Angel stamp samples

Hey there! If you have found me from Shimelle's blog giveaway!

*shakes your virtual hand* "nice to meet you"

And if not, then pop over there and leave a comment as I am sponsoring her Friday giveaway :)

I wanted to quickly show you some of the angels from today's release coloured in with  

Aqua Markers from Letraset

You can purchase any of these angel stamps for a weeny £1.50 from the store

Thanks for popping by!

Friday Musing - Second Digital Angel release and Friday Freebie

Morning all! 

Happy Friday to you all.

This week in the Musings digi stamp store we have the second release of Christmas Angels.

They can be found HERE

First up we have Beau...

Beau comes sitting neatly on a gift (which would make a cute Birthday card stamp too)

and just begs to be coloured!  Perhaps she is waiting for Santa?

My hubby suggested that it would make a lovely gift tag for a special present. *sigh - beautiful!*

(she also comes with a coloured and outline cute bow stamp)

Then we have Beth. (Short for Bethlehem - did you get that lol?)

She is a more traditional Angel and would look really lovely in delicate colours.

(she also comes with a coloured and outline star stamp)

and last but by no means least - we have Candie - keeper of the baubles and treats. She is a lovely big stamp, and would look awesome as an easel card!http://www.letraset.com/

I coloured in some using Lestraset Aqua Markers. 

Which I now love - like - properly in deep love.

I will be doing a tutorial on these on Tuesday - but will upload some photos later today.

Pardon? Freebie you say?

Oh yeah!

Here you go!

Ollie the gift giving owl.

I was going to host the image for download, but it is being funny, so the images are below... Just right click, save and print = then colour away! xxxx

Enjoy!

Magazine love

I've got two articles in magazines this Christmas.

They are both out already :) Which means you can get a good start on your festive crafts!

The first out was Simply Cards & Papercraft.

pssssssst... see the front cover? That's one of my cards!

*front cover dance*

This was a SEVEN page spread on the Clear Angel Stamps

Thanks to this article - I only have a few stamps left! If you have purchased them and made some cards with them, I would love to see what you have made. You can post your cards for us all to see over at the 

Little Musings Facebook Page

Next is the latest edition of Papercraft Inspirations.

Oh how I loved making this advent project!

Advent cartons. 25 of them :) (the 25th is a bumper Christmas day one!)

If you buy the magazine - you will notice there is a FREE template download kit for this from the papercraft Inspirations website. There are lots of hints and tips in the article too for alternate uses.

I still get a huge kick out of seeing my work in magazines, It's totally made my month!

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Take one part 1 - my new layout

Well, I did my page for the TAKE ONE challenge :)

I focused on the idea that the photo was to go off the edge of the page, as that is what I loved about the page I chose to take the inspiration from.

So, I set about finding a photo that could be chopped without worry - and I have wanted to scrap the story of my fringe for a few days now, so it all went hand in hand nicely.

Am I happy with the result?

Yes.

I can honestly say I am! So - for me, the challenge really worked!

There is a new challenge chat thread on UKSCRAPPERS which I would love you to swing by and post your pages in (please!xxxx)

****ps: A few people have emailed me, and I really want to clarify, you don't need to take the same element as me, it's what you love about your own work that should inspired you - so find one of your favourite pages and study it for a while, pondering what it is you love about it - identify it, and take that one element to the craft table where you can make a new layout including your chosen technique.

Supplies used on the page: 
Red Bazzill cardstock, Little Musings journal card, My Minds Eye "Pro Con" journal card, Sassafrass paper flowers, sassafrass stitched flowers, JBS alphas, Prima page pebbles (red polkadot) Hybrid rose, and the cute clay buttons are from My Little Bit Of Whimsy

Take one #1

Today I am starting a new feature on the blog called

"Take One"

I  have been very brave - and made a video blog to explain it all.

It will become a regular feature on my blog - and I invite you to join me!

*** there is now a UKS thread for you to post in if you would like to join me ***

 

I would love you to play along!

I will post my page over the next couple of days - If you do the challenge too, send me a link to your blog and I will show your before and after in a gallery post.

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Angel Digital stamps = Part 1

It is Friday! And that means it is release day - not just one stamp though this week - I have part one of the angel release! Four Christmas angels for your downloadable crafty happiness.

I love them. I really do love drawing them, I hope you like them *eeeeep!*

They are all available in the store.. NOW

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Here are some STUNNING samples by my DT..
Emma Bryan came up with some amazing projects - I will be sharing a couple today and more over the next week. Look at the stitching on this card below... how delicate is that!?

And the garland detail here is just perfection....

When I saw this next one I squealed! She has enlarged the wreath from the "Merry" kit and used "Choir of" angels behind it - HOW CLEVER IS THAT!?

my favourite card from Emma is this next one though... for a million reasons, the kraft, the colours, the paper, the quote to name a couple... I really do love it. <3

Caroline Sears made this gorgeous Wreath card (from the Merry kit)

I love how she has layered it (four times) and glittered the decorations!

By the way - I WILL be getting these angels stamps made up in clear rubber - but only in limited numbers, so if you are interested, please drop me an email at sarahjanedowsett(at)gmail(dot)com - thanks

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Little musings interupts your viewing for an important broadcast....

The seasonal printables are now in store! 

And - for a mere £1.00 :)

Affordable, frame-able decoration for the win!

You can purchase the printables HERE

If you do frame these - link me up with a photo! 

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Talking of seasons....

You guessed it, I am mentioning the Christmas word. 

I figured that was ok as Tesco now has ALL it's Christmas chocolate for sale.  :)

Here is a peek at the first of two releases of Christmas angels.

This time - as requested in great volume, they will be digital.

(I may get some clear sets made up though if enough people request them)

These will be going on sale at the end of the week -for a chance to win your favourite design and a huge bundle from the store, add the following image to your side bar - linked to www.littlemusings.net and leave me a comment here and you will be added to the pot to win!

picture HEAVY weekend post

*Warning - picture heavy*

Hey! 

What a weekend!!

First up my twin brother got hitched!

It was a beautiful day in a beautiful venue with beautiful company.

Just look at them - happiness from every pore.

Hazel had a gorgeous 1950's inspired wedding dress, and the theme was birds and birdcages.

I really did take inspiration from the 50's for this day.. including a go at "vintage hair rolls"

I wasn't 100% sure of them - but I kept them in till the evening.

(only one thing, I forgot to side part my hair first! They ended up a bit too evenly placed... ish)

I purchased a set of London Clay Birds for them as a gift - the guy who hand makes these is really cool, and digs the clay up from London river banks before taking home before creating these birds.

Talking of birds.....

I made some iced biscuits for Hazel to give as her wedding favours.. here they are outlined.

and here they are flood iced and packaged in cellophane with ribbon.

I also made hearts, which were alternated on the tables.

Here they are again, just in case you had forgotten what happy looks like...

me and my hubster.

and I stalked the photographer for a quick sneaky shot of this... grainy because I was literally a million miles away but I couldn't resist getting in on this pretty picture.

It was a truly lovely day, and I wish the best to them both for a life time of happiness.

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This weekend also marked the second Cardinal Colours retreat in Eastbourne.

It was held at the Best Western York House Hotel.

This year I taught three classes on the Saturday:

"Mad about the boy":

A double layout - no flowers allowed :)

"Paper Patchwork"

and my favourite of the day:

which featured spray inks and glazed bazzill - spraying on and wiping off to reveal the glazed pattern beneath it. A really lovely wax resist style technique.

I loved seeing everyones pages unfolding, the differences between them made everyones pages so beautiful unique. I had a lovely day catching up with local scrappers, and meeting some from further afield.

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Friday Freebie - Autumn printable

Hey guys.

I am sorry I am late with the Musing this week - but just to make up for it, it is ANOTHER freebie.

This week we have something for the typeography lovers out there - a printable *7x5* page of autumn words. I have one of these for each season in a frame, and it always feels so lovely when you get to change it over to the forthcoming season. Especially Summer to Autumn. I do LOVE Autumn.

 So without further ado, here you are :)
Just click on it - right click and save. 

Enjoy

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One of those posts

where I end up talking about a whole heap of stuff at once.

So firstly if you are around at 6pm in the UK tomorrow, please tune in to QVC where Marion Emberson will be demonstrating, and in her hour will be my stamps!

I am excited about this - as not only is Marion lovely, but I get a real kick of seeing my stamps on tv :)

In other news. The marriage of my awesome twin brother and his fiance is fast approaching.

It has a 1950's theme to it, which pleases me more than any other theme in the world.... apart from Harry Potter... but that's not practical. I am also doing a reading, so wanted to look the part. I decided today to get a Bettie Page fringe cut in.. but all of the hairdressers in our town were either A: booked. B: Closed (!?) and C: Specialists in blue rinses. So I took my trusty fiskars scissors and with the help of tutorials on you tube and a deep breath I cut my own one in. I unearthed some seriously questionable eyebrows (think Bert & Ernie) so after I brow overhaul I was happy! I like it - with the Victory roll hair style I am planning on, I think this will really work. Ps: My dress is a red Rockabilly polkadot dress with black petticoat frilliness. 

*happy sigh* (Ignore the split ends)

Which means today my "LSNED" layout can be "Today I learned how to cut a fringe!"

Talking of LSNED (did you see what I did there?)

Here is my front cover.

It is a AC 6X6 album with some new Amy Tangerine fabric paper stuck to the chipboard cover.

*love*

It is coming along nicely - I will do a proper update of this in the week!

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Rubber stamps and LSNED

It is day 2 of Shimelle's "Learn something new every day"
I have had a pretty odd 24 hours, so I am trying to work out how to tackle my first entry, but here is my front cover....  I am doing it 6x6 in a D ring album, which I hope will look nice at the end. Most of the pics for it (if not all) will be Instagram photos.  Laura is doing a really lovely album, and plans to use some instax photos within it!! How cool is that?

I am so excited about LSNED this year, I loved my album last year, and some happy post this week meant that I had the worlds CUTEST stamps to work with. 

How adorable is that bunting and buttons set? I love them!

What else has happened yesterday? Oh - Finlay won a coconut!! His throwing was so awful (bless his bad ball throwing skills) that the Coconut shy man gave him one as a gift *melt*

Braking it open was the highlight of his day.....

That is about all for tonight.... see you at the weekend!

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Friday Freebie! - Penny & Pumpkin

Hiya!

I thought, after the awesome response to the foldies kit last week, I would offer you a freebie in return for your generous support of the Little Musings.

Meet Penny, a little halloween loving girlie.
She comes in colour and outline (for the marker lovers out there - we all know who we are)

All you have to do, is click on her (she will open larger) and then right click and save.

As always, Little Musings images are intended for personal and non commercial use only - if you have any questions regarding the angel policy, I am more than happy to answer your emails - I promise I don't bite!

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Happy 2nd of September.

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