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

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

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

Less is More Lime and Black

Hi everyone, hope you're having a good weekend. Not sure what to make of the weather this weekend. Yesterday started off very frosty, then it was a lovely sunny day. But at night we had sleet or was it snow? Whatever it was it made the ground a bit white!

I made a very simple, very CAS card for Less is More. The theme this week is a colour one, they want us to use Lime and Black. Chrissie and Jen have made fabby cards to inspire us as usual. I have to admit that this isn't the card I set out to make but I got fed up trying to achieve what I wanted so I made this instead!

 I used :-
Sentiment :- Stampin' Up!
Ribbon from stash.

Mmmm not much I can say about this.....! There's just something about that "thank you" with its upper and lower case letters that I really like. It comes from a set called "Wacky Wishes" which I think will be very useful.

Thanks for looking and I'll catch up later. Visiting your favourite blogs has to be better than doing your ironing but since I need some of it to wear to work tomorrow I guess I'll have to do it sometime!

Kat xx

At Last!

Feels like ages since I managed to post anything. I even had to apologise to the rest of the DT for not managing to make a card for Totally Gorjuss. Last week I was so busy making and baking for our local WRI show that I hardly even had time to go online. Not sure this week's going to be much better! Tomorrow evening I'm going to a quiz night at another WRI, Wednesday evening is our own meeting and it's our mini bulb show. Luckily I have most of the items I need except cheese straws. Thursday morning I'm going to give blood and out to a friend's house in the evening to craft. Phew where did the week go. I'm tired just thinking about it.

Anyway enough waffle, here's a quick and simple card I made this evening.

I used :-
Images :- Inkadinkado.
Sentiment :- Hero Arts.
I stamped the dog in SU Pool Party, masked his head and stamped the bone in Summer Starfruit.

Challenges :-
Less is More :- Spots and stripes.
Addicted to Stamps and More :- CAS.
CAS on Sunday :- Happy Birthday.

I hate to think how long I've had this stamp and this is the first time it's seen ink!

I think that's me for the day now. I seem to have pottered about all day and achieved nothing. Well I did do a bit of tidying during the day and experimented with cutting out some stuff on my Cricut.

Thanks for looking and I really appreciate the comments you leave me.

Kat xx

Does this count as sport?

Hi everyone, I think I've been very lazy since Christmas! All I've done is my DT cards so I thought I'd best try to get some more cards made. I have done some knitting so I haven't done absolutely nothing! I had a bit of a rake among my stamps to see if I had anything resembling sport and I found this lovely LOTV stamp. Maybe it'll be useful for making cards for Oliver and his friends. He started nursery last week and is loving it. The first morning Catriona said he went in without even a backward glance. I think she was hurt!
 But he's been used to going with Poppy when she was there and his older cousin and his best pal go too so no surprise he wasn't crying for Mummy.

I'm always a bit nervous about stamping straight onto my card. Probably I should try doing it more often. And then of course I'm even more nervous about colouring straight onto my card. I'm not very good at colouring at the best of times so I was glad to get it finished!

I used :-

Image :- LOTV.

Sentiment :- Hero Arts.

Colouring :- Promarkers.

I haven't entered the challenge at Less is More for ages so I really wanted to make the effort this week.

Thanks for looking, I'm off to make a coffee before bed now. Catch you all tomorrow, I hope! 

Ho! Ho! Ho!

Yes you've guessed right, another Christmas card! I can never resist this cute little House Mouse image so when I saw the challenge at Less is More this week was fur or feathers I knew this image was just perfect. And since it's a one layer week too this was a really quick card.

I used :-
Image :- House Mouse.
Colouring :- Promarkers.
Sentiment :- Hero Arts.
Glamour Dust.

I'm also entering this card over at Simon says Stamp :- Animal antics.

It's a horrible day here today, just pouring! I had two very wet dogs this morning not to mention a very wet me!! I've been a good girl and done most of my housework already so now I'm off to finish my hoovering and have my lunch. This is my last day of partial freedom as my colleague is on holiday from this afternoon for two weeks. Sob! The worst part of working full time is that I get all the quiet times instead of just the quiet times I usually get. I think I might take my iPad with me and then at least I can keep up with commenting and checking out my favourite blogs.

Thanks for looking and I'll catch up with you all this evening.

Less is More Green and Blue.

Good morning everyone. It's my day off and it's not raining! We've had some really heavy showers earlier this week and some places have had localised flooding. I think it would be really horrible to have your house flooded. A few miles from here two houses have been flooded twice in the last few years. Yuk! I really feel for them. You can't help feeling that something should have been done about this before now! I think it might be better now for a few days so fingers crossed the forecasters are right.

When I saw the challenge at Less is More I knew what stamp I wanted to use. I've never used this gorgeous Clarity stamp before but I'm sure I'll get a lot of use from it. I think it's the sort of image you could use for lots of different types of cards.

I'm off for a coffee now and then I'll see what else I can do. Maybe some more Christmas cards!

Thanks for looking and don't be shy about telling me what you think of my card. It's reassuring when someone takes the time to leave me a comment.

Less is More at Christmas.

When I saw the sketch at Less is More this week I thought it would be ideal for a quick Christmas card. Needless to say I didn't make this card quickly! And it's not what I meant to make before I started it either. My friend persuaded me to leave it exactly as it is. So here it is. I love the layout and think I could use it to make more simple cards.

I used :-
Embossing folder :- Cuttlebug.
Edge punch :- Martha Stewart.
Sentiment :- Hero Arts.
Glamour Dust.

I'm in the middle of a DT card now but I'm leaving it for now as I think it's bedtime.

Thanks for looking and catch you all tomorrow.

It's me again!

Yes it's me again, twice in the one day! Not like me at all but I have another card for Less is More. As I said before I was really inspired by the photo inspiration this week. This card was made using the image I thought of first when I saw the challenge this week. This is the second attempt. If you know me you wouldn't be surprised if I told you that I put another card down on top of it forgetting about the wet, black Stickles flower centres!! I managed to get the image and mats off without any damage and added them to another card.

I used :-

Image and sentiment :- Hero Arts.

Colouring :- Promarkers.

Stickles.

I've got another four cards inspired by this challenge but I think that would be overkill, especially since the challenge closes in a wee while.

Thanks for looking, I'm off to schedule my Totally Gorjuss DT card, catch up with my commenting and visiting my favourite blogs as I'm out all day tomorrow at GJWTHF. I'm really looking forward to it!

I should really be cleaning but........!

I've just sneaked on here when I should be cleaning so I'd best make this short!

I was inspired by the challenge at Less is More and since I had a day off on Monday cos it was a local holiday I did some colouring after I'd made a couple of cards. I managed to get some crafting done yesterday and ended up making six cards. The photo inspiration and colours really inspired me.

So here's one of them.

I used :-

Image & sentiment :- Hero Arts.

Colouring :- Promarkers.

Thanks for looking and I'd best go and finish hoovering and cleaning the en-suite. What an exciting life I lead! Even better I'm working this afternoon. Can life get any better? Still I'm going to GJWTHF tomorrow, so that's something to really look forward to.

Catch up later. I might even pop back with another card!

Less is More 55 Punches or Diecuts.

I've been wracking my brains trying to decide what to do for the challenge at Less is More which is to use punches or diecuts. I've kept it very simple. Or is it too simple? Oh well, I like them!

I used :-

Sentiment :- Hero Arts.

Butterflies :- Martha Stewart punches.

Gems.

Well I'd best go and try to do something useful since I'm going away for the weekend tomorrow night after work.

Thanks for looking.

Less is More 54 - Stripes.

Hi everyone me again. I've been trying and trying to think what I could do for this weeks challenge at Less is More which is a one layer card with stripes. Then I found this little bird image and thought maybe I could use it to make a simple card. Well actually as you can see I made 3!

I used :-

Image & sentiment :- Hero Arts inked with Distress Inks.

I'd best go and see if I can get on with my DT card for Saturday. And see what the dogs are up too. It's very quiet so maybe they're sleeping!

Less is More 53 Aqua.

Just a quick post with my entry for the Less is Morechallenge. I had various ideas but the ink pad I decided to use stamped very faintly whatever I did. So I decided to try something else. I used a Memory Box die to cut out an aqua butterfly. The backing is made using the "in stitches" embossing folder from Craft Concepts and edged with cool aqua Promarker.

I'm off out tonight so I'll have to try to catch up later. Last night was my WRI meeting and a member of another local WRI and her Mum came along and did scrapbooking with us. We all went home with something and all quite chuffed with ourselves.

Thanks for looking.

Less is More 50 - Birds.

I made some quick cards for the Less is More challenge. I'm not really into birds so I don't have many bird stamps but I found this little cutie and thought I could make some little notelets. One of my customers makes cards for CLAN a cancer charity for Aberdeen and the North East and I said recently that I'd make some cards too. I made six. Each one is stamped in a different colour of Memento ink. The image and sentiment are both Hero Arts.

I think this might be the plainest cards I've ever made but I think (hope) they work ok for a notelet or thank you card.

I made a Christmas card this evening too but it's too late to take a photo now so I'll do that tomorrow.

Thanks for looking and I'll catch you all later.

It's a Greeen Tree!

Well there's a surprise! Right enough after the windy weather we've been having, and still have, it's a wonder there are many trees left standing. But this is a green tree on a Christmas card.

I used :-

Image :- Penny Black.

Colouring :- 4 shades of Memento ink.

Sentiment :- Hero Arts.

Green Jewels.

This is another image I've used a few times this year in different ways. It's a great stamp but I'm not sure I've done it justice whatever way I've used it!

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

Less is More :- Green.

I'm off to finish my hoovering now and have some lunch before I go off to work at the hell that is the post office at this time of year. On Monday someone posted 2 non-Christmas parcels. One of them was the spoiler from a Subaru! Goodness knows what the other one was, it had strange sticky out bits and was about twice the weight of the spoiler. The customer thinks that over the course of this year she's posted most of a car!!!

Two Minute Card!

Not quite accurate! It would be a two minute card but it took three shots before I managed to stamp the image clearly. I kept getting it with one or more of the stars at each corner missing!!

I used :-

Image :- Hero Arts stamped in Inky Blue Vivid Ink.

I also added some Sakura clear glitter gel pen to the 4 corner stars and the large star.

And that's it. I'm entering it in the Less is More :- Silhouettes. I've kept it completely plain since it's for LIM but I would usually add some gems or card candy in the corners.

Thanks for looking and I'll see you tomorrow with my card for Totally Gorjuss

Less is More 41 - Leaves.

Hi everyone, I was hoping to do this before work this afternoon but ran out of time. Needless to say by the time I had tea my connection had vanished again. I almost forgot that I meant to post a card and enter the Less is More challenge.

I used :-

Image & sentiment :- Hero Arts stamped with Memento Inks.

I added some nailheads to brighten up the wreath.

I liked this simple card so I made another one using the same stamp and a different Hero Arts sentiment. This time I added some jewels a snowflake and a piece of card candi. I think this one might be too decorated for Less is More lol!

This has helped to raise the number of Christmas cards I've made and I have another very simple card to show you another time.

So much for having an internet connection as I've been trying to upload these pics and finish this post since 8.30  and it's now 9.20pm.

Now I'm off to enter the challenge before it's too late. I'm really annoyed that I had this card made last night and haven't had the chance to post it until it's almost too late.

Fingers crossed I can go and schedule my DT card for Totally Gorjuss while the connection lasts and hopefully catch up with some commenting.

Thanks for looking and catch up with you all tomorrow.

Less is More 36 - Hearts.

Last minute as usual with my card for the challenge at Less is More. This week the challenge is a one layer card featuring heart(s). I'm afraid it's not a very good effort but I like to try and enter their challenge when I can.

I used a Hero Arts image and a Woodware sentiment, stamped both using Memento ink in Lady Bug and added a few heart shaped gems. And that's it one simple card.

And that's me for today. I'll be back tomorrow with my DT card for Totally Gorjuss. If you fancy some candy, just scroll down for a look and join in if you like it.

Less is More 35 - again!

Me again, 2 posts in the same day, amazing!! I made 2 cards last night for the Less is More challenge so here is the second one.

I used :-

Image :- Hero Arts.

Sentiment :- Hero Arts.

Pearls :- Hobby House.

For a quick card it turned out not too badly, well I'm happy enough with it.

I'd best schedule my DT post for Totally Gorjuss since I've got work tomorrow and then a crop at my local craft shop. They're also having a sort of open day. The new owner has really made a difference to the shop, there's lots of lovely new stock and I believe even more boxes of goodies arrived this week. Can't wait to see what's new. More importantly I need to find something to do tomorrow for a couple of hours. Funny how you can find lots of things to do at home but it's not easy to remember to take everything you need. So it'll have to be something easy lol. Maybe I'll colour in!

Thanks for looking and I'll see you tomorrow with my DT card for Totally Gorjuss.