Hello Friend

Hello.

Have you seen our fantastic sale section in the shop? 

There are lots of your favourite stamp brands at bargain prices and i thought i would show you one today.

I have used Winnie and Walters stampets the gift stamp set which has these cute doggies as well as other images.

They are coloured with copics.

For the sentiment i used the big the bold happy, the big the bold confetti .

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Thanks for looking.

Warm Winter Wishes

Hello.

I know its still officially summer ...it doesn't feel like it so i thought id get started on some Christmas /festive cards.

I have used  Winnie and Walters The big, the bold and seasons.

I focused on the snowflake stamp. 

I used non snowflake colours to make this into a wreath.

I used shabby shutters, crushed olive and mowed lawn distress inks.

I had already pencilled in a circle before stamping starting with the lightest first.

Once that was done i used a tiny circle stamp from Big bang confetti.

In fired brick distress ink to make some berries.

The sentiment was then heat embossed in gold.

The whole panel was then adhered to some gold card before adding to the card base.

I then finished with some lawn fawn twine and glossy accents on the berries.

Thanks for looking.

Freaking Fantastic!

A couple of brands had tiny new releases this week - and we have them in store at the same time as in the USA (this is something I'm working to try to do - its not always possible as some of the brands won't release to me early enough but I am trying to get as close to release dates as I can so you can join in on all the excitement as it happens on their blogs).   For these releases we have - 2 stamps from Newton's Nook and dies to match the On the Corner stamp sets from Neat and Tangled and I decided to play with the latter for my sample today.

I stamped the background with delicate blue stars using the just back in stock confetti set from Winnie and Walter and then layered up 3 die cuts using the cityscape creative cut from Mama Elephant.  I used the die and stamp from Neat and Tangled to make the sign post and added my sentiment to it - I'm dedicating to our DT member Keren who, although she didn't get all the way, did freaking fantastic to make it to the Top 10 of this year's Gallery Idol.  I wanted to thank all our customers who voted for her cards - we really appreciated your support.  I love the new dies as you can add some dimension to your cards - I can also see myself using these signposts for parties when I want to identify food for people - you could write on the signposts!

I also had a play with Fresh Cut Florals this weekend which are back in stock along with the dies and all the floral sets from Wplus9.

I used the watercolour technique that Dawn demonstrated a few weeks ago on the Wplus9 blog of 2nd generation stamping with distress inks on watercolour paper and then using plain water to move the ink around to get a watercolour look.  I arranged my flowers in trug (Joanna Sheen die) which I embossed into the card before I started stamping and then I just used distress inks and water to "paint" it - the embossed lines "hold" the ink so it's easy to do ;-)

Hope you enjoy the sunshine today.
Happy Crafting
Tara