Bright and Cheerful

The new set of Crafty Templates are on the loose, along with the optional Crafty Goodies kit for this month.

 I think a lot of the Goodies and some of the Templates have a little of the 50's vintage feel about them, certainly the lovely apron template reminded me of those "Perfect Housewife" pictures you see in magazines from the era - which is why I ended up using it with these colours of card and these paper designs on this little post-it notes booklet

The yellow, green and pink card are all from the Goodies kit, as are both the patterned papers on the outside cover and that lovely heart design ribbon.  I've a feeling that the cherries jewelled brad and the Gingerbread woman brad came from past Goodies kits.  The flowery paper just looked perfect to use with the 50's style pinny template, I cut the frilly edged base, the belt and the bow trim for the apron from pink card.

I found the cute wooden rolling pin in my stash and couldn't resist tying it onto the spine of the book.  I used some BG paper (from my stash) on the inside and added a little pen holder made with another of the paper designs included in the Goodies Kit

 The cake is a rub-on image used on a scrap of card and then covered with Glossy Accents.  The lettering is cut on my Craft Robo.

I love this little flying owl template!  More paper, card and ribbon from the kit, along with a foam circle and button also found among the treasures in the Goodies bag.  The owl is carrying a pc generated greeting and a couple of Prima flowers with Card Candy centres.

This one may be a bit more Hippy era with all those bright colours and cute images - maybe I should have added a few happy-hippy flowers too!

The rainbow in the centre is the template from the set - or half of it anyway.  You do get the full image in the Template Set, but I was awkward and decided to use just one half - what's at the other end of this rainbow is left to the imagination!  One of the papers in the Goodies kit has lots of rainy day images on and I've used three of them on this card.  To echo the rainbow in the lower picture I found colours and patterns from my stash to make the big one, then cut the cloud from another of the papers inn the kit.  I wasn't sure about throwing quite so many colours into one small space, but in the end it seemed to work!  The "sing a rainbow" is another computer generated sentiment - it seemed right to go with the flow and make it as bright as possible.

 You can find out all about Crafty Templates and how to get your hands on the Templates Set and if there are any left, how to order the Goodies Kit by visiting HERE

Thank you for all your comments - they are soooo appreciated.  I've not had a chance to come and visit all those who left messages yesterday yet - but I will get there eventually, I promise!

I'll also get that flower tute on here soon too!

Daring Cardmakers Day tomorrow and it's my turn to set the dare - I'm sure I had something in mind when I put it in our calendar, but obviously that thought is long gone....ohhhhhh dear oh dear, what am I going to do....