Kool Kitty Musings

Long time no post...

I know totally rubbish blogger and scrapper and card maker... but as of late it hasn't been the best time for creativity!

However following on from my one recent layout at the crop, I managed to resort to that age-old emergency solution to a scrapping drought - The Scraplift.

Last night for Scrapping Chez Zoe's (the first such evening intended for us to actually sit and scrap!) I dragged along the same old photos and the same old stash, and decided to finally use something from a Poppy Ink kit that I was putting off in order to scrap other photos. Well there was no time like the present to get this rather embarrassing photo of me and my brother from the 80s into the album - why I am wearing my riding gear to decorate a Christmas tree, I have no idea, but I am just glad to see that my brother is wearing his favourite seal romper that features in practically every photo taken of him that year!

The original page was a gorgeous layout by Celeste Smith with loads of machine stitching - mine contains an annoying typo (don't you just love those on precious handwritten journaling cards!) and wonky cut squares of paper...

• American Crafts, Hambly, and Autumn Leaves patterned paper
• Scenic Route die-cut accents
• Making Memories giant glitter brad
• Carolee's Creations stamp
• Silver frame charm

However, having spent the best part of the day preparing photos for next weekend away at Gibside plus making a start on the stash packing, I am (at present) somewhat optimistic that I'll manage to scrap something! :oD

Sprinkles...

Gosh, after all the cake yesterday I am really feeling peckish for... more cake. LOL

But this will have to do, a card made with Shimelle's cupcake stamps!

Just a little catch up with an old CAD challenge to use pink and black, well ta-da!

• KI Memories, Chatterbox and Urban Lily papers
• Banana Frog and Papertrey stamps
• Ribbon and button

And that's it so for another weekend.... Next weekend I'll really have to sort out my Gibside packing. Waah!

When life hands you lemons...

We eat lemon drizzle cake!

Well I had a lovely time cropping today, can't believe it's only a week and a bit to Gibside, yeek gads I have noooooo clue just what projects I'll do there much less what to take. But I shall leave that anxiety for another day. lol

Oh and I am pretty sure part of my suspension was left somewhere along the route from the A1. :oS What ghastly weather and even more ghastly bottomless potholes there were to be had.

Anyway, I really tried to rise to Tree's apple challenge, but as I mentioned we were really in the lemon zone today... so this LO doesn't feature the October Afternoon apple paper, I did try to persuade Zoe of the ways of The Cause, that the tree could indeed support some form of apple... but she was not convinced... instead, we have. A. Bird. and other stuff.

Pics from last summer's holiday in Poland and my (kind of once removed?) cousin Tomek deciding he wasn't having his photo taken, no way José! Except for the one I managed to just casually click on the fly when he was running off! So you see him in one pic, hat over face, running off, then we decided to just take a photo without him as there was no coaxing him back! LOL

Most of the stash is from the June Scarlet Lime kit:

• October Afternoon papers
• Heidi Grace chipboard swirl
• American Crafts chipboard ladybird
• Journaling tag
• Plus Maya Road chipboard tree and bird covered with OA, Doodlebug and another paper
• EK Success mini alphas
• American Crafts alpha stickers
• Bev's Threading Water punch :oD

I quite liked the tree, but do still think it could have housed an apple somewhere Zoe!

Ahhh just love those Maya road chipboard trees.

All hail the royal mail

Thanks to Al Murray for the rhyming inspiration...

Sometimes they actually deliver nice things to you... such as your long awaited October Afternoon purchase.

With a bit of doodlebug thrown in there...

And it was all for these flipping apples...

And of course the animals of Farthing Wood theme.... alas I don't seem to have a sheet of the deer pattern in with my papers, so I will be on the look out for this one whenever October Afternoon comes into stock again.... or maybe not. hehe

So looks like I will have some new stuff to take to the crop on Saturday and er... look at!

Time to admit defeat?

I honestly thought I'd more or less manage my Card a Day challenge this year... But today I find myself almost a whole month behind on cards. :o(

And once you are that far behind do you ever really manage to catch up, or do you think I can count on Christmas for getting my success rate back up? LOL

Anyway, I shall still be using the various prompts and sketches out there to try and hit the target of 366 cards for the year, but I may not actually hit that until February 2009 - who knows!

But in the meantime, here's a little something to tide me over, my rather non-typical Father's Day card...

• DCWV card blank
• GinX papers
• Hero Arts stamps
• Prima flower
• SEI brad
• Doodlebug buttons
• Oval Nestabilities

In case you were wondering...

I've definitely NOT been abducted by rock 'n' roll lovin' aliens or anything...

Honest!

Nope it's just been a bit of a weird and manic week that started off innocently enough. But anyway, I'm not going to be able to do anything much creative this weekend after all, even though Bev sent me some super stuff to play with... {sigh}

Hopefully normal service will resume once more... this year. Maybe. *Ü*

Summer time!

Finally!

I've had a rather lazy weekend. Great afternoon out at the park yesterday and the rather sweltering butterfly house...

and today, lazing about and finally the very first bbq of the year.

I'm not even going to say I intended to scrap... or make a card... BUT I did think about scrapping... and by thinking I mean... finally make a little October Afternoon purchase... woohoo!!!

Still in search of the elusive wii fit, but for the time-being still unable to grasp the technique required for downhill slalom that doesn't result in a broken neck!

Almost the weekend...

Time is really flying isn't it??

It's been such a lovely day outside but alas the only time I got to enjoy it was between the office and the car and the car and the gym, by the time I was heading home from the gym it'd got a bit dark and overcast, and now it's just cooled down but lovely outside. Ho hum... I hope we get some of this weather at the weekend, I really do... especially Saturday afternoon for a little outing to the park. ;o)

In the meantime I am now really desperate for a Wii fit, I've been doing my daily tennis and boxing, and bought Carnival the other day (but I am rubbish at so many of them, just can't get the knack) as well as Winter Sports 2008 which came highly recced at amazon. I've not had a proper go at WS 2008 but after Heroes I'll have a round of tennis and do my daily fitness test, for sure...

But first, best get the gym bag packed for tomorrow night's session!

And I'm not even going to contemplate scrapping this weekend, my track record of late has been abysmal! If it happens it happens, if it doesn't well, there's always next weekend!

My little tantrum must have worked...

Well, ever so slightly!

My Hero Arts stamps finally arrived today and I had a teeny play with them between flicking through my new guides to Chicago and pottering.

Here's a catch up card for the 19th of May (yes, one day I will catch up again... possibly in 2009!) to make a manly birthday card, I'm afraid this is as manly as I get!

• KI Memories and Sassafras Lass papers
• KI and EK Success alpha stickers
• SEI brads

And another one using my new Bird Greetings stamps:

• Sassafras and Narratives patterned paper
• Scenic route cardstock
• Hero Arts and Scarlet Lime stamps

Here endeth today's creativity! Also managed to watch The Waitress while playing, good film! :o)

Ponderings...

New October Afternoon stash, wherefore art thou??

It is now June, and still it's not been sighted in any stores I know of... This was the big release that was totally at the top of my wish list.

I know there were some production issues, but wow CHA summer is happening next month and still I've not got that apple paper or the cute animals of Farthing Wood II stamps... :o(

Ho-hum... perhaps I'm on a downer about it because I'm still waiting for a little order of some Hero Arts stamps I made a couple of weeks ago, it's been years since I bought any Hero Arts stamps (love them, but can't afford them space-wise!) and these were just too irresistible. ;o)

Anyway, did the Body Pump class at the gym tonight and my arms are totally dead, but not yet dead enough to stop me from attempting another game of tennis! Hah!