More challenges...

Two challenges for today, luckily I managed to get outside and take the photographs before it started to rain. Today is the longest day of the year, Summer Solstice and it has rained since this morning and was only 10 degrees. Can you believe that I had to get my winter boots and fleece back out of storage!

The Daring cardmakers dare this week is to make a quick card. I loved these DooleyDoo birdies by Jo Kill and this spotty paper was just perfect to go with them that I found in a drawer already printed out. The darers want to know how long it took to make the card too. My card took less than 15 minutes to make.

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I've also joined in with the CPS sketch challenge and managed to use up another piece of paper that I had printed but not used.

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And somehow it's Friday again ...

I have no idea where this week went to. It was Monday and now all of a sudden it's Friday again, so where did the inbetweens go to? They obviously got swallowed up with the remodelling of our kitchen and a visit to the park - oh and lunch at the Pizza Hut whilst the kitchen was being pulled out :)

I made this oversized tag/wall hanging thing this week for a friend using some lovely digital papers from The Funky Playground and some of the goodies that came from A Million Little Things last week. I love getting parcels of goodies from America, I don't mind that they take a few weeks to get here as I always forget that I've placed an order until the postman knocks on the door and I get a lovely surprise!

Cards ...

Funky Playground CT (credits in my gallery)

Catching up ...

We had a great NSD crop over at Prima Hybrid (if you're looking for the template it's further down) and I can share the examples I made for the challenges I was running, the members who took part really caught hold of the idea of shaped cards which was my first challenge and I loved seeing what everyone created.

My second challenge was and advert challenge and this is the frame I created, it's a gift for a friend so I've left it empty so she can add her own photograph.

'Catching up' seems to be a frequent type of blog post around here but I want to share the cards I've been working on and I love to go right back to the start of my blog and look at the cards I've made and given away.

Design work for the Digi Chick

Design work for The LilyPad

Design work for Funky Playground Designs

Design work for CatScrap

(credits for all of these cards in my gallery here)

News... and a few challenges... and some enabling..

This might be long!

First off my crafty news - I've been invited to be part of FunkyPlayground's site CT. Wow! I'm so very happy and the invitation came right out of the blue. These are some of the projects I've been working on this last week using the new collaboration kit at Funky Playground - Funtastic.

The dare for this week over at Daring CardMakers is the theme of 'hot and spicy'. I set myself my own little challenge to use orange products to represent the hot and spicy theme. I'm not a big fan of the colour orange so I was surprised to see how many orange coloured products I have in my store

(Digital papers bt Gina Miller, Dani Mogstad and Kim Christenson, WHSmith luggage tag, MM clip, Basic Grey button and brad, American Crafts ribbon, Prima flowers, Fancy Pants word art)

The challenge on the LilyPad blog yesterday was to combine two templates to make one project. I took inspiration from Amy Martins Love of Space 3 templates to create my card - I seem to be loving the whole torn edge, vintage lace style at the moment.

Do you fancy some enabling? Mary Fran over at NitWit Collections has created a fabulous space themed kit - it's absolutely gorgeous and perfect for anything boy related - layouts, cards, invitations etc. I've already got stuff printed out all ready for a few cards in the morning. Want a peep?

I've got more crafty news but I'll save that for another day - I'm off to bed now. Night Night xx