Simple Watercolor Card with Stamping Bella

Hi crafters, Julia back with you today for a surprise visit and I am featuring cute Milton by Stamping Bella. I first colored him up when I got the stamp from Seven Hills Crafts and had just received my 24 set of ZIG Clean Color Real Brush markers. I just wanted to see how well they'd blend and I have to admit, I was pretty impressed by them. The card I made is clean and simple:

While I am not so happy with how the balloon turned out, I am pleased with the dimension I could create on Milton's pants – how his belly really seems to curve and how his chin and pants throw a shadow on his shirt. Of course, I need to practice more, but for my first ever use of them, I think the ZIG markers did well.

With the Stamping Bella stamps, you don't really need anything else. As you can see, they stand well on their own. If you are interested, I colored the same again with chalk pastels and filmed the process. You can find the video on my blog (link in the sidebar). Cheers!

Milton

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Make a wish watercoloured card with silhouette die cuts

Hi everyone, it's Esther here with a watercoloured card inspired by Spring!

I started by watercolouring a panel with three Zig Clean Color Real Brush Pens (041 Light Green, 051 Lemon Yellow, 027 Dark Pink), splashing it with water and mopping off for a bleach effect, then splattering over with three slightly darker shades (047 May Green, 050 Yellow, 082 Purple).

While the panel dried, I die cut a leaf spray from Altenew Botanical Garden, once in black and once in white, and layered these up for a shadow effect. 

When the panel was dry, I splattered black acrylic paint over it and then die cut it with a stitched rectangle from My Favorite Things Blueprints 29. I added the leaf sprays to the panel and stamped a sentiment from Mama Elephant Make a Wish.

Finally, I mounted the panel onto a black panel underneath, then onto a white card base slightly wider than the top layers.

Thanks for stopping by!

      

Flora Cat Greeting Card Set

Waffle Flower have recently released some gorgeous new stamp sets featuring cats. I love the nature inspired patterns and the cats expressions are perfect! 

There are four sets to choose from and I just love the fun sentiments in the Flora Cat set. I also couldn't resist the cat in the box image! I think all cat owners will recognise that scenario!

I decided to make a set of greeting cards to give as a gift to my friend. 

Choosing a classic colour palette of blue and peachy pink, I stamped the images with a dark blue ink, and added colour with coloured pencils.

I kept the cards simple and one layer, allowing the beautiful images to take centre stage. I just love the expression on this cat!

To add a finishing touch to my gift, I created a sleeve to add around the cards and envelopes. I used the Concord & 9th Perfectly Penned stamp set to add a message, then wrapped the sleeve around and secured with adhesive. 

I stamped a paw print on the front of the sleeve and also on the envelopes to tie everything together.

I'll link to all the Waffle Flower Flora Cat stamp sets below.  

Thanks for joining me today,

Gemma 

Waffle Flower Flora Cat

C&9th Perfectly Penned

MFT Inks Set 8

Waffle Flower Flora Cat Dream

Waffle Flower Flora Cat Play

Waffle Flower Flora Cat Meow

Baby Dragons

Hi there, hope you had a great weekend :)

You don't automatically think of dragons when you think of a new baby card but I had these two little characters from Magical Dragons coloured and that's what came to mind!!

They're coloured with alcohol markers and, as I haven't got the dies for this set, I had to 

trim them out with scissors so I left a narrow white border to make it an easier job.

To keep the card clean and simple I die cut a Cross Stitch circle and inked a sky and grass scene 

onto it. Dragons and mountains seem to go together so I used a couple from Prehistoric Fun and 

coloured them with markers too :)

The Welcome word die is from Paper Smooches but is unfortunately out of stock but Lil inkers

makes a similar die which I've linked to below and the rest of the sentiment is from Lawn Fawns Little Bundle.... just the perfect font to go with the scripty die :)

Well not your ordinary baby card but cute nevertheless!

Just a note to say that the Magical Dragons stamps will be back in stock along

 with the new MFT release this week :)

  

   

Thanks for stopping by :)

Jenny x

Chocolate Free Easter Gift

Good morning all, hope you're having a productive crafty weekend.  I've got a simple little Easter gift to share today - with not a chocolate in sight!

This simple little bookmark is very easy to make using the Happy Hatchlings die from Lawn Fawn, and if you didn't want to give a bookmark you could make a slightly shorter version to turn into a tag to hang off a more traditional chocolate gift ;-)

To create the bookmark, I drew around one of the eggs 3 times on white card overlapping each slightly at jaunty angles to get my "stack".  I then die cut the 3 different eggs from patterned papers all with a hint of green to keep it on a spring theme.  The little chick was cut from sticky note card stock from lawn fawn and popped on top with his orange feet and beak cut from the same paper as the bottom egg to tie it all together.   Once glued onto the base layer I just trimmed around the whole thing with scissors to get a solid bookmark.

If you didn't want to got to the trouble of making a book mark - you could put a stack of dies in the same way direct onto a card to make a fun card instead and paired with a non-Easter sentiment they can be used all year round!   There are lots of fun possibilities with this die set.

NEWS FROM THE STORE

• We've got our delivery of the March release from Altenew and are working hard (even on the weekend!) to get it online and will hopefully have it finished for you later today.
• We have the new release from Lil' Inker Designs which will be released on Monday so we'll have ours live in store then too.
• We will have the new release from MFT in store on Wednesday.
• We are expecting some restocks and new items from Tonic Studios shortly.
• We are still waiting on our Lawn Fawn restock order to ship.

April Sketch Challenge Week 1

It's no April Fool I promise you, just a new challenge with a chance to win £20 to spend in store for the winner.  This month we have a sketch challenge - you are free to interpret it but we need to see that it was the general jumping off point for your inspiration.

You can rotate it to create a landscape card, go square for a scrapbook layout or even pop it in a shadow box to create a piece of art, and even combine with other challenges if you like (5 max), as long as we can see the basic sketch that's fine but don't forget you MUST use product we sell in store to play along (entrants that fail in this basic rule will not be commented on, will not win and may even be deleted)

To get you started the DT are playing along too so here are a few ideas to start the ball rolling.

Gemma

I created the subtle stripes from the sketch by dry embossing the Cheers word die on the background.
Using: MFT Uncorked, MFT Wine Service, MFT Cheers, and MFT Inside Outside Oval Dienamics.

Jenny 

I have used Home Sweet Home, Lock & Key, Bottlecap Letters and Rolling Hills dienamics
along with the English Brick Wall stencil to dry emboss a background with.

Tara:

Using MFT's Space Explorer and Altenew's Ink Spritz to make my astronomical stripes and two MFT Inside Outside Oval Dienamics to create my oval frame.

You have until 10pm on Sunday 23rd April to play along - just link up on the challenge page when you're ready

Smile - It's Your Day

Hey stampers, Anni here.
Today I have a card full of roses for you featuring Altenew's Bamboo Roses.

Every time I go on vacation I take some stamped images and my current favourite colour medium with me. Of course I don't want to forgo on my crafting passion in these days.
So the last time I went on vacation I had my ZIG Clean Color Real Brush pens with me and amongst other things these beautiful roses embossed in white on watercolour paper. And I had so much fun colouring them. Actually I have much more already coloured roses than you see on this card.
All these already colourd images I keep in a box and when I want to make a fast card I go there for inspiration.

For the sentiment I chose to go with Mama Elephant's Smile Script and die cut it several times from dark green cardstock to stack it up. The second part of the sentiment is a stamp from the set Congrats by Waffle Flower.  I die cut a Stitched Mini Scallop oval by My Favourite Things from natural white cardstock.
I adhered the Oval on my card base with foam tape and arranged the roses on a diagonal line. Then I added the smile die cut and the card was finished!

Thanks for stopping by and have a great weekend.
Anni