My favourite colour......

Hi everyone when I saw the Penny Black challenge I couldn't resist trying to CASE Kath's stunning card. I'm not sure if she'll approve of my effort but I really enjoyed making it. I used colours I really love and I quite like it. ok I'm lying I do like it and in fact I've been making another card using the same layout today.

I had Monday and Tuesday off for the Jubilee this week and I thought fantastic I'll get loads done. So did I? Well no, I got 2 cards made! Did anyone else find the same? I was so busy watching the Jubilee coverage that all my plans fell by the wayside. Never mind at least I had time off. I thought today would be busy at work as usual after a holiday but it wasn't too bad.

I used :-

Image :- Penny Black.

Sentiment :- Heritage.

DP :- Basic Grey.

Colouring :- Promarkers and Flexmarkers.

Flowers :- Daisy punch.

Gems :- Hobby House.

Tag punch, Nesties and ribbon.

I'm entering the following challenges :-

Penny Black :- CASE it.
Secret Crafter :- Anything goes.
Cupcake :- Tag you're it.
Truly Scrumptious :- Flower power.
Penny Black and More at Allsorts :- All my favourite things - Penny Black stamp, Promarkers, gems and ribbon.

Well I'm off to finish my DT card for Saturday. It's my younger daughter's birthday today and since we were both at work today she wants me to go shopping with her tomorrow! Sounds expensive to me lol!

Well thanks for looking, if anyone does and even more thanks to anyone who leaves me a comment.

Floral Frenzy at Penny Black.

Hi everyone, I don't usually post in the evening but since I've got a card made at last this week I thought I'd just show it now in case I've got something else made tomorrow. I've not been very productive since the laptop scare last week. Not sure why though I have done some knitting and made some more communion token cards. 

I couldn't resist using one of my favourite Penny Black stamps when I saw that their challenge was Floral Frenzy.

I used :-

Image :- Penny Black - Poppies.

Colouring :- Promarkers.

DP :- Marianne Design.

Sentiment :- Craftwork Cards.

Flowers :- retro punches.

Glamour Dust, Sakura clear, glitter gel pen, pearls, gems and ribbon.

Challenges :-

Dream Valley :- Animals.
Hot Shot Craft :- Flowers.
Papertake Weekly :- Sketch.
Penny Black :- Floral Frenzy.
Secret Crafter :- Ribbon.
Simon Says Stamp :- Animal Antics.

Think I'll go and have a coffee now and try to get to bed earlier than usual. Catch up with you all tomorrow.

Thanks for looking.

House Mouse & Friends 104 - Happy Birthday.

Hi everyone I couldn't resist making a birthday card to enter the House Mouse and Friends Challenge. It's their 3rd birthday and they're having a blog hop to celebrate with lots of lovely prizes.

I used sketch 29 from Sketch and Stash and I'm also entering the challenge at Secret Crafter which is 1 image, 2 papers, 3 flowers, 4 brads and 5 gems/pearls.

I used :-

Image :- House Mouse.

DP :- Marianne Design.

Colouring :- Promarkers.

Flowers :- Prima.

Brads, Glamour Dust and jewels.

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

Another Penny Black Christmas Card!

Hi everyone, here's the other card I made at the crop on Saturday. Yet another Christmas card. I think you'll be getting fed up with my Christmas cards. I think I'm up to 22 now so still a long way to go!!

I used :-

Image :- Penny Black.

Sentiment and Card Candi :- Craftwork Cards.

Colouring :- Promarkers.

Nesties, Cuttlebug embossing folders, Martha Stewart punch, Glamour Dust, jewels and ribbon.

I love these PB hedgies, they're so cute. I think 12 of my Christmas cards so far have PB images.

I'm entering the following challenges :-
Penny Black :- Touchy Feely - texture - ribbon, glitter, embossing, snowflakes.
Secret Crafter :- Christmas is Coming.
Fussy and Fancy :- use a lot - use 3 or more of your favourite embellishment - 3 snowflakes (plus the embossed ones lol!).
Ribbon Girl :- Use ribbon. (I think I bought it from the Ribbon Girl!)

Hope you like and you have time to leave me a quick comment. I'm hoping to get on with the packaging for the communion tokens I mentioned on Sunday and if I can get one finished I'll post it tomorrow.

Is it just me?

Maybe it is just me but does anyone else find it more difficult to make a card for a friend who's a cardmaker too? When I started this card I had no idea what I was going to do lol! My friend's birthday is tomorrow but I know it's safe to show you the card as she doesn't use the Internet.

I used :-

Sentiment :- Hero Arts.

Background :- Hero Arts.

Flower and butterfly :- Magnolia Doohickey dies.

Stamping and edging done with Stampin' Up! Lavender Lace.

Ric Rac, Brad and Shimmer Dots from stash.

Deckle edge Nestie and Glamour Dust.



What do you think? I hope she likes it. I'm quite pleased with it considering it just sort of happened. Did you notice I used my favourite colour.

I didn't make it with any challenges in mind but I think it fits the following :-

Totally Papercrafts :- Bling it up.
Secret Crafter :- Monochromatic.
Sir Stampalot :- Whatever You Fancy.
Crafty Cardmakers :- Flutterbies.

Well I'm off now to have a look at the entries for the candy I offered as GDT for the House Mouse and Friends 100th challenge and blog hop. So if you entered the blog hop, the challenge and left me a comment remember to pop back tomorrow to see if you've won.

I'm also going to catch up with my DT work and visit my blog friends who I've been neglecting lately. I've not achieved anything today in spite of having a day off because of a local holiday. I could get used to not working on a Monday. Last week I only came back from babysitting on Monday and next week I have my WRI outing so that's 3 Mondays in a row. Fantastic.

Thanks for looking and don't be shy, feel free to tell me what you think. I'm always encouraged by other crafters' kind comments. 

Cheerful Get Well Card!

Well I think it is lol! I made this card for my friend's husband who has just had a wee operation. I meant to have made it in time to give it to her for him when we went to the car treasure hunt on Friday. Didn't happen! I've posted it now so I hope I can remember what I used.

I 3D'd the little mice but I don't know if you can see that on the second pic. I even threaded the buttons which was not a lot of fun as they're so small but I was scared in case Kath saw naked buttons on my blog lol!

I used :-

Image :- Penny Black.

Sentiment :- Hero Arts.

DP :- Basic Grey - White Paper.

Card Candy :- Craftwork Cards.

Stampin' Up! punch, buttons from stash, faux stitching with American Crafts pen.

I'm entering the following challenges :-

Penny Black :- Pesky Critters!
Cupcake :- Sketch.
Secret Crafter :- Something from around the house - typewriter.
Creative Inspirations challenge :- Stitching.
Cards for Men :- Stars.

I'm not really very impressed with this card. I think I thought too much about it and it looked better in my head! Sometimes I get on better when I haven't much time.

I'm off to enter these challenges and then see if I can get some DT work done.

Thanks for looking and feel free to tell me what you think. You can be honest with me, I promise I won't cry!

What a Helpful Doggie!

Peace at last! The pups are sleeping so maybe I can get something done now. So far all I have done today is let pups out to the toilet (seems like dozens of times), feed them, walk them!! Apart from that I've cut lots of cards to the size I want and folded it. I've also embossed lots of card so now maybe I can do something about making some cards. I really need to make a lot of quick cards so I can get them posted. After I've printed labels and written the cards of course.

This is a quick card I made last night. These LOTV cute squaresare a real lifesaver this year!

I used :-

Image :- LOTV cute squares.

Sentiment and Card candy :- Craftwork Cards.

Snowflake :- Martha Stewart punch.

Touch of Promarker round snowflake and sentiment.

Glamour dust on girl's hat, scarf and trims.

Glitter for snow and edge of image and DP.

DP :- Dovecraft.

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

Sketch and Stash :- Sketch and cute squares are new stash.

Secret Crafter :- Christmas.

Stamp Something :- Christmas card or colours.

Creative Card Crew :- Anything Goes.

Hope you like! Just about time to have a coffee now and get the tea into the oven while the 2 menaces are asleep. And then  try to get on with some more cards.

Thanks for looking.

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

Rush, rush, rush!

Here I am rushing at the last minute again. I made this card before I went to work this afternoon. I had a wee bit of spare time. Well not really as it turns out since I had to rush to get ready for work!

I used :-

Image :- Penny Black.

DP :- Basic Grey.

Colouring :- Promarkers.

Sentiment and card candy :- Craftwork Cards.

Snowflake :- Martha Stewart punch.

Jewels from the Hobby House, Glamour Dust.

I'm going to enter the following challenges :-

Basic Grey :- Sketch and Basic Grey papers.

Penny Black :- Let it Snow.

Secret Crafter :- Red and Gold.

Pile it On :- Christmas plus animals.

Thanks for looking and I'll see you tomorrow with another card for the Totally Gorjuss challenge.

PS my candy is here.

Butterflies and Bees.

Good afternoon everyone and I hope it is as lovely where you are as it is here in Aberdeenshire. I should add that I am pretty far East, not far from the North Sea.....just in case it is not so nice inland lol!

I've made a very quick card this morning. I've been racking my brains about the Penny Black challenge. I knew the butterflies part was not a problem but the bees??? It was only when I went to look for some stamps to finish Oliver's hanging that I realised I did have two stamps with bees. This one which I added to the cat with the flowers and butterflies and one with a big fat bee! So I have made a really simple and quick card.

I am also entering some more challenges with it.

Secret Crafter :- Pink, green and flowers.
Basic Grey :- Tutti Frutti.

I think I've met these challenges ok!

I used

DP :- Basic Grey nook and pantry.

Images :- Penny Black.

Flowers :- Prima.

Sentiment :- Craftwork Cards.

Colouring :- Promarkers plus Sakura clear gel pen.

Ribbon, brads and jewels from stash.

I think that's it then. Best get a move on and find time to have some lunch before work.

Enjoy your weekend everyone especially if you have a holiday on Monday too. Don't eat too much chocolate....as if!!

Kat xx

Blue Christmas.

Hi girls, I started making a card this afternoon but didn't make much progress before tea - thanks Tesco!


By the time I got back to it I realised that it was too late for the Colour Create challenge which is for blue, silver and white this time. Not to worry it is always another Christmas card.


I followe the fabby sketch from Friday Sketchers. The lovely Anya image is coloured with Promarkers and stickles used on her muff, edge of coat, boots and scarf. The sentiment and the image are both edged with silver. The sentiment is from Craftwork Cards.


Other challenges:-

Paperplay 2 papers, 1 ribbon and 3 buttons.
Anyone for Anya something round - buttons.
Pile it on 3 flowers and 5 pearls.
Creative Card Crew strings attached -silver thread with charm.
Secret Crafter seasons - Winter.

Hope I've got these right! Let me know what you think, if you've got time to leave a comment I can pop over to your blog and see what you've been doing.

Kat xx

Allsorts 23 and Secret Crafter 54.

I made this card quickly for the challenges forthe Allsorts challenge and the Secret Crafter Saturday challenge. Maybe it's a bit basic, what do you think?

DP - DCWV rose tinted Christmas.
Image - Clarity stamps. Stamped with raspberry Vivid inkpad and embossed with transparent embossing powder. Not an old old stamp but I have had it for a while.
Pale pink glittery stamps cut with 3 different punches.
Ribbon, jewels and pearls from stash.

Thanks for looking and enjoy your weekend.

Kat x

Ten Challenges

Good morning girls and what a lovely morning it is. I have been a good girl today, I have hoovered and dusted and watered plants before I finished this card. I didn't get it finished yesterday before I went out for the evening because I managed to cut my finger while I was making tea. I really did have a clumsy day yesterday lol!!

Anyway I am hoping that this card fits no fewer than 10 challenges. I think I have gone a bit over the top with this one lol!! We are going to visit our daughter tomorrow and I am going to a Stampin Up party this evening so I need to think ahead.

I made this card using the lovely sketch from Sketch Saturday. I watercoloured this cute image from Penny Black. My DP is from Basic grey and I embossed the plain pink with my Cuttlebug swiss dots folder. I used a punch to cut out the little hearts and the tag is from a punch too. The ribbon and eyelets are from my stash. I couldn't find a suitable stamp to fit the theme (and the tag) so I used some black peeloffs - knew they would come in useful eventually!

The challenges I hope to enter are:-

Penny Black Saturday Challenge:- Chocolate, lemon and pink.

Sketch Saturday:- Sketch.

Secret Crafter:- Animal antics.

Die Cut Dreams:- Ribbon and trims.

Pile it on:- Let them eat cake.

Whimsy:- Eyelets.

The Pink Elephant:- Dots, punch, tag.

Creative Inspirations Wednesday Challenge:- Letters/numbers.

Cute Card Thursday:-First birthday.

ABC:- E for embossing.

Wow I'm tired just listing them LOL!! You probably all think I'm nuts now but some of these are challenges I always try to enter and some are ones I enter sometimes if I fancy them so I saw them while I was browsing blogs. Just humour me......!

I'm off now to be a good girl and clean the bathroom, make the tea, have my lunch and go to work.

Not sure how I am going to cope with no internet for a couple of days but I dare say Poppy will keep me busy. She is turning into a real little chatterbox now and always busy. Her mum starts her maternity leave on Tuesday so I think she is not going to have a quiet time before the baby comes lol!!

I'll maybe get a chance to check out some blogs later if I'm not home too late. Have a nice weekend girls, I'm hoping to check out Stampaholics in Perth on my way to Crieff tomorrow. I've heard that it's a really good shop.

Kat xx

Soon be the Weekend!

I've been naughty again! After I fed and walked the dogs and hung out my washing I've been making this card. My excuse is that I'm working this afternoon and when I come home from work it will be too late and this card fits 4 Saturday challenges.

I used this great sketch from Sketch Saturday. It was really easy to use - even for me! I've used the lovely lemonade papers from Basic Grey and for the other part of their challenge I put some of the dark pink through the bug in the divine swirls folder. I used nesties to cut out the ovals, coloured one of my new Penny Black stamps with Promarkers and used a Sakura clear gel glitter pen on the hearts. The Pile it on challenge wants flowers so I punched out some with my EK Success punches and finished them off with stick on pearls. To complete the Penny Black challenge I add a piece of paper lace and buttons from my stash for the Whimsy challenge. The edges of the background paper have been distressed with Distress Inks for the http://cupcakecraftchallenges.blogspot.com/. I added faux stitching for the Simon Says Stamp challenge. And it looks like a girl's card so I can enter the Secret Crafter Saturday challenge. If I can get round to decorating the inside I could also enter the Creative Card Crew challenge too.

Just another view of the card to show that I put the image up on sticky pads to give a bit of dimension.

Not sure what work will be like this afternoon.....! My colleague just phoned to say that the printer wasn't working and the engineer had until Monday to come out to fix it!!! There are so many things you can't do in the Post Office if you don't have a printer. I guess I could have a quiet afternoon if the engineer doesn't appear lol!! I should be so lucky. Good thing it's Friday and not Monday or we would be really popular. On the bright side I am off tomorrow and I'm going to a crop at my local craft shop and I'm also off on Monday - just because I want a day off.

So I'm off to post this now and see if I can do some housework before I leave for work.

Hope you like and please let me know what you think if you have a minute to spare.

Kat x

It is now Sunday and guess who forgot to post a photo of the inside of the card!!! I'm probably too late now but here it is anyway. I'm never sure what to do with insides. Some are easier than others - can be difficult if you have a 6x6 pad and only two sheets of each paper. Never mind her it is.

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

Sketch and Stash 18 and more.

If you are guessing that I haven't done my ironing yet you would be right lol! I might be too late for the Sketch and Stash 18 challenge but it fits other challenges too and I like the sketch. It was really easy to use. Sorry about the dodgy photo, this time of night is not the best to take a photo. I've discovered that if I take a photo sort of from above it is almost viewable but I will replace it with a better one tomorrow! I watercoloured this sweet Penny Black image. My DP is wild raspberry from K & Co. It is neglected not because I don't like it but because I do!! I'm sure you all understand this. The paler DP has hearts on it which might not be obvious in this photo. Do you like my heart brads - I think they are really sweet. I used the lovely Martha Stewart heart punch for even more hearts. The flowers and jewels are from my stash and I inked round the DPs with Vivid ink pads. Monday morning now and I've replaced the original photo with a slightly better one. You might well wonder how bad the first one was if this one is better!

Challenges for this card:-

Sketch and Stash 18:- neglected DPs and heart brads.
Penny Black Saturday Challenge:- Hearts desire - DP, heart brads and heart punch.
Secret Crafter:- Hearts and Flowers.

This time I really need to do my ironing!! In spite of the fact that I have a day off tomorrow I will be out two evenings this coming week and probably going to my friend's house again on Wednesday afternoon to get some cards done for our sale of work. So I need to be able to do some crafting tomorrow.

Kat xx

Saturday Challenges.

I'm just ready to run out the door to go to a very boring meeting so I'll be back later to explain what this is all about!

The challenge this week on Create4fun was to make a milk carton. I made the template as big as my programme would allow but it is still not very big. It is cute though. My daughter says it wouldn't hold many Lindor choccies lol! I used some Penny Black stamps for two sides plus the sentiment. I watercoloured the images and added some stickles for snow and on the doggie's hat. I cut out two snowflakes with a Sizzix die. I used my nesties to cut out scalloped squares and the plain squares of DP. I actually printed the template onto plain paper first so that I could figure out how to make up the milk carton! When I was sure I knew what I was doing I printed onto red card. It was actually quite easy to make and fun. You could make one up with a little gift for any sort of occasion.

Challenges:-

Penny Black Saturday Challenge:- Christmas.

Create4fun:- Milk carton.

Pollycraft 23 :- Furry Friends.

Secret Crafter:- Wings.

My photos are even worse than usual! We have had such awful weather here. I even went outside to try to get them - if I had had it finished before I went to work in the afternoon I would have got on better as it was sunny then. But I was good this morning and did my housework before going near my craft area.

My meeting didn't last too long, that is the best I can say about it! Have a nice weekend everyone, hope the weather is better than it has been - especially yesterday!

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!!

Lots of Challenges....

This is a quick card I made today for the Papertake Weekly challenge. I used my Promarkers to colour the cute Whiff of Joy bear image. The papers are some of my favourites from MME. As usual my nesties were used to cut out the squares and rectangles. Ribbon is from my stash.

I made this yesterday evening and ended up doing my ironing very very late. I think it will fit sevenchallenges!! I coloured the lovely Edwin image from Magnolia with my Promarkers. The background paper is from Basic Grey cupcake pad. Other papers just scraps from my stash. Suit edged with silver Promarker and one set of jewels coloured with silver Promarker too.

I think it fits:-

Pile it On - Boy.

Colour Create - Blue, sand, black and silver -silver jewels and edges of suit.

Cute Card Thursday - At the beach.
Spoon Full of Sugar - Sketch.

Just Magnolia - Friendship.

Secret Crafter - Fancy corners. ( Not that fancy since it is a boy card.)

Stamp Something -something from summer vacation.

I might be pushing my luck with some of this but there is silver if you look closely and I have added corners!!

Thanks for looking and please feel free to tell me what you think.

Kat x