I've started to miss participating in the challenges on my crafting groups now, but I'm not ready to rejoin them just yet, so I decided to have a looksee at Daisy Trail's. "In a word" caught my eye, this week the word is Graceful..... after a couple of hours, yes really, have I ever explained how indecisive and finnicky I am? I came up with this scrapbook page.

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The image comes from The Graphics Fairy, and again I used Inkblot Butterflies.

This was designed for Delia's birthday, using Debbi Moore 'Shabby chic vintage flowers'. I put the background paper inside the acetate card, then decoupaged individual flowers onto the front to give a 3d effect. The whole card stands up as an oval.

A card made using offcuts of paper and patterned acetate. It looks much better in real life *lol*

Inspired by an article in Simply Cards and Papercraft on using fonts and dingbats etc in your projects, I came up with this card for a Birthday over the Easter weekend. I distressed the two backing papers (one graph paper, the other tape measure) and found a font designed for easter, which I can't remeber the name for!
(He loved the card, said it was one of the best he'd ever had, bless him!)

April is a bulk Birthday month in my house, I love how this one turned out, the backing paper was from Petite Papers - western romance & all about me pack. Added a few embellishments and it was done, a simple and quick card turned into something quite elegant.

Maternity Leave card - I didn't know what to do for a maternity card, so I googled and got plenty of hits, I eventually found a romper suit template, actually called a 'onesie' and altered the size to be a C5 card, cut round it, embellished and voila! Hope Nat liked it.

Having decided to do some proper digital scrapbboking I found myself in a whole new exciting and shiny world called Daisy Trail. Before I splurged and bought the Craft Artist Professional, I decided to try the compact freebie available on DT.

One birthday card later:

I love these little birdies! Spotted two mistakes after I'd printed the thing...... and added 3 little gems for the birds eyes.

One A4 scrapbook page later:

This is a photo I took when we went to... yes you've guessed it - Hardwick Hall, the other week, my first sighting of lambs this year. Have seen loads more, some even smaller and unfortunately two dead ones hand delivered by a farmer.

Anyway by now I was totally hooked and splurged my £19.99 on the proper version from Create and Craft.

Only to find that the week after when I received it, C & C dropped the price to £9.99 as a Pick of the Week deal. Oh well....

I now have around 10 programmes to watch and play along with. Yay!!

Second card:

front

insert

This digikit was InkBlot butterflies, and has the most gorgeous pinks and purples, abolutley perfect for purplemurtle!!