Thursday 29 August 2019

Favourite Way to Add Text (and why)

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This fortnight's challenge theme is to showcase a project using 
Your Favourite way to add text (eg stamped, die cut, doodled or typed) (& why).
You MUST explain WHY it is your favourite.

Here are the beautiful creations made by our Design Team to get your mojo flowing:

Using Ula be a Mermaid

I'm a real font geek and I love mixing different typefaces to make interesting greetings.
 Nicki at Polkadoodles does this with most of her sentiments which saves me a job, this one along with another is included as a bonus item with the image




Using Jasper Kitty Balloon
I'm not usually very good at remembering to add sentiments but I guess my most common way is to use a typed sentiment which I can write myself.  Like Anne, I have quite a collection of different fonts but I really like this one which is called "KG Beneath Your Beautiful Chunk".




I often leave cards without sentiments so I can add them for a specific occasion.  When I do add them, now that I have my MISTI, it's usually with a stamp.  So many stamp sets come with just the perfect sentiments which make it fast and easy.


  


Elaine

I vary how I put my sentiments on my cards. Today I have used a die cut. I love how  they are crisp and clean. Sometimes when I use a stamp I smudge.



I am a total disaster area when it comes to stamping sentiments! I can spend hours on a card only to stamp a wonky sentiment, or a splodgey sentiment as a finishing touch :-( I much prefer a pre-cut shop bought sentiment ( I know, I'm a shocker) that is neither wonky nor splodgey!


Larissa
 I love many ways to add a sentiment like with a die-cut or on a little strip of paper. But most of the times I stamp my sentiment on the card itself. I don't plan my cards really well, so often when it is almost done I need to find a place for the sentiment. It used to be really scary to stamp it on your card, but since I am the lucky owner of a stamping platform it can hardly go wrong!



Lisa
**coming soon**

I prefer my sentiment stamps to be in rubber form rather than digital as it gives me the option to heat emboss them. I tend to do this more with Christmas cards, but this time I've heat embossed on a birthday card.



Like all paper crafters I have drawers full of sentiment stamps but can never find the right message so I often use a computer generated sentiment mounted on coordinating card.



Oh I do love putting text onto a card, be it stamp or die, or, my current favourite, which is a mixture of both!


It depends on the card I'm going to make. 
When I use a stamp set that also contains a sentiment, I like to use that.


So now it's over to you.
We hope you will join in our challenge and show us your style.
Don't forget, you MUST explain WHY it is your favourite to be eligible to win.

Good luck, and happy crafting.
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Monday 19 August 2019

Fantastic Ribbon Coupon Code - 20% off

One of our fabulous sponsors, Fantastic Ribbon, have offered a coupon code for 20% off their products this week.  Use code august19 in the coupon code which will even work on the offers and multibuys (so you'll get double discount on those!)
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Thursday 15 August 2019

Favourite Colour Combo and Why

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This fortnight's challenge theme is to showcase a project using 
Your Favourite colour combo from either 
Pink & Green 
OR 
Blue & Orange.
You MUST explain WHY it is your favourite.

Here are the beautiful creations made by our Design Team
to get your mojo flowing:


Anne
I didn't have to think long about this; pink and green is one of my favourite colour combinations and I use it a lot. You can mix pastel shades or brighter and different patterns too, they always look really lovely together.
The image and sentiment are from our sponsor this week, Lili of the Valley






Ideally I'd prefer pink and blue because I'm not a huge fan of orange, but neither do I like a lot of green.  I think my fondness for pink outweighs my dislike of green so I've opted for that combo (with a touch of blue).  The image and sentiment are from our sponsor this week, Lili of the Valley



It's pink and green for me, though this card has orange and blue in it also.  This is actually one of my favourite colour combinations, they are such happy colours.  If I had to pick a least favourite colour, it would definitely be orange.





Elaine


I often use pink and green together. This card is in subtle tones, which I think have a certain elegance.



Jayne
This was a no-brainer for me! I love pink and green and use it them as a colour combo all the time. It's even perfect for Christmas :-)




Larissa


Although I like the colours blue and orange, I don't like the combination of these 2. I think it is really hard to colour anything in these colours. Pink and green are a perfect match for me, they are so pretty together. 



Lisa
**coming soon**




This was an easy choice for me. I love pink and green, I like blue too, but would never think of it as a choice to go with orange.



I think that pink and green together is one of Mother Nature's favourite colour combos...just look out of your window at this time of year!!



I wish I had gone for blue and orange now, but I chose pink and green because it suited this image I so desperately wanted to use!




When I saw this paper pad I immediately fell in love with the colour combination and the designs. My favourite colour is green but not in combination with pink. So this paper pad came in handy. I made a box for my friend's birthday with Rituals handscrub and handbalsem.






So now it's over to you.
We hope you will join in our challenge and show us your style.
Don't forget, you MUST explain WHY it is your favourite to be eligible to win.

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Thursday 1 August 2019

Favourite Flower & Why

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This fortnight's challenge theme is to showcase a project using 
Your Favourite Flower (& why).
You MUST explain WHY it is your favourite.

Here are the beautiful creations made by our Design Team to get your mojo flowing:


Anne
I love all flowers but I think daisies would have to be one of my favourites, it takes me back to school days, making daisy chains and playing he loves me... he loves me not!





I have lots of favourite flowers, but in the summer I really love roses and lilies. 
I've used both on my card today, as well as some cherry blossom and floral papers too!



There are so many flowers I favour, but I love black eyed Susans.  I love their bright sunny colour, they way the follow the sun through the day and their elegant simplicity.




I love poppies, they are one of my favourite flowers. This die is a particular favourite. It is so versatile, I use it all the time.



Jayne
I have a confession. I'm no gardener and I have no idea what most flowers are called - I know that's pretty shameful! When my husband send me flowers he always asks for pink flowers - because they're my favourite! So, my card features pink flowers!!




Larissa
I really like poppies. I think their colour is amazing and I love when I see them on the side of the road in the grass. It makes them pop even more against the green,




Lisa
**coming soon**


I love lots of flowers, but above all others pansies are my favourite.  I have them in the garden in winter and summer and they come in the most beautiful shades of my fave colours, blue and purple.


I have chosen daisies and sunflowers, as favourites, previously so this time I thought about winter flowers and have chosen poinsettia. I always have them in the house during the winter months and a £1 supermarket plant lasted well into August one year!! 



It is hard to choose a favourite flower, although daisies are high on the list.  However, there seems to be a bit of a family thing for growing dahlias, and they always make me think of home.




I have a lot of favourite flowers, it's hard to choose. Sweet peas are in the top 3 of my favourite flowers (with peony roses and ranunculus).
I love the wonderful scent of the sweet peas and the delicate colours. A bouquet of sweet peas makes me happy.





So now it's over to you.
We hope you will join in our challenge and show us your style.
Don't forget, you MUST explain WHY it is your favourite to be eligible to win.

Good luck, and happy crafting.
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