Magical Birthday!

Good Evening to You All, I hope everyone is safe and well especially those of you who have been in the eye of the storm.  It completely missed us up here in Inverness, I sometimes think we have our very own little climate.  

Thank you all so much for the kind comments made about my last card, I love reading them, and very much appreciate the time you all take in visiting me.

We had a lovely Sunday spent with our friends who have a croft and lots of animals, and it was lovely to see how the lambs that we saw back in May have all grown up, even little Spanner who I fed from a bottle, he was just a wee poor lamb, but he has thrived and is still so friendly. We had lots of laughs and great food, and still got back in time for Downton.

We are off to Glasgow at the weekend for a couple of days as a little celebration for our Wedding Anniversary,  eighteen years, who would have thought, it's gone by so quickly, I remember the great day as if it was yesterday, it was the best wedding I'd ever been at, and it's been mostly laughs along the way.

Anyway, enough reminiscing, here is my card for today;

As you can see it's for Kerr, my friend's little Granson, whose birthdday is next week.
LOTV coloured topper edged in Black Soot DI
LOTV Sentiment
Core'dination black Card
Adorable Scorable Purple card embossed with  a SB folder,(don't know the name, sorry)
Papers are freebies from Making Cards Magazine, from last year
Xcut Star Dies
Glamour Dust for a bit of sparkle

Now I just have to think of what to buy him, but I hope he likes his card.

That's all from me tonight, I hope you will visit and please leave a comment to let me know that you've been here, and I'll pop in to see you.

I am entering my card into;

http://craftylittlefairieschallenge.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/anything-goes-dt-call.html

Presents Around the Tree!

Hello Crafty Friends, how are you all, well I certainly hope.  I've not posted anything since last week, but have managed to keep up with most of what you are all doing.  I have been incredibly tired, so not much card making getting done at the moment.  It's taking me much longer than I thought it would to settle back into work, just as well I have a long slow phased return.

Thank You to every one who visited and left comments on my last card and my fab yarn, I've almost a sock finished with some of it. I was delighted to notice that some new people had visited too and and a new follower, Elizabeth, welcome to you and I hope you will return and that you continue to like what I do. So thanks again each and everyone, I get really excited when I see new people, I just think it's great that you are so interested in what I make. I love journeying around your blogs too, what a wealth of talent there is, a fabulous source of inspiration, makes this blogging lark so worthwhile.

I've been asked to make some Christmas cards by one of my clients so here is a very traditional one;

I've been trying to use up Christmas collections from the past year,  so this is from a Hunkydory collection and I've added,
Sizzix Poinsettias Die, made with Glod Paper
Hobby Craft Gold Lace
Papermania, Gold Domes and Gems
Stickles Glitter
So not much in the way of creativity I'm afraid, as the image is all there for you to just stick on, but it fits the bill and I rather like how it's turned out.

I hope no one will be affected by this awful storm that's been forecast, Scotland will have the tail end of it I gather, so make sure you batten down the hatches.

That's me for now, enjoy your weekend whatever your doing, I know some of you are at the Glasgow craft fair, so I hope you are having a great time and buying lots of goodies, will be my turn in a couple of weeks at Birmingham and I'm really looking forward to that.

I would like to enter my card into;  http://christmasblogchallenge.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/check-this-out.html

Singing Snowmen and New Buys!

Hello to You All, hoping you are having a good weekend with some good weather.  I also hope everyone is well.

I have had a lovely few hours at a Wool and Textile Fair here in Inverness, I went along with my Choral Friend Fiona and just drooled at all the gorgeous Tweed material and beautiful yarn.  Amazed at knitting needles which were as thick as walking sticks and massive balls of Tweed which knitted up rugs.  Fiona, isn't a knitter but would love to be, so I'm going to look out a few simple patterns for her to have a go.

I stood in awe looking at the most exquisite shawls knitted by a lady from the Isle of Eigg, they were made by yarn as fine as embroidery thread, the patterns were stunning and also the colours, one of them cost £700, but what a work of art.  She is self taught, and upon asking her how she manages to concentrate to keep count, she replied that it is just her and her dog and he is no trouble.  I've been trying to do a simple shawl for ages, now I know where I'm going wrong, ditch the husband and move to Eigg. Only kidding.......!

Anyhow I had a bit of a spend, here is what I bought;

 The colours are like jewels, and the texture of the yarns are gorgeous. The blue yarn is from baby alpaca and is the softest ever and I'll use it for the shoulder shrug, all from a company called Alpaca Loft, who have their own herd of Alpacas, an if you buy their kits, there will be a photo of the animal whose fleece it is.
The green toned yarn is for Lewis's socks, Alistair's son. I had started them with a yarn that I didn't like much, but all I had for a guy, but it wasn't a patch on this one and the colour is called Winter Tartan.
All of this yarn is hand dyed from natural sources, like lichens and things, all the colours of nature.

 These are two patterns I liked, not all that difficult, I hope.  Hope I've not bored you too much with my other passion.  Here is my little card for today;

From the Debbie Moore CD Snow Buddeeze, again trying to use my CDs a bit more
Topper, paper , sentiment and bow ties all from the CD
Black Core'dinations Card
Gold Glitter Card
SB Music Embossing Folder
Marianne Treble Cleft Die
Stickles Sparkle
Gems
I hope you like my little effort.

Thank you all so much for the comments on my last card, I do appreciate that you visit me, I know it takes time.

Off now to settle down and watch Montalbano, it's a new series and I just love him.

Have a great weekend and I'll see you soon,

I would like to enter my card into;  http://christmasblogchallenge.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/carol-singers.html

Christmas Stocking!

Hello Everyone and hoping you are well and have had a good day.

It's been really quite a good day here, considering it started off with rain, but brightened up later, I hope the weather has been good wherever you are.

Not a working day for me so Alistair took me out for lunch, our lovely Indian restaurant,  but suffering for it now, nevertheless, it was a lovely meal and no need for me to cook tonight.  I shouldn't really eat Indian food, but I love it but it's so rich and of course the blood sugar is through the roof.  Back on track tomorrow.

I've been trying to catch up with some knitting today as Alistair has decided he would like to give his son some knitted socks for Christmas.  No pressure there then, and normally it wouldn't be but, I'm finding I can't knit for long periods now, the tennis elbow is still troubling me and also my fingers are painful with arthritis, but hopefully I'll get them finished.

Thanks to everyone who visited and left messages on my last post, I do appreciate the time you take to pop in, and I love reading them. So keep them coming.

My card tonight

It's a little one again, but not quite as little, 5x5 this time
The stocking stamp and Sentiment stamp is from the freebies from Creative Stamping Magazine, I really love their set of stamps and it's also a great mag.
Promarkers
Creative Expressions Gilding Wax in Golden Lilac,( not put on all that evenly, something to be practised)
Core'dinations Purple Card
Silver Glitter Card
Papermania Gems and Silver Domes
Star Dust

I'm back at work tomorrow afternoon and it is the first time that there will be three of us on, so that takes the strain off a bit.
So, take care of yourselves and happy crafting.

I would like to enter my card into; http://craftylittlefairieschallenge.blogspot.co.uk/
Christmas in October

Three More Little Cards!

Good Morning Everyone and I hope you are fine and well, big hugs to those who are not, and hope you will feel tip top soon.

Woke up to a foggy morning, and my dearest hubby left early to go down and do some hillwalking in the Cairngorms, and has left his phone at home, no wonder I worry.  However the fog has now burnt off and it's shaping up to be a nice day.

Thank you for all the lovely comments on my last card, which didn't pop up when I scheduled it, but thanks to the tips received from your good selves, I now know the error of my ways.  I had my time zone at Pacific Time, silly old me, so hopefully that's it sorted.

I would like to say welcome to my newest follwer, Sue, thank you for choosing to follow my wee blog with all it's ramblings, but hopefully projects that you will like.

I've an afternoon at work today, so I thought I would do my post just now.  I know I will be tired later and if today is anything like Monday at work, I certainly will be.  After five months away from dealing with people with mental health problems, I thought I was loosing the plot the other day, and finished up exhausted.  Even my colleague thought it was a particularly frenetic day.

So to my little cards, 

I've used the Tinsel stamp again but this time just layered it over some LOTV Christmas Paper, with some silver twine and a few blue gems and glittered up the tinsel work.

Die'sire Tree Die and icicles die turned into grass with Green glitter card, lots of little gems.

SB Snowflake Die, Papermania Snowflake Ebossing Folder and Christmas ribbon, and a few pearls.

I'm really awfully pleased with how they have turned out, although self praise is no praise at all, as they say, nevertheless, I'm pleased.

Away now to get myself together and get on my merry way.  Have a good day yourselves, whatever it is you do and see you all soon, happy crafting and remember if you visit, please leave a wee comment, I love to know you have been here and I will be delighted to return the compliment and visit you.

 



 

Trimming the Tree! and CCAYR Mid Month Reminder!

Good Evening One and All, hoping you are all well, and big hugs and good wishes to those who are not just as well as they would like to be.

Well what a dark and dreary day we have had up here, smirry rain, you know the kind that soaks you more than a downpour.  It was the kind of day to say indoors but, unfortunately I had to go to work, where in the road my work is in, we have new flood defences being installed and the biggest machinery ever is making such a racket, this has to go on for something like 19 weeks.  We are situated along side the River Ness, but flooding can't be brought to mind in living memory.  Inverness Council love spending the Tax Payer's money, and believe me this will be costing a fortune as the some road was dug up this time last year and now they are doing it again.Tirade over, makes my blood boil though.

Thanks you all so much for all your wonderful comments about the little cards.

I'm here with my Mid Month Reminder Card for CCAYR, there is still time to enter the challenge which this time is Preparing for Christmas and you can find details of the challenge here, http://christmascardsallyearround.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/october-challenge.html

LOTV Stamp
Promarkers
SB Embossing Folder
Red Glitter Card
Dovecraft, Tis the Season Papers
Die'sire Tree Dies
Xcut Star Die
Ribbon and gems from my box
Star Dust and Glossy Accents

I hope it offers a little bit of inspiration.

Going to have another go at scheduling this post, last time I tried it it didn't work, here's hoping, thank you for visiting,

Three Little Cards!

Hello to You All, and I hope it has been a lovely Sunday for you, with the weather fine.

A quiet day for me, with bits and pieces to attend to but, but I did manage to get a few cards made.
We had a lovely evening out last night and I can highly recommend "Sunshine on Leith", it was a lovely feelgood film, with a fair amount of singing of The Proclaimer's songs.  A wee story of relationships, and about how they can change and whether it's worth working them out.  We both enjoyed it, no crash, bang, wallop, swearing or sex, and it wasn't a bit boring, and I'm not even a Proclaimer's fan.

Thank you all so much for your comments and for visiting me here.  

Just a short one tonight, so here are my cards;

I've been using up bits from my box, and I've made a selection of little cards, they are all 4x4 or there abouts. I won't list everything I've used, too much, but I did ink up a stamp I bought last year but never used, Stampendous "Don't get your tinsel in a tangle"
SB Snowflakes Dies
Die'Sire Holly Embossing Folder
Sizzix Holly Die Border
and various bits and pieces.

I like little cards, and I had fun making these, and hopefully they will not cost much to post.

I hope you enjoy the remainder of your Sunday, take care everyone and see you soon.