And the winner is..........

Good morning!

For the last week I have been running a competition to win a £10 Stampin' up voucher.
I'd like to say a big thank you to everyone who entered for all your lovely comments.

This morning I wrote down every one's names folded them and put them in a bowl. My cat Salem flicked the winner's name out, and the lucky person is Nikki Byrne.

Congratulations Nikki!! Please e-mail me your details so that you can claim your prize. I'm so excited for you!

Have a great weekend everyone. xx

Last chance

It's the last day to enter the draw to win a £10 voucher for Stampin' up goodies from me, remember your comment doesn't have to be about the cards, it could be what your favourite Stampin' up product is, or what you'd spend the money on, whatever you like. If you haven't seen the blog this week, it's simple join us a follower and leave a comment, then you'll be in with a chance. The winner will be announced tomorrow!

I've hardly slept all night, very excited. I'm off to my first regional training with Stampin' up today, finding out about the up coming mini catalogue, stamping, and having fun.

We have been asked to make 'swaps', these are A6 card fronts that display what you can do using current Stampin' up products.

Here's what I've come up with.

Thought I'd go for a masculine one made with the Sense of time stamps, I've tried to use different techniques including crimping and spritzing.
Hope the others like it!

Have a great weekend xx

And finally

Here is the last of the Cottage Wall cards that I have made, decided to go for a square one, a lot that I have made rcently seem to be A6.

I've tried to keep it simple, just cutting squares of the gorgeous paper, and stamping a butterfly onto each, with the thank you sentiment to finish off the last.
Although I must admit I couldn't help myself I had to add a rhinestone to the centre of each butterfly, even butterflies need a bit of bling!

The recipe for this card is
Stamps, Cottage Garden, Because I care,
Paper, Cottage Wall (retired), Certainly celery CS, Rich razzleberry CS,
Ink, Rich razzleberry
Accessories, Scallop trim border punch, Rhinestones, Rich razzleberry taffeta ribbon, stamp-a-ma-jig

I've made so may with the paper set that my others are starting to feel rejected!!
Will have to make it up to them this weekend I think.

You can still leave a comment to be entered into my prize draw, I will be announcing the winner on Sunday, so there is still time.

Looking forward to a fun weekend!

Tearing paper......scary!

I've aways been a bit worried about tearing paper, what if it looks wrong? What if I ruin a perfectly good piece of paper?
But then I thought to myself really what is the worse that could happen?, if it looks terrible I won't used it on the card and I'll use it to punch pieces out of so it won't be wasted.
So I took a deep breath and just did it. I don't know what I was so worried about! It looks fine, however next time I think that I may ink the raw edge so that it isn't a stark white edge.

I thought that the rustic look of the torn paper went really well with the wood grain paper, so I gave that another outing, teamed it with some Early Espresso card stock and some of my favourite thing to put on cards - ribbon. I wonder if I've ever made a card without ribbon on it?! Again my trusty Cottage garden stamps gave the greeting a bit of interest, the sentiment is from a fab set called Occasional Greetings.

Here's today's recipe
Stamps, Cottage Garden, Occasional Greetings
Paper, Woodland Walk DSP, Cottage Wall DSP (retired), Early Espresso CS
Ink, Rich razzleberry, Chocolate chip
Accessories, Scallop trim border punch, Rich razzleberry taffeta ribbon, Dimensionals

There is still 3 days to enter my draw for a £10 sampin' up voucher if you haven't heard about this click here to find out more!

Have a great day xx

Back to the cottage wall

Today's card features the Cottage wall papers (of course!) and one of the sale-a-bration stamp sets Punch Bunch. You can still get your hands on this set for free if you place an order of £45 or more by Monday.

What I love about the Punch Bunch set is that (as you may have guessed from the name) each stamp has a co-ordinating punch, making it quick an simple to create stunning embellishments for your cards, scrapbook or home decor projects.

I have used the 'for you' scallop circle stamp and punch, but there is also to name a few a tag (used on yesterday's baby card) and most exciting of all we will be getting the owl punch in April!! I am beyond excited about it!

I have teamed the gorgeous Cottage Wall (sadly retired) papers with the Woodland Walk papers. I wasn't sure if I would use the woodgrain effect paper but I have ended up using it, on 3 cards so far, so that wasn't a problem after all.

The recipe for today's card
Stamps,  Punch bunch SAB
Papers, Cottage wall paper, Woodland walk paper, Early espresso CS, Very vanilla CS
Inks, Chocolate chip, Rich razzleberry
Accessories, Rich razzleberry taffeta ribbon, scallop circle punch, Dazzling diamonds glitter, 2-way glue pen, designer button brights, Dimensionals

Thanks for stopping by, please leave a comment and join as a follower to be entered into the draw for the £10 voucher.
I'd love to know what you'd like to get with it! xx

Boy oh boy!

I thought it was best to have a little break from the Cottage garden stamps just for one day, I still have another couple to show but I wouldn't want people to get bored.

I've CAS'ed this card from one I saw on splitcoast. I know it's a boy's card but I couldn't resist a bit of ribbon.

It is using a new stamp set that I got last week called Choo choo, I have my eye on the matching wheel to go with it.

This card uses the Elegant soiree paper pack which when I bought it I thought would only be for women's cards but now I think maybe men's as well!

The recipe
Stamps, Choo choo, Punch bunch SAB
Paper, Elegant soiree, Marina mist CS, Early espresso CS, Very vanilla CS
Ink, Chocolate chip, Marina mist, Baja breeze
Accessories, Chocolate chip satin ribbon (retired), stamp-a-ma-jig

I'm getting very excited about the draw for my voucher, there's still time to enter click here for all the details!
Plus I have a ribbon share available, click on the special offers tab above this post to find out more.

Hope to see you tomorrow xx

Lovely as a tree

I've teamed my paper pack with the beautiful Lovely as a tree stamp set, I thought just because it co-ordinates with one stamp set doesn't mean you can't put it with another.
This set is great, so versatile, I've used it for Christmas cards, men's cards, sympathy cards, all sorts, the possibilities are endless.

Today I've made a feminine card with it, using the colours Rich razzleberry and Certainly celery.

There's still a little bit of the Cottage garden set, I hadn't inked up the tag stamp yet, and I thought that the card was missing something without it.
To get the two-toned look on the tree I first stamped the image in Chocolate chip ink, then using a blender pen I went over some of the darker areas on make them slightly larger. Then with the Old olive ink pad closed I squeezed it gently so that some ink was left on the lid, and again used the blender pen to fill in the gaps in the tree. I'm quite pleased with how it turned out.

Here's the recipe
Stamps, Lovely as a tree, Cottage garden
Paper, Cottage Wall (retired), Rich razzleberry CS, Certainly celery CS, Very vanilla CS
Ink, Chocolate chip, Old olive, Rich razzleberry
Accessories, Rich razzleberry taffeta ribbon, Blender pen, Dimensionals

Plus don't forget the giveaway is still open, click here for full details.

Happy stampin' xx