A New Year, A New Name and a A New Challenge

Hi there and a Happy New Year to you.... I still think I'm in the time frame to say it ;) and what about the New Name and New challenge I hear you say??!! Well over the Christmas period Make the Day Special Stamp Store changed it's name to Seven Hills Crafts and relaunched yesterday with a brand new shiny website to go with it :)

Tara has done an amazing job and spent countless hours in front of a computer screen over the holidays to get the shop open again .... do pop by and have a browse and please be sure to sign up to the new store blog as well, you can find it here :)

Now to the new Challenge... it's our usual monthly challenge but we've got off to a later start this month and we have a colour theme for you...



I went with the middle palette and used the oh so cute set from Lil'inkers called So Prickly...

This set is adorable.... cacti with faces, arms and legs, how could it not be?!

I got it just before Christmas so couldn't resist getting it inky with a bit of masking and stamping :) I'm going to pop it into the Something New challenge over at Simon Says Stamp.

All the details for the colour challenge and the linky tool can be found here.... we hope you join us in our first challenge of 2016 ... hope to see you in the gallery :)

Thanks for stopping by

Jenny x

Merry Christmas

                                          
I'm just taking a chance to write my last blog post for 2015 and share a couple of Christmas projects with you before everyone gets tired of the theme... that's if you're not already!! I know I'm looking forward to putting Christmas stash away for another year ;)

A few weeks ago I bought the Take a Bough dies by Concord & 9th so I could make some little trees for home decoration and I have to say I love this die set :) .... so far I've made a frosty blue tree that sparkles like mad and a traditional green tree, complete with tartan baubles and tinsel...

I found some dinky terracotta pots to put them in... this die set is going to be in use every year I think :)

Another project I was so pleased with this year was this card for my Brother and his wife... the MFT sweater die has been out for quite a while now but its a recent acquisition for me and it's proving to be great fun for those seasonal knits!!!

I found that the Santa Add on dies are the perfect fit for a bold design and then I used inspiration from the Waffleflower blog to make an elf Christmas jumper too using the same dies :)

Well that's all folks, just leaves me time to say Merry Christmas and best wishes for the New Year... see you in 2016 :)

Jenny x 

The Gift of Coffee

Mmmm... the gift of coffee indeed or to be more precise... gift cards for coffee shops!!

My blog project this week over at Make the Day Special Stamp Store is a couple of 

gift card holders on a coffee theme and I broke out my new stamp set 

called Let's Chat by Concord & 9th.

These are great stamps from a new stamp company and they're now available here in the 

UK courtesy of Make the Day Special Stamp Store :)

I love the unique top view of the cup and saucer in this stamp set and although you are given some lovely scripty phrases to place inside your cup, I wanted to be a creative Barista and give my drink a seasonal theme. I used Paper Smooches holly dies to make a stencil and sponge brown ink through to mimic an arty dusting of chocolate :)

I used the MFT Blueprints 16 to make my card .... 

it's such a useful set with lots of components to play with ;)

My second card uses a solid stamp from another Concord & 9th set called Lots of Blots... it's a bit smaller than the space in the cup so I had to do a touch of water-colouring to fill in the gap around the edge but I reckon it would pass as a creamy message in a coffee??!! :)

More details and links to supplies can be found over on my DT blog post here if you're interested :)

Thanks for stopping by :)

Jenny x