Soooooo!  Did you hop along yesterday with Clearly Besotted‘s 1st Birthday Blog Hop?  If not, there’s still time.  It finishes at midnight on 8th October and you can also take advantage of a 10% discount code being offered by Steph until then too!!  It was such an honour to take part and I thank everyone who popped in and left me a comment.  If you missed it – go HERE!!

Today I’m sharing a card I made with Modern Christmas (designed by one of my besties’s, Aimes).  It’s so pretty and the fonts on the sentiments are fabulous.  The sentiment on my card is actually from Holiday Sentiments – another great set from this month’s release.

I have gold embossed the sentiment  – but as always, that’s hard to see in the photo!!

I’ll be back tomorrow with more samples from the October release.

Thanks for dropping in.

Caryn xxx

Woohoo!  Today is a big day for Clearly Besotted Stamps!  We are celebrating CBS’ first birthday with an unbelievably amazing BLOG HOP!  It is an honour to be included in the list of tremendously talented bloggers joining in the hop and I am so privileged to be part of such an awesome design team – I have to pinch myself sometimes!. Here’s the order of peeps you should be following…

Stephanie Wincott (the boss)

Amy Wanford

Caryn Davies (you’re here!)

Cristina Kowalczyk

Debby Hughes

Jennifer McGuire

Jennifer Nelson

Jennifer Rzasa

Laura Bassen

Mandy Gill

Michelle Short

Pamela Ho

Paulina Nakamura

Stephanie Klauck

 Impressed??  You should be, lol!! So, if you’re following the hop you should have arrived here from the uber-fabulous Amy Wanford, if you’ve stumbled in here and didn’t know about the hop but want to join in the you need to head back to the beginning and visit Stephanie’s blog.

If you know Clearly Besotted Stamps then you will know that the owner, Stephanie is one of the most generous people you could meet.  So with that in mind you will not be surprised by the awesome prizes that she has on offer.

One lucky winner, drawn at random will receive a $75 Simon Says Stamp gift certificate and £100 Clearly Besotted gift certificate

But thats not all!!  At every stop on the hop each designer has picked a set to give away!  The set I have chosen is Set The Scene – as featured in my card above!!  To be in with a chance to win, just leave a comment – the more blogs you comment on, the better your chances of winning!

And if that hasn’t tempted you play along then Steph is also offering a 10% discount code if you shop at Clearly Besotted Stamps between 5th and 8th October!  But don’t sit about – Steph’s new release treasures have been known to sell out FAST!!

So there you have it, please now hop on to the next blog on the hop which is the gorgeous Cristina Kowalczyk.

Happy hopping,

Caryn xxx

I’m LOVING the run up to the October release from Clearly Besotted because it has got my Christmas-card-making mojo well and truly fired up!  The card I’m sharing today is from one of the new sets called Christmas Cheer and it’s all about creating that cosy Christmas fireplace scene.  All this festive-ness has me feeling really Christmassey already – it would be too early to start sneaking out the odd decoration wouldn’t it???

So what have you seen from the sneak peaks so far that has caught your eye?  Not long to wait now – the big reveal is on Saturday and you can get your mitts on the goods at midnight!

Until next time….

Caryn xxx