Blog Candy on the Cats Whiskers Blog

Jacqui D has got some amazing blog candy with a Martha Stewart punch, Tim Holtz papers, 2 stamps and loads of flowers on offer. But hurry, if you are also keen to win it because entries are only taken until midnight today.

Click here to go to Jacqui's blog.

Little Claire Club Stamp for September

Little Claire have brought out a fabulous stamp set as their club stamp for September. The individual stamps open up so many opportunities for different styles of cards that I will use it a lot for Christmas cards this year. And the penguin is just so cute that I cannot resist that individual stamp anyway.

Here are two cards which I have created using the new stamp set:

Blog Award

Thank you so much to Linda for giving me this lovely blog award. It is such a nice surprise at the start of the weekend and much appreciated.

So why did I start my blog?

Reason for starting the blog was that I wanted to share my work with other crafters and also with my regular and potential customers. But it was also with my personal development in mind by taking a first step into publishing information on the Internet.

Since then the blog has become a great way of communicating with like-minded crafters, sharing ideas and inspiration and - in combination with other forms of communication - forming friendships.

And now to the difficult part ... forwarding the award to 10 of my favourites blogs. My chosen blogs are:

http://www.littleclairesdesigns.blogspot.com/

http://craftinghelen.blogspot.com/

http://inkymits.blogspot.com/

http://kaardvark.blogspot.com/

http://martinaskaartjes.blogspot.com/

http://thecraftygoatgirl.blogspot.com/

http://susiescardmakingadventures.blogspot.com/

http://justtracys.blogspot.com/

http://leannchiverscraft.wordpress.com/

http://www.crafty-lou.blogspot.com/

Matilda

After coming home from a workshop at the Edinburgh Book Festival I fancied a play with some of my dies.

I created the card below with textured cardstock in a variety of colours. I used the Matilda's Hat die from Little Claire, the Marianne D designer doily die, a QuicKutz 4"x 4" die for the flourishes and QuicKutz 2" x 2" dies for the flowers. For the centres of the flowers I chose card candy.

Cherry On Top Blog Award

A big thank you to Maria for this lovely blog award. It is very much appreciated and has made my day.

This award is linked to a few rules:

1) Thank the person who gave you the award.

2) Put the award on your blog.

3) List 3 things about yourself.

4) Post a picture you love.

5) Tag 5 other people for the award.

1) and 2) are done.

3) I just cannot bypass an Ian Rankin book. /

I can fully understand Maria's phobia about shower curtains. I do not like them, either - especially when they are a bit older and are getting grubby ... /

I prefer tea to coffee any time although cappuccino gets a thumbs up.

4) I took this photo at Stirling Castle - one of those historic and magnificent places in Scotland. I love it there, and we have been monitoring all the work that has been going on there over the last couple of years (including the weaving of some great tapestries).

5) I am passing on the award to these 5 talented crafters:

Betty

Nicki

Louise (pinkpuppy)

Mei

Anne

Books, Books, Books, ...

Not many things manage to drag me away from my craft stash - but the Edinburgh Book Festival is definitely one of them. I just love this annual spectacle, which is so much calmer and quieter than other festival locations, and can be found there each and every year.

Over the last days I visited some great events and stocked up on some new reading material. Yes, I admit it, quite a few promising books. But as reading is educational, it cannot be such a sin. I just hope my OH sees it the same way when he gets sight of my growing collection of books ....

And now I have got a few days without festival events, so crafting time is on the agenda.

Christmas Stamps with Cats and a Dog

Part of the Little Claire Christmas range are also the cute stamps 'We Three Cats' and 'Warmest Wishes'. These stamps are so cute and put a smile on my face when I was working with them.

I hope you like the projects, which I created with these stamps.