Special Silver Wedding Anniversary Card.

Last Tuesday I was at a knit and crochet (and chat) group in the church hall. I can do both but some people wanted to learn to crochet so I swapped my Tuesday afternoon at work for Tuesday morning. I wasn't sure how many people wanted to learn but I thought probably the more people who could crochet the better. It was nice to be able to help anyone that needed help and have a chat and coffee. One of the other ladies is a cardmaker too but she asked if I would make a special "fancy" silver wedding card for her daughter and son-in-law. I was a bit surprised and a bit nervous but said I would give it a go. I know her taste in cards is not mine but I thought it would be a challenge! The only snag was that was the 4th and the anniversary is the 10th!! I was at work as usual on Wednesday, out to a blood donor session and then shopping with my daughter for her birthday on Thursday and then it was my evening for crafting with friends. Friday I thought I really needed to do some housework and of course I needed my DT card for Totally Gorjuss.

I made a start on Friday evening and got some bits ready to put together. I had various ideas and discarded them! So on Saturday I knew I had to get it finished. Needless to say it didn't turn out as I expected it to. And funnily enough I liked it. In fact I decided that if she didn't need/want it any more I could keep it for my niece's anniversary in July.

She loved it so I guess I'll need to make another card for Angela!

I was asked for a big card and I usually make slightly smaller than 6" cards or smaller. Luckily I have a box of various sizes of scalloped cards I bought from QVC ages ago.

So this is it!

I used :-

Sentiment :- Serendipity.

Die :- Stampin' Up! Flowers are hiding the lovely shape.

Daughter & Son-in-law :- compueter generate cut out with a Nestie.

Flowers :- Nellie Snellen punches.

Embossing folder :- Couture Creations - Tied together.

Lace :- Ribbon Girl.

Lovely sparkly silver paper and pink card :- Stampin' Up!

Pearls from stash, silver embossing powder.

What do you think? I think it was fancy enough for my customer but not too extreme for my taste!!

Challenges :-

Fussy and Fancy :- Bling it on.

Totally Papercrafts :- Punches & dies - more than 3. I used 3 punches for the flowers and 2 dies for the sentiments.
Gem of a Challenge :- Emboss it.

Well I'd best go and do my ironing now. What an exciting life I lead!

Thanks for looking and for all your lovely comments.

Kat xx

Totally Gorjuss 187 - Hey Baby.

I'm really annoyed! I had almost finished this post when it decided to delete itself. Not sure whether it's my pesky keyboard that sometimes does weird things or what happens! Since I'm typing this late on Friday evening I'm quite fed up now!

This week at Totally Gorjuss our theme is "Hey Baby." This suits me perfectly as I've used a few baby cards recently so another one won't go wrong. So far it's been girl cards I've used so I've made another one. I've used one of my favourite dies. It can be tricky to use but it always looks impressive.

I used :-
DP :- Craft Creations.
Pram :- Marianne die.
Sentiment :- LOTV.
Pearls :- Hobby House.
Ribbon from stash and Spellbinders die.

I'm going to quit while I'm ahead here but don't forget to pop over to Crafter's Companion and check out what you could spend your voucher on if you win this week.

Thanks for looking and please let me know what you think if you have a minute to spare. I'll be around to see what you've all be doing after work today.

Kat xx

My Favourite Stamp.

Good afternoon everyone, I hope it's as lovely a day where you are as it is here in Aberdeenshire. I've got the day off as it is a local holiday here and the sun has shone all day. Fantastic! I haven't achieved a lot but it's been lovely and relaxing.

I noticed that the As You Like It challenge want you to use your favourite stamp and say why. Well I just love this image and if you visit me occasionally I'm sure you'll have seen a version of it at least once before. There are two images in this set, the other one is narrower and the flowers are not as open. I love them both. They're easy to colour. You can use Promarkers, Distress Markers, watercolour pencils, colour the stamp directly with markers, the choice is yours. They're also great to paper piece. So what stamp is it?................

Here it is! Do you love it too?

I used :- Hero Arts - Delicate Blossoms.
Sentiment :- SU Wacky Wishes.
Colouring :- Promarkers.
Ribbon from stash, Stickles.

Other challenges :-
Stamping Sensations :- Summer Blooms.
ABC :- O for Open ie anything goes.
Gem of a Challenge :- Summertime.
Created with Love :- Anything Goes.
Totally Papercrafts :- Anything Goes.

Well I'm off to walk my dogs now and make tea.

Thanks for looking and catch you all later.

Kat xx

Shhhh.... don't tell anyone!

I've sneaked away from my housework for a few minutes to write this post. I've been wondering what image I could use to enter the challenge at Less is More. I thought of Penny Black and House Mouse straight away. So I decided on this image from Penny Black that always makes me laugh. If you've ever had anything to do with sheep, as I have, it would definitely make you laugh too.

I used :-
Image :- Woolly Dames from Penny Black.
Sentiment :- Penny Black clear set.
Colouring :- Promarkers.

I'd also like to enter the challenge at Penny Black which is anything goes.

Well I'm off to finish my housework and have my lunch before I have to go to work.

Thanks for looking and see you later.

Kat xx

Blooms and Butterflies.

Hi everyone. I don't know what it's like where you are but after a miserable start it's turned into a beautiful day here in Aberdeenshire. Lucky me since it's my day off! I've just had a lovely walk with my dogs. Unusual to be out without a hat and gloves so a welcome change.

Today I was inspired by Vicky who showed two lovely cards on her blog today. This is my take on her cards.

I used :- Stamps from SU :- Papillon Potpourri and Secret Garden.
Sentiments :- SU Wacky Wishes.
DP :- LOTV.
Flower and stem stamps coloured with Stampin' Write markers.

Challenges :-
Addicted to Stamps and More :- Make your mark. Flower card above.
Addicted to CAS :- Birthday. Flower card.
Allsorts :- Happy Birthday. Flower card.

Well I'm off to have a browse around the blogs now.

Thanks for looking and as usual thanks to everyone who takes time to leave me a comment.

Kat xx

For a Baby Girl.

I thought I'd show you the other baby card I made on Monday night to give my colleague a choice. I really like white on white for baby cards and this one has just a touch of pink for a girl.

I used :-

Dies :- Memory Box and Marianne.

Sentiment :- LOTV.

Pearls :- Hobby House.

Embossing folder :- Cuttlebug Swiss Dots.

The pink hearts are waste from punching out a border using a Martha Stewart punch.

Lace from Ribbon Girl.

Challenges :-
Fussy and Fancy :- Lace and Pearls.
Simon Says Stamp :- Anything Goes.
Creative Card Crew :- Use punches/dies.

Well tomorrow is my day off and I'm not going anywhere at all so I'm hoping to get some crafting done and possibly some crochet and knitting. 

Thanks for looking and I'll do some catching up with my favourite blogs tomorrow.

Kat xx

Babies, babies everywhere!

Two new baby girls last week! On Tuesday one of the girls who works in the shop became a Grandma again  to her 4th granddaughter. Then on Saturday the girl who used to work with me in the post office became a grandma for the first time to a little girl too. I gave Carol a grandparents card which she loved. Yesterday she asked if I would make one for Annette as she couldn't find anything nice in the shop. I found 2 cards in my box and made another two last night. She chose one that I had already made with a lovely LOTV image so I used another one with a sweet LOTV image for Annette and this one for her daughter and son-in-law.

I used :-

Pram :- Marianne die.

Sentiment :- LOTV.

Pearls :- Hobby House.

DP :- Forever Friends.

Martha Stewart punch, ribbon from stash.

Not sure if you can see the DP very well, it's quite a pretty pale pink colour with text all over it. I love that pram but it can be quite tricky to cut out. And if you get it cut out safely and then tear it getting it out of the die it's a wee bit annoying lol!

I'll show you the other one I made tomorrow. I think it might be my favourite.

Thanks for looking, hope you like it. Catch up with you all tomorrow.

Kat xx

Woof, Woof!

Hi everyone, I'm here a bit later than planned. As usual! Last night I was all set to schedule this post for this morning but thanks to my miserable broadband connection I couldn't even get online. Grrrrr.... But here I am now with an extremely simple, easy card. I got this new Labrador die in the post on Friday and thought I'd make a card with it and enter the challenge at Less is More. But of course I was too late so I thought I'd put it on on Sunday morning. Oh well it's here now! Famous last words, it's now about 3 hours since I started this post. My connection was so bad this afternoon that I couldn't upload my photo!!

Success at last! I suppose that's a penalty of living in the country, you are privileged to pay the same for your  broadband but a lot of the time you can't get online!

I used:-
Labrador die cut :- Poppy Stamps (Memory Box).
Sentiment :- Stampin' Up!
Nestabilities, ribbon from stash.

Not sure it fits any challenges but I couldn't resist using this lovely new die.

Found some!
Stampin' for the Weekend :- Monochrome.
Crafting When we Can :- Use punches or die cuts.
Crafty Ribbons :- Anything Goes with Ribbon.
CAS on Sunday :- Make it masculine.

Thanks for looking. Hope everyone's having a lovely Bank Holiday weekend. Needless to say I have to work on Monday but I have the next Monday off so I'm looking forward to that.

Kat xx

Totally Gorjuss 185 - Just Because!

Good morning everyone. Hope the weather's a bit better now for the Bank Holiday weekend. Needless to say I'm not on holiday on Monday :-(  But looking on the bright side I'm off the next Monday as it's a local holiday in my part of Aberdeenshire. Yesterday was a beautiful sunny day, a bit windy but not too bad! Thursday was my day off and my friend and I went off craft shopping. We only got caught in one hail shower  but it was windy and cold and showery. When I took the dogs out about 5pm it was really wet and even windier. I was soaked right through! I'm sure my jacket was still damp when we went out on Friday morning.

But we don't need to think about holidays or weather at Totally Gorjuss this week. Our challenge is very easy, it's "Just Because." That should give you plenty of scope to use your imagination!

Here's what I came up with this week.

I used :-
Image and DP :- LOTV.
Colouring :- Promarkers.
Sentiment and punches :- Stampin' Up!
Ribbon and Bakers' Twine :- Ribbon Girl.
Pearls :- Hobby House.
Buttons from stash.

I realised when I was colouring this cute image that I'm really bad at colouring!! I think I should stick to things that need little or even no colouring. I think I've made a bit of a mess of this one.

Challenges :-
Passion for Promarkers :- Anything Goes.
Lili's Little Fairies :- Spots and Stripes.
Charisma :- Here comes Summer - must be Summer, he's zooming about in an open top car!
Addicted to Stamps and More :- Anything Goes.

Well I've got work this morning so I'll see you all later.

Thanks for looking and I love to read your comments so please leave me on if you have a minute to spare.

Kat xx

I'm Late!!!

I'm a bit late with this so no waffling today!

I used :-

Image and DP :- LOTV.

Colouring :- Promarkers.

Sentiment :- Stampin' Up!

Glamour Dust, Dienamics Fishtail Flags die, 2 Stamping' Up punches for sentiment and button from stash.

Challenges :-

Lili's Little Fairies. :- Thank you.

I'll be back later with the sketch challenge details as this one ends soon!

Isn't this a great sketch from Sweet Sunday Sketch Challenge.

Kat xx

Loving that boat!

Good morning everyone, can't believe it's Saturday again already! It's been quite hectic since last Saturday. Even with a day off on Monday I've not achieved very much! I've never taken a day off work on my birthday before but I think I'll do it again! Then on Thursday I had Messy Church so that took up most of my day and of course I was shattered at night! On the bright side though that's the last one till September. I do enjoy it but it can be a bit of a strain trying to think up something the kids will enjoy doing. And more importantly something they can do easily as some of them are quite young.

Anyway it's time for another challenge at Totally Gorjuss. This week the theme is "Water, water." We'd like to see some water on your card or project. I wasn't sure I had an image that fitted the theme then I remembered this little cutie. Not sure about the water. It looks a bit weird because my favourite pale blue Promarker is running out.

I used :-
Image and DP :- LOTV.
Colouring :- Promarkers.
Sentiment :- Stampin' Up! cut out with a punch also from SU.
Bakers' Twine :- Ribbon Girl.
Ribbon and buttons from stash.

Challenges :-

Seize the Birthday :-sketch

LOTV monthly challenge :- Boy oh Boy.

I've got a crop this afternoon after work so I'll try to catch up tonight.

Thanks for looking and if you've got time to leave me a comment I'd love to hear what you think.

Have a lovely weekend everyone.

Kat xx

Mini Bear.

Hi everyone. You wouldn't think I'd had a day off today when I'm ending up posting at this time of day. I had so much catching up to do and I even read the papers. And of course I had lots of texts to reply to with everyone sending me happy birthday wishes. I think I'm up to date now but I feel a bit lazy having only made one very simple card.

My family were all here at the weekend, only from Saturday afternoon till Sunday afternoon but it was a bit hectic. With 6 adults, two children and 4 Labradors it felt quite busy. All three of my children had gone together and paid for our meal and my presents. One of my birthday presents was a posh bag from Joules. Just after Catriona and family left I picked up the bag to take it through to my bedroom. When I looked inside Poppy's favourite Winnie the Pooh was inside. It's one of those sort of comfort blankets. I gave her it when she was a  baby. It's just a head with a sort of blanket type body and four paws. She has a few of them and Oliver has a few Tiggers the same. Needless to say she needed it Catriona said when we sent her a text! So I said I'd post it. For a bit of fun I took photos of him doing various things like helping to fold my washing, watching me ironing and having a nap in the bed Poppy slept in here. Then today he had to go in a padded envelope with some chocolate buttons, go in the car, get weighed at the post office and the last pic was my colleague putting the envelope in the mail bag! Poppy really liked getting the photos and reading what he was doing. I think he'll probably turn up in Crieff tomorrow!

I don't think this card has  turned out as it was in my head. Maybe I should have used a different colour to stamp the image and sentiment. What do you think? I'm not really happy with this card but it's done now!

I used :-

Image and sentiment :- LOTV.

Cardstock :- Stampin' Up! Pool Party.

Ink :- SU Pool Party.

I pierced round the edge using the SU Essentials Paper-Piercing pack.

Challenges:-

CAS Monday with LOTV :- CAS LOTV card.
Daring Cardmakers :- Ink it up.
Totally Papercrafts :- CAS.
Less is More :- Coloured card blank. One layer.
Addicted to Stamps and More :- Addicted to CAS.

That's me now I think. I'm watching that fantastic programme about the Hebrides. It's narrated by Ewan McGregor and the photography is amazing. The scenery and wildlife are just stunning. I don't know if it's networked or just showing in Scotland but don't miss it it's just as good as all these programmes from exotic places. The underwater filming is incredible. The underwater reefs are really spectacular. Crikey you'd think I worked for the Visit Scotland or something!

Anyway thanks for looking and thanks to everyone for happy birhday/anniversary wishes. I'm not really sure where 37 years disappeared to!

Kat xx

You'd get less for murder!!!!

Well so they say! What I mean is tomorrow is my Wedding Anniversary and birthday. When we were going to get married 37 years ago the minister thought it would be nice to get married on my birthday! I suppose if hubby forgets one he forgets both lol! Anyway here's the card I made for him yeserday. And it's sitting next to the birthday cards I've already got ready for him to open tomorrow. Usually I'm finishing it late on the 12th. I thought I'd best be organised since everyone was here this weekend. Catriona and her husband and kids and dogs left after lunchtime so that Poppy would have time to do her homework and Iain and Mhairi left soon after them. Then we went to Tesco to get a Tesco finest meal for two and then went for an ice cream. Quite different from the fantastic meal we had at our favourite Indian restaurant. My son-in-law thinks it's the best one anywhere!

So here's the card - I hope, since as I'm writing this my connection is so bad that I can't upload my photo. Fingers crossed I'll be able to do it soon before I lose my temper with it. Too late I'm already pretty annoyed!

I used :-

Circle Burst die :- Memory Box.

Hearts :- Stampin' Up! Fashionable Hearts Embosslits.

Husband :- Hero Arts

Happy Anniversary :- Rubber Stampede.

I need to go and catch up with what's going on blogland as I didn't get a chance to do anything yesterday before everyone came. I did take the morning off yesterday but I went to a Christian Aid coffee morning instead. I usually miss any coffee mornings in the village as I work every Saturday so it was nice to go and have a chat and a coffee. I even won a prize in the raffle. There were a lot of prizes and a couple of people won more than one!

Thanks for looking and I'm hoping to get some quality crafting time tomorrow!

I'd love to hear from you if you've got a minute to spare.

Kat xx

Bingo at Totally Gorjuss!

Good morning everyone, what a bad blogger I am. I haven't posted since last Saturday!  I've baked, been to a WRI meeting (with my baking) and been out crafting with friends. And last but not least I've done a lot of housework. My family are all coming at the weekend and we're having a meal at our favourite Indian restaurant. Today is my brother's birthday, he's nine years and 2 days older than me. I've even taken the day off on Monday for a change. I usually end up working on my birthday but this year I just thought why not have the day off.

Anyway you don't want to listen to me waffling so I'll tell you about the challenge at Totally Gorjuss this week. We have a little bingo challenge for you :-

Lace     Ribbons   Flowers
String    Buttons   Sparkle
Pearls   Stars       Charm

I decided to use lace, string and pearls and here's what I made:-

I used :-
Image :- LOTV cute square.
Bakers' Twine and lace :- Ribbon Girl.
Glamour Dust.
DP :- LOTV.
Sentiment :- Hero Arts.
Tag punch, round nestie die, Die-namics  fishtail flags dies.
Pearls from stash.

Challenges:-
Freshly Made Sketches :-

Fussy and Fancy :- Anything Goes.

Did I tell you we're sponsored by Crafters' Companion this week? Don't forget to pop over and see what they've got to tempt you. 

Well since I've got a day off today I'm going to a coffee morning in the village hall so I'll catch up later. 

Have a lovely weekend and thanks for looking. And if you have a minute to leave me a comment I'd love to hear what you think.

Kat xx

Totally Gorjuss 182 - Anyhing Goes with Swirls.

Good morning everyone, I hope you're all fine this Bank Holiday weekend.  It's been very windy and cold this week, even on sunny days it's been very cold. So I hope it starts to get a bit warmer now.

But it's Saturday so it's time for another challenge at Totally Gorjuss. This week it is "Anything goes with swirls." So you could emboss your swirls like I did, or stamp them or use some of the lovely die cut swirls that are around. We're sponsored by J&C Creations so don't forget to pop over there for a browse.

Here's what I made :-

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I used :-

Image :- Penny Black.

Colouring :- Stampin' Write Markers.

DP :- LOTV.

Embossing Folder :- Cuttlebug Divine Swirls.

Pearls :- Hobby House.

Die-namics fishtail flags die, Glamour Dust.

I love the watercolour effect. It comes solely from the stamp. All I did was colour it with 2 shades of pink and 2 shades of green. No watercolouring involved.

Hope you likey.

Challenges :-

Sweet Sunday Challenges :- Sketch.

Creative Card Crew :- Bling.

Everybody Art :- Pearls.

Simon :- Happy Mail - a just because card.

Thanks for looking and I'll catch up later after work.

If you've got time to leave me a comment I'd love to hear what you think.

Kat x

Birthday Boy.

Good evening everyone. I'm a bit late with this but this is actually my 3rd card today and I've just finished it so I decided I might as well blog it.

I thought I'd use one of my older LOTV boy images while I'm waiting for the new ones to go on sale. Isn't he cute?

I used :-

Image, sentiment and DP :- LOTV.

Colouring :- Promarkers.

Stampin' Up! scallop punch.

Ribbon, buttons and bakers twine from stash.

Challenges :-

Sketch Saturday :- Sketch.
My Time to Craft :- Use Kraft.

Well I'd best go and catch up with my DT work. Catch you all tomorrow. In the meantime thanks for looking and if you've got time to leave me a comment 

Candy Winner!

As promised I'm back with the winner of my candy. Using an ultra-sophisticated choosing mechanism. ie pieces of paper with numbers 1-26 on them the winner is..............................

No. 21 Wilma.

Congratulations Wilma. Please email me at katanderson.13@gmail.com and I'll get the candy posted as soon as possible.

Thanks to everyone who entered and a big welcome to my new followers. I'll be having another candy soon to celebrate my birthday.

Kat xx

Candy Time!

This is a sticky so please scroll down for more posts.

Edited to add - sorry to mess you around but since I've found some more candy and I'm going to be busy this week I've decided to extend it till the 30th of April. So that gives some more of you time to enter. 
  

I thought it was about time I had a little candy. So here it is.

It's not much just some ribbon and stickles and liquid pearls. I always have too much ribbon so if anyone can use it that would be good.

I've added a pot of Brushed Corduroy Distress embossing powder and two Stazon inkpads in red and violet.

Blog candy rules :-

Be a follower and please stay ( I feel hurt when anyone leaves!)

Post a pic of the candy on your sidebar.

Leave me a comment.

Email within 7 days to claim your prize.

The candy will remain open till 8pm on 30th April and I'll announce the winner soon after that.

Thanks for looking.

Kat xx

Exciting New Challenge Blog.

Just popped on to tell you about an exciting new challenge blog that starts on Thursday 2nd May. There's candy on offer so pop over for more information and become a follower to join in. There's also going to be a DT call when the challenge starts.

Kat xx

Isn't she sweet?

Good morning everyone. It's time for our weekly challenge at Totally Gorjuss. This week we'd like to see ribbons and pearls on your lovely creations. We're sponsored by The Ribbon Girl and Milk and Coffee this week. That means you have two chances to win this week so I hope you'll be able to join us.

The DT were lucky to be given images to use by Milk and Coffee. I hope you'll pop over to see what my talented teamies have made to inspire you this week.

I've used the lovely Charlotte with Bunny Love Balloon, isn't she pretty?

I used :-
Image :- digi from Milk and Coffee.
Colouring :- Promarkers.
DP :- Forever Friends.
Embossing folder :- Swiss Dots.
Pearls :- Hobby House.
Seam Binding :- Ribbon Girl.
Glamour Dust.

I'm entering the following challenges :-
Freshly Made Sketches :- Sketch.
In the Pink :- Ribbons or ruffles.

Well I'm off to work as usual this morning so I'll catch up later.

Thanks for looking and also for taking the time to leave me a comment.

Kat xx

Just a note...

Hi everyone, hope you're all fine. I would say I am but I seem to have developed a bit of a cold so I'm a bit fed up!

I enjoyed making a card the other day for Less is More using Jen's lovely colour combo and layout. So today I couldn't resist making another one. This time I've used a different colour combo. Do you like this lovely ridged Kraft card I found in my stash and some of my favourite Lilac Bazzill card.

I used :-
Image :- LOTV popped up on sticky pads for some dimension.
Sentiment :- Hero Arts.
Colouring :- Promarkers.
Fishtail :- Stampin' Up! Stamped with Hero Arts

Envelope pattern in Wisteria Wonder.

Well that took ages to upload that pic, my broadband's hopeless tonight!

Hope you like and feel free to tell me what you think, I love to read your comments. Sometimes I need a wee bit of encouragement. At least I get a day off tomorrow. I hope I can get some crafting done.

By the way have you entered my candy yet? I added some more items to it and I extended it to next Tuesday, the 30th.

Thanks for looking.

Kat xx

Totally Gorjuss 180 Embossed.

Good morning from a lovely sunny, bright Aberdeenshire. So far!!

I need to be super quick here as I forgot to schedule this post and I need to have breakfast and get my hair washed before work. I have a crop this afternoon so I can't just be a wee bit late posting.

This week at Totally Gorjuss we'd like to see some embossing. Ours sponsor this week is Heather's Hobbie Haven so why don't you come and join us? We'd love to see you.

Here's what I made.

Now I really need to go. I'll come back later and add some details of what I used to make this card.

Thanks for looking.

Kat xx

Congratulations!

Not sure if I need a Congratulations card for a Graduation any time soon but if I do I'm prepared with this little cutie.

When I saw that the challenge at Less is More is a one layer card and the subject is "A Film" I thought I was going to be struggling. It's not the one layer part that bothers me as I'm getting used to that now. No, it was the film part. I usually struggle with making a card to depict a film or a tune. Then I had a bit of a brainwave! My favourite ever film is "The Graduate." I remember seeing it years ago, and I won't say how long ago, with  my boyfriend. Trying not to drool over Dustin Hoffmann! After that I would have watched anything with Dustin Hoffmann in it and if I'm honest I still would. Don't tell my hubby though.

Isn't he cute. I added blue to his gown as that's the colour of the hood of my graduation gown. A wee while ago now.

I used :-
Image and sentiment :- Hero Arts.
Watercolour pencils.

I'm also entering the challenge at Crafting When We Can which is "At the Movies."

I have one or two more ideas for the LIM challenge so I might be back later in the week. Unfortunately I have some knitting I need to sew up for a WRI competition on Wednesday. I also need to bake for another competition. It's also our AGM and I'm feeling quite pleased with myself because my books are done and were exactly right first time. My boss is auditing them for me now and all I have to do now is sort out the points prizes. At our monthly meetings we have either one or two competitions and get points for a 1st, 2nd or 3rd. At the end of the year the member in charge of this works out who is 1st and 2nd overall and who has entered most competitions and got fewest prizes. We call this the endeavour shield now as most entries fewest prizes doesn't really sound very nice especially since there are only a few of us and it depends on the judge who might not know anything about what they're judging!

As some of you might know I work in my local sub-post office. The subpostmistress does not work due to health problems so I do everything that she would do. ie ordering cash, stock and stationery and doing the weekly balance. We were audited recently and to the auditors' surprise we were balanced to the penny. They told my boss that this never happened! She said that I liked everything to be right so she wasn't surprised. One of the auditors asked if I had worked in a bank and she said that I had. When I worked in the bank we had to balance to the penny every night before we could go home so I guess old habits die hard! My colleague was working that morning and they were pleased with how well she was doing since she has only been in the P.O. for about a year and a half. Needless to say neither of us got a nice bonus for our good work. We were both pretty chuffed though.

Enough wittering though, I'm off to have a nose around the blogs and see if I need to do any DT commenting.

Thanks for looking and I love to read what you think. So if you've got a minute to spare I'd love to hear from you.

Kat xx

Totally Gorjuss 179 - Spring Shades.

Hi everyone, time for another challenge over at Totally Gorjuss. This week we would like you to use Spring Colours. Now I don't know about where you are but it doesn't feel very Spring-like here in Aberdeenshire. Maybe using Spring colours will cheer us all up. And if that doesn't cheer you up maybe the thought of spending the £10 prize at our lovely sponsor Crafter's Companion will!

This is what I made.

I used :-
Image and DP :- LOTV.
Colouring :- Promarkers.
Pearls and rhinestones :- Hobby House.
Glamour Dust and ribbon.

I'm entering the following challenges :-
The Pink Elephant :- Use Spring colours.
Created with Love :- 1 image, 2 DPs and 3 embellishments.
Simon Says Stamp :- April Showers and/or Spring Flowers.
Cute Card Thursday :- Butterfly Kisses.
In the Pink :- Let's Fly Away.
Joanna Sheen :- Spring into Spring.
Papertake Weekly :- Blooms, ribbon and gems.

I'll catch up later after work. But in the meantime have you seen my candy? Everyone is welcome to enter so please remember to add your name. You still have a week to enter and you know what they say - you have to be in it to win it.

Thanks for looking and have a lovely weekend.

Kat xx

Sleepy Little Bear!

Hi everyone, hope you're all well today. I'm happy because it's my day off and tonight I'm going to see some of my friends for some crafting.

I was crafting with another friend yesterday afternoon and started making this baby card. I loved the sketch from the Penny Black challenge so I decided to use it again. This is one of my favourite LOTV stamps for making baby cards. It's nice and simple and really easy to colour.

I used :-

Image and sentiment :- LOTV.

Colouring :- Promarkers.

Embossing folders :- Cuttlebug Swiss Dots and Stampin' Up! Adorning Accents.

Rhinestones :- Hobby House.

Glamour Dust and ribbon.

I'm entering the challenge at :-
 Ready Teddy Go :- Anything Goes.
Stamping Sensations :- Special Occasion - not birthday.
Gem of a Challenge :- Animals.

I'm having problems with my laptop. When I started trying to leave comments on blogs yesterday evening I discovered I had no letter t. Great - one of the letters you use most. After a lot of faffing around I can use it, not easily of course but at least it works after a fashion. doesn't have the top on it but I'm not proud. This was supposed to be a new keyboard last year but I'm not sure as the t key seems to have a worn patch on it! I don't really want to take it back to the repair shop as it could be away for days!

Anyway thanks for looking and I'll try to catch up later, keyboard permitting.

Kat xx