Happy Birthday Sugar Mamma!!!

I luv you to bits and hope my card and parcel will find you early today on your special day!

Today it’s not only the start of the new Sugar Bowl challenge,
but also the special day of our one and only super mum Gayle…
I sure hope you have the most amazing day ever hunnie!

My card for this challenge following Maria Therese’s gorgeous sketch has been made for Gayle
but as I didn’t want her to see it before today,
I didn’t send it in for the challenge this forthnight.
She will receive it today..
Here is hoping that she won’t see this before her postie comes!

The theme this time is ‘Birthdays’
so very easy for everyone to join in..

For my card,
I have used the new Digi ‘Sybil’
[as she reminds me of Eva for some reason]…
isn’t she just gorgeous??????

As per usual… Visit the SugarBowl challenge blog
for all the details and all the inspiration you might need, to join in the fun
and win 6 Sugar Nellie stamps of your choice!

I do hope you can join in the fun!

Have a gorgeous Thursday all,

Hugs, Marlena xxxx

Get ready for another Sugar Bowl challenge
with a fabulous sketch by Erika to get your creative juices flowing!

Erika has chosen the optional theme of Vintage or Distressing..
One of my favorite techniques..
so thank you sweetie!!

For my card I have used another Simply Adorable digi stamp
called Nathan

He is coloured with Copics,
used Bella Blue papers, SU! sentiment, Nestie dies & label and the
Fleur de Lis in the corners of my image is my bargain punch buy
from ‘The Range’ the other day, reduced by 70%!!

.oOo.

The prize for this challenge is a ‘steam punk’ gift bag
including stamps, charms and embossing folders

As always,
pop on over to the SB blog for all the details
and more inspiration from my fellow sweeties

I do hope you can join us this fortnight,

Big hugs,

Marlena x

Whoohoo..

Very honoured to be in the Spotlight over at the Simply Sassy blog!

As I’ve loved these little cuties from day one,
I jumped at the chance when asked

Sassy Artist Krista Smith just keeps coming with these amazing designs
that when asked to pick a favorite..
I just could not!! I love them all!

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Cherise will be having a sleep over party for her birthday at the end of the month
and thought it would be nice to make some invitations.
The sweet ‘Bedtime Snuggles‘ is just perfect for this with her cute bunny slippers

I’ve made a criss cross card,
still one of my favorite card shapes
ever since I seen Beate’s fab splitcoast stampers tutorial a looong time ago
[you can find it here]

Printed off the invite itself onto plain card.
Cut to size and stamped the border with stamps from Card-io.

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Yes.. I know I made a boo-boo with the printing,
but only noticed after taking the pics..
Luckily this can easily be re-done and changed..lol

The papers I used are MME All Girl,
MS border punch, SU! Ribbon and Sassy
has been coloured with Copics, cut out and 3D’d onto the ribbon.

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Another great BIG thank you to the Simply Sassy Inspiration blog for having me

Have a gorgeous week all,

Hugs, Marlena x

Helloo,

Some exciting new Lili of the Valley stamps are coming our way..

I know there are alot of LotV Fans who have been asking for more boy images,
I’m pleased to tell you the new collection of 16 stamps [Boys and Boy Bears]
will be released on 11th May
and I just know you are going to love them all!!

For my card I have used ‘Karate Kid’
and it’s such a fun image to use for birthdays, congrats or good luck cards.

I have coloured him with Copics:
Blue, BG10, BG11, BG72,
Grey, T0-6,
Brown, E70, 71, 47, 49

Over the next 2 weeks the DT will be displaying lots of sneak peeks..
so don’t forget to check out The Lili of the Valleys Ideas to Inspire blog

Have a fabulous Bank Holiday every one,

Hugs, Marlena x

Happy Easter to you all!

Anyone had enough of all the Chocolate, eggs and sweet stuff yet? Lol
I do hope you all having a relaxing time this bank holiday!

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I wanted to show you my card with the ‘Delicious‘ Sassy stamp by Sugar Nellie

She is great to use for all kinds of celebrations, don’t you think?

On Facebook the Sugar Nellie group had a ‘Spots & Dots’ challenge going..
Even though this challenge has now finished and the new weekly challenge is up,
I still wanted to give the group a mention.

I will enter it in the CCT challenge for this week,
as I’ve not used a sentiment or text.

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Yep.. Another cupcake pic to show you..
but promise that this will be the last one for a while!

We made Chocolate ones this time with Orange flavour Icing,
decorated with choc sprinkles and mini eggs.
If at all possible these tasted even sweeter than the previous lot

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Have a fabulous week ahead,

Hugs, Marlena x