Release day for Lily at the Beach, last sneak peek and wedding anniversary!!

Hello everybody!!

This is the day most of you will have been waiting for... you can now get a set of Lily's at the Beach to play with yourselves. For me this is a special day because we are celebrating our fifth year wedding anniversary today! My husband still hasn't told me where we are going this weekend. I know we are going to bring the children to my parents in law tomorrow afternoon and that he is going to activate my navigationsystem in my car and I'm going to drive us to wherever we are going... but he refuses to tell me where that is!! Whatever it is... I totally appreciate the thought and his time and energy for arranging it. I'll let you know where we went on Tuesday. My post for sketch Saturday will go live on Saturday morning though :).

But you don't want to know all this... you want to finally see the new set! And here it is!! Don't you love it? As you can probably see there is one stamp we haven't sneak peeked before. We've kept that last stamp for today. Here is my card with the last little cutie:

Again the shells and the ribbon, the sea and the sand :). Papers today are an old line by Chatterbox. I think the paisley paper is so pretty that I never wanted to touch it but I thought it was perfect for this Lily set so I finally cut of a piece (I know, I'm stupid). Here is a close up of Lily:

The glass of her snorkel glass has been touched up with Paper Glaze but I don't think the picture shows. The flowers and all the other papers are also from stash. As you can now see, the sentiment is in the set.

Well that's it for me for this release. I hope you have liked my sneak peeks, I've putten a lot of work in my cards and I hope it shows :). I want to thank everybody for leaving me such lovely comments up until now, they made me feel like a million bucks :).

Please don't forget to check out the blogs of my Design Team buddies and our Guest Designer for this release Tori Wild. Tori thank you for joining us this release. I have absolutely LOVED your cards up until now and I'm sure I'll love the card you're going to show us today too. Great work sweetie!!

I'm signing of here :). I'm going to finish up my post for this weeks Sketch Saturday and after that I guess I'll speak to you on Tuesday! Have a great day and weekend everybody!!

xxx

Mariska

Second day of Lily at the Beach Sneak Peeks

Good morning everybody!!

I hope you enjoyed your blog hop yesterday, I sure did!! I loved seeing what my extremely talented fellow (Guest) Design Team members did with their stamps. Today is the second day of the sneak peeks and I'm sure we'll all be in for a treat again! Today we are all featuring one stamp. The set actually contains four images but the sneak peeks for the last set will be shown tomorrow at the day of the actual release. Here is my sneak peek for today: Now isn't Lily absolutly stunning as a mermaid!! I have coloured her to look a little bit like Disney's The Little Mermaid. In Holland Disney calls her Ariel but I'm not sure if that is the international name for her. But however she is called in your country, that Disney Classic is my absolute favourite and so this cutie had to have her gorgeous red hair. Here is a close up:

Her tail has been stickled up with a colour that's named 'Mermaid' now... couldn't go wrong there :). Again a lot of 3D on this picture. The frame she is in and the sentiment (same one as I used yesterday also in the set) are cut with another one of my new nesties "Large Deckled Rectangles". I used a lot of the materials I used for the card with Lily swimming with the tube yesterday. Same cardstock, DT paper, ribbon, shells, embroidery silk and adhesive stones though another colour. The pearls are beads but I thought they would look good on my card. I tried to give the card a distressed look because I think that fits the mermaid :). I'm not a very good distresser though but I like how this card turned out... hope you do too :).

Be sure to check out the blogs of my fellow DT members and our Guest Designer for this Release Tori Wild. Tomorrow is the actual release and I'll post another sneak peek card with the last image stamp then.

Have a great day everybody and thank you for stopping by and letting me know what you think!!

xxx

Mariska

Sneak Peek day 1 for Lily at the Beach Stamps

Good morning everybody!!

Today is the first day of the sneak peeks of the new Lily at the Beach stamps that will be released next Thursday the 23rd at Pink Cat Studio. I know it is still spring but the weather here has been lovely for the most part the last weeks so I have been really in the mood for these lovely stamps. It was a pleasure to work with them and I really like them, I'm sure you will do too. So let's get started with the sneak peeks!!

My first card uses a stamp with Lily riding this cute little turtle. I was in love with this stamp the second I saw Melissa's sketch of this one and it was the first one I inked up when the stamps arrived. Here is the result:

Now isn't she adorable!!! The lovely sentiment is also included in the set. Here is a close up of the image:

I used a lot of 3D on this one again. The sand and water paper I have had for ages and I finally got a chance to use them. The water paper is Sandylion's and the sand paper is from Carol Wilson but both papers are at least four years old. The shape around the image was made using my new Label One nesties and the green cardstock, blue Bo Bunny DP paper and some of the embellies are from the last Card-Art kit, the other embellies are from stash and the pink paper is Doodlebug Velvet. The stitching has been done with metallic embroidery silk.

On to my second card for this sneak peek day:

Isn't she cute again!! Again the sentiment is included in the set. A close up of this little cutie:

Now this Lily is actually standing holding the tube on the stamp as you will probably see on the cards of the other DT members but I wanted to put her into the water so I have added some water with foamcubes on her legs and under the tube to actually splash around :). Again lots of 3D on this one but I'm not sure if the picture shows this. Both of the nestie shapes have been mounted with 3D cubes too. The cardstock is from stash and the cream cardstock has been embossed with my Cuttlebug Swiss Dots folder. The strip of DT paper is from Daisy bucket. The ribbon is from a Card-Art kit and I think that suits the beachy look very well. The shells were found by my daughter Dyanne :). The adhesive stones are from Make Me and I've embroidered with some ecru embroidery silk.

That's it for me today!! I sure hope you like my cards but if you don't... don't forget there are nine more Design Team members who I'm sure will blow you away with their sneak peeks, you can find their links on the right side. And if that is not enough.. this month we are being joined by our Guest Designer Tori Wild and I have just been over to Tori's blog and she has some absolutely stunning creations there so I can't wait to see what she has done with these two cuties. Have a lovely blog hop everybody! I'll be back tomorrow with another sneak peek.

Have a great day!!

xxx

Mariska