Totally Gorjuss 152 - Anything Goes.

Good morning everyone, thank goodness it's Saturday! I've had a busy week lol! On Monday evening after being at work all day I was at a quiz that had been organized for all the WRIs in Aberdeenshire. It was good fun and while we didn't win anything, not even a raffle prize, we weren't far behind the winners. On Tuesday after work I had to have a quick tea and go to a quiz organized by a WRI in our group. This time we were third only half a point behind the second placed team and two of us won a raffle prize. And even better we had lovely sandwiches, scones, pancakes, cakes and traybakes. On my precious day off I had to go to the dentist for a check up. In the afternoon I had been roped into helping out at Messy Church which is a new initiative for us. Children come along with a parent or some other adult. They get a snack and then there are a range of activities like painting, crafts, board games, books etc. Then there is a short bible story and maybe a song. We ended up with sandwiches, carrots, peppers, cherry tomatoes, crisps, juice and cake. We were pretty chuffed with the turnout and even though it is a church initiative no-one mentions coming to church or Sunday school. The idea is really just to get parents and children together with others and socialise, play and eat together. It was busy but fun! In the evening I went out to craft with friends. Tomorrow I have a crop and still have to decide what to take with me.

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But enough waffle it's time for another challenge at Totally Gorjuss. This week we're giving you a really easy challenge. It's "Anything Goes" and we're sponsored by Joanna Sheen. Do you like Promarkers? Well you could get the lovely new Limited Edition Winter colours if you win. They are lovely. I couldn't resist them!!

I used :-
Image :- Sugar Nellies.
DP :- LOTV.
Colouring :- Promarkers.
Candi :- Craftwork Cards.
Big Brother :- Hero Arts - Typewriter Letters.

I used the lovely sketch from theSugar Bowl so I'm entering that challenge.

Thanks for looking and I'll try to be a better blogger next week. I've missed not having enough time to catch up with my favourite blogs this week. Not to mention that I haven't had time to craft!

Catch you all later.

Kat xx

Sugar Bowl 34.

Hello everyone just a quick post with my entry for the Sugar Bowl challenge. Late as usual lol! But I have an excuse as after all the decorating at the weekend and on Monday this is the first chance I've had to do anything. I've managed to catch up with my DT work so hopefully tomorrow I can do a lot of crafting. But....and there's always a but isn't there? My younger daughter went to her sister's on Monday and came back with the dog on Tuesday as they are going on holiday. She's a great dog but a bit nutty. She's a yellow Lab and she gets on fine with my Lab. Unfortunately she has a bit of a health problem and has to have Hills dog food which is pretty expensive. Not even just the normal food but one from their range of prescription foods. Catriona ordered it last Wednesday and expected to get it on Thursday. Needless to say it came today and she is 2-3 hours drive away. So I had to phone our vet's and ask them to order it and I'll need to go and get it tomorrow. So I hope I can just go in there and straight back. I may nip in to Tesco as Kath has a great idea for storing clear stamps in folders which I might be able to get in my local store. I should have some of my university folders but I don't know where!!

Any way enough waffle. Sorry about the quality of the photo it looks a bit pale. Not easy to get a decent picture at night.

I used:-

DP :- Papermania rose garden.

Image :- Birthday Maggie.

Sentiment :- Craftwork Cards.

Colouring :- Promarkers, Sakura clear glitter gel pen and clear gel pen (shiny shoes).

Flowers punched with EK Success retro punches.

Pearls from stash.

That's it then, not a lot to it and probably not one of my best. Not sure I've done justice to Tiet's lovely sketch with all it's layers. Hopefully I'll be back tomorrow with some more cards. There are a few challenges I'd like to enter before I have to think about more decorating lol!!

Kat xx

Sugar Bowl 32.

Good evening everyone. I've just made this card for the Sugar Bowl challenge. I'm a bit last minute with it but not as late as I have been in the past lol! As I'm sure I've said before I don't know why I always end up at the last minute since there are two weeks to enter.

This week we can use whatever sketch we fancy from previous challenges so I've chosen to use the sketch from challenge 20.

I've used :-

DP :- K&Co.

Colouring :- Promarkers.

Flowers and flat back pearls :- Prima.

Sentiment :- Craftwork Cards.

I'm off to check out how much commenting I need to do to catch up with Just Cute Bears and Totally Gorjuss. I was trying to catch up last night after being away for 3 days without the internet but my internet connection was being very awkward. One minute I could do something the next it was acting up so I had to give up in disgust. Patience is not a strong point lol!!

Hope to see you tomorrow with something else. It's my day off and I'm always optimistic but somehow it never works out as planned.

Kat xx

Lilac Maggie.

Hi girls, I'm a bit late with this card for the Sugar Bowl challenge. I have been later than this though. I don't know why I'm always at the last minute because I've had two weeks to get it done! I decided tonight that I couldn't miss making a card with Judy's lovely sketch. So this is just a quick card. I thought I had left lilac behind but obviously not lol! I nearly decided to use the gorgeous papers I used yesterday and go for pink again but decided to use lilac again. I think Maggie suits lilac! Well that's my excuse.

Image :- Birthday Maggie from Sugar Nellies.

DP :- Cuddly Buddly patchwork papers.

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

Sentiment and card candy :- Craftwork Cards.

Martha Stewart punch, star punch and pearls from stash.

That's the lot then. Tomorrow I have a day off and I need to get my DT cards done. Next week I am going to have to do better as we are hoping to visit my daughter and family. Really looking forward to that. Since Catriona got her new phone she's discovered that she can email photos free instead of sending them as a multimedia text so all I need to do is get round to printing them lol!!

See you tomorrow,

Kat xx

Sugar Bowl 27.

Hi girls, here I am late as usual with my entry for the Sugar Bowl challenge. Not as late as I have been but not very early either!

This is a lovely sketch from Kathy and I really enjoyed using it. I coloured this sweet manga girl with Promarkers. The added option for this challenge is distressing so I distressed all the edges with my scissors and then edged them with antique linen Distress Ink. I added some lovely Prima flat back pearls to match and a Prima flower and that is it...finished. I actually spent more time trying to find plain card to match the DP. Nightmare......every card I looked at was either too green or too blue. The one I eventually chose still didn't seem right but now that the card is finished I'm wondering what all the fuss was about lol!!


I haven't had much to show this week but I have got a DT card made and posted and a scheduled post written (please be good Mr Blogger!) for Sunday morning at 9am which is when you will find out what the next challenge is at Just Cute Bears. Tomorrow I will organise my DT card for Totally Gorjuss and then my time is my own to maybe get a couple of challenges done.

I've already been out one night this week and I'm going out on Friday as well and then off to my daughter's in Crieff on Saturday and Sunday. I'm looking forward to seeing her and her husband and the kids again. It's been a few weeks since we saw them. We have got 2 toyboxes to take with us. My dad made them for my kids so hubby has been painting them for Poppy and Oliver. Catriona also wanted a bouncing Tigger that was hers and a Winnie the Pooh cross stitch that I made for her. We also found a picture of Catriona lying in one of the toyboxes when she was about Poppy's age and another one out in the garden climbing into a washing basket. And she's always liked cars because we found a piccie of her in Iain's pedal car!

I'm off to enter that challenge and check out the entries for Totally Gorjuss and Just Cute Bears. The number of entries for both of these challenges has been really encouraging but it does take a wee while to look at everyone's entries and leave a comment. I like to try to comment as much as I can because I know it feels a bit discouraging if you enter a challenge and no-one acknowledges your work.

I'm really looking forward to my day off tomorrow and I'm not going to make the mistake of going anywhere. I'm really going to make the most of my time off to get some crafting done.

Kat xx

Sugar Bowl 25.

Good evening girls. Here I am at the last minute again. I've had 4 weeks to do this and here I am. My excuse is of course that I had a lot of Christmas cards to make. I was reading blogs earlier and Angela at Sparkly Cards was showing a card she had done for the Sugar Bowl challenge and I thought I would get on and get one made after tea. So here it is.

I used this lovely rabbit from Sugar Nellies, available from Funky Kits, and coloured it with Promarkers. My DP is the lovely Nana's Nursery from DCWV. I used a Martha Stewart flower punch to make flowers from the DP and the plain lilac card. The flowers are finished off with card candy from Craftwork Cards. I doodled round all the edges with a black pen. Lillian has given us a lovely sketch to work with and I wish I had been able to do it more justice. The added option is to use your favourite colour. I'm sure you can guess mine. I'm not called Lilackat for nothing!!


I have some baby cards left but they are a definite blue or pink so I thought lilac would be nice for a change! Hope you like and I'd love to read your comments if you have a minute to leave one.

I'm off to see if I can rake out my favourite cards for every month since I started blogging.

Kat xx

Sugar Bowl 24.

Good evening girls. Here I am at the last minute again. You wouldn't think I had had two weeks to do it and here I am at this time of night!

I have had this sweet Sugar Nellies image, available from Funky Kits, for ages and this is the first time I have inked her. What an admission! I love this sketch that Marlene has given us for the Sugar Bowl challenge. I coloured the sweet image with Promarkers and edged the rectangle with a matching Promarker. The DP I used is the lovely MME signature collection which is lovely and glittery and thick and just gorgeous. I finished off with some card candy from Craftwork Cards and my "zig zag" is the lovely blue velvet ric rac across the middle.


This is just another view of the card as sometimes when you have to take a photo at night the colours come out a bit funny. I'm not sure if I should have added a sentiment. I might do that before I send it out. All I need to do is get about another 50 or so cards made before the last posting date.

I am quite pleased with this card for once. It is quite easy to make a half decent card when you have such lovely DP and such a sweet image. And of course a great sketch gives you a good starting point.

I hope to get a reasonable number of cards made tomorrow on my day off. Not sure you ever get as much done as you think you will when you have a whole day off. I have to go out first thing to get two presents for two nights out - the WRI and the Guild and one for a crop on Saturday.

I'm off to post this now before it gets any later. I have another card to post from last night but I might leave it till tomorrow.

Kat xx

Sugar Bowl 23

Here I am girls at the last moment again!! This one is for the Sugar Bowl challenge. I've only had 2 weeks to get this done so there is really no excuse!

I coloured this lovely Gorjuss Girl, available from Funky Kits, with Promarkers. I made the card following the lovely sketch from Judy using K & Co sparkly sweet DP. The flowers are Prima and the lovely velvet ric rac, brads and jewels are from my stash.

I'm off to post this now, enter the challenge and go to bed - late as usual LOL!!

See you tomorrow...my day off, fantastic!!

Kat xx

I just realised that I forgot that this would fit the last challenge for Paper Blooms. I hope they have only stopped for a break and come back soon.
It also fits the Stamp Something challenge which is also "Thank You".

Sugar Bowl 22.

Well here I am again. Second post today! I'm a bit late for the Sugarbowl challenge but I'm still in time to enter before midnight. I love this sketch, it was really easy to work with. I love this sweet Sugar Nellies image,available from Funky Kits, which I coloured with Promarkers. I have made a few cards with this image this year so far. I used the lovely MME merry days of Christmas DP again. Another favourite...! The lace is from Elaine at Quixotic Paperie. Elaine has lots of gorgeous goodies and at the moment is giving 10% off to celebrate her birthday. The snowflakes were cut using a Martha Stewart punch. I finished by adding jewels and pearls and some stickles to her coat and hat.

I'd best finish this now and enter the challenge before it is too late. I have a day off tomorrow and would usually stay at home and craft but....my daughter has asked if I would like to go into Aberdeen tomorrow to see the new shopping centre at Union Square. And as local girls will know we now have a Hobbycrafts in Aberdeen. I think she would be bored in there but I'm sure she can find plenty of other stores to visit LOL!!

Still no news of my other daughter and her baby!! At the moment if nothing has happened she has to go into hospital on Saturday to be induced. Poor Catriona is miserable. She is normally a tall size 8 so a big baby bump all at the front is making her very uncomfortable. She is tired but can't sleep and just wants it to be over. To make it worse she knows several girls who have already had their babies. Hopefully it can only be another 4 days at the most!!!

See you tomorrow.

Kat xx

Sugar Bowl 21

Well who's the silly person who realised at 5 to 10 that she hadn't done her card for the Sugar Bowl Challenge. Trust me, after all I've only had 2 weeks to do it. Might just make it if I enter now and then finish this post!!

Well I've entered....a bit late but better late than never and it's not midnight yet. I'm really going to have to do what I need to do and then wander round my favourite blogs lol!!

This was a great sketch from Tiets. At first I thought it was impossible to do in a short time. I probably haven't done it justice but I was in a hurry.

I used:-

DP:- MME wonderful winter - I love this paper.

Colouring:-Promarkers and Sakura stardust gel pens.

Martha Stewart snowflake punch and embossed snowflake edge punch, Nesties, gems from stash.

So that's another Christmas card for the pile. Still not a very big pile but it's growing.

Tomorrow is my day off so hopefully I'll get some time to craft.

Kat xx

Sugar Bowl 20

Hi girls it's me again! This is the other card I made today. This one is for the Sugar Bowl challenge. Isn't Gayle's sketch lovely. Simple and easy to use...just what I like lol! I love this Basic Grey paper. It's from the bittersweet collection and I got it on Saturday at Stampaholics in Perth. First time I have been there but it certainly won't be the last. I used this lovely charity stamp by Diane Duda for Sugar Nellies. I paper pieced her dress with the lighter DP. The rest of her is coloured with Promarkers and the wings are coloured with a Sakura clear glitter gel pen which unfortunately is not obvious from the photo! I added gems, ribbon, Prima flowers and brads from my stash. Nesties were used to cut the rectangles as usual.I love the colours of these papers...I love pink. Now I need to go and amend the previous post to add the other challenges I am entering. I was at my WRI meeting this evening and we had visitors from another WRI to entertain. Our vice president was in charge and asked me to do the vote of thanks!!! I never do the vote of thanks, never have done....till tonight. I do not do public speaking. At the agm it is as much as I can do to tell the members what our finances are like and where the money has come and gone throughout the year lol! It's the only bit of being the treasurer I don't like - I prefer to just sit quietly. I was quietly pleased that I managed to do the vote of thanks without making a complete idiot of myself but I really hope never to do it again.

My day off tomorrow so I hope I can get a decent amount of crafting done. I have a crop to go to on Saturday....I can only go in the afternoon as I want to make sure I still have some free days off when my daughter has her baby. Less than 3 weeks to go. I'm getting quite excited now!!!

See you tomorrow and thanks for looking.

Kat xx

Sugar Bowl 19

Seems ages since I managed a post but I think it was only Sunday. I was out on Monday night at the Guild. One of our own members gave a talk entitled "Granny goes to Base Camp." And if you think that means Everest you would be right. She did actually get to base camp when she was in her 50s in 2001. We were well impressed especially us younger ones!! She certainly is pretty adventurous. Last year she told us about her trip to Tibet and the Dalai Lama. Unfortunately she is now very ill and in fact she was brave enough to get out of her bed to come along and show us her photos and tell us about her trip. Amazing lady!

This is the card I made yesterday evening for the Sugar Bowl challenge. I love this image from Sugar Nellies, she is so sweet. I have used her a few times and she is so easy to colour. Even for me to colour with Promarkers!! Isn't this a lovely sketch from Marlene and I have included pink and brown as required. I used some lovely papers from Basic Grey. The base card is pink and I matted the DT onto brown and pink. I did some faux stitching round some of the edges. I used my nesties to cut out the circles and rectangles.
I inked the edges of the flowers with brown and pink and used some brads and jewels from my stash.

I'm not sure about this card. I don't think it's what I meant to make before I started!! If that makes sense. I wish it was a bit more cheerful looking but it's too late now to worry about it.

Thanks for looking.

Kat x

Pile it On etc and Sugar Bowl 18.

Good morning everyone. What a miserable day it is here after a lovely day yesterday. Great for crafting but not so great for taking photos!! The first card is one I made yesterday for a few challenges. I used the lovely sketch from Simon Says Stamp and used Promarkers to colour this lugubrious looking dog from Funstamps. Isn't he cute? The papers are from Prima and I think they are just right for a male card. I sewed around all the edges again - really getting into this sewing on cards lol. I cut ovals with my nesties and embossed the one behind the image with a Cuttlebug Script folder. The square metal brads, buttons and ribbon are from my stash.

The challenges I hope to enter are:-

Pile it on:- Birthday.
Allsorts 17:- Something for the boys.
Busy Becs Creatalicious Challenges:- For Dad plus brown and metal.
Simon Says Stamp:- Sketch.
Paper Maniac Challenges:- Embossing.
Creative Inspirations Wednesday Challenge:- Blue and brown.
Whimsy 18:- Sewing.


Then this morning I realised that I had to do the Sugar Bowl challenge now or I would not have time to do it at all lol. I was dying to use my new MME Colourful Christmas papers. They are gorgeous, lovely and bright. I'm not sure if this card's too busy lol!! I coloured the lovely Honey with Gifts from Sugar Nellies with Distress inks and also used them to ink all the edges. I got a parcel of goodies I had ordered from Elaine at Quixotic yesterday so I decided to use my new jute ribbon. I also got a parcel from Crafts U Love so I had to use my new Martha Stewart punches to make the flowers. The blue ribbon and buttons are from my stash.

Please tell me what you think girls - is it too busy? I was going to use the other side of the stripey paper which is blue with swirly doodley lines but it just didn't work the stripey side seemed to work better. (To me) In the same way the other side of the orange with coloured dots is much quieter and it didn't seem to work either!!

Well I should have my lunch now and get ready for work. tomorrow is balance day in the Post Office and I like to get organised for it on a Tuesday afternoon. Maybe I'll have time to check out some blogs this evening - hope so!

Kat xx

Sugar Bowl Challenge

I made this card yesterday for the Sugar Bowl challenge. I love Judy's great sketch, it was really easy to work with. I used some lovely pink card for the base card and for layering. The papers are Basic Grey sultry, aren't they gorgeous? After having a go at using my new mini sewing machine last week I decided to use it again for this card. I used the lovely "Poppies" Gorjuss Girl from Sugar Nellies which is coloured with Promarkers and highlighted with a white Inkssentials gel pen. I think she would be perfect for a card for my little grand daughter, Poppy lol. The challenge is to include hand made flowers. I made these flowers using a punch andmy nesties shapeabilities flower bouquet miniabilities. I embossed them on the wrong side before putting them together and then added a little flower shaped brad. I used some of the DPs and plain pink card to make them. The brads and jewels are from my stash.



Has anyone heard of the Christmas RAK club? I have a link to it in my sidebar. I first read about it on Angela at Sparkly Cards blog. You need to become a follower of that blog and then follow the instructions. You will then be invited to join a private blog. There are 3 RAKs planned for September. It sounds like fun so why don't you pop over for a look.

Thanks for looking. Hope you like my card and leave a comment. I love to hear what you think - it's nice to hear from you , it really makes my day to get some feedback.

Kat x

Sugar Bowl Challenge

Good morning everyone and what a beautiful morning it is here in Aberdeenshire. I have made this card, which is for my daughter's birthday, for the Sugar Bowl challenge. I have had a bit of grief with the photos. I took 2 photos but when I went to upload them to my laptop it announced that there were no new photos to upload. I checked and they had vanished from my camera!! So I took them again. This time when it was uploading the second had turned into a scene with water and hills which is not on my memory card. By this time I am getting a touch narky not to mention worried that I can't post anything if there is something wrong with my camera. Needless to say blogger wouldn't upload anything. So I deleted whatever was there and tried again. No problem this time. I uploaded the photos to the laptop and then blogger uploaded them to this post. I feel a bit twitchy now though.

I watercoloured one of my favourite images, Daisy, from Sugar Nellies. The DP is wild raspberry from K & Co and I've used ribbon from my stash. I've used my nesties as usual to cut circles and scalloped circles. I hope you can see my doodles which are a part of the challenge!

Now I need to post this card so that my daughter can have it in time for her birthday on Saturday. Then I have some more crafting to do if I want to take part in Friday Sketchers and Just Magnolia!

By the way I have won a lovely prize from the Truly Scrumptious challenge this week. Have a lovely day and hopefully I will be able to post another card later.

Kat x

Sugar Bowl Challenge

Hi here I am with my entry for the Sugar Bowl challenge. I used some lovely lilac pearlised card from my local paper mill for my base card and also for layering. I coloured the lovely Gorjuss Girl with Promarkers. The papers I used are from Basic Grey and I love the colours in them especially those two. (I'm not called lilackat for nothing!) The colours have not come out all that well unfortunately. I have taken photos all over the house and the lilac comes out a bit too blue!

The jewels, ribbon and flowers are from my stash. I have the same flowers in other colours but these are the last of these shades and I can't remember where I got them. As usual I have used my nesties to cut out the rectangles. The Cuttlebug and nesties are in constant use, don't know what I'd do without them. Now I need to make my friend's Ruby Wedding anniversary card.

Hope everyone is enjoying a nice day. Here in Aberdeenshire it has been lovely today. No rain - yet.

Have a good day.

Kat x

Sugar Bowl Challenge

This is my first attempt at a challenge for The Sugar Bowl, using Lilian's lovely sketch. I stamped and water coloured Flower Girl, one of my favourite Gorjuss Girls. I didn't have any "kraft" so I have used browns in the card. I chalked round the edges of the image with green and used a scalloped long rectangular Nestability to cut out a brown mat for it. The papers are Basic Grey Motifica. I made the flower using the papers and brown card. The ribbon and brad are from my stash.