Totally Gorjuss 96 - Sketch.

Good morning everyone. Can't believe it's the weekend again already. I'm really glad I've got a day off on Monday as it's a local holiday! I'm hoping to be able to get on with some crafting! Well that's the plan anyway lol.

Time for another sketch challenge over at Totally Gorjuss. As usual on the first Saturday of the month we are sponsored by the ever generous Joanna Sheen. The lucky winner will get £10 to spend in her online store where you can find lots of lovely goodies and there's no p&p so that makes a visit even better.

Net has given us a great sketch this week which I really loved using. I'll definitely use this one again. So here's my take on it.

I used :-
Image :- Penny Black.
Sentiment :- Craftwork Cards.
DP :- Bo Bunny.
Colouring :- Promarkers.
Ribbon, Glamour Dust, Jewels and Martha Stewart punch.

I was going to add some snowflakes but I decided that the DP was too gorgeous to cover!

I'm entering the following challenges with this card :-
Charisma Cardz :- Anything Goes.
Penny Black at Allsorts :- Get Ahead for Christmas.
St Lukes :- Use 4 items from a given list. I used DP, ribbon, gems and punches.

Fingers crossed Mr Blogger posts this for me at the right time as I'm scheduling it for Saturday morning. I thought I wasn't going to be able to write it at all as I couldn't get onto the internet for anything on Friday evening. Luckily my son had come to visit so he managed to get it working. No idea what he did but at least it works.

By the way have you seen the giveaway over at Lili of the Valley Ideas to inspire who have some lovely new Christmas stamps coming out on 6th September. Don't forget to pop over and join in, there are 2 prizes to be won every day.

Thanks for looking and enjoy your weekend.

Penny Black Christmas.

Hi everyone, hope you've all had a good weekend. I was at a crop yesterday and managed to make 2 whole cards. I'm not usually so productive at a crop. I usually still have finishing touches to do but not yesterday! And this is me just getting round to posting.

I used :-

Image :- Penny Black.

Sentiment & Card Candi :- Craftwork Cards.

Colouring :- Promarkers.

Glamour Dust, Nesties, Cuttlebug embossing folders, Martha Stewart snowflake punch,

raffia ribbon from stash.

I'm entering the following challenges :-

One Stitch at a Time :- Anything Goes.
Penny Black at Allsorts :- Free and Easy.

I got involved with doing something else this afternoon. We've been doing a lot of fundraising at our church recently for repairs. We've had wet rot, dry rot, needed new windows and now there is scaffolding up at one of the corner towers. We've had the usual fundraisers - quiz, sales tables, marmalade sales, just the usual things and more to come. Someone found lots of old communion tokens and thought people might like to buy some. They range in age from 1700 to 1844. I've never even seen a communion token before as since I joined the church only cards were given to members by their elders and now not even that. Not sure if this happened anywhere else or if it is just a Scottish thing or even if it was just the Church of Scotland or other Presbyterian denominations too. A friend who is an experienced cardmaker was asked to round up some other cardmakers and organise some suitable packaging for the tokens so we could sell them to anyone who was interested. Unfortunately my friend suffers from M.E. and is often too tired to do very much. She's made a couple of samples up so I have these plus the materials need to make about 40 cards. Card has been printed with a picture of our church and paper with inserts telling a bit about the tokens. So I have been sidetracked this afternoon trying to sort out some of the bits so I can make a card. I need to ask another friend to borrow a couple of her nesties as it would be easier with two sets. Doesn't make sense just now but when I get a card made I'll let you see and all should become clear!!

I'm off to schedule another post now and do my ironing. What an exciting life I lead lol!

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

Totally Gorjuss - 88 - Summer!

Good morning everyone. Doesn't Saturday come around really quickly just now? Or is it just me? Time for another easy challenge over at Totally Gorjuss. Time to look out your lovely summery images or DP or flowers, whatever says summer to you. This week we're sponsored by Crafters' Companion and with all the lovely new goodies they have instore who wouldn't like to win?

This cute Penny Black image says Summer to me! I love poppies and butterflies.

I used :-

Image :- Penny Black Poppy Fields.
Colouring :- Promarkers.

Card Candi :- Craftwork Cards.

Cuttlebug embossing folders and ribbon.

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

Truly Scrumptious :- Things with Wings.
Stamp Something :- Something with bugs or butterflies.
Stampin' for the Weekend :- Wings and Things.
Charisma :- All about Flowers.
By the Cute and Girly :- Things with Wings.
Penny Black at Allsorts :- Flower Power.

Hope you like! I'll try to get round some of my favourite blogs in the afternoon after work. I'm going to a wedding reception this evening so if I don't see you today I'll see you tomorrow.

Thanks for looking and enjoy your weekend. 

It's a Girl.

Hi everyone, I was going to do this a lot earlier today but I couldn't get a decent photo. Not that good yet but better than my earlier attempts!

I've already made a shaped card as my DT card for Totally Gorjuss but I couldn't resist doing another one for Penny Black at Allsorts where they don't want to see square or rectangular cards. They're also having a DT call. I'd like to put my name forward for that! I don't think I've got any chance of making the DT but it won't hurt to try. I love my Penny Blacks and have lots I've not even used yet!! I was looking for something this afternoon and I found a carrier with a couple of Penny Black stamps and a Hero Arts cling stamp. No idea how long they've been mislaid. Oh dear!!

So here's my card. It's just a little titchy one as I made it with circle nesties.

I used :-

Image & sentiment :- Penny Black.

DP :- Craft Creations.

Colouring :- Promarkers.

Sakura glitter gel pen, pearls, Nesties.

I'm hoping to enter the following challenges :-

Craft Your Days Away :- White plus one other colour.
Simon Says Stamp :- Look what the stork brought.
Stamp Something :- Anything goes.
Easy Craft Projects :- Pretty pastel colours.

Well I think I should go now as it's rather late now. Catch up with you all later and thanks for looking.

Love This Poppy!

Good morning everyone. It's really unusual for me to post on a Monday morning unless I've scheduled a post but today I have a day off. Fantastic!
Since I had that lovely Penny Black stamp out I thought I'd use it to make a card for the Penny Black challenge. I love poppies anyway so any excuse to use a poppy image and this one is really gorgeous, isn't it, very elegant.

I used :-

Image :- Penny Black.

Sentiment & Card Candy :- Craftwork Cards.

DP :- Craftshouse.

Colouring :- Promarkers..

Inkssentials pen for faux stitching.

Velvet ric rac, flowers and pearls from stash.

This card also fits the challenge at Penny Black at Allsorts which is black and white plus one other colour.

Well I'd best go and check on these naughty pups as they're outside in the garden and probably eating plants and digging up the grass! Hope you like.

Thanks for looking, time for a coffee now!

More Lovely Penny Black.

Good morning everyone. First of all I'd like to say thank you to everyone who left a message after I told you about the loss of my beautiful chocolate Labrador, Maddy. I'm going to miss her very much and you've all been very kind to me.

Anyway enough about me. I finished this card last night but waited for daylight to take a piccie of it. I love this image, it's very quick to colour and really cute too.

I used :-

Image :- Penny Black.

DP :- MME signature Christmas.

Colouring :- Promarkers.

Snowflakes and snowflake border :- Martha Stewart.

Sentiment :- Craftwork Cards.

Jewels :- Hobby House.

Lots of lovely glitter!

This fits a few different challenges :-

Cute Card Thursday :- Anything goes.

Penny Black :- Favourite things - Penny Black image, Martha Stewart punches, MME DP, jewels and glitter!

Secret Crafter :- Sparkle and shine.

Die Cut Dreams Christmas Club :- Snowflakes.

One Stitch at a Time :- Favourite colour, usually lilac but I love blue for Christmas cards.

Creative Inspirations :- Anything Christmassy.

Penny Black at Allsorts :-It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas.

Gem of a Challenge :- Sketch and non-traditional colours.

Think that's all for now. Best get some DT commenting done and think about next week's cards.

Kat xx

I Love Poppies!

This year we have lots of poppies in our garden. The sort of poppies that just appear from nowhere! But hey we're not proud, they fill a space and are very welcome for that. Some of the plants are very tall and we have red ones and pink ones. I don't like that they don't last very long but there are lots of flowers on each plant and it's very exposed and often windy here. We're not really that far from the North Sea so we can't really expect anything else.

But on to my card! When I saw the sketch over at Penny Black I knew this beautiful image would be just perfect to fit the challenge.

I used :-

Image :- Penny Black flowers and wishes.

DP :- g.c.d. Ella Blue.

Colouring :- Promarkers.

Flowers :- Prima.

Twisted paper string :- East India. (from John Lewis)

Pearls :- Hobby House.

Stickle, nesties.

Ribbon and black gems from stash.

I haven't added a sentiment as I think it would suit different occasions.

I'd like to enter some other challenges with this card too :-

Penny Black at Allsorts :- Glitter and Glitz. You might also want to know that they're looking for DT members. That would be an amazing DT to be on. Penny Black have so many fantastic images from ones like this gorgeous poppy to their cute hedgies.

Sir Stampalot :- Bring on the Bling.

Secret Crafter :- Blue and cream.

ABC challenge :- B for Blue.

One Stitch at a Time :- Say it in shapes - oval, scalloped oval and circles.

I've scheduled this post for this morning as I'm going to get some last minute groceries before my daughter and grandchildren arrive this afternoon. My younger daughter hopes to get a lift from Aberdeen with them.....even if it means having a large yellow Labrador sitting on her knee lol!

Catch you all later.