Help......how do you stop?!!!!

Hi everyone, me again. I liked the card I did for Less is More last week so I thought I'd try another one along the same lines. I love this image, it's a really fun one. I can't resist House Mouse but I love the Gruffies too. I think I'm liking this kind of quick card!

I used :- 

Image :- House Mouse - Gruffies.

Colouring :- Promarkers.

Sentiment :- Hero Arts.

I'm entering the following challenges :-

House Mouse :- Double Trouble.
Winter Wonderland :- Winter Sports
 Craft Your Days Away :- Anything Goes.
Gem of a Challenge :- Animals or Teddies. Not sure if this fits?

I only managed to visit one church yesterday to see the flowers. I went to my own church and cleverly as it turned out went for my soup and sweet first in case it was so busy the food ran out! It was busy and someone said people had been coming in to see the flowers since about 10am. The floral displays were absolutely stunning. The ladies who did them are very talented. According to reports the flowers in the other churches were beautiful too. I met my neighbour who was there with friends and they'd been out and about since just after 10am and by 1pm or so they'd only managed 2 of the churches! My daughter was out from Aberdeen to have her hair cut so we went shopping so unless I can find someone who wants to see the flowers I'll have to miss the other two churches.

Thanks for looking and I'll try to catch up later. I'll need to do my ironing as usual. Then I've got two weeks full time work in front of me. Oh joy! I think it's going to be a long two weeks. Think I'll take my iPad with me and then I can at least catch up with all my favourite blogs and any DT commenting I need to do. My only problem is that by the time I get home I've usually just about lost the will to live. Not exactly conducive to crafting. But maybe I'm just being pessimistic and I'll actually manage to make some cards.

Enjoy what's left of the weekend.

Penny Black 189 Pearls and Lace.

This week I thought I'd try to enter the challenge at Penny Black earlier than the last minute. I've kept the card quite simple to show off the lovely lace and pearls.

I used :-

Image :- Penny Black.

DP :- First Edition.

Colouring :- Promarkers.

Lace, pearls, Glamour Dust and Sakura glitter gel pen.

I'm entering the following challenges :-

Penny Black :- Pearls and Lace.
Gem of a Challenge :- Sketch.
Ribbon Girl :- Pink, brown and cream.
ABC :- Jazz it up. Lots of bling and glitter.


I meant to post this on Sunday evening but it was too late! I've been at work all day so I just feel like doing a bit of catching up now. Maybe even some knitting for a change.

Thanks for looking and I think I'll go and check out the entries over at the Totally Gorjuss where we'd like to see some lace on your cards or projects this week. How easy is that? I'm hoping to see lots of you over there this week.

Hearts and Flowers.

Hi everyone, me again! Not like me to post as often as this, I think I'll probably slow down soon! It's my turn for the teas at the WRI on Wednesday so I'll need to bake this afternoon. I have some Christmas cake so that'll do for one thing. I always make carrot cake and meringues and Baileys Rocky Road so that's another 3. I'm going to make shortbread and mince pies so that should be enough choice. My friend doesn't bake so we've been put together and she'll do sandwiches. We always do the teas in pairs and quite often you do half baking and half sandwiches each but it does depend on what you both agree. Our meeting in January last year was cancelled because of the weather but looks like we'll be ok this year.

Last night I decided to try to make another card and this is what I came up with.

I used :-

Image :- Penny Black.

DP :- Marianne design.

Colouring :- Promarkers

Card Candi :- Craftwork Cards.

Ribbon, flowers, gems and Glamour Dust.

I'm entering the following challenges :-

Totally Papercrafts :- Sketch.
Penny Black & More at Allsorts :- Love and Hearts.
Gem of a challenge :- Photo Inspiration.

Hmm this could be a Valentine card for hubby. Not like me to be so organised. The next think I know I'll be making his birthday card. His birthday is in February and so is my son-in-laws. One on the 24th and one on the 25th.

Thanks for looking and I'll catch you all later when I've got my baking done.

Totally Gorjuss 63 Cuddly.

Hi everyone I don't know about you but I'm glad it's the weekend at last. I think I've been spoiled because the weeks after Christmas and New Year were both short working weeks.

Thanks to everyone who joined us at Totally Gorjuss last week for our first challenge of 2011. I saw some gorgeous cards using Net's sketch. Don't forget to pop over to Totally Gorjuss to find out who won. This week our challenge is "Cuddly" and we are sponsored by Simon Says Stamp.

So here's my "cuddly" card. Can a hedgie be cuddly. Not sure about that but he is very sweet and his teddy looks very cuddly!

I used :-

Image :- Penny Black.

DP :- Wild Rose Studio.

Sentiment :- A new one from LOTV.

Colouring :- Promarkers.

Lace :- The Ribbon Girl.

Pearls :- The Hobby House.

Sakura glitter gel pen and glitter.

I'm entering the following challenges :-

Creative Inspirations :- Use something new - new sentiment stamp and new lace.

A Gem of a Challenge :- Sketch and use lace.

Thanks for looking and I'll try to see as many of your entries as I can during the week. If you can find a minute to tell me what you think I'd love to hear from you.

Enjoy your weekend.

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

Totally Gorjuss 41 - Baby, Baby.

Well good morning girls and welcome to the weekend and another challenge over at Totally Gorjuss. Thanks to everyone who joined us last week and remember to pop over to the challenge blog to see who one last week's challenge.

Now I don't want to be a drama queen but I really thought I wasn't going to be able to post my card. I had it all made last night. Luckily it came together quite quickly as I lost my day off yesterday as my colleague is on holiday. I took a photo this morning before work while it was nice and bright and thought all I had to do was upload it to the DT blog and write my scheduled post on my own blog. Didn't happen!!! I've spent the whole evening trying to get onto my blog. The signal kept disappearing and even when I was supposed to be online I couldn't get onto this site or any other one. I got a bit panicky but then I thought well if I have to be late it can't be helped for once. I'm sure Net would have understood. Luckily way after 10pm I could get a signal that stayed on. Panic over and I quickly posted my card on the DT blog for Net to find. Phew, what a relief!!!!

But enough waffle. This is my baby card. I decided to make a pink one because even though I have pink, blue and even lilac in my box I need a pink one for my friends who have just become grandparents to a gorgeous baby gir and of course one for the proud parents their son and daughter-in-law and the big sister.


This is the inside which for once I've taken the time to decorate because I'm intending to enter the Gem of a Challenge. I've used their sketch and they also want us to decorate the inside.

I used:-

Image :- Pink Gem.

Sentiment :- Penny Black.

Flowers :- Prima.

DP :- Craft Creations.

Card Candy :- Craftwork Cards.

Colouring :- Promarkers, Distress ink.

Nesties, Sakura clear gel pen and clear glitter gel pen.

The other challenge I would like to enter is Paperplay which is anything goes.

I hope you like! This is one of my favourite images for a baby card, that baby is so cute. I hope you can find time to leave me a little comment and that you'll want to pop over to Totally Gorjuss to see what gorgeous baby cards my talented teamies have made. I'm looking forward to visiting your blogs to see your baby cards too.

Enjoy your weekend.