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Hello Little Mouse – Featuring Mama Elephant Page Huggers, Lawn Fawn Yay Kites & AladinE Texture Paste

on April 9, 2017

Helllllloooooo from this cute little mouse! I hope all my crafty friends are having a super day!

Today I want to share this card which features some of my favourite stamps sets, alongside some new products from a company which I have only recently discovered – AladinE.

When I was at Creativation, I was was walking down an aisle when I overheard a french accent coming from a demo table. I studied french at Uni so I was excited to check out the booth – and boy am I glad I did! I was excited to see a massive booth called AladinE, which had a huge range of crafty supplies – ink pads, stamps, dies, masks, fabric paints, markers and so much more. One of the most exciting products in my opinion was their texture paste. It works in a similar way to embossing paste, but it is far more robust. You can use it on metal, glass, card, wood and EVEN FABRIC! Yes – fabric, and its machine washable!

I decided to give it a try on a card today, along with a fun chevron mask and some embossing powder also some AladinE.

I thought I would use the paste to create a textured background, and then create a more whimsical design using layers of stamped images and vellum. I reached for the Mama Elephant Page Huggers stamp set along with the Yay, Kites set from Lawn Fawn -they were perfect for this card!

In the video you can see how I put together the whole card, although I will admit that I pre-stamped the images off camera first. I used my trusty copics to add some lovely colour to the images before diecutting them. I needed a few extra elements to build a ‘ground’, so I also used the Mama Elephant Up, Up and Away set to stamp some cute flowers.

I admit, I got a little bit stuck when it came to adding a greeting. I ummm-ed and aahhh-ed for about 10 minutes before settling on this scripty hello die cut from Simon Says Stamp. I used the Izink embossing powder to get the rich tomato colour, and mounted this onto die cut layers of foam to get great dimension on the card.

To finish it off, I added some little gems and dew drops from Honey Bee Stamps.

This card is a bit different to some of my other cards, but I am really happy with the way it turned out. I was really happy also with the texture paste and I cannot wait to try it out on some fabric. I even bought a little kids apron and I thought that Piper and I could have a go at decorating it for her. I think she will get a kick out of designing her own apron.

Thanks for stopping by and watching the video. See you again soon!

Lesley

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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——–

The below links are affiliate links to scrapbook.com & SimonSayStamp.com. This means that if you buy something from these websites after clicking on my links, I might receive a small commission. This does not cost you anything but does mean I can earn some extra craft pennies which I then use to buy more craft products and make more crafty videos! Thank you for your support.

------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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Hooray for a MISTI Collaboration with Honey Bee Stamps

on March 31, 2017

Hello my crafty friends,

ITS BLOG HOP TIME! I am so excited to be celebrating this fun collaboration between Honey Bee Stamps and MISTI! If you would like to start at the beginning, click here to go to the start of the hop.

To celebrate this sweet collaboration, you can be in with a chance to WIN! You simply need to leave a comment at each stop for a chance to win the prizes. There will be a $45 Honey Bee Stamps store voucher and also a MISTI prize (winner’s choice of original or mini). So TWO chances to win! The MISTI winner will be announced on the My Sweet Petunia blog on 7th April and Honey Bee Stamps winner will be announced on the Honey Bee Stamp blog!

Now…. let’s have a look at the projects I made for today!

I absolutely LOVE my MISTI, and if you have seen any of my videos then you know that I use it pretty much every single time. There are so many different ways to use this wonderful tool, and today I want to show you one fab way that makes it easy to make fun backgrounds for your cards.

I have made three cards using the same design, but I have coloured them using different techniques. Let me walk you through it!

I started with a square piece of card that I cut using a square die, then I added post-it tape to mask off corner to corner to create a triangular quarter.

I trimmed off the excess post-it tape so my card would fit snuggly into my Mini MISTI, and then laid down a piece of acetate on top.

I reached for the Honey Bee Stamps Country Wreath stamp set because there are so many gorgeous images in this set, which are perfect for this technique. Using the post it tape as a guide, I arranged the stamps on top. The acetate helps hold the stamps in place as you lay them all down.

Next step is to close the lid and let the MISTI pick up the stamps. They are now perfectly arranged ready for stamping!

I removed the post it tape and prepped my card with an embossing powder tool, before inking up my stamps with versamark ink. After stamping once, I removed the card, turned it 90 degrees and stamped again. Then I sprinkled clear embossing powder over the top.

This means that half of my card is covered in beautiful floral stamping, along the diagonal. It’s a bit hard to see in the photo but here is a little peek! Of course you could turn the card 4 times to completely cover the card for a different look!

The MISTI makes it really easy to make batches of cards, as the stamps are already in place ready to rumble. So I grabbed two more die cut squares and decided to make another two cards. One card is clear embossing on neenah cardstock, the second is liquid platinum embossing powder on neenah, and the third is white embossing powder on watercolour cardstock.

For the watercolour cardstock, I pulled out my Ecoline liquid watercolour. First i prepped the card by using a wide brush to cover the back and front of the card using clean white water as this helps the project dry flat. Then I placed two drops of pink liquid watercolour into a palatte and added 2 drops of water.

I am creating an ombre effect on this card, so first I will add a painted stripe of the most concentrated watercolour. Then I added two drops of water, and added another stripe. I kept on repeating this until the whole card was covered.

I love the loose effect this gives, and its so easy to achieve, AND you only need one colour of watercolour. So fun! The white embossing resists the watercolour and pops against the pink background.

For the next card, I decided to do some more embossing resist, but this time with distress inks! I used Spun Sugar and Picked Raspberry to create a lovely soft blended background.

For the last card, I picked out four shades of pink copic markers, and once again I went for an ombre effect. The flowers near the middle were coloured with the lightest pink, and the images closest to the bottom right have the darkest pink.

For each of these cards, I mounted them onto square card blanks that I inked up with distress inks, and reached for my HOORAY honey cuts die. This die has two parts, first the letters which I cut from white, and secondly the shadow which I cut from gold glitter card. This die layers so beautifully -and it really is the perfect word for so many occasions!Before sticking down the die cuts, I added a little scrunched up layer of twine for some added texture and fun. Then I added some fun sequins from the Baby Girl sequin mix from Honey Bee Stamps. There you have it – three cards with different looks, all made easy with the use of a MISTI tool. It really is the Most Incredible Stamping Tool Invented!

Thanks for stopping by, blog hoppers, and now its time to go visit Kia Gibson-Clapper for the next hop!

Here’s a list of everyone participating in today’s hop. Make sure you comment at each stop to be in with a chance to win! 🙂

Lesley Oman <–you are here!

Kia Gibson-Clapper

Laurie Case