Happy Scrappy Friends: Material Challenge

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Hi and thanks for stopping by for the Happy Scrappy Friends blog hop! Soooo, you know I love to take on a good challenge and the one for today is no exception! We decided to play with stamps, veneer and washi this month ♥

For the stamps, I used an older Papertrey Ink stamp set called "In Bloom" together with Studio Calico "Grey Slate" ink. The veneer part is obvious, I guess. As for the washi tape, I used that as a pattern paper to punch out two additional butterflies.

In addition to the three fixed challenge supplies, I opted to play with some new goodies I got recently. One is a new birthday die by My Favorite Things and the other thing is a mini ink blender and some distress ink cubes. Oh dearies, I still have some training hours ahead of me with those until I get that gorgeous smooth ink blends...  

Anyway, that's it from me - your next stop is Daphne! Happy hopping, all!

Happy Scrappy Friends: Die-cuts

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Die-cuts, whether they are ready made or of the home made breed, are my favorite thing to create a focal point. Just layer a bunch together and you're basically done. Lucky me, die-cuts are our topic for the Happy Scrappy Friends blog hop. 

Instead of my usual pinks and yellows, I have a boy birthday card to show today. The die-cuts I chose are a mix of bought one's from Crate Paper and the vellum stars I die-cut myself with nesting Studio Calico dies. Also, how cute is that soft blue and red background paper? An oldie but goodie from October Afternoon. 

Now, since our blog hop group currently meets IRL for the first time this weekend in lovely Hamburg, I hope you don't mind me sending you right to Daphne's blog while we explore the city :)

Also, don't forget to stop by the challenge blog for a chance to be our guest and win a prize. Have a nice Sunday, all! 

Happy Scrappy Friends: Paints

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Hello and thanks for hopping by from Cathy's blog! By now you know, this hop is all about crayons, watercolors, Mixed Media supplies, whatever paints you happen to love. 

I brought out my Neocolor crayons and colored a die cut, then also used the colors to stamp my sentiment. Which completely failed at first and then I even spilled a hugh blob of Mister Huey's spray paints over it, but you know, perfect is overrated anyway ;-)

Hope you like my messy card sample - your next stop is Elvan and as always you can play along on the challenge blog for the opportunity to join us as a guest designer next month. And there might be a prize as well. Just saying :)

 

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