Love is in the air!

Hi everyone, hope you're all enjoying the lovely weather this weekend. It's been lovely here in Aberdeenshire for a while now. I was lucky enough to have a day off on Friday but the only time I saw the sun was when I took the dogs for their walks as I was watching The Royal Wedding. It was really amazing, I loved it. Catherine was a beautiful bride and everything just went so well. I loved it when they left Buckingham Palace in the Aston Martin. Not sure why I thought I'd get anything done on Friday! Eventually in the evening I managed to make this card. Always useful to have a wedding card in your box.

I used :-

Image :- LOTV with some added Glamour Dust.

DP :- Sandylion.

Roses :- Wild Orchid Crafts.

Sentiment :- Craftwork Cards.

Pearls :- Hobby House.

Beautiful lace from stash.

I'm entering the following challenges :-

Lili of the Valley :- Love is in the air.
Stampin' For the Weekend :- Wedding.
Totally Papercrafts :- Glitter.
Truly Scrumptious :- Sketch.
Easy Craft Projects :- Royal Wedding.
Die Cut Dreams :- Wedding.

I was quite pleased that I managed to make something after all on my day off and even more pleased that it all came together quite quickly.

I'm looking forward to another day off tomorrow for the May Day Bank holiday. If I hadn't had to work yesterday morning I'd have been off from Thursday till Tuesday afternoon. 5 days in a row would have been nice but since we weren't doing anything on Saturday it wasn't worth losing a day's holiday just to have a morning off. Hope the weather's still nice tomorrow!

Hope you like and if you can spare a minute to leave me a comment I'd love to hear what you think.

Totally Gorjuss 29 - Pink and Green.

How did it get to be Saturday again. I'm sure it was Saturday just a couple of days ago!! But if it's Saturday it must be time for another challenge at Totally Gorjuss. This week we would like to see pink and green on your card or project. That's not too difficult is it?

This week I've made a wedding card and I think it will fit a few challenges. I am also going to send it to Domi who is getting married to Uli on the 15th of May. I hope they have a lovely day. I was married on the 13th of May more years ago than I want to remember lol!

This is my card and I hope you like it, but more importantly I hope Domi and Uli like it.

Image:- Whiff of Joy Bride. Cut out and popped up on sticky pads.

Sentiment - Craftwork cards, inside a computer generated message cut out with a scalloped nestie.

DP :- Sandylion - Wedding stripes and Roses. Roses also used inside card.

Colouring :- Promarkers and Sakura clear glitter gel pen.

Flowers :- Wild Orchid Crafts.

Pearls :- Hobby House.

Jewels from stash.

Lace :- Quixotic.

I'm quite pleased with this card. I love the papers and I think (hope) the flowers and lace go well with the papers and image.

I am entering this card in a few challenges:-

Simon Says Stamp :- Wedding.

Domi's Wedding Card Challenge :- Domi's wedding card.

Paperplay :- Bling.

Charisma Cardz :- Wedding.

By the Cute and Girly :- Celebration.

Whiff of Joy :- Sketch.

That's it then girls. I hope you can find time to enter this nice easy challenge. It's only a couple of colours so I'm sure you can combine it with some other challenges if you want. I'm looking forward to seeing what you make this week. If you have a minute I'd be really happy to hear what you think of my card. And please take the time to pop over to Totally Gorjuss and see what my talented teamies have made. You won't be disappointed as they have all made gorgeous cards this week again.

Enjoy your weekend.

Kat xx

Anniversary Card.

Good evening girls. I made an anniversary card tonight to enter the Die Cut Dreams Challenge. I followed the sketch from Mojo Monday. The other challenge I want to enter is the Creative Inspirations Challenge Blog.I've done a little close up to show the pearly stuff I used on the bells. I thought it would be a bit extravagant to use stick on pearls as I would have needed so many lol! I did use pearls in the corners and round the 25.

Not sure if I actually like this card. I didn't like it at all but after I put the pearls and the Pearly Stuff (Woodward) on it I liked it a bit better. Not a lot, just a bit!

I haven't been very productive today. I had to work in the morning and then spent time checking out my favourite blogs in the afternoon. Then I did some food shopping and had a takeaway. By the time I sat down again it was after 7pm and Mr Blogger has been a bit twisted about uploading my photos to this post. Anyway here it is and if I am too late for Die Cut Dreams it is my own fault LOL!

Enjoy the rest of your weekend and I'm happy to hear what you think of this card good or bad.

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

Back to School!

Good evening everyone, hasn't it been a lovely day. Hope it has been nice for the Bank Holiday weekend in England. Here in Scotland the Bank Holiday was at the beginning of August. Somehow working in the Post Office I get neither of these holidays. I think the only Bank Holiday we get is May Day the other holidays we get are just local holidays. I haven't had many holidays yet so I have arranged with my colleague to have some days off at the end of September and some in October. I especially need the weekend of 24th-26th October as it is the big craft show at the SECC in Glasgow. I have been saving up for it since the last one in March. The only thing that bothers me is that my daughter's second baby is due on the 27th!! I hope she is about a week before that or after. She was late last time but that was a bit nerve wracking as you can imagine. Anyway enough waffling I need to tell you what I've made this card for.

The challenge over at the House Mouse Monday challenge blog is Back to School. At first I thought I didn't have anything suitable as I have a lot of House Mouse Christmas stamps but didn't remember this one!! When I realised I did have a suitable stamp I knew that I had papers which would be ideal. How lucky is that. I discovered that this card would also fit another four challenges. I love to combine if I can!
Here's another view of the card showing how the letters and the image are 3d'd on foam pads. I used Promarkers to colour the image and also the letters which were initially white. I found some little gems in my stash and thought using 4 different colours would be nice. I thought the letters would fit the style of the card better than flowers. I thought about buttons but I think the letters work better. I did some faux stitching round the papers - it took me so long I would have been better doing real stitching lol. I thought I would struggle for a sentiment but I think this one from a set of Clearly Defined stamps works quite well. I added an s to it as it only said "happy day". I used the lovely sketch from Sketch and Stash and rotated it to fit the shape of the image better.
I'm quite pleased with the way this card turned out - for once!! But I think it will be a while before I use it as Poppy is not 2 yet.

Challenges I'm going to enter:-

Sketch and Stash:- House Mouse stamp, Sandylion papers and chipboard letters are all neglected stash.
House Mouse Monday Challenge:- Back to School.
Paperplay:- Back to School.
Simon says Stamp:- Back to school.
Stamp Something:- Animals.

Sunday evening now so after I link this post to the challenges I want to enter I best do my ironing. Sometimes I read the Sunday Herald at work on a Monday - well you can't do your ironing in the Post Office, can you?

Enjoy your Bank Holiday girls, those of you who have a holiday, hope you have a lovely day. If you want to tell me what you think of this card or any other one I would love to read your comments. It makes my day to read your kind words. Makes you feel as if you are part of a lovely friendly family of bloggers with the same love of crafting. I love to have time to visit other people's blogs and see what beautiful things they have made.

Kat xx

Whiff of Joy and Colour Create.

I coloured this beautiful Whiff of Joy image, which is one of my favourites, with Promarkers. I used a pale green base card and layered Sandylion, Basic Grey and The Paper Company papers. Iused my Cuttlebug and Nestabilities to cut out the ovals. The plain ovals are inked round the edge (maybe not very obvious) with yellow. Flowers, brad, jewels and ribbon are from my stash. I used the sketch from Whiff of Joy and the colours from Colour Create. I had a lot of bother with the colours ie choosing papers to go with the colours chosen for Colour Create. I think it came together after I coloured the image and I quite like the card now. Not my usual colours but it looks quite fresh and summery.
Hope someone likes it! Thanks for looking, Kat x