Wednesday, 6 January 2010

Black and White at Tuesday Taggers...


Tuesday Taggers is really special this week as my good friend Irene is their guest designer so naturally I just had to join in.  Check out Irene's fantastic project here - isn't that just a fabulous set?

The challenge is use black and white, which is one of my favourite schemes as it's so easy to do and usually ends up as quite classy work.  For the basic layout of my card I decided to use the sketch at Sketch Saturday and make an anytime card.  I seem to need these quite often both as 'thank you' cards and little cards to put in with 'cheer up' gifts and RAKS.

I've purposely kept the card very flat - no bulky flowers or foam pads.  It really hurt doing that as I love dimension, but hey the charges at the post office are killing and they are set to rise again in April so needs must.

The silhouette image is from my new Silhouette CD by Debbie Moore.  I actually printed a whole sheet of these images and I'm half contemplating making a set on notelets with them - we'll see.  I rather like the idea of making a folder to match too.  Watch this space!!

As I've used new stash my card is perfect for the challenges at...
Have a fantastic day everyone - oh it's so good to be able to craft again after last week. Thank goodness whatever was wrong seems to have settled down - let's hope it stays that way. 

Monday, 4 January 2010

Yeah rib healed...I think...

I hope!! 
I'm gonna be really careful as I really don't want to go back to square one.  I have managed to do some card making but I can't show because they are for the new things Joanna Sheen has planned for next weekend.
oooooooooooooh so exciting!!!
Today of course is The Pink Elephant day and I haven't even participated. How bad is that?  One thing though I can't wait to pop over there and see what my team mates have been up to.  This week Ella has a recipe for us - 2 designer papers, 3 buttons and snowflakes. 
Wow perfect for maybe scrapping those fabulous Christmas photos or even getting a head start on next year.
Talking of getting a head start on next years cards, gifts etc - don't forget the Bah! Humbug! challenge starts on Friday.  Yeah - good job my rib is healed and by then my cards will be down and some recycled - ooooooops nearly gave the first challenge away!!  Pretend you didn't read that - lol!

Thursday, 31 December 2009

Happy New Year everyone...


I had such good intentions for making a fabulous Happy New Year card to post today - even found the perfect image at Whimsie Doodles, but I just can't as my rib muscle is still so painful.   Wouldn't mind, but I didn't even think I had any muscles!!!

Anyway as you can see it's another card made using one of the stamps from the Favourite Flower collection by Joanna Sheen and I'm actually not going to say this one is my favourite - I do like it, but not as much as the rose, hydrangea and the sweet pea stamps.

Hope you have a fun time bringing in the New Year and do take care. Pulled muscles or broken bones are no fun - I can vouch for that.

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