The Cutting Cafe - Blog Candy Post Below........

You may have noticed a new blinkie on my side bar, Regina Easter has asked me to join the design team at the Cutting Cafe, her new site where you can purchase printables to download and print. As Regina is one of my crafting heroes, I was delighted to be asked. I already work with her on her BBTB site, those of you who know her work will understand why I admire her so much. This card is made with the big frame, I printed it off and heat embossed the border in black, cut around the edges. Did you know that if you print something onto coated cardstock, the ink stays wet for long enough to emboss it? I then printed the inner, paler pink shaped piece, which fitted perfectly into the shaped card. The lovebirds were cut from the Joys of the Season cartridge at 3", with the blackout feature on. A couple of Martha Stewart punched borders, some ribbon and gems and I was done. These printables are perfect if you love shaped cards, but don't have a die cutting machine, or design studio, and of course you have them tucked away on your computer to use over and over again.

The papers are by DCWV, gems are Papermania.

I printed the frame with the dots again, but decided to use it just as an accent for this card. Such a striking shape, and I love those dots. The sentiment circle is another printable, I punched it out and added a nestability circle behind.

Yes, we have heat, I am toasty warm and happy. Just as well really, as we have a very cold snap coming with some snow expected. Mind you, those of you who live in northern parts of North America would laugh at the miserly sprinkling of snow we get, which inevitably brings the whole country to a grinding halt. Roads are blocked with cars that have skidded on the snow, the trains stop running because of snow on the lines, .....................HELLO, we know that here in the UK we can expect at least one snowfall a year, but we always seem to take a huge collective gasp of surprise when it happens, then collectively fall apart.