it’s entering PARTY SEASON for us Omans! Piper turned six this week, her BFF’s birthday is this week, and then hubby is celebrating his Bday at the end of the month. After this, it is a full run of birthdays in the Oman/Coalter clans.
As well as prepping for parties and planning celebratory shenanigans, I have been working on an order for some bespoke HungryHeffyCrafts cards for the wonderful HumanGammaBomb and fam! Little Bram is turning 4, and today I wanted to share a shaker card that I made using some Lawn Fawn goodness!
I have used quite a few Lawn Fawn stamps – Loveable Legends, So Jelly, Mermaid For You and Party Animals. And don’t they all look some magnificent together – I love mixing the stamp sets to create complete scenes!
My background has some distress ink blending, splattered with water for a distressed look, and I have added some stamped images in blue to create a silhouette look.
I coloured all my guys with copic markers. That squid was an absolute brute – he simply did not want to blend, but I think I got him sorted in the end! 🙂 Oh, and in case you are wondering, the frame die and number die I bought from an App on my phone called WISH.
I have a full video for you guys – walking you through from start to finish! I hope you enjoy taking a closer look!
I have never been one of those organised people who start making their Christmas cards in July. I think it’s because I don’t like putting pressure on myself to create, as the seems to be a sure-fire way to make the well of creative juices dry up! The very fact that I have made an Easter card BEFORE it’s even the month of Easter makes me feel very organised! WHOOOP! Even though technically, it kinda just happened organically because I wanted to play with this cute bunny stamp set from Gerda Steiner Designs called Happy Hoppy. For this card, I am using the no line watercolour technique but instead of watercolour paints, I am using distress inks…. so does that actually make it a no-line inking technique? Maybe!
I am so in love with the way my elements turned out, so soft and sweet – but you will see in the video that I made a booboo! Here’s a quick phone photo of the elements before the whoopsie…
Normally I add some glitter with my Wink of Stella glitter brush marker, but closer to hand this week was a new tool in my craft room – the spectrum noir glitter brush pen. After I used it, sure enough, there was a layer of glittery magic, but it actually saturated the paper and a lot of the detail disappeared. Boo! I guess it reactivated the distress inks. Ah well… you live and learn!
I just think this little bunny is so adorable! I can’t wait to use him again!
Be sure to watch the video to see the full card making tutorial. Have a great day!
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)
As well as prepping for parties and planning celebratory shenanigans, I have been working on an order for some bespoke HungryHeffyCrafts cards for the wonderful HumanGammaBomb and fam! Little Bram is turning 4, and today I wanted to share a shaker card that I made using some Lawn Fawn goodness!
I have never been one of those organised people who start making their Christmas cards in July. I think it’s because I don’t like putting pressure on myself to create, as the seems to be a sure-fire way to make the well of creative juices dry up! The very fact that I have made an Easter card BEFORE it’s even the month of Easter makes me feel very organised! WHOOOP! Even though technically, it kinda just happened organically because I wanted to play with this cute bunny stamp set from 
For this card, I am using the no line watercolour technique but instead of watercolour paints, I am using distress inks…. so does that actually make it a no-line inking technique? Maybe!
Last month I shared another card using these cute 
