Card Making

Hello Gorgeous – Creating A Stamped Patterned Paper Look ft Honey Bee Stamps

on April 3, 2017

Hello Crafty friends!

It’s Lesley again, and today I am playing with the Playful Pups stamp set to create a fun patterned paper look for my card!

I love it when stamp sets have a selection of smaller images – these are perfect for creating your own backgrounds. I started my project today by die cutting a rectangle of card to A2 size, then used a grey ink to stamp lines of images along the card. I staggered them slightly to create more interest, and masked off the stitched border so it stayed ink-free.

Next up I die cut two of the frames using a die from another manufacturer, but for one of them, i covered it with the same dye ink. When i layered the grey underneath the white frame, I offset it slightly so it looks like a shadow. This is a fun way to bring the same colour tones into the rest of your image.

Next up i stamped two cute doggies and the food bowl and coloured these in with my copic markers. I also used the chisel tip of a teal coloured marker to add colour to a scratch piece of card then white heat embossed the word sweetheart from the Hello Gorgeous stamp set! I used my trimmer and scissors to cut it down into a fishtail banner shape.

Whilst I had my Hello Gorgeous stamp set out, I decided to stamp the word Hello using the two tone effect. For this i used my MISTI, first with the light ink, then added the darker ink to the bottom half of my stamp. To get a more freckled look, I tapped a paper towel over the inked stamp slightly. Once the ink was dry, i cut out the image with the coordinating die and layered this onto die cut foam for some dimension. I also added a few layers of my wink of stella clear glitter brush marker and finished the card with some sequins from the Honey Bee Stamps store!

Thanks for stopping by and I hope to see you again next Monday when I am back on the blog

Have a great day

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Sending You Hugs – A Card About Sending A Card! Ft. Lawn Fawn Love Letters Stamp Set

on April 2, 2017

Crafty friends are the best! Don’t ya think? 🙂

When I was in Arizona for Creativation this January, I had the pleasure of hanging out with the some of the Honey Bee Stamps gang – Melissa, Lisa, Taniesa and Carrie. One night we had a sleepover and a little crafting – it was such fun! I didn’t have much supplies with me, but the girls let me tuck into theirs. Isn’t that so lovely!? Taniesa had the Lawn Fawn Love Letters stamp set – which hadn’t quite reached us in the UK at that point. I stamped and die cut a few, but didn’t have a chance to use them that evening so I brought them home with me.

I finally got a chance to use them this week, and I had an idea to make a pretty META card – this card, is a card about sending a card! Yes, I know its a bit crazy but FUN right?!

This card was also inspired by a recent project by Nichol Sphor, where she used yellow and orange tones to create a beautiful background. I don’t know why I hardly ever use yellow and orange tones, but Nichol’s card make me push outside of my normal comfort zone and give it a try AND I love the end result! I am definitely going to use these colours more often!

The scalloped rectangles are from the Lawn Fawn Stitched Heart Envelope die set, and I have used two together to create a larger panel on the left and kept one separate for the right. This is because I wanted the design to have a storyboard feel to it! Plus it was a challenge to create the design in such a way so the elements hid the seam. I think it all worked out in the end! You can hardly tell that its two rectangles stuck together!

I also used my copic markers to colour in the images, and instead of yellowy chickies, I went for teal birdies this time, so they wouldn’t get lost against the background. I also used some stamps from the Lawn Fawn Monster Mash stamp set to add some fun words to the letter and speech bubble!

When making this card I had this painful revelation that I don’t have any teal cardstock left in my stash! How terrible! But nothing a little Peacock Feathers Distress Ink can’t fix for now! I layered some inked card under the edge of my white panel, after using a Mama Elephant Fine Trimmings die to add cute little holes. I love that you can see a little of the blue peeping through the holes. For the background I used some Echo Park Homefront paper from the 6×6 Dots and Stripes paper pad. I think it was the perfect design for the background! To finish I gave the card a sprinkling of sequins from the Honey Bee Stamps Baby Girl sequin mix!

Thanks for stopping by and I hope you enjoyed this card today!

Be sure to watch the video for more information on how i made this card, and if you have any questions be sure to leave a comment or contact me using the feedback form on my blog.

Just a note to say that the Honey Bee Stamps & MISTI collaboration BlogHop will be open until 7th April 2017 when the winner will be announced. Check out my previous post for more details on how you can enter the giveaways!

Happy Crafting!

——Products Used——–

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------Other Products Used ------

Echo Park Paper Homefront 6x6 Dots & Stripes Paper Pad
Hero Arts Friends Definition Stamp
Honey Bee Stamps Baby Girl Sequins
Copic Markers - C5, C7, C1, 00, G00, Y17, R00, RV10, BG34, V000, Y11 & BG23

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Welcome Baby With An Autumnal Twist!

on March 27, 2017

Hello everyone and happy Monday!

Last week our 6 year old daughter was trying to convince hubby and I that we really should her a baby brother or sister! LOL I blame last weeks movie session – Storks! She was pulling out all the stops in order to try to convince us. Knowing that my favourite time of year is Autumn, she was suggesting the names – Autumn, Leaf and in the end she decided that Conker would be the best name for her new imaginary sibling. Oh geez, that girl!

So I guess this card was inspired by this silly conversation, where I have combined the Welcome Baby stamp set with the Country Wreath stamps and dies! Let me walk you through it!

I started with an A2 die cut panel which I then ran through my Big Shot using the circular wreath die, then I added a woodgrain embossing effect to the outer section with an embossing folder. I then stamped the twig design onto the circular die cut using a light brown ink. I also used the same honeycuts die to cut a circle from gold glitter paper so I could layer one on top of the other.

First I stamped the cute bambino from the Welcome Baby stamp set and die cut this using the companion honeycuts dies. Next I stamped & die cut a bunch of floral and leaf designs from the awesome Country Wreath stamp set, and then used my Kuretake Gansai Tambi watercolours to add some loose colouring to the images. I decided to leave some uncoloured to add some interest to the design.

I had fun layering all the floral images, and the Autumn Sunset sequin mix were perfect additions to this card, so I added these with some Ranger multi matt medium.

To finish the card, I heat embossed the word Welcome from the Welcome Baby set and die cut it with its coordinating die.

I love how this card turned out…. now I am off to see if Piper will settle for a baby on a card instead of a real life baby sibling! Wish me luck! 🙂

Happy Crafting

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