Cards ...

Funky Playground CT (credits in my gallery)

Lovely new places to spend your money...

My friends have been 'enabling' (I love that word) me these past few weeks and have pointed me in the direction of some new stores to add to my ever growing list of places to send my pay cheque to when it arrives.

My lovely friend Maria sent me off to look at One Hundred Wishes. Oh my goodness I practically had to buy one of everything it was so gorgeous! I was fairly restrained though and ordered some gorgeous lace, paper, pins and 'wish' raffle tickets and some other bits and bobs. Really fast delivery from across the pond and my goodies were all wrapped up in lovely tissue and ribbon which always make things seem even nicer.

Kay introduced me to another fantastic digital store which is right up my street (what I would give to be on the CT for that one) called Shabby Pickle Designs. Kay is a guest designer there this month and I got to play with the kit she is selling.

It's a gorgeous kit, really girly and has loads of papers and elements that aren't monkey related so it's just perfect for anything girly.

At the weekend Shabby Pickle had a free kit download which is pretty pretty pretty, I can't wait to play with it and I've got quite a long wish list too :)

Other news - I've applied for a Creative Team position at one of my favourite digi stores so I'm keeping my fingers crossed that an email will drop into my inbox really soon and I've bought a treadmill!!! Not for running on I have to add but for walking, so that I can get more exercise to help my poorly back. Hopefully more walking and the really strict diet I have put myself on will help me in my quest to lose a lot of weight. It's being delivered tomorrow :)

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

Go Shop...

Well - what are you waiting for!!!

To Infinity And Beyond ...

We are huge Buzz Lightyear fans in our house and just look what I got to play with during the week!!! A new digital kit from NitWit Collections called Spaced Out and I loved it!! These are the cards that I made, you can see why I've fallen in love with it. The colours and elements are perfect for boy cards and I can see that I will be using it over and over again!

On Friday and again on Saturday at 11pm UK time and 5pm across in America
I am hosting 2 challenges over at Prima Hybrid as part of the InterNational Scrapbook Day celebrations. There will be challenges and games all weekend as well as prizes (both digital and traditional) and the PrimaHybrid Flowergirls are holding another blog party where you will be able to collect free templates (if you don't do digital you can save the templates and use them as sketches) as you hop from blog to blog. It's going to be lots of fun so come along and join in.

Happy news ...

Some news that made me really happy - I got invited to be on The Digi Chick site CT to create hybrid projects for them. This card and tag were my first projects for them, don't you just love this paper?

(credits here)

(credits here)

Cards ...

This weeks Daring Cardmakers challenge was to make a card that had been distressed in some way. This was right up my street because I'm really into torn, curled and inked edges at the moment.

The first card uses my new kit that I bought from The Shabby Princess, I just love that spotted paper so much!

Then I made another one, this time using a digital kit from CatScrap and all sorts of bits and bobs.

(credits 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

I got tagged...

By Heather:

1. If a movie was being made of your life who would you like to be cast to play yourself? And why?
I think Meg Ryan or Minnie Driver

2. You are spending a whole month on a desert island for charity and you have to choose your favourite celebrity to spend the first two weeks with & your least favourite celebrity to spend the second two weeks with, who would they be & why?
I'm not really a celebrity follower but someone like Ty Pennington from Extreme Makeover would be nice, I wouldn't like to spend time stuck on a desert island with a blonde bimbo type person.

3. What are your three favourite crafting products?
Well wouldn't you know - printer, scissors, gluestick!

4. If you could invent something to do anything what do you think it would be?
I would invent Cadburys chocolate that had no fat or calories in it, so I could eat it everyday

5. What are the last three books that you read?
Digital Artist Magazine

Card Trends

Coming Home, Rosamunde Pilcher

6. Qvc or create & Craft?
Err - neither!!

7. Docrafts or Dovecraft or DCWV?
Hmmm - I like DCWV cardstock as it has a white core so it's fab for sanding and distressing and I've bought several packs of dovecraft brads. Wouldn't go near DoCrafts with a barge pole

8. What is your claim to fame?
I was the first baby girl to be born in the North East after the sex discrimination laws were passed in 1975 - me and my mam were in the local paper. Huh - not much of a claim to fame really xx

I'm tagging Jenni, Annette and Maria

It's my brothers birthday today so we have feasted on pizza and chocolate cake, not so good for my diet but it tasted yummy. My diet is going okay (apart from the pizza!) and I've lost half a stone so I am happy. I bought some new pyjamas to celebrate - don't you just love having a pyjama day and I'm planning on having one tomorrow :)

(credits here)