More Get Well Cards.

Good morning everyone, hope you're all having a good weekend. Yesterday I went to a crop at my local craft shop and managed to make 2 cards. I made Get Well cards as I think they're handy to have. Last week I made one for Poppy so I thought I'd best have a boy one handy in case Oliver comes down with chickenpox too!

So here's my first card. I love House Mouse and isn't this a cute image? I can't help feeling this card's a bit bare looking but if I use it for my wee grandson I don't really want to put flowers on it!

I used :-

Image :- House Mouse.

Sentiment :- Hero Arts.

Colouring :- Promarkers.

DP :- DCWV.

Card Candy :- Craftwork Cards.

I'm going to enter the following challenges with this card :-

Passion for Promarkers:- One for the boys.

House Mouse :- Favourite stamp - love them all but I really love this one for Get Well cards!

Friday Sketchers :- Sketch.
Creative Inspirations :- Stripes.

My second card is girly with it's pink colour scheme and ribbon and flowers.

I used :-

Image :- LOTV.

DP :- Wild Rose Studio.

Sentiment :- Printworks.

Colouring :- Promarkers.

Ribbon :- Ribbon Girl.

Flowers :- Prima.

Pearls :- Hobby House.

Jewel brads & pink metal embellies from stash.

Sakura clear gel pen one shoes and glitter round image.

I'm entering the following challenges with this card :-

Lili of the Valley :- Circles.

Cute Card Thursday :- Sketch.
Stamp Something :- Something with flowers.
Dream Valley Challenges :- Anything Goes.

Hope you like and can find time to tell me what you can think.

Not sure if I'll be doing much next week as I have to work every day! My colleague's daughter gets married next Friday so she's having a week off. I've been so looking forward to this.....not! So the first time I get a day off is 10th March. What makes it worse is next Sunday a crowd of us are going to the craft show at the SECC next Sunday and I usually take the day off on the Monday. Obviously not this year. I'm going to be shattered on the Monday and probably crabbit (translation - bad tempered) too.

Thanks for looking and enjoy what's left of the weekend.

Totally Gorjuss 65 As You Like It.

Good morning everyone. Another Saturday and time for an easy challenge at Totally Gorjuss. Thanks very much to everyone who entered last week with all these lovely "hot" cards. This week our challenge is "As you like it." So I think we're going to get a lot of entries! Our sponsor this week is Fantastic Ribbons.

I used :-

Image :- LOTV cute square with added glitter.

Sentiment :- Craftwork Cards.

DP :- MME.

Roses :- Wild Orchid Crafts.

Ribbon, Promarker (edge of image).

I'm entering the following challenges :-

Pile it on :- Love is in the air.

A Spoon Full of Sugar :- Valentine.

Paperplay :- Layer it up.

Charisma Cardz :- Valentine/Love.

Bunny Zoe :- Love is in the air.
Craft Your Days Away :- Love.

So there you are a nice easy challenge with a yummy prize. Hope you can join us and I'll catch up with you all later. I'm going to a crop after work and since our December crop was cancelled due to the weather we're going to have a Secret Santa and a Chinese takeaway at the end. Looking forward to seeing all the girls who go to the crop again.

Hope you've got a minute to let me know what you think of my card. Enjoy your weekend and I'll catch up with you all later.

Thanks for looking.

James Bear again.

Me again with a really quick card for Friday Sketchers.

I used :-

Image & sentiment :- LOTV.

Colouring :- Promarkers.

DP :- Dovecraft.

Snowflakes :- Martha Stewart.

Glitter & shimmer dots.

I'm  going to enter the following challenges :-

A Spoon Full of Sugar :- Christmas Card.

Easy Craft Projects :- Christmas.

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.

Summer Days!

Well girls I don't know how some of you manage to work full-time and find time to craft. This is my 3rd day of it and still 9 days to go! I really don't like it but since I don't have a choice I'll just have to put up with it! At least Wednesday is a half day in the Post Office so I had some time to make a card this afternoon. Well I did when I eventually managed to get out of the shop. Just before I finished it started raining really heavily! Even though my car was only a few yards away I definitely didn't fancy going out in it!

I'm really glad to get something made at last. I should probably have done my DT cards but I just wanted to enter the first Penny Black at Allsorts challenge which is a burst of Summer colour.

I think it looks quite Summery, it's certainly nice and bright lol!



I'm also entering these other challenges :-
Bunny Zoe's Crafts :- Summer days.
Friday Sketchers :- Sketch.
Basic Grey :- Stitching.
Crafty Creations :- Summer Lovin'.

I used :-

Image :- Penny Black.

DP :- Basic Grey.

Colouring :- Promarkers andDistress Inks plus precision pen for faux stitching.

Card Candy :- Craftwork Cards.

Sakure clear glitter gel pen for butterflies.

Jewels and flowers from stash.

Now I think I should make a start on some of my DT work.

Pretty Daisy.

Hi everyone just a quick post with my entry for the Friday Sketchers challenge and blog hop. It is their 2nd anniversary and the very talented Jacque has provided a great sketch to follow.

I'm a wee bit short of time as this is my WRI night so I need to get this posted and make my tea and go. Lack of time doesn't seem to be getting any better though my daughter has been out with the dogs so I just need to feed them and me before I go!

I used :-

Image :- Daisy from Sugar Nellies.

Sentiment and card candy :- Craftwork Cards.

Colouring :- Promarkers.

DP :- MME Penny Lane.

Pearly Stuff from Woodware, Stickles and Spica glitter gel pen.

That's me then. Thanks for taking the time to have a look and for any comments you might leave.

Kat xx

Having a Pink Day!

I've been having a pink day today. When you see my DT card for Just Cute Bears on Sunday you'll see what I mean. I'm trying to post this quickly as I have to have my tea and go out to a meeting in an hour.

I used :-

DP :- K&Co.

Colouring :- Promarkers and Sakura clear glitter gel pen.

Image :- Magnolia.

Flowers and flat back pearls :- Prima.

Sentiment :- Craftwork Cards.

Ribbon, nesties and Bazzill card.

Challenges :-

Just Magnolia :- Use more than one fold.

Magnolia Down Under :- Thank You.

Friday Sketchers :- Sketch.

Stamp Something :- Pink.

Actually when I look at my card now I'm not sure I've followed the sketch properly so if not please feel free to ignore my entry.

Must go now and enter these quickly.

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.

Tigger!

Just a quick post tonight to show the card I made for the Friday Sketchers challenge. I did the bloghop the other day but I have been a bit slow about getting my card made for the challenge. It's been a bit of a funny day as mentioned in my previous post lol. Surely tomorrow will be better. This card will also fit the Creative Card Crew challenge which is distressing this week.

I think this could be a birthday card for a child although I have to admit to having a soft spot for Winnie the Pooh and his friends lol! Not sure if I like the card very much though!

I stamped the image twice and layered it with sticky pads for a bit of dimension. I coloured it with Promarkers and also coloured some card candy to match. I embossed some core'dinations Black Magic card with the cuttlebug and distressed it to show up the sentiments on it. My part circles are not very good because I'm not very good when it comes to drawing round plates lol! The DP is both sides of a piece of Bo Bunny paper. I finished off with some card candy from Craftwork Cards and some matching ribbon. Think that's all I can say about this card.

Thanks for looking and I'd love to hear what you think of this card.

Kat xx

Blue Christmas.

Hi girls, I started making a card this afternoon but didn't make much progress before tea - thanks Tesco!


By the time I got back to it I realised that it was too late for the Colour Create challenge which is for blue, silver and white this time. Not to worry it is always another Christmas card.


I followe the fabby sketch from Friday Sketchers. The lovely Anya image is coloured with Promarkers and stickles used on her muff, edge of coat, boots and scarf. The sentiment and the image are both edged with silver. The sentiment is from Craftwork Cards.


Other challenges:-

Paperplay 2 papers, 1 ribbon and 3 buttons.
Anyone for Anya something round - buttons.
Pile it on 3 flowers and 5 pearls.
Creative Card Crew strings attached -silver thread with charm.
Secret Crafter seasons - Winter.

Hope I've got these right! Let me know what you think, if you've got time to leave a comment I can pop over to your blog and see what you've been doing.

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

I'm Jinxed!

I'm convinced I'm jinxed today! Yesterday my 5-7pm Tesco home delivery had still not appeared by 8pm so I phoned customer services (very reluctantly) to see what was wrong. When I eventually got a real person she checked and said a van had broken down and had no-one phoned me. I managed not to say would I be phoning her if I knew what was wrong ?- no I kept my temper and remained polite!! To cut a long story short I was put through to Aberdeen, more apologies, a promise to re-schedule for today and I'll get them to phone you back to sort out a time!!!! 15 minutes on phone and another 15 minutes wait for someone to phone back. This morning about the end of the 2 hour slot the driver phoned to say he was still in Aberdeen and would be about half an hour! Turns out he had a puncture first thing. Shopping was more or less ok.... but...and there's always a but isn't there? I didn't notice an unwanted substitution did I? Maybe someone could explain to me why in a store that size (and it is BIG) if they didn't have the decaff coffee I ordered did they send me COFFEE BEANS? And no they were not decaff coffee beans either. Anyway enough ranting and on with today's first card.

I used this lovely simple sketch from Friday Sketchers. I used Promarkers, including two of the new pink shades to colour this lovely Tilda image. The grey DP is from Peppercorn and the pink is from Craft Creations. I distressed some of the edges for the Friday Sketchers challenge. I finished off with jewels and some lovely spotty ribbon from my stash. Nearly forgot I also used a Sakura clear glitter gel pen on her wings - remembered to do it after I had taken a photo so had to retake photo! It's that sort of day. I am also entering the card in the Stamp Something challenge which is looking for a card using a favourite sketch. This sketch is really simple but effective, easily a favourite!

Not sure if I am entirely happy with this card - I feel as if I am having a bit of a clumsy day today!! But I have just received a lovely parcel from Tracy at Dies to Die For so that has cheered me up - 60s Tilda is in it and I have been looking forward to getting her. I'm off now to see if I can get some more useful crafting done. See you later -maybe!

Kat x

Some More Challenges.

Good afternoon girls, I have been very naughty this morning. I only meant to sit down for a wee while and think about what I was going to do for this week's Whiff of Joy challenge and look at the time now!! I had a few ideas about what other challenges I could fit in. But it kind of snowballed. Now I have no housework done and I need to go to work at 1.45.


Well as I said this is for the Whiff of Joy challenge and I used the lovely sketch from Friday Sketchers and their optional colours blue and orange. Now orange is definitely not my colour but I thought I would give it a go anyway and see what happened! The sweet image is coloured with Promarkers and i went over the flowers in her hand and hair with a Sakura glitter gel pen. Probably not obvious. Not obvious either but the pale blue ribbon is very shimmery and gorgeous. Nesties were used as usual and the jewels, ribbon and buttons are from my stash. The plain blue
Not sure that the next piccie adds anything but it does show you my wonky sewing. I added stitching for the La La Lands Wednesday blog which I discovered has already closed - on Sunday 30th!! Guess I missed it then. Never mind I think the card still fits a few challenges lol.

So I think this card fits the following challenges:-

Friday Sketchers:- sketch plus blue and orange.

Whiff of Joy:- bling.

Crafty Cardmakers:- complementary colours - blue and orange.
Passion for Promarkers:- any colours and girly and glittery.

Cupcake Craft:- 3 buttons, 2 papers and 1 ribbon.

Whimsy:- touchy feely - bling, buttons and ribbon.

Pile it on:- round -buttons, DP and swiss dots.

365 cards:- 3 shades of blue.

I'm just about breathless after listin all those challenges!!!

Best go and post this now and see if I can have some lunch before I go to work. Hope you enjoy the rest of what is a lovely day here. Much nicer than yesterday when some people round here had a day off for the Bank Holiday.

Maybe see you later and please let me know what you think of this card or any other one that you may like (or otherwise).

Kat x

A few challenges.

Good evening everyone, here are a couple of cards I made for a few challenges. The one above has been made using the great sketch from Just Magnolia. I coloured one of my favourite Tildas with Promarkers using the colours for Passion for Promarkers. It also contains circles to fit the ABC challenge. I used nesties for cutting shapes as usual. I used my new retro flower punches by EK success and added a brad. The colours for PfP are lilac, lavender. amethyst and aubergine and it might not look like it from the photo but I used all 4 in this card!! I also stickled her wing though it might not be obvious lol. The DP is from Basic Grey and I added some jewels from my stash.

The second flower was made using the lovely sketch from Friday Sketchers. I coloured the Forever Friends image with Promarkers. The DP I used is from MME and Basic Grey. The Prima flowers are from my stash and I added brads and spacers from my stash. I also added a cute little pram charm and a ribbon from my stash. This card also fits the Stamping for the weekend challenge to use pink and grey and the Cute Card Thursday challenge for New Beginnings. Nesties have been used for this card too as usual.

This is all I've made today due to the fact that I spent a while footering - Scottish friends will understand this! - to explain to others - I was dithering about what papers to use !! I also have to admit to messing around going round blogs this morning.

Hope you like, feel free to tell me if you don't!

Kat x

Friday morning - I changed the first photo as it did not show the shading on the dress or the stickles. Not sure it is much better - but I tried!

Had a busy day!

This is the card I have been making all day!!! I decided I would try doing the Just Magnolia Too challenge which is 3d. I have done traditional decoupage often enough but not with my own stamped image - until today. Thanks to Debby Yates of a Scrap Journey for a brilliant tutorial. I have also been brave and done some stitching with my new Janome mini sewing machine which I found on ebay for £19.99. (Brand new and came from a sewing machine shop so if you want details just let me know.) I also used my Promarkers for colouring - sometimes I chicken out and watercolour lol. I used some of my favourite K & Co papers, wild raspberry.I think you can almost see that Spring Tilda has been 3d'd but I have added another pic to show it a bit better. I found some plain card which is just the right shade for the DP. The papers have also been inked round the edges with a Brilliance dewdrop ink pad. I found some of my cross stitch thread just the right colour to tie through the buttons! Buttons, flowers and ribbon from my stash. I'm hoping that this card does for several challenges - after I've spent most of the day on it!!

Friday Sketchers:- the lovely sketch.

Just Magnolia Too:- the lovely Tilda image and 3d.

Papertake Weekly:- any challenge from first 99 - Favourite things -K & Co DP.

Pollycraft Challenge:- Favourite things - K & Co DP.

ABC Challenge :- B for buttons .

Sorry about the card below!!! I made it using the sketch from day 1 of the Mojo Monday week 100. I think the only thing you could say about it is that it is quite cheery. The papers are some I found in a drawer and the sentiment is from Papermania.

I thought I heard the postie about 2 hours or more ago but I haven't been to check cos I'm waiting for the Whiff of Joy Fall set. Ok I gave in - it's here and it's gorgeous. But I can't do anything with it yet cos I'm going to a friend's house tonight to craft.
I have been so wrapped up in this 3d card that I nearly managed to cremate the lamb I was cooking to make curry for tea. I only just caught it in time. I would have been popular if it had been ruined.

Now Id best post this and enter the challenges as the dogs will want their tea and a walk soon.

Let me know what you think - good or bad, comments are always welcome and I love to find new blogs to visit. I follow quite a lot of blogs but you always find someone new as you hop around.

Looking forward to the weekend.

Kat x

Five Challenges!

Hi everyone me again. This has taken longer to finish than I had hoped. The decision to add bows to the buttons for the Pollycraft challenge was maybe not my best idea! I used some of my cross stitch thread which is just the right colour but quite awkward to tie in a little bow lol.

I used the lovely sketch from Friday Sketchers, the colours from Passion for Promarkers - cocoa and rose pink. The colours also fit Whiff of Joy plus this lovely bear with present that I won from the Whiff of Joy blog hop. Pollycraft is buttons and bows and ABC is anything goes plus animals.

I am quite pleased about managing to fit in five challenges in one card. I used Basic Grey lemonade papers and as usual my nesties were used for the circles. Buttons are from my stash. After I took the photos I used my Sakura glitter gel pen on the bow on the present! I didn't redo the photo as with my photography skills you would not have seen it anyway.

Don't think I am going to get another card done now as I have to meet my friends at 1pm. I really wanted to do the Just Magnolia challenge too. Oh well you can't do everything, can you?

Have a nice day and thanks for looking,

Kat

Trio of challenges.

I've just made this card and I think it fits 3 challenges. I used the great sketch from Friday Sketchers the colours, teal and red from Cute Card Thursday and a Magnolia image and distressing from Just Magnolia. I coloured Tilda with Ladybird with Promarkers. I distressed the edges of the base card and the DPs and layers and edged them all with Distress Inks. I even distressed the ends of the ribbon! The papers are from the Green Stack from DCWV. Ribbon, brad, red pearls and flowers are from my stash.

Tonight I am going to have a crafting session with some friends but now I need to check my curry and feed and walk the dogs before tea.

Thanks for looking, Kat x

Friday Sketchers and Penny Black.

Good morning, I'm quite early cos I'm not quite sure if I'm still in time for Friday Sketchers. The photo I took last night had a blurry hedgie so I had to give up. I used the sketch from Friday Sketchers and also the 3 ribbons, two flowers and a charm from Penny Black. Hope these can all be seen! The papers are wild asparagus from MME. Ribbon, jewels, brad, flowers and charm are from my stash. The cute hedgie is watercoloured.

Did anyone see Judy's article about stitching on your cards in the Sept issue of Craft Stamper? I got mine yesterday and have only had time for a quick look at it but I managed to read Judy's article. It is very good, I quite fancy trying stitching on my cards now. I've always been put off by the idea of hauling out my sewing machine but maybe if I got a mini one I would use it more readily. Worth a think anyway. So congrats to Judy on a great article and her usual fabby cards to illustrate it.

Have a good day. Kat x

Yes I was right I was too late. Wasn't sure when the cut off time was. Remind self not to be at the last minute!

One for Friday Sketchers and Whiff of Joy.

I'm writing this late Thursday night but will have to post it on Friday morning as I can only get a photo of my card looking blue. It is in shades of lavender! Needless to say. My favourite kind of colours. I am quite pleased with how it looks but I think that is because it is made in colours I love. I have used the sketch from Friday Sketchers and a Whiff of Joy stamp. I nearly forgot that the Whiff of Joy challenge is supposed to include paper piercing. You might not be able to see it but it is round the image! Luckily I remembered in time lol. The papers are Basic Grey and the card is from the Core'dinations lavender family. The flowers, brads and gems are from my stash. The image is watercoloured. I would like to use my Prismas if I could get time to get some of them sharpened!!

Hope you like it. Thanks for looking, Kat x

Colours look better now but you definitely can't see the paper piercing. It is there, honest!

This is a bit last minute!

This is really at the last minute for the Passion for Promarkers Challenge, but quite early for Friday Sketchers! I used the sketch for Friday Sketchers and the colours Moss and Poppy for the Passion for Promarkers Challenge. I coloured the Sugar Nellies image with Promarkers. The papers are from Paper Adventures and Cosmo Cricket. The flowers, brad and jewels are from my stash. The card was made yesterday but I did not try to take a photo in the evening after wasting my time before! Unfortunately I was not much better this morning and then I suddenly found a position where the photo shows the pattern on the papers. They are very pale but were the only suitable green ones I could find in my local craft shop! The base one is meant to be like that it is just marbly it is not my bad photography. This is the first time I have tried using Promarkers and I think I need to get card that is more suitable for using them!

Thanks for looking. Kat x