Christmas Animals @ Oldie But A Goodie

A very good morning to all my lovely blog friends, it looks like those up north are finally sharing their weather as we are expecting some nasty storms and winds! I'm heading out to the shops later and hopefully I won't have to go out of the door again for days!

It's time again for a brand new challenge at

Oldie But A Goodie

I'd like to thank everyone who joined us for the last challenge, we had some beautiful entries and you can find the winner and top 3 announced on the main challenge blog.

This week our lovely Tracy is hosting and she would like to see

Christmas Animals

and as Christmas falls at the end of this challenge the powers that be have decided that this challenge will run for a month, giving us all a nice little break.

Now I had a major problem with this challenge - I don't own ANY Christmas animal stamps! I didn't know this until I was searching for one, so I had to think outside the box a bit and this 

is what I came up with!

Yes? No? What do you think? Well it really made me smile while I was making it! lol The stamp is a Penny Black that I have had for ages and of course never used. The photograph looks a bit royal blue but it is actually navy. I've blinged up a Magnolia snowflake again (don't know what I'll put on my cards after Christmas!) done the same with a chipboard number and the sentiment are a mix of stickers and rub ons. Really simple and I hope you think - fun!

You can find all the details of the challenge plus the prize on offer on the main blog page and while your there check all the fabulous inspiration from my super teamies!

Remember to be in with a chance of winning you must use a stamped image that is at least 6 months old

Thank you for visiting this morning, 

I'll be back later with my 2nd DT post of the day

Love 'n' Hugs Laurie x

I'd like to enter this into the following challenges:

ABC Christmas - Y =Yippee Anything Goes

Cute Card Thursday - Anything Goes

Delightful Challenges - Blue Christmas

Crafty Cardmakers - Use It 3 Times

Secret Crafter - All Creatures Great & Small

Crafty Catz - Anything Goes

Moving Along With A Song

Good Morning Bloggers I'm So Excited today, as it's challenge time again, and this week it's a real  Thriller over at

Moving Along With The Times

They have let Little Old Wine Drinker Me set the theme!  That's two in a week for me - I'm going to need to 

Sit Down after this!

I love a bit of Pop Music and often have a sing song while Driving In My Car where no one can hear me (fortunately for them as I'm tone deaf!) and I thought I'd take my singing into the craft room  and do it My Way

This week I want you to give your card a song title and be

INSPIRED BY A SONG

The prize up for grabs in keeping with the theme is this fabulous

Kanban Lets Face The Music and Dance Kit

Head Over There to the main challenge blog for all the details and to check out what the fab Design Team have been 

Sing Baby Singing while making some inspiration for you

This was an easy one for me as ever since I bought this little cutie he has screamed out

Wild Thing

Just look, bless him, he is so not wild! He is actually called Born To Be Wild

He's from Penny Black and is my favourite of all the Hedgehog Stamps

The paper is all furry and gorgeous from Anna Griffin, it comes in Zebra too, which I used on my friend Lisa's card a while back because after all That's What Friends Are For

It's A Beautiful Day and I hope your cards will Ring My Bell and Raise Me Up as you use your True Colours be it copic or Promarkers and Paper Roses

Now its Time To Say Goodbye and hopefully  

We'll Meet Again because you're Simply The Best for visiting me and leaving comments

I know I know this is a Tragedy!

Thanks for looking and I hope I haven't driven you Crazy

Love 'n' Hugs Laurie x x 

I would like to enter this into the following challenges:

Stamp Something - Something Punched (my circles)

Secret Crafter  - A Male Card

Penny Black - One For The Guys

Stamptacular Sunday - Dad's or Grads

Lollipop Crafts - Inspired By A Song

Cupcake Craft  - Boy, Oh Boy, Oh Boy

Papertake Weekly - Dads and Lads

Sentimental Sundays - Fathers Day or Masculine

Craft Us Crazy  - Fathers Day or Masculine

Scrap Creations  - Anything Goes

Dutch Dare  - For The Boys

Wags 'n' Whiskers  - One For The Boys

Creative Inspirations - Fathers Day or Male Card

Totally Stampalicious - Anything Goes

Little Claires  - Cards For Men

Hooked On Craft - Anything Goes

Freshly Brewed  - Put A Little Song In Your Heart

CES  - Saturday Night At The Movies

Easy Rider (Thanks Christine)

Oldie But Goodie Guest Designer

Morning everyone and thank you for dropping by. Today I have a card to share with you that is my very first DT work. I am honoured to be Guest Designer for the month of February over at Oldie But A Goodie. It's a great challenge and I urge everyone to check it out - you'll soon be hooked! They have an amazing Design Team please go and check out their blogs for some great inspiration.

Today's challenge is 'Have A Heart' and I used my wonderful little hedgehog from Penny Black that has sat uninked in my drawer for a couple of years. It was great to have a reason to finally ink him up, now he has had an outing he will be let out more often!

The flowers are from Wild Orchid Crafts, the sentiment LOTV, the doily heart Joanna Sheen and everything else from my stash.

Thanks for visiting, please leave a trace so I can visit you. x Laurie x

Challenges for my GDT card
Penny Black - Love Is....
Allsorts - Love Love Love
Secret Crafter - Valentine
Moving Along With The Times -Red
Pink Elephant  - Be My Valentine
Ladybugs Crafts Ink Challenge  - Love Is In The Air
Simon Says Stamp  - Love Is In The Air
My Time To Craft  -Hearts & Flowers
Everybody Art Challenge  - Valentine
A Spoon Full Of Sugar  - Lets See Some Love
Papertake Weekly  - Have A Heart
Bunny Zoes Crafts  - Love Is In the Air

Pigs Might Fly!

Hello again and thank you for stopping by my little corner of the  world (wide web!)
I made this card in honour of me actually winning a challenge - I would have thought I'd have seen Pigs Fly before I won anything, but there, it shows you what do I know? (Fortunately)

I have been itching to give my new Martha Stewart Optic Dot punch a trial run since I bought it at the beginning of the month.
I am entering this card into the challenge over at Pink Elephant, they have a colour combo theme of 'Red, Pink & Brown' I love these colours together, you will see more of that combo from me in the future.
I am also entering this into the Totally Stampalicious challenge whose theme is very similar this week with 'Pink & Red'
It fits nicely into the Penny Black challenge as that is where my stamp is from (I've loved these cute little piggies since I bought them), their theme is 'January Sales' and I got my punch in January though it wasn't in the sale!
Simon Says Stamp  have a theme of 'Animal Antics' which I'm sure flying piggies is perfect for!
All the other materials in this card (apart from the flowers from Wild Orchid Crafts) were from my ever growing, enormous stash. Funny even now I've started to use it, it doesn't seem to be going down!