Wonderful Time of the Year for any occasion!

Same as the Christmas version shared earlier here... 

Sweet Sugarplum and Rich Razzleberry inks used instead...

And a double stamped flower instead of the single... with a white embossed centre...

Blooms & Wishes for Christmas

Keeping it simple and sweet...

Big Wonderful Year wording in an embossed Pretty & Paisleys oval...finished off with a contemporary poinsettia flower care of Blooms & Wishes

Other part of the Holly Berry Happiness duo from yesterday's post... The Holly Punch and stamps have seen some serious action here this month!!

And I am loving the Rope Trim... such good value... and might have to find my son's Knots book from so many years ago... 

Major photo-shoot tomorrow!! Been busy busy busy creating... 

Holly Berry Happiness meets Wonderful Time...

Another quick share today...

Another Quarterly Team Training project designed by Julie... featuring my favourite christmas greeting set Wonderful Year along with Holly Berry Happiness and a dash of Warmth & Cheer papers....

Lovely....

Wonderful Reindeer Time of Year...

So Cookie Cutter has been out again...  And after a few little reindeer head stamps and punches... Voila! So cute!  

Baby Wipe Swiped Pool Party ink onto Shimmery White card panel... 

Wonderful Year greeting and Mountain Adventure snowflakes stamped in black (when dry)

Reindeer heads stamped in black onto Whisper White and Crumb Cake card (2 of each). And 1 red onto white card...

Antlers & ears on the white ones marker-coloured in Soft Suede

Crumb Cake heads overstamped with Crumb Cake using the great texture/faux fur stamp from Touches with Texture... 

All punched out and the the Crumb Cake heads trimmed round the head....

Nose hand cut from the red on white head to add to Rudolph...

New Autumn Winter Products Blog Hop Today

Hello and welcome to The Craft Spa for the Jems Monthly Blog Hop featuring new products from the Autumn Winter (aka Holiday) catalogue.

Now really I should have called this post... Here are a Few of my Favourite Things... as in true Amanda style I have combined my 3 favourite new stamp sets! And all on a wreath...

So the wreath is produced using Holly Berry Happiness... perfect 2 step stamps for the job... and comes with a matching punch...

Gold embossed very large greeting from Wonderful Year... available in wood and clear mount

White embossed Seasonal Bells on gold foil... available in wood and clear mount...with a matching punch too 

See that shine on the bells....

Then back to Holly Berry Happiness for the stamped and punched holly leaves and berries to finish off the bells

All mounted onto an Extra Large Square card to keep it simple but to give the WOW factor... 

And now it is time to pass you onto Julie... who has something special in store for you...

Or if you are going backwards... here is Sarah's blog for yet more loveliness...

Ombre Wonderful Year Trio

Very quick share today.... 

Another quick little threesome from my play with Wonderful Year and the Bermuda Bay Ombre pad... plus more of the snowflake from the Tin of Tags 

These are all a variant on a theme from my recent postings...so if you want product details or technique details please just go back a few day's posts... or type "ombre" in the Search box at the top right hand side... and up they should all pop... 

The white die cut snowflake is from the Botanical Builder dies.... and the sequins are from the new and coming soon Fancy Frost sequins

Ombre Sponge Brayering Emboss Resist...

Another idea with the Bermuda Bay ombre pad... 

White embossed Wonderful Year greeting and couple of large Tin of Tags snowflakes...

Sponge brayered ink from the ombre pad for the Emboss Resist Technique .... 

Ombre-inked large snowflakes at random to finish off... plus Soft Sky Fancy Frost sequins... I have to admit that these Tin of Tags snowflakes are going to get plenty of action here at The Craft Spa...

I hope you are all having a wonderful August Bank Holiday...and managing to get a rest (or not as the case might prefer to be!)

And here is a group shot of the last 2 days' cards...

Ombre Stamping

Keeping on my ombre theme...which means more in Bermuda Bay as the other pads haven't arrived here yet!

I inked up the large Wonderful Year greeting stamp with the Bermuda Bay ombre pad... pale at the top... dark at the bottom.

I also ombre-inked up the gorgeous large snowflake from the Tin of Tags stamps set... and the little snowflake trio from Greetings from Santa... so some pale and some dark... All these stamp sets coming soon... 1st September...

And then I finished off with a few small snowflake trios in Smoky Slate and the Fancy Frost Sequins again

Simple, quick and easy card with the help of the Ombre pad... so much so I had to order more!

And Some Like it Hot!

Same card as yesterday... but a completely different bright and vibrant look...

As this time I was having a play with my Bermuda Bay Ombre ink pad.... starting off with the Direct to Paper technique... This ink pad is great for this technique as you have 5 shades to work with in the one pad...

I swiped my ink pad with the palest end to the centre (darker to bottom) and then repeated from the other side (palest to centre again, darker to top) ... I then swiped the darkest portion again at the very top and bottom... hence the not so smooth graduation of darker colour to the top and bottom edges...

The graduation is really smooth but again I could have got an even smoother effect had I used  my normal Whisper White cardstock (or no doubt even better with Shimmery White) but that will have to be for another day... another series!

Now watch this space...as once that Ombre pad was out... I had a good play!!

So do you like it hot? or cold?

Oh and before I go... not a Bermuda Bay lover... well also available in Rich Razzleberry and Calypso Coral... and shhh.... I am going to let the cat (or rather ink pad!!) out of the bag.... coming soon in Black and Emerald Envy

Rich Razzleberry

Calypso Coral

Some Like It Cold! Botanical Snowflakes...

Lovely little simple card to share today... 

Again using the fabulous Wonderful Year stamp set for the greeting that says it all!! But white heat embossed this time...

Then the Sponge Brayers were out for a bit of first time inky fun for the Emboss Resist technique... charged up with Soft Sky ink and just rolled across until I was happy with the effect... 

Note that my embossed panel is actually Thick Whisper White as this is my go-to cardstock... but with hindsight I would have been better using normal Whisper White... or even Shimmery White... next time!

The fabulous snowflakes are indeed the flowers centres from the Botanical Builder dies... just perfect! You can thank my wonderful downline Moya for this little inspiration... 

Laid on a white mat on a Soft Sky card blank...  and finished off with the new and coming Fancy Frost sequins in Soft Sky...plus a few rhinestones too