Friday, March 23, 2007

It's Keryn's turn today

It's DCM Friday and this time it's Keryn's turn to set the challenge. Now, A relative of our Keryn is expecting twins in September, so with multiple births in mind she challenged us to make cards to congratulate and welcome twins, triplets or more...
There are some fantastic cards from the Design Team, so please check out our blog

I quite like making baby cards but I'm not very happy with this one, it's ok but that's all. I got the baby bootees die a few weeks ago and haven't used it yet so decded that this was a good chance to give it a test run. Sometimes combining two tasks into one card doesn't really work as well as you'd hoped, does it? And I think this was the case here. Maybe if I get some time I'll have another go as I'm sure I can do better than this.


I've been busy this week with other crafty stuff, most of which I can't show at the moment unfortunately. The card above is one I can show, it was made for my SIL & BIL. who finally moved into their new house this week. How come the whole selling and buying of houses is such a long, traumatic affair? This time last year we were almost homeless because everything was gong wrong with the purchase of this house and we'd already sold our old one and had to move out. Not a good situation! The thought of having to go through it all again still makes me shudder.

The litle B&W photo is a sneak peek at one of my "can't show" projects!

Post has just come with the latest copy of the US Papercrafts magazine - goodoh, I'll look at that later. There was also a pack of Twinkling H2Os-alikes courtesy of the lovely, wonderful Joanne from Scrapstars Forum who kindly braved the Metro Centre this week and bought packs of these from The Works for a few of us then kindly sent them out to us. What a star! Thanks Joanne - they look great - 12 gorgeous pots of colour for £2.99

Right, that's me for now.
Cappuccino time I think

20 comments:

Michelle said...

Absolutely gorgeous!

Allison Rankin said...

These are terrific...I especially love the design of the "New House" card!

Em said...

Kathy these cards are lovely.

Not sure why you aren't happy with the twins one? It is really cute - AND it's pink! What more do you need??

Sue said...

love the twins card

mmmm the B& W one looks fab to can't wait for the reveal

Andrea C (Frog) said...

Love your card Kathy, nothing wrong from where i am looking at it.

Andrea xx

Paula J Atkinson said...

The orange is great.
Fab cards.
I won't be doing this challenge.
I am going away for the weekend, which is one reason but the main reason is my colleague Nick reads my blog daily & last week his wife Stacey lost there triplets. she lost a baby last year too. I want no reference to babies on the blog, to save his feelings!!
when I get back I might do a card of pairs but he is pretty cut up right now.

Unknown said...

Kathy, the twins card is lovely - stop being so hard on yourself! I'd love it if I were having twins hun! xx

Rhi said...

Gorgeous cards Kathy. I love the doodled border on the new home card.

Paula my heart goes out to your colleague ((hugs))

Sarah said...

Love the twins card Kathy, anything pink is a winner to me!!
Cute die!

Wendy - Anntaurus said...

Wonderful card Kathy - love the bootie die! Intrigued by your sentiment though - 'Twice as Nice'! My mind immediately thinks 'Double Trouble'!! lol

Anonymous said...

Gorgeous Gorgeous cards... they are adorable :)

gaby braun said...

All your cards are cute.
gaby

Jayrewcraft said...

Both cards are gorgeous! The colour tones are lovely. As others have said definitely no need to be hard on yourself!

Jayne xx

Anonymous said...

Gorgeous cards !!! and love your banner.

Sheila said...

Well Kathy when I saw your twins card I went WOW.......I have picked that die up so many times and put it back down again because I didn't like it......but you certainly made it look very good..it's a lovely card.
The new home one is gorgeous too.
Sheila

Susan Hurley-Luke said...

I like your twin card, too! And I like the orange on your Blog. The banner is amazing - clever hubby. The house moving card is really special - you got the balance of all the elements just right, fro my tastes!

Jo said...

Bot the cards are fab, I love the booties on the twins card and it is my favoutie colour - pink!! The new home one is brill too, love the lines around the edge, fabby :)

jo xx

Gillian said...

Oh love your twins card Kathy, I do try not to get jealous over your fabby machines that make all these ubute bits.. you always know just how to put them together..love you little house one too, very cute!..
Oh you are a tease with your B&W sneek peek..

Tracey said...

Luvverly cards Kathy - as per usual.

Anonymous said...

(Hmm, just tried to post this and it seemed to disappear so trying again - excuse if it's repeated!)

Cute, cute, cute! Love the little bows to finish off the bootees on the twins card. The doodly bits on the new house card look fab, too!