Happy New Year all , Jo here and welcome to my first blog post for the year. 

Today I have made a sweet card set using two of my favourite Inspired By Stamping stampsets. The first stampset is the "Easter Lily" & second one is the "Hello", which I have cutup. I know for some of you this may be rather daunting. The OCD side of me really struggled with this concept however I wanted to tailor my gift set as I had a specific friend in mind to give this to. 

Ok,so I first cut up this stampset as you can see below. I set aside the sentiments that I wish to use on a separate cardstock. 

The sentiments has been heat embossed with white embossing powder on coloured strips of coloured cardstock. 

Hello

Hello

I tapped into my paper stash hoard vault and pulled this beautiful paper collection out.  I have used the paper to cover the full top folding  vanilla base for thecard front.  With very vanilla cardstock panels I have die cut with border strip framelits to create interest tot he panels and foam mounted this onto the floral paper. 

To add a feminine touch to accompany the type of paper chosen I have used paper doilies which I have placed on carefully with glue dots as I found this type of adhesive was less likely to be seen through the very paper thin doilies.

I have stamped the Lily image on die cut circles and hearts with light blue & strawberry inks. To embellish each card I have used two types of hemp twine natural and bleached.  I have also used some resin flowers and buttons to tie off the twine which I have adhered on with glue dots.

Easter Lily

This is my last IBSIC blog post for the year and all I can say is that it has been such a fantastic inspiring year. I got to spend my first year as a DT with this beautiful stamping company and I am so glad I have been accepted as a DT for another year. If you haven't yet used their products I highly recommend how versatile, fun and great quality their stampsets are.

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Today's blog post I have used the colour combination as my muse. 

Instead of using all the colours and making one card  I used a colour and created an individual card for each colour using the "Friends"  stampset.

My style for today's card is simple yet fun and can easily be done in bulk as it is my favourite way in creating cards as I like giving my creations away as packs to friends and family members.

Placing a strip of designer paper on the left hand side and a thin strip of black or white cardstock along side it as a contrast strip of colour to separate the designer series paper and card base.

Using a stitched circle die I then ran the die cut through an embossing folder to give some texture to the card. Each sentiment has been heat embossing with Metallic Gold Rich Super Fine embossing powder on black cardstock. The add on stamped sentiments  has been stamped on a white strip cardstock and placed around the heat embossed black cardstock.

A punch has been used to make the bow as the embellished piece for the card.

Hope you enjoyed today's card creation and don't forget to check out the other inspirational Design Team members creations.

Hi All,

Today's card is playing with the "Friends" stampset along with the Crochet Trim Collection II.

Went through my hoard vault of flowers and pulled this vanilla flower out.

To stamp the sentiment I have used Versafine Onyx Black Ink.

Cardstock used for today's card is Vanilla & Black.

Crochet Trim

To created this simple and fun butterfly card I have used the new Butterfly stampset from Inspired By Stamping.

Cardstocks used is Whisper White, Basic Black & Crisp Cantaloupe.

Colour of inks used is Blushing Bride, Basic Black & Soft Sky.

The front butterfly I have used the Mega Flake Copper Kettle leaving such an intricate beautiful butterfly stamped image.