Back To Smell The Roses!

There is something quintessentially English about roses- and I'm a sucker for any types. The large frilly scented blooms are my favourite. On the stamp scene, the Fresh Cut Florals were everywhere for a while- we all went mad over them.
I wanted to ink them again & do something a little more pared back and try and inject a few stronger lines into my card too. The stripes of colour seemed just right

This set is back in stock & Make The Day Special has restocked plenty of these so if you missed out on them first time around, you can grab this set which is perfect for so many of your crafty projects. 

                                         

If you don't fancy fussy-cutting.. we've these fab dies to help you cut them out instantly!

Well, it's time to go! Hope you get chance to linger near some flowers & take a moment to enjoy nature in all its glory (& then run home and stamp a load of your own blooms !) 

Keren xx

Throwback Thursday

Hello

Happy Throwback Thursday!

Todays card is made using what can only be described as a stamp phenomenon-the set that drove everyone into a complete frenzy- WPlus9's Fresh Cut Florals. Holy moly,we all went nuts for this set! If you do not have it,grab one now to have the original set that sparked a ton of 'copy' stamps.

Ok,so,I have used it on a 60 years young card for my awesome Godmother.

No fusty musty florals on THIS card! No way. 

There are some great accent pieces in this set-I stamped and cut until I had a big pile next to me,then just tried them out in various places over the card until they looked right.

I hope you like it as much as she did ;-)

Happy shopping!

Lou x

Mostly Fresh Cut Florals!

Hi! My turn again and I've had great fun this week making a 3D Pop-Up Box Card.  I think I might have got just a little bit carried away with gorgeous stamp sets and dies from WPlus9, with a little Lawn Fawn and Paper Smooches thrown in for good measure! 

 

Here it is.. the full 3D effect isn't easy in a picture (well not with my photographic skills anyway!!) 

 

 

I had so much fun making this!  Here are the stamp sets and dies I've used:

 

• WPlus9 Love Birds... and matching dies
• WPlus9 Fresh Cut Florals and More Fresh Cuts... and matching dies
• Paper Smooches Clouds (I love these!)
• Lawn Fawn Daphnes Closet petite paper pack (this is an old set and out of stock...BUT.. there is an order winging its way from the States full of absolutely gorgeous NEW release papers, stamps and dies!!)

You could make the box base any size you like.. I went for 7x7cm. 

 

I think this next picture really shows off the clarity of the stamped image - WPlus9 are fabulous, and the fonts are so cute!! 

I hope you like it! 

Tracyx

Another Floral Fusion!!

Hello there :0)

I'm back today and snubbing this horrible wet wintery weather with a taste of Summer Florals in the form of a hanging basket of pretty colours :0)

Yes it's those elusive Wplus9 Fresh Cut Florals again teamed up with the Joanna Sheen Hanging Basket die and the size match is perfect!! I've also joined the trend for embossing paste and stencils to make a textured wall behind the basket :0)

Embossing paste is a trend that's come back round during my crafting time and luckily my paste is still as good as new... the only thing that's different are the gorgeous plastic stencils available now instead of the brass kind we had to use!! I've coloured my embossing paste with a small drop of Memento Tangelo ink to give it an apricot hue.... when the paste was dry I replaced the stencil and used daubers and distress inks in Spiced Marmalade and Rusty Hinge to give the bricks some extra depth and tone :0)
Those pretty vibrant colours transport me away from this wet gloom outside the window and I hope it injects some colour into your day too :0)
Thanks for stopping by
Jenny x

Thinking of You Blues

Good Morning all.

I'm here with a little inspiration for you today in the form of my favourite floral set - Fresh Cut Florals from WPlus9 - and I'm happy to report to fellow fans that the add-on set "More Fresh Cuts" is currently winging its way across the Atlantic along with lots more goodies from WPlus9, Avery Elle, Lawn Fawn and our new brand Newton's Nook! 

I've taken the set on the sympathy card route today and arranged a whole host of blue flowers in a cute urn die from Joanna Sheen.

I kept it fairly monochromatic using a blue-green for the leaves which reminds me of those lambs ears leaves I used to rub the white furry coating off as a kid!  After die cutting all the flowers and stems with the co-ordinating dies I went to town playing florist arranging them in the urn using the florists trick of 1, 3, 5 for the focal flowers and berries and filling in around with leaves.  Mounted onto a woodgrain background for added interest and finished with a banner stamped with a sentiment also from Fresh Cut Florals.

I hope that gives you some inspiration ready for when the new stock arrives - hopefully I'll be able to get the shop open towards the end of next week - I just need to get a few things sorted and then we'll be good to go.   Thanks for your patience - and for filling in the survey - I'm working my way through your comments and will do my best to meet your requests.  As with all things we'll need a little time to grow into all the new stuff we want to do so bear with us.  I'll answer some of the comments and requests in a post next week once I close the survey and announce the winner of prize - so if you haven't done it already this may well be your last chance so if you have 5 minutes to spare fill it in now Make the Day Special Customer Survey

Thanks and Happy New Year!
Tara
x

Joy

Hello.

Today i have used the ever so popular Fresh cut florals and matching dies from Wplus9.

I haven't used this set much at all ...totally love what everyone else does just couldn't get it to work out for me lol.

Well i finally have fallen in love with it :)

I wanted a clean and simple Christmas card and found these were prefect for winter berries. 

The dies give the stamped images a really great quality finish.

The sentiment and dies cuts are also from Wplus9 but are currently out of stock. 

We do have lots of the Christmas release here.

Thanks for looking.

A Floral Arrangement

Hello there.... Jenny back again :0)

I was really hoping that the Wplus9 stocks had arrived before I shared this card with you but I think their arrival is near so I'm going with it anyway..... some of you will already have the Fresh Cut Florals stamp set and dies anyhow and I just wanted to show you how well they go with some other UK branded dies!!!

To echo my team-mate Lydia, I really don't think you can go wrong with these stamps and dies.... anyone can excel at flower arranging and I hope the 'boss' doesn't mind me posting a link to these Joanna Sheen dies which are the perfect companion ;0)
I love the trug, it's the perfect size for the flowers and I have the hanging basket too but just haven't got round to making a card with it yet.... watch this space is all I can say :0)
This was hubby's birthday card....him being a keen gardener this was definitely hitting the right spot..... if Wplus9 could just bring out some vegetable stamps and dies now I would be in green-fingered heaven :0)

Thanks for stopping by and I hope you have a good start to the week!!
Jenny x

Simply Amazing!

Hello! It's my Saturday turn again!  I hope everyone is looking forward to a good weekend!

My inspiration for this card came easily as it was my wedding anniversary yesterday and these words just seemed to work! (this isn't the card that I used - this was just me playing!)

I had a good rummage through all my MTDS goodies to see what I could use.  Here's my card for today!

 

I used mainly WPlus9, with some Paper Smooches thrown in too! 

 

WPlus9 Quilt Cuts 1 Die for the hexagons

WPlus9 Fresh Cut Florals stamps and dies for the flowers and leaves

WPlus9 Quite Like You for the sentiment

Paper Smooches Love Word die

 

I hope you like my card!   Have a lovely weekend! I'm away for a weekend of being spoiled in the country!

 

Love Tracyx

Guiding light

Hello.

The new Wplus9 are very popular right now.

I have the famous fresh cut floral's that everyone is after but thought i would use another set today.

I have used Guiding light stamps set. 

There are also additional dies and sentiments that match this set.

I kept it simple and used distress inks to make the background before stamping over it with black memento.

i only added some white using a gel pen to the light house and to make some stars in the sky.

Although there are lots of sympathy sentiments i think this could make great nature cards as well as masculine birthdays and fathers day.

For all of you looking for a flower fix why not check out these ?

Blanket stitch blooms , they also have matching dies.

Folk art floral's these too have dies.

Thanks for looking.

More Fresh Cut Flowers & Another One!

It's lovely Tuesday- except it's a tragic Tuesday. Tragic because this lovely set is so amazing it's flown out of the store. I tend to have a backup card to show you- but would you believe it -that set's not in either. So I'll do something different- show you this, with an alternative set & show you another card that I've just posted that most of you won't have seen using a set that IS in stock!!

Right-so onto the alternative for Fresh Cut Florals- how about this one?

This set would look lovely on anyone's card AND it has matching dies too. AND you can buy it too- although the way these WPlus9 sets are vanishing, you'll have to be super-quick!

And onto a project actually utilising in stock items?

Harnessing the power of my fave set 'Oh Baby'- I know, did you think you couldn't get any more cards out of it?!!!

If, for any reason you're fed up of the set (& I fail to believe it!)- go and buy it- there's only a few left and if they're all gone, I can't show it here on the blog. You see, you have muchos power over us Make The Day Special girls!

Oh, and if you want to see us showcase any set that you're hovering about purchasing- let us know in the comments, one of us is bound to have it, and we can see about persuading you ;-)

 

Well, enough from me- have the loveliest of Tuesdays and you'll see me again next week- possibly with Oh Baby (unless you've decided against it!!!)

 

Love, Keren 



 

Hearts & Flowers!

Hey! Happy Monday again! Where do the weeks go!?  Tracy here.. I've been busy playing with some of the many new goodies from MTDS.. This week is the turn of the lovely stamps and dies from WPlus9.  I've used two stamp sets (Heartfelt Mix and Fresh Cut Florals) together with one set of dies (Hearts and Clouds) to make this cheery "thinking of you" card.

 

This was a really fun card to make.  The papers are Lawn Fawn (Daphne's Closet). The little stamped flowers are stamped using Fresh Cut Florals (not in stock at the moment.. but watch this space for all Lawn Fawn goodies!)

Heartfelt Mix is such a gorgeous set and there's no end to what you can do with it..

..it has a great range of greetings in a lovely font, clouds always come in handy (they also make great cupcake icing or ice cream!), and the hearts can simply be hearts.. they can be flowers.. and they can also be arranged to make fabby Christmas trees... (an idea for a future blog post I think!).. and the washing line... a washing line, flower stems or (because the stamps are such great quality and flexible) you can make swirls!   See? no end to how useful this set is!

Hope you like it!
tx

 

A Floral Swag

Hello... Jenny here :0)

I finally broke into my Fresh Cut Florals from Wplus9 and had to have a go at flower arranging!!

Seriously, this stamp set is just amazing and it's so easy to get pretty results everytime,

I made a floral swag along the top of a white piece of textured card.....

I have left my Fresh Cut Floral dies wired together for the time being as it's easier to run them 

through in one go on white card and then stamp out the flowers and leaves afterwards.

I could easily have sat for a while, happily stamping away with different colour combos on the die-cuts

which means you can always keep some extras on hand for a quickie card... just pop them in the 

packet with the stamps or dies for another day :0)

Unfortunately these little beauties are out of stock but the dies can be found here and they 

really do make using the stamps a dream. I used this set for the sentiment.

Thanks for visiting and have a great weekend :0)

Jenny x

Using Up Some Waste ...

Happy Friday one and all. I hope you have all had a great week, me and the little ones have had a very relaxed first week to the summer holidays crafting, movies and running around.

It's my day to post over at Make The Day Special..... and guess what (if you hadn't seen my post yesterday) Wplus9 has landed at the Make The Day Special store ... I'm sooo excited about this as the Fresh Cut Florals stamps and dies have become my favourite go-to set :-D

When cutting out the flowers out of white card I was left with quite a bit of negative 'waste' so I thought it might be fun to have a play with this and utilize it on a card. So I inked it up in a ombre effect from pink to purple and layered it onto a kraft card.

I then thought it would be fun and a bit different to stamp the flowers on to a kraft background. It gives such a different look to stamped onto white - much more muted.

The frame on which the bouquet has been placed is from the Avery Elle set 'Framed Fonts', it is such a great set - the sentiments are awesome and the frame is soooo easy to cut out ..bonus!! I then added the lil 'You Are Invited' from the Paper Smooches set 'Salutations'. 

I hope I have inspired you to use up that pesky 'waste', have a great weekend.

Hugs, Lydia xxx