Oliver's name hanging.

I was going to enter the Allsorts challenge which is "Rags to riches" ie to alter something. Unfortunately I am too late!!
I think it also fit the Creative Inspirations Sunday challenge :- Anything but a card.

What I altered is 6 beer mats like this one. A friend got some for a few of us and I have already made a name hanging for Poppy. So I decided that Oliver needs one too.



This is what I made. I covered both sides of the beer mats with some lovely double sided Fancy Pants DP. The other side is striped like the letters. I rounded the corners of the paper to fit the beer mats and edged with a cloudy blue Adirondack paint dabber. The letters were cut out using my Cricut and added to the squares with foam pads. I used some of the smaller Penny Black images from different sets of transparent stamps. These were coloured with Promarkers, cut out and attached with foam pads. I also added some buttons to each square. I tied each square to the next one with grosgrain ribbon. I hope Catriona likes it. Oliver is a bit too young to have an opinion lol!!

I'm really looking forward to seeing them all tomorrow. We will not be home till some time on Monday so after tonight I am not going to be able to visit my favourite blogs till then. By the time it comes to Monday I am going to be really missing blogging.

Enjoy your weekend, see you on Monday.

Kat xx

The Last Two.

Good evening girls. Here I am with my last two cards. Should have had these done sooner but I've been missing checking out my favourite blogs so I've done a bit of blog hopping this week instead of crafting so much. I don't think I'm all crafted out with Christmas or lost my mojo, I just think I'm feeling like slowing down a wee bit.

I've been at work every day and just need to survive till 12.30 tomorrow and that will be me till next Tuesday afternoon. Next week will be better cos I'll just have Tuesday afternoon and Wednesday morning as my colleague will be back. Even better since I've done Tuesday morning and then Thursday this week she will do the next Monday (4th Jan)for me. In Scotland we should have 2 Bank hols in January but we were given the choice of 2nd off and work 4th or work 2nd and 4th off and the preferred option was back to work on the 4th. The Post Office excuse for doing us out of a holiday is so that the network is all the same. It's never been the same before and it's never bothered anyone before. It'll be interesting to see what they do next year!!

I'm waffling! Below is the very quick card I made for my son. One of my favourite Penny Black images, my favourite Cuttlebug snowflake, Martha Stewart snowflakes, card candy and sentiment from Craftwork Cards, MME DP and stickles. I stickled the hats and just realised that I forgot to do the snow under the sledge. I've done it now!! Lastly this is the special card I made for my husband. He gave me a great big soppy card and I don't think I can compete with that so this is what he is getting LOL!! I think this Penny Black image is really cute and I love this gorgeous DP from Fancy Pants. I have used my favourite snowflakes again and this very useful card candy. The image is coloured with Promarkers and the sentiment is from Penny Black too. I bought the lovely snowflake charm from Quixotic Paperie. I got some lovely charms there for other occasions too - you should have a look. Elaine has some great goodies - I never have a look without buying something. The prices are good and you get great service.

I am going to enter some challenges with these cards but I will come back and add that on tomorrow as I really need to go to bed now.

The challenges I am entering are:-

ABC:- K for kissing.

Susie's sassy challenge:- a touch of gold.

Magical Crafts:- Special Christmas card.

Penny Black:- Christmas charm.

Create 4 Fun:- Sketch.

Creative Card Crew:- Anything goes.

Crafty Creations:- Anything.

Stamp Something:- Holiday somethings.

See you tomorrow girls. Only 2 more sleeps now till Christmas, or 3 (hopefully) till I see my gorgeous grandchildren.

Kat xx

Totally Gorjuss 9 Free and Easy.

Good afternoon everyone. I'm a bit late with this post but I didn't know what this week's Totally Gorjuss challenge was until late last night. Net had a little incident where she thought she had posted the challenge on the DT blog but unfortunately she hadn't. Then I had been so busy making Christmas cards that I didn't check again till later last night. So this is the Gorjuss Girl card that I made very quickly.

I used some Magic Christmas DP from Fancy Pants. The base card is red and I've added some red ribbon and gems and my favourite Cuttlebug snowflake. I also used my nesties to cut out the label shape to stamp my Gorjuss Girl. This was edged in red like the snowflake and I coloured some card candy from Craftwork Cards with a red Promarker. Very quick and simple....just what I need just now. Just realised I've forgotten to add a sentiment. It'll probably be one from Craftwork Cards!

Since we are doing "Free and Easy" this time Net has also put the next card on the challenge blog too. I made lots of easel cards on Thursday and Friday and this is one of them. The DP is the gorgeous Wonderful Winter from MME and the cute image is from Penny Black. Another of my favourite snowflakes plus a small Martha Stewart one. The card candy, sentiment and flower are all from Craftwork cards again.


I love these easel cards. I must be one of the last people in blogland to make one though LOL!! It is so long since I first saw one that I couldn't remember where there was a tutorial so I just did my own thing.

The second card fits these challenges:-

Pile it On :- Tinsel Town - glitter.

Simon Says Stamp :- Let it snow. Stickle snow under sledge.

The Secret Crafter :- Snow.

Create 4 Fun :- Easel card.

Stamp Something :- Winter wonderland.

Daring Cardmakers :- Polka Dots.

Hope you want to go over to the Totally Gorjuss blog to have a look at the rest of the DT's creations. As usual they are amazing and this week we have a great prize for you.....a surprise stash bag. Hope to see all your amazing entries during the next week. And now I am off to make some more cards. Think I still have at least 20 to make....oh dear!!

Kat xx