Our First Sketch

Hi to everyone and hope you are all enjoying this Bank Holiday weekend.

What a great response we had to our first challenge - fantastic. And there was some absolutely gorgeous work as well. Thank you to everyone who took part.

We have some news for you before we move onto our next challenge.

Andrea has had to step down from the team due to other work commitments sadly. We'll miss her of course but she is hoping to join in as often as she can. So that meant we went to our list of guest design team girlies to look for her replacement.

What a dilema though because the standard as I keep saying was so high. Should we have a girlie who was not yet on a team or should we have an established girlie like Andrea? Ohh choices choices lol.

Anyway we couldn't decide .... so we've had both :) And it means that you get more lovely cards to look at as well.

So our new full time design team girls are Caz and Debi. Most of you will already know Caz - you can see her work here. I just love every single thing she does, and by coincidence, she was already going to be joining us as one of our first guest designers. Debi amazingly is not on any teams, but her work is so fabulous, and her style is just wonderful - you can check it out here.

Congratulations to both girls and we are so happy you've joined our team xxx

So as I said, Caz was going to be one of our first GDT peeps, so that meansthat this week and next, we will only have one other guest girlie, and she is the very wonderful Risa and we thank her for joining us.

OK so what do we have for our next challenge? Well we thought we'd give you a sketch this week and also for the last challenge of every month.

And here it is -

And this is what we did with it.

Risa (GDT)

Renata
Caz

Debi



Yvonne

Stacey
Sabina

Steph


Kim

Marcea

Dawny P

So that's what we did with it - we hope you like - and now it's your turn. Dont forget that you can flip, rotate and re-eize the elements and as long as you can still see the sketch, then that's fine with us :)

Have a great week and I'll leave you with a little bit of news - next week there maybe a little something very delicious up for grabs for one very lucky girlie xxx

Sugar & Spice & All Things Nice

Hello everyone.

Well at long last, here is our very first AFA challenge, and thank you to EVERYONE who has left good luck messages and messages of support. It has meant a lot to our team and we appeciate each and every single one xxxx

OK, we thought we'd do a nice easy one to get us started. So our challenge is Sugar & Spice & All Things Nice. You can use all of your girlie pretty things here, or perhaps you might want to use sugar and spice colours like some of the girls have done. Or you might have your own interpretation - it's entirely up to you.

So without further ado, let's have a look at the team's cards - we hope you like them :)

Steph

Marcea

Renata

Stacey


Yvonne



Kim



Sabina



Dawny P

Clicking on our names will take you to our individual blogs where you can see more of our work and catch up with what we've all been up to. We'd love to have you drop by if you get a sec, and we cannot wait to see what you do with our first challenge.

We will be back next week with another challenge. We'll also be saying hello to 2 of our wonderful guest designers who will staying with us for 2 weeks.

Until then, thanks for looking in, enjoy your Sunday and have a great week xxxx

Our New Team & Thank You xxxx

Hello everyone :)

Firstly, I am so sorry that I am later getting this on here that I originally planned, and secondly, a huge thank you to each and every single peep who applied for the DT. I just did not realise that there would be so much interest and the standard of cards we received was just awesome, I kid you not.

We had a really tough time trying to choose and it was not easy at all. But choose we had to and as I've sent everybody who applied an e-mail to let them know if they were succesful or not, I think I can now reveal the team.

Before I do, I would just like to say that because the standard was so good, we've ended up with not two more girlies but 4!!

And also, we've asked some of the girls who did not make the team to be our guest designers and they will be joining us for 2 weeks each from challenge #2

So without further ado, the girls who will be joining myself, Marcea, Steph, Kim and Andrea are -

Stacey

Sabina

Renata

Yvonne

Well done chicks and I for one cannot wait until next Sunday.

I hope you'll all come back and join us for our first ever challenge.

See you all then and have a great week xxx

Thank You xxxx

Thank you to everyone who has left a lovely comment or sent in card for our DT call. I am completely overwhelmed by the interest this has generated and the standard of cards sent in has been awesome. We now have some tough decisions to make and I wish we could have everyone.

OK, now another apology from dozy Dawny - you will get used to me and my blonde moments (if you read my blog, you will already know this lol xx) Anyway some of you have already spotted this - yes I gave you the wrong date for the first challenge. I can only blame it on over -enthusiasm!!

So our first challenge is Sunday 23rd August, and NOT 25th as I originally said - sorry peeps!!!

We'll be back before then to introduce you to the full design team.
Take care and have a great Sunday xxx