12 Designers of Christmas (Honey Bee Stamps Guest Designer)

Hello! On the 11th of December  I was guest designing on the Honey Bee Stamps blogs one of the 12 Designers of Christmas.  I was thrilled to be invited as I'm a huge fan of Melissa's stamps.  I decided to use one of my Sizzix dies to make some ornaments.   I was sent the "Let it Snow" and "Joy to the World" stamps and the sentiments were perfect!

I water coloured the ornaments and decorated them with the Ice Chip Glitter that Honey Bee Stamps sells.  My favourite ornament is the pink one.

Make sure you head on over to the blog to see the other two.

Thanks for looking!

October Pep Rally (Clique Kits)

Hello and welcome to my blog!  It's my first Pep Rally with Clique Kits and I'm super excited!!!

This month we all got to play with Pink Fresh Studio's Happy Things, which featured as our main collection, and some Crate Paper Wonder.  The kit was called Funfetti, and was full of gorgeous Clique Kit exclusives!

Here's another look at the stunning kit:

I was totally inspired by the October Mood Board for my layout, its just so beautiful and totally representative of the Funfetti kit!

I knew that I wanted to fussy cut out all parts of the Dream Big paper, but I also loved the background, so I decided to recreate the paper with vanilla cardstock from my stash, gesso and white acrylic paint.  It worked really well, which made me very happy indeed!  I grabbed my favourite triangle stencil (by Happy Scatter) and got to work with some texture paste.  My final mixed media element was to work with the amazing Brush Grunge Alpha stamps by HoneyBee Stamps (from the CK store) for the "My Girl" which I stamped with Stazon, and the pink hearts with black outline, which are a double stamp!  

My layout features my middle darling Azaria, and the journalling is a letter to her from a loving Mum (me)!!  

I had so much fun finding a creative way to use the Pink Fresh Studio rubber charm. I decided to feature it appearing from under a doily (from my stash) and then have it anchoring the clouds and feathers, inspired by the balloons in the mood board!

The Clique Kits exclusives are truly exquisite, and this flair badge is no exception, the sentiment was so perfect for the theme of my layout!  The "Beautiful" is an acetate card by Pink Fresh Studio, and you can find it as an add-on in the shop.

I popped up some of my fussy cut pieces for dimension and interest!

Here is the line up of lovely ladies in the pep rally this month. If you get lost please return to the Clique Kits blog.

Clique Kits https://cliquekits.wordpress.com/
Gia http://www.giaaloha.wordpress.com/

Erica http://ericarosecreates.blogspot.com/
Leeann Pearce http://thepaintbrushgoesspottie.blogspot.com/
Maryam* http://maryamperez.blogspot.com/
Aliza* http://peopleofthescrapbook.blogspot.com/
Megan Blethen http://www.craftymeggy.com/
Emma Pescott http://emslifedocumented.blogspot.co.nz/
Melissa* http://yesterday2day4ever.blogspot.co.nz/ <<Hello that's me!>>
Kim http://krodesigns.blogspot.com/
Leigh http://www.artfulleighcreative.com/
Renee Aslette http://www.reneeaslette.blogspot.com/
Kat* http://kraftykat9.blogspot.com/
Sandy Gonzalez craftythought.com/
Tyra Babington http://justtyra.com/
Marcia* http://www.onescrapatatime-bymumsie.blogspot.com/
Kim Allen http://kimsscrappyblog.blogspot.com/
Candace* http://findingeverydayperfection.com/
Rhonda Van Ginkel http://snapwhiz.blogspot.com
Hannah http://scrapbookpagesandcupcakes.com
Evi  http://lifewithevi.blogspot.com
Janet Zeppa http://janetsjoy.blogspot.com/

Melissa Goble http://mgphoto89.tumblr.com

*Design Team Members on Kit Duty

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She Hearts Him (Clique Kits)

Hello!  I'm back today with  layout I made with my October Clique Kit "Funfetti".  This kit is so gorgeous, and I'm determined to create with it until there is nothing left (well close enough anyways)!!

This layout is also featuring a stamp set I purchased in the Clique Kits store, an amazing alpha stamp called Brush Grunge Alpha by Honey Bee Stamps.  Melissa designs the most beautiful stamps!

I also wanted to feature the beautiful Pink Fresh Studio stripe paper, and I backed it on kraft cardstock to make the colours pop!  The photo is of Brielle as a baby giving an adoring look to Sam! 

Oh how I love that tassel, pure eye candy right there!  I attached it by punching a hole through the puffy sticker.

The alpha stamp was perfect for my title, and I love love that ink splatter stamp!

Thanks for looking and make sure you use my discount code MELISSA10 for 10 percent off in the store!