22.06.2015

Avery Elle / Cardmaker Magazine Blog Hop

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Today is a fun day because the Avery Elle design team is teaming up with our friends over at CardMaker Magazine for a fun blog hop.   Be sure to stop by our company and designer blogs to be inspired and enter for a chance to win a prize.  One lucky commenter will be drawn at random and will win a $30 Avery Elle Gift Certificate.  You have all week to enter to win.  The winner of the Avery Elle Gift Certificate will be announced on the Avery Elle blog on Monday, June 29th.

You should have arrived here from the gorgeous blog of AJ Otto but if you’ve wandered in here and want to go back to the start of the blog hop then please scroll down for the full schedule.

I’m featuring the fabulously unique “Geek Love” stamp set today designed by my mega-talented teamie, JJ Bolton.  This is the most adorable set, I just love how you can change the look of the little peeps with different hair styles, clothes etc.  For my card I started with a piece of water-colour cardstock and used distress inks to create my background.  I die cut this using the Burst die and then used the pierced circles to create a frame.  I stamped, coloured (Copics) and fussy cut the boy and girl and speech bubbles and then assembled the card.

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The next stop on this super fun hop is the lovely Anita Mulcahey so off you go and enjoy the rest of the inspiration along the way.

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Katie Gehring

AJ Otto

Caryn Davies (that’s me!)

Anita Mulcahey

Yainea

Lisa Lahiff

Melania Deasy

Lois Bak

JJ Bolton

Patti Gilliam

Karolyn Loncon

Sarah Ashley Posch

Jamie Gracz


15.06.2015

Avery Elle: Petal Panel

Hey there, I’m sharing a card over at Avery Elle today and this week I’ve been playing with the new Petal Plate die.  This die is SO cool and comes with different insert designs so you can use them to create all kinds of different patterns.

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I took a piece of Tim Holtz watercolour card and added some  Kuretake Gamsai watercolour paint across the whole area so that there was a mixing of colours – I love the end result.  I then cut the panel from white card and used just the frame portion laid over the top.  I finished with the sentiment from the Petal Panel stamp set to finish it off.

08.06.2015

Avery Elle: Tweet Tweet

Happy Monday to you all!  I’m  over on the Avery Elle blog today sharing a fab stamp set from the BRAND NEW summer release!  This set is called Tweet Tweet and the colouring possibilities are endless – I mean there’s a tropical bird SOMEWHERE in the the world with a blue body and a yellow tail, right?  I’m also featuring one of the FANTASTIC new die sets which make perfect double pierced circles – love them.  I took a piece of white cardstock and scribbled over an area with a few different Copics being sure to blend the colours giving a nice ombre effect.  Then I just used the dies (still attached to each other) to cut them out.  I think it sort of looks like a sunset behind the tree.

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Thank you for dropping in – have a great Monday!