Well, with the wonderful news of our partnership with Odd Bird Planet, we’ve taken on nine new designers! Yes, you read that right - NINE new designers. We’re getting ready to release their names, although I do know that some of them are being sneaky and posting clues on their blogs, lol. They are talking about being green and sour, a bit tarty etc.

So anyway, I woke up this morning to an inbox full of projects from one of the new designers. I’ll come back later and add her name once we get newsletters out, but I couldn’t wait to share this peek at one of her projects.

This is using the July ‘08 A la Tarte.

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Kathi has a red white and blue challenge going on here. You can win stamps!

Beth has a one layer challenge going on here. I’m a bit late in posting this one as she wants to see cards by July 4th, but if you are in Australia, then you have tomorrow to get that done.

Make sure you check out the rest of Beth’s blog while you are there, she has some wonderful tutorials.

Now one of my newest toys is my Cuttlebug, and I’ve purchased some Nestabilities to use with it. With CHA coming up, Nestabilities are hosting a two week sneak party with lots of new dies to win. You can see the first sneak here with the list of blogs for each day that you can win.

Don’t forget the giveaways below on Teresa’s and Melissa’s blog. And say Happy Birthday to Melissa while you are there!

Go and check out Teresa’s blog this time! She is giving away four of her favourite Odd Bird Planet stamps. Plus there is a sneak of one of the July kits. Keep bloghopping over the next few days and I’m sure you will find some more.

Gee, everyone’s in the giveaway mode right now. Check out Melissa’s blog to win your very own original painting by Stephanie DosReis, who is the designer of Daisy Ds Wonder Years paper. Oh and I think Melissa is sneaking a peek of the July A la Tarte!

Aussie Scrapbooking are giving away two bundles of justjohanna Odd Bird Planet stamps today only! Both bundles are awesome. Plus it’s a great site too, check it out, lots of great articles about the scrapbooking scene.

Remember this gorgeous carousel by Flo? Well she’s put up instructions on how to make one on her blog here. Now, I can’t understand a word of French, but her photos do make it easy to follow. Take a look!

We are so excited to finally announce that Lime Tart has partnered with Odd Bird Planet to bring you the zesty Lime Tart kits direct from the US! Yes, these delicious kits are now easier and more affordable for you to get your creative hands on!

Be the first to subscribe to our July kits in the US! Subscribe now and take advantage of our Greedy Tart package deals as we are confident that we will sell out very quickly.

Lime Tart Creative Kits are selected for you from the freshest ingredients, and then blended into three unique kits of patterned papers, cardstock, embellishments, stamps and alterable items. You will love to unwrap your chosen Lime Tart Creative Kit, savouring all of the products that perfectly complement each other.

In addition to beautiful kits, Lime Tart have a fabulous design team who work hard to inspire, and teach you each month. Watch this space as we add more designers in the coming days. We have a stunning monthly gallery and the Zest Blog keeps you up to date with sketches and fantastic step by step projects.

At Lime Tart, we provide unique and fun kits that will stimulate your senses, and awaken your creativity! Grab a slice of the action before they sell out.

Go and check out Odd Bird Planet’s message board at Splitcoast Stampers. Johanna is playing cat and mouse with everyone in a little guessing game in the lead up to a huge announcement. Can you guess?

Butterfly Cake

You can find templates here, here and here. 

Step 1:
Cut and assemble cake slice.

Step 2:
Cut triangle for top of cake, ink edges, and adhere.

Step 3:
Cut a 1” strip of paper to fit around top edge of cake. Cut bottom edge in a scallop and punch holes in each scallop.  Ink edges.

Step 4:
Wrap scalloped strip around top edge of box and adhere with seam in back.

Step 5:
Wrap plastic ribbon around top edge of cake and adhere with seam in back.

Step 6:
Cut 3 flowers from patterned paper, ink edges, and adhere along back edge of cake.

Step 7:
Attach jewels in the centers of each flower.

Step 8:
Punch a small hole in the center of cake.  Cut 2 small blocks of cream tulle and center a candle on both pieces layered together.  Push bottom of candle with tulle through hole.

Step 9:
Cut a butterfly from patterned paper, attach a brad through the center of  body and attach at the base of the candle.

A quick round up of a few giveaways that I know are going on at the moment.

Tania has some blog candy here, and one of the stamps is my favourite justjohanna Odd Bird Planet stap - Michelle’s Big Scroll. I love this stamp!

Inkurable Stampers have seven prizes to giveaway this month. Oh and it looks like Sarah is linking up to some 2peas stamping challenges too!

Odd Bird Planet has declared this past week as Owl Week, and has a LOT of challenges and prizes to giveaway here. Just look for all of the Owl Week challenges. You could even get your owl drawing turned into a rubber stamp!

Maybe we better add something to the list too? How about a little treasure hunt?
Email me with the answer to the following three questions:
1. What is Bernie’s other hobby?
2. How many eggs go in our Lime Tart recipe?
3. How many Topiary stamps do we currently have on the site?
You can find all of the answers on the Lime Tart website.
I’ll draw a winner next weekend and the winner will get a little package of goodies.

Good luck!