Enough with the birds Elizabeth....!

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Yes I know - I have used this stamp set a lot and My Sweet Pea too- but I do love them!
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This particular card we made at some recent workshops. I love all the different elements you get in this stamp set; the little dots on the close to cocoa cardstock, the flowers used in white craft ink for the background, as well as the branch, and the bird.
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We used the soon-to-be retired cocoa and ballet blue cardstock and co-ordinating ribbon.
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You can also see that the branches and dots make a great tree for the envelope decoration.
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OK - I promise to stop with the birds for a bit! LOL
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Now if you are in the UK, scroll to the top of the blog and click on LAST CHANCE OFFERS to see the huge range of stamps and accessories that will be disappearing at the end of this month. Get them while they last :)

Bird on a Branch Silhouette

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Over the next few days I will be sharing the projects I have been teaching at my August classes. We always do three projects - usually two cards and one 3D item. I include a different technique each month.
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This month the technique we did was using a brayer to create a silhouette effect - and used the lovely 'Bird on a Branch' stamp set - which works really well with this type of card.

The sentiment is from the Simply Said stamp set - which I must get out and use more often!
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Back in couple of days with our 3D project.
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Hope you like.

Chocolate Bird on a Branch

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I do love Bird on Branch and I think it works so well in this colour combination.

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I used the Kraft and Turquoise to create a frame for the main image, and stamped with the speckled image that comes with the set to add texture.

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I finished with the beautiful wide striped grossgrain ribbon and satin ribbon both in chocolate chip - I love how everything goes together with Stampin' Up!

Hope you like.... :)

Bird on a Branch and an event

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This month at my classes I am teaching a 'step' card and this is one of the samples I made while I was preparing it.
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I do love that Bird on a Branch - it works with so many different themes. I decided to pick up the colours in the DSP and make a particularly colourful tree for my chocolate chip birdie to sit on.

I thought I would also post a picture of me at a recent charity event. One of my new stamping friends Sara, (hi Sara - waves), organised a stand for me at a ladies night. I had a great time, meeting lots of lovely ladies and getting them stamping.

See you in a couple of days for the next project.

Love Elizabeth X

Soft Suede Studio Sketches

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Today I am sharing a card made using the lovely new Soft Suede ink and cardstock from Stampin' Up!
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I needed a man card, so thought I would use one of the Studio Sketches images, available as a hostess set in the mini catalogue.

The card features lots of daubing with the Soft Suede ink, and speckled stamping using one of the stamps from Bird on a Branch. Before daubing, I used the distressing tool to give a shabby chic look to the card.

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Loving this new colour! I hope you do too.

Bird on a Blog!

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Well I know I have been a bad blogger - but I have an excuse! It is called the new mini catalogue and if I haven't been demoing with it I have been playing with all my new stamps and goodies - or tools and samples as I call them when talking to DH! LOL
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I have also been reorganising this blog. As well as sharing my new creations, I want it to be a resource for my lovely friends and customers who would like to be able to see samples again or search for things we made in the past.
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To that end, I have made my blog searchable by stamp set, (you can click on a stamp set name from the list on the right), and if I stamped with it, it will be there - well give me a couple of weeks. LOL.
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As regular visitors know, I usually save up a few items to post once a week. From now on I will post several times a week, with just one project each time. This means the whole searchy thing will work better and hopefully there will be more to see more often.
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OK - enough of all that writing - where is the project? Well today I am sharing a card I made for all the lovely people who came to my recent workshops. It is using the Bird on a Branch stamp set from the new mini catalogue.
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The base card is Kraft cardstock, stamped with the little dotty image from the set in close to cocoa ink and daubed around the edge. I did the same thing with Tempting Turquoise on the card layer above and located the bird on his branch, (yes it is a he!), using my stamp a ma jig.
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Very simple and I love it!
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If you are going to Amanda's meeting, this will also be my swap next Wednesday.
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Back very soon - I promise this time!