We have all sorts of wonderful stamps and dies to show you over the next five days and it will definitely get you in the 'Christmas' mood!!
This first post includes stamps and dies that were included with the Catherine Pooler 'Stamp of Approval - Holiday Box' last year but not available anywhere else. I know there are lots of people who have been waiting for these to be released, so your going to be very happy indeed!!
Up first we have the 'Bring on the Snowflakes' stamp set:
These are such gorgeous, modern snowflakes in different sizes and patterns. For my card I wanted to show these patterns off:
I stamped and heat embossed the snowflakes in white on a panel of water colour CS. I then used my mini-blending tool and Distress Inks - Peacock Feathers, Mermaid Lagoon and Salty Ocean to create an ombre look. I cut out two tags using the 'Scallop Tag Fri Dies' and popped them up on foam tape on the card front. I stamped the sentiment from the new 'Snowy Sayings' stamp set on a strip of white CS and put on foam tape as well. A few clear sequins from Pretty Pink Posh finished the sparkle!!
Next up we have the 'Funky Flakes Fri Dies' which are a match for the 'Bring on the Snowflakes' stamp set. I felt a bit of shimmer and inlaid die-cutting was in order to show these off:
I die cut the snowflakes from Craft Smith 'Holiday Foil' CS in silver. I then cut a strip of white CS and also another strip of the same foil CS which was slightly bigger. I die cut the snowflakes from the white CS strip and adhered some more white CS behind it. This gave me somewhere to inlay the silver snowflakes, which I did with some glue. The silver strip and snowflake panel where adhered to the card front. I then stamped and heat embossed the sentiment from the 'Snowy Sayings' stamp set in silver and popped it up on foam tape. For embellishment I glued on the little silver circles that were popped out of the snowflake dies, just for something different!!
Last but certainly not least, we have the 'Snowy Sayings' Stamp set which I think will become one of my favourites for my Christmas cards.
I stamped snowflakes on the card front using blue/gray inks. I then used the 'Friend Fri Die' through the snowflakes and adhered a panel of white CS to the back. After using the 'friend' die on some light blue and light turquoise CS, I glued them all together and inlaid them into the card. The sentiment was stamped in black ink, Wink of Stella was brushed over the die cut and some clear sequins from Pretty Pink Posh finished it off.
If your wanting to get your hands on any of these new products on Release Day or any CAS-ual Fridays goodies, please use my 'Girl Friday' code to save yourself some money!!
The rest of the 'Girl Fridays' have created some spectacular projects to show off these new products and you can find their blog links on the CAS-ual Fridays blog, along with the chance to win prizes. I hope you'll join us tomorrow for Day 2 of the New Release Sneak Peeks!!
Take care
Shona
Morning everybody and welcome to the July challenge at Happy Little Stampers - CASE the Designer challenge!
This month we get to CASE the most gorgeous card by Carol of Inky Fingered Carol:
Being from New Zealand (the land of MILLIONS of sheep) this card took my heart straight away. I love the little scene she created and how the rest of the card was clean and free of embellishments. I decided to go with a similar layout but used one of my newest critter stamps instead:
I die-cut the frame twice from white CS and glued them together to give it extra stability. I put it on my card front and marked out the frame lightly with a pencil. That way as I blended the Distress Ink 'Mermaid Lagoon', I knew where to keep the colour. After I finished I flicked over a few water droplets with my fingers and removed with some tissue, to give the sky some interest.
I used a stitched-edge curved die to cut some green CS and adhered it behind the circle frame (for grass) and then popped the frame up on some foam tape. After stamping the racoon and the duckies in black ink on white CS, I coloured them using my pencils. I fussy cut them out, added black pen round the edges and glued them to the card. All that was left then was to stamp the sentiment and add some sequins for a bit of shine!!
The racoon, ducks and sentiment are from Mama Elephant 'Rowdy Racoons'. The curved die is from Pretty Pink Posh and the Inverted Flower Circle die is from Waffle Flower. The sequins are also from Pretty Pink Posh.
You have the whole month of July to CASE Carol's card and link it to the Happy Little Stampers - CASE the Designer challenge, which gives you heaps of time to join in. And remember that you also have the chance to win!
If your scrambling for ideas, pop over to the blog to see what the rest of the Design Team have created with their CASE designs. Look forward to seeing you in the Gallery!!
Take care
Shona
Happy Friday everyone and welcome to a new challenge at Just Add Ink. For this weeks challenge we are getting our inspiration from the alphabet:
JUST ADD 'S'
That's right, we want you to create a project with something related to the letter 'S'. It could be a stencil, a stamp or starfish patterned paper....basically its all up to you!!
I still seem to be on a roll from the challenge two weeks ago where you had to use 'stripes'. I used a new die to create a striped background for that challenge in black and white. But when I first saw this die, this is what I had in mind:
So you could say I added 'stripes' but you could also say I added 'strips' to create my background. As you can imagine this took quite a while to die-cut and put together but I forget all that whenever I look at it!
I grabbed my box of paint chips and selected a rainbow of pastel colours. The dies I used are by Waffle Flower 'Sentiment Dies'. They were created to be used with some of their sentiments which are in a straight line. I thought they were a godsend as I had been cutting these little strips for ages myself and could never get them straight!
There are four different die lengths in the set, so I used washi tape to group them all together and cut them all at once from each colour. Then came the fun task of working out the pattern and then adhering them all to the card front. I was watching a really good tv programme at the time, so it didn't feel like it took too long...
Once finished I used a circle die (from Waffle Flower 'Flower Circles' Die set) on a piece of white CS and stamped the sentiment (Waffle Flower 'Congrats') in black. I also die-cut the 'yippee' (from Waffle Flower) 3x from black CS, glued them all together and then to the circle. I popped the circle up on foam tape, added Glossy Accents to the 'yippee' and some black pearls from Papervine.
I'm going to link this to the Virginia's View Challenge # 22 where the theme is:
You have until Wednesday July 6th to link your projects to the Just Add Ink challenge and if you need any 'S' inspiration, pop over to the blog to see what the rest of the Design Team have created for you. Looking forward to seeing what you come up with!
Take care
Shona
