Simple on Sunday - Celebrate Lovely Floral You...

Another simple make using the mix of the Lovely Floral embossing folder...and the Celebrate You dies...

Die cut "celebrate" washed with colour using the Aqua Painter and Coastal Cabana and Lemon Lime Twist inks for a bright & breezy and very colourful effect...

Finished off with the fantastic Basic (self) Adhesive Backed Sequins...

A card to make you happy... and feel that all is well with the world...

Lovely Floral Amazing Congratulations

So what do you get when you combine this Lovely Floral card with this Amazing Congratulations card...

Well this is what Heidi made in class... and it is just so pretty I just had to share...

Colour combination of Highland Heather, Gorgeous Grape, Lemon Lime Twist, Soft Sea Foam and Granny Apple Green

Techniques on Tuesday - Calligraphy Essentials

A quick share today... of where my "Cheat Calligraphy" went next...

The Basic Black marker pen came out... using both the brush end and the thin end (for a  change)... and here you go...

Part Three... with the just the Thank in black...

And then Part Four ... all in black...

Now which one do you prefer...? Part One & Two were shared here...

More Lovely Floral & Calligraphy Essentials

So I took the clean & simple card I made yesterday when I shared the Blender Pen Ombre Technique with you... and carried on colouring some of the embossed areas with my Marker Pens... in Soft Sea Foam and Lemon Lime Twist... 

But then I realised that I had packed my Balmy Blue ready for Monthly Training... so Coastal Cabana and the Blender Pen came to the rescue... as the blending of the Soft Sea Foam & Balmy Blue does look more Coastal Cabana....

Very pretty...

And then the Calligraphy Essentials "thank you" greeting came out... and the same techniques were used on this card... though I will admit that the Coastal Cabana marker pen direct onto the large embossed flower didn't make me 100% happy... 

So I quickly coloured over the whole flower using my trusty AquaPainter & Coastal Cabana ink pad (which I have to point out is a returning all time favourite colour of 90%+ of my crafty ladies!!)... which was better... though I warn you that there is a Part 3 to this tale... some time over the weekend me thinks...

Note that the small flowers are Balmy Blue (with Lemon Lime Twist centres) on this card... 

So here you go... a light bright marker pen blended & embossed duo set of calligraphy cards!

Which one do you prefer?

I do... Love What I Do...

Especially when it is so easy with a quick emboss with a folder through your Big Shot...

What more do you need... though I did add a few NEW Faceted Dots embellishments on some flower centres... well they were just sitting there begging me...

NEW Lovely Floral embossing folder... coming to you from 1st June (11 am UK time) with the release of the NEW catalogue... and I already have a bulk order for this folder going in...

Look at the detail...

Beautiful embossed... and debossed too... I think this embossing folder will prove one of those classics...

Greeting from the NEW Love What You Do stamp set... inked up in returning colour Mint Macaron with a Tranquil Tide marker on the "what"

Simple but Lovely Floral Embossing Folder...Thank you

The Lovely Floral embossing folder that does it all... so pretty... so deep... simply gorgeous...

Available now  - along with the Love What You Do stamp set used for the greeting - in the I Want It All Share What You Love bundle... or otherwise available individually from 1st June when the new 2018-19 Annual Catalogue goes live...

See more details on the 2018-19 Annual Catalogue early release bundles here...

Global Stampin Friends Blog Hop - Exciting Times...

Hello and welcome to the Global Stampin Friends Blog Hop... with a simple theme of sharing our excitement for the new and upcoming 2018-19 Annual Catalogue... whether it be the "new" coming or the "old" carrying over...

So for me it had to be something new... along with a couple of returners...

So I have great pleasure in introducing 3 lovely new products...

The Lovely Floral embossing folder... for the main feature... Used for embossing the card and main panel... as well as fussy cutting for extra 3D effect... and also a little butterfly... but more on that later...

The Love What You Do stamp set... for a bit of extra detail in the wording and foliage to add some colour...

and last but not least... Faceted Dots... for the final pop!

These are part of a great suite ... the Share What You Love suite... which is being pre-released to the world - in 3 exciting bundles to suit everyone's budget - on 1st May... whereas everything else will have to wait until 1st June when the new 2018-19 Annual Catalogue goes live...

But if you cannot wait till May... you could join our Stampin Up family right now... and it could all be yours for £99... with another £11.25 of product to add to your starter kit too! Now that is great value...

Here are some pictures of the Share What You love suite leaflet but Click here for the full pdf leaflet... and/or click here for the Stampin' Up! video for an overview... including seeing the beautiful papers...

And the returners I mentioned... well... Minty is back!!! Yes Mint Macaron is coming back into play! I am delighted!! Along with Blackberry Bliss too... which I know will make lots of my ladies very happy! Click here to learn more about the Colour Revamp and the new colour range come 1st June...

And back to that little butterfly off to the right hand side... just a fussy cut of part of the smaller flower... like so...

And now it is time to pass you onto the talented Rebecca Urban... over in the USA...

And here is the full Roll Call...

Bloghop Roll Call – Exciting Times

1.Libby Dyson

2 Courtenay Heuston

3. Sharon Dalton

4.  Anastasia Radloff

5. Karie Beglau

6. Amanda Bates ( YOU ARE HERE)

7. Rebecca Urban

8. Lisa Ann Bernard

9. Anita Wifladt

10. Mary Ann Rossiter

11. Kimberley Morris

12. Jenn Curtis Charles

13.   Angelique Stempelkeuken

14. Vicky Wright

15. Amanda Farlinger

16. Marieke Bart

17. Sarah McDermott