Penny Black 179 - Red & Embossing.

Hi everyone I've been missing blogging this week. I haven't been online since Friday night until this morning.

We went to visit our daughter and family on Saturday. I made about 34 fairy cakes for the party bags and Poppy's birthday cake. Catriona decorated them all. The cake was a cat's face, the nearest Poppy's going to get to having a cat lol! Catriona loves cats but her husband doesn't, so no cat for them. We also went to see the Christmas lights being switched on in Crieff and got completely soaked.

Poppy's birthday was not enjoyed by the birthday girl as much as it might have been as she had an upset tummy. We think she might have picked up a bug from her cousins! She was a bit better when we left on Monday morning but was having to miss nursery.

So between one thing and another I didn't get much done! I did spend about 2 hours making the Martha Stewart advent calendar for Poppy and Oliver. Excuse the dodgy photo as it was taken on top of the spare bed where the little house is hidden till the 1st. I don't think it's as squint as it looks.

Tonight is the first chance I've had to craft so I couldn't resist making a card using this lovely Penny Black image of my favourite snowman. Isn't he cute?

I used :-

Image :- Penny Black.

Sentiment and Card Candi :- Craftwork Cards.

Colouring :- Promarkers.

Sizzix and Cuttlebug embossing folders.

Glamour dust, ribbon & Sakura clear glitter gel pen.

I'd like to enter the following challenges :-

Penny Black :- Christmas, red and embossing.

Craft Your Days Away :- Buttons or Bows.

Charisma Cardz :- Snowflakes.

Creative Card Crew :-Monochromatic.

One Stitch at a Time :- Seeing Red.
Dream Valley :- Sparkle.

I think I'll go and finish off my Tesco order now. After the fiasco last week I've more or less done it and I've just got a couple of things to add. The one thing I am pleased about is getting my Christmas cake made this morning. I haven't made one for years but I seem to have volunteered to make one this year. I dug out my favourite recipe from my Rayburn cookbook. I don't have a Rayburn in this house but I always say if I win lots of money on the Lottery I'll buy a Rayburn or an Aga. I'll try to do some catching up tomorrow. I'm sure I'll have plenty of DT catching up to do and I'm hoping to get this weeks card made too.

Thanks for looking and sorry for being a bad blogger recently. I'm hoping that my internet connection is a lot better now. After being on the phone a couple of times last week about it it should be!

Red and White Christmas.

Good morning everyone. Well it's almost the weekend at last and we're going to visit my daughter and family. Poppy was 4 on Wednesday and she's having a party on Sunday. Lucky me I'm going too lol! On Saturday I'm supposed to be making fairy cakes for the party bags. Catriona also mentioned a birthday cake but I don't remember volunteering for that. Maybe she's making it herself.

As you know I've been having internet issues but after phoning the helpline on Wednesday and Thursday I'm hoping that the problem has been solved. I've been really fed up about not being able to visit my favourite blogs as much as I would have liked but I've been concentrating on doing my DT work. I know it's nice to get feedback when you enter a challenge.

Yesterday I made 3 cards when I was crafting with my friend. I thought one would do for my DT card but then I realised that it wouldn't as I'd forgotten who was sponsoring us this week. But one of the others will do in 2 weeks time. Not like me to be ahead lol!

So here's the first of the other 2 I made. Don't you just love these squares from LOTV? I'm quite into white on white with a touch of colour this year. And of course lots of glitter.

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

Lili of the Valley :- Anything Goes.
One Stitch at a Time :- Anything Goes.

The second one is another favourite theme this year - plain coloured card and white die cuts and of course the old favourite - gingham ribbon. I love those Marianne Designs die cut trees even if they are tricky little devils to stick down!

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

Everybody Art :- Christmas Card.
Papertake Weekly :- Christmas Cracker.

Hope you like.

I'm really looking forward to the weekend even if it means a couple of hours at a children's party lol!

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

Penny Black 172 - Age Is Just a Number!

Hi to anyone who happens to read this. I'll keep it brief cos not many people read my blog!

When I saw this challenge at Penny Black I couldn't resist joining in. I thought this fun image would be perfect for a birthday card for my great nephew. I'm well ahead here because he's not 17 till next July!

I used :-

Image :- Penny Black.

DP :- MME Everyday Flair. 

Sentiment :- stamped - Hero Arts, oval - Craftwork cards.

Colouring :- Promarkers.

Boys will be boys charm from stash.

Numbers cut with Cricut.

Nesties.

I'm also entering the following challenges :-

One Stitch at a Time :- Anything Goes.

Papertake Weekly :- Use 3 different shapes. I've got a circle, triangle and oval.

I'm off now to see about my DT card for Totally Gorjuss. I had hoped to get more done today but my colleague had to unexpectedly take her Mum into hospital this afternoon and I had to go into work till closing time. She phoned  me a wee while ago and I'm relieved to hear that while her Mum needs a blood transfusion  she's actually feeling ok! Since her Mum is not a well lady this may need to happen again but at least she knows now and won't get such a fright if they phone from the surgery.

Nothing's ever simple is it?

If anyone feels like leaving me a comment I'd be really grateful. I sometimes wonder if anyone visits my blog as I don't get much feedback. Maybe my cards are really bad and no-one wants to hurt my feelings! On the other hand I've actually lost 3 followers recently, do you think it was something I said lol!

I'll be back tomorrow with some candy for my followers.

Totally Gorjuss 98 - Nothing Square About Me.

Good morning everyone. At least I hope Mr Blogger has been kind and posted this for me on Saturday morning. I'm going to a wedding today so I won't be able to check until Sunday! So fingers crossed lol.

This week at Totally Gorjuss our theme is "nothing square about me." Yes that's right we'd like to see you making some differently shaped cards. It's nice to have a change instead of automatically making a square card. I know I rarely make anything other than a square card so I enjoyed making this little card. I made a "New Home" card for a lovely blogging friend so I hope she's received it before she sees it here lol!

I used :-

Image :- Hero Arts.

Sentiment :- Inca stamps.

DP :- First Edition - Hideaway.

Colouring :- Promarkers.

Nesties, ribbon & tag punch.

I'm hoping to enter the following challenges :-

One Stitch at a Time :- Punch it.
Creative Inspirations Wednesday Challenge Blog :- Anything Goes.
Pile it On :- layer it.
Cute Card Thursday :- Anything Goes.
Paperplay :- Punches & Dies.

A couple of these challenges are Sunday ones so I hope I can enter them before I leave for the wedding. We're sponsored by Simon Says Stamp this week so I hope you can join us for this nice easy challenge. My lovely teamies have some gorgeous cards to inspire you so don't forget to pop over to Totally Gorjuss to see their lovely work.

I'm babysitting on Sunday but I hope I can find some time to catch up with your entries as well as my favourite blogs.

Enjoy your weekend whatever you're doing and please cross your fingers for good weather where I'm going today. Thanks for looking.

LOTV 104

Hi everyone, gorgeous day here so I'm just off out to walk the dogs again. Just a quick post to show an ultra quick card I made this afternoon.

I used :-

Image :- LOTV cute square.

DP :- Tilda.

Roses :- Wild Orchid Crafts.

Pearls :- Hobby House.

Sakura clear glitter gel pen, Promarkers and Distress Inks.

This is for the following challenges :-

Lili of the Valley :- Sketch.
A Spoon Full of Sugar :- Pink and Brown.
One Stitch at a Time :- Anything Goes.
Simon Says Stamp :- Anything Goes.

Do you want to know something? When I finished it I wasn't too keen on it! I love the image and the DP but somehow I didn't like the card very much. I think it's growing on me a wee bit now!

I'm off to walk the boys now. Catch up with you all later.

Christmas in May.

Hi everyone, looks like I'm still not very good at posting even with 2 days off in the same week. At least I have something to show you as well as a DT card. I've been quite good this week. Usually I'm trying to make my DT card and get it posted on the DT blog by Thursday. This week it was all done and dusted on Monday. Net got such a shock she nearly fainted. She said she was only kidding!!

So yesterday I decided to make a Christmas card when my friend came over to craft and I even made another one later. We both used the same stamp which is one of her favourite Penny Black ones.

Here's the first one I made.

I used :-

Image :- Penny Black.

Colouring :- Promarkers.

Sentiment and card candy :- Craftwork Cards.

Embossing olders :- Cuttlebug Swiss Dots and Sizzix Tim Holtz Snow Flurries.

Jewels from stash and Glamour Dust.

And this is the second one, also very simple.

I used :-
Image, colouring, card candy, sentiment and Glamour Dust as before.

Snowflake :- Martha Stewart.

These are the challenges for the first card :-
Creative Inspirations Wednesday Challenge :- Embossing.
One Stitch at a Time :- Embossing.
Cupcake :- C for Christmas.

I'd like to enter the following challenges with the second card:-
A Spoon Full of Sugar :- White plus one colour.
Cards for Men :- Circles.

Hope you like! I've not really achieved much today. Can't even blame the weather as it's not been so nice today. We have had some sun but much hazier than it has been and quite a cold wind. At least it's still dry. We're promised rain today but so far it hasn't come. I'm off to take the dogs for yet another walk before I have tea and go to my friend's to make cards. A few of us go and we always have a lovely chat too. It's nice to be able to socialise as well as make cards.

Soon be the weekend!

More Lovely Penny Black.

Good morning everyone. First of all I'd like to say thank you to everyone who left a message after I told you about the loss of my beautiful chocolate Labrador, Maddy. I'm going to miss her very much and you've all been very kind to me.

Anyway enough about me. I finished this card last night but waited for daylight to take a piccie of it. I love this image, it's very quick to colour and really cute too.

I used :-

Image :- Penny Black.

DP :- MME signature Christmas.

Colouring :- Promarkers.

Snowflakes and snowflake border :- Martha Stewart.

Sentiment :- Craftwork Cards.

Jewels :- Hobby House.

Lots of lovely glitter!

This fits a few different challenges :-

Cute Card Thursday :- Anything goes.

Penny Black :- Favourite things - Penny Black image, Martha Stewart punches, MME DP, jewels and glitter!

Secret Crafter :- Sparkle and shine.

Die Cut Dreams Christmas Club :- Snowflakes.

One Stitch at a Time :- Favourite colour, usually lilac but I love blue for Christmas cards.

Creative Inspirations :- Anything Christmassy.

Penny Black at Allsorts :-It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas.

Gem of a Challenge :- Sketch and non-traditional colours.

Think that's all for now. Best get some DT commenting done and think about next week's cards.

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

Totally Gorjuss 28 A Stitch or Two.

Good morning everyone, Saturday again and time for another challenge at Totally Gorjuss. This week we would like to see "a stitch or two." We would like to see some stitching on your card or project this week, either real or faux. I have been at the last minute again this week so my stitching is faux!

I used :-

Image :- Gorjuss Girl from Sugar Nellies.

DP :- MME pretty please.

Colouring :- Promarkers.

Flowers :- Martha Stewart punch using red card and DP plus a button and string bow.

Sentiment :- Craftwork Cards.

Ribbon and jewels from stash.

Nesties.

As you can see I am still loving red and if you check out my blog tomorrow you'll see even more red. Apologies for the squint photo. I was in a hurry to take a photo and get my card posted to the DT blog before it was too late lol!

I'm also entering a few challenges with this card :-

One Stitch at a Time :- Flowers.

Die Cut Dreams :- Make your own flowers.

Passion for Promarkers :- Sketch plus handmade flowers.

Creative Inspirations Wednesday challenge blog :- Easel card.

Simon Says Stamp Challenge :- Buttons, bows and bling.

The Pink Elephant :- Aqua.

Cute Card Thursday :-Make your own - I made flowers.

Charisma Cardz :- Girly and flowers.

Pollycraft :- Make your own flowers.

Crafty Cardmakers :- make a card using things you would love to have with you on a desert island. Gorgeous DP, Sugar Nellies images, buttons, string, Promarkers, sticky jewels, Martha Stewart punch, ribbon, coloured card, pen to do faux stitching and white gel pen for highlights. And of course double sided-tape. That seems rather a lot of essentials lol!

Creative Card Crew :- April showers bring May flowers.

A Spoon Full of Sugar :- 3D

I hope I've got these challenges all right!

If you've got a minute to spare I'd love to hear what you think of my card and I hope you'll want to pop over to the Totally Gorjuss blog to see the gorgeous cards my clever teamies have made.

If you feel like entering our challenge we'd love to see how you interpret our challenge this week. We all love to check out your blogs and don't forget there's a prize up for grabs and you could win it if you enter your new card or project with a link back to your post before next Saturday.

Enjoy your weekend,

Kat xx