New Stamps by Tracey Hey.

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As promised, I’m back today sharing another couple of cards using my new stamps from Tracey Hey. I really just wanted to play around with them, and see what I came up with. So here are the results - a bit different to my usual style, but it’s good to just go with the flow and see what happens! 

The stamp sets I’ve used are: Epic Stuff, Dotty Definitions, Doing Great and Mwah.

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Hugs Sonia xxx

’Mwah’.... Cute Elephants

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Two posts in two days! I just couldn’t wait to share my creations, using these gorgeous new stamps I’ve purchased in the last week! I came across Tracey Hey - Alpaca Pals whilst browsing Instagram and upon visiting her site, I fell in love with her designs. So here are my first two cards using this cute little elephant from the ‘Mwah’ stamp set. I have also used a couple of stamps from the ‘Doing Great’ set aswell.

Will be back soon to share another couple of cards using these wonderful stamps - something a bit different to my usual style!

 

Thanks for stopping by.

Hugs Sonia xxx

Embossing Folder Challenge

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Since getting back into crafting over the last few months, I’ve been warmly welcomed back in to the Cotswold Crafter’s blog. This is a lovely friendly blog run by Sandra, with loads of beautiful inspiration and weekly challenges. I love being a part of Sandra’s blog, along with the friendly chatter, it inspires me with my crafting. A recent challenge was to use our embossing folders, something I hadn’t used for a while. So I’d like to share the cards I made. I was rather pleased with how they turned out - and the bonus of making a Christmas card to add to this year’s collection!

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Hugs Sonia

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21st Birthday Cards

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Apologies for not blogging for a while. Thought I’d share with you the Birthday cards I made for my Son. He was 21 at the beginning of July! Can’t believe where the years have gone. We celebrated in the best way we could with lockdown restrictions still in place. 

My first card uses a LOTV image which I purchased from their Etsy store. I used Anna Marie Designs papers and the sentiment is from Clearly Besotted.

For my second card I used an AALL & Create stencil as my background. The sentiment is from Spellbinders.

Thanks for stopping by.

Hugs Sonia xxx 

Happy Father’s Day

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Just a quick post to share the card I made for my Dad for Father’s Day.

Can’t go wrong with Lili Of The Valley images, this is one from the now discontinued art pads.

The background is a recently purchased stencil from Clearly Besotted, as well as the sentiment.

Happy Father’s Day to all the wonderful Dads out there.

Thanks for stopping by.

Hugs

Sonia xxx

More Alcohol Inks

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I’m back sharing another card made using my alcohol inks. The background is made with my new Gelli plate, using distress inks to give a watercolour effect. The honeycomb die was cut in inked card similar to the watercoloured piece, and then cut again in a small offcut of the alcohol inked piece, so I could insert some of the shapes back into the cut piece. My butterfly is also cut from the alcohol inked piece.

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Hugs

Sonia xxx

Alcohol Inks

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Hope you are all staying safe, and enjoying this gorgeous weather we are having at the moment.

I received some alcohol inks and yupo card for my Birthday, so have been having a play with them. 

I created the background on my card using Wild Plum and Stonewashed adding a little silver mixative. I matted my inked piece on coordinating coloured papers and added the double layer butterfly.

I love the different effects you can achieve with the inks, and will be playing around with them a lot more, aswell as adding more colours to my collection.

Thanks for stopping by.

Hugs

Sonia xxx