Warm Wishes

Hi there, today I have made two little cards using the Clearly Besotted Stamps Warm Wishes stamp set. Thought it was quite apt considering the weather at the moment!

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Sorry for not being around. I have been having some issues in my personal life which meant I haven't been able to craft. I am hoping that will be all sorted out soon. Have a great rest of your weekend and stay warm!

Butterfly Cut Out

Hi there, sorry but I am back with another card using the fab Clearly Besotted Stamps Butterfly Dreams die! I am just in LOVE I tell you! This time I have used it to create an apature in the CS and then added the piece on to the card base with 3D squares. The gorgeous sentiment is from the Once Upon A Time set.

 

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Thanks so much for visiitng me today, the next card will be something other than the die I promise! Do you all have snow where you are? There has been a light dusting here in Surrey but not much at all. I have ordered a pair of wellies from Amazon though just to be on the safe side!! Have  agreat day!



Monkey Thanks - DTDF

My card for the DTDF Blog this week uses the cute monkey from the CC Designs Flower Power set (an oldie but a goodie!). The card base is made from Memory Box CS and the sentiment has been stamped using the CC Designs Many Thanks Sentiments set and cut out using the end of an MFT Fishtail Flags Stax die.

 

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Thank you for visiting me today, hope you are all happy and healthy

Just a Note

Here is another card I have made using the fabulous Butterfly Dreams die from Clearly Besotted Stamps, can you tell I am obsessed?! I have also used the With Love stamp set for the sentiment - isn't that font beautiful! This card follows the Retrosketches #45 sketch.

 

 

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Thank you so much for visiting me today, apologies for the dark photo's. The sun hasn't made an appearance in Surrey yet today and it doesn't look like it will either! Have a great day whatver you are up to.

Butterfly Circles

I am back with another thank you card made using Clearly Besotted Stamps. For my card today I have used the Building Blocks set to stamp on the circles using Versamark to give a lovely effect I think. I have also used the new Butterfly Dreams Die cut from vellum to add on top and the sentiment is from the Happy Everything set.

 

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Thank you so much for visiting me today and I wanted to say a big thank you to all those who watched my video on alligning stamps with co-ordinating dies and left me a loevly comment. I am glad to have given some of you some help :0) Have a great day!

Aligning Stamps With Co-Ordinating Dies

Hi all, I have had a few requests to show how I use stamps with co-ordinating dies. There two main ways to do it; First you could cut the die out and then stamp over it directly, a stamp positioner would be helpful for this method or the method I use I use is to stamp the image first and then make a template with the die and cut it out. Using this method you can get a perfect placement of the stamped image inside the die cut.

 

Here is the video showing how I do it:

I forgot to add in the video that you can also use the template you have made over and over again. I like to keep mine stored with the stamp set.

Hope this was helpful to a few of you, thank you so much for watching!

You're Too Kind

I am back with another thank you card made using the fab Clearly Besotted Stamps range. I have used the following sets: Framed Sentiments, Background Builder, With A Flourish and the new Butterfly Wishes die.

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Thanks so much for visiting me today, hope you have a lovely day.

Clearly Besotted Stamps Release #3

Clearly Besotted Stamps have released more stamps and there is three dies in this release too - woohoo! Here is the video to show you the products:

 

Thanks so much for watching! Hope you have a great day, I will be back tomorrow to show you one of the cards I have made with the new Butterfly Wishes die.

Happy 2013! - DTDF

Happy New Year! I thought I would celebrate the new year with a 2013 card. I don't usually make new years cards but I thought I would this year.

 

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I would like to take this opportunity to thank all my readers for your support in 2012. All your visits and comments are so appreciated. I am hoping I will have more time to make more cards and maybe a few more videos too in 2013. I would like to wish you all a happy, healthy and prosperous 2013 filled with love, laughter and smiles.

Thank You

I thought I best get started on all those thank you cards I have to make for all those gorgeous pressies I was given for Christmas. What better way is there than busting out my Clearly Besotted Stamps and having a play! For my card today I have used the following sets: Building Blocks, Full Of Surprise and Happy Everything. CBS have a new sets available in the shop now, I will have more on that later in the week.

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Thank you so much for visiting me today, I hope you all have a lovely last day of 2012!

Favourite Products 2012

So I thought I would do a favourite products of 2012 review. To see all the products without the written chat please scroll down to the video.

 

First of all I have really got into making my own card bases this year. I have mainly used white Papertrey Ink CS or Kraft PTI CS. I fell in love with PTI white Stampers Select CS a few years back but since I found it less easy to get it from the USA I stopped uisng it, this year I fell in love with it all over again and it is now my go-to card for card bases and Copic colouring. Since I have been making my own card bases I have been having to score my card, I bought the Martha Stewart Mini Score board only a little while ago but think it is great, and a great size for cards.

 

2012 saw me use more PTI stamps too, I really like the style of them and really love the sentiment stamps where there are two different fonts, one such set is the Filliable Frames Sentiments set. For ink I always use my Memento Tuxedo black ink if I am colouring with Copics but for colour I have loved using the PTI inks (I have the cubes) and the Memento inks (I have the dew drops).

 

I have loved dies this year, most of my favourites being from either PTI or MFT. Two of my faves are the Die-Namics Sentiment Strips and the Fishtail Flags Stax. For adhesive this year I have loved using the Stick It Adhesive Squares which are are bargain at 99p a pack and also loved using my ATG, I used to use DST but now 99% of the time use my ATG and find it very easy and less messy to use.

 

Embellishments this year have mainly consisted of twine - my fave being Doodlebug Doodle Twine and Doodlebug Jewels although I have loved the teeny tiny 2mm rhinestones from The Hobby House as well. In 2011 I fell in love with MME patterned papers however with 2012 being more CAS I haven't used them as much although I LOVED that Doodlebug brought out 6x6" paper pads and one of my faves being Hello Spring.

 

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So that was my fave products of 2012, what were yours?

Favourite Cards 2012

Hi all, so since it's quite a tradition in the blogging world to look back over the year and show the favourite cards you have made I thought I would do it again this year. I think my style has got even more CAS this year experimenting with more ink colours and CAS stamps (mainly PTI) but I still like to bust out those pattern papers and of course I still love my Copics.

 

I really enjoyed my Copic colouring class this year and may look into doing a couple more online ones next year. I have branched out a little this year from making only square cards (like the year before) and have made quite  a few 'standard size' cards this year but with the fold at the top and I really like those too.

Ok so here are my favourite cards I made in 2012:

Thanks for visiting me today and I hope that you will play along with this tradition too, I would love to see all your favourite cards of 2012.