I've been feeling like my crafty mojo is in hibernation recently, so I looked online for some sketch inspiration for my card today. I found some lovely sketches from Altenew, from a series called Sketch Starters with Nicole. I chose sketch 004 - I love the diagonal across the design. I began by cutting a… Continue reading Hello Bluebird Coffee Friends
The recent Winter release from Hello Bluebird included the most adorable stamp set, called Feed the Birds. I think Hello Bluebird has some of the best people images and they do this vintage style so well. The images are always enjoyable to colour. For this card, I decided on a combo of mustard yellow and… Continue reading Hello Bluebird Feed the Birds
The new Snow Day stamp set from Hello Bluebird is so adorable. I just love that owl! This set goes perfectly with the scene dies that Hello Bluebird released at the same time, but I wanted to show a different way to use these images. I began by adding some stitching detail to a card… Continue reading Hello Bluebird Snow Day
The Long Distance stamp set from Hello Bluebird is just perfect for these times when we can’t see friends and family so often. I’m missing my family overseas so I made this card to send to them. On a panel of white card, I used the Lawn Fawn Just Stitching Double Circle die set to… Continue reading Hello Bluebird Long Distance
Hello and welcome to my blog! I’m excited to be joining this blog hop, celebrating the fabulous new release from WOW! If you’re following along the blog hop, you should have arrived here from Ericka Strange. I’ll list all of today’s blog hop participants below, if you want to start at the beginning. Card 1… Continue reading WOW Embossing Powder New Release Blog Hop
Today I’m sharing a card featuring the adorable Pumpkin Patch Critters from Pretty Pink Posh. I love the animals in this set, peeking out from behind the pumpkins. I worked on the background first, die cutting a piece of woodgrain paper with the Storybook 2 die. I layered a piece of soft green paper behind… Continue reading Autumn Greetings
Clean and simple doesn't always have to mean plain white spaces. By embossing stamped images with a clear or pearl white powder, you can add subtle interest whilst still getting the CAS look. The large floral images in the Pretty Pink Posh Peonies stamp set work well for this technique. On a panel of white… Continue reading Pearl Peonies
Today I'm sharing another card inspired by the WOW Facebook challenge theme this month, which is Masculine. I've gone with a retro vibe for this card with fun bold stripes of embossed colour. I hope you’ll join me on the WOW Embossing blog, where you can read more about how I made this card and… Continue reading Retro Birthday Mix with WOW
Today I’m sharing a card using some older release sets from Pretty Pink Posh. I think this would work well as a new baby card. The koalas are from the Koala Friends stamp set. I stamped them with Lawn Fawn River Rock ink, coloured them in with copics and die cut the image with the… Continue reading Koala Hello
I love the Hedgehog Friends stamp set from Pretty Pink Posh, the critters are so adorable. The extra images and sentiments in the set make it easy to create fun cards. For my card today, I stamped and copic coloured lots of images from the Hedgehog Friends stamp set. My go to copic colours for… Continue reading Hedgehog Friends
