Witches and Broomsticks.......!!

Hi everyone, as you can guess this post is to show you my Halloween makes. I managed to get them made yesterday as I really needed to post them today. Then I had to get a passport photo done. I'd rather go to the dentist than have a photo taken but needs must!!

This is what I made for Poppy, managing to use her favourite colour, green. I can take absolutely no credit for the treat bag as my friend showed me how to make it. She also stamped me a couple of witches as I thought Poppy might like a witch. Unfortunately I don't know what the make of the stamp is so if anyone knows.....?

DP :- MME.

Sentiment :- Penny Black.

Image :- Magnolia (card), ? (treat bag)

Colouring :- Distress Markers - bag, Promarkers - card.

Glitter markers on card :- Spica glitter gel pen.

Candi, Stampendous aged black embossing enamel.

And this is Oliver's bag and card.

I used :-

Image and sentiment :- Penny Black.

DP, Promarkers, embossing enamel and Candi as above.

I sent Catriona a text to say that I'd posted the parcel and if the children didn't like the sweeties she might have to eat them. She says I've got her wrong but I know what a sweet tooth she has, like me! The little spider sweeties are just chocolate but the eyeballs and brains have popping candy in them!

Well I'm off to try to do some catching up now. So much for my day off. I've achieved nothing apart from making a pot of soup and some stew. And the photos!!! I'm off out to the Guild in an hour to hear about a trip to China. Should be interesting. 

Yesterday we were very lucky to have a guest preacher at my church. The Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland was preaching as part of the celebrations of 1,000 years of churches in our parish. We were joined by members and clergy from the Congregational and Scottish Episcopal churches in the parish. Afterward we had a buffet in the church hall and the opportunity to have a chat. There was also a celebratory cake donated by a local baker. I think people will still be talking about this tonight. The Moderator is a very enthusiastic and charismatic man and I think everyone was impressed by him.

Thanks for looking and we're not usually late at the Guild so I might manage to do some more catching up.

Oops now it's Tuesday evening and I forgot to add the challenges I was going to enter! I've already had to change my mind about one as it's finished already.

Penny Black :- Sketch. Second card.
Creative Inspirations :- Happy Halloween. First card.
Crafty Creations :- Halloween Spooks. Second card
Cute Card Thursday :- Something Scary. First card.
Charisma :- Don't be square. First treat bag.
Totally Papercrafts :- Spooky Halloween. First treat bag.
Cupcake :- Witches or Pumpkins. First card.
Created with Love :- Happy Halloween. Treat bags.

Hope I've got this ok now!

I heard from Catriona this morning and the parcel has arrived and she's trying to stop Oliver from eating everything! He loves chocolate and he thinks the popping candy sweets are funny lol.

Penny Black 184 Anything Goes.

Hi everyone. Well talk about a wasted day yesterday. I spent the whole day tidying.....and still loads to do! But eventually I managed to get a start made on this card. I sneakily dumped my hoover for a wee while to get it finished!

I used :-

Image :- Penny Black.

Colouring :- Promarkers.

DP :- MME.

Sentiment and Card Candi :- Craftwork Cards.

I'm entering the Penny Black :- Anything Goes.

I'll come back later and add some other challenges, I'd best go and find my hoover and then organise tea before I go to work.

Other challenges :-
Pile it on :- Fuzzy Animals.
ABC :- H for Happy Birthday.
Passion for Promarkers :- Humour.
Cute Card Thursday :- Music and Dance.

Penny Black 183 Case It.

Hi everyone, I'm late again entering the challenge at Penny Black which is "Case It" this week. I've followed, but not exactly, the layout of Beth's card, the colours and the stars.

I used :-

Image :- Penny Black.

Colouring :- Promarkers.

DP :- MME.

Sentiment and Card Candi :- Craftwork Cards.

I'm a bit late this week but I think I've been later! Now I need to make my DT card for tomorrow. I've no idea what happened to my time yesterday lol!

I found some challenges :-
Crafty Cardmakers :- No floral embellishments.
Cute Card Thursday :- You're having a laugh - well it makes me laugh.
Paperplay :- In stitches.
Passion for Promarkers :- Inspired by a song - This says "Born to be Wild" to me!
Simon Says Stamp :- Spots and/or stripes.
Totally Papercrafts :- Spots and Stripes.
Winter Wonderland :- Birthday Wishes.

Thanks for looking, see you all tomorrow.

Totally Gorjuss 106 - Christmas Traditions.

Hi everyone. Is it just me or does Saturday come round quicker at this time of year? Seems no time since last Saturday. Hope next week is quieter than the last two. This week I've been out 3 nights. Four of us went to a quiz night at another WRI on Tuesday. We found it quite difficult and thought we'd done really badly but when we heard the scores for the top 3 teams we felt a bit better. Turns out when we saw the score sheet we were 4th so that made us feel a bit better. Then on Wednesday we had a successful quiz at our own WRI. Friday saw me at the church hall to see the photos the minister took when he and his wife walked the West Highland Way. Think I'm only out once this coming week lol!

On to the challenge over at Totally Gorjuss this week. It's getting close to "that" time of year again so to help you to get on with your Christmas cards, or maybe even get a start made, our theme this week is "Christmas Traditions." We're sponsored this week by the generous people at Crafters Companion and we'd love it if you could join us.

I used :-
Image :- Penny Black.
Sentiment and card candi :- Craftwork Cards.
DP :- MME.
Colouring :- Promarkers.
Martha Stewart punches, Glamour Dust and jewels.

Hope you like my card, my "Christmas Tradition" is posting Christmas cards to friends and family. I'm sure you can think of more traditions and if you pop over to Totally Gorjuss my teamies have made lovely cards to inspire you.

I think this card fits the challenge at Papertake Weekly :- First Christmas.

I'll catch up with you all later and enjoy your weekend whatever you've got planned.

Scary?!!

Hi everyone I'm a bit late with this post but my internet connection was being a bit awkward earlier so I made a card for someone else instead. I took these cards and little treat bag holders to work with me so that I could buy some sweets and post them to my daughter for Poppy and Oliver. Everyone at work loved them and I showed them to a customer who wondered if I'd make one for her granddaughter. Snag is that she loves pink lol. So tomorrow I'll show you a pink Halloween card. Well it's different!!!

This is Oliver's card.

Since Poppy loves green this is her card.

And I made treat bag covers (from Split Coast Stampers.)

I used :-

Images & sentiments :- Penny Black.

DP :- MME.

Colouring :- Promarkers.
Martha Stewart border punch on treat bag covers.

I hope they like them. I've posted them now complete with some chocolate buttons plus some extra chocolate  so at least they'll like the chocolate!

I'm entering the following challenges with these :-

Fussy and Fancy :- 3Bs - Black, border punch and bling. (Treat bag covers.)
Penny Black :- Too cute to spook.
Craft Your Days Away :-Halloween Colours.
ABC :- B is for Boo.
Allsorts :- Halloween.
Pollycraft :- Spooky Goings On.

Thanks for looking and I'll pop back tomorrow with the pink set!!

Little Red Car.

Morning everyone, today I've got a card to show you that I made for my son. He's always been keen on cars since he was a wee boy so no surprise that he's ended up working in the motor trade. He used to be in car sales with all the stress associated with that job. Now he's a service manager with the Arnold Clark organisation with all the stress  that involves lol! Luckily he's good at dealing with stroppy customers! Most people are perfectly happy with the work they've had done but there's always one, isn't there?

He drives a Ford but I don't know what this is. Doesn't look like a Ford to me and his car isn't red either lol! And his ears aren't as big as that either!!

I used :-

Image & sentiment :- Penny Black.

Colouring :- Promarkers.

DP :- MME.

Son - Anna Griffin, Card Candi, ribbon & nesties.

With any luck Mr Blogger will post this for me on Monday morning. Have a nice day whatever you're doing. 

Penny Black 172 - Age Is Just a Number!

Hi to anyone who happens to read this. I'll keep it brief cos not many people read my blog!

When I saw this challenge at Penny Black I couldn't resist joining in. I thought this fun image would be perfect for a birthday card for my great nephew. I'm well ahead here because he's not 17 till next July!

I used :-

Image :- Penny Black.

DP :- MME Everyday Flair. 

Sentiment :- stamped - Hero Arts, oval - Craftwork cards.

Colouring :- Promarkers.

Boys will be boys charm from stash.

Numbers cut with Cricut.

Nesties.

I'm also entering the following challenges :-

One Stitch at a Time :- Anything Goes.

Papertake Weekly :- Use 3 different shapes. I've got a circle, triangle and oval.

I'm off now to see about my DT card for Totally Gorjuss. I had hoped to get more done today but my colleague had to unexpectedly take her Mum into hospital this afternoon and I had to go into work till closing time. She phoned  me a wee while ago and I'm relieved to hear that while her Mum needs a blood transfusion  she's actually feeling ok! Since her Mum is not a well lady this may need to happen again but at least she knows now and won't get such a fright if they phone from the surgery.

Nothing's ever simple is it?

If anyone feels like leaving me a comment I'd be really grateful. I sometimes wonder if anyone visits my blog as I don't get much feedback. Maybe my cards are really bad and no-one wants to hurt my feelings! On the other hand I've actually lost 3 followers recently, do you think it was something I said lol!

I'll be back tomorrow with some candy for my followers.

Totally Gorjuss 100 Sketch.

Hi everyone, can you believe it's the first of October already. How are you getting on with your Christmas cards? I seem to be making Christmas cards for any challenge I find unless it is specifically birthday or whatever. So you won't be surprised to see a Christmas card from me today lol!

As it's the first Saturday of the month our challenge over at Totally Gorjuss we have one of Net's lovely sketches for you to use.

And here's my take on it. I hope you can join us. We're sponsored by Joanna Sheen and I'm sure you could easily spend £10 in her online store and with no p&p it's even better!

I used :-

Image :- LOTV.

Sentiment & card candi :- Craftwork Cards.

DP :- MME.

Colouring :- Promarkers.

Bakers' twine, Glamour Dust.

I'd like to enter the following challenges :-

Cute Card Thursday :- Animal Crackers.
Cupcake :- If You Go Down to the Woods Today.
Simon Says Stamp :- Anything Goes.
Charmed Cards & Crafts :-An image you've coloured in.



Well I've got an exciting day lined up at the Papeterie in Aberdeen today. Kath, Debbi and Anne have organised another Girls Just Want to Have Fun day. And it will be fun. The last one was lots of fun so I'm really excited. I'm sure they'll have great projects for us to do.

I'll be around to see what everyone's been doing this evening after my fun day. Can't wait to see what we're making . Enjoy your weekend whatever you're doing and thanks for looking.

Here's Two I Made Earlier.

At last I'm getting round to posting a couple of cards I made a few days ago! I did the first one for last week's Penny Black challenge and then didn't get round to getting posted on time lol! The other one is just a quick card using a LOTV cute square. And I've still got plenty of cute squares left from last year.

I don't think they fit any challenges but I just thought since I'd made them I might as well let you see them. The first one uses two different stamps to make a little scene. Not very well done but maybe ok from a good distance lol! At least it's another 2 cards for my collection, wonder if I've reached 30 yet.

During the next few days I'll show you the cards I made at the crop on Saturday - and all 5 of them are Christmas cards!

It's a full day at work for me now but this week I've got a day off on Saturday and a wedding to look forward to. I'm really looking forward to meeting some old friends. The groom's Dad was our best man and I've known him for nearly 37 years and his wife for slightly less time. We should know a lot of the guests too. We're staying at my daughter's before and after the wedding as it's at 12.30 in Lanarkshire so it would mean a really early start on Saturday! And we get to babysit on Sunday. Luckily it's probably about half an hour from the hotel where the reception is being held to Crieff so even if it goes on till late we won't have far to go.

Hope everyone isn't finding the weather too bad since we're supposed to be getting the edge of this hurricane today. Sunday was pretty windy and I think we're quite used to that up here anyway.

Thanks for looking and I'll catch up with you all later.

Totally Gorjuss 97 - Manly.

Good morning everyone I hope you can join us over at Totally Gorjuss for a great challenge. I know most of us hate doing male cards but that's what we'd like you to make this week. It's not as bad as it sounds.....honest! You could make a card for a little boy or one for a new baby boy. How does that sound? Not so bad is it?

So here's my card and if you pop over to Totally Gorjuss my teamies have some lovely cards to inspire you. And of course you might want to know who's sponsoring us this week lol! Well this week Crafters' Companion are offering £10 to spend in their store to our lucky winner.

I used :-

Image :- LOTV cute square.

DP :- MME - Everyday Flair.

Sentiment & Card Candi - Craftwork Cards.

Ribbon, Nesties.

I'm entering the following challenges :-

Papertake Weekly :- Anything Goes.
Crafting When We Can :- Anything Goes.

I'm not sure what happened to my time this week! I've made 4 cards and not blogged a single one except this one. I made one to enter the Penny Black challenge plus 2 other challenges and never got round to blogging the card! I've still got one for House Mouse if I can get round to blogging it in time!! Plus yet another Christmas card.

I've got the day off today so I'm off out this morning so I'll try to catch up later!

Enjoy your weekend.

Penny Black 163 - Anything Goes.

Hi there, I'm trying to do this really quickly as it's a bit near the deadline for the Penny Black Saturday Challenge. I'll come back later and explain what I used!

I used :-

Image :- Penny Black.

Sentiment & card candi :- Craftwork Cards.

DP :- MME

Martha Stewart punches and Glamour Dust.

Hope you like, I think it turned out not too bad for a quick card.

Thanks for looking and I'll be back tomorrow with my card for Totally Gorjuss. Enjoy your weekend.

Less is More 24 - Circles.

Good evening everyone, I'm a bit late now as my younger daughter has been on the phone for a natter!

I have a card for the Less is More challenge which is circles this week. But first of all I'd like to say thanks to everyone who left lovely comments after my little accident involving my naughty black doggies the other day. My foot/ankle is a lot better now but still a bit swollen. But I'll live lol!

So here's my "circles" card. Very simple and I quite like it.

I took another photo to show that I've 3d'd it. You can't see it but I've popped up the white circle on top of the pink one as well as the butterfly.

I used :-

Image and sentiment :- Hero Arts.

Pearls :- Hobby House.

DP :-MME.

Colouring :- Promarker.

Hope you like. I'm quite pleased with it! I thought about card candi but I don't think it needs it.

My card also fits the challenge over at St Luke's Charity Card Challenge which is black & white and one other colour. And the Simon Says Stamp Challenge which is Anything Goes.

Now I'm off to try to finish a scheduled post for the House Mouse Blog Hop. I've very excited about this as I've never taken part in one before except as an entrant. It'll be fun to take part as a GDT though I'm almost in two minds about this as there are some amazing prizes! I hope you can join us tomorrow morning for a great challenge.

Thanks for looking and hope to see some of you tomorrow for the blog hop.

Less is More 21 Sketch.

Just a quick post with my effort for the Less is More challenge which is a great sketch this week.

I really admire all you girls who work full time and still manage to blog, enter challenges, be on DTs etc. This is my second week of working full time and I'm struggling to have enough time to get everything done!

I used :-

Snowflakes :- Martha Stewart punch.

Card candy :- Craftwork Cards.

DP :- MME.

Sentiment :- Penny Black.

I love this sketch, I can see it could be used for lots of different occasions for a really quick card.

Thanks for looking and I hope I can catch up with you all at the weekend.

Less is More 18 Monochrome.

Just a quick post to show what I made for the Less is More challenge which is monochrome this week.

I used :-

Image & sentiment :- Hero Arts.

DP :- MME.

I stamped the butterfly on the card and on some DP, added a scrap of DP and a sentiment and finished off with some clear jewels. Quick card, hope you like.

My little card also fits the challenge at Creative Card Crew which is "wings."

Thanks for looking.

Totally Gorjuss 79 Sketch.

Good morning everyone Saturday already and time for a new challenge over at Totally Gorjuss. Since it's the first Saturday in May we have one of Net's lovely sketches for you to follow and we are sponsored by the lovely and generous Joanna Sheen.

So here's my DT card and isn't this a great layout?

I used :-

Image :- LOTV.

DP :- MME.

Sentiment and card candy :- Craftwork Cards.

Colouring :- Promarkers.

Prima flowers and Glamour Dust.

I'm entering the following challenges with this card :-

By the Cute and Girly :- Anything Goes.

Dream Valley Challenges :- Flowers.

Oldie But a Goodie :- Say it with Flowers.

Papertake Weekly :- Anything Goes plus use something round.

Pollycraft :- Anything Goes.

St Lukes Charity Cards :- Pattern - I've used spots and stripes.

I think that's all I need to say. Many of you seemed to enjoy our 1,2, 3 challenge last week and thanks to everyone who joined us. I hope to see many of you again this week. Don't forget we're sponsored by Joanna Sheen and you know what her online store is like - she has lots of must haves!!

Enjoy your weekend everyone and I'll try to catch up with you all later.

Totally Gorjuss 65 As You Like It.

Good morning everyone. Another Saturday and time for an easy challenge at Totally Gorjuss. Thanks very much to everyone who entered last week with all these lovely "hot" cards. This week our challenge is "As you like it." So I think we're going to get a lot of entries! Our sponsor this week is Fantastic Ribbons.

I used :-

Image :- LOTV cute square with added glitter.

Sentiment :- Craftwork Cards.

DP :- MME.

Roses :- Wild Orchid Crafts.

Ribbon, Promarker (edge of image).

I'm entering the following challenges :-

Pile it on :- Love is in the air.

A Spoon Full of Sugar :- Valentine.

Paperplay :- Layer it up.

Charisma Cardz :- Valentine/Love.

Bunny Zoe :- Love is in the air.
Craft Your Days Away :- Love.

So there you are a nice easy challenge with a yummy prize. Hope you can join us and I'll catch up with you all later. I'm going to a crop after work and since our December crop was cancelled due to the weather we're going to have a Secret Santa and a Chinese takeaway at the end. Looking forward to seeing all the girls who go to the crop again.

Hope you've got a minute to let me know what you think of my card. Enjoy your weekend and I'll catch up with you all later.

Thanks for looking.

Totally Gorjuss 64 Feeling Hot.

Good morning everyone. I hope you're all looking forward to a lovely weekend. This morning I'm off to Simply Create at Alford for a special day. Jacqui has moved into her new shop and Kath is going to be doing demos with some of the stamps from the new 2011 Hero Arts catalogue.

Today I'd like to show you my DT card for Totally Gorjuss. Our theme this week is "Feeling Hot", we'd like you to use hot colours on your card or project.

I used :-

Image :- LOTV cute square with added colour and Sakura clear glitter gel pen.

Sentiment :- LOTV

DP :- MME.

Flower :- Same DP and EK Success punch edged with Glamour Dust..

Jewels, card candy and ribbon.

I'm going to enter the following challenges :-

LOTV :- Sketch.

The Pink Elephant :- Pink, orange and aqua.

Simon Says Stamp :- Bingo, 3 items in a line - DP, glimmer/glitter and gems or jewels.
Stampin for the Weekend :- Getting warmed up.
One Stitch at a Time :- New. I used one of my new cute squares.

I hope many of you will  want to join us again this week. We had lots of entries for our "cuddly" challenge last week. I saw some stunning cards so if you haven't been over to Totally Gorjuss yet remember to pop over to see who has won.

Thanks for looking and have a lovely weekend.

Poppy's Birthday Card.

Just a quick post with Poppy's birthday card. Poppy loves green so I've tried to use enough green to keep her happy. The little ballerina's headband is green but I covered it with Sakura clear glitter gel pen so it's not showing up very well in the photo!

I used :-

Image :- LOTV.

DP :- MME.

Colouring :- Promarkers & Sakura clear glitter gel pen.

Sentiment :- Craftwork Cards.

Pearls :- Hobby House.

Jewels and ribbon from stash.

Challenges I'm entering :-

Lili of the Valley :- Glitter and Glitz.

Truly Scrumptious :- Sketch plus Happy Birthday.
Simon Says Stamp :- Sparkle. (Thanks Lols)

I should probably go and do my ironing now while the puppies aren't around. I don't really want to find one or both of them swinging from the cable lol! They tend to do things together. Like stealing shoes or boots. I'm just hoping that I don't have to ask people to save their newspapers for me lol.

Enjoy what's left of your weekend.

Thanks for looking.

Totally Gorjuss 54 Spooky.

Good morning everyone and I hope you're all enjoying a nice restful weekend. I am trying to catch up with some DT work as I'm going to the craft show at the SECC in Glasgow tomorrow. We have to catch the bus at 6.30am and we won't be back till after 9pm. A long day but very enjoyable. I'm looking forward to catching up with Kath and Lorraine at the Fiskars stand. My Simply Create teamie Debbi is also going for the first time and she will be demonstrating colouring with Promarkers on the Angel Crafts stand. I have never managed to meet Debbi yet so I'm looking forward to meeting her on Sunday.

Thanks to everyone who joined us last week at Totally Gorjuss for our "Sparkle" challenge. I'm sorry if I didn't get round everyone, I was up to date on Thursday but on Friday I had no Internet connection. This week our challenge is "Spooky" so we'd like to see your Halloween creations. We are sponsored by Wild Orchid Crafts so I'm sure you'd all like to win our lovely prize!

Thought I wasn't going to have this card made. First of all I couldn't find the image even though I had made a gift bag for Poppy recently. Found it eventually and then couldn't find my Halloween paper. Found it eventually and made card. I didn't take a photo but left it till morning. Almost ready to go to work when I realised I hadn't taken a photo so had to open the parcel! Foolishly I didn't post the photo on my blog then because in the evening I had no Internet. But I had a scheduled post that consisted of the first paragraph above!! I know the Internet was ok during the day because my daughter spent most of the day on her laptop trying to get tickets for her and her sister to see Take That in Glasgow next June. So that was a bit of a panic when I thought how silly this post would look. Anyway here's my card and I think I'll need to explain about it later as I have to wash my hair now and go to work. But this'll teach me to take a pic and post on my DT blog in plenty of time as you obviously can't trust your Internet connection!!

I used :- Image :- House Mouse.

DP :- MME.

Sentiment :- Penny Black.

Card Candy :- Craftwork Cards.

Colouring :- Promarkers.

Ribbon from stash.

I think I'd best come back after work and add the challenges I'm entering.
House Mouse :- Halloween.
Crafty Creations. :-  Halloween.
Daring Cardmakers :-Trick or Treat.

Thanks for looking and have a lovely weekend. If you'd like to comment on how daft I am please feel free!

Spooky Nights at Penny Black.

I made Halloween gift bags for Poppy and Oliver a wee while ago and couldn't resist making cards to go with them. This is Poppy's card.

I used :-

Image and sentiment :- Penny Black.

DP :- MME.

Colouring :-Promarkers.

The spiders are die cuts from the MME paper pack.

Jewels from stash.



Hope I can find some challenges to enter. I'm obviously too late for Friday Sketchers and Stampin for the weekend now.  I couldn't find my other stamp for days on end and even after I found it I realised I had no idea where my DP was. I should have made the card and then gone to the garden centre with my daughter.
Penny Black :- Spooky Nights.
Paperplay :- A Haunting We Will Go.
Creative Inspirations Challenge Blog :- Halloween.

I don't think this looks very scary. I'm sure Poppy won't be scared by it anyway! I'd love to hear what you think if you have a minute.