31.03.2014

Avery Elle – Home Sweet Home.

Hello – today I get to share my first post for Avery Elle as an actual, honest-to-goodness design teamie!!  I recently picked up the gorgeous Home Sweet Home set – love the images in this set – and created a little “new home” card using the very cute teepee stamp.  I still can’t seem to step away from the gold supplies at the moment and created the stripes on the card using strips of embossable tape and Ranger gold ep.  The corner of the panel was masked off and then inked using distress inks and the teepee was coloured with Copics.

New Home tpThere are some fabulous images in this set with some great sentiments and a really cool font!  Don’t forget to check out the seriously cute card Yainea has posted on her blog today – adorable!!  Sneak peaks of the forthcoming release are also starting soon over on the Avery Elle blog – you’re not going to want to miss a second of those, believe me!!!

Well thanks for stopping by – hope you have a wonderful week.


24.03.2014

I’ve got squeal-worthy news!!!

I am so happy that this day has finally arrived.  I have been keeping this to myself for a few weeks now and for me, that has been tough!  But today I finally get to share my pant-wettingly exciting news that I am joining the Avery Elle Design Team!

AEDesignTeamBlinkie

To say I am honoured, humbled, privileged, grateful, and totally mind-blown would be understating it!!   I am in love with Avery Elle‘s fabulous stamp and die designs and what can I say about the new pigment inks and cardstock – incredible. I can’t wait to share the projects I’ve been busy creating with the forthcoming release for April and May.  Prepare to be swept away when you see the new stamp sets and dies coming next month!  My first post over on the Avery Elle Design Blog is on Monday 31st March – hope you can swing by to say hi!!

Big hugs,

Caryn xxx

04.03.2014

Elegant Butterflies…

… is the next set I’m highlighting from the new March release from Clearly Besotted Stamps. This set is just beautiful and is sure to be just as popular as Stephanie’s Butterfly Wishes set – one of the very first ones she ever released (wow, that seems like AGES ago now!!).  The possibilities with this set are just endless and with the ever-important co-ordinating dies, I predict this is going to, quite literally, fly off the shelves on release night!!  The first card shows three of the butterfly images included in the set and I have stamped them in Memento Tuxedo black and then coloured them with Copics.

Just Because

Just Because detail

My second card is little less “clean” – I’ve been at it again with my Heidii Swapp colour shine mists (LOVE them).  I die cut the stem from Leafy Accents Die Collection from masking paper then adhered it to my card before spraying the mists (Seafoam and Gold Lame).  When you remove the mask you are left with a subtle, outline effect where the masking paper was.  It’s easier to see the effect (and of course it’s much more shimmery) in real life!!

Happy Birthday March

That’s it for today but I have even more tomorrow so hope to see you again then!!

Don’t forget – the new release will go live at 10pm on Wednesday 5th March!