Today I’m popping in with a card that was on the Jane’s Doodles blog earlier this week. It uses the Ahoy stamp set. I did some masking and ink blending to create the sand and water. The images were coloured with Copic markers, then I fussy cut round them before adhering some of them with foam dimensionals.

The school holidays are winding down and I have to start back at school Thursday week. The summer holidays are nearly over. We did manage to get away and we went to Melbourne for 4 nights. It was fun exploring the city and surrounds. And the food we ate! Well Melbourne, you know how to do food. I put up some photos over on Instagram if you are interested – just search for @marionvagg.

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Hello. Today I have a Jane’s Doodles card to share with you that went up on the Jane’s Doodles blog last week. I felt like getting all inky and artsy and so after playing around with some distress inks, this card happened. I’m not usually a fan of purple, but it just felt like the right flower colour for the background.

The background was water coloured with Distress inks – Mustard seed, Mowed Lawn, Peacock Feathers and Chipped Sapphire. I then took a Penny Black stencil and dabbed up some of the colour with a baby wipe to create the subtle spots.

The flower, from the Anemone stamp set, was coloured with Copic markers and I clustered some black seed beads in the centre and adhered them with Glossy Accents. I finished the card of with some black ink splatters.

I hope all your Christmas preparations are coming together. My husband and I have been doing heaps of gardening, getting ready for all of my family to start arriving next week. The garden is looking good but I managed to stub my little toe on a retaining wall, and have a managed to crack the bone! I have one very tender, large and purple toe!

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Oh my! How this year is flying by. Today I have a Christmas card to share with you using some gorgeous Penny Black products. Lots of ink blending on this one – with three of my most favourite Distress inks – Picked Raspberry, Ripe Persimmon and Mustard Seed. Once my panel was inked, I flicked it with some water and a paintbrush and dabbed it with a dry cloth to create the spatters.

I then die cut the Penny Black Twirl Tree three times and adhered these together with some spray adhesive. I also die cut the Penny Black Hello Christmas sentiment three times from white card stock and adhered these together. The celebrate sentiment is from the Holiday Snippets stamp set.

Penny Black products used:
Holiday Snippets Stamp set 30-3
Hello Christmas die 51-164
Twirl Tree die 51-091

Well I am on the home straight now. Just over one week until school breaks up and then I have 6 weeks of school holidays to look forward too. Summer officially kicks off today and it sure is a hot one! Got to love summer!

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Hello! Today is the release blog hop for Jane’s Doodles Stamps. You should have arrived from Zrinka’s blog.

Today, two new sets are being released into the store and they are Rain or Shine and Ahoy! Once again, Jane has done an amazing job at designing these sets. I find her stamps so easy to create cute little scenes with them.

Rain or Shine

Ahoy!

First up I’ve created a one layer card using the Rain or Shine set.

I added two layers of Glossy Accents to the umbrella for lots of dimension. Unfortunately the white dots I drew on the umbrella got a little lost underneath all of that shine.

Next up is a card using the Ahoy! stamp set. I had a lot of fun colouring these images (with Copics) and creating this scene. It’s going to be a birthday card for my daughter who turns 6 in December. She is very much a tom boy and loves all things pirates, so this card is perfect for her. It hasn’t really shown up in the photo very well, but there is a very lightly sponged blue sky with clouds. If you squint you may see some of it – it is much better in real life.

GIVEAWAY:
Want to win some prizes? Jane is generously giving two stamps of your choice from the store to one lucky winner. Just leave a comment on all the blogs along the hop for your chance to win.

Blog Hop order:
Jane
Milka
Ange
Neha
Vesna
Zrinka
Marion <—– You are here
Vika
Suzy (Guest Designer)
Jane’s Doodles

Thanks so much for stopping by. Your next stop on the hop is Vika.

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Hello and welcome to the CardMaker Magazine and Sunny Studio stamps blog hop. You should have arrived from Gini Williams Cagle’s blog. If you happen to get lost along the way, you can find the blog hop order and links below.

For today’s blog hop, we are all getting into the Christmas spirit – and let’s face it, it is only about 7 weeks away. I used the adorable Snow Kissed stamp set, along with the Birthday Smiles stamp set to create this cute little scene.

Giveaway:

Sunny Studio Stamps is kindly giving away two stamp sets to two lucky winners over on the Sunny Studios Blog. Use the Rafflecopter to enter. Mendi is also having a 20% off sale. Just use the code word “CARDMAKER” (valid until Saturday the 14th of November, Noon PST).

 

Blog Hop order

CardMaker
Melissa Bowden
Chitra Nair
Audrey Tokach
Mendi Yoshikawa
Heidi Criswell
Stacy Morgan
Elise Constable
Gini Williams Cagle
Marion Vagg  <——– You are here
Jennie Harper
Sunny Studio Blog

Your next stop on the hop is Jennie Harper. Thanks for visiting.

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I’m back with another card using Sunny Studio stamps.

This week the Design Team have been using the Happy Home stamp set. I stamped a row of houses onto some X-press It Blending card and then coloured them with Copic Markers. I fussy cut around the images to create a panel of houses. I sponged in a blue background with Salty Ocean distress ink and then popped up the front panel with some foam squares.

Short and sweet from me today. Thanks for visiting,

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