Friday, 2 September 2011

Hang In There!

Like Kate, I am showing off the new Paper Smooches range today. Have you checked the range out yet? There are sooooooo many uber cute stamp sets....I'm certainly in love with them!! For today's card I've used Paper Smooches 'Hang Ups' set (and added a little cloud detail from Unity's Mr Boy set):

 Other materials: promarkers, embossing powder, sewing machine, ribbon.

If you're a fan of Lawn Fawn and My Cute Stamps...I reckon you'll DEFinitely love this range!

Have a fab Friday!

Thursday, 1 September 2011

Birthday buddies from Paper smooches

 Hello.
I have three cards today made using the new paper smooches stamps.
Ive used the birthday buddies set.
I have kept them all very simple.
And have used Zig pens and pro markers to colour the images.

Birthday fishes.

Happy Bark.day
Happy Happy Bird.day
These stamps and the Zig pens can be found here and here.
You can pre order the new Lawn fawn release here.
Thanks for looking.


Tuesday, 30 August 2011

Go With Your Heart

Hope you all had a good long weekend, did lots of fun relaxing and art making. I have my make for this week for Make The Day Special and I went with a grungy, shabby chic tag using the Unity Itty Bitty and Authentique Co-branded stamp Go With Your Heart.


I've used lots of distressing, some stitching and a bit of embossing for this one.


Have you checked out some of the new stamps in the shop? Here are some of them:




Which are your favourites? 

Have a great week.



Monday, 29 August 2011

Thank You!

Morning! I hope you are enjoying the Bank Holiday weekend...

I have a 'Thank You' card to show you today...it has been my Birthday Weekend, so I have a few 'Thank You's' to make.....
I have had such a busy weekend that I needed a really quick and simple card....
I have used the fantastic new Paper Smooches 'Pretty Phrases' set which is a brand new line that Emily is selling and available here
I wanted a classic look, so I thought I would go for a Black and White combo!
The Phrase is stamped and clear embossed onto a White die cut and then 3D onto a Black one...All I needed to do was add a bit of ribbon and some gems...
Thanks for looking, I hope you enjoy the rest of the holiday and the sun comes out!!
I'll see you soon.
She xx

Saturday, 27 August 2011

Nearly, But Not Quite, Autumn

It's nearly autumn. I can feel it in the air and I am so excited. Every year I eagerly anticipate the return of thick tights, scarfs and woolly jumpers. And, of course, the return of slightly colder weather and the odd rain storm that make me feel justified in staying indoors to craft and drink copious amounts of tea!

I busted out one of my autumn stamp sets earlier today, just to start playing around with some ideas that I've had in my head for a little while.

Happy Fall

I used just one of my stamp sets from Make The Day Special (Unity's Harvest Of Memories)to create the card, because it comes with so many different little leaf stamps and the perfect sentiments. To make sure that I could easily stamp the leaves in a circle, I actually cut apart one of the longer stamps to make each leaf an individual stamp. Shock! Cutting my stamps.

The resulting card isn't quite what I was expecting. It's one of those projects I think is 'nearly, but not quite' but I'll definitely going to be trying this again with some different colours, techniques and probably a bit more layering. It's good to experiment, right?

*** By the way, if you've not visited Make The Day Special for a little while, be sure to take a peek at Emily's new stock - there's new Zig Pens from Kuretake, Papersmooches Stamps from Kim Hughes and there's some fantastic reductions in the August Sale. ***

Thursday, 25 August 2011

A tutorial using Zig pens.







Hello.




Make the day special are now selling Zig art and graphic pens.


You can get them here.


These pens are fab not just for colouring ,


but they also give really great results to rubber stamping.


So here is a little tutorial.


Thanks for looking.


PS ... New Paper smooches are here :0)


Wednesday, 24 August 2011

Paper Smooches

Hello everyone,

I did have a make of my own to share today but when our Paper Smooches order arrived yesterday it was accompanied by some lovely samples by Kim the lady behind Paper Smooches so I am sharing them today :)











They are just so fabulous!

Paper Smooches stamps are now available in the shop, do pop over for a look

Emily x