Nothing new to share just now, but I would like to wish anyone passing through my blog a wonderful Christmas and the happiest of New Years :o)

I'll be back in a few days with some piccies of my wee monkeys and their presents

last of the notebooks :o)

Yesterday I managed to get all the wrapping finished and the last two notebooks made. I have another project to do for Christmas presents but won't need them til nearer New Year so will be making them after Christmas, I ran out of time and steam!!

The sketch for this notebook is from Inspirational Card Sketches So now that I have finished all the opreparations and have now officially finished work for the holidays I am off to have a wee Baileys and maybe a mince pie to start the festive season properly!! :o)

Merry Christmas all!!

Letraset giveaway!

Just found this on Debbie's blog :o) There is a new letraset website that has been launched recently and to celebrate Letraset are giving away lots and lots of promarkers.............and you know we all love our promarkers :o)

We are pleased to announce that the new Letraset website has launched today! The new site features lots of great new special offers and a Christmas Store with great gift ideas for the creative person in your life!

In Celebration of our new site we will also be running a ProMarker Giveaway!
For your chance to win a huge prize of 10 assorted ProMarker 5 sets (pictured above) all you have to do is follow these 2 simple rules.

1. Share a Link to this Blog (http://www.letrasetuk.blogspot.com/) and our New Website (http://www.letraset.com/), and briefly explain the competiton on your own Blog, Facebook or Twitter.
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2 more notebooks :o)

Hows everyone doing with their Christmas preparations? I have most of the pressies wrapped and most of my handmade presents done. I have a few to do but don't need them til after Christmas :o) here are two more notebooks for friends of Lily. The first one is for a girl who is off to Australia for 2 months with her mum. I have made the book for her to write down her adventures Back
Images: Digistamp Boutique Summer Lilly
coloured with PMs
paper: SU
cardstock: SU
wording done on pc
flowers from stash, ribbons are the loops from clothes :o)

Challenges:
Sketch and Stamp ~ sketch
Die Cut Dreams ~ Girlie

Daring Cardmakers ~ At the Beach

Image: Sugar Nellie
coloured with PMs
Paper: SU and a scrap from scrap drawer
Ribbon: from stash

Stamp Something ~ Tag or pocket
Friday Sketchers ~ sketch
Passion for Promarkers ~ anything goes

In case I'm not back before Christmas I wish you all a fantastic Christmas and the Happiest of New Years :o)

ooooohhhh

I won the challenge over at Dude Time Doodles!!! How fab is that? My first time entering too :o)

Wahey its like Christmas has come early :o)

Allsorts week 83

Wahey week 83 at Allsorts and only a week til Christmas :o) Lily is so excited she is counting down sleeps as well as on her advent calendar! The challenge at Allsorts is "Anything Goes" and will be running for 2 weeks.

The image on this notebook Butterfly Tilda, coloured with the usual PMs, glossy accents on the shoes, flowers are all from stash. You can't see it much but there is some pale blue ricrac from Crafty Ribbons, blue buttons are from SU. The paper with the buttons on is actually an envelope from one of Alfie's baby cards!! Yes I have kept it for almost a year and put the image over the writing lol.

We hope you'll come and join us for the last challenge of the year :o)

another wee present

Didn't get as much crafty time as I had planeed today as it was Lily's nativity play at lunchtime and this evening too. Awwww it was so good! This will be Lily's last year in the nativity as it is just primary 1-3 that are in it.

But I did manage to make a notebook. I am making these notebooks for all the kids I look after as well as a couple of Lily's friends :o)

Now if I am honest I am not the best at boys cards. I don't have many boys stamps, but I did find this one in the box, its a Whiff of Joy one from a while ago. Thankfully I only have one boy to make for lol. The papers are Dovecraft, the wee jumper is paper pieced with the brown diamond paper.

I am entering it into a couple of challenges:

Dude Time Doodles Challenge ~ sketch (this is my first time entering this challenge)

Oldie but a Goodie ~ You're a star

Hoping to get some more done tomorrow :o)

Gift Box

Decided I should pull my finger out and start checking presents and organising them for wrapping etc. I am giving a necklace set so decided to make a box for it. Image: Anya

coloured with promarkers

sentiment: SU

paper: papermania I think

ribbons: crafty ribbon

flower: from stash

I even tried a wee touch of distressing......I love the look when others do it but it doesn't come naturally to me, so am determined to try it out now and then, it shows better on the tag in the pic below

My box fits a few challenges:

A crafty little place ~ Tag it
Polka Doodles ~ to hold a present
Cute Card Thursday ~ Floral frenzy
Secret Crafters Saturday Challenge ~ Arctic Blue/carnation pink/lime zest
Carols Sketch Fun ~ sketch
Anyone for Anya? ~ Shabby chic Xmas (I am also using this to enter the DT call)

Few more presents to be made so will be back soon :o)

card for Ian for Christmas :o)

Papers: scraps of Salt n Pepper by funky hand

Celebrate sentiment: SU

Sentiment: See D set

Thought it was about time I made a card for the old man!! Bless him he's not keen on cutesy stuff so thought I would go for just a sentiment type. Loved the sketch from this months Get Funky Challenge so went with it. Polka Doodles theme last week was Its all about the sentiment so hey presto two challenges filled :o)

Glad to say the card has gone down well and I got a "great card" which from Ian is high praise indeed lol

Allsorts week 82 and a few extras

This week over at Allsorts Debs wants us to make a last minute Christmas card....not difficult with only 2 weeks til the day itself eh? We are having our Sunday School outing tomorrow, we are going on the Santa Express in Aviemore. Normally we should be having a party but with only 5 kids in Sunday School its a bit hard to get the party atmos going!

These cards and three below really were last minute, Monday was an inservice at the school so it was closed and it confused me completely, yesterday I was convinced it was Thursday and so hadn't made my DT card!! naughty panda lol. So got my skates on this afty and did these for the 5 sunday school kiddiwinks :o)

Image: Lili of the Valley

Paper: funky hand

embossed with snowflakes embossing folder

Challenges:
Spoonfull of Sugar ~ Christmas Card
Bee Crafty ~ inspired by snow

Here are the other three cards for the girls. Same image and the paper is Gorjuss Ginghams by Funky Fairy.
Challenges:
Die Cut Dreams ~ Seeing Triple
Papertake Weekly ~ Red and Green must not be seen
Simon Says ~ Christmas but no red or green
Daring Cardmakers ~Snow much fun


Back soon with another card, thought this post was long enough lol

some wee pressies

I have decided to make a few presents this year as it is a bit of a recession Christmas in the Panda household! I have made a start today, 2 small notebooks for two of my aunts.

The notebooks are just basic ones from Asda, nothing fancy but I quite like how they've turned out :o)

Image: Flutter Anya

Coloured with PMs

Papers: not sure, will add later

dragonfly from stash

Challenge: Passion for Promarkers

Image: cut from the paper

Papers: not sure

everything else from stash

text stamped with tiny wee letter stamps

Challenges: Sketch and Stash ~ sketch (paper is the new stash I got it a few weeks ago)

Creative Card Crew ~ Anything Goes

There will be more over the next few days, more notebooks for the kids I look after and more bits for family members :o)

Allsorts week 81

late on parade again, mr blogger was playing up on me last night and had a busy busy day and am only now getting on the laptop! This week at Allsorts Helene's theme is "Light up the Night" so our cards must have a candle on. I decided to take this literally and have a real candle on lol



The decoupage and paper is by papermania, a gorgeous scrummy set, the turquoise cs is embossed with swiss dots and divine swirls, the icing and folds in the cake case have got glossy accents on and the sprinkles are glittered with stickles.



My card fits a couple of challenges:



Daring Card Makers ~ Turquoise the birth stone for December. They are sponsored by Flourish with a Bling this week :o)

Carols Sketch Fun ~ sketch

Fab n Funky ~ Happy birthday



Remember now its a new month that our fabby Penny Black at Allsorts challenge has a new challenge and its "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder"

Snowy day crafting!!

WOW o WOW haven't we had some freaky weather this week? Most of you have had loads of snow and its normally us laden down with the white stuff. For most of this week it has simply been too cold to snow, yesterday was the coldest day at around -20 bbrrrr

Today has warmed up a little though as the snow has returned lol Not too much just a few flurries....so far

While Alfie had his nap today I decided to get a couple of cards done. One is my card for tomorrows Allsorts challenge but this one is just for fun, well that and the baby girl my friend is having in the next couple of weeks lol

Image: stampin up

papers: scraps

flowers, buttons and gems and buttons from stash

My card follows these challenges:

Spoonfull of Sugar: recipe 3 pattern papers, 3 buttons or flower and 3 gems (haha I ended up with buttons and flowers)

Papertake Weekly: sketch

Keep warm all and back tomorrow with my dt card :o)

I came 2nd in the polkadoodle challenge!!

Hello all how are we all managing with all the white stuff? Hope you're all keeping warm with extra helpings of hot chocolate and lovely winter food lol. I made a fab pan of soup today to keep us warm. Yummy! Took this pic yesterday with my phone (which is why it is so rubbish haha) Plenty of snowman ingredient here!!

I had some good news the other day ~ I came 2nd in the polkadoodle challenge with my wee box with the gingerbread men on!! I am so chuffed :o) I am proudly displaying the button :o)

ETA how lucky am I that I also won two of the blog hop candies!!!??? Such a lucky girl, going to be getting some new stash then!!

Lily has been off school for 2 days now, its a bit treacherous out and about here so I am staying indoors lol Not that its given me any extra crafting time (boohoo). Alfie is one of those boys you need eyes in the back of your head for so can't sit at the table unless he's in his high chair and he doesn't like to be in it unless he's feeding his face lol. By the time both kids are in bed all I am fit for is collapsing in a heap in front of the tv. Am planning on doing some Christmas presents tonight tho :o) Hope to be back tonight or tomorrow to show them xx

monochrome week at Allsorts

Morning all and welcome to a snowy Saturday here in pandaland!! It looks lovely sitting here in front of the fire of course but ugh the mess ~ between the kids and dogs coming in and bringing Alfie's buggy in! Thank goodness we have laminate floor, I could mop it every 5 minutes and still it would be wet/dirty, ah well, at least it looks Christmassy lol

This week at Allsorts it is my theme and I have chosen Monochrome, black and white, any colour and white, shades of one colour.....whatever I'm not fussy haha

Image: Penny Black

Sentiment: Dovecraft I think

big black flower: from stash

smaller flowers: funky retro punches

charm and brad: from stash

also used: stickles

My card also qualifies for this week's challenge at Penny Black Saturday Challenge who coincidentally also have a monochrome theme how fab is that lol

Can't wait to come hop round all the entries :o)

card number 2 :o)

Awww I love this wee polar bear cub he's so cute!! We have two gorgeous polar bears at the Highland Wildlife Park which is just a couple of miles away, the first one, Mercedes, came last year she had been living in a tiny enclosure at Edinburgh Zoo since 1984 and now she has a fabulous living area. Just a few weeks ago she got a playmate, though she's too old to be mated (she's an old lady at about 29) her new friend is only 23 months old, so won't be ready to mate for another year or so! We love to go and visit the Wildlife Park and Mercedes is a firm favourite :o)

Image: Lili of the Valley, coloured with PMs

papers are from the scrap box

sentiment from a "see D" set,

ribbon: crafty ribbons xmas box

buttons: stampin up

also used: stickles on the snow, snowflake cuttlebug embossing folder, glossy accents on the star

Challenges:

Lili of the Valley: Glitter and Glitz ETA woops I missed the deadline!! :o(

Simons Says: Let it Snow

Truly Scrumptious: Sketch

A Spoonful of Sugar: anything goes

squeezed in a bit of crafting this afty!

Don't know how I managed it but I got a little crafting time this afternoon and managed to make 2 cards!!! The first one is for our beautiful new granddaughter Maisie. Image: The Greetings Farm

coloured with PMs

papers from scrap drawer

ribbons: crafty ribbons xmas box

sentiment: done on pc

snowflakes cut using cuttlebug die

snowflakes cuttlebug embossing folder

I am entering this card into the following challenges:

Daring Cardmakers: we 3 ~ 3 brads, 3 papers, 3 ribbons

Papertake Weekly: Cut it out

Passion for Promarkers: Old and New ~ old papers new image

Charisma Cardz: Babies ETA woops missed the deadline!! :o(

ETA more! the sketch is from Sketch and Stash Challenge the new stash is the image thanks for pointing it out to me Lorraine A, don't know how I managed to forget!!!

Next card coming up soon :o)

Naughty Panda!!

Oh dear I have been a very naughty panda haven't I??? I forgot to do my post for this week's Allsorts theme and its a lovely recipe from the fabulous Kirsten, the recipe is to use ribbon, lace and a charm :o)

Image is a Sugar Nellie, the paper is Dovecraft I think, brown cs is SU. Also used the PMs (of course lol), glossy accents on the heart, lace and charm from stash. The pic doesn't show the charm well, its a heart that says hand made with love.

The sketch is from Cute Card Thursday

Can't wait to hop round all your entries :o)

make a box at Polka Doodle

I've been trying to make a start on the homemade Christmas presents and I made this box today for a friends little girl, it is filled with lots of little bits n bobs for her hair :o) I saw the challege at Polka Doodle Challenge was to make a box. The paper and images are from polka Doodles and they were free with a magazine. The ribbon is from Crafty Ribbons, it came in the fabulous Christmas Selection Box :o) The icing has been glittered with Stampin Up Dazzling Diamonds, there's a few blingy stones too, every little girl loves bling after all lol. The hearts have been coated with Glossy Accents.

My box also qualifies for Secret Crafters Saturday Challenge who's theme is "Sparkle and Shine" and Bee crafty's theme is "All that glitters"

Allsorts week 78

Morning all and welcome to another week at Allsorts, this week the gorgeous Emma has set you a sketch to follow and it's a lovely one :o) I have been using this cross stamp for Christmas cards to sell at the church coffee morning tomorrow (we've made 200 cards!). So I thought it would be perfect for a sympathy card, not that I like using them but they're handy to have in the box.

Cardstock is all scraps, buttons are papermania, brad and charm from the stash box too.

My card also fits a few challenges:

Cute Card Thursday ~ Anything Goes

Charisma Cardz ~ Sympathy

Daring Cardmakers ~ In Rememberance

Dutch Dare Card Challenge ~ Clean and Simple

Simon Says ~ Prince Charming

I hope you'll come and join in the Allsorts fun :o)

Also please remember our Penny Black at Allsorts Challenge, this month's challenge is "It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas". There are some really gorgeous stamps to win :o)

Birthday card for Lily :o)

WOW 2 posts in 1 day whats the world coming to? It is Lily's 7th (eek) birthday on Monday so I thought I better get my backside in gear and make her a card :o) Where have the last 7 years gone? OOOOHHH its scary! This pic isn't the best I have to admit, but then I took it at 10pm lol I might try and take another picture tomorrow but we're having a little party for her birthday so who knows if I'll get the time to do it, its all party party party here you know :o)

Image: Anya,

coloured with promarkers: lavender, blossom & ameythyst (clothes) oatmeal, apricot & yellow (hair) ivory and blush (skin)

Cardstock: SU

everything else is from stash lol

It fits a few challenges:

Anyone for Anya ~ sketch

Spoonfull of Sugar ~ Relish to Embellish

Passion for Promarkers ~ Pearls, lavender and Lace

Bee Crafty ~ Pastels

This is my first time entering Passion for Promarkers and Bee Crafty ~ YAY!!!

Allsorts week 77: twas the night before christmas

Morning all and welcome to week 77 at Allsorts!! This week Fleur is setting the poem "Twas the night before Christmas" as the theme. I chose the line "the stockings were hung by the chimney with care". Ok I haven't got a chimney but I have got a stocking :o) I've made this card for Alfie's first Christmas, seems odd that his first Christmas he'll be 6 days off a year old lol

I'm also entering this card for a few challenges:

Truly Scrumptious ~ the sketch

Creative Card Crew ~ punch it (punched snowflakes)

Papertake Weekly ~ Penny for the Guy

Charisma Cardz ~ With love at Christmas

trying again!

I am once again trying to link my blog to facebook, fingers crossed it works this time :o)

My little guisers

I know I am a couple of days late but thought I would share some pics of the kids in their guising outfits. In scotland we call it guising not trick or treating lol. They also wore their outfits to church as we were having a service of light, almost the opposite of Halloween :o) The congregation loved seeing them dressed up lol

Lily wore her spider outfit for church as her real outfit for guising was a devil girl and I didn't think that was quite appropriate for church lol

Bit of a disaster!!

Hi all and woohoo its Saturday again so a lazy day for me, well as lazy as it can get with two kids lol This week over at Allsorts the fabulous Brenda has the theme of cream, gold and a hint of red. Great I thought, that'll be another Xmas card for the box, so I got to work yesterday making it, left it to let the stickles dry and went off to make the kids snack. When I came back diaster had struck!!! My little monkey had reached over from his high chair and grabbed it and was gnawing away on a very soggy corner, he had also scrunched it up a few times too so it was beyond help!! I could have sworn he wouldn't have been able to reach it but I think my son may have super human skills I don't know about lol I didn't get a piccie of him with the card in his mouth and his cheeks sparkly with stickles but I got this one of him this morning, he has just mastered pulling up to stand up.....oh dear won't be long til he's walking.....help!!!

Sadly I didn't have the time to make another as I was being taken out last night for a treat with a good friend. We went to see Ed Byrne, the comedian, he was hilarious and my face was aching afterward from laughing :o) A good night for sure

So I hope you will head over to Allsorts and join in the lovely theme this week, and be sure to blog hop round the rest of the DTs blogs cos they have made some stuning cards.

Spots and Stripes

OK OK who took it? The last week has gone by so fast I am sure someone has stolen it!! How can it be Saturday again already?

Well seeing as it is Saturday again that means Allsorts time :o) This week it is the fabulous Debs turn to set the theme and she wants to see spots and stripes on your work. I made this card for my brother's birthday, the little happy birthday and the top layer with happy birthday were actually a gift tag on one of ian's birthday presents last year!! the spotty layer of paper is a scrap of funky hand paper from the salt and pepper range, buttons are papermania I think :o) The picture doesn't show it too well but the bottom half of the card has embossed stripes using my score board.

Well my idea of getting some challenge card done this week has obviously gone by the wayside, hopefully I will get to do some this week :o)

Blog Candy Alert!!

Hey all just to let you know that the absolutely fabulous Debby has a very special birthday candy on the go, you have til 26 october, so click on here to go to the post :o)

And of course while you're there make sure you check out debby's gorgeous work, she makes me so envious with her talent

Happy Birthday Debby

Bingo Time!!

Saturday again already......where oh where are the weeks going? This week over at Allsorts its Bingo time! I had never see this type of challenge before but its fun lol

This is the bingo card, you have to choose a line either vertical, horizontal or diagonal and use the three items to make your card! Simples as we say in our house!! I chose the line with brads, buttons and punches

Our fabby sponsor this week is Robyns Fetish Digital Stamps and more and they provided us dt girls with papers or images. I chose thie see saw image and made this card for one of my childminding girls who has her 3rd birthday coming up. The paper, buttons and cardstock are SU and I used my punches for the flowers are little swirly thingys. The brad is in the middle of the see saw and it means the seesaw actually moves up and down, I thought little Emily would like that! I promise there are two buttons on the card, they are holding the easel part up, but they blend in a bit too much so hard to see in the piccie.

Hope you'll come join us this week :o)

Anya in Purple

Image: anya of course lol coloured with PMs

Cardstock: SU, silver is a scrap from the scrapbox

pearls: from stash

flowers: EK success retro and daisy

lace: also from stash

Morning all, what a dreich and cold Thursday it is here!! I have had a wee half hour at the crafting table to make this birthday card for our neighbour. It fits in with a couple of challenges too, Anyone for Anya want to see Purple, Silver and White and the sketch is from Friday Sketchers. It is so nice to get back into doing cards for challenges, now Alfie is able to sit up and play he is much happier and I can make cards as long as he can see me lol

Papertake Weekly 3 of a kind

Papers: Papermania

Cardstock: SU

Image SU

Ribbon: SU

Pearls: from stash

Sentiments: printed on pc

Ugh another cold and misty day here in Kingussie. It's quite chilly too.





Card for Papertake Weekly's theme of three of a kind as it has 3 pearls :o) It was made for the birth of little Maisie for Nicky's inlaws as this is their first grandchild. Sorry the picture isn't the best, must have had the camera on the wrong setting, ah well you can still see it :o)

Allsorts...song titles and meet Maisie :o)

It's been an exciting week in the Panda household this week. My step son Nicky and his wife LeeAne were expecting their little bundle of joyon 27th September, well the little mite was obviously very comfy and warm and didn't arrive until Wednesday 6th October, so meet little Maisie.

Some of you will remember the complicated family we have here, I have 3 step kids, Sarah 38, Tara 36 and Nicky 26. Being 35 myself I obviously had nothing to do with the girls childhoods lol but I have brought Nicky up since he was 10 years old. So although Ian my hubby has 7 grandchildren, Maisie is really the first one to feel like my own grandchild :o) And what a beautiful girl to have as my first granchchild she is a wee stunner. Here are a couple of wee pics for you .

Both taken yesterday so 2 days old.

So onto my card for this week:

It is my week at Allsorts this week and I have asked you to take inspiration for your card/item from a song title and I can't wait to see all the diufferent songs you like :o)

My card has an image from a baby themed font on the pc, paper is Papermania, brad and pearls from stash, yellow cardstock is SU. I made this card for my daughter in laws sister as it is her first time being an aunty. I also made cards for Nicky's in laws as this is their first grandchild and also one for Nicky's mum, I got a bit carried away lol Sadly the pics I took of the grandparent cards were blurry as I had the wrong setting on so I can't show them. I will be bak in the week with the card I made for Nicky and LeeAnne.

Week 72 @ Allsorts

Morning all....well it's finally stopped raining here today phew! I can even see some sun out there lol

This week at Allsorts Kirsten wants you to theme your work around Travel/Holidays. As always the first challenge of the month is sponsored by the fabulous Digistamp Boutique and I have used an image from the Lilly Summer Fun set for my piece this week, how can I resist a Lily after all? I have made a postcard to go with the holiday theme.

The image is coloured with promarkers, a bit of glossy accents on the ice cream, paper from Papermania, ek success retro flower punches also used :o)

Please also remember now its a new month there is a new challenge over at Penny Black at Allsorts. There are a feew changes going on this month, there are some new fantastic DT members for a start off, a few of us original DT members are changing over to guest DT members. There are also new ways to win! As well as the usual way of entering 3 times and going into the draw at the end of the month there will aslo be a draw at the end of each week. Woohooo loads of chances to win some Penny Black treasure lol Head over and see for yourself all the fabulous prizes and get your Autumn heads on for the Colours of Autumn theme :o)

Oh dear late again

Bad Panda!!! Naughty Panda!!! Am off to sit on the naughty step in a bit lol How late am I this week? Shockingly late!

This week over at Allsorts the fabby Emma wants "Plain and Simple"......yay shouts me no need to drag all the flowers and bits n bobs out for a change!!

Image: Penny Black Stickeroo

Papers and buttons: Stampin Up

Ribbon Crafty Ribbons

Simples as the wee meerkat says lol

Can't wait to have a wee squizz at everyones plain and simple cards :o)

spoonfull of sugar

wooohoooo I managed to make a card that wasn't a dt sample!! It was for Lily to give to her friend on her birthday sleepover on Saturday night.......6 6-7 year olds for a sleepover, her mother must be mad!! Lily was still awake at 2.30am apparently lol

The paper and decoupage are from a kit from Papermania, die cut decoupage, always handy for a quickie card at the last minute

I am entering this into the Spoon full of Sugar "Anything Goes" challenge

candy time :o)

My gorgeous bloggy buddy Lorraine has some scrumptious blog candy on offer, click here to visit the crafty coo lol

networking to facebook

Here's a new piccie of Alfie to wee if my blog will network with my facebook page :o)

Allsorts week 70

Happy Saturday everyone, hope you are having a fabulous weekend whatever you are doing!

This week at Allsorts Fleur wants you to use at least 3 punches I was delighted to be able to use my new flower punches. I bought them to make the wedding invitations (any excuse lol) and I love them, so expect to see them a lot over the next few weeks :o)

The image is a Penny Black which was given to me in an image swap, I can't colour them though as the card they are stamped on doesn't work well with the promarkers, they don't seem to dry. The paper and cardstock are both Stampin up, punches are large and medium retro flower and a little daisy one I've had forever.

If you haven't entered the Penny Black at Allsorts chellenge this month why not combine them.....the theme for September is "Punch Away" so a perfect opportunity to kill two birds with one stone :o)