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Monday, 16 May 2011

It's a Girl.

Hi everyone, I was going to do this a lot earlier today but I couldn't get a decent photo. Not that good yet but better than my earlier attempts!

I've already made a shaped card as my DT card for Totally Gorjuss but I couldn't resist doing another one for Penny Black at Allsorts where they don't want to see square or rectangular cards. They're also having a DT call. I'd like to put my name forward for that! I don't think I've got any chance of making the DT but it won't hurt to try. I love my Penny Blacks and have lots I've not even used yet!! I was looking for something this afternoon and I found a carrier with a couple of Penny Black stamps and a Hero Arts cling stamp. No idea how long they've been mislaid. Oh dear!!

So here's my card. It's just a little titchy one as I made it with circle nesties.


I used :-
Image & sentiment :- Penny Black.
DP :- Craft Creations.
Colouring :- Promarkers.
Sakura glitter gel pen, pearls, Nesties.

I'm hoping to enter the following challenges :-
Craft Your Days Away :- White plus one other colour.
Simon Says Stamp :- Look what the stork brought.
Stamp Something :- Anything goes.
Easy Craft Projects :- Pretty pastel colours.

Well I think I should go now as it's rather late now. Catch up with you all later and thanks for looking.


Saturday, 14 May 2011

Totally Gorjuss 80 Not Square.

Good morning everything. I hope Mr Blogger is behaving himself again! It's time for another challenge over at Totally Gorjuss. This week we'd like you to make a card which is not square. That's not too difficult is it? I mean if I can do it anyone can.


I used :-
Cuttlebug embossing folder :- Swiss Dots.
Cuttlebug cut and emboss folder :- Hearts.
Sentiment :- Hero Arts.
Card Candy :- Craftwork Cards.
Promarkers.
Card Blank cut out with a Go Kreate die.

I made this card for my husband for our anniversary which was yesterday (13th) I'd like to enter it in the Totally Papercrafts challenge which is anniversaries.
I've found some more challenges :-
Crafty Creations :- Anything Goes.
Papertake Weekly :- Fancy a punch?

Since Mr Blogger has been a bit temperamental, to say the least, I think I'll keep this post short.

By the way scroll down if you want to check out my birthday candy.


Friday, 13 May 2011

Birthday Candy.

Hi everyone, I'm a bit late posting this - thank you Mr Blogger!!!

Today is my birthday and anniversary so I thought I'd post some candy. And what happens? Mr Blogger's been misbehaving!! But here it is at last.

I've got DP, buttons, ribbon, brads, stamps, more DP and lots of flowers, card candy and sentiments.  I've got other bits and pieces to add so what you get will be a bit of a lucky dip and I'll split it for 2 winners.

All you need to do is be a FOLLOWER, leave me a comment before 7pm on Sunday 29th May. And if you could put a pic in your sidebar that would be great. Good luck.

Sunday, 8 May 2011

That's one way to travel!

Hi everyone, well as you can see I didn't do my ironing. Well not yet anyway. I made a quick card instead. And after tea I made chocolate brownies. New recipe so I hope they turn out ok!


Well I thought I was never going to get this photo uploaded. I've been trying for ages and Mr Blogger was being really awkward. Out here in the country my broadband connection is very slow at the best of times but today it's just a nightmare! Anyway fingers crossed I'll get this posted safely.

I used :-
Image :- Gruffies - Bears on Ice.
DP :- Dovecraft - Let it Snow.
Colouring :- Promarkers.
Snowflake :- Martha Stewart punch.
Sentiment and card candy :- Craftwork Cards.
Glamour Dust.

I'm entering the following challenges with this card :-
House Mouse :- Way to go - travel.
Fussy and Fancy :- Sketch.
Pile it on :- Funny bone - funny sentiment or image. Well I think it's a funny image!

Isn't that cute? I love the House Mouse and Gruffies images they're really fun images. This is such a big image that I didn't want to add much to the card I'm just letting the image take centre stage.

Now I'd best give in and do my ironing. I like to iron the day I wash and besides my work trousers are in the pile lol!

Less is More 14 White on White.

Hi everyone from a very wet Aberdeenshire.

When I checked out my favourite challenges yesterday I noticed that the challenge over at Less is More this week is White on White. I love white on white but I'm not sure I'm very good at it! Other people do it so well though and Chrissie and Mandi's samples are just stunning. I had a couple of ideas though so I may be back with another card when I get it finished.

I love to do embossing when I do white on white or white with a touch of colour. I thought a Christmas card might work well as WoW. Not sure it turned out as well as I'd hoped though! Not even sure it looks white. On my screen it looks a bit blue. It's definitely all white though even the little pearls in the snowflakes.


I used :-
Image :- LOTV.
Embossing folders :- Cuttlebug Swiss Dots and Sizzix Tim Holtz Snow Flurries.
Ribbon, pearls and Glamour Dust.

I'd also like to enter this card in the challenge at Lili of the Valley :- Animal Antics.

Now what should I do? I washed today (good old tumble drier) so I have ironing , or I could finish that other WoW card or make an anniversary card for hubby. Decisions, decisions.....think it's time for a coffee first and hope that he takes the dogs out so I can get peace to watch what I've recorded on Sky+. I've been watching ER from the beginning as I didn't see it till it had been on for years.

Rain seems to be off again so no excuse for him, after all the dogs don't mind what the weather's like.

Catch up with you all later. Enjoy what's left of the weekend.



Saturday, 7 May 2011

Totally Gorjuss 79 Sketch.

Good morning everyone Saturday already and time for a new challenge over at Totally Gorjuss. Since it's the first Saturday in May we have one of Net's lovely sketches for you to follow and we are sponsored by the lovely and generous Joanna Sheen.

So here's my DT card and isn't this a great layout?

I used :-
Image :- LOTV.
DP :- MME.
Sentiment and card candy :- Craftwork Cards.
Colouring :- Promarkers.
Prima flowers and Glamour Dust.

I'm entering the following challenges with this card :-
By the Cute and Girly :- Anything Goes.
Oldie But a Goodie :- Say it with Flowers.
Papertake Weekly :- Anything Goes plus use something round.
Pollycraft :- Anything Goes.
St Lukes Charity Cards :- Pattern - I've used spots and stripes.

I think that's all I need to say. Many of you seemed to enjoy our 1,2, 3 challenge last week and thanks to everyone who joined us. I hope to see many of you again this week. Don't forget we're sponsored by Joanna Sheen and you know what her online store is like - she has lots of must haves!!
Enjoy your weekend everyone and I'll try to catch up with you all later.

Thursday, 5 May 2011

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!

Sunday, 1 May 2011

Love is in the air!

Hi everyone, hope you're all enjoying the lovely weather this weekend. It's been lovely here in Aberdeenshire for a while now. I was lucky enough to have a day off on Friday but the only time I saw the sun was when I took the dogs for their walks as I was watching The Royal Wedding. It was really amazing, I loved it. Catherine was a beautiful bride and everything just went so well. I loved it when they left Buckingham Palace in the Aston Martin. Not sure why I thought I'd get anything done on Friday! Eventually in the evening I managed to make this card. Always useful to have a wedding card in your box.

I used :-
Image :- LOTV with some added Glamour Dust.
DP :- Sandylion.
Roses :- Wild Orchid Crafts.
Sentiment :- Craftwork Cards.
Pearls :- Hobby House.
Beautiful lace from stash.

I'm entering the following challenges :-
Lili of the Valley :- Love is in the air.
Stampin' For the Weekend :- Wedding.
Totally Papercrafts :- Glitter.
Truly Scrumptious :- Sketch.
Easy Craft Projects :- Royal Wedding.
Die Cut Dreams :- Wedding.

I was quite pleased that I managed to make something after all on my day off and even more pleased that it all came together quite quickly.

I'm looking forward to another day off tomorrow for the May Day Bank holiday. If I hadn't had to work yesterday morning I'd have been off from Thursday till Tuesday afternoon. 5 days in a row would have been nice but since we weren't doing anything on Saturday it wasn't worth losing a day's holiday just to have a morning off. Hope the weather's still nice tomorrow!

Hope you like and if you can spare a minute to leave me a comment I'd love to hear what you think.

Saturday, 30 April 2011

Totally Gorjuss 78 -1,2,3

Good morning everyone, hope you're ready for another challenge over at Totally Gorjuss. Thanks to everyone who joined us last week for our "Bling it on" challenge. You all certainly love your bling, don't you?

This week we have another easy challenge for you, a recipe. The recipe is 1,2,3, all you need to do is have eg 1 image, 2 DP or embellishments and 3 flowers or buttons or card candy or whatever. I've used 1 ribbon, 2 DPs and 3 flowers as well as 3 card candies. This week we are sponsored by Fantastic Ribbons. They have lots of goodies to tempt you so why don't you pop over for a look?


I used :-
Image :- Magnolia.
DP :- Wild Rose Studio.
Sentiment and card candy :- Craftwork Cards.
Roses :- Wild Orchid Crafts.
Ribbon :- Ribbon Girl.
Colouring :- Promarkers.
Sakura clear gel pen and clear glitter gel pen.

I'm going to enter the following challenges :-
Cute Card Thursday :- Sketch from challenge 131 (23/09/10).

My talented teamies have made some lovely cards to inspire you so do pop over to Totally Gorjuss to see what they've made this week.

Thanks for looking and I'll catch up with you all this afternoon after work.

Friday, 29 April 2011

Lots of Flowers.

Hi everyone, and isn't it a lovely day for a wedding. At least it is here in Aberdeenshire, so I hope it is where you are too. I've been watching "the wedding" and isn't Kate a beautiful bride? Her dress is stunning and suits her perfectly.

I managed to make my DT card yesterday. Always a relief to get it finished and posted on the DT blog in time. Then I had time to make another one. Just simple and quick but using my favourite colour - lilac.


I used :-
Image :- Stampin' Up.
DP :- Basic Grey.
Colouring :- Promarkers.
Flowers, card candy and pearls.

I'm entering the following challenges with this card :-
Simply Stampin :- Sketch and of course a Stampin' Up image.
Fussy and Fancy :-Springtime - I think my DP and flowers are very Springlike so I hope that's ok.

Well I need to go and get some lunch now and take my dogs for a walk. Enjoy your day everyone.

Edited to add :- Guess what silly person only realised about 8pm that she hadn't entered the Simply Stampin challenge which closes at 6pm?!!

Sunday, 24 April 2011

Do You Like Bakers' Twine?

Silly question!! It's lovely isn't it and The Ribbon Girl is giving away this lovely collection to some lucky blogger. So why don't you pop over and enter before 30th April.






Saturday, 23 April 2011

Totally Gorjuss 77 - Bling It.

Good morning everyone and I hope you're all set for a lovely Easter weekend. Unfortunately I don't have any days off  just now as we have a local holiday at the beginning of April. Still I have a day off for the Royal Wedding and then the May Day bank holiday so that'll be good, more time to craft. Today I'm going to a crop after work. I think we usually do as much chatting as working but it's nice to meet up with the others. I also heard that there's some nice new goodies so a nice browse around seems to be in order.

Today it's time for our latest challenge at Totally Gorjuss. This week our challenge is "bling it!" We'd like you to add lots of lovely sparkle to your card or project. We're sponsored by Whoopsi Daisy and Linnie has generously given all the DT their own choice of digi images to use. Thanks Linnie. My teamies have all used really pretty images and made some fabby cards. The ones I chose (4 on a sheet) are really easy to colour and ideal for a new baby card or a child's birthday card.

These images are so easy to use that I ended up using two of them and made a boy card and a girl card!



I used :-
Image :- Whoopsie Daisy digi image.
Colouring :- Promarkers.
DP :- Craft Creations.
Sentiment :- Penny Black.
Gems :- Hobby House.
Glamour Dust.

Challenges for this card :- Sketch and Stash :_ Sketch, and the stash is DP I've had forever.
A Spoon Full of Sugar :- Let's Celebrate.



I used :-
Image :- Whoopsi Daisy digi image.
DP :- DCWV.
Sentiment :- Penny Black.
Colouring :- Promarkers.
Seam binding :- the Ribbon Girl.
Gems :- Hobby House.
Glamour Dust.

Challenge for this card :-Mojo Monday :- Sketch.
Cupcake :- Lots of Layers.
Papertake Weekly :- Spots n' Stripes.
Crafty Creations :- 1,2,. 1 technique - punching, 2embellishments -gems and ribbon, 3 DPs.

That's all for me now. I'll try to catch up with you all this evening. Enjoy your weekend and the holiday Monday if you have it.

Friday, 22 April 2011

Time to Relax!

Hi everyone. I can't put my finger on it but somehow I never seem to achieve anything just now! I made this card on Wednesday and this is me just getting it blogged now. In my defence I had to work all day on Tuesday as my colleague phoned to say she felt really bad. She had a really nasty cold with a thumping headache. I had a cold too but she sounded a lot worse than me. It was also my WRI agm on Wednesday evening and we all took on our old jobs. Well I knew no-one would want to be treasurer anyway. There are worse jobs I think. I don't mind selling raffle tickets but I always hated having to read out the winning numbers. Then on Thursday evening I had a card making session with friends. Tomorrow I have a crop after work so I hope after that I can catch up with my DT work.

At work we have cards that I've made but I think there are no male cards left. We only need one and I don't think his birthday's till at least next month. Not like me to be this organised lol!

So here's the card.



I used :-
Image :- LOTV die cut.
DP :- Wild Rose Studio.
Sentiment & Card Candy  :- Craftwork Cards.
Bakers' Twine :- Ribbon Girl.
Ribbon & button from stash.

Challenges for this card :- Creative Inspirations :- Pets/Animals.
Bunny Zoe :- One for the boys.

That's all for tonight, I'd best go and finish off my scheduled post for Totally Gorjuss for tomorrow morning. I started it last night, then ran out of time! Story of my life I think.

Catch up with you all tomorrow after my crop. Enjoy your weekend especially if you have a holiday on Monday.

Thursday, 21 April 2011

Some Easter Cards.

Hi everyone seems like ages since I posted! Just when you think things are getting better!!!! My colleague phoned me on Tuesday morning as she couldn't work. She had a cold recently and thought it had cleared up but back it came on Monday with a vengeance. Unluckily for me I had developed a cold too (thanks hubby!). But I wasn't as bad as her. So poor me nothing but work and no time to craft. To be honest I didn't feel like making anything on Monday evening but on Tuesday I knew I had to get Easter cards made for Poppy & Oliver.

This is Oliver's card.


I used :-
Image :- LOTV.
DP :- Basic Grey.
Sentiment :- Penny Black.
Card Candy, Baker's Twine, Ribbon and stripey buttons.

I'm entering the following challenges with this card :-
 Basic Grey. :- Easter/Spring.
Cards for Men.:- Easter.
Stampin' For the Weekend. :- Easter.
Daring Cardmakers. :- Easter.
Lili of the Valley :- Easter.
Fussy and Fancy :- For a child.

And this is Poppy's card.


I used :-
Image :- LOTV.
Sentiment :- Penny Black.
Seam Binding :- Ribbon Girl.
Pearls and Glamour Dust.

I'm entering the following challenges with this card :-
ECP :- Easter.
Craft Your Days Away. :- Easter.
Die Cut Dreams :- Easter.
Dream Valley Challenges :- Easter.
ABC :- S for Sparkle.



Well it's really late now so I'd better finish up now. It was my night for the WRI. It was the agm so guess who's still got the job of treasurer? Yeah me, not the sort of job that anyone else wants!!

Hope you like and thanks for looking

Saturday, 16 April 2011

Totally Gorjuss 76 - No DP.

Good morning everyone. Seems like no time since last week but here we are at Saturday again and time for another challenge over at Totally Gorjuss. This week we'd like you to make a card without using DP. Not difficult is it? You could emboss some card instead of using DP or you could make your own DP with background stamps. That's what I chose to do. I stamped some card using 2 Hero Arts stamps and Spun Sugar Distress Ink and Lulu Lavender Memento ink. The image is LOTV with added glitter and some Sakura clear gel pen on the shoes. The seam binding and lovely flower are from the Ribbon Girl, sentiment from Craftwork Cards and pearls from the Hobby House.



This week we are sponsored by Simon Says Stamp so why don't you join us? We'd love to see how you interpret our challenge this week. You certainly gave us a lot of "fluffy" cards to look at last week.

I'd like to enter this card in the following challenges :-

One Stitch at a Time :- New Baby.
ABC :- S for Sugar and Spice.
By the Cute and Girly :- Cute and Girly.

Thanks for looking and enjoy your weekend.

Thursday, 14 April 2011

St Lukes Charity Cards Challenge - Say it with flowers.

Hi everyone. I've still not been a very good blogger this week. I don't seem to have achieved much this week. I made a card with my friend yesterday and some jewellery over the last couple of days. Not a lot is it? And then to crown it all we skived off to Simply Create at Alford today. We both got some lovely new goodies and had a lovely chat with Jacqui. I even had a quick chat with Anne. My friend and I haven't been to Alford for ages so it was nice to pop over there on a nice day.

This is the card I made yesterday.


I used :-
Image :- LOTV cute square.
Sentiment and card candy :- Craftwork Cards.
DP :- MME.
Promarker, Sakura clear gel pen (shoes) & glitter gel pen (hairband) & Glamour Dust.

I'd like to enter the following challlenges :-
St Lukes Charity Card Challenge which is "Say it with flowers."
Lili of the Valley :- Happy Birthday.


And this is the jewellery I've made. It's only bead stringing but I feel quite pleased with myself. I've got some seed beads that I've had for years so all I need to do is find something to do with them!

.

Thanks for looking. Not long till the weekend now.

Monday, 11 April 2011

Look what I Made and Ribbon Girls Giveaway!

First of all apologies for not being around much and not having much to show you this week. I was babysitting for my daughter at the weekend. We had an overnight babysitting session on Sat/Sun. My son-in-law's firm had won an award so the owner was treating 50 of them to a meal and an overnight stay at the St. Andrews Bay Hotel. So we went down to stay at Crieff on Saturday. Poppy and Oliver were really good. Oliver at 17 months is very much his Mum's boy and to my relief he never said a word when his Mum and Dad left. The 2 of them even got on really well with the pups. At almost 7 months they are very boisterous! They kept trying to get Missy (Catriona's 8 year old Lab) to play but she refused. I think it was a bit of if I don't see them they're not there lol!

Before I went I had managed to sew up all of the jumper and hat and Poppy's cardie. The neck was knitted so all that was left was the front bands. I got that done and all that's left is the buttons. Unfortunately the buttons that Catriona bought were the wrong size so she'll have to buy some more and sew them on herself!

So here's Oliver's jumper and hat.

It has little anchors all over the jumper and one in the middle of hat.

This is Poppy's cardie. It has a row of dogs right round it. That was a lot of fun to knit! Then I had to embroider the doggies' collars and eyes. That was not much fun either.

 And here is some lovely candy from the Ribbon Girl. Isn't it gorgeous. You just need to mention it on your blog and leave them a comment.

I'm off to try and catch up with my DT work and visiting my favourite blogs.

Thanks for looking

Saturday, 9 April 2011

Totally Gorjuss 75 Fluffy!

Good morning everyone. I hope it is a lovely day where you are. Here in North East Scotland we've been very lucky and had a few gorgeous days this week. Our neighbour is lambing just now and I love to see the lambs enjoying the sunshine. But I have to hold on very tightly to my hooligan Labradors. This is not easy as one is 29.5kg and the other is 30.7 so it's a lot to hang onto lol.

But on to my card. This week at Totally Gorjuss our challenge is "Fluffy." We'd like to see something fluffy in your card or project, so a little animal would be perfect.

I'm thinking about getting into Christmas mode to save getting stressed later in the year so I've made a "fluffy" Christmas card this week.




I used :-
Image :- LOTV.
DP :- Bo Bunny plus dotty Bazzill.
Colouring :- Promarkers.
Sentiment & card candy :- Craftwork Cards.
Martha Stewart punches, Glamour Dust, jewels and velvet ric rac.

I used the lovely sketch from Sketch Saturday, silly me by the time I post this it's too late to enter there!
I'm entering the following challenges :-
Cards for Men :- Embossing.
Creative Inspirations Wednesday challenge :- Punches or dies.
Craft Your Days Away :- Spots & Stripes.

Hope you can join us this week. Our sponsor this week is Crafter's Companion and I'm sure I don't need to tell you what a great variety of products they have in their online store.

I must apologise for not being very good at blogging and visiting this week. I managed to get my DT work done and not a lot else. On Wednesday my laptop was pounced on by something called MS REMOVAL TOOL. I instantly suspected this was something dodgy as it claimed my laptop had 38 infections - viruses, trojan horses, worms, malware, spyware..... It was pretty scary but it's not long since my son downloaded some new antivirus software. This thing wouldn't let me do anything at all and kept saying my system was in danger etc. So I text Iain and he googled it and said it was a hoax. I shut down and rebooted in safe mode and checked out how to get rid of it. But then I was worried that anything that claimed to fix it was dodgy too. By Thursday it was still there. At night I checked out some more and decided to try a system reset. I'd already tried that with no success but read somewhere that you could reset to a specific point in time so I decided to try to reset to Tuesday evening. It worked and so far it hasn't shown its ugly head again. It was really scary, the messages etc were really worrying and if you get a scare like that it would be easy to believe it was really happening. I'm naturally suspicious I think and always wary about clicking on anything so I just wanted to warn you to be wary if anything like this turns up. The scariest thing was that I couldn't do anything at all and I didn't know if it just wanted to mess up my system or if it wanted to get something like bank or card details.

I'm off babysitting today so hopefully when the kids are in bed I can catch up with you all.

Enjoy your weekend. Thanks for looking and if you have a minute to leave me a comment I'd love to hear what you think.


Monday, 4 April 2011

Love This Poppy!

Good morning everyone. It's really unusual for me to post on a Monday morning unless I've scheduled a post but today I have a day off. Fantastic!
Since I had that lovely Penny Black stamp out I thought I'd use it to make a card for the Penny Black challenge. I love poppies anyway so any excuse to use a poppy image and this one is really gorgeous, isn't it, very elegant.


I used :-
Image :- Penny Black.
Sentiment & Card Candy :- Craftwork Cards.
DP :- Craftshouse.
Colouring :- Promarkers..
Inkssentials pen for faux stitching.
Velvet ric rac, flowers and pearls from stash.

This card also fits the challenge at Penny Black at Allsorts which is black and white plus one other colour.

Well I'd best go and check on these naughty pups as they're outside in the garden and probably eating plants and digging up the grass! Hope you like.

Thanks for looking, time for a coffee now!

Sunday, 3 April 2011

Less is More # 9 A Touch of Red.

Hello everyone hope you've all had a lovely Mother's Day whether you are Mums or not. Pets count too lol! I'm Mum to my two Labrador pups as well as my kids.

I'm a bit earlier this week with my card for Less is More. I love this challenge and like a lot of the others I think I'm becoming addicted to it. It certainly makes you think. It's great to get such good feedback and advice from Chrissie and Mandi. Thanks girls for taking the trouble to check out all the entries and if necessary tell us how we can improve our cards. It's also really good to see how others have tackled the challenge.

I'm not sure my card's very good this week. Is there too much red round the image? I would probably have had a smaller border but I've lost one of my nesties. I'm sure it's in the house somewhere it just isn't shouting loud enough for me to find it.

Anyway here's my effort.


I'd also like to enter the Allsorts challenge which is "Blooming Blossoms."

I think I'll go and check out the entries for Totally Gorjuss. This week we have one of Net's lovely sketches for you to follow. I hope you'll want to join us, I know it can make it easier to make a start to a card if you have a sketch to follow.

Tomorrow I have the day off as it's a local holiday. I'm really looking forward to doing what I like all day. I'm also off next Saturday and the following Monday as we're babysitting and it's nice to have a Monday to catch up. I hope the pups behave as even though Poppy and Oliver are used to their own Labrador, who can be quite rough, the pups are maybe a wee bit friendly for 2 little people lol!

Thanks for looking and please leave me a comment if you've got time and then I can pop over and visit you too.

Saturday, 2 April 2011

Totally Gorjuss 74 -Sketch.

Hi everyone, Saturday again and time for another challenge over at Totally Gorjuss. Thanks to everyone who joined us last week and what a lot of you there were! As this is the first Saturday in April we have another one of Net's great sketches and we are sponsored by the ever generous Joanna Sheen.


I used :-
Image :- Gorjuss Girl.
DP :- First Edition - Love Letters.
Sentiment & Card Candy :- Craftwork Cards.
Flower :- Prima.
Colouring :- Promarkers & Sakura clear glitter gel pen.
And some faux stitching.

I think this fits the challenge at Oldie but a Goodie which is pink/blue & brown. I've certainly had this stamp for a while. I've used her lots of times but she's been rather neglected recently. Another challenge where they want to see pink and brown is Everybody Art.

Hope you can join us this week again. If you pop over to Totally Gorjuss you can see what gorgeous cards my teamies have made to inspire you this week and also who won last week's challenge.

I'm working this morning and then I've got the whole weekend to myself plus Monday. It's a local holiday here and the Post Office is closed. Fantastic! Unfortunately we'll pay for it on Tuesday, but I'll enjoy it at the time.

Enjoy your weekend and I'll try to get round my favourite blogs later.

Friday, 1 April 2011

Less is More 8 Sketch Again.

And here's my second card for Less is More.

Image :- Penny Black.
Sentiment :- Hero Arts.
Colouring :- Promarkers.
DP :- Basic Grey.
I'm definitely off now. See you tomorrow.