Wander & You'll Miss It!

Morning! Hope you've all had a lovely weekend (a long one for those of us in the UK!). Back to work might mean a less than blissful day- but, like this card says, go and find your bliss (maybe in crafting later or a little chocolate at lunch time!).
You might have missed this set- it's a superb one

It's a Mama Elephant set called 'Wanderlust' & boy, is there tons you can do with it

That little compass stamp would make perfect backgrounds, & is a gorgeous base for an embellishment too. I'll show you a card I created last week so you can see what else you could do with it

That little subway map has had the intersections punched out & coloured cardstock added behind them

And the best news- Wanderlust is in stock and there's a good number of them…for the moment at least!

Hope you get can get your hands on this set- just perfect for guys or gals!

See you next week,

Keren x

Squeaky Clean New Digs!!

Can we have a 'yeah!!' for a Bank Holiday Monday and sunny weather as well :0)

How are you spending the day?..out in the sunshine or Crafting? We are going to be spending ours around the home and garden but hopefully not using any of the items on my card today!!!!

I'm revisiting the Paper Smooches set called Squeaky Clean as promised and I've grouped together quite a few of the images using the masking technique and then watercoloured them with Inktense pencils :0)

I thought this would make a great 'New Home' card for a youngster moving out of the family nest.... if only to serve as a reminder that these items exist and need to be used occasionally.. Lol :0)

The drum of the washing machine has been turned into a 'shaker' style element and I've used micro beads to represent bubbles. The actual stamp has a heart shaped window in the machine but I performed some 'stamp surgery' and removed the centre so I could ink the machine up easily and add a circle instead from Sunny Side Up :0)

                            

Thanks for stopping by :0)
Jenny x

Tie one on

Well it certainly seems as if you all like our new brand Winnie and Walter as more than half of the entire stock I bought sold out within 48 hours - the Big and Bold sentiments were particularly popular and I have re-ordered them along with their new release which is a big secret for now but do check out their blog as you'll love it when you see it!

As I've been very busy getting all your orders in the post, I haven't had time to make a new card for today's post, so I am sharing one I made a few months back which I couldn't blog before as it is appearing in this month's Craft Stamper magazine.  (You all know that our very own Jenny and Lydia are designers for this magazine don't you?   We have such a super talented bunch, Keren is a designer for Crafts Beautiful too!)

I entered a call on the Craft Stamper blog for masculine monochrome cards and instantly reached for my all time favourite Wplus9 set Fish More to create this.

This card is simplicity itself - I die cut the lures from white card and stamped the various designs onto them in grey ink and arranged them in a pattern on a square base card leaving a little room for my sentiment and "stand out" fish.   The sentiment was heat embossed in white directly onto the base (make sure you use an embossing buddy first as white on black can be tricky and you don't want any stray powder spoiling your final design) along with the fishing line and hook.   Then I chose the one lure in the set which "swims" the opposite direction and feature him on the hook.

I bought this set when it first came out as my Dad was a keen fisherman and so the sentiments rang so true for me (he really did Eat, Sleep, Fish!) but this is a really useful set for those tricky masculine cards and with Father's Day just around the corner next month, I got a few back in stock so both the stamps and dies are currently available again.

Hope you all get some crafty time over this bank holiday weekend - don't forget to enter our new competition if you do ;-)

Tara

Tall Trees

Hi!
This card started as just the tall trees from the gorgeous (Paper Smooches) Spring Groves set. I just love these tall trees!  I was going to stamp and colour using promarkers but the simplicity of the trees makes them just perfect for paper piecing!  This isn't something I do very often but I had loads of gorgeous scraps from Lawn Fawn papers that I just couldn't bear to throw away!

For the words I used Winnie & Walter Big Bold You.  Heat embossed in gold.  I also love the typeface font in this set along with the extravagant script - it's a lovely combination!

So here is my card for today.   I hope you like it!   Check out Winnie & Walter - the range is gorgeous! 

 

Enjoy your bank holiday weekend - whatever your plans! 

Tracyx

 

Hello Sunshine

Hi there and happy Friday ! I hope you have got some great plans for the weekend.  Today is my day to post over at the Make The Day Special blog and I have a really bright card to share with you lovely people today. 

I have used a couple of the new release from Wplus9 on this. Firstly I stamped the flowers and leaves from 'Spring Blooms' and added some Copic shading to them. 

The sentiment is from 'Handwritten Hello', I stamped the 'hello' and 'sunshine' in black ink and then went over the 'hello' in glossy accents to add definition and shine. 

Thank you for popping by!

Hugs Lydia xxx


       

Challenge 2 - Week 1

So are you all ready for a new challenge?   We started you off super easy last month with an anything goes but this month we're going to give you something, well, a little more challenging but hopefully not too taxing!   We're going for a colour theme this month, but personally I find them a little difficult if the colours don't float my boat, so we're giving you 3 sets of colours to choose from.   Simple pick whichever palette grabs you and use at least 3 of the colours from it (along with neutrals - black, white, kraft) to make whatever you like.

Here's are a few projects from us to get the inspiration flowing - we'll give you more inspiration each week for the next couple of weeks and the challenge will close on the 22nd May to give us time to select the winner of the £15 voucher to spend in store.

Jenny

Louise

Tara

You will find the link to enter on our CHALLENGES page (see the tabs at the top of the blog)  The link stays open every week of the challenge in that one place and it closes at 10pm (GMT) on 22nd May.

Throwback Thursday

Hello! Its Lou back to Thursday again,and today I have a get well card to show you. My poor Godmother had to have her arm re-broken (ouch!) and is hating the healing time it is taking,so I thought I would cheer her up with soup chicken soup....in card form!

and a closer peep...

It is of course the super useful Lawn Fawn Summertime Charm  teamed with Milo's ABC's (currently out of stock,but back soon!) I used a bit of the Lawn fawn twine to finish it off. Hope you like it! And remember,the new challenge starts TODAY! Whoop! You could win £15 to spend in the shop-how awesome is that? 

See you next week!

Lou x