Prima Stuff ...

A while back I was lucky to be given some of the new Prima goodies to play with. Now that CHA is over and those products have had their official launch we've had the okay to share what we made.

Little Boo is a fabulous Halloween set of papers and embellishments and I used parts of the collection to make a Halloween banner and Christmas Fancy is a collection of gorgeous Christmas themed papers and embellishments.

Pink...

Over at the Caardvarks challenge blog it's all gone pink!! This weeks challenge is to use the colour pink on a card. How difficult is it to use pink huh?

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Monday...

I have a few cards to share today, the first is for the Daring Cardmakers blog challenge - to use wheels on a card. It's Jack's 5th birthday coming up so this will be trundling his way.

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This second card is for Prima Hybrid, I spent a happy afternoon on Friday drowning in flowers but can't share anything else just yet.

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Yesterday was Fathers Day and the men folk of our family had organised a boys night out so not to be outdone us girlies decided to have a girls night out and went out to our favourite Indian restaurant for a curry feast. It was rather delicious. I was really happy that not only did I manage to sit through the entire meal without hurting too much I drove there and back too. My poorly back is definitley starting to feel a lot better :)

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)

Happy National Scrapbooking Day!!!!!

How are you celebrating today? The Prima Hybrid Flowergirls are hosting another blog party and there are challenges galore over at the PrimaHybrid forum. I have a free template download and visit the other girls to collect their templates too.

http://www.4shared.com/file/45461004/2c88b7e2/NSD_Flower_girl_template.html

Di Hickman - http://dihickman.blogspot.com/

Andrea Gourley http://www.andreagourley.blogspot.com/

Kristin Tilley http://wyowoman.blogspot.com/

Jess Gordon http://scrapbookideas.wordpress.com/

Cindy Gilchrist http://analteredstate.blogspot.com/

Amy Martin http://alb52.typepad.com/

Angel Hartline http://angeltown.typepad.com/

Indah Permata Sari http://inskidahv.wordpress.com/

Patty Komara http://plkomara.blogspot.com/

Melinda Staley http://myscrapcorner.blogspot.com/

Monika Martinson http://monma.blogspot.com/

Cathy Pascual http://paper-cat.blogspot.com/

Margie http://margiescreativity.blogspot.com/

Heather http://designrecollections.co.uk/blog

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 :)

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Prima Hybrid FlowerGirl Blog Party ...

Over at Prima Hybrid we are celebrating the addition of four new FlowerGirls and we're throwing a blog party.

The idea is simple - Follow the links below to visit the FlowerGirl's blogs and collect the downloadable freebie templates

**Oops - I meant to say that the FlowerGirls are all around the world so some of them won't have woken up yet!! You might want to keep checking their blogs for when they add their freebies :lol:

Cindy

Melinda

Andrea

Jess

Cathy

Teresa

Danielle

Di

Amy

Indah

Julie Ann

Monika

Jamie

Kristin

Angel

Patty D

Patty K

Here is my link (it's a card template, just resize it to fit your cardblank or turn it into a layout)

http://www.4shared.com/file/40516289/2ff78d92/blog_party_card_template.html

and this is what I did with it!

Have fun blog hopping!!

Creation Overload ...

There are lots of lovely goodies on release at The Lilypad today and I've been playing with some of them this week:

(credits in my LilyPad gallery)

I also just realised that I didn't share last weeks Lilypad creations because of Blogger playing up and not working for me

I've also been playing with goodies from Prima Hybrid, well I say playing what I should say is drooling!! The store over there is stocked with so many gorgeous kits, I'm like a kid in a sweetie shop trying to choose what to drop into my shopping basket.

(credits for all these creations in my Prima Hybrid gallery)

Have you been over to Trish Jones Designs blog? There is a fantastic sketch challenge this week, this is my take on the sketch. I suprised the whole team by making a card - I know, I don't make many cards do I!! :)

Phew - I think that's it! If you've made it this far you might want to check back tomorrow (Saturday) as the Prima Hybrid FlowerGirls are hosting another blog party and there will be lots of freebie templates to download xx

Lazy Saturday Morning...

Don't you just love Saturday mornings spent doing not a lot. I'm having a lovely morning catching up with my blog, posting to a few online galleries and submitting projects to magazines in the hope of fulfilling my aim for the year - to be published!

I had some news yesterday about my back. I had an appointment at the hospital to see a consultant, he gave me a full check over and confirmed that it's probable that one or more of the discs has moved forward and has referred me for an MRI scan. So things are moving forward.

This week Kay Miller and Mary Fran released their latest collaboration kit and I love it!! Think fairytale castles, princesses, magical dragons and frog princes.

These are the cards that I've made so far (there is so much in this kit that I'll be using it for masses of cards)

I wanted to share Kate's latest doodles too, she's teamed up with Jacque Larsen again for the Make It Better element kit and they are just so cool and were perfect for this get well soon card.

Prima Hybrid just keeps getting better and better, the store is overflowing with digital as well as traditional goodies and I took delivery of a huge box of flowers and goodies last week.