I can't believe it!!!!!

Surprise, surprise I don't have a card for a challenge to share, however, this was a challenge of sorts.  Much to my surprise and delight, I have had 2 of my cards accepted for the mid-year publication of Go-to Sketches by Papercrafts.  There were lots of squeals (very quiet ones) of delight yesterday at 5am when I read the email.

This magazine may not be familiar to Australians and I can't remember where I first picked it up but I have been subscribing for a while now.  It is one of those publications I take forever to get through, and each issue is very  dog-eared, so that must be the sign of a great magazine.

I entered 5 cards (40% success rate, not too bad) so thought I would post the "losers".  This first one uses Kaisercraft's Le Chateau, I really love the colour and patterns of these papers

The second one used Japanese Yuzen papers and didn't come out quite like the idea in my head.  I should have had more contrast in colour between the papers I chose.  And I had a very hard time  trying to line up all those tiny little squares.

I found this alphabet paper at the Kaisercraft outlet store and thought it would be good for children's cards.  Again not quite as successful as I had hoped in terms of the sketch I was using but I will use elements of this design in some other cards.

Also yesterday we got a new cat, a Ragdoll named Charlie.  All very sudden, I put out a few feelers on Friday and things all fell into place late yesterday afternoon.  He is 5 months old so we have passed the small kitten stage but hopefully still playful.  He is still getting used to us and his new surroundings but we hope he will be happy.