Dottie ATCs

Hi all,

I have a couple of ATCs to show you today, it's a rare occurance as I don't normally do them but my friend Chrissy Rollins asked me to take part in the Dottie ATC fashon show over on her fab blog and I just couldn't refuse! You should see the amazing creations her club ladies have come up with pop over for a peek, you won't be sorry. Any how here they are, as I said I don't DO ATCs so be gentle with me.

Don't forget, I have blog candy up for grabs so be sure to leave a comment in the candy post. xx

Blog Candy!!!!!

Hi all I'm so sorry I haven't been around this week. I thought I'd get to post on here every day with me having a week off but I got so engrossed in Designing the new Christmas download collection I've ended up with hardly a minute to spare. It'll be worth it though because they're looking fab - even if I do say so myself.
I have some great design team news, pop over to Dottie's World to find out. Before you go let me tell you about my blog candy. As most of you probably know My Curvy Card design was bought off me by WS designs some time ago, to be made into proper templates. It's all been very exciting, there's even going to be a demo on Create and Craft (not sure when though)

Anyhow this brings me to the blog candy. As the original designer I got four free complementary templates and I'm giving two of them away.
If you would like to win one of my templates just leave a comment to this post and I'll draw two names out of a hat in two weeks time.
Good luck. xxx

Card for Patsy

I almost forgot to show you this card. I made it for my lovely blogging pal Patsy last week. She gave birth to the most beautiful daughter on 9th of May (the same day as my Holly's birthday!) and I just had to include the picture she gave me.

Here it is.
Isn't she gorgeous! Welcom baby Eleanor.xxxxxxxx
Congratulations Patsy!

Curvy Card News

Hi all, I bet you'd wondered where I've been. Well now I have two jobs I'm pretty busy most of the time so I've not been able to blog quite as much, but it's half term now so I have a week to try to get back on track, yippeeeeeee!!!!!

The news on the Curvy Card front is that the new impoved template has finally been launched and is now available for purchase from WS Designs.

Here are tho two cards I through together (literally!) for their advertisements. The Papers are all from WS Designs too.

Dottie's World Challenge

Good evening all, I hope you've all had a lovely Monday. Mine's been busy, I'm shattered!

I just wanted to show you the card I made for Sunday's challenge on Dottie's World.

Nicola set the challenge this week, it's called 'double up' we have to use two differnt Charmed Download images in the same card.

Well I've been playing with digital backgrounds so I decided to make a hybrid card, here it is...

I used Chick Dottie and two Dilly Dangles for the challenge. I'm really quite happy with the results.

DCM - Animalia

Yay! I've done a DCM challenge!!!!!They've been few and far between lately. Here's the brief.....
Hi everyone, it's my turn (Mel) to set the dare this week :)
I've based my dare on the book by Graeme Base called 'Animalia' (just because that book happened to be sitting near my desk when I realised it was my turn for the dare this week).
So, all you have to do is create a card featuring an animal. I hope you all enjoy having a play with this dare, don't forget to come back and let us know where we can see the cards you make - because we do love to see all the wonderful cards you makeI used the balancing cat from the Cat download collection. I cut it out and layered it on some K&Co Mira papers (my fave).
When I designed this cat I planned for it to balance on a brad and hold onto one with it's tail so I was relieved when it all came together as planned.
TFL

New Collection

Well what a week it's been, what with the launch of Dottie's world and finishing the new download collection AND going to work, I haven't known whether I've been coming or going.

Anyhow, if you haven't visited Dotties world recently you won't know about the new collection........cats! It's all been very exciting, you see this collection has been designed in quite a different style to Dottie and George and I'm hoping it will appeal to an even wider audience. The idea with some (not all) of the cats is that they interact with elements of your cards and layouts. thiese love cats are designed to sit nicely on top of anything square or rectangular.

And this one is designed to act as a hook for anything you want to hang.

I think you'll be seeing quite a bit more of the new cats on my blog over the next couple of weeks. If you'd like to see even more Dottie, George or Cat creations, tutorials, challenges or customer cards be sure to visit Dottie's World.

More News,

Some of you will remember my Curvy Card design. Well it was bought by WS Designs the Tempting Templates Store, to be made into a template. I recently recieved the new, improved prototype and let me tell you, it's way better now. Their fabulous designers managed to get rid of those silly hinges that it had before but kept it looking and opening just the same. I've made some example cards for their advertising and it should all be launched real soon.