Popping up to say hello!

Hi there!

My family is getting ready to leave for a spring-breaky-beachy-no-wifi-vacation. woot! These liquid-paper-white legs need some sun. I do have some exciting things happening while I'm gone, and while I won't be able to interact with you on Instagram or Facebook, I did pre-schedule a few posts.

Before I go, the Lawn Fawn team is collaborating with Little Things from Lucy's Cards to create fun shaker cards all this week!

I made a Rooting For You shaker card.  I wanted to make it look like the peppermint sequin mix is the water, falling onto the growing carrots.



The sentiment is from an older set, Love 'n Breakfast, but I thought it worked really well here!

I hope you like it! There's more to see on the LF blog this morning - click!

Avery Elle spring release blog hop!

Hi there! Welcome to my first-ever blog hop as part of the Avery Elle team!

The spring release is so fantastic, and I am showing off the new Floral Frame set:



I created a card and tag set, just for mom. I like that this means I am ahead of the mother's day game!  My 10 year old daughter asked if she could have them to give to me, haha.



The pictures aren't the best, I think I was having a weird lighting day. But that frame! I stamped, die-cut and colored 2 floral garlands, and overlapped them a bit to form this circle-ish, square-ish frame. Whatever it is, I love it.  I used our Burst die to mount the frame to, and inside the aperture I stamped "to Mom" from another new set, called Best Ever



I used the same set to create the greeting on my tag (which is giant-sized, and new to AE,) as well as a floral garland.  Here, I rubbed blue ink in a circular motion to mimic the look of the card. I finished off both the tag and card with a bit of black ink splatter.

I hope you like it!  Hop along with us today:

Avery Elle / Jamie

Karolyn Loncon

Caryn Davies

Heather Campbell

Yainea

Melania Deasy

Katie Gehring 

Amy Kolling 

Elena Roussakis

Maska Vanacker 

To celebrate our Spring 2016 Release Blog Hop, Avery Elle is giving away a $25 Gift Certificate to one random winner.  To enter to win just comment on this post.  There is no purchase necessary and you must be 18 years of age or older to enter.  This giveaway is void where prohibited.  You can also do options 2, 3, 4, 5 or all 6 of the following to increase your chances of winning. You have until midnight Sunday, February 28th to enter.  The winner will be announced on the Avery Elle Blog on Monday, February 29th .  All products are available for purchase in the Avery Elle store right now.
To enter to win you can do 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 or all 6 of the following to increase your chances:

1. Comment on any of the design team's posts and/or here on the Avery Elle Blog
2. Follow us on Twitter and tweet the contest (we are @averyellestamps )
3. Follow us on Facebook (we are www.facebook.com/AveryElle ) and share us with your friends - make sure they tell us you sent them.
4. Follow us on Pinterest
5. Become a blog follower through email (comment on the Avery Elle blog if you already follow us)
6. Join our Flickr group (comment on the Avery Elle blog if you already belong)

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love ewe! {just ME digital stamps}

Hi there!

On this last day of the Easter Collection digital stamp highlight, I have a little lamb to show you.



I printed out the full image 3x, colored them, and turned them into hanging tags. I have a die from Clear and Simple Stamps that cuts out the top of a tag (I'm sorry, I tried to find a link in their store, but I couldn't!) and then hand-cut the rest of the lambs.

I can't wait to put these treat bags into my kids Easter baskets!

I'm thinking of also making placecards for all the kids at our big Easter dinner using this image. I provide the image without the greeting in the banner - all you'd have to do is stamp or type in the names and done!

GIVEAWAY: check me out on instagram! It's the last day to enter giveaways for my digital stamps. I'll be announcing all the winner tomorrow.

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Easter bunny {just ME digital stamps}

Hi there!

We're a few days into looking at the Easter Collection of digital stamps in my etsy shop. I titled this one.... Easter bunny.

I know, super lame. I have problems when it comes to naming my images.

I hope you'll still think he's cute!



I printed the bunny (he comes holding a flower - I wanted to do something different than the regular carrot! I figure this way he could be used for more than just Easter cards) and die-cut him using a 2.5 inch circle die.

Once colored, I mounted him onto my favorite die ever, the burst die from Avery Elle. It just frames an image so well!

I also die-cut the sentiment onto an Avery Elle wavy banner die - from their upcoming new release! I colored the outline pink to have it match the scalloped borders.



I just love crafting in these pastel springtime colors! It makes me so happy.

In case you missed yesterday's post, click over and scroll down to see a picture of the entire bunny. I kind of cut his legs off for this card. hee.

GIVEAWAY: I'm running giveaways all week! The winners will be announced on Friday, so head over to instagram and comment on one of the contest pictures for a chance to win some digital stamp sets.

Thanks for stopping by!

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eggstra special chick {just ME digital stamps}

Hi there!

I'm showing off the new Easter digital stamp collection, available in my etsy shop: just ME digital stamps.

Today, we're looking at this eggstra special chick:

I just love his huge head! I have him with his arm draped over a striped Easter egg. I used Y02 and Y18 to color his body, and YR02 for his beak and feet.



Digital stamps are so great because you can manipulate them. If you didn't want the entire sentiment, you could always remove "eggstra" and the "n" from "an" to have a simpler "you are a special chick" greeting. Or how about for a springtime birthday? Eggstra! Eggstra!

ha.

Also included in this digital stamp set is a chick with his arms down. He is so cute with his arm draped around the egg, but this way you could mix and match him with other sets more easily.



Here is the chick sans egg, snuggled in with the adorable bunny I will spotlight tomorrow.

I hope you like him! Hop on over to instagram, I'm doing a separate giveaway every day.

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Easter signs {Just ME digital stamps}

Hi there!

I'm so excited to announce that I've added some Easter-themed digital stamps to my shop (click!)

I'll be highlighting the different images this week, and running some giveaways.

First up, my favorite of the series: Easter Signs.



I'm trying something a little different this time, with these images. I've created more of a full set for you, with many different mixing and matching options.

With Easter Signs, you'll get the entire scene fully assembled, as well as each element separately and different sentiment options for inside the signs.



I can see myself using the little bunny image alone, with his blank sign, to personalize an Easter tag for one of my kids. I've also included the sheep alone, and the sentiments separately.



I've even blown up and included the little carrot and flower images that you see in the bunny's signs, as well as the trio of Easter eggs. There is also a third sentiment option, and it's so cute!

I'll be sure to share a colored version soon!

I hope you like Easter Signs! For a chance to win it for yourself, visit me on instagram. 

But before you go, tell me how you like your lamb colored? In darker grey like on the first card, or soft fleshy pink like in the second? I'll color my next lamb however you choose.

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i've taken a viking to you {avery elle}

This is my second post of the day! To see the card I created for Neat and Tangled, click *here* or scroll down.

I had so much fun coloring this hilarious Avery Elle viking stamp:

I especially love that he's wearing leggings. Or has no pants. Either way, it takes a real man...

I stamped, colored and die-cut the viking. I used a copic multiliner pen to add a few extra details to his viking hat. Then, I propped him up onto 2 nesting circle die-cuts.

For the background, I used a sunburst stencil with yellow ink, and then messily traced the rays to give them a more cartoon-y feel.



The trio of hearts above the viking are from the geek love ellements set.

I hope you like it!

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