A card disguised as a gift...

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Happy Monday! You may be sick of me by the end of today as I have not one, but two post scheduled to go live today (That is, if Blogger is behaving!)

First today is a little heads up about the new Clearly Besotted Stamps Challenge. For this challenge, we have a little picture/colour inspiration:

Image courtesy of design seeds.

I took those colours and even the tablecloth pattern to create a birthday card. I simply substituted a shiny cherry for a glossy heart in my design (thanks to Glossy Accents!)

 *Mmmmmm Glossy* (said in Homer Simpson-esque style LOL!)

I covered a tag front in the chequered design from Building Blocks. The tags are from the Tag Along Die Collection and the sentiment is from the coordinating set, Tag Along.  The die cut heart is from the newly released, Little Onesie Die Collection.

• In order to cross over my twine centrally, I lightly marked the midpoint of each side of the square piece of card with a pencil. Then I simply lined up the twine with my pencil marks.
• The peg and big, loopy twine treatment help to balance the tag sitting at an angle.
• Whilst you're making a project like this, why not make a duplicate tag and attach it to a gift that coordinates with the card?

I really hope you can play along with us. One randomly selected peep will win some CBS pennies (aka store credit) to spend on some new CBS goodies!

Right, I'll be back in a few hours with a card that will be heading to my guy on Friday. I hope you can stick around for it! *wink*

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I {Doily} Heart You

 

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Happy Wednesday! Well this is it. It's time for my first Top Dog Dies Design Team post and we're kicking it off with a lovely blog hop (pun intended!) :)

There are prizes to be won on this hop too so be sure to enter over at the TDD blog and extra entries can be added by commenting along the hop too (enter by Sunday Feb 9th!). You should have hippety-hopped across here from my fellow teamie and Amy, Amy Tsuruta. If you haven't, be sure to start out at Top Dog Dies.

So the brief was to create something with a Valentine's theme. Now I'm a pretty CAS (Clean and Simple) gal and I'm not known to fussy things up with doilies, but something about that TDD Heart Doily Die tempted me to play with it. So play I did. A little nervous. A little lost in uncharted territory. I kept it within some of my comfort zone by making it a part of a CAS design. :)

To provide a focal point, and to know who the heart is for, I die-cut the letters 'YOU' from the TDD Vintage Alphabet Die. The font of this alphabet ties in nicely with the vintage feel of the design.

• My mini pegs (clothespins) needed to be customised to match the design. It's so easy to do this with a bit of acrylic paint. Simply take the peg apart, paint each wooden part, set aside to dry, and then put it back together again. (This is a little bit fiddly with mini pegs, but it's worth the effort!)
• White on white designs really require dimension so the elements don't get lost. The texture of paper, wood and twine help with this as does popping up my doily on foam pads.

Now I've just got to find someone who'd like this card. I'm pretty sure that this design is waaaaaay too girly and fussy for my guy LOL!

That's all from me today. It's time to get hopping across to Giovana Smith who has some more TDD inspiration in store for you!

Thanks so much for hopping along here today!

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Please note that the silver adhesive paper I've used for the letters and the mini pegs are from my old stash of goodies. All other supplies are listed below:

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Digging for....eggs?!

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Hello, Tuesday. Hello, peeps. Ready for another Clearly Besotted Stamps sneaky peeky at the February release? I hope so! Remember: all new stamp sets and dies are available to purchase from Wednesday February 5th @ 22:00 GMT.

New to the sneaky peeks? Check out my previous peeks here, and here (said in my best air hostess voice and pointing to the exits LOL!)

Today's card takes two new sets, 'Garden Fresh' and 'Hoppy Easter', to create a punny, interactive card. Interactive you say? Well sure it is. Let's just do some digging; that cute rabbit is looking hungry:

Oh. What do we have here? This rabbit was hoping (or should that be hopping? Someone please stop me!) up for a carrot, but I think we've just struck Easter-gold here:

Ha! Totally punny. Totally interactive. Totally can't wait to post this Easter card in April LOL!

• The green panel of patterned paper is raised up on foam pads and underneath I've created a vertical path with the foam pads as a border so the spade/egg doesn't slide across the card. Wish I'd taken a picture now! 
• The sentiment looked lost stamped directly on to the patterned paper so I simply stamped it on white cardstock, trimmed it down and adhered it to the front.

Just to stop you from scrolling up and down the pictures, here's an action replay of the moment this rabbit scored an Easter egg instead of a carrot:

The rabbit, sentiment and Easter egg are from the set, 'Hoppy Easter'. The cute carrots, spade and spade die are from 'Garden Fresh'.

That's enough fun and peek-a-booing from me today, but if you want to check out some more sneaky peeks of the CBS February release then hop across to Stephanie who has more fabulous projects and links the rest of the CBS DT sharing sneaky peeks. You won't be disappointed! :)