A Spoon Full of Sugar -challenge 55

Our challenge at A Spoon Full of Sugar is 'Butterflies' we would like to see 1 or more butterflies on your work.
I think I've gone a bit overboard with my card lol!! The butterfly paper is from a pack I have had for ages and just had to use, I thought this Tilda image was just perfect, the butterfly embellies are also from a pack I've had for years and then looking for a sentiment I even found 1 with, yes, a butterfly on it!!

Our prize this week is a super cute Nutshells Coco with butterfly stamp and some Aloha petals which have been kindly donated by Nutcrafters.

This is my entry for the Just Magnolia challenge as I have used their fabby sketch!

5-in-1 challenge card!

Yes my card today covers 5 different challenges, I just love it when that happens!

1) Just Christmas & Birthday's - I've used their sketch.
2) Whiff of Joy - to use 'charms' - I've used 2 butterflies.
3) Cute Card Thursday - Nip & Punch - I used my circle punch to cut out the 3 circles for my rosette.
4) Colour Create - Colours of the rainbow - I may not have used every colour of the rainbow but there are quite a few on here!
5) Secret Crafter - Bling - I've used my Poundland stick on diamonds!

Legoland was super fun! (lots of piccies!)

We had the most wonderful weekend, our couple of days at Legoland Windsor were great. We couldn't have asked for better weather (well it could've been maybe a bit cooler!) it was so hot when we sat watching the live outdoor show that I thought my knee was going to spontaniously combust!!!

We were in shock on Monday our 1st day we queued and queued to get in and that was just to get onto the carpark, we had to park on the overflow of the overflow carpark and there were still cars flooding in. Luckily I had pre booked our tickets so we sailed straight past the queues and through the turnstyles. But how ever many thousands of people there were nowhere was ever that crowded which was good. It just meant some queues were quite long. It worked out that some of the schools had a inset day so everyone decided to turn up, aparantly the half term had been quite quiet! The park was open until 6pm (internet said 5pm) and then they ended up staying open until 7pm due to the fab weather and volume of people, they had also aparantly let too many people in!!

Here I am with Lillie and Hollie and the lego family!Lillie and Hollie with the lego mayor.

Lillie and Hollie with the Lego character, they also met the dragon and Bob the Builder! Here they are with the lego Bob and Wendy!and outside the Land of the Pharohs. Our 2nd day was even more brilliant than the 1st, as this time the children were back at school, as the saying goes 'what a difference a day makes'! We sailed straight onto the carpark, they were so empty!! Hardly any queues for rides, it was just great! We realised we had missed a whole area out so headed straight there, where there were 2 roller coasters an apprentice dragon and 'the' dragon' 1 go on the big one was enough for me and Lillie, Hollie went on it with her daddy 3 times!!! We caught all of the shows the 4D films which were brilliant. We ended our stay with 3 yes 3 goes on the river splash (tubs) I wanted to get soaked as with it being sooo... hot it didn't matter it was actually really nice, but it didn't matter wherever Matthew sat he got the soaking ggrrr..... you could literally wring the water out Lol!!

We also had a really lovely day on the Sunday, my cousin's daughter was being christened hence the visit to that part of the country. Oliver her son adored Lillie and Hollie, bless him he came down with chicken pox 3 days before so was a little under the weather but seemed to come to life with the girls! The weather was hot again so the children had a ball playing on the big pink fairy princess bouncy castle and running around the huge garden with their new found friends.

Here are Lillie and Hollie posing with Nannie and Grandad outside the church.posing again in the garden at the end of the day. and here we all are, can you believe I had my gorgeous 5"heeled black and white spotty shoes on until 5 minutes prior to this piccie being taken, I changed them into my flats just before we left, typical heh!

Charisma Cardz -Pink & Brown challenge

Our challenge at Charisma Cardz this week has been set by Heike and is a colour combo of 'Pink and Brown'.
Just perfect for my Papermania scrumptious papers! Can you believe no image on my card today!?! I went with the 'I love you' backing paper and made the heart topper to carry on the theme, guess hubby will either get this for his birthday, our anniversary or valentine's day!!We have a fantastic new sponsor SIMON SAYS STAMP who have very generously donated a $20 gift certificate for the winner WOW!!

The girls have as always made fabulous examples so why not pop along to the blog for a peep!?

A Spoon Full of Sugar -challenge 54

Well I'm hopefully having a wonderful sunny 2nd day at Legoland today, so have obviously schedueled this post to appear!
Over at A Spoon Full of Sugar we have a fabulous sketch which has been designed by Sonja, I liked it straight away as I do love my buttons!! Although you don't have to necessarily use buttons you could use flowers, gems etc.
I was unsure of my card when I was putting it together, what with the writing on the backing paper, and the cakes on the other, then the sentiment, but I am happy with the finished article and think it all came together nicely in the end.Pop over to the blog to check out the prize details for this week, and of course the always gorgeous work from the rest of the DT.
Back tomorrow hopefully with some piccies!

The sun has got it's hat on....

....hip hip hip hooray, the sun has got it's hat on and we're going out to play!!!

Not that I actually like the sun that much, it's nice when it's warm but I don't really like hot! We are off to my cousins little girls christening tomorrow and then having a couple of days at Legoland, can't wait!

So I'm having a bit of a catch up. I meant to post this card earlier as I have used last weeks Sketch Saturday sketch and added bling so it would've covered the Dutch Dare challenge to, but it's too late! I can however enter it for the Cute Card Thursday challenge which is 'bit o' bling' and Papertake weekly who want us to 'scrap this' and use up scraps of dp that we have left over.

This card is for the My Time to Craft challenge which is 'pretty in pink'.

Chaisma Cardz -Go Dotty!

It's time for challenge 21 at Charisma Cardz and Lyndsey chose the theme 'Go Dotty'.
I have used this fun Tilda image I think she looks like she is running to give that flower to someone she's very fond of!! I've used 3 different dotty backing papers and used my coloured pearls that I bought for last weeks challenge as more dots.