Sunday, 15 March 2026

Bunnies and Blooms

 Happy Mother's Day to all those celebrating today!

We have a new challenge started over at Creative Moments, with the optional theme of Bunnies and Blooms - just in time for Easter if you celebrate it. Otherwise, think Springtime!! We are starting to see some more sun so it will be with us soon! This challenge is sponsored by the amazing Polkadoodles.

Here is my creation using Party Bunny.


I used the pre-coloured image from the set for this card - do keep your eyes open for a card using the outline image too. I took a butterfly die-cut that I had stamped using the matching stamp set from Marianne Creatables and placed this over the bunnies ear. I then took a flower die-cut from some texture paper and added my printed sentiment to the centre of this.

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:

colormyheart #695 Use 4 colours (yellow, coral, green, orange)

TIOT - Make it feminine

CRAFT #775 Spring/Easter

TheCardConcept #225 Spring Flowers

Thanks for taking the time to look at my blog post.

Hugz Tinz

Wednesday, 4 March 2026

Birthday Wishes

 Our new challenge started today over at I Love Promarkers, with the theme of Birthday. Do remember that you just have to colour your image now - you no longer need to use promarkers.

Our sponsor is Sheepski and I have used their wine image for my celebration card.


I bought some new colouring pencils the other day, so I decided to try using these, and I am quite pleased with how t worked out. The background was created using distress ink pads, to look like a field, before adding the fussy cut image. I sued peel-off's to finish the design.

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:
SimonSaysMon - Make your own background
MMM #272 Card for a male

Thanks for looking,

Hugz Tinz

Monday, 2 March 2026

Stormy Sky

 Our new challenge started yesterday over at Moving Along with the Times and our theme for the month is *birds and/or bees*. I decided to attempt to use one of my fluid art panels to create a picture - called stormy sky.

I took a previously created fluid art panel and stamped birds onto it. I then used Heat It Up embossing powder to create the bird effect. For the top ones I used Seafoam White, and the bottom ones had silver glitter in the embossing powder too. This didn't work as well as I hoped it would and I wish I had gone for gold flakes instead.

I would like to enter this into the following challenge:
SimonSaysMonday - Make your own background

Thanks for looking - I will share more of my creations soon so you can see the development, and see my experiments.

Hugz Tinz

Wednesday, 18 February 2026

Magical

 Our new challenge at I Love Promarkers has started today with the optional theme of *Magical*. We accept colouring of any kind now - not just Promarkers, but I did use Promarkers to colour my image, from our sponsor Dr Digi, this time.


I created the background with distress oxide ink sprayed onto a plastic bag and then laid the cardstock onto this. I layered this matt onto a pale blue 6x6" base card. I coloured the image using Promarkers, then cut it into a square before edging it with Promarkers, matching the background colours. To finish I added the diamante letters to spell out magic potion.

I would like to enter this into the following challenges:
ATSM #511 Make your Mark
Polkadoodles - Male Birthday

Thanks for looking,

Hugz Tinz

Monday, 16 February 2026

Girly and sweet

 Our new challenge started today over at Creative Moments (slightly late in the day as I forgot to organise the post!!). The theme is Feminine, but we still accept anything goes creations too.

Here is my card using an old image from our sponsor - All Dressed Up.


I coloured the image using pastels as it is for a younger girl. I die-cut this into a circle and added to a pale yellow base card. I have recently started trying fluid art, and I dislike waste, so I have been using the run off paint to create paper strips for my cards. I used a blue on for this card, added a peel-off sentiment and some pastel diamantes before layering to the top of the card.
I then die-cut some little flowers and added them along the bottom, using the same pastel diamantes for the flower centres to finish.

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:
inspirationstation #82 photo (inspiration taken from the pale colours and blossoms)
Avenue613 Animal Magic
MMM #271 use 2 dies
ATSM #520 dies/stencils

Thanks for looking and do pop along to the challenge blog to shows us your creations.

Hugz Tinz


Wednesday, 4 February 2026

Love Gnomes

 Hi everyone,

Our new challenge started today over at I Love Promarkers, with the optional theme of 'Love and Romance'. We are sponsored by Polkadoodles for this challenge and here is my card using Love Gnomes:


I coloured these guys using a mix of Promarkers, Flex markers and Aqua markers before fussy cutting the image. I then simply added to a red card blank, added some heart diamantes and a peel-off sentiment.

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:
TheMaleRoom #207 CAS
MMM #270 CAS
ThePaperPlayer #771 Love is in the air

Thanks for taking the time to look at my creation, and do pop your own entry into the blog!

Hugz Tinz

Sunday, 1 February 2026

Yet more flowers

 We are now in February. and that means we have a new challenge that has just gone live at MAWTT! Our theme for this month is Floral. Here is my DT creation for your inspiration:


I used a die-cut and embossing folder for my card this month. I added a die-cut sentiment inside the die-cut heart created by the embossing folder. I used Papermania watercolour markers to colour the raised embossed areas of the floral design.

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:
SOS #566 Love me do (Embossing folder and marker pens from stash)
AlphabetChallenge - T for Texture (embossing folder)
Allsorts 842 Create your own background
SimonSaysMonday - Have a heart

Thanks for looking,

Hugz Tinz