04.06.2015

More Clearly Besotted teasers!

Whizzing in with a VERY quick post as I’m heading out to the Ideal Home Exhibition in about 5 minutes – can’t wait!!  I’m sharing another card I made with the Best Teacher set from the new release at Clearly Besotted –  need a few of these at this time of year! This time I stamped the apple with one of the new ombre ink pads from Hero Arts – love the effect of these on big solid stamps like this!

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I also used the same inkpad to stencil a background area behind the apple and for the banner too.  A simple card but made more interesting with the graduation of colour – love these ink.

Make sure you take a look at the rest of the teams samples – they’er amazing!!

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03.06.2015

Simon Says … Make it Masculine

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Hi all and welcome to another week on the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge

Thank you for joining us for the  Anything Goes Challenge and we hope you will all join us again this week too.

This week the challenge is

Make It Masculine 

Father’s Day is on 21st June, so this challenge is dedicated to creating something for the men in our lives. You don’t have to make a Father’s Day creation, anything masculine will do !

We are showcasing CAS-UAL FRIDAYS and WAFFLE FLOWER Products this week. You don’t have to use them to join in but if you have some we would love to see them used

As always Simon Says Stamp will be giving away $50 voucher to shop at the fabulous Simon Says Stamp Store

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Eek – not the dreaded masculine card, lol!  I know a lot of us card makers aren’t all that keen on making masculine cards as they tend to be less fussy, less “pretty” and don’t often give us as much freedom to get really creative as cards for fefmales do (but that could just be me, lol) .  I recently picked up this woodgrain paper pad and love it for giving a good amount of detail and texture but still be able to keep it CAS and masculine-looking.  I stamped the bow from the Waffle Flower Bowtiful stamp set in fog ink on three different wood papers and also covered the cream base card with a darker one for contract.  The sentiment was stamped in Versamark ink and then I heat embossed it with a cream powder.  The bows were die cut and mounted on foam adhesive to finish – simples!!

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So now it’s YOUR turn.  Happy Crafting

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Do you use Instagram ?  If so please add  #ssswchallenge 

There are fabulous Give Aways and inspiration from fabulous designers on a daily basis over on the Simon Says Stamp Blog , if you haven’t subscribed by email you may want to so you don’t miss out

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You have until Wed  8am Ohio time. 1pm UK time, 2 pm CET to join in

No backlinking allowed, Only 5 new creations will be eligible in the prize draw

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03.06.2015

Best Teacher

Hello again, here with another little sneak at a new Clearly Besotted set that is REALLY useful at this time of year – this one’s called Best Teacher.  I LOVE this big bold, juicy apple – Isn’t it amazing?!  I inked it up with Clasic Cherry ink by Ranger and stamped it a couple of times using my MISTI to get a really clean flawless print.  I LOVE the MISTI for that.  I used a thin strip of striped cardstock from Simple Stories colour vibe paper pad and finished with one of the sentiments from the set.

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Well I hope you’re enjoying all the sneak peeks so far?  I’ll be back again tomorrow with another card but make sure you pop along to Steph’s blog and the rest of the team for more mouth-watering inspiration .

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