Just in Time!

I hope I'm just in time! After messing about most of the day and only making one card I made this one in no time (for me) last night. I didn't want to take a photo last night so I left it till this morning and now I'm wishing I had done it sooner. I want to enter the Passion for Promarkers challenge. I want to enter some other challenges so I'll stop waffling and come back and do the rest of the post later.

I used :-

Image :- House Mouse - isn't this Bedtime Story Gruffy really sweet? I think he might be asleep!

DP :- DCWV, Doodlebug Designs and Peppercorn.

Colouring :- Promarkers.

Card Candy :- Craftwork Cards.

Flowers and ribbon from stash.

Challenges I'm going to enter :-

Crafty Creations :-Black and white with a splash of red.

Friday Sketchers :- Sketch.

Create4Fun :- Black and white and one other colour.

I'm a bit disappointed with this photo. In real life and on my camera this is really black and white not as grey as it looks here!

I'm off now to PfP before it's too late!!

Kat xx

Happy Birthday!

Hi everyone, this has been a good day....I've got a card made lol! I've really missed getting any cards made recently. All I seem to have done is my DT cards and commenting and trying to catch up with my favourite blogs. I'll need to try to get up to speed though as my daughter should get the keys to her first flat on Friday and I have a feeling I'm going to be busy with other things. I'm not really that good at painting....bit too slap dash lol! But I can strip wallpaper and paste it and I suppose I can clean and scrub. What fun....don't I lead an exciting life? And then I'm going to be having my other daughter's Labrador while they are on holiday. She's a lovely dog and no bother but.....and there's always a but isn't there? We live in the country and at the moment we're surrounded by lambs and calves and she's quite loopy. Not always easy to hang onto her lead but, fingers crossed, I've always managed so far. Luckily my Labrador doesn't need a lead and my Spaniel is so decrepit that she doesn't have any notion of going for a walk.

But enough waffle, I need to tell you about my card before I check out what DT commenting I need to do before I do my ironing!

I love this cute bear from Whiff of Joy and I think he's ideal for a birthday card for a child. I think he's good for a card for anyone actually but I've been trying to make some child cards for Catriona as with two littles ones she probably has more use for them than I do. Even my youngest nephew will be 15 this year.

I used:-

DP :- Paper Adventures - check and spotty paper and Doodlebug Designs.

Colouring :- Promarkers, Sakura clear glitter gel pen (on icing and spotty paper).

Sentiment :- Craftwork Cards.

Distress Ink in bundled sage round edges.

Buttons and glittery gems from stash.

Nesties.

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

Whiff of Joy :- Image and green, yellow and one other colour.

Sophisticat :- So Distressing.

ABC challenge :- S for sparkle.

Cute Card Thursday :- Touchy Feely - buttons, jewels and glitter - hope this is ok.

Create 4 Fun :- Circles.

Well I'm off to do something useful. I should probably get on with an 18th birthday card for my nephew. I got his present yesterday so I just need the card.

Kat xx

Papertake Weekly

I seem to be making up for my lack of posts over the weekend lol! This is a very quick and simple card I made for the Papertake Weekly challenge using the sketch from Carol's Sketch Fun. Sometimes I like simple. I used some DP from Doodlebug Designs and a stamp from Hero Arts. I think this would be suitable for a sympathy card. It might do for sale at a coffee morning we are having in November. The sentiment is from Inkadinkado and the ribbon is from my stash. I think the image could have been blacker but on the other hand I didn't want it to be too black. Does that make sense?

So now I ought to do some ironing... even though it is my day off. I had lots of fun yesterday even if I did do a lot of ironing for my daughter. She deserves a wee bit of help, it's not a lot of fun working when you're 37 weeks pregnant. Still that was her last day at work today. Hope this baby arrives at a reasonable time and not 12 days late like Poppy. Poppy is so funny now lol! She is not 2 yet but she was treating us to Baa Baa Black Sheep, See Saw Marjory Daw and Twinkle Twinkle and she is a real chatterbox. You don't always know what she is saying, sometimes you have to guess! She loves her dog but I'm not sure how the dog will cope when there are two of them after her, poor Missy.

Off to enter Papertake Weekly:- Black and white and one other colour and Carol's Sketch Fun. Hope to be back tomorrow with something else.

Kat xx

Midnight Madness.

By chance I found a website called priscillastyles which has a challenge called Midnight Madness. I liked the look of the sketch so I thought I would have a try! Having just finished a card which was white on white I decided that black would be good. I thought of Dovecraft "Hint of Pink". But some of it is a bit grey so instead I went for this Doodlebug Designs Black Swirl which is gorgeous. ( I also have it in white.) I used my nesties to cut out a white rectangle and a black scalloped rectangle. I watercoloured the image which is from Clarity Stamps. Brads, ribbons and flowers are from my stash. The only fiddly bit was making the brads and ribbon look as if it was a hanger for the image. I think it is not too bad lol. I'm quite pleased to have posted two cards today even though I just had to finish the white one. I think I work faster with colours I like. I don't have to think so hard!
Now I am off to think what to do next. I haven't done my Sugar Bowl card yet or Whiff of Joy or Truly Scrumptious!! I need to try to get ahead as I'm working full time next week and I'll only have evenings and Wednesday afternoon and then I'm visiting my daughter and family at the weekend - after they move house on Friday (while I have to work).