January Blues

It's Blue Monday today according to many of the media pundits, when we are all supposed to be at our lowest ebb after Christmas.  Over at Daring Cardmakers, they are having the January Blues too, but in a much nicer way - as a prompt or dare for a card design.

January Blues

You are free to use the title however you want; it could be a "just to cheer you up" or "sorry to hear you're feeling blue" card,  a card with shades of blue as the main colour, or something else inspired by the heading.  Lets chase the January Blues away with some quality time spent getting creative!

This simple card is made with a couple of free papers from Simply Homemade magazine (not recent), a butterfly image from a pad of images I've also had so long that the front page has gone, so I know not from where it came, a ribbon from my ribbon box and a Papermaze greeting.

DCM Butterflies

Jo said: I seem to like butterflies at the mo. This week therefore I would like you to put some butterflies on cards. Stitched, felt, shiny, bright, plain, paper pieced, stamped, drawn... you get the idea :) any theme of card but it must have a butterfly somewhere on the card!

Here is my butterfly card, it's for my sister's birthday next week. I used my cuttlebug Birthday embossing folder, the paper is Glenda Waterworth, Elusive Images from the Seasons Greetings CD, the butterflies are from a pad of miniatures from Crafty Individuals and the little tag came as part of my January Kit from Bubbly Funk.

Speaking of my January Kit from Bubbly Funk, here is the album I have made for my friend who is getting married at the end of May. We are all going on a girly weekend to the Lake District in the middle of May and I'm going to put the pictures from that weekend into the album. I'm pretty pleased with this, so thanks to Di Oliver and the BF Design Team for their fantastic project and easy to follow instructions, not to mention the gorgeous papers. I still got tons left.