Kuretake Shop Opening For Business

Keep your eyes open - the new Kuretake shop is due to open today! Wahoo! Not only will you be able to get all your Kuretake and ZIG products from the Kuretake shop but Kuretake are also distributing the fabulous Basically Bare! So now you will be able to get all the alterables and colouring mediums you need to let your creativity go wild! I…

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Your Ticket To Glitter

Last Tuesday I showed you 'Your Ticket To Jingle' for today's make I've been making more Christmas notelet cards with the Itty Bitty ticket to jingle stamp from Unity available form Make The Day Special. This time I've broken out the glitter. I've used ZIG Art and Graphic Twin pens, from Kuretake which are also available from Make The Day Special, to stamp with and added a border of glitter…

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Your Ticket To Jingle

Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle all the way with this Itty Bitty ticket to jingle stamp from Unity available form Make The Day Special.  It is one of three fab ticket stamps in the set and you can use them together or apart like this little Clean and Simple Christmas Card. Yep - more CAS from me, I can't resist! I've used ZIG Art…

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Some Odd Girl Opulent Christmas Tag Tutorial

Hi everyone, here is a step by step I recently put together as part of the month long celebrations for Kristy's Birthday over at her blog The Odd Girl. It is a special Christmas Tag using the Some Odd Girl Angel Kaylee. You will need:Stamps - Angel Kaylee, Alphabet stamps, Music stampPapers - Prima PrinteryColouring - Prismacolor pencilsInks - Versamark, BlackUsual Suspects - Scissors, Silicone glueEquipment -…

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Roll With The Punches

Another punchy make today and I've been a bit cheeky as it fits the Cute Card Thursday Challenge this week which is Animal Crackers so I've used it as my DT card. It uses the very cute Kurepunch Small - Puppy. Cute little doggies! Don't forget to go check out the Cute Card Thursday Challenge blog to find out more about this week's sponsors,…

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A Little Teddy With A Big Punch!

My title is a bit of a play on words today. It isn't a teddy that punches, its a teddy punch! One of the Kuratake Kurepunch range to be precise! Ok so I'm not so good with the word play! But how about this for a congratulations card or a new baby card? He is the Kurepunch Small - Baby Bear and…

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Playing With Grey

A bunch of flowers for you all today and this is my DT make for Make The Day Special. The flowers are from the Flourishes range of beautiful stamps these ones are the Zinnia Kit.  I've fallen in love with colouring with greys, you can get all sorts of effects with greys, they are so useful. I used a bit of watercolouring…

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Fun With Fabric And Octopode Factory

Ahh Saturday, which means it is my day on the Quixotic Paperie blog and I thought that for my DT piece this week I would get all a bit fabric-y with the fabulous Ocotopode Factory stamps, new into Quixotic Paperie, and some yummy Prima papers. I've used Octopode Factory Alice from the Alice in Wonderland range and made her a little quilted. I've used…

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How To Make Acrylic Paint And ZIG Alcohol Blender Ink Backgrounds.

I promised you all a tutorial for my La-La Land Crafts DT make for this week's Inspiration Monday. Well here as promised is how I made the spooky background for the little Skeleton Luka Tag. I adapted the technique from Nancy Reyner's book Acrylic Revolution and is really easy to do if you have a little bit of time and want to…

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Buzz Buzz Buzz

Buzzy Buzzy Buzz, the last sounds of Summer buzzing on by, well actually there are no sounds of Summer as the wind and rain pelts against my window! Well let us just pretend that it is still Summer shall we? I have my Summery DT make for Make The Day Special this week. I've used one of the new stamp sets from…

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Sunday Round-Up

It is Sunday Round-Up time and that seems particularly approriate this week as I am watching Toy Story 2 with Woody's Round-Up as I write this post! Well to Round-Up this week I have a little card in Papercraft Essentials Issue 72 to 'toot' about but you might be extra excited about this issue - not 'coz of my card but because of the…

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