October 2018 Reveal, Design Team Blog Hop & GIVEAWAY!

Woohoo! 

Finally the day has arrived and the October 2018 Reveal, Blog Hop & GIVEAWAY is here! The Release will be available to purchase HERE at a NEW time of 9pm GMT tonight. 

Ok, so how about a look at the four new clear stamp sets and two re-released clear stamp sets AND the three new stencil designs!

Background Builders: Christmas £9 

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Jolly Christmas £4 

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BIG & BOLD Merry £4 

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Simply Said Blocks Christmas £4

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Background Builders: Christmas 2018 £9 

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Winter Botanicals: Sweet Broom £9 

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Stencil Christmas Folk Snowflake £3.50 

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Stencil Scandinavian Christmas £3.50 

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Stencil Quilted £3.50 

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Now I have formally introduced all the NEW products, how about a FUN blog hop and a ton of inspiration from the Design Team.

Bev

Carol 

Izzy 

Jane 

Julie

Linda

Lindsey

Sarah G

Sarah P

Wiebke

Be sure to comment along the hop for your chance to win the ENTIRE Release!! You have until Midnight (GMT) Friday 9th November 2018 to comment and the winner will be announced soon after.

Happy Hopping!

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Introducing... BIG & BOLD Merry and Background Builders: Christmas 2018

Hey!

Welcome back to day 4 of the October 2018 Release product introductions.

This is the fun part, you now get to see all the sneak peeks in action. The Design Team have worked their socks off and created an abundance of inspiration to share with you over the coming days :)

Thank you for all the comment love yesterday here and on social media. If you missed the first 3 days of introductions, you can catch up HERE, HERE and HERE.

Today we are introducing the final two clear stamp sets, BIG & BOLD Merry and Background Builders: Christmas 2018. I think I have saved my current two favourites till last too ;)

For my card here today I have combined both BIG & BOLD Merry and Background Builders: Christmas 2018. I've wanted to design a Christmas fairy lights stamp for ages and this year it was the year it happened! 

The string comes as one stamp, with 3 separate fairy bulb designs. I have created a tangled light background by stamping the string at various angles and then going back in and stamping 2 of the bulb designs.

 I've used Stampin' Up! Markers in bright colours for the bulbs and added Clear Wink of Stella for some sparkle too.

The large 'Merry' from Big & Bold Merry is stamped in Stampin' Up! Real Red ink and then once dry I overstepped with VersaMark ink and heat embossed with Stardust EP. I've then fussy cut this out and adhered it to the card using foam adhesive.

That's all I have to share here today, but be sure to hop along with my AWESOME Design Team to see what they have created. Don't forget to comment along the way. You never know, I might just pick some random comments to WIN some prizes this release ;)

Bev

Carol 

Izzy 

Jane 

Julie

Linda

Lindsey

Sarah G

Sarah P

WOW! This has been a fun few days of product introductions and I for one have loved seeing how my Design Team bring the products to life. So, we have reached the end of the product introductions, which means tomorrow is the BIG day!

We will have our usual Reveal, Design Team Blog Hop & GIVEAWAY at 9am tomorrow here on the blog AND the RELEASE will go LIVE at 9pm GMT over HERE on the website.

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Introducing... Winter Botanicals: Sweet Broom & Quilted Stencil

Hey!

Welcome back to day 3 of the October 2018 Release product introductions.

This is the fun part, you now get to see all the sneak peeks in action. The Design Team have worked their socks off and created an abundance of inspiration to share with you over the coming days :)

Thank you for all the comment love yesterday here and on social media. If you missed yesterday, you can catch up HERE, where myself & the DT introduced 2 Stencil Designs and an addition to the Simply Said Blocks series. You can catch up HERE with day 1, where myself and the Design Team re-introduced Background Builders: Christmas and Jolly Christmas clear stamp sets.

Today we are introducing Winter Botanicals: Sweet Broom & another Stencil, Quilted. Here is a look at the two products.

First up is Winter Botanicals: Sweet Broom, a lovely multi-step foliage clear stamp set. Though I have categorised it as a Winter Botanical, it can be used and paired with a variety of other clear stamps and products all year round.

This was one of the cards we made at last weekends Uniko Stamping Retreat and I wanted to show how the detail stamps can be used on their own and not just as shading inside the outline foliage stamps.

I was inspired by an Autumnal sunset when I chose the colours for my ink blended panel and I used Altenew inks. The foliage stamp and sentiment (from Simply Said Blocks) are stamped in VersaFine Onyx Black ink.

Next is another card we made at the Stamping Retreat and it was technique based, embossing with stencils...

I'd never tried embossing with stencils before I made this card and it was one technique which inspired me to create this stencil design. I was so chuffed with how the embossing turned out and I'm kinda loving embossing with stencils!

I wanted to make sure the embossed background wasn't obscured too much, so I chose to use the flowers from Beautiful Blooms III and a sentiment from Simply Said Blocks. 

That's all I have to share here, but my AWESOME Design Team have created projects to share with you all too. Be sure to hop along, commenting along the way. You never know, I might just pick some random comments to WIN some prizes this release ;)

Bev

Izzy 

Jane 

Julie

Linda

Lindsey

Sarah G

Sarah P

WOW! That was another inspirational hop, so many new ideas of how to use these new stencils and sentiment stamps. I hope you enjoyed the hop & will come back tomorrow for the last product introductions. 

Hugs

Introducing... Stencils Scandinavian Christmas & Christmas Folk Snowflake AND Simply Said Blocks Christmas

Hey!

Welcome back to day 2 of the October 2018 Release product introductions.

This is the fun part, you now get to see all the sneak peeks in action. The Design Team have worked their socks off and created an abundance of inspiration to share with you over the coming days :)

Thank you for all the comment love yesterday here and on social media. If you missed yesterday, you can catch up HERE where myself and the Design Team re-introduced Background Builders: Christmas and Jolly Christmas clear stamp sets.

Today we are introducing 2 new stencil designs Scandinavian Christmas & Christmas Folk Snowflake AND 1 new clear Stamp Set, Simply Said Blocks Christmas!

Here is a look at Christmas Folk Snowflake Stencil and a sentiment from Simply Said Blocks Christmas...

I've had this motif designed for probably 5 years now. Originally an idea I had for a collection when I was a freelance designer for the gift industry, but I never followed through with it, until now! 

When designing new products, I often look through my archive of designs and that is what I did when designing this stencil. I am super chuffed with it and just look at the sparkle! 

I've inked through the stencil with Candid Apple Distress Ink and then before removing my stencil, I inked over with VersaMark. I then sprinkled Stardust Embossing powder over and heat set it. The sentiment is just one of the options from the new Simply Said Blocks Christmas.

As usual my AWESOME Design Team have created projects to share with you all too. Be sure to hop along, commenting along the way. You never know, I might just pick some random comments to WIN some prizes this release ;)

Bev

Carol 

Izzy 

Jane 

Julie

Linda

Lindsey

Sarah G

Sarah P

WOW! That was another inspirational hop, so many new ideas of how to use these new stencils and sentiment stamps. I hope you enjoyed the hop & will come back tomorrow for the next product introductions. 

Hugs