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

Pretty Magnolia.

Hello everyone. I feel as if I haven't posted for ages! I was going to go to Papercrafts in Elgin, the home of Sugar Nellies, with my friend today. Notice the "was"! Because of the snow and high winds everywhere in Scotland earlier this week we decided it would be better to postpone our trip for a couple of weeks. So instead I've made sure I had my DT cards done and my posts scheduled for Saturday and Sunday. I'll be away visiting my daughter and her family at the weekend so I thought it would be better if I got myself organised now.

But I really wanted to make a card just for a couple of challenges, so here it is.

I used:-

DP :- K& Co.

Image :- Magnolia.

Colouring :- Promarkers plus Sakura clear glitter gel pen.

Flowers :- Wild Orchid Crafts, sprayed with Tattered rose Glimmer Mist.

Sentiment :- Craftwork Cards edged with Promarker.

Stickles, jewels and nesties.

Faux stitching with American Crafts Precision pen.

Challenges entered:-

Just Magnolia :- Sketch.

Magnolia Down Under. :- Stitching.

Now I need to do some work on my name hanging for Oliver and put the finishing touches to his and Poppy's Easter cards.

See you all soon.

Kat xx

Pretty in Pink.

Hello everyone hope you've all had a good day. We've had a lovely day here though it's a bit dull now. Tomorrow is supposed to be not so nice but it's my day off anyway and I need to get busy!

I've used one of my favourite Magnolias to make this card for a few challenges. I hurried to take a photo in daylight while waiting for my Tesco order. The driver was on the phone twice.....lost...he'd never been here before! I see now that it's not a good photo after all. It is all matted on a nice pearlescent pale pink but the lacy strip, cut out with my beautiful new Martha Stewart punch doesn't look very pink to me!

DP :- Cloud 9.
Image :- Magnolia.

Sentiment :- Craftwork Cards.

Colouring :- Promarkers, Sakura glitter gel pen and clear gel pen.

Punches :- Marth Stewart lace and butterfly.

Flowers :- Wild Orchid Crafts.

Stickles.

I'm hoping to enter some challenges with this card:-

Charisma Cardz :- Beautiful butterflies.

Just Magnolia :- Sketch.

Magnolia Down Under :- Birthday card.

Totally Papercraft :- Wings.

Magical Crafts :- Things with wings.

Magnolia Down Under have been having a blog hop and the DT all have candy so it would be good to support them by taking part in the blog hop. I've done it and they have some gorgeous creations so why don't you pop over for a look and take part if you have time.

Best get going now and get these challenges entered. Might just have time to have my tea before I go to the WRI. Tonight we have our own little show and a speaker from "Mercy Ships."

See you all tomorrow,

Kat xx

Sweet and Gorjuss.

Hello everyone and it's time for another challenge at Totally Gorjuss. This week our theme is "Sweet."

I have chosen sweet as in yummy although I think this Tilda is pretty sweet as in cute too!


I have been very short of time this week as I was at the craft show at the SECC on Sunday, a WRI quiz on Tuesday evening and a meeting about our co-operative entry for our local show on Wednesday evening. Then this morning I had to make the scones I promised for the teas, finish off a Get Well card as an entry for the show and start this one. After work I finished sewing up a hat, another entry, delivered the stuff to a friend to take in for me as I will be at work in the morning and finished this card.

DP:- Basic Grey - cupcake.

Colouring :- Promarkers and a touch of Spica glitter gel pen on the ice cream.

Buttons :- MME.

Flowers :- MS punch plus card candy.

Sentiment :- Whiff of Joy.

I am going to enter a few challenges with this card too :-

Truly Scrumptious :- Sketch plus good enough to eat.
Magnolia Down Under :- 3 papers, 3 flowers, 2 buttond and 1 bow.
Crafty Cardmakers :- Feminine celebration.
Crafty Creations :- Make your own flowers.
Cute Card Thursday :- Celebrations.
Cupcake :- Flowers.

If Mr Blogger is being a good boy this post will appear in the morning. Looking forward to seeing how you interpret our theme this week. I have not been good at commenting this week due to shortage of time so I can only apologise and promise to do better this week.

Kat xx

Sweet Magnolia.

Good morning everyone from a very wet and slushy Aberdeenshire. It's really horrible here today. Sleety and windy. The snow is rapidly disappearing here. As the crow flies we are only 2 or 3 miles away from the North Sea so we have not had actual snow falling this last couple of days. We're surrounded by fields so all I can see are the remains of the snow and water everywhere....yuk. Even my Labrador wasn't keen on going for a walk today.

But on to my card! I have been so busy trying to comment on the entries for my 2 DT challenges that I haven't done much in the way of crafting! It's very time consuming but it's lovely to see other people's work. I made this card last night just because I wanted to enter Just Magnolia. Haven't they given us a lovely sketch this week. I made it into an easel card so it also fits the Magnolia Down Under challenge.

I think it also fits the following challenges:-

Stamp Something :- A Touch of Spring.

Magical Crafts :- Something for Mum.

Basic Grey :- Maroon, lemon and pink - the lovely Lemonade paper.

Everybody Art Challenge :- Easel card.

Secret Crafter :- Mother's Day.

I also used - Card candy and sentiment from Craftwork Cards, gorgeous roses from Wild Orchid Crafts, Promarkers, raffia lace and ribbon. Oops nearly forgot I sprayed the flowers with Glimmer Mist.

I think that's about it. Now I need to go and make a card for my husband's birthday.....which is today! My son-in-law's birthday was yesterday and he got his card and present on time but I kind of ran out of time to make hubby's card. Possibly because I made this card last night lol! I won't be able to post his card till the weekend as I'm intending to make his card one of my DT cards so you'll be able to see it on Sunday.

See you all later if I don't get too caught up with my DT work.

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.