Totally Gorjuss121 - Sketch.

Good morning everyone, can't believe it's the beginning of March already. But here we are at the 3rd and it's time for another sketch challenge at Totally Gorjuss, sponsored as usual by the ever generous Joanna Sheen. I love a good sketch to work from and Net has given us some great sketches including this one.

And here's my take on it.

I used :-
Image :- Elzybells.
DP :- First Edition.
Colouring :- Promarkers.
Glamour Dust and pearls.

I stamped the eggs a few times so that I could pop them all up on sticky pads. I don't like orange (not even orange sweeties) but it seems to work here.

I hope you can join us this week, a sketch is a great start when you're making a card and you can't think where to start.

I'm entering the following challenges :-
Creative Inspirations :- Anything Goes.
Simon Says Stamp :- Anything Goes.
Cute Card Thursday :- Signs of Spring.

By the way my talented teamie Sarah has started a new challenge blog and a shop with some gorgeous goodies. She has also got a DT call so if you pop over to her blog or her challenge blog you could add your name.

Enjoy your weekend whatever you've got planned. I'm going to be a bit busy as I've got a WRI show next weekend and I've still got a few things to finish. As usual!! Last minute Aggie, that's me lol!

Thanks for looking and I'll catch you all later.

Totally Gorjuss - 110 - Let it Snow!

Good morning everyone and welcome to the weekend. That challenge title is uncannily accurate. I wasn't happy when the snow started a little on Friday afternoon but there was even more at night. Can't say I'm a happy bunny! I was hoping it would stay away as I've got a Christmas meal with the Guild on Monday night and then with the WRI on Wednesday. I'm keeping my fingers crossed as the WRI meal was cancelled last year.

So here's my card for the Totally Gorjuss where the theme this week is "Let it Snow" and we are sponsored by the lovely people at Crafter's Companion so I hope you can join us.

I used :-

Image :- :PTV Cute square.

Sentiment & Card Candi :- Craftwork Cards.

Star :- Memory Box.

Glamour Dust and jewels.

I'm entering the following challenges :-

ABC Christmas :- Y is for yippee - Christmas is almost here.
Creative Card Crew :- Tis the Season.
Cute Card Thursday :- Anything Goes.

I'll try to catch up with everyone later after work. I'm almost finished my Christmas cards now. I've made 92 but I'd still like to make some more just to be on the safe side. Then of course there's my family cards and the gift cards. I really want to get organised so I can hand out cards on Monday & Wednesday if I get to my nights out. I keep trying to tell myself I'm getting on better than last year but I'm not sure that's true lol!

Enjoy your weekend whatever you're doing. Thanks for looking.

Totally Gorjuss 98 - Nothing Square About Me.

Good morning everyone. At least I hope Mr Blogger has been kind and posted this for me on Saturday morning. I'm going to a wedding today so I won't be able to check until Sunday! So fingers crossed lol.

This week at Totally Gorjuss our theme is "nothing square about me." Yes that's right we'd like to see you making some differently shaped cards. It's nice to have a change instead of automatically making a square card. I know I rarely make anything other than a square card so I enjoyed making this little card. I made a "New Home" card for a lovely blogging friend so I hope she's received it before she sees it here lol!

I used :-

Image :- Hero Arts.

Sentiment :- Inca stamps.

DP :- First Edition - Hideaway.

Colouring :- Promarkers.

Nesties, ribbon & tag punch.

I'm hoping to enter the following challenges :-

One Stitch at a Time :- Punch it.
Creative Inspirations Wednesday Challenge Blog :- Anything Goes.
Pile it On :- layer it.
Cute Card Thursday :- Anything Goes.
Paperplay :- Punches & Dies.

A couple of these challenges are Sunday ones so I hope I can enter them before I leave for the wedding. We're sponsored by Simon Says Stamp this week so I hope you can join us for this nice easy challenge. My lovely teamies have some gorgeous cards to inspire you so don't forget to pop over to Totally Gorjuss to see their lovely work.

I'm babysitting on Sunday but I hope I can find some time to catch up with your entries as well as my favourite blogs.

Enjoy your weekend whatever you're doing and please cross your fingers for good weather where I'm going today. Thanks for looking.

More Get Well Cards.

Good morning everyone, hope you're all having a good weekend. Yesterday I went to a crop at my local craft shop and managed to make 2 cards. I made Get Well cards as I think they're handy to have. Last week I made one for Poppy so I thought I'd best have a boy one handy in case Oliver comes down with chickenpox too!

So here's my first card. I love House Mouse and isn't this a cute image? I can't help feeling this card's a bit bare looking but if I use it for my wee grandson I don't really want to put flowers on it!

I used :-

Image :- House Mouse.

Sentiment :- Hero Arts.

Colouring :- Promarkers.

DP :- DCWV.

Card Candy :- Craftwork Cards.

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

Passion for Promarkers:- One for the boys.

House Mouse :- Favourite stamp - love them all but I really love this one for Get Well cards!

Friday Sketchers :- Sketch.
Creative Inspirations :- Stripes.

My second card is girly with it's pink colour scheme and ribbon and flowers.

I used :-

Image :- LOTV.

DP :- Wild Rose Studio.

Sentiment :- Printworks.

Colouring :- Promarkers.

Ribbon :- Ribbon Girl.

Flowers :- Prima.

Pearls :- Hobby House.

Jewel brads & pink metal embellies from stash.

Sakura clear gel pen one shoes and glitter round image.

I'm entering the following challenges with this card :-

Lili of the Valley :- Circles.

Cute Card Thursday :- Sketch.
Stamp Something :- Something with flowers.
Dream Valley Challenges :- Anything Goes.

Hope you like and can find time to tell me what you can think.

Not sure if I'll be doing much next week as I have to work every day! My colleague's daughter gets married next Friday so she's having a week off. I've been so looking forward to this.....not! So the first time I get a day off is 10th March. What makes it worse is next Sunday a crowd of us are going to the craft show at the SECC next Sunday and I usually take the day off on the Monday. Obviously not this year. I'm going to be shattered on the Monday and probably crabbit (translation - bad tempered) too.

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

What a Sweet Bunny.

Hi everyone, I seem to be in among baby cards at the moment. For no particular reason except it's handy to have some. I love this House Mouse image and it seems like ages since I entered the HM&F challenge.

I used :-

Image :-Happy Hopper. 

DP :- Wild Rose Studio.

Colouring :- Promarkers.

Flowers :- Prima.

Pearls :- The Hobby House.

Glitter, brads and ribbon from stash.

I'm hoping to enter the following challenges :-

Crafty Creations :- New Beginnings.

Paperplay :- Cutie Patootie.

Cute Card Thursday :- Monochrome.

House Mouse :- New Beginnings.

Simon Says Stamp :- Sketch.

I'm just looking forward to the weekend now and hoping to take part in the House Mouse & Friends blog hop before it's too late. Hope you can find time to let me know what you think of my card. It's always nice to hear what you think and it really encourages me.

Thanks for looking.

Totally Gorjuss 59 Sketch.

Good morning everyone and it's the first Saturday in December and time for another sketch from Net. We are sponsored again by the lovely and ever generous Joanna Sheen and we have a £10 voucher for the lucky winner. Joanna's online store is full of lovely goodies and there is no p&p to pay. I don't know about you but I can always find something I like there.

Here is my take on Net's lovely sketch.

I used :-

Image :- LOTV cute square cut out with an oval nestie.

Sentiment and Card candy :- Craftwork cards.

Snowflake :- Martha Stewart punch.

Sizzix & Cuttlebug embossing folders and lots of glitter.

I seem to be really into blue and white cards at the moment and these LOTV cute squares are really useful when you're in a hurry and have a lot of cards to make. I'd like to enter the following challenges :-
Craft Your Days Away challenge :- Texture.

Cute Card Thursday :- The Blues.

If you haven't been over to Totally Gorjuss yet do try to pop over and see what gorgeous cards my talented teamies have made this week. We also have 2 new Guest Gorjussettes for the next few months, Karina and Patricia and we are also joined this week by the very talented Rach Jakes so it's definitely worth checking out the Totally Gorjuss challenge this week.

I'll catch up with you later when I've successfully negotiated the snow on my way back from my work. Enjoy your weekend and 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

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

Sweet and Gorjuss.

Hello everyone and it's time for another challenge at Totally Gorjuss. This week our theme is "Sweet."

I have chosen sweet as in yummy although I think this Tilda is pretty sweet as in cute too!


I have been very short of time this week as I was at the craft show at the SECC on Sunday, a WRI quiz on Tuesday evening and a meeting about our co-operative entry for our local show on Wednesday evening. Then this morning I had to make the scones I promised for the teas, finish off a Get Well card as an entry for the show and start this one. After work I finished sewing up a hat, another entry, delivered the stuff to a friend to take in for me as I will be at work in the morning and finished this card.

DP:- Basic Grey - cupcake.

Colouring :- Promarkers and a touch of Spica glitter gel pen on the ice cream.

Buttons :- MME.

Flowers :- MS punch plus card candy.

Sentiment :- Whiff of Joy.

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

Truly Scrumptious :- Sketch plus good enough to eat.
Magnolia Down Under :- 3 papers, 3 flowers, 2 buttond and 1 bow.
Crafty Cardmakers :- Feminine celebration.
Crafty Creations :- Make your own flowers.
Cute Card Thursday :- Celebrations.
Cupcake :- Flowers.

If Mr Blogger is being a good boy this post will appear in the morning. Looking forward to seeing how you interpret our theme this week. I have not been good at commenting this week due to shortage of time so I can only apologise and promise to do better this week.

Kat xx

Thank You!

Good evening girls. I hope you have all had a good day. It has been mainly lovely and sunny here in Aberdeenshire. We had a little dusting of snow when I got up and a little shower at lunchtime but nothing that did any harm. Really cold wind but I don't think it was enough to say that March came in like a lion!

I made this card yesterday evening after I had been a good girl and finished my ironing. Left it to take a photo today completely forgetting that by the time I got home the light would be gone! I thought it would be handy to have a "Thank You" card in my box.

I'm not sure the second photo adds anything. I thought it might show that I decoupaged the flowers and popped up the whole thing on sticky pads.

Sentiment:- Hero Arts.

Colouring :- Promarkers and chalks.

Card Candy:- Craftwork cards.

Also used:- Cuttlebug Swiss dots folder, Sakura clear gel and glitter gel pens, ribbon.

I'm entering the following challenges with this card :-

Easy Craft Projects :- Thank you.

Crafty Creations :- Cut it out and pop it up.

Cute Card Thursday :- Ribbon.

Cupcake :- Round and round.

Think that's me now. I'm off to check if we've got many entries at Totally Gorjuss and Just Cute Bears.

See you tomorrow,

Kat xx

What a Sweetie!

Good evening girls, I haven't had time to make anything today....yet but here is a card I made yesterday. I love this Tilda, she looks so sweet, doesn't she? I haven't been very good at entering the Just Magnolia challenge for a few weeks, which is a pity as I love my Tildas. So this week I have taken the chance to be early for a change.

Colouring:- Promarkers.

DP:- Basic Grey.

Sentiment:- Craftwork Cards.

Roses:- Prima.

Also used:- Nellie Snellen punch, Nesties, velvet ric rac ribbon, heart charm,heart shaped jewels, red Spica glitter gel pen on hearts on dress and glimmer mist.

Think I may have overdone the Glimmer Mist, it's everywhere lol!

The other challenges I am entering are:-

Sketch and Stash :- Sketch and I used some new flowers.

Colour Create :- Red, white, chocolate and pink with the addition of silver and hearts.

Cute Card Thursday :- In the name of love.

Susie's Sassy Challenge :- Hearts and flowers.

Daring Cardmakers :- Have a heart.

Stamp Something :- Cute.

Fussy and Fancy :- Dazzle us.

Paperplay :- Birthday card for someone special.

Pile it on :- Flowers.

I think that's the lot. Now will I try to make something or do my ironing? Decisions, decisions!

Kat xx

I Love "The Bear."

I've made this card for the DT call for a new challenge blog - Just Cute Bears. I don't think I will have much chance of joining the DT but hey there's nothing to lose. I love bears and this image from Hobby Art. I have lots of these stamps and they are great because you can use them for all sorts of occasions and of course everyone loves bears. I also have bears from Penny Black and Forever Friends and probably some others too. So as you can imagine it would be no hardship to make cards with bears lol!

I coloured the image with Promarkers. I had this card made yesterday but missed the chance to take a photo in daylight! I'm a bit disappointed with how the colours turned out. In reality the pink flowers are more like the colour of pink in the DP. The card candy is a stronger shade but still in the same family of pink as is the jewel brad.

I used :-

DP - K&Co, MME and the dark grey mats are DCWV latte.

Colouring - Promarkers

Card candy and sentiment - Craftwork Cards.

Nesties.

Apart from the Just Cute Bears DT call I am also entering:-

Cute Card Thursday :- Pink and grey.

Paperplay :- Furry friends.

Creative Inspirations Wednesday challenge :- New product - the bear stamp.

Charisma Cardz challenge :- Anything new -the bear stamp.

Crafty Cardmakers :-New - bear stamp.

What an idiot I forgot that I made the card using the sketch from Papertake Weekly. I love this sketch it was really easy to use. Papertake Weekly also have a DT call for a guest DT spot.

Keep your fingers crossed for me girls. I'm not that optimistic really because there are so many talented crafters and I'm sure lots of people will have answered this DT call. But nothing ventured and all that!!

I need to go and make some sympathy cards and at the other end of the spectrum finish off 2 baby cards for my friends and their son and his wife.

See you later. Hope everyone is having a nice weekend. It is lovely and sunny here today and not even cold - after the frost lifted. What a change after the last few weeks. But....and there's always a but isn't there?....there is still snow lying here and there. Or as my mum used to say lying waiting for more. She alway was an optimist!!

Kat xx

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

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

Just Magnolia 21

Just a quick post for now as I think I will have to replace the photo tomorrow. That will teach me to make a card so late in the day and think I will be able to get a reasonable photo!! I really wanted to do this challenge as I liked the look of the sketch at this week's Just Magnolia challenge. I used Cloud 9 DPs which are lovely soft colours. I watercoloured this lovely Tilda with her bicycle - isn't she cute? All the edges are distressed and then edged with shabby shutters and tattered rose Distress Inks. I also did faux stitching round all the edges. The pink parts of the flowers are cut out using my new Martha Stewart punch. The rectangle for the image is cut out with nesties. The ribbon, green flowers, brads and spacers are from my stash.

The challenges I hope to enter are:-

Just Magnolia 21:- Sketch.
Cute Card Thursday:- Pink and green.
La La Land:- Distressing.
ABC :- D for die cuts or punches.
Cute Daisy May:- Pink and..something else.

That was a bit of a rush to get the Just Magnolia challenge entered in time!!! Now I will go and enter the rest before I forget.

I have been off craft shopping today. I decided since it was a nice day I would nip off to Just Create at Alford. Needless to say I didn't manage to leave as early as I would have liked so I didn't get home again until about 2 o'clock. Then I have to mess around deciding if there are other challenges that would fit too. Then I have to decide what image to use and what papers to use. Sometimes this can take ages because no matter how many papers you have nothing seems to jump out at you. Still it's done now and entered. I always like to enter the Just Magnolia challenge if I can find time. I saw a new type of flower on a card Jacqui had made and she told me how she had made it so I think I will have a shot at that before I forget what she told me. I bought some Martha Stewart punches today and some lovely Christmas papers from Making Memories and a couple of Penny Black stamps. I've been very naughty but I'm going to behave now....unless I manage to go to my local shop Miller's Moments near Peterhead at the weekend. Not much chance of doing much next week as I am at work every day. Must go now and find a card suitable for my favourite Auntie Jean who will be 93 on Sunday. I've ordered her flowers so all I need to do is find a card. I have lots of cards but maybe not many suitable for a chirpy 93 year old lol!!

By the way has anyone else a hit counter that seems to have lost the plot? I had a quick look at my blog this morning and the counter was registering over 11,000 hits. I have over 5,000 on Wednesday so I don't know what has happened. I've got used to the idea that sometimes you can't see your followers and sometimes when you go to the dashboard blogger tells you that you are not following any blogs. These are usually just temporary blips but this counter is just crazy and still has too many hits!

I need a coffee now! Not sure if I'll have anything tomorrow. I need to do some housework before we disappear under dust and dog hair.

Kat xx

Friday morning now and I've replaced the photo but I'm not sure it looks any better......!

A few challenges.

Good evening everyone, here are a couple of cards I made for a few challenges. The one above has been made using the great sketch from Just Magnolia. I coloured one of my favourite Tildas with Promarkers using the colours for Passion for Promarkers. It also contains circles to fit the ABC challenge. I used nesties for cutting shapes as usual. I used my new retro flower punches by EK success and added a brad. The colours for PfP are lilac, lavender. amethyst and aubergine and it might not look like it from the photo but I used all 4 in this card!! I also stickled her wing though it might not be obvious lol. The DP is from Basic Grey and I added some jewels from my stash.

The second flower was made using the lovely sketch from Friday Sketchers. I coloured the Forever Friends image with Promarkers. The DP I used is from MME and Basic Grey. The Prima flowers are from my stash and I added brads and spacers from my stash. I also added a cute little pram charm and a ribbon from my stash. This card also fits the Stamping for the weekend challenge to use pink and grey and the Cute Card Thursday challenge for New Beginnings. Nesties have been used for this card too as usual.

This is all I've made today due to the fact that I spent a while footering - Scottish friends will understand this! - to explain to others - I was dithering about what papers to use !! I also have to admit to messing around going round blogs this morning.

Hope you like, feel free to tell me if you don't!

Kat x

Friday morning - I changed the first photo as it did not show the shading on the dress or the stickles. Not sure it is much better - but I tried!

Friday at last!

This is my card for the new Basic Grey challenge. I love Basic Grey papers and I used some of the Cupcake papers for this card. I think they go really well with Tilda with her ice cream cone lol. I coloured Tilda with promarkers. Ribbon, flowers,brad and button are from my stash. Sorry about the weird angle but it was just a little late to get a decent photo - even outside!

Challenges entered:-

Basic Grey :- sketch and papers used.
Cute Card Thursday:- Lazy Dayz - a summer inspired card.
The Pink Elephant:- Summer.
Whimsy:- Ribbons.
Stamp Something:- Birthday.

Looking forward to the weekend now. Hope you all have a good one. Thanks for popping by and hope you want to leave a comment so I can come and visit your blog.

Kat x

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

Trio of challenges.

I've just made this card and I think it fits 3 challenges. I used the great sketch from Friday Sketchers the colours, teal and red from Cute Card Thursday and a Magnolia image and distressing from Just Magnolia. I coloured Tilda with Ladybird with Promarkers. I distressed the edges of the base card and the DPs and layers and edged them all with Distress Inks. I even distressed the ends of the ribbon! The papers are from the Green Stack from DCWV. Ribbon, brad, red pearls and flowers are from my stash.

Tonight I am going to have a crafting session with some friends but now I need to check my curry and feed and walk the dogs before tea.

Thanks for looking, 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