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:

Home Tweet Home

The challenge on the cards blog this week was "cards with witty sentiments". Inspired by Helen's blog (http://itsallfiddlefart.blogspot.com/), I went to Accessorize and bought some lovely bird stickers.

Create a Critter cart provided the mats and "tweet", Prima paper and doodlebug rub ons did the rest! Just need to find someone who is moving house to send it to...

I can't believe that it's been 6 months since the little one was born - he's such a sweetie (even though his top teeth are coming through - and they are sharp!). Here's a pic - I could just eat him up!

Free Digital image and a request

In order to not go completely bonkers being at home with a 6 month old, I've started visiting card challenge blogs. The challenges are usually easy enough to get done in an hour (ie when Harry is napping) and I feel that I have actually achieved something other than cleaning up carrot splatters.

fab'n'funky's challenge blog is sponsored by Doodle Dragon Studio this week, and on the sponsor's blog, they have lots of cute digi freebies. This week, they are asking if anyone can send in a card for an 18 year old who has MS - the bundle (hopefully from all over the world) will then be presented to her as a gift.

If you can help (will need posting to the US), and more about why they are asking this, here's the link:

http://dustinpike.blogspot.com/2010/05/freebie-and-requestplease.html

Jitterbuggin Challenge - Sketch 1

Here's my entry to the Jitterbuggin' Challenge. The recipe this week was:

1. Follow sketch
2. Use a bug from any Cricut Cart (I used Create a Critter)
3. Use pink and purple - pink in patterned paper (Prima), purple card/ribbon
4. Add flower - from Jolees