Glitter Me Silly

While doing my daily perusal out in blogland today, I was drawn to Mandy’s blog (A Little Space of My Own) and saw this months GORGEOUS ribbon kit from Raspberry Ribbons. Mandy has just become a new DT for them – yay for you- and has made some AWESOME cards. The colours are so yummy, chocolate and orange and before I could stop myself I was over to RR and have now subbed to their monthly kit!! Mandy, you have certainly earned your spot on that DT today!!! In anticipation of my kit arriving and because I love this colour combo so much (even though I have never used it on a card before) I made this tonight. Mmmmmm….

My amazing blog buddy Steph (Much Ado About Nothing) very generously loaned me some of her Papertrey stamps aswell as giving me some samples of their papers, card and ribbons!! Isn’t she the kindest girl EVER?? Well, while the baby napped, kids played on the computers, DS’s, Wii’s and whatever, I played with my crafty bits. The only thing I’ve used that wasn’t in the kit Steph sent me was some PM gems and as you know, it has to have bling if it’s been anywhere near me!!! Her blog, A Passion for Papertrey has a challenge on to make a standard C6 card using Papertrey products (not exclusivley, just include them somewhere). The third card which is clearly square (!) obviously does not qualify but the other two do!! The stamp sets I have used are Floral Frenzy, Butterfly Kisses and Around and About Sentiments. The stamps are great to use and the co-ordinating papers, card and ribbons are a dream. Steph has also sent me some samples of the “Chocolate” papers so I can’t wait to have a try with them too. These papers are called Raspberry Fizz and they are just gorgeous.

Well, I promised the kids I’d take them out for dinner so I guess I’d better wash the ink off my hands and step away from the scissors. I only have three of them here as hubby has taken the other two up to the Lakes with his friend. We have a motor boat and a wee apartment in Windermere Marina Village so try to get up there when we can. The apartment is booked out this weekend though so they’re all sleeping on the boat – hence why we all haven’t gone!! It does not make for a great night’s sleep but it is a lot of fun. It’s actually nice to spend some time with the children in smaller numbers too!!

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