An exciting announcement.

I'm delighted to announce: I made the Paper*Cakes design team! With a name that contains two of my favourite things in the whole wide world, how could I not apply?.

I'm excited to be on the team - Chelsea the owner of the Paper*Cakes Etsy store has a wonderful eye for colour and an amazing knack for repurposing and recycling. These are qualities I admire very much. Items in her store is practical, yet pretty.

The rest of the DT look like a wonderfully international group of girls, and I look forward to making a new bunch of internet friends. Check out their blogs: Brenda, Clair, Martine, and Andie.

We'll be posting projects on a weekly basis, so stay tuned. I can't wait!

Very few words

I made this card with the A la Tarte kit from Lime Tart.


It's certainly not a card I'd use if I had a lot to say to someone - there's just not enough room to get too sentimental. Short and sweet - a card for a busy or semi-literate recipient. Yep - I cater for just about everyone.

You can see more work with the Lime Tart kits in this month's gallery.

Viva la Flora

I recently participated in a swap hosted by Rachel Greig from Darkroom Door. We had to use an item from their Viva la Flora range. Here's my offering:


I used stamps from the Viva la Flora Vol 2 set, plus an image from the Viva la Flora montage. There's some German scrap, Kindy glitz, screen door mesh and gauze there too, as well as some machine stitching.

Everyone's work will appear in a gallery on the DRD website - I can't wait to see what everyone comes up with!

Love this card

I made this card with the A la Tarte kit from Lime Tart.


I kept it simple - I love these colours together. A bit of brown ink sponged on edges, machine stitching and that gorgeous butterly stamp from StampIt, and it was done.

You can see more work with the Lime Tart kits in this month's gallery.

Lime Tart gallery

July's gallery is now open for you to drool over. Click on the picture below and you'll be there in a jiffy:
The work in there is awesome, even if I do say so myself ;)

Pirate princess

Here's a card for a Pirate Princess:


I used stamps from Odd Bird Planet (Lovely Skull and Bones, Rock and Roll, Swirly Background). I attached the words to the image with a couple of silver jump rings so that it hangs. Here's a pic to show you what I mean:

My son Jake liked it, except for all the pink. He also offered a bunch of other suggestions to make this card a little more masculine. I'll work with those suggestions and come back and show you.
I'll miss his advice when he goes back to school next week LOL.

Boy card

I always find it hard to make cards for boys. This is one I made for Jake's mate Nathan (hence the letter n on it):


Kraft cardstock (boy am I loving this stuff ATM!), Collections chipboard brackets and star, Basic Grey Boxer paper, ribbon (that jutey stuff anyway) from my stash, and the sticker letter is from Making Memories Fa la la range. I also added a strip of the paper to the inside of the card.

After spending ages designing and making the card, this bit always makes me nervous:


He did great! Even with me breathing down his neck and taking pictures. Yeah - my kids do have a lot to put up with LOL.

Hang on....

I had a play with some new Collections coathangers, and made some samples for a class at Little Bits. Here's what we made:

The large one:

the medium size:


and the teeny one:
I reckon they're pretty cute in their own right, but I might attach some clips to the large one and hang a layout or card from it. I have a photo of my late uncle lined up for the medium one too. If I'm going to own them, they might as well be useful eh?

Thanks for looking!

July sketch

This is the card sketch at My Sketch World for July:

And here's my card:Dr Suess is usually too cerebral (?) for this little duck, but I really get this quote:


Paper and jute ric rac are from the Feb 09 Half Tart kit from Lime Tart.

Yet another card and ATC set

This card/ATC set is for Clare from our ATC group:


I used Sassafras Lass paper and journalling blocks from a die cut sheet, Savvy HB stamp, a pearl headed pin and some ribbon/trim from my stash. That's an American Crafts letter C - from the people who brought us thickers.