I hope you are ready for a little visit to Nostalgia Central, as the card that i have to share today features a super cute CAREBEAR!!
Ever since i picked up the Bear Necessaties stamp set from SimonSaysStamp, i have been planning to make a card with a carebear, and then i realised yesterday that one of the bears has a moon and star on it’s belly and the stamps in the Mama Elephant Unicorns and Rainbows set prettied much matched the design completely! How cool is that?
I used some of the cloudy stamps from this Unicorns and Rainbows stamp set to build up a background on some watercolour cardstock, and used a masking technique to cover these images when i inked the background with distress inks. I purposely kept the colours soft to create a ethereal and whimsical background! I think it turned out super cute!
If you have seen the SSS Bear Necessities stamp, you might realise that this little guys face looks different. Thats because i used a heart stamp from Wplus9 to give him his trademark heart nose, and i added different eyes from a stamp in the Lawn Fawn Critters of the Sea stamp set. I think it made him much more friendly and cheery! aww. cute little bedtime bear!
At the last minute i decided to make this card into a shaker card, and the greeting was a little too big to fit on to the cloud die cut, so instead i stamped the greeting onto some heat proof acetate – i love how it turned out! But i don’t think i could have stamped it so perfectly without the mist – stamping on a slick surface is tricky, especially with versa mark ink – but it all worked out! Maybe it was because i was away for work this week and hadn’t been able to craft much, and so the crafting gods were smiling down upon me! Either that, or i was just plain lucky!! 🙂
Today’s card is for all you guys – because i kinda think you are all Pawesome!!
( Oh, i do love a good pun! ) <3
I finally got to use one of my new masks that i picked up on my recent order from SimonSaysStamp! I think these falling stars are so cute! and i love the white-on-white effect that you get from using embossing paste! It is such good fun!
Sorry if you can’t understand me in the video. I had just come back from my trip to Northern ireland and my native colloquialisms were sneaking back into my everyday vocabulary! 🙂 and i was super tired after the trip, so i got a little confuddled at one point! LOL. never mind!
I also wanted to mention that i have been doing a little play with watercolouring. I am not sure why, but i have been completely enthralled by the way it looks, especially with whimsical illustrations! i have been binge watching a few illustrators on YouTube and have been giving it a go myself. I will be sharing some on the blog soon, but if you want to take a sneak peek, head on over to my instagram account 🙂 .
for now, though… i will leave you with the video! Enjoy!
Oh, also…. i am working on a video showing how i spiced up some plain store bought items for Piper’s birthday and sprinkled a little HungryHeffy crafty magic on them in order to create not only bespoke one-of-a-kind items, but also it made them waaaaay prettier… —-watch this space — 🙂 Ciao!
I am just back from the Emerald Isle! So that means that I have a suitcase full of laundry, a belly full of tea and Irish food, and a very thick Irish accent! 🙂 At least for a while! I recorded this video before i left for hols but i hope you guys can all understand my Irish-isms in the next few videos that i plan to finish off today! 🙂
Today i have a card that has the big reveal on the inside, if you know what i mean!
There was a cute peek-a-boo stamp set in a recent issue of Simply Cards and Papercrafts Magazine, and i simply had to make a card using the cute kitty. I mixed it up with the Sending and Wishing stamp set from simonsaysstamp – it worked a treat! i just love the way the kitty face is so cute and gives a lovely surprise when you turn the front panel to open the card!
And of course i got a little inky with my distress inks ( as always 😉 ! ) mixed with some masking to get some lovely crisp lines. Then i added a little moo cow from the Mama Elephant Lunar animals stamp set too!
Here’s the video so you can see the full process! Enjoy! and have a lovely day!
