10.09.2009

Happy Birthday Daniel

Yes, 10 years ago today I was in sheer bliss holding my first of many perfect little babies! Oh, how he’s grown. I was awoken (somewhat earlier than usual) with him whispering “Do you know it’s my birthday now?” We had his favourite fajitas for tea with Granny Franny and Grandad Steve and a gorgeous chocolate fudge cake for pudding. He’s having a sleepover party next weekend (he wanted to wait till he had his Guitar Hero before the boys came over) and so for my sins I will be entertaining 6 extra 9 year old boys for the evening – what have I done??? To be fair, I had them for his birthday last year and they were so good so I’m not too worried…..

Strangely enough, my fellow Promarker teamie Debbi’s son Scott also turned 10 today – bizarre or what? Happy birthday Scott.

On another subject but equally as exciting, after weeks of anticipation me and the rest of the fabulous Passion For Promarker girlies recieved in the post today, wait for it, ALL 56 OF THE NEW PROMARKER COLOURS!!!!!! I don’t think there have been so many posties being stalked in unison before! Gina, managed to negotiate a special deal with the wonderfully generous people at Letraset (hugs to you Simon, you gorgeous man) and allowed us DT member to get them a wee bit ahead of the official launch so we can have a play and showcase them on the blog. The colours are just beautiful by the way and I am so itching to have a good old play with them.
Although I can’t say TOO much, I can tell you that to celebrate this wonderful event, we are hosting a prize blog hop over at Passion For Promarkers on Sunday. There will be an AWESOME prize up for grabs that NO-ONE will want to miss out on. Make sure you skip on over for a visit and join in the hop.
08.09.2009

A Spoonful of Sugar #68 – Sketch by Michelle.

There is a beautiful sketch by Michelle over at A Spoonful of Sugar this week and I had a great time making my card for it (once I gave up trying to fit an arrow into it!!!).  When I saw a few of the other DT’s interpretations I realised it didn’t HAVE to be an arrow!!  I’m trying to get ahead of myself with Christmas cards so expect to see a fair few of them popping up over the next few weeks!  Challenge 68 - sketch by michelle Challenge 68 - sketchI have dusted off one of my much loved but now rarely used stamps for my card and teamed it with my favourite Doodlebug papers.  The buttons are also DB.  The image is very simply coloured with PMs.

Have a look on the challenge blog at all the other cards for some fabulous inspiration.  I am so lucky to be in three amazing design teams with some utterly uber-talented peeps and am never disappointed when I visit their blogs.  They’re all BRILLIANT!!

Hugs,

Caryn xxx

08.09.2009

Passion For Promarkers # 16 – Sandstone and Blue Pearl.

We lucky girls over at Passion For Promarkers were given an image of our choice this week from the gorgeous Sally-Ann at the Digi Stamp Boutique.  So after an hour of trying to pick just one out of the fabulous images she has on offer (great value by the way and SOOO easy to colour with your PMs) I chose this sweet little girl – Winter Sophie.  Of course I was drawn to her because of my own little Sophie but I literally could have had any of them.Week 16 - Sandstone and Blue Pearl

The challenge is a colour theme this week – Sandstone and Blue Pearl, a lovely combination picked by our fabulous GDT, Caroline and one which made me think of winter – hence Winter Sophie (do you see what I did there?? lol ).  I’ve kept my card quite simple and the ribbon under the image does actually say “Happy Holidays” but the camera didn’t quite pick it up.

Ok, better dash. Our techie guy is coming to sort out the broadband for us in the newly reorganised and relocated office so if you never hear from me again you’ll know it didn’t go well!!

Au revoir.

Caryn xxx