In Good Taste with Healing Hugs Roses

Hi there

Many thanks for popping over to my blog today :) do hope you are keeping well! 

It is the first cloudy day in ages, so can't complain... I am sure lots of gardener's will welcome some rain!

I made this cute patterned paper card as a challenge, I originally made it in the retired bird Ballard papers, but have made it again with the beautiful In Good Taste patterned paper, which comes in a mega pack of 24 sheets of 12 x 12 paper with loads of different designs!

I have CASE'd this really fun and easy fold from the lovely Patty Bennett, you can see how she made this on her YouTube channel here

I just love it! I think I am obsessed with making patterned paper cards at the moment! Lol

What do think of the Night of Navy trim on the front?  I wanted to use current product but Stampin' Up! no longer carry a border punch :(  but I discovered that if I punched out the bottom of the Umbrella punch I could make a little border strip! Yay!  My other option was punching circles and then lining them all up!  This was much easier :) 

Here is my first one in the bird ballard DSP :) 

Well that is all for today, must get on and tidy up my crafting space, it is in a huge mess... and I want to be ready for Ruth's Saturday card challenge on Facebook tomorrow!  

Take care and have fun getting inky!

Crafty hugs

   Anne :) 

Fancy Phrases Emboss Resist - team challange

Hi there

Do hope you are all keeping well. Well we have been super lucky with the weather! Another beautiful day here in Coggeshall :) 

We had a fun team challenge last week to make a card using the emboss resist technique :)  As I had some card already cut as a 'Z' fold from my previous project from Julie Davison's Online Class (see Kylie's International Highlights challenge post).  I decided to use the cut card base and the new Fancy Phrases flower cluster, which is so pretty :) 

I stamped in versamark and embossed in copper for one flower and the sentiment, then again in white for three other partial flower clusters.  I also stamped the flower onto the card base in Old Olive ink, the same as the card base.

I then used a quarter piece of sponge to apply Old Olive ink to the whole of the card front layer that I had heat embossed.  

It was a lot quicker to make than explain here! Lol :)

Not sure if I have managed to capture  the lovely copper embossing...

Hope you also have had fun getting inky today! 

Take care

Crafty hugs

    Anne ;) 

SOME OF THE PRODUCTS USED

          

Fancy Phrases

A4 Cardstock - Old Olive

Sponge

Surprise present!

Hi there

Do hope you are all keeping well, it is another lovely sunny day here in Coggeshall, we really have been blessed with the weather! :) 

Well I just had to jump on to show you the absolutely stunning and gorgeous stationery treasure box that my friend, Natalie, over at Crafty Hunnypots has made for me, I am totally in awe of her amazing skills and talent. 

Plus, what a fabulous card as well, using the Lovely You stamp set.  Natalie has a wonderful eye for design and detail, which you can see when you pop over to her blog ;) 

I might even show you a photo of the inside tomorrow after I have absorbed it all in, feeling so lucky and blessed! 

Well take care and have fun getting inky! 

Crafty hugs

Anne :) 

SUOC251: Color Challenge

Hi there

Hope you are all keeping well, thank you for popping over to visit me.

Today I am joining in with the Stampin' Up! Only Colour Challenge number 251 

 

These are such beautiful colours, I really love this combination!

I decided to use one of my new stamp sets from the new Annual Catalogue, just released on the 3 June 2020 for this lovely colour combination.  It is called 'Posted for you' it comes with a postage style punch, I just love it! 

Here is my card in Coastal Cabana with a Soft Suede strip that has been embossed with the pine planks embossing folder and a 2 cm strip of Petal Pink, that I have stamped in Petal Pink with the leaf from the 'Free as a Bird' set and then embossed with one of the Greenery embossing folders :) 

This was a fun project and I love the colour combination.  

Please do contact me, if you have any questions about my project or you need any help in purchasing any of these items.

Hope you have a lovely week.

Take care and have fun getting inky!

Crafty hugs

Anne ;) 

Kylie Bertucci's International Blog Highlights - June 2020

Hi there

Hope you are all keeping well :) 

It has been a while since I last hopped with Kylie, but I am delighted to be joining in again with Kylie's International Blog Highlights for June 2020 :) 

I love Kylie's Love it, Chop it ideas over on her blog and  FB pages and any others that get me chopping my DSP!  I have been having a lot of fun making various One Sheet Wonders (OSW) the last one was a super simple design kindly shared as a free class by Julie Davidson at Julie's Stamping Spot here 

Julie's design uses just one sheet of 12 x 12 patterned paper, all cut at the same size, so many possibilities for so many different combinations, but I have chosen the beautiful Bird Ballad  (retiring paper) and Free as a Bird stamp set, which will be carrying over into the new catalogue, available from 3 June 2020.

This makes 12 cards, 3 portrait gate folds, 3 portrait 'Z' folds, 3 landscape gate folds and 3 landscape 'Z' folds.

                Landscape Z fold  card in Pool Party with Bird Ballad DSP and Soft Suede layer

Portrait Gate fold card in Pool Party with Bird Ballad DSP and Soft Suede layer

Landscape Gate fold card

Portrait Z fold card

I also reversed the DSP and made a couple of  Z fold cards using the Come Sail Away stamp set.

As you can see I only finished six! But I have all the bits ready for another six cards! :)  This was so much fun, I do hope to are able to give Julie's design a go.

I would really appreciate it, if you could vote for me ;) ...and four others, by clicking on the link below ;)  Enjoy looking through at all the amazing projects from some very talented crafter's!

            

Thank you so much and hope you enjoy the rest of the blog hop. 

Take care and have fun getting inky.

Crafty hugs

   Anne :)

New Catalogues - woo hoo!

Hi there

I am so excited to share our fabulous new catalogues with you - there is the lushious new annual catalogue and the smaller beginner's brochure.

If you would like a paper copy, please do contact me and I will get them posted out to you ;)

Please click in the side bar for a digital copy or click the links below:

Annual catalogue

Click here for the Annual catalogue

Beginner's brochure

Click here for the Beginner's brochure

Enjoy browsing the catalogue with a coffee and have fun getting inky!

Crafty hugs

   Anne :)