ESAD 2016 Annual Catalogue Blog Hop -

Hello and welcome to the ESAD 2016 Annual Catalogue Blog hop. This is my first ESAD hop and I am super excited. 

You may have hopped across from Tanya Bell and I can't wait to see what she has done.We love getting comments so don't forget to leave us a word ot two.

 I thought I would focus on the new In Colors 2016-18 with the Grateful Bunch stampset and Blossom Bunch Punch. I am loving the new In Colors - they are beautiful. I also included the Playful Palette Designer Series Paper stack as a layer to the main card of Early Espresso.

The In Colors I have used are Sweet Sugarplum, Peekaboo Peach and on the right Flirty Flamingo. For the leaves I use Emerald Envy stamped off once. For the punched flowers I stamped them in Crushed Curry. Added some Rhinestone Basic Jewels to finish the flowers off and lifted them with dimensionals.

Sweet Sugarplum

 Flirty Flamingo

Peekaboo Peach

Thank you for joining us on this blog hop. Now it is onto  Renee Lynch who is doing her first hop with ESAD as well. Either click on her name or onto the next blog button below.

Thank you for joining and hope that you get some great ideas. If you get lost here is the list of blog participants below that you can click on and hop around.

BLOG HOP PARTICIPANTS:

1. Barbara Williams

2. Libby Dyson

3. Rachael Lewsley

4. Nicole Wilson

5. Monique Fielder

6 . Cathy Pinchbeck

7. Lou Kitzelman

8. Andrea Buckland

9. Richelle Fletcher

10. Carolina Evans

11. Narelle Fasulo

12. Kelly Kent

13. Delys Cram

14. Rebekah Crisp

15. Tanya Bell

16. Maree McIntosh

17. Renee Lynch

INKspired Sketch Blog Hop 35 - A Surprise!

Hi Everyone 

and welcome to our INKspired Blog hop number 35.

You may have joined the hop here so welcome or you may have hopped 

across from the delightful Narelle

can't wait to see what she makes this fortnight!

Here is the sketch Teneale has given us....

Well it was a surprise because I didn't know what 

to make....

and I ended up making two cards as I wasn't happy with 

the first one.

I wanted to use Rose Red cardstock as the base

and had to use the lovely Love Blossoms Designer Series Paper Stack

The picture above shows the crumbcake DSP

It was the oval I was having the block on!

I layered the DSP onto a smaller piece of Rose Red and attached a

piece of the Venetian Crochet Trim

over the DSP.

I rarely use the Garden Green ink for my cards

BUT it was one of the colours on the front of the

DSP paperstack - Love how Stampin' Up! put the colours on!

I cut my Whisper White oval out and sponged around the edge with Rose Red

Stamped the leaves from Grateful Bunch Stampset

onto the oval and stamped the set of three flowers

from same set in Rose Red, Blushing Bride and Daffodil Delight

and punched them out with the Blossom Bunch Punch (So easy).

Placed dimensionals under the oval and then used mini glue dots to adhere my flowers with.

I used the words Wish Big from the

A Dozen Thoughts stampset

On one card you will see that I used

Pearls for the flower centres instead of one at each end of the oval (perhaps I am a Rebel!)

and for the other card used the gorgeous 

It's My Party Enamel Dots on the flowers of course!

Below I have a picture of them together

Let me know which card you like....

Some old fashioned Red Roses that have the most beautiful perfume.

Thank you for stopping by

Now it is onto the wonderful Barbara and I am not guessing what she has 

made this week

but I do know it will be beautiful

Thank you for stopping by

See you next fortnight....

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Bye for now

Maree

xxx