La Friendship

Good morning all. Have you checked out Emily's latest sale in the Make The Day Special Shop? There are lots of great bargains to be had. To honour the sale, I have made a card using one of my favourite co-brand designers, Suzi Blu. The Unity Suzi Blu stamps are sadly being discontinued (boo) but the good news is that Emily is selling them at a reduced price (yay!). Once they're gone they're gone....

 Have a great Friday,

Today's card featured the beautiful 'You Are Loved' stamp from Suzi Blu.  I stamped the image, and coloured it with Prismacolour pencils; I then cut the sentiment from the top and bottom of the image, and trimmed round the frame of the image to give more focus to the image.  I chose a mix of papers to coordinate with my colour scheme, and used my cropadile to add some decorative holes.  I trimmed the sentiment, added some colour, and then arrange it on my card.  Finally I added a few pearls for a bit of bling.

Have a great day
Suzi

A lotta lotta love...

There's a lotta lotta love flying around the Make The Day Special blog....especially from ME as I'm excited to be back on the design team. I love the MTDS girls, not to mention the ADORABLE stamps the MTDS shop carries!

So to share the love even further, we're joining in the 'Friends with Flair' blog hop, where Unity Stamp lovers world over share a Unity/Ippity project. This week I am sharing my very favourite Unity stamp, Suzi Blu's 'You Are Loved' (you can get yours right here in the UK). I know Mrs Meyremaster also used this stamp on Wednesday, but seriously, it's a stamp MUST HAVE!!!

Here are some ATCs I made using it:

Isn't she just adorable?

Why not check out some more Unity inspiration here?

Thanks for dropping in,

You Are Loved

Today I'd like to share with you a card featuring one of my favourite stamps, You Are Loved by Suzi Blu, available at Make The Day Special.  Such a wonderfully quirky image, and such fun to colour. I used Promarkers to colour this image, and a pointillism technique for my background, starting with my darkest colour I added dots around the image randomly, then using a mid range colour add more dots spreading outwards, finally I used my palest colour to add some dots, I left more space the further out from the image I went to try and create some depth.  I like the finished effect, but you could soften it by going over the whole background with a blender pen.
That's it from me for today
Have a great day all
Suzi

You are loved

Today I'm sharing something a bit different for me. I was totally inspired by fellow Make the Day Special DT mate Kim Dellow on Thursday, and her gorgeous page from her art journal, so I thought I'd have a little play around with paint myself this weekend. The beautiful range of stamps from Suzi Blu available in the MTDS shop make perfect stamps for experimenting with. 

I've used acrylic paints and then paper pieced the image to create this bookmark.

Have a good Monday,