Joyful Christmas.

Hi everyone, I'm extremely embarrassed to see how long it is since I've posted here!

I decided to use some of my new Christmas goodies. I have some lovely new stamps and I didn't know which to use first.

Here's what I made with the lovely Joyful Christmas stamp set.

I stamped the Poinsettia twice in Cherry Cobbler and coloured with Real Red and my blender pen. I popped the centre up on pads for some dimension. The sentiment is stamped in Old Olive and I added some Washi tape from the Season of Style set.

I need to scoot now but I hope it's not as long till I manage to post here again!

Thanks for looking and I'll catch up later.

Kat xx

Totally Gorjuss 196 - Hot Colours.

Good morning everyone time for another challenge at Totally Gorjuss. This week the challenge is "Hot Colours." This says colours like red, orange and yellow to me. Problem is I don't like orange. But as you can see I've made the effort and used lots of orange.

I used :- everything from Stampin' Up!
Flowers from the Morning Meadow set.
Sentiment :- Morning Meadow set.
Stampin' Write markers :- Daffodil Yellow and Real Red.
Cardstock :- Calypso Coral, Real Red, and Daffodil Delight.
Small butterfly punch.
Small pearls.

I've got a crop after work today so I'll catch up this evening.

Thanks for looking.

Kat xx

Less is More Handmade Flower.

Hi everyone, hope you're all enjoying this amazing weather. I haven't seen much of it but it's nice to walk the dogs without wearing a big jacket!

When I saw the challenge at Less is More was handmade flowers I knew what I wanted to do straight away. Not like me, it usually takes me a while to decide what to do! This time it's only taken me a while to get round to actually making a card.

Products used all from Stampin' Up!
Flower :- Tissue paper and dies from the Secret Garden set.
Embossing Folder :- Adorning Accents.
Sentiment :- Curly Cute.
Button and cardstock in Pool Party.

I'd also like to enter this card at Totally Papercrafts :- Make your own flowers.

Thanks for looking I think I'm going to relax with some knitting now.

Have a lovely weekend.

Kat xx

Totally Gorjuss 192 - Sweet.

Hi everyone, just a quick post with my DT card for Totally Gorjuss. This week our theme is "sweet." You could use an image with cake or sweets or maybe a sweet little girl image. I'm sure you can find your own sweet interpretation.

So here's my quick and simple card.

I used :-
Image and sentiment :- Crazy for Cupcakes - an old set from Stampin' Up!
Colouring :- Stampin' Write markers.

I've got a crop at my local craft shop this afternoon so I'll be round to see what everyone's doing this evening.

Thanks for looking.

Kat xx

Less is More Shades of Grey!

What a useless blogger I am. It's been weeks since I've managed to post a card here! I have a few excuses though. I've been working full time for two weeks. During one of those weeks I also had my daughter's two Labradors as well as my own. To crown it all I've been doing a lot of crocheting as it's really portable and I can do it at work when it's quiet.

But this morning I suddenly had an idea for a card for this week's challenge at Less is More where they'd like to see at least two shades of grey.

Not sure if this works. What do you think?

I used :-
Image :- Love and Sympathy.
Sentiment :- Hopeful Thoughts.
Basic Grey card and Stampin' Write marker.
Paper-Piecing Essentials.
All from Stampin' Up!
Pearls from Hobby House.

Do you think it works? I'd love to hear what you think.

Thanks for looking.

Kat xx

Totally Gorjuss 186 - Anything Goes Plus Flowers.

Hi everyone as I'm sure you've noticed we're a day late with our challenge at Totally Gorjuss. Our leader Net has been spending long days looking for her beloved parrots. She even came home early from her holidays after the woman who was looking after them managed to lose them! Not surprisingly Net forgot to post last week's challenge and I wasn't sure whether she was going to post last week's or this week's. Does that make sense? Anyway it was decided to do this weeks as some of the DT schedule their posts.

So to cut a long story short this week we'd like to see some flowers on your card or project. So it's anything goes plus flowers.

Here's mine. I couldn't make up my mind what colour to make these fabulous Poppies. These ones are SU Midnight Muse and (I think) Gumball Green.

And these ones are Pool Party and Gumball Green.

The image  is Pleasant Poppies and the sentiments are from Teeny Tiny Sentiments. The sentiments are cut out with a punch as is the layer. All products from Stampin' Up!

Well since this is Sunday I have a few things to do just now so I'll catch up later.

Thanks for looking and if you have a minute to leave a comment I'd love to hear from you and visit you too. I've got a welcome day off tomorrow as it's a local holiday so I'm hoping to get some crafting done then.

Kat xx

Thank You.

Good morning everyone it seems as if I haven't posted for ages. Probably because it is ages. I keep hoping that I'm going to have more time to craft but every week something else happens to run away with my free time. But I've managed to make a quick card. It would have been quicker if I hadn't had to try out the image on a piece of scrap paper first and if I hadn't managed to make a black mark when I was stamping the sentiment!

So here it is. What do you think? Do you think this colour combo works? I was pleasantly surprised  by how much I like it!

Products used all from Stampin' Up!

Image and sentiment :- Just Believe.

Colouring :- Stampin' Write markers in Primrose Petals and Garden Green.

Ribbon :- Stitched satin in Primrose Petals.

Punches :- Word Window and Modern Label.

Adorning Accents edgelits.

I've used the sketch from Freshly Made Sketches :-

Isn't that a great sketch? I love it. 

Well unfortunately I have to work today :(  poor me. I think I have a Monday holiday in two weeks so I'll just have to look forward to that. 

Thanks for looking and I hope you can find a minute to tell me what you think of my card.

Kat xx