Card Making

Five Mice Sending Love – Ft. Gerda Steiner Designs Fall Mice {video}

on March 2, 2017

Hello my crafty friends!

It’s March! Can you believe it!? I swear that life has been one big blur at Casa del Oman ever since Christmas! Between crafty conferences, launching the new Honey Bee Stamps line which I helped design, and starting a new full-time job, i’ve been moving non-stop! On top of this, we have experienced some technical issues with my camera, laptop and video editing software – so I do have to apologise that my videos haven’t been as regular recently. Sorry about that, but the good news is that I do have a video to share today! YAY!

Last month I shared another card using these cute Fall Mice from Gerda Steiner Designs, but I was itching to colour them with my copic markers. I think they are so adorable! This started as an idea for a valentines card, which is why I used pink and orange tones of distress inks for the background, but in the end i created a more generic card with a simple ‘sending love’ greeting.

To add some texture, I used the falling hearts stencil from Simon Says Stamp to add some embossing paste, but first I mixed in some ultra fine glitter called Glamour Dust. I love this glitter, as it is so sparkly, and it mixes really well with the paste. The camera doesn’t capture the full sparkliness of it, which is a real shame!

Be sure to watch the video for the full tutorial, and I hope to be back on Monday with a fun Honey Bee Stamps blog post where we are celebrating Kathy Racoosin’s 30 day colouring challenge! I can’t wait! :0)

Happy crafting my friends!

x Lesley

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Feline Fun with the WRMK fuse tool & Honey Bee Stamps

on March 2, 2017

[Also featured on the Honey Bee Stamps Blog]

Hey there friends,

Lesley Oman here, and I am having lots of fun playing with my WRMK fuse tool today!

I noticed that one of the cats in the Curious Kitties stamp set was in the perfect position to be holding something, so I took a look at the other stamp sets to see if something would work! As luck would have it, this cone image from the Celebration Box set worked perfectly. I think it looks like a little loudspeaker, and he is ready to party!

To make this card I first stamped and coloured the kitty and cone image. I used my copic markers to colour him in and gave the loudspeaker a fun striped look.

Next I die cut two pieces of card so they were a square frame, and then I laid this on top of some scratch paper and used a pencil to mark the size of the aperture. I also made a rough pencil mark of where my kitty would be standing. Then I laid down a plastic page insert from a scrapbook album and used the fuse tool to create sealed lines from the middle of the plastic.

Because all four sides of my plastic square were open, I then filled each pocket with sequins from the baby boy sequin mix, and after filling each one, I sealed along the outside edge. Once all my pockets were full, I was able to assemble the card. As a finishing touch, I added some stamped streamers from the Celebration Box stamp set to the front.

Thank you for joining me today. See you next time!

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‘Hooray For Pets’ Shaker Card – Featuring The New Honey Bee Stamps Release

on February 20, 2017

Happy Monday crafty pals!

I hope you guys are having an awesome day! I am up on the Honey Bee Stamps blog today sharing a fun video using some stamps from the new release, which we revealed last week!

I made this card as soon as the stamps arrived through my door! I was so excited! In case you didn’t know, this was a collaboration release which meant I illustrated some of the images in these new stamp sets! It was so weird to see a sketchbook with an illustration on one side of my desk, and a fully manufactured stamp set with the same image on a stamp sitting on the other side of my desk! What a thrill!

For this card, I used quite a few stamp sets – talk about greedy, huh!? I used the box from Celebration Box, the larger furries from the Playful Pups and Curious Kitties set, and the Hooray image from the stamp set which is simply called Hooray.

I used copic markers to colour my images, and I knew straight away that I wanted to colour the pup like a golden lab. I started light and darkened up the shadows, but wanted to keep a rich, honey tone to his fur. For the kitty, I decided to colour her with seal-point features, rather than the usual tabby colours I tend to reach for. I think she looks rather elegant!

I really wanted to show you guys one of the images from Celebration Box – it is a long, skinny triangle, and its hard to figure out what on earth it is. The idea was that it could be stamped repeatedly to create little beams of light – just as I have done on this card. First I stamped the background, then my masking the box, I stamped just on the area which is the inside of the box. I also heat embossed some rays on the background and used the ink resist technique to make them pop!

For the greeting, I created a two-tone effect by adding blue ink to the bottom of the stamp and purple to the top half. I used my MISTI tool which meant I could double stamp the image, giving a nice seamless blend in the middle.

I decided to create a similar effect on the balloon images, stamped using the Celebration Box set, and I added some string to these balloons using some crochet thread, securing the ends of the string to the card using a little dab of Ranger multi matte medium.

For the inside of the shaker, I used some of the embellishments from the new Baby Boy sequin mix, also from Honey Bee Stamps. I love the variety of styles in the pack, but they all coordinate so beautifully!

Thank you for coming by to see my card today, and I hope you enjoyed the video! Thank you to everyone who has shared such kind words about the new release – I am delighted that you guys love it!

Have a great day and HAPPY CRAFTING!

Lesley

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