Reason for the Season

More inspiration from the annual catalogue today - don't forget there are lots of ideas and examples in there.

This Christmas set stayed in from last year and has been a little forgotten with the new seasonal catalogue coming out, it's called Reason for the Season.

I've used the Regals colour combo of Cherry Cobbler and Garden Green (with a teeny hint of Crushed Curry!).

The sentiment is from the same set and stamped with black memento, as is the image before I've stamped over it in colour.

I've also used:
Lots of Labels framelits
Festive Flower Builder punch
Project Life corner punch
Metal rimmed pearl

There are some good offers coming your way from 1st October too so keep watching!
Jill

Froggy loves you lots!

A couple of cards to catch up today.

Firstly, this one using the new DSP called Affectionately Yours:

I've picked out the colours of Watermelon Wonder, Daffodil Delight and Mint Macaron to stamp and punch some butterflies and I've added a sentiment from Cottage Greetings.


And then this rather cute chap is from a new hostess set called Love you Lots.
I've stamped him on Emerald Envy and cut him out and layered up with some DSP from the Playful Palette stack.  The 'you' is in the same stamp set and I've used hearts from the confetti hearts punch to finish.

Using some Lots of Labels framelits I've layered everything on a notecard cut from Very Vanilla card stock.

Trio of Flowers finale

And finally ...

A take on the first of my trio of cards but using squares for the images.  I've round 2 of the 4 corners of each square too which gives it a nice effect.

This card also used the Brick Wall embossing folder and Hello Honey Striped Cotton Ribbon, another sentiment from Cottage Greetings which is cut out using Project Life Cards & Labels Framelits.

I've fussy cut a couple of the flowers in Hello Honey to add too.

Team Swaps

We had another lovely Bloomin' Buds meeting this week.  Each month we are taking a card to swap with everyone else that goes, this was my card this month:

I chose the scrummy Blackberry Bliss for my card this time.

I've used Something Lacy for the background, sadly this stamp is only available until 2nd June, I love it.

I then cut some 1.5" squares and used the corner rounder punch on just 2 corners which gives a nice effect.

I sponged some ink round these 'squares' and added them to the card with dimensionals.

I've then stamped and punched some butterflies from Papillon Potpourri and the matching punches.

Happy Birthday from Teeny Tiny Sentiments and punched with Word Window and layered on Modern Label.



Ink prices are going up from 2nd June so if you've got a wish list and want to beat the increase let me know - some of our trusty consumables also have some increases if you want to add buffer to your stash.  There are some reductions though and, of course, lots of new things we need!!!