It is with much sadness that I will be taking a break from crafting and blogging for the next few months. I’ve been having shoulder pain in my right arm for several months which has gradually gotten to the stage where I cannot sleep because of the pain and am unable to function even typing is extremely painful.

After unsuccessful shockwave, and other treatments I have no choice but to undergo surgery. Recovery time is between four and six months but hopefully, I can return to crafting sooner.

I would like to thank my design teammates at Colorful Options, The Flower Challenge, and A Cut Above for their understanding as I will be unable to continue on at least for the foreseeable future.

Wishing you all well and hopefully, I will be back before you know I have gone.

take care

Marie

Welcome back to the midway point at The Flower Challenge. Just in case you need a little extra inspiration for our Feature Pink challenge, the rest of the design team and I have some lovely pink-inspired blooms to get those creative juices flowing.

So what did I come up with….

A variety of dies were used to make this simple card, the flowers, and pots are courtesy of Poppy Stamps Nordic series coloured with Distress Oxides . The scalloped oval die by waffle flower for the frame and the background is a cover plate by Altenew Dotted Starburst.

We do hope you will join us at The Flower Challenge there’s lots of lovely inspiration over on the blog so why not join in the fun.

Wishing you all a fabulous weekend.

Marie

Welcome back to another fun challenge at A Cut Above. We had so many amazing entries last month and look forward to seeing what you loverly crafters come up with this time around.

As always anything goes as long as at least one die cut is used, for details on how to enter pop on over to A Cut Above and also see what our amazing design team came up with.

I fell in love with this die set by Bibi Cameron for Spellbinders as many years ago I owned a beautiful little pug named Looby. Unfortunately, Looby lived only a few short years but I will always remember her fondly. I used a variety of kraft and brown card for this project together with the addition of Distress Oxide on her body and some gold card for her collar, and googly eyes to complete that cute little face.

Whilst we are on the subject of doglets we’ve added a new addition to the family to keep our senior chihuahua company after the passing of Bailey and Rosy last year.

She’s a tiny wee thing with a big personality, you can’t really see her eyes in this photo so we’ve given her a little trim she really is a cheeky madam and fits right in. She has particularly taken a shine to Mr. P and squeaks with happiness when he’s around (as do I 🙂

I’m also linking up to #242 Cardz for Galz who are asking us to make a card in anything but a square shape

Wishing you all a fabulous week

Take care
Marie