Kool Kitty Musings

Card catch-up!

Another evening of catching up with a few cards. First up yesterday's CAD - to use alpha stickers:

• Basic Grey patterned paper
• American Crafts alpha stickers

Next up, today's CAD card - challenge to use American Crafts products - twinned with the Sketch This Card #40 challenge:

• Basic Grey background paper and rub-ons
• Cactus Pink stamp
• QuicKutz heart die
• American Crafts alpha rub-ons
• Mod button

Still no Nestabilities... and I have somehow managed to run out of herma AND double-sided tape, must go make an order or I'll have no adhesive come the crop on Saturday!

Perpetually behind this week!

As I didn't manage to make my card a day card for yesterday, I'll be playing catch-up later this week! But when I got in from the gym and whilst watching Masterchef I managed to make yesterday's card where the challenge was to use pink, brown and blue together:

 

• Paper Salon patterned paper
• Creative Imaginations Chipboard
• Papertrey Ink greeting
• Mod button

Still no sign of my Nestabilities... hopefully tomorrow as I fancied playing with them today, but fingers crossed they're not stuck in customs. :oS

Anyway, more cardmaking tomorrow night after the gym, with any luck!

Looks like good TV is coming to our screens again, sequel to Life on Mars, Ashes to Ashes, starts in a couple of weeks, new series of America's Next Top Model starts Monday night with a double bill, Attenborough's new series - Life in Cold Blood starts Monday too (but will need to catch it with catch-up TV feature), if only they'd show Season 3 of The Closer already! For crying out loud More4, it's been long enough now hasn't it???

Something to brighten the day

Although I managed to schlep to the gym after work and only just burn 700 calories I am feeling less than wonderful this evening... I really wanted to make today's Card a Day entry, but just don't have the energy left, hopefully tomorrow night I can play catch up.... :o) You never know, my Nestabilities dies might arrive, which means I could very well play with them and these pretties that arrived today....

Oh and remind me, February needs to be a "saving" month... not a "spending" month. Really, it does.

A couple more cards...

I'm now caught up with card sketches for the week and today's card a day challenge.

First up today's CAD - the challenge to use rub-ons:

• DCWV and Scenic Route cardstock
• Hambly tree rub-on
• Creative Imaginations chipboard
• May Arts ribbon
• Papertrey Ink greeting

I really love the graphic/pattern look a the moment so it's no wonder I bought those rub-ons, no idea what I'll do with the rest of them mind! ;o)

And also here's Sketch This Card #39, using up a smidge of that K&Co. stash I sometimes wish I'd never bought... I like it, but there's soooo much of it in the tin of sayings and the pad of paper...

Card a Day 24

Have been playing with some Banana Frog stamps today and of course my big ink collection - still don't own the perfect shade of brown - to just create and see where the flow took me... One of these cards is today's Card a Day on the theme of "thanks":

• Banana Frog Build a Bloom stamps (to create scallop border) and Pharmacy font
• Autumn Leaves bird stamp
• American Crafts rub-ons
• Red paint sharpie

The other cards I made are here - gotta have a montage - montage!

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!

Card a Day 20 & 21

Better late than never, I'm back with a few cards, was at the cinema last night with Helen to see St. Trinian's.... we both came out if it thinking we needed to be another decade and a half younger at least to fully appreciate it. But we did think they'd been very clever editing the trailers! The highlight of the trip was the previews of other films. LOL I really fancy seeing Penelope and Helen fancies Stand Up 2 - I quite liked the first Stand Up film so am sure I can bare to see it... :o) Also I saw a preview of a really fun looking film coming out in March called 27 dresses starring Grey's Katherine Heigl.

Anyway onto the cards, the first one had to use chipboard:

• Scenic Route patterned paper and chipboard embellishment
• Narratives die-cut paper
• Making Memories buttons
• Michael's flower

Today's card challenge was to use felt, and so I went to town with some KI felt letters:

• All the stash is KI!

Card a Day 19

Here we go, today's card had to use flowers - I had to be quick as I've had a few things to sort out this evening, cheap cinema night tomorrow night so will see what time I get back!

• Collage Press and American Crafts patterned paper
• SEI ribbon
• Papertrey Ink greeting
• Foofala button

A new addition....

Somehow I managed to find myself buying a new handbag yesterday... I only wanted something to replace my current bag which is on its last legs and looking a bit the worse for wear... and low and behold I ended up in Collectibles eyeing up Radley bags in the sale... thankfully no Radleys were too enticing.... except the carry-on suitcase, which oh my gosh, was just adorable and so well designed inside... I was seriously tempted, but at £150 I didn't need it that much... shame!

It was like this but in blue and black - soooooo nice...

I didn't leave empty handed though, oh no... the new handbag was purchased:

A Fossil cargo satchel in saddle brown - soooo soft and roomy - it's out for its trial run tomorrow. ;o)

Anyway, off to catch up on some reading while I can - the whole work week circus starts again tomorrow.

Card a Day 18

Today's theme - a "hello" card and what better stash to do the job than Banana Frog Flowery Thoughts stamps! Oh and a fair bit of ink... ;o)

Card a Day 17

Here's the card for yesterday! ;o) The theme? Weddings of course!

• KI Memories patterned paper
• Narratives die-cut paper
• Banana Frog Simple Greetings stamps

Card a Day 16

Here's another attempt at killing two birdies with one stone! Card a day challenge to create a feminine birthday card and Sketch This Card Sketch #38:

• Ki Memories patterned paper
• Basic Grey rub-ons
• Sassafras Lass stitch stamp
• Papertrey Ink scallop stamp
• Foofala button
• CI velvet ribbon
• SEI brads

Card a Day 15

Just playing catch-up now - it's been a hectic few days!

 

This time the theme was "Just because" and I killed two birds with one stone by creating this card for the product challenge on Card Studio Designs - the challenge to use 7 Gypsies, well I managed that with a bit of 7Gypsies paper. ;o)

• Daisy D's and 7 Gypsies patterned paper
• Lil Davis chipboard
• Scenic Route kraft cardstock
• Papertrey Ink and Gel-a-Tins stamps
• American Crafts rub-on
• Making Memories brads
• Spotty ribbon gathered trim

Card a Day 14

Here's today's creative effort - the challenge: to create a baby card.... now if anyone I know announces they're expecting, at least I'll be prepared!

• KI "Expecting" patterned paper
• Quickutz die cut heart
• American Crafts rub-ons and brads
• Doodlebug button
• Mini alpha stickers
• Making Memories ribbon

Card a Day 13

Always good to have one of these in reserve... a Happy Anniversary card!

• Ki Memories Pieces of Me patterned paper
• Mini alpha stickers (still can't remember who they're by!)

Simple as that! In other news yaaay to David Duchovny who won a Golden Globe last night for his role in Californication - it makes my little inner X-Files geek's heart glow. :o)

Anyway, I am off to do a bit of mooching online! I am still in a Bourne mood and fancy rewatching all three films now - I really wish there was going to be a fourth one as there seems to be a lot of back story between Bourne and Nicky that hasn't been covered yet.... la-la-la-la... also after a copy of Moby's latest remix of the theme song used in all 3 films - love it! Also I am totally up to date with Grey's Anatomy, but alas no more eps until the writers' strike is resolved. Ho-hum...

Card a Day 12

Managing to keep on top of things... kinda... Today's theme was a "boy card" - well this is more a duuuuuude card....

• Rob n Bob patterned papers
• Banana Frog Super Star, Make a Chain and Jeannie Shrimpton stamps
• Ki rub-ons
• American Crafts brads

Praise be to relaxing Sundays...

The weather hasn't been anything to smile about so I had a rather nice day catching up with a few things (very leisurely) including today's Card a Day challenge plus watching The Bourne Ultimatum - great ending with room for another in the series, I so hope!!! I seem to be in a Matt Damon zone... wasn't too bothered with him as an actor until I saw the first Bourne film and have been lapping up his films now! I do love him as Linus in the Ocean's films - especially Twelve where his parents have to bail him out. So funny...

Anyway, here's another recent card:

Think I'll watch Ocean's Thirteen after my bath... Back to the grind tomorrow!

Card a Day 11

This one's always a hard type of card for me, sympathy cards:

• Crate patterned paper
• Gel-a-tins Wild Things stamps
• Papertrey Ink greeting

Busy day with the stash...

I've been catching up today with a few card making projects. For some reason I'm just not in a scrapping mood and have been quite happily cutting into "Scrapbooking stash" - even new stuff - to crank out a few cards! hehe

So here are a few more:

Used up some Rob 'n' Bob papers on this one so fits this week's UKS Use Your Stash challenge!

Rather like how this one turned out - I really liked that Sasafrass paper but wasn't sure what to do with it on a LO, so onto a card some of it has gone! And the KI rub-ons and ice dot matched perfectly!

Here's the first card in this week's DCM dare to use the same stash to create 2 cards (with different greetings). The stash was Scenic route tree kraft paper, Hambly gold birdie rub-ons and Paper Tray greetings (by Papertrey)....

Think that's it for now!

Card a Day 10

Totally up-to-date for now with this one! A shame the photo doesn't show the detail, but the theme was "Congratulations":

• Gel-a-tins Wild Things stamps stamped in aqua and light blue
• KI "Congratulations" stamp
• Papertrey Ink ribbon stamp
• Stickles glitter
• Glossy Accents

Card a Day 9

The challenge for this one was to use only three colours - naturally there had to be pink!

• Chatterbox patterned paper
• Heidi Swapp pink plastic letters
• Making Memories pink glitter alpha stickers, brads, and button
• Aunty Sarah's chipboard flower

Card a Day 8

Playing catch up today - the theme for this one was "Missing you":

• KI Memories patterned paper
• Marvy oval scallop punch
• Paper Trey Take a Bough stamps
• Autumn Leaves birdie stamp
• Chatterbox rub-ons

Card a Day 7

Today's theme, a get well card!

• KI Pieces of Me papers
• Autumn Leaves birdie stamp
• Papertrey Ink greeting and ribbon stamp
• Making Memories felt flower and button
• Doodle template
• Swarovski crystal

Where are the days going?

I can't believe it's hump day already, and by that of course I mean Wednesday!

I finally received my November and December issues of Card Trends yesterday, still waiting for January ST and CT, and spent a lot of this evening flicking and browsing.... nice stuff!

I have been enjoying some rather nice Udon noodle DIY stir frys of late - lots of spring onions, pac choi, mushrooms, peppers and a handful of cashew nuts... yum!

Have been watching Hugh's Chicken Run on CH4, rather enlightening stuff - mind you I've always liked Hugh's programs... and this one has been particularly thought provoking.

On a completely random note, if anyone's ever bought a Yankee Candle Jack Frost car freshener has it gone weird when left in the car on cold days? The other day there was an extremely strong alcoholic chemical smell when I got in the car to drive home, so much so it smelt like someone had left a permanent marker open or something. I started getting worried that there was a leak from the screen wash or something, but no - it looks like the car freshener has has started decomposing or something. Up close when you sniff it it's fine, but the air in the car smells really chemically and mentholy. Anyway it's out of the car now - no more fumes, but most bizarre!

Anyway, I suppose

Card a Day 6

Here's today's card - the theme was "For You", I decided to save myself a little bit of work and used Sketch This card sketch #37 as inspiration:

A fair few stash items on this one:

• Narratives die-cut paper
• Basic Grey Blush patterned paper, die-cut stickers, and swirl rub-on
• Making memories velvet ribbon, buckle, flower brad, and liberal coatings of paint
• Aqua Swarowski crystal
• One of the many original Michael's flower purchases!

This could be a good thing...

Seems like I'm back on track today after the new year. Went to the gym straight from work (god it was packed with newbies!), came home, had tea and got down to making today's card for the day whilst watching the new series of Masterchef - love that show although last year's wasn't as great... And I've not snacked - this has been my downfall over Christmas, nibbles.... lots of nibbles...

Keeping busy making something each night during prime snacking time may just be the thing that'll keep me on the straight and narrow, not to mention a certain someone's wedding in October that I want to have a stonking nice dress for! Ideally one that fits and doesn't make me look like a sausage... so with that goal in mind, I must be good!

Tomorrow night I think it'll be stir-fry night - got some of my fave Udon noodles and a load of fresh veg to shove in with some yummo honey and cashew nut sauce. Scrum-didily-uptious!

Oh and I've sinned by ordering some nestabilities at long last... Mind you I'm not having much luck with packages and mail at the moment, still no Poppy Ink kits, a box of stash that I've been expecting for a while still hasn't turned up, and mags...

Card a Day 5

Right on schedule....

Today's theme, to use at least 4 manufacturers' products on one card... hm, easy I thought, but then just what products were going to go together??? Much harder than I imagined, so I raided the scraps box!

And which were they?

• DCWV card blank (OK a cheat I know!)
• Basic Grey Gypsy background paper
• Carolee's (?) Fruit Loop paper
• May Arts ribbon
• Making Memories black glitter stickers and buttons
• My Minds Eye "embossed" (and I use the term very loosely) chipboard
• Teeny alpha stickers - all I know is they ain't Making Memories!

Back tomorrow with another one I suppose. ;o)

Card a Day 4

Up-to-date now with today's card challenge, this time on the theme of Friendship:

• Sassafrass Lass papers
• Bazzill Bling cardstock
• October Afternoon rub-on

Card a Day 3

Card 3 is a simple one, on the theme of a happy birthday!

• KI Memories papers
• Memory Box stamps

Card a Day 2

Here's the next card:

The theme was a Thank You card.

• KI Memories Pieces of Me paper and rub-ons
• Autumn Leaves Mod Winter Garden buttons - yay finally opened and used that little bag!

Back with another card soon!

This year's challenge?

Nope not a layout a day!! Ha, bit too stressful for me! A layout a week at a push would be an amazing achievement... but over on the Card Studio Designs forum there is a Card a Day challenge, and you know what? I am a sucker and have decided to make this my challenge!

I hereby state that I will make a card a day... if I get behind I'll make it up a the weekend, but there will be a card a day as long as this challenge runs on the board.

Now, a card a day sounds ambitious for me, as evenings are the only time during the work week that I get to play, so catch up on a weekend will be likely! Oh and did I mention I'd be twinning this amazing output with other challenges? As is the case of my first Card a Day entry... it's also part of the DCM "New" dare.

• BG Mellow papers
• Poppy Ink house stamp
• 7 Gypsies journaling stamp
• MM rub-ons
• Banana Frog heart stamp from "Make a Chain"
• Alpha stickers I bought about 6 packs of in Florida!

Back later with the next card!