20.10.2014

Avery Elle – Seasonal Sentiments

20.10.2014 by 4 Comments

Hello there – today I have a first!  I’ve made a Thanksgiving card!  Obviously Thanksgiving is an American and Canadian tradition so we have little call for these cards over here but I was so drawn to this image in the Seasonal Sentiments set from Avery Elle.  I kept the card simple by embossing it in Gold Tinsel (Ranger) embossing powder on a white panel cut using Finished Frames.  I added a a little bit of gold shimmery twine and mounted it to a small 4 bar size card.  Love this cute little size for a change from A2.Season's Greetings 1

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17.10.2014

Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow!

17.10.2014 by 1 Comment

Happy Friday folks!  Today I have a couple of cards featuring some of the amazing new products available from Simon Says Stamp.  I started with the Sweet Treats cardstock pack – I absolutely love the colours in this pack.  I cut the panel from Mint using the stitched border die from the new die set Bundle of Stitched Shapes (hello? – The best die set EVER?).  Then I took two of the borders from Stitched Slopes and Hills (these ones don’t cut – they just add a stitched line) and ran it through the Big Shot a few times to give a gorgeous background effect.  To finish I used the little trees from the Village die set and cut them Doll Pink, Audrey Blue and White cardstock.  The sentiment is from Cute Christmas Characters.

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My next card features the cute little snowman from Cute Christmas Characters  – a gorgeous stamp set designed by Clearly Besotted especially for SSS.  I used another of the fabulous dies from Stitched Slopes and Hills – SO HAPPY I bought these dies – I’m going to be using them a TON!  The snowfall was done using the Falling Snow stencil with some white embossing paste and a dusting of glitter.

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15.10.2014

Simon Says … it’s a colour challenge!

15.10.2014 by 17 Comments

 

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

This week the challenge is ,,,,,,,,

COLOR COORDINATES 

We have a special challenge this week ! As you may know Simon’s Creative Director Shari Carroll has a Color Coordinates monthly feature on the Simon Says Stamp Blog and this week we are joining in with Shari’s color scheme AND Shari is joining us as a Special Guest  too !!

This is the gorgeous Coordinates Inspiration Board, featuring several of Simon’s Colored Cardstock, for us to use.

10.15.14 Recipe Color Coordinates

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

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Whilst the challenge theme doesn’t specify Halloween there’s only one way my mind took this colour co-ordinates palette!  I used the gorgeous and endlessly useful Luminary Circles die from the Stamptember release at Simon Says Stamp and made a cute little shaker card.  The bats are from some table confetti I bought at John Lewis!  I inlaid the circles with the cardstock colours from the inspiration graphic and used acetate for the large centre circle and put a few sequins behind it for some dazzle!!  The sentiment is from Clearly Besotted’s Fright Night stamp set.

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I can’t wait to see how you all interpret this week’s challenge.

Thanks for stopping by xxx


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