You know what they say about checking first.........!

Some of us never learn do we? 

Before :-

After. Spot the difference?

Yes you guessed I stuck it on upside down. Never learn do I? The last time my card could have opened from the left but this one was completely upside down. So nothing else to do but convert my card to an easel  card. No wonder it sometimes takes ages to make a card. I had to cut out another snowflake, well after I figured out which die I had used in the first place since I found the first one in a tub of snowflakes I'd cut out ready to use.

I used :-

Image :- Penny Black.

Sentiment and candi :- Craftwork Cards.

Colouring :- Promarkers.

Pearls :- Hobby House.

DP :- K&Co.
Corners :- Whimsy.

Snowflakes :- Marianne Designs.

Glamour Dust.

Challenges :-

Penny Black :-Cute Christmas.
Penny Black and More at Allsorts :- Any Die Will Do.
Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas Challenge :- For a man or boy.
Pink Elephant :- Punches/dies.
Christmas Challenges with sketches :- Sketch plus add stitching.
Cards for Men :- Anything Goes.
Crafty Cardmakers :- More than one punch &/or diecut. Snowflake die, Whimsy corner die, nesties, reverse corner punch.
Stampin' for the Weekend :- All stitched up.

Thanks for looking and I'd best check up the last of this weeks entries at Totally Gorjuss since I've been out two nights in a row.

See you tomorrow with my latest DT card.

Wedding Hearts.

Hi everyone. Well as you can see I'm not doing very well this week again. Can't wait for my colleague to come back from her holidays! I wouldn't mind if it was more interesting but I spend a lot of time doing nothing. Some days are worse than others! I'm always glad my day off is Thursday as it's very quiet and Friday isn't any better. It's really tiring hanging about all day. I'm on my feet most of the time as somehow as soon as I park myself on a chair someone comes in wanting a stamp!

I have managed to make one card though. One of the girls in the shop has a wedding coming up on Saturday. Second one this year! Her son got married at the beginning of June and this time it's her daughter's turn. She's getting quite stressed now so it's probably just as well she's got time off now as she'd probably be too jumpy to do much good at work. I made a card for her son so that made me stop and wonder what I gave them. My favourite images for wedding cards are usually LOTV images so I decided to do something completely different.

Mmmm I think it looks better in real life. Hope they like it. My colleague loved it as she had a sneaky peek!

I used :-

Colouring :- Flexmarker.

M-bossabilities folder, Martha Stewart punch, Nestie die, Marianne hearts die, LOTV sentiment, Glamour Dust, ribbon and gems.

Thanks for looking, hope you like? And of course thanks for any comments you have time to leave me. It's nice to get a wee bit of encouragement from fellow crafters.

Kat xx

Simply Blue.

Hi everyone I just thought I'd pop by with a very simple and quick card I made the other day. I just happened to see the lovely blue card and thought I'd use it with some baubles I'd cut out with a Marianne Designs die. I've got some baubles, trees and stars that I cut out when I was having a die-cutting session. I found the lovely Penny Black sentiment when I was looking for something to fit the space across from the baubles. I just added some simple white Card Candi from Craftwork Cards to finish it off.

I'm quite pleased with it for a quick card. Maybe I need to make some more quick cards. I think I have about 60 or so now. I finished a birthday card for Poppy yesterday and made a box to put it in to post if to her. Hope she likes it. I was so taken on with the fact that my internet was on all evening that I spent my time catching up with my favourite blogs and doing my DT commenting. Hope it lasts!

Enjoy the rest of your weekend and thanks for looking.

Totally Gorjuss - 107 - Swirly Whirly.

Good morning everyone. I'm trying not to say too much in the hope that I can get this post written before my broadband connection goes off again. It's already been off once since I started this. I'm getting pretty annoyed about this as it's been going on for quite a few weeks. My colleague at work has not had any internet all week but at least I've had a connection sometimes. A customer told me she has a rubbish connection too. Both of these people are with BT. I'm with the Post Office with everything so I'm glad I'm not paying anything to BT. I envy people in cities etc who have a nice fast service, I'd settle for just having any service. Fast would be nice but just on is acceptable!

So here's my card for Totally Gorjuss. This week our challenge is "Swirly Whirly" and we are sponsored by the lovely people at Simon Says Stamp so I hope you can join us. As you can see I've got embossed swirls as well as die cut swirls and I'm sure you can find something that meets our challenge.

I used :-

Image :- Penny Black.

Sentiment :- Craftwork Cards.

Colouring :- Promarkers.

Cuttlebug embossing folders.

Swirls :- Marianne Design dies.

Ribbon and Glamour Dust.

I'd like to enter the following challenges with this card :-

The Pink Elephant :- Embossing.

Passion for Promarkers :- White on White.

I think I'll quit while I'm ahead now and hope that this appears at the appropriate time. I'm also hoping that I'll be able to catch up with my favourite blogs later on today and also get my DT work done.

Enjoy your weekend and thanks for looking. If you can spare a minute to let me know what you think I'd love to hear from you. It's always nice to know that you're not talking to yourself lol!

Simple Poinsettia Card.

Hi everyone. Well so much with catching up yesterday evening! My broadband connection was really acting up. I had to do my Tesco order but it was really difficult. Then it was ok-ish for a while and I was nearly finished when it wouldn't work at all! Just when I was ready to finish and pay. I tried for a while but no use. I decided to have one last try but still no use. Sometimes the broadband was recognised but I couldn't get online and others there was no trace of it. Eventually I thought I might be able to finish the order on my phone. I went online on my HTC  phone and there was my order. Still couldn't finish as I'd lost my time slot. When I chose a time slot I was able to complete the order. Not sure what happened though as 3 or 4 items disappeared and I got 3 items that I didn't order. Luckily the ones I didn't order won't go to waste and I can live without the ones that didn't come or get them somewhere else!!

Today I still didn't have internet access so my friend and I couldn't check up on our fav blogs. After tea I decided to phone my broadband helpline. I'm with the Post Office so I can get through really quickly and easily thank goodness. So I took my laptop through beside the router and phoned them. I had chosen the option I wanted and was waiting for someone to answer when I realised the internet light on the router was lit up for the first time since yesterday. So I hastily put down the phone! Well I'd have felt a right idiot phoning about no internet access if it had come back on. Not sure if it was a fault at the local exchange or further afield but I'm just glad to see it on again.

So here's the card I was going to post last night. This one was also inspired by Aud, thanks Aud!

 I used :-
Poinsettia :- Marianne die.
Cuttlebug embossing folder.
Sentiment & card candi :- Craftwork Cards.
Ribbon and Glamour Dust.

I'd like to enter the following challenges :-
One Stitch at a Time :- Christmas.
Pollycraft :- Anything Goes.
Totally Papercrafts :- Glitter It.

Now I've got internet access again I'm off to catch up with my DT commenting and try to make a start on my DT card for Totally Gorjuss. I'm hopelessly behind with visiting my favourite blogs so all I can do is apologise girls and start again tomorrow. I'm hoping that my trainee at the post office can work on her own tomorrow and I can have my day off again. I really need some me time lol!

BTW Carol was wondering what I'd bought at the SECC! Somehow I didn't seem to have a lot for what I'd spent as it more or less all got into one bag.  I bought some new clear sets of Christmas Penny Blacks and Hobby Art sentiments, Distress Ink re-inkers, sticky backed pearls, double sided and extra sticky tape, TH tissue wrap, Memory Box and Marianne dies, memento dewdrop inks, LOTV stamps, a ball of wool to knit a fancy scarf and a jewelley kit to make a bracelet. I've already had to rewind the whole ball of wool as Max found it and had it all over the floor plus some of my other new stash. He can't seem to leave anything alone!!

Thanks for looking and I hope I still have internet access tomorrow so I can do some visiting.

Simple Christmas Card!

Why do I never have enough time to do everything I want to do?

I made this card yesterday but then I was out in the evening and not home very early so I didn't get time to write a post!

I used :-

Christmas Trees and Icicle border :- Marianne dies

Sentiment :- Heritage rubber stamp company.

EK success tag punch, Glamour Dust and jewels.

Mmm looks like I've lost a gem on the front tree! I know it doesn't look like it but the front tree is popped up on pads.

I hoped to do this earlier but our practice is inviting everyone elegible to go for a mammogram so it was my turn this morning. While I was there I went to look for a Leap Frog Leap Pad for Poppy. My younger daughter said that Catriona was looking for this hard to find toy for Poppy's birthday. So since I was at Peterhead anyway I said I'd have a look. There's a brilliant shop there that sells everything from clothes to bedlinen to kitchenware and carpets and everything in between. They also have a fantastic toy department. Happy day they had what I was looking for. Last one too and if anyone has seen it you can get it with pink corners or green. This one is green, Poppy's favourite colour! So I'm a very popular Mum today lol!

Thanks for looking and I'll be back tomorrow with my DT card for Totally Gorjuss.