Simply Create March Challenge.

Good evening everyone. I'm a bit late posting today but I was faffing about trying to choose an image and DP before I could even start making this card. I wanted to make an anniversary card for one of my crafting friends. I also wanted to make a card for Jacqui's challenge over at Simply Create. So here's my card for both.

Have you seen the challenge? You'll need to hurry because the winner will be announced on the 30th of March. If you check out my sidebar you'll see the mood board for the challenge. Isn't it lovely. I love the colours and it suggests wedding to me.....so I've gone for an anniversary card instead. I've tried to use the colours shown and added flowers as there are lots on the mood board. I've echoed the spotty cushions in the ribbon and the scalloped ornament with my punched edge. You also need to add a flower and a button so I've done that. And I added some bakers' twine to the button in case Kath sees it since she doesn't like naked buttons!

I used :-

Image :- Penny Black.

Sentiment :- LOTV.I

Colouring :- Promarkers and Sakura clear glitter gel pen.

Flowers :- Prima.

Twine :- Ribbon Girl.

Pearls :- pink - Prima e line, white - Hobby House.

I'm hoping to enter the following challenges :-

A Spoon Full of Sugar :- Ribbon, pearls/rhinestones and flowers.

Friday Sketchers :- Sketch.

Totally Papercrafts :- Cuddly and Cute.
Pile it on :- Cutie Patootie.

I hope my friend likes it and I hope you do too. If you do please take a minute to leave me a comment if you can. It's nice to hear what other people think. Do you think my card fits the mood board?

Thanks for looking.

Kat xx

The last of my leafy cards.

Well this is the last of my cards using the Hero Arts "Delicate Leaf Clusters" stamps for Simply Create.

This one is stamped with Bundled Sage Distress Inks and edged with Antique Linen. The sentiment and the "thank" panel are also Hero Arts stamps. I finished with a flower and a pearl.

My favourite colour. The image is stamped in Dusty Concord Distress Ink. I added some Distress Stickles in Clear Rock Candy and finished with some gems and ribbon.

Not at all sure about this one. I made a nice background with alcohol inks on glossy card but the centre of the image didn't stamp. It didn't stamp on ordinary card with a Distress Ink background either. Eventually got it to stamp by putting the card on top of the stamp. But then of course I got 2 black smudges on it, hence the ribbon across the bottom lol!  The background is Spun Sugar, Victorian Velvet and Tumbled Glass and the leafy image is stamped on Spun Sugar and Victorian Velvet. Maybe I should have followed my first instinct and binned it!!

Well I'm at work this morning and my friend comes to craft with me in the afternoon so I'll catch up with you all later. Thanks for looking.

More Leafy Cards for Simply Create.

Morning everyone, hope you are all having a lovely weekend. Yesterday was a lovely day here and I hope today is going to be nice too. I managed to make a couple of DT cards last night for Simply Create. Maybe they're a bit samey but I was quite pleased to get something made. I've got some more ideas so maybe I'll get some more made today. Unless I do my ironing of course lol!

I used :-

Image :- Hero Arts - Delicate Leaf Clusters.

Sentiments :- Hero Arts.

Distress Ink - Stormy Sky.

Martha Stewart punch, ribbons, lace and Hobby House pearls.

Not a lot to them but I did have a bit of a think and a practise on copier paper first. I inked the whole set of stamps and stamped directly onto the card and luckily for me it worked ok lol!

If you have time to leave me a comment I'd love to hear what you think. The rest of the DT have been posting their cards on their blogs too and they've all made some lovely cards. I'm sure they'd love to hear from you too if you have a few minutes to spare.

Thanks for looking and enjoy what's left of your weekend. BTW don't forget that Jacqui has a challenge just now over at Simply Create with a great prize of £100 to spend in her shop. You can see the mood board in my side bar and we'd like you to add a flower and a button. So why don't you give it a go? Jacqui has some great products in her shop. I could easily spend £100 there lol!!

Simply Create February Challenge.

Well here  I  am last minute Aggie with my entry for  Jacqui's great challenge over  at Simply Create.

Actually I'm a bit  embarrassed to show you this card as the rest of the DT and other entrants have made such great cards and layouts. But time is running out you only have until 9am tomorrow morning, 14th February, to enter so I had to get a move on!

I used :-

Image & Sentiment :- Hero Arts.

DP :- Nitwits.

Ribbon & Bakers Twine :- Ribbon Girl.

Colouring :- Promarkers.

Card Candy :- Craftwork Cards.

Flower :- Prima.

Button :- available at Simply Create.

I managed to  take a photo of the pups, Max and Blue, this afternoon. They always like to be together and do everything together. The only way to get a photo is while they are asleep as you can see. They're not easy to photograph. My daughter's dog, a yellow labrador is much easier to photograph. Black ones are difficult, all I usually get is a black blur with red eyes!

Thanks for looking and I hope you like, probably my pups are nicer than my card lol. I'll probably amend this post later to include some challenges but I'd best go and organise tea now and sandwiches for tomorrow.

Here are the challenges I'd like to enter :-

Creative Card Crew :- For a loved one.
Papertake Weekly :- Have a heart.
Passion for Promarkers :- Let there be love.
Paperplay :- Hearts & flowers but not a Valentine.
Cute Card Thursday :- Hearts & Flowers.
Crafty Cardmakers :- Hearts.

More DT cards for Simply Create.

I made another DT card on Saturday night but I still wasn't sure about it. Then I saw what Kath had made  and that inspired me. Hope she doesn't think I'm a big copycat lol!!

This is the first one.

 I kept this one very simple.

 Maybe I should have added some text to this one?

Now this one might not look as if it's made with the same kit as the others but if you look closely at the flower you can see the DP is the same as the light coloured strip in  the card above. And the flower is a Hero Arts stamp which I stamped three times and 3D'd.

I started this on Sunday evening to schedule for this morning but Mr Blogger was not co-operating so I had to try again this morning. Best go and get ready for work now. Hope you can spare a minute to let me know what you think of my latest efforts for Simply Create.

Have a good day, catch up with you all later.

A Trio of Cards for Simply Create.

On Friday night at long last I managed to make some cards with my latest kit for Simply Create. I know I've said before that I was a bit out of my comfort zone but this time I was really far out of it. I looked in the box when my kit finally arrived through the snow last month and just thought "oh help" and shut the box again. I still had loads of Christmas cards to make so that was a good excuse to leave it alone! But on Friday evening I ran out of excuses and just had to try to make some cards.

This is what I came up with!! The DP and stamps are all Glitz Designs.

The birdcage is a lovely stamp and I added some punched flowers and a Tim Holtz ticket.

The green spotty with flowers in the corner is part of a 12x12 sheet. Ideal for scrapbooking but I'm not a scrapbooker! I added the birdcage again and another Tim Holtz ticket.

This last one is made from a love notes page and the dogtooth border at the top is a stamp. I finished off with some bobbly trim, card candy, ribbon and a button.

I still have a whole sheet of DP unused plus some other bits and pieces so I might manage to make some more cards!

Has anyone seen Jacqui's new shop yet? The original shop was gorgeous and very well stocked with everything you could  possibly want but now she has moved along the street to 59, Main Street, Alford. Lots more space for goodies now and a special space for classes.

Doesn't this look amazing?!!

Jacqui is having a special day on 22nd January to celebrate the opening of the new shop. Kath will be there at the "Creation Station" demoing some of the new stamps from Hero Arts and you could even have a play with some of the new stamps too. Even better there will be 10% off Hero Arts that day. So hope to see you there between 10.30am and 3.30pm .

Don't forget Saturday 22nd January at Simply Create, 59, Main St., Alford.

Thanks for looking.

Vintage Christmas for Simply Create.

Surprise, surprise! Well me posting again today is a bit surprising. I've been quite industrious recently. I've done quite a lot with my Simply Create DT kit and I've still got loads left. I went to a crop after work yesterday but Mr Blogger had been so bad on Friday evening when I was trying to visit blogs, do DT commenting and upload photos for yesterday's and today's scheduled posts that I gave up in disgust. So I wasn't really in the mood to try to find stuff to take to the crop and ended up taking wool and knitting needles. I'm quite pleased because I managed to get about half of the back of Oliver's  jumper knitted.

But I'm waffling...again! My DT kit is vintage Christmas. Now anyone who knows me knows I don't do vintage anything never mind Christmas. So to say I'm not entirely happy with my cards is a bit of an understatement lol. But here it is. Does it look like a Christmas card to you? I'm just not sure at all.

The image is from a sheet full of images, all I had to do was cut it out and do a little matting. I think the DP is just perfect for the image and I finished with a sentiment from Craftwork cards and some pearls from the Hobby House.

I'm going to enter the following challenges :-
Papertake Weekly :- Sketch.
Charisma Cardz :- Vintage.

The last of my DT makes for Simply Create.

Hi everyone, I've been trying to upload these pics on the DT blog at Simply Create for ages and nasty old blogger wouldn't let me. Came over here and they loaded no bother....Grrr. I made these on Friday evening as I was going to Simply Create after work on Saturday to Kath's demo day. I knew that this sheet of DP was ideal for a layout but I've never done one before so I was a bit nervous. My original idea was pics of my grandkids. Then I changed my mind and decided to use pics of 2 of my kids. I knew what 2 photos I wanted to use but I could only find one of them and wasted nearly a whole day before giving up!

I couldn't find a decent photo of Poppy at Christmas but I had one that Catriona had given me ages ago. The trouble is it was a bit big compared to the other pics. So I took a photo of it, uploaded it to my laptop and printed all three.

I hope you can forgive my attempt at a layout. As you can see I'm not a scrapbooker lol!

The card and 2 scraplings are just simple and designed to show that you can make a simple card quite quickly if you have gorgeous materials. The sentiments are all Hero Arts and Jacqui has a fantastic selection of Hero Arts stamps. I'm not sure what to call the "image" on the scrapling on the left. Probably a flower I think. I cut one out with a nestie and then cut out the petals from another one and glued them on at the inside and popped them up on a foam pad at the outside edge for some dimension.

Jacqui has quite a lot of the DT's work on display at Simply Create now. If you've seen some of it on the blogs you will have seen how gorgeous it looks. I have to tell you that in real life it is even more gorgeous. The rest of the girls have made some stunning cards and other projects so if you live anywhere near it's definitely a good idea to pop in for some inspiration. Jacqui also has the cards that Kath made at her demo day yesterday and they are inspirational.

Well I'd best go and do my ironing now as I'm working full time for the next week. I've been baking today as I'm on teas at the WRI on Wednesday. I've had a couple of disasters so I think I'll need to bake again tomorrow night!

My First DT Makes for Simply Create.

Hi everyone I thought I'd share with you my first DT makes for Simply Create. Half of us got some goodies from Echo Park and the other half from MME I Believe. I got some of the lovely MME DP, a gorgeous "Wreath of Leaves" Hero Arts stamp, plain card in red and green, buttons, ric rac and lace.

Now to be absolutely honest I would never have chosen that stamp in a hundred years! It's a beautiful stamp but I would have wondered what to do with it. Which I did. I panicked about what to do with it for a full week lol! I had ideas and discarded them without even taking the stamp out of the packaging. But I knew I had to make a start because the other girls were producing lots of gorgeous projects. So since I didn't want to waste any of the lovely DP I made a prototype with my own card to see how it would turn out.

When I was happy with it I made one using my DT kit and the first card is the result. How do you like my "berries?" Yes they are the waste punched out with the edge and corner punches. I added a touch of glitter to the centres with a glitter gel pen. I wasn't being grippy(translation - mean), I just thought it would be different lol! The sentiment is Hero Arts stamped with Distress Ink and embossed like the wreath.

For my second card I got brave and just made it using the lovely DP. This time I added some jewels for berries, a glittery MS snowflake in the centre, some buttons, string, lace and finished off with a Hero Arts sentiment.

One of my first ideas was to do a Christmas hanging. I used some beer mats but you could use some thick card. As you can see from the next two pictures I covered each side with different papers and went round the edges with a cranberry Dabber. The letters were cut out with my Cricut. I had a bit of an issue with my Cricut which was actually my own fault. Luckily I was only using plain paper to see if the font I had chosen was ok for size. Lets just say a certain cutting mat now has a very fetching black overcoat! I added some more of the little snowflakes plus some larger snowflakes, card candy, jewels and stickles. The pieces are joined together using green ric rac.

Lastly I made a little decoration using the plain green card. I stamped both sides and cut out the centre with a nestie. I added Glamour Dust to the scalloped edge and the inner edge. Again I added some red jewels and a piece of green ric rac for a hanger. Then I finished off with a lace bow.

I still have lots of paper left and I was going to do a layout. I've never done one before but one of the papers is just ideal for a layout. But I hit a snag, I couldn't find one of the photos I wanted to use of two of my kids. I wasted the entire morning last Thursday looking for it and a bit of the afternoon. Pity there weren't digital cameras in those days. So I decided to print some more recent photos. Mistake! my photo printer needed an ink cartridge. By that time I wasn't in the mood to find photos to print using my ordinary printer so I gave up. If I can find some photos to use tomorrow I'm still going to have a go at a layout.

If you check out the Simply Create blog you can see samples of some of the other DT member's work that Jacqui has been posting. If you live anywhere near Alford everyone's work can be seen in the shop.

I had a lovely time crafting with my friend this afternoon and now I've got my DT card made ready to write a scheduled post for Totally Gorjuss this Saturday. This is handy because I'm off to Alford on Saturday after work to take this stuff to Jacqui and catch Kath's demo day.

I might even manage to make and post something tomorrow as long as I don't waste my time like last week!

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!

Blog Candy from Simply Create at Alford.

Jacqui at Simply Create at Alford is offering some yummy blog candy as her shop is one year old. So why don't you pop over to her blog to see how to enter.

Good luck everyone.

Kat xx