Happy Owlidays

Austin: I enjoyed the sewing I find it rests me and I like the owl on it and the branch makes it sophisticated card. Love this card.
I took time but the card looked really awesome at the end.

Sally: I hope you all had a lovely Thanksgiving (those of you who celebrate it) & are enjoying the Black Friday Sales. Among the emails for Black Friday I saw the one from Winnie & Walter saying that they are shutting down.. Austin & I were gutted, Winnie & Walter are one of our favourite brands. We especially love the stamps, we don't have many sets but we have used the two we've got over & over again in so so many different ways. This Happy Owlidays set has to be our favourite though (they are sold out & I doubt they're restocking, for obvious reasons).

Bright Starry Night

Austin: The best part is the sentiment and the trees and the background and the stars.

Sally: We do so many winter night cards we weren’t sure how to make something a bit new. So we didn’t. We took the key elements of our winter night cards & just simplified it, polished it & ended up with an elegant, sophisticated, clean & simple card (or as CAS as we get lol).

Christmas down under

Austin: I love the way the sand is the banner and the background is to die for and the waves are blended.
The tree with the decorations are amazing makes the card especially the penguin.

The stamped background is awesome because its a grey and words on it makes it stand out.

Sally: This card is kind of a merging of two favourite card ideas, three if you include the banner scene element.

Years ago I was watching a Jennifer McGuire video where she reviewed a stamp release by My Favorite Things. As she was going through the stamps I kind of zoned out until she got to this Penguin in Paradise set. I knew Austin would love making Christmas cards with it & he has, he's made loads (although not as many these days because I struggle with fine motor control which makes fussy cutting difficult and painful, I never could get the hang of solid dies so we never got them for this set). 

Austin's favourite way to use this penguin set is on a 'beach Santa' card, like with this awesome die from Paper Rose.

Cozy Companion

Austin: I really enjoyed this card and it was a disaster all the way through, it was hard making the card work but how it turned out looks amazing and wonderful.

I really love the fox sat next to the fire and I really love the card, so many good ideas and I really love the card. Sally did so good colouring and glitter is so pretty and the watercolour is so cool, I love it Sally so clever she has so good ideas I love it, it so awesome. It have so many good ideas.

Sally: Oh this card was so hard to sort! I can't believe how stressful it was to make an indoor card, why do we struggle so much? We started out by trying to make a window card with clever die cutting in the window & blending & glitter paste stencilling inside. In retrospect, that was way too much. First off the blending looked okay....the second time but the glitter paste totally ruined it. Yeah, and then we did the watercolouring & made the window.....which totally didn't work (clever die cutting is harder than it looks on youtube lol) then FINALLY we settled on this design. We totally love how it worked out though so I guess all's well that ends well.