Kool Kitty Musings

In case I don't manage this later...

I took a break from Christmas Journaling to make my last card of the year!

 

Personally I am not a real fan of NYE, love NY day - but NYE, not so much!

How ever you celebrate it (or not!) here's to a wonderful 2009!!

Brrrrr...

You can really tell December is round the corner, the ice and frost from this morning still hasn't melted. Plus I've had my Jack Frost candle on most of the day! lol

Still chipping away at the Christmas cards before I start back on my Christmas Journal project, not to mention the JYC alternative project I was going to do last this year - ah all the fun to look forward to tomorrow night! ;o)

And just for the fun of it, a variation on another recent card, shame the pink ink didn't match so well this time:

Can now go back to beating out the drums to Toxic in Rayman Rabbid's TV Party on the Wii! hehe

And the cards go on...

I tried to watch Love in the Time of Cholera tonight - it's been sat next to my PC for almost a month and I really want to get some new DVDs coming in from Lovefilm, so unless I watched this movie I'd not be able to send off for more. Hm.

I made it almost an hour into it, but I just couldn't take any more. I have heard the book is really good - well I'm afraid the film just bored me to death and I wasn't particularly fond of any of the characters! So the DVD got ejected and is now sitting in its envelope waiting to be sent off for something new!

One of the reviews I read (after realising I'd somehow added this to my rental list) said, you'd wish you had cholera - anything would be better than this film! LOL Hm, I almost agree.

Here's hoping there will be some good movie fayre at the cinema this month, went to see Zack and Miri make a porno last night with a friend as there was zero else on that we hadn't seen. The new movies for the week all came out tonight - so bad timing- but we were pleasantly surprised - not amazing, but sufficiently entertaining! ;o)

Anyway, after the whole dvd fiasco tonight, I switched over to some festive tunes and got to work:

Again with the American Crafts and not even Christmas papers! But I couldn't leave the KI out of it, and I have finally made a card I actually like! :oO Shock horror! It's based on Sketch This #75:

Anyway, off to watch Big Bang Theory. :o)

Hm, better than nothing

Well it's been a hard slog, I seem to have the anti-midas touch at the moment when it comes to making my Christmas cards. I start with an idea then it goes horribly wrong or just doesn't turn out like I'd like... a few cards have gone in the bin but here are the ones that didn't.... yet. Anyway, lots of American Crafts papers, Hambly rub-ons, some Basic Grey, Love Elsie and randomness.

My effort at the current CPS sketch, #92:

This one was for SketchThis #71:

Also I watched Munich, Casino Royale and Syriana - so they probably weren't quite the thing to get me in the festive frame of mind, and Casino Royale was especially distracting! mmmmm

But having rewatched it, I'd really like to see Quantum of Solace again, especially the opener since it starts right off from where Casino Royale finishes with Mr White.

Great stuff - and don't worry Gill, I'd already added those titles to my Lovefilm rental list! ;oP

Just a teeny one

So here's my card for sketch #91 over at the CPS blog. Finally opened my little set of matrioshki stamps as I thought they were quite festive too, and hurrah a bit of Stickles for good measure. Papers are old and new KI! ;o)

Here's a better pic of the greeting:

The Tin!

Remember this little purchase that came back from the States last year with the resident KI elf?

Well I can't remember if I mentioned it or not, but I bought the Traditional tin too when in Florida last December... and well... I soooooo have a lot of KI Christmas stash to get through.... I am well stocked for many, many, many years to come!

So tonight in an attempt to start chipping away at the KI mountain I made one measly card! LOL

Only 300+ sheets of paper to go!

And so the retro KI continues

Not got as much in the Christmas line, but I suppose enough to be getting on with for now so had a go at the Nov. sketch challenge on UKS.

Winter wonderland

Ha, things never seem to go as planned for me recently. Have had a bit of a blah weekend, and not feeling tip top tonight, but at least made a start on the Christmas cards this evening. OK, just one card!

It's based on CPS sketch #90. Also I am trying to use up those MM glittery rub-ons - they aren't my favourite, think I much prefer the matt look of their regular rub-ons as the glitter isn't so sparkly - the other stash is KI and Doodlebug of course.

Also in preparation for doing creative "stuff" I finally installed my robo on this computer - just goes to show how much I've used the robo since buying this computer in April!

Lost to reality tv

Currently spending far too much time watching Project Runway! It is sooo addictive. I really missed Project Catwalk when Virgin lost sky one, so the next best thing is Project Runway. ;o)

One day I am sure I will come back to making some cards, but I am just too tired to create right now. My back is doing much better after a couple of trips to the gym power plate and lots of walking around as sitting is the worst thing for it. Thank heavens for my special New Balance trainers as they were the only shoes I could wear to walk around not just the Metro Centre, Sunderland city centre to try and pick up THE dress, but all day yesterday in Middlesbrough on an elusive search for the accessories to go with THE dress. Extremely limited success... :oS

Oh and last night's telly, the Peter Kay spoof of X-Factor meets every other public voted reality tv show "on ice" - hilarious. I loved R Wayne and Rick Astley's cameo - snort!

As for creativity, I recently found this blog and have been following the videos and challenges with interest - they looks so fun to try.

But I suppose I can post the cards I made for It's a Creative world right?

   

Christmas comes early-ish

Just keeping on top of a couple of challenges in one card - it's been a while since I did a Rudolph Day challenge, so Jo's prompt for today was perfect: to make a Christmas card without using traditional colours of red, green, or gold.

I went for aqua and brown!

• K&Co. paper
• Papertrey Ink stamps
• Starlight Stickles
• Nestabilities

As promised..

Card catch-up from the other day...

First up back to the CAD challenge for the 10th of March - yes I fell so far behind - to use pink and green:

• Making Memories patterned paper, metal greeting, flower, button
• Stickles
• Michaels ribbon

CAD for the 11th was to use die cuts in some way:

• Cuttlebug font and Asterisk dies
• Basic Grey patterned papers
• American Crafts alpha stickers

No challenge posted the 12th, so filled in with this card...

• Basic Grey background paper
• Doodlebug buttons and rub-ons

Then for the 13th, the challenge was to create a baby boy card... I was running low on inspiration on this one, so it's a tad boring! LOL

• Basic Grey papers and alpha stickers
• Lil Davis chipboard
• Papertrey Ink stamps

No challenge on the 14th either, so just used an old Self-Addressed kit for a little play...

Then the CAD challenge for the 15th was to use Scenic Route:

• Scenic Route papers
• Prima flowers
• Heidi Swapp stamp
• Queen & Co. brads

The CAD challenge for the 16th was to use black and white as the primary colours... hm... I just needed some zinging lime green in there as well!

• KI Memories background paper, block stamps, greeting stamp
• Prima flower
• SEI brad

And now we come to the Run Rudolph Run spectacular as there were no CAD challenges until the 21st... all very simple too... Lots of KI, Papertrey stamps, Stickles...

The end!

Cards, Rudolphs, Sketches... and flat tyres

Heck it feels like one of those days... I'll be starting off my day tomorrow at the tyre centre getting my wheel/tyre fixed/replaced on the car. This morning on the way to work there must have been a shed load of something on the road as by a few minutes from parking up there was a knocking sound coming from the back of the car. Once parked I opened to boot to see if there was anything knocking about that could have made the noise, and there were a few things... so after work I took the culprits from the boot and secured them, but the noise persisted and I just knew 10 minutes later that it was definitely something far worse, yep... a puncture. Managed to get home in one piece and the emergency wheel is now on. And there is a huge chunk of steel bolt in my nice wide almost pristine wheel!!! Grrrrrrrrrrr... not sure whether they're be able to fix it or whether I'm in for a new Continental tyre tomorrow, or what, but great start to the weekend!

However, I've spent the evening forgetting about that and getting on with Jue Jue's Rudolph challenge on UKS. The aim is to make some Christmas cards on the 25th of each month, so that come December there won't be a mass panic! Well I managed to twin this challenge with my Card a Day project and a couple of sketch challenges I wanted to do:

This one is also for sketch challenge #7 on the Card Studio Designs forum:

• KI Memories all the way!

This is just a random one using more KI papers, MM buttons, Anna Griffin rub-on and Papertrey greeting.

This is one for yesterday's card a day challenge, to use ricrac!

• Basic Grey patterned paper and die-cut stickers
• Autumn Leaves stamp

Another CAD card, this time the challenge was to use an epoxy sticker!

• Love Elsie patterned paper, epoxy sticker, stickers, chipboard buttons
• Papertrey greeting
• Mini-alpha stickers
• Cuttlebug font

And last but not least, the latest sketch over at CPS - sketch 48! Basic Grey and Papertrey again. :o)

Right off to tidy up!