Wedding Card

Evening folks.  Looks like I'm having to dig the wellies back out the cupboard as we have been issued with a weather warning here for the next few days.  I think it is partly my fault as I had secretly done a rain dance at the weekend (to save me doing some tidying up in the garden ...lol) .... serves me right. 

The FF image is actually a piece of scrap card which I have "Nestied".  Charm and sentiment are from stash.  Also used is my Cuttlebug Swirl embossing folder, Martha Stewart Daisy border punch and some blue Liquid Pearls.  The challenged covered are:-

• Truly Scrumptious  -  Sketch
• Cute Card Thursday  -  Couples
• Papertake Weekly  -  Anything Goes

Hugs

Kaza.xxx

Chrimbo Card

Afternoon peeps, snow is off at the moment but the forecast is for more to follow so I am staying wrapped-up cozy indoors.  Barry is currently making a pot lentil soup - yum!!!  You cannae beat a pot of homemade soup to keep you warm.

First card of hopefully a few today.  Used a 3D Forever Friends image.  Papers are from DCVW and the star gems are from stash.  The challenges covered are:-

• Truly Scrumptious  -  Sketch and "Think Pink"
• Paperplay  -  "Stars"
• Charisma Cardz  -  "One for the Girls"

Miss Anya Birthday Card

Good afternoon peeps, hope you all had a fabby weekend and loads of time to play.  I had a lovely crafting session with my good friend Lesley (aka Pinkles Dreams) she was a lot more productive than me - note to self - to not talk so much lol.... Anyway this is one of my creations I managed to finish.

The stamp is a from a Miss Anya Collection from The Greeting Farm, I have had the stamps for well over a year at least.  The snowflake Cuttlebug folder comes out to play again and the strip of DP is from scrap box.  Also used is my MS snowflake punch, Stickles and the snowball ribbon is from stash.  The challenges covered on this card are:-

• Oldie but a Goodie  -  Glitter
• Truly Scrumptious  -  Sketch & Happy Birthday
• Stampavie & more  -  Monochrome

Hugs
Kaza.xxx

Laptop Crisis!!!!

Yep - I have done it again and broke the laptop.  I should know by now that electrical appliances and myself don't mix! ... lol.  Took the laptop to the repair shop on Thursday and it is "kaput" and I have lost all my photos from holidays & cards etc... Lesson to myself to start putting them on discs.  So I am using the PC upstairs.

I have not done as much crafting as I had hoped this week as been decorating and doing jobs in the garden and even they didn't go to plan...... with broken lights, freezer and ripped lino.

Anyway, I have managed to make a something.  Decided to get the heat gun out the cupboard to have a wee play and this is the result.

The embossed image is a stamp I think from a Do-crafts Goody Bag years ago.  The Snowflake embossing folder is used and I patted a cats eye chalk ink pad over it.  Ribbon and sentiment is from stash.  The challenges covered are:-

• Truly Scrumptious  -  Sketch & Snowflakes
• ABC Christmas  -  'T' for Tree
• Stampavie & more  -  More than one Fold

This afternoon I am busy helping making up food for a buffet for tonight.  We are holding our 10th Year Anniversary Charity Band Night on behalf of The Brionni Trust.  It will be a terrific night with a local band playing.  We are hoping to raise about £1600 tonight to get to our target of £100,000 since we started 10 years ago. 

Hugs

Kaza.xxx

Crimbo Card

I'm afraid I couldn't bring myself to start on Xmas until after July was out even though I know I will be stressed out by October trying to get everything all done. So be warned in advance that it will be Christmas Card Central on here for the next few months. I had the most enjoyable day yesterday crafting with my Lesley (aka Pinkles Dreams) and managed to make a few cards inbetween the laughter.

I dug out this Charlie stamp from Whiff of Joy.  The DP are from Dovecrafts, snowflake, brad and mini pompoms are from stash.  The challenges I have entered this card into are:-

• Papertake Weekly  -  White & Bright
• Whiff of Joy  -  Fuzz
• Truly Scrumptious  -  Sketch & "Golden Oldie"  (Charlie stamp)
• Stampavie & more -  Black & White & another (blue)
• Moving along with the times  -  Christmas

Hope you all are having a lovely weekend and speak soon.

hugs
Kaza.xxx

Male Card

Evening folks, hope all is well.  Trying my very best to get round everyone of you for a catch-up - I will get there eventually. I have been spending the last few days moving furniture around the house as Baz has finally got his wish, the spare room is now his games room.  I was gonna make it the craft room - but it now means I have all the downstairs which includes - TV, Hifi, laptop and kitchen ...... lol.

Anyway, I did squeeze one card in.  I used the fabby sketch over at Truly Scrumptious, they also had an added challenge of incorporating a bit of gingham.  Across at Totally Gorjuss and Magical Crafts, both their challenges were Male/Father's Day.

I haven't used Hamish Rugby Player from Sugar Nellie for ages and since Scotland is not in the football World Cup, we will try our luck with rugby instead ...lol. I did my usual, and embossed white card with a Cuttlebug embossing folder and popped some card candys in the corners.  The sentiment is pre-printed one off the computer from my stash pile  (looks like I might have to wait on Santa coming for a new printer) and I also found a little rugby ball brad which I popped on.

hugs

Kaza.xxx

3 in 1 challenge card

Hello again peeps, back with a second post of today.  This time using a little Magnolia stamp,  I am sure that this is the very first Magnolia Stamp that I purchased.  The papers are a mixture of DCVW and Papermania.  The Cuttlebug embossing folders used are Swirl and Circles (I think!). Sentiments, brads and wavy sticky ribbon are from stash.  The challenges this time are:-

Truly Scrumptious  -  Sketch and theme "Flyaway"
Colour Create  -  Pastels and theme "Spring"
One Stitch At A Time  -  Anything Goes

Hugs
Kaza.xxx

New Job & a challenge card

Evening peeps hope all in well in Blogland.  Started my new job on Monday and it is FANTASTIC!!!!!.  It is with the Fire Service (and no, I am not a firewoman and no jokes about sliding down fireman poles......lol......  it's against Health and Safety these days.....lol)  Yesterday spent most of the day meeting everyone at Headquarters - gosh, I am so useless with remembering names and today I was sending my first inter-departmental email - Yoohoo!!!!  Roll-on tomorrow where I am in the Engineering garage to do their filing!!! ....... get ma boilersuit on and away I go!....lol.

Anyway back to crafting, I made this card last night while still hyper.  Not sure where the image has come from.  Design paper is from K & Co.  Ribbon is Laura Ashley and flowers are from stash.  The challenges I have covered are:-

• Truly Scrumptious  -  Sketch & "Good Enough to Eat"
• Charisma Cardz  -  Fairies
• Magical Crafts  -  "Things with Wings"

I am hoping to go and play at my table this evening, but at the moment I am stuffed with my dinner and cannae move off the chair.........lol

hugs
Kaza.xxx

Truly Scrumptious

Afternoon again peeps, this time with a card for Truly Scrumptious, they have a fabby sketch to follow and to celebrate their 1st birthday you can make your creation on a birthday theme.

I used a Penny Black Stickeroo and the paper is from the Clare Curd range from Papermania.  Flowers, brads, ribbon and peel-offs are from stash.

hugs
Kaza.xxx

1st Easel Card

Afternoon everyone and I hope you are all having a joyous weekend.  Not been on for a few days as I had no motivation being bunged up with the cold, but I am on the mend now (passed the cold onto Baza  - share & share alike...lol). 

I have finally took the plunge and had a go at an easel card, not as bad as I thought it would turn-out to be, maybe should have done another layer of card as it seems to be curling abit.  Used a Gorjuss Girl from Sugar Nellie, papers are from scrap drawer and flowers are from Papermania (which I am gonna get more off 'coz I love them).  This is a commissioned card for a couple who have just adopted a little girl so I hope it is OK.

The challenges I have entered this card into are:-

• Secret Crafter  -  Multi fold
• Stamp Something  -  Cute
• Truly Scrumptious  -  Sketch

Going this evening through to Glasgow to see Strictly Come Dancing - Live!, so looking forward to it as we have had the tickets for about a year. Fingers-crossed we have good seats so I can see the dancers silky moves ....lol.  Going with my friend Lesley (aka Pinkles Dreams) - a nice romantic evening together ...lol.

hugs
Kaza.xxx

Hello...............

Morning everyone.  No, I have not fallen through the centre of the earth or been abducted by Aliens but I feel I have been missing something - and it is YOU LOT!!!!!!!........lol........ hopefully I will have a bit more time to play.

This is one of the commissioned cards I have to make a christening coming up (again all funds go to the Brionni Trust).  I have used a Gorjuss Girl image from Sugar Nellie, Swirls Cuttlebug embossing folder, paper is from stash as is ribbons & flowers.  I am just waiting to find out what wording they are wanting on the front which I am going to pop on the lower left hand side.  I combined the following challenges into the card:-

• Truly Scrumptious  -  sketch
• Crafty Cardmakers  -  Ribbons & fibres
• Creative Card Crew  -  Scallops
• ABC  -  "F" is for Flying
• Cupcake Craft  -  Buttons & Stitches

I am off out this afternoon to prepare a buffet for the band gig we are having for the Trust tonight.  My culinary skills are not the greatest so I think I will be placed on the cheese butties!.....lol.....and the washing up!.

Hugs
Kaza.xxx

Truly Scrumptious

Afternoon everyone and I hope you all enjoyed your weekend.  Sorry I have not been on much but been making stocks of cards the the Christmas Charity Sales,  they are coming around fast and so scared that we havn't got enough made.

Having a time out as I have some birthday cards to make this month for family members.  This one is for Bazabing whose birthday is this weekend coming and we have a "birthday week".

The sketch over at Truly Scrumptious is fantastic with the added challenge of "doodling".  The image is from Papermania's Clare Curd range.  Papers are from K & Co "Hopscotch" range.

hugs

Kaza.xxx

Another Challenge Card

Well my peace is truly shattered, Lesley (aka Pinkles Dreams) has arrived with craft bag in tow and Bazabing is on his way back from the football, thankfully in a good mood as Dundee won. So I am blogging this before I get side tracked with all the waffle they both speak......lol

This card is a quite a few more challenges.......gosh.......I'm cramming them in.....lol. The sketch is from Truly Scrumptious and in the challenge was also to use three stamps, hopefully pumpkin x 2 counts......lol. Crafty Cardmakers is "3D elements" as I foam stickered the image and pumpkins up. Stamp with Fun, My Time to Craft & Allsorts is "Autumn", Whiff of Joy is a recipe (cheated a bit there as a have a few extra flowers but Shhh!!! - don't get anyone!...lol) and finally Stampavie & More is "Pumpkins".

Well hopefully I can sneek another post in before SCD (Strictly Come Dancing) starts this evening.

hugs

Kaza.

xxx

Truly Scrumptious

Evening all folks. Hope you are all well in blogland. Thought I would quickly nip on while the footie is on (Scotland getting beat 3.0 against Norway.....there's a surprise......lol). The challenge over at Truly Scrumptious is a fabby sketch by the lovely Mina.

One of my gorgeous niece's is turning 18 next month - eek, where does the time go and I think this Miss Anya is just her. Decorated my little punched flower myself with a silver pen (quite chuffed.....lol).

Oh well, back to my headphones on so I can block-out the shouting at the TV that Baza is doing. How come the phrase "It's only a game" never goes down well at times like this.......psml.

hugs

Kaza.xxx

Simon Says & Truly Scrumptious

Evening all, hope all is well and just to let you know I am still working on the chug-a-bum machine upstairs. Had a phone call yesterday saying that we might be getting laptop back tomorrow (Tuesday), please, PLEASE let this be true!!!!!!.....lol

Have done a couple of sketch challenges, now my drawing of them from the screen is not the greatest, so I shall call it my "interpretation" of the sketches........lol

The first is for Simon Says, and handy as I had to made a male 65th birthday card for this weekend.

I used one of the male stamps from the Clare Curd range from Papermania, Cuttlebug embossing folders and my Nesties.

The next one is for Truly Scrumptious.

Used a Sugar Nellie Homegrown stamp and scraps, flowers and sentiment from my stash.

Roll on tomorrow

hugs

Kaza.xxx

Just a Quickie!

Morning all, just another quickie as just heading off to work for another full week ahead. Managed a couple more challenges yesterday. First card is for the Whiff of Joy challenge which is "piercing".

Used a lovely image I had been given and the papers are from one of the Laura Ashley ranges. (piercing round the scalloped edges if can't see in photo....lol).

This other card is the Truly Scrumptious, it is to combine a sketch and the theme "Black & White and another colour"

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Coloured my Gorjuss girl with my watercolour pencils and just used scraps from stash.

Hugs

Kaza.xxx

Truly Scrumptious - Flower Power

There is smoking coming off my craft mat this afternoon....lol. I am taking full advantage of this full battery of inspiration and mojo as I have a feeling that it wont last forever..lol.. I have made a card from another sketch, this time from the Truly Scrumptious challenge. Also you have to include "Flower Power".

Well, I don't know if I have OD'd on the "Flower Power" in the backing paper, image, embellishments, corners & sentiment - only the charm isn't..

Well back to my table.

Cuddles

Kaza. xxx

Good Morning! - Truly Scrumptious Sketch

A very good morning to everyone. It has felt such a long week already and it is only Tuesday. Hope everyone has had a lovely weekend, I was doing my visiting duties. It is my day off today so the house jobs are now done (I limit myself to 3 on my day off as it would be never ending) and now I can PLAY!!!!

I had used the great sketch by Beth on Truly Scrumptious to create this card for a former work colleague who has just pushed out a healthy 9lb 14oz boy - Ouch! - on Saturday night. I warn you - this will be one of many boy cards you will be seeing from me as I will have to do more for my other workmates to hand over!

I used the baby FF stamp, papers, ribbon & sentiment are from stash. Nearly had disaster as forgot to pop liquid pearls in corners at first so had to re-take photo. lol.....

Heading back to my table now to make another creation...........see ya soon....

Cuddles

Kaza.x.

Sorry Folks - It's a long one......

Well I can't believe that's Sunday evening already and my week off is just about finished - Boo Hiss. Feel like I am going back to school - checked that uniform is ready & ironed, shoes polished, bag packed, lunchbox ready, have bath, wash behind ears....etc.... Checked this morning and No - not won lottery, so will have to set alarm clock...lol. I started off my hols with big intentions to do this & that but I got side-tracked along the way ( some stupid, simple but really REALLY addictive computer game that has you saying 'just one more shot'... and no, it wasn't solitaire or freecell but something similar lol).

Anyway, back to crafting, and I did manage a couple more cards to finish the week off so here does:-

I followed the sketch from Truly Scrumptious for this card, I used papers from the Spring stash of DCWV and a lovely little image given to me. Also the challenge was to use some homemade buttons, I kinda cheated on this one by using a couple of diecut buttons & dressing them up with funky thread. ***

The challenge over at Charisma Cardz is to do a 'Pretty Card for Mum', this was handy as a girl at work had asked me to make for her a Mother's Day Card but not to have mother on it.

The label on the card reads Best Wishes (sorry photo not very good) and I used my new nestibilities that I had got on Thursday at the craft fair in Glasgow, boy, good job I had my flexible friend with me..lol...
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I absolutely loved doing this one for the Daring Cardmakers - 'It's a Patchy One' to be patchwork inspired. My own mother is a quilter so I knew instantly who this was for. When you visit my mother, her sewing machine is always out and bits of material are scattered everywhere. All bedrooms have at least one quilt on the bed, there are wall-hangings and recently mother has moved onto roll-up jewellery cases, make-up bags and the good old quilted coat hangers, just to name a few. It must be a gene in the family as her mother (my gran) knitted and sewed and you were given everything from jumpers to pin cushions, summer dresses to the lady toilet roll hiders.....bless her soul. xxx

You will have to forgive me on the faux stitching, as my hand was in agony doing the paper piercing and a bottle of red wine did not help the hand to eye co-ordination either...lol. The image is from the Sweet Ebony range at Sugar Nellie and I made my jazzy funky buttons again.

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And finally, I can hear you all scream - YES!, is my last one for this evening. It is for the Penny Black Saturday Challenge which is a recipe, ' 3 Brads, 2 Ribbons & 1 flower'.

The image is PB but I added my different stamped wording. My blue Stickles in my flower smudged a bit & I made it worst by fixing it with my finger...lol.
Now I am going to catch up with what you all lovely peeps have been up to and then early to bed for me. Night night. xxx
Cuddles,
Kaza.xxx