Instagram hop for Picket Fence Studios and Waffle Flower!

 There's a special hop going on today over at Instagram - make sure you go visit, hop along and leave a comment for your chance to win! 

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Release day at Picket Fence Studios

It's release day at Picket Fence Studios! There are some fun Christmas stamps, dies and stencils in this release, but today, I'm sharing stamps and dies that are not Christmassy.

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Joy to the world with Picket Fence Studios

 I made a card with NO INK ON IT!! Did hell freeze over??

I created a panel of cardstock with a rainow of Paper Glitz, and then die cut the word die from it. 

 

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50th Anniversary card

 The other day, one of my lovely neighbours rang and asked if I could make her a couple of 50th anniversary cards for friends of hers. I made two the same (except for the names, of course!)

 

 

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Quick birthday cards for Paper Rose

 Today, I have a set of 14 cards I made using 6 pieces of 6x6 patterned paper and a couple of sheets of printed sentiments from Paper Rose.

I cut each of the 6 patterns of paper in the Floral Bliss patterned paper pack into panels to put onto the front of at least 2 cards each. I varied the cuts to make a variety of layouts. I cut the sentiments from Big Sentiments 1.0 and layered them onto the card fronts, sometimes with a mat of black cardstock. On some cards, I cut thin strips of the patterned paper and used the reverse side to create a border on the edges of the floral panel. On the one card that is not floral, I used offcuts from the other cards to create a rainbow.

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Happy Father's Day

 Today is Father's Day in Australia, so I made this card for my Dad.

 

Cutting a panel of alcohol ink and alloys on Yupo into strips means that I can keep plenty of white space on my card, and I also get two cards from one background - win win! (the sentiment is a very old stamp from a company that no longer exists, called Artee Stamps.)

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Wintry holidays for Picket Fence Studios

 I have a card to share today using a cute new stamp set from Picket Fence Studios.

And I made a video!

 

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Stamptember Blog Party at Simon Says Stamp!

 Today, I'm taking part in a blog party over at Simon Says Stamp to celebrate Stamptember! The lovely people at Simon Says Stamp sent me this lovely die, which I teamed up with an background stamp and a small sentiment set.

And Simon Says Stamp is offering anyone who has visited my blog today a free gift! Click on the graphic below and don't forget to use the code!

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CAS for A Blog Named Hero

 The September challenge theme at A Blog Named Hero is CAS - I love the clean, white space of a CAS card, and I kept this one super simple by making in a one-layer card.

 

 I used the "You shine" set from Hero Arts with some masking, some ink blending, Copic colouring and some Paper Glitz from Picket Fence Studios to add some sparkle and shine to the moon.

 

 A Blog Named Hero has recently moved to Instagram! If you want to enter our challenge, post your card to Instagram, tag @ablognamedhero and use the hashtag #abnhSeptemberChallenge  

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Happy Stamptember!

Happy Stamptember!  The lovely people at Simon Says Stamp sent me the "Thankful for you" die set, so I used two of the dies on this card.

 

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