Lovely as a Tree

Good Morning guys. Start of another week today but only a short one with it being the Bank Holiday weekend. I think I am the only person in our house who doesn't mind Mondays because I am fortunate to do a job that I love. My boys hate Mondays at school and we have the grumpy Sunday evenings, which I remember well from my teenage days, the "Sunday night feeling" was never good! But I am back bright and breezy and looking forward to a productive day!

Today's make is from my male themed Tuesday Club a couple of weeks ago. Some of the ladies asked if we could make a card with Lovely as a Tree. Did you know it's the only stamp set that is still in the Annual Catalogue from when it first launched in the UK in 2007, and it still features in the top sellers!

The colours used here are Mossy Meadow, Soft Suede and Very Vanilla. Please remember Mossy Meadow is one of the colours that will leave us shortly and you need to make sure that you have the ink pad re-inker if you have the ink pad. I have been making it my mission to let my clients know this.

 You may be wondering how I got the tree stamp to be 2 different colours. This was achieved by colouring the stamp with the brush end of the marker pens and then stamping. I then ran the aqua brush over the leaves to spread the colour out a little.

 Inside got a little love too!

It's not too late to join my Online Code Club for March. The spends are building up nicely and I am looking forward to choosing something for my shoppers this month. I recently sent a little email to my regulars and those who have replied have told me you love the surprise element of what will be in your package each month!

 And last months parcel shown below was a particular favourite!

Back tomorrow with the last male make!

Wild About Flowers

Good Morning! Today we have had a slower start to the day. Don’t get me wrong, I was still only up 20 minutes later than I would usually be but I am not rushing about like I would normally be! Had a lovely breakfast with my boys and walked the dog with Evan! Loving the school holidays!

Today I am sharing the 4th card from Friday’s Stamp a Stack. This one was a total CASE from Dawn Olchefske whose blog I have stalked followed for a good few years. I even had the pleasure of meeting Dawn a couple of times at the 2013 Stampin Up Convention and on the Cruise last year. 

The card uses the Wild About Flowers stamp set which I didnt initially fancy getting but yet again I saw some gorgeous makes with it (mostly by my wonderful team member Amanda) and I just had to have it!

The card is made out of the Kraft 12x12 cardstock which `I love as it has the authentic “recycled” look about it. I also used the new corrugated cardstock too which is lovely. The thing I love about this stamp set is that you can tailor your sentiments. The words “Congratulations on your” are on a separate stamp and then you have other stamps you can add on the end, such as “new adventure” and “retirement” with other sayings such as “You’ll be misses” and “You’ve earned it” to add inside!

Well I think this blog post has taken me the longest time ever to upload as I have broken off from it countless times but I must crack on! 

I have a Code Club running still for the month of July and I will be closing this order down on Wednesday 29th July at 7pm. PLEASE NOTE - my local customers can still take part in this club, you just need to email me your order of £25 or more before Wednesday 29th July.

For those shopping on my Online Store please use the code  JPMMXZDZ 

Please use this code when spending over £25 and under £150 on my Online Store.

I’m looking forward to choosing more goodies for people this month!

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