Moxie Fab? Moi?! ;D

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Happy Monday! I hope you're all OK. I've been MIA as I'm buried deep in paperwork right now, but I'm just squeezing in a few spare moments to share some pretty cool news that I've been sat on for what feels like an age. Oh and I'm also sharing a card with you as well of course - what else?! Today's card was created a while back for a Passion for Papertrey challenge that has now ended (sorry!).

The challenege was to create your own background and I couldn't resist giving some inky love to a much neglected PTI set: Studio Style. The buttons in the set just called to be used as a background in one way or another.

I also added a bit more interest to my design by clear embossing a jar of buttons. It looks way more effective for real, you'll just have to take my word for it!

•  I added a few dots of Glossy Accents to keep the twine flowing in a whimsical kinda style. Do the same to yours to make it behave!
• When embossing over a sentiment, be sure to stamp your sentiment first and let that ink dry thoroughly before stamping and embossing any images over the top. If you don't, embossing powder could stick to your sentiment or if you emboss first, you won't have an even surface to stamp your sentiment on.

Before click away and I dash to hit the folders of work again, it's not only a super busy Monday here but a super happy one too: I've been honoured with the title of Moxie Fabber of the Week! Check it out if you're interested. I owe one mega-HUGE thanks to the amazing and totally Moxie Fab Cath for the shout out! Thanks Cath, you rock! :D

And you rock too of course! Thank you so much for visiting today. Cue normal blogging schedule and visits around Blogland after this final week of term - I promise! :)







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Colour blocking...

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Happy Friday-Eve! Let's celebrate it with style, Maile Belles style, as we knuckle down to a new CASE Study! 

Today's card is inspired by this beauty of Mailes:

Check out the original post of this card here.

I was taken by the general layout and those strips of colour. Instead of stamping my colour, I used coloured cardstock and stamped my focal point and sentiment. Simple!

• There's a little bit of theory when it comes to this design. Keep the doses of bold colours smaller than the paler colours to help balance the design. I also worked from light to dark across my panels of card.
• When stamping across strips of cardstock, it's easier if you line them up together and adhere them with a temporary adhesive to your work surface. This will reduce of the risk of any strips misbehaving and moving whilst stamping!  
• Sentiments don't have to be stamped horizontally on a card. Why not experiment and try stamping a sentiment vertically? You may just like the result...!

Be sure to take a peek at what the rest of the CASE Study DT whipped up - you won't be disappointed!

Amy Wanford (That's me!)
Erin Schulte (Guest DT)
Andrea Ewen
Clare Buswell 
Debby Hughes  
Iwona Palamountain (Chupa)
Jean Martin 
Jeanna Jachna  
Maureen Plut
Teneale Williams
Maile Belles (May's Muse)
 
It seems it's not only myself that is lovin' having Maile on board as our muse this month; I've been so happy to see so many peeps pick up their supplies and play along with us. I hope you can play along with us this week!

Thanks so much for popping by today - I hope you have a lovely Friday-Eve! :)







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Gettin' sweet...and weird!

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Happy Tuesday! It's a particularly 'sweet' Tuesday here on the blogeroo as I'm hopping on board this month as a guest designer for Sweet Stamp Shop!

Today is release day and three super sets have been released. I was sent two of them to play with: Eye Love and Weird Love.

The card above features some weird love. Never thought I'd type/say that here....ha! But fear not, this is no weird set, but a sweet (what else?) mini-set featuring a lovely sentiment that pretty much sums up how I feel about my fiance and I: we're both a little weird...and I can't quite believe our luck that we found each other and fit together so perfectly (altogether now: awwwww!) The heart is stamped from the set 'Eye Love' and is covered in a good dollop of Glossy Accents.

So enough weird love, how about some eye love? Yup, the name kinda sums up the set: love with a focus on some items you may just find at the opticitans. However I went for something a little more....geeky! :)

The set has this oval shape and as soon as I saw it I thought 'atom'! Then I got thinking 'ion'! And this led to the pun 'ion U' as in, 'I've got my eye on you...' I just stamped and rotated the oval to create the atom shape, adding red dots with a marker and stamping the 'U' from the set in the centre.

Now as I understand it, an atom can be an ion, but not all ions are atoms. I didn't have time to hit the science textbooks to research it! So my escape from any geek design faux pas I may have unintentionally created, was to stamp the inside with another sentiment from the same stamp set.

Now if you subscribe to this being a mini card with an atom, it'll read U....genius. And if you subscribe to it being an ion then the card will read 'ion U...genius'! It's win/win in my book! :)

That's all from me today! I'll be back later on in the month with a couple more projects to share featuring these sets, but for now be sure pop across to the Sweet Stamp Shop blog for more inspiration!

Thanks so much for stopping by here today! Wishing you all a 'sweet' Tuesday!








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