Banana Frog Love

I took part in the Banana Frog Blog Hop for the first time in September and won a beautiful set of stamps - thanks BF!

If you want to be inspired, check out the Frog Blog and their design team here:

http://bananafrog.typepad.com/

Downloadable Stickers

Wow - net trawling is fun and you can really use up most of a working day just looking at what's out there. Here's some freebie stickers that I love from a selection of back to school ones here:

http://www.welovetoillustrate.com/2010/08/free-back-to-school-printables.html

Am I still alive?

Phew - been in hibernation mode for the past few weeks and inspiration has been sadly lacking!

However, lusting after the new Accessorize stickers could well help this. I have always had a healthy appreciation (aka mad obsession) with stickers - although peel offs don't do anything for me - and these puffy stickers are just cute. Can feel a trip to Monsoon coming on...

Been making samples...

Had a lovely few hours this evening making samples to show off Kirsty Wiseman's new CD. "Call of the Wild" airs on Create and Craft on 19th July at 9.00am and I will show some tiny sneak peeks in the lead up.

Here's the CD cover and there is loads on it - I love, love, love the animals!

Happy Father's Day

It's Father's Day and I always have a struggle making male themed cards. Had some inspiration this time from The Daring Cardmakers (http://daringcardmakers.blogspot.com/) and here's the first card that Harry has given to his Dad:



The design is from a challenge sketch, which I rotated 90 degrees, and papers are from Kirsty Wiseman's Colour me Crazy CD - she has designed some fab male themed papers in colours that I love working with.

The Daring Cardmakers challenge blog has some lovely prizes from Sarah's Cards (http://www.sarahscardsltd.com/) and Nikki Sivils (http://www.nikkisivils.com/index.php) - her designs are beautiful. Why not have a go yourself?

Also made a card for FIL:

And one for my Dad too:

Thanks!

Dug out my Craft Robo to create a series of cards to say "Thanks" as Harry is constantly getting beautiful presents.

I wanted to make a card to enter into the Which Crafts? one colour challenge, so used Inkscape to weld the Thanks message (black) and the papers are Basic Grey (green).

More details about the challenge can be found here:

http://whichcraftsonline.blogspot.com/2010/06/all-one-colour-challenge.html

Been away

It's so nice to get away, but it's also nice to get back, especially to surprises! My three swaps from UKS all came back and I received 10 metres of different ribbon in the post, along with 6 scrapbook page kits and 6 tags.

Here are the tags I made for the swap, which has a "time" theme:

Have managed a couple of hours crafting today while the boy has a nap and have made a few cards - here's a really simple one made with my Tonic butterfly punch:

Here's the detail: