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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07.01.2015

Simon Says… Something New

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Hi all and welcome to another week on the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge

We hope you all had a Very Merry Christmas and A Happy New Year.

Thank you for joining us for the Anything Goes Challenge and we hope you will all join us again this week too.

This week the challenge is

SOMETHING NEW

This can be New Home, New Baby, New Job, New Crafty Stash, New Technique, whatever you can think of.

We are showcasing our very own SIMON SAYS STAMP EXCLUSIVE PRODUCTS this week. You don’t have to use them to join in but if you have some we would love to see them used

As always Simon Says Stamp will be giving away $50 voucher to shop at the fabulous Simon Says Stamp Store

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So did you miss us??  It’s been a whole 2 weeks since the last challenge – where did Christmas go??  I’m still in the process of packing away the last few things – with a very heavy heart 🙁

For my card today which celebrates the “new” I’ve used some gorgeous new Simon Says Stamp goodies that I got in my last order.  The beautiful Delicate Thistle die was sent to me from my lovely friend and team-mate Melissa Bove – thank you so much Melissa.  I am a originally from Glasgow (but have lived in England for the past 20 years) so the thistle (which is Scotland’s national flower if you didn’t know) is a special symbol for me and I just adore this die.  I die cut it twice and then coloured it with Distress Markers before finally giving it a sheen with a good coat of Studio Calico shine spray.  For the background to my card I used the Tiny Dots stencil from Simon with some embossing paste.

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I created the sentiment using the new Elle’s Alpha’s from Avery Elle (which I didn’t line up all that well) and just in case you didn’t know – Hogmanay is what we Scots call New Year!!!

Thanks for popping by – I’m looking forward to visiting your blogs this weeks and getting lots of lovely inspiration!!

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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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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!

 


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