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Friday 28 September 2007

In the Frame

Happy Friday! It's definitely been a happy post day, because first of all, the postie brought my little blog candy package from Kathy, yay! Inside, I found a lovely card and a maze book, decorated in one of my favourite colour combos at the moment, orange and purple! It's beautiful, full of all sorts of detail, I just need to find photos to put in it now. So I'm only posting a shot of the front cover just now, and will post the whole book once it has been filled. Thank you, Kathy!


Later in the day, I also received a parcel with my latest order. I couldn't resist any longer and ordered some Cuttlebug embossing folders, and while I was there, I ordered a few sheets of DB papers. I've been quite restrained though, don't you think? I'm still waiting for one more folder though, it's out of stock at the mo.


And now onto today's DCM challenge of incorporating a frame on our cards. Well, I had to have a play with my embossing folders, and that's why there's not a scrap of patterned paper in sight. Frame came out of a Lakeland pack that I've had for years and really gone off, but it's been resurrected to good effect. Cardstock is Paper Mill Shop, ribbon John Lewis, nothing fancy.
Love the embossing folders, they're so easy to use! You'll probably see a lot of embossing on my cards from now on...
Have had a good morning as well, youngest daughter's nursery was taking part in the Macmillan Coffee Morning, and about a dozen of us sat, chatted and had tea and cakes. The remaining cakes (yes, we did leave some, lol) were sold at the end of the day, so hopefully we raised a nice little sum for the charity.
Wish me luck for tomorrow, I might be slipping and sliding along a curling rink for the first time! My friend's husband is a curler, and he's offered to take us, along with his family, to a taster session. It'll be great to get a shot, but there is also great embarrassment potential! And the kids will either love it or be in tears constantly because they're falling on the ice. Nothing like looking on the bright side... I'm looking forward to it - honest!

22 comments:

  1. I love this card - and those embossing folders are so addictive!

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  2. Fabulous embossing.
    Glad to see Im not the only one with xmas madness!!

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  3. very striking card, love your embossed card, they look fab!

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  4. Brilliant card ,love the tree ,glad to see some one who can not resist the embossing folders LOL,thanks for stoping buy Dawnx

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  5. Love the embossing too. A great Christmas card.:)
    Vanessa.

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  6. Great card, the embossing looks fantastic

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  7. Lovely card Anne - it's not hard to envisage a day when every single one of us is in possession of those CB folders!

    Glad you liked the little book - I really hope you enjoy filling it up - I can post pics now of the "empty" pages but will look forward to seeing how you fill tem!

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  8. great card, I love these embossing folders too.

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  9. Well done Anne, I love your card!

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  10. Lovely ... cuttlebugs are very addictive.

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  11. Oooh now that is the kind of post that I like!!! your card is fab as well!

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  12. very stylish card. great way to use embossing !

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  13. Gorgeous! the embossing is fab, I especially love how you can emboss shapes like the tree, it makes them extra special! Fabulous card!

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  14. WOW ! I love the embossing ! Great card !

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  15. Very stylish card - love the embossing - am a big fan of these folders!

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  16. Great cards, aren't the embossing folders are wonderful

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  17. You're right - now your've started embossing you'll be doing it on everything. Don't let the kids stand still too long otherwise you might be tempted to emboss them too! The card looks fab - really festive!

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  18. Beautiful! Stunning use of the embossing folders, they're delicious arent they!

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  19. Lovely, love the straight lines and the design, great work!

    Samm
    x

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  20. Sorry I'm late Anne.
    Gorgeous card, thanks for joining in with my dare.

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