Whatever the time is, wherever you are reading this - thank you so much for stopping by! Today - I have a very special post for you.....

If you have been receiving my posts for a while, you will know that I enjoy doing blog hops - I enjoy running with a theme and seeing what others come up with.

But this hop is with some extraordinarily talented demonstrators from around the world. You might be starting off here in Australia. Or, you may have just come from Nicole Tugrul from US. How awesome was her project? The idea is to 'hop' around all of the projects - there is a list of participants at the bottom of the post. So, go make yourself a coffee and come back and enjoy.....

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Today, since the theme of the Blog Hop is 2016/2017 Annual Catalogue, I am using two stamp sets from the new catalogue - Pop of Paradise and Scenic Sayings.

My Project

Here is the card I ended up with (I must apologise for the photos - our camera was damaged on our trip so this is our back-up camera. We are waiting for word on whether insurance will cover our camera);


I will be the first to admit that I am surprised I used both the stamp set and Flirty Flamingo. But, it was just one of those things that I had in my head.....the idea is that the Flamingo is standing on a wire.


I used some Washi tape and masked the legs so that I could make them black and did the reverse to create the pink body. I used the stamp-a-majig to make sure it was lined up.


Don't you love the effect of the sentiment? I put the top part in Flirty Flamingo and then the bottom part in Night of Navy. Gives a really nice look. I then used a Circle Punch (sorry, I can't remember which one) to cut out the sentiment. I mounted this using dimensionals.


Its a little difficult to see, but I used a Wink of Stella on the Flirty Flamingo body. It gives such a nice finish. I then fussy-cut the flamingo out and mounted using dimensionals onto the white layer. This layer was then mounted on the Flirty Flamingo layer using dimensionals. I then glued (using Tomboy) the FF layer to the Night of Navy layer. This layer was then mounted to the white layer using the AMAZING foam adhesive strips which was then stuck down with Tomboy glue.

A simple and EASILY replicable card.

Blog Hop Participants

Thank you so much for joining me today - please make sure that you don't miss one of these amazing blogs as you hop around - there are some AWESOME AWESOME projects by some extremely talented demonstrators. Speaking of talented demonstrators, next up is the talented Sarah Berry from the UK - you are going to LOVE her project.

Wow - we are having an AMAZING time in Europe. As you might know, we are in Paris at the moment. Recently, we visited Pisa and Florence and I wrote a post about it over on my travel blog. Today we are enjoying a beautiful tour of the Champagne Region (hopefully the rain holds out). But, before we enjoy that, I wanted to stop and let you know that the 2016/2017 Stampin' Up! Annual Catalogue is NOW LIVE!!!! That means - YOU CAN ORDER NOW!!!

Make sure you scroll down and see the AWESOME new offers that include FREE STAMP SETS!!


There are a few ways you can check it out;

1. Click on the image above or here to go direct to our online store and check out all of the products.
2. Click here to download a PDF copy and then click here to buy (if the link doesn't work right away, it will be fixed up shortly)

There are some AWESOME new products - here are three that I know you will love;

Swirlybird Photopolymer Stamp Set

Perfectly Wrapped Photopolymer Stamp Set

Pop of Paradise

As mentioned - we are still away and Im looking forward to getting home to make some more projects using these awesome new products.

So, check out these awesome new products and buy them. Hopefully there won't be any stock issues so the only way to make sure you get them is to buy them right away.

Do you have a rather EXTENSIVE shopping list?

1. JOIN IN JUNE AND GET TWO FREE STAMP SETS!