Kat's Bloggy Place

Some cards!

2012-02-07T06:25:00.000-08:00

Hello folks - and here you were thinking I had completely ignored my new years resolution of doing one card a week. I certainly haven't been doing one card a week (my workload just doesn't allow it!) but I have been making a few =)

This little card is for my boyfriend's best mate who gave him a life into central London after the snow was trying to make getting back to Birmingham from Colchester very, very hard indeed!

I really enjoyed making this one. For another of my boyfriend's best friends with a huge soft spot for Minnie Mouse :) It's his birthday card but I left off a sentiment from the outside so he could leave the card up.

I made a few of these for the valentines orders that I had. I am almost out of the lovely cherry paper now which is sad because it's GORGEOUS and now out of print. It's from the "Rockabilly" DSP series from Stampin Up.

Anyway my lovelies, I smell that my jacket potatoes are almost ready for our late lunch so i'm going to go and prod them :)

Kat xxx

Psst....

2012-01-07T10:29:00.000-08:00

These:

Are back in stock at Letraset.com

:)

Birthday Card

2011-12-31T07:49:00.000-08:00

Hi folks.

For the last post of 2011 I want to share the birthday card I just made for my aunt. It's a little late (she's known me my whole life - it won't surprise her!).

I coloured Louie from Digistamp Boutique using promarkers, using the "round and round" technique which makes him look fluffy. He is matted on baja breeze SU cardstock and finished off with some sunny yellow ribbon from Papertreyink. [edit - I am aware I forgot to colour in his other hand!! now remedied :)]

Kat xx

Last Christmas card of 2011

2011-12-31T07:42:00.000-08:00

I made this using my favourite cartridge, Create-A-Critter. I REALLY wish PC would ask Nancy Kubo to do another cartridge - her style is just perfect for Cricut. I live in hope, anyway!!

This was my boyfriends card, a darling little penguin stood outside his igloo house :D Of course this warranted LOTS of glitter, which I applied liberally to his house and scarf.

I hope you all have great new year celebrations. I am ill at the moment (sore throat that has stolen my voice!!) so we'll be staying in watching something good. I might have a drink for "medicinal purposes" ;)

Love you you all and have a safe 2012.

Kat xxxs

Checking my list... and i'm done!!!!

2011-12-17T02:20:00.000-08:00

This is the last "special" card I had to make - i'm going to have a glass of wine tonight, to celebrate!!

This was made using the "Checking the List" digi from Tiddlyinks :) and some of the GORGEOUS papers from the DCWV "Jolly and Bright" stack.

Hope you like!

A tiddly card for my gorgeous niece :)

2011-12-15T13:39:00.000-08:00

I LOVE LOVE LOVE this tiddly digi :) This has loads of glitter on but you can't really see it!

A Tiddly Christmas!

2011-12-14T13:47:00.000-08:00

Did two of these, one for my parents and one for Andrews - just need to finish my niece's card (another tiddly - come and look tomorrow!).

Harry Potter card

2011-12-11T07:04:00.000-08:00

Hi folks.

I needed to make a card for my boyfriend's best friend, Paul who is HP mad :) These are the wizard/wizardette digi's from Tiddly Inks. I halved the card front, sprayed the bottom with silver glitter spray and topped and bottomed with torn "river rock" card from Stampin up. The font I downloaded from DaFont.com

Images coloured with Promarkers.

I am alive... honest!

2011-12-02T10:13:00.000-08:00

Hi bloggers and bloggettes!

Well I know it has been an age since I posted anything - my life has been going at 100 miles an hour and work has been a HUGE part of that. So after delivering some HUGE projects, I went through a restructure and I got a promotion!!! It starts in January and I am hoping to have a few calm weeks until I have to learn my new job and hopefully that'll mean I can get some creations posted. I am following you all though :) I love seeing what you make.

Also had a nice parcel yesterday! Provocraft had cause to say "sorry" to me (it's a long story!) and they sent me three cartridges!! I got Art Philosophy, Winter Woodland and Simply Charmed. I haven't liberated them from their plastic yet so that is on my list of things to do tonight :)

I am really looking forward to my weekend - we'll go to Solihull and pick up some final Christmas presents, then come home and put the tree up :) I also want to go to Lakeland to get some decorations for our new house - I can't wait to see this place all festive :)

I hope you're all ok anyway - keep posting!

Kat x

My Mum's Mothers Day card!

2011-03-31T13:09:00.000-07:00

I really enjoyed making this, I have a real thing about bunting at the moment so I knew that Mums card would probably have it on :)

It was really simply paper pieced using SU Designer Paper, a couple of buttons and some crochet string :)

Mothers Day Cards :)

2011-03-28T13:48:00.000-07:00

Greetings Bloglanders, I hope you are all doing well. I just wanted to share a couple of cards that I have made over the past few days. I am really into stamping directly onto my card base at the moment (which I am sure you will agree is incredibly brave of me!!)
P.S. Don't show my mum!!

New Home Card

2011-03-05T13:50:00.000-08:00

Hi folks

This is actually the 2nd of this design that I have made but I needed the 1st in a hurry and didn't get a chance to take a picture.

I haven't made a pedestal card in a while, I should really try to make one that is a different shape (Lou, expect some plaintive IM's asking you what the heck I should be doing :)

This is a cute Digistamp Boutique digi, coloured using ProMarkers and matted onto Stampin' Up! DSP.

Hi :)

2011-02-12T08:48:00.000-08:00

I noticed that I have picked up a few new followers - Hi =o)

Miiiiike Wazowski!!!

2011-02-12T07:30:00.000-08:00

So I made this card this morning for my lovely Nephew whose is 6 on the 17th, which makes me feel far too old!!!

I Cricut a lot and SU cardstock is my favourite to cut. It is great quality, doesn't tear or snag in the machine and you can match most of the colours REALLY well with Disney/Pixar which I enjoy cutting.

Pear Pizazz is absolutely the best colour for Mike, I used Basic Black for the base, Sahara Sand for his horns and nails, Whisper white for his eye and teeth and Soft Suede for his tongue. Baha Breeze (my absolute favourite colour) was perfect for his eye and I brought out more of the colour using Baha Breeze for the background and Baha Breeze DSP for an accent.

I find matching fifty times easier since SU released the Colour Coach in the latest catalogue, mine is already well loved :) I use it most days!

Valentine's Day Cards

2011-01-30T06:45:00.001-08:00

Hi all

I set myself a little challenge to make a couple of valentines day cards without

using black or red :)

I scored the first card blank with single lines to create a frame.

Then I used my mini heart punch. I think this is my absolute favourite punch of the moment, it's so cute! I love the new design punches SU too, they are so much easier to store, which means you can have more of them.... :)

The first card is a simple geometric style, with different coloured hearts arranged using dimensionals straight onto the card base. I used the "now&forever" stamp from the Occasional Greetings stamp set.

For the second, I scored double lines for the frame, then punched lemon and pink hearts and glued them on so they so they were "tumbling" in the frame.

I cut two slices each side of the frame and threaded through some Whisper White Organza ribbon (my absolute favourite!!) and tied a bow in the front

I think it could do with a sentiment at the bottom but I don't have anything linear enough, I might get brave and hand-write something, I doubt it though :)

Found: 1 Mojo!

2011-01-24T13:34:00.002-08:00

Maybe it won't shock you a great deal when I tell you that my Mojo took a giant holiday recently, I haven't really been able to craft anything very well. The looooooooooong gap between blog posts are a testament to that.

I made these two out of necessity really but I now feel so much better. I hope you like them. Let me know how you feel about the ingredients list, I'll keep doing that if you like it :)

Stampin' Up! Ingredients:

Crumb Cake Cardstock 12"x12" - 119929 - £6.25 per pack
Whisper White A4 - 106549 - £7.50 for 40 sheets
Designer Series Paper - Subtles - 117152 - £15.50 for 4 sheets of 12"x12" in 10 colours
Fun & Fast Notes Stamp Set - 113500 - £33.95
Signo Uni-ball Gel Pen - White - 105021 - £3.75
Dimensionals - 104430 - £3.25

Other Ingredients:

EK Success Border Punch

Nestabilities

Promarkers

Also I hand cut the balloons, i'm proud, so there :D

RUN! Don't walk! AWESOME BLOG CANDY!!!

2010-11-04T11:17:00.000-07:00

Go to Enfy's blog now, Now, NOW for the opportunity to win some completely awesome Promarker Blog candy!!!

http://going-buggy.blogspot.com/

Are you excited yet?? You should be!!

2010-08-30T12:20:00.002-07:00

The new Stampin' Up! catalogue is out on the 1st of October!! That is just (counts on my fingers) 32 days to wait!! I am sooooooooooo excited!!

If you would like to order the new catalogue through me, then drop me an email and i'll put you on my list :)

Bank Holiday Greetings!

2010-08-30T11:36:00.000-07:00

Hello everyone :)

I have had a really nice Bank Holiday weekend, I have been busily making some cards to swell my stash a little. I am particularly enamoured with a stamp set that I got in my latest Stampin' Up! haul, it's called Choo Choo and of course, features a sweet little train.

I partnered it up with some kraft cardstock and some nice strong primary colours.

These are three I made, all variations on a key design.

Supplies:

Choo Choo (113982) £14.95

Kraft Cardstock (117360) £5.95

Bold Brights Cardstock (109892) £6.75

Well it's been a while!

2010-07-09T11:58:00.000-07:00

I have been busy though :) These are made with various bits and pieces, including SU, PTI, Basic Grey etc and some really cool digital stamps and papers from lily-boo, pink petticoat and digistamp boutique.

I hope you like them :)

Unusual Blog Candy!

2010-07-01T12:16:00.000-07:00

Have a look here at my friend Enfys' blog candy! CSN have kindly offered vouchers to one of her lucky readers!!! I really want some new knives for the kitchen so I hope I win :D

Houston... we have a card!

2010-07-01T11:10:00.000-07:00

I LOVE this Lily-Boo's digi set!!

As I have previously mentioned, Lily-Boo images can now be found here and this little guy is on page 13. The planet, can be found here and it's FREE! So go download it for your stash of digis :)

Lily-Boo's new home!

2010-06-19T14:38:00.000-07:00

Lilyboo has a new blog!! As Lily Boo's will now be available at Cuddly Buddly we have found a new home. Make sure you follow us on our new blog to get all the latest news, gossip and inspiration from the lovely ladies on the DT.

Some Boo Blog Candy - Go Look!!

2010-06-06T13:33:00.001-07:00

Hi bloggers :)

Just wanted to point you to some fab blog candy that we have over at the Lily-Boo Too's Challenge Blog.

You just need to post a comment on the post, which is here stating which two boo's you like the most and you could win!!

Simple :D

I have not fallen off the face of the earth

2010-06-03T12:27:00.000-07:00

and I intend to have a thoroughly crafty weekend this weekend, so look out for posts :)

Princessy Goodness!

2010-05-16T04:51:00.000-07:00

Hi blogettes

I made this card this morning - pretty pleased with it, i'm getting better at making cuter sentiments with Word!

I LOVE this princess Tilda stamp - she puts me in mind of Rapunzel - only after a hair cut :)

Tilda Candy!

2010-05-02T09:28:00.001-07:00

I came across this fab blog while clicking through some blogs my friends have bookmarked and she's giving away three of the new tilda stamps too! click here to have a go =)

New Boo's! [YARR!!]

2010-05-01T03:43:00.000-07:00

I am SO SO excited about his release, I know you're all going to LOVE them!!

This is my card made with the new Lily-Boo's Pirate digi set that can be found here.

Go and have a look at the new Angels set and the new BFF set as well!!

Ahoy me hearties!

Blog candy!!

2010-04-29T13:09:00.000-07:00

Have a mosey on over to http://emmalockley.blogspot.com/2010/04/gorjuss-give-way.html where there is a Gorjuss Girl giveaway! SO CUTE!

I love Create-a-Critter. A LOT!

2010-04-27T11:31:00.000-07:00

I am head over heels with this cart!!

A card order - Bellas

2010-04-27T11:24:00.000-07:00

I had an order for some cards. The lady has three grand daughters, one blonde, one brunette and one redhead, all teenagers. So I got my Bella's out and made these :)

Anniversary Card

2010-04-13T10:06:00.000-07:00

An anniversary card that I made, Bazzill Bling, some sheer gold ribbon, stickles and some cuts from Sweethearts Cricut Cartridge.

My Pink Stamper Challenge Card - Pink, Green & Black

2010-04-11T12:13:00.000-07:00

This is the card I made for the My Pink Stamper Challenge

Wish me luck, I am DESPERATE to get the Create a Critter cart :)

This cut is from Indie Art. The rose is cut with glitter cardstock from DCWV. The ribbon is sparkly satin from American Crafts.

Spring has sprung!!

2010-04-11T09:28:00.000-07:00

I was a little nervous about posting this card in case I opened the door tomorrow morning to a blizzard!

However, I really think that spring has, at last, sprung :) This card is for the April Lily-Boo challenge which is for yellow and greens and spring colours :) I also added a lovely blue sky, which we've had a few of this last week!

The image is from the Lily-Boo's Boutique Circles collection 5 set which can be found here and it's a REALLY versatile set that I think pairs brilliantly with the round scallop nesties :)

Do you need a card idea for a muddy child?

2010-04-11T09:19:00.001-07:00

Well I made this today :) I like it, it would be perfect for any muddy child you know :D

He is from the Lily-Boo's Boutique Toddler collection which can be found here. Or you can just click the blinkylinky to the right to go and have a browse :)

My muddy child was coloured using promarkers and the background papers are cosmo cricket.

Heeeeeeeeeere kitty kitty kitty

2010-04-07T14:23:00.000-07:00

Doesn't he look SO mischievous!! It's why he's my current favourite 'Lily-Boo's Boutique' digistamp :) Click on the link to the right in my sidebar to go have a look at the lovely stamps that you can buy!

Who's a clever girl then?

2010-04-03T14:02:00.000-07:00

Woo :) I have been picked as part of the new intake of Lily-Boo's Boutique Design Team!

I am really really excited and have been grinning stupidly all night.

I am really excited (do you get that i'm really excited, yet?) to be part of this group of talented ladies and look forward to working on my first design team Boo cards :)

If you don't know what a Boo is, click here (and be prepared to get stern looks from your paypal account!)

Night all, and Happy Easter, I hope you get to spend lots of quality time with your families.

K xx

Easter Card :)

2010-04-03T10:46:00.000-07:00

Hi :)

Another pedestal card. This was an order for a friend and i'm so pleased with how it came out. Just as an aside, use your promarkers on pearly card, the effect is absolutely stunning!

Well done to Lou for spotting the top left hand duck nibbling on the ribbon :)

K xx

My first ever pedestal card!!

2010-03-29T13:08:00.000-07:00

I am pretty pleased with how it came out :)

And here's the birthday cards that I made for my mum and my boyfriends mum this year :)

2010-03-13T09:17:00.001-08:00

Some other cardy goodness.

2010-03-13T09:10:00.000-08:00

Here are some other creations i've been making over the last few weeks....

Happy Mothers Day to all you crafty mums out there :)

2010-03-13T09:07:00.000-08:00

Hi all

Hopefully by now you'll all have finished your Mother's Day cards. I ended up with about 15 to do, which obviously starts to get tricky, when you consider 11 of those will end up in the same family, so you can't make them in bulk!

Here's one I made.. really pleased with it. It's a pre-bought card blank with embossed edges and is 8" by 8", bigger than I would usually make, but it came out really nicely (by the way, I know the card says "Mom" but that's what mums are called in Birmingham :) This card, I made for my friend Joy to give to her 'Mom' :)

March!

2010-03-06T09:08:00.000-08:00

I can't believe it's March already. I know I've been useless at updating my blog but that's simply because I haven't had much to say really. We had a lot of snow, Cadbury was taken over by Kraft, that's been it really!!

I have been tending to post my cards on Facebook, so I'm going to try and make a concerted effort to post them here instead, or at least as well as :)

Well blogees, I hope all is well with you.

Kat x

cricut cart competition!

2009-09-22T13:25:00.000-07:00

have another go at winning a cricut cart!!

http://www.cricut.com/shopping/ProductDetails.aspx?id=361&s=1&sc=2

Chance to win a cricut cartridge!

2009-09-11T04:26:00.000-07:00

Clicky here:

Or paste this: http://www.cricut.com/shopping/ProductDetails.aspx?id=361&s=1&sc=2 into your browser for a chance to win a fab new cartridge :D

K x

My first ever scrapbook pages!!

2009-07-25T10:18:00.000-07:00

I wanted to make my friend a lovely wedding gift, so I am making her a family scrapbook. These are the first pages I have made for her children. I am happy with them, we have exactly the same tastes so i'm sure she'll love them :)

3rd Tilda Card

2009-06-28T09:39:00.000-07:00

The design brief was "Cute but Plain please" so I think I nailed it!

Gonna Miss you a Latte!

2009-06-19T13:21:00.000-07:00

I made this "Gonna miss you" card for a colleague that left a few weeks ago (who is now back as a temp!!) Made with mocha, caramel and pale bronze cardstocks, I was going for a coffee-and-cream thing.

Dopey Birthday Card

2009-06-19T13:18:00.000-07:00

Some might think it's a wee bit risky to send a "Dopey" Birthday card to your dad.. but I trusted he would take it for the good-hearted ribbing that it is :) He LOVED it, by the way :) Might seem a little plain for some of you but its how my dad likes em :)

Another Tilda Card

2009-06-19T13:14:00.000-07:00

People who know me know that I don't use muted colours like this :) I'm all about bright and cheery! I do love this one though, really soft beiges and greens and my favourite (today) Tilda image :)

Tilda Card!

2009-06-19T13:12:00.001-07:00

The picture of this one is a little bright but I am so happy with her :) I am personally very proud of my button and ribbon cherries!!

I finished my card :)

2009-04-26T13:05:00.000-07:00

Hi :)

I finished my card! I'm really happy with it too!

I had aleady made my card base, (complete with eyelets! Look at my eyelets!) but wanted a larger image on it than it would have conventionally have taken, so I just popped the top out!

I LOVE this image and I LOVE how my colouring turns out with letraset ProMarkers!

Sunday Laziness!

2009-04-26T02:05:00.001-07:00

Hi :)

I am usually really really bad at blogging, so i'm going to make a concerted effort to post more :)

I haven't made anything very much at all lately. I recently started a new job and it is INSANELY busy all day long, which is nice in as far that the days go fast, but it leaves me completely drained at the end of the day, so after I have made dinner and washed the dishes I basically want to put down roots somewhere and not move :)

I went out yesterday though and ended up in a Ryman stationers. They usually have a small selection of crafty stuff (all at premium prices, obviously) I noticed that they had some fiskars eyelet things. So I bought a couple of packs of mixed size eyelets and the pack of three eyelet setters. MAN these things are NOISY!!!!!!! They are basically two heavy bits at each end, joined by a spring so when you pull one up, you drop it down and it either punches you a hole or sets the eyelet. I can certainly see the benefits of the crop-a-dile if you craft late at night :)

Anyway, I just made a card base and put two eyelets in, it looks cute :)

I am going to finish it off today and will come back and post a picture later :)

I hope you have a great Sunday.

Blog Candy - go look!

2009-03-26T13:06:00.000-07:00

http://stampwithus.blogspot.com/2009/03/welcome-to-stamp-with-us_15.html

Go and look at this Blog Candy and try your luck!

Mothers Day Card

2009-03-19T15:02:00.000-07:00

I have to say, i'm Head-Over-Heels in love with these stamps. They are a little set of SU stamps and I keep finding new ways to use them, they were really worth the money.

This is all SU card (apart from the base) stamped using chocolate chip stampin pad from SU as well. All coloured in with Le Plume II pens which I continue to revert to and finished off with some yummy chocolatey brown satin ribbon that I am grateful I bought 30 feet of :)

Red, White and Blue Card Challenge

2009-03-17T14:55:00.000-07:00

I actually had fun with this. The ladies on the UK thread of the Cricut MB had another card challenge this week. As you will know I recently bought a batch of Bellas, so I wanted to use one on this card. I would NEVER usually use these colours on a card so I am really really pleased that this pushed me to use a less familiar palette. I'm very happy with the results, I just added a little organza ribbon to soften the edges as all the colours are so strong.

Pink Petticoat - Teal Swirls Challenge!

2009-03-11T14:22:00.001-07:00

This was a challenge to use the Teal Swirls background paper from www.pinkpetticoat.co.uk

I used a Bella for the main image and the sentiment is from SU

Cheekies Challenge

2009-03-11T13:39:00.000-07:00

Me and a couple of friends from the Cricut.com MB challenged each other to make a card using one of the cheekies images from http://www.pinkpetticoat.co.uk/ Go have a look! They have some gorgeous digital stamps and fab funky background papers!

I will write a blog soon, promise...

2009-03-11T13:37:00.001-07:00