We are testing out a new video software this week. Thats good news for you, because you get an extra video tutorial! 😀
Today’s card is a fairly simple design, but I love the texture created by the embossing paste. And doesn’t this bear just look the CUTEST with his little brolly!
A few weeks back I shared a card for the Love From Lizi birthday blog hop, and I used my gelatos to colour the die cut feather shapes. I got LOADS of comments saying how they loved that I showed a way to use gelatos – so i decided to pull them out again for another fun card. Yep – that’s right, I coloured my rain BLUE with my gelatos. It’s quick, it’s simple, IT’S MEGA FUN!
The bear is from Bitty Bears from MFT and I coloured him with my new Zig clean color real brush markers. The greeting is from Hero Arts.
UPDATED POST – EDITED VIDEO OF THIS PROJECT IS AT THE BOTTOM OF THIS POST 🙂
NOTE- Birthday Giveaway Winner announced below!
Hey friends.
This week has been full of curveballs. Firstly I was supposed to be in Orlando giving workshops at The Tim Collins Group show, but with Hurricane Irma on her way, thankfully the show was cancelled. (I really didn’t want to be a tourist in a State where everyone is evacuating!). Such a shame that I didn’t get to host the workshops, but I figured at least it meant I could do a LIVE crafting stream on Friday instead…..
Then…
On Wednesday morning, I turned on my computer and it claimed that there was no hard drive. ARGH! Yeah….so…my hard drive got corrupted and poor Craig had to work on it non stop. We even had to reinstall Windows.
So, it was touch and go for a bit, and we didn’t think we were going to make it, but we did. Woohoo! But… We had lost all our saved settings. Boo!
In short, we had technical issues for Friday’s CCWM show. ARGH! I’m sorry – but please know we are working on it. I am so extremely thankful to everyone who stuck around even though there was less than perfect audio happening.
I haven’t made the video from last night public but here a link if you still want to watch it – even with ‘less than perfect’ audio. https://youtu.be/QOp-lE8-Ays
We are working on maybe putting together an edited version.
Let’s take a look at the card!
I could not resist these bears from MFT. Eeeeek!! So darn cute! I picked a few bears and coloured them in with my copic markers. I don’t have the dies so I fussy cut them out the ol’ fashioned way! I inked the background (outside in scalloped rectangle by Lawn Fawn) with dye ink (Audrey blue by SSS and Butter by Lawn Fawn) and stuck the frame on top, before then die cutting the word happy with a Mama Elephant die. I wanted to do an inlaid technique so i could stamp the work Birthday on top of a flat surface. To match the red hearts, I scribbled some copic markers on to some offcuts of card and die cut the Hello again, ready to inlay. I put some Stick It adhesive onto the card base to help me cover this whole area behind the die cut with adhesive.
Next I wanted to stamp the word birthday which is from a Woodware stamp set. I used my embossing buddy, stamped with versafine ink and then used my memento black marker to add some ink along the cut lines – then embossed with glossy clear embossing powder.
You can still see the edges where the inlay is happening, but it looks fun i think.
These bears are the freaking cutest!
To finish off, I added a few extra stamped and coloured images such as the hearts and the cupcakes, and I also added a present from the MFT Beast Friends stamp set. It coordinated so beautifully with the present in this set.
I used my copic markers to colour some clear gems and VOILA! C’est fini!
Oh.. on the inside I added a message from the MFT Forest Friends stamp set – ‘Sending you a birthday bear hug’ which I thought was the perfect accompaniment to this card!
Right, time to announce the winner of my birthday giveaway post over on IG! Congratulations @smilecards44 YOU WON! WOOHOO!
Please use the Contact Me page of my blog to send me your address and your prize will soon be on it’s merry way to you. xx
On this Friday’s CCWM LIVE stream, I gave the viewers a choice – either a few Clean & Simple cards, or watch me alter stamped images for Halloween use. It seemed that the CAS option won!
The full streamed video is above but here’s a look at all three cards!
Note – this is a LIVE stream, so not an edited video. Therefore it is a long video- feel free to watch in chunks, skip through it, or put on in the background whilst you are crafting.
First off, i made a rainbow inked card, but used a dry embossed background. At the last minute I made this into a chibitronics light up card as one of my new viewers wanted to see Chibitronics in action.
I used the Unbearable Without You stamp set from Heffy Doodle to add the bear and the thought bubbles, and the little PULL ME tab (and heart) is from Heffy Doodle Interactively Yours stamp set.
I used a red chibitronics LED behind the heart. The ‘I love you, i mean it’ stamp is from My Favorite Things.
On the inside I added this perfect little sentiment form Technique Tuesday – i think it works great because of both the bright colours on the front as well as the light up element!
I was not yet finished playing with my rainbow inks. So here’s the next card
I used two stencils for this one, and just layered them up. You get a lot more mileage out of your stencils if you try this- and such awesome results. By the way, I am giving away one of these stencils (a new unused one) in my giveaway. Check out my previous post for details.
I used the Mama Elephant stitched landscape trio for the clouds and added some holographic embossing powder for a little glitzy shimmer, and this sentiment was perfect – also from Mama Elephant – its from the Unicorns and Rainbows stamp set.
I shared on my stream that i FINALLY got some ZIG clean color real brush markers. this was my first attempt, on some bristol smooth card. Practise makes perfect, but I think this Lawn Fawn unicorn turned out alright for a first try!
Next up, I wanted to use some of the gifts that I got for my birthday. The tulle was sent to me by Snow (@marblemine) and the butterflies by Dennice (watts-she-making.com) – THANKS GUYS! I also got an awesome stamp set from Maria (@mycraftwaytohappiness) but I will have to use it another time. <3
I also just got the outside in Lawn Fawn scallop rectangles from Lawn Fawn. Ohhhh they are so PWETTY! Also the Hooray is from Mama Elephant – both purchased with a gift card from Seven Hills Crafts.
To finish off I added the Congratulations from MFT and added some black pearls from Couture Creations and some dew drops from Honey Bee Stamps.
Thank you for stopping by, and I hope that you will take a look at the video stream and perhaps join us for another Come Craft With Me LIVE session another time – Friday’s 9pm BST.
NOTE – no CCWM next week as I will be in Orlando hosting live workshops for Aladine and Art Deco. I might do some LIVE IG and FB videos, so keep your eyes peeled!
I inked the background (outside in scalloped rectangle by Lawn Fawn) with dye ink (Audrey blue by SSS and Butter by Lawn Fawn) and stuck the frame on top, before then die cutting the word happy with a Mama Elephant die. I wanted to do an inlaid technique so i could stamp the work Birthday on top of a flat surface. To match the red hearts, I scribbled some copic markers on to some offcuts of card and die cut the Hello again, ready to inlay. I put some Stick It adhesive onto the card base to help me cover this whole area behind the die cut with adhesive.
