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Happy Thursday ...... We're over half way through May already ..... doesn't time fly!  That also means we're half way through our month long Things With Wings Blog Hop and Linky Parties over on the STAMPlorations Blogs.  Have you played along yet? All through May, the STAMPlorations girls are showcasing projects with the theme ..... Things With Wings  Today we have a reminder for you from the CAS Card Challenge girls .......  pretty Clean and Simple designs featuring of course,  Things With Wings. Here's a really quick and easy design using one of my favourite techniques ..... inlaid die cutting/hidden sentiment ..... I stamped my butterflies onto a piece of white cardstock using Distress Oxide inks ...... I love how these inks stamp, they pick up all the detail, great coverage too! This is one of the images from the STAMPlorations  Trendy Butterflies  set. Using the CUTplorations  'happy' word die , I cut the sentiment across the butterflies....

Happy Tuesday ...... I hope your week is off to a great start . It's time for a quick reminder of this months STAMPlorations Things with Wings Blog Hop and Linky Parties . The STAMPlorations girls have all got together for a month long celebration of Spring and Things with Wings. Today its the turn of the TAGplorations team.  To play along here you need to create a project that is a tag or, has a tag/s on it. Don't forget the Things With Wings part either. I've gone for butterflies today ....... on a simple tag I cut the tag from smooth watercolour card, using the largest size of the  TAGplorations Manila Tags Nesting dies I then applied various colours of Distress Inks (blues and pink shades) to the back of the ARTplorations Shower of Flutters stencil , spritzed over the ink with water and then laid the stencil, ink side down, onto the tag I gave the stencil a quick press down using a paper towel ....... this also mops up any excess ink and water ....... and then gently l...

Hello again ...... How's your Thursday going? It's time for the STAMPlorations CAS girls to join in the fun for the Things With Wings Blog Hop and Linky Party All the STAMPlorations teams are joining together for a month long Blog Hop ..... that's 31 days filled with winged-themed spring projects.  All five challenges will have the same theme for the month of May ...... Things With Wings and you can play along as many times as you like. It's the turn of CAS today ....... I've used one of the birds from the Fowl Play stamp set , from the Bees Knees range, along with the balloons from Balloons and Banners , and one of the sentiments from Birds of Paradise  ..... all of which are available on the STAMPlorations website I stamped the bird onto a piece of white cardstock along with the balloons making sure they overlapped the beak ...... I stamped the bird again onto a separate piece of card, coloured him, and the balloons on the card, using Distress Inks and then fussy ...

Hello again ..... I said it was going to be a busy month ..... what with new releases, the usual Blog challenges, a workshop, trip across to the UK for my favourite craft show and of course we've got the Isle of Man TT in a little over 3 weeks.   Get all that over with, and we're off on holiday again! But first it's time to get this month's Blog challenges underway. This is going to be fun. We're starting May with the STAMPlorations Things With Wings Blog Hop and Linky Parties All of the STAMPlorations girls are joining forces for ONE, month long Blog Hop.  That's 31 days of Blog hopping fun, celebrating Spring and Anything with Wings! Why not join in the fun, it's easy ....... create a winged-themed project and link it up to one, or all of the STAMPlorations challenges. All the challenges are back to their usual launch dates, it's just we'll all have the same theme .... Things with Wings The  TAGplorations  team are getting things started,  and to ...