Ready, steady, zzzzz

It should be Ready, Steady, Cook as per the Daring Cardmaker Dare this week but I am so tired that the above title is more accurate. It has been a long few days. And the hard stuff isn't quite over yet. But next week is easier. So it is just as well that I did my card for this dare on that lovely Monday I had off this week.

And it was a great dare too. Kathy took the show Ready, Steady, Cook and made it a card recipe.
I'll tell you the ingredients you have to use, then all you have to do is make the card.

Here are your ingredients: 3 different papers At least one piece of chipboard At least 1 button At least 1 piece of ribbon optional: 1 extra item/element of your choice

And for the team Kathy sent us all the things we need. Cool eh?

Now when my little parcel arrived I of course ripped it open and oohed and aaahed over all the bits at my work desk. And then later moved them to my craft table. Where I discovered no chipboard. Now, if you could see my desk you would realise that it is even more untidy than my craft space so I might have lost the chipboard, or Kathy might have missed it off. So I did use my own chipboard as well as something of my choice.

The papers are Bo Bunny Sweetie papers. The circle is a big chipboard button. I carefully cut the buttonholes out... and then covered them over with the other chipboard. The sticker is a KI Memories one. I actually added it to this bit of chipboard about 3 years ago and never used it! The colours go together so well. The dots on the sticker were a different colour originally and I added the spots and stripes to the buttons. As I had some left over paper I decorated the inside a little as well
I love seeing decorated insides to cards. However I often gasp at how generous people are with the inside decorating. I still can't bring myself to cover the whole inside so beautifully. I'll try doing more soon though! On the inside I added Making Memories Mini Alphas.

I thought I would share with you close ups of some of the layouts I did for Creativity Life. It will enable you to see the details - such as they are!
I can't get the levels of colour right on this, the square at the bottom is far more shocking pink. Just about everything here is Doodlebug. I am ashamed of the grammatical failure but I do love this layout as the whole idea makes me smile!

This layout I love as well. I'm not usually a classic paper fan but it is so good to be stretched. My favourite aspect are the paper roses that I made myself using punches and lots of distressing.

Finally today, the announcement has been made about the new members of Salt. It is so exciting to grow the team and I look forward to us working together!