Tips, Tricks and Techniques Tuesday - Lifetime of Love

 Hello, as soon as I saw this stamp set and dies, I knew that I was going to have fun with it. I really love this one too! Lifetime of Love... it sums it all up really doesn't it? Well! It is nice to dream too! Today's card using the stamp set. I could see as soon as I saw it. Soft fresh colours over white to share and show th love.  I also love my blending brushes! Today's technique is brushes and blending.

Technique Tuesday - Artistically Inked

 Thank you for stopping by today. My card for today using the Artistically Inked is another simple card but a technique too. I stamped the flowers all over the card front using Tahitian Tide ink pad and then stamped a few of the single leaves in Parakeet Party again, like I used yesterday. I then die-cut a leaf from the set of dies called Artistic. I chopped it into 2 pieces and adhered it straight to the card front. I stamped a sentiment in Memento ink onto the White strip of card then added that to a strip of the Parakeet Party card. I added the strip to the card front and then trimmed the excess off. It leaves me with a very bright and simple card that can be replicated using almost any stamp set. 

 

Make It Simple Monday - Artisitcally Inked

 Hello and welcome back this week. I loved Cary's fun fold on Friday, did you? I love all of those type of cards as they really are fun to open and receive too. Back to now, I have decided to use a stamp set that will be carrying over into the New Catalogue which comes out in a few weeks time. We are all so excited to be able to order some of the new products when we can. Not soon enough for me though. I don't much like waiting. I know, everything comes to he who waits..... I'm still waiting! So as I said, I have made a very simple card for today using the gorgeous Artistically Inked stamp set. I stamped the smaller flower across the centre of the card, adding a few leaves and a sentiment. Yes, I have used 3 colours but this can be done in just the one colour and maybe add some colouring around the images. Even simpler! I used the amazing bright In Colour ink pads called Tahitian Tide for the flowers, Parakeet Party for the leaves and the Memento ink pad for the sentiments. A lovely, simple card to start the week.

This and That Thursday - Adorable Owls

Today's cards I went overboard for. I really love the owls and know a few people who will certainly love them. I paired the Adorable Owls with some of the In Colour glimmer paper. I chose the gorgeous green of Parakeet Party and the beautiful blue of Starry Sky to make my cards. I coordinated them both with some of the dies from Pretty Pop-Ups set. I love the way they just pop from the sheet and you get so much dimension from them all. 

The only difference from both cards is the colour. Please let me know which you prefer. 

 

Make It Simple Monday - #simplestamping - Nature's Prints

Hello again, it seems that I was only posting a few days ago and here I am a week later posting again! This week I have decided to play with Nature's Prints stamp set, the beautiful Designer Series Papers and Fern, a new coordination embossing folder.  Anyway, today being #simplestamping day I have made the quickest cards ever! In fact, they were so simple I made 5 of them! One in each of the new, gorgeous, In Colours!

 

 

I even had fun decorating the insides too!

Watercolour Wednesday - Cup of Tea.

Hello again, today's card I really had fun making. I used Cup of Tea again today for this one and also watercolour paper. I did a wet wash across the whole mat in the soft blue of Balmy Blue. Then using 3 different colours each one at a time, I stamped onto a clear block. I dropped several big drops of water and mixed it in with the coloured inks. Loading the water brush up well with the wet ink, I then tapped the brush over my fingers onto the paper to get the spotty effect. 

After the 3 colour drops and allowing them to dry, it took a few minutes to dry and once dry I stamped the cups across the mat. I fussy cut them out as they were stamped very close together. 

Taking a white card mat, I stamped a few flowers across it in Tahitian Tide and Orchid Oasis inks. I embossed the white mat with Hammered embossing folder. Once I had fussy-cut the cups out I adhered them using Dimensionals (foam shapes) and the sentiment was attached using a piece of the new metallic woven ribbon in Orchid Oasis. 

A few sentiments inside and out and the card is complete.