Rudolph the red nosed......

reindeer???? Maybe not but this image made me think of that song lol!

I used :-

Image :- Penny Black.

Sentiment :- Hero Arts.

Colouring :- Promarkers.

DP :- LOTV.

Snowflake :- Martha Stewart punch.

Candi :- Craftwork Cards.

Glamour Dust.

I'm entering the following challenges :-

Allsorts :- Inspired by a song.
Sketch Saturday :- Sketch.
Cards for Men :- Animal Magic.

As usual I've not got as much done today as I would have liked. One of the girls at work said look at this cook book. It was Best magazine with a free Cupcake book for 92p. I bought it and gave her the magazine. I don't have any patience with these magazines but the cookbook was worth the 92p! Needless to say it's the start of a series of heaven knows how many parts. Next is Favourite Cakes followed by Biscuits & Brownies, then Grandma's Puddings and so on....... Would be a lot cheaper to buy one or two decent cookery books. I told the same colleague the same when she said she was buying the learn to crochet series. It's cost her a fortune and she's done hardly any of the squares!

Must go now, it feels like time for a coffee. Think I've still got some cheese scones. I took some to work and everybody loved them so I was quite chuffed. I made red velvet cupcakes from my cheapie book today. They don't look very red but they tasted ok lol!

Thanks for looking and I'm hoping to manage to make some more Christmas cards tomorrow. I've got quite a few now. Must count them and probably give myself a fright about how many more I still need to make!

Here he is again!

It's that Penny Black snowman again! I can't resist him, he's so cute!

This is a lovely quick card and I think I need more like it. I've made 80 cards but I really need at least 91 plus the special ones. Not sure if my boss wants cards for her grandson from them and his great grandparents but I might just do a couple in case.

I used :-

Image :- Penny Black.

Sentiment :- Hero Arts.

Card Candi :- Craftwork Cards.

Snowflake border :- Memory Box.

Colouring :- Promarkers.

Glamour Dust.

I'm entering the following challenge :-

Allsorts :- Going round in circles.

I'm trying to do short posts just now so that I can visit my favourite blogs and do my DT work. So thanks for looking and I hope your weather is better than mine. It's pretty cold and icy here. Not as much snow as a lot of places but ice isn't nice when you're trying to walk to big mischievous dogs lol!

You Might Need Sunglasses!

This is another one of my quick Christmas cards.  Quicker than the last one anyway as I settled on the second colour of inkpad that I tried. It's a bit bright but I like it!

I used :-

Image :- Penny Black, stamped using a Vivid inkpad in Raspberry.

Card candi, ribbon and I found a piece of Core'dinations card in just the right shade.

I love this image. It stamps really well and looks great embossed in silver too.



I'm going to enter the following challenges :-

Ribbon Girl :- Pink & White.
Allsorts :- One Layer Card.

I should have had Poppy's birthday card but I took it to work to show the girls and posted it to her. I used a Penny Black image, "Heart to Heart" - a little Thelwell type pony talking to a bird perched on the handle of a pail, really cute. Poppy loves horses. Think Oliver does too!! There's a riding school just a few minutes walk from their house and they like to look at the horses. They're too young for lessons but they can have a shot for a couple of pounds.

Thanks for looking and also for any kind comments you might leave.

Less is More # 9 A Touch of Red.

Hello everyone hope you've all had a lovely Mother's Day whether you are Mums or not. Pets count too lol! I'm Mum to my two Labrador pups as well as my kids.

I'm a bit earlier this week with my card for Less is More. I love this challenge and like a lot of the others I think I'm becoming addicted to it. It certainly makes you think. It's great to get such good feedback and advice from Chrissie and Mandi. Thanks girls for taking the trouble to check out all the entries and if necessary tell us how we can improve our cards. It's also really good to see how others have tackled the challenge.

I'm not sure my card's very good this week. Is there too much red round the image? I would probably have had a smaller border but I've lost one of my nesties. I'm sure it's in the house somewhere it just isn't shouting loud enough for me to find it.

Anyway here's my effort.

I'd also like to enter the Allsorts challenge which is "Blooming Blossoms."

I think I'll go and check out the entries for Totally Gorjuss. This week we have one of Net's lovely sketches for you to follow. I hope you'll want to join us, I know it can make it easier to make a start to a card if you have a sketch to follow.

Tomorrow I have the day off as it's a local holiday. I'm really looking forward to doing what I like all day. I'm also off next Saturday and the following Monday as we're babysitting and it's nice to have a Monday to catch up. I hope the pups behave as even though Poppy and Oliver are used to their own Labrador, who can be quite rough, the pups are maybe a wee bit friendly for 2 little people lol!

Thanks for looking and please leave me a comment if you've got time and then I can pop over and visit you too.

Monochrome Christmas.

raI wanted to make a quick card for the Penny Black Challenge. So here it is, another Christmas card. I used the lovely sketch from Mojo Monday so I can enter that challenge too.

I used :-

Image :- Penny Black.

Colouring :- Promarkers.

Sentiment and Card Candy :- Craftwork Cards.

Cuttlebug embossing folders, Martha Stewart punches,pearls and lots of glitter.

I'm quite pleased with it lol! It's nice and bright if nothing else. I was going to enter the Allsorts challenge but I think I'm much too late for that. Puppies are a lot of work sometimes and I just ran out of time before work!

Thanks for looking. See you tomorrow with my DT card for Totally Gorjuss.

Pink!

Hi girls, I wanted to post this last night but I couldn't get a good photo so I waited till this morning. Not sure the photo is any better. But I had to work all day and then I was out this evening. So here it is now. I love pink so it was not really any hardship to make this card.

I used :-

Image :- Magnolia.

Sentiment :- Craftwork cards.

DP :- Crafty Creations and Craftwork Cards.

Colouring :- Promarkers.

Pearls :- Hobby House.



I'd like to enter the following challenges :-
Passion for Promarkers :- Pink & White Christmas.
Just Magnolia :- Think Pink.
Allsorts :- Spots and Stripes.
Totally Tilda :- Pink and Pearls.

It's ages since I've used a Tilda.This is a great stamp as you can use it at any time of year not just Christmas. Hope you like and please leave me a comment if you have a minute to spare. Thanks for looking.

Adventure Time!

At last I've managed to make a card that's just for some challenges! I thought it would be nice to make a simple male card for a change. So this is what I ended up with.

I used :-

Image :- LOTV.

DP :- Wild Rose Studios.

Colouring :- Promarkers.

Card Candy :- Craftwork Cards.

Button, string and tag from stash.

I am entering the following challenges :-

Friday Sketchers :- Sketch.

Secret Crafter :- Man's World.

Allsorts :- Use primary colours - I used red and blue.

Cards for men :- Off on an adventure.

Papertake Weekly :- Old, new, borrowed, blue - new stamp and blue.

Simon Says Stamp challenge :-Summertime blues.

Everybody Art challenge :- Check it out.

I really enjoyed making this card. It's nice to make a simple card for a change. I really should make the effort to make more male cards but sometimes you get bogged down trying to get your DT work done and nothing else. Tomorrow is my day off and I'm meaning to get my DT cards made then.

Today was the day when the post office I work in was starting the process of going online. All seems to have gone well so far and tomorrow morning we will be working online with a totally new screen layout and way of working. I only have to go in for a short time to finish the lottery figures and then my colleague will get first shot of the new system. The chap who came to help us to "migrate" as it is called will stay with her for an hour or so and we have a sign to put up so that people will understand why we might be a bit slower than normal for a day or two. I'm quite glad that when I go in on Friday I'll be working on my own.

I hope you can find time to leave me a wee comment about my card so I know if I'm doing the right thing.

Blue for a Boy!

Good afternoon everyone. I hope the weather is not too bad where you are. Here it is very cold but it has been a beautiful sunny day. Would be even better if the ground was not covered with snow and ice lol!

This week I need to make male cards for my hubbby and son-in-law. I made a very quick one for my son-in-law this afternoon as Ineed to post it tomorrow for Wednesday. At least it would have been quick but when I picked it up to take a photo of it I realised I had stuck the gingham panel - and of course the image and sentiment - in the wrong places. So I had to make it into an easel card. Oh well at least it's finished now, nothing else to do. The doggy, which came from an Inkadinkado clear set of stamps, reminded me of their daft Labrador Missy. The paws are from the same set. I've been dying to use the ticket stamp from Hero Arts so this was the perfect chance. This lovely DP is from the blue patchwork set from Cuddly Buddly. I love these papers, I used the purple set already this weekend and I also have pink! As I am keeping this card nice and plain and simple, I don't think men appreciate bows and flowers and jewels, I finished by adding some card candy coloured with Promarker from Craftwork Cards.


Not much else to say girls except I hope he likes it. I'm feeling quite creative today so maybe I can get something else planned before I need to make tea. Just the two of us tonight as daughter is working till 10pm so we can eat quite early and I can have an evening of crafting! Well apart of having to iron and go online and find a birthday present for my son-in-law!

I think I can enter a few challenges with this card too:-

Sketch and Stash :- Sketch and I used some lovely new stamps.
Totally Papercrafts :- Lots of spots.
Papertake Weekly :- Checks/gingham.
Allsorts :- Tag, ticket or label.
Cupcake :- Keep it simple.

Enjoy the rest of your day.

Kat xx

PS don't forget to enter my candy. I'm going to see what else I can find when I get a few minutes to spare.

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

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

Fast Card.

Hi girls I'd really like to thank everyone who congratulated me on my new DT position with the Just Cute Bears challenge. I'm really surprised to have been chosen but really, really chuffed and looking forward to working with Ali and the rest of the DT who are all very talented. Our first challenge will be on Sunday 24th and I'm really looking forward to the first challenge and hoping that lots of people will join in.

After finishing the dreaded ironing, checking my emails and favourite blogs I then faffed about for ages trying to decide what sketch to use for a few challenges. I think I'm still a bit overexcited about my new DT place lol!

I made this card very quickly in the end as I was running out of time! I'm going to enter the following challenges with it:-

Creative Card Crew :- Distressing.
Creative Inspirations Sunday Challenge :- Distressing.
Simon Says Stamp challenge :- Shabby chic, distressing.
A Spoon Full of Sugar :- 3DPs, 1 ribbon, 3 flowers and 3 buttons.
Allsorts :- Brown and pink.
Quixotic :- Judy's wonderful sketch.

I used:-

DP - Basic Grey
Image - Stampendous
Sentiment and card candy - Craftwork Cards.
Colouring - Whispers pens.
Flowers and ribbon from stash.
I should also say that I distressed the edges of the DPs and edged them and the sentiment with Distress Ink in walnut stain.

I think that's all I can say about this card. Feel free to leave me a comment then I know if I have made a complete mess or not LOL!!

Kat xx

White Card

I made this quick little card the other evening and this is me just getting round to posting it. I thought I would make a plain card that would be quick to do and I could make a few of them and add to my stock of Christmas cards.

I have not used a sketch for this one as I just meant to do something plain but of course I couldn't help myself I had to add snowflakes, card candy, ribbon and buttons!

I used my Cuttlebug to emboss the front of my card. Then I used nesties to cut a scalloped circle and stamped this cute Penny Black image which I coloured with Promarkers. I added some card candy from Craftwork Cards. I added my favourite cuttlebug snowflake and Martha Stewart snowflake, both cut from glitter card. The sentiment is also from Craftwork Cards. I finished off by tying some white ribbon round the card and adding a button on top of the knot and another to the large snowflake. And that's it!

I think it will fit a few challenges.

Daring Cardmakers :- White with a hint of colour.
Allsorts :- Buttons.
Sophisticat challenge :- Snowflakes and sparkle.
The Pink Elephant :- Colour with your favourite medium - I used Promarkers.
Creative Card Crew :- Christmas.

I really quite like a white card with just embossing for texture and I think I might make a few more variations on this one.

I have another card to post so I will be back in a little while when I've taken a photo of it.

Kat xx

Santa Claws.

Hi girls what a beautiful day it is here today - lovely and sunny after the frost.

Today I have a card for the Penny Black Saturday Challenge. They are having a blog hop too and I am hoping to take part after work tonight. I followed the sketch from Sketch Saturday. It seemed to fit perfectly with this great image!

I coloured the image with Promarkers as usual and coloured over the brim of the hat and the pompom with a Sakura clear glitter gel pen. I finished off with a sentiment from Craftwork Cards and some flowers and pearls from my stash. The DP is Basic Grey Eskimo Kisses.

I am also entering:- the Basic Grey challenge - Glitz and bling.
The Allsorts challenge - A Christmas carol or song - Here comes Santa "Claws".
By the Cute and Girly -Winter Wonderland.

I'd best go now and get the tea organised before I go to work. Looking forward to the weekend. Hopefully I can get some more Christmas cards made. See you all later with my DT card for this week's challenge over at Totally Gorjuss.

Kat xx

Poppy's Birthday Card.

Hi everyone, it looks as if I haven't been doing very much this week but I have been quite busy! I've managed to make my DT card for Totally Gorjuss and today I made this card for Poppy's 2nd birthday on Monday.

I followed the fabby sketch from Sketch Saturday. The cute image is from Whiff of Joy - aren't these kangaroos cute?
The other challenges I am entering are:-

Quixotic challenge :- Kraft and red.
Allsorts challenge :- For a child.
Simon Says Stamp challenge :- animal antics.

This is a very cute image but I think I need a bit of practice colouring animals with Promarkers LOL!

Materials used:-
Kraft paper from jillibean.
DP - American Crafts.
Colouring - Promarkers.
Flowers - Martha Stewart punch and other daisy punch.
Card candy - Craftwork cards.
Ribbon and peeloff "2" from stash.

Hope Poppy likes her card. My other daughter is just back from visiting Catriona for a few days and she says Poppy loves her "big sister" card!

If you like this card please feel free to let me know. I should be back later to let you see my DT card for Totally Gorjuss.

Kat xx

Happy Hedgie!

Good afternoon everyone. I have had a day off today after being at the SECC yesterday. It was a great day but very long. I left the house about 6.30am and got home about 9.30pm! Today I have just faffed about but at least I got one card made.

I followed the great sketch from a Spoon full of Sugar challenge. I think it was nice and quick to do so will be useful for the long job of making Christmas cards!! I have used this cute hedgie image again to fit the Allsorts challenge which is to include a furry friend. I can also enter theIncy Wincy Designs challenge as I've used some of my favourite embellishments - flowers and snowflakes. And jewels! And stickles!!

I used:-

DP:- MME wonderful winter.
Colouring:- Promarkers.
Punches:- Martha Stewart and another one for snowflakes and flowers.
Sizzix:- single snowflake.
Jewels from stash and stickles.

I should put the tea on now cos i'm going out tonight to the guild. Busy week - tomorrow is a meeting to sort out the questions for our WRI quiz. I'm on the quiz team so we make up the questions for our own quiz and mark it on the night. Wednesday is a haircut and Thursday night I go to a friend's house for a card making session. For someone who is hardly ever out I am out a lot this week. I was disturbed after I wrote I was going to make the tea. My younger daughter phoned and I got such a fright cos her sister's baby is due any time now!!! I think this is part of the reason I can't seem to settle to doing anything today. I haven't even had a play with my new stash. Maybe I'll have some news soon.....but don't hold your breath.

Kat x

Allsorts 23 and Secret Crafter 54.

I made this card quickly for the challenges forthe Allsorts challenge and the Secret Crafter Saturday challenge. Maybe it's a bit basic, what do you think?

DP - DCWV rose tinted Christmas.
Image - Clarity stamps. Stamped with raspberry Vivid inkpad and embossed with transparent embossing powder. Not an old old stamp but I have had it for a while.
Pale pink glittery stamps cut with 3 different punches.
Ribbon, jewels and pearls from stash.

Thanks for looking and enjoy your weekend.

Kat x

Halloween!!!

Yes I know I promised that I was finished posting for today but this is just a little fun card I made this evening. I really have to post a better photo in the morning...but can I please assure you that the colours are black, orange, purple and white. No matter what I try the purple is determined to look blue!

I've used the sketch from Aly's Sunday Challenge. Aly is a very talented stamper and she is only 10 years old. Pop over to her blog and you will see her amazing work.
The challenge over at Pile it on is to use Aly's sketch so I can enter it too.
There are some Halloween challenges around so I am entering them too. They are:-
Simon Says Stamp Challenge.
Allsorts challenge.
A Spoon Full of Sugar challenge
The Pink Elephant challenge. Halloween using the colours black, orange purple and white.

The DP is MME and I've coloured this lovely Tilda with Pumpkin with Promarkers. Nesties were used to cut the shapes and the flowers were cut using a Martha Stewart punch. I finished off with ribbon, jewels and brads from my stash.

I am off to iron now as it is Sunday night again already and I work all day tomorrow - yuk. I have had two Saturdays and Mondays off in a row so now I need to work two Mondays before I have the Monday off after the craft show in Glasgow. Hope the time passes quickly - think I will take the Sunday paper with me.

Not sure what use a Halloween card is to me but I can't resist a challenge lol!

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

Christmas Present.

I made this card this afternoon using the great sketch from Mojo Monday. I coloured this sweet House Mouse image with promarkers and stickled the pompom and brim of the hat. The sentiment, ribbon and sticky ribbon are all from Papermania. The DP is from Forever Friends from last year. I cut out snowflakes from white glitter paper with Sizzix dies in my Cuttlebug and used nesties to cut the circles. The DP has snowflakes on it which unfortunately don't show up very well even on the first photo which was taken outside! Black jewels are from my stash. All the edges are inked with black. The next photo is not much better and just reminds me that the Merry Christmas could have been stamped better!!

But this is not a Christmas card it is a gift card holder. This House Mouse image was also coloured with Promarkers. The corners to hold the gift card were cut out using a punch. I think this fits the Cute Card Thursday challenge for hidden treasure. I think I might be pushing my luck with the Pollycrafts challenge for black, white and one colour!!

So the challenges I hope to enter are:-

Mojo Monday:- Sketch.

Sophisticat Challenge:- Make anything to hold something eg gift voucher, cash etc.

Pollycraft Challenge:- Black, white and one colour.

House Mouse Monday Challenge:- A challenge from the past year - #50 gift card holder.

Cute Card Thursday:- Hidden Treasure.

Allsorts Challenge:- Snowflakes.

I'm off to post this now and enter the challenges.

Thanks for looking and please tell me what you think. It makes my day to read your kind comments.

Kat x

Pile it On etc and Sugar Bowl 18.

Good morning everyone. What a miserable day it is here after a lovely day yesterday. Great for crafting but not so great for taking photos!! The first card is one I made yesterday for a few challenges. I used the lovely sketch from Simon Says Stamp and used Promarkers to colour this lugubrious looking dog from Funstamps. Isn't he cute? The papers are from Prima and I think they are just right for a male card. I sewed around all the edges again - really getting into this sewing on cards lol. I cut ovals with my nesties and embossed the one behind the image with a Cuttlebug Script folder. The square metal brads, buttons and ribbon are from my stash.

The challenges I hope to enter are:-

Pile it on:- Birthday.
Allsorts 17:- Something for the boys.
Busy Becs Creatalicious Challenges:- For Dad plus brown and metal.
Simon Says Stamp:- Sketch.
Paper Maniac Challenges:- Embossing.
Creative Inspirations Wednesday Challenge:- Blue and brown.
Whimsy 18:- Sewing.


Then this morning I realised that I had to do the Sugar Bowl challenge now or I would not have time to do it at all lol. I was dying to use my new MME Colourful Christmas papers. They are gorgeous, lovely and bright. I'm not sure if this card's too busy lol!! I coloured the lovely Honey with Gifts from Sugar Nellies with Distress inks and also used them to ink all the edges. I got a parcel of goodies I had ordered from Elaine at Quixotic yesterday so I decided to use my new jute ribbon. I also got a parcel from Crafts U Love so I had to use my new Martha Stewart punches to make the flowers. The blue ribbon and buttons are from my stash.

Please tell me what you think girls - is it too busy? I was going to use the other side of the stripey paper which is blue with swirly doodley lines but it just didn't work the stripey side seemed to work better. (To me) In the same way the other side of the orange with coloured dots is much quieter and it didn't seem to work either!!

Well I should have my lunch now and get ready for work. tomorrow is balance day in the Post Office and I like to get organised for it on a Tuesday afternoon. Maybe I'll have time to check out some blogs this evening - hope so!

Kat xx