Create A Smile Stamps August Release Blog Hop!!

Hello and welcome to the Create a Smile August Release Blog Hop :0)
Today I'm joining a whole bunch of talented ladies to help Christine launch her August release at Create a Smile Stamps.....

Create A Smile are a new stamps company in town - their first stamps were released in July 2014. The stamps are made of high quality photo-polymer and produced in Germany. They will for sure make you smile!

These are the facts:

Create A Smile is releasing two sets TOMORROW! You can find their store at www.createasmilestamps.com 

There are TWO fun sets filled with super cute images, available for purchase at 8am CET (2am EST).

                                              

     

Christine asked via Facebook for ideas/themes for our blog hop projects and I went with Manuela Stockreiters request to use buttons.... they were the perfect finishing touch on this rather cute snowman...

This has to be the earliest I've made a Christmas card but with this cheeky little fella in the set I couldn't resist :0) I've simply cut a wonky window and placed some patterned paper behind it so the snowman could peek through the aperture... the sentiment was made on the computer using a font called Tall Paul :0)

Now for the important blog hop details...

You can win a $15 gift-certificate for the store - all you need to do is hop along and leave comments on all the fantastic and inspiring stops (one comment per person, per blog please!). We’ll pick random winner from all the comments - so the more blogs you visit (and leave a comment on) - the more chances you have to be a winner!

You have until Saturday August, 9th 8am CET (that's 2am EST). The winner will be announced on the Create A Smile Blog on Sunday (July 13th)

Enjoy the Hop!

Create A Smile

Jenny Mullens <<<< That's me<<<<<

Kelly Latevola

Kasia Curry

Christine Drogt

Taheerah Atchia

Samantha Mann

Laura Sterckx

Linda Trace

Mayuri

Danielle Walls

Amy Tsuruta

Anja Curvers

Happy Hopping :0)

Jenny x

PS Sparks Anything Goes Challenge

Hello there....... it's time again for an Anything Goes challenge at the Paper Smooches Sparks blog, time to get those stamps and dies in use :0)

It's always hard to choose an idea for this challenge but seeing as the Cat Icon dies had just arrived I went with them....

Haha... I did think about making this a good luck card but prefered that thick loopy font of 'Hello' from Bold Buzzwords on the wall instead!!
I turned my hand to a spot of bricklaying to make the wall using a rectangle from Geobasics and used grey promarkers to shade it but my favourite bit of this card are the craters on the moon.... I added droplets of water to the card after inking the moon with distress inks.... you see, the moon is made of cheese :0)

Here are the links to the rest of the DT, I hope you can play along.... check out all the info at the Sparks blog

Alice

Angeline

Erin

Jenny

Savannah

You can purchase Paper Smooches Stamps ans Dies here in the UK at Make the Day Special, for a big selection and a fast friendly service click on the link above :0)

Jenny x

A Colour Challenge at Make the Day Special

Hello hello :0)

Pinch and a punch, 1st day of the month and a new monthly challenge at Make the Day Special!! This month we have a colour challenge so you can all come out of hiding from last months CASE it task *wink*

If you hop over to the MtDS blog you'll see a set of three colour palettes to choose from... Summer through to Autumn, so let the colours inspire you and use at least one product that is sold in the store on your project and you can play along for a chance to win a £15 gift voucher to spend at Make the Day Special :0)

                                                             
I decided to leave the orange out of this palette and use my Fresh Picked stamp set from Wplus9 for my card..... Have you spotted the Blackberries already starting to ripen on the brambles?.... I have my eye on a few good patches ready to go picking *wink*

Oh my goodness.... to say I'm pleased with how these turned out is an understatement!!.... I could just reach out and pick one!!!
After planning out on scrap paper the positioning of the leaves and berries I set about stamping them using masks in a mixture of Stampin Up and Memento inks.... then the fun begins using Prismacolour Pencils to add shading and highlights.
The juicyness comes from small dots of glossy accents on the berries that just to help pick up and reflect the light.
To add some extra contrast I used my craft knife to cut away the top half of the card panel and using foam pads I mounted it onto a gorgeous deep blackcurrant coloured card base.

It's the last day of this weeks challenge over at Less is More and because the week started with Chrissie's birthday they are having a Anything Goes party so I didn't want to miss out on that birthday bash :0)
Hope you had a wonderful birthday week away Chrissie!!


We'd love to see you join in this months challenge over at Make the Day Special, I look forward to seeing how these colours inspire you, all the details can be found over at the blog here.

Thanks for stopping by
Jenny x