D-Day

Morning!  So, by my reckoning, when you read this I will probably be in the land of enforced nod, being prodded and poked and all manner of things lol.  It is probably the hottest day of the year so far, with blazing sun and lovely blue skies too :-D  Ho hum, never mind.


On to today's card:

This is a thank you card for a special couple who sent me a gift for my birthday yesterday.  I used a stamp from the Outlined Occasions stamp set, which I really like, and this is the first time I have used the 'Thanks' sentiment.  The flower is from the Fresh Vintage stamp set and both of these sets are available free when you spend a minimum of £45 on Stampin' Up! goodies.  But time is running out as they are only available until the end of the month, as that is when Sale-A-Bration ends.


Please feel free to message me if any of the stamp sets takes your fancy and I will only be too happy to order anything for you.  I can't endorse Stampin' Up! enough, their products are fabulous and the colours co-ordinate really well together :-)  I hardly ever use any other products now.

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Hippy Barthday to me!

Morning!  My birthday today :-)  But it is cancelled until next week as the hospital had the infinite wisdom to book my hospital trip for tomorrow, therefore today is being spent preparing for it and so I am in no mood to celebrate :-(  Even so, here I am, I wanted to share this card with you that I made yesterday.  I love it and I hope that you like it too:

My camera hasn't picked up the colours that brilliantly, I used Bravo Burgundy for the background colour, but the camera has made it look more purple :-/  The paper is from the dsp, Spice Cake, again and I used three stamps from Vintage Vogue and two from Fresh Vintage for the centre piece of the card.  It looks so much more vibrant in real life, its such a shame the camera hasn't picked up the colours that well.


Hope you all have a good day and speak to you tomorrow (well, technically not, cos I am going to do the blog post now and schedule it for tomorrow... )

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Umbrellas at the ready!

Morning all :-)  Dark, miserable and rainy day today.  Although I am hoping that it rains for most of the day because we haven't seen rain for ages and the poor plants need it, bless 'em.  Today we are going to Grannie's.  We usually go on a Saturday, but as it was market yesterday, we are going today instead.  Just need to get ourselves dressed and organised and then we'll be off.


Today's card sold at market yesterday, along with 4 other of the smaller cards I made, so I am very pleased that I made some more cards Friday night in preparation for Saturday :-)

I used the Postage Stamp punch and three of the stamps from the Perfect Postage stamp set (which can be found in the Spring Mini), the other stamp is from the S-A-B stamp set, Fresh Vintage.  Again I used Spice Cake dsp in the background.  I am thinking I may have to stock up on this dsp in readiness for when the Spring Mini catalogue ends, I do love it so much :-)


Hope you all have a fab day, whatever the weather :-)  Speak to you all tomorrow.
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Market Day

Just a quickie before I head off to market.  Looks grey and horrid out there, fingers crossed its not too cold as the market is in a drafty arcade and its hard not to feel cold when the sun isn't out and shining through the glass roof.


Here is today's card:

I like this stamp, from the S-A-B stamp set, Fresh Vintage and backed the card with more from the dsp, Spice Cake, from the Spring Mini Catalogue.  I used Lucky Limeade ink for the stamp and also inked the edges of the card with it too.


Hope you all have a good day today, whatever you are doing, and I will speak to you soon
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Monochrome

Today I thought I would play around with the dsp First Edition as I liked it a lot when we used it at Sarah-Jane's class last month:

I used Basic Black and Very Vanilla card from the Neutrals Collection and love the monochrome effect.  Finally, I used a stamp from the Sale-A-Bration set, Fresh Vintage, using black StazOn ink (love the smell of that ink, mmmmm) and used dimensionals to stick the stamped image onto the card.


Sale-A-Bration items are still available on all orders over £45 until 31st March, so now is the best time to get an order in and take advantage of these lovely gifts on offer. 

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Spicy :-D

Today I was at Sarah-Jane's for an all-day class, which was lots of fun.  We were working with a dsp from the Spring Mini Catalogue, Spice Cake, which has a vintage feel to it, and stamps from the Sale-A-Bration stamp sets of Elementary Elegance and Fresh Vintage.  Sale-A-Bration items are available free for every £45 you spend between now and 31st March and we love free things :-D

Today's card uses stamps from the Fresh Vintage stamp set which gave me the opportunity to try out the Postage Stamp punch, which is really cute, I like it a lot.  The paper is from Spice Cake and I used Pear Pizzazz ink for the stamps and Pool Party for the circle design.  All the paper edges were inked with Crumb Cake to give it a more vintage look, which looks fab.

There will be more to come over the next few days from the class today, please feel free to contact me to make an order for any of these gorgeous items that I have showcased here today, I look forward to hearing from you :-)