A Dare...

This weeks dare at The Daring Cardmakers is to think small:

You are allowed to cover no more than a 5x5cms area of your card with paper or embellishment - the rest of the card must be left plain.
How you use those valuable cms is up to you. So you may choose to split up those cms to use around your card, or use them in a block or a line. It might help to cut a few 5x5cm squares then cut those up to work out good ways of using your allotment. Making your whole card a miniscule 5x5cms is NOT an option!! Lets have no cheating (I know what you lot are like.....),but because I'm feeling generous, I'm going to let you add a SIMPLE greeting as extra to your 5x5 allowance! :-)

I enjoyed this so much I made 2 cards but I've just re-read the instructions now and it says the rest of the card must be left plain. Oh well I couldn't make a card without a hand-drawn border :lol: and I'm sure they don't mind a teeny tiny cheat!! and it says in the instructions we are allowed to add a greeting.

(Kate Hadfield doodle button - credits here)

(Kay Miller sunshine element - credits here)

New BYOC at The LilyPad

Okay this is a huge enabling post - you have just got to see what those clever people over at The LilyPad have come up with for the April collaboration kit. It's so fabulous it's flippin' awesome!!

These are just a few of my favourites from the new releases, go see for yourself :) and my cards that I made from them, the credits are in my LilyPad gallery

Check out this new designer...

There is a new designer at CatScrap, the super talented Fuschia. I was able to use his Robotix doodles to make this cute card and I know there is more fabby stuff in the pipeline! The Robotix doodles are in the store today so go buy :)

I'm so lucky...

I was invited to be a guest Creative Team member for Catscrap for April and May. How lucky am I? So I've been playing with some of their digital kits, can't share yet, but I did make another card with the Madam Mim Fish in the Sea kit. I've used this before but I love it and never pass up an opportunity to use it!

I've also been playing with Kay Miller's latest kit which is just adorable, I couldn't resist making this sweet shaped house card and the papers in the kit are to die for so don't be suprised if you see them popping up on all sorts of other projects :)

This morning I had a package delivered, I signed up to test out a scrapping product and it arrived today. When I opened the parcel I thought 'oh dear, adhesive tape runner'. I have an ongoing hate of herma glue runners and threw them all out and prefer to use my glossy accents and double sided tape. BUT I am pleasantly suprised as it's actually made up of tiny portions of double sided tape.

I used it this afternoon to make my cards and it's really nice, very sticky and coped well with adhering thick glossy photopaper to my cardblanks.

I thought you might like to see my state of the art workshop area - on the living room floor :lol: I've been down here for a few months now (obviously not 24 hours a day - I do move around, go for short walks and occasionally become a real human being and wander around the supermarket!!) and have worn quite a groove in the living room rug.

April Already...

Well 2008 is certainly whizzing along, we're into April already, the clocks changed at the weekend so it's lovely to have daylight until after 7pm now.

I have a few cards to share, I'm still making cards lying on the floor due to my poorly back and today was the first time in 3 months that I spilt something on the carpet - if you're going to shake your white paint make sure the lid is on before you do it!!!! Thank goodness it was white and not black and that I managed to clear it all up without it spoiling the carpet, which is of course a very pale colour.

(Using a digital kit by Lorie Davison, that I couldn't resist buying!)

(Credits here)

(credits here)

(Using Gina Miller's latest kit, Amy Lou and made for product previews)

Challenge...

Over on Melissa's blog she has a challenge to make a card including tags, at least 2 folds and something old. I made a chipboard flower into a tag, included lots of paper folding on the pleated paper trim and used something almost old - recycled raffia from a parcel that was delivered this week. I also used my new paint dabbers which I love. My friend sent me the gold and silver set of paint dabbers this morning and the are very scrumptious looking :)

(credits here)

Lilypad Friday...

I am so into making shaped cards at the moment, luckily both Kate and Jacque released digital element kits today at the Lilypad that were just calling out to be turned into shaped cards :)

(credits in my gallery at The Lilypad)

For all of these cards I resized the images so the finished cards would fit into a 15 x 15 cm square envelope and then printed two copies of the element using smooth card and textured card. I used the image printed onto the smooth card as the base of the card and cut sections from the textured cardstock then glued them onto the base image to add extra dimension. When it was all finished and looking pretty I adhered it all to the card blank and cut around the edge with my craft knife to make the shaped card.

Thank You

The person who left the comment on my blog this afternoon, thankyou for letting me know, I'm sorting it out xx

Shaped cards...

I seem to have a thing for shaped cards at the moment. They involve lots of handcutting but are so worth the effort.

These two were made for Daisie Company CT - I love the aeroplane the best :) I made some more but I can't share them just yet.

I've Got That Spring Feeling...

There is blossom on the trees, daffodils in the garden and a Spring influence to my latest cards

(Credits in my gallery over at Kay Miller and Nitwit)

On the Lilypad...

It was Froggy Friday at The Lilypad yesterday, stacks of new releases and goodies for me to play with. All credits are in my gallery.

I Got Mail...

Pretty colours dropped through my letter box this morning. I can't wait to use these felt balls on my hybrid projects really soon - as in today!!

(I bought on-line from Blooming Felt and received excellent service)

I must be having a 'felt' day as I made this card for Kate Hadfield's Creative Team using a cute felt embellishment and digi resources.

(credits here)

Back update...

I had my MRI scan today at the hospital on my back, hopefully the medics will now be able discover exactly what has gone wrong and be able to plan how to fix it!!

I uploaded some cards to the galleries this morning that I made during the week for Daisie Company. If you have a spare half hour or so you really should visit their online store as they have a great group of designers.

(credits in my gallery at Daisie)

***If you are looking for the freebie template, it's further down :) ***