Dotty

Papertake Weekly - Anything Goes

Anything Goes = Anything Goes.

Hope you all have a wonderful Easter xx

SCMC * Colour Me Happy *

Good morning everyone and Happy April Day

Can't believe we are into April already where is this year flying to.

For my card today i have this little chap to share i love this teddy and our new challenge over at

* Sparkles Christmas Monthly Challenges *

Our theme for this month * Colour Me Happy * has been chosen by team mate Jacqui which is to use your favourite colour combination

this was a bit difficult to follow as i have several favourite colours but i went for this blue & white combo

i embossed 2 strips using my cuttlebug and my  new flourish die also corner die and poinsettia

hope you like it and will pop over and join us as we have 2 great prizes from our sponsors for this month and they are

Joanna Sheen our monthly sponsor with a prize of £10 to spend at her fabulous store

And we have a second prize of $10 to spend online at

2 great prizes please come along and join us and see what beatiful creations my team mates have made.

Challenges entered into

Digi Designs -Emboss it any way you want.

Simon Says Stamp - Anything Goes