Happy Birthday She!!!!

A wonderful friend, She, who was also one of my ex DT mates at Make the Day Special is celebrating her birthday today so the MTDS DT (and yours truly) are having a little blog hop for her which we hope she'll enjoy.

She is a lover of all things orange and tags so here is what I made:

I coloured a tag using Distress inks and then used various Oxford Impressions stamps, some of which I coloured using Derwent Inktense pencils.

The fringed paper was something I've had for a while and I made the beaded fringe bits myself.

Happy Birthday She!!! xx

If you'd like to follow our hop for She here's the links:

Make The Day Special

Emily

Jo

Jenny

Kate

Keren

Lou

Lydia

MTDS does the UKScrappers blog hop!

Are you a member of UKScrappers and if so have you checked out the blog hop today? It starts over at UKS and Make The Day Special is taking part over on the blog.

The MTDS DT has made items using the inking technique of "direct to paper" and there are some fab examples on the blog.

I added the ink directly to the kraft cardstock in stripes by using masking tape:

Materials used: Kraft cardstock, Versamagic chalk inks, Unity stamp, black Versafine ink, buttons.

We have a winner!!!

Thank you to everyone who visited and took the time to comment on the first Make The Day Special blog hop.

And now for the winner of my cards....Random.org chose: 20 which is Sweetieshop!!!

Congratulations......please email me at jowilliscards@hotmail.com with your address so I can post these on to you :-)

Make The Day Special Design Team Blog Hop

Welcome to my blog on this, the first, Make The Special Design Team blog hop!!! If you haven't come here via Lesley's blog then make your way back to the beginning at the Make The Day Special blog where you can see Emily's make and the fabulous prizes that will be won by the lucky few!!

Anyway, on to my project(s). I decided to work with the gorgeous Layers of Color Reindeer Waltz set and make some Christmas cards...yes I know it's June and stinking hot but I thought it may cool me down a bit.

I started by making tags using techniques that I saw first when Tim Holtz was demonstrating the 12 tags of Christmas last year. I was originally just going to make the one card but as you can see that plan fell by the wayside LOL!

The tags were inked with distress inks before stamping the flourishes on. I then stamped a frame on the tag before embossing with distress embossing powder and then stamping the reindeer in the centre of the tag. The edges of the tags were then distressed and inked again.

The card bases are all 5" x 7" and the background papers were stuck on before adding the tags and embellishments. I have used Prima flowers and some of my (rather large) button collection.

Materials used: Papermill cardstock, Papermania papers, distress inks and embossing powders, Layers of Color stamp set - Reindeer Waltz, black Versafine ink, Studio G stamp, Prima flowers, Kaisercraft rhinestones.

Also used: vintage glass and plastic buttons, organza ribbons.

Right then - now on to the prizes. To be in with a chance to win one of the fab prizes on show over at the Make The Day Special blog you'll need to leave a comment. Winners will be chosen at random from comments left on all the design team members' blogs. All comments need to be left by 10.00 BST on Monday 28th so be sure to check back or become a follower to see if you win!!

We also decided to give away our makes so if you fancy winning this set of cards pictured above....yes all 4 of them......leave me a comment here!

Right then....you should be off to see Jane next and thanks for visiting!!

Blog Hop coming!!!

On this Saturday 26th June the Make The Day Special DT will be having our very first blog hop. Don't forget to check out the blog on Saturday. There will be prizes involved! :-)