Totally Gorjuss 234 - Things with Wings.

Good morning everyone hope you are all ready to enjoy another Bank Holiday weekend. I'm quite miffed because this is the second Monday holiday I've missed because I've been off work!! Actually it's quite worrying how much I'm loving being at home all day every day! Don't tell anyone but I think I'm going to start driving next week. Then I can at least go for my papers and then after another week or so I can go back to work.

But as it's Saturday again it's time for another challenge at Totally Gorjuss. This week our challenge is "Things with Wings." That should be easy, shouldn't it? You could have fairies, angels, birds or butterflies. I've chosen to use butterflies as I love butterflies and I found lots of them in my bit box. I also found the flower in their too. Oops nearly forgot to tell you that we're sponsored by The Ribbon Girl this week. Wish I could join in - I love their products!

So here's what I made with my "bits."

I used :-
Flower :- Magnolia Doohicky dies.
Butterflies :- Stampin' Up! punch.
Sentiment :- Stampin' Up!
Pearls :- Hobby House.
Doily.

I really liked the layout from, last weeks Less is More challenge so I decided to use it for my DT card. I'm not sure when I last entered a challenge. I've hardly even been online for weeks now. Every time my internet goes off I just switch off my laptop, lazy person!

Not sure if this fits Lizy's Frugal Friday Challenge but I'll enter anyway!

Have a lovely weekend everyone and I'll catch up later.

Thanks for looking.

Kat xx

Get well soon!

Do you ever have the sort of week where you wonder where the week went and what you've achieved! Last week was that sort of week. I had a day's holiday on Monday, a half day on Wednesday and my usual day off on Thursday and what have I achieved? I blame it on the tidying up!! This morning I made my DT card for tomorrow and then my camera battery died before I could upload it! 

Yesterday I made this Get Well card for one of my lovely teamies at Totally Gorjuss. In spite of her illness she's being very brave and positive and we're all rooting for her and willing her to get better. I know she loves her Maggies so I used my favourite one and used my favourite colours. Hope she likes it.

I used :-
Image :- Magnolia.
Colouring :- Promarkers.
DP :- pass! It comes from a pad I bought from Create and Craft years ago and has no name on it.
Corner :- Whimsy die.
Pearls and gems :- Hobby House.
Flowers :- Nellie Snellen punches.
Leaves :- L-Em punch.
Sentiment :- Found it already stamped so no idea!
Ribbon, Martha Stewart punch, Nesties, Glamour Dust  and Sakura clear gel pen on shoes.

I'm entering the following challenges :-
Just Magnolia :- Bingo - lilac, glitter, pearls/bling.
Just Promarkers :- Gingham/checks.

Now I need to sort out some stuff for a crop tomorrow, finish my DT commenting and schedule my post for tomorrow.

Thanks for looking and have a lovely weekend, not too wet I hope. After a mostly dry but miserable looking day it's a nice evening now. Why!!

What a helpful trio!

I've been a good girl this morning and did lots of housework before finishing off this card. I've made a couple of birthday cards for one of the girls at work and we also have some at work for everyone's birthday. Another of the girls asked if I'd make a New Home card for her and this is it.

I used :-

Image & Sentiment :- LOTV.

Colouring :- Promarkers.

DP :- DCWV - Linen Closet.

Card Candi :- Craftwork Cards.

Flowers :- Magnolia Doohickey die.

Lace.

I'd like to enter the following challenges :-

Crafting When We Can :- Animals.
Cupcake :- Going Dotty.

I'd best go and see if I can organise tea before I go to work.

Thanks for looking, catch up later.

Non-Traditional Christmas.

Good morning from snowy Aberdeenshire. My husband has just spent ages shovelling snow round the house and all down the drive. Then there is a track from the tar road leading to us and past us to another house. He didn't try to clear the track and the car got nearly to the road and then stuck. More shovelling to get back home. He turned and came back because the road was impassable, no other cars or tractors or anything had been on it. Our little back road gets cleared by a tractor and snowplough during the week but obviously not at the weekend cos it wasn't touched yesterday either. So no Sunday papers for us! Unfortunately I'll probably get to work tomorrow. No rest for the wicked! Goodness knows what it would be like if I was wicked lol!!!

I've not been blogging much for a while but I have been busy so I thought I'd show you one of my easy Christmas cards. I made four like this but because I can't make 2 the same I've varied the position of the sentiment and snowflakes.

I've used :-

Sentiment :- Papermania.

DP :- Magnolia.

Snowflakes :- Martha Stewart punches.

Card candy :- Craftwork Cards.

Glitter.

Challenges for this card :-

Cupcake :- Non-traditional Christmas.

Stampin for the weekend :- Christmas.

Allsorts :- Anything goes.

Thanks for looking, I'm off to investigate a big pot of potato soup. Maybe get some more crafting done this afternoon. My younger daughter phoned for a moan and held me up for about an hour lol! Snow seems to be causing her all sorts of problems in Aberdeen too.

Something yummy!

Hi everyone, first of all I need to apologise if I haven't managed to visit you recently. I've had a real problem with my broadband recently. It's been really slow, somtimes just cuts out and on Monday I couldn't get online at all! Last night I got on eventually and this afternoon when I wanted to show my friend some stuff I couldn't get on at all. Tried the helpline but had to give up when my husband came home for his tea. Tried again later and spoke to someone after about 35 minutes - good thing the Post Office phone and broadband helpline is free. The guy tested and said there was a widespread problem all over the country. Solution was to switch broadband off for 10-15 minutes and try again. Seems to have worked. Fingers crossed!

I had to make this card without a sketch so I can't enter any sketch challenges but I think it fits one or two anyway.

I used :-

Image :- Magnolia.

DP :- MME.

Sentiment and card candy :- Craftwork Cards.

Colouring :- Promarkers and Sakura clear glitter gel pen.

Flowers :- Prima.

Ribbon from stash and Martha Stewart punch.

One Stitch at a Time :- use a little pink.

Creative Inspirations challenge blog :-Anything goes.

The Pink Elephant :- something yummy.

Creative Card Crew :- Cute and girly.

Magnolia Down Under :- Birthdays.

I think that's all for now. I did this first while I could get online but now I'd like to check out my favourite blogs and do my DT work.

Thanks for looking and if you have a minute to leave me a comment I'd love to hear what you think of my card.

Red and White Christmas.

Just a quick post to let you see what I made at a crop this afternoon. I've got a couple of DT posts to schedule for tomorrow and Monday but I couldn't resist showing you these cards. I think I'm on a roll this week lol! I got my 3 DT cards made in time instead of being at the last minute. Hope I can get on as well this week. On Thursday I made 2 DT cards and 2 for Jacqui at Simply Create. And today another 2 for Jacqui - this time Christmas cards!

I don't usually achieve much at a crop because I don't get there till after my work so making 2 whole cards and colouring another 4 images is quite good for me. And of course you have to have a look round the shop to see if there are any new goodies you want.....oops need!

I used :-

Image :- House Mouse.

DP :- Magnolia.

Colouring :- Promarkers and Distress Inks.

Sentiment and card candy :- Craftwork Cards.

MS punch. pearls, jewels and ribbon.

I used :-

Image :- Ready coloured LOTV die cut with added snowflakes.

Sentiment and card candy :- Craftwork cards.

Swiss dots folder instead of DP.

Snowflakes - Viva Decor opaque gloss gel pen.

Glamour dust for fur on his hat.

Ribbons and jewels.

I'm entering the Die Cute Dreams Christmas Club challenge :- Santa with the first card. Although I've got a Santa on both cards really!

Hope you like! I'd be really pleased if you have time to leave me a comment as I'm always encouraged by your feedback!

Totally Gorjuss 36 - It's in the Bag.

Hello everyone and it's time for another challenge over at Totally Gorjuss. This week our challenge is "It's in the bag", we'd like you to make a simple gift bag. My bag is certainly simple and very easy to make lol! I found the tutorial over at Split Coast Stampers. All you need is one sheet of 12"x12" double sided paper.

The original didn't have any leaves but I managed to smudge one of the liquid pearls and had to add something to cover the smudge - hence the leaves! After I had taken several photos I then realised that I hadn't added stickles to her dress. Thank goodness for digital cameras lol.

I used :-

Image :- Magnolia.

DP :- Cloud Nine.

Sentiment and card candy :- Craftwork cards.

Flowers :- Prima.

Colouring :- Promarkers. Distress Inks - round scallop oval and sentiment.

Sakura clear gel pen and clear glitter gel pen.

Nellie Snellen leaf punch, nesties, Liquid Pearls and Stickles.

I think that's it girls. I'm not sure if it fits any challenges but I'll think about that later. Meantime it is late Friday evening as I write so I'm leaving this post to the tender mercies of Mr. Blogger.

Pollycraft :- No cards allowed plus use glitter and/or lace. No lace but I have used glitter.

Bunny Zoe's challenge :- Nice and Girly.

Enjoy your weekend.

Kat xx

Totally Gorjuss 30 Round and Round!

Hi everyone. Hopefully Mr Blogger will post this for me at 8am as I need to go to work this morning. I must apologise for the quality of this photo as I had to make my DT card for Totally Gorjuss and take the photo on Friday evening.

I had been hoping to make a card in the morning but my fourteen and a half year old Cocker Spaniel was not very good. She hasn't been that good for a while and of course we've been postponing the inevitable! She barked for about half the morning and nothing seemed to help. Eventually she went to sleep for a while but woke up again just before my daughter set off with my other daughter's dog. They were coming back from their holidays and picking up Missy at Aberdeen. Just after they left she suddenly threw up on the doormat. Lovely! I only had time to throw the mat outside and go to work. When I came home she didn't even wake up. When my husband phoned from work he said to phone the vet and see when she could go in. They said she could go in first thing tomorrow so he will take her before work. I can't go with her because the first appointment is 9am and that's when I start work. She's going on what my son calls "the one way ticket!" Sound callous but all three of them are really fond of her. We have had her for over 14 years and she's been a great wee dog. She absolutely loves people and she was a pretty wee blue roan doggie. Now she is blind, deaf, shaky on her legs and just a bundle of bones. Still has a great appetite though LOL!

Sorry to go on! Now about the card. It was made rather quickly and I hope I haven't held Net up too much as she is the one who puts the challenge post together. This week we would like to see circles on your cards. You could make a round card, stamp your image on a round piece of card, use spotty paper or ribbon (I've got tiny little spots on my ribbon) the choice is yours.

I used :-

Image :- Princess Tilda.

DP :- DVWV Nana's Nursery.

Flowers :- Prima.

Sentiment :- Craftwork Cards.

Colouring :- Promarkers, Spica glitter gel pen and Sakura clear glitter gel pen and clear gel pen.

Jewels :- Basic Grey.

Raffia lace from Quixotic Paperie.

Nesties, stickles and clear gem brad.

As well as my DT card I'm going to enter some challenges :-

Sketch and Stash :- Sketch and neglected Basic Grey Jewels and new Prima flowers.

One Stitch at a Time :- Going Dotty.

Papertake Weekly :- Shiny, sparkly and special.

Stamp Something :- Celebrate something.

Just Magnolia :- One for the girls.

ABC :- Unused stash - Basic Grey jewels.

Well that's me for now. I hope you can find time to visit Totally Gorjuss and see what my talented teamies have made. If you've got a minute to let us know what you think we'd be delighted. As usual there will be a lovely prize for one lucky random winner. I'm looking forward to seeing how you interpret our challenge.

Enjoy your weekend,

Kat xx

Totally Gorjuss 23 - Hearts.

Good morning everyone and it's time for another challenge from Totally Gorjuss. This week we'd like to see some hearts on your projects. You could use heart diecuts, punches, brads , DP....the choice is yours. As usual we will have a prize for you. We'd like it if you have a direct link to your post not just to your blog as that makes it easier to find your project. Also if you have word verification on we'd really appreciate it if you turned it off as it makes our job much easier and quicker if it is not on. If you're worried about spam you could always turn on comment moderation instead.

Image :- Magnolia.

DP :- K&Co.

Colouring :- Promarkers and Sakura clear glitter gel pen.

Flowers :- Prima and MS punch.

Heart nesties.

If you have time I'd love to hear what you think about my DT card. I'm also going to enter some challenges with this card :-

Creative Inspirations Wednesday challenge :- Sketch.

Totally Papercrafts :- Pink and green.

Cute Card Thursday :- Dimension.

I had this card all ready to put on the image when I took another look at the sketch and realised I had made a mistake with the layout. I knew that if I tried to fix it I would only end up ripping it all.....my double-sided is very, very sticky!! So I had to start again. On the bright side I have a card prepared that only needs an image, sentiment and some finishing touches. Trust me lol.

I'm going to a crop after work today so it will be after 4pm before I know if Mr Blogger has posted this successfully.

Looking forward to checking out your entries this week. If you have time please check out my talented teamie's blogs to see their gorgeous cards.

Kat xx

Winter Birthday.

Second post today and it's only about mid-day! I've known for a while that I had to make a card as part of a co-operative entry for a big WRI show on Saturday. Like every other time I have made anything for the show it has not been made very long in advance. I knitted a child's hat at the end of January and I have still to sew it up lol! I hate sewing up knitting. It would only take a few minutes to sew and I really need to do it soon, preferably today. Tomorrow I need to make the scones I promised to make for the teas. I also need a Get Well Card for one of the categories and 2 DT cards by Friday. So I need to stop wittering on and tell you about this card!!

I've used a lovely daytime winter image from Magnolia, coloured with Promarkers and finished off with stickles, Glamour Dust and pearls. I decoupaged the trees for a bit of dimension. The papers are also from Magnolia and I love them. I spent ages trying to make up my mind what papers to use! I think they work quite well though. The sentiment is from Craftwork Cards and I managed to get in my favourite Cuttlebug snowflake. How do you like the layout.? I followed the sketch from Winter Wonderland. It's a great sketch and I think it works really well with this image.

This is just another view to show the layered effect of the trees. I decided to make an easel card as I think they look quite impressive and are so easy to make.

When I finished it I thought it was maybe too red and green but it actually fits in quite well with the other 5 items in our little display. I'll try to remember to take my camera to the show and let you see a piccie. We have a painting of a wintry scene with a tractor and trees behind it. The top of a cake has been decorated with a fireplace with a clock on the mantlepiece and a rug and slippers. All the others think the card goes really well but if I post a piccie on Saturday you can see what you think!

I'm off to have my lunch now and then I really need to get on with the Get Well card. I've got as far as stamping an image.

Maybe see you later.

Kat xx

Halloween!!!

Yes I know I promised that I was finished posting for today but this is just a little fun card I made this evening. I really have to post a better photo in the morning...but can I please assure you that the colours are black, orange, purple and white. No matter what I try the purple is determined to look blue!

I've used the sketch from Aly's Sunday Challenge. Aly is a very talented stamper and she is only 10 years old. Pop over to her blog and you will see her amazing work.
The challenge over at Pile it on is to use Aly's sketch so I can enter it too.
There are some Halloween challenges around so I am entering them too. They are:-
Simon Says Stamp Challenge.
Allsorts challenge.
A Spoon Full of Sugar challenge
The Pink Elephant challenge. Halloween using the colours black, orange purple and white.

The DP is MME and I've coloured this lovely Tilda with Pumpkin with Promarkers. Nesties were used to cut the shapes and the flowers were cut using a Martha Stewart punch. I finished off with ribbon, jewels and brads from my stash.

I am off to iron now as it is Sunday night again already and I work all day tomorrow - yuk. I have had two Saturdays and Mondays off in a row so now I need to work two Mondays before I have the Monday off after the craft show in Glasgow. Hope the time passes quickly - think I will take the Sunday paper with me.

Not sure what use a Halloween card is to me but I can't resist a challenge lol!

Kat xx

Friday Challenges.

Good afternoon everyone (I'm being cheeky here assuming anyone is going to read this!) I have had a nice day off here. The weather has been lovely, after the frost this morning we had lots of sun...but we have had a couple of showers too! Hope it has been nice where you are.

I managed to make a card for the Just Magnolia challenge - one of my favourites. Isn't Tilda cute all dressed up ready to go to school! I think these Sandylion papers fit the "school" theme very well. Tilda has been coloured with Promarkers and so has the apple. I used my EK Success punches to make my hand made flowers. The base card is Kraft card from Jillibean and I think it fits the theme well too. It makes me think of school books covered with brown paper lol!! Ribbon, brads and jewels are from my stash.

I'm meaning to enter a few challenges with this card:-

Just Magnolia :- Handmade flowers.

Friday Sketchers :- Sketch.

Stamp Something :- Something with apples, teachers, school.

Allsorts Challenge :- Use the colour "Kraft."

I'm off to post this now and enter these challenges and then get on with tea and dog walking and then I can do some more crafting. I love having a day off. I've even managed to read one of the daily papers today. Usually only manage to do that when I'm at work lol!

Thanks for looking and hope you like.

Kat xx

Halloween....

Well this is something I have never done before! This is the first time I have ever made a Halloween card. Not sure how I came to decide on a Halloween card but here it is. I think it may have been because I wanted to take part in the white, black and one other colour from Pile it On and Pollycraft. I also wanted to do the Just Magnolia challenge and Halloween seemed the only theme that fitted. I don't usually think of Tilda in terms of black and white but I thought one of the Halloween Tilda's would fit the bill.

I used the great sketch from Creative Inspirations and coloured this lovely Tilda with her spider's web and broomstick with my Promarkers. I used the lovely Halloween papers from MME. The black paper says "BOO"!! I also used some Core dinations whitewash paper which I put through the Cuttlebug in the divine swirls folder and then sanded to show the underlying green it has also been distressed and inked with black and matted onto black. The black "BOO" paper is matted onto green which has been distressed and inked with black. The image has been edged with lime green Promarker (which unfortunately looks a bit yellow) and then inked with black as has the sentiment. I added some leaves that I cut out with a Martha Stewart punch.The green ric rac, green pearls, cat charm and eyelets are from my stash.

The challenges I am entering are:-

Creative Inspirations Wednesday Challenge:- Sketch plus brads or eyelets.
Colour Create:- Neon green and black plus leaves and charms.
Just Magnolia 22:- Embossing.
Cupcake Craft Challenge:- Pearls and Swirls.
Pile it On:- White, black and one colour.
Pollycraft Challenge:- Black, white and one colour.

I've just realised I will need to take another photo of this card in the morning as there is something missing lol!! Trust me, I'm to busy thinking I need to get this posted to enter Creative Inspirations challenge before it is too late and then get my Tesco order finshed for tomorrow. I also have a card to finish before I go to my friend's house with it tomorrow. It would be finished but she decided to stamp a greeting inside and I made a mess of it so now I need to decorate the inside so as to hide the mess. In spite of the fact that rock a blocks are supposed to make a perfect image I can usually make a mess with them.

I'd best go now and do the things I really need to and maybe I'll be back tomorrow with something else. With my track record with photos I may not be back till Thursday!!!

Kat x

Wednesday evening - I've changed the photos now.