Saturday Afternoon at The Stamp Basket

Hi everyone - I hope you are enjoying your weekend and are not snowed in where you live! The countryside looks so beautiful when there is a fresh fall of snow but brrr…it’s so cold!

I have a card to show you today using another of my favourite images from the Magnolia Sweet Crazy Love collection called ‘Rose Scent Tilda’. The sentiment has been made using a very versatile little stamp from Molly Blooms!

Here's a close up of Tilda coloured with copics:

The heart die is from the new Memory Box release and no guesses for the border...my favourite Magnolia die of the moment!  The flower has been made from Magnolia vintage paper using a combination of dies: the new Memory Box 'scalloped posie' and the Magnolia 'flower'...and then glittered with stickles!

      Card Recipe:

All products used are available at The Stamp Basket

Stamps: Magnolia Sweet Crazy Love ‘Rose Scent Tilda’; Molly Blooms ‘Just for You’

Papers: Magnolia Sweet Crazy Love Cloudy Pink Hearts; Eau de Cologne; Vintage Pink

Card:  Craftwork Cards – Straight-edge card

Tools: Memory Box 'Grand Heart’ die; Memory Box 'Scalloped Posie'; Magnolia 'Sweet Lovely Lace'; Magnolia 'Flowers'; Magnolia Leaf and Swirl (please e-mail to order leaf and swirl)

Embellishments: Berisfords15mm Burgundy Satin Ribbon; Dovecraft self-adhesive gemstones; Stickles glitter glue ‘stardust’

...And now for some exciting news for our international followers…you may have noticed this week that we have started shipping to the rest of the world, although for the moment, I’m sorry this doesn’t include the USA and Canada. Shipping details can be found on our website here. If you would like a shipping quote before placing your order, just get in touch with us, we’ll be happy to help.

Also, for any of our followers, if you are interested in becoming a guest designer for us and haven’t yet signed up,  then read all about it at the top of the page…we’d be delighted to hear from you, so don’t hide your light under a bushel! ...And if you have already signed up, a very big 'thank you'...we can see from your blogs already that it is going to be a very difficult decision to make!

Thanks for stopping by today - I hope you have a lovely weekend! 

Hugs,

Janet xx

Saturday Afternoon at the Stamp Basket

Hello and a warm welcome to the The Stamp Basket on this freezing cold Saturday! A big 'thank you' to everyone who sent in name suggestions for our baby elephant – we did so enjoy reading your e-mails and the ideas that you sent through were just fab - some of the names really made us chuckle, and it was so difficult to choose! But the decision was unanimous and I can now reveal that....big drum roll...

the name that we have chosen is

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Molly May

Such a cute name and so perfect for our baby elephant! We hope that you have fun colouring her and using her in your projects - don't forget to send us your piccies, we'd love to see what you make using the stamp!

Donations for Brandon’s family can be still be made on the website and our free Christmas digi stamp will be automatically e-mailed to anyone resident in the UK or Europe who makes a donation from now until 1^st January 2012…so there is still time to get our Christmas digi stamp ‘Love came down at Christmas’ if you missed out earlier this week!

Now, on to today’s card. I thought I’d show you something other than a Christmas card (although I really do need to get going with mine if I’m going to make the last posting date!). So here is a birthday card, again, using the Nellie Snellen image called Hokey Pokey! Such a versatile little stamp! The sentiment is another of my favourite Molly Blooms text stamps ‘Just for You’ – love the little hearts and flowers!

 Here’s a close up of the image, coloured with copics

…and some close ups of the embellies…mmm such gorgeous ribbon and I love the sparkle of that heart button… I’ve just got to have my bling!





















Recipe

All products available in our on-line store

Stamps: Nellie Snellen ‘Hokey Pokey’ and Molly Blooms ‘Justfor You’

Papers: Dovecraft Back to Basics II Pink – value for money with 72 sheets of simple classic designs!

Embellishments: Berisfords satin edge sheer white ribbon; Ranger liquid pearls; Ranger Stickles star dust glitter glue; crystal heart button; ZVA Creative soft blue pearls; Deco Arts crystal glamour dust

Tools: Marianne Design Creatables die ‘Snowflake’; MarthaStewart ‘glacial snowflake’ punch and ‘edger doily lace’ punch

Hope you enjoy the rest of your weekend...whether you're searching for that blown bulb in the fairy lights, cooking up a storm in the kitchen...or just chilling out listening to some seasonal music!

Hugs,

Janet xx