Happy Birthday Kath

Slap my wrists again, I've been a very naughty blogger and haven't blogged in a whole week, and I don't even know why.... apart from the fact that I've not done any crafting to blog about.
Anyway, never mind that, it's our local celebrity, and my very good friend, Kath's birthday today - she's 21 :)
So by the time you read this I'll have been over with the card I made for her and a wee pressie.
so here's the totally Kath-inspired card that I made for her, using some of her favourite things... remember to pop over and wish her a happy birthday.

The butterflies are part of one of the new Hero Arts/Sizzix stamp/die combos, coloured with flexmarkers. I've also used Poinsettia Circle and Envelope Pattern stamps which are also Hero Arts. Do you like the shade of green on the poinsettia circle, envelope pattern background and the seam binding? well it's the brand new Evergreen Bough from the Winter limited edition Tim Holtz distress inks - isn't it gorgeous? The greeting is PI and the seam binding and white cardstock are from The Papeterie.

I'd like to enter it into:
Crafty Catz - anything goes
Papertake Weekly - anything goes
Ribbon Carousel - anything goes
Top Tip Tuesday - make your own backgrounds

The Sew Room

Time is running away from me again, so I'm playing catch up once more... 
Had a pretty busy weekend, haircuts all round on Saturday morning, then a flying visit to The Papeterie on the way out to the grand opening of The Sew Room.
Kath shared some more pics of the shop the other day and it really is a beautiful shop, full of wonderful things. The girls managed to empty my purse for me, so the next time I go I think I'll be leaving them at home so I can buy some goodies for myself :)
Anyway, I made a wee shop-warming gift for Anne...

I used Kaisercraft - Black and White Timeless papers coloured with Distress Stain (spun sugar)
Tim Holtz -  Sewing Room die (cut from Papermania Kraft cardstock)
Prima - butterfly alphabet stamp, PI stamps, EK Success button border punch, Claudine Hellmuth sticky backed canvas, memento and distress ink pads
I'd like to enter this into... 
Lexis Creations - Pink for Boobies
Make It Monday with Kraft Outlet - to die cut
Stamptacular Sunday - so distressing


A wee bag to put it in...

Image: Sizzix/Hero Arts - Antique Flowers & Butterflies stamp and die
stamped with Memento Angel Pink on the bag and tag, and Memento Tuxedo Black for the main image then coloured with flexmarkers and promarkers
I'd like to enter it into
Make it Monday - anything goes
Touch Twin Challenges - floral
Lets Ink It Up - think pink


And a good luck card..

Image: Stitched Hearts from Stampavie coloured with flexmarkers and promarkers
core'dinations card, background stamped with PI stamps and Angel Pink Memento ink, greeting is Inkadinkado, EK Success button border punch


I'd like to enter this card into:
Crafty Cardmakers - anything goes
Sentimental Sundays - anything goes
One Stop Craft - anything goes
Sweet Stampin' - in stitches
Totally Papercrafts - animals

Stampavie Demo Pt 2

I'm back with another 2 samples from my demo last Saturday, but before I show you them I just wanted to remind you all of the Xmas in July extravaganza at The Papeterie this Saturday, believe me when I say, you do not want to miss this..... the amazing Kath Stewart will be demonstrating the new Hero Arts Xmas stamps in the morning and teaching a fantastic xmas configurations box class in the afternoon - not sure if there are any spaces left or not. I'll be demonstrating the new Xmas Gorjuss Girls stamps, Sugar Nellie stamps, Promarkers with the new ultra-fine nibs and some Spellbinders Nestabilities techniques. AND Charlotte has some fantastic offers on Xmas goodies ALL DAY. If you can travel to Aberdeen, then you MUST pop in.
So here's my first card...

 Image: Marguerite taking Ruben for a walk from Stampavie (Sarah Kay) coloured with promarkers (definitely needed the ultra fine nibs for this one)
Papers are Basic Grey - Green At Heart, brown card from The Papeterie, green cord from stash.

 I'd like to enter her into...
Sweet Stampin' - fashion
Crafty Catz - no pink or blue
Stampin' for the Weekend - paws for thought

Image: Fairy Kiki from Stampavie (Mo Manning) coloured with promarkers (glamour dust on wings)

Kanban gingham cardstock, black cardstock from The Papeterie, labels 16 nestabilities, Fiskars flower punch and bracket border punch, PI sentiment and Ranger enamel accents for the flower centres

I'd like to enter her into....
Come & Get It Challenge - MYO Flowers
Corrosive Challenge - all about kids
Moving Along With The Times - cute & cuddly with a punch


Just want to thank all those who noticed yesterday was my 1 year anniversary of giving up smoking - it has been a whole year since I had a cigarette and quite honestly I amazed myself. All my friends thought I would be the last person to ever give up, but I did it and I'm so chuffed. So my next project is to lose all the weight I put on by stopping smoking lol

Thank You

I have a couple of thank you's today - firstly, I'd like to thank everyone who left me a reply to yesterday's post, it's been incredibly helpful and this project is going to be a lot bigger than I thought it would be :)
I'd also like to thank all the girls on Facebook who took the time to reply to my post asking about bleedproof papers and an even bigger thank you to the girls who are sending me samples.


The next thank you is a card I made for Mrs Sugar Nellie, who initiated a chain RAK on the Sugar Nellie facebook group. So I received a RAK from Karen and made her this card to say thank you. Those of you who know me well enough, know that I'm not a fan of Magnolia Tilda's or hAnglar & stAnglar stamps - they're not my thing, but I won this one as part of Elaine's party bag candy recently and decided that I actually quite liked her and she came in very handy to make this card as I know Karen is a bit of a h&s fan.

not a clue what the image is called, just know its a h&s ?!?! coloured with promarkers, papers are Basic Grey Eva and corrugated kraft, greeting is PI and the card blank is craftwork cards


right. am off to sit and have a coffee and a fine piece in front of the telly :)

Girls Just Want to Have Fun - Today's the Day!

Today's the day!
I think we're all organised and ready for anything. 
I'm so looking forward to seeing some old friends again and to meeting some new ones. Talking of which, Mrs Sugar Nellie herself is coming and I made this card for her. She recently started a RAK on the Sugar Nellie FB group and this is the thankyou card I made for her. 
Now as some of you will know, I'm not really into the Magnolia and hÄnglar & stÄnglar images, but I know that Karen has a bit of a soft spot for hÄnglar & stÄnglar, and I just so happen to have won one in a blog candy from Elaine.

Image coloured with promarkers
papers are Basic Grey Eva scraps plus corrugated kraft, core'dinations for the pink mats and the greeting is PI. Card blank is craftwork cards


will be back tomorrow with pics from Girls Just Want to Have Fun :)

More catching up

Well, the lurgy is still hanging around like a bad smell here - I'd like to thank everyone who left get well wishes, I appreciate them.


I have managed to fit wee sneaky crafty moments over the last few days - so I took the opportunity to catch up some more with the Sunday's with Santa Facebook group - this first one is for the Week 12 - No Green challenge...

I have stamped the Penny Black - Fantasy stamp with Versamark then heat embossed with detail white, onto this lovely spice coloured linen card from The Papeterie. I used a shaped card blank and greeting from Craftwork Cards and used the MS Cherish punches to shape the spice card.


Now, I'm not sure if it's my bug addled brain that's the problem or if it's just old age but this card started out as being for Gayles choice of Week 13 - Vintage, but halfway through it became Week 11 Snow/snowflakes - so I'll just enter it for both, yes I know that's kind of cheating, but if I have time I'll do another for Snow/snowflakes. Now I have a very loose interpretation of vintage...

White card is all from The Papeterie, embossed with swiss dots cuttlebug folder and Tim Holtz Bricked texture fades folder. The PI church image was stamped with SU Crumb Cake inkpad, and I blended Pumice Distress Ink around the edges of all 3 panels. The snowflakes are MS punches, prima e line adhesive stones, and glamour dust on the church image.


I'd like to enter both these cards into Secret Crafter Saturday Challenge - Xmas in Spring

Sunday's with Santa - major catch-up

I've been lagging wayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy behind with the Sunday's with Santa challenge on Facebook. Now if you don't know it's a wee "just for fun" challenge started by Pops, and the theory is if we make a christmas card every week for the challenge then we are going to have a half decent stack by christmas time and we're going to be a bit more organised than we usually are lol
The challenge is currently on week 12 - and the last week I entered was week 4 - so I have some major catching up to do. Now I could've made it a bit easier on myself by making a card fit more than one challenge - but I want to make as many christmas cards ahead of time as I can manage. So over the last couple of days I have done 5 out of the 8 I need to do to catch up, so are you ready??
here goes...
week 5 - Family Christmas
I struggled for ideas for this one until I remembered my mum had given me this PI stamp set...
I'd like to enter it into the Paper Play Challenges - Distressing

I embossed 2 pieces of white card with the cuttlebug snowflakes folder and covered the join with some trim (from Simply Create). Blended the edges with Pumice distress ink.


Week 6 - Easel Card
I'm not actually very happy with this one - it doesn't quite work, but hey, it's another xmas card made

cardstock from The Papeterie, papermania embossing folder, spellbinders fancy tags die and Hero Arts greeting


Week 7 - Anything Goes - I'll be coming back to this one!
Week 8 - Pink & Chocolate 
I'd like to enter her into the Winter Wonderland challenge which is - Oh Baubles 

Baubles from Sugar Nellie, coloured with promarkers, the brown paper is Stampin' Up, the pink paper is Tilda, brown core'dinations card - shaped with EK success border punch (and I used some of the waste on the pink panel) greeting is Craftwork Cards


Week 9 - Oh Christmas Tree
Not entirely happy with this one either - it worked far better in my head

Cuttlebug embossing folder and Whitewash core'dinations card, papermania capsule collection bow, Hero Arts greeting


Week 10 - Gingerbread
Now this one had me scratching my head - a few of the girls on the FB group had used the Gingerbread stamp from Sugar Nellie, and you know how I like to be a little bit different, so I had a lightbulb moment and decided to go with a gingerbread house...
I'd like to enter this one into the I ♥ ProMarkers challenge - Go Dotty

Hero Arts CL464 Sending Holiday Cheer clear set, coloured with promarkers and glamour dust, used memento ink pads in Desert Sand and Angel Pink for the trees and greeting from the same set.
swiss dots cuttlebug folder, cardstock (torn and embossed) from The Papeterie, and polar white Flowersoft. Craftwork Cards card blank


I still have to do week 11 (Snow/snowflakes) and week 12 (no green) as well as the anything goes on week 7 but I'm getting there. If you fancy joining in the fun, you'll find the group on Facebook, here.

Calendar gifts

You maybe remember me telling you that I had a bit of a mad dash on the evening before the last day of school before the xmas holidays - where I was trying to make wee treat bags for all the teachers. In the end it was a bit of a wasted effort because I couldn't get our great lump of a car out of the drive anyway due to the snow. So... seeing as I had a little more time, I decided to make little desk calendars for each of the teachers - I still have to make another one for the additional needs teacher who is in charge of the Lego Club that Scott goes to (but he's not there til Monday, so I have a bit of breathing space.) 


I decided to give the Wild Sprouts from The Greeting Farm an airing as they haven't seen the light of day in ages and I've missed colouring them.
This first 2 are for Willow's class teacher and the SFL assistant that looks after her...

Annika from TGF, coloured with promarkers.
papers, greeting and card candy are Craftwork Cards, cardstock is core'dinations, lace from stash

Maria from the Roll Call kit, TGF, coloured with promarkers
Papers are from Panduro, greeting is PI, cardstock is core'dinations


The next 3 are for Scott's class teacher, the assistant who helps him and the SFL teacher...

 Miko from the Roll Call kit, TGF, coloured with promarkers, 
paper is Echo Park Wintertime, ribbon, flowers and brads from stash, greeting is PI, cardstock is core'dinations

 Jade from Roll Call kit, TGF, coloured with promarkers
Paper is Daisy & Dandelion, cardstock is core'dinations, greeting is PI

Miko from Roll Call kit, TGF, coloured with promarkers,
papers are from panduro, cardstock is core'dinations, greeting is from PI


And this last 4 is for Faith's 2 nursery teachers and 2 nursery nurses...

 Odette from Roll Call kit, TGF, coloured with promarkers,
paper is Bo Bunny, cardstock is core'dinations, greeting is PI

 Sassy Suzi from TGF, coloured with promarkers
papers are Craftwork Cards, cardstocj is core'dinations, greeting is PI, ribbon is from Angel Crafts

 Dahlia from TGF, coloured with promarkers
papers are panduro, cardstock is core'dinations, greeting is PI

Nahla from Roll Call kit, TGF, coloured with promarkers
papers are Fine & Dandy from MME, cardstock is core'dinations, greeting is PI


so let's hope the teachers like them. Which one is your favourite?
Oh, and can I just apologise for the crappy pics, it was far too dark by the time I finished them this afternoon to take them in daylight and I couldn't be bothered rigging up the mini photo studio, so I just sat them on my desk in front of my laptop.


I'd like to enter into the following challenges..
Papertake Weekly - anything goes + lace (calendar 1)
One Stop Craft Challenge -  new beginnings (all)

Demo Day

Gosh, its been ages since I blogged - life has just been a blur to be honest. It's a busy time, coming to the end of the summer term for the kids, so they're all off on various school trips, sports days etc etc and I have a whole story to tell you about wee Pepsi, but I'll save that for another day.

As you know, I was booked to do a demo day on Saturday at Kitty Krafts in Dundee, so I thought I'd share one or two of the samples I made up to take along with me. The day passed so quickly and Louise seemed to sell a few Promarkers too, so a good day all round.