Just Cute Bears #30 Buttons and Blooms.

Well girls, where does the weekend go. How did it get to Sunday so quickly? Time for another challenge at Just Cute Bears. This week our challenge is very simple.....we'd like to see buttons and blooms on your card or layout.

This week we are sponsored by Lili of the Valley. This gave me the perfect opportunity to use one of their gorgeous bear stamps. Isn't that a sweet image. I just hope I've done it justice lol!

I used :-

Image :- LOTV.

DP :- Papermania Rose Garden.

Colouring :- Promarkers andSakura clear glitter gel pen.

Sentiment :- Craftwork Cards.

Pearls :- Hobby House.

Buttons :- MME.

Ribbon from stash and Martha Stewart punch.

I'd like to enter some challenges too :-

Mojo Monday :- Sketch.

One Stitch at a Time :- Use a punch or punches.

Craft Your Days Away :- Favourite things - I love this Martha Stewart edge punch, those lovely pearls and Promarkers.

Mojo Monday 144

Hello again girls. I'm amazed to find myself posting for the second time today! So if you want to see my DT card for Just Cute Bears please scroll down. It's been a long time since I managed more than about 2 posts in a week. Funnily enough like my DT card for Just Cute Bears it's not exactly what I meant to make lol!

I used :-

Image :- Penny Black 4037K mixed media.

DP :- Wild Rose Studio Milton & Co and the spotty one is a scrap of Basic Grey.

Colouring :- Promarkers and Distress Inks.

Lace, flower, button, ribbon and pearls from stash. (pearls coloured with Promarkers)

Stickles in centre of poppies.

I've been keeping in mind what Kath said when she was doing her demo day at Simply Create at Alford about inking your edges and I've been trying to be better about doing just that!

I'm entering the Mojo Monday challenge with this card. I love this sketch it was so nice and easy to use. I think it also fits the Magical Crafts challenge which is for flowers.

It's been a fantastic day here today and I have been inside all day apart from hanging out my washing so maybe I'll treat myself and go outside and bring it back in again before I make tea.

Enjoy what's left of the weekend.

Kat xx

Totally Gorjuss 34 - For the Boys

Saturday again girls and time for a new challenge from Totally Gorjuss. This is week 34 and we would like to see "Something for the boys." This could be a card or a layout, whatever you fancy.

This week I have made a birthday card. I couldn't resist this cute PB hedgie in his car. And all boys love cars don't they?

I used:-

Image :- Penny Black - Auto Hog.

DP :- Wild Rose Studio - For Men.

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

Sentiment and Card Candy :- Craftwork Cards.

Ribbon from stash.

Fiskars Punch.

I'm also entering some challenges with this card :-

One Stitch at a Time :- Boys to Men.

Mojo Monday :- Sketch.

As usual we have a prize for you at Totally Gorjuss so I hope you can find time to join us. This week our sponsor is Fantastic Ribbons who have the most gorgeous ribbons for you to see.

You could make a Father's Day card or a birthday card for a man or a boy, just whatever you think fits the challenge. Looking forward to seeing what you make this week. My talented teamies have made some gorgeous cards as usual and you can find links to them in my sidebar. If you have time pop over and see what they have made to inspire you.

Enjoy your weekend. I will! I am off to Alford to see some demos from the inimitable Kath of Penny Black fame. She is going to be demonstrating using Hero Arts stamps and some Tim Holtz products. Can't wait to see what she's going to make.

Kat xx

Titchy Card!

Just a quick post with this titchy wee card I made earlier but funnily enough it fits 3 challenges!

I used:-

DP :- MME pretty please (again!).

Flowers :- Prima.

Sentiment :- Craftwork Cards.

Nesties, Fiskars punch, spacer, brad, ribbon.

I had a lot of fun (not) cutting this out as my scalloped nesty didn't want to go through 2 thicknesses of card. Can't really blame it as the card is quite thick.

The challenges I am entering are :-

Mojo Monday :- Sketch.

Cupcake :- Don't be square.

ABC :- T for thank you.

Well I'm late to bed as usual and I should have been earlier because I guess I need to help with the decorating at my daughters flat. She always manages to skive but hopefully we can get more painting done tomorrow and maybe even make a start with the papering!!

Enjoy the rest of the weekend. I'm off on Monday too for the Bank Holiday but I don't think it's going to be much of a holiday. Still it gives us a chance to get on with Mhairi's flat, there's only so much you get get done at the weekend especially when you have to work some of it.

See you tomorrow....actually later today with my DT card for Just Cute Bears.

Kat xx

Cute House Mouse!

Good evening girls, I think I'm on a bit of a roll today. Three posts.....and no ironing. Oh dear I need to at least iron my trousers for work tomorrow!

Need to be quick then lol!! I wanted to make a card for the Simon Says Stamp Challenge as I've been doing their blog hop and to have a chance of winning the prize you need to enter the challenge. This week they want 3 different types of embellishments, 2 patterned papers and 1 image. The DT were using House Mouse images so I decided that I would use one of mine too. Isn't Monica with Blankey really sweet. I love House Mouse they are all so cute! I'm still using my Cuddly Buddly papers. the stripey one is from the patchwork collection and the floral one is a freebie that I had almost forgotten I had. I used an MS punch for the scalloped edges and embossed some more of the lilac card in my Cuttlebug. I found this gorgeous flower in my stash. My three embellishments are ribbon, jewels and the flower. The sketch I used is from Mojo Monday and it's a great one, really easy to use.


I think that's all from me. I'm off to iron.....lucky me. Tomorrow I need to get commenting on the Totally Gorjuss challenge entries, so far we have got an encouraging number this week. I should be out tomorrow night but that depends on the weather as the speaker might not fancy coming out in the current weather conditions.

My blog candy is still on offer if anyone fancies a shot. I've found some flowers to add and I'm trying to be brave and have a look at my ribbons lol!

Kat xx

Mojo Monday 122.

I've just made this quick card for the Mojo Monday challenge. It's not my usual style at all but it was very quick and I've been thinking about making some cards this size for the Marie Curie appeal.



I used Basic Grey June Bug DP. The sentiment is from Craftwork Cards as is the colour me oval which I coloured with Promarkers. I layered the image on a scalloped oval and popped it up on foam pads for some dimension. I finished off with a layered flower put together with spotty brad.



That's it really, nothing else to say about it. Now I am going to be early doing my ironing for a change. To think I used to do my ironing on a Sunday afternoon before I discovered blogging. But hey I'm not complaining. If I get it done quickly I might be able to comment on some of the entries at Totally Gorjuss and Just Cute Bears.

All this posting today will make up for the fact that tomorrow I will only have time to try to comment on my DT challenges and favourite blogs. Tomorrow evening is the Guild and though we are never late it will still be too late to do anything. By the time I get home from work I just have time to have my tea and get ready to go and pick up my neighbour.

Take care everyone and if you have time do pop over to one of these challenges and check it out. You never know one of them might fit in with a challenge you are already doing.

Kat xx

Baby Girl Card.

I think I may be jinxed. I've left this a bit late as usual and when I finished I took a couple of photos and put them on the laptop and then uploaded them to blogger and decided which of the two looked best. Neither was actually that good but it is evening! Then I realised that I hadn't added the 5 jewels I meant to put under the ribbon. So I've deleted the first photos and tried again.

Not sure if I'm too late for the Mojo Monday challenge or not but I liked the sketch and I need a baby card. This is handy because the Cupcake challenge is a baby card and the Cute Card Thursday challenge is New. The Sohisticat challenge is fancy borders and I have done a heart border and the Spoon Full of Sugar challenge is hearts. The ABC challenge is L for layering. Lastly the Papertake Weekly challenge is new beginnings. I think I am probably too late for some of these challenges but the card will do for a friend who has a new grand daughter.

I used some lovely DP from Craft Creations, which unfortunately does not photograph very well! The cute little image is from Stampendous and I coloured it with Promarkers. The lovely scalloped card is from Craftwork Cards and I cut the border with a Martha Stewart punch.

I'd best shoot off now and do my ironing as I suppose I need to go to work tomorrow. Hope you all had a lovely weekend. It seems to have passed very quickly. I don't suppose tomorrow at work will pass very quickly. I'm really keen to get in among my new stash but I've been too busy this weekend. I've had a look at the 2010 Hero Arts catalogue that I treated myself to. That may have been a mistake as I can see more stamps I would like lol!!

Take care in this snowy weather and keep safe and warm. Hope you can find time to tell me what you think of my efforts.

Kat xx

Mojo Monday 119.

This is my second post today. Please scroll down if you want to see the one with the card for lots of challenges! I just quickly made this card tonight for the Mojo Monday challenge. I'm never sure when it ends as I get confused with all the different times, I'm not sure how EST relates to GMT!

I used some lovely DP from K&Co. It has lovely muted colours and I thought the roses matched the sentiment! I'm not sure if the two papers together make it a bit busy? The sentiment is one I found in a drawer and there is no name on it. I used nesties as usual, the flower is from my stash and the card candy is from Craftwork Cards.

It's just a simple little card but I thought it might be a useful one to have in my box. That is if I had a box of cards instead of just a messy pile. I definitely need more storage. But then again it would probably help if I got rid of some of the stuff that I will never use.

Best go now, one of us has to go to work tomorrow and oh joy it isn't me! In spite of the fact that tomorrow is a Scottish Bank Holiday the Post Office would like us to be the same as the rest of the network. Not sure why as we never have been before at this time of year. But since I worked extra hours in Christmas week my colleague is doing my day tomorrow. My daughter has a day off too which is probably not what either of us would want. I couldn't watch TV this afternoon because she doesn't like anything I want to watch and vice versa.

Looking forward to another day crafting tomorrow. Hopefully I'll get more done than I did today lol! Keep warm girls and see you tomorrow.

Kat xx

So Cute!

Good evening girls I hope you have had a lovely weekend. It has been a lovely sunny, frosty day here. I made this card last night for a few challenges. I love Henry Mouse from Whiff of Joy, he is so cute. I still have special cards to do for my family but I like the colours of this one so much that I think I might keep it for my daughter and son-in-law. I already have one each for Poppy and Oliver so I just have 3 more special cards to make!

I bought this gorgeous glittery Bo Bunny DP last Saturday and it has taken me a week to use any of it. That's quite quick isn't it? I also used my favourite Cuttlebug snowflake and Martha Stewart snowflake, cut from glitter card, spotty ribbon and a lilac jewel. The card candy coloured with Promarker and the sentiment are from Craftwork Cards>. I also need to point out that you can't see from the photo any glitter on the pompom on his hat. That is because I forgot to add it before I took the photo. It's glittered now lol!

Do you like it? I'm really into easel cards now!! Long after everyone else. My reasoning is that I don't have to finish the inside or do an insert. I've actually made 3 more easel cards this afternoon and I've got the ideas and all the bits and pieces to put together to make another 8.

I'm entering the following challenges:-

Mojo Monday :- Sketch.
Whiff of Joy :- Whiff of Joy image and sparkle.
Creative Inspirations Wednesday Challenge :- non-traditional colours.
Colour Create :- Lilac or purple with aqua, black and white. Well they don't call me Lilackat for nothing LOL!!

Now I'm off to see how many more cards I can get made tonight. I'd really like to post tomorrow but I also need to iron so I'll just see what I can do. I can always post on Tuesday!!

Bye for now,

Kat xx

Quick Card!

Good evening girls. Hasn't it been wintry today. We have had rain, hail, wind......it's been really, really cold. I was glad to get back into the house at lunchtime and stay in. I could have got lots done if I hadn't had to make tea.

Using the lovely easy to use sketch from the Mojo Monday challenge. I love this sketch and it was so nice and easy to use that I made two cards. The other one is almost the same except I used a different Martha Stewart edge punch and I edged the image with green and matted it on blue and this one is edged in blue and matted on green. I added some jewels and flat pearls to give it a bit of a lift. The ribbon looks silver in the picture but it is actually greeny silver. I used the beautiful Wonderful Christmas DP from MME. This is one of my favourite DPs this year.

That's about all there is to say about this card! I think I may make some more variations of this card cos I still have a long way to go. I don't think I am even half way there yet. Panic!!!!

May see you later if I can get anything else done. Hope so LOL!!

Kat xx

White on White Challenges.

Another Christmas card. I made this last night but between work and a cardmaking session at a friend's house this is the first chance I have had to post it.

I followed the great sketch from the Mojo Monday challenge. I coloured this sweet Penny Black image and the Penny Black Saturday challenge and the Colour Create challenge both want white on white with colour only on the image. Then I thought it would fit the Charisma Cardz challenge which is no backing paper. And the Sophisticat challenge which is for buttons and ribbon.

I have use my favourite Cuttlebug snowflake and the new snowflake embossing folder I got at the SECC recently plus my old favourite swiss dots. I also use my new labels nine nestie for the image and the sentiment.

This second is a very simple made in a few minutes card I made late last night. This was inspired by a card that Clare (littlebear) posted yesterday to use up some scraps. I thought I would see what I could make to use up some scraps too. I love the idea but I'm not keen on the flower I put on it! I was in a hurry though lol! I used some paper from last year plus a piece of sticky ribbon and three flowers and a brad and finished off with a sentiment stamped straight onto the card and some sticky jewels.

Must go now, challenges to enter before the deadline.

See you soon,

Kat xx

Anniversary Card.

Good evening girls. I made an anniversary card tonight to enter the Die Cut Dreams Challenge. I followed the sketch from Mojo Monday. The other challenge I want to enter is the Creative Inspirations Challenge Blog.I've done a little close up to show the pearly stuff I used on the bells. I thought it would be a bit extravagant to use stick on pearls as I would have needed so many lol! I did use pearls in the corners and round the 25.

Not sure if I actually like this card. I didn't like it at all but after I put the pearls and the Pearly Stuff (Woodward) on it I liked it a bit better. Not a lot, just a bit!

I haven't been very productive today. I had to work in the morning and then spent time checking out my favourite blogs in the afternoon. Then I did some food shopping and had a takeaway. By the time I sat down again it was after 7pm and Mr Blogger has been a bit twisted about uploading my photos to this post. Anyway here it is and if I am too late for Die Cut Dreams it is my own fault LOL!

Enjoy the rest of your weekend and I'm happy to hear what you think of this card good or bad.

Kat xx

Busy Day Off.

I've used my day off to try to make cards for a few challenges since I am off to the SECC about 6.30 tomorrow and home about 9pm. Needless to say I have booked a day off work on Monday.

The first card is for the Sophisticat Challenge. It also fits the Charisma Cardz challenge. It has daisies on it.

DP:- MME merry days of Christmas.
Image:- Anitas stamped 3 times and decoupaged.
Coloured with Spica glitter gel pens.
Snowflakes:- Martha Stewart punch.
I meant to take another photo to show the 3d effect but I forgot!

This card is for the Pink Elephant.

DP:- Basic Grey.
Image:- Hobby Arts.
Coloured with Promarkers and glazed with Diamond Glaze.
Scallops cut with Stampin up edge punch.

The last card is for the Mojo Monday challenge.

DP:- DCWV La Creme.

Image:- Hero Arts.

Flowers:- Prima.

Good thing the clocks go back tonight but I am still going to be in trouble for being late.

See you tomorrow with the winner of my mini candy and I'll tell you how good or bad I've been about buying more stash lol!!

Enjoy the rest of your weekend.

Kat xx

Mojo Monday 107

I'm getting there....just one more after this one!! Do you like this sketch from Mojo Monday? It was really easy to work with - especially for someone like me! I used the inevitable nesties to cut out the circles. I stamped and embossed some snowflakes with silver before adding the lovely big Cuttlebug snowflake which is edged with distress ink in fired brick. The gorgeous glittered DP is from MME's wonderful winter collection. I'm surprised I can use it because every sheet is very glittery and gorgeous lol! I finished off the card with some jewels, ribbon, button and string from my stash.

You must be getting really fed up with me today but I promise I have only one more of this series of Christmas cards to show you.

Kat xx

Mojo Monday 106

No time to explain just to say that this is my entry for the Mojo Monday challenge. Probably too late but I have been away from home! Sorry for the strange angle but snowflakes don't photograph well at night!

Now it is Monday and I can explain what I did. I made the card using the lovely sketch from Mojo Monday. I used the gorgeous papers from MME's wonderful winter collection. I love this paper soo much! I made the snowflake from glitter paper with a Cuttlebug die, inked lightly round the edges with Faded Jeans Distress Ink and 3d'd it. It is such a useful die - I love it. I stamped some snowflakes on the white card behind the 3d snowflake but they're a bit faint unfortunately! There are also glittery snowflakes on the red paper. I also inked round the white square with Worn Lipstick Distress Ink. I added a ribbon from my stash.

Maybe this photo is a bit better than the other one?

I could also have entered this card in the Pollycraft challenge as it has snowflakes, sparkle, and stripes. Unfortunately I forgot!!! What an idiot.

Thanks for looking and I hope everyone had a lovely weekend. I had a lovely weekend visiting my daughter and family. I could have used my laptop but I didn't have time. I had a lot of new curtains to iron and I also ironed the clothes she washed on Sunday and looked after little chatterbox or Poppy as she is usually called!! Don't know how I thought I had time to craft. Today I have a lovely day off but now I have my washing and ironing.

Kat x

Mojo Monday 105, Sophisticats 3 and Pink Elephant 33.

Good evening everyone. This is a quick card I made today for the Mojo Monday challenge using their lovely sketch. I used some of my new Bo Bunny papers - they are just gorgeous! I keep using them. I bought some when I was at a crop yesterday - but I already had a set of even more of them at home plus buttons, flowers etc lol. I watercoloured this cute little Penny Black hedgie and glittered his wings and halo. I added a snowflake I punched out of glitter paper and added jewels and ribbon from my stash. Just another view, I don't think the light this evening likes this shiny ribbon. Think the snowflake is even harder to see!

Earlier I made this card for the Pink Elephant challenge. As you can see I still love this paper and this was a great sketch to work with. I made this in the afternoon too. Isn't this a cute House Mouse image. I watercoloured it at the crop yesterday so I only had to decide what to do with it today. Again I added jewels and ribbon from my stash.I was really on a roll this afternoon. 3 cards in an afternoon - unknown! This is the amazingly gorgeous paper from MME - wonderful winter. It really is great making a card with such fabby papers. The snowflake is a beautiful one from Cuttlebug and the tag is also a Cuttlebug one. I love this sketch from the Sophisticat challenge at http://sophisticatchallenges.blogspot.com/ - it was really easy to use. I added a brad and ribbon from my stash.

Now I feel as if I have made a bit of progress with my Christmas cards. I still don't have many but another 4 is better than none. I've just realised that I forgot to post the Christmas card I made at the crop yesterday. I also have a sympathy card and I need to make another one.

I'll go now and see if I can remember what challenge I made the card for that I have still to post.

I might be back later lol!!

Kat x

Christmas Present.

I made this card this afternoon using the great sketch from Mojo Monday. I coloured this sweet House Mouse image with promarkers and stickled the pompom and brim of the hat. The sentiment, ribbon and sticky ribbon are all from Papermania. The DP is from Forever Friends from last year. I cut out snowflakes from white glitter paper with Sizzix dies in my Cuttlebug and used nesties to cut the circles. The DP has snowflakes on it which unfortunately don't show up very well even on the first photo which was taken outside! Black jewels are from my stash. All the edges are inked with black. The next photo is not much better and just reminds me that the Merry Christmas could have been stamped better!!

But this is not a Christmas card it is a gift card holder. This House Mouse image was also coloured with Promarkers. The corners to hold the gift card were cut out using a punch. I think this fits the Cute Card Thursday challenge for hidden treasure. I think I might be pushing my luck with the Pollycrafts challenge for black, white and one colour!!

So the challenges I hope to enter are:-

Mojo Monday:- Sketch.

Sophisticat Challenge:- Make anything to hold something eg gift voucher, cash etc.

Pollycraft Challenge:- Black, white and one colour.

House Mouse Monday Challenge:- A challenge from the past year - #50 gift card holder.

Cute Card Thursday:- Hidden Treasure.

Allsorts Challenge:- Snowflakes.

I'm off to post this now and enter the challenges.

Thanks for looking and please tell me what you think. It makes my day to read your kind comments.

Kat x

Some Challenges.

I used the great sketch from Mojo Monday and watercoloured this cute House Mouse image to make this card. The DPs are anonymous! I really have no idea what they are!! The main dark brown one actually has some random flowers on it. I stitched round it and the plain brown ones which had been put through the cuttlebug in the swiss dots folder. Then I distressed round the edges and the dots and rubbed over them with orange chalk. Everything was matted onto the same orange card as the base card. I used my Martha Stewart heart edge punch to edge the lower piece of DP. The spotted ribbon, flowers, jewels and brad are from my stash.

The challenges I am entering are:-

Mojo Monday 103:- Sketch.
House Mouse Monday Challenge:- Song title/lyrics "Love me do"
Die Cut Dreams:- Chocolate and orange.
Whimsy:- Sewing.

I love House Mouse they are such cute stamps. I was struggling to find a song title or lyrics in the ones I have. Most of them are Christmas stamps and I think only one features a Rudolph type, then I found this one and another which seemed a bit big for a card this size!! In real life this card is quite a nice colour, a bit more colourful than the picture implies.

Enjoy the rest of the weekend. Unfortunately when the weekend is over I have to work full-time next week. For the last time though because I think my colleague will have had all her days. I've got four sets of Saturdays and Mondays still to take and possibly more days when my daughter has her baby. A friend text me and asked if I wanted to go to a crop later this month. Naturally I would lol! I thought I could go on the Saturday afternoon after work but by great good luck I am off that day and so is another friend so we can both go all day - fantastic!!

See you tomorrow.

Kat x

Mojo Monday, House Mouse 50 etc.

Good afternoon everyone. I have spent the afternoon quietly crafting. Just me - great. I have made this card following the lovely sketch from Mojo Monday. I have used a couple of my favourite House Mouse stamps and made a gift card holder. I thought it might be a bit difficult for me lol but I'm quietly pleased with how it turned out. I used a punch to cut out the fancy corners and my EK Success punches for the flower. I used some of my favourite MME bloom and grow papers. Jewels, brad and ribbon are from my stash.This is the inside of the card with space to write a to, from and space to put a gift card.

I hope to enter these challenges:-

Mojo Monday 102:- Sketch.

House Mouse Monday Challenge 50:- Gift Card Holder.

Stamp Something:- Favourite stamp and punches or die cuts.

Stamping for the Weekend 14:- Orange, teal and pink.

Hope you like and I'd be really pleased if you tell me what you think.

Might go and do my ironing after tea. I've got a day off tomorrow as it's a local holiday here. How lucky am I?

Might be back later if I'm naughty and don't do my ironing after all.

Kat xx

Spoon Full of Sugar 65

Me again with a quick post. I made this card using the Mojo Monday 101 sketch. It also for the Spoon Full of Sugar challenge. I watercoloured the cute Penny Black hedgies on their sledge. I added faux stitching to meet the Penny Black Saturday challenge. The colours turquoise and brown fit the Secret Crafter challenge. The papers are DCWV and the ribbon and jewels are from my stash. As usual nesties were used to cut the ovals. I added stickles to the hats and for snow. I hope to come back tomorrow and add a better picture! I just realised it also fits the Simon Says Challenge - Christmas in August.

Thanks for looking.

Kat x

Tuesday now and I've changed the photo. I think this is better than the one I posted yesterday evening!!