24.11.2014

Noel – Avery Elle

Hello – I’m here today to share a couple of cards featuring one of my favourite sets of the year – NOEL from Avery Elle.  I just love the big, bold Nordic-style fonts and gorgeous snowflake images – it’s such a useful set.  The three snowflake dies that compliment the set are also absolute MUST HAVE’S in your collection – again – perfects sizes for all kinds of projects (I have a post coming up soon featuring other ways I’ve used this set – stay tooned!!!)

So, to say I have an unhealthy obsession with Glossy Accents is an understatement!  I buy it three at a time and start to get palpitations when I get down to my last bottle!  This card is a perfect example of why I love it so much!  LOOK how it turned that snowflake die-cut into what looks like an acrylic or enamel embellishment – swoon!

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I cut the snowflakes from white card and then used a Copic marker to add a touch of colour to the edges.  I coated the snowflakes with a clear Wink of Stella and them covered them in GA and waited patiently for them to dry.  I stamped the NOEL sentiment in Tumbled Glass distress ink (a perfect match for the snowflake) and finished it off with some white twine.noel 2 close

My second card is possibly not one you’d really want to send in the mail – it weighs a ton!!  I used the large snowflake to create a shaker window out of some Avery Elle Sea glass cardstock and filled it with tiny, little micro-beads.  I cut a smaller snowflake from white card and popped it onto the middle of the window finished with a silver sequin.  The NOEL sentiment was used again but this time heat embossed in white.

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Thanks for popping in to visit today – make sure you check out the Avery Elle blog every day for tons of gorgeous inspiration from the rest of the AMAZING design team.

17.11.2014

North Pole

Hello – I’m over on the Avery Elle blog today with a fun little card featuring the GORGEOUS festive stamp set – North Pole.  I LOVE the little penguins in this set – there’s some fabulous little images too.  I used the curved die from Custom Panels for the snow slope and the Falling Snow stencil from Simon Says Stamp again (my favourite stencil at the moment!)

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All these little Christmas scenes are filling me with festive spirit – I can’t wait!!

12.11.2014

Simon Says …We’re Seeing Stars.

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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  Thinking Of You Challenge and we hope you will all join us again this week too.

This week the challenge is ,,,,,,,,

WE’RE SEEING STARS

We are showcasing STUDIO CALICO 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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Before I go on to my card I have to announce the winner of the Simon Says Stamp Grab Bag from the Birthday Blog Hop in celebration of Stephanie Lekauf (of Simon Says Stamp).  The winner, randomly chosen from 250 eligible comments is ……………

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Congratulations Karen – please head over the the Simon Says Stamp Blog for all the details of how to claim your prize.

So back to this week’s challenge.  I’ve got a gold-tastic card to share with you this week – it’s so shimmery in real life.  For the large stars I used the Simon Says Stamp Mosaic Stars stencil from the STAMPtember release.  It’s the first chance I’ve had to play with this stencil so when I saw the challenge theme was “Seeing Stars” I went straight for it!  I used a gold glitter effect texture paste with the stencil and then accented the card with some little cork stars from Studio Calico.  I actually spritzed them first with Heidi Swapp gold lame colour shine spray and then coated them with Glossy Accents.  To finish I added some gold thread and a gorgeous sentiment from Clearly Besotted’s Most Wonderful stamp set stamped in gold Delicata ink.

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I hope you get a chance to play along this week – can’t wait to see your creations!

There are fabulous Give Aways and inspiration from fabulous designers on a daily basis over on the Simon Says Stamp Blog , if you haven’t subscribed by email you may want to so you don’t miss out 

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Simon Says Stamp

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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