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Happy Friday evening  ....... It's the weekend!! Let's get February's blog challenges underway shall we, with the Happy Little Stampers CAS challenge .  This month the theme is Hearts ..... well Valentine's Day is just around the corner. My hearts have been used as accents to the fabulous large sentiment that is the focal point of my card ..... very Clean and Simple I stamped the sentiment using VersaMagic chalk ink.  These have been in my stash for ever, hardly used but ..... they're fab!!!  Lots of gorgeous colours and great coverage.  think i'll be adding more of these to my collection. I used the MISTI to stamp the sentiment in a pretty shade of pink ....... what did we ever do without a MISTI!?    Then I added the hearts in red ..... To finish off I outlined the little hearts using a Stardust Gel pen to add a touch of sparkle. As with all the HLS challenges there's a $20 Gift Certificate for the winner ..... and, if they've used HLS stamps on thei...

Happy weekend ...... I hope you're having a good one. I've just realised that I haven't shared last weekend's workshop with you ..... what have I been doing??!! It's been a whole seven days since our little group got together for another fun day playing with simple backgrounds and large sentiment/phrase stamps. Here's a quick look at a couple of the things we got up to. Seeing as it was the first get together of the year I thought a nice simple calendar would be fun.  Nothing complicated, a standard 7x5 cardblank glued together .... easy.   I love the Typografia range of stamps from STAMPlorations ...... and this is one of my favourites No need to do a lot with it .... simply stamped and embossed in silver, then I stamped the camper again in turquoise and fussy cut it before attaching it with foam pads. A bit of co-ordinating twine to hang it with and you're done We used Distress inks to create a Bokeh effect background ...... along with another fabulous se...