Miss Pinks Craft Spot

This is something really special, this paper is so beautiful, just when I thought I had cured myself and was able to cut into my paper stash, Petal Promenade Designer Series Paper came along and made it difficult again!  Firstly, the gorgeous the colours, yes there are pinks, but there is so much more, and each page is sooooo beautiful, and so real.  Here is what I created using just a 2 inch strip of this gorgeous paper. I added mini ruffled ribbon to the side of the dimensional raised panels, coordinating beautifully with the colours and the petals of the flowers. Next I texture embossed Garden Green using the Foliage Frame Framelits (love this colletion of dies) using  Embossing mats , and next added a layer of lighter foliage in Pear Pizazz using the Botanical Tags thinlets - to get the circular pattern I used the top of the framelit with the bird, see the picture below Lastly I used the Love What You Do stamp set for the stit...

Welcome back, it's been a busy weekend so far thanks to an early Saturday morning delivery! Unpacking was so exciting (a little like Christmas morning, lol), and so was setting up my new ink pads - look how much less space they take up! And now I have all the new cardstock colours and have labelled sorted into the new Colour Families too! I also scanned all of the framelits in the delivery, ready to prepare labels and magnetic sheets so I don't misplace any - been there done that, don't want to go searching again! Now for the agony of choice, what new 2018-2019 stamp set to use? I really wanted to give the Big Shot Embossing Mats a try, so I decided on the Stitched All Around Bundle . The background is embossed using "solid patterned" framelit using the embossing mats, how awesome is that! I used Stampin Write Markers to ink up the stamp so that the pattern is in Flirty Flamingo and the sentiment in Basic Black, then cut with th...