Totally Gorjuss 125 Swirly Whirly.

Good morning everyone, Saturday again and it only seems like 2 minutes since last Saturday!

This week at Totally Gorjuss our theme is "Swirly Whirly. Now that's easy isn't it? We're sponsored by Meyer Imports so don't forget to pop over and see what they've got to tempt you.

I've made a "thinking of you card" this week so I've kept it quite simple. I bought this lovely new image from Inkylicious at the SECC the other week. It stamps beautifully and I think I'll use it a lot. I swithered about buying some of their ink dusters and didn't buy them. Of course I realised as soon as I got home that I should have bought them so I had to order them. This is the first time I've used them so I'm quite pleased with how the image turned out. I stamped the image in Versamark and embossed it before adding colour with the ink dusters.

I used :-
Image :- Inkylicious.
Colouring :- various colours of inkpads.
Embossing :- Cuttlebug - Divine Swirls.
Swirls :- Cottage Cutz.
Sentiment :- Hero Arts.
Ribbon.

I'm entering the following challenge this week ;-

Simon Says Stamp :- Anything goes.


I've had a bit of hassle with my broadband this week and had to phone the Post Office helpline. My router had to be re-set and I had a new password which I wrote down(!) Unfortunately I made a little mistake. It didn't affect my laptop but when I tried to use my ipad it wouldn't work. So back to the helpline again. The girl suggested different permutations of it in case I had got i's and 1's or 0's and O's mixed up. Still no luck so I had to phone again! Had to connect the ethernet cable again so it could be controlled by the girl on the helpline. As it turns out I had got all the letters and numerals correct but I'd managed to miss out one number grrr..... At least I was able to keep up with my DT commenting via my iphone or ipad till I could use my laptop again. Surely this week is going to be better? I've got a day off on Monday as it's a local holiday. But the following Monday is Easter Monday so we're working and the posties are off!

Well I'll catch up later today. My younger daughter is coming out to get her hair cut at the village hairdresser today so maybe we'll go for a coffee after that.

Thanks for looking and I really appreciate any comments you leave.

Totally Gorjuss 85 - Pearls and Swirls.

Good morning everyone it's Saturday again and time for a lovely new challenge at Totally Gorjuss. We had lots of gorgeous entries last week, you all love your flowers don't you? Pop over to the blog to see who won if you haven't done so already. You can also check out my talented teamies cards for this week's challenge. I think you'll like our challenge this week. It's a really easy one again this time, pearls and swirls. How easy is that!?

I used :-

Image :- LOTV.

DP :- DCWV.

Sentiment :- Craftwork Cards.

Pearls :- Hobby House.

Swirl :- Cottage Cutz.

Punch :- Martha Stewart.

String, Glamour Dust and Sakura clear glitter gel pen.

I used the sketch from Truly Scrumptious so I'm entering their challenge.

I'm quite pleased with this card as I didn't have much time to make it. I've no idea what happened to the time this week. I seemed to have even less of it than usual! To crown it all when I was trying to schedule this post last night after my WRI car treasure hunt it refused to save and kept saying there was a mistake keeping it from saving. So I gave up in disgust. I checked the html and I couldn't find what the problem was! Does anyone else ever have this problem or is it just me?

Anyway I'd best get this scheduled now and go and have a shower and get to work. I've got a crop this afternoon so I'll catch up with you all later.

Thanks for looking and for any comments you might have time to leave. I really enjoy hearing what you think of my cards.

Penny Black 136

Hi everyone, just a quick post with my card for this week's Penny Black challenge. After a very boring and long day at work yesterday I managed to start this card last night. I ran out of time to finish it so after being a good girl and doing my housework I finished it this morning.

So here it is.

I love this image and working with a great sketch makes it easy to make a card.

I used :-

Image :- Penny Black.

Sentiment :- Craftwork Cards.
DP :- Pink Petticoat.

Flowers :- Wild Orchid Crafts.

Ribbon :- the Ribbon Girl.

Swirl :- Cottage Cutz.

Pearls :- Hobby House.

I'm entering the following challenges :-

Penny Black :- Sketch.

Papertake Weekly :- Anything goes plus flowers.

Paperplay :- Stamp it out.
Penny Black at Allsorts :- Say it with Flowers.

Well I'd best go and get tea organised and walk the dogs before work. Hope you like my little hedgie card. If you do please leave me a comment so I can come and visit you too.

Thanks for looking and remember it'll soon be the weekend.

Crafty Cardmakers 33 - Stitching.

Good afternoon girls and I hope it is a lovely day where you are. It's beautiful here today again. Yesterday was lovely too and as we went down to Glasgow to the SECC for the craft show it was so nice to be in the sun when the sun came up. My friend and I got the bus at 6.30am but some of the ladies on our bus left a lot earlier! I was glad to leave my jacket in the bus as it always gets warm as you go round the hall. I have some lovely new stash to play with but first I had to get this card done. Yes of course it should have been done and scheduled a few days ago but between problems finding some of my Halloween stuff to make cards for the grandkids, another DT card to make and no Internet on Friday evening it didn't get done!!

But here it is now. I have to admit it was a very quick card so I hope you like it. Over at Crafty Cardmakers we'd like to see some stitching on your card or project. We don't mind if it's real or faux stitching. I didn't really have a choice, for speed it had to be faux!

I used :-

Image :- Cute square (trimmed to rectangle shape) from LOTV.

DP :- MME Wonderful Winter.

Sentiment :- Craftwork Cards.

Snowflakes :- Martha Stewart punch.

Swirls :- Cottage Cutz.

Faux stitching with American Crafts precision pen.

Glamour Dust, Sakura glitter gel pen, Poppy Promarker, glue pen.

As I said this was a really quick card. It had to be and it's surprising how quick you can be when you have to be. I just hope Vix isn't too mad with me! I used a red base card to give a nice border round my first layer of DP. I love these cute images from LOTV and being pre-coloured they save a lot of time. I added some glitter to the image and round the sentiment for a bit of glitz. Some glue on the swirls and snowflakes, some Glamour Dust and you're sorted.

I'm going to enter some challenges with this card :-
Sketch and Stash :- Sketch.
Totally Papercrafts :- Bling it On.
ABC :-G is for Glitter.
A Spoon Full of Sugar :- Let's get Punchy.
Papertake Weekly :- Sparkly and Bright.
Creative Card Crew :- Let's Punch It.
Simon Says Stamp challenge :- Punch Em.
Pile it On :- Beary Good Friends.

Well that's me girls, just in time to schedule this post. Hope you can join us in our stitching challenge. If you haven't been over to Crafty Cardmakers challenge blog do take a minute to pop over and see what my talented teamies have made to inspire you, you won't be disappointed. While you're there check out last weeks challenge, you still have till Sunday to enter and if you like using digis it's ideal for you.

If you have time to tell me what you think of my card I'd love to read what you think. Feedback is always good. Now I'm off to have my lunch and check out my new stash.

Thanks for looking.