Tickled pink...

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It's release day today over at Clearly Besotted so all of these sneaky peeks we've been sharing with you over the past few days will be available to purchase from 10pm UK time tonight! :D

For my final card of this release, I've inked up the Tickle My Fancy stamp set. This fabulous set features both solid and linear feather designs with a variety of sentiments. It's ideal for both focal points and background stamping! I decided to put a bit of a literal spin on the tickled pink sentiment by playing with some pink ink and a sheet of pink bokeh BoBunny paper from the You're Invited collection.

You'll see that I also couldn't resist some pops of gold in the form of glitter Washi tape, gold foil Washi tape and a cute BoBunny mini clip. :)

Well my sneak peeks are over and Stephanie will be sharing a full reveal of all the new CB goodies, so be sure to pop over and get your shopping list ready! In addition to the full reveal, there's links to the rest of the Design Team sharing their final sneak peeks, so be prepared for some serious enabling! ;)

Thanks so much popping by here today, your visits are always appreciated!

Trouble...in a tutu...

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Well it's July and although it might be grey and soggy outside, it's time to inject a little sunshine and happiness with sneak peeks of Clearly Besotted's July release!

It's a well known fact that no-one quite does cute like Clearly Besotted, but somehow they've even managed to excel themselves this month with what can only be described cuteness overload. This, combined with their humour, is a recipe for some seriously fun stamping. :)

Today's card features the hilariously titled, 'Trouble in a tutu' stamp set and I just couldn't resist using that sentiment. I know a number of friends who would love this sentiment paired with the images in the set and I'm pretty sure that if I ever found myself in a tutu, I'd certainly be in trouble...LOL!

I decided to pop my stamped hippo and sentiment onto a tag from BoBunny's You're Invited collection. I also used the mini star cluster stamp from the same stamp set to fill the spaces in between the fun dots on the tag, then used 3D foam tape to mount it onto a card front covered with paper from the same collection. A mini peg and twine bow was added to finish the design. :)

For this month's sneaky peeks, Clearly Besotted have the amazingly talented Laura Bassen and Kay Miller on board! I just know that they're going to create inspirational and fun projects for the release so be sure to check them out. Pop across to Stephanie's (CB HQ) to see more from this month's release including links to the rest of the Design Team sharing more sneaky peeks!

I'll be back tomorrow with another card, so I hope you can join me then! As always, thank you so much for stopping today. :)

Let's celebrate you (& release day!)

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Hip, hip, hooray! It's release day over at Clearly Besotted and April's release will be available to purchase from 10pm UK time tonight! :)

I'm celebraing release day with a card featuring the brand-new A Better You stamp set. This set features beautiful butterflies with co-ordinating designs to stamp on top. I love this concept and I wanted to create a tone-on-tone butterfly for this project, but I have plans of heat-embossing the detailed stamp to create a contrasting design for a future project (when I've finally built that time machine I require to find more hours in the day!)

I'm still on a bid to use and enjoy some of the pretty stash I have just sat here waiting for me so I've used up a teeny bit more of my BoBunny You're Invited collection with this stamp set. I just felt that the butterfly suited and fitted the journalling card design perfectly. I originally stamped the sentiment directly onto the printed design, but I felt it was lost in the pattern so I stamped it again onto cream cardstock and carried out some serious fussy-cutting to affix it on top. Project rescued!

Stephanie is sharing the full reveal of the new release today so be sure to pop across and get your shopping list ready! The rest of the Design Team are also sharing their final creations featuring the new release so be sure to take a sneak peek at the links Stephanie is sharing today for a mojo boost and to help make those final purchasing decisions. ;)

Thanks so much for visiting this little corner of Blogland today!

Happy days...

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Happy Monday! I'm a little late to the Clearly Besotted teasers of the April release, but better late than never, right? I'm sure that you've already been checking out some fabulous sneak peeks of new goodies over the past couple of days from the talented Design Team and I'm joining in today with a quick and easy card featuring the Good Times II stamp set. 

I have a thing for bicycles. I don't even own one myself, but I love to see them in print form so I was extremely happy to see this second version of the original Good Times stamp set; I especially like the fact this bicycle can be coloured or paper-pieced as desired!

I've paired up this fun stamp set with some bits 'n' bobs from the BoBunny You're Invited collection from my stash. The bike was simply stamped and coloured onto a square journalling card from the collection and then I stamped and heat-embossed the sentiment above it – it fitted perfectly! 

I added a mini gold binder clip for a final finishing touch and gave myself a mini pat on the back for using up some goodies from my stash in addition to playing with the new release. After all, if I use up goodies that I already have then I'm making room for more! ;) 

That's all from today, but I hope you can join me tomorrow as we kick off release day with more projects featuring the new stamp sets. In the meantime, if you haven't already, then pop across to Stephanie's to see more sneak peeks and links to the rest of the super Design Team sharing their talent with the new release! 

As always, thank you so much for stopping by today!

Retro FABulousness

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Wowzers! June already? How did that happen? I seem to be a record stuck on repeat but I'll say it again, this year is zooming by. But a new month means some new sneaky peeks of Clearly Besotted goodies available for purchase from 5th June 10pm (UK time). So, let's get started!

I'm a day late to the sneaky peeks but I'm hoping today's FAB card will make up for it. Yup, I've been busy playing with the new On The Beach die set to create some iced lollies (or popsicles as some of you may call them!) that bring back fond memories. I have a weakness for Fab lollies and this hasn't been the first time I've managed to incorporate them into my papercrafting - check out my previous take on this yummy treat here.  I was always a fan of Fab lollies when I was younger and would insist on following a routine of picking all the chocolate from the top, then eating the softer white layer leaving the red icy bit for last. Please tell me I'm not the only one that did, and maybe still does this!

Sorry, I digress! Enough trips down memory lane, more about the card. Those lollies were so easy to create: I simply die-cut the lolly a few times from white, pink and brown cardstock, chopped them up and pieced them together! The hundreds and thousands are represented by teeny tiny gems that I coloured with my ProMarkers and I added some icy shimmer to them using a clear Wink of Stella glitter brush pen.

I was originally going to go very plain with this design but thought I'd inject a little more summer fun with the a double-sided sheet of Yum 12x12" BoBunny paper from the new #ForeverYoung collection. I then added a little more retro fun to the design by creating a customised sentiment using my Dymo label writer. :)

I hope today's card just goes to show how versatile the dies are that co-ordinate with the wonderful stamps from Clearly Besotted. I'll be back tomorrow with more sneaky peeks but until then, pop across to Stephanie's at CB HQ to check out some FABulous projects from the FABulous Design Team!

Thank you so much for stopping by and have a FABulous today! :D