Babies, babies everywhere!

Two new baby girls last week! On Tuesday one of the girls who works in the shop became a Grandma again  to her 4th granddaughter. Then on Saturday the girl who used to work with me in the post office became a grandma for the first time to a little girl too. I gave Carol a grandparents card which she loved. Yesterday she asked if I would make one for Annette as she couldn't find anything nice in the shop. I found 2 cards in my box and made another two last night. She chose one that I had already made with a lovely LOTV image so I used another one with a sweet LOTV image for Annette and this one for her daughter and son-in-law.

I used :-

Pram :- Marianne die.

Sentiment :- LOTV.

Pearls :- Hobby House.

DP :- Forever Friends.

Martha Stewart punch, ribbon from stash.

Not sure if you can see the DP very well, it's quite a pretty pale pink colour with text all over it. I love that pram but it can be quite tricky to cut out. And if you get it cut out safely and then tear it getting it out of the die it's a wee bit annoying lol!

I'll show you the other one I made tomorrow. I think it might be my favourite.

Thanks for looking, hope you like it. Catch up with you all tomorrow.

Kat xx

Totally Gorjuss 166 - Spotty.

Good morning everyone. I hope I've scheduled this ok as I couldn't get online on Friday evening till late. So I'll be quick. It's time for a new challenge at Totally Gorjuss. Another easy challenge for January, this time we'd like to see spots somewhere on your card. Edited to add :- Apologies to Nikki from Bunny Zoe's, I was in such a hurry to schedule this post that I forgot to mention that she is sponsoring us this week!

Here's mine. I've kept it quite simple again this week.

I used :-
Pram :- Marianne die.
DP :- Forever Friends.
Sentiment :- LOTV.
Heart border :- Martha Stewart punch.
Pearls :- Hobby House.
Spotty ribbon.

I'll add some challenges later.

Cupcake :- January Blues.
Pink Elephant :- Celebrate.
Papertake Weekly :- Happy New....
Crafty Creations :- Something New.
Cute Card Thursday :- Beat the Blues.
Totally Papercrafts :- Ribbon.
Crafty Ribbons :- New Beginnings.

Catch you all later after work and hope you have a nice weekend whatever you've got planned. I'm just hoping everyone's wrong about the weather. All week people have been telling me it's going to snow on Sunday so fingers crossed it doesn't!

I'd love to hear what you think if you have a minute to leave me a wee comment. But thanks for popping in anyway. I'd like to visit you too and see what you've been doing so don't be shy.

Just Cute Bears & Friends#40 Winter Birthday.

Good morning everyone, hope you're having a nice weekend. The weather here has been pretty horrible but after working full-time last week I'm just glad of a couple of days off!

Thanks to everyone who joined us at Just Cute Bears & Friendslast time for our black and white plus one other colour challenge. I saw some lovely cards when I was visiting your blogs. I hope you'll want to join us this fortnight for our new challenge. This time we'd like you to make a card for a winter birthday. As usual we're happy for you to combine with other challenges as long as you follow our theme and mention Just Cute Bears & Friends in your post.

Here's my card. I was going to show you the card I made for Poppy's birthday but that wouldn't do as the image I used is LOTV's little ballerina which is obviously not a cute animal!

I used :-

Image :- Forever Friends.

DP:-  Dovecraft  lovely glittery papers. 

Sentiment :- Craftwork Cards.

Jewels :- Hobby House.

Colouring :- Promarkers and Sakura clear glitter gel pen.

Flowers and jewel brad from stash.

I'm going to enter the following challenges :-

Teddy Stampers :- Sketch and bling it on.

Daring Cardmakers :- We 3 - jewels. Was going to say DP till I realised I had 4 different ones!

If you've got time I'd love to hear what you think. And do pop over to Just Cute Bears & Friends and see the lovely cards my teamies have made.

Thanks for looking, enjoy the rest of your weekend.

Kat xx

Just Cute Bears # 37 Baby Card with Gingham.

Good morning everyone and this week at Just Cute Bears we have a new challenge for you. Thanks to everyone who joined our last challenge and you can find out who the winner is over at the challenge blog if you have not been there already. This week we would like you to make a baby card and the added option is gingham, either DP or ribbon.

Here is my card and as you can see I've chosen to use gingham DP. It's always handy to have a spare baby card so why don't you join us this week. It makes a change from Christmas cards which is what I've been doing recently.

I've used :-

Image :- Forever Friends.

DP :- Craft Creations.

Colouring :- Promarkers, Sakura clear glitter gel pen.

Flowers :- Wild Orchid Crafts.

Sentiment :- Craftwrok Cards.

Pearls :- Hobby House.

Leaf punch, ribbon.

I'm going to enter some challenges with this card :-

Pollycraft :- Anything Goes.

Crafty Creations :- Sketch plus use ribbon or lace.

That's it then girls I hope you'll join us this time. You have two weeks to enter. I enjoyed visiting your blogs and seeing your cards with all the bling and swirls and I'm looking forward to seeing your baby cards.

Enjoy what's left of your weekend. After a week of full time work I'm looking forward to working fewer hours this week. At the end of the week we have 2 days of babysitting so I'm really looking forward to that.


Just Cute Bears#36 Swirls and Bling.

Good morning everyone and I hope you're having a nice weekend in spite of the weather! At least the weather here hasn't been very nice here in the Aberdeenshire. After 2 horrendous days I was very surprised to come home from a crop yesterday afternoon and find two of our neighbours combining barley. It must have been pretty wet so the drying costs will be horrendous. I suppose they must be getting desperate now. I know what it's like as we used to have a farm until my husband eventually saw sense  and sold the farm six years ago. He works just as hard now but at least it's not for the bank!!

But enough waffling. This week at Just Cute Bears we would like to see swirls and bling as well as a bear on your creations. We are sponsored by Paula at Pollycraft this week so I'm sure the winner will have a treat in store.

Thanks to everyone who joined us last week. I enjoyed visiting your blogs and seeing how you interpreted our "Punch it" challenge. I'm hoping many of you will join us again this week. I'm still firmly in Christmas card mode and I thought the theme of swirls and bling was perfect for another Christmas card. So here it is.

I used :-

Image :- Forever Friends.

DP :- MME.

Colouring :- Promarkers, Sakura clear glitter gel pen.

Swirl and snowflake :- Sizzix.

Card Candy :- Craftwork Cards.

Ribbon, gems, button, string and Stickles.



I followed the sketch over at Friday Sketchers so I'll be entering this card in their challenge. I'd also like to enter the challenge at Charisma Cardz where the challenge is Anything Goes.

Thanks for looking and hope you like. If you have time to leave a comment I'd be really pleased. Please pop over to Just Cute Bears if you haven't already done so and see what my talented teamies have made this week. I'm sure they'd be pleased if you left them a comment too.

Oops I forgot to say that our challenge is moving to fortnightly so you have until 9th of  October to enter and our next challenge will be on the 10th of October.

Enjoy what's left of the weekend.

Christmas Tilda in Pink.

Hi everyone. I've made another Christmas card! Not happy with this one though. I found a great sketch at Sketch and Stash but I don't think I've done it justice.I wanted to enter the Christmas Tilda in pink challenge over at Die Cut Dreams Christmas Club so I made this card in a bit of a hurry this morning after I'd been very good and done my housework lol! That was a mistake because I was an hour too late! It also fits the challenge at Pollycraft which is Christmas with no red or green.

I used:-

Image :- Tilda.

DP :- Forever Friends.

Sentiment and card candy :- Craftwork Cards.

Colouring :- Promarkers and Sakura clear glitter gel pen.

Snowflake :- Sizzix.

Jewels :- Hobby House.

I hope this makes sense because I haven't got my glasses on and I really should have them to read what I'm typing lol!! I have other cards to post that I made yesterday but I'll need to shoot now if I want to have some lunch before I go to work.

Just Cute Bears #33 Let's go Dotty.

Good morning everyone. Hope you are all enjoying your weekend. I am! Yesterday my friend and I went to an event day at Simply Create at Alford. Not our nearest craft shop but only an hour's drive away so close enough as it's a fabby shop. Jacqui was trying to raise money for Save the Children and had a "sales table" for them. Kath was doing make and takes and had some lovely "scraplings" for us to make. So now I feel quite inspired lol! To complete my happiness Monday is a local holiday here so I have a day off work. I'm trying not to think that it's the last public holiday before Christmas though. But since I take my holidays in 1, 2 or 3 days at a time I still have some days left to break the monotony of work!!

But on to our challenge over at Just Cute Bears. This week we are "going dotty" so we'd like to see lots of dots and spots on your cards. As you can see I'm still firmly in Christmas mode and I've made another Christmas card.

I used :-

Image and DP :- Forever Friends.

Colouring :- Promarkers, Versacolor ink pad for edges.

Sentiment :- Craftwork Cards.

Pearls :- Hobby House.

Nesties, Martha Stewart corner punch, Stickles and ribbon from stash.

My teamies have made some lovely cards and we'd all love to hear what you think. Thanks to everyone who joined us last week and I hope we can inspire you to "Go dotty" this week.

Oops I nearly forgot I used the lovely sketch over at A Spoon Full of Sugar so I'd like to enter their challenge this week. Passion for Promarkers would like to see a teddy image this week so I think this card fits there too. And thanks to Lols for pointing out that my card would fit the challenge at Papertake Weekly where the challenge is Just the One. I have 1 image, 1 colour and 1 ribbon so I guess my card does qualify.

Enjoy your day.

Just Cute Bears #27 "Bear Necessities."

Good morning girls and it's time for another challenge over at Just Cute Bears. This week our challenge is "Bear Necessities" in other words we would like to see your clean and simple cards.


This week we are sponsored by the lovely Paula from Pollycraft who is offering two prizes this week.

Here are the prizes from her latest Cuthbert and Kiki range. Aren't they lovely? So we'll have two lucky winners this week.

So here's my clean and simple card. Feels funny not to add flowers or buttons or ribbon but clean and simple it is!

I used:-

Image :- Forever Friends.

Colouring :- Promarkers.

Card Candy :- Craftwork Cards.

Cuttlebug embossing folder and die.

When I made this card I didn't know of any challenges it fitted but I've found some now!

Charisma Cardz :- Anything but a square.

Everybody Art :- Blue and white.

Allsorts :- Baby/child.

Creative Inspirations :- Anything goes.

Stampavie and more :- Anything goes.

I think that's all that I can say about this card. It's pretty plain but quite effective I think. I hope you can pop over to see what my talented teamies have made this week, you won't be disappointed.

I'm looking forward to popping over to your blogs during the week to see how you've interpreted our challenge. I always enjoy seeing what everyone else is doing.

Enjoy what's left of the weekend.

Crafty Cardmakers 25 - Easel Card.

Is the weekend really over already? It always seems to pass so quickly doesn't it? Still if it's Monday it must be time for my first DT card for the Crafty Cardmakers challenge. This is challenge 25 part 2. This week is spotlight week and this time it is easel cards in the spotlight.

I wanted to make a different shape from the usual square. Nothing wrong with a square because a square easel card looks quite impressive. I just wanted to make something different. Silly me! I've made an easel card using nesties but even the biggest nestie doesn't make a very big card. So I decided to make a hexagonal card. But this is not as easy as it sounds!! I won't bore you by telling you how long it took me to draw a "perfect" hexagon. I'll only say that I'm very picky about thinks looking right lol! Those of you who remember doing maths at school will know that you can easily draw a hexagon by drawing a circle first and then using your compass to mark six point on the circle etc. I would have got on better if my compass had not been rubbish and kept moving. Eventually I managed to draw a template for the card and another slightly smaller for the DP.

I used the template to cut out the card by placing it against a fold and drawing round it and cutting it out. I made/a> another hexagon for the front of the card. Then I used the sketch from Crafty Creations to decorate the card.

I used:-

Image :- Forever Friends.

DP :- Basic Grey Kioshi.

Colouring :- Promarkers for image and Distress Inks for edges, card candy and large heart on base.

Sentiment and card candy :- Craftwork Cards.

Lace :- Quixotic Paperie.

Stickles, buttons and string.

All the edges are inked with Bundled Sage Distress Ink plus the large punched heart on the base and the card candy. The edge of the heart is also stickled.

I hope you like my card and please let me know what you think of it if you have time. Please also pop over to my talented teamies blogs and see what gorgeous easel cards they have made. Easel cards are really easy to make and they always look impressive. If you're not sure how to make one pop over to the Crafty Cardmakers blog where there is a very clear tutorial on how to make an easel card.

Looking forward to seeing all your easel cards. I've enjoyed looking at the cards you've made for the first challenge using the photo for inspiration.

Just Cute Bears #25 Helen's Sketch.

This week at Just Cute Bears we have a lovely sketch from our talented teamie Helen. I love this sketch, thanks Helen.


This week we are sponsored by MELJEN'S DESIGNS and the lucky winner will get 3 lovely bear images. Hope you cand find time to enter!

I was a bit last minute making my card yesterday evening as we had to go out and buy a new dishwasher. I checked out all the usual places.......Argos, Comet, Tesco direct and John Lewis. The idea of going into Aberdeen, where there are lots of road works and delays, was not attractive. So I said to my husband maybe we could phone a local store and see what they had. They had 3 integrated models so we set off for a look. The last one of the one I really wanted had just been sold so I took another one rather than wait. And the best of it was that it was £20 cheaper than exactly the same one in Argos. So much for Argos being cheap! And the best of it was that about 5 minutes after we had paid for it it was in the back of our car. Wonderful what you can get in a Golf lol!

But I'm rambling!! Here is my interpretation of Helen's sketch. This was so easy and quick to put together. And you can dress it up with flowers or jewels or ribbon or bows or all three like me or leave it quite plain for a male card. Either way you can make a great card in no time at all. Hope you like what I've made and if you can find time to leave me a quick comment I'd be really happy.

I used :-

Image :- Forever Friends.

DP :- MME quite contrary (free in a magazine last week.)

Sentiment & card candy :- Craftwork Cards.

Flowers, jewels andribbon from stash.

If you can find time to visit my talented teamies and tell them what you think of their cards they will all be really pleased too. As usual I'm looking forward to seeing what you all do with our challenge this week.

Enjoy what's left of the weekend. I know you girls down south have been having really warm weather recently. Too warm for some of you I know. We've not been so lucky up here in north east Scotland. Today in particular has been really miserable and wet and drizzly and rainy and just yucky. Hope it improves again soon because we've had quite a lot of nice warm days!

Just Cute Bears #22 Monochrome.

It's week 22 at Just Cute Bears and this week we'd like to see a monochrome card or layout. I sometimes struggle a bit with monochrome so this time I decided to keep it really simple and make a baby card.

I used :-

Image :- Forever Friends.

DP :- Craft Creations.

Colouring :- Distress Inks.

Sentiment :- Craftwork Cards.

Pearls and ribbon from stash.

Nesties, Cuttlebug Swiss Dots embossing folder.

American Crafts precision pen for faux stitching.

I'm also entering some challenges with this card :-

Creative Inspirations Challenge Blog :- Monochrome.

Truly Scrumptious :- Sketch plus gingham or checks.

Creative Inspirations Wednesday Challenge :- For the boys.

Crafty Creations :- It's a stitch up.

Crafty Cardmakers :- Male card - maybe I'm pushing my luck here!

Hope you can join us this week. And it would be great if you could find time to pop over to my talented teamies blogs to see what they've been making this week. You can find links to their blogs in my sidebar.

Looking forward to seeing all your lovely entries this week.

Enjoy what's left of the weekend.

Kat xx

Just Cute Bears #16 Multifold Card.

Hi everyone. Hope you are having a nice weekend. Today I think I will be back at my daughter's flat. I will either be pasting wallpaper or cleaning in the kitchen depending on whether my son appears or not. Yesterday afternoon we did a bit of browsing wallpaper, irons cutlery etc. She bought some crockery and glasses and I hoovered her new carpet. So today we will need to do "proper" work lol!

But on to my card for Just Cute Bears. As usual we are sponsored by Kim at Cuddly Buddly. Kim has been very generous and we are very grateful for her support.

Here is my multifold card. I've just made a simple spring card and if you visit my talented teamies you will see that a few of us have had the same idea lol!

I used :-

Image :- Forever Friends.

DP :- MME pretty please - again!

Nesties.

Colouring :-Promarkers.

I hope you can find time to pop over to Just Cute Bears to check out our challenge and see what my talented teamies have made. Please let us know what you think of our cards if you have time. It's always encouraging if you can let us know how we've done.

I'm off now to schedule this post and check out some of my favourite blogs. I really need to check out Penny Black to see what the details are for their blog hop. I love Penny Black images and I don't always manage to enter their challenge. Maybe this week will be different.

Enjoy what's left of your weekend.

Kat xx

Just Cute Bears # 15 Buttons and Bows.

Hello everyone, time for another challenge at Just Cute Bears. This week we'd like to see buttons and bows on your creations.

I'm always looking for a sketch for inspiration to do my Just Cute Bears DT card but I posted a card using the great sketch from Sketch Saturday so I thought I'd do a variation of that one as I found it really easy to use.

I used :-

DP :- MME out and about.

Image :- Forever Friends.

Colouring :- Promarkers.

Sentiment :- Craftwork Cards.

Flower and punched strip :- Martha Stewart.

Button, string and flat back gems from stash.

Nesties.

The very talented Bev Rochester is joining us as guest designer this week so I'm sure you'll want to pop over to the Just Cute Bears blog to see what Bev and the DT have come up with. I'm sure you won't be disappointed.

Enjoy the rest of your weekend and Bank Holiday Monday if you are lucky enough to have a day off then too. I have the day off but I fear I am still in decorating mode lol!!

Kat xx

Just Cute Bears #14 Jane's Sketch

Oops I just found out a wee while ago that I had scheduled this post without actually writing anything! My internet was playing up the other night so I think I probably scheduled it and then couldn't get online to write it up. And then of course I forgot I hadn't done it. This is my second try tonight. I have already written it all up and then when I went to post it it couldn't do it and I was left with nothing but the pics. I'm sure anyone who saw my post before about 9pm probably thought I was nuts since all there was to see was 2 pics!

I've had a second day of scraping paper so I'm a bit tired (to say the least)! Lucky Mhairi, she had to go to work at 3.30 and left her Dad , brother and me to get on with it. At least by the time I finish work at 5.30 it's too late to go away in to Aberdeen to do anything. Roll on next weekend lol! Knowing my luck she'll have a day off on Thursday (like me) and I'll have to go shopping with her.

Anyway enough about my exciting weekend.

This week at Just Cute Bears we have a lovely sketch from my talented teamie Jane. Thanks Jane this is a great sketch to work with.

We are sponsored again by the ever generous Kim at Cuddly Buddly. If you have never visited Cuddly Buddly you really should pop over soon. They have lots of other goodies as well as their own lovely ranges of stamps plus digi stamps and download papers. Isn't this a little cutie?

This is my DT card this week. Hope you like it and please leave me a comment if you have time. I hope you can visit my talented teamies too and leave them a comment, they have made some gorgeous cards this week.

I used :-

Image :- Forever Friends.

DP :- Craft Creations.

Colouring :- Promarkers.

Flowers :- Prima.

Sentiment :- Craftwork Cards.

Flower brads and pearls from stash.

I'm looking forward to visiting your blogs and seeing how you've interpreted Jane's sketch. I love seeing what you've made every week you are all very talented crafters. I'm off to visit my teamies' blogs now, rather later than usual but I love to see what they've made. And of course it postpones having to get on with my ironing lol!

Kat xx

Just Cute Bears #12 Flowers.

Hello everyone, it's Sunday again and time for another challenge at Just Cute Bears. This week we would like to see flowers on your project and of course a bear! You could have flowers on your DP, on your image and even add some. You could even do all three!!

And just look at the little cutie you could win this week courtesy of Kim at Cuddly Buddly. Isn't that the sweetest little bear? Just imagine the gorgeous, girly cards you could make with her!

This week my card is very pink lol! I've used some papers that I got in the Making Cards magazine. They are from the Nancy Watt Collection and also come in a very bright zingy green. I love this pink. I also used Prima flowers and pearls, a Forever Friends image and a Craftwork Cards sentiment. I found this lovely bright pink ribbon in my stash. All the matting is Bazzill card and I used my Nesties to cut out.

I hope you like my card and I'd be really pleased if you have time to leave me a comment. I'm looking forward to visiting your blogs this week to see how you've interpreted our "Flower" challenge. All you need to do is add your new card or layout to Mr Linky before 6pm (GMT) on Saturday 17th April.

Enjoy the rest of your weekend.

Kat xx

All White!

Here we are on Mothers' Day and I hope all you ladies who are Mums are going to be pampered and looked after today. One of my daughters gave me flowers and the other one and her family sent me a card and choccies and a pic of Poppy. But no Oliver! I dropped a hint and she emailed me two pics. What a handsome baby boy he is....I am slightly biased of course lol!

But on to my DT card for Just Cute Bears. This time we would like you to make a white card. That sounds a bit scary but all it means is that we want you to use all white instead of coloured DP but you can colour the image.

For my card I used my Cuttlebug and three different embossing folders. I coloured the lovely Forever Friends image with Promarkers. I finished with some card candy, flat backed pearls and white organza ribbon.

Hope you like! I'm looking forward to seeing what you all come up with this week. I've really enjoyed looking at all your entries every week. I've not been very quick at commenting this past fortnight but I hope to be having a quieter week this week.

As usual we have a lovely prize for you this week. We are sponsored by Cuddly Buddly and here is this weeks prize.

I think that's all I need to say except do please join us. I really enjoy dropping by your blogs every week to check out your entries. There are some very talented crafters out there. I hope you can find a minute to let me, and of course my talented teamies, know what you think of our cards. I hope we have been able to inspire you.

I must apologise for being a bit slow at commenting this last couple of weeks. I'm hoping that next week will be better timewise for me lol!!

Enjoy the rest of your weekend.

Kat xx

Just Cute Bears #6 Mint and Brown.

Good morning everyone, it's Sunday again and time for another challenge from Just Cute Bears. This week we would like you to make a card or some other project of your choice using the colours mint and brown.

We are very lucky to be sponsored again by Cuddly Buddly. This week the prize is another lovely stamp. Isn't this a lovely image and just perfect for your Easter cards.

Here is my card in mint and brown. I checked out my Promarkers first to reassure myself that I was using the right colours lol! I coloured the lovely Forever Friends image with Promarkers and edged it with brown. I made the spots on the hat by using a lighter shade than the main shade. I kept the card simple as I was making it for my husband's birthday on Thursday and I don't think men like flowers or glitter or anything "fancy." I just added some card candy coloured to match with Promarker. I also coloured the string I added to the buttons to match. The DP is the lovely Bloom and Grow from MME.

I think that's all there is to say about this card. I'm looking forward to coming round your blogs this week and seeing your lovely new cards and projects. Last week there was so much beautiful work using Lilac, my favourite colour lol! I really enjoyed seeing what you had made.

Enjoy your Sunday,

Kat xx

Congratulations.

Good morning everyone....at least I hope this has appeared at 9am on Sunday morning if Mr Blogger is behaving. I am away from home this weekend visiting my daughter, son-in-law and lovely grandchildren.

Today is the second challenge over at Just Cute Bears and today we would like you to make a card with the theme "congratulations." I have made a baby congratulations card using my favourite colour...lilac! I love this Nana's Nursery DCWV DP. It comes in lovely shades of turquoise and lilac with soft green and pale peach.

I coloured this sweet Forever Friends image with Promarkers and matted on to pearlescent lilac the same as the base card. I used Milled Lavender Distress Ink round the image and edged with Dusty Concord. I finished with some Prima flowers and added card candy from Craftwork Cards which I coloured with Promarker to match the image.

I hope you like our 2nd challenge and can find time to enter. If you can find time too it is worth checking out my very talented teamies' blogs, they have made some beautiful cards this week and they would love to read your comments.

This is the prize this week from Liz at Cuddly Buddly. Liz has some lovely images both digi and rubber as well as lots of other craft supplies so it is well worth checking out her online shop.



I'm looking forward to visiting your blogs this week to see what lovely projects you have made. I've had a lovely time checking all your entries this week. Don't forget entries have to be in by 10pm (GMT) on Saturday 6th February.

Kat xx

Chocolate - Yummy.

The title of the post is maybe not entirely accurate because as usual I've been trying to combine challenges lol! I wanted to do the Passion for Promarkers challenge which provided this great sketch with a theme of love. I thought the Creative Inspirations Wednesday challenge blog with it's anniversary theme would also fit this card. But for some reason instead of making something obvious like pink, red, silver or gold I decided to use brown and cream. This fits the theme of Hot Chocolate which fits two challenges :- Quixotic and Simon Says Stamp.

I'm afraid I have no idea where the DP is from as I have had it for a long time but I know it is all the same brand! I embossed a piece of cream card in the Cuttlebug with the Heart Blocks folder. Unfortunately you can hardly see the pattern as only the corners stick out under the paper above. The lovely Forever Friends image is coloured with Promarkers and I used gold stickles for the champagne popping out of the bottle.

After I finished the card I thought yuk. When I came back to it with a cup of coffee it seemed a bit better but I still think I've probably made a wrong choice of colours. Too late now, it's done!!

Here I am late at night as usual so I am just going to post this, enter the challenges and go to bed. Hopefully I can catch up with you tomorrow. It has been a bit of a short evening. I phoned my DH to check if I would get up the hill now that there is a bit of a thaw. He said it was fine, he had got up the hill but the road was now very uneven so you were all over the place. Before I got out of work he phoned back to say that his van had got stuck in the (short) track out to our house and would have to dig the van out. So I got back and left my car at my neighbour's house. Because the snow is thawing you just sink into it and there is still quite a lot of it. Think it may take a while to get black roads where we are. So by the time tea was made and eaten it was well after 7pm. Never mind at least the journey was a bit less horrendous than it has been.

See you tomorrow, take care and keep safe and warm.

Kat xx

Christmas Present.

I made this card this afternoon using the great sketch from Mojo Monday. I coloured this sweet House Mouse image with promarkers and stickled the pompom and brim of the hat. The sentiment, ribbon and sticky ribbon are all from Papermania. The DP is from Forever Friends from last year. I cut out snowflakes from white glitter paper with Sizzix dies in my Cuttlebug and used nesties to cut the circles. The DP has snowflakes on it which unfortunately don't show up very well even on the first photo which was taken outside! Black jewels are from my stash. All the edges are inked with black. The next photo is not much better and just reminds me that the Merry Christmas could have been stamped better!!

But this is not a Christmas card it is a gift card holder. This House Mouse image was also coloured with Promarkers. The corners to hold the gift card were cut out using a punch. I think this fits the Cute Card Thursday challenge for hidden treasure. I think I might be pushing my luck with the Pollycrafts challenge for black, white and one colour!!

So the challenges I hope to enter are:-

Mojo Monday:- Sketch.

Sophisticat Challenge:- Make anything to hold something eg gift voucher, cash etc.

Pollycraft Challenge:- Black, white and one colour.

House Mouse Monday Challenge:- A challenge from the past year - #50 gift card holder.

Cute Card Thursday:- Hidden Treasure.

Allsorts Challenge:- Snowflakes.

I'm off to post this now and enter the challenges.

Thanks for looking and please tell me what you think. It makes my day to read your kind comments.

Kat x