Totally Gorjuss - 110 - Let it Snow!

Good morning everyone and welcome to the weekend. That challenge title is uncannily accurate. I wasn't happy when the snow started a little on Friday afternoon but there was even more at night. Can't say I'm a happy bunny! I was hoping it would stay away as I've got a Christmas meal with the Guild on Monday night and then with the WRI on Wednesday. I'm keeping my fingers crossed as the WRI meal was cancelled last year.

So here's my card for the Totally Gorjuss where the theme this week is "Let it Snow" and we are sponsored by the lovely people at Crafter's Companion so I hope you can join us.

I used :-

Image :- :PTV Cute square.

Sentiment & Card Candi :- Craftwork Cards.

Star :- Memory Box.

Glamour Dust and jewels.

I'm entering the following challenges :-

ABC Christmas :- Y is for yippee - Christmas is almost here.
Creative Card Crew :- Tis the Season.
Cute Card Thursday :- Anything Goes.

I'll try to catch up with everyone later after work. I'm almost finished my Christmas cards now. I've made 92 but I'd still like to make some more just to be on the safe side. Then of course there's my family cards and the gift cards. I really want to get organised so I can hand out cards on Monday & Wednesday if I get to my nights out. I keep trying to tell myself I'm getting on better than last year but I'm not sure that's true lol!

Enjoy your weekend whatever you're doing. Thanks for looking.

It's Spring!

Good morning everyone. Fingers crossed my heading is not too far out! We've had some lovely days recently and it really makes people more cheerful doesn't it? So I hope it really is Spring. I've made what I hope is a Springlike card.

I used :-

Image :- Penny Black.

Sentiment and card candy :- Craftwork Cards.

DP :- Wild Rose Studio.

Colouring :- Promarkers, Spica black glitter gel pen, Sakura clear glitter gel pen.

I'm hoping to enter the following challenges :-

Penny Black:- Spring is Sprung.
Passion for Promarkers :- In the garden.
Sir Stampalot :- Spring is in the air plus yellow, green and/or blossom pink.
The Pink Elephant :- Sketch.

I hope I've got these right! I entered the Sir Stampalot challenge a while ago and was really embarassed because my card was ineligible. I had completely forgotten that there is a limit to the number of other challenges you can enter along with Sir Stampalot. That's what you get for posting and entering in a hurry lol! I don't usually enter lots of challenges with one card as I only enter certain challenges and don't go out looking for extra ones. I'll be more careful to read any rules before I jump in and enter. From the point of view of being a DT member I know what it's like to get entries from people who enter loads of challenges with one card. Too much work for me typing out loads of challenges and going round entering them!

Anyway hope you like and if you can spare a minute to leave me a comment I'd love that. It's nice to know if you're doing anything half decent. It's my day off today so hopefully I can get lots done. I should probably go and look for more dog leads and collars. The other night the pups ate the fastenings from Blue's collar. Never found even a bit of plastic. This morning I found Max's collar almost chewed right through. That's bad enough but one of the fields right outside our house is almost always full of in-lamb ewes!

Thanks for looking and I'll catch up with you all later.

More Get Well Cards.

Good morning everyone, hope you're all having a good weekend. Yesterday I went to a crop at my local craft shop and managed to make 2 cards. I made Get Well cards as I think they're handy to have. Last week I made one for Poppy so I thought I'd best have a boy one handy in case Oliver comes down with chickenpox too!

So here's my first card. I love House Mouse and isn't this a cute image? I can't help feeling this card's a bit bare looking but if I use it for my wee grandson I don't really want to put flowers on it!

I used :-

Image :- House Mouse.

Sentiment :- Hero Arts.

Colouring :- Promarkers.

DP :- DCWV.

Card Candy :- Craftwork Cards.

I'm going to enter the following challenges with this card :-

Passion for Promarkers:- One for the boys.

House Mouse :- Favourite stamp - love them all but I really love this one for Get Well cards!

Friday Sketchers :- Sketch.
Creative Inspirations :- Stripes.

My second card is girly with it's pink colour scheme and ribbon and flowers.

I used :-

Image :- LOTV.

DP :- Wild Rose Studio.

Sentiment :- Printworks.

Colouring :- Promarkers.

Ribbon :- Ribbon Girl.

Flowers :- Prima.

Pearls :- Hobby House.

Jewel brads & pink metal embellies from stash.

Sakura clear gel pen one shoes and glitter round image.

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

Lili of the Valley :- Circles.

Cute Card Thursday :- Sketch.
Stamp Something :- Something with flowers.
Dream Valley Challenges :- Anything Goes.

Hope you like and can find time to tell me what you can think.

Not sure if I'll be doing much next week as I have to work every day! My colleague's daughter gets married next Friday so she's having a week off. I've been so looking forward to this.....not! So the first time I get a day off is 10th March. What makes it worse is next Sunday a crowd of us are going to the craft show at the SECC next Sunday and I usually take the day off on the Monday. Obviously not this year. I'm going to be shattered on the Monday and probably crabbit (translation - bad tempered) too.

Thanks for looking and enjoy what's left of the weekend.

Pink!

Hi girls, I wanted to post this last night but I couldn't get a good photo so I waited till this morning. Not sure the photo is any better. But I had to work all day and then I was out this evening. So here it is now. I love pink so it was not really any hardship to make this card.

I used :-

Image :- Magnolia.

Sentiment :- Craftwork cards.

DP :- Crafty Creations and Craftwork Cards.

Colouring :- Promarkers.

Pearls :- Hobby House.



I'd like to enter the following challenges :-
Passion for Promarkers :- Pink & White Christmas.
Just Magnolia :- Think Pink.
Allsorts :- Spots and Stripes.
Totally Tilda :- Pink and Pearls.

It's ages since I've used a Tilda.This is a great stamp as you can use it at any time of year not just Christmas. Hope you like and please leave me a comment if you have a minute to spare. Thanks for looking.

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.

Hearts and flowers!

At last after faffing about all day I've managed to finish a card and get it posted. It's only a very quick card though. Just Magnolia have a nice simple sketch this week which I really enjoyed using. This is one of my favourite Tilda images and I coloured her with Promarkers as usual. I also coloured the card candy from Craftwork Cards to match and edged the image before matting it on the same card as the base card. The DP I used is from paper adventures, the flowers and flat-backed pearls are from Prima and the ribbon and heart shaped jewels are from my stash.

I'v added another picture to show that the jewels are heart shaped - I need hearts and flowers for one of the challenges I'm entering!

I hope to enter the following challenges as well as Just Magnolia:-

Passion for Promarkers :- Pastel green and blossom.

A Spoon Full of Sugar :- Freestyle - what you like.

Crafty Creations :- Celebrations.

Creative Inspirations Wednesday Challenge :- Feminine.

Allsorts :- Hearts and flowers.

Cute Card Thursday :- Blooming Gorgeous.

I think I'll go and enter these challenges and get back to my DT card for Totally Gorjuss. I just need to get it finished so that I can post it on the DT blog and sort out a scheduled post for Saturday morning as I am going to a candle party tomorrow and I won't have time to do anything between getting home from work and going out.

Soon be the weekend girls only one more day to go lol!

Kat xx

Passion for Promarkers 11

Good evening everyone. I've managed to make another card this afternoon. This one uses the lovely sketch from Passion for Promarkers. I've used a favourite stamp, Tilda with heart dress. I coloured Tilda with my Promarkers and stickled her wings. I used a label nestie, which is a nice shape, for my image. The papers are from American Crafts. I used punches and a round nestie to make the flowers from the papers. I distressed the edges and rolled them a little. Each one is finished with a small brad. The idea was to make flowers that are round like the flowers in the DP. The sentiment is from Penny Black.
Not sure I like this card! I like the one I posted earlier better I think. I spent a lot of time looking for paper that would be suitable for a child's card. And I have loads of papers lol. I think I need to get some more for children's cards. I have plenty of papers suitable for baby cards or any other cards. Hey any excuse! I found myself on the Charmed Cards and Crafts website this afternoon after finding an email about new stock. They have lots of Basic Grey that I "need" among other things. Think I should go and do my Tesco order just now and then my ironing. Lovely!!!

Thanks for looking and please feel free to tell my what you think about this card.

Kat x