12.01.2015

Avery Elle : Made With Love

Hi there – I’m over on the Avery Elle blog today sharing a card I made with the gorgeous Made With Love stamp set.  As my 15 year old son Daniel has JUST found a new obsession with knitting, this set is absolutely perfect!  I used the Custom Panels dies to make my front panel and layered some paper from the Avery Elle Brights paper pad .  I stamped the ball of wool image in London Fog Memento ink and coloured it with Copics.  I finished it off with a cute mini clothes peg and some co-ordinating twine.

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I couldn’t finish this post today without mentioning what I was up to this past weekend!  I was honoured to attend the wedding of my beautiful friend Amy Wanford (Aimes).  Mrs Gray, as she is now known, looked AMAZING (as you can see from the photo below – WOW!) as did her lovely new hubby Chris.  The wedding was held in the stunning Chatsworth House in Derbyshire and was the most perfect day ever.  I caught up with my fabulous friend Kate too – it’s been far too long!!

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05.01.2015

Happy New Year!

 

Teaser Time

 

So here I am with the last of my samples for the Clearly Besotted January release teasers.  I hope you’ve managed to get lots of inspiration from Stephanie and the design team – they are all so amazing!  If you’re itching to get your hands on some of the new products then your wait is almost over – the release goes live tonight (10pm BST) at Clearly Besotted, Simon Says Stamp and Ellen Hutson – woo hoo!

Today I am sharing a card using the new Bon Voyage stamp set which has three fabulous silhouette city skylines and some gorgeous fonts and sentiments.  I probably should’ve shared this card on day 1 with it being a Happy New Year card but hey ho!!  I’ve been at it again with the ink blending – getting quite addicted to it!  I also sprayed (perhaps a little heavy handedly) some Calico shine spray over the top of the blended ink.  The London skyline was stamped in black over the top and then I added some little fireworks from the Set The Scene stamp set.

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Thanks for stopping by and happy shopping!

 


24.12.2014

Simon Says …… Anything Goes

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Hi all MERRY CHRISTMAS  We hope you have a Wonderful Christmas and a Very Happy New Year with your family and friends.

This challenge will last for 2 weeks so you have plenty of time to join in

Thank you for joining us for the Winter Inspiration Challenge and we hope you will all join us again this challenge too.

We will be back soon with the name of the lucky winner of the $50 Voucher

This week the challenge is

ANYTHING GOES

We are showcasing DOCRAFTS products. You don’t have to use them to join in but if you have some we would love to see them used

 Simon Says Stamp will be giving away not 1 but 2  $50 vouchers to shop at the fabulous Simon Says Stamp Store

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Today I’m sharing one more Christmas card – this time a special one I made for my lovely mum and dad.  I managed to find amongst my Clearly Besotted stamp sets the phrases “For My Wonderful” and “at Christmas” so that I could make the sentiment panel.  I die cut the letters using Avery Alpha’s dies from Avery Elle from some red glitter paper I have had for about 2 years!  It’s actually a sheet of wrapping paper I found at a department store and it’s SO red and SO glittery – I LOVE it!  I cut a small section from the large sheet and stuck it onto some double sided adhesive sheets before running it through my Big Shot.  Not surprisingly I am still in love with anything gold this Christmas so I stamped the greetings in Versamark and heat embossed with Ranger Gold EP.  I tied it together with the big ampersand cut from gold Bazzill cs using the die from Clearly Besotted’s Monogrammed die set.  The gorgeous teeny heart was cut using Simon Says Stamp’s Mini Hearts dies (never realised how useful these would be until I bought them!!).

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So now it’s YOUR turn.  Happy Crafting

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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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