Kelly's Stamping Friends Blog Hop

Hello and welcome to a super special blog hop for my fabulous friend Kelly Kent! Kelly is celebrating 5 years of being a Stampin' Up! demonstrator so she thought she would celebrate with a blog hop. Because of the fabulous response from her stamping friends you are now hopping on night two of this fabulous celebration blog hop.

I've had the pleasure of being on the Just Add Ink design team with Kelly over the past year and had the pleasure of meeting her in person at last years On Stage Live event in Brisbane.

I love the idea of celebrating SU milestones with a blog hop and sharing this special occasion with all your stamping friends and I'm super happy to play along.

You may have come here from Billie Moan or you are just starting here with me. Either way you are in for a blog hop treat!

The overall theme for the hop is 'Happy' and usually I would make a birthday card with some sort of 'Happy Birthday' sentiment splashed across the front but I'm actually thinking more along the lines of happy mail in the form of a RAK (Random Acts of Kindness) card. #happymail #makeacardsendacard

We all love getting handmade cards in the mail and that makes us happy (especially when there are no bills with it either). Well it makes me happy and I just love seeing these handmade treasures in the post.

I had a play with a new stamp set 'Pieces & Patterns' which you can get TOMORROW (June 1st)!!! Oh yeah!! I've also teamed up the stamp set with the DSP that co-ordinates with this set - Pick a Pattern. A fun stamp set teamed with a super cute DSP! Love it!

I first started with a water colour wash of Flirty Flamingo. The water pooled quite heavily in one section so I turned the cardstock around a bit and then some of the water colour ink ran across the cardstock. Makes for a fun look like that.

Over the Flirty Flamingo I then flick the brush tip end of the Basic Black Stampin' Write Marker over the whole Shimmery White layer. I love the look of the splatters across the cardstock. 

Then using the Sahara Sand ink I repeatedly stamped 'Enjoy Today' either in full strength ink, stamped off once and even stamped off twice. I love the different variations in the strength of the 'Enjoy Today' background.

 I then used White Stampin' Emboss Powder to stamp the 'Hello There' circle on Basic Black cardstock and then fussy cut that out. The little flower also comes from Pieces and Patterns set. Its all finished off with some strips of the DSP down the side and then some of my favourite trims that have fortunately carried over to the new catalogue that starts tomorrow! WOOHOO!

Congratulations Kelly on you 5 years with SU and all the hard work you've done. Here's to another 5 (or more fabulous years)! Cheers!

Next on the hop is super talented Kayla Renee MacAulay in Tasmania, Australia . 

Thanks so much for stopping by!

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