High Tide preview

I haven't shared many High Tide projects as I'm keeping them for the Stamping Day next weekend but I am going to share a couple today.

One is the birthday card I made for my brother:

I have been using this set a lot for samples but still love it!  There are so many more things to do with it too.

I have also made a scrapbook spread which if you know me you will know that isn't normally my thing!  We had a walk at Portland Bill in January so I thought it would be ideal to actually use for this:

I've added a few snaps and used the stamps on the backgrounds.  The Large Letters are rather lovely for this too!

Butterflies are back!

Hooray - the butterfly thinlits are back in stock if they are on anyones wish list.

It's sometimes difficult to remember all the lovely stuff we have during this period when we are about to get a peek at the new catalogue!!!

This is a scrapbook page designed by Jenny that we made on our retreat back in March and which uses the Butterfly Basics set and matching thinlits that we haven't been able to buy for quite a few weeks now.

It's such a gorgeous page isn't it?

All the stamps are in the Butterfly Basics set and we used the colours Lost Lagoon, Blackberry Bliss, Hello Honey and Old Olive for the main details.

I did this page very late at night/early in the morning so I could finish it!!

The 'DAY' letters come from the Metro Type Alphabet set and the 'HAPPY' came from the set So You I think.

There was a bit of fussy cutting of the flowers, particularly on the top image but it was worth it.

Don't forget the current catalogue finishes on 2nd June and some items have sold out already if they are on the retired list.  The seasonal catalogue finishes on the same day so make sure you have everything you 'need' before we start again!

Scrapbook Debut

Things have also got so crazy I've made my first scrapbook page!!

Similar to the cards on my previous post we all made a scrapbook page too for everyone else to also go home with.

This is the first time I had ventured in to scrapbooking and because I like things being a little fiddly I chose the Project Life pockets.

I chose to design my page so it could be used as a memento of our weekend away.
It went down really well.

The cards are all cut out using the Project Life cards & labels framelit set.
The white cards are stamped up using the Butterfly Basics set in Smoky Slate, Old Olive, Melon Mambo and a little Blackberry Bliss butterfly.

In the top right I've used the very aptly titled 'Hey There Buds' and stamped it on Melon Mambo and again on white to fussy cut some of the flowers to highlight them.

I've used the Spring Flowers embossing folder too and 'Buds' was cut out using the Little Letters thinlits.  These letters were mounted on a punched circle and then on to a Blackberry Bliss pansy punch.

The bottom left panel has used a couple of the framelits from the On Film set.  I printed everyone a little picture of where we stayed too as the frame looked sad with nothing to go in it.

So, I have a few pages to finish off but I will also have 12 other pages to show you when I have - a great start to my collection.