Irresistibly Groovy Love

Good morning all!

It's Thursday, (or 'the third day' according to Joey from Friends...I've been watching it a lot whilst decorating!), which means it's time for a new challenge at CAS-Colours and Sketches, and this week is a colour challenge...

I almost forgot to make my card this week, due to having been so busy with the painting, but I managed to pull this together at the last minute last night!

I decided to make a Valentine's card, and given the colours, I thought a male card would work well. I used some of the gorgeous free* Irresistibly Yours DSP from Sale-A-Bration as my background, on a Crumb Cake card base. I punched out a heart using the Sweetheart punch, then stamped one of the hearts from the Groovy Love stamp set inside the aperture.

I stamped 'you' from Happy Watercolor and 'me' using Simply Serif, both in black Stazon. I used Stazon as the stripes on the DSP would resist water based inks. I finished with a little heart punched from Cherry Cobbler using one of the Itty Bitty Accents punches.

*Irresistibly Yours DSP is one of the items you can choose free with each £45 spend!

It was lovely to see so many more entries to last week's challenge and we are looking forward to many more this week!

In Color showcase!

Hi all!

As you know there is a brand new catalogue out on Tuesday (yay!!!), and with it are 5 beautiful new In Colours! 

So today's offering is to show you each of the 5 colours...

No, not 5 projects...all of the colours on one! Admittedly when I started I had only intended to use 3, but the more I played the more I decided that all 5 would actually work!

I used the fabulous Hardwood stamp (Lost Lagoon) along with the very popular Petite Petals (Hello Honey) and Gorgeous Grunge (Tangelo Dream and Mossy Meadow)...these work so very well together! The sentiment from Happy Watercolor was stamped in Blackberry Bliss.

What do you think? Do all the colours work together?

So are you as excited as me about the new release? If you are, and you would like you very own catalogue complete with a little bookmark showing all of the new In Colors, please do contact me...I'd be more than happy to send you one! :) 

For new customers, they are £5 including UK postage, which I will deduct off your first order, no minimum spend!

I am also happy to post catalogues to Germany, France, The Netherlands and Austria, where I can also sell to so please do contact me if you would like one!

I am going to the gym now, then I may attempt to put up our new tent that we got for a bargain from Argos! A 4 man Regatta all weather tent, reduced from £259.99 to just £99.99!! I'll let you know how I get on!

6 days to go!!!

Have a lovely Wednesday!

Thank you to my customers!

Good afternoon and welcome to my newest follower, Jennifer! :)

Yes, I am quite late with my post today! It's because I was gardening until late last night and didn't get chance to write up my post! 

I have lots of customers that like to buy direct from my online shop, as well as my Stampers 6 ladies, so I like to send them a little something each time they order from me, just to thank them for their very much appreciated business! Here is what I am sending out this month...

This very simple one layer card is made using the Happy Watercolor stamps, a button and some Whisper White Bakers Twine. The border is created by stamping the dots several times.

I also like to include a little gift, as an extra 'thank you'.

I have a few more of these to make up now as I received more customer orders today! :)

Have a fab Friday and I'll see you tomorrow!

A happy card!

Hi everyone! And a special welcome to my newest follower, Wendy...it's lovely to have you here! :)

Wasn't it a lovely day yesterday? I even managed to build my new greenhouse and Keiran's ant world...I think that might be staying in my greenhouse. Can you imagine escaped ants all over the house??!

Anyway, I was inspired by the lovely weather to make this cheerful thank you card for a lady who placed an order with me this weekend....

I have used the Happy Watercolor stamp set for the sentiment and Watercolor Wonder Designer Series Paper. 

I created the edge using the Adorning Accents Edgelits and then embossed using the matching embossing folder. I didn't run it through my Bigshot though. To get the triple embossing I lined up the edge in the folder then used my scoring tool to emboss the lines...they would squish in the Bigshot if I did more than one!

I should also say that this card was also inspired by the lovely Linda, who made a card and I just needed to CASE it! It's a terrific way to use my large stash of DSP! Here is Linda's gorgeous card...

Stampin' Up! products I used

Please click on the pictures to find the items in my online shop.


I am being dragged to check on Keiran's ant world so I'm off now...see you soon!

Happy Watercolor Thank You

Good morning LIMettes!

Yay look at me, here all bright and early!

Today's theme at Less Is More is... 

One Layer - Spring Flowers

I very nearly went for one of my favourites at the moment, Blessed Easter, but I changed my mind and used a set I haven't used much.

I have stamped the background in Bashful Blue (sadly retired). I used the generational stamping technique (3 stampings with one inking). I then stamped the flowers over the top in Basic Gray, after stamping off once to give a softer image.

The sentiment was perfectly positioned used my Stamp-a-Majig and I paper pierced under it using the Paper Piercing Essentials Pack.

Stampin' Up! supplies used

please click on the pictures to buy direct from my online shop.

Don't forget, for every £45 you spend, you get to choose a FREE Sale-a-Bration product!

If you would like to find out more about the gorgeous Stampin' Up! products, or to order any, please do contact me and I will be happy to help!

I also hold Stampin' Up! parties and workshops, so if you would like to find out more, please don't hesitate to get in touch!

SPECIAL OFFER!! Order/host a party with £250 of sales, and choose £65 worth of products FREE! Or join Stampin' Up! and choose £150 of goodies for only £99!! Contact me or see here for more details!

A Pretty Thank You

Morning!

How was your weekend?I hope you had a good one. I was working but I managed to get some crafting in too. I have missed entering the Less Is More challenge for the last couple of weeks so I think it's time to get back on track with it! So here is a card I made last night after work, just for the challenge, which is Green and Yellow.

For a simple looking card, I used a lot of products! It was nice to have a play with various stamps and punches! Can you see the subtle background? I stamped it with the En Francais background stamp using the Illuminate Glimmer Watermark ink pad. This gives the background a gentle shimmer, seen in this picture below...

Isn't it pretty? And oh so shimmery! The flowers are stamped using Petite Petals and the tiny flowers from Mosaic Madness. They were punched using Petite Petals Punch and one of the Bitty Punches. The leaves are from Summer Silhouettes. I finished with a So Saffron Candy Dot...I have finally ordered some so now I can use the few I have, instead of hoarding them!

Stampin' Up! supplies used

   

Please click on the pictures to buy direct from my online shop.

Don't forget, for every £45 you spend, you get to choose a FREE Sale-a-Bration product!

If you would like to find out more about the gorgeous Stampin' Up! products, or to order any, please do contact me and I will be happy to help!

I also hold Stampin' Up! parties and workshops, so if you would like to find out more, please don't hesitate to get in touch!

SPECIAL OFFER!! Order/host a party with £250 of sales, and choose £65 worth of products FREE! Or join Stampin' Up! and choose £150 of goodies for only £99!! Contact me or see here for more details!

I am also entering my card into the challenge at Freshly Made Sketches - #125 too...

Thanks for having a peek today!

Pinkies Spring/Summer bloghop

Thank you for joining us on another Pinkies Blog Hop! We're showcasing lots of gorgeous projects 

using products from the new Stampin' Up!® Spring/Summer Catalogue. Simply use the buttons at the 

end of each post to keep hopping! 

Here is my project for this blog hop, and I have chosen to use the fabulous Peachy Keen stamp set and On Film framelit bundle and one of the stamps from Happy Watercolor.

I stamped the various elements in Bermuda Bay, Basic Black, Soft Sky and Baked Brown Sugar. 

The filmstrip, both arrows and the cute little camera are all from the On Film Framelits. I also cut out an extra 'lens' for the camera, popped it up on dimensionals and then covered with Crystal Effects to give a 3D glassy effect. 

I made this as a 'thank you' card as I plan to give it to a work colleague who has been giving me lessons on how to use the digital SLR he sold me and passing on his knowledge from his photography course!

Now, if you have this bundle, you will know that the camera stamp and the camera framelit don't line up as they are both the same way round, meaning you need to cut the camera from the back of the stamped image, rather than the front, which as you can imagine is somewhat tricky! Well, not anymore!

I have made a little video I made on how to cut it out, the easy way! And for those of you that haven't yet bought the bundle and may have been put off by this little quirk, now there's no excuse! I will be posting the video on Monday morning, so don't forget to come back and take a look!

EDIT: You can now view the video tutorial HERE!



Stampin' Up! supplies used

Please click on the pictures above to buy direct from my online store.

It's time for you to go to the next Pinkie in the blog hop and that is Nicky's.... I'm sure you're going to love her beautiful project using Happy Watercolour and Spiral Flower Bigz Die.

Thank you for hopping with the Pinkies and enjoy the rest of the hop!