I've got, not one, but two cards to share today featuring some cute pingus playing with a snowman in a snowglobe! The designs are the same, but different colour combos.
On the second one I've chalked some background in to give the image some 'pop'!
Have you seen the latest Whimsy Stamps Release yet? It's on it's way and should be in store this week. Woooohoooo! In the meantime, I thought I'd share a couple of the new stamps from the Lee Holland Collection...
Today I'm sharing a card featuring a lovely image called Huggy Squidgies from Stamping Bella. The sentiment is from the same stamp set and I've kept the design really clean and simple as I thought they deserved to be the centre of attention! They were so much fun to colour and I love this image for a friend themed card, or 'just thinking of you' card.
Sue here today with a card I made for our Tracy for a feature in Die Cutting Essentials magazine.
The card design is something a bit different for me and I really loved making it! Here is a little tutorial for you which describes how I made the blended ombre background and put the card design together.
1. Create a 14.5cm x 17cm card blank with the fold at the side.Create a panel of purple card the same size, fix it to the card blank and set aside.Cut a strip of polka dot card 2.cm x 16cm, and a piece of white hammer card measuring 12cm x 16cm, set aside
2. On a piece of white card measuring 10cm x 14cm blend the Tim Holtz Distress Inks in an ombre effect light to dark, Tattered Rose, Spun Sugar, Picked Raspberry and Seedless Preserves. Set aside.
3. With the Chrysanthemum Collage die cut the panel of white hammer card set aside earlier.Fix this card panel on top of the ombre effect card.Using Onyx Black ink stamp the sentiment in the bottom right hand corner of this panel as shown.Set aside.
4. Fix the strip of polka dot card and the card design to the front of the card blank set aside earlier as shown.
I've been playing with yet another cute stamp and die set from MFT to create a little framed scene...
...up, up and away!
I've added some depth to the design by adding the foreground balloon on foam pads and stacking up 4 layers of each letter.
If you would like more details on how I created this project, including the Copic colours I used, then please do pop over to visit me at Paper Firefly.
I was quite pleased with the colouring of this little critter, so I decided to give him full focus of attention with a 'Faye-inspired' doodle frame and nothing else. He's called Hedgehog Love from Dies to Die For and I stamped him in a pale grey so that the lines didn't show when I'd coloured him.
Today's card uses a rubber stamp from Lee Holland's Whimsy collection and my Frantic Stamper stitched edger from Dies to Die For. I've kept the design simple because the image is quite large.
I've got another card for you today featuring one of the latest releases from Stamping Bella.
This stamp set coordinates with a couple of the others (Squidgy Cowboy & Squidgy Cowgirl), and I'll be creating a fun scene card with them all soon. In the meantime though, it also makes for a pretty great card all on its own!
You get the three sizes of Squidgy Cactus in the set, as individual stamps to arrange however you like! The "Howdy" sentiment comes in the set too.
I had to make a card for my nephew who was 6 years old last Friday and that gave me the perfect excuse to ink up this uber adorable Cowboy Dude from Stamping Bella
And if you have a special dude that would like a card with this fabulous image (just to let you know we have a female version just as adorable for all the special dudettes) then here's the links to the items used:
Sue here today with a real sweetie! In fact she's a real
Braided Sweetie ...and I want to say a big thank you to my lovely DTDF DT teamie Elaine for the inspiration - I love how Elaine cuts out the individual words for the sentiments on some of her cards and could nt wait to try that myself!
Don't forget to pop straight to the Dies To Die For inspiration blog to look at the lovely DT creations there, and then straight to Dies To Die For for some essential retail therapy!
I do love a bit of paper engineering and fancy folding so I was really excited to have a go at making a twist and pop card.
I've kept the front fairly simple...but check out that fab sentiment label strip die!
And when you open it up...
If you would like more details on how I created this project, including more pics and a list of Copic colours I used, then please do pop over to visit me at Paper Firefly.
I've been playing with some lovely stamps that are something a bit different for me. I normally opt for 'cute and cuddly', but today I've been playing with some of the gorgeous Sunny Studio layering stamps called Timeless Tulips. I've made a couple of notelet cards, and a matching gift tag. I stamped the tulips onto smooth white card, layering each one using the same ink pad which became darker each time I added a layer. I then stamped the stalks and leaves before adding detail with my pencils. I added quite a lot of pencil to the leaves, and then stupidly cut them off when I die cut the images to fit my notelets! ARGH!!!! I used a 'hello' text stamp from the same stamp set.
The latest Stamping Bella release is on the website - I know some things have already sold out, but Tracy has restocks coming, just sign up with your email address over on the product pages to be notified when things arrive back in stock.
The latest release includes lots of those adorable SQUIDGIES! I know they have been proving popular, probably because they are just ridiculously cute and squidgable. Much like my little nieces and nephew - I just want to squish their little cheeks!
Right, on to my card, featuring one of the gorgeous new Squidgy stamps:
They are just adorable, aren't they? The sentiment is gorgeous too, and would be great on all sorts of cards - Valentine's, anniversary, engagement, wedding... Love it.
Along with this image and the sentiment you also get a mini version of the Squidgy couple in the stamp set, perfect for decorating the inside of your card, the envelope, a matching gift tag etc! Love that. :)
Debs here with a little Monday Morning Inspiration using probably my most favourite-ist crafty theme of Flutterby Butterflies :)
But first an apology for being AWoL last week - all I can say is I had a brain malfunction probably due to chocklit overload!!!
For today's piece I went down the 'Arty' route and had a play with creating a colourful inky background for my gorgeous MFT B butterflies to flutter out of
For more details on how I created this card - please pop over to see me here
But here's a link to the gorgeous MFT stamps and dies:
I love Bree. Her skirt is just so fun to colour . This time, I fancied giving it a froooouthy, tutuie effect. In red. Oh yeah, I had the big girl pants pulled right up to my armpits!This is one of those cards that look nothing like the initial plan. But never mind, I loved doing it anyway!
I treated myself to a few of the new Stamping Bella stamps including my very first Tiny Townie Garden Girl so here is the beautiful Carnation.
She even tempted me away from my favourite colour, pink!
If you would like more details on how I created this project, including a list of Copic colours I used, then please do pop over to visit me at Paper Firefly.
I've always loved donkeys. I'm not sure if it's my childhood (and adulthood) love of Winnie the Pooh, or my fondness of the actual animals (we have a Donkey sanctuary not far away), but I do love 'em. It's not often I see images of donkeys, but as soon as I saw this one, I knew that I had to ink him up. So here is 'pin the tail' from Whimsy Stamps.
Today however, I'm actually going ignore the new release once again, if you can believe it and share more cards featuring my absolute favourite stamp sets of the year so far, if not EVER. I'll admit, I'm a bit obsessed, but I think you'll understand...
Seriously. SERIOUSLY. Are they not the cutest unicorns ever? So cute and chubby. Much like the gorgeous dragons I shared last week - and perfect for mixing and matching!
