Good morning – it’s the weekend – yay – sadly I have to work today – boo – but when I’m done it’s Saturday night – yay!!

I’m here today to share the last of the peaks of the new release from Clearly Besotted – available tonight at 10pm BST.  This month’s release is fantastic – a fact I’m sure has not been missed by all you devoted CBS fans out there!!!

This card and tag combo features the gorgeous tulip image and die from Pretty Petals.  I know I’m fairly predictable but this just lends itself to my favourite all-time colour combo!  I’ve used some of my new Avery Elle supplies here – namely the inks and cardstock.  That gorgeous green is the Lemon Grass colour and the red on the tulips is Cherry – yummy!  The sentiments are from everyone’s favourite go-to set – A Little Sentimental (seriously, how did I survive BALS!!)

So anyway – please hop over to Steph’s blog for more inspiration from the DT and GDT’s and make sure you stay up for the release at 10pm (BST) – you know how these sets have a habit of disappearing FAST!

Hi all.  So what have you thought of the sneak peaks so far?  Fabulous aren’t they?  Have you picked a favourite yet from what you’ve seen?  No?  Then let me see if this helps!  Today my card features the Time To Celebrate stamp set and co-ordinating dies.  There is also an Additions set of time-related sentiments to go with the main images set so this really is a very versatile set.

I inked some Peacock Feather distress ink into some watercolour paper and added a few drops of water to add a wee bit of extra detail.  You may not be able to pick it up but the panel has then been “spritzed with little silver speckles.   For this I used my new toy – the Tim Holtz Distress Marker Spritzer.  I actually used it with a very old silver Krylon pen which I also ran along the bottom edge of the panel.  I was quite amazed how it worked actually!!!  I die cut the hands of the clock from silver mirri card (yes, it is about 10 years old) and stamped the sentiment in Versafine Onyx black.

For more delights and inspiration please visit Steph and the rest of the DT and GDTs (Tracey and Laurie) – they’re sharing some amazing projects today.

Thanks for stopping by.

Hugs,

Caryn xxx

Hi, I’m back again with more yummy teasers of some of the new products being released at Clearly Besotted Stamps this month.  The set I’m featuring today is called Fruitilicious – I don’t think I need to add any description – the name speaks for itself!!  This is a super-fun, graphic set with some cool “punny” sentiments.

The first card features one of the apple images – a two part image to allow for endless colour options.  The scalloped edge is done with one of Steph’s new edge dies – I cut it twice and fitted the lower one into the upper one with no overlapping (am I making sense, lol?).  The bottom of the card is made with acetate – just for a bit of a change!!

The next card features one of the juice strawberry images – again the stalk and berry are separate stamps so there’s no tricky inking techniques required here!!

Right, well I hope you’re enjoying the sneaks you’ve seen so far – head over to the rest of the DT and our awesome (and I mean AWESOME) guest designers Tracey McNeely and Laurie Wilison for more juicy inspiration!