Throwback Thursday and goodbye!

Hello!

Well,this is my last blog post here for the time being,so I am treating you to a proper throwback stamp set! 

It's simple,it's pretty,it's oh so easy yet effectively modern,it's Wplus9 Iconic Christmas.

See? Easy and elegant :-)

The words are from the gorgeously useful Winnie and Walter The Big,The Bold and Fun (these sets from W & W are great for project life too!)

Stamp the tree,stamp and cute out choice words,and a sequin at the top and bobs your uncle!

I hope you like it!

Right,that's it from me-Tara has an awesome new DT member lined up,you will meet her soon! 

I can't wait to see her projects :-)

Happy Christmas everyone,and all the best for 2015

Lou x
 

 

Throwback Thursday

Hello! 

Brrrrrr! It's getting colder-although we haven't seen the snow our American cousins seem to be having ❄️

Today's card may be considered a little bad taste (pardon the pun) but I got the idea from a pin on Pinterest I saw the other day and thought it would make a funny card 😉

Yes,I know I know,but it's kinda funny! 

So,easy peasy to make-Wplus9 Milk and Cookies stamp and die,making a tiny slit for the straw. The scarf is simply the cookies die! How cool is that?! (Yup-more puns! Sorry!) The nose is just a tiny scrap of orange card and the eyes and mouth are the teeny tiny die off cuts. Talk about recycle! (And they say us crafters hoard-ha! Zero waste,more like it 😉 )

I hope you liked today's card and it made you giggle.

In other news,this is my penultimate post. My daughter has been gravely ill for some time,and is not responding well to her medication so I need to step back from the DT and spend all my time looking after her,but I will be popping back from time to time. It's been a sad desicion but family comes first. Tara has an awesome replacement lined up,so you will meet her very soon!

Have a great Thursday! 

Lou x 

 
 

Throwback Thursday

Hello!

Welcome to another Throwback Thursday here at Make the Day Special Stamp Store! Before we delve into the past,have you SEEN the scrummy new goodness that has been arriving in the shop?! Its very very hard not to blow the food budget and just buy EVERYTHING!!!!

Anyway,back to past releases ;-) Lydia and I decided to try using the same stamp set for different projects. Lydia is a traditional scrapbooker (and has a STUNNING style-pop to her blog and have a peek) and I am an avid Project Lifer,so we chose the cute Mama Elephant Bootastic and got our BOO on :-)

I loved grouping all the little trick n' treaters together on one card-they are super cute! I went with no colour on the images,as my palette for this spread is fairly unaccepting of anything other than orange,grey,black and white-so stamped them on some print cardstock,stamped and stitched the little pumpkins along the top like lanterns.

I did the same for the bats and spiders,stamping,cutting and using stitching to add movement:

Added a little cheesecloth behind the spiders for a web-like look:

Ta-dah!

If you ask her nicely,I'm sure Lydia will show you her gorgeous Scrapbook layout...its boo-tiful!

See you next week-I might have stopped doing Halloween projects by then.....

but then again,I might not have ;-)

Lou x

Throwback Thursday

Hello!

Happy nearly weekend day!

Todays card was inspired by 'that' John Lewis advert last year,you know the one-hare and bear? Well as soon as I saw Lawn Fawn's Hello Baby and Love you S'more ,it made me think of those two

They are too cute! I stamped onto watercolour paper with Archival ink,then watercoloured them with distress inks. I gave bunny a 'fluffy' tail using some puff-pen and mounted the card on to script paper 

I wanted to keep the middle of the hill paler so it didn't dominate the card with green.

I am looking forward to this years John Lewis commercial-they always are a tear jerker for me!

Have a great Thursday,see you next week!

Lou x

Throwback Thursday

Hello!

I did warn you I would be back with more from the fabulous Unity My Dear set if no one bought it,and no one has-so here is another idea to stretch this lovely stamp set. 

With Christmas on its rapid way (don't groan-you have to start thinking about it soon ;-) ) I started thinking about creative gift wrapping. This set makes a perfect old fashioned gift bag

See? How cute is that? Now imagine it spilling goodies out on Christmas day...

Oh now that's my kind Christmas present! 

So all I did for this was use Staz-on to stamp onto a calico bag-simples!

Our new challenge is up-it's a lovely sketch this month,so pop on over and have a peep ;-)

Have a good end of week,

Lou x

Throwback Thursday

Hello!

Happy nearly weekend :-D

I know some of my posts can dubiously be called 'Throwback',but todays post is TRULY a throwback. I used  the gloriously vintage Paper Smooches Chubby Chum Pals and the not so quite as vintage Think Fast to create a card one of my favourite quotes

I know,I know-its a chicken,but it could be a seagull. If you half squint. And look from a distance ;-)

He and the fries are water coloured and the packet is paper pieced and the sentiment typed with my trusty vintage typewriter. Then a little stitching around the edge in 'fry' colour to finish it off.

Right,thats all from me-Im off to fulfill this cards demand ;-)

Lou x

Throwback Thursday

Hello :-)

Happy Thursday-nearly the weekend-yay!

Todays card is another for one of those frequent August Birthdays,using the super cute,Mama Elephant Bootastic and its matching dies. This doesnt have to be just for Halloween-it can fit a few occasions,including an invite to a movie night,but thats another post ;-)

The speech bubble is from the Avery Elle Oh Yeah die and the Wish List is definitely NOT throwback as its from the scrummy new Altenew Thoughts and Reminders stamp set. I paper pieced the princess after stamping and colouring her Julie Nutting style,over script paper. 

Here's a close up...

I shaded parts of her dress with a pale grey copic to add some depth,and some gold Stickles to her wand and crown. See? Not a wiff of Halloween ;-)

Hope you like it,have a great end of week!

Lou x

Throwback Thursday

Hello!

Its nearly the weekend! Wahoo!

August is a veeeery busy Birthday month for me,so todays card is inevitably a Birthday one ;-)

I used all Mama Elephant products- Cosmic Stars and Starry Nights,(which is currently out of stock) and the scrummy not so throwback Starburst Cover Plate to create this,plus a smattering of Frantage for some extra stars

How cute is that lion?!

The Starburst plate is mounted over some glitter cardstock and raised on pop dots to create a mini shadowbox .

Dont forget to play along with our current challenge-its a beautiful Autumnal colours one this month,and theres plenty of time left to enter :-)

Have a great weekend when it arrives!

Lou x

Throwback Thursday

Hello!

I hope you are having a great day-the sun is shining and it is nearly the weekend,yay!

Todays card is made using the incredibly cute Sugar Pea Designs Love you Bunches. This is not my normal style of card,so I am on new territory here! But I just love this stamp,its so cute. I dont think there is a single little girl that has never thrust a bunch of 'weeds' into their mothers hands at some point <3

I used Avery Elle Simply Said Hello die . The image is watercoloured using Distress inks.

I hope you like it as much as I enjoyed something new!

Lou x

Throwback Thursday

Hello!

Todays card is a wedding card I made for a friends wedding. Wedding cards can be tricky to not make them all about the bride,to add a bit of masculinity to them for the groom too,so I hope I got this balance right. I used WPlus9 Fanciful Feathers and dies. The sentiment is Paper Smooches We Connect,out of stock at the moment,but there are loads of alternatives in stock,have a browse.

One feather is feminine,the other masculine. Heres a closer look

Hope you like it! 

There is a new challenge just around the corner,and as always a £15 store credit for the winner-keep checking in for the details,its going to be a gorgeous one!

Lou x

Throwback Thursday

Hello! 

Cor what a scorching day here today! Is it sunny where you are? The mounting heat and excitement from the children can only mean one thing-end of school is in sight!

This is a busy time for us card makers-trying to make sure every teacher,TA,LA subs etc are catered for and thanked. I use one set for ALL mine. It is super versatile (as are all Lawn Fawn)and can be used for many other occasions-there's still time to grab one and get making! It is,of course, A Good Apple

My card is SUPER simple,quick and easy 

Told you! How cute is that sentiment <3

I cut out a piece of black card to fit the inside of the chalkboard and stamped using the brilliant Avery Elle ink Brilliant White (out of stock right now,but back soon!) and scuffed the edges of the board with the white ink too

You can use this set to make everything you need to thank a teacher for the year-tags,cards even stamp on tissue paper for some great unique wrapping!

Hope you like it and it inspires you. 

Remember,there's still a few more days to play along with our latest challenge of CASEing an older card-its great fun to do and you can win a £15 store voucher if you are picked as winner :-) What have you got to loose?! Challenge closes at 10pm BST on Tuesday 22nd July-good luck! Just go to the top of this page to see the challenges bar and you can see full details and get DT inspiration.

Until next week,

Lou x

Throwback Thursday

Hello!

Urgh,its cold,wet and windy here today-has your sun disapeared too? I think the Tour De France took it with them when they passed through ;-) Perfect day to catch up with some Project Life weeks :-D

Today is a PL spread that I used Paper Smooches Documented Dies (which are INVALUABLE for Project Life-I use them a LOT lol) I cut a load out and keep them in a pot ready for adding to a layout,they look great glued,sewn or stapled and even stenciled. Paper Smooches have quite a few bits that can add a great touch to a page,have a look ;-)

Also used today are the awesome Lawn Fawn Stitched Journaling die and Large Stitched Journaling die,which are both out of stock right now,but will be back soon!

And some closer peeps at the dies in action

I hope you like it and go check out some of the dies in the shop :-)

Lou x

Throwback Thursday

Hello!

Hope you are having a lovely week-nearly at the weekend!

In today's post I have started what is turning out to be a massive undertaking (you know those projects-they seem like a good idea at the time,then end up being fairly mammoth? Yup,one of those)

I thought it would be a lovely idea to make my two year old niece a set of flash cards using mostly Lawn Fawn products. 

First I inked up Quinn's ABC's,as these are a great size for this,and have both upper and lower case. Then came the fun part-finding alphabetic critters :-D

(I had to use a Paper Smooches set for the Ee one. Egg would have been super easy,but my niece is highly allergic to egg,so I didn't want to include any egg type thing)

Next came the colouring! Our family uses Montessori as a teaching tool,so I used Montessori alphabet colours for all the alphas,blue for consonants and red for the vowels. I used bold un-fussy colours.

And then backing for the unsightly backs,using Lawn Fawns petite pads

So,this is the first lot. A-i. I think I will laminate them when they are all finished to make them durable.

I hope these inspire you to make some gifts for the little ones in your life!

Lou x

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

Throwback Thursday

Hello all!

Well the sun most certainly has got his hat on in these parts!

My card today is made using the ever useful Lawn Fawn Fanciful Frames-sadly (and understandably ;-) ) out of stock just now,but when it comes back in snap a set up-it is such a useful set to have! And the super cute Newtons Nook Just Say Cheese. 

My other half is an artist,(and a cheese lover!) so I thought he would appreciate this on his Birthday :-D 

How cute is that little mouse?! Crazy cute! Looks like he has missed out on buying that top picture-or maybe he is the lucky buyer? Who knows! Lets sneak in for a close up

I hope you like it and are having a great day,happy Throwback Thursday!

Lou x

Throwback Thursday

Hello! 

Hope you are having a great week :-)

Have you seen the Fathers Day section at the shop? All the things you need to help you with those tricky masculine cards!

Todays card is most definitely NOT masculine ;-)

It is the super cute Lawn Fawn Here's The Scoop-how 'sweet' is this set?! This was my first ever Lawn Fawn set,so it has a very special place in my heart :-) These little guys are coloured with Prismacolor pencils and have a vellum sheet stitched over them.

Note of warning-do not add too much glitter to your shaker cards! Ahem,think this one has 1000000 sprinkles too many ;-)

The stripes are created from Avery Elles Pure White pigment ink and Mama Elephants Basic Borders stamp set.

Hope you like it :-D Have a sweet day!

Lou x

Throwback Thursday

Hello!

(made using Lawn Fawn Stitched Journaling Card die and Mama Elephant Sketchy Letters)

Are there any Project Lifers out there? Are you a die hard PL addict? Have you thought about it but haven't embarked on it yet? Did you know that everything you need to create gorgeous,embellished  3x4's and 6x4's is RIGHT HERE IN THE STORE?? No? Well let me show you :-)

First off, Lawn Fawn have two die sets that allow you to create perfect PL cards. For the smaller 3x4 cards and photos this is your new best friend. The Stitched Journaling Card. Look at that cute super trendy stitching!

And for those bigger 6x4 cards? Yup,Lawn Fawn have that covered too,with this bad boy. The Large Stitched Journaling Card

Those extras are invaluable for embellishing! Im just popping one of these into my shopping cart right now ;-)

The store carries a gorgeous range of Lawn Fawn papers, right here, so you can cut some gorgeously different cards.

Ok,so you have cut your cards,now what? 

STAMPS!!! Make those cards PERSONAL! There is hardly a set in the store that wont compliment your project lay out! Go look! Mama Elephant in particular have some great PL stamps as do Unity (But hurry-Unity is now a discontinued brand at the store,so once they are gone,they are gone! 

See you next week!

Lou x

Throwback Thursday

Hello!

Happy Throwback Thursday-are you LOVING all the scrummy new Lawn Fawn arrivals? Me too!

So,today I used a slightly older Lawn Fawn set-the awesomely cute Puffy Star Stackables. Swoon! I have used this set so much-it truly is a versatile and adaptable set of dies to have.

A veeeeeery simple card-and pretty self explanatory! Just remember to leave the very tip of the star die hanging out when cutting it for a folding card. The sentiment is embossed onto vellum and is from Paper Smooches Spectrum

I hope you like it and enjoy shopping at the store!

Lou x

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