14.09.2009

Cupcake Crafts #57 – Pearls and Swirls

The theme over at Cupcake Crafts this week is ‘Pearls and Swirls’. I have managed to overcome my fears and not only open my new Papertrey Ink papers but actually cut into them too! I’m certain I heard the barely-audible-to-the-human-ear sound of a million tiny high pitched voices screaming in pain as I did it, but cut I did!! These papers are called Pink Patterns and are just completely GORGEOUS, as are all the papers I’ve seen from PTI. I have paper-pieced the polka dot paper for her dress and hat and coloured the rest of her with ProMarkers. The swirl is cut from the Home Accents Cricut cart ( cut a sheet of them so be prepared to see it again!!). The sentiment is also Papertrey Ink. I’m actually entering this over at the Passion For Papertrey challenge this week as they’re asking for a card in your favourite colour. As I’m totally in love with this paper and pink has always been my fave, I think this qualifies!!

Have a peek at the gorgeous DT cards over on the blog too – as always they are stunning.

Right, off to drag out the ironing board (will it EVER end??)

Hugs,
Caryn xxx

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13.09.2009

Passion For ProMarkers Blog Hop

“THANKS”

Welcome to the Passion For ProMarkers blog hop!
If you have just come from the Passion For ProMarkers blog then you are in the right place!

We are celebrating the launch of the 56 gorgeous new ProMarker colours and have a whole set up for grabs as a prize. How brilliant is that? Letraset have been SOOOO generous to us by donating this prize (and many others for our regular challenges too) and we are all incredibly grateful to them.

What do you need to do for a chance to win?

Visit each of the 11 design teams blogs and leave a comment on their post. Once you have left your comment here then you need to hop on over to Debbi’s blog and then follow her directions from there. To make things a little more interesting, each of us has a word for you to pick up along the way. Mine is “THANKS”.

If you are not sure you are visiting the design team blogs in the right order you can go back to the PFP blog and start from the beginning!

The team have all been playing with the new colours and have made a card. We will each be drawing a name from the hat at the end of the blog hop and one person will win the card PLUS 1 of the new ProMarker colours!!!

My image has been coloured using a few of my favourite colours from the new set: Antique Pink and Burnt orange for the top; Pear green and Moss (not new) on the trousers; caramel, walnut and tan for the hair.

Enjoy the hop and see you back at the main blog at the end where a lucky winner will be picked at random for that unbelievable prize.

Hugs,

Caryn xxx

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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.
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