Wild Rose Studio

On my blog travels I came across a new stamp company called "Wild Rose Studio" and immediately recognised the name of one half of the venture as a lady I have worked with whilst working with Origin Publishing (the magazines I do a little bit of work for). Her designs are toooo cute, she has some adorable dogs, cats, bird, borders and flowers and it is well worth a look! They are clear stamps and priced accordingly so it wont dent the bank balance too much.





I hope Dulcie doesnt mind but I have taken a card off her gallery to show you as I have not got any of these designs (YET)





This cute kitty is soooooo sweet! The flowers on the image are screaming for jewels or glitter to be added. This could sooo be one of my mad cats who are always dashing up a tree.

http://www.wildrosestudio.co.uk

Here is her website and from there you can shop, be inspired and read her blog too.

Single Colour cards & a little challenge

I havent made one of these for a while and decided to ink up my new Magnolia stamp and make a single colour card. I used the cute tilda blowing hearts and stamped it with Stampin' Up! ink Ruby Red and then used my waterbrush to gently use the ink outline to colour the image in, just in parts. A little paper pricking, punching and flower making and I am done.

This is a really quick and effective way to colour. Why not try it... if you have made a single colour card leave me a message with a link and you can win some stamped images (of this Tilda)

I will close this little challenge in one week.

A little bag I made last night

I made this last night and coloured with my SU inkpads. This is one of the lovely Pollycraft Sharing Sherbert stamps. ADORABLE or what? Look at those eyes! those little wings are cute as can be.

The background paper was the last piece that I made the other day with the Polka Dot Punches set. Wording circle is Craftwork Cards and I made the flower on my flower punches tutorial on yesterdays post.

Very simple, but very cute!

Scallop Punch Video

You tube scallop flower video

Embedding wont work so here is the link above - hated my voice so we have a rather annoying tune over the top and some funny and informative pop ups.

This has taken ages to upload, now I remember why I dont do more! hassle..

Stamp Heaven

WOW talk about good mail day today. I got so much to share.. so much to ink up! Remember a while back I sold a few stamps for my huggabugg fund, well I got those today!! YIPEEEEE lots of lovely bugs ;0)

Then I got the ADORABLE Pollycrafts stamp. OMG these images are to die for.... beautiful! They are out now and I cant wait to have a good play with these... and keep your eyes open for these in Quick Cards Made Easy AND Cardmaking and Papercraft too as I have got a few things lined up with them soon ;0)

I also, last but by no means least, some adorable Magnolia Love Collection from www.sirstampalot.co.uk and I cant wait to ink those up too.

So if I am not back soon you know why, I am playing with all my lovely goodies ;0)

Seems as well as rubber lovers I have twitchers too and you all guessed the bird was a Thrush and I intially thought that too so I think we must all be right. Been racking my brains all afternoon for a name for my new birdie.. He seems to be looking after a certain berry bush in our garden and this is about right for a thrush as I was wikapediaing about them yesterday. The are very teritorial over things like this.

I am currently uploading a punch tutorial to you tube, taking forever and I need to rough edit before I upload. I have another coming but it will have to wait until tomorrow as its taking too long.

Cazx

Me again

Here is Mr Milo in the snow! He loves it... we took him over the park yesterday and he really enjoyed it.

Here is a card I made using one of the lovely new Penny Black stamps from The Glitter Pot. They have these in stock NOW! I coloured this in with my SU Inkpads.

Any bird lovers out there? Tell us what this bird is? He was outside on our fence for a lot of the day yesterday and believe it or not its very spooky, I have been looking for him all morning and just as I started typing about him he is there now! He is a beautiful bird. Bigger than a starling, he has a real fat chest.

and lastly here is a card I made with a Penny Black Hedgehog. One of the new designs ;0)

More snow photos

Their faces say it all really... FUN!

The S Word

And for once I dont mean Stamps!!

Look what we have.....

We have approx 10 - 12 cm and there is no sign of it stopping. School has been closed YIPEE so Harvey is well pleased. I am too to be truthful as I havent got my car and I wasnt about to walk there especially as there is a lot more forecast.

My New Penny Black stamps have been eased in gently and I have coloured a few in, just need to make some cards so maybe between the snow fun I might get something made with them. remember a while back I sold a load of stamps so I could get my Bellas? Well they havent come yet, whats the betting that they will come today, or I will be carded today so I cant collect them!!

Also anyone a knitter of doggy jumpers? I think Milo needs one!! LOL His poor little tummy is buried in the snow and in Harveys words..

*** WARNING kids one liner ABOUT A DOGS PRIVATE PARTS ***

"Milos poor little nuts are frozen" !!! Kids eh?

Beavers is cancelled and TicTac forsaw the snow warnings and has arranged a meeting just by his house with 10 sledges so if we feel brave at 5pm we're go out for sledging for 1/2 hour this really is the best snow we have had since Harvey has been around so we need to get out and take advantage of it. I am sure I will be updating with lots more pictures.

Take care and wrap up everyone

Cazx

New Penny Black have landed

At www.theglitterpot.co.uk and I had to mosey on down for a look. What a nightmare that was, I was already a little nervous on travelling the very road I span on last week and then we came across a crash that blocked the road, well over a hour later we finally got to The Glitter Pot where Bryan woke up my little bag of stamps, he said they had been resting and waiting for their new owner (sorry Bryan am I letting your secret of "talking to your stamps" out?) LOL Harvey was with me, he was FED UP! big time, he had a headache, was tired hungry and thirsty so we stopped at a petrol station for a drink, calpol and something to eat.

Whislt there, and to prove the New Penny Black wasnt the only reason I was there I picked up some stamps and papers for my class on 14th Feb. If you havent booked yet you need to now! We are going to have a fab time with stamps, papers ect and I might even make you all a little valentine gifty too ;0) Classes are One layer cards and lots of layers cards... sound good eh? So click the link and give them a call I would love to see you there.

Can anyone please help?

USA Sisters? Can you please help me get a Martha Punch? the valentines lace edge one?

Thanks for reading
Cazx

The Greeting Farm

Its all happening today isnt it?

Formerly known as Pink Poison has landed in the UK at http://www.diestodiefor.co.uk/ Apparently they are waiting on more as their order has been despatched in a few parcels instead of one. So if its not in stock it may well be coming soon.

Keep looking out for them and if you do order please tell them stampingcaz sent ya!

These are the two that found their way to me, they are BIGGER than I thought! But fantastically so.. nice size for the 6 x 6 cards I make.

Cazx

What do you want?

I know thats what my hubby will text me with when he opens his lunch. Firstly I dont usually offer to make him lunch, but it was all part of a master plan. I made a small 4 x4 card last night and just wrote a little note for Darren to find when he gets his lunch out. Like most people, there are things we used to do when we were first together that we no longer do, like me writing him little notes, full of waffle really, just saying hello and I love you. So here is the front of his little card ;0)

Very simple, but you are used to that hey? Fluffles from Stampendous giving FREE HUGS, a piece of decorative paper, a white gel pen, a Stampin' Up! punched and shaped flower and a Craftwork Cards candy. I should think all the usual suspects will have this stamp in stock soon if not already. GP, CUL and SSA.

So have you Saleabrated yet???
Saleabration here in the UK is nearly halfway through. Spend £45 with Stampin' Up! UK and choose a FREE set from their flyer (can be viewed at www.stampinup.co.uk)

An Extra special offer from me

An offer for February from me is spend £45 get a free Saleabration set - OK thats the same as everyone else... so how about I offer a 10% discount on the punches that match the Polka Dot Punches set? Thats the 1 1/4" circle Punch, the 5 petal flower punch and the scalloped Circle punch. You dont have to order all three.. but the offer is there ;0) Also included in this offer is the other materials I used to make the book below so you can order the following with 10% off ; that is Bashful Blue Ink Pad, Pumpkin Pie Ink pad, Ruby Red Ink Pad, Old Olive Ink Pad and the Summer Picnic Papers. Choose what you want... or buy them all!

(10% discount only offered on qualifying Saleabration orders, ie orders over £45 and not for orders under this amount)

See how simple this background is to create? 4 colours of inkpads, 3 of the 4 different stamps in the Polka Dot Punches set and you have some bright and funky paper!

Email your orders to stampingcaz@btinternet.com and we can discuss payment options.