Lazy Sunday

Good Afternoon everyone, and thanks to all who left comments on my last blog.  I love to read them and they encourage me in my cardmaking.

It's been a lovely lazy Sunday so far, Alistair is away for a cycle with a friend,(lycra is not a good look) this always takes a few hours so I have the house to myself, so I've pottered about with housework, nothing serious, given some thought to the dinner, only thought so far.... and watched some really awful Westerns on the telly, well it beats all the political stuff that Alistair watches and comments on when he's here.

I've decided to enter another card into LOTV Little Fairies Challenge, didn't come anywhere near winning with the last one but I'm a trier. The theme is Anything Goes, so I thought I would enter the Christmas card I've made for my son and daughter in law.

 The stamp is of course LOTV and coloured with promarkers, Xcut dies, red glitter card and papers are a selection that I can't remember where from, embelishments from bits and pieces in my box of tricks.

I have no idea how the winners are chosen, if its artistic content or just pulled out of a hat, does anyone know?  I see by other folk's blogs that, it is a very popular thing to do, some people enter loads of challenges, most I've never heard of, I would imagin it is quite time consuming, but fun too.

Having to add a bit on to this post; Wendy thank you for the info on blog challenges and for suggesting that I enter my card into the I love Promarkers challenge, so Iv'e gone ahead and done just that.

Anyway, I'll see how this one does, that's me for today, hope your day is going well

Kate x

A Pleasant Saturday

Hello Fellow bloggers, and how is everyone today? I hope you are having a good weekend. It's been a pleasant day with no rain here in Inverness, although at times it did look as if it would plummet with the wet stuff. Not that rainy weather bothers me that much, but I do like to get the washing out. Oh boring stuff!!
Anyway this is just a quick blog today to show you all this lovely wee cat called Guman, here she is

She is such a wee sweetie, I would loved to have taken her home with me.

I did get around to making a card, which I am entering into the Little Claire monthly Challenge, so here is my entry and the theme is Babies.

I really do wish I could take proper photos, this has come out a bit on the dull side, anyhow I've used
Little Claire Changing Tree Stamp, with the new Baby accessory stamps, coloured with Promarkers, Adorable Scorable coloured card, paper from Nitwits PromisesLOTV, sentiment from Little Claire and Wild Orchid Flowers.

Thats me for today,  Kate x

Ahhhh! nice to be back!

Good Evening Everyone,
Back after a couple of days staying with friends in Gairloch, which is for those who don't know is in the west of Scotland.  It's a most beautiful place, the scenery is stunning, fabulous coastline.
We had a lovely time, well fed and watered, and loved the new addition of Guman who is the most adorable cat. Her name is Swedish and means "cat" , I think. Don't know if this is the spelling though.  i took her photo and will put it on tomorrow.
Graeme and Isabelle, our friends have this fab b&b, "Solas" in Big Sands, just a little out of the village and it is a wonderful place to stay, so if anyone is fancying a quiet break look it up.

Anyway, here I am back and catching up on all your creations and news, and it seems a busy time has been had by all.  I have not managed to make a new card as yet, planning to get into it tomorrow but, here is one I made a wee while ago for my friends little Grandson, Kerr who has his birthday in a couple of weeks.  he is in to karate in a big way and has quite a few belts and is only 9, he will be, I hope you like it

LOTV stamp coloured with promarkers, xcut die shape, Papermainia paper, brown card and peel offs
Thats all from me tonight,  Kate x

Out of the muddle!

Hello fellow bloggers, I'm not sure if we're at afternoon or evening at the moment, anyhow I hope everyone is well.Thank you all for the lovely comments.


Well Alistair and I covered a lot of work getting this spare room into some kind of order over the last couple of days and we managed not to fall out, amazing really as we always do when we have to work at something together. Oh the amount of stuff we had to get rid of, really I don't know where it all came from.  A few trips to the charity shops this morning was called for, and of course I've not managed to get any cards made.  However, the room now has more space, if a hen hutch has space, and looks really quite good with the new storage units, I certainly feel better whilst sitting here typing this.  I had to be quite ruthless though and books I'd kept for years had to go.

I managed to finish a pair of slouchy socks though, another Christmas prezzy, here they are,

They are knitted with Sidar Crofter yarn which in this case is chunky.  I don't really like knitting with chunky yarn, I much prefer 4 ply or even finer, but for these socks it's quite good. I knitted myself a pair the other winter and I wear them when I need my feet to be cosy when I'm in my jimjams. The yarn is self patterning and it looks a little like fairilse when knitted up.

As I said I don't have a new card to post, and I'm away tomorrow for a couple of days so I won't get back to crafting till the weekend, when I can get started with some new LOTV and Little Claire stamps which arrived this morning, but I thought I would share this photo taken while were were in Keswick in the summer, I think it's got the aww factor.  I stood for ages watching there wee beasties and they were quite content to sit there and be admired by all . Hope you like them, so here are Mum & Baby

Thats' all from me today, Keep well everyone and Happy Crafting,

Kate x

In a muddle!

Good Evening to you all, and many thanks for stopping by my blog and leaving all  the lovely messages.

Well today has consisted of trying to sort out the spare bedroom and make it more of a crafty space. We got rid of a huge wall unit as it felt that the walls were folding in on me, but where to put all the stuff collected over the years. It also housed my laptop which isn't wireless. I've had to be quite ruthless about what I'm getting rid of, but so many bits and pieces hold memories it,s difficult.  The dining table and livingroom floor is covered with stuff until I can think of what to do with it all.  We bought a new desk and Alistair put it together so that I could get the computer up and running again, and I did, amazed by myself that I managed to get all the correct cables in the right holes. Tomorrow will see my poor hubby puting together the other storage furniture and hopefully well get it sorted out.  However cardmaking is off at the moment but here is one I made a couple of months ago

The image is a Kanban stamp and colored with promarkers, I think the background papers are freebies downloaded from somewhere and bits from my stash.  The card was made for our friend's son who is having a tough time just now, he has learning difficulties and has been failed by the care system and is now in hospital.  He is such a lovely person, and as I am in the social care business I feel quite angry about it, but he does not live near us, so a card was the best I could do.  I'm told he has it by his bed.

Anyway thats me for tonight, Downton is on soon and I need my weekly fix of beautiful garments.  Goodnight and hope to be back tomorrow,
Kate x

My holiday at last!!

Hello Everyone and thank you for the lovely comments from yesterday.  I hope you are all well.
it's a nasty rainy day again but as it's the first day of my holiday I don't care.  I've go a busy couple of weeks ahead albeit with nice things, visits to friends in Gairloch and Strathdon both lovely places to go for a break. Our friends in Gairloch have a fab house with floor to ceiling windows which look out to sea and if you look one way you can see the Cuillins in Skye and if you look the otherway you see another range of mountains the name of which escapes me just now.  It's a visit I always love making.
Tomorrow however we are attempting to make some space in the spare bedroom to enable all my crafty things a bit of room, I have to say it's a chore I'm not looking forward to doing.  So today is a rest day to wind down after the weeks frantic work.

I have decided to submit another card to LOTV Little Faries Challenge again, here it is

The theme is Classic Christmas, so I thought this would do, It is of course on of LOTV Christmas stamps and coloured with promarkers, and metalic promarkers and glossy accents, Papermania glotter card and background paper.

So we'll see how this one gets on.There is an amazing amount of beautiful cards entered for these challenges, I don't know how the design teams manage to pick winners.

That's me for to day, I hope your weekend is good,
Kate x

Brain exhausted and closing down now

Good Evening, a little later than usual, snozed off on the sofa for half an hour, must have needed it, but it hasn't refreshed me, I think it will be bed soon.  It was one of those days at work, made worse beacuse of staff shortage and there is something about Fridays cos everyone seamed quite mad today, but I'm on holiday now for two weeks and so looking forward to it.

I've just been catching up with your creations and what lovely ones they are too. I never cease to be both amazed and enspired by all the creative talen there is.  Anyway, here is a little card  made for a little girl who started school, having not ever seen this little one, I'm told that she looks just like the little girl in the image, so this is" Erin's first day at school"

This is a Sarah Kaye stamp coloured with promarkers, co-ordination card, and bits and pieces from stash.
Oh and by the way, I didn't win at the little Fairies Challenge, but it was fun to do, I might do another one.

That's me for tonight, brain is beginning to close down, bye for now

Kate x