02.02.2015

To A Special Friend – Clearly Besotted February 2015

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Hey!  It’s a new month and that means the start of the peeks at the new release coming from Clearly Besotted in February.  As always, Stephanie and Jenny have outdone themselves and have created the most gorgeous stamp and die sets ever!  One of my favourites is the Friends Forever set.  I used the beautiful tulip image and coloured it with watercolours.  This was made for my friend Kate who just celebrated her 40th birthday – woo hoo!  I didn’t have quite the right colour of twine that I wanted for my card so I dyed some natural cord from Hemptique with a matching Copic marker (can’t remember exactly which one – sorry!!).

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As well as my fabulous teamies, Amy Gray (was Wanford!!), Debby Hughes and Michelle Short  (Mandy is off gallivanting around NZ – lucky thing) We have some amazing guest designers joining us again this month – I adore them all – Lucy Abrams, Jo Neville and Jen Nelson.  Pop by their blogs for tons of fabulous inspiration xxx

 


28.01.2015

Simon Says … Anything Goes

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

Thank you for joining us for the Have a Heart Challenge and we hope you will all join us again this week 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 CLEARLY BESOTTED  AND LIL’ INKER DESIGNS  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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Of course I HAD to work with some of my gorgeous Clearly Besotted products for this challenge – how could I not??  I used one of the new stamp sets from the January 2015 release – Baby Shower.  I stamped the elephant on linen cardstock with Raspberry pigment ink from Avery Elle.  I love the textured effect – it looks like the elephant is made of fabric!  I made this card for a friend who recently had his frst baby so to personalise it I used the new Elle’s Alphas stamps for the date and Lawn Fawn’s Milo’s ABC’s for the name.  I created the aperture using the Simon Says Stamp stiched circles.

 

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Can’t wait to see what you all come up with this week!

 
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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26.01.2015

Simon Says Stamp February 2015 Card Kit

 

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I got home to some gorgeous happy mail today … my Simon Says Stamp February Card Kit!  This is one of my favourites yet – the colours are perfect and the stamp set is just gorgeous.  I didn’t waste any time getting stuck in – here’s what I’ve created so far:

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I don’t think I’m done with this kit by any means – I absolutely LOVE IT!  Looks like hubby will be getting a few extra Valentine’s this year, lol!