Busy Beaver Canada Day Blog Hop

Happy Canada Day!!

We are blog hopping today in celebration of Canada’s 150^th Birthday, sharing projects featuring the cute new ‘Busy Beaver’ stamp & die set by Taylored Expressions!   Be sure to leave comments along the way because Scrap N’ Stamp Canada has some prizes to give away randomly- $150 in gift certificates (3 lucky people will get $50 gc’s) and a Busy Beaver set with a bonus maple leaf tag die!  Winners will be randomly chosen and announced on the SNS blog on Monday!

The link to your next stop can be found at the bottom of this post, 

so keep on reading!

This chunky beaver is too cute!

I really wanted to make my kids some bookmarks for all their summer reading.

To play up the bucky beaver teeth I used a Smile word die from MFT Stamps because I thought this sentiment I created was would be hilarious to my kids.

I wanted it to be really fun and chose to make it into a shaker bookmark. This was an great opportunity to pull out the Fuse tool and put it to work. In hindsight, I wouldn't have used the seed beads, as they are just to chunky (duh!) but they really make it a lot of fun.

The background I quickly ink-blended with some red-toned Hero Arts inks, in order to give it a little interest. Then out came my trusty Copics to do some quick colouring on the images. 

The finishing touches like the silver grommet and red ribbon tie it all together. My favourite part is this awesome tag die with the maple leaf. I know I will be pulling that out often, if not for just the maple leaf die.

Your next stop is with Amber Trubiak at http://foreverambersart.blogspot.ca/

Please visit Scrap N' Stamp's blog www.scrapnstamp.ca/blog/ for the complete list of women participating today and to find out the winners on Monday!

ps-Don't forget to leave those comments for your chance to win one of these 'gnawsome' prizes!

Happy Anniversary Using Grow | A Muse Studio Guest Designer

I have been featured as a Guest Designer at the A muse Studio blog, 

go check that out here. I am sharing my projects here all month long.

I adore these succulent planters from the Grow stamp set. 

I did some repeat stamping using my Stamp Perfect tool with a gradient effect.

The images were coloured using Zig Clean Color Real Brush markers on Bristol smooth paper. (Because there is just no other way to do that, this paper is so amazing)

I hope you enjoyed this card today, join me Friday for another A muse Studio project.

Thanks again to A Muse Studio for having me, such a pleasure!

Supplies

I list all the supplies I use at the end of my posts for your convenience. The letters below represent where the product can be purchase, ie. AZ – Amazon, SB – Scrapbook.com, SNS- Scrapnstamp. Products used from A Muse Studio were sent to me, but this post is not sponsored. Affiliate links are used when possible at no extra cost to you. Affiliate linking is what keeps my blog and youtube channel running and enables me to work from home with my kids! We appreciate your support!

GROW	A|S DIE SET - GROW	Ranger Ink - Archival Ink Pad - Jet Black	Hampton Art Stamp Perfect Tool	Umbrella Crafts Clear Acrylic Stamp Block	SB
ZIG Wink of Stella	Bazzill Basics - 12 x 12 White 25 Sheets	Sizzix Big Shot Machine	Fiskars 12 Inch Portable Paper Trimmer	Fiskars 12 ink Personal Paper Trimmer	American Crafts - Adhesives - Double-Sided Tape

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