Crafty Kat Designs

Bath time!...

2012-03-07T00:55:00.000Z

Hi loveliest of bloggers, how are you all? I have been playing with my new Tildas, I totally adore this collection, I want them all!!! I think I say this every time a new collection comes out, (with exception of winner takes it all!) but arent they just so darn cute. I have inked up a few and this is the second one I have made into a card. This is Tilda in bath cap and the bath tub, (sorry Sara, Im just gonna make you want them even more now! lol)

The DPs are also the new collection.

Card recipe

images - tilda in bath cap, and bath tub from new princes and princesses collection

papers - magnolia, pink magic bubbles

flowers - woc

medium - prismas

buttons, lace, ribbon and ticket - all from stash

pink gingham ribbon - birthday gift from Sara x

doily - magnolia die

entering into the following challenges

Magnolia down under - buttons and bows

simply magnolia - bling and bows

One stop craft - button it

papertake weekly - anything goes

Mothers day at Dream Valley

2012-03-04T13:57:00.002Z

Hi I am back again with my 2nd dt card for today, this time its for Dream Valley. Our theme this time is MOTHERS DAY! So the perfect chance for you to get ahead and be ready for mothers day on the 18th march!

We have 2 wonderful sponsors for this challenge, One Stop Card Crafts who are offering a £10 gift voucher to spend in their fab shop. Also we have Crafty Ribbons who are offering a Bev bag selection.

Here is my creation, it does have a tiny mothers day stamp up on the right hand corner, just in case you were wondering where I had the senmtiment! lol

Dont forget to enter my birthday candy, link can be found on side bar.

Image - brand new prince and princesses collection from magnolia

papers - pion

flowers ribbon - birthday gift from lovely Sara, thank you sweetie

flowers - woc

butterflies, postcard and stamps all from pion papers

medium - copics

Go Green at paper sundaes

2012-03-04T13:45:00.000Z

Afternoon all, quick post as I running a bit late with stuff today, so trying to play catch up!

Its time for a new challenge over at Paper sundaes, We are sponsored by our regular monthly sponsor, Simon Says Stamp, who offering a $15 gift certificate as a prize.

Our challenge this week is GREEN OR GOOD LUCK

Of course me being me I used both options! lol

somehow tilda looks like she has a fab tan in the pics but its not like this IRL!

Card recipe

image - celebration tilda, carved heart tree, and welcome to a sweet home

papers - maja

flowers - woc

border die - memory box

butterfly - birthday gift

cloud die and doily die - magnolia

Birthday Candy..

2012-03-01T22:05:00.002Z

Hi everyone, as promised I am back with a little birthday candy to share.

I thought as its my birthday I would give one of my lovely followers the chance to win a little candy. The candy will close on the 18th March 2012 at midnight.

to enter here are the rules,

1. be a follower or become a follower, but only become a genuine follower, not just to enter the draw.

2.post a pic of candy on your blog

3. leave me a comment

Simple as that

I reserve the right to delete any entry I feel doesnt qualify.

I will delete any comment from a candy blog.

So here is the candy,

Kaisercraft secret bird society paper pad, very scrummy papers

memory box button die.

Its my birthday!!! yaaaaay

2012-03-01T13:20:00.001Z

Hi everyone, I thought I would pop on and share some of my birthday gifts and cards with you. I will be back later with a little birthday candy.

I have been thoroughly spoiled by my family and friends, the kids are hyper at the moment, desperate for some birthday cake!lol

here is the cake they are wanting so badly,

looks yummy doesnt it? It is a giant lemon cupcake, cant wait to have a piece.

Meghan made me the most gorgeous card, all her own work including the image.

this is the gorgeous bag I got from the kids

I also got a lovely package from my BBF (best blog friend!)The ever so lovely Sara. She sent me a gorgeous card, (cant share it at the moment) and a parcel filled with yummy goodies.

thank you so much sweetie, mwah xx

I also got this beautiful card from my fab friend Sarah

thank you Sarah, I love it, xx

My gorgeous hubby and my mum gave me money to buy some crafty things and I got lots of other lovely presents too.

Hubby is also taking me out for dinner on saturday.

I am one very happy birthday girl today!

See you all later with my birthday candy

Fancy Folds..

2012-02-29T09:00:00.000Z

Morning again, I am back with my second dt card for today, my 1st one for crafty creations is below.

Its time for a new challenge over at The Paper Shelter. This challenge is for fancy fold cards, so lots of scope for play there. The prize is for a $20 gift certificate to use in the paper shelter shop. If you use a non paper shelter image you can still win a prize, you would get 3 digis of your choice from the shop. So either way its a great prize

I chose to make a twisted easel card, I had big plans for this challenge but as I had a major battle on my hands with my printer,(which I finally won!!) all I had time for was to make one of these. Remember to pop over to the challenge blog and see the dts work, lots of gorgeous fancy folds.

I will be back tomorrow with a little blog candy to celebrate my birthday.

hope you can join us xx

Vintage fashion...

2012-02-29T01:00:00.000Z

Good morning everyone, thank you all for your lovely comments yesterday,they mean a lot xx

Its time for a new challenge over at Crafty Creations. Our challenge is Vintage fashion, our sponsor is the fabulous Digi doodle Shop, who are offering a prize of $10 to spend in the shop. They also gave the dt some fab images to play with. I chose 1800 vintage dress, which I coloured with copics and flexmarkers

I used Melissa Frances 5th Avenue dps as these worked so well with the image and theme.

The stickles makes the flowers on her hat look black in the picture, its not like that in real life lol

Hope you can join us.

A rainbow fairy...

2012-02-28T00:48:00.001Z

Good morning lovely blog friends,I hope you are all well. I don't really have much news to share today, I am feeling a bit down at the moment, I was hoping a crafty play last night would have cheered me up, but nope, still feeling low.

I think, well no actually I know the reason, I find the times around birthdays and Christmas very difficult, I miss Charlie all the time but I feel like we are not a complete family at times when family is important, like birthdays etc. So sorry for being down like this from time to time but it does help putting my feelings into words and sharing them.

I do hope you don't mind..

Anyhoo, why dont I share a card that I made, I came across this image the other week when doing my commenting, and before you could say Teen Fairy Mia, I hopped over to Mo's digital pencil shop and bought her!!!! She is very lovely and I decided to give her a rainbow dress. I was quite happy with how it turned out, but then I decided to spritz it with shimmer mist, doh!! its gone a bit blotchy and I ripped the doily as it was damp, but lets just say thats what I wanted to happen! lol

I wont tell if you dont

Card Recipe

image - teen fairy mia mo manning

medium - copics and flexmarkers

flowers - woc and local shop

seam binding - ebay

papers - melissa frances 5th avenue

pin, doily and pearls - stash

An Award..

2012-02-26T20:18:00.002Z

Hi again, I have been very lucky to be nominated not once but twice for the Liebster blog award! I wanted to say a big thank you to the two lovely ladies who have nominated me, Alyce of Kit and Clowder and Wendy from Flowergirl cards. Thank you so much both of you.

the idea of the Liebster Blog Award is to spread the love from one small blog (under 200 followers) to other small blogs. This helps to spread knowledge and readership.

To accept the award, you must:

1) Link back to the person who gave it and thank them for thinking of you.

2) Post the award to your blog.

3) Give the award to 5 bloggers (with less than 200 followers) that you appreciate and value.

4) Leave a comment on the blogs of the five people you have chosen to let them know.

"Liebster" in German means "dearest", so to carry on the Liebster tradition, I am going to pass the award on to 5 people who's blogs have been an inspiration to me and my crafting.

I have 'met' so many wonderful bloggers since I started this blog, so picking 5 has been quite difficult, but here are the 5 I have chosen, in no particular order

Sarah from created by sarah

Marjorie from foxy cards

Sandra from Homemade thoughts and cards from abroad

Kelly from Kellys cards

Tracey from Cranberry cards

Round and round....

2012-02-26T13:10:00.001Z

Afternoon everyone, this is going to be a very quick post from me as I am having a batle with my printer at the moment and as I need two digi stamps printed out for two dt cards this week I am having a meltdown at the moment!!!!

So anyway, its time for a new challenge over at Paper sundaes, and we want to see your creations with circles, so this can be a circle card or cirlcles on your card. We are being sponsored by the lovely Stamp and Create.

I made a little wedding/love/anniversary or engagement wall hanging

Card recipe

image - bird swing sylvia zet for whimsy

papers - girls paperie

bookplate - tim holtz

medium - copics and flexmarkers

flowers - woc

tree - marianne dies

Right im off to have words with my printer!!!!!

Sweet Honey..

2012-02-23T01:11:00.001Z

Morning lovely bloggers, I do hope you are all well. Gosh can you believe that we are almost into March!!! where has the month gone? It only feels like yesterday it was the 1st of jan! lol Not that Im complaining as hopefully getting into March will bring some lovely spring weather, and of course i like march as its when my birthday is!! yipeee. I am goining to be the ripe old age of 38!!! on the 1st, why do i still feel like Im 20 in my head? lol Oh dear, just think 2 more years and I will be 40!! not looking forward to that one. Well actually I am as Meghan will be 18 the same year and we have decided as our present we are going to New York, woohoo cant wait for that. Hubby is a bit put out cause we said we were going on our own, but he cant argue now as he is off to munich in October, to go to oktoberfest.

I have another saturated canary card to share today with you, this one is called Honey, she is just so sweet. I have coloured her with prismas as i havent used them for ages. I wanted to give her a soft vintage look and I think prismas really work with that look. I have used prima sparkling spring papers which I have been trying to get my hands on for ages, found them on ebay the other night so was a very happy girl! I just need to find pink paislee butterfly garden pad now and I would be even happier. I added a little ruffle of seam binding along the edge of the image, I will definitely do this again as its gorgeous.

Card recipe

image - honey by Krista Smith

papers - sparkling spring from prima

medium - prismacolor pencils

flowers - woc and stash

heart - ribbon girl

lace and seam binding - ebay

butterfly - cheery lynne

Entering into the following challenges

crafts and me - shades of spring

craft us crazy - fav colour/embellishment (pink, flowers and lace)

die-ing for a challenge - anything goes

A shabby chic birthday card

2012-02-22T07:00:00.000Z

Morning everyone, well who watched the brits last night? Wasnt Adele just stunning? she has the most powerful and amazing voice, as does florence and the machine, wow she gave me goosebumps!! lol not so great were Olly Murs and blur!! why on earth did they get sooooo long to say all their thank yous plus have an 11 minute performance at the end? I felt so sorry for Adele, she didnt get to say very much after winning the best album category. Also loved Ed sheeran, although i think nerves got the better of him.

I have a 60th birthday card to share today, this was a commission I had been given. I had just bought these gorgeous Kaisercraft birdcage stamps and they were perfect for this card.

Card recipe

image - kaiserccraft hummingbird stamps

papers - pion

flowers - woc

ribbon - from stash

birdcage die - tim holtz

Stamping Tilda...

2012-02-21T00:49:00.002Z

Well, I was one happy lady today when the postie brought my new tildas!! I have been very excited about getting this new special stamp. I have several other images sitting with their matching papers on my desk just waiting to get made up into cards but I just couldnt wait to ink up this little cutie. I decided to paint with distress inks again, this is my first go with a tilda so be gentle with me lol!!

I am reasonably happy how she turned out, just not sure the skin is right but I will keep trying as I really love how relaxing this way of colouring is. And as I have been feeling a bit low the last couple of days this was what I needed.

Anyway, so here is my card, hope you like it,

Card Recipe

Image - new stamping tilda

Papers - mix of mme, magnolia

medium - distress inks

flowers - woc

lace - ebay

corners - quixotic

magnolia dragonflies were a gift

Entering into the following challenges

MDUC - sketch

allsorts - anything goes

cute card thursday - flowers power

creatalicious - lace

simply magnolia - pink and/or red with white.

(hope this counts its mostly pink and white)

Anything goes at Lovely hAnglar Only

2012-02-19T14:02:00.000Z

Hi again for the 3rd and final time today, you are probably sick of hearing from me today!!lol

I am very excited as Lovely hAnglar Only challenge starts again today. We have the most amazing group of girls on the teams, yes I said teams. We have decided to have 2 teams as we had such a high standard of entries for our DT call, there are some seriously talented girls on these teams, please pop over to the challenge blog to check out all the creations.

For the first challenge we decided to all take part, then split off into our teams. the theme for this week is a very easy one to start with, Anything Goes. Our sponsor for this week is the totally gorgeous Ribbon Girl who have given us the most yummy prize to be won!

Isnt that a bundle of deliciousness!

Here is my card for this challenge, i hope you like it and it would be lovely if you could join in the fun.

Card Recipe

image - hAnglar

dps - papermania and melissa frances

dies - magnolia and marianne

flowers - woc

lace and pebble - stash

Just for men at Dream Valley

2012-02-19T14:00:00.000Z

Im back again for my 2nd DT card, this time its for Dream Valley, our sponsor for this challenge is Bugaboo. Our theme for this challenge is Just for men, I must admit not one of my favs! But anyway I searched through my Tim Holtz dies and this is what I came up with.

Birthdays at Paper sundaes

2012-02-19T13:00:00.000Z

Hi everyone, I am here with my first of 3 DT card for today. First up today is Paper sundaes, We are being sponsored by the very lovely Lili of the Valley this week, and we would like to see birthday cards, so a nice easy one this week.

I have used never too old for a cupcake, I have coloured it with copics and flexmarkers. Papers are melissa frances 5th avenue. hope you can join us this week.

Party time

2012-02-17T01:45:00.001Z

Hi everyone I am back with another 'just because ' card. I was finishing dt cards and also an order for my sister last night, and I had this image just waiting to be put onto a card, so I thought I would get it done too.

So here is my card ,

I also thought I would share some pics we were taking yesterday. As I had said yesterday my youngest two fought all day on wednesday, Yet when you see the following pics you will think they are so happy and having fun, PLEASE DO NOT BE FOOLED!!! especially by Maya, she is one quick tempered, screaming the place down, throwing toys little girl, hmmm I wonder who she might get the quick temper from? I have no idea (smiling innocently!! lol)

Who me? not at all!

Grab a cuppa, get comfy and hopefully I will catch you at the end xx

How can you say no to this face???

It is almost impossible to get pics of alex, he will not stand still, hence the blurry pics!!!

The next to pics are the resulting Maya trying to escape Meghans grip!

I will share some of Meghans 'arty' pics another day, she def has an eye for taking pics, unlike me!

Entering card into the following challenges

staurated canary - anything but square or rectangle

craft us crazy - use fav colour or embellishment ( flowers)

Crafters companion - anything goes

pretty little ribbon shop - anything goes

fab n funky - try something new ( new card shape)

Stolen heart.....

2012-02-16T13:07:00.001Z

Afternoon everyone, did everyone have some lovely weather yesterday in the UK? It was lovely and sunny here yesterday, great for getting clothes dried especially towels, ahh the simple pleasures of line dried towels!lol.

My kids are off school and nursery till tuesday as its inservice days then the springbreak, bit optimistic there calling it spring break! dont you think? I had one of those days yesterday where Alex and Maya fought over EVERYTHING!!! seriously even down to who got the bit of the banana with the skin! I got to the point I just walked away and left Maya to scream, which thankfully worked. As soon as she realised that she wasnt getting any attention she very quickly stopped (for 2 mins, till the next argument!) I have never been so happy to get them into their beds last night. Then I spent the next two hours talking to Meghan about some school/friends/boys!!/life problems and generally putting the world to rights, I was in the bath while she was perched on a little step stool! Dont get me wrong I am thrilled she talks about everything with me but I like a good soak in the bath with my ipod, thats my chill out time. Not so chilled out last night lol!

Anyhoo the reason for todays post is to share a card I made the other day, just because!, its nice to do a card for the fun of sometimes, not for any specific challenge or for a dt. If it fits a challenge then even better

Card recipe

image - edwin with stolen heart

papers - maja designs, life by the sea pad

medium - copics, flexmarkers and prismas

flowers - WOC

dies - cheery lynne,

postcard - portobello road stamp set,

charm - ebay

Winter blues

2012-02-15T09:00:00.000Z

Hi again, I am back with my second dt card for today. This is my very first card for The Papershelter. I am so excited to be on this team and have had great fun colouring in the images. This weeks challenge is Winter Blues. As always the prize if you use a papershelter digi is a fab $20 to spend in the papershelter shop. If you use another brand of stamp the prize is 3 digis of your choice.

I hope you can join in with fun. There are lots of new release images including the cutest panda you ever saw!!

Wont you be my teddy bear?

2012-02-15T00:00:00.000Z

Morning everyone, thank you all for your lovely comments about Meghan, they all made me smile all over again!

This morning I have the 1st of two dt cards. This one is for Crafty Creations, we are being sponsored by the lovely Stampfairy who kindly gave the dt some very cute bear digis to use. I am not sure of this little fellows name but he is very lovely.

I will be back shortly with my very first dt card for the paper shelter.

Saturated Canary Calendar February page

2012-02-14T00:11:00.002Z

Hi everyone, I have been to Meghans parents night tonight at her high school. Well am I bursting with pride or what!! As she is in 4th year she is is the first year of her higher qualifications so she only has 4 teachers as 1 teacher has her for art and photography.

First was her graphic communication (tech drawing for us oldies!!)teacher, The first thing she said to us was almost the same thing that each teacher said to us, 'You should be so proud of Meghan, she is a delight to have in my class, she has had a lot to deal with in her short life but she is such a lovely girl'

By the 4th time I was fit to burst. She has had such a difficult time growing up, having to deal with a stressful and often emotional time, not knowing where, when or what we were doing never being able to plan for anything ever!

But back to her report, she is doing well in each class, particularly in art and photography. In fact her teacher was lovely and and I can see why Meghan enjoys being in her class, shes young and so enthusiastic and really encourages her. She let us see some of her recent works, ahe has done this most amazing watercolour of a beach with rocks and sea. I swear the rocks look real, she has done an incredible job on the painting.

So we are very happy parents tonight, and hope and wish so much for her future, she is certainly on the right track.

Just wish she would bring some of that 'loveliness' home with her!!!LOL

I have my February page of my Saturated Canary Calendar to share with you all, Its only taken me 14 days to finish!! Of course what better image to use than the queen of hearts, I have coloured her in with copics and flexmarkers. The papers are an old K and co pad called smitten that I have had for forever.

Entering into the following challenges

Saturated Canary - Red, White and pink

Craft us crazy - anything goes

papertake weekly - anything goes

Simon Says stamp - love is in the air

divas by design - love is in the air

Fab and Funky - love is in the air

Creative inspirations - lots of love

Addiicted to stamps - valentines

Lollipop crafts - with love, non card (calendar page)

Simon says stamp and show - anything goes

Its Sundae bar time!!!!

2012-02-12T13:19:00.003Z

Afternoon everyone, hope you are all well and that you are cozy inside.

Okay, well its Sunday again so its time for a new challenge over at Paper Sundaes, and its time for our fav challenge of all, yaaaay its Sundae Bar time!!! This week we are sponsored by the very lovely Elisabeth Bell.

Our sundae bar toppings are;

Blue,

pearls,

cream

and distressing.

Of course me being me I had to use all 4!!!!

I have also used distress inks to colour my image. This is only the second time I have used them, I used them last week on my cas card. I totally love using them.

Card recipe

image - hello little friend

medium - distress inks

papers - magnolia and mme

flowers - woc

Love letters....

2012-02-07T00:42:00.003Z

Hello lovely bloggers, gosh I cant believe I have reached 150 followers!!! wow thats amazing, thank you to each and every one of you. I do get around to visit you all but blogger is playing up and not always letting me leave comments, I have spent many an evening shouting at my ipad!! I know its not the ipads fault, I love it dearly, truly I do! lol just ask any of my family.

My hubby and Meghan are getting annoyed with me, especially if we are watching a film on a friday night, I start with good intentions, I put it on the side table like a good girl, and then to my utter amazement I find I am sitting with it browsing blogs and such, all the while getting disapproving looks from said hubby and daughter. I dont even know I am doing it sometimes.

Thats bad isnt it? I will just need to find other things to occupy my hands, maybe I should start knitting again! Oh dear not a good solution, let me tell you why, before my youngest niece was born i decided to knit her a popcorn bear, its still in a bag somewhere half finished. thats not bad I hear you say, erm it is she turned 6 there in dec!!!!

Well enough of me blethering ( waffling for those dont understand scottish!) the real reason for this post is to share a card that I have been working on.

When Krista gave us a free digi for valentines (mwah, thank you Krista) She also had a code to save some pennies, is there no end to this gals generosity? SO it would have been rude not to use it, wouldnt it now?

So off I popped to her esty shop and bought a couple, aherm more like 5 or was it 6!!!! lol I have been sitting colouring them at night while watching tv (when Im not on the ipad!) And as I had a few coloured I thought id best get them onto cards, so here is the first one

Card Recipe

image - love letters saturated canary

papers - mme

medium - copics

white lace - stash

cream lace - ebay

flowers - woc

dies - memory box and tim holtz

entering into the following challenges

fab and funky - use a digi

deep ocean - love you

secret crafter - hugs and kisses

allsorts - free and easy

divas by design - anything goes

one stop craft challenge - for the one I love

truly scrumptious - love and hearts

Valentines at Dream Valley

2012-02-05T14:25:00.000Z

Hi, I am back with my second dt card for today. This time its for Dream Valley, for the next two weeks we would like to see your valentines creations, perfect for this time of year. We are sponsored by the lovely Joanna Sheen, with the prize being £10.00 to spend in her fab shop, and as she has free delivery then thats an even better deal!

I picked up a couple of little frames last week when I was out shopping and I had coloured Tilda with wrapped heart a week ago, so when I sta down to make a card for this challenge I decided to do something different and that was how this little frame was created.

Card recipe

image - tilda with wrapped heart

frame - poundstore, Ive painted it with gesso

flowers - woc

heart charm - ribbon girl

bunting - whimsy

hearts - cutouts from memory box die

letters - tim holtz vintage market die

entering into the following challenges

MDUC - love is in the air

TOMIC - valentines and hearts

by the cute and girly - love is in the air

magnolia mania - anything goes

2 sisters challenge - color challenge red, pink and white

card making mamas - valentines

die cut dreams - red, pink and heart

joanna sheen - love is in the air

Clean and simple at Paper Sundaes

2012-02-05T13:00:00.000Z

Afternoon lovely bloggers, I am back with my second DT card for today, this time its for Paper Sundaes. This week we are sponsored by our regular sponsor simon says stamp. for our challenge this week we would like to see your Clean and Simple cards. I really struggled with this one, I am not as happy with this one as I was with my first cas card that I made a few weeks ago.It hasnt come out quite what I had in mind so I am a dissapointed with it. Anyway here it is, remember to pop over to see the rest of the dts creations, they are gorgeous.

card recipe

image - whiff of joy 'wedding cake'

medium - distress inks

cardstock - bazzill bascis bling card

pearls from stash