Toby & Buster

I've done a card for the I heart Copics challenge over at PCP , following a sketch by Jana, using the DT cards for inspiration. Several DT members have used spots & stripes so that is what I've done. The paper is MME Wild Asparagus.
The cute little image is from Dustin Pike's new range called Toby & Buster and they are an adorable pair doing lots of fun things together!

Gav went for a dirt bike ride yesterday and made some lunch to take with him. Silly man put it all in his bag, on the deck and walked off.  Next thing I hear this rustle, crackle sound and there is Brodie trying to open the chocolate Mega Nut bar wrapper, after nibbling a bit at the apple and discarding it! Luckily the sandwiches were in a plastic container he couldn't get in to!

This is Gav & Brodie wrestling as per usual!

Boys suck!

OK, its not easy doing boy cards , can't put flowers on, nothing pretty ....so I decided to go DIRTY! Well, distressed anyway, looks kinda dirty! LOL!
 This is my card for the Sassy Cheryl Challenge blog where you have to use a Sassy boy and include blue & cream.  Couldn't find the right blue paper then realised I had all sorts of blues on the Bearly Mine CD's I bought last year! Perfect!

Baby!

Good friends from dog training have just had their first 2 legged baby, to join the 4 dogs and 2 cats they have!
I made a card for them using the sketch from A Spoonful of sugar which I've rotated,  and a Joanna Sheen Messy rabbit stamp set. I love this bunny! The paper is Kaisercraft Christmas carnival ( I don't have a lot of pink stuff! ) and I've used glossy accents on the " Baby" and the bottle.

 I'm also entering it in MTTC - pearls
                                PTW - cutie pie
                                TS-  crittercard
                                DP - funny animal

Its been a fun week...NOT!  We've been racing around organising judges for our winter agility show and trying to get the schedule into the gazette on time only to find the club secretary hasn't booked the indoor venue and someone else has got it! EEEEEK! We're allocated a weekend by the Kennel club so we can't change it easily, then the judges might not be available at a different time....  and at that time of the year no-one wants to compete outside in case its a horrendous weekend. I give up!

Things with Wings!

Challenge 6 already! Over at Karen's Doodles UK this week the challenge is to make a card with wings!  I've used Karen's "Fairy Fun" for this card and as always coloured her with copics. You can't see it very well in this pic but I've Rock Candy Dristress stickles on her wings and on the wings of the punched butterflies!  I love this stuff!

The ribbon is threaded through a spellbinders border die cut. The paper is BG Lime Rickey. Very busy! LOL!

 I'm entering this in

  The Creative Cottage - things with wings

 Stampavie & More- Butterflies

Flutter by Wednesday - open just include butterfly or fairy

Sale Time over at Karen's Doodles

Looking for some gorgeously cute digi images? Hop on over to Karen's Doodles this week for some great savings!

Garden time

Great day for gardening...so instead I'm sitting inside colouring in! 

This card is for the Isabella's Sketchbook weekly challenge which is a garden theme, including a round element.   The image is from Isabella's Sketchbook , called Watering Can Garden!  The paper I have used is Cosmo Cricket Material Girl, the sentiment and punches are SU.

Sassy Girl

What a beautiful Autumn day! Its been warm, no wind...thought I'd better get out and tidy the garden a bit . Unfortunately Patrick ( ginger cat) decided to help so now I have little scratches all over my arms!

 This weeks challenge over at Sassy Cheryls is to use a girlie Sassy image and ribbon.  Think this is girlie enough? The paper and chipboard flower are BG lemonade, ribbon and card is SU and of course the cute image is a Sassy Cheryl digi, coloured with copics.
 I'm also entering this in Stampin for the Weekend challenge- ribbons & bows.

  I went to Palmerston North yesterday to have lunch with my sister and go shopping , and for once we were both rather restrained and neither of us bought shoes!  I did find this cool material tho, which I just had to buy. I've told Gav he's going to get matching shirts and shorts which he has to wear when he's driving the Kombi....as long as I'm not with him! Snicker!   OK....maybe I just might make cushion covers for the Kombi....

Recipe time

This weeks challenge over at Karens Doodles UK Challenge blog is to follow a recipe

3 Embellishments
2 patterned papers
1 image ( Karen's Doodle digi of course!)

I used my cosmo cricket nutmeg paper for this and found it really hard to limit what I put on it! I neeeeeed more! LOL!

My Winner

The Karens Doodle Blog hop has closed and apart from an overall winner, each design team member gets to pick a winner for the image they each used in the post. So many lovely comments ladies! Thanks so much. 
I  picked my winner and its Ramona!!!!
at http://ramona-justalittlescrapingwillgoalong.blogspot.com/
Ramona you need to email Anne and Elaine at Karens Doodles UK

with your details , and my name ( Viv !) and " Blog hop Winner " in the subject line.

E-mail Address

karensdoodlesuk@hotmail.co.uk

Meljens First Challenge

Finally, the first challenge for Meljens Digital Stamps is here and anything goes! How easy is that!  I love this image, but guess you can't figure out why! OK, so its that obvious...it has a doggie in it! LOL!

The paper is BG Green at heart again, the image a Meljen digi coloured with copics. The Sentiment is a Whimsy stamp, the flowers are SU Felt Fusion.

Isabella's Sketchbook

This card is for the very first challenge for Isabella's Sketchbook . She has created a sketch to follow and I have used this cute ballerina. Isabella creates all sorts of digital stamps , including some lovely vintage look images too, go check them out here. Plus there is a sale on for a few days!  

I've used BG Sugar Rush papers , prima flowers & pearls, and coloured with copics.....hmmmm, I have trouble with girlie cards!

Sassy Challenge

Just adored this image the minute I saw it! Cheryl has been busy drawing again , keep it up Cheryl! The paper I've used is BG  Green at heart and the flower is prima ( along with some cute bud things from Tracy) . This card is for the Sassy Cheryl challenge which is Distressing.

Blog Hop Time!

To celebrate Karen's Doodles more than 1000 Blog Followers, we are having Easter Blog Hops. Yes, I said Hops! There are 4 separate Hops going on....


Netherlands Challenge Blog

Scandinavian Challenge Blog

United Kingdom Challenge Blog

United States Challenge Blog

For each individual hop, visit all the participating members blogs and you will find an Easter Egg with a number on it . Collect the numbers and add up the total. Be sure to leave a comment while you are visiting, as each Design Team member will be choosing one person from their comments to win the Karen's Doodles image they have used. There will be 4 Grand Prize winners, one for each blog Hop, chosen from the visitors who send in the correct total of the eggs for that particular Hop.


The winners will get their choice of 4 Karen's Doodles images.

For this hop, please send your answer to :

karensdoodlesuk@hotmail.co.uk

But wait, there is more, anyone visiting all the blogs for all 4 Hops can enter to win a Super Grand Prize of 4 Karen's Doodles images plus an autographed Karen's Doodles original piece of art.

Just visit all 4 Country's blog hops, collect the numbers from the eggs and send the grand total to karensdoodleseasterbloghop@gmail.com .

The Hops will close on Saturday, April 3 at midnight EST. Winners will be announced on each Challenge blog before their weekly challenge.

If you have arrived here from Tracy's blog, you're on the right track, as long as you started from the challenge blog . You now need to head on over to see Yvonne and collect the number from the Easter Egg there. Good luck!

My card is an easel card using Karen's Doodles " I didn't do it! " which is one of my favourites...its so close to home! We have stuffing from toys flying all the time!

Colour Inspiration

This weeks challenge over at Karen's Doodles UK challenge blog is to use this picture for inspiration. All you need is a Karen's Doodles digi image to enter .
 I've used Karen's Doodles Princess Kitty for this card  ( what a gorgeous madam! ) , the flower stem is prima, punched some flowers, coloured with copics and glittered the crown with stickles though you can't really see in this photo.

I'm entering this in a some challenges too.

Pile it on  - animalriffic

Secret Crafter- pink & green & flowers 

Stamptacular Sunday- flowers & spring colours 

Colour Create Challenge - pastels

The Pink Elephant - pastels 

I'm covered in bruises  ( not much unusual about that really, I keep falling over things) after taking Brodie to Agility training. He is so enthusiastic, he keeps leaping on me as he's flying over the jumps! His feet are like dinner plates!  Boy does he love it though!

Whimsy Lion

Have had this beastie for a while and only just inked him up. He is a Whimsy Stamp and I thought he was just so handsome!
 The card is for the I heart copics challenge on PCP. There is a sketch by Jana to follow for this challenge.
 Work this morning...ughhhh!  Think I might like to retire ..I wish!

Dimensions of Coffee!

Hope this qualifies as dimensions!!! I'm entering this card in Cute Card Thursday challenge and the Saturday Spotlight which is coffee .
The image is a digi from Isabella's Sketchbook . She has lovely vintagey images and some cute girly images too.
The flowers are Prima , paper is K & Co and I've added glossy accents to my coffee . The sentiment is computer generated.
 I'm putting off housework again......SIGH!

Turtle Express

This image is another Karen's Doodle  digi, they're all so cute!  I've coloured my turtle with copics ( what else!) .
Tracy is guest designer over at Doodle Palace this week and she has given us a sketch which I've used for this card.  The papers are BG Origins , flowers & leaves are Prima.  The buttons are random from my stash, and the sentiment is SU. I'm entering this in Doodle Palace and  Twisted Thursday which is buttons.

And Brodie sends everyone a smile for the day! I've flipped him over so you can better appreciate his toothiness . Isn't he so sweet! LOL!

Northland

Well, we've been there, done that!  Gav likes to visit out of the way places, so we went to some very isolated places around the Kaipara Harbour, Hokianga Harbour,  up to Spirits Bay near Cape Reinga ( tho not to the Cape itself...too many people!) . We must get a better map tho, his motorbike atlas is wrong about a lot of things!!!!!!!!

 The Doggies were very pleased to see us. Poor Brodie got stuck in jail ( kennels) , and I think he thought this was another new home ( we've only had him 3 months!) and it was a bit sucky, being stuck in a run with barking dogs around him. Apparently he barked...a  LOT!!!!  Abbie & Riley mooched around at a friends and Vinnie came with us cos I wouldn't want to inflict his pining and whining on anyone! LOL! He met two very fat dacshunds, 2 chubby schnauzers and a couple of terriers in places we were staying. People kept saying what a pretty girl he was. He HAS A MOUSTACHE PEOPLE!!!!!

Third week already!

The Challenge this week over at Karen's Doodles UK is to follow this great sketch. All you need to enter is a cute Karen's Doodle image to enter.  You have until next Tuesday evening UK time to post your entry.

Prizes

1st Place - 3 Digi stamps of your choice from Karen's Doodles

2nd Place - 2 Digi stamps of your choice from Karen's Doodles

3rd Place - 1 Digi stamp of your choice from Karen's Doodles
 
 

I've used my favourite Karens Doodles image " I didn't do it!"   This is Brodie all over, unstuffing everything in sight! LOL!
 I've used BG Boxer again, coloured with copics and punched the flowers with retro punches. The sentiment is computer generated, cut out with SU punches.

Its the Easter Bunny !

Ready to roll? Its our second challenge over at Karen's Doodles UK challenge blog and the theme this week is Easter.  I've used one of Karen's images , called Bunny girl. Isn't she cute? You can find all Karen's cute digi images over at Karen's doodles blog.
  I've used some SU papers and ribbon on this card, with Kaisercraft bling , butterfly punch and nesties.  This is a bit more girly than I'm used to making! LOL!

  I've coloured bunny girl with copics and added glossy accents to her eyes and eggs. I hand - cut some eggs for embellies as you can probably tell ...no laughing now!  The sentiment is computer generated by me!
 So , why don't you pop on over, check out some cuties and enter our challenge!
 I'm going to enter this card in  A spoonful of Sugar- Easter
                                               Pile it on - pastels
                                               Sassy Designs- Easter
                                               Totally gorgeous- something sweet