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Avery Elle Blog Hop Redux! And I'm back!!!  My old computer Big Mac is at the Apple Store getting his new brain (for free no less!) and now I'm working on the newest addition to our family, Baby Mac.   I learned a couple things from this experience...do not take your computer for granted (thank goodness for daily back ups!) and when your husband says "Hey, I got a friend that can fix that for you!", politely decline;)

Back to the new release!  My blog hop projects are from the fabulous Good Fortune set! Did you know that the new sets are on the website right now?  Jamie is mixing it up a bit with the release.  I love that folks don't have to wait the whole week to purchase the new stamps!  With this first card, I mixed the Good Fortune set with a number from Count On It!  The ball itself is die cut using 2 circle dies.  On the inside, I stamped "very doubtful".  So cute! For this next card I used the adorable fortune cookie stamps from Good Fortune:)  Instead of the regular fortune, I paired it with the "Be Mine" sentiment from Lots of Love and sprinkled it with lots of punched hearts.  The card base is a new offering at Avery Elle, birch card stock!  You will fall in love with this stuff!  The woodgrain is unlike anything you can achieve with an embossing folder or impression plate. Both the cookies and the fortune were fussy cut and glued on with foam tape.  I blended Antique Linen on the cookies to give them a more baked look.  Even though they're from 2 different sets, the sentiment fits just right into the fortune stamp.  Just a tip, if you lay the two stamps together on your block, you can make sure the curves match (little hard to see in the pic, but you get the point:) Thank you so much for stopping by (some of you for the second time!).  I hope that you got a chance to visit the other gals including the awesome Veronica Zalis and Nina Yang!

Jamie Gracz (Avery Elle blog)
Chunyuan Wu
Veronica Zalis
Heather Campbell
Nina Yang

As promised, I'm doing my own little giveaway for all the folks who posted on my last post and this post!  I will randomly choose a winner, just be sure to leave a comment by Sunday evening 11:59 pm.

You have until Sunday, February 3rd to enter.  The winner will be announced on the Avery Elle blog on Monday, February 4th.  All products will be available for purchase tonight, January 31st, at midnight EST.

Mahalo and Aloha,
Posted by JJ Bolton Labels: Avery Elle, Glitter



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