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Retiring Products List for the current Catalogue
for a bargain or to avoid missing out on items still on your wishlist
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visit my SU! website today
www.tenealewilliams.stampinup.n
and click on Shop Now>Retiring Products
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Some items 50% off
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View the Retiring Stamps List
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View the Retiring Accessories list
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View all the Retiring items and shop online
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I have selected a few items that I think
are MUST haves or a great deal…
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Aviary, Clear Stamp Set of 9
{25% off} now only $25.46
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Be of Good Cheer, 12 sheets of printed paper
{50% off} now only $9.48
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Beautiful Season, Clear Stamp Set of 4
{25% off} now only $22.46

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Card Stock & Classic Pad 2011 In Color Kit
Pool Party, Calypso Coral, Lucky Limeade, Wisteria Wonder, and Island Indigo.
5 Classic Stampin’ Pads in the above colours
Contains 20 sheets of A4 card stock 4 sheets in each
Note: All but Lucky Limeade are becoming permanent colours
Save 15% buying the kit. $47.95
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Champagne Mist Shimmer Paint
The best thing in the WORLD,
mix a few drops with Isocol in a spray bottle
and you have created a fast drying shimmer spray
$9.95
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Daring Adventure, Clear Stamp Set of 4
Great masculine set, the type image is SO useful
$28.95
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Established Elegance, Clear Stamp Set of 10
What are they thinking? Retiring this beauty
$38.95
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French Foliage, Clear Stamp Set of 6
You may notice the ink spotter in the set,
Maybe my all time most used set
{25% off} now only $22.46
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Holiday Stocking, Sizzix Die
Cuts Fabric, cardstock and many other materials
{50% off} now only $27.96
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Kindness Matters, Clear Stamp Set of 5
{25% off} now only $12.71
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Pursuit of Happiness, Clear Stamp Set of 5
I think you can never have enough verse sets.
$24.95
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numbers will be drawn at random,
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The following is sold out:
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Bashful Blue Reinker
Pretty In Pink Reinker
Certainly Celery Reinker
More Mustard Reinker
Regal Rose Reinker
Riding Hood Red Reinker
River Rock Reinker
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Brights Markers
Brights Crayons
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Neutral Markers
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Regal Rose A4 cardstock
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Glossy cardstock
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Subtles Classic Stampin’ Pads
Subtles Markers
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CASE Study 143

Greetings Stampers!
Hope you are all doing well.
I am doing great, I was in Brisbane last week for Stampin’ Up! Convention
which was the most amazing Convention yet!
I have returned to normal life this week
feeling so inspired and excited for the coming SU! year.
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It is CASE Study time!
The last challenge of May
which means we farewell Maile Belles as our Muse
Here is the card for this week:

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While at convention I noticed Feathers are on trend
seeing that I like being “with the times”
I stayed with feathers as the focal point
I liked how in the muse sample the feathers were up, down, up
I kept the greeting over the feathers
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If you are a SU! Fan I have used some images
that you don’t recognise?
I have used two sets from the up coming Catalogue?
A perk of attending convention FREE STAMPS!
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Here is the inside!
Time to be honest with you,
I hate this card! HATE!!!
but I made a promise to someone at convention {you know who you are}
That I will post all my cards, even the ones I hate/dislike/ crooked/ make a mistake on!
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I actually used many parts from the
Boutique Boxes Designer Printed Kit
code: 129306. AU$13.95
They are die cut cardstock elements, note cards and boxes
I had made another project with this kit
around February, for a CASE Study back then
I never posted it here so I am now.
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The idea as a message in a bottle
A different kind of way to give a message
that was “sweet” and not a normal old card
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I wrote a little message, then rolled it up
slipped it inside my bottle
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Check out the detail in the dollies from the kit!
The tag that goes over the bottle is one of the boxes in the above kit
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This my attempt to show you how I made the bottle tag,
I trimmed off the sides and punched a circle in the top,
the circle slips over the neck of the bottle.

The cardstock I trimmed off was not wasted!
Just incase you were worried! lol
I have used it for another project using the note cards.
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CASE Study 141

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Greetings!
I hope you are doing well!
I have been a little bit of a “Negative Nancy” this week
after having a back tooth removed and lots going on!
the discomfit and stress mixed together
made me less then delightful to be around.
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Enough about grumpy old me,
It’s CASE study time!
and quite shocking I am even posting it on my blog
We have Maile Belles as our MAY muse
below is this weeks CASE Study to inspire us.
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The Style is not mine but what is great about CASE Study is
I can mix my style with Maile‘s design genius
to create something like below!
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It was a slow start with this card
I kept playing with “hearts” as my main image
but it was just not working.
I dropped off the hearts after much procrastination
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I redirected my inspiration source to the layout
I like the off center with a heavy right design
also
I was also taken with the strips of heart at different lengths
this is shown on my card with the Washi tape and greeting.
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Inside my card
A little plain but male cards are hard to “fancy” up
Having said that now I look at the twine bow on the
front of the card and I think that may be removed very soon!
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All online orders get a little “sometime” in the post for me!
Heard the Forecast?

To start
Happy Mothers day to all the Mum’s Celebrating today!
My beautiful Mum included,
I LOVE YOU so much
and I am grateful everyday that your my mama bear {oxoxox}
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last night I hosted my monthly team night {some may call it team training}
this is when some gorgeous girls in my
INKspired Stampin’ Up! Team meet up
for a few hours of SU! related chit chat, fun and inspiration.
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I am SO very blessed to have such a wonderful SU! Team
We have all been brought together by our love of stamping
and from that many of us have formed friendships.
We all have different objectives for being Stampin’ Up! Demonstrators
some like me to have a papercraft business,
some to buy at a discount, or place orders with friends.
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The words of Helen Keller best describe the culture of my team:
Alone we can do so little;
together we can do so much.
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This rings true with
developing our artistry or growing our business
after one of our sessions I am always
so “INKspired” by things I learnt from my peers.
My goodness I just have the warm fuzzes!
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Anyway I lost track a little express my love
but
I always like to do something a little special for my girls
Last night the theme was MDS!
They all know how much I LOVE
I wanted to show how we can create
so much more then
cards and scrapbook pages with the digital artwork.
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I made it a baby shower theme,
This is one of the invitations I designed
to show them example.
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I used the washing line design/theme
for my sweets table.
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Remember how I said
I always learn something from our sessions
well before it even started!
I was taught {or reminded} that I am a horrible barker
and should stick to papercraft!
I am not going to embarrass myself
and tell you about my failing cooking attempt.
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All of the images on the background of the display
was created from MDS digital images
I printed them and cut them out
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I wish I made the clouds a little darker Soft Sky
I dropped the opacity a little to low.

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Stampin’ Up! are just so clever
they have designed the punch’s in MDS to
work perfectly with the “real” Punch’s
below I have used the Label Punch to cut my printed image
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I did say I was not going to embarrass myself
but
these were intended to be
Cake Pop Flowers below
then
after I filed that idea in
the “too hard” basket
I decided
on coated chocolate coated Marshmallow flowers
Well
I had no idea how hate melting chocolate was
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Don’t
you dare tell me it’s easy!
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Please pretend that the below image
is of fabulous looking cake pop flowers
and
not the boring plain Marshmallow that is shown!

{hang my head in shame}
yes, they are store bought cupcakes
BUT
how cute is the two sizes!
Mama and Bubba cupcakes.

On the labels I used elements from the invitation design.
I also had to name them after my fave
neutral colour.
Very Vanilla
and they were very yummy.
{no I did not make them either}

I need to have something on the
kind of heathly side!

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I made these straw tags
around my paper straws
and
they also acted as “place cards”
They are a great idea for people to keep track of their drink
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No one but me, used their straw
they all wanted to save it and take home.
I guess that means they
liked it.
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MDS is a fabulous product
and
I want everyone to love it
like I do!
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The options are endless!
Don’t forget you can
have a free trail of MDS
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Many of the images I have used in this project
are included images that come
with in the software
at $24.95
it is a amazing “toy” that you
will fall in love with!
HERE for more info or online shopping.
HERE is you are intested in joining
Stampin’ Up! and my little group
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Without sounding needy!
Please leave me a little
comment love!
As much as you love me updating my blog
I like to know this is being read.
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This and Take {NEW to Aust}
I have just order mine!
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this
pretty
describes
my
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excitement

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This and That
brings TWO things
i L.O.V.E
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Stamps
and
Stationary
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Check out this little video here:
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Click on the cart above to go order your’s
Gratitude Journal Class
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Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today and creates a vision for tomorrow.’
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Saturday 4th May, starting at 1pm.
Class held at the Creative Spirit Center, Minchinbury.
Cost of the class in $30 which includes materials.
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Join me to create your own gratitude journal or inspiration book, to keep track of all your creative ideas when they strike. This is a lovely project to keep for yourself or give as a gift, it maybe that item you have been looking for to give on Mother’s Day which is the following weekend. ……………………………………….
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Easter Blessings

I made this card for my oldest niece Bailey for her teacher,
this year she started at a new school that has a strong focus on faith
her teacher has just been so wonderful with helping Bailey adjust
to a new school with much different rules and culture to her past school.
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In my last post I advised on how in Australia we now offer My Digital Studio {MDS}
I have been using the My Digital Studio for a few months now
and

Yes… it’s LOVE
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I see a whole different range of uses creating hybird cards,
off the page item, home decor and even start scrapbooking again
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As you know I am a layers kind of girl,
when others heard that I was so crazy in love with MDS
they were surprised that I felt that way.
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I always think I have a different way of looking at things…
Creative or even innovative you may say!
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I will not be changing my lots of layers style at all.
I hope I can inspire you
to join me for this new creative journey.
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Stampin’ Up! Being the fabulous people that they are
have a 30 day trail to let you play and get a feel
before buying the package.
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If you click on the box above it will take you to more information
and the download of My Digital Studio {MDS}
I started off with the trial as I was not sure if it was for me!
However I was SOLD straight away
I have used Photoshop and Illustrator for over 13 years for professional design work
I was taken with the fuction yet ease of use the My Digital Studios offered
I was hooked…
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Heather Summers my SWEET Canadian friend is a MDS Master,
she played a big part to inspiring me to even touch the software.
If you have been living under a rock and not been to her blog
Then pop over to Heather’s blog and see what she can do with MDS
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http://www.stampwithheather.typepad.com/
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Side note:
If you go to Google Heather Summers
you will find that you should do
“Heather Summers Stampin’ Up!”
Because
There is a Heather Summers of the “Adult entertainment kind”
and
I clicked on that other Heather Summers by mistake once
and boy oh boy did I blush!!!
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You can see I have printed the flowers and the background papers,
using my home printer.
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I have used on Very Vanilla Cardstock, Crumb Cake Ink for sponging
and I stamped the ink splodge for “French Foliage” real stamps
over my printing in Crumb Cake Classic Ink.
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You can see below, I have taken a few screen shots
Providing a visual aid
This is the front of the card
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Well I do love my layers, so I started by opening
“Bunch Of Background Stamp Brush Set – Digital Download” $6.50
I have added “Well Worn Words” from the above background bundle
the changed the colour to Crumb Cake

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The next screen shot shows
I have added reduced the opacity to 25%
on the Crumb Cake layer from above
Arrow on the right shows the opacity section
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Please note: on the above screen shot I have not coloured
the images yet, once I did they would have been to
hard to see on the screen.
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Over the top of the 25% Crumb Cake Layer
I have placed Sanded,
which I will change to Whisper White at 45% opacity
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Then Wonderly Worn Whisper White to 45% opacity
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All the backgrounds I have used at in the one bundle
I have placed a cross next to the used backgrounds.
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WHY add the layers, you may be thinking?
I wanted a softer background and to add greater distressing
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So at this point
I hope you are not feeling like this…

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Moving on….
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I could not decide the colour I wanted to use
I have found that my home printed is a little
lighter then what the SU! Colours really are,
so I printed Bashful Blue, Old Olive and Island Indigo strips
of the Well Worn Words background.
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Once I printed and cut the layers down I sponged with Crumb Cake ink
add 5/8 INCH CROCHET TRIM VICTORIA across the front.
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Inside the card was pretty simple,
I have left room for my sister to write a message to the teacher
at the bottom I placed an Easter verse
I found via Google {no it is not a digital stamp}
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Thanks to some of the cast from
“That 70′s Show”
I enjoyed their over the top antics
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NOW hold on tight for what’s happening next
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Stampin’ Up! Australia have released My Digital Studio
Which is called MDS for short
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I know!
I was jumping for joy also when I found out…..
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I have MORE
Even more exciting news
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You can NOW shop 24 hours 7 days a week!
It will be shipped straight to your door!
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It’s MIND blowing
I agree
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I hope not but I felt with all this news I needed a little help!
So my friends from Toy Story helped out!
Friendship

Well thank you for the warm welcome back! I very much enjoyed hearing from some of you via comments here on my blog and also on my facebook page and the emails that were sent, I was happy to know that some people are still reading my blog and had not given up on me after that break. I have been busy taking photos of cards I have made and not yet blogged, I now need to just do one super long catch up post.

This card I am sharing today was for CASE Study 128 with Teri Anderson as our Fabulous February muse, I am really enjoying her cards and I have even been happy with what I created inspired by her talents and ability to create “paper artworks”. To the left you will see this weeks card to take inspiration from.
Below is my take on Teri’s card, I started with the colours I have used So Saffron and Island Indigo from Stampin’ Up! as the main colours with a little Crumb Cake sponging.The layout and circle placement on Teri’s card, was used on my card with the paper design of the circles and the strip of Island Indigo across the bottom of the card. I have added ribbon in place of string, and a clear Vintage Faceted button over the button, I felt like they were like the buttons Teri used in the center of some of her circles. You will notice I have added a few extra layers but that’s the way I roll, I am not as CAS as Teri.

So as you know I adore the insides of my cards to look as pretty as the outside, I try and carry over the design from the front in a simple way. I played around with the inside alot this time around, at first I had the same paper as the front inside where the newsprint is now but it was just too busy looking, the newsprint looks much better.

Sometimes and I would like to highlight that it is only “sometimes” I have a strike of genius… but my friends I have had a strike and I am glowing with proudness!!!! Did you notice the cute little scallop I have on the front and inside my card? YES? Are you wondering what it is…..

Thanks for stopping by!
Remember Me?

Well has only been 2 months and 6 days since my last post {gasp} I guess I should wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! This has been one of my longest breaks blogging, I have received a number of emails from readers of my blog checking on me, which is really ever so sweet {thank you}. I have been stamping and everything has been carrying on as per normal just not blogging. I have spend hours writing and re-writing this post to explain my blogging hiatus but I have decided to not load you with the boring information. I DO have good news that seeing that I have not blogged in 2 months and 6, I have a back log of cards to share. I am going to try…. I will highlight the “try” to share my cards more often.
We are moving to the the topic at hand…. Yes! The card I have made, this card is for CASE Study 127 this month we have Teri Anderson as our muse for February, I am sure you realise this but she is a BIG DEAL in the cardmaking world and it is amazing that she has given her time to play along with us at CASE Study.
To the left you with see her sample to inspire us this week, you still have some time to play along check out all the design team cards and players cards HERE . I was inspired but the repeat of love and the four elements clustered together, I have used that on my card with the L.O.V.E in separate squares but closely clustered together. The layout even played a part with the printed paper at the top and bottom, I have added a ribbon to my card because I need to keep it to my style.

I have used Fan Fair printed paper from Stampin’ Up! {Hello} Like I would be using anything else! I am on to my 3 packet of this paper! I think it is my favourite after Newsprint for some time. The ribbon on the front is the Natural 7/8″ Cotton Ribbon which is sold as a carry over from the holiday catalogue and I have dyed it Midnight Muse, after I attached the bow to the card it looked like the wrong “Blue” to match the printed paper and yes, it was wrong it should be Island Indigo but I was not dying more ribbon my hands were blue already. {Note to self buy rubber gloves in the next grocery shop} See below! I just get in the “creative moment” and get carried away sometimes!

Here is the inside of the card which I really like with the layering. You mean the world 2 me is from Word Play and the globe image at the bottom is from the Fan Fair DSP also.

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