Totally Gorjuss 233 - Cuddly.

Good morning everyone. A bit later than I meant to be but that's because it took me so long to add my card to the DT blog that I couldn't be bothered scheduling today's post! It seems as if every time I tried to do something last night my connection went off - for more than an hour at a time 2 or 3 times. I knew I should have done it in the afternoon. I never learn!

Anyway here's my card for this week's challenge at Totally Gorjuss. This week we'd like to see something cuddly on your card. Easy isn't it? I'm sure everyone has something cuddly in their stash.

I used :-
Image & DP :- LOTV topper.
Washi Tape :- Fantastic Ribbons.
Flowers :- Nellie Snellen punches.
Gems :- Hobby House.
Corner :- Whimsy.

Well I think I'll go and have my coffee now. The weather here is pretty dire so I don't think I'll be going out for my daily walk. I've tried to be good and I've been out for a walk at least once every day, weather permitting! It's been very misty here for a few days now but today there have been some very heavy showers  already and it's only just after 10am. My daughter might come later and take me out for a coffee this afternoon. ie she drives and I buy. I'll be glad when I can drive again! I went for my check up on Wednesday and the surgeon was pleased with me so I don't need to go back to the hospital again. Now all I need to do is get out on my own again. I live over a mile from the main road so I can't even nip onto a bus! Nuisance not even being able to go for the paper, still not long now.

Thanks for looking and if you've got time to comment I'd love to hear from you.

Have a lovely weekend everyone.

Kat xx

Imagine being married for 50 years!!!!!!!!

Sounds like a sentence doesn't it!? I made this card for a lovely couple who have been happily married for 50 years and I'm sure it doesn't seem like a life sentence to them!

I'm on a rota to drive people to church and I drive Sandy and Jean every month. They're a lovely couple and devoted to each other. When I first knew them they were both officers in the Boys Brigade and Sandy was Captain when my son finished BBs at almost 18. When they had a car it was never any problem to them to give other people a lift so I think it's good that other people now do the same for them.

I just heard the date of their anniversary the day before so my card was a wee bit late as I had other things to do before I could get a card made. They were delighted with it so I'm happy.

I used :-

Sentiment :- Stampin' Up!

Flowers :- Nellie Snellen punches.

Pearls :- Hobby House.

Embossing folder :- Couture Creations - Tied Together.

I'm quite pleased with how it turned out. A wee bit fancier than anything I've been making recently!

I'd best go and get a raffle prize organised for my WRI quiz night tonight. I've already wrapped one but I thought maybe I'd wrap up some of my cards as a prize too.

Thanks for looking and I'll see you tomorrow with some cards I made for  a colleague.

Thanks also to everyone who leaves lovely comments which encourage me to carry on blogging.

Kat xx 

Totally Gorjuss 178 - Anything Goes Plus Sparkle.

Good morning everyone. It seems to have been a short week since last Saturday. Although in a way it was a long week without my Internet connection!! Since I got back online I've been trying to catch up.

This week at Totally Gorjuss our theme is "Anything Goes plus Sparkle." How easy is that? I'm sure a lot of you will be joining us this week for such an easy challenge. We're sponsored by J&C Creations so don't forget to check out their website too.

This is what I made this week. I've been making a lot of simple cards this last while but I thought since we wanted to see glitter on your cards this week I would make a more elaborate card. Not sure that my cards ever actually inspire anyone but I do my best lol!

I used :-
Image and DP :- LOTV die cut and paper.
Sentiment :- Stampin' Up! punched with SU punch.
Flowers :- Nellie Snellen punches.
Pearls and rhinestones :- Hobby House.
lace and ribbon from stash.

I'm entering the following challenges :-

Seize the Birthday :- Sketch and feminine birthday.
Simon Says Stamp :- Happy Birthday.
Crafty Ribbons :- Anything goes with ribbon.

Well surprise, surprise I'll be at work when this publishes on Saturday morning. But I'll be online after work to see what's going on. So if you leave me a wee comment I'll pop over and see you too.

Thanks for looking, catch you later!

Kat xx

Totally Gorjuss 36 - It's in the Bag.

Hello everyone and it's time for another challenge over at Totally Gorjuss. This week our challenge is "It's in the bag", we'd like you to make a simple gift bag. My bag is certainly simple and very easy to make lol! I found the tutorial over at Split Coast Stampers. All you need is one sheet of 12"x12" double sided paper.

The original didn't have any leaves but I managed to smudge one of the liquid pearls and had to add something to cover the smudge - hence the leaves! After I had taken several photos I then realised that I hadn't added stickles to her dress. Thank goodness for digital cameras lol.

I used :-

Image :- Magnolia.

DP :- Cloud Nine.

Sentiment and card candy :- Craftwork cards.

Flowers :- Prima.

Colouring :- Promarkers. Distress Inks - round scallop oval and sentiment.

Sakura clear gel pen and clear glitter gel pen.

Nellie Snellen leaf punch, nesties, Liquid Pearls and Stickles.

I think that's it girls. I'm not sure if it fits any challenges but I'll think about that later. Meantime it is late Friday evening as I write so I'm leaving this post to the tender mercies of Mr. Blogger.

Pollycraft :- No cards allowed plus use glitter and/or lace. No lace but I have used glitter.

Bunny Zoe's challenge :- Nice and Girly.

Enjoy your weekend.

Kat xx

Totally Gorjuss 24 Sketch.

Hope Mr Blogger is behaving today as I will be at work and then off to visit my daughter for the weekend.

Today I'd like to show you my DT card for Totally Gorjuss. Net has given us a lovely sketch to follow this week. It is quite a straightforward sketch but you can easily add some bits and pieces to suit yourself. We would like you to use a gorgeous image and make a new card....no back-linking please!!

I used:-

DP :- Basic Grey - Kioshi.

Image :- Gorjuss Girl from Sugar Nellies.

Flowers :- Wild Orchid Crafts.

Sentiment :- Craftwork Cards.

Leaves :- Nellie Snellen punch.

Ribbon and jewels from stash.

Hope you like girls and pop over to Totally Gorjuss to check out Net's lovely sketch. We all love to visit your blogs and see your gorgeous creations, you are all very talented ladies.

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

Papertake Weekly :- Open theme.

Crafty Creations :- Anything goes.

I'm hoping Mr Blogger has been kind to me today and posted this. I am away visiting my daughter this weekend after work today so I won't be able to check out your entries until Monday.

Enjoy your weekend,

Kat xx

Lilac-time.

Good morning everyone and I hope you have been having a lovely relaxing weekend with lots of time to craft. It's time for another challenge at Just Cute Bears. And this one is right up my street as this week we are asking you to use the colour Lilac. My favourite colour lol!

We are sponsored again by the lovely Kim at Cuddly Buddly. The prize this week is another lovely stamp. I think I could make good use of this stamp! If you pop over to Kim's online shop I'm sure you'll find something you want. As well as rubber stamps there are digi downloads of images and papers. I have used one of the download papers this week from the Patchwork of Papers purple collection. These papers are so gorgeous that I didn't know what to use first.

Anyway here is the stamp and wouldn't you love to win it? Well it's simple all you need to do is make a lilac card....easy!

So here's my card. This week I have made a very simple card. I had a bit of a look around for a sketch to use. But then my friend phoned and we were chatting for almost an hour!! Well by that time I really needed to get my card made so I could take a photo in daylight on Saturday. So I grabbed a few things and when I put them together roughly I thought that this layout was simple but maybe quite effective. What do you think? I think it shows off this cute Penny Black bear and these gorgeous roses from Wild Orchid Crafts quite well. I coloured the image with Promarkers as usual and cut it out with nesties. The sentiment and card candy are from Craftwork Cards. I had to colour the card candy with Promarker too as I had none the shade I wanted. The greenery was cut with a Nellie Snellen punch. I think the raffia lace came from Quixotic Paperie, another favourite online shop! I finished by adding some Glimmer Mist to the roses, not sure if you can see that though

I hope you can find time to visit my talented teamies' blogs to see what they have made. I know they have all made beautiful cards this week and we would all love it if you tell us what you think of our creations!

Enjoy the rest of your weekend and as usual I'm looking forward to seeing all your wonderful projects. It's great to see how you interpret our challenge every week.

Kat xx

Totally Gorjuss 17 - Lurve!

Good morning girls and here is my DT card for Totally Gorjuss this week. Our theme this week is "Lurve" and I hope you think this fits the bill! This week we are sponsored by The Hobby House.

I've managed to fit in a few hearts between the hearts on her dress and boots and the heart charm with an arrow through it lol! I used Promarkers to colour the sweet image, the card candy and the edges of some white roses. I used my new Nellie Snellen punch to cut out some greenery for the roses. My DP is DCWV and I added some ribbon, raffia ribbon and jewels from my stash. I cut out a tag with my tag punch and edged it with Distress Inks in milled lavender before finishing with stickles. I also added Distress Inks to my DP and the image. The hearts on her dress, boots and in her hair are coloured with Spica glitter gel pen. As you will realise when you see tomorrow's DT card for Just Cute Bears I am having a bit of a lilac week lol!

Hope you like, leave me a comment and let me know if you want.

I'm also going to enter a few challenges with this card. I was going to enter the Secret Crafter challenge till I realised that it would be finished before I posted this card. Pity because it is tones of one colour plus white and that is what this card is.

Anyway the challenges I am entering are:-

The Pink Elephant :- Valentine.

Papertake Weekly :- Sketch.

Simon Says Stamp :- Love.

Quixotic :- Tag it.

Die Cut Dreams :- Have a heart.

Pile it on :- To the one I love.

I think that's all now. I'm looking forward to visiting your blogs to see what you've made for this challenge. We had some amazing entries last week for our sketch challenge. You are all so talented, I love to see your lovely creations. Hope you can find time to visit my very talented teamies and leave us all some love.

Enjoy your weekend.

Kat xx