Sketch Saturday Guest Designer

It's Weekend!!

I am here this morning to share a card that I made as Guest Designer for Sketch Saturday ...... Kerry at Ladybug Crafts Ink is sponsoring them this month and the DT are using images from the Bloomin Fabulous new release.

The image is called Box of Blooms and I coloured it with Spectrum Noir pencils

I followed the sketch below

Thanks for stopping by and hope that you can join in with the challenge this week.

Hugs 

Susan xxx

Girly Weekend or on my own?!

So John and Lewis are off to Silverstone in the morning for the weekend,

 leaving Eleanor and I at home. 

Does this mean that we will shop, watch movies and chillax together OR is it not cool for a nearly 13 year old to spend the weekend with her Mum......yes you guessed she has 'other' things to do!

I may grab the evenings with her if I'm lucky :0/

For today's card I have used a new image from Ladybug Crafts Ink Bucket of Blooms - absolutely gorgeous image to colour.

Whatever your plans are for the weekend - have a lovely time.

Hugs

Susan x

It's Bloomin' Fabulous at LCI

Happy Tuesday!!

Kerry has a new release for you all today and it's 'Bloomin' Fabulous'

- there are 12 new digital images at £1.75 each

The challenge for this fortnight is 

'ANYTHING GOES'

There will be 1 prize of all 12 images and 5 prizes of 2 images of your choice ... 

all you need to do is leave a comment telling us your favourite flower and why 

on the Challenge Blog
and as if that isn't enough we have an extra special treat for you

Jane from Jane's Journal 

has agreed to join us for the release - go and take a look!

The image I was given is 'Box o' Blooms'

and I have to say I love it - already I've made numerous cards with it and all so different.

Thanks for stopping by

Hugs

Susan xx

Black and White

Hi all - another quick card from me today.

I made this card for the All Dressed Up - Monochrome challenge

- the papers I had bought from Etsy some time ago and the gorgeous flower is from one of my long time favourite MFT loop flower die.

I hope you've had a pleasant weekend.

Thank you for stopping by and leaving your lovely comments.

Hugs

Susan xx

LCI - Birthday Challenge

Good morning all.....

The winners of  our  'For a Special Lady' challenge are over on the TLT Challenge blog - 

congratulations to you all !!

Today's challenge has been set by lovely Lyndsey

'Birthday'

We have all chosen a 'Cupcake Cutie' image - I have used 'Stack of Cupcakes' for my card and added some gorgeous digi papers purchased from Etsy.

.......cute sentiment I found and a dp button .......

Please do go and see my ladybug friends and give them some love.

Take care and Hugs

Susan xx

Happy Mother's Day to all Mother's everywhere......

Why oh why does 1 hour make such a difference ?!?!? I could quite easily of stayed in bed this morning.

Well today is Mother's Day in UK and one of my baby's isn't here with me - but ho hum . He did leave me with a card though and inside he wrote

.... have to confess I did hold back a tear.....

Here is the card I made for my Mum.....

Whatever you did today I hope you had a lovely one...

Thanks for stopping by

Hugs

Susan xx

Happy 3rd Birthday Opal

 During half term we went to visit John's family in Kent and in the 

week my niece turned 3 - I can hardly believe she's 3 !!

I used the utterly gorgeous Robyn image from Ladybug Crafts Ink and added the

 number 3 to one of the balloons - with digi stamps this is soooo easy to do.

a closer view

and here is little Opal blowing her candles out on her Peppa Pig

 cake that my friend made for her.....it was fantabulous !!

(my biggest fear was that it wouldn't make the 260 mile journey in one piece but as you can see - it did !)

Thank you for stopping by

Hugs

Susan xx

Happy Birthday John.....

It's my husband John's birthday today but sadly he is away with work 

so we will celebrate on Friday when he returns.

Here are the 3 cards that I made for him from Lewis, Eleanor and myself......

Trying to achieve 3 different cards sometimes can be a challenge !!

Thanks for stopping by
Hugs
Susan xx

Pretty in Pink

Did I tell you about my new printer ?? Well it's a Canon MX925 and it prints 

on 300gsm card - I'm sooooo chuffed !! It means I can now print DP on card stock and 

use it as  my base card :0)

I found this Digi paper on Etsy and fell head over heels straight away.

I love the image and thing she is perfect for a girlie card.

I'd like to enter the following challenge

Southern Girls - Bling it Bling Bling

Hugs

Susan xx

Happy 40th birthday

A fortieth birthday card today - using some gorgeous papers I bought from Etsy quite some time ago but have only just 're-discovered' them.....beautiful me thinks.

I'd like to enter the following challenges : 

Winter Wonderland - No Stamping Allowed

Chocolate Coffee & Cards - One Button, One Bow, One Flower

PCJ - Emboss that

Wishing you a great weekend

Hugs

Susan xx

Happy 1st Birthday Connor

Morning !!

I was asked to make a card for Lewis' drum tutor's Son's first birthday - I asked Ben what did he have in mind - 'oh I'll leave it to you bit he's a little monkey !!'

Here's my card with a little monkey - Ben loved it :0)

I chose bright colours as I thought it suited the image.

Thanks for stopping by.

Hugs 

Susan xx

Killer Heels CAS card

Hello everyone !!

I have a three day weekend as Lewis and Eleanor have a teacher training day on Monday - yeah !!!!

Today's card is very basic and simple - but I love both the image- a true favourite LCI Killers Heels - Leopard and the DP , which I found on Etsy.

Hope you are having a lovely weekend wherever you are and keeping nice and snuggly warm.

Hugs

Susan xx

New Release, Competition AND a Guest Designer

 Wow !!! What a day we have for you.......

Kerry has a new release for you all  - there are 6 new images today 

and 6 new images next Tuesday.

The new release is called

'Skinny Malinkies'

The  ladybugs have only seen the one image they have been given so are looking forward to today as much as you.

The challenge for this fortnight is 

 

'ANYTHING GOES'

 

Competition Rules

 Collect a letter from all the ladybugs posts - some ladybugs may have more than one letter - and then unscramble your letters and email your answer to lcichallengeblog@aol.com

Don't forget to display our badge in your side bar to spread the word.

The overall winner will receive all 12 Skinny Malinkies images.

The image I have been given is

'Kylie'

she is available to purchase here at £1.75 along with all her friends.

Isn't she gorgeous ???

a closer view

a different view

a view of the inside

and not forgetting my letter for you

Thank you for stopping by now please do go and say hello to all my ladybug friends.

Hugs

Susan xx

Happy 49 years Mum & Dad.....

Forty nine years - wow seems forever !! My Mum and Dad won't be celebrating this year as my Dad isn't well - he's now had his third session of chemotherapy and unfortunately the side effects aren't very nice.

 

My card is very simple and I'm so sorry but can't remember where I bought the image from.......which I paper pieced with some digital paper I purchased from Etsy some time ago.

 

a closer view

a sneaky peek at the inside

 

Thank you for stopping by - hope you are all keeping cosy.

 

Hugs

 

Susan xx

Happy 40th Birthday....

We were blessed with great weather for bonfire night - we ended up sitting in front of  the fire until 10:45 !!
We had a laugh and although I didn't want to go in the first instance I can hand on heart say it was the best night out in a long time....

I was asked by my beautician if I could make a card for her friend who is a singer.....and is fond of animal print.

I found the image on Google - the animal prints are a digital paper pack I purchased on Etsy.
The ribbon was a mistake - I ordered the wide one and was sent this instead but to send back would've cost me more than the ribbon - I thought it suited this card though.
The buttons are hiding where I jumped on my sewing machine - Celeste my Burmese decided she wanted to see what I was up to !!

 

Please don't forget to follow me and comment on my 'Candy Post' to be in with a chance of winning.....

 

Take care and Hugs

 

Susan xx