Dear Friend

So we're all done with the slushy cards for another year, but whilst thinking of all those people who don't have a special someone to share Feb 14th with each year, my mind turned to making a card to show a friend you love them to.  So here's my slightly punny take on a "dear" friend card.

I took the fabulous Label Love stamp set from Altenew and selected a few appropriate sentiments from it.  Next I required a rainbow's worth of inkpads - here I used a mixture of Avery Elle and Mama Elephant pigment inks and then just went about building my rainbow brick wall of sentiments!  The deer head is from the stag trio die set from Wplus9, which is oos today, but as the new release and restocks have FINALLY cleared customs it should be in stock late Monday or Tuesday at the latest.   The friend word is a die from Paper Smooches.  A little black makes the rainbow sing even louder.

That's all from me today as we're off to our very first trade show at the NEC in Birmingham to see what exciting new products we can find for you ;-)  Keep an eye on our instagram feed to see what goodies we find and leave us a comment below if there is something you really want us to look out for.

Tara


NEWS FROM THE STORE:

• Wplus9 new release (yes those lovely elephants!) and restocks, as I said above, will be here Monday or Tuesday.
• The Lawn Fawn new release will hopefully be here next weekend - just after release in the States.
• The Avery Elle new release is already here so will be available as soon as the release goes live Stateside on the 26th February.
• We have restocks from Mama Elephant in customs clearance that will hopefully be here mid-week this week and the new release has just landed in the UK so should be here early next week.
• Paper Smooches new release is in transit and again will be here next week.
• We've just ordered restocks and the new release from Altenew - Vintage Roses is not coming back yet (sorry) as they are out of stock of it too. 

For you.. friend

Hi!

It's my day today and I just couldn't resist Paper Smooches!  The weather has been lovely here all week so I was in the mood for something bright!  All the lovely flowers in the garden inspired me to use the lovely Pocket set of dies (so much more than just a pocket!).  Sticking with Paper Smooches I used the Friend word die and the "for you" stamp from Denim and Daisies.

Here it is, I hope you like it!

Have a lovely weekend! 

Tracyx

Amazing Friend

Good Afternoon. I'm so sorry for the extremely late post, just back off holiday this morning and I feel a little jet-laggy but I have managed to whip something up to share with you today.

I have used a great mix of different manufactures to create todays card.....

I have used a Memory Box die to create the partly cut-away background- to keep these random pieces ii place I have used sticky tape behind them. I have used gold washi tape on the base card which then peeps through. 

The beauitiful florals are from Wplus9's Spring Blooms- I stamped these on to stamping card using HA shadow inks and then added a little shading and depth with Copic Markers. Once finished I fussy cut these out to add to my card.

For the sentiment I cut out multipuls of the 'Friend Die' from Paper Smooches- for the top layer I stuck down a couple of pieces of black washi tape onto a white piece of card before die-cutting. The added 'amazing' is from Winnie & Walter's 'The Big, The Bold and You'( sorry currently OOS).

Thank you so much for stopping by!

Hugs Lydia xxx