Wanted : Mojo

Where has my mojo gone? I seem to have lost all inspiration this week the cause I think is lack of sleep (Baby J sprouting his 13th and 14th teeth) and pain (damn ms!). What makes it worse is that this week its my turn to set the dare over on Daring Card Makers , am beginning to wish I has set a slightly easier one.........

For this weeks dare, I dare you to "start from scratch" I want to you design a card with NO purchased/preassembled embellishments - that means no blooms unless you cut them yourself, no buttons etc etc. I guess how easy this is depends on your usual style

**insert evil laugh here**

You see what I mean? Every idea i had for this just wouldnt work or has some issue, Card one would have been great but couldnt find the wire i needed, Card 2 fell at the first hurdle when I couldnt figure out how to thread my mini sewing machine. So you ended up with Card 3.

Wedding Day.

I was very good and even folded my own card blank from a piece of gorgeous stardream pearlescent paper in opal (I think) from PDA. Problem was I didnt want Opal, I wanted a pretty pink hmmmmmmm could I find my chalks in the dungeon I call my craft room NOPE! so some creative thinking was called for. So I lightly dusted the whole of the card with "light as a feather" Natural Collection Blusher glowing dust from Boots (yes i really did). Whilst searching for the still missing chalks I found a upopened DCWV wedding Stack so using a piece of the rose patterned paper I cut 4 strips, the first of which I placed along the bottom of the card. Using more opal stardust card (unblushed!) I cut a 4 rectangles of different sizes. The first I used to mount a sentiment cut from the text sheet of the DCVW stack. The other 3 became a wedding cake. I used the 3 rectangles and offcuts to make a wedding cake shape and used the previously cut rose paper to look like ribbon. I then punched some flowers from scraps and placed them on top of the cake and either side of the "the day of our wedding" Sentiment. Finally I used Petal Pink perfect pearls to decorate the cake and the centre of the flowers. And it was finished... a pretty pink wedding cake card.

I hope you planning (or have already been ) to the DCM blog to check out the other cards made by the design team and our fabby Guest Designer this week, Bety.

I promise faithfully I will midweek blog this week as I have photos of my engagement ring and other wedding stuff to show you. If I havent then someone poke me with a pointy stick to remind me.

Bye bye bloggers

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Food for Thought

It's FRIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIDDDDDDDDDDDAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYY! which means its Dare day! This week it was our Kathy's turn to dare us.

OK I'd like you to think FOOD this time and base your card around that subject. So let's see.....

it could have food depicted on it eg cupcake, CHOCOLATE, birthday cake, CHOCOLATE, tube of smarties, CHOCOLATE,.....bowl of fruit....
you could make it an invitation to a barbecue, dinner party, picnic, kids party etc
It could feature a recipe
hey, it could even have food stuck on it.....well, maybe.....

as long as it's clearly got a foodie theme it's allowed.

Well my original thought was going to be a wedding cake, as I seem to have weddings on the brain at the moment but then I got the munchies, W went to get me some sweets, and Hey presto a card was born.

Love Hearts

As usual I started with a white square card blank by Papermania. Sorting through my stash I found a cute candy coloured kit by Creative Memories called a "pastel Snap Pack". I has lots of stickers, die cuts, papers etc to make a mini album. I used some square diecuts from it in lemon and lilac, and a bubbly pastel border sticker. I attached the sticker along the top and bottom of the card, and the 4 die cut squares in the centre of the Card. I then opened a pack of yummy Love hearts sweets and chose 2 yellow and two lilac sweets and attached them with 3d foam to the squares.

So there you go a card good enough to eat - but please dont!

Dont forget to take a wander over to Daring Card Makers blog to see what everyone else on the team has done, we also welcome Tracy as our guest designer this week.

In other news ...... I have ordered my wedding dress!!! OMG its scary now!

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This week it was Jane's turn to set the dare for us Daring Card Makers she said ...

So here is is............you can do any subject but the card has to incorporate WINGS of some sort.....so you can do - butterflies, angels, fairies, insects.........birds........anything basically if it has wings.

Good luck and may you all FLY HIGH ladies. !

Luckily I knew I had just the thing. When I went to Harrogate Papercrafts show I came across some lovely fairy die cuts by Lili of the Valley. They were an absolute bargain and so pretty, plus my Neice is called Lilia so couldnt pass them up so into my basket they went. I knew that this card was the right chance for one of the cute little things to make their debut.

I Started with a piece of white cardstock which I folded to make the blank, and attached a piece of yummy paper from Aprils Self Adressed kit. I attached a square aperture doodah (another harrogate purchase) from Craftwork cards and used an ink pad to colour some of the embossed flowers to match the colour scheme. I also used a piece of pink ribbon from American Crafts to go down the side of the card. Then it was time for Fairy Rose to make her appearence. She was 3d mounted into the centre of the aperature, and I used a little bit of stickles glitter glue to highlight her wings (I then dropped the pot into my cup of tea :S)

I had planned to use a Heidi Swapp rolling stamp to stamp "kisses" along the bottom in pink and I know I stamp like an elephant in oven gloves but it was impossible to get a clean image, surely I am not that inept?

So there you go, a pretty pink fairy card suitable for any occasion.

Why not take a wander over to the Daring Card Makers blog to check out the design teams work and have a go yourself, dont forget to leave us a link so we can see

I promise i will be very good and do a midweek blog, so remind me if it looks like I have forgot. xxxxxxxx

Catching up with Tags

I was tagged by several people to tell them 7 facts about me. I apologise in advance that they arent going to be particularly interesting cos I am quite a boring little soul.

1. Both myself and Baby J can use sign language
2. I have funny quirks about textures like felt (see gillians dare!),corned beef etc
3. I am doing a Open university BA Degree in Youth and Childhood Studies
4. I cant just sit and watch a movie, have to be doing 3 or 4 things at the same time
5. I write poems and short stories and have had writing published
6. I have a bizarre medical condition called geographical tongue which means the surface appearence and texture of my tongue changes on a daily basis (which really freaks W out, he says its gross)
7. I am getting married in September!!!!

If you are reading this and havent yet joined in consider yourself tagged!

I know I know Late blogging

Sorry sorry sorry I know its not Friday and I am 5 days late with my DCM blog but I have been away.

Baby J and I went to my mums down south for a bit of rest and relaxation and "mummying" We had a fab time (despite the earthquake 3 miles away!! IN THE UK!!!) and cant wait till mum comes up to stay here.

Anyhow the card for Daringcardmakers this week was kindly sponsored by Self Addressed kits. The design team over at DCM are soo lucky. The lovely Jenn over at Self-addressed sent us lucky girls some of their scrummy kit contents to create with. We all followed a template and using Self addressed papers made our own designs. Its amazing to see how many different cards come from the same basic template.

I started with one of the lovely blue textured scalloped edge card blanks. They already have a little square aperture cut into it, which is great cos I cant cut straight lines to save my life. Using a piece of the brown and blue flowered paper I trimmed the bottom of the card so that it contrasted with the scallop, as well as placing a piece in the aperture. I cut a border from the stripey paper and placed that across the bottom, and across both sides of the aperture. And hey presto a simple card which thanks to the gorgeous contents of Self-addressed kits are perfect for any occasion.

Why not head on over to the blog to see the interpretations of the design team or visit Self addressed to see their fabby value and gorgeous kits

xxx