Subtle Shades

Just popping by with a quick make for the weekend. This little note card uses one of the longer, background stamps from Beautiful Botanicals, along with one of the sentiment stamps from Sophie's Sentiments.



Using an ink in a similar tone to my cardstock, I simple stamped back and forth to create a subtle background pattern on my base. Then added my sentiment and a handmade ruffled ribbon flower. Done in minutes!

Happy Travels...

I must be gearing up for my holidays because I felt inspired to make a 'happy travels' set of cards with my Unity 'Mr Boy' set:

 Simply done with promarkers, paper piecing, sitching and glossy accents. 

Happy Friday!

Unity atc's

Hello.

Today i have 6 atcs to share.

I used the Unity store kit...

Bold insight.

When i started making these the plan was to use them as a reference.

So that i have an easy way to see what stamps i have.

But now I'm thinking i may use them on cards or layouts.

I have kept them all very simple in design but tried a couple of different techniques.

I used lots of distress inks, to stamp colour and paint with.

Also some glossy accents, crackle accents, stickles and bakers twine

This and all the Unity store kits can be found here.
Thanks for looking.

MTDS News

Hello.

Just a quick post to share some news.

We are now stocking Simply Betty stamps.

Below are just a couple of images you can find more here.

More new stamp company's coming soon.

We also have our August sale here with lots of Unity stamps at great prices.

For regular updates you can check the Make the day special facebook page.

Thanks for looking.

Friendship

Just a quick post with some friendship, which I think we all need from time to time.

I've used stamps from the Unity Bold Insight

and the sentiment is from Unity Adventures In Happiness

Hope you have a day full of Friendship.

Kim

Bee a friend!!

My card today uses a stamp each from the Unity sets One Precious Life and The Right Words available here.

I stamped the sentiment on to patterned paper and then trimmed it before mounting on black card. I chose to make it a different shape rather than the usual square or rectangle. The bee was also stamped on to patterned paper before cutting out and sticking to the card.

Materials used:
Papermania cardstock, My Mind's Eye papers
Unity stamps (as above), black Versafine ink
Doodlebug ribbon, CraftWork brad
cotton lace.


Before I leave, you may want to check out the shop where there is an August Sale going on!!!

Be Unique

I've been playing around with my inks, mists and colour markers recently - getting a feel for colour combinations and 'practising' for larger projects. So today I'm sharing a little tag that I made using some of the leftovers from a project using my mist inks. Little cards and tags really are a great way to use up all of those scraps you have lying around!



The base of the card was already misted in autumnal colours, so I wanted to create something 'earthy'. I used the corner stamp from Lawn Fawn's Blissful Botanicals and coloured it using Promarkers, then added a suitably nature inspired sentiment from Unity's Naturally You.

Quick, simple and, yet, extremely satisfying!