Totally Gorjuss 149 - Rawr!

Good morning everyone, hope you're all having a lovely weekend. I've been visiting my daughter for four days to babysit. I should be home later today though so I'll be able to catch up with what you've all been doing. I've enjoyed the time off work. Everyone says how tiring it is looking after grandchildren but it's better than the job I usually do!

But anyway here's my card for this week's challenge at Totally Gorjuss. This week our challenge is "Rawr." That worried me a bit cos I thought what kind of image have I got that would fit the challenge. Then I remembered this image. I think this cute lion might say rawr but probably not very loudly lol!

Image and corners :- Whiff of Joy.

DP and Sentiment :- LOTV.

Colouring :- Promarkers.

Buttons, Baker's Twine and pearls.

Not sure if this fits any challenges but I'll check up this evening when I'm at home. We're sponsored by Heather's Hobbie Haven so don't forget to pop over there to see what she has to tempt you.

Thanks for looking and I'll see what everyone's been doing later on.

Totally Gorjuss 29 - Pink and Green.

How did it get to be Saturday again. I'm sure it was Saturday just a couple of days ago!! But if it's Saturday it must be time for another challenge at Totally Gorjuss. This week we would like to see pink and green on your card or project. That's not too difficult is it?

This week I've made a wedding card and I think it will fit a few challenges. I am also going to send it to Domi who is getting married to Uli on the 15th of May. I hope they have a lovely day. I was married on the 13th of May more years ago than I want to remember lol!

This is my card and I hope you like it, but more importantly I hope Domi and Uli like it.

Image:- Whiff of Joy Bride. Cut out and popped up on sticky pads.

Sentiment - Craftwork cards, inside a computer generated message cut out with a scalloped nestie.

DP :- Sandylion - Wedding stripes and Roses. Roses also used inside card.

Colouring :- Promarkers and Sakura clear glitter gel pen.

Flowers :- Wild Orchid Crafts.

Pearls :- Hobby House.

Jewels from stash.

Lace :- Quixotic.

I'm quite pleased with this card. I love the papers and I think (hope) the flowers and lace go well with the papers and image.

I am entering this card in a few challenges:-

Simon Says Stamp :- Wedding.

Domi's Wedding Card Challenge :- Domi's wedding card.

Paperplay :- Bling.

Charisma Cardz :- Wedding.

By the Cute and Girly :- Celebration.

Whiff of Joy :- Sketch.

That's it then girls. I hope you can find time to enter this nice easy challenge. It's only a couple of colours so I'm sure you can combine it with some other challenges if you want. I'm looking forward to seeing what you make this week. If you have a minute I'd be really happy to hear what you think of my card. And please take the time to pop over to Totally Gorjuss and see what my talented teamies have made. You won't be disappointed as they have all made gorgeous cards this week again.

Enjoy your weekend.

Kat xx

Happy Birthday!

Hi everyone, this has been a good day....I've got a card made lol! I've really missed getting any cards made recently. All I seem to have done is my DT cards and commenting and trying to catch up with my favourite blogs. I'll need to try to get up to speed though as my daughter should get the keys to her first flat on Friday and I have a feeling I'm going to be busy with other things. I'm not really that good at painting....bit too slap dash lol! But I can strip wallpaper and paste it and I suppose I can clean and scrub. What fun....don't I lead an exciting life? And then I'm going to be having my other daughter's Labrador while they are on holiday. She's a lovely dog and no bother but.....and there's always a but isn't there? We live in the country and at the moment we're surrounded by lambs and calves and she's quite loopy. Not always easy to hang onto her lead but, fingers crossed, I've always managed so far. Luckily my Labrador doesn't need a lead and my Spaniel is so decrepit that she doesn't have any notion of going for a walk.

But enough waffle, I need to tell you about my card before I check out what DT commenting I need to do before I do my ironing!

I love this cute bear from Whiff of Joy and I think he's ideal for a birthday card for a child. I think he's good for a card for anyone actually but I've been trying to make some child cards for Catriona as with two littles ones she probably has more use for them than I do. Even my youngest nephew will be 15 this year.

I used:-

DP :- Paper Adventures - check and spotty paper and Doodlebug Designs.

Colouring :- Promarkers, Sakura clear glitter gel pen (on icing and spotty paper).

Sentiment :- Craftwork Cards.

Distress Ink in bundled sage round edges.

Buttons and glittery gems from stash.

Nesties.

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

Whiff of Joy :- Image and green, yellow and one other colour.

Sophisticat :- So Distressing.

ABC challenge :- S for sparkle.

Cute Card Thursday :- Touchy Feely - buttons, jewels and glitter - hope this is ok.

Create 4 Fun :- Circles.

Well I'm off to do something useful. I should probably get on with an 18th birthday card for my nephew. I got his present yesterday so I just need the card.

Kat xx

Looks Windy!

A very quick post now as I want to enter a couple of Tuesday challenges and it'll probably be too late by the time I get home from work tomorrow.

Image:- Whiff of Joy.

Colouring:- Promarkers.

DP:- MME Pretty Please.

Flowers:- Prima.

Button:- MME Bloom and Grow.

Sentiment:- Craftwork Cards.

Lace and ribbon from stash.

Nesties used to cut image and mat and cuttlebug Swiss dots folder to emboss plain card.

Challenges are:-

A Spoon Full of Sugar :- 1 pattern, 1 embossed, 1 button and 1 ribbon.

Passion for Promarkers :- Aegean, sky blue and cool aqua.

Whiff of Joy :- Sketch and WoJ stamp.

Creative Inspirations Wednesday challenge :- Use scraps - I did, I don't waste a piece of this MME paper.

Off to post this now. Hope everyone had a lovely weekend.

Kat xx

What a Cutie!

I made this card using the Whiff of Joy challenge sketch. This was really lovely and simple to use and you could dress it up as much as you like. I have kept it fairly simple as it is a boy card.

The DP is just some I found in a drawer! I coloured this cute Whiff of Joy image with Promarkers. Then I added some ribbon and buttons. I finished it off with some card candy and a sentiment from Craftwork Cards.

Apart from the Whiff of Joy challenge I am also going to enter the following challenges:-

Stamp Something :- Blue and white.

Susie's Sassy Challenge :- For a boy with the added option of an animal.

Daring Cardmakers :- At least one hole - I may be pushing my luck here but there are holes in the buttons!

I think that's it and I'll just go and post this now. See what you think and hope you can find time to leave me a wee comment. Probably be back tomorrow with another card. I'm off to see what I can do about my DT cards.

Kat xx

An Angel!

Well girls I can't believe it's the 12th of January and I've made a Christmas card! Isn't this a lovely angel from Whiff of Joy. I hope it should fit a few challenges.

The challenge from Whiff of Joy is red and aqua. I used the lovely sketch from Secret Crafter and the challenge from ABC Christmas challenge is A for angel plus charms or beads. Realised also that the Paperplay challenge is Precious metals and I do have a metal charm on the card!

DP - Cosmo Cricket Jolly by Golly.

Colouring - Promarkers.

Card Candy and sentiment - Craftwork Cards.

Flowers - Hero Arts.

Charm - Quixotic Paperie.

I think that's it!

It seems to be a bit wet here at the moment. It has been very windy and now rainy. The snow is going down but unfortunately it is very icy. I could hardly walk this morning with the dog so I just gave up lol! I had to walk to my neighbour's house where my car was but I managed without falling...luckily. My husband said not to even try the short way home as it was impossible so I had to go the long way. It was also very icy but also very rutted and in places very wet. I have now got the car as far as the gate but it was very difficult to walk in the drive as it was very icy and I am very scared of ice. I fell on a slippy floor when I was 2 and broke my leg and had to spend a long time in traction (with both legs stuck in the air). Thanks to the wonderful care at Yorkhill sick children's hospital in Glasgow I have never had any after effects apart from a terrible fear of slippy situations lol!

I'm off to enter some challenges. As usual I have a feeling I am too late for one of the challenges. Never mind it is a start of my Christmas cards so that can't be a bad thing.

Just to add - yes I was right I was too late for the Whiff of Joy challenge. I find that the problem is that often you don't know when a challenge ends. It's really helpful when a time is specified. Of course it is not always GMT so for us in the UK (ok me) other countries' times can be a bit confusing. Maybe I'd get on better if I just assumed that the latest time was the morning of the day before at the latest not the evening. I'll just have to try to do challenges earlier not at the last minute.

I also meant to say that I've added a banner for "Say no to verification". The ABC Christmas challenge blog are keen for us all to say no to verification and they are offering blog candy if we turn off verification. It makes it much quicker to leave comments and you can always use owner approval to screen comments if you are worried about spam. I didn't realise I had it on so I have turned it off now and entered the challenge.

See you tomorrow and I'd love to hear what you think about my Christmas card.

Kat xx

So Cute!

Good evening girls I hope you have had a lovely weekend. It has been a lovely sunny, frosty day here. I made this card last night for a few challenges. I love Henry Mouse from Whiff of Joy, he is so cute. I still have special cards to do for my family but I like the colours of this one so much that I think I might keep it for my daughter and son-in-law. I already have one each for Poppy and Oliver so I just have 3 more special cards to make!

I bought this gorgeous glittery Bo Bunny DP last Saturday and it has taken me a week to use any of it. That's quite quick isn't it? I also used my favourite Cuttlebug snowflake and Martha Stewart snowflake, cut from glitter card, spotty ribbon and a lilac jewel. The card candy coloured with Promarker and the sentiment are from Craftwork Cards>. I also need to point out that you can't see from the photo any glitter on the pompom on his hat. That is because I forgot to add it before I took the photo. It's glittered now lol!

Do you like it? I'm really into easel cards now!! Long after everyone else. My reasoning is that I don't have to finish the inside or do an insert. I've actually made 3 more easel cards this afternoon and I've got the ideas and all the bits and pieces to put together to make another 8.

I'm entering the following challenges:-

Mojo Monday :- Sketch.
Whiff of Joy :- Whiff of Joy image and sparkle.
Creative Inspirations Wednesday Challenge :- non-traditional colours.
Colour Create :- Lilac or purple with aqua, black and white. Well they don't call me Lilackat for nothing LOL!!

Now I'm off to see how many more cards I can get made tonight. I'd really like to post tomorrow but I also need to iron so I'll just see what I can do. I can always post on Tuesday!!

Bye for now,

Kat xx

Warm Wishes.

Hi girls me again for the second time today. I finished this card this evening after work. I was hoping to enter it in the Whiff of Joy challenge. I might be too late now though. Never mind another Christmas card is very welcome. I followed the sketch from Whiff of Joy and coloured this lovely image of Henry mouse with hot chocolate....yummm, with Promarkers. I used some lovely wassail DP from Basic Grey. The card candy and sentiment is from Craftwork cards. I used a Martha Stewart punch to edge of a piece of cardstock with a double hole scallop. The flowers are white ones from Hero Arts which I also coloured with a Promarker and finished with brads.

I think this also fits the Stamp Something challenge :- Glitzy somethings - I've added some jewels and stickles on the hat.
Whimsy :- Die cuts.
the Pink Elephant :- Favourite Christmas colour combination.

I managed to make this card this morning just to see how it worked and whether I would make any more similar to it. I think I might. The large snowflake is a Sizzix die. The image is Penny Black again coloured with Promarkers. The sentiment and card candy is from Craftwork Cards again. Not really much to it but it would be quick to do and I could vary the image and the DP which this time is MME colourful Christmas.

I've used a sketch that I followed some time ago because I thought it would be simple and quick to follow to make a few cards. After checking out some of the challenges I often enter I think it would fit the Creative Card Crew challenge which is gold or silver.

I'm off now to explore another couple of ideas I've had. I really need to get a move on because once I've finished these cards I'll be the lucky person who has the privilege of writing them. I also know for a fact that I need to revise my labels to sort the ones I don't need any more and the ones where the details have changed.

Maybe if I'm really quick (lol) I'll be back with another card later.

Kat xx

Poppy's Birthday Card.

Hi everyone, it looks as if I haven't been doing very much this week but I have been quite busy! I've managed to make my DT card for Totally Gorjuss and today I made this card for Poppy's 2nd birthday on Monday.

I followed the fabby sketch from Sketch Saturday. The cute image is from Whiff of Joy - aren't these kangaroos cute?
The other challenges I am entering are:-

Quixotic challenge :- Kraft and red.
Allsorts challenge :- For a child.
Simon Says Stamp challenge :- animal antics.

This is a very cute image but I think I need a bit of practice colouring animals with Promarkers LOL!

Materials used:-
Kraft paper from jillibean.
DP - American Crafts.
Colouring - Promarkers.
Flowers - Martha Stewart punch and other daisy punch.
Card candy - Craftwork cards.
Ribbon and peeloff "2" from stash.

Hope Poppy likes her card. My other daughter is just back from visiting Catriona for a few days and she says Poppy loves her "big sister" card!

If you like this card please feel free to let me know. I should be back later to let you see my DT card for Totally Gorjuss.

Kat xx

Yesterday's card.

This is the last of yesterday's cards and the one that took me all the time! I think it is the last of the baby boy cards I need lol. I coloured one of my favourite Whiff of Joy stamps for baby cards with Promarkers. I love the pram charm which I see you can hardly make out... not sure why because it is hanging from the flower over the circle and the ribbon is under the circle....strange!!

I have made this card for the Creative Card Crew challenge - Babies and children.

and the Whiff of Joy challenge - Sketch plus Whiff of Joy stamp.

I used:- DCWV nana's nursery baby boy, nesties, Promarkers, charm, jewels, ribbon, pearl brad and punched hand made flower.

I'm probably too late for the Creative Card Crew challenge but at least I'm in time for the Whiff of Joy. Tomorrow I should get on with my DT card for Totally Gorjusss. Hope to see your entries for this wees challenge which is for a shaped card.

Now I need my coffee and bed!!!

Kat xx

Baby Card

I'm needing to make a few baby cards so the Die Cut Dreams challenge seemed ideal. The cute little charm has not photographed very well but it is a little teddy bear....sweet! I love this sweet image from Whiff of Joy, it is one of my favourite stamps for baby cards.

DP - DCWV Nana's nursery -baby boy -this one is lovely and glittery.

Flowers - Heidi Grace. Flowers are a favourite embellishment along with ribbon.

Image - Whiff of Joy.

From stash - card, buttons, ribbon, charm, brad and spacer.

Colouring - Promarkers.

Stitching - mini sewing machine.

Challenges:-

A Spoon Full of Sugar Challenge - Sketch.

Die Cut Dreams - Baby.

Cupcake Craft Challenge - Buttons and stitching.

Whimsy - Punchy.

Whiff of Joy - Image and die cut.

Paperplay - Favourite embellishments.

Creative Inspirations Wednesday Challenge - Family.

Stamp Something - Bling (DP and ribbon are both glittery).

If the Shoe Fits Scrap It - Bling it.

Hopefully I have complied with all these challenges! Must go now and enter them before I forget lol!!

Might be back later with some mini candy.

Kat xx

Autumn Breeze.

I'm a bit surprised at how quickly this card came together. I spent ages looking at the Basic Grey Indian Summer papers because I wanted to do a couple of Fall/Autumn challenges but somehow I couldn't find the effect I wanted! Then I settled on some MME bloom and grow papers. Not sure if they are right for autumn but they fit with what I had in mind lol! I edged the papers in frayed burlap and antique linen Ditress Inks and also added faux stitching. I used Promarkers to colour this sweet image from the Whiff of Joy Fall set. As embellishments I added a flower, a leaf and a button. The leaf was cut out using a Martha Stewart punch.



I am planning to enter a few challenges with this card:-

Crafty Cardmakers:- Sketch
Whimsy:- Autumn (Fall) colours.
A Spoon Full of Sugar:- Autumn.
http://lalalandcrafts.blogspot.com/:- 3 different embellishments - a flower, a leaf and a button.
Simon Says Challenge:- 3 embellishments, 2 papers and 1 image.
Stamp Something:- Favourite colours or papers - favourite papers - MME bloom and grow.

It's a beautiful morning here in Aberdeenshire. The kind of morning that makes you glad to have dogs to walk and washing to hang out lol! I seem to have a small problem uploading images this morning so I am going to leave this just now and come back to it later.

Everything seems fine now so I have uploaded my photo and now I need to go off and enter the challenges before I forget!! My daughter has been brushing one very hairy chocolate Labrador and now she (the dog) is lying down tired -poor thing - because she had a daft turn and started running about as only a Lab can. You know how they do it back legs in front of the front legs they are going so fast.

Hope you are all having this gorgeous sunny weather today, for September it is really fantastic. And what am I going to do now - well carry on crafting of course cos tomorrow is a full day at work and then I am out in the evening for a couple of hours at the Guild. I might manage another post later if I can get another card done before the light goes.

Enjoy your Sunday.

Kat x

Some More Challenges.

Good afternoon girls, I have been very naughty this morning. I only meant to sit down for a wee while and think about what I was going to do for this week's Whiff of Joy challenge and look at the time now!! I had a few ideas about what other challenges I could fit in. But it kind of snowballed. Now I have no housework done and I need to go to work at 1.45.


Well as I said this is for the Whiff of Joy challenge and I used the lovely sketch from Friday Sketchers and their optional colours blue and orange. Now orange is definitely not my colour but I thought I would give it a go anyway and see what happened! The sweet image is coloured with Promarkers and i went over the flowers in her hand and hair with a Sakura glitter gel pen. Probably not obvious. Not obvious either but the pale blue ribbon is very shimmery and gorgeous. Nesties were used as usual and the jewels, ribbon and buttons are from my stash. The plain blue
Not sure that the next piccie adds anything but it does show you my wonky sewing. I added stitching for the La La Lands Wednesday blog which I discovered has already closed - on Sunday 30th!! Guess I missed it then. Never mind I think the card still fits a few challenges lol.

So I think this card fits the following challenges:-

Friday Sketchers:- sketch plus blue and orange.

Whiff of Joy:- bling.

Crafty Cardmakers:- complementary colours - blue and orange.
Passion for Promarkers:- any colours and girly and glittery.

Cupcake Craft:- 3 buttons, 2 papers and 1 ribbon.

Whimsy:- touchy feely - bling, buttons and ribbon.

Pile it on:- round -buttons, DP and swiss dots.

365 cards:- 3 shades of blue.

I'm just about breathless after listin all those challenges!!!

Best go and post this now and see if I can have some lunch before I go to work. Hope you enjoy the rest of what is a lovely day here. Much nicer than yesterday when some people round here had a day off for the Bank Holiday.

Maybe see you later and please let me know what you think of this card or any other one that you may like (or otherwise).

Kat x

Cupcake Craft Challenge

Good evening everyone. I've used the lovely Whiff of Joy sketch to make this card. I am also entering it in the Cupcake Craft challenge, which is something sweet with the added option of including a cupcake. The papers are the lovely Basic Grey cupcake. I coloured the lovely Whiff of Joy bear with cupcake with my Promarkers and used a Sakura glitter gel pen on the icing. Nesties were used to cut out the rectangles. I punched a corner using the same blue card I used for the base card and for layering. Ribbon, button and little jewels are from my stash.

Hope you like,

Kat x

Five Challenges!

Hi everyone me again. This has taken longer to finish than I had hoped. The decision to add bows to the buttons for the Pollycraft challenge was maybe not my best idea! I used some of my cross stitch thread which is just the right colour but quite awkward to tie in a little bow lol.

I used the lovely sketch from Friday Sketchers, the colours from Passion for Promarkers - cocoa and rose pink. The colours also fit Whiff of Joy plus this lovely bear with present that I won from the Whiff of Joy blog hop. Pollycraft is buttons and bows and ABC is anything goes plus animals.

I am quite pleased about managing to fit in five challenges in one card. I used Basic Grey lemonade papers and as usual my nesties were used for the circles. Buttons are from my stash. After I took the photos I used my Sakura glitter gel pen on the bow on the present! I didn't redo the photo as with my photography skills you would not have seen it anyway.

Don't think I am going to get another card done now as I have to meet my friends at 1pm. I really wanted to do the Just Magnolia challenge too. Oh well you can't do everything, can you?

Have a nice day and thanks for looking,

Kat

Whiff of Joy 42

This is a quick card I made for the Whiff of Joy challenge. I really need to get a daylight lamp so that I can take photos in the evening. I may try to get a better one in the morning! This was a great sketch to use. I used some of my new Basic Grey papers from the Cupcake collection. I got lots of new Basic Grey papers from Charmed Cards and Crafts today. I didn't know which one to use first since they are all gorgeous! I only ordered on Sunday evening and my order arrived today so I thoroughly recommend CC and C. I think these papers work really well with the lovely bear with cupcake image from Alison Acton for Whiff of Joy. I coloured the image with my Promarkers and as usual my nesties were used to cut out the ovals. I used a Fiskars punch to cut the scalloped edge on the red and white paper.

I've been quite a busy girl today but now I need to finish off my Tesco home delivery order or I won't get all the stuff I want. I need to tell you about the RAK I received today from Leann but I may have to do that tomorrow. I just need to tell you that you will be as impressed with it as I am!

Thanks for looking, Kat x

Wednesday morning - I've managed to replace the photo and it looks a little better now. At least the brads in the centres of the flowers don't look pink now!

Mojo Monday Challenge 98

Good morning everyone. I am actually writing this on Saturday evening but it was too late to take a photo of my card!! I'm sure I've got a daylight lamp somewhere if I could just figure out where. I think I got one when I did a lot of cross stitch. I used the Mojo Monday sketch which was really easy to use and I'm sure I'll use it again. I used my Promarkers to colour this new Whiff of Joy Party Animals stamp. I love this bear with cupcake image. It is one of the nine stamps I won after the Whiff of Joy bloghop two weeks ago. Katharina was very generous with her candy and I am really chuffed to have won it. Thank you so much again Katharina.

For once I am quite pleased with this card. I think it would make a child's birthday card. I am trying to do some for my daughter. I meant to give here some for her birthday so that she would have some cards for friends or family including children. But her birthday was yesterday. I will have to send some during the week. I have lots of cards but I really need to make some for children. Her little girl is 20 months so there will be lots of little friends needing cards, plus her cousins. I think it's useful to have some spare cards. Last week I discovered I had forgotten a friend's birthday but I could just pop a card in the post the next day. I need to update my calendar. My excuse with myself is that I was working all week the week before!!

I think I should have some lunch now and try to do some more crafting. I will have lots of ironing later but my latest thing for the last two weeks is to read the Sunday Herald at work on Monday! We used to be busy in the post office on a Monday but since the government managed to trick an awful lot of people into getting their pensions and allowances paid into the bank we are a lot quieter.

Hoping I can get something done later. Enjoy the rest of your weekend. It is now afternoon isn't it?!

Kat x

PfPand Whiff of Joy

I'm a bit late for PfP this week but since I was away at the weekend and had to work all day yesterday at least I have an excuse LOL. I'm not at all happy with this card. I love the image and the MME papers but I have used completely the wrong colour of plain card for layering! That will teach me to check out everything before I stick it all down. I've used the scketch from Passion for Promarkers and the colours Cool Aqua and Pastel Pink. The Whiff of Joy challenge requires lots of floral so I think both the papers I have used are floral plus there are flowers in the image and I've added some flowers from my stash just for good measure and I've just noticed that the Spoon Full of Sugar challenge is also flowers. Hat trick!!
Now I really need to do housework after working full time last week. What a horrible thought! I need to find an excuse to do something else - think I can do some ironing too and catch up on my recorded programmes.

Have a nice day, Kat x

Three Challenges.

I think this card will do for three challenges. I used the great sketch from Saturday Sketchers and turned it round 90 degrees. I watercoloured this lovely Whiff of Joy image and strawberries. I glazed the strawberries to make them look even more yummy! The Cute Card Thursday challenge is to include fruit and the Colour Create challenge is pink, orange and green this week. I couldn't believe when I saw the colours for Colour Create because these Basic Grey papers are just perfect colourwise. I ended up doing some of this card at work and finishing it off tonight. I was lucky enough to get a photo so now I just need to go and enter these challenges before I forget.
Did anyone see Marlene's gorgeous cards in the September issue of "Cardmaking and Papercraft." She has excelled herself. The colours, images and papers are just lovely. What a talented lady.
I'm going off now to enter these challenges and get some more crafting done as I am off to my daughter's new house tomorrow to see if there is anything I can do to help.They have successfully moved today but I'm sure there is still work to do tomorrow.
Have a nice weekend everyone, Kat x

Whiff of Joy 40

I had a bit of a panic earlier because I couldn't download any pics from my camera to my laptop! Every time I tried I just got some sort of error. So I decided that maybe my camera needed charged. No, I still couldn't get it to work. I'm convinced that it was trying to download something that wasn't even on the camera. You know how there are pictures on your computer anyway, I think it was something like that. Then my daughter said is there a slot for a memory card on your laptop. So I took it out of the camera and put it in there and got my pics onto the laptop. Relief!

After all that I'm not sure about either the photos or the card. Neither of the photos actually shows the true colour. I think the second is maybe more accurate colour wise. I was convinced I wanted to do a card for a baby boy but I couldn't find paper I wanted to use. Having just done the white on white card I had the brainwave (?) of doing it all in plain blue embossed by my Cuttlebug. I used the same card as for the base card and embossed with d'vine swirls, swiss dots, perfectly paisley and baby. I also cut out the plain and scalloped rectangles with my nesties.

I don't know if it works or not. Maybe some of you can give me some feedback?

Probably time for bed now. Monday is always a long day at work. At least I've got my ironing done!

Kat x