Hello. I have a new card up on the Jane’s Doodles blog today and also this one from a few weeks ago that I haven’t posted on my blog until now.
The first one uses the Doodle Flowers stamp set. It’s a bit hard to tell, but the inner wings have a lovely shimmer from the Wink of Stella glitter brush pen.

And the second card uses my all time favourite Jane’s Doodle set – Garden Friends and also the Read All About It Stamp set.

I hope you are having a great week,
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It’s time for another Tag You’re It! Challenge.

This week we have a very sweet card made by Lisa Arana. I just love her little tag!

It is not hard to tell where my inspiration came from. I basically used Lisa’s sketch.

For more details on the challenge and the guidelines, go here.

Hope you can find some time to play along. To link up your creations head to the Tag You’re It! Challenge blog.

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Hi there. I have a fun project up on the Jane’s Doodles blog today – cup cake toppers.  I used the adorable Garden Friends stamp set. I had a lot of fun making these little guys (and I will also say, the whole family had a lot of fun eating them too. Just for the record they were red velvet cupcakes :).

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Hello. I’m up again at the Muse Card Club.

For my card, I wanted to incorporate two of my crafting ‘loves’, and they are stamping and die cutting. The background was stamped using the Mama Elephant Modern Borders stamp set, in a gorgeous array of summery colours 🙂 (For those of us in the Southern Hemisphere, it won’t be long until those long summer days will be with us again). The butterfly is a My Favorite Things die.

There are actually 3 vellum butterflies stacked on top of each other to add some interest and dimension.

Here are some of the guidelines if you are unfamiliar with how Muse works.

• Use the Muse card as inspiration, explain your interpretation and link back to Muse.
• Provide supportive comments to at least 3 of your fellow member’s submissions.
• Vote for 3 of your fellow member’s submissions that you find inspiring, once voting opens.

For the full challenge guidelines go here.

Hope you can find some time to play along at Muse this week,

Today my blogging buddy Therese Calvird and I have a little treat for you. When we met in person over a year ago, we decided that we should have a mini challenge between us. It has taken a little while to get off the ground, but better late than never right?

For today’s challenge we are using this gorgeous cake as our inspiration.

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I loved the airy look of the butterflies and the overall colour scheme. Here is what I came up with.

I white heat embossed the Hero Arts Antique Engraving’s butterfly onto vellum and cut it out. The leaves are also die cut from vellum to replicate that airy look on the cake. In order to create some interest in the background, I blended in some distress inks and then using a Studio Calico Chevron mask, I lightly spritzed it with some water. The water reacts with the distress ink and created a watermark look.

Well I am off to Therese’s blog – Lostinpaper, to she what gorgeous creation she has made. How about you hop on over as well?

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Hi! Andrea has all the Christmas sets at the AnnaBelle Stamp’s store reduced by 30% for the month of July! What a great discount. Why not go and stock up?

For today’s Friday Feature, the Belles have been busy making Christmas cards. I created my own patterned paper by repeatedly stamping the Merry Christmas sentiment from the Holly Jolly Stamp set. I white heat embossed the baubles from the Ornamental Christmas set onto vellum and added some clear Wink of Stella glitter pen for some shimmer. I popped up the baubles with some mounting foam and in order to conceal the adhesive, I cut it the same shape as the inner part of the bauble.

Make sure you stop by the AnnaBelle Stamps blog to see what the other Belles have been up to.

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