...dainty dogwood

Ever since I saw the drawings, I wanted to get my hands on this particular stamp - it's a dogwood flower and it comes from Melanie's new set, Stately Flowers 10, just released at Gina K Designs.  This is the complete set, it's No.10 in a series of sets that charts the United States of America in flowers. This edition also has a rather handy dandy seed packet stamp and some pretty butterflies as well as the Oregon Grape and Sagebrush botanicals.

I love dogwood flowers, so pretty and delicate, so I'm starting with those. I stamped the image repeatedly to nearly cover the card front, leaving a diagonal blank space across the card into which I stamped the sentiment, also from the set. I coloured the flowers with copics. I just love the simplicity of this card.

I will be back again tomorrow as we have the DT blog hops tomorrow and Tuesday, have a ton to show you, see you then!

OOh - did you enter my blog candy post yet? If not scroll down, it's the one before this one!

...Petite Patisserie and some shiny blog candy

ED - the winner of the blog candy was:

Hussena who said

This is such a darling set! Love the cake shop images and the sentiments. Your card is so amazing. Thanks for sharing the tip sheet. - Hussena, pop me a message on Fb or an email at claire.brennan1@ntlworld.com with your addy and I'll get your sparkly bits out to you!! Thank you to all who played along! I appreciate the comments!

Morning! You missed a great party at Stamp TV last night! Gina K released a whole bunch of new stamps and some of mine were in that mix! This card features one of my newest sets, Petite Patisserie! I am in love with this little cake shop! I'm in love with cake shops generally, and my current fave is Le Petit Parisien, a great little place in Wicklow St, Dublin, Ireland. If you are curious, you can see them here. I try to call in here for a cuppa if I'm in Dublin, which should be way more often...

The stamp set is a brand new set, available in clear photopolymer from Gina K's store here. This image shows you all of the stamps in the set:

For my card above, which I shared at the party last night, I used the main shop image. I stamped the image a few times on separate pieces of cardstock and then coloured with copics. I trimmed out the window shapes with a craft knife and then popped the matching cake stand and chandelier in behind the openings, I love the depth this gives. I also stamped the Patisserie sign and trimmed that out, popping it up on the roof. I was really chuffed with this set and I have loads more samples to show you. Pop by over the next couple of days to see!

Inside my card I added a simple panel. I used the larger of the cake stand images and added the interior sentiment underneath it. I love colouring those little croissants and buns and doughnuts! The delicate font choices suit my idea of fine dining...lol!

Just for inspiration, I made up this tip sheet - it shows a few examples of how the stamps from the set can be arranged to give nice little scenes, I really hope you like it! The store stamp is shown in black and all the other little co-ordinating stamps in orange. You can achieve these looks with simple stamping and/or a combination of simple masking or layering by trimming images out. There are FOUR different 'shop signs, so you could have yourself a little street! My current fave is the itty bitty curtains, check out the Caffetteria below!

I'd love to know what you think, so shoot me a comment on this post and I will pick a random winner on Sunday night to win a prize...lemme see, what can I give you....(rummaging in a drawer...) ah yes - how about some shiny things, I have some pretty sequins here left over from WMS - I will pop out 5 little baggies of sequins to one random commenter. It could be any combination of coloured sequins or maybe some shaker mix (pictured below) if I can find it!

...bring me sunshine...

phweeeeeeee! feels like an age since I saw you, I had all these plans for scheduling posts while I was on vacation...anywhooo I do have a ton of nice pics of the Republic of Ireland to show you, but first things first, there's a new release happening over at Gina's on Thursday night!

This set is releasing at Gina's together with three more, never seen before brand new Claire Brennan sets! can't wait to show you - I'll pop up another peek later on and more deets!! thanks for stopping by!