Dare to Dream, Hostess set

So the retired list is live, there are some gorgeous stamps, papers and embellishments on the list. As well as some colours, as Stampin' Up! have announced a Colour revamp, whats a revamp? Its a large change in colours as opposed to a few colours. Some have retired, some have moved colour families, some have returned. Welcome back Mint Macaron, oh how I have missed you!

Whilst I and others get their head around the new colours, I am paying homage to Dare to Dream, this is one of my favourite hostess stamp sets. I love the 'dream.' This set can be bought with the Stampin' rewards you receive with a £150 order.

I am loving playing with my stamps before we say goodbye :( and hello :) to new stamps, inks, paper and embelishments, T-minus 52 days!

Black and white butterflies

I love Sketches and challenges, it stops the whirling of deciding what colours to use. My fabulous up-line set us a challenge just to use Black and White only. My first idea was a butterfly, I am not sure whether it works with no colour, I was so tempted to get the Watercolour pencils or Blends out and add colour, but it didn't fit with the challenge. I think that the butterflies should be bright and colourful, but it so pretty even without colour. The butterfly looks amazing with heat embossing and Brushos®, (in my opinion it was made for using different techniques for Brushos®),  but today I just went for simple black archival ink.

The sentiment is from my favourite host stamp set 'Dare to Dream.' I thought it went perfectly with the gorgeous butterfly. It reminded me of a quote I love.

I have a few more black and white cards which I will show or add to the gallery.