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03.04.2014

Clearly Besotted April teasers – Day 2.

Hi, I’m back again with more yummy teasers of some of the new products being released at Clearly Besotted Stamps this month. The set I’m featuring today is called Fruitilicious – I don’t think I need to add any description – the name speaks for itself!! This is a super-fun, graphic set with some cool “punny” sentiments.

The first card features one of the apple images – a two part image to allow for endless colour options. The scalloped edge is done with one of Steph’s new edge dies – I cut it twice and fitted the lower one into the upper one with no overlapping (am I making sense, lol?). The bottom of the card is made with acetate – just for a bit of a change!!

The next card features one of the juice strawberry images – again the stalk and berry are separate stamps so there’s no tricky inking techniques required here!!

Right, well I hope you’re enjoying the sneaks you’ve seen so far – head over to the rest of the DT and our awesome (and I mean AWESOME) guest designers Tracey McNeely and Laurie Wilison for more juicy inspiration!

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02.04.2014

Sneaky Peaks – Clearly Besotted April release!

Wow – is it that time again already? These months are just flying by aren’t they? I’ll need to start on my Christmas cards soon!

Before I share my cards for today I wanted to just tell you all about the fabulous weekend I just enjoyed with my CBS girls Stephanie and Aimes (and CBS boy Dean xxx)! Where I live (on the Wirral) there is a small stamping festival called Happy Stampers that has been taking place twice-yearly for over 15 years. It’s always so busy and most years I haven’t even been able to get a ticket! You may remember that Clearly Besotted was invited to attend as a retailer last October and about 5 nan-seconds after Steph asked if I’d be interested in doing it with her – it was all agreed. Well, this weekend we did it again – with an even bigger and better stand and all I can say is WOW – what a fantastic day. Here’s a couple of photos we took…

Stephanie and Aimes xxx

A little selfie for good measure!!

In the restaurant we went to afterwards (Leverhulme Hotel, Port Sunlight) the menu’s were on iPads!!!!!

Steph was also asked if she would be willing to do a workshop with the Happy Stampers club – a fabulous bunch of ladies I might add! Much to mine and Aimes delight she said yes – what a fun day we had!

And a few photos:

Although we were exhausted by the end of the weekend, we would all agree that it was an absolute blast – we met some awesome friends both at the show and the workshop and lots of lovely faces from around blogland.

Right – well I guess I should get on with the real purpose of this post (assuming you’re still with me??!!) Today sees the start of the April release sneak peaks and what scrummy delights Steph has in store this month. Something for everyone I would say! Today I’m featuring Fresh Flowers – I love this set, the blooms are a dream to colour.

As you can see both of these cards were made for Mother’s Day (which has just passed on Sunday). The first was stamped and embossed in white onto Tim Holtz water colour paper. I then coloured the flower in with Distress Ink in Picked Raspberry and Mowed Lawn. The “Happy” die cute is one of Steph’s new word dies – isn’t it fabulous?!

The second card is using another flower from the Fresh Flowers set (there are three in total) and this time it was again stamped and embossed in white but I added the detail using a white gel pen. I inked the edge of the panel with Pure White Avery Elle pigment ink and added a stitched detail again with a white gel pen.

Steph and The rest of the amazing DT are also sharing some samples showcasing this month’s release so make sure you head over to Steph’s blog for all the links. We also have the gorgeous Tracey McNeely and Laurie Wilison (my idol) joining us again this month as guesties – yay!!!

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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.

There 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!!!