Lady's Slipper Orchid !

Good Morning Everyone, start of another week and I hope you are all well.
It's a gorgeous sunny morning here, Alistair left early to go and walk in the Cairngorms, whilst I'm having an at home day, catching up with some chores and and a bit of knitting.

Thank you all so much for the lovely comments on my CCC card, your all very kind.

Here is today's card;

I've used CB Lady's Slipper Orchid stamp and coloured with a mixture of DI and SN Aqua Pens,
WOS for shimmer.
Background stamped with CB Seasonal Fragments, and matted on to a background of watercolour wash with DI. Ribbon and gems to finish off. I did have a lovely large dazzler on the bow, but lost it somewhere between table and camera and didn't notice.
Now you might not see so much of the blue shade, but there is a little on the petals of the orchid.

I found this particular flower a tad difficult to colour, had to pull up some images of the flower, and they are quite a complicated flower to even look at, although they are stunning.

Anyway that's me for today,

I would like to enter my card into:
http://chocolatebaroquechallenge.blogspot.co.uk/2015/10/challenge-sixteen.html 

A Partridge in a Pear Tree for the Christmas Card Club!

Hello Everyone, how has your day been? good I hope. I've been busy at the crafting table, sometimes you just get on a roll so I took advantage of it and got a few cards made.

It's time once again for another card for the Christmas Card Club and this time the choice was from our lovely Mary who wants to see our Christmas Birds. Now Mary herself loves Cardinals, which I think I'm right in saying that they are not seen in the UK, but are certainly found in Mary's neck of the woods in the USA.  I had made a card with a Robin which was a previous choice, so I thought what else can I do, then I remembered that I bought a set of stamps designed by John Lockwood of Creative Expressions  all about Partridges, here's my card;

I heat embossed all the stamps with WOW Gold Powder, the stamps that are not solid I painted with Metallic Watercolour Paints, the Christmas Palette, matted and layered with red/black and gold card.
I am rather pleased with how it's turned out, hope you like it.

I'm going to schedule this post for tomorrow, hopefully it will work.

Thank you to everyone who commented on my Oldie, as usual you are very kind.

Heading off to visit you now, enjoy your evening,

Fairy Baby for Friday Oldie!

Good Friday to You All, and hasn't it come around so quickly?????
I hope everyone is keeping tip top, but sending out Huggggggggggs for those who might be in need of them.
Started out really dull this morning but, now we have sunshine, cold though, but we are at the end of October after all.

Thank you so much for your kind comments on my cat Christmas card, you are all very kind and I do appreciate the time you take to visit my blog.

I would like to welcome Florence as my latest Follower, and I'm so pleased that you pressed the button Florence and this brings me up to 98 Followers, never thought I would reach anything like that, so I'm thinking that when I reach 100 mark I should have some candy to give away.

So today it Oldie Friday and here is my card;

Isn't she just so sweet and I think she is an image by Mo Manning and a LOTV sentiment, can't remember what I've coloured her with but as it's a while ago it's either Promarkers or Pencils.

Now why not join in the fun and share one of your older creations, can be be any craft just as long as it's handmade.  Friday Oldie was started by Erika of Snappy Crafts just as a way of seeing how our crafting has changed/developed over time, and after all it's just fun.

I hope you have some great plans for the weekend, in this household it will be the final of the rugby tomorrow and maybe a walk on Sunday if the weather holds, but what ever you do make sure you enjoy it.
See you soon,

We Six Cats!

Hello to Everyone, and a warm welcome to my latest Follower Florence, It's good to have you here, so thank you for pressing the Follow Button.

Thanks too everyone who sent kind wishes about the loss of Molly and lovely comments on my last card. I do appreciate every comment made.

Just popping in with a quickie tonight, for some reason I am incredibly tired, I'm going to have an early night, Alistair is out at his music group so it's nice and quiet, so it's off to bed with my Kindle.

This is a very little card with an image from Little Claire coloured with a mixture of SN Pens and Prismacolour Pencils. Paper is from a Doocraft pad bought the other year, a little bow from Doocrafts too and a few gems. It's such a cute image, I love it.

I do hope you are all well, but sending out kind thoughts for those who need them, so take care and see you soon,

Molly and a Christmas Door!

Hello Crafty Buddies, how are you all doing, I hope well and enjoying your weekend.

We are all really sad here as my lovely Grand pet Molly had died. Damian and Moreen adopted her from a rescue centre and she was 14 years old. She was a definitely a great character, and knew me as Gran and that I would always have biscuits in my bag for her. She was a lurcher breed. and had the greyhound pointed face, but was anything but sleek.  The cats are a bit lost without her, it's amazing how animals just know when something is wrong.

Here she is; 

Thank s to everyone who left a comment on my Oldie card, you are very kind. Here is another Sheena Douglass card;

Coloured with SN Aqua Pens and matted and layered with Gold Mirri card and Hunkydorry foiled embossed card. 

I had meant to go down to the big craft fair at the SSEC today, but I couldn't face 7 hours on a bus after our trip to London, so as a treat we've had an Indian Takeaway for dinner, I'll suffer, oh how I'll suffer, but it was soo good.
Enjoy your evening and take care of yourselves,

Take it Easy Friday Oldie!

Good Afternoon Everyone, and I hope all is well with you and that you have great plans for the weekend, yes that's another almost upon us.

Thank you all so much for your very kind comments on my last card, I appreciate every one of them.

We had a hectic time in London, but I have to say that everyone we asked help of couldn't have been more helpful, a better experience from years ago.
We didn't get all the things done that Alistair planned, but we enjoyed the exhibition and meeting up with friends and I got to  meet David Starkey(the historian that presents all those programmes about the Tudors) and Philip Mould who present an art programme with Fiona Bruce, he is very suave and more handsome in real life.
However, we arrived back late last night and are whacked, so it's an easy day today.

It's time for another Friday Oldie;

A little card made with a Little Claire stamp and coloured with Promarkers.
Friday Oldie was started by Erika of Snappy Crafts and it's all about sharing a handmade project that you've made earlier on in your crafting career. It's just for fun so why don't you join in and share an Oldie.

I've a couple of photos to show you now of why we were in London;

The front cover of Peter's catalogue of his paintings,

And the Artist himself. This is an amazing portrait of Peter, It's a huge picture and it's called Dressing Up for Mam and Dad. All the photographs inside the coat are ones Peter found when his dad died the other year and they are all when  from when he was in the war and was writing back and forth to Peter's mum.  I know you can't get a feel for it here, but to see it for real bring up such a swell of emotion that I get goosebumps.
The Exhibition was making a statement about what is taken for art nowadays, the art work will not be every ones cup of tea, but, it's hitting out at the contemporary art establishment and the nonsense that wins the Turner prize.

I've scrolling through your blogs and seeing some fabulous makes, but I hope you will forgive me for not commenting this time around, I think when you miss so many days it's too hard to catch up.

Take care everyone and see you soon,

Mountain Winter Scene and Cosy Socks!

Hello Everyone, hoping today sees you tip top, but if not, I'm sending out caring thoughts for a speedy recovery.

Thanks to everyone who left such lovely comments about my CCC wreath cards, you are very kind.
I've caught the Card-io bug after having watched Wendy on Create and Craft, she makes it so easy looking.  I spent ages at their stand the last time I was at the Birmingham show, I love their little stamps and I always think the designs are stunning in the black and white.
Here is another Card-io card;

I've used a combination of stamps here from two of the Christmas sets, and added a splash of colour for the lamplight and they sky. Lots of glitter and frost.  I have to say I'm awfully chuffed with this one. Hope you like it.
Now for my new socks

There is a sparkle thread running through the yarn which is from Laughing Yaffle, they are so toasty.

I'm going to have a tour through your lovely blogs and then off to pack my case, we are off to London tomorrow at stupid o'clock to see our friend Peter's art exhibition, I'm really excited about it, the exhibition I mean, I don't like London at all I'm afraid, since being called a Scottish B.......d many years ago by a taxi driver because he didn't like that I gave him a Scottish pound note, and when He refused it, I responded with the fact that he either accepted it or didn't get paid, after all it was legal tender.  Not a nice man and no ambassador for England's capital city.

Take care everyone and I'll see you when I return