Lilac-time.

Good morning everyone and I hope you have been having a lovely relaxing weekend with lots of time to craft. It's time for another challenge at Just Cute Bears. And this one is right up my street as this week we are asking you to use the colour Lilac. My favourite colour lol!

We are sponsored again by the lovely Kim at Cuddly Buddly. The prize this week is another lovely stamp. I think I could make good use of this stamp! If you pop over to Kim's online shop I'm sure you'll find something you want. As well as rubber stamps there are digi downloads of images and papers. I have used one of the download papers this week from the Patchwork of Papers purple collection. These papers are so gorgeous that I didn't know what to use first.

Anyway here is the stamp and wouldn't you love to win it? Well it's simple all you need to do is make a lilac card....easy!

So here's my card. This week I have made a very simple card. I had a bit of a look around for a sketch to use. But then my friend phoned and we were chatting for almost an hour!! Well by that time I really needed to get my card made so I could take a photo in daylight on Saturday. So I grabbed a few things and when I put them together roughly I thought that this layout was simple but maybe quite effective. What do you think? I think it shows off this cute Penny Black bear and these gorgeous roses from Wild Orchid Crafts quite well. I coloured the image with Promarkers as usual and cut it out with nesties. The sentiment and card candy are from Craftwork Cards. I had to colour the card candy with Promarker too as I had none the shade I wanted. The greenery was cut with a Nellie Snellen punch. I think the raffia lace came from Quixotic Paperie, another favourite online shop! I finished by adding some Glimmer Mist to the roses, not sure if you can see that though

I hope you can find time to visit my talented teamies' blogs to see what they have made. I know they have all made beautiful cards this week and we would all love it if you tell us what you think of our creations!

Enjoy the rest of your weekend and as usual I'm looking forward to seeing all your wonderful projects. It's great to see how you interpret our challenge every week.

Kat xx

Flower Power.

Good morning everyone it's Saturday again and time for another challenge from Totally Gorjuss. This week it's flower power and we'd like to see flowers on your projects. As many as you like, in fact the more the better!

I'm in a kind of lilac mood just now as you can see. But then my blog is called Lilackat lol!

As you can see I've used a sweet Gorjuss Girl and made my card using the lovely sketch from Paperplay. Do you like my DP? It's from Cuddly Buddly and it's a download. It's all so pretty I didn't know which ones to use. She's coloured with Promarkers and I've added some shading round the edge of the image with milled lavender Distress Inks. I finished by adding some of my gorgeous new flowers from Wild Orchid Crafts. I love these new flowers they are so pretty.

I hope lots of you will be able to join us this week. We're really please about how many of you joined us last week in the "lurve" challenge. We have a great prize for you again this week. This time we are sponsored by Crafters Companion who are giving the lucky winner a voucher for £10. Apart from their own products they sell a wide range of products from other manufacturers and their online shop is always worth a look.

Kat xx

Snowy Day Again.

Good afternoon girls from a very snowy part of Aberdeenshire! Very unexpected snow I might add. I went over to work, finished what I had to do and came home about 8.30. Just after 9.30 my daughter said "where did all that snow come from?" I hadn't even seen it!! Upstairs where I craft there are a couple of Velux windows but I hadn't even noticed what was happening. It snowed quite heavily for a while after that so there is quite a lot of snow now. It has stopped now but the sky looks very dark. I was supposed to go out tonight too! This morning it was very frosty and there had been no mention of snow in the weather forecast yesterday. Lucky it's my day off.

But now on to my card. I've used a lovely Tilda that has never seen ink before - only due to lack of time because she is really pretty isn't she?

Materials used:-

DP :- K&Co.

Colouring :- Promarkers and Precision pen for the faux stitching.

Flowers :- Prima.

Buttons, jewels and string coloured with Promarker to match, ribbons, stickles.

I am going to enter a few challenges with this card :-

One Stitch at a Time :- Stitching.

The Pink Elephant :- Ribbon.

Passion for Promarkers :- Any colours plus buttons and bows.

Sophisticat challenge :- Stitching.

Magnolia Down Under :- Buttons, flowers and bows.

Die Cut Dreams :- 3 DP, 2 different ribbons, 2 flowers and gems.

Friday Sketchers :- Sketch.

Crafty Creations :- Stitching.

Well I'm off to have my lunch now and then get on with my DT cards for next week. If you have snow keep warm and safe.

Kat xx

PS Don't forget to enter my blog candy, it finishes next Thursday.

Blog Candy for new Sir Stampalot Challenge Blog.

As many of you probably know the recent blog hop to celebrate Sir Stampalot's move to bigger premises was a great success. So now there is going to be a new Sir Stampalot challenge blog starting on 1st April. While we are waiting there is going to be some blog candy every week. As you can see from the photo the candy is Hero Arts goodies. So to get more information you just need to pop over to Brenda's blog.

I'm really looking forward to this new challenge, I love a good challenge and I'll certainly be putting my name down for this blog candy......I love Hero Arts.

Kat xx

Looks Windy!

A very quick post now as I want to enter a couple of Tuesday challenges and it'll probably be too late by the time I get home from work tomorrow.

Image:- Whiff of Joy.

Colouring:- Promarkers.

DP:- MME Pretty Please.

Flowers:- Prima.

Button:- MME Bloom and Grow.

Sentiment:- Craftwork Cards.

Lace and ribbon from stash.

Nesties used to cut image and mat and cuttlebug Swiss dots folder to emboss plain card.

Challenges are:-

A Spoon Full of Sugar :- 1 pattern, 1 embossed, 1 button and 1 ribbon.

Passion for Promarkers :- Aegean, sky blue and cool aqua.

Whiff of Joy :- Sketch and WoJ stamp.

Creative Inspirations Wednesday challenge :- Use scraps - I did, I don't waste a piece of this MME paper.

Off to post this now. Hope everyone had a lovely weekend.

Kat xx

What a Sweetie!

Good evening girls, I haven't had time to make anything today....yet but here is a card I made yesterday. I love this Tilda, she looks so sweet, doesn't she? I haven't been very good at entering the Just Magnolia challenge for a few weeks, which is a pity as I love my Tildas. So this week I have taken the chance to be early for a change.

Colouring:- Promarkers.

DP:- Basic Grey.

Sentiment:- Craftwork Cards.

Roses:- Prima.

Also used:- Nellie Snellen punch, Nesties, velvet ric rac ribbon, heart charm,heart shaped jewels, red Spica glitter gel pen on hearts on dress and glimmer mist.

Think I may have overdone the Glimmer Mist, it's everywhere lol!

The other challenges I am entering are:-

Sketch and Stash :- Sketch and I used some new flowers.

Colour Create :- Red, white, chocolate and pink with the addition of silver and hearts.

Cute Card Thursday :- In the name of love.

Susie's Sassy Challenge :- Hearts and flowers.

Daring Cardmakers :- Have a heart.

Stamp Something :- Cute.

Fussy and Fancy :- Dazzle us.

Paperplay :- Birthday card for someone special.

Pile it on :- Flowers.

I think that's the lot. Now will I try to make something or do my ironing? Decisions, decisions!

Kat xx

Just Cute Bears #4 Jane's Sketch.

Good morning everyone. It's week 4 at Just Cute Bears and this week we have a great sketch from the very talented Jane. I loved working with this sketch, it was really easy to use and you can always add extra bits an pieces if you want to jazz it up. And of course you can turn it round to suit yourself, as long as we can still see the basic sketch.

We are sponsored again this week by Kim at Cuddly Buddly. You really must check out Kim's online shop, I love her own stamps and papers but she also has lots of other goodies.



This is the prize, isn't it gorgeous?

I hope you can join us again this week, I've really enjoyed visiting your blogs and seeing your lovely creations. As usual the closing time for this challenge is Saturday 20th February at 6pm (GMT).

For this card I've used the lovely Annie's Heart stamp from Cuddly Buddly and I coloured it with Promarkers. I also edged the flowers, the image and the sentiment with Promarker and added some Spica glitter gel pen to the middle of her bow. The lovely DP is from K&Co, the flowers are from Hero Arts and I finished with some brads and jewels from my stash.

Kat xx

Totally Gorjuss 17 - Lurve!

Good morning girls and here is my DT card for Totally Gorjuss this week. Our theme this week is "Lurve" and I hope you think this fits the bill! This week we are sponsored by The Hobby House.

I've managed to fit in a few hearts between the hearts on her dress and boots and the heart charm with an arrow through it lol! I used Promarkers to colour the sweet image, the card candy and the edges of some white roses. I used my new Nellie Snellen punch to cut out some greenery for the roses. My DP is DCWV and I added some ribbon, raffia ribbon and jewels from my stash. I cut out a tag with my tag punch and edged it with Distress Inks in milled lavender before finishing with stickles. I also added Distress Inks to my DP and the image. The hearts on her dress, boots and in her hair are coloured with Spica glitter gel pen. As you will realise when you see tomorrow's DT card for Just Cute Bears I am having a bit of a lilac week lol!

Hope you like, leave me a comment and let me know if you want.

I'm also going to enter a few challenges with this card. I was going to enter the Secret Crafter challenge till I realised that it would be finished before I posted this card. Pity because it is tones of one colour plus white and that is what this card is.

Anyway the challenges I am entering are:-

The Pink Elephant :- Valentine.

Papertake Weekly :- Sketch.

Simon Says Stamp :- Love.

Quixotic :- Tag it.

Die Cut Dreams :- Have a heart.

Pile it on :- To the one I love.

I think that's all now. I'm looking forward to visiting your blogs to see what you've made for this challenge. We had some amazing entries last week for our sketch challenge. You are all so talented, I love to see your lovely creations. Hope you can find time to visit my very talented teamies and leave us all some love.

Enjoy your weekend.

Kat xx

Blog candy coming soon.

Hi girls, I seem to have been a bit busy for a few weeks now. Between work and getting my DT cards done and commenting on entries I don't know where the time has gone!!

Anyway I'm planning some blog candy as soon as I can get a photo done. My hits have now reached almost 6,500 although that is really probably about 12,000 as I was at between 5 and 6,000 last year when my counter suddenly jumped to about 11,000 and I had to re-set it!! I've had some mini candy giveaways but I've been meaning to do a proper one for a while now. I'll try to work out the details and post it tomorrow.

Enjoy your weekend girls and I'll see you tomorrow with my DT card for Totally Gorjuss.

Kat xx

Big Flower!

Good evening everyone, I'm a bit late in the evening with this one but I wanted to enter the Creative Inspirations Wednesday challenge which is for a project using pink and cream.

I'm not sure why I added another photo because I think you can probably see the layering in the first photo lol! In real life the card is not as pale as it looks here and the buttons match the DP from K&Co and the flower which is Stackies from Polka Doodles

I distressed the edges of the papers and also added Distress Ink in tattered rose. You might be able to see that I've added some tattered rose to the flower layers and the sentiment as well.

This card should some other challenges too :-

Truly Scrumptious :- Sketch and buttons and bows.

Allsorts :- Distressed plus buttons and a bow.

Creatalicious challenge :- No stamped images.

I quite like this card! I love the DP and I think the flower worked quite well but you can always tell me if it is rubbish. constructive criticism is alway welcome. Wouldn't do if I thought all my work was wonderful. I'm more likely to think my cards are not very good actually. But probably a lot of us are guilty of that, aren't we?

I'm off to post this and enter the challenges and finish off my Tesco order.

Kat xx

Fairy Wings.

Here I am again girls. I can't believe that this is my third post today. I think I'm on a roll lol!! I don't usually do fairies but I decided to make an exception with this little cutie. I just decided on the spur of the moment that I would try to enter a few challenges after not doing much last week.

Colouring:- Promarkers, Sakura clear glitter gel pen.

DP:- K&Co

Flower:- Craftwork Cards coloured with Promarker.

Ribbon, flat back jewels and stickles.

I don't think it looks like it here but the flowers in the image, large flower, jewels and backing card are all very similar in colour in real life.

The challenges are :-

Pollycraft :- Wings.

Quixotic :- Fairies.

Mojo Monday :- Sketch.

Craftwork Cards :- Flowers.

Crafty Creations :- Wings.

Stamping Fantasies :- Moving - for the bloghop for Sir Stampalot moving to a bigger shop.

Thanks for pointing this out Clare, I hadn't thought of that but obviously fairies have wings and fly!

I think that's it and I'm going to try to do a bit of catching up now. Maybe I'll be back tomorrow if I can get anything done....it's a full day of work and I've got a couple of blog hops I want to finish.

Kat xx

Awwwww Sweet!

Good afternoon everyone. Just a quick post to show you the card I made last night...eventually! Problem was I set my mind on red and white and then couldn't find any suitable paper. I could probably have printed some but of course that didn't occur to me. So I stamped some red hearts onto white paper instead. I also embossed some whitewash paper from core'dinations and sanded to show the red. I love this House Mouse image....I think it's just perfect for a Valentine and I coloured it with Promarkers.
The swirl is from Sizzix. It's a really long one and this is a piece that was left from another card! The flowers are cut with an EK Success retro flower punch and I used Basic Grey Cupcake DP. I've used my MS heart punch again and some heart jewels from my stash, card candy from Craftwork Cards and ribbon from my stash. I had a bit of a wrestle with the ribbon because it wanted to show you its' plain side and I was determined that it was going to be all spotty. As you can see I won lol!

I'm entering a few challenges with this card:-

Basic Grey :- Sketch and paper used to punch flowers.
Easy Craft Projects :- Valentine for a man - hope it's not to girly!
House Mouse :- Valentine.
Cupcake :- Four-legged and furry.
Passion for Promarkers :- Animal and any colours.
Cute Card Thursday :- Spots and dots.
Double Dutch :- Valentine.
C.R.A.F.T. :- Valentine.
Crazy 4 Challenges :- Valentine.

I think that's me then. I'm sure there are lots more out there but enough is enough!!

I'd best do my ironing now. One of my favourite things to do on a Sunday. I've been bad for leaving it too late at night because I want to do something more interesting but today I'm going to be good and get rid of it now. My reasoning is that then I can get on with more crafting later without thinking about having to do boring stuff. I've already managed to do some catching up and some commenting so now I need a coffee and I'll enter these challenges.

Enjoy the rest of your day.

Kat xx

Just Cute Bears #3 Hearts.

Good morning everyone. This week at Just Cute Bears we have a really good challenge for you. It is hearts and at this time of year I am sure you will be able to find other challenges you can combine with it.

I've coloured this sweet Popcorn Bear image with Promarkers. Aren't they just a lovely couple? I found this Papermania pastel DP at the bottom of a drawer. I don't think it has ever been used and there are 5 different colours so I think it might come in useful! The image is also from the same Popcorn set. They are both quite big so you really need to use at least an A5 card so that is a bit of a difference from my usual square cards. I found some pink card that is a good match and edged it with my Martha Stewart heart punch and added some brown ribbon. I added some heart shaped jewels to the sentiment and some pink flat backed pearls in two corners and a flower to finish off.

I just needed an engagement as my best friend's middle son has just go engaged. I hope they like their card, I posted it to them today. My friend is dead chuffed as they have been together since University. Funnily enough Kelly is from my area and Alan met her when he was studying at Aberdeen Uni. They have been together for a few years now so a wedding will be just great, they are a lovely couple. My friend is panicking now as they want her to make the wedding cake. She doesn't need to worry, she is a great baker, always has been since we were in the Young Farmers.

So girls I hope you can join us this week. Remember the closing time for entries is 10pm on Saturday 13th February. We have a lovely prize again from Kim at Cuddly Buddly.

I am just waiting for an order to come from them so maybe next week I'll be making my DT card with one of their bears. I'm looking forward to seeing your lovely heart themed projects this week. Don't forget to pop over to my lovely teamies blogs to see their gorgeous creations.

Kat xx

Pink Gem Designs Blog Candy.

To celebrate her new challenge blog A gem of a challenge, starting 8th February and her birthday Janet at Pink Gem Designs is offering one lucky winner 6 Pink Gem stamps of their own choice, subject to availability. Janet has some lovely stamps for all occasions and they are really easy to use, just a dream to colour. So why not pop over to Pink Gem Designs before the closing date which is 27th February and see what it's all about?I'm off over there now to put my name down before I forget!!

Kat xx

Totally Gorjuss 16.

Good morning everyone at least I hope Mr B has published this post at 8am as requested!

I can't believe that this is week 16 at Totally Gorjuss already. Net has given us a super sketch to work with this week. I hope you like it. I found it very easy to work with and you can always rotate it if you want and of course you can add little bits and pieces to suit yourself. Since this is the first Saturday in the month we are sponsored by Joanna Sheen and the prize is a lovely £10 voucher to spend in her online shop. And best of all there is no p&p to pay.

I've used one of my favourite Gorjuss Girls this week. I think she may have a Valentine in the envelope in her hand. It certainly looks like it, there's a heart on the back of the envelope lol.

My DP this week is from K&Co and the Gorjuss Girl is coloured with Promarkers. I've added some lovely Prima paper roses I just got today fromCrafts U Love and a heart charm I got from Bunny Zoe's Crafts. I went onto Bunny Zoe's online shop to look at a stamp and ended up with lots of charms as well as the stamp lol!

I think I have been a very bad blogger this week but somehow I don't seem to have had much time. I've done both of my DT cards though and managed to comment on the challenge entries so that is something. I've also had to make another sympathy card the other day. I think I should try to get some made so that I have one to hand when I need it and don't have to rush off and make one.

Hopefully this will be posted before I go to work and then when I come home I can see if any of you have posted a quick card for us to look at. I think everyone is not as slow as me lol! Since I am scheduling this on Friday evening I will go off and do my scheduled post for Just Cute Bears while I am using the laptop.

I am intending to enter some challenges with this card:-

Pile it on :- Enough of winter colours.

By the Cute and Girly :- Love.

Magical Crafts :- Valentine.

The Pink Elephant :- Pink.

Sophisticat Challenge :- Love.

Crafty Cardmakers :- Hearts and romance.

Papertake Weekly :-Love actually.

Creative Card Crew :- Valentine.

Paperplay :- Love notes.

Charisma Cardz :- I love you.

Stamp Something :- Love somethings.

Stampin for the Weekend :- Valentine theme.

Fussy and Fancy :- Hearts.

ABC :- New - I've used my new paper roses and heart charm.

ABC Challenge Tutorial Blog :- Any challenge from February.

Simon Says Stamp challenge :- Photo inspiration - a rose.

See you all later if you fancy joining our challenge, I am sure you will be able to fit it in with some other challenges. I like to combine challenges and I know a lot of you do too.

Kat xx

Another Sympathy Card.

I think I've been a bad blogger this past week or so. Yesterday evening I made this sympathy card that I should have made at the end of last week. But I was busy trying to catch up with DT stuff before being away at the weekend. I made this for one of my WRI friends who lost her mother last week. She was 95 and lived with her until going into hospital recently. I think she will miss her very much. What a wonderful age to live to. My auntie will be 94 this year and still keeps very busy. If I get to be old I would like to be like her.

Anyway about the card. I embossed a piece of card with the swiss dots folder in the Cuttlebug distressed it with frayed burlap and tattered rose and edged it with walnut stain. The image is CG127 Flower Box and the sentiment is from CL 283 both from Hero Arts. I decoupaged the large flower for a bit of dimension. Promarkers were used for colouring. I finished off with some card candy from Craftwork Cards.
I've left it quite simple as I think simple is best for sympathy cards.

Now I need to go and see if I can catch up with commenting on entries for Totally Gorjuss and Just Cute Bears.

Almost forgot I had an email telling me that stamps uk is having a closing down sale. They have lots of goodies on sale and the last date for orders is 28th February. I've had a look....needless to say. And I just got an order from Nikki at Bunny Zoe's Crafts. I can recommend Bunny Zoe's Crafts. My order came very quickly, the prices are good and she has a good range of goodies. So why not check both of these out if you like a bargain.

See you all tomorrow I hope. We still have a lot of snow and ice here. It has been horrible again since Friday and I am pretty fed up with it. On the bright side my postie came today with an order from Craftwork cards and my Tesco home shopping was delivered too.

Kat xx

Congratulations.

Good morning everyone....at least I hope this has appeared at 9am on Sunday morning if Mr Blogger is behaving. I am away from home this weekend visiting my daughter, son-in-law and lovely grandchildren.

Today is the second challenge over at Just Cute Bears and today we would like you to make a card with the theme "congratulations." I have made a baby congratulations card using my favourite colour...lilac! I love this Nana's Nursery DCWV DP. It comes in lovely shades of turquoise and lilac with soft green and pale peach.

I coloured this sweet Forever Friends image with Promarkers and matted on to pearlescent lilac the same as the base card. I used Milled Lavender Distress Ink round the image and edged with Dusty Concord. I finished with some Prima flowers and added card candy from Craftwork Cards which I coloured with Promarker to match the image.

I hope you like our 2nd challenge and can find time to enter. If you can find time too it is worth checking out my very talented teamies' blogs, they have made some beautiful cards this week and they would love to read your comments.

This is the prize this week from Liz at Cuddly Buddly. Liz has some lovely images both digi and rubber as well as lots of other craft supplies so it is well worth checking out her online shop.



I'm looking forward to visiting your blogs this week to see what lovely projects you have made. I've had a lovely time checking all your entries this week. Don't forget entries have to be in by 10pm (GMT) on Saturday 6th February.

Kat xx

Gorjuss Paper Piecing.

It's Saturday again and time for another Totally Gorjuss challenge. This week we would like you to do some paper piecing. We are being sponsored this week by the lovely Tracey at Dies to Die For. A big thank you to Tracey. I'd recommend popping over there to have a look. You'll find some lovely goodies there!

I coloured the lovely Bumble Bee with Promarkers which I also used to edge the circle, the flowers and colour the card candy. I paper pieced her dress with the same lovely Nana's Nursery DP from DCWV as the background. I also paper pieced her wings and coloured them with a Sakura clear glitter gel pen. I added some matching flat back pearls to the image and the sentiment and an iriciscent heart to her hair. I love this thick, glittery DP it is all gorgeous, lovely patterns and colours.

I used the lovely sketch from Papertake Weekly. This is a great sketch, nice and simple but you can add embellishments to make it as simple or as fancy as you like.

I'm hoping Mr Blogger behaves nicely and posts this for me tomorrow morning. I am off to visit my daughter and son-in-law and grandchildren in Crieff tomorrow. If I'm good I might manage to pay a visit to a very nice craft shop in Perth lol! Not sure if I should though. I nipped over to Bunny Zoe's to look at ....ok buy the lovely stamp I saw on Angela's card (and lots of other people's too)......Beary Big Hugs from Belles and Whistles. Of course I couldn't leave it at that could I? Oh no I had to buy other things too. No nobody made me....I'm my own worst enemy.

On the plus side I saved some money because I was supposed to be going to a candle party tonight but the weather has turned nasty here again so I thought it was safer to stay at home. I'm a bit disappointed because I was looking forward to it, I don't get out much! Not a huge amount of snow but very slippy. The main road near here was at a standstill this morning. My daughter went to work early this morning but turned after about 2 miles as it was so dangerous. I think she was right this time because people were taking hours to get to Aberdeen instead of about half an hour. She went in later and worked different hours instead. Luckily she can stay there as she is early tomorrow. If she can't get home tomorrow afternoon and my son can't come out to dogsit overnight we might have to take the dogs with us!!!

I'm going to schedule this now and hope for the best. Enjoy your weekend whatever you're doing.

Katxx

Hearts and flowers!

At last after faffing about all day I've managed to finish a card and get it posted. It's only a very quick card though. Just Magnolia have a nice simple sketch this week which I really enjoyed using. This is one of my favourite Tilda images and I coloured her with Promarkers as usual. I also coloured the card candy from Craftwork Cards to match and edged the image before matting it on the same card as the base card. The DP I used is from paper adventures, the flowers and flat-backed pearls are from Prima and the ribbon and heart shaped jewels are from my stash.

I'v added another picture to show that the jewels are heart shaped - I need hearts and flowers for one of the challenges I'm entering!

I hope to enter the following challenges as well as Just Magnolia:-

Passion for Promarkers :- Pastel green and blossom.

A Spoon Full of Sugar :- Freestyle - what you like.

Crafty Creations :- Celebrations.

Creative Inspirations Wednesday Challenge :- Feminine.

Allsorts :- Hearts and flowers.

Cute Card Thursday :- Blooming Gorgeous.

I think I'll go and enter these challenges and get back to my DT card for Totally Gorjuss. I just need to get it finished so that I can post it on the DT blog and sort out a scheduled post for Saturday morning as I am going to a candle party tomorrow and I won't have time to do anything between getting home from work and going out.

Soon be the weekend girls only one more day to go lol!

Kat xx

Sweet Award!

I've just been given this lovely award by Fiona. Thank you so much for thinking of me Fiona. Now I have to tell everyone 10 things that make me happy and pass this award on to 10 people.

Things that make me happy:-

The love of my husband.

My children.

My grandchildren.

My friends.

My dogs.

Chocolate.

Crafting.

Friends I've met through blogging.

Crafting with friends.

Being a member of the SWRI.

Now I would like to pass this on to the following:-

Ali, Angela, Clare, Jenny, Juls, Lisa, Lorraine, Paola, Sarah, and Vicky.

That's all for now and I'm hoping to be back later with a card. I'm also hoping to finish my card for Totally Gorjuss and get it posted on the DT blog as I'm going to be a bit short of time tomorrow.

Kat xx

Sugar Bowl 27.

Hi girls, here I am late as usual with my entry for the Sugar Bowl challenge. Not as late as I have been but not very early either!

This is a lovely sketch from Kathy and I really enjoyed using it. I coloured this sweet manga girl with Promarkers. The added option for this challenge is distressing so I distressed all the edges with my scissors and then edged them with antique linen Distress Ink. I added some lovely Prima flat back pearls to match and a Prima flower and that is it...finished. I actually spent more time trying to find plain card to match the DP. Nightmare......every card I looked at was either too green or too blue. The one I eventually chose still didn't seem right but now that the card is finished I'm wondering what all the fuss was about lol!!


I haven't had much to show this week but I have got a DT card made and posted and a scheduled post written (please be good Mr Blogger!) for Sunday morning at 9am which is when you will find out what the next challenge is at Just Cute Bears. Tomorrow I will organise my DT card for Totally Gorjuss and then my time is my own to maybe get a couple of challenges done.

I've already been out one night this week and I'm going out on Friday as well and then off to my daughter's in Crieff on Saturday and Sunday. I'm looking forward to seeing her and her husband and the kids again. It's been a few weeks since we saw them. We have got 2 toyboxes to take with us. My dad made them for my kids so hubby has been painting them for Poppy and Oliver. Catriona also wanted a bouncing Tigger that was hers and a Winnie the Pooh cross stitch that I made for her. We also found a picture of Catriona lying in one of the toyboxes when she was about Poppy's age and another one out in the garden climbing into a washing basket. And she's always liked cars because we found a piccie of her in Iain's pedal car!

I'm off to enter that challenge and check out the entries for Totally Gorjuss and Just Cute Bears. The number of entries for both of these challenges has been really encouraging but it does take a wee while to look at everyone's entries and leave a comment. I like to try to comment as much as I can because I know it feels a bit discouraging if you enter a challenge and no-one acknowledges your work.

I'm really looking forward to my day off tomorrow and I'm not going to make the mistake of going anywhere. I'm really going to make the most of my time off to get some crafting done.

Kat xx

Mojo Monday 122.

I've just made this quick card for the Mojo Monday challenge. It's not my usual style at all but it was very quick and I've been thinking about making some cards this size for the Marie Curie appeal.



I used Basic Grey June Bug DP. The sentiment is from Craftwork Cards as is the colour me oval which I coloured with Promarkers. I layered the image on a scalloped oval and popped it up on foam pads for some dimension. I finished off with a layered flower put together with spotty brad.



That's it really, nothing else to say about it. Now I am going to be early doing my ironing for a change. To think I used to do my ironing on a Sunday afternoon before I discovered blogging. But hey I'm not complaining. If I get it done quickly I might be able to comment on some of the entries at Totally Gorjuss and Just Cute Bears.

All this posting today will make up for the fact that tomorrow I will only have time to try to comment on my DT challenges and favourite blogs. Tomorrow evening is the Guild and though we are never late it will still be too late to do anything. By the time I get home from work I just have time to have my tea and get ready to go and pick up my neighbour.

Take care everyone and if you have time do pop over to one of these challenges and check it out. You never know one of them might fit in with a challenge you are already doing.

Kat xx

2nd Post Today.

Here I am again girls with another card. Mr Blogger was very good and my scheduled post for the Just Cute Bears challenge appeared at the right time. That's 2 days in a row as yesterday's post for Totally Gorjuss appeared at the right time too.

This afternoon I have been making a card for a few challenges. I think I might make a couple of cards and then get on with my DT cards so that I've got them done in plenty of time!

I followed this nice simple sketch from The Pink Elephant challenge and ended up with a Christmas card! I stamped the bell and the holly on white card and then stamped them again on gold and white respectively and the clapper on red. I won these stamps ages ago when Kath had some blog candy and at last I've managed to use them. I decoupaged the bell, the clapper and the holly. Please don't ask why I decoupaged the holly, it nearly drove me loopy. Ever tried to cut out something as small and awkward as this? Believe me don't even go there lol!!

I also used Nesties, a Martha Stewart punch, Promarkers, the Cuttlebug snowflakes embossing folder and Stickles. The DP is Cosmo Cricket - Jolly by Golly and the sentiment is from Craftwork Cards and it is edged with a gold inkpad.


I'm going to enter the following challenges:-

Pollycraft :- Red and white.
Creative Card Crew :- Punch it.
Simon Says Stamp :- Punch it.
ABC Christmas challenge :- B for bells plus glitter.
Fussy and Fancy :- Winter - Christmas ok?
Daring Cardmakers :- What's the point?

I might be pushing my luck with the Daring Cardmakers challenge but the holly has points and if you like so do some of the snowflakes! I've kept the card quite simple as it is quite a small card and I think it would be a bit crowded if I had added anything else to it.

And that's it really, nothing else I can say about it really. I'm off to see if I can do anything else before I "need" to do my ironing.

Kat xx

Just Cute Bears #1 One for the Girls.

Here we are then girls our first challenge at Just Cute Bears. And it's a great challenge, this week we would like you to make "One for the Girls." How easy is that? I'm sure lots of you have teddy bear stamps of some kind. It would be really nice if you could manage to join in and support us in our first challenge.

This week we are being sponsored by the very talented Kim MacFarlane of Cuddly Buddly Crafts. I'm sure many of you will know about Cuddly Buddly Crafts. They sell rubber stamps, digi images and papers, and lots and lots of other crafting goodies as well.

Here is what Kim is offering for the lucky winner this week. Wish I could enter, I would love this stamp lol!

Here is the card I made for the challenge. I coloured this lovely Popcorn Bear image with Promarkers. I love Popcorn, he is so sweet. Believe it or not this is the first Popcorn Bear I have ever coloured. I have lots of different bears but I think he looks quite special! In honour of our first challenge I've used some of my favourite MME Laundry Line DP. This paper is so gorgeous, it is thick and glittery and beautiful colours. I have layered it on some lovely blue "Gemstones" pearlescent paper. I did a little faux stitching and finished off with some white Prima flowers edged with pink Promarker and card candy from Craftwork Cards coloured with blue Promarker to match.

You can find links in my sidebar for each of my talented teamies so please pop over to their blogs and see their beautiful work. We would all really appreciate it if you have a minute to tell us what you think of our work and the challenge.

So there it is girls a nice easy challenge to start. I'm sure most people have at least one teddy stamp or digi image. I can't wait to see what you make, I know there are a lot of very talented crafters out there. Almost forgot...all entries to be in by 10pm (GMT) on Saturday 30th January.

Enjoy the rest of your weekend,

Kat xx